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Janet Cosh was the only child of Dr John and Louise Cosh (née Calvert). Janet attended the University of Sydney, where she studied English, History and the Classics. She moved to the Southern Highlands in 1934, where she took a keen interest in local history and the natural environment. In her late sixties, Janet devoted her life to the study of the native flora of the Southern Highlands, New South Wales and became a highly respected amateur botanist. After Janet’s death, her bequest to the University of Wollongong provided funds and botanical resources which were used to establish the Janet Cosh Herbarium. Janet Cosh was born in Sydney in 1901, the only child of Dr John and Louise Cosh (née Calvert). Janet was an educated woman who attended Sydney University where she studied English, History and the Classics. From 1923 to 1926 she taught Latin and English at her former school, Normanhurst Girls School. Her passion for natural history and botany was inspired by her parents and also her grandparents. In particular, her maternal grandmother Louisa Atkinson was a botanist, natural historian and writer who collected for the notable botanists Rev. Dr. William Woolls and Sir Ferdinand von Mueller. Janet’s great grandmother, Charlotte Barton, raised four children under very tragic circumstances but still managed to write the first children’s book to be published in Australia, A Mother’s Offering to Her Children (1841), which mentions native flora and fauna and was an early example of Australian themes and experiences including colonisation and its effect on Aboriginal people. In 1934, Janet moved to the Southern Highlands, New South Wales with her parents after her father retired from his medical practice in Sydney. They purchased ‘Netherby’ in Moss Vale where Janet lived for the rest of her life and was a member of the All Saint’s Church at Sutton Forest. She was a dutiful daughter and cared for her parents until they died, her father in 1946 and mother in 1956. By then in her fifties, this quiet reserved woman was able to devote her time and passion to a systematic study of the history of the Southern Highlands and later botany. In both of these areas of interest she left permanent and accurate records. Janet is mentioned in the Australian Geographic (2019) as an ‘incredible Australian woman in botany’. Janet collected cuttings from local newspapers and The Sydney Morning Herald, especially about local history and conservation. She was a member of the National Trust and founding member of the Berrima District Historical Society in 1960. The Royal Australian Historical Society encouraged and supported local societies by teaching research and cataloguing skills. From 1964 to 1977, Janet was the local society’s archivist. In the late 1960s, Janet concentrated her attention to the study of botany and collected numerous plant specimens to add to her knowledge. She made significant contributions to plant taxonomy, providing a rigorous basis for understanding the ecology and biodiversity of the native flora in the Southern Highlands of New South Wales. Janet was a frequent visitor to the Fitzroy Falls Visitors Centre, Morton National Park, where she stored her specimens. It was here, in the 1970s, that she met and befriended Pat Hall, Special Duties Officer at the time and later Manager of Education, Information & Tourism at the Centre. In turn, Pat introduced Janet to local people with an interest in botany. Funds from the National Park Foundation were used to establish the Janet Cosh Room at the Fitzroy Falls Visitors Centre in March 2000 as an education resource for the community. Don Tilley was a ranger and he met Janet when he caught this old woman picking plants illegally on Water Board land until she produced her NSW National Parks & Wildlife scientific licence which made them both chuckle. They became friends with a shared interest in the native flora. Don recollected that Janet had an impact and influence on everyone she met and most especially on him, ‘She was that particular about identification and was able to name even the smallest plant’ except in 1982 Don collected an unusual Hibbertia which Janet and others after her could not identify. In 2001, Belinda Pellow collected another sample and sent it to an expert in South Australia. Toelken, H.R. (2012) identified and published it as Hibbertia accaulothrix in the Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens. As an amateur botanist, Janet was highly respected and was often in consultation with professional organisations such NSW National Parks & Wildlife Service and taxonomists at the National Herbarium of NSW, the Australian National Herbarium and the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation. Insights are provided into Janet’s keen intellect by the many examples of letters exchanged with these authorities from prominent personnel such as L.A.S. Johnson, J. Armstrong, J.D. Briggs and D.A. Johnstone, which are wonderful examples of the polite and lengthy communications by mail in the 1970s. However, Janet was not averse to challenging senior botanists about their plant identifications and was quite disdainful about the use of common names. A number of the letters from the National Herbarium of NSW are acknowledgement of donations Janet made over the years. Significantly, Janet was the first donor to the National Herbarium of NSW Research Fund in response to a request in the journal Telopea in 1973. Over thirty specimens that Janet collected were considered to be worthy of incorporation into the National Herbarium of NSW. Some were significant species, for example, threatened Grevillea rivularis collected at Carrington Falls in 1976 and rare Zieria murphyii collected at View Point, Bundanoon in 1973. Janet’s botanical fieldwork was thorough and methodical and her field notes were precise. She was extremely proficient at map reading, having been recruited during World War II to locate and map various routes from the coast across the Southern Highlands to the inland. She was also interested in the accounts written by early travellers and explorers and perused old maps and acquired extensive knowledge about the geography of the Southern Highlands. Specimen locations were always recorded clearly and accurately. Range extensions of several species were documented by Janet as well as new locations for rare species such as Phyllota humifusa, Hakea constablei and Acacia chalkeri. Each specimen was identified by Janet using various systematic keys such as the Flora of the Sydney Region and by consulting with the National Herbarium of NSW. Janet amassed a collection of botanical books and maps, which she annotated prolifically and succinctly. Janet shared a keen interest in the ecology of plants with her friends Ros Badgery and Rachel Roxburgh, both resilient women. They all enjoyed exploring the bush and studying the native flora and fauna. They were also concerned about the conservation of the natural environment. Ros and Janet became friends in 1963 after the death of Dorothy Farran, a mutual acquaintance who was in their congregation. Ros was given Dorothy’s copy of ‘Moore & Betche’ published in 1893, the first official botanical flora. Janet was given some other botanical books. Janet asked Ros for help with botany but Ros said later that, ‘With her brain she outstripped me in no time’. After her family died, Ros managed a 2000 acre property in the Southern Highlands on her own for 65 years. Most of the property was declared a Wildlife Refuge in 1968, which would have pleased Janet immensely. Rachel and Janet probably met as members of the National Trust, the Berrima Historical Society and the National Parks Association in the 1960s when they became aware of their mutual interests. Rachel was a woman of strong convictions, rarely given to compromise and was described as ‘patrician in bearing and manner’. She was undaunted by politicians, municipal officers and bureaucrats. But from all accounts she was in awe of Janet Cosh and Janet was never daunted by her brusque manner towards others. They had some great adventures together while they were out collecting. On one occasion, they went to investigate the flora of Rodway Nature Reserve, an open forested plateau with steep cliffs near Berry off the end of Drawing Room Rocks. They couldn’t negotiate their way back in the dark so they spent the night there with a camp fire to keep warm, much to the consternation of the local constabulary! Rachel wished to study subjects in ecology at the University of Wollongong and was rather upset when informed she had to pay student fees for services she would never use except the library. Dr Rob Whelan, lecturer in biology, found a solution by allowing her to attend lectures and complete assignments in 1982 without being enrolled. Kevin Mills was a PhD student at the University of Wollongong studying the Illawarra rainforests in the 1980s when he met Janet and Rachel in the Southern Highlands. Between these friends and their association with Dr Rob Whelan they developed a keen interest to establish a regional herbarium in the Illawarra. It is very likely these connections informed Janet’s decision to include the University of Wollongong in her will. Janet made bequests to various organisations including The Royal Historical Society; All Saints Church of England, Sutton Forest; NSW Parks & Wildlife Foundation; Sydney City Mission; National Herbarium of NSW, Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney and the University of Wollongong. The bequest to the University of Wollongong, which included substantial funds and botanical resources, was ‘to be used for the herbarium or botanical research’ in accordance with her last will and testament. Dr Rob Whelan (later Emeritus Professor, University of Wollongong) ensured that the specifics of Janet’s bequest were adhered to. As of 2019, the integrity of Janet’s bequest has been upheld. The Janet Cosh Herbarium was established in 1991. Janet’s botanical resources included a collection of over 1600 specimens, about 1500 botanical illustrations, a library, numerous field notebooks, photographs, vegetation surveys and maps. At the time, this also allowed Dr Kevin Mills’ research specimen collection to be incorporated into the Janet Cosh Herbarium. Janet’s collection included excellent examples of recycling using envelopes, notepaper, cardboard packaging, old Christmas cards and even the reverse side of her father’s watercolour paintings to record notes, drawings and mount specimens. Apparently, Janet was quite dismissive about her father’s numerous watercolours. They were later assessed by an expert and deemed to have no artistic value. Belinda Pellow, an expert botanist, was the first curator of the Janet Cosh Herbarium and responsible for developing a herbarium from Janet’s bequest. Belinda was one of the authors of the 5th Edition of Flora of the Sydney Region (2009). It is worth noting that Janet used the first edition, which she split in half for ease of carrying in the field. The purpose of a herbarium is to store a collection of dried, preserved and catalogued plant specimens for identification and reference purposes whereby each specimen verifies the existence of an individual plant at a particular place and time. The Janet Cosh Herbarium facilitates botanical research, teaching, expertise in plant identification and the management of native vegetation in a regional context. Janet’s botanical illustrations and plant specimens provide meticulous details of plants and their environment. The data she systematically recorded in the field are still being used as a taxonomical reference to assist with plant identification. Over the years, the collection has continued to grow with contributions from local botanists, researchers, students and the community. As at 2019, the Janet Cosh Herbarium holds almost 12,000 specimens and facilitates the teaching of undergraduate students, provides support for post-graduate students and research staff and has inter-departmental links, for example with the Faculty of Creative Arts to curate exhibitions of Janet’s botanical illustrations and other projects and the Faculty Management Division to establish Campus Tree Walks for social and educational purposes. Janet’s bequest to the Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney was for the purpose of contributing to the National Herbarium of NSW. According to Barbara Briggs, one of the foremost Australian botanists and from what was known of Janet’s interests and intentions, this was interpreted as support for any aspect of systematic research, collection management and public information about scientific programs. Various projects have been implemented including an inaugural studentship in 2001 to contribute to research in plant taxonomy or to encourage young scientists to consider a career in plant taxonomy or ecology. This bequest also enabled the Scientific Division to be more active and entrepreneurial than would otherwise have been possible. Activities associated with Janet Cosh’s bequest are documented and acknowledged in various Annual Reports and publications such as the journals Telopea and Australian Systematic Botany. Janet was highly respected for her botanical knowledge and was an inspiration to all who knew her. She made many significant contributions to plant ecology in the Illawarra and Southern Highlands which may be summarised as follows: collected over 1600 plant specimens and prepared over 1500 annotated illustrations which formed the foundation of the Janet Cosh Herbarium prepared a herbarium of 1500 specimens for Fitzroy Falls Visitors Centre, Morton National Park contributed to the knowledge of the National Herbarium of NSW recorded meticulous field notes discovered range extension of several plant species and discovered new locations of rare plants collaborated with professional botanists contributed to the establishment of several nature reserves including Robertson Nature Reserve, Stingray Swamp and Cecil Hoskins Reserve prepared vegetation maps for Morton National Park compiled many species lists which have been included in natural history booklets, for example Eastern Rim Wildflower Walk (1985) and publications relevant to the Southern Highlands, for example Fitzroy Falls and Beyond: A guide to Shoalhaven (1988). In the months prior to her death, in October 1989, the elderly Janet and Rachel became concerned with the decimation of the South East Forests of NSW. Travelling in Janet’s Subaru Brumby ute with their swags in the back, they made several trips to the area to document the impact of forestry practices in that region. Janet was still collecting specimens just a few weeks before she died and was planning a collecting trip to Fitzroy Falls. In honour of Janet Cosh, Flowering Wonderfully, the Botanical Legacy of Janet Cosh was compiled in 2012. Janet is one example of a large group of women of her era, with independent means and a keen interest in natural history, who have contributed to our knowledge of science in a quiet but significant way. In fact, she was an early exponent of ‘Citizen Science’. As her friend Rachel Roxburgh said in Janet’s obituary, ‘In the field of botany, the records Miss Janet Cosh left will enable students to know exactly when and where to find plant species and the University of Wollongong’s appreciation of her purpose would give Janet great pleasure’. Jean Clarke, Fellow of the University of Wollongong, has spent many years since her retirement working as a volunteer in the Janet Cosh Herbarium and devoted much of her time curating and preserving the Janet Cosh historical collection. Most of this collection was transferred to the University of Wollongong Archives in 2018. Jean provides assistance to curate the collection in the archives. It includes rare books, journal articles, letters, newspaper cuttings, photographs, field notes, botanical illustrations and other material donated by Janet Cosh. This collection complements the Cosh extended family collections held in the Mitchell library, Sydney and the National library Canberra. The plant specimen collection, including those collected by Janet Cosh, is stored in the Janet Cosh Herbarium, School of Earth, Atmospheric & Life Sciences, University of Wollongong and managed by Professor Kris French. This entry was prepared by University of Wollongong Fellow Jean Clarke, Janet Cosh Herbarium. Archival resources State Library of New South Wales Atkinson and Cosh family pictorial material, ca. 1842-1973 Cosh family papers, 1870-1923 Cosh family - further papers, 1866-1998 Papers of Janet Cosh Postcards addressed to Janet Cosh Royal Australian Historical Society Four photographs including list of names of the sitters and a letter from Janet Cosh (1.11.1980) National Library of Australia, Pictures Collection Janet Cosh photographic collection ca. 1901-ca. 1920s National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Papers of Patricia Clarke, 1887-2010 [manuscript] Papers of Janet L. Cosh, 1826-1983 Author Details Jean Clarke Created 5 August 2019 Last modified 28 August 2019 Digital resources Title: Janet Cosh Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Title: Boronia deanei, Fitzroy Falls Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Title: Telopea mongaensis Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org) |
Red Cross Archives series reference: V99 Comprises meeting minutes from a range of Victorian Division sub-committees including those administering rehabilitation, and convalescent homes including: ANZAC Farm (Janefield) and ANZAC House (Brighton), Home Hospital, Central Depot, Caulfield Rest House, Rockingham House, Philadelphia Robertson House Management, Edgecliff House, Kooringa/Lady Dugan Hostel, Convalescent Home for War Nurses, Rehabilitation. Also includes departmental committees relating to fund-raising and public relations committees: Disabled Soldiers’ Furniture (DSF) Factory, Cycle Committee, Welfare and Auxiliaries committees, Library services, Junior Red Cross, including their Cadet Voluntary Aid Detachment Sub-committee minutes, Registration functional services, Transport division, Commerce and Industry, Men’s section, Policy committee, Women personnel, Woodwork, Social services, Blood transfusion, Special stores sub-committee, Voluntary Aid Detachments (VAD), Victorian Joint Committee of St John and Red Cross, Educational sub-committee, Cavalcade (pageant committee), Army and Nurses, and Ex-service Assistance, Emergency Services Appeals, including Central Committee Wireless Broadcasts. Note that some records contain terms which reflect the attitude of the period in which is was written, and may be considered inappropriate today. This series has been artificially arranged by the Red Cross Archives in 2015. Researchers should note that under the Geneva Conventions Act 1957 protections govern the use of the Red Cross emblem. For further information see Archives staff. Author Details Stella Marr Created 9 August 2017 Last modified 9 August 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org) |
Gwen Pinner was a significant figure in the medical profession in Canberra. In addition to her work as a radiologist, she conducted a tuberculosis survey of the Australian Capital Territories and Queanbeyan and was involved in the establishment of the John James Memorial Hospital. As a child, however, it was her role of presenting a bouquet to the Duchess of York at the opening of Parliament House in 1927 that created an enduring image. Mancell Gwenneth Pinner was born on 24 June 1922 in Melbourne, the eldest daughter of John Thomas Pinner and Mancell Jeanott (née Drysdale). Her father, chief accountant and a member of the Expropriation Board of New Guinea, was in New Guinea at the time of her birth and was stationed there for much of her early childhood. In 1926 the family moved to Canberra where John had been appointed assistant-accountant in the Federal Capital Commission. Aged four, Gwen was selected from a ballot of some 500 children, to present a bouquet of roses to the Duchess of York at the opening of Parliament House on 9 May 1927. Dressed in a new white frock and bonnet for the occasion, she was accompanied up the steps by Captain J.H. Honeysett, a World War I veteran who lived next door to her family. Although Gwen later recalled little of the day, it was reported that she ‘appeared to feel no embarrassment in the presence of her Royal Highness, and, having carried out her part, skipped gaily across the lawn back to her waiting mother.’ Initially the family lived in Ainslie and Gwen attended Ainslie Public School. Dux in her final year, she was awarded a scholarship to attend the Canberra Church of England Girls’ Grammar School (CCEGGS) in 1934. Three years later the family moved to Deakin where Gwen and her sister, Jean, could walk across the paddocks to the school. At CCEGGS Gwen continued to excel: she captained the Basketball and Tennis teams; won the 1938 Lady Isaacs Prize for the best essay by a school girl; and was School Captain and Dux in her final two years. In 1939 Gwen was awarded a Canberra scholarship by the Canberra University College to assist her studies in medicine at the University of Melbourne. She was one of eight female graduates whose degrees of Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery were conferred in March 1945. Gwen began working as an intern at the Royal Melbourne Hospital but she contracted tuberculosis and her recovery entailed a year-long stay in hospital and a further year recuperating away from work. It was an experience that probably led to her appointment as head of a survey team examining the incidence of tuberculous infection in the Australian Capital Territory and Queanbeyan for the Commonwealth Department of Health (part of an Australia-wide programme aimed at eradicating tuberculosis). The survey was conducted over several months in 1949 and involved about half the population volunteering to receive a preliminary tuberculin skin test. Tests were conducted in schools, offices, shops, hostels, hotels and at a regular clinic in the old hospital buildings at Acton. In June, Gwen conducted skin tests on Members of Parliament as part of a publicity campaign to encourage participation in the survey. While the incidence of active tuberculosis was low, Gwen believed there was considerable educational value in the survey as it resulted in a population that was ‘tuberculosis conscious’. The next year she conducted a similar survey of 904 people on Norfolk Island. Gwen returned to the Royal Melbourne Hospital working as an assistant radiologist. She continued to study and was awarded a Diploma of Diagnostic Radiology in 1952. Two years later she became the first woman to be awarded the Thomas Baker Memorial Fellowship to study radiology abroad. Gwen departed in early 1955 for London. During her eighteen months overseas she spent time in several countries including Britain, Sweden, and America. Striving to gain the most benefit from the fellowship, she divided her time between working as an honorary assistant in hospitals; studying short courses; attending seminars and symposiums; and observing doctors. Gwen returned from abroad to the family home in Canberra and joined Ron Hoy and Bruce Collings at their practice. She also worked as a consultant radiologist at the Royal Canberra Hospital and, over the years, served on various hospital committees. In 1965, Gwen, along with a number of colleagues, founded Canberra’s first private hospital, John James Memorial Hospital. By the 1960s and 1970s she was considered ‘the dominant figure in radiology in Canberra’. Gwen had been elected to the Fellowship of the Faculty of Radiologists (London) in 1957 and to the Fellowship of the College of Radiologists of Australasia in 1964. In 1984 she became the first female President of the Royal Australasian College of Radiologists. She retired in 1987. In 1988, sixty-one years after presenting the bouquet to the Duchess of York, Gwen attended the opening of the new Parliament House and was presented to Queen Elizabeth. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Newspaper Article Births, 1922, http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/page/418015 Problem of Conflicting Loyalties: Among Graduates, 1945, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article1101561 Bouquets for the Duchess, 1927, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article1212957 Ainslie School, 1933, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2321318 Personal, 1933, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2320714 University College, 1938, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2485128 Girls' Grammar School, 1938, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2482478 Scholarships, 1939, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2490762 Girls' Grammar School, 1939, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2518231 T.B. Skin Tests for M's P, 1949, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2807526 Dr. Gwen Pinner To Study Radiology Abroad, 1954, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2908246 The day a Duchess Smiled on a Nation's Capital, Clack, Peter, 1997 Obituary: Dr Gwenneth Mancell Pinner, Faunce, Marcus, 1998 At Parliament House, 1927, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article16366850 Gwen Pinner, 1997 Magazine Burrawai: The Magazine of the Canberra Church of England Girls' Grammar School, 1938 Burrawai: The Magazine of the Canberra Church of England Girls' Grammar School, 1939 Journal Article Obituary: Mancell Gwenneth Pinner (1922-1998), Davis, Awa, 1988 A Tuberculosis Survey of Norfolk Island, Pinner, Gwen, 1951 Report of an Epidemiological Survey of the Australian Capital Territory and Queanbeyan, Pinner, Gwen, 1950 Report of the Thomas Baker Memorial Fellow for 1954 to the College of Radiologists of Australasia, Pinner, Gwen, 1957 Two Parliamentary Openings, Pinner, Gwen, 1988 Magazine article The Opening of Parliament at Canberra, 1927, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article66351151 Journal Medical Directory of Australia, 1951-1980 Resource Section Pinner, John Thomas (1888 - 1955), 2002, http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/pinner-john-thomas-11429/text20367 Pinner Place, http://www.actpla.act.gov.au/tools_resources/maps_land_survey/place_names/place_search?sq_content_src=%2BdXJsPWh0dHAlM0ElMkYlMkYyMDMuOS4yNDkuMyUyRlBsYWNlTmFtZXMlMkZQbGFjZURldGFpbHMuYXNweCUzRm9iamVjdElEJTNENjU1NTgmYWxsPTE%3D Official Opening of Canberra by His Royal Highness the Duke of York, 1927, http://aso.gov.au/titles/newsreels/official-opening-canberra/clip1/ Zepps, Katrina (1918-1981), Godden, Judith, 2002, http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/zepps-katrina-12092/text21697 Book Shadows and Substance: The History of The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists, 1949-1999, Tate, Audrey, 1999 University of Melbourne Calendar 1946, 1946, http://repository.unimelb.edu.au/10187/10573 University of Melbourne Calendar 1953, 1953, http://repository.unimelb.edu.au/10187/10551 Site Exhibition From Lady Denman to Katy Gallagher: A Century of Women's Contributions to Canberra, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2013, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/ldkg Archival resources National Archives of Australia, National Office, Canberra Royal Visit, May 1927 - The Duchess of York receiving a bouquet from a young girl (Gwen Pinner) Royal Visit, May 1927 - The Duchess of York receiving a bouquet from Gwen Pinner [Copy photograph] National Library of Australia, Pictures Collection Duchess of York receiving flowers from Gwen Pinner at the opening of Parliament House, Canberra, 1927 [picture] / W.J. Mildenhall Author Details Nicole McLennan Created 25 June 2012 Last modified 21 September 2012 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org) |
Jacqueline (Jackie) Canessa is an activist in her profession and a one time candidate for election: Liberal Party candidate in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Heffron in 1999. After graduating in Medicine (MB from Newcastle University, 1996), Jackie undertook further training in psychiatry at St Vincent’s Hospital, Sydney, working as a Resident medical Officer 1996-1997 and Psychiatric Registrar 1998-. She was Treasurer, 2004 and Vice President, 2005, of the NSW Branch of the Australian and New Zealand Association of Psychiatrists in Training. She joined the Liberal Party in 1996 and has been active in the Young Liberals, being a delegate to Young Liberal Council and a member of its Administration Committee from 1998. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 12 December 2005 Last modified 20 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org) |
Thelma Jessie Norris took her BSc in 1943 at the University of Melbourne and joined the Commonwealth Department of Health, then under the direction of Arthur John Metcalfe, who was succeeded in 1960 by William Refshauge, himself a notable University of Melbourne graduate. In 1936 she had won a Junior Scholarship, awarded by the Victorian Education Department, and in December the same year came dux of the Preston Girls’ School Intermediate Year. The school, founded in 1928 and renamed Preston Girls’ Secondary College, closed despite some student protest in 2013.[1] She later attended MacRobertson Girls’ High School. After graduation she joined the Commonwealth Public Service and the Australian Women’s Weekly reported: When Thelma J. Norris, B.Sc., of Melbourne, rang doorbells in house-to-house survey throughout Australia, her object as member of the staff of the Commonwealth Health Department was to gain knowledge of family budgeting and diet. She has now been appointed to the food and agricultural section of UNO to study diet of peoples of member nations, and has left for Washington. Appointment is for five years.[2] The work submitted for the MSc which she was awarded in 1960 when she had returned to Australia gives an indication of her research before her departure as well as investigations undertaken for the Food and Agriculture Organization. It encompassed the technique and interpretation of dietary surveys, a nutrition survey of Tasmania covering food consumption and dietary levels in the spring of 1945 and Vitamin C nutritional status in the spring of 1945 and autumn of 1946, a nutrition survey in Uganda from 1955 to 1957 as well as a study of anaemia in childhood in a rural area of Uganda and a review of food and nutrition in the island of St Helena in February and March 1958.[3] Thelma Norris’s most influential publication for the Food and Agriculture Organization, published as part of its nutritional studies series was issued in English, French and Spanish.[4] She worked in many countries, including Borneo and Kenya, where she was stationed during the Mau Mau uprising of 1952 to 1960. Her nephew recalled her amusement at being advised by her employer to take a gun with her. There is no record of her firing it. He also remembered her wonderful presents of tribal drums and spears – they did not always meet with parental approval. [1] Henrietta Cook. ‘Girls’ School Set to Close as Enrolments Fall Away’. Age, 4 July 2013, http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/girls-school-set-to-close-as-enrolments-fall-away-20130703-2pd0s; Julia Irwin. ‘Students Vow to Fight to Keep Preston Girls Secondary College Open’. Northcote Leader. 9 July 2013, http://www.heraldsun.com.au/leader/north/students-vow-to-fight-to-keep-preston-girls-secondary-college-open/news-story/960e5a0a1d4720e40e5d8167cdba27ed [2] ‘Interesting People’. Australian Women’s Weekly. 24 May 1947: 10. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article46464554 [3] Thelma J. Norris. Dietary Surveys: their technique and use in nutritional status studies. Thesis (MSc) University of Melbourne, Dept. of Science, 1960. [4] T. Norris. Dietary Surveys: their technique and interpretation. Washington: FAO, 1949. F.A.O. nutritional studies no. 4. Published resources Book 40 Years 40 Women: Biographies of University of Melbourne Women, Published to Commemorate the 40th Anniversary of the International Year of Women, Flesch, Juliet, 2015, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/4040/ Author Details Juliet Flesch Created 31 July 2017 Last modified 13 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org) |
Model Jo Bailey co-hosted the television game show Sale of the Century from 1991 to 1993. She married Carlton football player Stephen ‘SOS’ Silvagni in 1996, and has two sons – Jack and Ben. The daughter of Barrie and Fran Bailey, Jo completed her secondary education at Tintern Church of England Girls Grammar School and Methodist Ladies College. She completed a Bachelor of Business (Accounting) at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology and a Bachelor of Business (Marketing) at Swinburne. Bailey was employed as an undergraduate auditor with Price Waterhouse. Later she became co-host of Sale of the Century and presenter of Looking Good for the Nine Network. Published resources Book Contemporary Australian Women 1996/97, 1996 Journal Article Team work, Houston, Melinda, 2002 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Anne Heywood Created 9 January 2002 Last modified 1 March 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org) |
A selection of the entries based on second generation Italo-Australian women’s experiences was published as Growing up Italian in Australia: eleven young Australian women talk about their childhood. Sydney: State Library of New South Wales Press, 1993 Author Details Alannah Croom Created 31 October 2017 Last modified 27 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org) |
Biographical notes by her niece. Two copies both signed, one dated 19 Jan. 1966, the other 27 Jan. 1966. Author Details Clare Land Created 9 December 2001 Last modified 12 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org) |
Collection comprises – 2 cassettes – 2hrs?Margaret Watts reads two chapters of her unpublished autobiography, ‘Faith is My Shield’. Chapter 5 ‘American Friends’ and chapter 8 ‘Hunger and Epidemic’. Author Details Clare Land Created 24 September 2002 Last modified 31 October 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org) |
Vida Goldstein ran for the Australian Senate in 1903. Though she was not elected, she was the first woman to be nominated for the Australian Parliament. One of five children, Vida Goldstein was educated at Presbyterian Ladies’ College in Melbourne. As a young woman, she worked with her mother in the anti-sweating movement and developed an anti-capitalist perspective. Later, she became involved in the suffrage movement. She was a paid organiser for the United Council for Women’s Suffrage, and she founded the Women’s Political Association. From 1900 to 1905 she produced and edited a monthly feminist journal, Woman’s Sphere . When the International Women’s Suffrage Alliance was formed, Goldstein was elected as corresponding secretary. She helped to found the National Council of Women, and was the Delegate from Australia and New Zealand to the International Woman Suffrage Conference in Washington D.C. in 1902. Vida Goldstein was nominated by the Women’s Federal Political Association as a candidate for the Senate in 1903. She became the subject of heated controversy, stating her policies in feminist terms. Goldstein polled 51,497 votes but was not elected. A further four attempts before 1917 were also unsuccessful. After the award of state suffrage in 1908, Goldstein launched a new journal, Woman Voter. In 1915, she founded the Women’s Peace Army alongside Cecilia John, Adela Pankhurst and Jennie Baines. Events 2001 - 2001 Inducted into the Victorian Honour Roll of Women Published resources Book That dangerous and persuasive woman: Vida Goldstein, Bomford, Janette M., 1993 Woman Suffrage in Australia, Vida Goldstein, 1910? The Life and work of Miss Vida Goldstein, Women's Political Association, ca. 1913 The Changemakers : Ten Significant Australian Women, Suzane Fabian and Morag Loh, 1983 Nation builders : great lives and stories from St Kilda General Cemetery, Eidelson, Meyer, 2001 A History of the Lyceum Club Melbourne, Gillison, Joan M, 1975 Radical Melbourne : a secret history, Sparrow, Jeff and Sparrow, Jill, 2001 Votes for women : the Australian story, Lees, Kirsten., 1995 Woman suffrage in Australia : a gift or a struggle?, Oldfield, Audrey, 1992 The Australian Woman's Sphere, 1900-1905 The Goldstein Story, Henderson, Leslie M. (Leslie Moira), 1973 Audiovisual material Vida Goldstein 1869-1949 [slide], Sue Fabian and Morag Loh Resource Australian Suffragettes, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, 1998, http://www.abc.net.au/ola/citizen/women/women-home-vote.htm Goldstein, Vida (1869-1949), The National Library of Australia's Federation Gateway, http://www.nla.gov.au/guides/federation/people/goldstein.html 1891 Women's Suffrage Petition, Parliament of Victoria Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Edited Book Colonial Eve : sources on women in Australia, 1788-1914, Ruth Teale, 1978 Double Time: Women in Victoria - 150 Years, Lake, Marilyn and Kelly, Farley, 1985 200 Australian Women: A Redress Anthology, Radi, Heather, 1988 Book Section Vida Goldstein and the struggle for women's rights, c1998 The lady politician: Vida Goldstein's first Senate campaign, Bomford, Janette, 1996 A white woman's suffrage, Grimshaw, Patricia, 1996 Modernity and mother-heartedness : spirituality and religious meaning in Australian women's suffrage and citizenship movements, 1890s-1920s, Smart, Judith, 2000 Report Recommendations in favour of voluntary methods of dealing with venereal diseases: as agreed upon by the Women's Political Association and the Women's Convention, Vida Goldstein, 1916 Report of the National Council of Women of New South Wales of an Informal Conference with Mrs May Wright Sewell, President of the International Council of Women, Vida Goldstein, 1902 Resource Section List of Electoral Divisions Named After Women, Australian Electoral Commission, http://www.aec.gov.au/history/women/women3.htm Vida Goldstein of Komein Pine Grove Malvern, Public Record Office Victoria, 2008, http://wiki.prov.vic.gov.au/index.php/Goldstein%2C_Vida Goldstein, Vida Jane Mary (1869-1949), Brownfoot, Janice N., 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A090042b.htm Journal Article Vida Goldstein and the English militant campaign of the Women's Social and Political Union, Caine, Barbara, 1993 Site Exhibition The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia, Smart, Judith and Swain, Shurlee (eds.), 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders Archival resources National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Papers on various Australian women [19--] [manuscript] Papers of Ruby Rich, 1943-1948 [manuscript] Papers of Loma Rudduck, 1944-1968 [manuscript] Collections held by the Fawcett Library relating to Australia and New Zealand [microform] : [M2291-2314], 1858-1967 Vida Goldstein 1869-1949 January 1966 [manuscript] Papers of Leslie M. Henderson, circa 1880-1961 [manuscript] Correspondence 1897-1919 [manuscript] Papers of Baron Henry Stafford Northcote, 1908 [manuscript] State Library of Victoria Letters : England, to Henry Hyde Champion and Elsie Belle Champion, Melbourne, 1908 - 1949. [manuscript]. Letters, diaries and lectures Press cuttings book presented to Edith How Martyn, 1943. [manuscript]. The Goldstein chronicle, [between 1950 and 1973]. [manuscript]. Vida Goldstein 1869-1949: Biographical notes by her niece, Leslie M. Henderson, 1966 January [manuscript]. National Library of Australia [Collection of newspaper cuttings relating to her candidature for the Federal Senate in 1903] [Biographical cuttings on Vida Goldstein, containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journals] Scheme of proposed Women's Rural Industries Co Public Record Office Victoria, Victorian Archives Centre Women's Suffrage Petition 1891 Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection Fawcett Library - collections held by the Fawcett Library relating to Australia and New Zealand [M2291-2314], 1858-1967 [Collection of pamphlets containing souvenir concert programmes and Australian biographies.] Author Details Clare Land and Jane Carey Created 9 December 2001 Last modified 15 October 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org) |
Index of membership cards. System closed 1 February 1980. Author Details Clare Land Created 8 December 2001 Last modified 30 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org) |
Grace Elizabeth Brebner (QPM) achieved many ‘firsts’ during her policing career, which began in 1942. She was the first police woman to pass her police driving test, the first female detective in Australia, and, in 1973, the first police woman in Victoria to be awarded the Queen’s Police Medal (QPM). Brebner was Officer in Charge of Women Police from 1956 until she retired in 1974. ‘Policing is not a glamour job,’ she said when she retired, and you ‘need to be able to put things out of your mind after work’, to do it well. But for any drawbacks encountered, she assured that there were many, many rewards. ‘I can’t imagine anything in the way of a job that would have been more satisfying and interesting over the years’. Born in Joyce’s Creek, Victoria in 1914, Grace Brebner spent her early years in central Victoria before her family moved to a farm near Mildura, in the Wimmera. As a young adult, she moved to Melbourne where she worked in sales and in cafes. ‘I used to earn 12/6 ($1.25) a week. But it was obvious there wasn’t much future in it, even after I became a manager,’ she said. ‘Then I read an article about policewomen. It sounded interesting, so I applied.’ Combined with the encouragement of a policeman and his wife, who she had been boarding with, this was all she needed to set her course. ‘One day I just thought I would like the police life.’ This was in 1939, and there had only been eight Victorian policewomen appointed to this point, with a waiting list of 300 women. It was three and a half years before her application was accepted, but for the 28 year old woman described as ‘5’5? tall with blue eyes, light brown hair, medium complexion, weighing 9 st 2 lb, and of ‘good’ appearance’, the wait was worth it. She became the 14th woman inducted to the Victorian Police service overall. Brebner wasn’t there long before the praise and commendations started to accumulate. In her first two years she was commended alongside two constables for work resulting in a conviction for a man for offences against the Black Marketing Act. In April 1945 she was commended with 5 other policewomen for having ‘successfully cleared up a bad case of murder’. In 1947, she was commended with four others for the role she played in ‘a delicate investigation’ that resulted in the conviction of two backyard abortionists. She was described as someone who was ‘very adaptable’ and who possessed ‘plenty of initiative and common sense’. Her ‘uncanny ability’ at disguise, and staying undetected during undercover work brought successful conclusions to many a case. In 1950, Grace Brebner was appointed to the Criminal Investigation Branch (CIB) and one year later became the first female detective in Australia after being first policewoman to qualify at the Detective Training School. She was second in the class: only 1.5 points behind the dux. She was not long in the post when she was required to capture her own quarry! Described by the press as ‘Melbourne’s first “high- heeled” detective’, Detective Brebner was on her way to work at Russell Street Police Station from her home in East Melbourne when she was accosted by an alleged sex offender. She tackled the man, who broke away. After a 400-yards chase during which she caught him again, only to have him break away again, several men intercepted the offender and assisted her in the arrest. She was known to have ‘acquitted herself remarkably well’, while she was in ‘the branch’. Because she was the only woman detective, naturally, she always worked with male partners, many of whom could not accept the fact of a woman detective and gave her ‘a hard time’. One of those who did enjoy working with her, Reg Henderson, said that because they both tended to blend into the background, they achieved a lot of success ‘because nobody took any notice of us two in the car’. Henderson and Brebner were often called to duty at functions at Government House, to keep an eye out, as a form of security. She would buy ball gowns and dress like the guests, which was a definite perk of the posting. ‘Often there was a barrister or judge I knew from the courts,’ she said, ‘who would ask me to dance’. In October 1953, Brebner was appointed to the squad tasked with solving the brutal murder of teenager Shirley Collins, whose body was found dumped at Mt Martha a month earlier. In 2019, the murder remained unsolved. It was the first time in police history that a woman detective had been assigned to a homicide squad to investigate a murder and as such, made the headlines. Many police and members of the public were still of the view that women had no place in investigating these sorts of violent crimes, but the management view was that Brebner’s gift with people and communication suited her to the task of interviewing all of the Collins’ friends and the teenagers she had met at dance parties. After working as the only woman in CIB for 6 years, Brebner returned to the Women Police Division in 1956, promoted to the position of Sub-Officer-in-charge. Upon arriving back to this Division, Brebner noted that police cars were spare and that policewomen were banned from using them. She sought out procedures for a police driving licence and applied for the test. She later discovered the examiner had been told to ‘fail her if you can – we don’t want any women driving our bloody cars’. She passed, and policewomen have been driving police cars ever since as well as police motorbikes and riding police horses! In 1957 Brebner was presented with a Chief Commissioners Certificate for her ‘qualities of leadership and her standards of efficiency.’ In 1971 she became the first policewoman in Vic to reach Inspector rank. Two years later she became the first policewoman in Vic to receive Queens Police Medal. Grace Brebner QPM retired in 1974, and when asked to reflect upon what special qualities were required to be a policewoman she insisted that ‘common sense’, ‘an interest in people’ and the capacity to ‘put things out of your mind after work’ were essential. When asked if being a policewoman made women hard, her response was interesting. ‘No, it is like children watching television,’ she said. ‘They become accustomed to the violence and adjust themselves to it’. An experienced woman police officer, remembering Grace Brebner in 2015, wasn’t so sure that being a trailblazing woman in the Victorian police force didn’t leave her with a hard edge. “She was a bitch, but she had to be,” said the officer, who called Brebner “Aunty Grace”. Policewomen during the 1960s and 70s had close relationships because there were so few of them. The older policewomen without children were often called “Aunty” by those coming up behind. Grace Brebner was one of those Aunties who made sure the next generation of women would be able to take the heat. Looking forward to having some ‘lazy time’ in retirement, Brebner planned on going for a drive to visit her brother in Queensland. She also planned on staying involved in ‘women’s and children’s welfare and mental health organisations.’ She vowed to ‘write a book, enjoy her house and garden in Mitcham, keep the bird bath filled, read, shop and ‘be available for anyone (at Russell Street)’. She died in 1984, before she had a chance to write that book. For there to be no biography of someone who so profoundly shaped policing for the women who followed her is a crime worth investigating. Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 28 July 2020 Last modified 28 July 2020 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org) |
[Red Cross Archives series reference: Not Applicable]??Comprises 98 gramophone records used by the Australian Red Cross to support a wide variety of activities including funding appeals, endorsements, interviews, speeches and music therapy for rehabilitation contexts.??These gramophone disks were from a variety of sources including the Australian Red Cross, the International Red Cross as well as commercial broadcasts and recordings.??Some notable speakers include: senior members of the Red Cross including Lady Brooks, Lady Edwina Mountbatten, Paul De Ruegger; scientists Sir Peter MacCallum, Dr. Eric Cunningham Dax; notable sportsmen Donald Bradman, Lewis Hoad, Bert Bryant and philanthropists Lord Nuffield.??CAUTION: It should be noted that these recordings reflect the attitudes of time in which they were created, and may contain language and views which may be considered offensive today.??Many of these gramophone disks are 16 inch in diameter or Broadcast size which are now rare. Scrap for Victory drives resulted in many early gramophone disks being recycled for reuse during the WW2 to reuse shellac. It was a common belief at the time that audio recordings were ephemeral. See: Fishman, Karen and McKee, Jan. Reference Librarian, Recorded Sound Section, Library of Congress. Scrap for Victory Library of Congress https://blogs.loc.gov/now-see-hear/2015/01/scrap-for-victory/ (Accessed 15/11/2017)??Additionally, five of these Broadcast disks have etched b sides advertising the manufacturer RCA Victor and icon of dog listening to speaker. See items 2016.0077.00078, 2016.0077.00079, 2016.0077.00081, 2016.0077.00082, 2016.0077.00083 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unusual_types_of_gramophone_records?Some of the commercial play recordings used in Red Cross convalescent and rehabilitation homes have braille labels, these include: The Thirty Nine Steps 2016.0077.00039 – 2016.0077.00045; A kid for two farthings 2016.0077.00048 – 2016.0077.00055 and Life of Mahatma Gandhi 2016.0077.00068??To date most of these records have not been digitised. This series does not have a previous Red Cross control number; but many items do have previous control numbers which are retained.??Researchers should note that under the Geneva Conventions Act 1957 protections govern the use of the Red Cross emblem. For further information see Archives staff. Author Details Stella Marr Created 9 August 2017 Last modified 27 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org) |
Sarah Powell was State President of the Soldiers, Sailors and Airmen’s Mothers’ Association for 25 years and was made Life President. She was decorated with the OBE in June 1943 for her services in this organisation. She founded the Croydon Branch and attended their annual meeting on her 92nd birthday five days before she died. Sarah Jane Powell the daughter of Thomas and Sarah Skewes (the Skewes are able to trace their ancestry back to John Wesley, the founder of Methodism) was born at Collector in New South Wales. The eldest of ten children she moved with her family to Warrenheip, near Ballarat in Victoria, where her father became the school master and preacher. Here she became a teacher with the Schools Board, an organist for the local church as well as teaching singing and piano. On December 29, 1886 she married Samuel James Powell and moved to Warrnambool. The parents of six children the Powell family moved to Melbourne in 1905. Powell became president of the Coburg branch of the Australian Women’s National League as well as being the branch delegate to the Council. During World War I, in which she was to lose a son and brother, Powell became involved with the care and welfare of soldiers invalided home from the battlefronts. Following the war she became a foundation member of the Soldiers Mothers’ Association (later called Sailors’, Soldiers and Airmen’s Mothers’ Association – SS&AMA) in 1919. Powell became State President in 1921 and was made Life President in 1926. A member of the War Memorial Committee – later known as the Shrine of Remembrance, Powell represented the Mothers’ Association on the committee of the Kings Memorial. She founded the Croydon Branch of the SS&AMA. When this Branch opened a Home for widows or those separated from their husbands, one of the flatettes was named in her honour. In appreciation of her community work Sarah Powell was recognised by being presented with various awards including: • The Order of Merit from the Returned Soldiers’ League (later named Returned & Services League of Australia – RSL) for her devotion to the cause of the men who fought in the Great War in 1923. • The Coronation Medal at the time of the coronation of King George VI in 1937. • Appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire for social welfare work with the armed forces on June 2, 1943. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Edna M Lemke Created 1 June 2004 Last modified 29 October 2018 Digital resources Title: Mrs Sarah Powell Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Title: Representatives from the Fathers and Mothers' Sailors' Soldiers and Airmen's Associations Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Title: Acknowledgement of support Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Title: AWE0989gd.jpg Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Title: AWE0989ge.jpg Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org) |
2 min 28 sec. 16mm/b&w/silent. Actuality footage, Television news footage.??The Minister for the Army, Mr Bob Katter, was on the move in NSW yesterday (July 12) visiting two of the Army’s officer training establishments. During the morning, at the Officer Training Unit, Scheyville (pronounced Sky-ville) near Windsor, NSW, he reviewed his first graduation. Afterwards, he flew by Army helicopter to the Women’s Royal Australian Army Corps School at Georges Heights, Sydney, NSW. At Georges Heights, Mr Katter spent about one and a half hours inspecting training, accommodation and messing facilities at the Womens Royal Australian Army Corps School. The school has about 86 officer cadets undergoing training. It also conducts courses for recruits and for non commissioned officers. One of the best known soldiers at the school to meet the Minister was Corporal Digger, the school’s dog mascot. Mr Katter was accompanied during his tour by the Assistant Director of WRAAC, Lieutenant Colonel B. Maxwell, and the Chief Instructor of the school, Major M. Holmes. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 3 April 2003 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org) |
[Red Cross Archives series reference: V05]??Comprises Rockingham Echo newsletters produced by residents of Rockingham for circulation amongst residents. Each booklet has an original screen printed cover on coloured paper, followed by a title page with the Editorial Group, Cover Design and Printer named. Each publication has an index; follow by reports on excursions, articles on sport, jokes, entertainment, quizzes, cartoons, poetry, short stories, and items of interest such as lists staff and their roles. See: Who s Who at Rockingham September 1961, p.21 (2016.0065.00001)??This is difficult to estimate the exact print run and the frequency of publication. Some years the publication is monthly, others are bi monthly, quarterly or a combination these. What is clear is that there are no publications in this set for the years 1966, 1971, 1972.??Rockingham Convalescent Home, Barkers Road Kew was established in 1940 as an 80-100 bed psychiatric facility for returned ex-service patients mostly from Heidelberg Repatriations hospital. In 1958 the name was changed to simply Rockingham upon the request of patients who objected to convalescent home which implied they were passive patients when their experience was of an active therapeutic community where stimulating activities and occupational therapy was provided such as weaving, ironwork, leatherwork, basketry and gardening which helped patients in their recovery. The facility continued to operate until 1977. See: Red Cross News, Dec 1988 Feb 1989, p.19. Rockingham where lives were put back together (2016.0064.00019).??See also: ROCKINGHAM HOUSE COMMITTEE MINUTES (2016.0071.00023); and files relating to rehabilitation in CORRESPONDENCE FILES, NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS (2015.0033).??Researchers should note that under the Geneva Conventions Act 1957 protections govern the use of the Red Cross emblem. For further information see Archives staff. Author Details Stella Marr Created 9 August 2017 Last modified 30 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org) |
Records of Catherine Helen Spence, author, humanitarian and reformer, comprising her 1894 diary, letters, manuscripts of sermons, articles written for publication, lectures, scrapbooks, newspaper clippings, the text of the novel ‘Handfasted’, also reminiscences of and by Miss Spence. Includes literary manuscripts. Also included is a framed point-lace collar made by her in 1910 as a present for the marriage of Janet Doris Hübbe and Alfred Allen Simpson. Author Details Clare Land Created 16 December 2001 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org) |
Liz Jackson was a multi-award winning journalist who came relatively late to the profession. After working as a lawyer, and then as a ‘femocrat’ in the New South Wales Public Service, at the age of thirty-three she turned her hand to journalism. In 2005 she became the first female host of ABC Television’s Media Watch program. She left the ABC in 2013. Jackson passed away in 2018, having struggled with Parkinson’s Disease since she was diagnosed in 2014. Liz Jackson grew up in Parkville, near the University of Melbourne. In the 1970s, after completing an arts degree, she travelled to London where she studied to be a barrister. On her return to Australia she worked for the New South Wales Government. It was during this time that Liz Jackson moved into a home full of journalists, eventually shifting into journalism herself. ‘My life as a public servant seemed a lot less interesting than theirs as journalists,’ she said. ‘No one seemed to want to know what I did that day.’ Jackson joined the ABC in 1987. After spending seven years in radio, at Radio National and 2JJJ, she joined Four Corners as a reporter. In 2005 she became host of Media Watch and was also known for her work on 4 Corners. Events 1993 - 1993 Best International Report, ‘Somalia. Dying for Relief’, Australian Broadcasting Corporation 1996 - 1996 Best Application of the Television Medium to Journalism, ‘Telling His Story’ Australian Broadcasting Corporation (with Ashley Smith) 2000 - 2000 Coverage of Indigenous Affairs, ‘Go to Jail’, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, (with Lin Buckfield) 2000 - 2000 Coverage of Sport, ‘Fixing Cricket’, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, (with Lin Buckfield & Peter Cronau) 2002 - 2002 Social Equity Journalism (Highly Commended), ‘Putting The Children At Risk’, Australian Broadcasting Corporation (with Morag Ramsay & Jo Puccini) 2006 - 2006 Coverage of the Asia-Pacific Region, ‘Stoking the Fires’, 4 Corners, Australian Broadcasting Corporation (with Lin Buckfield) 1985 - 2006 - 2006 Stoking the Fires’, 4 Corners, Australian Broadcasting Corporation (with Lin Buckfield and Peter Cronau) 2017 - 2017 A Sense of Self’ – ABC TV (with Martin Butler, Bentley Dean and Tania Nehme) Published resources Resource Section Liz Jackson, Pedler, Emma and Joseph Thomsen, 2005, http://www.abc.net.au/sa/stories/s1383221.htm Site Exhibition The Women's Pages: Australian Women and Journalism since 1850, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2008, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/cal/cal-home.html Australian Women Lawyers as Active Citizens, Trailblazing Women Lawyers Project Team, 2016, http://www.womenaustralia.info/lawyers Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 20 November 2007 Last modified 20 July 2020 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org) |
Minute books, 8 June, 1850-19 July, 1960, 4 August 1970-5 August 1975, 28 September 1981-29 August 1983. The collection includes also the minute book of the Industrial Home, 7 January 1861-19 August 1862. Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 21 August 2003 Last modified 29 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org) |
Dame Nellie Melba (née Helen Porter Mitchell) was an internationally renowned opera singer, celebrated for her magnificent coloratura (soprano) voice. Melba’s musical training began in Melbourne at Presbyterian Ladies’ College, and continued in France under Mathilde Marchesi. Her operatic debut was in Brussels, in 1887. Melba went on to perform in London, Paris and New York before returning to Australia to tour in 1902. She also toured Australia in 1909, 1911, 1924 and 1928. She founded a women’s singing school in Melbourne and wrote a singing manual and a memoir. Melba was appointed to The Order of the British Empire, Dame Grand Cross (Civil) on 3 June 1927 for services to Australia. She was also appointed to The Order of the British Empire, Dames Commander, on 15 March 1918 for giving fund-raising concerts to assist war wounded during the First World War. Events 2001 - 2001 Inducted into the Victorian Honour Roll of Women 1918 - 1918 1927 - 1927 Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Victorian Women's Roll of Honour: Women Shaping the Nation, 2001, https://herplacemuseum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/2001-Honour-Roll-Booklet.pdf Resource Section Melba, Nellie (1861-1931), Davidson, Jim, 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A100464b.htm Book Nellie Melba : the first Australian diva, Magee, Adrian, 1995 Popular Australian singers from the early years of sound recording [sound recording]. Volume 1., c1988 Nellie Melba, a contemporary review, Moran, William R., 1995 Nellie Melba : the legend still lives, Vickery, Marian, 1982 Red plush and black velvet : the story of Dame Nellie Melba and her times, Wechsberg, Joseph, 1962 Melba method, Melba, Nellie, Dame, 1926 Melodies and memories, Melba, Nellie, Dame; Beverley Nichols, 1925 Papers of Dame Nellie Melba, National Library of Australia 100 great Australians, Macklin, Robert, 1983 Evensong, Beverley Nichols, 1932 Australian nurses since Nightingale 1860-1990, Burchill, Elizabeth, 1992 The Shire of Lilydale and its military heritage : the First World War and its effect on the community, McAleer, A J, c1995 Victoria, the first century : an historical survey, compiled by the Historical Sub-committee of the Centenary Celebrations Council, 1934 The Complete Book of Great Australian Women: Thirty-six women who changed the course of Australia, De Vries, Susanna, 2003 Book Section Melodies and memories; introduction and notes by John Cargher, Melba, Nellie, Dame; Beverley Nichols, 1980 Edited Book Dame Nellie Melba, Franklin Peterson, 1915 200 Australian Women: A Redress Anthology, Radi, Heather, 1988 Double Time: Women in Victoria - 150 Years, Lake, Marilyn and Kelly, Farley, 1985 Souvenir Dame Nellie Melba and J.C. Williamson Ltd. : grand opera season, June-July-August 1924, souvenir, 1924 Newspaper Article Dame Nellie Melba: Death in Sydney, 1931, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article4264309 Death of Dame Nellie Melba: Australia's Greatest Singer, 1931, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article16756845 Obituary [Dame Nellie Melba], 1931 Melba's keys to past, O'Connor, Shaunagh, 2003 Site Exhibition Faith, Hope and Charity Australian Women and Imperial Honours: 1901-1989, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2003, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/honours/honours.html The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia, Smart, Judith and Swain, Shurlee (eds.), 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders Archival resources State Library of Victoria Letters relating to Australia, 1856-1889 [manuscript]. Biographical file of information on Dame Nellie Melba, ca. 1961. [manuscript]. Scrapbook, ca. 1911-1937. [manuscript]. Letters, ca. 1916. [manuscript]. Papers, [manuscript]. Scrapbook, 1909-1931. [manuscript]. Papers, 1845-1870 [manuscript]. National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Account book, 1902-1903 [manuscript] Miscellaneous papers re Caroline Chisholm and Dame Nellie Melba, c1833-c1953 [microform] Papers of Fritz Bennicke Hart 1898-1951 [manuscript] Collection of papers relating to Dame Nellie Melba, 1911-1928 [manuscript] Family papers, ca. 1869 - ca. 1945 [manuscript] Correspondence, [19--] [manuscript] The discovery of a Nellie Melba archive 1971 [manuscript] Papers of Dame Nellie Melba, circa 1908-1970 [manuscript] Papers of Dame Nellie Melba 1895-1923 [manuscript] Scrapbooks 1924 [manuscript] Letters and diary, 1911-1931 [manuscript] Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection Nellie Melba papers, 1901-1903 [Collection of pamphlets containing souvenir concert programmes and Australian biographies.] Performing Arts Museum Van Straten Collection Cochran Collection Papers of Lemmone, John, 1861-1949. Grainger Museum Percy Grainger: outgoing correspondence Correspondence: Nellie Melba to Rose and Percy Grainger Correspondence: "Melba letters" Correspondence: Letters between Percy Grainger and Nellie Melba Melba Memorial Conservatorium of Music Records of Melba Memorial Conservatorium of Music Author Details Clare Land Created 24 April 2002 Last modified 12 September 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org) |
48 hours 40 minutes??A series of interviews with 25 South Australian women involved in a broad range of political activities. The interviewing program was developed as part of the State Library of South Australia’s celebration of the centenary of women’s suffrage in 1994, and supervised by the Oral History Officer, J.D. Somerville Oral History Collection, Mortlock Library of South Australiana. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 6 May 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org) |
Atherton, Qld. 1945-02-27. NFX76505 Corporal Alice Penman, with Private H. E. (Emily) Lewis, examining stocks of bottles of medical supplies in a cupboard at the regimental aid post, 65 AWAS Barrack. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 3 April 2003 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org) |
Committee meeting minutes, Annual General Meeting minutes, Annual Conference Proceedings Author Details Janet Butler Created 18 March 2010 Last modified 26 April 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org) |
Local historian Christine Adams was born and raised in Broken Hill, New South Wales. After living in South Australia and Queensland, she returned to Broken Hill with her husband Paul in 2003. Christine Adams was the third child and only daughter of Vincent James Leonard and Beryl Helene (Helen) Leonard, nee Matthewson. Both sides of her family were well established in Broken Hill. The Matthewsons had migrated from Scotland and settled in the town by 1918. The Leonards – descended from James Leonard, once a convict stationed at Van Diemen’s Land – were living there from 1907. The marriage of Helen (a Presbyterian) and Vince (a Catholic) in 1935 caused some controversy within the two families. Their first son Desmond Vincent was born in July 1936, followed by Malcolm Thomas in May 1942. Christine was born four years later. Vince was a mine worker and the family lived first at Railwaytown before moving in early 1955 to a home in Queen Street, South Broken Hill, following the establishment of the Zinc mine housing co-op. Within months, Vince had been hospitalised with pneumonia. He passed away at the age of 42 in September 1955, when Christine was nine years old. His wife found work cleaning the mine-operated kindergarten before being appointed hostess of the Zinc Guest House, a temporary residence for dignitaries visiting the mine. Christine Leonard was educated at St Joseph’s Convent School in Broken Hill. A bright student, she developed a strong and lasting respect for the nuns who taught and cared for her there. Despite ambitions to study medicine, she left school at the age of sixteen following her mother’s first heart attack in 1961 and took on administrative work at the mines in order to supplement the family income. She became involved with the Young Christian Workers group, serving as secretary and treasurer and attending Sunday night dances. At 17, Christine met Paul Adams at a local party and they courted for eighteen months before she called off the union: she was Catholic; he was Church of England. In 1967 she married Barry John Midgley in the Sacred Heart Cathedral at Broken Hill. Ten years her senior and hailing from South Australia, Barry was working for International Computers Limited. The newlyweds moved to Adelaide, where Christine gave birth to two daughters: Anne-Louise (1969) and Kathryn (1971). Christine’s mother was remarried, to Norman Rawling, in 1963. In 1974, she passed away. By then, Christine was undertaking a childcare course in Adelaide and attempting to save her struggling marriage. In 1980 she and Barry moved with their two children and Barry’s mother to the Gold Coast, where Christine began work for Telstra, but the marriage was all but over. Several years later, by a curious set of circumstances, Christine found herself once again in contact with her former sweetheart, Paul Adams. Paul was then working at the University of New South Wales Arid Zone Research Station in Fowler’s Gap. He too was at the end of an unsalvageable marriage. After some years of phone contact Christine and Paul were reunited and finally married at Fowler’s Gap in 1991. They celebrated with a four-day wedding. Christine completed an Advanced Diploma in Applied and Local History at the University of New England, Armidale, in 2002. The following year, she and Paul returned to live in Broken Hill. For many years, Christine has undertaken research in local history and has several publications to her name including Way Out West: Pastoral Stories of Western New South Wales (2008) and Sharing the Lode: The Broken Hill Migrant Story (2004). Family history compilations include Shamrocks, Scythes and Silver (1998) and Goodnight My Son (1998). Christine assisted with the creation of the Broken Hill Migrant Museum and co-convened All Fired Up: The Broken Hill Fire Brigade Exhibition as well as the Broken Hill Sacred Heart Cathedral Centenary Photographic Exhibition. Published resources Book Sharing the Lode: The Broken Hill Migrant Story, Adams, Christine, 2004 Way Out West: Pastoral Stories of Western New South Wales, Adams, Christine, 2008 Site Exhibition Unbroken Spirit: Women in Broken Hill, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2009, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/bh/bh-home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources Private Hands (These regards may not be readily available) Interview with Christine Adams Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 27 February 2009 Last modified 20 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org) |
In the late 1950s Oldmeadow, with her husband Courtney, founded Oldmeadow Booksellers. In 1974, they opened Dromkeen, which has become an internationally recognised children’s literature museum. Born: 22 August 1921. Died: 4 August 2001. Oldmeadow trained as a kindergarten teacher before founding Oldmeadows Booksellers with her husband Court in the late 1950s. They promoted children’s authors and successfully conducted a series of meet-the-author sessions. In 1973, the Oldmeadows purchased a large 19th century farmhouse near Riddells Creek, Victoria, Dromkeen Homestead. They began a collection of original children’s book illustrations, manuscripts and early Australian children’s books. The Oldmeadows were jointly awarded Britain’s Eleanor Farjeon Award for their services to children’s literature in 1976. In 1982, Oldmeadow inaugurated the Dromkeen Medal, which is awarded annually to individuals for outstanding achievements in the field of children’s literature. She was awarded the Nan Chauncy Award in 1988, by the Children’s Book Council of Australia, as well as the Order of Australia Medal in 1989, for her services to children’s literature. Published resources Newspaper Article Joyce Oldmeadow, OAM, Dugan, Michael, 2001 Caring custodian of children's imaginations, Jones, Philip, 2001 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources National Library of Australia [Biographical cuttings on Joyce Oldmeadow, bookcollector, containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journals] State Library of Western Australia [Interview with Joyce Oldmeadow] [sound recording] / [interviewed by Bill Bunbury] Author Details Anne Heywood Created 22 August 2001 Last modified 29 October 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org) |
Minutes of the Invergowrie Homecraft Hostel Council 1967-1975; Minutes of Annual General Meetings of Invergowrie Homecraft Hostel Council 1968-1975; Financial statements and correspondence 1973-1975; Membership 1973. These are the records created by the Invergowrie Past Students Association after taking control of the Hostel in 1967 and forming the Invergowrie Homecraft Hostel Council and incorporating it as a company. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 6 February 2002 Last modified 30 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org) |
Various items. Formerly PR2771/1-. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 12 September 2003 Last modified 7 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org) |
Personal correspondence files, 1958-1993. Includes Student File 1958-1971, correspondence on Margaret Manion’s appointment to the Chair of Fine Arts and her award of the Order of Australia in 1989. Newspaper and magazine articles about Margaret Manion, 1979-1989. Copy of an address “Vasari and the Renaissance”, on the occasion of Professor Crawford’ Jubilee. Marked: “Prof. J. Burke?”. Author Details Clare Land Created 19 December 2001 Last modified 30 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org) |
Experimental documentary film contrasting the relationship between Aboriginal women and white men in the past and in the 1980s. The film juxtaposes contemporary images of black women with a voice-over of extracts from early journals of white settlers and sailors, in order to question the validity of conventional white history and to deny the image of Aborigines as passive and powerless. — General note: Additional credits: Philippa Harvey (Film editor); Gail Mabo, Cheryl Pitt, Lindsay McCorrmack (Cast). Author Details Hollie Aerts Created 20 December 2010 Last modified 1 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org) |
1 digital audio tape (ca. 42 min.)??Sir Ernest Lee-Steere, pastoralist, speaks about his aunt, Kate O’Connor, who became an artist, how his whole family went overseas in 1924 and visited Kate in Paris who showed them the Louvre; how she won an All-Australian Art prize at age 86; how her father was believed to have shot himself but this remains a mystery; in 1910 on a journey back to Ireland Kate suddenly declared that she was only going as far as Paris and there she stayed; her inclinations as a suffragette; her relative poverty while living in Paris as an artist; how she cultivated some wealthy friends; how she became a Post-Impressionist painter, and her unhappiness at having to return to Australia in 1955. (From National Library of Australia catalogue). Author Details Lisa MacKinney Created 25 November 2009 Last modified 21 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org) |
Doris Pilkington is the author of Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence; the story on which Phillip Noyce’s celebrated feature film is based. Doris Pilkington was born on Balfour Downs station, 60 kilometres northwest of Jigalong in the Pilbara district, Western Australia. Aged four she was forcibly removed with her mother to the Moore River settlement, 115 kilometres north of Perth. Doris attended the settlement school before moving to Perth, where she began training as a nursing aide at the Royal Perth hospital. She later moved to Geraldton and, after raising her children, completed her secondary education. She returned to Perth to study journalism at Curtin University. During a holiday at Jigalong, Pilkington discovered that her mother, Molly Kelly, was sent from Jigalong to the Moore River settlement at the age of 14, together with her two cousins aged eight and ten. The children escaped and returned to Jigalong by following the 1,000 kilometre long rabbit-proof fence – a journey which took them several months to complete. Inspired by these experiences, Doris wrote a novella, Caprice: A Stockman’s Daughter (1991), which won the 1990 David Unaipon award. She also wrote Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence (1996), which was later turned into Phillip Noyce’s feature film, Rabbit-Proof Fence (2001). Published resources Book Follow the rabbit-proof fence, Pilkington, Doris (Nugi Garimara), 1996 Caprice: a stockman's daughter, Pilkington, Doris (Nugi Garimara), 1991 Edited Book The Encyclopaedia of Aboriginal Australia : Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander history, society and culture, Horton, David, 1994 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Newspaper Article Shiner of light on stolen generation, Olsen, Christine, 2014 Fearless writer revealed the lives behind the Sorry Day stories of dispossession, 2014 Author Details Leonarda Kovacic and Barbara Lemon Created 20 May 2005 Last modified 4 September 2015 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org) |
Information in the Senate minutes and Faculty of Medicine minutes, University of Sydney c1908-46. Author Details Gavan McCarthy Created 15 October 1993 Last modified 16 September 2002 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org) |
Erica Underwood was the first woman Deputy Chairman of Council at the Western Australian Institute of Technology, the first psychologist trained in Western Australia, an ABC broadcaster and a founder of the University radio station 6 NR. [1] She was appointed to The Order of the British Empire – Member (Civil) on 31 December 1977 for services to radio, education and the community. The daughter of William and Jessica Chandler, Erica’s career ambition was to become a psychologist. As no course was available in Western Australia she accepted a teachers’ college bursary and studied Arts at the University of Western Australia. After graduating, Erica became the first cadet in psychology at the Government Psychological Clinic for Children. The clinic closed during the depression and she completed her Teacher’s Certificate and taught for four years at Collie. [2] In 1934 she married Eric Underwood (later Professor) and they were to have four children. Professor Underwood, an agricultural scientist, became Professor of Agriculture at the University of Western Australia, and is widely known for his work on the effects of trace elements in nutrition. In 1949 Erica Underwood, along with two other women, was appointed to the Children’s Court bench to assist the magistrate. During the late 1940s she joined broadcaster Catherine King, presenting one session per fortnight on the ABC radio programme “The Women’s Session.” The programme was broadcast throughout the State and included music, live interviews and discussion on subjects from science and arts to cooking and parenting. It was based on the premise that women who were not in the paid work-force were thinking people with wide interests and concerns. [3] Together Erica Underwood and Catherine King travelled in the ABC van meeting the country women who listened to the programme. In 1966 Erica became the sole broadcaster of the show. Erica was involved in a variety of community activities. She was the first woman appointed to the Churchill Fellowship Award committee; the first woman government nominee on the Council of the Western Australian Institute of Technology (now Curtin University of Technology) and in 1977 became the first woman Deputy Chairman (now Pro-Chancellor); Deputy chairman of the Western Australian Arts Council; and member of the State Advisory Committee of the Australian Broadcasting Commission. She was an official visitor to the Riverback Boy’s institution; a member of the Western Australian committee of the Silver Jubilee Appeal; and Chairman of the committee for the Citizen of the Year Awards. In 1981 Erica Underwood became the first woman to be awarded an honorary Doctorate of Technology from the Western Australian Institute of Technology. [4] She passed away in 1992, aged 84. Published resources Book Reflections : profiles of 150 women who helped make Western Australia's history; Project of the Womens Committee for the 150th Anniversary Celebrations of Western Australia, Popham, Daphne; Stokes, K.A.; Lewis, Julie, 1979 Site Exhibition Faith, Hope and Charity Australian Women and Imperial Honours: 1901-1989, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2003, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/honours/honours.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Anne Heywood Created 17 October 2002 Last modified 5 April 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org) |
Jacqueline Denise Templeton spent almost fifty years in the Department of History at the University of Melbourne, although it was only towards the end of her career that she was able to devote as much time to research as many of her colleagues. She came to the University in 1952, taking her BA in 1956. Her initial focus was British history, but it was as a historian of Australia and Italian migration to Australia that she is best known and most affectionately remembered. After several years in England and improving her Italian while teaching at Marymount International School in Rome and the British School of Milan, she returned to the University in 1965 as Senior Tutor. In 1968 she wrote the first scholarly history of a Victorian hospital, for the centenary of Prince Henry’s. It was published in 1969, won several prizes and formed the basis of the MA she took in 1972.[1] The following year she published a study of the Melbourne Police Strike of 1923.[2] After spending two years on secondment to the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet as a consultant to the Hope Commission, she returned to tutoring in Australian history and was promoted to lecturer in 1984.[3] From 1985 Jackie Templeton and John Lack taught a course on migration which led to two books.[4] Her own research concentrated increasingly on Italian emigration to Australia and work in Lombardy resulted in her collecting over 600 letters sent by Italians in Australia. These were deposited in the Museo Etnografico Tiranese and, in her translation formed the basis of a major scholarly work published in English and Italian shortly after her death. There is also a collection, made available through her colleague John Lack, in the Italian Historical Society Museum in Carlton, which includes originals and copies of documents: letters; photographs; personal travel documents; shipping records; and newspaper cuttings as well as the agent’s register of Valtellinese migrants who sailed to Australia with Lloyd Triestino from January 28 to February 28 1970. Jackie Templeton lived just long enough after retirement to complete her revision of the manuscripts. From the Mountains to the Bush: Italian migrants write home from Australia, 1860-1962 was published in 2003 and the Italian version appeared in two editions, the second including the text of the letters.[5] [1] Jacqueline Templeton. Prince Henry’s; the evolution of a Melbourne hospital, 1869-1969. Melbourne: Robertson & Mullens, 1969. [2] Jacqueline Templeton. ‘Rebel Guardians: The Melbourne Police Strike of 1923’. Australian Society for the Study of Labour History Journal. no. 24 (1973): 103-27. [3] Australia. Royal Commission on Intelligence and Security. [Reports] Canberra: Australian Government Publishing Service, 1977-78. [4] John Lack & Jacqueline Templeton (eds.) Sources of Australian Immigration History. Melbourne: History Dept, University of Melbourne, 1988; John Lack and Jacqueline Templeton. Bold Experiment: a documentary history of Australian immigration since 1945. Melbourne; New York: Oxford University Press, 1995. [5] Templeton, Jacqueline. Dalle Montagne al Bush: l’emigrazione valtellinese in Australia (1860-1960) nelle lettere degli emigranti. a cura di John Lack; traduzione di Paola Teresa Rossetti. 2a ed. con i testi delle lettere. Tirano: Museo etnografico tiranese, 2005. Published resources Book 40 Years 40 Women: Biographies of University of Melbourne Women, Published to Commemorate the 40th Anniversary of the International Year of Women, Flesch, Juliet, 2015, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/4040/ Author Details Juliet Flesch Created 31 July 2017 Last modified 8 August 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org) |
Microfilm copy of sketch-books redrafted by the author, from the original sketch and note-books, for the Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies, Canberra. Made in 1965 by A.N.U. Library. Negative?1. The Moolaboola sketch-book — 2. The Cundarlee sketch-book — 3. The Avergne sketch-book Author Details Judith Ion Created 9 September 2002 Last modified 3 October 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org) |
This 18 page text is an offprint of Missionary review, July 1966. Sydney : Board of Missions of the Methodist Church of Australasia. Author Details Clare Land Created 9 September 2002 Last modified 30 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org) |
Reports 1911-39 and central council minutes 1914-37. Author Details Gavan McCarthy Created 15 October 1993 Last modified 1 October 2002 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org) |
3 volumes of textual material.??A 7018?1. ‘Ladies Committee book’, 7 June 1863-5 December 1911?(Request Microfilm: CY 1180, frames 1-201)??A 7019?2. Journal 30 September 1864-22 October 1870?(Request Microfilm: CY 1180, frames 202-450)??A 7020?3. Journal 1 May 1891-26 January 1899?(Request Microfilm: CY 1180, frames 451-628) Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 18 May 2004 Last modified 27 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org) |
Maroochy Barambah is a distinguished indigenous musician whose career since the 1970s has spanned the genres of jazz, rock, musical theatre and classical opera. Maroochy Barambah, formerly Yvette Isaacs, of Gubbi Gubbi descent, was born in c.1950s at Cherbourg reserve in Queensland. Her early years were spent in the dormitory system, designed to sever Aboriginal children from their cultural heritage. She participated in the Aboriginal Inland Mission choir at Cherbourg and, when fostered out to a family in Melbourne, she went to school there under the Harold Blair Aboriginal Children’s project. In the 1970s she was awarded a Melba Conservatorium of Music scholarship, and subsequently formed her own jazz group. She became lead singer with indigenous rock band Quokka and participated in the Rock Against Racism concert in Hobart, Tasmania. She also took part in the television series Women of the Sun (1982). In the same year she changed her name as a statement of pride in her Aboriginality. In 1989 she performed in the Sydney Metropolitan Opera production, Black River, which won the Sounds Australian National Music Critics Award for the year and a film version has since been produced. In 1990 she played the lead role in the successful indigenous musical, Bran Nue Dae, and in 1991 was awarded the inaugural Aboriginal performing arts fellowship offered by the Aboriginal Arts Committee as she pursued a career as a classical opera singer. She also had the lead role in Beach Dreaming, an opera written not only for but about her, by Mark Isaacs. Published resources Edited Book The Encyclopaedia of Aboriginal Australia : Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander history, society and culture, Horton, David, 1994 Book Women of the sun, Maris, Hyllus and Sonia Borg, 1985 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Leonarda Kovacic and Barbara Lemon Created 20 May 2005 Last modified 24 March 2006 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org) |
The Australian Women’s Army Service Association (NSW) was established in Sydney, New South Wales, in 1948 for the purpose of organising an Australian Women’s Army Service reunion. This became an annual event held at various venues and organised by a number of committees over the years. The Association was born of an informal meeting held in 1948 for the purpose of organising an Australian Women’s Army Service reunion. This became an annual event held at various venues and organised by a number of committees over the years. In 1950 it was proposed that any profit accruing from the reunion should be used to establish a fund with a view to forming an AWAS Association. At the final meeting of the 1954 Reunion Committee, it was advised that the AWAS Association was now a registered charity organisation and in future would be known as AWAS Reunions (NSW). It would work on behalf of the Women’s Wing of the War Veterans’ Home. By 1956, due to lack of interest, the Chief Secretary’s Department was advised that it was impossible to convene an Annual General Meeting and suggested that the registration of the AWAS Reunions (NSW) should no longer be continued, as it was not possible to abide by the Constitution originally submitted. Nonetheless, the annual reunions continued and were well attended. On 19 February 1960, a meeting was held and a draft of a proposed new Constitution was read. It was decided to circulate copies at the 1960 Reunion and, at a meeting held the following year, it was resolved that the Constitution or Rules of the Association, as circulated, would become effective as from 17 February 1961. The reunions continued each year at the Anthony Horderns Gallery. 1962 was a special year, being the 21st Anniversary of the formation of the Service, and this engendered much interest amongst those who served in the AWAS. Over 200 ladies had to be turned away from the reunion due to lack of space. A new venue was needed. Collections were always held at the reunion and over the years many needy causes benefited from the money given. As a special effort to mark the 21st Anniversary, a tree planting ceremony was arranged. An Australian Gum – Lemon Eucalyptus, was planted in Hyde Park on the western side of the War Memorial by Miss Joyce Whitworth (an AWAS Senior Officer), in the presence of Lt-General Sir John Northcott. A suitable plaque was placed beside the tree. Former members of the AWAS had been marching since 1946 in the Anzac Day March, and activities on this day had been organised by Mrs Amy Taylor. Each year more joined the ranks and soon Anzac Day became the second big event on the ex-AWAS calendar. In 1965 the format for the Annual Reunion was changed from a buffet meal to a sit-down dinner. This was a year of special interest to the AWAS Association, bringing as it did the announcement that Mr (later Sir) Roden Cutler had been appointed Governor of New South Wales. The AWAS were particularly pleased, as the Governor’s wife – Lady Helen Cutler (née Miss Helen Morris), had been a member of their organisation. Congratulations and good wishes were sent, followed by a letter asking if Lady Cutler would accept Patronage of the Association and attend the Silver Anniversary Reunion on 28 October 1966. Both requests were accepted. 1967 saw the introduction of the AWAS Association badge. An amendment was passed this same year at the Annual General Meeting, altering the Constitution to include the words “(New South Wales)” in the Association title. In 1962 the word “Anniversary” was used for the first time because it was the 25th year since the formation of the Service. Each subsequent Reunion has been known as “… Anniversary Reunion”, the 30th being held in 1971. At the Annual General Meeting held on 23 March 1972, Miss Joyce Whitworth stood down as President after 13 years in the Chair and a new executive was elected with Mrs Amy Taylor as President. On 4 September 1972 the AWAS Association (NSW) was registered under the Charitable Collections Act and received a new Certificate of Registration under the title of AWAS Association (NSW). A Welfare Trust Fund was approved with administrators to be the President, Secretary and Treasurer of the Association, with any two of these as signatories on all Trust Fund cheques. A new President, Miss Joan Lethbridge, was elected in 1974. Plans went ahead for a new Banner to be ready for the 1975 Anzac Day march. Miss Lethbridge remained President for four years. In 1978 Mrs Amy Taylor was again elected President and still holds this position. The AWAS Association (NSW) has gone from strength to strength over the years. This is mainly due to the hard working ladies who have served on the Executives and Committees. With the membership over the 1000 mark, the Association is the largest ex-Servicewomen’s organisation in NSW. The Association was a foundation member of the Council of Ex-Servicewomen’s Assns (NSW) and supported this organisation with the Building of “Friendship Court”, 12 units within the complex of the War Veterans’ Retirement Village at Narrabeen. The money that was raised came from all centres of the State. The magazine Khaki, which is posted to all financial members, has become a very popular means of communication with members, particularly those in country areas. Khaki gives the members a chance to share in the activities of the Association. Welfare is a very time consuming job and the Welfare Officer, with a good knowledge of the numerous and frequently changing pension systems, ably attends to those who seek help. As members grow older, the burden on the Welfare Department increases, but committee members assist with hospital visiting, while numerous fund raising efforts over the years and donations from members have ensured that any call for welfare could be met without financial worry. The Association was able to finance the publishing of Women in Khaki, a book written by a member of the AWAS about the Service. Membership is growing as ex-Australian Women’s Army Servicewomen seek the fellowship of their own kind: this spirit of friendship, born during the service days, has never died. Published resources Newsletter Khaki / Australian Women's Army Service Association (NSW), 1977- Book Khaki-clad and glad : 30 years after, A.W.A.S. Association (N.S.W.), [1971] Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources State Library of New South Wales Copy photographic prints of the Australian Women's Army Service Association (New South Wales) activities during World War II Private Hands (These regards may not be readily available) Australian Women's Army Service Association (NSW) Author Details Anne Heywood Created 20 January 2003 Last modified 4 May 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org) |
Correspondence, minutes, newsletters, reports, membership details, files on committees and functions relating to the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) Australia Inc. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 17 April 2018 Last modified 17 April 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org) |
MS 9592 comprises administrative records of the Australian Federation of University Women. The collection includes minutes of Council and committee meetings, committee papers, correspondence, membership lists, conference reports, financial papers and publications of the Australian Federation of University Women, International Federation of University Women and various national associations (91 boxes, 2 cartons, 1 fol. Box).??The Acc04.061 instalment comprises records relating to the 2001-2003 triennium of the Australian Federation of University Women (4 cartons).??The Acc10.003 instalment comprises six volumes containing the minutes of the meetings of the 32nd triennium, 1 November 2000-31 October 2003 (3 boxes).??The Acc10.074 instalment comprises advocacy correspondence on a range of issues relating to women, reports to Council from state and territory associations, newsletters, papers for AGMs and Education Trust material (4 boxes).??The Acc12.126 instalment comprises conference and seminar papers from various conferences, including Australian Federation of University Women conference, Indigenous Education conference and the International Federation of University Women. Also, newsletters from the IFUW and AFUW, discussion papers on a range of AFUW policy issues, and council minutes (7 boxes). Author Details Jane Carey Created 28 July 2004 Last modified 12 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org) |
Joan Williams was a prominent member of the Western Australian branch of the Communist Party of Australia. She was politically active from the 1920s, but began her career in journalism as a young woman already imbued with a strong political consciousness. The networks fostered through her membership in an elite group of Western Australian left-wing radicals were critical to the foundation of numerous Western Australian women’s and peace organisations. Under the pen name Justina Williams she wrote short stories, historical works, poems, biography and her autobiography Anger and Love. She was awarded the Order of Australia Medal accepting it on behalf of her “unrecognized sisters who serve the community”. As a young journalist Joan Williams learned about the organisational strategies operating within the European peace and women’s movements and began a lifetime involvement with Perth’s left-wing intelligentsia. Committed to initiating social change through public education Williams joined the Communist Party in 1939 drawn in by their concerns for social justice, women’s equality and opposition to war and fascism. Joan Williams’ activism spanned over fifty years. She was a foundation member of the Modern Women’s Club, the Western Australian Council for Equal Pay and Opportunity and the International Women’s Day Committee. In the 1950s Williams’ focus shifted to the concern for nuclear disarmament and, joining forces with the members of the Union of Australian Women, she established a locally based Waterside Workers Federation Women’s Committee to support strike action occurring at the time. In the early 1970s Williams became a foundation member of Women’s Liberation and the Women’s Electoral Lobby. Events 1935 - 1960 Published resources Journal Article [Joan Williams - brief biography (mother of 3)], 1992 [Joan Williams - awarded Australian Medal; biography], 1996 [Joan Williams - biography of WEL member, peace activist and writer], 1992 [Joan Williams - interview with feminist], 1996 Wharfies smile but the fight is not over., Tucak, Layla., 1998 Writing labor history in Western Australia : my experience with 'the first furrow'., Williams, Justina, 1988 Fighting to be Seen and Heard: A Tribute to Four Western Australian Peace Activists, Hopkins, L, 1999 Book Anger & love, Williams, Justina, 1993 The first furrow, Williams, Justina, 1976 Book Section [Justina Williams - brief biography of writer], 1988 [Justina Williams - profile of writer, with full page portrait], 1976 Edited Book Carrying the banner : women, leadership and activism in Australia, Eveline, Joan, 1940- and Hayden, Lorraine, 1999 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition The Women's Pages: Australian Women and Journalism since 1850, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2008, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/cal/cal-home.html Archival resources State Library of Western Australia Joan Williams papers, 1934-2005 [Interview with Joan Williams] [sound recording] / [interviewed by Leckie Hopkins] Records, 1938-1973 [manuscript] Author Details Denise Tallis Created 23 March 2004 Last modified 5 June 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org) |
Interview with Judith Parker AM, Perth, 24 February 2012, transcript in possession of Leonie Christopherson, Marian Quartly and Judith Smart Created 12 September 2013 Last modified 13 September 2013 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org) |
The Country Women’s Association of Tasmania is a non-sectarian, non-party-political, non-profit lobby group and voluntary organisation working in the interests of women and children in both urban and rural areas. It was founded in 1936 in Launceston, with Mrs C. W. Peart as President, and grew quickly across the state. The Association was formed partly in response to the formation of similar groups in other states. Its major activities have revolved around the provision of services to its members, fundraising, the improvement of amenities in rural areas (initially with an emphasis on child health services) and social activities. The Country Women’s Association (CWA) of Tasmania was founded in February 1936 at a meeting in the Launceston Town Hall attended by around 80 women. The meeting was addressed by the State President of The Country Women’s Association of Victoria, Miss Elsa Grice, who outlined the history of women’s organisations throughout the world and the progress of the CWA in Australia. The Tasmanian Governor’s, Lady Clark, agreed to act as patron for the new Association and Mrs W. C. Peart (a clergyman’s wife and former member of the CWA of Victoria) was elected foundation president. A month later a similar meeting was held in Hobart, with addresses this time from the Bush Nursing Association, the National Council of Women, the Women’s Non-Party League and a past treasurer of the South Australian CWA. The motto adopted by the league was ‘Honour to God, Loyalty to the Throne, Service to the Country, Through Country Women, For Country Women, By Country Women’. Initially the Associations in the north and south operated separately. In 1937 they joined to form a single body, with a Northern and a Southern Division. During its first 18 months, 18 branches were formed and membership reached 550. This increased to 2500 members and 71 branches by 1940. From its establishment the Association focussed particularly on issues relating the welfare of women and children. In conjunction with local councils, they established numerous child health centres. Restrooms were also established in many regional centres to provide facilities for members when they had to visit town. Some of these also provided rooms for visiting doctors, clinic sisters, libraries and other community services. During WWII, as in other states, much of the Association’s energy was directed towards supporting the war effort. Twenty thousand camouflage nets were made, along with sheepskin vests, slippers, mittens and gloves. Thousands of pounds were donated to the Red Cross, Australian Comforts Fund and other causes and an ambulance was purchased for the AIF. Food parcels were sent to soldiers and British civilians. A Voluntary Aid Detachment was established which gave classes in first aid and home nursing. From the 1946 the Association produced its own semi-annual journal, The Tasmania Country Woman. From 1966, this became a weekly new sheet published in the Tasmania Farmers’ Federation Newspaper. From 1977 they again published their own News and Views. Handcrafts and home industries have been a particular focus of the Tasmanian Association since 1937 when committees were established to promote these activities. Numerous classes, craft schools and exhibitions have been held since this time. They have also published several cookery books. In the postwar years, choral and drama activities also became a prominent feature of the Association’s social functions. They also became interested in ‘beautification’ – planting hundreds of trees., shrubs and garden beds in public spaces. From 1942 to 1982 they also ran a Housekeeper scheme, although insufficient funds limited its success. In the 1950s and 1960s numerous holiday homes were established for members. They also showed an interest in new migrants and were represented on Good Neighbourhood Councils. Over the years the Association has raised funds to support or establish a wide range of community services – from community Halls and playgrounds, to aged care homes, to facilities for disabled children. They have supported the Asthma Foundation, St John’s Ambulance, and Meals on Wheels and provided emergency relief in times of fire and flood. In 2004 the aims of the Association included: -To encourage interest in current affairs, home management and cultural activities. -To support schemes which provide for: (a) Education in nutrition (b) Training in Home Economics and Home Management (c) To encourage the production of home grown foods and use of them to the best advantage. (d) Community Centres and/or Projects of Community value. (e) Children’s activities. (g) Child Care. (h) Youth Organisations. (i) Crime prevention. -To take interest in education at all levels. -To welcome and take kindly interest in all newcomers in every district. -To encourage tree planting, for home and town beautification and to assist conservation. Published resources Book The 21st birthday cookery book of the Country Women's Association in Tasmania, Country Women's Association in Tasmania, 1958 The Many Hats of Country Women: The Jubilee History of the Country Women's Association of Australia, Stevens-Chambers, Brenda, 1997 Getting things done : the Country Women's Association of Australia, Country Women's Association of Australia, 1986 Glimpses of gold : a brief history of the Country Women's Association in Tasmania, Miles, Ena., 1987 Playing our part : sixty years of the Country Women's Association in Tasmania, 1936-1996 : in celebration, a Roll-of-Honour, and graphic evidence, dedicated to our membership., 1996 The Formation and History of the Devonport Branch, Bligh, Marjorie and Jean Potter, [1986] A History of the North Eastern Group: Country Women's Association, Carins, Allison, 1986 More than tea and talk :the story of CWA in Taroona, 1942-1986, Acton, Amy, 1987 Newsletter News and Views / Country Women's Association in Tasmania, 1977- The Tasmanian Countrywoman, 1946-1972 Report The Official Annual of the Country Women's Association in Tasmania, 1948- Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources Australian Historic Records Register Country Women's Association of Australia, North Bruny Island Branch Australian War Memorial, Research Centre Women's Land Army, Launceston, Tasmania Archives Office of Tasmania Minutes and associated papers Minute Book of the Frankford branch of the Country Womens Association. Author Details Jane Carey and Anne Heywood Created 19 March 2004 Last modified 29 April 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org) |
Letters from Professor L.F. Giblin to his wife, to his sisters Edith and Ella, and his brother Allan; to Professor A.G B. Fisher et al. Letters from Melbourne University, the ANU, the Commonwealth Bureau of Census and Statistics, to Mrs. Giblin. Correspondence between J.M. Garland and Dr. Rupert Scheider. Canberra diary of Mrs. Eilean Giblin. 31/8/1940-13/8/1941 ; 1/1/1942-18/10/1943.??List of Correspondents — Bennett, Samuel — Brigden, James Bristock — Clausen, Francis Felix — Copland, Sir Douglas Berry — Crawford, Sidney — Duffy, William B. — Dyason, Edward Clarence — Earp, Frank Russell — Exley, Harold James — Firth, Gerald G. — Fisher, Allan George Barnard — Garland, John M. — Gepp, Sir Herbert William — Giblin, Aella — Giblin, Alan — Giblin, Desmond — Giblin, Edith — Giblin, Mrs Eilean L.F. — Giblin, Emily Jean Mrs — Giblin, Lyndhurst F. — Gibson, Alexander Boyce — Gifford, John Liddle King — Hall, Mrs Edith M. 6Hytten, Torleiv — Johnston, Walter Lindsay — Lyons, Joseph Aloysius — McMinn, Jas. C. — Massy-Greene, Sir Walter — Niemeyer, Sir Otto — Pitt, George Henry — Reddaway, William Brian — Richardson, Martin — Schieder, Dr Rupert M. — Shann, Edward Owen — Sheppard, John — Simpson, George — Theodore, Edward G. — Wadham, Samuel McMahon — Walker, Edward Ronald — Wickens, Sir Charles — Wilson, Sir Roland — Wood, Gordon Leslie Author Details Alannah Croom Created 29 July 2014 Last modified 5 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org) |
Born in a small town on the Upper Nile, Ajak Kwai migrated to Australia in 1999. Founder of the band “Wahida”, she enjoys a reputation as a fine musician with an original sound. Ajak Kwai grew up in a musical family in the small town of Bor on the Upper Nile. She sang at all the village ceremonies and celebrations, later joining a local missionary choir that sang gospel music in their own Dinka style. The Sudanese civil war damaged her community during the 1990s and Ajak moved to the Sudanese capital, Khartoum, before finally leaving the last of her family in 1992 to go to Egypt. There, she enrolled in a Seventh Day Adventist College, joined international church choirs and formed a female singing group, ‘Bor Band’. Bor Band performed traditional and original Dinka songs, but was influenced by the many musical styles in Cairo. In 1999, then in her mid-twenties, Ajak Kwai was accepted into Australia under the Humanitarian Aid Program. She migrated to Hobart, Tasmania and joined the small Southern Sudanese community living there. She threw herself into her studies: an AMES English language course and accounting studies at TAFE. Class members organising a ceremony asked if anyone could sing, and Ajak obliged. From there her singing career was reborn. She has been called upon to sing at many community and fundraising events including a welcome concert for refugees from Kosovo, for which she wrote her own song. She has been invited to perform at the Hobart Refugee Fundraising Concerts, Hobart Multicultural Ball, International Women’s Day events and other refugee awareness conferences. She sings in her native Dinka tribal language as well as in Arabic and English. In 2001, Ajak formed the band “Wahida” (Arabic for Unity). Later, in 2002, she began performing in various Australian festivals, often accompanied by multi-instrumentalist Martin Tucker. In May 2004, Ajak Kwai produced her first CD, Why not Peace and Love? Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 1 February 2006 Last modified 20 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org) |
After marrying John Hubert Fraser Fairfax in 1899, Ruth Fairfax and her husband moved to Longreach, and then later Marinya, in Queensland. She was heavily involved in her local community teaching at the Sunday school, whilst also supporting the Bush Brotherhood and other Anglican organisations. She was awarded the Belgian Medal ‘de la Reine Elizabeth’ for her local efforts during the First World War. At a meeting in Albert Hall, Brisbane, in August 1922, Fairfax was appointed the first State President of the Queensland Country Women’s Association. After being elected President of the Queensland Country Women’s Association, Fairfax went on a six month tour of outback Queensland, during which she organised several branches. In 1926 she resigned as President of the Southern Division but remained State President until 1931. In addition to this, she was appointed a Justice of the Peace in 1927. Visiting England from March 1929 to December 1930, Fairfax represented Australia at the International Conference of Rural Women’s Organisations in London in 1929, and on the Liaison Committee of Rural Women’s and Homemaker’s Organisations. On her return to Australia, she lived in Sydney, New South Wales and continued her work for the Country Women’s Association (CWA) as the New South Wales secretary until 1946, as well as fulfilling her role as a vice-president of the Associated Country Women of the World in 1934. Co-editing a book with Dorothy Catts entitled The Countrywoman in New South Wales, Fairfax also served on the boards of the Adult Deaf and Dumb Society of New South Wales, St Luke’s Hospital, Darlinghurst, the general council of the Girl Guides Association, was life governor of the Benevolent Society of New South Wales, a trustee of the Public Library of New South Wales and Chairman of the council of the Australian Board of Missions. In June 1935, Ruth Fairfax was appointed O.B.E. Published resources Resource Section Fairfax, Ruth Beatrice (1878 - 1948), Rutledge, M., 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A080487b.htm Book Section Ruth Fairfax, Grant, H. Book Fifty Years 1922-72, Queensland Women's Association, 1972 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Lee Butterworth Created 22 June 2009 Last modified 21 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org) |
Records comprising three original letters written by Mary Lee, three proofs of letters published by Mary Lee in the S.A. Register, a photograph of Mary Lee in front of the Davies House at North Adelaide and a newspaper clipping re sale of the house. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 2 April 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org) |
Monthly title changed after 1998 to ‘Netballer Contact’. Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 1 January 2007 Last modified 1 January 2007 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org) |
1 hour 38 minutes??A recording of a public forum presented by the Constitutional Centenary Foundation in association with the State Library of South Australia entitled ‘The River Murray – Test Case for the Environment and the Constitution’ and held in the Institute Building of the State Library of South Australia. The purpose of the forum is to explore how the River Murray, a key issue in the Adelaide session of the 1897-1898 Australasian Federal Convention, has remained a classic issue of relations between South Australia and the federal government. John Bannon, convenor of the SA Chapter of the Foundation, introduces Emeritus Professor John Lovering, President of the Murray-Darling Basin Commission who speaks to the topic The River Murray – constitutional solutions or complications; Dr Barbara Hardy, scientist and environmentalist, who speaks to the topic Science, the environment and the constitution in collaboration; and Dr Chris Reynolds, senior lecturer in constitutional and environmental law at Flinders University, who speaks to the topic The environment and the constitution. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 30 January 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org) |
May Darlington Lahey was the first female Queenslander to practice law. Although her legal career took place overseas, Lahey can lay claim to being Australia’s first female judge. Lahey was born in Queensland and attended Brisbane Grammar School, followed by Sydney University. She was said to be a feisty young woman with the gift of the gab, and it was an uncle living in California that suggested she put her skills to use in the courtroom. By 1910 Lahey had moved to Los Angeles and enrolled at the University of Southern California College of Law. Lahey graduated on 11 June 1914 with an LLB (Honours). She was admitted to the Californian Bar the very next day, after which she specialised in probate law. In 1915 Lahey was appointed a Referee of the Probate Court. Lahey became an American citizen in 1916. She was a prominent figure in women’s organisations, such as the League of Women Voters and the Women Lawyers Club. It is reported that ‘she was renowned for her vivacious personality, Australian accent and talent for public speaking.’ Lahey became the second female judge appointed to the Los Angeles Municipal Court, on Christmas Day, 1928 – only seven years after Mary O’Toole became the United States’ first woman municipal judge and 37 years before Roma Mitchell’s South Australian appointment. She took office on January 3, 1929. A few days later, a reception was held in her honour, whereby more than 600 guests attended, including virtually all the Los Angeles judiciary (State and Federal), many leaders of the Bar and numerous local residents. Lahey was one of the most prominent members of the American Lawyers Club and she represented California at numerous prestigious legal conferences After 15 years on the bench, Lahey was unanimously elected the court’s first female Presiding Judge. She remained at the court until her retirement in 1965. Published resources Site Exhibition Australian Women Lawyers as Active Citizens, Trailblazing Women Lawyers Project Team, 2016, http://www.womenaustralia.info/lawyers Author Details Larissa Halonkin & Alannah Croom Created 17 August 2016 Last modified 21 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org) |
1 hour 30 minutes??The Adelaide Trefoil Guild began in February 1945 and was the first registered in Australia. The Guild is affiliated with the Girl Guides Association of Australia and its main objectives are fellowship and the continued support of guiding. The recording features three of the longest serving members of the Adelaide Trefoil Guild reminiscing about its activities. Author Details Jane Carey Created 15 June 2004 Last modified 27 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org) |
Bec Cody was elected to the Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly in the seat of Murrumbidgee in 2016 and served until the 2020 election when she lost her seat to fellow Labor candidate Marisa Paterson. She was active in Assembly committees, chairing the Select Committee on End of Life Choices in the ACT 2017–2019 and the Health, Aging and Community Services Standing Committee 2016–2020. Prior to entering the Assembly she was a hairdresser with her own salon. After leaving the Assembly she joined the ACT Mental Health Community Coalition as CEO before moving to a role of Director Business Partnerships with Queensland Labor. She raised two sons as a single mother. Bec Cody was raised and educated in Canberra. Her mother was a public school teacher and union member. Leaving school early to take up a hairdressing apprenticeship, Bec Cody completed her qualification at Canberra Technical and Further Education college and became a small business owner managing her own hairdressing salon. She raised two sons as a single mother having dealt with domestic violence. Bec Cody ran for the ACT Legislative Assembly in the seat of Brindabella in 2012 but was not successful. On 26 October 2016 she was elected in the seat of Murrumbidgee and represented this electorate until the 2020 election. She lost her seat to fellow Labor candidate Marisa Paterson. Cody was active in Assembly committees serving on the Standing Committees on Justice and Community Safety, Public Accounts, and Health, Aging and Community Services (2016–2020) and on the Select Committees on Estimates (2016–2018, 2019–2020), the ACT Election and the Electoral Act (2016–2017), the Independent Integrity Commission (2016–2018) and End of Life Choices in the ACT (2017–2019). On 15 March 2021 Bec Cody joined the ACT Mental Health Community Coalition as its Chief Executive Officer. In September 2023 she relocated to Brisbane taking up the position of Director Business Partnerships with Queensland Labor. While in Canberra she was involved with the Vikings Triathlon Club and Park Runs. Author Details Kathryn Dan Created 11 August 2024 Last modified Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org) |
1. The Echo – a radio play by Ruth Park and D’Arcy Niland, undated?2. Hunting the Gowk – a short story by D’Arcy Niland, undated?3. Diary of a Spieler – a radio play by D’Arcy Niland, undated?4. Returned soldier – a short story by Ruth Park for ABC Weekly, undated?5. The Bunyip Kid – a short story by D’Arcy Niland, undated Author Details Alannah Croom Created 21 June 2018 Last modified 21 June 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org) |
A long term local government councillor and a seasoned campaigner for her party, Maria Heggie was the Liberal party candidate for Cabramatta in 1984, 1988 and 1991. She was Alderman for Fairfield City Council in 1980-2004 and Mayor from 1987-1988. A lifelong resident of Cabramatta, Maria Heggie was elected to Fairfield City Council in 1980 and was prominent in many local campaigns such as those opposing the building of a toxic waste plant in the area, and the siting of a hotel next to the Greenfield Park High School. She was Chairperson of the Fairfield Drug Action Team in 1998 and a member of the Council’s Reconciliation Strategy Committee. In 2005, she was presented with a Local Government Outstanding Service Award for 24 years of service to Fairfield Council. She is married to David, and they have two sons. Published resources Book Women in Australian Parliament and Local Government: An updated history 1975-1992, Decker, Dianne, 1992 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 25 August 2005 Last modified 16 September 2013 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org) |
1968, 1997, Date unknown; ‘Unpublished articles…articles rejected by journals’ (Call No.: MLMSS 5916 ADD-ON 2133/1)?1968-1969, 1987; ‘Copies of journals with articles by A. Blake & other such material’ (Call No.: MLMSS 5916 ADD-ON 2133/1)?1954-1989; ‘Biographical material & Celebratory messages – Birthdays & so on…’, including a copy of A Proletarian Life (1984) (Call No.: MLMSS 5916 ADD-ON 2133/1)?1952, 1977-1997; ‘Correspondence to A. Blake…’ Correspondents include Graeme Bell, Sue Bellamy, Mona Brand, John Brink, Margaret Brink, L. G. (Lloyd Gordon) Churchward, Communist Party of Australia. Sydney District Committee, Maurie Crow, Robin (Bob) Gollan, Itzhak Gust, Elizabeth Harrower, Ken Inglis, Kay Iseman, Jacques Leclerc, Jack Legge, Penny Lockwood, Roger Milliss, Stephen Murray-Smith, Overland, Helen Palmer, Anne Spencer Parry, Frederick G. G. Rose, Edna Ryan, Carmel Shute, Bernard Smith and University of Melbourne. Archives (Call No.: MLMSS 5916 ADD-ON 2133/1)?1966, 1984, 1998; ‘Correspondence – other things…Copy of resignation from CPA in A Proletarian Life’, including correspondence with Communist Party of Australia. Central Committee (Call No.: MLMSS 5916 ADD-ON 2133/1)?1968-1996; ‘Correspondence to Jack & Audrey’, with, among others, Bruce Armstrong, H. C. Begg (CBD Library & Subscription Service), Mona Brand, Peggy Dennis, Len Fox, Amirah Inglis, Ken Inglis, Edna Ryan, James Frederick Staples and Frank J. B. Stilwell (Call No.: MLMSS 5916 ADD-ON 2133/1)?1986-1994; ‘Correspondence to 7 from Jack & Audrey’, being mainly with Elizabeth Harrower and Bruce Johnson (Call No.: MLMSS 5916 ADD-ON 2133/1)?1963-1996; ‘Correspondence – AB. To newspapers. Reviews for journals’, including correspondence with Moscow News, Soviet Literature and Tribune, and issue of Overland, no. 144 Spring 1996 (Call No.: MLMSS 5916 ADD-ON 2133/1)?1993; ‘Correspondence concerning AB’s unpublished manuscripts on History of the EYL & its predecessors’, being mainly correspondence concerning deposit of copies in libraries, and with Ruth Crow (Call No.: MLMSS 5916 ADD-ON 2133/1)?1985-1996; ‘Eureka Youth League’, concerning its history and archives (Call No.: MLMSS 5916 ADD-ON 2133/1)?1994-1996; ‘Material on the photographic record of the EYL held by the Archive of the University of Melbourne’, including correspondence with Jim Adams, Bruce Armstrong and University of Melbourne. Archives (Call No.: MLMSS 5916 ADD-ON 2133/2)?1928, 1980; ‘Historical Material’, being photocopy of The Young Comrade, vol. 1 no. 1, Nov. 1928, issued by the Young Comrades Club of Melbourne, and excerpt form Tribune, 4 June 1980, concerning Second Women and Labour Conference, Melbourne, 1980 (Call No.: MLMSS 5916 ADD-ON 2133/2)?196–1987; ‘Manuscripts of material by Audrey Blake [and jointly with J. D. Blake]’, being mainly articles and reviews, and including first draft of her paper, ‘he Eureka Youth League’, given at the Second Women and labour Conference, Melbourne, May 1980 (Call No.: MLMSS 5916 ADD-ON 2133/2)?1956, 1993; ‘Manuscripts of first ‘Notes’ ’56 plus – Manuscript additions to early ‘Notes on the Development of the Eureka Youth League & its Predecessors 1993’ (Call No.: MLMSS 5916 ADD-ON 2133/2)?1984-1985; ‘Material relating to A Proletarian Life : Correspondence with Kibble, Reviews, and letters from readers’, including correspondence with, among others, Stephanie Claire, Amirah Inglis, Kibble Books, Kath Olive and Edna Ryan (Call No.: MLMSS 5916 ADD-ON 2133/2)?1984-1986; ‘Material relating to the film ‘Red Matildas’…’, including transcript of tape recording of Audrey Blake and correspondence with Trevor Grahame, Co-Director of the film Red Matildas (Call No.: MLMSS 5916 ADD-ON 2133/2)?1964-1988; ‘Reviews of work by AB’s. Notices etc.’, with letter received from Jacques Leclerc (Call No.: MLMSS 5916 ADD-ON 2133/2)?1949-1988; ‘Speeches of A. Blake’, including talks, eulogies and coference papers, and a copy of the proceedings of the Second Congress of the World Federation of Democratic Youth, Budapest, Sep. 1949 (Call No.: MLMSS 5916 ADD-ON 2133/2)?1915, 1955-1998; ‘Working materials – AB and JDB’, being newscuttings and printed material with MS. notes (Call No.: MLMSS 5916 ADD-ON 2133/2)?1952, 1987, Date unknown; ‘The Youth Carnival for Peace & Friendship March 1952…’ (Call No.: MLMSS 5916 ADD-ON 2133/2) Author Details Alannah Created 21 June 2018 Last modified 21 June 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org) |
Correspondence inward and outward and duplicate letterbooks, 1956-1974 (18 files, 5 vols). ?Annual reports, 1957-1974 (1 file). ?Proficiency Badge booklets and receipt books, 1957-1974 (15 items). ?Company and Pack Register, 1956-1970 (2 vols). ?Miscellaneous records, certificates, cards, pamphlets, camping booklets, posters, rosters, song booklets and handbooks, 1956-1974 (c250 items). ?Newspaper clippings relating to camps and certificates, 1960s-1970s (1 file).??Historical note:?The 1st Ajana Brownie Pack, WA, commenced activities in October 1956. In April 1959 the 1st Ajana Girl Guide Company was formed with Jessie May Sutherland as Captain. Because of distance, the functions of the local association were undertaken by the Ajana Branch of the Country Women’s Association and instead of the usual weekly meetings, Guides and Brownies met in the Binnu or Ajana halls, the Golf Club or out of doors, before or after church services, or while their parents played golf or tennis. ?The 1st Ajana Girl Guide Company ceased to operate in 1976 and the 1st Ajana Brownie Pack in 1979. Author Details Jane Carey Created 15 June 2004 Last modified 15 June 2004 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org) |
The papers in MS 10043 reflect the personal and professional life of Australian writer, Kylie Tennant. They include correspondence, personal documents, notes and notebooks, literary manuscripts, press cuttings, photographs and graphic material. The bulk of the collection comprises correspondence and research material, notes and drafts relating to Tennant’s literary works. The papers of Tennant’s husband, L.C. Rodd, are present throughout the collection, largely in the form of correspondence. Australian literary figures amongst the correspondents are: Kay Brown, Nancy Cato, Clem Christesen, Robert Darby, Beatrice Davis, Geoffrey Dutton, Miles Franklin, Mary Gilmore, Dorothy Green, Max Harris, Elizabeth Harrower, Tom Inglis Moore, Elizabeth Jolley, Nancy Keesing, David Martin, Stephen Murray-Smith, Nettie Palmer, Nancy Phelan, Hal Porter, Colin Roderick, Peter Scriven, Thomas Shapcott, Douglas Stewart, Judah Waten, Patrick White and Patricia Wrightson. Other correspondents represented in the collection by significant amounts of papers include long-term friend and Maitland City Librarian, Mavis Cribb, the Reverend Alfred Clint, Doris Chadwick, Jack Ross and Tennant’s children, Bim (John) and Benison Rodd (45 boxes, 2 fol. Boxes, 1 elephant folio).??The Acc09.183 instalment comprises lists of books auctioned in lots from Tennant’s estate, showing author, title, publisher, and date (1 folder). Author Details Alannah Croom Created 2 January 2018 Last modified 23 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org) |
She talks about daily mission life, school and includes excerpt from family letters. She also includes information about and interactions with various Dieri people. The collection comprises 2 copies of a privately printed memoir: ‘Down Memory Lane: Memoirs of Helen Jericho (nee Vogelsang)’ [no publishing details]. The first is typed whereas the second is printed and includes photographs. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 29 January 2004 Last modified 3 February 2004 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org) |
The first contact between Poland-born people and Australia occurred in 1696, when several citizens of the Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth were included in the crew of Captain Willem Vlamingh’s Dutch expedition which explored the Western Australian coast. The first Polish settler in Australia was a convict who arrived in 1803 and became a successful wheat farmer in Tasmania. Later arrivals included a group of Poland born people who established a community in South Australia which grew to about 400 people by the 1880s. Some Poles joined the goldrush to Australia in the 1850s. The 1921 Australian Census recorded 1,780 Poland born residents and by the 1933 Census their number had almost doubled. Following World War II, many Polish refugees came to Australia and during the period between 1947 and 1954, the Poland born population increased from 6,573 to 56,594 people. Many refugees worked under a two-year contract in unskilled jobs and continued in similar work for a period after their contracts ended. There was further emigration from Poland to Australia after the Polish government relaxed its emigration laws with almost 15,000 Poland born people coming to Australia between the years 1957 and 1966. By the 1966 Census, the Poland-born population had reached 61,641 people. In the early 1980s there was further Polish emigration from Poland to Australia. The emergence of the Solidarity trade union movement and the declaration of martial law in Poland at the end of 1981 coincided with a further relaxation of Polish emigration laws. During the period 1980-91 Australia granted permanent entry to more than 25,000 Poland-born settlers, many arriving as refugees. The Poland-born population of Australia peaked at 68,496 at the 1991 Census. Since then the improvement in living conditions in Poland, as well as more stringent migration criteria, have significantly reduced the levels of Polish migration to Australia from the high levels of 1981-85. The latest Census in 2001 recorded 58,070 Poland-born persons in Australia, a decrease of 11 per cent from the 1996 Census. The 2001 distribution by State and Territory showed Victoria had the largest number with 20,400 followed by New South Wales (16,870), South Australia (6,910) and Western Australia (6,400). The median age of the Poland-born in 2001 was 54.7 years compared with 46.0 years for all overseas-born and 35.6 years for the total Australian population. The age distribution showed 1.5 per cent were aged 0-14 years, 7.5 per cent were 15-24 years, 20.3 per cent were 25-44 years, 32.2 per cent were 45-64 years and 38.4 per cent were 65 and over. Of the Poland-born in Australia, there were 27,260 males (46.9 per cent) and 30,810 females (53.1 per cent). The sex ratio was 88.5 males per 100 females. At the 2001 Census, the rate*of Australian Citizenship for the Poland-born in Australia was 95.9 per cent. The rate for all overseas-born was 75.1 per cent. Published resources Edited Book The Australian People: An Encyclopaedia of the Nation, Its People and Their Origins, Jupp, James, 2001 Archival resources State Library of Western Australia Gruszka Mietka papers Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 18 June 2006 Last modified 20 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org) |
Political and personal papers, correspondence (including with Edna Ryan), diaries, note books, minutes, press cuttings, and printed material. Author Details Elle Morrell Created 29 August 2000 Last modified 29 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org) |
This expansive archive was created throughout Irene Greenwood’s lifetime as a broadcaster, activist and participant in the peace and women’s movements. Greenwood kept meticulous and detailed notes and records, and the collection attests to the broad reach of her intellectual and activist endeavour. It includes 2,500 catalogued books, many with personal inscriptions and memoranda to Greenwood from the authors and notes Greenwood used in her broadcasts and writing still in the books; dated inwards and outwards correspondence with organizations with which Greenwood had membership or was associated; correspondence with newspapers and editorial staff; Greenwood’s personal diaries; scripts and reel to reel tapes of all the radio programs Greenwood wrote, produced and presented; ephemera and newspaper cuttings collected over many years of relevance to international, national and state feminism, women’s organisations and the peace movement. The audio collection includes interviews with Greenwood detailing her personal thoughts on many aspects of Western Australia’s women’s and peace movements and recordings that she made to guide researchers through the history of these organisations. There are videos produced by and featuring Greenwood, a film about her life and original documents and material relating to feminism and the peace movement collected by her mother Mary Driver. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 31 March 2004 Last modified 7 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org) |
The Votes for Women sash worn by Louisa C. Cullen (Louie) ca. 1908. Cullen was a suffragette who participated in the militant demonstrations of the Women’s Social and Political Union (W.S.P.U.) in the United Kingdom. The sash was an important part of the suffragette uniform, and women were encouraged to visibly identify with the cause. The purple, white and green are the colours of the W.S.P.U. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 26 March 2004 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org) |
The formation of the Greek Young Matrons’ Association was an overt attempt by second generation parents of Greek heritage to ensure that their children married Australian born Greeks like themselves. By providing them with an organisation which would offer social activities and cultural events in which young Greek people could participate, the organisers hoped that young Greeks would marry within the community. The Greek Young Matrons’ Association organised children’s concerts (performed in language) and debates for teenagers to participate in. The association also had an annual Ball at which young Greek girls of the second and third generation could make their debut and become known, and possibly seen and selected by an appropriate Greek Australian young man. The organisation was mainly made up of upper middle and middle class second generation Greek women. Parents hoped that participation in this organisation meant that their children would not only marry an Australian born Greek but probably a person from a similar social class. Published resources Report Greeks In Australia: 100 years of History, Costadopoulos-Hill, Maria, 1979, http://www.cybernaut.com.au/greeksinoz/ Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 19 June 2006 Last modified 20 March 2012 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org) |
This cutting book consists of election material and some newspaper clippings from the Brisbane Courier.?The election material emanates from the Country and Progressive National Party and consists of pamphlets, “How-to-vote” cards, election fliers and broad sheets relating to both State and Federal elections between 1926 and 1935.?Electorates include: Aubigny, Buranda, Sandgate, Oxley, Fassifern, Nanango, Maree, Mitchell, Stanley, Cook, Brisbane, Mirani, Bremer, South Brisbane, Bulimba and Windsor.?One election card introduces Mrs. Irene Longman, the National candidate for Bulimba and states that she is the first woman candidate for Parliament in Queensland. This card seems to relate to the 1929 State election. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 9 January 2018 Last modified 9 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org) |
5 sound files (approximately 255 min.) Author Details Helen Morgan Created 4 February 2015 Last modified 21 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org) |
Mary Lee became secretary of the Women’s Suffrage League of South Australia in 1888. She served with the Female Refuge ladies’ committee, the Distressed Women’s and Children’s Committee and the Adelaide Sick Poor Fund, and was secretary of the Working Women’s Trades Union. Born in Ireland, Mary Walsh married George Lee in 1844 and they had seven children. By 1879 Lee was widowed. She sailed with her daughter to Adelaide that year to nurse her sick son, who later died. In 1883 she became foundation secretary of the ladies’ division of the Social Purity Society, working to improve conditions for women by campaigning to raise the age of consent to sixteen. The Society soon recognised that women’s suffrage was essential to their aims. Accordingly the Women’s Suffrage League was inaugurated in 1888 with Lee as secretary. It was mainly due to the combined efforts of Lee and close friend Mary Colton, who was President of the League from 1892 onwards, that suffrage was won in South Australia in 1894. Lee was a vigorous campaigner albeit sometimes abrasive, and she traversed South Australia to speak at meetings while also organising petitions, deputations and corresponding with women in the other colonies on how to organise suffrage leagues. In 1892 she visited Broken Hill in outback New South Wales to report for the Adelaide Sick Poor Fund upon the condition of women and children there after a major industrial strike. Lee took the opportunity to deliver an address on women’s suffrage at the Theatre Royal in Broken Hill, though the local paper reported only a moderate attendance. Prior to her visit Lee had written to the Barrier Miner and her letter was published on 1 September 1892: I congratulate my working brothers on their respect for law – their avoidance of all which might provoke to fund, or sew the seeds of an after-crop of bitterness – on their patience under misrepresentation and provocation… But Sir, this strike has one feature which renders it more profoundly interesting than any of its predecessors here, or elsewhere as far as I know, and which must secure it a prominent and distinguished page when the history of these colonies shall come to be written. It is the fact that the women of Broken Hill are the first great body of working women who have raised their voices in united protest against the glaring injustice that “the present Constitution will not allow them a voice in the framing of the laws under which they are compelled to live.”… May the memory of those woes and distresses which have awakened in the women of Broken Hill the spirit of liberty kindle that spirit to such a glow that the hearts of the “fathers, brothers, husbands and sweethearts” shall burn with the determination that the liberty which they prize so dearly shall be shared by those most dear to them; that the sons of freed men shall have freed mothers; that they shall bequeath to their daughters that grandest of human heritages -freedom! In 1889 Lee proposed the formation of a trade union for women and became secretary of the Working Women’s Trades Union when it was inaugurated the following year. She was a delegate to the Trades and Labor Council and committee member of the Female Refuge ladies’ committee as well as the Distressed Women’s and Children’s Committee. In 1896 she was appointed by the government as first female official visitor to the lunatic asylums, a position that she held for the next twelve years. Despite her work for social reform, she was not financially rewarded and her last years were spent in poverty. She died in her home in North Adelaide in 1909. Events 2001 - 2001 Inducted into the Victorian Honour Roll of Women Published resources Book Fresh evidence, new witnesses : finding women's history, Allen, Margaret (Margaret Ellen), 1947- ; Hutchison, Mary and Mackinnon, Alison, 1942-, 1989 In her own name : women in South Australian history, Jones, Helen, 1926-, 1986 Mary Lee, 1821-1909 : Let Her Name be Honoured, Mansutti, Elizabeth, c1994 Book Section Mary Lee, Jones, Helen Resource Section Lee, Mary (1821-1909), Jones, Helen, 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A100048b.htm Edited Book S.A.'s greats: the men and women of the North Terrace plaques, Healey, John, 2001 200 Australian Women: A Redress Anthology, Radi, Heather, 1988 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Unbroken Spirit: Women in Broken Hill, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2009, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/bh/bh-home.html The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia, Smart, Judith and Swain, Shurlee (eds.), 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders Archival resources State Library of South Australia Letters from Mary Lee Outback Archives, Broken Hill City Library Lee, Mary Author Details Anne Heywood and Robin Secomb Created 2 April 2004 Last modified 12 September 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org) |
I. Correspondence, 1949-1956: A. Correspondence of Miles Franklin, 1949-1954, with various literary people in America. B. Correspondence of Bruce Sutherland, 1954-1956, re Miles Franklin. II. Papers re National Women’s Trade Union League of America, 1903-1950: A. History and proceedings of the League, 1903-1950. B. Life and Labor, publication of the League, 1910-1915. III. Miscellaneous papers, including biographical notes about Miles Franklin, 1879-1919. Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 10 September 2004 Last modified 27 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org) |
Michele Adair is a local and political activist who has achieved much success in her local area. She was an Australian Democrats candidate for Barton in the House of Representatives in 2001, an Independent candidate associated with the Save Our Suburbs Party for Georges River in 2003 and a candidate for the Kogarah Municipal Council in 2004. Parliamentary and Local Government Career Local Candidate, Kogarah Municipal Council 2004 State Candidate, House of Representatives, Barton, 2001 Candidate, Georges River, 2003 Party: Australian Democrats 2001 Party: Independent, associated with the Save Our Suburbs Party 2003 Michele Adair grew up in Kyle Bay, a Sydney suburb, and at the time of her campaigns lived in nearby Oatley. She cared for her invalid mother and teenage children. She was educated at PLC Sydney, and was an American Field Service exchange student to the USA in 1979-80. She studied many undergraduate courses in adult education, management (M Man (UWS) 1996), accounting and business and holds a certificate in Service Administration and Strategy from Cornell University, USA . In 2005 she expected to complete a Masters degree in Public Advocacy and Action from the Victorian University of Technology. In 2004 she joined a large not-for-profit community organisation, having worked for the previous 17 years as an adviser in strategy and development to both public and private organisations. She taught part-time at TAFE over 10 years, and has owned and run a café and an architectural restoration business. She has also worked in the health and travel industries. Michele has been very active in local affairs. She was involved in the campaigns to influence high-density development in Oatley, to save the Chinese Market Gardens in Arncliffe, to prevent the loss of open space in Rockdale and to insist on air filters on the M5 tunnel. In 2002, Michele Adair was the convenor of a group called Concerned Citizens against Cook’s Cove, a proposed billion dollar development which necessitated the relocation of the Kogarah Golf Club. She has been an office holder in the P. & C. Associations of her children’s primary and secondary schools and has served on the finance and diversity committees of the YWCA. Published resources Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 6 December 2005 Last modified 16 September 2013 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org) |
Box 1?Scrapbook, 1984-1985?Minute book, August 1982-November 1985?Minute book, February 1986-July 1987?Membership lists, 1985, 1988?Correspondence relating to workshops, 1980-1987??Box 2?Correspondence, 1981-1990?Celia Starfield literary papers, 1944-1959, no date?Scrapbooks (2) relating to Celia Starfield including newspaper cuttings and photographs, ca 1900’s, 1940-1980?Papers relating to early correspondence courses, 1985?2 x certificates to Louise H. De St. Marton, 9 September 1975, May 1976??Box 3?Correspondence, minutes and Biennial Conferences (Federal Society of Women’s Writers) papers, 1978-1987?The Women Writer: Bi-monthly Newsletter of the Society of Women Writers (Australia), November 1974-June 1988??Box 4?Correspondence with other State branches of the Society of Women Writers (Australia), 1978-1987?Correspondence with the Federal Body of the Society of Women Writers (Australia), 1978-1988?Correspondence relating to grant applications from the Society of Women Writers (Australia) N.S.W branch, 1978-1989?Autographed copy of Sixty Years On: 1925-1985 by The Society of Women Writers (Australia) N.S.W. branch. Diamond Jubilee Anthology Author Details Alannah Croom Created 26 June 2018 Last modified 26 June 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org) |
1 cassette (ca. 30 min)??Crosio, local member for Fairfield and Minister for Local Government, speaks of her political background; her history in the area; involvement with local inhabitants; needs of the Indo-Chinese in the area; media treatment of the Indo-Chinese; resentment of immigrants in the community; the “Siege mentality”; local employment; services for migrants; English courses; future immigration and refugee programmes; settlement of refugees; unemployment problems; government committment. Transcript includes a copy of a press article on Mrs. Crosio. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 9 January 2018 Last modified 9 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org) |
The collection comprises correspondence, drafts, reviews and other writings. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 6 January 2018 Last modified 6 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org) |
Helen Ester is a media scholar and media professional who teachers Journalism and Communication at Central Queensland University. She has enjoyed a long and varied career as a teacher and journalist that has spanned more than thirty years. As a media professional Helen Ester’s experience includes: Membership of the Federal Parliamentary Press Gallery-7 years Editor and founder of the Monitor , a newsletter and news service for members of the Federal Parliamentary Press Gallery Canberra Correspondent for Nation Review and the Far Eastern Economic Review Political Journalist with the Fairfax Bureau on theSydney Sun Working for the Australian Press Services Bureau on the Northern Territory News Television work has included working for SBS TV as a journalist/trainer and casual desk journalist. She has also worked for Imparja/CAAMA TV productions in Alice Springs. Ester was a journalist member of a delegation of three women who in 1979-80 went to Vietnam, Kampuchia, and the border camps for refugees on the Thai border on a visit arranged by the Union of Vietnamese Women and the Australia Vietnam Society. Other members were economist Melanie Beresford and trade unionist Aileen Beaver. She was given transcripts of the People’s Revolutionary Tribunal, held in 1979, while she was touring with the delegation. These transcripts are held with her papers in the National Library of Australia. Events 1979 - Published resources Newsletter Monitor, Ester, Helen Site Exhibition The Women's Pages: Australian Women and Journalism since 1850, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2008, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/cal/cal-home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Papers of Helen Ester, 1979-1980 [manuscript]? 1979-1980 [manuscript] Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 21 August 2008 Last modified 5 September 2012 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org) |
Collected during life of Pat Wardle 1910 – 1992. Includes diaries, correspondence, photographs, newspaper cuttings, talks, manuscripts, maps, certificates and plans. Includes papers of her mother (Patricia Tillyard), father (Dr Robin Tillyard), husband (Robert Wardle) and some correspondence with her sisters (Faith, Hope & Honor. Author Details Patricia Clarke Created 21 June 2012 Last modified 10 October 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org) |
The Hon. Margaret Joan Beazley AO, AC was an Australian judge. She was both the first woman to sit as a Judge of Appeal on the New South Wales Court of Appeal in 1996, and the first woman to occupy the position of President of that Court in 2013. She retired from that court in 2019. She has been described as a “fierce advocate for women in the legal profession”, and in 2006 was designated an Officer of the Order of Australia for her “service to the judiciary and the law, particularly through contributions to professional and ethical standards, to the advancement of women in the legal profession and the community.” She was sworn in as Governor of New South Wales in May 2019, and made a companion (AC) in the general division of the Order of Australia on Australia Day, 2020 for her eminent service to the people of New South Wales, particularly through leadership roles in the judiciary, and as a mentor of young women lawyers. Go to ‘Details’ below to read an essay written by Margaret Beazley for the Trailblazing Women and the Law Project. The following additional information was provided by Margaret Beazley and is reproduced with permission in its entirety. Born in 1951, Margaret Beazley grew up in Hurstville in the St George area. She was the middle child of Gordon and Lorna Beazley. Neither of her parents had the education that she did – growing up during the Great Depression and WWII, “their opportunity to become educated in the formal sense irrevocably slipped by.” Her father worked as a milkman to support his five children. Nonetheless, both of Beazley’s parents were very supportive of education, and worked to ensure their children were provided with the opportunities not available to them. Beazley attended St Declan’s Primary School, Penshurst, before moving to St Joseph’s Girls High School, Kogarah for junior high school and Mount St Joseph, Milperra for senior high school. The latter two schools were run by “Brown” Josephite Sisters, named after the brown habits that they wore. The two years that Beazley spent at Milperra were particularly formative. She was taught by a number of inspiring women, including Associate Professor Patricia Malone, who was known to her as Sister Jude, and Nora Finnucane, known as Sister Stanislaus. Beazley has described these woman as having “immense intellects and… extraordinary vision, particularly regarding what women could do and should be doing.” The ethos of the school was that the girls could and should be encouraged to pursue tertiary education, and to follow the career path of their choosing. Beazley demonstrated leadership from these early days, being elected captain of both her junior and senior high school. Beazley commenced reading for a Bachelor of Laws at Sydney University Law School in 1970. That year also coincided with the publication of Germaine Greer’s The Female Eunuch, and is often regarded as a turning point in the feminist movement. Women remained a minority at law school, although Beazley’s class contained an unusually high number of women, many of whom went on to build very successful careers. Other notable alumni from Beazley’s graduating class include Professor Margaret Somerville and Irene Moss. Beazley graduated with Honours in 1973. After graduating, Beazley completed her articles with the law firm Winter & Sharp. She was admitted as a Solicitor of the Supreme Court in February 1975, although had but the briefest career as a solicitor, being called to the Bar in March of the same year. Life at the Bar commenced for Beazley on the ninth floor of Selbourne Chambers. She read with Murray Tobias, who would later become one of her colleagues on the Court of Appeal. Beazley was the only female on her floor at that time. She has recalled the difficulty of this “peer deprivation” in her professional life, but developed a close camaraderie with members of the Bar and with her instructing solicitors. In particular, Beazley formed a friendship with the Honourable Justice Jane Matthews AO, the first woman to serve as a Crown Prosecutor, to be appointed as a Judge of the District Court of NSW and to be appointed as a Judge of the Supreme Court of NSW. As one of the pioneering women at the Bar, other difficulties which Beazley was required to contend with included the difficulty persuading male solicitors to brief a female barrister, and the pervasive attitude that women at the Bar should only work in Family Law. However, Beazley built a flourishing practice in equity, commercial and administrative law, and was appointed as Queen’s Counsel in 1989 – colloquially known as ‘taking silk’. In 1991, Beazley moved to the sixth floor of Selbourne Chambers. One barrister who appeared against her described her as “a friendly, co-operative, but also tenacious and formidable forensic opponent.” Whilst still at the Bar, Beazley gained a taste of judicial life. From 1984 to 1988, she served as a judicial member of the New South Wales Equal Opportunity Tribunal. In 1990 and 1991, she served as an Acting Judge of the District Court of New South Wales. In 1991 and 1992, she served as an Assistant Commissioner of the New South Wales Independent Commission Against Corruption. In January 1993, Beazley was appointed a Judge of the Federal Court of Australia, the first female appointment to sit solely as a judge of that Court. Whilst on the Federal Court bench, she was a member of its Finance, Alternative Dispute Resolution, Court Liaison and Gender Awareness Committees. In 1994, she was also commissioned as an additional judge of the Australian Capital Territory Supreme Court and the Industrial Relations Court of Australia. From 1994 to 1995, Beazley was a consultant to the Australian Law Reform Commission, assisting with the reference on “Gender Bias and the Law”. This reference resulted in a substantial, two-part report addressing the failures of the law to deal effectively with violence perpetrated by men on women, and the specific laws and practices of the legal system that contribute to women’s inequality. On 29 April 1996, Beazley was sworn in as a Judge of Appeal on the NSW Court of Appeal, the first woman to be appointed to such a position. As she joked at her swearing in, she would be sitting alongside a “Chief Justice and eight wise men.” This would remain the situation until the swearing in of the Honourable Justice Ruth McColl AO in 2006. In 2006, Beazley chaired the advisory committee of the Judicial Commission of New South Wales which prepared the “Equality Before the Law Bench Book”, intended to enhance the ability of the courts to deliver equal justice according to law. Recognising that equality before the law will not always be achieved through treating everybody equivalently, the Bench Book provided guidance to judicial officers on taking into account different backgrounds, cultures, lifestyles and socioeconomic disadvantages. Beazley’s abilities as a jurist and leadership within the Court of Appeal recommended her for the position of President of the Court of Appeal. She was sworn in as President in March 2013, again making legal history by being the first woman to hold this position. In addition to her rich judicial career, Beazley has contributed to the development of the law through her involvement in academic activities. She is the Chair of the NSW Chapter of the Australian Institute of Administrative Law, and the author of many articles on diverse areas of the law. In May 2008, she was awarded Doctor of Laws honoris causa (Hon LLD) by the University of Sydney. She is a co-author of the book “Appeals and Appellate Courts in Australia and New Zealand” (LexisNexis, 2014) with Dr Paul Vout and Sally Fitzgerald, and a contributor to Sappideen and Vines (eds), “Fleming’s The Law of Torts” (Lawbook Co, 2011, 10th ed). Beazley has maintained strong involvement in the community, including through her positions of member of the Advisory Board of the Centenary Institute, patron of the Toongabbie Legal Centre and President of the Arts Law Centre of Australia. In October 2013, Beazley was awarded Life Membership of the NSW Bar Association for exceptional service to the Bar Association and to the profession of the law. Beazley has used her influence to improve the number and status of women in the law. She has set a strong example through her own career progression, becoming one of the most senior women judges in the country. She has mentored and inspired many women to become barristers, regaling them with her own tales of battling what was an unshakable old boys club, and backing them to do it successfully even if that means precariously juggling family and life commitments. In 2012, Beazley was named one of the Australian Financial Review’s “100 Women of Influence” in the category of “diversity”, recognising women who have dedicated themselves to advocating for a more diverse workforce and who have helped make the change happen. In 2013, Beazley was the recipient of the Women Lawyers of NSW Lifetime Achievement award. For leisure, she relishes the company of her family including her two daughters and son, with whom she enjoys theatre, music and any form of sport (except boxing). Events 1974 - 1974 1984 - 1988 1990 - 1991 1991 - 1992 1993 - 1996 1994 - 1997 1994 - 1996 1996 - 2013 - Published resources Resource Section Margaret Beazley Biography, Brodsky, Juliette, 2011, http://www.nswbar.asn.au/the-bar-association/oral-history#/margaretBeazley Site Exhibition Australian Women Lawyers as Active Citizens, Trailblazing Women Lawyers Project Team, 2016, http://www.womenaustralia.info/lawyers Author Details Her Honour Margaret Beazley (with Kathleen Heath) Created 12 May 2016 Last modified 5 March 2020 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org) |
2 sound files (ca. 135 min.)??Jane Bennett talks about her family background; growing up on the family farm; her decision to have a career in farming; her early understanding of gender roles on farms; dairy farming and the low status of the dairy industry in Australia in the 1980s; agricultural class system or hierarchy in Australia; the role of mothers on the farm, their importance to their children’s involvement in the local community; social life off the farm, the Deloraine social set in the 1980s; religious diversity of the community; arts culture and the health of regional centres; hippies moving into the area in the 1970s; the importance of the establishment of the Rotary Club Craft Fair; why some rural communities are more successful that others; monocultural farming communities; geographical elements to successful communities and ‘Island Culture’; her interest in genetic engineering; her father’s decision to become a cheese maker; the start of a cheese factory in Tasmania in the 1980s; studying Dairy Technology at Gilbert Chandler College at Werribee; studying at Kent Business College in England in 2008; women as the agents for change in rural communities; Landcare; Australian rural cultural matters; effectiveness of government policies to change agricultural activity.??Bennett discusses the need for innovation, value adding, marketing and branding of food; Tasmanian economic future; how Tasmanian farmers must adapt to survive; the rate of change required being linked to developments in technology; the importance of the ABC Rural Woman of the Year Award to raising the profile of women; changing attitudes to women in agriculture over the last 15 years; their increased capacity to participate in farming activities; cheese making becoming fashionable by 2005; entering the ABC Rural Woman of the Year Award; the response of the Tasmanian community to her winning the national award; her role in the formation of a Rural Youth Club; her interest in education and training; becoming a delegate on the Rural Industry Training Board, rising to President; working in England, problem solving; the role of Global Communication Technology to the growth of her business; Aldi Supermarkets; the experience of working with people outside agriculture; her application for a Vincent Fairfax Fellowship; opportunities made available and lessons learned through winning the Rural Woman of the Year Award; the importance of service to the community; Nuffield Farming Scholarship; travelling to Taiwan; impact of the feminist movement on people of her age; difficulties associated with the family enterprise for women who want to work in agriculture; her male mentors. Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 27 April 2011 Last modified 21 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org) |
Collection comprises – 9 cassettes – 9hours Author Details Alannah Croom Created 8 October 2004 Last modified 31 October 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org) |
On 29 November 1924 a ceremony of the Perpetual Profession of Dr Mary Glowrey, now Sister Mary of the Sacred Heart took place in the Church of St Agnes at Guntur (India). Mary Glowrey, who completed her medical training at the University of Melbourne, (MBBS 1910, MD 1919), was the first president of the Catholic Women’s Social Guild (now Catholic Women’s League). After receiving assurance from the Pope that she would be allowed to continue in her profession, Glowrey left Melbourne for India in 1920. At this time nuns were still prevented from practising medicine, She entered the Society of Jesus, Mary and Joseph, a Dutch order of nuns and spent the next 37 years involved with medical work in Guntur, India. Glowrey House, the Catholic Women’s League headquarters in Nicholson Street, Fitzroy, is named in her honour. Mary Glowrey, the third of nine children, spent most of her childhood in the Mallee at Watchem in country Victoria. Her mother provided the children with domestic and religious education, but she received the major part of her primary education at the local state school when it was established. She was confirmed in the Catholic Church at the age of nine. Her parents encouraged their children to continue their education and Glowrey trained as a pupil teacher at the local primary school before winning a state secondary scholarship to attend the South Melbourne College. She boarded at the Good Shepherd Convent, Rosary Place, South Melbourne. She won a University Exhibition and proceeded to the University of Melbourne to complete a BA degree, but was persuaded to transfer to medicine, graduating MBBS in 1910. Her first medical appointment was to the Christchurch Hospital New Zealand in 1911 as resident doctor. She was the first medical woman to be granted an appointment in New Zealand. On her return to Australia the following year, she took up a position at the Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital. She later set up in private practice in Collins Street, Melbourne, but continued to assist at the Eye and Ear Hospital and also became Physician to out-patients at St Vincent’s Hospital, the Catholic public hospital in Melbourne. In 1915 she was inspired by the work of Dr Agnes McLaren, an English pioneer medical woman who had become a Catholic at age 61 and went to India at age 72 to establish a Catholic hospital for the care of Indian women. Glowrey decided that God had called her to go to India to improve the health of Indian women, but had to wait until the end of World War One to achieve her goal. During the period from 1916-1919, she became founding president of the Catholic Women’s Social Guild and, at the same time, to prepare herself for her work in India, continued her medical studies in the fields of gynaecology, obstetrics and ophthalmology. She left Melbourne on the ship ‘Orsova’ for India on 21 January 1920, arrived in Madras on 11 February 1920 and reached Guntur the following day. She was received into the Order of the Sisters of the Society of Jesus, Mary and Joseph on 28 November 1920 and became the first nun-doctor missionary. She had to gain special permission from Pope Pius XI to perform her medical mission work, for nuns had not been permitted to practice as doctors. She took on the name of Sister Mary of the Sacred Heart. She worked for the next 37 years in India to establish a Catholic Medical College, but did not live to see the St Johns’s Medical College Bangalore open in 1963. Mary Glowrey died in Bangalore on 5 May 1957. Events 2015 - 2015 Inducted into the Victorian Honour Roll of Women 2019 - 2019 Glowrey Catholic Primary School opened in Wollert, Victoria, named in honour of Mary Glowrey Published resources Journal Article Tributes to a Medical Missionary Pioneer: Dr Mary Glowrey (Sister Mary of the Sacred Heart) - First C.W.S.G. President, Brennan, Anna T, 1957 Book Horizon in retrospect, 1916-1986, 1985 Australian medical nun in India: Mary Glowrey, M. D. Sister Mary of the Sacred Heart, Society of Jesus, Mary Joseph, Clinton, Ursula, 1967 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia, Smart, Judith and Swain, Shurlee (eds.), 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders Archival resources Mary Glowrey House Mary Glowrey papers Author Details Anne Heywood Created 27 November 2003 Last modified 29 October 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org) |
MS 10058 comprises a typescript notebook of approximately 280 pages in a small black ring binder, prefaced “Emily Evans, or, the Humourist. Begun Feb 11 1949”, and the typescript letter from Christina Stead in Lausanne to Edith Anderson, dated 20 February 1951 (1 binder, 1 folder). Author Details Alannah Croom Created 10 April 2018 Last modified 10 April 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org) |
A small collection of letters and photographs relating to Miss Pharo’s services to Lady Munro-Ferguson: Letters from Lady Munro Ferguson, Captain the Hon Bede Clifford later Earl of Chudleigh and others to Miss Pharo for the period 1900 to 1921. Most of these acknowledgements for Miss Pharo’s services and farewell notes on Miss Pharo’s departure from Government House. There is also a small group of subject files of copies of “out letters” from the Governor General’s office. These consist of official letters to various organizations: The Society for Welfare of Mothers and Babies; The Friendly Union of Soldiers’ Wives; The Imperial War Relief Fund and the soldiers’ Welfare Committee. The photographs in this collection are of Lady Munro Ferguson, Captain Clifford and Miss Pharo. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 17 February 2004 Last modified 12 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org) |
Anne Heywood Created 13 October 2003 Last modified 12 September 2017 Digital resources Title: Lieutenant Colonel Kathleen Best Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Title: Group Officer Clare Stevenson Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Title: Lieutenant-Colonel May Douglas Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Title: IMP0063ga.jpg Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Title: AWE0413ga.jpg Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Title: 176103.tif Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org) |
Vols. ML MSS. 273/1-2 a. Correspondence, 1889-1930 Deals i.a., with the publication of her writings, recognition of her discoveries in geology, the design of the Sydney Harbour Bridge, and her friendship with Daisy Bates. Vols. ML MSS. 273/3-5 b. Autobiography 1846-1930 including correspondence dealing with her life and writings. Vol. ML MSS. 273/6 c. Writings, 1903-1926. MS., typescript and printed. Vol. ML MSS. 273/7-8 d. Miscellanea, mainly newscuttings, including articles by Daisy Bates and typescript extract from the diary of Rev. George King, 1850-1853 Author Details Alannah Croom Created 6 January 2018 Last modified 6 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org) |
MS 7362 comprises handwritten letters by Nettie Palmer to Lucille Quinlan, 1928-1937, and manuscript articles and talks by Nettie Palmer. Subjects include the Maori poet Eileen Duggan, Katharine Susannah Prichard, literature in Australia, Henry Handel Richardson and M. Barnard-Eldershaw (Marjorie Barnard and Flora Eldershaw) (1 box). Author Details Alannah Croom Created 10 April 2018 Last modified 10 April 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org) |
MS 8914 comprises journals kept from 1975 to 1981, in which Eileen Watt writes about political events in Australia and overseas, social, economic and environmental issues, women’s affairs and cultural events, and aspects of personal and family life. There are also seven photographs, including some relative to the annual meeting of the Australian League of Nations’ Union, Canberra, 1938 (2 boxes).??The Acc10.017 instalment comprises the biography of Eileen Watt (in hard copy and on CD-ROM) by Gabrielle Watt, and, copies of genealogical documents relating to Eileen Watt, and her great grandmother, Bridget (Biddy) McCann, a convict in Hobart (1 packet).??The Acc12.013 instalment comprises a final addition of papers relating to the lives of Raymond Gosford Watt and Eileen Watt, from their daughter Gabrielle Watt, after their deaths. Documents include a copy of a pen drawing of ‘Wedgewood’, the home of Raymond and Eileen Watt, personal records and reports and the Last Will and Testament of Eileen Watt (1 folder). Author Details Alannah Croom Created 20 February 2018 Last modified 5 June 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org) |
Emeritus Professor Sally Walker AM was the first female vice-chancellor and president of Australia’s Deakin University. Prior to holding these appointments, she was senior deputy vice-chancellor at the University of Melbourne, where she was also president of the University’s Academic Board, member of the senior executive, and pro vice-chancellor. Walker established the pioneering Centre for Media, Communications and Information Technology Law (now Centre for Media & Communications Law) at the Melbourne Law School and was its inaugural director. While at the Law School, she was Hearn Professor of Law. Walker was also secretary-general of the Law Council of Australia for a time. Appointed as a Member of the Order of Australia in 2011, in recognition of her contribution to education, to the law as an academic and to the advancement of women. In 2014 she was inducted onto the Victorian Honour Roll of Women. As a Principal at Deloitte, Walker continues to consult widely on strategic and leadership matters in the higher education sector. Sally Walker was interviewed by Kim Rubenstein for the Trailblazing Women and the Law Oral History Project. For details of the interview see the National Library of Australia CATALOGUE RECORD. Emeritus Professor Sally Walker’s early life was spent on farming properties managed by her father in various parts of Victoria. Winning a scholarship to be a boarder at Melbourne Church of England Girls’ Grammar School (now Melbourne Girls Grammar), she was inspired to study law after the school enabled her to meet a number of successful women lawyers [Patterson]. In 1976 Walker graduated from the University of Melbourne with a Bachelor of Laws (Honours), winning the Supreme Court Prize for the highest-placed student in the final honours list, the Anna Brennan Prize and the Joan Rosanove Prize. While undertaking articles of clerkship at the Melbourne firm Gillotts Solicitors (later part of Minter Ellison), Walker completed a Master of Laws at the University of Melbourne. She left the firm soon afterwards to take up a position as an associate to the then Justice Aickin of the High Court of Australia. Following her associateship, she returned to Gillotts Solicitors and was later made an associate partner [Aiton]. The increasing importance of media and communication law had now captured Walker’s interest. She returned to the University of Melbourne, taking up a position as a lecturer in the Faculty of Law. After being promoted to senior lecturer and then reader in the Faculty, Walker was responsible for developing a new undergraduate subject – Media Law. In the Master of Laws program she also established the Graduate Diploma of Media, Communications and Information Technology Law. She also taught Trade Practices law, Intellectual Property Law, Constitutional and Administrative Law, Security Law and, in the Master of Laws program, Advanced Trade Practices Law, Defamation Law and the Law of Contempt of Court. In 1992 Walker was Visiting Fellow at Wolfson College, University of Cambridge. She returned to the University of Melbourne the following year, and took up an appointment as the Hearn Professor of Law. Around this time Walker also became the first academic secretary to be appointed to the Victorian Attorney-General’s Law Reform Advisory Council. [Patterson]. Between 1995 and 2000, Walker was deputy vice-president, vice-president and president of the University of Melbourne’s Academic Board; she was a member of the University’s senior executive and a pro vice-chancellor. Walker also established the Centre for Media, Communications and Information Technology Law (now the Centre for Media & Communications Law). Walker became the second most senior executive at the University of Melbourne when she was appointed to the position of Senior Deputy Vice-Chancellor in July 2000. Soon she was being called upon to be acting vice-chancellor in the absence of the then vice-chancellor, the late Professor Alan Gilbert [Patterson]. Among her achievements as senior deputy vice-chancellor, Walker reserves her greatest pride for the role she played in the ‘Academic Women in Leadership Program’, which aimed to encourage women to take up leadership roles in the university [Ketchell; Royall; Cook]. On the success of this program, Walker observed that “the more women there are in senior positions, the more other women, during the early stages of their career, will think it is possible and feasible for them, too” [Cook]. In 2003, Walker became the first female vice-chancellor and president of Deakin University. In the ensuing seven years, she oversaw research endeavours with India, augmenting student enrolments, increased the University’s financial reserves, and set up a new medical school. She also did much to attract and retain female staff, so successfully that she won an Equal Opportunity for Women in the Workplace Agency award [Ketchell]. Fervent about higher education, Walker said of her time at Deakin that she was: “absolutely passionate about Deakin University. Passionate about rural and regional engagement. Passionate about access and equity to higher education. Deakin is my life. I really care about the future of regional Australia” [Aiton]. At the conclusion of her appointment as vice-chancellor in 2010, a scholarship was created in Walker’s honour to support students from low-income backgrounds to attend Deakin University [Scholarship]. Walker was also conferred with the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws for her contribution to Deakin University, to legal education and scholarship and to higher education in general [Oates] and a building was named after her on the Geelong Waterfront. Walker has undertaken various consultancies for federal and Victorian government departments. She was a member of the National Selection Panel for the General Sir John Monash Foundation Scholarships and she remains a member of the Felton Bequests Committee. She was appointed as a Member of the Order of Australia in 2011 in recognition of her contribution to education, to the law as an academic and to the advancement of women. In 2014 Walker was inducted onto the Victorian Honour Roll of Women. Now a Principal at the international professional services firm Deloitte, she continues to provide consultancy services across the higher education sector on strategic and leadership issues. This work often draws on her legal background. Walker has shown leadership by driving innovation in higher education institutions and by empowering women with flexible work practices. She has also done a great deal to encourage the promotion of women into senior academic and administrative roles. Walker’s contribution to law and society has been to demonstrate that education can transform lives and enrich rural and regional communities. Events 2014 - 2014 Inducted into the Victorian Honour Roll of Women Published resources Site Exhibition Australian Women Lawyers as Active Citizens, Trailblazing Women Lawyers Project Team, 2016, http://www.womenaustralia.info/lawyers Resource Section From scholar to secretary-general, Patterson, Alicia, http://law.unimelb.edu.au/alumni/mls-news/issue-8-october-2012/from-scholar-to-secretary-general Archival resources National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Sally Walker interviewed by Kim Rubenstein in the Trailblazing women and the law oral history project Sally Walker interviewed by Ruth Campbell in the Law in Australian society oral history project [sound recording] Author Details Larissa Halonkin Created 30 May 2016 Last modified 5 September 2017 Digital resources Title: Sally Walker Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org) |
Records of the Union of Australian Women (UAW) compiled mainly by secretary Beryl Miller, comprising minutes of executive, management and annual general meetings, photographs, papers about various action groups and campaigns like ‘Fair go’ Adelaide, UAW group against hospital privatisation, SACOSS, UTLC community and unions, prices action committee, trade union, meals on wheels, women’s advisory department (via Department of Premier and Cabinet) and the women’s information switchboard. Other papers include peace and anti-war group material such as Vietnam Moratorium committee and other anti-Vietnam war protest material like UAW and WIDF correspondence and radio press bulletins, Hiroshima day committee papers, French nuclear testing in the South Pacific papers, papers on disarmament in general. There are also papers which relate to anti-discrimination and include topics on equal pay, equal opportunity commission, the sex discrimination Bill, offensive advertising, pornography, equal opportunity and discrimination including prostitution, feminism and the decade for status of women, abortion, women in South Africa and Australian Indigenous people, especially women. There is also a section about conferences attended by the UAW, including Children’s Services, World March of Women 2000, education, housing and living standards, Women’s International Democratic Federation (WIDF), World Congress of Women, UAW national committee and conferences 1970-1985. Papers also comprising publications of the history of the UAW, UAW news sheets, news letters, scrapbooks of newspaper clippings and videotape footage. There is also a series of photographs. There are correspondence papers comprising many items. Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 18 June 2006 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org) |
Letter from Daisy Bates to Allen McKinnon, dated 11.11.1940, which includes reminiscences about the past and Aboriginal Australians and sends him one of her own books, perhaps to pass on to his own son. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 6 January 2018 Last modified 6 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org) |
1 sound tape reel (ca. 58 min.)??Conley, author of children’s novels speaks of her work as a writer and the discipline required ; she recalls her childhood and family life ; working in the WRANs and naval life ; the beginnings of her career as a full time writer; Betty Roland and the Society of Women Writers ; she explains the title of her book “The dangerous Bombara” ; the editing of her manuscript for her book “Gecko gully” ; she speaks of the theme for her novel titled “Lucas”. Author Details Jane Carey Created 22 October 2004 Last modified 21 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org) |
Admitted as a Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Queensland in 1965, Patricia Conroy (nee Herlihy), established two partnerships with Martin Conroy in 1966 that have remained steadfast – marriage in July and then a business partnership in December. In the intervening period, the couple travelled to the remote north Queensland town of Mt Isa, where they established their firm, Conroy and Conroy Solicitors. Conroy was the first woman to practise in remote north-western Queensland, and she was one half of the first husband and wife partnership to practice state-wide, a partnership that endures still, in 2016. Patricia Conroy was interviewed by Nikki Henningham for the Trailblazing Women and the Law Oral History Project. For details of the interview see the National Library of AustraliaCATALOGUE RECORD. Working in Mt Isa took some getting used to, and the remote location presented some challenges that practitioners from Townsville, let alone Brisbane, could never imagine, but there was plenty of work to be done and the Conroys quickly established themselves as hardworking and caring counsel. The mining town environment created a diverse professional landscape; from crime to conveyance and commercial work, the tragedy of personal injury and estate settlements and the complexity of family law, the Conroys handled the full complement of legal matters one could expect in a regional community. In so doing, it became apparent to Patricia the number of services, such as social workers, or marriage and financial guidance counsellors, Mt Isa lacked, because she seemed to be providing many of these services herself! Seeing community problems that needed solutions, she sought to find them. While running a successful partnership and raising a family of four children, Conroy contributed time and energy to important community initiatives. She was Foundation President of the Mount Isa Welfare Council, foundation member of the Mt Isa Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Legal Service and the Honorary Solicitor and Trustee of the Kalkadoon Aboriginal Sobriety House, to name only three organisations she contributed to. ‘One of the great advantages of being a lawyer,’ observes Conroy, ‘especially living in a country town, is that the public observes you to have flexibility and clout…’ She used that clout to make a difference to the lives of Aboriginal and other marginalised people living in Mt Isa, and to women who might not have otherwise sought help in the masculine mining town. Another advantage Conroy acknowledges is the importance of the support she had in the early year when she was establishing her professional practice and her community leadership. Be it the inspiration provided by her father, who left school at fourteen but with commitment and persistence became a solicitor and sole practitioner, the encouragement of her husband and partner at important moments, or the all day child care her children received from a ‘wonderful woman’, Conroy was conscious of the importance of support networks you could rely on, as well as the importance of trying to maintain ‘work/life balance’, before the phrase was even coined. After fourteen years in Mount Isa, the Conroys moved to Gympie to practise, where Patricia continued to work for community organisations concerned with the welfare of women and children. In 1985 they moved to Brisbane where she and Martin established Conroy and Associates in Toowong, and where they practised until retirement. Patricia was a member of the Council of the Queensland Law Society from 1996 – 2004, serving as a member of the Professional Standards committee for some years. She was invited to serve on the boards of energy providers, SEQEB and Powerlink, experiences that she found challenging and inspirational as they brought her in touch with outstanding people. She was a founding member of the Queensland Women Lawyers Association. If Patricia Conroy didn’t coin the phrase ‘women can have it all, but not all at once’, she certainly endorsed its truth by example! ‘The goals I set for myself,’ she says, ‘were to achieve a balanced life, to have a happy marriage and be a reasonable mother and at the same time have a rewarding professional life.’ By any measure, including her own, she has achieved those goals and made an important contribution to the legal profession, and community life in Queensland. Published resources Site Exhibition Australian Women Lawyers as Active Citizens, Trailblazing Women Lawyers Project Team, 2016, http://www.womenaustralia.info/lawyers Archival resources National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Patricia Conroy interviewed by Nikki Henningham in the Trailblazing women and the law oral history project Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 9 May 2016 Last modified 31 October 2016 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org) |
A committed Christian Democratic Party member, Ursula Bennett ran as a candidate for Bega in 2003 and then again in the House of Representatives for Eden Monaro in 2004. Ursula Bennett migrated to Australia in 1982, after a childhood in Germany, where, as a teenager, she was active in human rights and advocacy groups for the physically handicapped. She became a Christian in 1985 and an Australian citizen in 1986. Ursula campaigned on a platform to bring a bible-based worldview on legislation to the NSW Parliament. She is married and has seven children. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 6 December 2005 Last modified 20 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org) |
Minute books of the Queensland Country Women’s Association. These minute books cover both closed branches and younger sets including: Burleigh Heads, Edmonton, Cairns,Garradunga, Weipa, Dysart, Richmond, Tugun Bilinga, Tully, Mirriwinni, Smithfield, Innisfail, Flying Fish, East Palmerston, Earlville, South Johnstone, Kilcoy, CoorparooGreenslopes, Sherwood, Mt. Tyson, Woodford, Toowong, Kedron, Palm BeachCurrumbin, Wamuran, Mt. Mac, Bardon, Narangba, Goomeri, Widgee, Hillview, Cloyna, Redcliffe, Pialba, Tansey, Upper Mt. Gravatt, Baralaba, Southbrook, Acland, Maclagan. Gemfields, Birkdale, Withersield, Kandanga and Hervey Bay Author Details Alannah Croom Created 26 June 2018 Last modified 26 June 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org) |
Necia Mocatta devoted much of her life, energy and enthusiasm to the betterment and dignity of the lives of women and children. She believed that the family unit was the foundation on which a caring, prosperous society was built and focused her attention on strengthening it at local, national and international levels, rather then pursuing broad issues of gender equality. An astute and successful businesswoman, she became actively involved with the National Council of Women at a state, national and international level as president of both NCW South Australia (1980-1983, 1996) and the National Council of Women of Australia (1985-1988), and as a Board member (1988-1991) then vice-president (1991) of the International Council of Women. Necia Mocatta (née Homan) was born 14 January 1938 in Kadina, South Australia. She was educated in Kadina, followed by Paskeville and Girton Girls’ School (now Pembroke School). She married George Somerset Mocatta and had four children. When Mocatta and her family lived in Tintinara and Keith, her community involvement revolved around mothers and babies, the church, the school and general community activities. To give the children a better education, the family moved from Tintinara to Adelaide, where both Necia and George were involved in the real estate business. Later, Necia Mocatta became a licensed sales person and was the first woman auctioneer in South Australia, building a reputation for ethical practice as well astuteness. Mocatta’s interest in the National Council of Women began when she attended the South Australian branch as a delegate for the Soroptimists. She joined NCWSA in 1970 and, with her passion for organisation, hard work and efficiency, willingly took on executive responsibilities, becoming president from 1980 to 1983. She was made an honorary life member and agreed to be president again in 1996 when circumstances made it difficult to fill the role. She was national president of NCWA from 1985 to 1988. As national president, she looked to adopt business principles and practice; for example, she organised Qantas to supply sponsorship so Board members could attend conferences. Mocatta represented NCWA on various committees, including the National Forum of Non-Government Welfare Co-ordinating Bodies, the National Keep Australia Beautiful Council, the Parliamentary Disarmament Forum and the committee that established the Telecom Consumers’ Council. After her term as president of NCWA, Mocatta was elected a voting member of the International Council of Women Board (1988-1991), becoming an ICW vice-president in 1991. She attended many ICW conferences, including Nairobi in 1979, London in 1986, and Washington in 1988, which was also the centenary of the International Council. She also attended executive meetings in Kiel, Lucerne, Malta and Auckland. Mocatta directed the triennial conferences in Bangkok in 1991 and Paris in 1994. She was also ICW co-ordinator of Development Projects and liaison officer to Project Five O, an international co-operative enterprise of five women’s service clubs concerned with vocational and other training for women and girls in developing countries and countries in transition. Mocatta was a long-time member of the Liberal Party and served on the South Australian State Executive and the State Council and was vice-president of the Women’s Council. She became Mayoress of St Peters and a member of the Metropolitan Mayoress’s Charity Committee. Mocatta also held office in a number of other organisations, including the presidency of the Torrens Soroptimists and club representative to the Soroptimists Regional Council. She was a member of the Steering Committee of the Non-English Cultural Background International Women’s Conference held in Adelaide in 1994, a member of the Australian Institute of Management, president of the Rostrum Club No. 2, and a foundational member and NCWSA’s representative on both the Women’s Information Switchboard support group, and the South Australian Jubilee 150 Women’s Committee. A committed Christian, Mocatta was also on the board of the St Laurence Home for the Aged (now part of Anglicare) for 10 years. She was an active member of All Souls Anglican Church, St Peters, being a member of the Parish Council and a lay assistant, sidesman and a member of the Sanctuary Guild. Mocatta responded enthusiastically to the needs of women and families, not just in Australia but throughout the world. This interest was stimulated by attending conferences in Germany, Kenya and Korea, where she could see first hand the work of Five O. Necia Mocatta was made a member of the Order of Australia (AM) in 1990 for her services to the community and was awarded a Ruth Gibson Memorial Award by NCWA in 1992. She was awarded the Adrian Stock Award for service to Rostrum in 1993 and 1995. She died in Adelaide on 4 December 2000. Events 1988 - 1994 International Council of Women 1986 - 1986 South Australian Jubilee 150 Women’s Committee Published resources Site Exhibition Stirrers with Style! Presidents of the National Council of Women of Australia and its predecessors, National Council of Women of Australia, 2013, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/ncwa Book What's next? : the continuing history of the National Council of Women of South Australia 1980-2000, Hartley, Shirley, 2000 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Records of the National Council of Women of Australia, 1924-1990 [manuscript] NCWA Papers 1984 - 2006 State Library of South Australia National Council of Women of S.A. : SUMMARY RECORD Private Hands (These regards may not be readily available) Necia Mocatta AM AIMM Author Details Jan Hipgrave, Marian Quartly and Judith Smart Created 3 September 2013 Last modified 1 November 2013 Digital resources Title: Nescia Mocatta Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Title: conference1988.jpg Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org) |
Elaine Battersby was a member of the Christian Democrat Party who ran as a candidate for Newcastle in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly in 2003. Elaine Battersby taught ceramics and jewellery for many years in the Newcastle area. Her campaign was based on a wish to see Christian ideals in government, and the family unit as the centre of all policies. She is married. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 6 December 2005 Last modified 1 September 2008 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org) |
A collection of approximately 50 letters written to Richard Griffiths of New Court, Hereford by members of his family, including correspondence relating to the wardship and subsequent upbringing of Florence Griffiths Buchanan (1861-1913), an early female missionary to Australia. Also, a single letter dated 1 Mar 1885, from Florence’s brother Nigel Buchanan, written from Bundaberg and reporting on his life on the land, especially drought and stock losses. The letter is contained in its original stamped envelope, also addressed to R.J. Griffiths, Nigel Buchanan’s cousin. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 26 June 2018 Last modified 26 June 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org) |
Recommendations for King’s Birthday Honours 1945 [Col E C P Plant; Col A F B Cox; Lt-Col M A R Synnot; Lt-Col H Wilson; Maj E V Cash; Maj H L Foster; Maj J C Rishworth; Capt. R H Eades; Senior Sister Lt-Col Edith L Shaw; Matron Janet L Cook; Matron Marie E Hurley; Matron Clara J Shumack; Capt. [Sister] Kathleen P Bonnin; Capt. [Sister] Ellen M Fenner {nee Roberts]; Capt. [Sister] Jessie M Langham; Capt. [Sister] Ethel Youman; L/Sgt F J Mather; Cpl T B Moss] Author Details Anne Heywood Created 11 November 2002 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org) |
Anthea McIntyre Created 27 April 2016 Last modified 9 August 2016 Digital resources Title: Anthea McIntyre Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org) |
[Red Cross Archives series reference: NO21]??Comprises records arising from a range of youth activities such as conferences, national camps, training programmes, courses and other events. Records include rules of the organisation, reports on activities and operational priorities, statistics, historical notes, agenda, financial summaries, correspondence, training course material, booklets and camp ephemera.??Includes records relating to camps in Geelong, Mt Evelyn, Point Lonsdale, Perth, W.A, as well as a biennial National Gumbooya camps (Indigenous for meeting place) held throughout Australia. Also includes records relating to technical seminar for Asia Pacific region “Konnichiwa Japan 1970; an International Study Centre in Istanbul.?The Australian Junior Red Cross was founded in New South Wales in August 1914 by Mrs Eleanor MacKinnon, with the original aim of involving children in supporting the recuperation of soldiers, as well as assisting soldier’s children. Subsequently the movement evolved to focus on developing the humanitarian and public service ethos amongst young people through education programs, participation and activities that encouraged active citizenship and community participation. In the 1970s the Australian Junior Red Cross changed its name to Red Cross Youth and became part of the Youth and Education Service Department (YES), focusing on people under 30 years. See: Australian Women’s register: Youth and Education Services, Australian Red Cross (1914- ) http://www.womenaustralia.info/biogs/AWE0717b.htm??Researchers should also refer to: Victorian Division – Junior Red Cross Index Cards (2016.0072) pertaining to Junior Red Cross activities in schools. See also the National Office Poster series (2016.0076) and Junior Red Cross and Australian Red Cross Youth Publications (2016.0051), Junior Red Cross in Precis Department Notes (2016.0054.00009)??Researchers should note that under the Geneva Conventions Act 1957 protections govern the use of the Red Cross emblem. For further information see Archives staff Author Details Anne Heywood Created 13 February 2004 Last modified 30 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org) |
Lyma Nguyen, an advocate whose earliest memories stem back to the Indonesian refugee camp in which she was born, has devoted the better part of her young life to human rights; she has particularly concerned herself with advancing criminal justice domestically and in the international sphere. Nguyen practises at the Northern Territory Bar in Darwin and also appears before the Khmer Rouge Tribunal (the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC)). In 2009, Nguyen became the first Australian woman to be admitted as International Counsel for Civil Parties in the ECCC. She acts on behalf of ethnic Vietnamese Cambodians – as well as foreign nationals from Australia, New Zealand and the United States – who suffered during the Khmer Rouge regime. In recognition of indefatigable, pro bono work for the rights of ethnic minority Vietnamese in Cambodia, Nguyen was awarded an Australian Prime Minister’s Executive Endeavour Award in 2013. Lyma Nguyen was interviewed by Kim Rubenstein for the Trailblazing Women and the Law Oral History Project. For details of the interview see the National Library of Australia CATALOGUE RECORD. Lyma Nguyen was born in a refugee camp on Kuku Island, Indonesia. Just days before her birth, her mother was taken from the dilapidated vessel that had borne the family from Vietnam and transported by helicopter to the Indonesian mainland. The story of Nguyen’s birth and the mystery of whether she was named for the call signal ‘Lima’, possibly used on the helicopter that brought her to safety, are told in the book, Boat People: Personal Stories from the Vietnamese Exodus: 1975-1996, edited by Carina Hoang. Nguyen’s earliest memories are of her childhood in the refugee camp, before settling in Brisbane via Perth, Australia. Educated first at the local primary school in Darra, Brisbane, before receiving her secondary schooling at Brigidine College, Indooroopilly, Nguyen’s interest in human rights was awakened when she became president of Brigidine’s Amnesty International group. In 2001, Nguyen began studying arts and law at the University of Queensland. Her law studies, focused on international law, peacekeeping and international institutions, and human rights law, would stand her in good stead for her future work, particularly at the Khmer Rouge Tribunal. In 2001 – the time of the International Force for East Timor, the multinational, non-United Nations peacekeeping taskforce which was organised and led by Australia – Nguyen’s involvement with the United Nations’ Student Association at university saw her travel to Timor-Leste to teach English to children – including orphans – in Los Palos. Back in Australia, in 2002 she was elected president of the University’s chapter of Amnesty International. She also became a student councillor, supporting projects with the Red Cross and Oxfam. The same year, Nguyen returned to Timor-Leste, where she witnessed the withdrawal of the International Force for East Timor and the student rioting which resulted. In 2004, Nguyen travelled to south-eastern Nigeria where she taught French to high school students in Anambra State. The following year, her legal studies took her to Canada’s University of British Columbia. In 2006, Nguyen undertook an international clerkship with the Singaporean law firm, Drew & Napier LLC; it was here that she fatefully met Mahdev Mohan, who would introduce her to the work being undertaken at the Khmer Rouge Tribunal. Graduating with a combined degree in 2006, Nguyen accepted a position with the Department of Immigration’s Brisbane office. She was there only a short time before she felt drawn to Canberra to work as a legal officer with the International Transfer of Prisoners Scheme, International Criminal Law Division of the Attorney-General’s Department. While she was at the Attorney-General’s Department Mohan contacted Nguyen: he was preparing victim class action claims being heard in the Khmer Rouge Tribunal and wondered if Nguyen might be interested in assisting him. She was, and in 2008, Nguyen travelled to Cambodia where she made contact with the Khmer Kampuchea Krom Human Rights Organisation, which was conducting ‘outreach’ to the floating Vietnamese villages. Nguyen helped four complainants to fill out forms to submit to the Khmer Rouge Tribunal. They would be the first of many she helped. After returning to Australia, Nguyen joined the Office of the Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) in a legal policy role which was concerned with human trafficking, slavery and sexual servitude offences. In 2009, seeking prosecution experience, Nguyen successfully applied for a transfer to the Darwin office of the DPP. The same year, she was admitted as International Counsel for Civil Parties in the Khmer Rouge Tribunal. The Tribunal was established in 2003 through an agreement between the Government of Cambodia and the United Nations and the Law on the Establishment of the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia; Nguyen has noted that “[t]his was the very first time in international criminal law history that victims of crime were permitted to join the proceedings of an internationalised court as ‘civil parties’, with a mandate to support the prosecution, and to seek ‘moral and collective reparations’ for harm suffered” [Nguyen]. Nguyen’s ability to converse in French and Vietnamese has provided her with a crucial link to the minority ethnic Vietnamese Cambodians she represents at the Khmer Rouge Tribunal, victims and claimants who have spoken “of horrific crimes – mass deportation to Vietnam, torture, cannibalism, rape, the singling out of members of their group, mass executions of family members, details about the methods of killing and torture; things that would make any ordinary person wretch and cry” [Nguyen]. All the time she was at the DPP, Nguyen continued to work doggedly, in her own time, at the Tribunal, initially with the non-governmental organisation, Access to Justice Asia. In 2010, with Australian Volunteers International and Legal Aid Cambodia, Nguyen prepared victim compensation claims for over 100 survivors, in cases that began before the Tribunal had finalised the trial hearings. Nguyen, working as an International Civil Party Lawyer in the Tribunal, represented a variety of victim groups, including foreign nationals from Australia, New Zealand and the United States who had lost family members through Khmer Rouge policies against foreign nationals. Together with national colleagues from Legal Aid of Cambodia, she has provided pro bono legal representation for victims across cases 002, 003 and 004, including for ethnic Vietnamese minority victims of Cambodia’s genocide, foreign nationals who are victims of crimes at S21 (the torture centre in Phnom Penh), and members of the Cambodian diaspora. In 2011 Nguyen completed a Master of Laws degree which focussed on International Law, at the Australian National University (ANU). Together with Christoph Sperfeldt of the ANU, she was author in 2012 of a research paper: ‘A Boat Without Anchors: A Report on the Legal Status of Ethnic Vietnamese Minority Populations in Cambodia Under Domestic and International Laws Governing Nationality and Statelessness’ [Nguyen and Sperfeldt]. The same year, Nguyen was enlisted by the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade as a Law and Justice Civilian Expert on the register of the Australian Civilian Corps, for rapid deployment to fragile or post-conflict situations. In recognition of her dedication to the rights of ethnic minority Vietnamese in Cambodia, in 2013 Nguyen was honoured with an Australian Prime Minister’s Executive Endeavour Award for her work representing ethnic Vietnamese victims of the Khmer Rouge [Marcham]. In 2014, Nguyen was awarded a Churchill Fellowship. She used the fellowship to increase her expertise in the practice of international criminal justice by examining the operation of international courts and preparing victim representation in the genocide trial before the Khmer Rouge Tribunal. In June of the same year, Nguyen left her role at the DPP to read at the Northern Territory Bar in Darwin. Believing that “the ECCC could help repair race relations between Khmer and Vietnamese, in addition to finding justice for millions affected by the Khmer Rouge’s murderous rule” [Phan], Nguyen continues to have a significant impact on the lives of the Vietnamese ethnic minority and foreign national victims whom she represents in the Khmer Rouge Tribunal. Published resources Site Exhibition Australian Women Lawyers as Active Citizens, Trailblazing Women Lawyers Project Team, 2016, http://www.womenaustralia.info/lawyers Archival resources National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Lyma Nguyen interviewed by Kim Rubenstein in the Trailblazing women and the law oral history project Author Details Larissa Halonkin Created 30 May 2016 Last modified 21 September 2016 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org) |
Folio 1: Legal opinions and documents (often relating to copyright), copyright forms, correspondence with the Australasian Performing Rights Association (A.P.R.A.), letters to sponsors concerning radio jingles, letters to Robert Menzies offering patriotic war songs (lyrics and music by Georgia Evans), transcript of the C.J. Dennis commemoration broadcast 16/11/1944, radio jingles written under the pseudonym Val Moore. (some dating from the 1930s); Folio 2: Songs from the C.J. Dennis commemoration broadcast (Georgia Evans adapted and set to music C. J. Dennis verse) “Er name’s Doreen”, “Stror ‘at Coot”, “The dawn dance”, “A real Australian austra-laise”, “The band is marching by”, “A letter to the front”, “Vernal promise”, “Rose and bee”; Folio 3-4: Songs, lyrics and music by Georgia Evans, including patriotic songs and childrens’ songs. Folio 3 also includes orchestral/band music. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 20 February 2018 Last modified 20 February 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org) |