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The MS 8460 collection comprises papers relating to Marion Halligan’s prolific career as an author. There are drafts of her books, short stories and reviews and papers relating to her participation in numerous literary events. There is a large series of correspondence, the bulk of which is business related. Included is correspondence with literary agents Curtis Brown, numerous publishers regarding publication of Halligan’s books, editors of journals and newspapers regarding publication of her short stories, reviews, essays and articles and with organisations regarding personal appearances. There is also correspondence with other authors, many of whom have become personal friends. Correspondents include Carmel Bird, Judith Brett, David Brookes, Manning Clark, Robert Dessaix, Geoffrey Dutton, Roseanne Fitzgibbons, Mem Fox, Susan Hawthorne, A.D. Hope, Nicholas Jose, Stephen Knight, Drusilla Modjeska, Douglas Muecke, Michael Symons, Brenda Niall, Ric Throssell, Nancy Sawer and Barbara Kerr Wilson (33 boxes, 1 fol. Box).??The Acc04.092 instalment comprises correspondence, drafts, publishing material, printed material and other papers, including material relating to The living hothouse (1988), Eat my words (1990), Cockles of the heart (1996), Those women who go to hotels (1997), The gift of story (1998), Storykeepers (2001), The fog garden (2001), the Newcastle Regional Museum exhibition “How shall we live”, 2003, and miscellaneous writings, together with papers relating to the Word Festival (6 boxes, 2 cartons, 4 small cartons) Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 1 June 2006 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Megan Anwyl was elected to the thirty-fourth Parliament of Western Australia for Kalgoorlie at the by-election on 16 March 1996, representing the Australian Labor Party. The election was held to fill the vacancy consequent upon the resignation of Hon. Ian Frederick Taylor. Anwyl was re-elected in 1996, and defeated on 10 February 2001. Megan Anwyl was born in Melbourne in 1962. Her parents, John Anwyl and Jill Blackstock, were both highly qualified professional educators with well-developed egalitarian philosophies. Megan Anwyl gained law and arts degrees from the University of Melbourne, and practised as a solicitor in Melbourne and Kalgoorlie. She was elected to the Parliament of Western Australia for Kalgoorlie on 16 March 1996, representing the Australian Labor Party. Anwyl was re-elected in 1996, and defeated on 10 February 2001. Published resources Book Section Making a Difference: Women in the West Australian Parliament 1921-1999, Black, David and Phillips, Harry, 2000 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Australian Women Lawyers as Active Citizens, Trailblazing Women Lawyers Project Team, 2016, http://www.womenaustralia.info/lawyers Author Details Lisa MacKinney Created 5 October 2009 Last modified 28 October 2016 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Anastasia Bekas was born in Greece in the late 1930s, the youngest of four children. She liked school and was a good student, her teachers encouraged her to attend high school. Unfortunately, she could not live this dream because, as was customary at the time, she had to leave school because her help was required to run the farm. She was a good, hard worker, but in the end her father encouraged her to migrate to Australia, as a way of avoiding the dowry he would eventually have to supply should she stay in Greece. The Australian government was keen to attract single Greek girls to the country at this time. As long as she had somewhere to stay, they would pay her fare. ‘You are healthy, you are going to Australia’, she was told. ‘So I have to go.’ She migrated to Australia, where her sister already lived, in December 1963 and arrived in Adelaide, where she would settle, on January 14, 1964. Adjustment was difficult, with the lack of English language skills being the major problem. Anastasia, like millions of other women who arrived in the waves of post war migration, had few skills, little, if any English but a strong desire to work. In the 1960s and 70s, when the provision of post-arrival migrant services and programs was demonstratively inadequate, this combination was a never-ending source of frustration for women who wanted to make a contribution. Anastasia describes this frustration in an interview done for the Thebartson Community Arts Network Project: ‘My sister said that young people were being brought here to help the country prosper. I couldn’t speak English, it was hard when my family wasn’t there to help me. My brother in law could speak English a bit. I wanted to work but he said it would be hard with no English. He helped me go to Social Security but I had to go to the interview by myself on the bus. I didn’t know how much to pay on the bus, the conductor took the right money from my hand. I didn’t understand anything at the office – they sent me home. I cried and cried. Then I got a letter telling me I had to go to school to learn English. I went to Thebarton Primary School two nights a week but we only learned words like bread, water, hello. I wanted to learn words that would help me to get a job. I had to persuade our teacher to teach these words.’ Published resources Book Postcards from home : a celebration of departures and arrivals - voices of women from non English speaking backgrounds, Thebarton Community Arts Network, 1996 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources State Library of South Australia Postcards from Home: Interviews with Thebarton Women from Non-English Speaking Backgrounds : SUMMARY RECORD [sound recording] Interviewers: Members of Thebarton Community Arts Network Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 18 June 2006 Last modified 20 November 2018 Digital resources Title: My Wedding Day, by Angela Bekas Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

2 sound tape reels (ca. 118 min.)??Blackman speaks of her family background and studies ; her poetry writing and desire to write in a surrealist style ; her “Barjai” experience from age 15 to 20 ; her stay in London with husband Charles Blackman ; her involvement with the talking book library ; the changing art world in Australia ; her involvement with Chiron College. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 10 April 2018 Last modified 10 April 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Keelah Lam is a committed and active environmentalist. She represented the Australian Greens in the House of Representatives elections for Warringah in 1998 and 2001and in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly elections for Manly in 2003. Keelah Lam is an active and committed community member, interested in sustainable living, especially in an urban setting. Thee Sydney Morning Herald reported that she ran her 2003 campaign out of the back of a 1978 Volvo, and from the front room of her Fairlight home, which was equipped with a dry compost toilet. Her transport policy focussed on reducing car use. She is a founding member and co-ordinator of the Manly Food Co-op, a member of the Waste Crisis Network of the Nature Conservation Council of NSW, and a member of the Manly Council’s community sustainability, waste and environment committees. She runs a successful small business and has four children. 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 31 January 2006 Last modified 16 September 2013 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Margaret Barbalet is an award-winning children’s author, a novelist, poet and short-story writer, a public servant and a historian (This entry is sponsored by generous donation from Christine Foley.) Margaret Barbalet was born in Adelaide and raised in Tasmania. She studied history at the University of Adelaide and says she spent much of her youth protesting against the Vietnam war. She taught at Mitchell and Canberra Colleges of Advanced Education, and as a researcher and historian she worked for the Commonwealth Schools Commission, Adelaide City Council and wrote a history of Adelaide Children’s Hospital. She has also been an analyst at the Office of National Assessments. As a children’s author she wrote the widely acclaimed The Wolf, which won the 1993 Human Rights Award for children’s literature, and was shortlisted for the Younger Readers Book of the Year Award. She was honoured in several categories of the Children’s Book Council Book of the Year 2004 for Reggie Queen of the Street. Barbalet’s published non-fiction includes Far from a Low Gutter Girl: the forgotten world of state wards, South Australia, 1887-1940 and a chapter in Canberra Reflects (2001), which accompanied an exhibition at the Canberra Museum and Gallery. Her novels include Blood in the Rain and Steel Beach, which was shortlisted for the 1983 Vogel Award. Her other books include Lady, Baby, Gypsy, Queen (1992), The Presence of Angels (2001) and Paradise Hotel. Of varied genres, her work has been described as ‘capturing the territory of loss’. She is also a published poet. She was a member of Seven Writers – a group of seven Canberra-based writers whose work often vividly portrayed life ‘beneath the surface of Canberra’ – and as part of this collective she contributed to Canberra Tales (1988), republished as The Division of Love in 1996, an anthology of short stories about life in Canberra. This work received an ACT Bicentennial Award. Barbalet has been awarded an Australia Council Literature Grant; an Australian National University H.C. Coombs Creative Arts Fellowship (1998); an ACT Arts Fellowship (1999); an ACT Literature Fellowship (2001); a National Library of Australia Harold White Fellowship (2001) and an Australia Council Literature Grant for a New Work Fellowship (2002). During a career at the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (1990 – December 2008) Margaret Barbalet was appointed Second Secretary at the Australian High Commission in Kuala Lumpur in 1996. She was posted to Abu Dhabi from 2005-08. In 2001 she headed the Literature Committee for the ACT Cultural Council. She now lives in Sydney Published resources Book The Division of Love: Stories, Barbalet, Margaret et al, 1995 Blood in the Rain, Barbalet, Margaret, 1986 Far from a Low Gutter Girl: the forgotten world of state wards, South Australia, 1887-1940, Barbalet, Margaret, 1983 Steel Beach, Barbalet, Margaret, 1988 Lady, Baby, Gypsy, Queen, Barbalet, Margaret, 1992 The Presence of Angels, Barbalet, Margaret, 2001 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 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 Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Records of the Seven Writers group, between 1986 and approximately 2000 Papers of Margaret Barbalet, 1974-1993 [manuscript] Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 1 June 2006 Last modified 20 November 2018 Digital resources Title: Portrait of Margaret Barbalet 1991 Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

45 minutes??Betty Riggs was born in 1911 and went to school at the Methodist Ladies College and the PGC. She became a nurse at the Royal Adelaide Hospital in 1930. In 1936 she was nursing in Scotland so was there for the coronation of Edward VIII. Became ill in Scotland and went to a sanatorium in Switzerland and then returned to Adelaide. Joined the 2nd 4th AG and went to the Middle East where her first tour of duty was to nurse soldiers from Tobruk. Then went to Jerusalem and Colombo. Returned to Australia and continued nursing even though her health had suffered. Returned to Adelaide to care for her aunt Emily Verco and did a course in infant welfare. Accepted a job at the Adelaide City Council Health Department. Aunt died when she was 100. Retired at 60 and began travelling. Started working as a relief nurse at the Christian Rest Home and travelled to Europe and China, India and Bangkok. Participated in all the activities of the Lyceum Club. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 7 April 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Crommelin Biological Research Station records 1939-68; Warrah sanctuary trust correspondence 1940-55; Gosford District Flora and Fauna Protection Society Records 1948-55; Mosman Tree Lovers Civic League records 1932-34; general conservation research records 1931-66; letters from Nina Campbell 1912-70; personal documents 1881-1969 including correspondence and a typescript autobiography; diaries 1915, 1949-70; photographs 1887-1967; press cuttings 1904-66. Author Details Ailie Smith Created 21 November 2002 Last modified 27 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

1 hour??Marjorie Ladkin, nee Soady, was born in Sydney, New South Wales, completed schooling in 1930 and worked as a clerk in her father’s manufacturing business. In 1933 she began training at the Sydney Hospital, and upon graduation worked for a nursing agency. She married in 1939 and during the war worked as a clerk in the Department of Labour and Industry. In 1954, when her children were at school, she took up nursing again and back in Adelaide in 1959 took an appointment at Abergeldie Private Hospital. In 1965 she was the first full-time secretary of the Royal Australian Nursing Federation (SA Branch). For the next ten years Marjorie gave herself wholeheartedly to the RANF which grew in membership, in its range of activities, and in strength as a professional and industrial organization for nurses. Marjorie retired in 1975. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 8 April 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Helen Maxwell is a freelance curator, art valuer and consultant. She is best known as a curator of contemporary art in Canberra, where she lived from 1979 to 2014. Helen now lives and works on the south coast of New South Wales, where she organises art projects and exhibitions. Helen Maxwell is a Canberran who has not been afraid to deliver her own brand of desires through showcasing contemporary art in the ACT since 1989. As an assistant art curator with the National Gallery of Australia in the department of Australian Art, Maxwell was inspired and, more importantly, determined to branch out and create her own breed of gallery. The first incarnation of Maxwell’s distinctive spirit was aGOG, standing for Australian Girls’ Own Gallery and, as the name suggests, made a stir by showing women’s art only. The small ‘a’ for Australian was an equally deliberate point being ‘slightly anti-nationalistic’ in flavour. Speaking about the decision to exhibit solely women’s art, Maxwell said she felt very strongly about it at the time: ‘A number of people objected to it, argued with me and said it was sexist. But there were also many supporters to whom I will always be grateful and for me it felt right and that was important. I felt that the opportunities for men to show their work was still much greater than those for women.’ Setting up in a space in Leichhardt Street Studios, Kingston, Maxwell was amazed at the rapid response she received from artists, eager to exhibit: ‘You know the first exhibition was organised before I even knew whether I was going to open.’ From the beginning she was committed to bringing in artists from across the nation. While acknowledging it would have been easy to stock from the abundant local talent pool, Maxwell wished to deter any potential for parochialism and instead perhaps push the community’s boundaries. Personal politics is another prerequisite in Helen Maxwell’s selection criteria when choosing an artist to exhibit in her gallery: “When I look at artists’ work, the work has to be political, not necessarily overtly (though it may be) or in your face, but it needs to express an artist’s personal politics. It has to demonstrate at least a stance that they are taking in their life. At the same time they have to know how to use their medium to successfully express their views.” After ten years of running aGOG, Maxwell decided to shut up shop in 1998, and move to a larger space and broaden her product range – the result was Helen Maxwell Gallery, a large open warehouse space in Braddon near Canberra’s city centre. This new gallery enabled Maxwell to show larger, more financially viable works, and heralded a change in opening up to male artists as she felt the urgent need for a women’s only policy had abated. Helen Maxwell Gallery now offers a monthly rotation of new exhibits, showcasing contemporary art from Australia and the Pacific and has a stockroom of both Aboriginal and non-Indigenous art. Some of the artists represented are Jean Baptiste Apuatimi, Vivienne Binns, Yvonne Boag, Tony Coleing, eX de Medici, Annie Franklin, Shayne Higson, Judy Horacek, Marie McMahon, Kate Lohse, Sue Lovegrove, Patsy Payne, Franki Sparke, Neil Roberts (1954-2002), Wilma Tabacco, Paul Uhlmann, Ruth Waller, Megan Walch, Judy Watson and Robin White (NZ). As well as running a successful, socially engaging enterprise, Helen Maxwell has also been an active member of Canberra’s cultural community, as a member of the ACT Cultural Council, and has served on the Interim Board of Management of the Canberra Museum and Gallery during its initial planning stages. She has also taught Curatorship (Theory and Practice) in the Art History Department at the Australian National University and has joined in sponsorship with the Canberra Times in offering the paper’s Artist of the Year Award. This entry was prepared in 2006 by Roslyn Russell and Barbara Lemon, Museum Services, and funded by the ACT Heritage Unit. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 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 Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 18 May 2006 Last modified 12 March 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

MS Acc09.002 comprises original manuscript scores by Penelope Thwaites including, Cold winter’s night; Papua New Guinea (1970); Giant land (1970); Psalm 121; The Lord Jehovah reigns (1975). The published material includes: Psalm 121; A Lambeth garland: the Lambeth waltz (arranged for piano duet) (1989); Reverie for soprano (baritone) & piano (1989); and, Dancing pieces: piano solo (1990). The photocopied music in the collection consists of, The moment for a miracle (1967) and Cold winter’s night (1967). There is also a copy of the book, Listen to the children compiled by Annejet Campbell (London : Grovenor, 1979) which includes Look at the children, words and music by Penelope Thwaites (1 fol. box). Author Details Alannah Croom Created 13 February 2018 Last modified 13 February 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

On June 5th, 2006, Beryl Mulder had telephone discussion with Dr Nikki Henningham (Executive Officer AWAP) about her lifelong and on-going role in multicultural politics and advocacy on behalf of migrant women. Throughout the course of the conversation, Mulder told a number of fascinating anecdotes:??1) In 1988 Beryl Mulder was appointed to the regional co-ordinators position in the Office of Multicultural Affairs in Darwin. An important principle of operation was what she called ‘The Jesuit Principle’, which states that ‘it’s is holier to be forgiven than to ask for permission’.??2) In the late 1990s, Beryl Mulder was advised by a supervisor in the Department of Immigration, Multicultural and Ethnic Affairs that she would have to give up her work on the Ethnic Communities Council of the Northern Territory if she wanted to retain her employment in the department. She was advised that a letter from the department secretary had gone out to that effect. Mulder called around her network of women colleagues in the department and, on their advice, called her supervisor’s bluff, demanding to see the letter. No such letter had ever been written, and the claim was widely regarded as the thin end of the wedge that was attempting to remove the word ‘multicultural’ from the department’s activities Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 13 October 2006 Last modified 9 June 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Janice (Jan) Murray represented the ALP in the 1978 elections for the New South Wales Legislative Assembly seat of Eastwood. Receiving no party help or funding, she nevertheless achieved a significant swing of 13.5% Before entering party political life, Jan Murray’s activism gave meaning to the feminist truth that ‘the personal is political’. In 1972, Jan fought a very public fight for the right to use her own name, rather than that of her husband, eventually changing back to Murray from Brown by deed poll. While many conservative women were appalled by her actions, and told her so in no uncertain terms, other women supported her and were grateful to her for opening up the possibility to them of keeping their own names after marriage. At the time of her campaign, Jan Murray was in her final year of an Arts degree from Macquarie University majoring in politics and English. She later graduated with first class honours. She was married to John Brown, MHR for Parramatta, and the mother of five children, born within seven years. She reverted to her maiden name by deed poll. She was a life member of the Royal Institute for Deaf and Blind Children, and a member of the Models and Mannequins Union. She was a regular guest on the Mike Walsh TV show, and in the 90s, a panellist on Beauty and the Beast. She came to prominence by refusing to disclose her financial interests under the Governments disclosure legislation. From 1981, she was the Principal in the PR firm of Jan Murray and Associates, which, over the next twenty years, handled some of the most significant public relations campaigns for the Australian tourist industry. She played a seminal role in the Paul Hogan “Shrimp on the barbecue” campaign and staged a celebrity breakfast for 10,000 people at the Gold Coast’s Palm Meadows Golf Course to launch the Greg Norman Golf Tournament. For Australia’s Bicentennial, the firm ran a radiothon and raised a million dollars for the staging of the First Fleet Re-enactment Voyage, and found individual sponsorships for each of the vessels. Jan was also involved, acting pro bono, in the Lord Mayor’s Bush Fire Appeal in 1995, which raised over $11 million. She was appointed to the Trust which was responsible for dispersing the fund. Jan Murray is in demand as a guest speaker, and in 2005 opened the Fourth National Public Affairs Convention in Canberra. 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 1 February 2006 Last modified 16 September 2013 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

3 sound tape reel (ca. 89 min.)??Keesing speaks of her early years; her schooling; writing poetry; the various jobs held; the Lyre Bird Writers; researching in the “Bulletin” for bush ballads; how she writes poetry; the themes of her poems. Keesing reads two of her poems: “Revelation” and “Children”. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 10 April 2018 Last modified 10 April 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

1 sound file (ca. 91 min.)??Suzy Javor talks about her table tennis career; her life in Hungary; her World War II experiences; after the war joining a table tennis club; progression through the ranks; marrying her coach; her selection to the national team; playing in Romania, London and Holland; life behind the Iron Curtain in the 1950s; playing in Vienna at the time of the Hungarian revolution (1956); never returning to Hungary, waiting in Austria until the revolution was over; meeting up with her husband; life on the other side of the curtain; importance of sport to the Hungarian nation and the communist system; different training regimes; Australian Institute of Sport; the different approach to sport in Australia, Table Tennis in particular; racquet innovation and other technological changes and changes to the rules that have impacted upon the game; the talents and skills required in a good table tennis player; coming to Australia; the offer of help from the Victorian Table Tennis Association; the journey to Australia arriving May, 1957; early days in Melbourne; getting work; Kurt de Vreis; her husband’s work.??Javor discusses developing a table tennis network; her life at home with her baby; getting a part time job; English language difficulties limiting her social and employment options; moving to their own home; winning Victorian Championships; attempting to improve training regime; raising the standard of the game in Australia; son’s elite table tennis career; husband focusing on coaching; the table tennis community in Victoria; Albert Park Stadium; Australian women’s team finishing 12th at world championships (1963); World Championships in Prague (1963) reuniting with her Hungarian team mates; seeing her family for the first time since she left; her husband’s support and his importance to the development of the sport; Javor Cup tournament; relationship with and support from the Melbourne Jewish Community; member of the Jewish Sports Hall of Fame and her inclusion in the Australian Sports Hall of Fame (1987); importance of sport and public recognition of her talent and contribution; importance of her involvement in sport to her life course; life after playing competitively; prospects for making a living out of table tennis; importance of the recognition of her effort, contribution and the friendships made though sport. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 17 April 2018 Last modified 17 April 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

The first group of papers comprising MS 5414 consists of photographs, an autograph book, student reports from Guildhall, and two scrapbooks containing cuttings, programs, music scores and some letters, including one from Peter Dawson. The second consignment is mainly music scores, including the operas Alaya, The jolly friar, the plays David and Myfanwy, Perhaps one day, and published works such as Some Australian songs for children and Four songs of Australia. There is also some correspondence with William F. Morriss, six discs and a manuscript titled “Edith Harrhy musician extraordinaire: a personal memoir” by her daughter, Honor Marianne Coutts. The collection includes about 154 letters to Harrhy from Con Daly (10 boxes, 4 fol. Boxes).??The Acc08.082 instalment comprises letters, family photographs (originals and copies of), manuscript and published music scores of Harrhy’s songs and other compositions, genealogical materials such as family trees, recital programs and clippings relating to performances of Harrhy’s works, pay slips from ABC, typescript of “A character reverence” (biography of Harrhy by Honor Coutts) (4 boxes). Author Details Alannah Croom Created 13 February 2018 Last modified 13 February 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Papers 1838 to 1944 including letters and newscuttings relating to Sir William Windeyer and his home Tomago House at Newcastle. Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 24 August 2006 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Townsville, Qld. C. 1943-10. Her Excellency Lady Gowrie, Honorary Air Commodore, WAAAF, inspects photographs on the wall at St Anne’s Barracks, covering the WAAAF Second Anniversary Sports Day on 1943-03-20. With her is Squadron Officer Gwen Stark, Staff Officer for WAAAF in North East Area. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 24 March 2003 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

[Red Cross Archives Series reference: NO33]??Note that three separate content lists for this series are available to researchers: 1 – in box (unit) number order, largely reflecting the order in which the series was received from the Red Cross; 2 in approximate chronological order; 3 in alphabetical order of file titles.??This series documents the very wide range of activities of the National Office (formerly known as Headquarters , Australian Headquarters or National Headquarters ) of the Australian Red Cross from its formation in 1914 as the Australian Branch of the British Red Cross Society. These activities include: administration, personnel, buildings and equipment, finance, the Blood Transfusion Service (see below), the Tracing Bureau, Red Cross Youth, shipping and stores, public relations, community services, handcrafts, field force/personnel, medical, voluntary services, development/international programmes, fundraising, awards, international humanitarian law, health and safety education, disaster services and correspondence with the Australian divisions (states) and with the International Committee of the Red Cross/Red Crescent.??Note that the series contains only a few records of the Blood Transfusion Service (‘Blood Bank’) Blood Services were operated by each state/division until 1996 at which time the semi-autonomous national Blood Service was established. Some correspondence of the Victorian Blood Service may be found in series 2015.0026 (Executive Correspondence of the Victorian Division), however it is possible that some records have been removed from these series and transferred to the Blood Service following its nationalisation in 1996.??From about 1940 the Red Cross National Office used a three-part hierarchical file classification system. A new file was created for each activity or topic each year. For instance, there are several files with the classification Correspondence Miscellaneous Braille Watches , each of these containing one year s worth of correspondence on this topic. Although elements of the system evolved over the years and terminology changed, it was still in use in the mid 1990 s by which time it had been incorporated into a computer-supported file control system. Some, but not all, pre-1940 correspondence files appear to have subsequently been arranged according to the post-1940 hierarchical system. Index cards and computer printouts which supported the system have been transferred to the University of Melbourne Archives as series 2015.0032. These provide a list of the file headings and clues as to the workings of the system. However a full listing of file titles was generated by the Red Cross Archives prior to transfer to the University of Melbourne in 2015 and this data, rather than the control records, is recommended as a first point of access to the correspondence in series 2015.0033.??This series was transferred from the Red Cross Archives to the University of Melbourne Archives in 2015. It is arranged in two distinct parts which are not strictly in chronological sequence:??Boxes (Units) 0001-0447: The bulk of correspondence dates from 1914 to 1970 but includes some later files. Some correspondence files have been bound into volumes or lever-arch folders and the classification system coding and file titles have been annotated on the spine of each volume or folder. There are often many different topics covered within one volume. For the purposes of archival description the titles of these volumes have been reconstructed by University of Melbourne Archives staff using the original classification system codes and headings where possible. The full range of file titles/topics covered by a volume is listed in the description column on the Records Description List.??Boxes (Units) 0448- 0791: The bulk of correspondence dates from 1951-1959 and 1970-1995. Correspondence is unbound and in files (in some instances original files have been replaced and file titles have been copied onto these replacement folders). Original file titles have been retained, however for clarity, elements of the classification system hierarchy have been added as prefixes to the file title.??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 Helen Morgan Created 17 August 2015 Last modified 30 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

The Young Women’s Action Group was formed as a independent feminist group to support, encourage promote and take positive action on issues of concern for young women in South Australia. Author Details Kathleen Bambridge Created 18 December 2009 Last modified 18 December 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Senora Spencer was one of the world’s first female projectionists. Spencer, together with her husband, is credited for making cinema-going attractive to the Australian middle class through the introduction of films with popular musical scores and ambitious special effects. The beginnings of Mary Stuart’s career in Australian film are unclear. In one interview Stuart claimed to have become interested after her marriage, however in another she claimed to have been involved for several years before meeting and marrying her husband Cosens Spencer. Mary Stuart married Cosens Spencer on 14 February 1903 in Melbourne. In 1905, Stuart and Spencer opened the Great American Theatrescope at the Lyceum in Sydney. Throughout the run of the Theatrescope, which ended in 1907, it is claimed that Spencer was present at every screening to assist with the projection. In order to fill the time gaps in imported programs, the American Theatrescope (later Spencer’s Theatrescope and then Spencer’s Pictures) began productions of their own. While uncredited, it is likely that Senora Spencer was involved in their production. These include Happenings Taken at the Adelaide Show (1906) and Adelaide’s Fire Service (1906). By 1908, the company was producing enough footage to warrant the establishment of their own production unit. By 1909, the production unit had filmedAdelaide the City (c.1919), Zoological Gardens (c.1917) and Fighting the Flames (c.1917). The success of their enterprise enabled Spencer’s husband to acquire picture theatres across Australia, as well as overseas agencies for film releases that ensured the continued quality of programs. In 1911, Cosens Spencer placed the company and its various units (including distribution, exhibition and production) into the control of a public company. Whilst overseas, the board of directors voted to merge the company with Australasian Films and Union Theatres, into what was to become known as The Combine. As part of the agreement in which Cosens Spencer sold control of his company, he contracted that he could not, for a period of ten years, “either solely or jointly with or as manager or agent for any other person or company permit his name to be used in connection with any picture show business in the Commonwealth”. The contract was deemed broken when Senora Spencer began her own moving picture shows in Brisbane and Newcastle and was thought to be bidding on the lease of the Lyceum. The lawsuit was based on whether it was possible that all the business arrangements could have possibly been done solely in the name of Senora Spencer, without her husband’s backing or direction. That is, did Senora Spencer have the capacity to conduct business independently to her husband? After two days, the parties settled and both the Spencers agreed to stay out of the film industry in Australia for a further 7 years. Shortly after, they left for Canada. In 1930, Spencer’s husband killed an employee and fled from authorities. His body was later found in the Chilco River. He was presumed to have committed suicide. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Resource Section Spencer, Cosens (1874 - 1930), Collins, Diane, 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A120041b.htm Archival resources National Film and Sound Archive [Barrett, Franklyn : Documentation] : [Barrett, Franklyn : 'Press Book' c1901-1935 : Page 09 : Clippings] [Spencer, Senora : Documentation] Author Details Alannah Croom Created 10 January 2011 Last modified 20 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

A letter to David Sharpe from Jean Galbraith regarding a friend of hers who will be moving to Mount Beauty shortly (where David Sharpe and wife were then residing); two letters also to David Sharpe from Professor Thomas Cherry, Professor of Mathematics at the University of Melbourne (signed with his nickname, ‘Croc’). Author Details Elle Morrell Created 1 February 2001 Last modified 29 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

On 4 October 1918 Molly Barr Smith was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (Civil) for services to the Red Cross in South Australia during the war. On 5 May 1886 Molly Mitchell married Thomas Elder Barr Smith (1863-1941). The pair had six children. A company director and pastoralist, Thomas Elder Smith followed the philanthropic tradition of his father, Robert Barr Smith, and his uncle, Sir Thomas Elder. From the beginning of World War I Molly Barr Smith was an executive member of the South Australian branch of the British Red Cross Society. She was also chairman of the buying committee and co-ordinated the Red Cross Sock Club. On 4 October 1918, she was appointed C.B.E. (Civil) for services to the Red Cross in South Australia during the war. She died on the 16 June 1941, and is buried in Mitcham cemetery. Published resources Book A family affair, Legoe, M. I. (Mary Isobel), 1898-, 1982 Resource Section Smith, Tom Elder Barr (1863 - 1941), Linn, R W, 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A110683b.htm 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 18 October 2002 Last modified 23 April 2009 Digital resources Title: Mrs T E Barr Smith CBE Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

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Interview conducted in Broken Hill as part of the AWAP Broken Hill exhibition. To be lodged with the Outback Archives, Broken Hill City Library. Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 3 March 2009 Last modified 3 March 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Correspondence with Mrs I.E. Sior, Mary Lange, Winifred Howie, Mr and Mrs Micken, Sir Charles Barclay-Harvey c1900-51. Author Details Elle Morrell Created 9 February 2001 Last modified 6 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Professor Enid Campbell, a leading Australian scholar in constitutional law and administrative law, was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (Civil) on 16 June 1979 for services to education in the field of law. Campbell, who was the first female dean of a law faculty in Australia, was bestowed with the degree of Doctor of Laws honoris causa by the University of Tasmania in 1990. Enid Campbell was born in Launceston and educated there at Methodist Ladies College where she was dux of the school. At the University of Tasmania she studied economics and law and graduated in 1955. Accepting a scholarship to Duke University (North Carolina) she completed a PhD that included the study of international law, jurisprudence and public administration. In 1959, Enid Campbell returned to Tasmania and became the first female lecturer in the Law School, teaching political science. The next year she took a lecturing position at the University of Sydney and from 1965 to 1967 was Associate Professor in Law. In 1967 she was appointed Sir Isaac Isaac Professor of Law at Monash University, a position she held until her retirement in 1997. Events 1967 - 1997 Sir Isaac Isaacs Professor of Law at Monash University, Melbourne 1985 - 1988 Member of the Constitutional Commission, Canberra 1982 - 1984 Member of the Law Reform Advisory Council, Victoria 1974 - 1976 Member of the Royal Commission on Australian Government Administration 1965 - 1967 Associate Professor Law at the University of Sydney 1962 - 1965 Senior Lecturer at the University of Sydney 1960 - 1961 Lecturer at the University of Sydney 1959 - 1959 Lecturer in Political Science, University of Tasmania 1990 - 1990 Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD) at the University of Tasmania 1976 - 1978 Member of the Council of the Australian National University, Canberra Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Edited Book Who's Who in Australia 2002, Herd, Margaret, 2002 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 Australian Women Lawyers as Active Citizens, Trailblazing Women Lawyers Project Team, 2016, http://www.womenaustralia.info/lawyers Archival resources National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Papers of Enid Campbell, between approximately 1958 and 2010 Author Details Anne Heywood Created 18 October 2002 Last modified 21 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Ethel Turner’s first book, Seven Little Australians, was published in 1894. Translated into ten languages, it was made into a stage play in 1915 and a film in 1939. In 1953 it was televised in Britain, and in 1973 and 1975 by the Australian Broadcasting Commission. Ethel Turner migrated to Australia with her family at the age of eight. While attending Sydney Girl’s High School, she published Parthenon with her sister Lillian. She began writing in 1890. Ethel met Herbert Curlewis in 1891, and the pair were married in 1896 when he was an established barrister and she was already a successful writer of children’s stories. According to Heather Radi in her anthology 200 Australian Women, Turner contributed a ‘Sydney letter’ to the Tasmanian Mail and wrote for the children’s column of the Illustrated news. The Bulletin accepted her first story in 1892 and she published her first book, Seven Little Australians, in 1894. Radi notes that the book was criticised by some for not conforming to nineteenth century conventions in children’s literature, whereby good behaviour is always rewarded, but the book was enormously successful and remains so, with over 40 editions published. Published resources Resource Ethel Turner, Lilian Turner and Jean Curlewis ; A Family of Australian Authors, http://www.penrithcity.nsw.gov.au/usrpages/collect/ethel.htm Dark, Eleanor 1901-1985, National Library of Australia, http://www.nla.gov.au/ms/findaids/4998.html 'My Oath!' 102 Years of Seven Little Australians, State Library of Victoria, http://www.statelibrary.vic.gov.au/slv/children/seven/ Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Book Johns Notable Australians, Johns, Fred, 1905 The Diaries of Ethel Turner, Poole, Philippa (compiled by), 1979 Seven Little Australians, Turner, Ethel S. and Johnson, A J (illustrated by), 1894 The Apple of Happiness, Turner, Ethel, [1911] Betty & Co, Turner, Ethel, 1903 Ethel Turner Birthday Book: A Selection of Passages from the Books of Ethel Turner, Turner, Ethel, L.T.T. (arranged by); with Kernahan, Coulson (foreward by), 1910 Brigid and the Cub, Turner, Ethel; [Copping, Harold (illustrated by)], 1919 Captain Cub, Turner, Ethel, [1917?] The Cub: Six Months in his Life: A Story in War-Time, Turner, Ethel. And Copping, Harold. (illustrated by), 1915 The Family at Misrule, Turner, Ethel. with Johnson, A J (illustrations by), 1895 The Sunshine Family: A Book of Nonsense for girls and Boys, Turner, Ethel and Curlewis, Jean, 1923 Authors & Illustrators of Australian Children's Books, McVitty, Walter, 1989 Australian women writers : a bibliographic guide, Adelaide, Debra, 1988 Edited Book 200 Australian Women: A Redress Anthology, Radi, Heather, 1988 Resource Section Turner, Ethel Mary (1871-1958), Niall, Brenda, 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A120326b.htm Archival resources Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection Ethel Turner - literary papers and related papers, 1894-1951 Dowell O'Reilly - Papers, 1884-1923, with additional family papers, 1877-1944 National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Papers of Ethel Turner, [1887-1935] [manuscript] Literary manuscripts and correspondence, 1901-1926 [manuscript] Papers of Violet Braddon, 1916-1980 [manuscript] Papers of Sir William Cullen, 1880-1935 [manuscript] Papers of Eleanor Dark, 1910-1974 [manuscript] Photographs, 19-- [manuscript] State Library of Victoria Correspondence, 1928-1954. [manuscript]. Special Collections, Academy Library, UNSW@ADFA Ada Cambridge manuscript collection State Library of New South Wales Curlewis family papers, 1881-1966 Author Details Anne Heywood Created 17 October 2001 Last modified 31 October 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

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Jane Stapleton was appointed Distinguished Professor of Law at the Australian National University, Canberra, in 2016. Professor Jane Stapleton has had a stellar international career in legal academia. In 2016, Stapleton, who had previously served as Research Professor in Law at the ANU College of Law, Australian National University, Canberra, since 1997, was appointed Distinguished Professor of Law at the University. The appointment followed her pre-election on 1 March 2016 as the 38th Master of Christ’s College, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom. She is due to take up the post of Master on 1 September 2016. Stapleton is currently Ernest E. Smith Professor of Law at the University of Texas at Austin School of Law; a Statutory Visiting Professor at the University of Oxford; Honorary Bencher of Gray’s Inn; a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Law; a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy; and Emeritus Fellow at Balliol College. She is also a barrister of the High Court and Supreme Court of New South Wales. Stapleton’s first degrees were in science: she graduated with a Bachelor of Science (Honours) from the University of New South Wales in 1974 and then went to the University of Adelaide, where she gained a PhD in the field of physical organic chemistry in 1977. Realising in the chemistry laboratories in Oxford’s Lemsfield Road where she was undertaking post-doctoral research that she did not have a passion for science, she changed direction and entered the Australian National University, a mature-age LLB student. She went on to win the University Medal and Supreme Court Judges’ Prize in 1981 before studying at the University of Oxford, where she earned a DPhil in private law in 1984 and, in 2008, was awarded a Doctorate of Civil Law. Following her graduation from the Australian National University, she worked as legal and senior legal officer in the Commonwealth Attorney-General’s Department before taking up a position as lecturer at the University of Sydney Law School. After a time, she went to Oxford, where she taught at Trinity College and Balliol College, before returning to teach at the ANU in 1997. Widely published, her research interests include private law of obligations; liability and compensations systems; comparative law; and the philosophical foundations of the common law such as causation, duty and good faith. She has held a number of visiting appointments in many jurisdictions. In 2012, Stapleton became the first woman to be appointed Honorary Fellow at St John’s College, University of Cambridge. Stapleton also has the distinction of being the only non-US recipient to have been presented with the Prosser Award (2013), bestowed by the Association of American Law Schools upon those “who have made an outstanding contribution to the world of tort law scholarship”. Additionally, she is the only non-US Council Member of the American Law Institute. Professor Stapleton is married to the law academic Professor Peter Cane. Published resources Resource Section A conversation with Professor Jane Stapleton, Dingle, Lesley and Daniel Bates, 2012, http://www.squire.law.cam.ac.uk/eminent-scholars-archiveprofessor-jane-stapleton/conversation-professor-jane-stapleton Site Exhibition Australian Women Lawyers as Active Citizens, Trailblazing Women Lawyers Project Team, 2016, http://www.womenaustralia.info/lawyers Author Details Marina Loane Created 17 August 2016 Last modified 31 August 2016 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Daphne Pirie was a nationally ranked track and field athlete who captained the Queensland women’s athletics and hockey teams and represented Australia in hockey. She then became a world-ranked Master’s Athlete, winning eight gold medals in international competitions. In 1989 she was awarded an MBE for services to hockey and appointed an Officer in the General Division of the Order of Australia in June 2012. One of eight children – six boys and two girls – Daphne Pirie came to love sport at an early age. Her father, President of the Queensland Rugby League and a former champion sprinter, lost a leg as a Lighthorseman in the First World War and turned to sports administration on his return home. On Sunday afternoon outings the family would hold potato races by the creek. Daphne’s mother, who grew up on a farm in Rockhampton and worked hard to look after her children and her crippled husband, encouraged her daughter to get out and about and be involved in sport. School sport mostly consisted of air raid drills, but Daphne would swim at the Milton School swimming pool and run at the Exhibition Ground at State Primary School Athletics days. When the Queensland Women’s Amateur Athletic Association re-formed after the war, Pirie began running. Serious training began at the age of seventeen when she was sent with a junior team to Sydney by the Mayne Harriers’ Athletic Club in 1948. By 1955 she held 40 open championships in her State and was unbeaten in all events. In the early 1950s Pirie and others re-formed the Valley Women’s Hockey Club (disbanded during the war) as a social activity alongside the Valley men’s team. In her second year in the game Pirie made the State team, and by 1955 was in the Australian team. She enjoyed the team game, finding it easier than running – ‘running is tougher, and it’s individual’ – and was happy to switch between the two; playing hockey in the winter, running in summer, and working at Whatmore’s Sports Store in between. Daphne Pirie was married in 1958 and had her first child soon afterward. The family lived at the Gold Coast and Pirie began playing hockey at Murwillumbah. Not content only to spectate when her elite career was over, Daphne developed a career in sports administration. On Ruby Robinson’s retirement she was appointed to the Queensland Olympic Council, becoming its first female vice-president. She was founding president of Womensport Queensland and is a director of Gold Coast Events Management. She was awarded life memberships with Hockey Australia, Women’s Hockey Australia and Hockey Queensland and is a Hockey Queensland Hall of Fame Inductee. She was a board member of the Queensland Academy of Sport and President of the Gold Coast Sporting Hall of Fame. She was honoured by Womensport Queensland who, in 2006, granted her their inaugural 2006 contribution to sport award. Events 1989 - 1989 Services to Hockey 2003 - 2003 Inducted into the Queensland Hockey Hall of Fame 2002 - 2006 Vice Patron of Hockey Queensland 1987 - 1993 President of the Queensland Women’s Hockey Association 1991 - 1991 Queensland Women’s Hiockey Association 1962 - 1962 Captain – Queensland Women’s Hockey Team 1988 - 1988 Australian Women’s Hockey Association 1961 - 1961 Appointed an Australian Umpire 1951 - 1952 Queensland Track and Field Championships – winner 100 yards 1952 - 1952 Queensland Track and Field Championships – winner 440 yards 1956 - 1956 Queensland Track and Field Championships – winner 440 yards 1951 - 1952 Queensland Track and Field Championships – winner 880 yards 1949 - 1949 Queensland Track and Field Championships – winner High Jump 1952 - 1952 Australian Women’s Track and Field Championships – Finalist 220 yards 1952 - 1952 Australian Women’s Track and Field Championships – Member of the Queensland relay team to win run in third place in the 4 X 110 yards event. 1956 - 1956 Australian Women’s Track and Field Championships – Third Place 440 yards 1956 - 1956 Australian Women’s Track and Field Championships – Fourth Place 880 yards 1954 - 1954 Australian Women’s Track and Field Championships – Second Place 440 yards 1954 - 1954 Australian Women’s Track and Field Championships – Second Place 880 yards 1950 - 1950 Australian Women’s Track and Field Championships – Finalist 220 yards 1950 - 1950 Australian Women’s Track and Field Championships – Finalist 880 yards 1989 - Board member (since inception) of the Queensland Academy of Sport 2006 - 2006 Recipient of the Inaugural award 1993 - 1993 Founding President of Womensport Queensland (then named the Queensland Women’s Sports Foundation) 2000 - 2000 Pan Pacific Master’s Games Competitor -winner of the 60m, 400 m and High Jump events in the 65 years category 1950 - 1950 Australian Women’s Track and Field Championships – Finalist High Jump 1950 - 1950 Australian Women’s Track and Field Championships – Finalist Long Jump 1953 - 1957 Member of the Queensland Women’s Hockey Team 1960 - 1962 Member of the Queensland Women’s Hockey Team 1955 - 1955 Member of the Australian Women’s Hockey Team 1993 - 2000 Queensland Olympic Council Committee member 1997 - 1997 Elected Vice President of the Queensland Olympic Council Committee (The first woman to be elected to the position) Published resources Resource Section Interview with Daphne Pirie, Jenkins, Lesley, 2000, http://pandora.nla.gov.au/nph-arch/2000/S2000-Mar-2/http://brisbane-stories.powerup.com.au/women_sport/women_frames.htm Site Exhibition She's Game: Women Making Australian Sporting History, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2007, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/sg/sport-home.html 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 Nikki Henningham and Barbara Lemon Created 4 January 2007 Last modified 13 August 2024 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

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Hindmarsh Women’s Community Health Centre was the first Women’s Health Centre in South Australia. The Women’s Liberation Movement recognised the need for a separate women’s health centre from the number of health related calls and personal enquires. Funding was granted in 1974 and 6 Mary St Hindmarsh was officially open in 1976. Because funding was through the state the feminist way of running the centre and the bureaucracy and its requirements often clashed. This was further complicated by the feminist groups involved in the centre. The Centre was run by a feminist collective. The Rape Crisis Centre evolved from the Health Centre. The Health Centre became a teaching centre for women’s health. The Centre produced pamphlets on both general and gynaecological health. The conflict with the Health Department eventually lead to the withdrawal of funding. With the intervention of the Women’s Adviser to the Premier the continuing need for a Women’s Health Centre was argued and the centre was moved to North Adelaide and became Women’s Health Statewide. Hindmarsh Women’s Health Centre continued with the Medicare payments to support other work of the centre. The Centre then became known as the Welling Place, providing alternative health including a vegetable patch for the community. 6 Mary St was demolished in 1989 for the Adelaide Entertainment Centre. Author Details Kathleen Bambridge Created 18 December 2009 Last modified 24 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Gladys Gander was a once only candidate for election to Parliament: a One Nation Party candidate in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly elections for Newcastle in 2003. Gladys Gander was 73 and retired from employment when she ran for election for the seat of Newcastle in 2003. She gave her address as Bankstown, a suburb of Sydney, so her candidature in Newcastle was intended to bolster the vote of her party leader, Pauline Hanson, in her bid for a seat in the Legislative Council of New South Wales. Although she was in first position on the ballot paper, she won only 2.4% of the votes cast. Her husband, Trevor Gander, aged 74, also ran for the One Nation Party, in the adjoining seat of Lake Macquarie. 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 8 August 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

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Institutionalisation of Aboriginal children at Cootamundra Girls Home, and its affects on their lives; history of Cootamundra Girls Home; removal of children from families; interviews with Aboriginal women and former staff of Cootamundra; daily life; punishments; girls trained to be domestic servants, and their experiences; Aboriginal protection and welfare policies in New South Wales Author Details Anne Heywood Created 28 May 2004 Last modified 6 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

The papers consist of the catalogue of the first Australian Exhibition of Women’s Work, 1907, held from 23 October to 30 November at the Melbourne Exhibition Buildings and articles written by Mrs Allan for the Argus regarding the Exhibition. Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 16 February 2009 Last modified 21 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

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Lindy Morrison, well known drummer and musician, joined the Australian Democrats to bring about change. She stood as their candidate in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly elections for Coogee in 2003 and for the House of Representatives seat of Wentworth in 2004. Lindy Morrison is best known for her musical career. She was a member of the 1980s band, the Go-Betweens, and played with Zero (sometimes spelt Xero or Xiro) and Cleopatra Wong. Lindy Morrison grew up in Queensland and her first job was as a social worker in Aboriginal community centres, an experience she said, fundamentally changed her life. Later, after two years in England, she returned home and turned to acting in political theatre at factories in Queensland. Then she moved into punk music and joined the Go-Betweens, touring Australia and the world. When the band broke up in 1990, Lindy Morrison changed her lifestyle and settled in Sydney. She has campaigned strongly for performers’ rights and has been a board member of the Phonographic Performance Company of Australia (PPCA) since 1993. She has worked as musical director or performer in shows, parades and festivals and has lead drum and music workshops with many groups. She is a director of the Music Council of Australia Board and is national co-ordinator for Support Act Ltd, the benevolent society for musicians and workers in the music industry. She campaigned on performers rights under the Free Trade Agreement in 2004-5. She has one daughter. 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 14 December 2005 Last modified 25 February 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

MS Acc10.053 comprises papers that document Kerry White’s career as a bibliographer, writer, judge of the Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA) Children’s Book of the Year Awards and member of the board of the Poetry Australia Foundation. They include correspondence; notes, working papers, drafts, manuscripts and proofs of the second and third volumes of Australian children’s books: a bibliography, Australian children’s fiction: the subject guide (1993) and Brilliant books list (The reading bug); “Bookphile” newsletters; Honours and Ph.D. theses; and CBCA judging papers. Authors represented in the correspondence include Marcie Muir, Ivan Southall, Colin Thiele, Christobel Mattingley and Bob Graham (16 boxes, 2 fol. Boxes).??The Acc10.130 instalment includes papers, largely correspondence, documenting White’s career as a bibliographer and writer, specialising in Australian children’s literature. The correspondence relates to White’s study, the Bibliography of Australian Literature Project (BALP), “Bookphile” newsletter, School magazine and the third edition of Australian children’s books: a bibliography. Correspondents include Marcie Muir, publishers and authors (1 packet).??The Acc10.176 instalment comprises a Christmas card from Penguin Books addressed to Kerry White (1 packet).??The Acc13.038 instalment comprises two sketches by children’s illustrator and photographer, Mark David. Sketches originally formed part of a collection of additional personal papers donated by Dr Kerry White (2 fol. Boxes). Author Details Alannah Croom Created 27 February 2018 Last modified 27 February 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Kerry Reed-Gilbert was an Aboriginal author, editor, educator and activist. A number of books of her poetry were published in her lifetime. She also compiled and contributed to numerous anthologies, and produced non-fiction related to her work as an educator and consultant. Her memoir, The Cherry Picker’s Daughter was published in 2019, shortly after her death. Her friend and fellow Wiradjuri writer, Jeanine Leane described her as ‘the matriarch of First Nations’ Writing in Australia’. Kerry Reed-Gilbert was inscribed on the ACT Women’s Honour Roll in 2019. “Kerry grew up on Wiradjuri country, living in Condobolin NSW, raised within a large extended family by her Mummy and Daddy – Joyce and Ned Hutchings. As she grew up, she came to know the troubled story of her biological parents. Kerry was only three months old when her father, Kevin Gilbert, killed her mother, Goma (nee Scott) in Parkes NSW in 1957. Kerry and her older brother (also called Kevin) were then taken in by their father’s older sister Joyce, and Joyce’s husband Ned. In her writing and in interviews, Kerry always refers to them as Mummy and Daddy. In addition to Kerry and her brother Kevin, Joyce Hutchings cared for her own three children, and three children of other family members. The Cherry Picker’s Daughter describes Kerry’s hard and precarious childhood. While being raised by Joyce in a loving home, Kerry and Kevin were officially wards of the state, and lived in constant fear of the ‘welfare’. The family were subject to covert and overt racism. Public policies and attitudes of the time meant that access to fairly paid work, adequate housing, and educational opportunities were severely limited. Most of their income came from working as itinerant fruit-pickers (for which they were paid significantly less than non-Aboriginal workers), and from Ned Hutchings’s work as a railway fettler, which often kept him away from home. Joyce Hutchings also took on other work like domestic cleaning, cooking, stick-picking and timber-cutting to keep the family afloat. When their home in Condobolin was destroyed by fire, they endured the uncertainty of temporary and makeshift accommodation for some time, until Joyce was able to buy a house in Koorawatha. Although The Cherry Picker’s Daughter is described by the publishers as a childhood memoir, it is also Joyce Hutching’s story, and a tribute to her resilience and dedication to her family. In 1971 when Kerry was 15, her father was released from jail, and he continued pursuing the activism, art and writing that he had taken up while in prison. Kerry frequently acknowledged that despite the difficulties of her childhood, she was luckier than many other Aboriginal children of the time, as Joyce was able to achieve what many others could not, and keep her family together. Kerry said ‘I’ve got all the goodness of this amazing family. I’ve got all the principles of this amazing Aboriginal woman – her strength, her dignity…[and] I got the fire in the belly of my old man’. After leaving school Kerry worked as a fruit-picker and became a mother to two daughters. In the late 1980s she lived in Wagga Wagga and pursued further study. Initially undertaking an Associate Diploma in Adult Education, she later completed a Bachelor of Arts in Adult Education. While studying she also worked in women’s housing, employment services and literacy programs in Wagga. She attended the 1988 Aboriginal protest at the Tent Embassy with her father in Canberra, this event fuelled her involvement in activism and calls for Aboriginal sovereignty through a treaty. In the 1990s she moved to Sydney and commenced working at the Office of Youth Affairs and established Indigenous employment programs with Telstra. She later started her own business Kuracca Consultancy, providing training in Aboriginal culture and history to government and community organisations, and consultancy services supporting research and evaluation related to Indigenous health, education, homelessness and other social issues. While working to advance human rights and social and educational opportunities for Aboriginal people, Kerry also found time for creative output. She practiced art and photography and had started sharing her poetry, supported by her close friend Anita Heiss. In 1993 she performed some of her poems at Writers in the Park at the Harold Park Hotel and in 1996 Black Woman, Black Life, the first collection of her poetry, was published. In 1997 she compiled and edited Message Stick: Contemporary Aboriginal Writing. In 2000 she also compiled and edited The Strength of Us as Women: Black Women Speak, which she described in the preface as an outlet for Aboriginal women to describe ‘their issues, their loves, their hurts’. In an ABC radio interview, she spoke about her hope that Indigenous women’s writing would flourish and not just be confined to autobiography and survival stories but might expand into other genres; asking ‘why can’t we write erotica…or murder mysteries?’. Kerry moved to Canberra in the late 1990s, to be closer to her youngest daughter and grandchild, and brought her eldest daughter and her children to live there too. Canberra also allowed for improved work opportunities. She was a founding member of Us Mob Writing, a Canberra-based group of emerging and established Indigenous writers. In 2012–13 she co-founded the First Nations Australia Writers Network (FNAWN) and became its inaugural chairperson. The last few years of her life were very productive, despite ill health. Publications she was involved with included A pocketful of leadership in the ACT (2016); Too deadly: our voice, our way, our business. Us Mob Writing (2017) and A pocketful of leadership in First Nations Australia Communities (2017). In 2016 the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS) acquired an extensive collection of ‘Aboriginalia’ that Kerry had begun accumulating in the 1970s. The collection includes plates, figurines, badges, ashtrays, prints, and velvet paintings. Responding to criticism that such material demeans Aboriginal people, she said ‘We are masters of our own destiny and we will decide what we see as being culturally right for us. I believe these objects represent who we are as people, from then to now. Each piece represents Aboriginal Australia and we will own them.’ Kerry Reed-Gilbert received a number of awards for her writing and has been acknowledged as a generous mentor and supporter by many other contemporary Indigenous writers. In 2003 she was the recipient of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Arts Board fellowship for poetry and writing, which provided a two-month residency in New York. Her name was inscribed on the ACT Women’s Honour Roll in 2019. Through her writing and public speaking, she advocated against tokenism, for Indigenous people to be paid fairly for their contributions to public cultural activities and events, and for non-Indigenous writers to be more thoughtful in their portrayal of Aboriginal characters in their writing. She also challenged non-Indigenous Australians to engage with and acknowledge the history of colonisation and dispossession, and its ongoing impact on Aboriginal people. She passed away in Canberra in July 2019 surrounded by her daughters, grandchildren, other family and close friends.” Published resources Kerry Reed-Gilbert: her eulogy from my heart (Anita Heiss blog), https://anitaheiss.wordpress.com/2019/07/31/kerry-reed-gilbert-her-eulogy-from-my-heart/ Vale Kuracca: a tribute to Kerry Reed-Gilbert, Jeanine Leane, https://overland.org.au/2019/08/vale-kuracca-a-tribute-to-kerry-reed-gilbert/ Honouring The Words of the Messenger, 2000, https://www.abc.net.au/radio/programs/speakingout/kerry-reed-gilbert/11326982 Desperate Measures: Kevin Gilbert with Kerry Reed-Gilbert, 2014, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIMQ49tmcDo Archival resources Kerry Reed-Gilbert interviewed by Mary Hutchison in the Centenary of Canberra oral history project (2014) AIATSIS collection Author Details Kylie Scroope Created 20 April 2023 Last modified Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

MS Acc05.022 comprises diaries, letters and personal papers, book notes, writings by Hanny Exiner including lecture notes, and publicity material and photographs; papers relating to the Studio of Creative Dance and Modern Ballet Group; files on the Graduate Diploma of Movement and Dance; articles on body therapy, dance forms and techniques, dance composition and improvisations, exercise, kinesiology and dance education, including some dance articles in German; and, material relating to film and video resources (14 cartons). Author Details Alannah Croom Created 27 February 2018 Last modified 27 February 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Folding containing articles and newspaper clippings. Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 11 February 2009 Last modified 12 February 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Elizabeth Backhouse speaks of her life and achievements as a writer of novels, children’s stories, plays, filmscripts, a ballet and a musical. She describes her family background; attempted rape; early writing; mother’s inability to show affection; secretarial studies; writing poetry; enlisting in WAAAF; writing Against Time and Place; ideas for books; having books published; The Iron Horse; Enone and Quentin; reviews; themes; In Our Hands; C.H. Pitman; living in England in 1940s; encouragement to write detective novels; working at Korda Films with Paul Vincent Carroll, Leslie Arliss; working for American film-maker Slessor; European travels; writing thrillers, methodology, characterisation; book covers; nursing ill father; living with her mother after his death; rejected novels; The Fourth Picture; The Thin Line; Mirage, and its adaption to film; working as a co-producer; Freemasonry; writing for radio; Kal; Rosie Fishman; Dickens’ Magic; A History of Masonry; Windmill in the Sky; writing and clarity; unpublished works; aborted film Cry of the Gulls; Sparrows in the Square; The Fishbowl; Tune on a Samisen; The Young Vagabonds; musical composition; sponsoring children; painting; relationships with men; Muriel Wenborne-Haynes; her clothing shops; writing income. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 7 October 2003 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Judy Hogg has had a lifelong concern for the socially disadvantaged leading to her interest in law and political reform, and her involvement in the women’s movement in Victoria where she was a founding Member of the Kew Women’s Liberation Group. She returned to university after having children and was fortunate to graduate from Law School as the Family Law Act came into operation in 1976. As she had written a thesis on this legislation, she was placed in a strong position for entering the work force in that jurisdiction. After working for several law firms, both large and small, and for Legal Aid, Hogg started her own firm in 1985. She invited her friend Janet Reid to join her and they formed Hogg and Reid (which amalgamated as Carew Counsel incorporating Hogg and Reid in 2013). The prime focus was Family Law which was dealt with in a non-sexist manner. Her philosophy was to ensure that the law was available to redress imbalances of power. Hogg has always contributed beyond her professional role, and has served in a voluntary capacity on many committees and boards of management, including those of Fitzroy Legal Service Parents anonymous Twin Care Domestic Violence Committee, Rotary Go to ‘Details’ below to read an essay written by Judy Hogg for the Trailblazing Women and the Law Project. The following additional information was provided by Julie Hogg and is reproduced with permission in its entirety. Judy Hogg, an only child, was born in Melbourne in 1937. Her father, Peter Spier, was a successful Melbourne architect. During her childhood, he served in the Middle East and New Guinea in the Second World War, initially in the Infantry and then in the Engineers. He attained the rank of Major. After the War he was a Director of the Australian War Graves Commission and his work took him to Japan, other areas of the Pacific, and South East Asia. He was frequently absent from home. Her mother was not in paid employment. Judy attended Tintern and Melbourne Girls’ Grammar School (MGGS) (Merton Hall). Both were progressive schools. Ms D.J. Ross, the inspirational head of MGGS was a particular influence. Judy has had a lifelong concern for the socially disadvantaged leading to her interest in law and political reform, and her involvement in the women’s movement in Victoria where she was a founding Member of the Kew Women’s Liberation Group. Judy decided early in life that she wanted to have a career; she did not want to follow in her mother’s example of home duties. However, in the late 1950’s, she found the Law School at the University of Melbourne discouraging of women and did not complete her degree at this stage. She later returned to university after having children. She was fortunate to be graduating from Law School as the Family Law Act came into operation. As she had written a thesis on this legislation, she was placed in a strong position for entering the work force in that jurisdiction. After working for several law firms, both large and small, and for Legal Aid, Judy started her own firm in 1985. She invited her friend Janet Reid to join her and they formed Hogg and Reid (which amalgamated as Carew Counsel incorporating Hogg and Reid in 2013). The prime focus was Family Law which was dealt with in a non-sexist manner. Her philosophy being that the law was available to redress imbalances of power. She has, for example, successfully obtained orders for fathers to be the primary carers of children, and for women to obtain the control of a business. The objective of the firm has always been to resolve matters in a conciliatory manner with a minimum of expense and stress to the parties and to focus on the future needs of the children and their parents. Judy has always regarded it as important that the firm should provide a supportive environment for employees and in particular women returning to work after absence from work due to domestic responsibilities. She has had a number of articled clerks, continues to be a mentor to junior solicitors, and has had numerous work experience students. Many of these who have had such associations have achieved distinction in their careers. Judy has always contributed beyond her professional role. At the suggestion of a publisher friend, she wrote ‘Splitting Up’, a vital hand book for people facing separation and divorce in Australia”, now in its fourth edition. The book was designed to prevent people from making decisions based on incorrect assumptions about the law, to help them through a difficult period, and to put them in touch with resources. As well as the voluntary roles, that she has occupied, listed above, Judy has held the following appointments: Various positions on Committees at the Law Institute of Victoria Founding member of the Family Law and Psychology Association of Australasia Instructor in Family Law at the Leo Cussens Institute for Continuing Legal Education Member of the Social Secretary Appeals Tribunal Member of the Equal Opportunity Board of Victoria Board Member of Relationships Australia Board Member of Women’s Health Victoria Board Member of Peter McCallum Cancer Institute Royal Women’s Hospital Committee Breast Screen Victoria Committees Member of Panel of Expert Lawyers advising Mediators as to the state of Family Law Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Resource Section Law, Kerwin, Hollie and Rubenstein, Kim, 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders/biogs/WLE0624b.htm Site Exhibition Australian Women Lawyers as Active Citizens, Trailblazing Women Lawyers Project Team, 2016, http://www.womenaustralia.info/lawyers Author Details Judy Hogg (with Nikki Henningham) Created 6 October 2015 Last modified 21 November 2019 Digital resources Title: Judy Hogg Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

These Minute Books record minutes of meetings of the Lady Bowen Hospital Committee and entries include election of office bearers and surgeons, rules, funding and expenditure, admissions to the hospital etc. Author Details Lee Butterworth Created 22 June 2009 Last modified 17 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

1 sound cassette (ca. 19 min.)??Murphy, a farmer, speaks of her upbringing on a dairy farm and later married a potato farmer, her family, running a potato farm, breeding first-cross merino ewes, lamb production, working at the Melbourne Show, food festivals, organising different types of dishes with potatoes, potato marketing and potatoes seen as a medicinal remedy. Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 3 March 2010 Last modified 22 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Lu Moo experienced life in Darwin for more than eighty years, living through three major cyclones and a war. More familiarly known as Granny Lum Loy, she was a well-known figure of the Darwin community. Lu Moo was born in Shekki (China) around 1884 and arrived in Darwin when she was approximately 10 years old. She was one of two adopted daughters of a Chinese family who started a grocery and general store in Darwin’s Chinatown. Lu Moo worked at her family’s store for several years, where she came to know many of the local people, including many Aboriginals. In approximately 1901 Lu Moo married Chinese mining engineer Lum Loy. Together they travelled to Wandi, a mining camp near Pine creek, where a large deposit of wolfram had been discovered. Later they moved to Brock’s Creek. In December 1906 she gave birth to a daughter, Lizzie Yook Lin and when her husband died in 1918, they both returned to Darwin. Eventually Lizzie married a prominent Chinese businessman and together they had nine children; many of which were delivered by well-known Chinese midwife Sarah Lee Hang Gong. In order to support herself, Lu Moo rented ten acres of land and single-handedly turned into a mango orchard of approximately 200 trees. Four years before the outbreak of the Second World War she sold the orchard and moved back to Chinatown to help her daughter run a café, while her husband was in Hong Kong for business. Upon her son-in-law’s return she rented another block of land and this time raised chickens and sold their eggs on to a local café. After the bombing of Darwin, Lu Moo was evacuated and moved with her daughter and grandchildren to Katherine. Soon after they moved on to Alice Springs, Adelaide (where they opened a fruit shop) and finally Sydney, where Lizzie eventually passed away. Lu Moo moved back to Darwin after the war. Her grandson Ron built her a house on a block of land given to her by her son-in-law. Here she set about building a garden which, unbeknown to her, would later be destroyed (and subsequently rebuilt) after Cyclone Tracy in 1974. Lu Moo passed away in 1980 at the age of 96 and her funeral was one of the largest seen in the community for many years. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 4 January 2018 Last modified 23 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

2 sound cassettes (ca. 120 min.)??Patricia “Pattie” Leighton, a farmer, speaks of growing up in Sydney, moving to Tasmania, her marriage, their first farm near Hobart, their decision to move to Western Australia, her trip across with the children, early days on the farm, living in the shed, early development of the land, tough financial times, re-entering the workforce as a preschool teacher, returning to the farm, shearing, further development of the farm (incl. their living quarters), the importance of the children working on the farm, their independent upbringing, the Wellstead community, the local Historical and Heritage Committee, reafforestation and land conservation, the continuing challenges of rural life, and the Rural Women of the Year Award. Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 3 March 2010 Last modified 22 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Marion Strang established a home for the elderly at Broken Hill, New South Wales, in the 1930s. Marion Strang (nee Kerr) was born in 1871 in the district of St. Georges, Edinburgh, Scotland and was baptized in that city in St. Georges Church in Charlotte Square. The daughter of Alexander and Ruth Kerr (nee Johnston), Marion married David Strang in July 1897. They had a daughter, Jane. David Strang migrated to the United States in 1910, to settle in Utah, although it appears that Marion did not follow him there. Instead, she migrated from Scotland to Australia in 1925, arriving in Adelaide aboard the Hobson’s Bay on November 1 1925, following her daughter, who had migrated one year earlier. (It appears that Jane had no knowledge of her father’s movements during this period, only discovering that he was still alive after her mother’s death in 1941.) After arriving in Adelaide, Marion moved to Broken Hill where Marion found work at the Broken Hill and District Hospital. She became head nurse in charge of the section of the hospital for elderly persons. In 1932, when that section was closed by the New South Wales government for economic reasons, Marion rented a home in Wolfram Street to house those who had nowhere to go. With barely any money remaining, she raised a loan on her property back home in Scotland in order to furnish the home. Local businessman Frank Griff, together with the Broken Hill Country Women’s Association and many Broken Hill miners, assisted with financial contributions. The Old Folks Home, as it was known, moved to larger premises at Williams Street in 1939. Marion Strang stayed on as night nurse until her death in 1941. Published resources Book Some Outstanding Women of Broken Hill and District, Camilleri, Jenny, 2002 Newspaper Article Wee hoose for auld folk, 1982 Old Folks' Home: New building is nearly ready, 1939 With the Old Folks in the Wee Hoose, 1937 Death of Matron Strang, 1941 Old Folks Now Living in their New Home, 1939 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 Outback Archives, Broken Hill City Library Strang, Marion Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 12 February 2009 Last modified 17 April 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

1 audiocassette (approximately 60 min.)??Lady Nora Randall was one of the first members of the school’s auxilliary and talks about the work involved. Mothers of students Mrs. Gowing and Mrs. Cuppins talk about voluntary work, the Dutch nuns, uniforms, sports, fundraising and families of children who went to the school. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 6 March 2018 Last modified 6 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

This collection is part of No.70 of the Victorian Women’s Liberation and Lesbian Feminist Archive (VWLLFA)??Articles; bibliographies; calendars; conference papers, manifestos, programs, leaflets, legislation, agenda, questionnaires, discussion papers, periodical, minutes, contact lists, stickers, badges; newspaper clippings; AWAR newsletters; monographs; periodicals (vast number of titles; publications; songsheets; correspondence; leaflets; ‘Gays in the News’ monograph, correspondence, maps, leaflets, poetry; Australian gay Archives Newsletters; subject files regarding gays, lesbians, refuges, right wing women’s groups, sexual harassment in the workplace, trade union women’s organisations, women, WEL; records; cassettes. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 6 February 2002 Last modified 29 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Published articles and addresses 1964-1984; newscuttings on art, including articles by or about Ursula Hoff. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 30 December 2017 Last modified 30 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Papers relating to the history and activities of WEL and Women’s Liberation in the outer eastern suburbs; conference papers; reports and material on working mothers, equal pay and taxation. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 6 February 2002 Last modified 29 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

The Australian Army Nursing Service, which was actually a reserve, was established on 1 July 1902. The Service was staffed by volunteer civilian nurses who would be available for duty during times of national emergency. Members of the Service served in both the World Wars, staffing medical facilities in Australia and overseas. In 1949 the Service became part of the Australian Regular Army and is now known as the Royal Australian Army Nursing Corps (RAANC). IMPORTANT – Additional information about how to search for your own relative’s records can be found below. Click on details and scroll to the end. Prior to Australia’s Federation in 1901, each colony controlled its own defence force, of which the nursing services formed a part. In July 1902 the nursing services of each colony joined together to form the Australian Army Nursing Service. The Service which was part of the Australian Army Medical Corps was made up of volunteer trained nurses who were willing to serve in times of a national emergency. At the outbreak of World War I staff were recruited from both the nursing service and the civilian workforce. They served at field and base hospitals in Australia as well as in Egypt, England, France, Belgium, Greece, Salonika, Palestine, Mesopotamia and India. After the war the Australian Army Nursing Service returned to a reserve status. The Australian Army Nursing Service was one of only two women’s services (the other being Voluntary Aid Detachments) that were active at the outbreak of war in 1939. Initially the enlisted nurses were the only females to serve outside Australia. Members served in England, Egypt, Palestine, Libya, Greece, Syria, Ceylon, Malaya, Singapore, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Island as well as throughout Australia. They served on hospital ships, troop transports, base and camp hospitals and some spent time in Prisoner of War camps. After the war members served as part of the British Commonwealth Occupation Force in Japan. In July 1947 members of the Australian Army Nursing Service were transferred to the Interim Army, and in November 1948 the Service was designated a ‘Royal’ one. In July 1949 the Royal Australian Army Nursing Service became part of the Australian Regular Army. In February 1951 the Service became a Corps and is known as the Royal Australian Army Nursing Corps (RAANC). The Pledge of Service was introduced during World War Two. AANS Pledge of Service I pledge myself loyally to serve my King and Country and to maintain the honour and efficiency of the Australian Army Nursing Service. I will do all in my power to alleviate the suffering of the sick and wounded, sparing no effort to bring them comfort of body and peace of mind. I will work in unity and comradeship with my fellow nurses. I will be ready to give assistance to those in need of my help, and will abstain from any action which may bring sorrow and suffering to others. At all times I will endeavour to uphold the highest traditions of Womanhood and of the Profession of which I am Part. HELPFUL INFORMATION TO ASSIST YOUR OWN SEARCHES The following information will assist you to search for Australian women who served in WW1, not women from any other country, and not WW2 servicewomen. If you are looking for a nurse in the Australian Army Nursing Service, go online to the National Archives and find the person’s army file there. If you need help after doing this, then contact this page via the comments – but only after you have gone to the National Archives of Australia for advice. www.naa.gov.au If looking for women who served in WW2, go here to find out if they did, in fact serve: http://www.ww2roll.gov.au/ Then go to this site to find their personnel record http://www.naa.gov.au/collection/explore/defence/service-records/index.aspx There is an article written by Dr Kirsty Harris published in Ancestor: The Journal of the Royal Genealogical Society of Victoria this year that provides some search tips. ‘Researching Australian World War 1 Nurses’ can be found Vol 31, Issue 1 of the 2012 edition of the journal. Published resources Book A brief record of the Australian Army Nursing Service, 1939-1945, [1985?]. Captives: Australian army nurses in Japanese prison camps, Kenny, Catherine, 1962-, 1986 Desert, bamboo and barbed wire: the 1939-45 story of a special detachment of Australian Army nursing sisters, fondly known as the "Angels in Grey" and their fate in war and captivity, Murphy, Frances, 1983 Extracts from regulations and orders; seniority list, Army Nursing Services, Australian Imperial Force, 1917 The grey battalion, Tilton, May, 1933 The Khiva nursery, 1917 Lest we forget: Australian Army Nursing Service, Wellesley-Smith, Annette, 1944 The reflections of an old grey mare: a salute to those who served, Underwood, Polly, 1987 The Royal Australian Army Nursing Corps : an outline of the foundation and development of the Australian Army Nursing Service, 1953? Seniority list (provisional), Australian Army Nursing Service, 1918 Seniority nursing services, Australian Imperial Force, 1915 Standing orders for the Australian Army Nursing Service, 1944 Thursday Island Nurse, Burchill, Elizabeth, 1972 With the AANS: 1939-1945, Eadie, Edith D. K.; Australia Remembers 1945-1995 S.A. Committee, 1995 Australian nurses since Nightingale 1860-1990, Burchill, Elizabeth, 1992 Australian women at war, Adam-Smith, Patsy, 1984 Guns and brooches : Australian Army Nursing from the Boer War to the Gulf War, Bassett, Jan, 1992 Army nursing services: Australian Imperial Force and Australian Military Forces., Australian Imperial Force (1914-1921), 1916 The Australian Army Nursing Service: a short history with World War One nominal roll and award citations, Smith, Neil C, 1996 Australian Imperial Force: order for nursing service, Australian Imperial Force, 2nd (1939-1946), 1914 The Australian Army: A History of its Organisation 1901-2001, Palazzo, Albert, 2001 Colonel Best and her soldiers: The Story of the 33 years of the Women's Royal Australian Army Corps, Ollif, Lorna, 1985 Just wanted to be there : Australian Service Nurses 1899-1999, Reid, Richard, 1999 Nightingales in the mud : the digger sisters of the Great War 1914 - 1918, Barker, Marianne, 1989 White Coolies, Jeffrey, Betty, 1954 A Woman's war : the exceptional life of Wilma Oram Young, AM, Angell, Barbara, 2003 Thesis Jessie Tomlins: an Australian nurse, World War One, Rae, Ruth, 2001, http://setis.library.usyd.edu.au/~thesis/adt-NU/public/adt-NU20020222.160609/ Resource Section Australian Servicewomen's Memorial, Southwell-Keely, Michael, 1999, http://www.skp.com.au/memorials/pages/00018.htm Unsung heroes : Australia's military medical personnel, Australian War Memorial, http://www.awm.gov.au/1918/medical/ Nurses : "The roses of no man's land", Australian War Memorial, http://www.awm.gov.au/1918/medical/nurses.htm Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources Australian War Memorial, Research Centre [Recommendation file for honours and awards, AIF, 1914-18 War] Australian Army Nursing Service 6.10.1918?[Recommendation file for honours and awards, AIF, 1914-18 War] Australian Army Nursing Service 6.10.1918 (Recommendations for the Royal Red Cross) [Recommendation file for honours and awards, AIF, 1914-18 War] Australian Army Nursing Service 11.9.1918 to 24.9.1918 [Recruiting - Arrangements:] Australian Military Forces - Instructions for the Medical Examination of Recruits. A) For Mobilization B) AIF C) For Garrison Battalions D) AANS [Australian Army Nursing Service] 1940 Operation clean up DPR/TV/566 Archbishop Daniel Mannix, Catholic Chaplain General of the Australian Army with three unidentified representatives from the Australian Army Nursing Service (AANS), Women's … Colour patch : Australian Army Nursing Service, AIF Hospital tent of 3rd Australian General Hospital Balcony of troopers' ward, 14th Australian General Hospital, Abbassia A group of Australian Army Nursing Service nurses at the 52nd British General Hospital at Kalamaria Group portrait of Australian Army Nursing Service (AANS) nurses, who were former prisoners of war (POWs), ob board the hospital ship Manunda on its arrival in Australia Holmes, Katie Ms - Thesis "Between the lines: the letters and diaries of First World War Australian Nurses". Army Women's Services Author Details Anne Heywood Created 9 December 2002 Last modified 29 October 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

A set of interviews recorded with surviving members of the Itzak Wittenberg Study Group (IWSG) discussing the history of the organisation; it’s aims, activities,achievements, relationships with other Jewish and non-Jewish groups; siting of the IWSG in both national and international contexts and it’s eventual decline.??Interviewers: June Factor, Susan Faine, Rebecca Grinblat. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 6 March 2018 Last modified 6 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Robyn Peebles ran twice for election, but her life is primarily devoted to church work. She was a Call to Australia party candidate in both elections for the House of Representatives seat of Bennelong in 1990 and the New South Wales Legislative Assembly seat of Gladesville in 1991. Robyn Peebles was the pastor of the Church of the Good Shepherd in West Ryde, a suburb of Sydney. In 2003 she was awarded the Citizen of the Year Award by the Ryde Council for her services in instituting the Mayoral Community Prayer Breakfast, and her other community activities. These included being convenor for the Interchurch taskforce for Children and Youth, her work for the establishment of a West Ryde Chamber of Commerce and her work on the Granny Smith Festival Committee. She later became a director of Kingdom Living Ministries Ltd. 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 14 December 2005 Last modified 14 February 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Ivy Barnes was a foundation member of the women’s branch of the Australian Labor Party in Broken Hill, New South Wales. She was the wife of Edwin John Barnes, who was Mayor of Broken Hill from 1934 to 1937. Ivy Barnes was one of eight children of William Henry Sandy and Edith Alice Sandy (nee Payne). She married Edwin John Barnes on 21 December 1914 in Kadina, South Australia, and moved with him to Broken Hill in 1923. They had five children: Jean, May, Edna, George and Albert. Edwin was elected Mayor of Broken Hill in 1934, and Ivy became involved in raising funds for the sick and needy of the town. She took over the Clothing Fund from former Mayoress Catherine Cleeland, distributing parcels of clothing from a depot at the Protestant Hall in Beryl Street. She was also a foundation member of the women’s branch of the Australian Labor Party in Broken Hill, and served as vice-president. Ivy Barnes suffered a stroke at the age of 47, rendering her unconscious for several days before she passed away. The Town Hall flag was flown at half mast. Edwin was remarried to Ivy’s sister, Dorothy Alice Sandy. He passed away in 1964. Published resources Book Some Outstanding Women of Broken Hill and District, Camilleri, Jenny, 2002 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 Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 16 February 2009 Last modified 16 September 2013 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

3 digital audio tapes (ca. 90 min.) Author Details Alannah Croom Created 6 March 2018 Last modified 6 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Minutes of FNC for 1990s Financial records 1987-1990s. Florence Nightingale Orations. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 6 February 2002 Last modified 30 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Dr the Hon Bernice Pfitzner, medical practitioner and Member of the Legislative Council, talks about growing up in Singapore and her family background, in particular her mother’s determination to have a tertiary education and go into teaching. In 1949 her mother was the first woman to be elected to the Singapore City Council. She discusses the difficulties in having such a busy, famous mother. Pfitzner then talks about coming to Australia during WWII and her early schooling, returning to Singapore after the War, choosing medicine as a career, difficulties with her family over her choice of husband, doing post graduate work in child development at University of London, returning to Australia and her decision to go into Liberal politics. Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 4 March 2009 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Melva MacGillivray was the first woman to drive a T-Model Ford to Broken Hill, New South Wales. Melva Crossing – or Tommy, as she was known – was the fourth of nine children, and grew up to be fiercely independent. The Crossing family left Broken Hill to begin farming near Adelaide, and Melva completed her education at the Methodist Ladies’ College in Wayville. At seventeen, Melva drove a T-Model Ford from Adelaide to Broken Hill, a long and arduous trip given that the road was little more than a track with plenty of creek beds and sandy stretches to be negotiated. In 1927 Melva married medical practitioner Ian Hamilton MacGillivray. They spent eighteen months in Edinburgh, Scotland, where Ian studied surgery, and returned to Broken Hill so as he could resume his medical practice. The marriage ended in 1933 and Melva moved to Adelaide. Melva MacGillivray was an active member of the Red Cross during the Second World War, and gave up much of her time for the Spastic Centre. She performed in musical concerts around Adelaide and, after her move to the Leabrook Resthaven in later life, she ran handcraft workshops and exercise classes. She became known affectionately as Granny Mac. Published resources Book Some Outstanding Women of Broken Hill and District, Camilleri, Jenny, 2002 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 Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 16 February 2009 Last modified 16 February 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Francis Egan was co-proprietor of the Barrier Café at Broken Hill, New South Wales, during the First World War. In 1915 she famously tarred and feathered the president of the Hotel, Club and Restaurant Employees’ Union (the HC & REU) after he threatened the livelihood of herself and her family by refusing to give her union membership. With her brother, Thomas Smith, Francis Egan owned and ran the Barrier Café in Broken Hill during the First World War. After a union dispute, however, the café was forced to close – with other business-owners, Egan had refused to comply with union demands around wages. Suddenly, she was faced with the impossibility of finding employment in the union-dominated city of Broken Hill. She sought membership of the HC & REU but her efforts were frustrated by the president of the union, Evan Marshall, who clearly bore her a grudge. A single mother with four children to support and no income, Egan became desperate. On 16 July 1915 she called Evan Marshall to her home, apparently to discuss union business. With the help of her friend Mrs Westmore, Egan locked Marshall inside and held him at gunpoint while she tarred his back, arms, chest, stomach and face, and covered him with pillow feathers. Marshall was then whipped by the ladies 29 times and, finally, paraded by them around the centre of town. Incredibly, the jury of local townsmen called to hear the case against Egan and Westmore found them not guilty. Furthermore, the Amalgamated Miners’ Association (AMA) was ordered to pay over £2,000 in costs and damages to Mrs Egan for conspiring to deprive her of a way of earning a living. Marshall became an object of ridicule in the town. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Newspaper Article Tyranny of Unionism, Egan, Francis, 1915 Tar and Feathers, 1915 Journal Article White Cards/Black Feathers: The Political Gets Personal - Broken Hill, 1915, Macnamara, E.R., 1999 Book The Industrial History of Broken Hill, Dale, George, 1918 Site Exhibition Unbroken Spirit: Women in Broken Hill, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2009, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/bh/bh-home.html Archival resources Outback Archives, Broken Hill City Library McCulloch, George Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 11 February 2009 Last modified 16 September 2013 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

The Australian Federation of Medical Women (AFMW) is a non-profit, non-government society with member bodies in each state. The Federation was formed in 1927, from existing associations of medical women in Victoria, New South Wales and South Australia, to promote and develop the formal practice of medicine among women. The first medical women’s association was formed in Victoria in 1895. Historically it has worked to remove barriers to women’s participation in the profession. Currently, the Federation sponsors numerous networking and mentoring programs for women doctors. It has branches in all states and the Australian Capital Territory. The Australian Federation of Medical Women is the parent body of medical women’s societies in each of the states of Australia and in the Australian Capital Territory. Representatives from the State bodies are elected to sit on the AFMW Executive. In 930 its membership was 170, reaching 502 by 1969. AFMW is affiliated with the Medical Women’s International Association (MWIA), which formed in 1919 and now is actively involved with the United Nations as a Non-Government Organisation. The aims of AFMW as part of MWIA are as follows: To stimulate, encourage and promote the entry of women into the medical and allied sciences throughout the world and assist its members in optimum utilisation of their medical training. To foster friendship, respect and understanding among medical women throughout the world without regard to race, religion or political views. To afford Medical Women the opportunity to meet at stated times to consider common problems together and gain the co-operation of medical women in matters in international health. Published resources Book A short history of medical women in Australia, Morgan, Elma Sandford, 1970 Newsletter Woman to woman: Newsletter of Australian Federation of Medical Women, 1988 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources Noel Butlin Archives Centre, Australian National University Australian Federation of Medical Women deposit Author Details Jane Carey Created 25 August 2004 Last modified 30 April 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Correspondence including family, personal, professional and academic. Private papers (travel documents, photographs, postcards), articles, lectures and manuscripts. Published articles and addresses – 1964-1984. [NB. Some correspondence is in German]. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 30 December 2017 Last modified 30 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Album containing 43 photographs taken by Stephanie Clark when she attended the State Research Farm at Werribee in 1931. Photographs of the farm, friends, Barwon Heads. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 6 February 2002 Last modified 29 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Comprises Barwick’s publications and conference papers; Barwick’s PhD.; work with the Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies and the Aboriginal History journal; work on major research projects; incoming and outgoing correspondence; reference material, and collected genealogies of Aboriginal Victorian families. Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 26 March 2009 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Fitzhardinge talks about his background as an historian; employment at National Library of Australia in 1934 as a research clerk and his publications on the history of the Church of St John the Baptist at Reid, A.C.T. and on Sir Littleton Groom. He then describes his work during WWII; involvement in the organisation of history courses for diplomatic cadets at Canberra University College and his view of Australian history and its study at the time. Fitzhardinge then discusses his work at ANU; his relationship with students and staff; Hancock’s influence; launch of ADB (Australian Dictionary of Biography) and his involvement with Basser Library. He then describes the societies that he has been connected with and his views on the writing of Australian history since WWII. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 6 March 2018 Last modified 6 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Mary Ann Cannard was one of very few returned WW1 nurses granted a block of land to farm under the Soldier Settlement Scheme. Mary Ann Cannard was born on 18 January 1883 to William Cannard and Theresa (nee McCausland) in Allendale, 27km north of Ballarat, Victoria. Mary moved to Western Australia in 1912 and began three years of training to become a nurse at Fremantle Public Hospital in May 1914. On completion of her nursing training Mary enlisted with the Australian Army Nursing Service (AANS) in 1917. Staff Nurse Cannard served with the AANS in India from 1917 to 1919 and was posted to hospitals in Bombay, including the Victoria War Hospital and Gerard Freeman Thomas Hospital. During her service Staff Nurse Cannard was hospitalised twice, suffering from influenza and malaria. Staff Nurse Cannard embarked at Bombay on 13 April 1919 and was discharged from service on return to Australia. Following her First World War service, Mary returned to nursing at Nurse Gidding’s private hospital in Mildura. In August 1921 Mary was granted a Soldier Settlement block near Donald, Victoria. The small farming block was adjacent to one held by her brother Herbert Cannard, who had served with the 2nd Pioneer Battalion, AIF. Mary continued nursing and together with her brother managed the property. In 1922 the Settlement Board investigated Mary on suspicion of “dummying”. Dummying was the term given to cases where applicants for Soldier Settlement blocks mislead the Settlement Board. It was believed that Mary had applied for a Soldier Settlement block only so that her brother could farm it. This was found not to be the case and Mary was praised for “working at her profession…to earn nearly enough to pay a [labourer] to work the block instead of coming to the [Settlement] Board for help”. Mary surrendered her Soldier Settlement block in February 1927 on account of ill health. Mary married Herber Mallalieu on 8 June 1922 at the Howard Street Methodist Church, North Melbourne. Herber was the eldest son of the Reverend Paul Mallalieu and served with the 23rd Battalion, AIF. Mary and Herber had a daughter, Joy, in 1925. From the 1930s Mary, Herber and Joy lived in Essendon. Herber struggled to secure ongoing employment for many years and all three suffered from bad health. Neither Herber nor Mary’s health problems were recognised as being directly linked to their war service, which prevented them from being granted war pensions. Between 1934 and 1957 Mary made numerous applications to the Edith Cavell Trust Fund to help pay their numerous bills. The Edith Cavell Trust Fund was established in 1915 by the Lady Mayoress, wife of Melbourne’s Lord Mayor Hennessy, to provide monetary assistance to sick and incapacitated returned military nurses. It was named in honour of British nurse, Edith Cavell who was killed by a German firing squad after helping Allied troops escape German-occupied Belgium. Herber died 19 March 1961. Mary Ann Mallalieu (nee Cannard) died 12 November 1962 in Drouin, Victoria, aged 79. Archival resources Public Record Office Victoria, Victorian Archives Centre 892/12 John Gustave Wilkinson Mary Ann Mallalien Mary A Cannard John Kennedy Watchem Witchipool 14 6 781--1-2 National Archives of Australia, National Office, Canberra CANNARD Mary Ann : Service Number - Staff Nurse : Place of Birth - Allendale Vic : Place of Enlistment - Fremantle WA : Next of Kin - (Mother) CANNARD Theresa National Archives of Australia, Melbourne Office Folders of applications for grants, alphabetical series Author Details Jason Smeaton Created 31 October 2017 Last modified 10 January 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

1 sound cassette (ca. 57 min.)??Lyons speaks of her childhood, her family, her mother, her life on the farm, her husband, her real love and interest in cattle, her trip to France to get some Salers, her involvement in the market and the international market where she is on the verge of developing a new kind of Coonamble beef, her familial problems related to the health of her children, problems associated with drought and the support from people living in the cities; the Ross River fever, its effect on farmers and the possibility to be prevented, her role as a carer for people living on the land. Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 3 March 2010 Last modified 21 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Ruby Lindsay is perhaps Australia’s first female graphic designer. During the early twentieth century, Ruby illustrated books and also hand drew posters and black-and-white illustrations for newspapers such as The Bulletin and Punch. Ruby Lindsay was born in Creswick, Victoria, to parents Robert and Jane Elizabeth. At the age of 16 she moved to Melbourne where she attended the National Gallery School. Ruby occasionally drew posters and black and white illustrations for well-known newspapers, and also illustrated books such as William Moore’s Studio Sketches. In 1907 Ruby showcased her work at the Women’s Work Exhibition, held at the Melbourne Exhibition building. After submitting many pieces in competitive categories, Ruby won the First Class Diploma – a certificate which she had also designed. Ruby married Will Dyson in Creswick in 1909 and soon after they travelled to London with Ruby’s brother Norman. Whilst in London, Ruby continued illustrating books and sometimes collaborated on black-and-white illustrations and posters with her husband. In 1911, Will and Ruby had a daughter, Elizabeth (Betty). Sadly, Ruby died of influenza in 1919 at the age of 33. Archival resources John Oxley Library, Manuscripts and Business Records Collection Lindsay Family Papers National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Ruby Lindsay Dyson's Autograph book, 1907 Poems in memory of a wife Ruby Lind (Will Dyson) (2 copies), 1857-1919 Lind, Ruby. Drawings of Rubylind (Mrs Will Dyson), 1887-1919 Author Details Alannah Croom Created 17 August 2024 Last modified 3 January 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Ellen Ryan held licences for hotels in the Northern Territory from 1878, becoming a wealthy and successful business woman in her own right. She had a reputation as one of the Northern Territory’s best hostesses, organising a variety of entertainment for her hotel patrons and local residents. Ellen was one of the 82 Territory women who enrolled to vote after the franchise was granted to South Australian and Territory women in 1894. Ellen Ryan travelled with her parents and two siblings to Western Australia in 1853, moving on to Adelaide in 1856. In 1867 Ellen married Irish immigrant labourer William Ryan and six years later they moved to the Northern Territory, seduced by news of gold discoveries. They arrived in Palmerston on 12 July 1873 and soon travelled on to Yam Creek. Within a few weeks Ellen had leased the first hotel in the area, the Miners’ Arm Hotel, where she quickly developed a sound reputation. In the late 1870s Ellen returned to Palmerston and after a short stint at a local hotel, Ellen moved on to Southport where she took a lease on the Royal Hotel. In 1877 Ellen left her violent husband, taking out a formal protection order in May 1881 wherein she sited cruelty and drunkenness. With the news of a railway to be built between Palmerston and Pine Creek in 1884, Ellen moved her hotel to Port Darwin Camp. By the following year she had made enough money to expand her business. Ellen purchased more land on the goldfields and in Palmerston, and became involved in mining leases near Pine Creek. By 1885 Ellen and Eliza Tuckwell were the only two territory women listed on land tax statistics as earning more than 300 pounds per year. Ellen was a generous woman and donated money to many worthy causes. She even came to the aid of the Red Cross during the First World War, helping to raise fund and supply equipment to the front. In 1888, after a trip to Adelaide where she had consulted various architects, Ellen returned to the Northern Territory with fresh ideas of expanding her business. She began building hotels at Union Reef and on the Palmerston to Pine Creek railway line, and had plans for a grandiose hotel in Palmerston. After selling her Union Reef hotel in c. 1890, she focused her attention on her new hotel in Darwin. The 4000-pound North Australian hotel was opened in Palmerston in 1890. After six years of ownership, Ellen sold the North Australian and concentrated on running the Palmerston Club Hotel, which had been built in 1883 by Edward and Margaret Hopewell. However, in 1901, Ellen came to an agreement with the owners of the North Australian (now known as Hotel Victoria) that they would swap leases, with the pair taking over her lease of the Palmerston Club Hotel. Ellen was practically forced out of her hotels in 1915 when the Gilruth administration took over the wholesale and retail sales of liquor in the northern part of the Territory. Now in her sixties, Ellen moved to Adelaide, where she spent her remaining years in a home she fondly called The Shackle. Ellen passed away in May 1920 and, with no remaining children, her estate was split between her nieces and nephews. Archival resources State Library of South Australia Darwin Author Details Alannah Croom Created 4 January 2018 Last modified 12 February 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

1 sound cassette (ca. 44 min.)??Holt, a farmer, speaks of her childhood, her schooling in Adelaide, her regret of not having done a course in agriculture, the fragility of the land, the Landcare schemes, the growth of Australia’s population in the future, the scarcity of fertile land under concrete construction, problems confined to the land: salinity, soil acidity, blue-green algae in dams and rivers, the division between city and country people, her farming period after she left medical school in Adelaide, running commercial cattle, her involvement in the local fire brigade, the Beef Improvement Association, the Breed-plan, her keeping up with the latest technology in breeding cattle, the history of her family, the future of her son and the farm. Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 3 March 2010 Last modified 22 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

The collection reflects the various aspects of her writing career and includes mss, scripts, paintings, correspondence, files, budget controls, scores and a demonstration recording of songs from the musical “Dicken’s magic”. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 7 October 2003 Last modified 7 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Folder containing articles and notes on her early teaching career. Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 11 February 2009 Last modified 12 February 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

2 sound tape reels (ca. 136 min.)??Hanny Exiner (nee Kolm), a dance educator, discusses her experiences as a student with and dancer for Gertrud Bodenwieser and her Bodenwieser Ballet especially in Vienna. She describes Bodenwieser’s classes, Bodenwieser as a teacher and choreographer, and the Bodenwieser tour to South America in 1938-1939. During the course of the interview Exiner also discusses her own dance career in Australia, especially her activities as an educator and the development of her philosophy of using dance to promote well-being. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 27 February 2018 Last modified 27 February 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

65 letters written by Mrs H.G. Wheeler during World War I together with her card index of soldiers from central Queensland.??Arranged into 3 series. Digital copies available for selected items Author Details Lee Butterworth Created 22 June 2009 Last modified 17 October 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

MS 1174 chiefly comprises correspondence between Vance and Nettie Palmer. There is also correspondence from contemporary literary figures such as Katharine Susannah Prichard, Marjorie Barnard, Frank Dalby Davison, Kate Baker, Guido Baracchi, Louis Esson, C. Hartley Grattan, Kathleen McArthur, Hugh McCrae, Leonard Mann, Bernard O’Dowd and Henry Handel Richardson. In addition, drafts, press cuttings, original manuscripts of other writers, photographs, material from various literary bodies such as the Australian Society of Authors and the Fellowship of Australian Authors (38 boxes, 64 security binders, 2 fol. Boxes).??The Acc10.018 instalment consists of a postcard from “R” addressed to Nettie Palmer, c/o Westminster Bank, London. Date unclear (1 packet). Author Details Alannah Croom Created 11 September 2015 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Iris Clayton recalls details of her childhood in Leeton and her removal to Cootamundra Girls Home; includes an account of her experiences at the AIAS researching her family history. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 28 May 2004 Last modified 6 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Duration: 7 hours, 39 minutes??Interviews conducted as part of a research project on Cootamundra Girls’ Home Author Details Anne Heywood Created 28 May 2004 Last modified 6 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Laverton, Vic. C. 1943. Section Officer Evelyn Ferrier (left) and Section Officer Honor Darling participating in an aircraft recognition exercise at RAAF Station Laverton in conjunction with the Volunteer Air Observers Corps.?Black & white – Film original negative nitrate other Author Details Anne Heywood Created 24 March 2003 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Sue Galley is a once only candidate for election: an Australians Against Further Immigration candidate in the 2003 elections to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Albury. Sue Galley was a retired school teacher living in Panania, a southern suburb of Sydney, when she stood for the seat of Albury on behalf of the AAFI party. She is one of many women who have run for election in a token fashion, to boost the vote of the party to which they were attached. 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 12 December 2005 Last modified 7 February 2006 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

meeting minutes, correspondence with other peace activists and organisations around the world, anti-nuclear information, posters, banners, photographs of peace vigil during the Pine Gap peace camp and other peace actions Author Details Katey Bereny Created 18 December 2009 Last modified 18 December 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Meredith Hinchliffe has been involved with the arts in Canberra since 1977 when she joined the Crafts Council of the ACT as its Executive Secretary and then Director. She went on to work in organisations such as the National Campaign for the Arts, Museums Australia, ArtsACT, and the Donald Horne Institute for Cultural Heritage at UC, and has also worked as a freelance arts consultant and exhibitions curator since 1997. Meredith is a specialist on crafts including ceramics, textiles and furniture, and is an approved valuer under the Commonwealth Government’s Cultural Gifts Program. She has written about the arts for numerous arts journals and regularly contributed reviews of crafts and visual arts exhibitions and books to The Canberra Times from 1978 to 2009. Meredith has been a long-time advocate and lobbyist for the arts, and is a significant patron of and donor to arts organisations, especially the Canberra Museum and Gallery. In 2022 she was made a Member of the Order of Australia in recognition of her significant service to the arts. “Meredith Hinchliffe was born in Warwick, Queensland to Captain Leslie Maxwell (Max) Hinchliffe (1916–2003) and Marjorie Moffat Hinchliffe (1920–1998) née Smyth. She was educated in Australia and America, finally at Canberra Church of England Girls’ Grammar School, and the University of Canberra (then CAE, 1977). Meredith joined the Crafts Council of the ACT in 1977, and worked as its Executive Secretary and Director till 1986. In that time she curated many exhibitions of individual artists and groups across the media of ceramics, wood, textiles, leather, metalwork and, to a lesser extent, glass. She also showed at Craft ACT a number of touring exhibitions – e.g. an exhibition of Molas from the San Blas Islands of Panama. She went on to work at the Australian Bicentennial Authority (ACT and Island Territories), ArtsACT and Business Development in the ACT Government, managing grant programs. She served as the full-time Executive Director of the National Campaign for the Arts Australia Ltd in July 1996, and assisted with the successful campaign for ArtBank to be retained as a government entity. She built up a strong network of media contacts during this time, but lack of funding led to the Campaign being wound up in August 1977. In 2000 Meredith took on a project management position at the Australian Science Teachers Association and was then appointed Executive Officer of Museums Australia, the national professional association for museum workers and museums, in July 2002. She worked as Public Arts Project Officer for ArtsACT and has managed several public art installation projects. From July 2008 to April 2009 she was the inaugural Executive Officer of the Donald Horne Institute for Cultural Heritage at the University of Canberra. From 1997 to 1999 Meredith worked as a freelance arts consultant, a role she has renewed at various times in the years since. Notable examples include curating the Survey exhibition of the Tamworth Fibre Textile Collection in 2010. In 2013, having catalogued the extensive holdings of furniture designed by Frederick Ward for University House at the Australian National University, she curated an exhibition of his exceptional mid-century pieces at the Gallery of Australian Design (Canberra). Most recently, as a Research Associate at the National Museum of Australia Meredith has been involved in working on the Trevor Kennedy Collection recently acquired by the Museum. Meredith is approved to value Australian ceramics, glass, textiles, jewellery, leatherwork, wooden objects and furniture from 1950 for the Australian Government’s Cultural Gifts Program. She has written prolifically about the decorative arts since the late 1970s, including as a regular contributor to The Canberra Times from 1978 to 2009, writing review articles of crafts and visual arts exhibitions and books, and continues to contribute reviews to the Canberra City News. She has written many articles about issues of importance to the arts for a number of journals, including the National Library News, Smarts, Pottery in Australia (now the Journal of Australian Ceramics), Ceramic Art and Perception, Craft Arts International, Textile Fibre Forum, Object, Craft Australia, and the Italian magazine Studio Vetro. Meredith has long lobbied for, and donated to enterprises across the arts spectrum. She was a leading advocate in the movement to establish the Australian National Capital Artists Inc (ANCA) as an independent, not-for-profit, artist-run initiative. It was created in 1989 as a collaboration between the ACT Government and representatives of Canberra’s visual arts community, leasing 35 affordable and professional studio and exhibition spaces to artists. With support from ArtsACT, the ANCA Gallery opened in 1992, presenting a program of art exhibitions and events and supporting critical approaches to contemporary arts practice. Meredith was a founding board member of ANCA in 1992 and a guest curator in 2013. She is a board member of The Childers Group, which was created in 2011 as an independent arts forum in the Canberra region, advocating support for the arts to governments at all levels, and engaging with the private sector, educators, the media and the broader community about the value of the arts. After inheriting a substantial legacy from her father, Meredith decided to make good use of it by donating to the decorative arts collections of public galleries. In addition to regular donations to the National Gallery of Australia and the National Museum of Australia, in 2004 she started giving a significant sum annually to the Canberra Museum and Gallery for purchase of artworks by Canberra region artists, with a focus mostly on decorative arts. In 2019 the Gallery reciprocated by presenting an exhibition of pieces from the Meredith Hinchliffe Fund. She says: ‘Although I’m not wealthy, people like me can still make a difference…. I just believe in giving money to things that are really important, to support artists; I know how tough it is for them.’ Meredith Hinchliffe has also been a long-time volunteer and board member in a number of national and ACT arts bodies since the 1980s, including the National Gallery of Australia, the Friends of the National Museum of Australia, the Friends of the National Library of Australia, and the ACT branch of the Australian Decorative and Fine Arts Society. She was a board member of Ausdance ACT and chaired its board from 2009–12. In the ACT, Meredith’s contributions to the arts were recognised in 2000 with an ACT Women’s Award. In 2011 she received an Australia Day Medal from National Gallery of Australia and in 2022 she was made a Member of the Order of Australia for ‘significant service to the arts through a range of roles and organisations’.” Published resources Fred Ward, Pioneer Australian Designer: His Life and Work in Furniture Design, Amy Jarvis and Meredith Hinchliffe, https://www.theaustralianafund.org.au/events/online-lecture-2-fred-ward-pioneer-australian-designer-his-life-and-work-in-furniture-design- Canberra Museum and Gallery, http://www.cmag.com.au/collection-search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=meredith+hinchliffe+collection Author Details Louise Moran Created 25 April 2023 Last modified Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Ephemera complementing various aspects of the Kerry White children’s book collection published between 1900 and 2000. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 27 February 2018 Last modified 27 February 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

PORTRAIT OF MISS MARGARET IRENE LANG, FOUNDER OF THE RAAF NURSING SERVICE. IN UNIFORM, C.1945. THE SERVICE WAS FORMED IN JULY 1940 AND MISS LANG WAS MATRON-IN-CHIEF UNTIL 1946. (DONOR: M. KINKAID) Author Details Anne Heywood Created 1 October 2003 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Folders of programs and miscellaneous pieces.??Material in the Australian performing arts collection (PROMPT) consists of programs and related items for Australian performing arts organisations, Australian artists performing overseas, professional productions performed in Australia (including those featuring overseas performers) and overseas performances of Australian plays, music, etc. Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 16 February 2009 Last modified 1 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Kitty McEwan was educated at Ormiston Ladies’ College and became a freelance journalist working with Australian Home Beautiful in 1929. Interested in the game of golf, she began writing about women and golf, for the Radiator in 1937 and the Sun News-Pictorial in 1938. She organised fund-raising for patriotic appeals during World War II. In June 1942 McEwan was appointed superintendent in Victoria of the Australian Women’s Land Army, a position she held until March 1946. After the war she returned to journalism, writing for the Sun News-Pictorial from which she retired in 1966. Kitty McEwan served as honorary publicity officer and an executive member of the National Council of Women Victoria and a councillor of the Royal Historical Society of Victoria. She died on 17 August 1969, aged 75 years. Kitty McEwan was a keen sportswoman and was a member of several sporting clubs and associations, including the Barwon Heads Golf Club and the Women’s Amateur Sports Council. She used her role as a journalist to promote women’s sport to a wide audience. Her efforts in this area have seen her commemorated publicly. In 2003 she had a street in the Canberra suburb of Mckellar names after her, and the pre-eminent Victorian sportswoman of the year receives the VicSport Kitty McEwan Sportswoman of the Year award. Events 1929 - 1966 Published resources Resource Section McEwan, Kathleen Agnes Rose, Hardisty, Sue, 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A150244b.htm Journal Article The Australian Women's Land Army : a brief history., McEwan, Kitty., 1967 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 She's Game: Women Making Australian Sporting History, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2007, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/sg/sport-home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Letter, 1967 Oct. 26 [manuscript] Author Details Anne Heywood Created 2 December 2002 Last modified 29 October 2018 Digital resources Title: First birthday party of the Australian Women's Land Army. Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Papers of Women’s Electoral Lobby compiled by Anne Gunter as a member of WEL Victoria. Contains: Submission to Government and inquiries by WEL, 1972-1996; Alive and WEL, Newsletter, 1973 to 2004; the WEL Papers, National Journal of the Women’s Electoral Lobby from 1972- on; WEL Information Kits; Anne Gunter’s folders containing WEL administration and submission documents; 1 folder CEDAW and Australia, that is, Australian responses to the UN Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination Against Women, 1988. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 30 December 2017 Last modified 30 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Letters mention Daisy Bates.??Includes draft reply on verso. Author Details Elle Morrell Created 9 February 2001 Last modified 31 July 2020 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

2 digital audio tapes (ca. 181 min.)??Campbell, Professor of Law, Monash University, speaks of her family background; her father, a solicitor in Tasmania with a varied practice; the selective education girls received during the War years; her artistic inclinations such as drawing and piano; her studies at University of Tasmania; her doctoral work at Duke University from 1956; her decision to teach international law at the University of Tasmania in 1959; how she taught at University of Sydney’s Dept. of Law; her promotion to senior lecturer in 1962 and later first Australian woman to achieve Associate Professor of Law; the writing of her three classic texts produced from 1965 to 1967; her study of legal history with Willard Hurst at the University of Wisconsin in Madison in 1966; how she wrote on U.S. freedom of information legislation here which lead to its introduction into Australia.??Campbell discusses how she became Professor of Law at Monash in 1967; the growth of the new law school and the central importance of building a first class law library; how female staffing of the school grew gradually to its current level of 50%; her involvement on government committees such as the Coombs Royal Commission in 1973 to review the Australian Public Service; the Advisory Council to the Law Reform Commissioner of Victoria in 1983/84; achieving increased funding for legal resources for many institutions with the 1986 Pearce Committee review of the standards of law schools; her work in 1985-1988 on the Constitutional Commission and writing a substantial part of the final report; and her ambition to rewrite Australian legal history. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 4 February 2015 Last modified 21 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

The Adelaide Rape Crisis Centre was formed after the Hindmarsh Women’s Community Centre, a free medical service for women had operated for a short time, and the need for a separate service became apparent with the numbers of women reporting past and present rapes and the lack of services for women and girls. The centre was modelled on the newly formed Sydney Rape Crisis Centre. They had three main purposes to support women after the rape, change attitudes to rape and to teach self defence. They organised the first Reclaim the Night March in Adelaide. The group made a submission to the Mitchell Report on Rape and Other Sexual Offences. It is now titled Yarrow Place.??Comprises: annual reports; notices of meeting; correspondence; financial records; training manuals; conference papers; reports; and journal articles relating to the day to day business and organisation of the Adelaide Rape Crisis Centre. Author Details Kathleen Bambridge Created 18 December 2009 Last modified 24 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

[Red Cross Archives Series Reference: NO3]??These are control records for the correspondence files maintained by the Australian Red Cross Society, National Headquarters between 1962 and 1991. The related correspondence can be found in series (2015.0033) ARC Series Reference NO.33. There are index cards from 1962 to 1984, and computer printouts from 1986 to1991 and 1994. They provide a listing of the correspondence headings and sub-headings used, with a separate list for each year. These records provide clues as to the workings of the file classification system used by the National Office. However a full listing of National Headquarters correspondence file titles was generated by the Red Cross Archives prior to transfer to the University of Melbourne in 2015 and this data, rather than the control records, is recommended as a first point of access to the correspondence series (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 Helen Morgan Created 17 August 2015 Last modified 29 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Townsville, Qld. 1943-09-18. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 24 March 2003 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Interview conducted in Broken Hill as part of the AWAP Broken Hill exhibition. To be lodged with the Outback Archives, Broken Hill City Library. Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 3 March 2009 Last modified 3 March 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Sydney WEL Newsletter Author Details Alannah Croom Created 30 December 2017 Last modified 30 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Series AA 52/1 includes Campbell’s diaries and field notes relating to his archaeological and anthropological fieldwork in South Australia and interstate.??Item number 7 mentions Daisy Bates and Olive Pink. Author Details Elle Morrell Created 1 February 2001 Last modified 23 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Date unknown; ‘On the rights of the Aborigines of Australia’, being ms. Lecture (44 ff) with annotations and alterations, bound in volume. (Call No.: A 1400: Issue microfilm copy at CY 528)?1829-1865; Correspondence of the Camfield and Windeyer families (Call No.: *D 30: Issue microfilm copy at CY 494)?1827-1928; Windeyer family papers includes correspondence; ‘Hermes’, 1890; University of Sydney examination paper, 1855; W. C. Windeyor’s address to the electors of University of Sydney, 1876; newscuttings and letters concerning Lady Windeyer and Margaret Windeyer; National Council of Women of NSW. Constitution and Report of Inaugural Meeting, 1896 (Call No.: *D 159: Issue microfilm copy at CY 2559) Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 24 August 2006 Last modified 24 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)