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Recorded on 18 March 1982. Author Details Helen Morgan Created 7 August 2019 Last modified 7 August 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Sydney, NSW. November 1941. Group portrait of members of the first VAD (Voluntary Aid Detachment) contingent to travel overseas. The women are assembled on the boat deck of the Queen Mary, the troopship which carried them over to the Middle East. Two lifeboats are at rear on the edge of the deck. Known to be in this group are: Edna Bland, Joan Bryce, Yvonne Levy (Victorian Camp Commandant), Marjorie Brown (South Australian Camp Commandant), Marjorie Davis, Bertha Meggs, Lesley Long, Rae Batt, Molly Johns, Molly Oliver, Beryl Follows, Nan Liston, Ann Scots Girving, Elsie Paton, Gladys Battye, Molly Hales, Sheila Lennox-Biggar, NX76505 Alice Burns, Alwyn Smith, Edna Helliwell, Marie Robinson, Joan Petts, Joan Whittington, Dr Piper, Joan Shelaugh, Amber Bushell. (Donor A. Penman) Author Details Anne Heywood Created 3 April 2003 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

The JD Somerville Oral History Collection was established in 1987 as the central repository for unpublished oral history tapes and transcripts in South Australia. The collection is intended to provide an oral record of all aspects of the South Australian experience and particularly of those who are poorly represented in documentary records, such as low income earners, people of non-English speaking background, women, and country people. The collection also provides a representative sample of the various uses of oral history, such as academic, commissioned, local history, community arts, school and family history.??The foundation collection was a Jubilee 150 project ‘S.A. Speaks’ consisting of interviews with 45 men and women who were broadly representative of South Australia in the first decades of the twentieth century. Since 1987 the community has responded with enthusiasm to the Somerville Collection and the Library receives more than 300 hours of recordings each year from practitioners including genealogists, local history groups, post-graduate students and professional historians. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 6 May 2004 Last modified 27 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

The Honourable Dame Roma Mitchell was appointed Commander of the Royal Victorian Order on 1 January 2000. During her life Dame Roma achieved a number of firsts. She was the first woman Governor of an Australian State (South Australia, 1991-1996), the first woman Chancellor of a university in Australia (University of Adelaide, 1983-1990) and the first Australian woman Queen’s Counsel (1962). Dame Roma Mitchell’s father (Harold Mitchell) was killed in World War I. At the time her mother (Maude, née Wickham) had two children under the age of 10. Like many women of her time she had not been trained in any profession and she struggled to bring up her daughters. Dame Roma was educated at St Aloysius College, Adelaide. She won the David Murray scholarship which enabled her to study law at the University of Adelaide, receiving her degree in 1934. Dame Roma supported the issues of equal pay for women and for women to sit on juries (legislated in 1966). She was recommended by Don Dunstan (Attorney-General SA) to be appointed a Supreme Court Judge of South Australia in 1965, the first woman to be so appointed. Dame Roma was still the only women judge of the Supreme Court in Australia when she retired after 18 years in the position in 1983, aged 70. Dame Roma became the first woman Chancellor (1983-1990) in an Australian university when she was appointed to the position at the University of Adelaide. In all Dame Roma was associated with the university for over 60 years; first as a student and then a part-time lecturer in Matrimonial and Family Law for five years during the 1960s. In 1965 she became a member of the University Council. She was Senior Deputy Chancellor for 11 years from 1972. Dame Roma was awarded the degree of Doctor of the University for her distinguished service to the University in 1985. In January 1991 Dame Roma took up her appointment as Governor of South Australia (1991-1996). As well as being a member of the Queen Adelaide Club and Lyceum Club, Dame Roma was a member of the Council for the Order of Australia. Her interests included theatre, music and the visual arts and she was Vice-President of the Australian Decorative and Fine Arts Society (De Vries). In her chapter on Roma Flinders Mitchell in Great Australian Women, author Susanna De Vries wrote: ‘In June 1999, [the then] Hon. Governor-General Sir William Deane unveiled a life-size bronze statue of Dame Roma “as a permanent tribute to her lifetime achievement in South Australia”. The statue stands in Prince Henry Gardens, in front of Government House on North Terrace.’ Events 2001 - 2001 Inducted into the Victorian Honour Roll of Women 1991 - 1991 Appointed Companion of the Order of Australia (AC) 1971 - 1971 Appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) for her services to Law 1991 - 1996 Governor of South Australia (first woman Governor in Australia) 1983 - 1990 Chancellor of the University of Adelaide 1965 - 1983 First woman to be appointed a Judge of the Supreme Court of South Australia 1962 - 1962 First Australian woman appointed to the Queen’s Counsel 1934 - 1934 Admitted to the Bar 1996 - 2000 Chair of the Ministerial Board on Ageing (South Australia) 1991 - 1991 National President of the Australian Association of the Ryder-Cheshire Foundations 1981 - 1990 Member of the Council for the Order of Australia 1981 - 1986 Chairman of the Commonwealth Human Rights Commission 1991 - 1991 President of the Winston Churchill Memerial Trust 1979 - 1981 Chairman of the South Australian Parole Board 1994 - 1994 Awarded the Institution of Engineers Medal 1982 - 1982 Created Dames Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) for her service to the community Published resources Edited Book Who's Who of Australian Women, Lofthouse, Andrea, 1982 S.A.'s greats: the men and women of the North Terrace plaques, Healey, John, 2001 Resource Victorian Women's Roll of Honour: Women Shaping the Nation, 2001, https://herplacemuseum.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/2001-Honour-Roll-Booklet.pdf Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Book Dame Roma: glimpses of a glorious life, Magarey, Susan, 2002 State funeral, funeral Mass for the Honourable Dame Roma Mitchell AC DBE CVO, 1912-2000, St Francis Xavier Cathedral, Adelaide, Friday 10 March, 2000, 2000 The matriarchs: twelve Australian women talk about their lives to Susan Mitchell., Mitchell, Susan, 1987 Living in South Australia : a social history, Elizabeth Kwan, 1987 Greater than their knowing: a glimpse of South Australian women 1836-1986, National Council of Women of South Australia, 1986 The Complete Book of Great Australian Women: Thirty-six women who changed the course of Australia, De Vries, Susanna, 2003 Sound recording Conversation with Her Honour Justice Roma Mitchell [sound recording] / interviewer, Hazel de Berg., Mitchell, Roma, Dame, 1978 Report Women's liberation and the law, Mitchell, Roma, 1971 Mitchell Oration 1989 : "Looking back...looking forward"., Mitchell, Roma, 1989 The web of criminal law, Mitchell, Roma, 1975 The External Affairs power in relation to United Nations Conventions, its effect upon the balance of power between Commonwealth and States, Mitchell, Roma, 1995 Resource Section DAME ROMA MITCHELL, 2002, http://www.abc.net.au/btn/australians/rmitchell.htm Law, Kerwin, Hollie and Rubenstein, Kim, 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders/biogs/WLE0624b.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 The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia, Smart, Judith and Swain, Shurlee (eds.), 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders Australian Women Lawyers as Active Citizens, Trailblazing Women Lawyers Project Team, 2016, http://www.womenaustralia.info/lawyers Review The Life of a Distaff Legal Pioneer, Dixon, Marion, 2002, http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/journals/UWALawRw/2002/6.pdf Archival resources State Library of South Australia Dame Roma Mitchell : SUMMARY RECORD Interview with Dame Roma Mitchell [sound recording] Interviewer: Yvonne Abbott Launch of the second stage of The Honoured Women Oral History Project [sound recording] Launch of the Barbara Hanrahan Memorial Exhibition [sound recording] History of Medicine Library The right to live and the right to die - Dame Roma Mitchell. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 24 April 2002 Last modified 12 September 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

2 hours 55 minutes??Mary Helen Newport was interviewed as one of the Honoured Women Oral History Project. She was born and did her primary and secondary education in Adelaide. Mary won scholarships to St. Aloysius College and Chartres Business College. She had the ability to go to university but the economic pressure (because her mother had died after a long battle with cancer when Mary was 12 years old) to work as great. When Mary Newport was old enough, she joined the Commonwealth Public Service, first in the Taxation Office in Adelaide and then in Canberra. During her Long Service Leave in 1959, Mary worked at Australia House in London and the Australian Embassy in London. She describes in detail the adventure of taking a friend’s letter to his parents in Czechoslakvia when it was behind the Iron Curtain. On her return to Australia, Mary Newport was invited to work with the Press Secretary of the Prime Minister, Sir Robert Menzies. Although, Mary was writing many of the Prime Minister’s statements, her salary was so minimal that the Government had to pay a subsidy to the boarding house where most public servants lived. When Sir Robert Menzies retired, the press team of Tony Eggleton and Mary Newport continued in the Prime Minister’s Department, first for Harold Holt, then Sir John McEwan, John Gorton and Sir William McMahon. She describes in great detail her work, the achievements and personalities of these Prime Ministers as well the working conditions for journalists and the social life in Canberra at that time. During this time Mary Newport completed a degree by part-time study at the Australian National University. She noted that the importunate demands of her work affected personal relationships. When the Australian Labor Party came into Government in 1975, Mary Newport returned to work in various Commonwealth Departments and assisted with various Commissions of Inquiries. From these investigations, Mary learnt a great deal about working conditions of public servants and the criminal activities within the Painters and Dockers Union. In 1988, Mary Newport resigned from the Commonwealth Public Service to become the first national media officer for the Australian Catholic Bishops’ Conference. Religion as well as interesting work was important for Mary Newport. Again she describes in detail her work, the reluctance of many bishops to become involved with the media and the challenges of being a pioneer, a mark of her working life. For example, she convinced the ABC to televise the Pope’s Midnight Mass at Christmas. She worked there until 1995. Throughout her interview Mary Newport acknowledges the difficulty of being a woman in what was effectively a man’s world of work. Mary Newport was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia and is a Dame of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem. She acknowledged that there was some prejudice against Catholics in her workplaces. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 4 May 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

[Red Cross Archives series reference: V02]??Comprises internally produced publications circulated to members to keep them informed of current activities, services, requirements, important news and service recognition. Titles include: Victorian Bulletin (1941-1947, incomplete series); News notes (published monthly from 1955-1986); Cross Talk (1981-2004); Cross Over (1987); Red Cross News (1982-1993).??Researchers should note that under the Geneva Conventions Act 1957 protections govern the use of the Red Cross emblem. For further information see Archives staff. Author Details Stella Marr Created 9 August 2017 Last modified 30 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Kim Appleby is a successful local councillor, having been elected, to the Auburn Council from 1999 to 2003. She was however unsuccessful in her one attempt to enter State parliament. She was an Independent in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly, Auburn by-election of 2001. Kim Appleby was born in Auburn and educated at secondary level at St John’s High School, later part of Trinity Catholic College. She was a councillor on Auburn Council at the time of her campaign for the state seat of Auburn, having been elected in 1999. She ran chiefly to indicate to the government that the area had been neglected. She was concerned about rising crime rates and the condition of Auburn Hospital. Kim Appleby was active in many community groups in the area including the Auburn Community Drug Action Team. She was also the prime mover in the establishment of a Heritage Working party for Auburn Council In 2005 she was involved in tertiary study, completing a Diploma of Business Management. 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 8 December 2005 Last modified 16 September 2013 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Jillian Skinner, a Liberal Party member, has been a well known and active Member of Parliament for more than twenty years.. However in her first two attempts to enter parliament via the New South Wales Legislative Assembly seat of North Shore (1984 and 1988) were unsuccessful. Jillian’s luck finally changed in 1994 when she won the seat at the by-election. She was re-elected to the seat in 1995, 1999, 2003, 2007, 2011 and 2015. Throughout this time Jillian has held the following appointments: Shadow Minister for Youth Affairs, 1995-1999, 2002-2003. Shadow Minister for Health, 1995-2003, September 2005 to date. Shadow Minister for Education and Training 2003-2005. Shadow Minister for the Arts 2003-2008. Shadow Minister for School Education April-September 2005. Minister for Medical Research 2011-2015. Minister for Health, 2011- Jillian Skinner was born in Melbourne in 1944, the daughter of Robert and Lois Coutts. She served her cadetship in journalism on the Melbourne Herald. She worked as a journalist for News Limited and Radio Hong Kong from 1962-1973, returning to live in Sydney in 1979. From 1984 to 1988 she ran Jillian Skinner and Associates, doing editorial writing, research, policy development and strategic planning. She is married to Christopher Skinner, and they have three children. When her children were small, she became active in P. & C. affairs in North Sydney and was a founding member of the North Sydney Occasional Childcare. From 1988 to 1994 she was Director of the New South Wales Office of Youth Affairs. She has held office in the Liberal Party at all levels, local, electorate and State. Elected to the Legislative Assembly at a by-election in 1994, following the resignation of Phillip Smiles, she was appointed to the Shadow Ministry the following year, after the defeat of the Fahey government. In 2005 she held first, the shadow ministry of Education and then Health. 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 20 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

The collection includes papers relating to Taperell’s candidacy for the NSW state government seat of Nepean, 1973; articles, reports and speeches on women’s affairs, 1974-1986; and papers created and accumulated by Taperell in her positions as Director of the Office of the Status of Women (formerly the Office of Women’s Affairs), 1978-1984, Assistant Secretary of the Department of Foreign Affairs, 1984-1985 and in affiliated activities. Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 1 May 2009 Last modified 5 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

The records include an article, cards, circulars, constitution, films and videos, history of AWAS, letters, lists, memorabilia, minutes, newsletters, newspaper cuttings, photographs, reports, song, speech, statement of accounts, telegrams re cessation of hostilities. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 3 September 2003 Last modified 7 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Liberation through Education – With History of the Victorian Women Graduates’ Association, by Lesley Alves. Thesis submitted as part of the Final Honours Examination in the Department of History, La Trobe University. 21 October 1985. Mrs Ann Thornton’s personal copy. Author Details Clare Land Created 8 December 2001 Last modified 30 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Amy Rivett was a medical practitioner who specialised in gynaecology. She was a disciple of Marie Stopes and advocated birth control. During WWI she worked in several hospitals in Brisbane. After the war she moved into private practice, first on her own and then, from 1946, with her brother Edward in Sydney. She was a founding member of the Queensland Medical Women’s Society. Amy Rivett was educated at the University of Sydney (MB 1915; ChM 1918). Over the course of her career she worked as Superintendent, Hospital for Sick Children (Brisbane) 1915-17; resident medical officer, Brisbane General Hospital 1917; resident medical officer, Lady Bowen Hospital 1918; and in private practice, Wickham Terrace 1919-ca 1946. She studied in London and Vienna in 1936, and moved into private practice with her brother Edward in Sydney from 1946. As municipal medical officer in Brisbane she was in charge of the health of licensed prostitutes. She specialised in gynaecology and experimented in mental telepathy and extra-sensory perception. Published resources Resource Section Rivett, Amy Christine (1891-1962), Rutledge, Martha, 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A110409b.htm Resource Where are the Women in Australian science?, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, 2003, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/wisa/wisa.html Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Elle Morrell Created 9 February 2001 Last modified 29 October 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

1948-1949; Diaries (3): 8 Apr.-1 Aug. 1948, 2 Aug.-26 Nov. 1948, and 27 Nov. 1948-15 Feb. 1949, concerning study trip of American and British libraries (Locn No.: ML MSS 3147, ADD ON 2070/1)?5 Sep.-15 Dec. 1961; Diary mainly concerning trip to IFLA International Conference on Cataloguing Principles, Paris, 9-18 Oct. 1961 (Locn No.: ML MSS 3147, ADD ON 2070/1)?1963-1994; Pocket appointments’ diaries, being one for each year, except two for 1989, and excluding 1983 (Locn No.: ML MSS 3147, ADD ON 2070/1)?1983-1988; A4 and quarto appointments’ diaries (Locn No.: ML MSS 3147, ADD ON 2070/2)??ca. 1913, 1933-1989; Correspondence, with enclosures including Future Projection for Women at Work, being her paper at the Victorian Employers’ Federation Women at Work Conference, Melbourne, 21 July 1969, and copy of Public Administration, vol. 5 no. 8, Dec. 1945, featuring her article, ‘ Employment of Women in the Civil Service’. Correspondents include Australian Congress for International Co-operation and Disarmament, Australian Federation of Business and Professional Women’s Clubs. Division of New South Wales, Australian Freedom from Hunger Campaign. New South Wales Committee, Ruby W. Board, Business and Professional Women’s Club of Sydney, R. F. Doust, Mary Fairfax, Sir Vincent Fairfax, Eileen Furley, Irene Greenwood, Harold Casterton (Harry) Harper, Noel L. Lamidey, Andrea Lofthouse, Norman Mackenzie, National Council of Women of New South Wales, Ted Noffs, Fanny Reading, Bessie Mabel Rischbieth, Jessie Street, Nancy Bird Walton and Margaret Woodhouse (Locn No.: ML MSS 3147, ADD ON 2070/3)?1934-1990; ‘Letters of Library Interest and Documents’, being correspondence, with enclosures including her paper, Cataloguing and Classification of Special and Private Collections, delivered at the Library Association of Australia Conference, Melbourne, 27 Aug. 1975. Correspondents include Henry and Leo Berkelouw, Business and Professional Women’s Club of Sydney, Carnegie Corporation of New York, Jim Cleary, Gerald Fischer, Harold Casterton (Harry) Harper, Eleanor M. Hinder, W. H. Ifould, Phyllis Mander-Jones, John Andrew Osborn, Barrett Reid, G. D. Richardson and the State Library of New South Wales (Locn No.: ML MSS 3147, ADD ON 2070/3)?1948-1949; Letters received from her mother, Jane Arnot, Alison McPherson and a nephew. See also letters from Jean Arnot to family and friends, 1948-1949, 1961, at ML MSS 3147, ADD ON 2070/15 (Locn No.: ML MSS 3147, ADD ON 2070/3)?1959-1992; Postcards received and drafts not sent (Locn No.: ML MSS 3147, AAD ON 2070/3)?1961-1975; ‘Vice Regal & Official Christmas Cards’ (Locn No.: ML MSS 3147, ADD ON 2070/3)?1964-1965; Correspondence concerning her nomination for MBE and congratulatory letters received (Locn No.: ML MSS 3147, ADD ON 2070/3)?1965-1991; References and testimonials for others (Locn No.: ML MSS 3147, ADD ON 2070/3)??1916-1969; Papers concerning her secondary education and employment with the Public Library of New South Wales (Locn No.: ML MSS 3147, ADD ON 2070/4)?1933-1994; Papers mainly concerning friends, colleagues and interests, including letters received, newscuttings and obituaries. Correspondents and/or subjects include James Allison, Zoe Emma Bertles, Freda Milicent Bryant, Flo Cluff, Alison Crook, Sir Vincent Fairfax, Film Australia, L. F. Fitzhardinge, Muriel A. Heagney, Theodora Hobbs, Millie Hoy, Marie V. Hurley, W. H. Ifould, Jessie Street Women’s Library, Beatrice Anne Stewart Instone, Bee Miles, Museum of Australian Childhood, Molly Newman, Wilma Radford, Barrett Reid, Edith Alice Sims, Jocelynne A. Scutt, H. L. White and Margaret Woodhouse (Locn No.: ML MSS 3147, ADD ON 2070/4)?1948-1949; Papers concerning overseas study trip. Includes correspondence with the British Council and the Carnegie Corporation of New York; professional itinerary and copies of her report, Visit to Libraries in Britain and America 1948-9; theatre programs; and menus from the ship, RMS Queen Elizabeth (Locn No.: ML MSS 3147, ADD ON 2070/4)?1959-1961; Papers mainly concerning the International Federation of Library Associations’ International Conference on Cataloguing Principles, Paris, 9-18 Oct. 1961 (Locn No.: ML MSS 3147, ADD ON 2070/4)?1961-1962; Papers concerning ‘Committee on Cataloguing Paris Conference – LAA File’ (Locn No.: ML MSS 3147, ADD ON 2070/4)?1961-1967; Papers concerning Cataloguing Code Revision, including Australian working papers on 1961 IFLA Conference agenda items (Locn No.: ML MSS 3147, ADD ON 2070/4)?1962, 1972-1995; Papers concerning the Nita B. Kibble Literary Award and the Nita May Dobbie Award (Locn No.: ML MSS 3147, ADD ON 2070/4)?1962-1965, 1981-1993; Papers concerning her entries submitted to the Australian Dictionary of Biography, being the Reverend John McGarvie (1795-1853), W. H. Ifould (1877-1969), Nita Bernice Kibble (1879-1962) and Margaret MacPherson (1875-1956) (Locn No.: ML MSS 3147, ADD ON 2070/5)?1968; Papers concerning her retirement from the Public Library of New South Wales on 19 Apr. 1968, including testimonial under seal issued by the Library Trustees; letter received from G. D. Richardson, Principal Librarian, 26 Apr. 1968; farewell cards, invitations and tributes from outside the Library; letter received from Mollie Thomson, co-host of the afternoon tea party held in Jean Arnot’s honour; and papers concerning universal party organised by Wilma Radford at the University of NSW, 27 Apr. 1968, with letters of appreciation received (Locn No.: ML MSS 3147, ADD ON 2070/5)?1968-1971; Papers concerning her indexing the reprint volumes of The Sydney Gazette 1810-1811 for the Library of NSW, including correspondence with Frank Dunn, Dixson Librarian (Locn No.: ML MSS 3147, ADD ON 2070/5)?1968-1992; Papers mainly concerning her oral history interview by Anne Robertson for the State Library of New South Wales’ sesquicentenary and the Library’s acquisition of her papers. Includes her notebook compiled for the interview with details of her career and campaign for equal pay. (Locn No.: ML MSS 3147, ADD ON 2070/5)?1969-1991; Papers concerning her cataloguing of the Library of Camden Park, Menangle, N.S.W., including correspondence with the owners, Quentin and Antonia Macarthur Stanham, 1969-1971 (Locn No.: ML MSS 3147, ADD ON 2070/5)?1980-1992; Papers mainly concerning the State Library of New South Wales and its Library Society and the Australian Library and Information Association, including correspondence, newscuttings and invitations (Locn No.: ML MSS 3147, ADD ON 2070/5)?1987; Papers concerning the Library Association of Australia’s 50th anniversary celebrations, Canberra, 2-4 Sep. 1987, including her talk on her first visit to Canberra for the launching of the Australian Institute of Librarians, 1937 (Locn No.: ML MSS 3147, ADD ON 2070/5)?1993-1995; Papers concerning luncheons in honour of her 90th birthday, celebrated chiefly at Parliament House, Sydney, 19 Apr. 1993. Includes presentation album with letters received from, among others, Alison Crook, State Librarian; Jean M. Elliston, President, National Council of Women of N.S.W. Inc.; Premier John Fahey; Warren Horton, Director-General, National Library of Australia; Prime Minister Paul Keating; Kaye Loder, Convenor, National Women’s Consultative Committee; Di Manning, President, Australian Federation of Business and Professional Women; and G. D. Richardson; with a copy of Congratulations Miss Arnot (State Library of NSW Press, 1993), being augmented reprint of her 1946 ABC broadcast, Should Both Sexes Receive Equal Pay for Equal Work ? (Locn No.: ML MSS 3147, ADD ON 2070/6)?1994; Papers concerning Jocelynne A. Scutt’s book, Taking a Stand – Women in Politics and Society (Artemus Publishing Pty Ltd, 1994), including letters received from Jocelynne A. Scutt, 15 May 1994, concerning her essay on Jean Arnot in the book (Locn No.: ML MSS 3147, ADD ON 2070/6)??1950-1951, 1964-1965, 1979; Certificates concerning her appointment to MBE, 1965; her election to Fellow of the Library Association of Australia, 1964; her Honorary Membership of the Royal Australian Historical Society, 1979; and copy of her report, Library Facilities in New South Wales Government Institutions, 1950, with note, 1951 (Locn No.: ML MSS 3147, ADD ON 2070/7X)??1976-1994; File concerning British Empire Association, including circular letters received and printed material (Locn No.: ML MSS 3147, ADD ON 2070/8)?1948-1989; Files (2) concerning the Business and Professional Women’s Club of Sydney, including correspondence, membership lists, constitution and by-laws, material concerning the 40th anniversary of the Club, 1979; and the Club’s study tour of Papua-New Guinea, 15-29 July 1968 (Locn No.: ML MSS 3147, ADD ON 2070/8)?1985-1995; File concerning the Australian Federation of Business and Professional Women Inc. Division of New South Wales, including correspondence, news bulletins, and constitution and by-laws (Locn No.: ML MSS 3147, ADD ON 2070/8)?1982-1995; File concerning the Australian Federation of Business and Professional Women Inc., including correspondence and copies of Federation News (Locn No.: ML MSS 3147, ADD ON 2070/9)?1933-1937; File of Kooroora Literary and Debating Society magazine, being five volumes: 1932-33, 1933-34, 1934-35, 1935-36, 1936-37 (Locn No.: ML MSS 3147, ADD ON 2070/9)?1980-1994; File concerning the National Council of Women Inc., including correspondence, circular letters received, material concerning Margaret Windeyer and report of the Womanhood Suffrage League of New South Wales, 1892 (Locn No.: ML MSS 3147, ADD ON 2070/9)?1990-1995; File concerning National Council of Women of New South Wales Inc., being printed material (Locn No.: ML MSS 3147, ADD ON 2070/10)?1978-1995; File concerning Pan-Pacific and Southeast Asia Women’s Association, including circular letters received, reports and proceedings of the Association’s 9th (Canberra, 1961), 13th (Seoul, 1975) and 15th (Saratoga Springs and New York, 1981) international conferences (Locn No.: ML MSS 3147, ADD ON 2070/10)?1955-1985; File concerning the Royal Australian Historical Society, including letters received from John Bennett, 1985, and D. I. McDonald, 1983; talks; copy of obituary of Harold Casterton (Harry) Harper by Hazel King; and printed material (Locn No.: ML MSS 3147, ADD ON 2070/10)?1967-1995; File concerning the Royal Australian Historical Society and its Library and Library Committee, including correspondence, newscuttings and printed material (Locn No.: ML MSS 3147, ADD ON 2070/10)?1960-1965; File concerning the Women’s club, including correspondence, circular letters received and annual reports (Locn No.: ML MSS 3147, ADD ON 2070/11)??ca. 1937-1991; Literary papers, being mainly notes and drafts of talks and speeches, with related correspondence and newscuttings. Topics and themes: Travel, ca. 1949-1972, date unknown; National Council of Women, 1963-1966, date unknown; Public Service, ca. 1942-1945; Internationalism, 1966-1967; Old Sydney, 1979-1991; Bibliotherapy – Libraries, ca. 1937-1971, including New Anglo-American Code for Australian Libraries, 1967; Dedications in Books, 1946, 1988, date unknown; Local History, 1970-1978 (Locn No.: ML MSS 3147, ADD ON 2070/12)?1937-1990; Literary papers continued. Topics and themes: Status of Women in the Christian Church, 1968-1980; Women in Australia – Norman Mackenzie – Status of Women etc., 1945-1975, 1990; Australia Day & Victoria League Coronation day, 1957-1984; ‘Articles, etc. & Speeches … Not Library’, 1937-1975, 1989, including ‘Equal Pay for Equal Work’, 1937, Conference on Unemployment, 1961, Ruby Board, with prisoners’ Christmas cards, 1949, and pamphlet on the opening of Berrima Training Centre, 1949; Reminiscences of a Cataloguer, 1981; The Australian Subscription Library and the Royal Australian Historical Society Library, 197–1982, date unknown; Early Australian Newspapers, Sydney Gazette, Hobart Town Gazette, 1989, date unknown; ‘Speeches Miscellaneous’ concerning, among other topics, Christmas, retirement, missionary work, the Big Sister Movement, Sydney Harbour, Captain Cook Bi-Centenary, BPW Club of Sydney study tour of Papua-New Guinea, 1968, and Soroptismy (Locn No.: ML MSS 3147, ADD ON 2070/13)??1926-1989, date unknown; Newscuttings concerning librarians and libraries, including obituary of Edith Alice Sims (Locn No.: ML MSS 3147, ADD ON 2070/14)?1934-1994; Newscuttings mainly concerning Jean Arnot, being four folders: no. 1, 1934-1953, with letter received from Lorelei booker; no. 2, 1953-1961; no. 3, 1961-1967; no. 4, 1968-1994 (Locn No.: ML MSS 3147, ADD ON 2070/14)?1952-1995; Newscuttings on a range of topics, with letters received from Irina Dunn, 1990; Irene Greenwood, 1978, 1990; W. Boyd Rayward, 1992; and the Australian Stockman’s Hall of Fame and Outback Heritage Centre, Longreach, Qld, 1990-1991 (Locn No.: ML MSS 3147, ADD ON 2070/14)?1968-1994; Newscuttings mainly concerning librarians and libraries, with letters received from, among others, Alison Crook and Wilma Radford; list of Kooroora Club members, 1968-1969; invitations; and copy of speech, ‘Australia’s Cultural Heritage’, by Sir David Smith to the A.C.T. Branch of the Royal Commonwealth Society, 5 June 1992 (Locn No.: ML MSS 3147, ADD ON 2070/14)?1988-1990; Newscuttings concerning the property, Belltrees, at Scone, N.S.W., owned by the Michael and Judy White (Locn No.: ML MSS 3147, ADD ON 2070/14)??192–197-; Miscellaneous papers, including letters received from Jean Arnot to family and friends, 9 Apr. 1948-7 Feb. 1949, and to her sisters, Gillian and Mary Arnot, and Alison McPherson, 6 Sep.-7 Dec. 1961; photocopied specimens of handwriting of Library staff who have contributed to entries in the card catalogues, 192–193-; passports (2), 1948 and 1961-1966, with enclosed identity card, 1942,; travel documents for Paris trip, 1961, and New Zealand trip, 1973; and unused postcards, 194–197- (Locn No.: ML MSS 3147, ADD ON 2070/15)??1938-1990; Printed material, including order of proceedings of memorial ceremony for Emeritus Professor John Ward, AO, Patricia Ward, AM, Jennifer Ward and Moira Jennings at the Great Hall, University of Sydney, 21 June 1990, and of evening of tribute to Patricia Bruce Ward, AM, BA, DipED, FLAA, held at the State Library of NSW, 28 June 1990; and travel maps, 1938-198-, date unknown, including New South Wales Tourist Bureau regional maps, 1938 (Locn No.: ML MSS 3147, ADD ON 2070/15) Author Details Clare Land Created 24 September 2002 Last modified 24 October 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

The Woman’s Christian Temperance Union of Victoria was founded in 1887 when the 12 existing local branches in Melbourne suburbs and regional Victoria joined together to form a Colonial Union. It is primarily dedicated to promoting total abstinence from alcohol and other harmful drugs and all members sign a pledge to this effect. Under its broader agenda of ‘home protection’ and the promotion of a healthy lifestyle, and in its belief that the dangers of alcohol could not be tackled in isolation, the WCTU has pursued a very wide-ranging reform agenda mostly relating to the welfare of women and children. Importantly, influenced by its sister organisation in the United States, the Union became a major supporter of the campaign for women’s suffrage in Australia as it was believed that power at the ballot box was the only way to achieve their goals. While at its most influential in the years up to WWI, the movement continues today. The first local Union was established in Victoria in 1885 and the movement grew rapidly. The Victorian Union was founded largely due to the efforts of Marie Kirk and the Rev. Philip Moses who arranged the first Organising Conference in 1887. The foundation president was Mary Love, who had been a member of the Union in the United States prior to her move to Melbourne in 1886. At its first Annual Convention in 1888, the Union outlined its operational agenda of ‘Organisation, Preventive Work, Social Work and Educational Work.’ By 1891 it had 57 branches. By 1890 the Victorian Union had also committed itself to the suffrage cause: passing a resolution that: ‘As men and women are alike in having to obey the laws … they should also be equal in electing those who make the laws; and, further, that the ballot in the hands of women would be a safeguard to the home, in which the interests of women are paramount, and as what is good for the home is also good for the State, the enfranchisement of women would be conducive to the highest national welfare.’ In 1891 the Union sent a deputation to the Premier who responded cautiously that in order for him to take any action on the matter there would need to be united and representative agitation on the part of women. The Union thus approached the other two suffrage societies to discuss combined action. It was decided to launch a vigorous effort to gather signatures for a petition. They began a massive door knocking campaign which captured much attention. Never before had such large numbers of women taken to the streets in common cause. 30,000 signatures were collected and presented to parliament. The Union was instrumental in the formation of the Victorian Woman’s Suffrage League in 1894. The Union has also been involved in a range of other issues and causes. It was one of the first four groups to affiliate with the National Council of Women of Victoria in 1902. From its inception, the Union became concerned with children’s welfare. It campaigned for reforms in the ‘boarding-out’ system and the appointment of inspectors and the raising of the age of consent for girls from 12 to 16 years. In 1909 it established Woman’s Christian Temperance Union of Victoria Kindergarten in Richmond, with an associated School for Mothers which held lectures by doctors and had visiting nurses. This was the first such institution in the State and was a forerunner of Baby Health Centres. The Kindergarten closed in 1953, but was reopened as an Occupational Centre for Mentally Retarded Children. From its earliest years it has also run a children’s branch, the Loyal Temperance Union. From its earliest days, the Union has also been interested in the welfare of working-class ‘girls’, forming Clubs for Girls and offering affordable accommodation and meals at various hostels and its headquarters. Other issues tackled by its various Departments of Work included prison reform, Aboriginal welfare, sex education, film censorship, early childhood education, peace and arbitration. In recent years, the WCTU has turned its attention to drug education, anti-smoking and gambling strategies and to the campaign against drink-driving. Published resources Book Forward in faith : an historical record of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union covering the years 1947-1973, Woman's Christian Temperance Union, 1975 Woman suffrage in Australia : a gift or a struggle?, Oldfield, Audrey, 1992 One of Australia's daughters : an autobiography, Cowie, Bessie, 1900 Golden jubilee, 1887-1937, 1937 For God, home and humanity : a history of the Geelong City Union of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, 1888 to 1988, Pargeter, Judith, 1988 Youth Book of Citizenship Service, 1933 The Busy Woman's Home Companion, 1924 From Vision to Reality: Histories of the affiliates of the National Council of Women of Victoria, 1987 Report Annual convention reports / the Woman's Christian Temperance Union of Victoria (Inc.), Woman's Christian Temperance Union of Victoria., 1956- Women's Christian Temperance Union of Victoria. Peace Department and Local Association, [1889] Oral evidence presented on behalf of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union of Victoria…: to a Board of Inquiry into the operation of the Liquor Control Act 1968 at Melbourne, Bergon, M A, 1977 Annual Report, Woman's Christian Temperance Union of Victoria, 1887-2001 Book Section Post-war women reformers and Aboriginal citizenship : rehearsing an old campaign?, Holland, Alison, 1999 Reading the silences: suffrage activists and race in nineteenth century settler societies., Grimshaw, Patricia, 1999 Religion and public life : Catholic women for this world and the next, Massam, Katharine, 1999 Temperate Feminists: Marie Kirk and the WCTU, Hyslop, Anthea, 1985 Edited Book Australian Feminism: A Companion, Caine, Barbara, Gatens, Moira et al., 1998 Journal Article Colonising motherhood : Evangelical social reformers and Koorie women in Victoria, Australia, 1880s to the early 1990s, Grimshaw, Patricia, 1999 Sex education debates and the modest mother in Australia, 1890s to the 1930s, Warne, Ellen, 1999 Temperance, Christianity and feminism : the woman's Christian Temperance Union of Victoria, 1887-97, Hyslop, Anthea, 1976 A Mission to the Home: The Housewives Association, the Woman's Christian Temperance Union and Protestant Christianity, 1920-1940, Smart, Judith, 1998 A sacred trust: Cecilia Downing, Baptist faith and feminist citizenship, Smart, Judith, 1995 'For the good that we can do': Cecilia Downing and feminist Christian citizenship, Smart, Judith, 1994 Prowlers in the darkened cinema: Australian church women's associations and the arrival of the motion picture in Australia., Warne, Ellen, 2000 Women Citizens of the New Nation: Reading some visual evidence, Quartly, Marian, 2002 Thesis The 'Woman Question' in Melbourne, 1880-1914, Kelly, Farley, 1983 Conference Paper Christian women and changing concepts of citizenship rights and responsibilities in interwar Australia, Smart, Judith, 1999 Newsletter The White Ribbon Signal: Official Organ of the Woman's Temperance Union of Victoria, 1891-1931 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources The University of Melbourne Archives Woman's Christian Temperance Union of Victoria Australian Historic Records Register Woman's Christian Temperance Union of Victoria Inc. : community organisation records Author Details Jane Carey Created 9 December 2001 Last modified 7 August 2014 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Typed manuscript (approx. 110 pages) titled: “Soldiers of the Queen – the Women’s Royal Australian Army Corps 1951-1984”, relating the history of the Corps. Written by Janette M. Bomford, a recipient of a John Treloar Grant for research, in 1995. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 3 April 2003 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

This series comprises 856 posters used by the Australian Red Cross (ARC) for education and awareness campaigns across a broad range of activities.??These posters are controlled 28 functional grouping. Each poster is prefixed by its B-group: B00 General; B01 Blood Service; B02 ARC Blood Service NSW; B03 ARC Blood Service VIC; B04 ARC Blood Service WA; B05 ARC First Aid; B06 ARC Fundraising; B07 ARC Services (General); B08 ARC Services ACT; B09 ARC Services NSW; B10 ARC Services QLD; B11 ARC Services SA; B12 ARC Services TAS; B13 ARC Services VIC; B14 ARC Services WA; B15 ARC Youth; B16 ARC Principles of Red Cross; B17 not held by UMA; B18 not held by UMA; B19 not held by UMA; B20 International Committee of Red Cross; B21 International Committee of Red Cross – Principles of Red Cross; B22 International Committee of Red Cross – International Relief; B23 International Committee of Red Cross – Medical Relief; B24 International Committee of Red Cross – Museum Series; B25 International Committee of Red Cross – Tracing/Refugees; B26 International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies; B27 International Projects – ARC; B28 International Humanitarian Law – ARC; B29 International Humanitarian Law – International Committee of Red Cross; B30 American Red Cross; B31 British Red Cross.??Individual previous control numbers (POS: barcode numbers) have been retained.??These posters have been created both by the Australian Red Cross and the International Red Cross. Two posters 2016.0076.00009 and 2016.0076.00483 use artwork by the graphic artist, James Northfield (1887-1973), but most often the artist is not known.??Researchers should note that under the Geneva Conventions Act 1957 protections govern the use of the Red Cross emblem. For further information see Archives staff. Author Details Stella Marr Created 9 August 2017 Last modified 30 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Elsie Rose Beatrice Bolam (MBE), born in St Kilda, Victoria in 1880, was awarded an Order of the British Empire – Member in January 1960, for services to the community of Marysville, Victoria. She was particularly honoured for her work as an unpaid community nurse, but was also highly valued for her role in promoting tourism to the Marysville district in the 1930s, 40s and 50s. She described herself as ‘Marysville’s best advertisement,’ because she came to the town with the intention of staying for only a year, but instead ‘stayed for a generation’. Sister Bolam lived most of her adult life in Marysville, working as an ‘honorary doctor’, a tourism officer and a guesthouse proprietor. She loved the native flora and fauna of the district and, in1922, donated a parcel of land along the Steavenson River to the community for the purpose of fencing it off to create a koala reserve. Elsie Bolam passed away in September 1965. She never married and lived most of her life in the Marysville house she bought in partnership with her dear friend, Lesley McGowan. She was dubbed ‘Marysville’s Florence Nightingale’. Elsie Rose Beatrice Bolam was born in St Kilda, Victoria in 1880 into a family that was under stress. The 1883 divorce petition of her father, Thomas Bolam, Inspector General of State Schools in Victoria, against her mother Eva (nee Gill) was played out acrimoniously in the daily newspaper reports of the Supreme Court proceedings, as each parent accused the other of adultery and other forms of mistreatment. A jury was never able to decide the case, so the couple eventually reconciled. The toll on Thomas Bolam’s professional reputation and mental health proved too great for him to bear; he died, possibly from an overdose of chlorodyne, in February 1884. His wife, who passed away in 1928 outlived him by over forty years. Elsie cared for her mother, one way or another, for most of her adult life. She stepped in to relieve Eva Bolam from her duties as Registrar of Births, Deaths and Marriages for the Armadale, Malvern and Toorak district when she needed a break and cared for her mother when she came to live in Marysville. Other than this, we know very little of the circumstances of Elsie Bolam’s early life and childhood. We do know, however, that Elsie trained as a nurse and that the relationships she established during this period would be life altering and life-long. One of them, with Miss Helena Brayshay, probably brought her to Marysville around 1914. Another, with Miss Lesley McGowan, was a close friendship that lasted a lifetime. We don’t know for certain when, where and how Elsie Bolam and Helen Brayshay met, but it is possible that Brayshay, born in 1863, a nurse and nurse educator, met Bolam while she was in training (in Melbourne or Beechworth) or in her early years working in small private hospitals. Likewise, Lesley McGowan (also a nursing sister) and Elsie Bolam possibly met when they were training. Eventually, they all ended up living in Marysville. Kerami, the guesthouse that Brayshay bought there around 1914, was the focus of their lives for many years to come. Brayshay probably bought Kerami in 1913 and she asked Bolam to take over the running of the place for a year in 2014. When the year was up, Elsie decided to stay in Marysville and the rest is history. After Brayshay died in 1919, leaving Elsie with some of the proceeds from her estate, Bolam, in partnership with Lesley McGowan (who had continued to work as a nurse in small hospitals around central and southeastern Victoria until at least 1916), purchased Kerami , which they then ran for several years. They obviously did a very good job of it: Kerami attracted a ‘social’ enough clientele to regularly make the pages of Table Talk. In 1920, they built tearooms, which they called ‘The Crossways’, near the Steavenson River Bridge. In 1922 Elsie donated a parcel of land to the community that was fenced and made into a koala reserve. Nursing didn’t bring Elsie to Marysville, but her dedication to her vocation is what made her ‘a legend’ in the area. After arriving in Marysville in 1914, Elsie Bolam served as town’s honorary doctor for thirty-five years, taking a break during World War 2, when she temporarily moved back to Melbourne to work as a tourism officer but also as part of Melbourne’s emergency services. Marysville’s permanent population was too small and ‘too healthy’ to support a resident full time doctor, so both Elsie and Lesley stepped in to offer assistance. Given that the nearest doctors were either at Black Spur and Alexandra (roughly forty kilometers away), they would treat many non-life-threatening injuries themselves. Elsie was ‘an expert bone-setter’ who ‘skillfully stitched many wounds – with sprained ankles and snake bites being her speciality’. During the 1918-19 influenza epidemic in nearby Healesville, Sister Bolam provided important assistance in organising the emergency hospital. Sister Bolam did all this without payment or recompense for her expenses. Early in her tenure, she made application to the Bush Nursing Association for financial help, but was advised that ‘her casualty station [did] not come within its jurisdiction’. In 1929 a Dendy Street, Brighton doctor provided some assistance with supplies. There is no record of Elsie receiving any other assistance. For thirty-five years, people would walk up the hill to the home that Elsie and Lesley McGowan shared above Woods Point Road in Marysville: with boils, sprains, cold sore, carbuncles, broken limbs and most of the maladies that beset humanity to find sympathy, kindness and often a cup of tea along with sound medical care. Elsie Bolam, like her good friend Helena Brayshay, was very active in the Marysville Tourist and Progress Association, serving as both president and secretary for several years. In 1937, she and Leslie were living back in Melbourne, where Elsie was appointed to a salaried position as a Marysville tourist officer to ‘put Marysville’s attractions before the public’. The pair remained there for the duration of WW2, returning to Little Kerami in the years after the war. In 1955 the people of Marysville honoured Elsie Bolam when she was chosen to be one of two people who ceremoniously flicked the switch that brought electricity to Marysville. ‘Now that we have electricity,’ she said, hopefully, ‘we may get a small hospital and perhaps a resident doctor.’ Until that happens, ‘we won’t a chance to retire,’ she added. Elsie Bolam and Lesley McGowan were staunch monarchists who would regularly attend the local cinema, dressed in their finest, if a film about the King or Queen was on the program. It is fitting, therefore, that Elsie received an Imperial Honour for service to her community. On 1 January 1960, Sister Elsie Bolam was named in the New Year’s honours’ list as a Member of the British Empire – Civil Division. That evening, 300 local people gathered outside the cottage where she lived to congratulate her and a public subscription was gathered to purchase a television set for both she and Lesley to enjoy. Elsie Bolam passed away on 4 September 1965 and was buried in Marysville cemetery. She left all her worldly goods to her dear friend Lesley Elinor Archibald McGowan, who passed away only a year later, at the age of 83. In 2009, the town of Marysville was destroyed by a firestorm as intense and deadly as any the community had experienced since white settlement. Kerami and Little Kerami were destroyed, although the guesthouse was rebuilt and still operates as an up market accommodation house. Elsie’s medal, which had been donated to the local history centre, was found in the ashes after hours of unstinting effort from Mary and Reg Kenealy. They arranged for it to be restored, and it sits again in the Marysville History Centre, a proud symbol of the good that ordinary women can do, and the enduring power and importance of female friendships. Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 9 March 2020 Last modified 9 March 2020 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

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[Red Cross Archives series reference: V94]??Minutes of the Victorian Division Annual General Meetings, typed and signed by the Victorian Division Chairman and pasted into bound volumes.??All minutes are proceeded with a public notice, published in local newspapers announcing and inviting persons to the forthcoming annual meeting. These notices contained information on meeting date, place and order of business. Additionally all years contain the Agenda, Minutes as well as the published Annual Report.??Researchers should note that under the Geneva Conventions Act 1957 protections govern the use of the Red Cross emblem. For further information see Archives staff. Author Details Stella Marr Created 9 August 2017 Last modified 30 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

A novelist, biographer and political candidate, Jeanne Forster Young passionately advocated proportional representation for women in parliament. She became president of the Democratic Women’s Association of South Australia. Jeanne Young was born Sarah Jane Forster, one of eight children of John Goodman and Sarah Jane Forster. She became a freelance journalist with the Register and joined Catherine Helen Spence in 1896 in campaigning for proportional representation in parliament. On 23 January 1889, she married the Foreign Editor of the South Australian Advertiser, Alfred Howard Young. They were to have three sons and one daughter. Jeanne Young was the first and only woman on the Board of Governors of the South Australian Public Library, Museum and Art Gallery (1916-1928). She was appointed to the Magistracy in 1917 and stood for parliament on a non-party ticket in 1918. During the First World War, Young was a member of the Central Red Cross and later became an administrator of the South Australian Soldiers’ Fund. She stood for the Senate in 1937 and was elected president of the Democratic Women’s Association of South Australia. After the death of Catherine Helen Spence in 1910, Young completed Spence’s autobiography. She founded the C H Spence Scholarship for Women, and in 1937 wrote Catherine Helen Spence: a study and an appreciation. Young produced several pamphlets on proportional representation, and wrote variously under the pen names of Jeanne F. Young, Sarah Jane Forster and Goodman Forster. On 9 June 1938, Jeanne Young was appointed to The Order of the British Empire – Officer (Civil) (OBE) for her services to social welfare. She died at Rose Park, South Australia in 1955. In 1994, as part of celebrations for the South Australian Women’s Suffrage Centenary, the centenary committee published Jeanne Forster Young’s novel, Jenifer. Published resources Edited Book Who's Who in Australia 1944, Alexander, Joseph A, 1944 Book An autobiography, Spence, Catherine Helen [edited and introduced by Jeanne F. Young], 1975 Catherine Helen Spence : a study and an appreciation, Young, Jeanne F, 1937 Jenifer : a novel / by Goodman Forster (Jeanne Forster Young 1876-1955), Young, Jeanne Forster, [1994] Proportional representation in a nutshell, Young, Jeanne F, [1945] Proportional representation : what it means and how it would work, Young, Jeanne F, 1931 Preferential voting in single electorates not a reform, Young, Jeanne F, [1920] The Senate - as it is and as it should be : a plea for proportional representation, Young, Jeanne F, 1917 Effective voting : an explanation of Hare's single transferable vote, Young, Jeanne F, [1917] Effective voting; how to vote, how to count votes! : diagrams showing inequalities and injustice of single electorates and block votes, Young, Jeanne F, 1911 Proportional representation, Young, Jeanne F, [1911] 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 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 Archival resources State Library of South Australia Jenifer (literary manuscript) The Grand Old Woman of Australia (literary manuscript) Author Details Anne Heywood Created 8 October 2002 Last modified 5 September 2012 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Copies of photographs, ca. 1880-ca. 1945 of Vida Goldstein 1949-1961, including an obituary and a?personal impression by L. M. Henderson and a transcript of a radio talk by Margaret Clarke. Author Details Clare Land Created 9 December 2001 Last modified 5 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

BOX 1?History of the National Council of Women in South Australia 1902-1980 / Barbara J. Pitt, 1981; Capital Women: A history of the work of the National Council of Women (ACT) 1939-1979 / Freda Stephenson, 1992; Water, our nation’s most precious resource: a series of three lectures presented at the N.C.W. Council Meetings in February, March and April 1997; Life and times of Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney, Australia / Muriel Knox Doherty, 1996; Off the record: the life and times of Muriel Knox Doherty, 1896-1988 / R. Lynette Russell (ed.), 1996??Folder 1?N.C.W. News, no. 198, February 2004; National Council of Women of New South Wales Inc. 108th Annual Report, 1896-2004, presented at the Annual General Meeting 29 September 2004; photograph printed from newspaper clipping of Ruby Board, President 1938-1948, and colour photograph of Maureen Giddings (OBE), President 1970-1974; photocopy of manuscript notes from Executive meetings, 1992-1996??BOX 2?Photographs and captions from the National Council of Women of New South Wales Centenary Exhibition, Fountain Forecourt, NSW Parliament House, 16 April-30 June 1996??BOX 3?Folder 1?Pageant of Endeavour poster, 1970; Endeavour: women’s organisations in New South Wales, 1896-1978 / National Council of Women of New South Wales, 1980; papers, correspondence, etc. relating to Endeavour, and the Pageant of Endeavour exhibition, 1970-1987??Folder 2?Papers relating to the Centenary Year, including minutes, agendas, programs, and details of committee members, 1994-1996??Folder 3?Papers and correspondence relating to the Centenary Year, 1993-1996??Folder 4?Papers and correspondence relating to the launch of the Centenary Stamp Issue. Includes stamp, envelope, and postcard packs, 1988-1996??Folder 5?Papers relating to the compilation of the National Council of Women of NSW chronology, 1896-1996. Includes notes, drafts, photographs and copies of photographs, ca. 1985-1996??Folder 6?Papers, brochures, photographs, eulogy – Dr. Grace Cuthbert-Browne, cookbook, reports, etc., 1965-1997??Folder 7?Papers and correspondence relating to the National Economic Summit Conference, held in Canberra, 1983??Folder 8?Balance sheets, including some reports from auditors and accountants, as at 31 July 1976, 1978, 1986, 1990-1993??Folder 9?The Woman’s Voice, vol. 3, no. 8, 23 November, 1895; Bulletin [monthly publication of the] International Council of Women, multiple volumes between 1927-1943??BOX 4?Folder 1?International Council of Women brochures, ca. 1947-1969??Folder 2?Papers and seminars, 1969-1988??Folder 3?Papers, correspondence, questionnaires, etc. relating to issues such as children, health, abortion, disabilities, 1963-1976??Folder 4?Papers, correspondence, and reports relating to a survey on smoking by young women between 15-25 years, and the Australian Council on smoking and health, ca. 1973-1989??Folder 5?Photographs and resumes of Joyce Marion McConnell, and Dorothy Edna Annie Edwards, ca. 1950-1991??Folder 6?Papers, photographs, brochures, correspondence, menus, newspaper clipping, N.C.W. celebrations, 1975-1990, and ‘Women of Achievement’ luncheon, 1979??Volume 1?Papers, minutes, newspaper clippings, and reports relating to the N.C.W. N.S.W. Standing Committee of Health, Child and Family; the Health Convenor; and on abortion laws, 1962-1981??BOX 5?Sound recordings?5 sound cassettes: Annual Luncheon speeches, 28 June 1983; Seminar ‘Today’s Child’, 24 March 1984; International Year of Peace seminar, speakers D. W. Langshaw and E. Lomas, 16 March 1985; National Council of Women of N.S.W. 90th birthday celebrations (2 tapes), 26 June 1986; AIDS seminar, speaker Reverend Dorothy McMahon, 10 October 1987??1 sound reel: Tape of speech made by Mrs Hallenstein to ladies of Geelong regarding jury service, ca. 1967??Album 1?Collection of newspaper clippings on issues concerning women, including employment, social conditions, health, education, laws, etc.; also articles on the National Council of Women and its members, 1966-1996??Album 2?Collection of newspaper clippings on issues concerning women, including employment, social conditions, health, education, laws, etc.; also articles on the National Council of Women and its members, 1975-1976??N.C.W. Award (plaque mounted on wood) presented to Edith May Cox, 1994??BOX 6?Album of newspaper cuttings on issues concerning women, including employment, social conditions, health, education, laws, etc., 1964-1966??BOX 7-8?Banners used for the 1996 Centenary exhibition at Parliament House, Sydney. Originally from the 1970 Bi-centenary of Captain Cook celebrations??FOLDER 9?6 mounted poster panels from the Centenary exhibition, including images of women and N.C.W. members, 1996???MOTION PICTURES?The 16 mm film ‘Pageant of Endeavour’ produced by Cinesound Movietone Productions is housed separately from the records at MLMSS ….?VHS video ‘Family Awareness Project’ produced by the National Council of Women of Launceston is housed separately from the records at MLMSS ….?U-matic videos ‘National Council of Women of N.S.W. Seminar’, tapes 6-431 and 6-433, 29 May 1979. These are housed separately from the records at MLMSS 8222?For enquiries about this material please contact the Manuscripts Section Author Details Alannah Croom Created 31 October 2017 Last modified 31 October 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

An Australian media personality, Libbi Gorr invented comic interviewer ‘Elle McFeast’ on ABC television’s Sweaty. Libbi Gorr participated in Law Revues while completing an Arts/Law degree at the University of Melbourne. After graduating she performed with an all-girl cabaret group call the Hot Bagels. Gorr was an articled clerk at Phillips Fox in Melbourne before returning to entertain audiences with her interviews and satirical observations of life and society. Published resources Newspaper Article The art of happiness, Sharp, Timothy, 2004 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Anne Heywood Created 9 January 2002 Last modified 4 May 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Yvonne Isabel Nicholls nee Miles took her BA from the University of Melbourne in 1936 and her MA from the University of Sydney in 1972 with a thesis entitled Thai Kenaf: a case-study of a new cash crop in a developing country of Southeast Asia. Her interest in Thailand was sustained by a ten-year residency, during a life of travel, following her marriage in 1940 to Frank Nicholls (1916-2013) who had a long career in scientific administration in Australia and overseas.[1] The couple spent the war in England, where she headed the unit in Australia House charged with photographing and sending secret documents to Australia. On her return to Australia, Yvonne Nicholls took up an appointment in Economic Geography at the University of Melbourne, occupying various positions between 1948 and 1960, after which, in Thailand, she became principal of a former PEN English-language school, securing government patronage and overseeing its expansion to cover from kindergarten to Cambridge GCE level. In Geneva during the 1970s she published on environmental law.[2] An interest in ants led to her discovering a new species during a trip to the Otway Ranges. It was named Monomorian yvonnii by the CSIRO entomologist John Clark. Her 1952 pamphlet Not Slaves, Not Citizens was used during the Yes campaign for the 1967 referendum that gave the Commonwealth the power to make laws specifically to benefit Aboriginal people.[3] In Australia after 1977 she taught at several schools and the Council for Adult Education. Yvonne Nicholls was a frequent speaker in person, on radio and television. Her range of topics was prodigious, inspired by life in many countries. Her lecture ‘The Fascinating History of Sex’ was both popular and memorable. She told an interviewer: In sacred sex, for example, I describe rituals such as group sex in the fields, which was a fertility rite practised by the Incas in South America. When I talk about sensual sex I cite cultures such as ancient Rome where wives were the faithful watchdogs and married men sought beauty and sexual stimulation in their mistresses. Sinful sex, especially in the Judeo-Christian tradition, comes from the view of Eve as temptress.[4] When Bert Newton interviewed her on television he ensured that the legs of the grand piano were shrouded to avoid upsetting the audience. [1] Suzy Chandler. ‘Scientist and Movie Buff Who Helped Develop Radar and Played Leading Role in Establishing Film Festival’. Age (12 February 2013). http://www.theage.com.au/comment/obituaries/scientist-and-movie-buff-who-helped-develop-radar-and-played-leading-role-in-establishing-film-festival-20130211-2e8xh.html [2] Yvonne I. Nicholls. Source Book: emergence of proposals for recompensing developing countries for maintaining environmental quality (IUCN Environmental Policy and Law Paper no. 5) Morges, Switzerland: International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources, 1973. [3] Yvonne Nicholls. Not Slaves, Not Citizens: condition of the Australian Aborigines in the Northern Territory. Melbourne: Australian Council for Civil Liberties, 1952. [4] Mary Ryllis Clark. ‘It’s the Little Things in Life’. Age: 15 April 2004. http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/04/14/1081838772488.html Published resources Book 40 Years 40 Women: Biographies of University of Melbourne Women, Published to Commemorate the 40th Anniversary of the International Year of Women, Flesch, Juliet, 2015, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/4040/ Author Details Juliet Flesch Created 31 July 2017 Last modified 13 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Florrie Hodges was only a teenager when her heroics at the mill settlement near Powelltown, Victoria, captured the national imagination. On Sunday February 14, 1926, she was at home with members of her family when they felt the full impact of the catastophic bushfires that surrounded them. Instructed by her mother to take the children to safety, she walked for miles with her three younger siblings, finally lying down on a train track and shielding them with her own body when there was nothing to do except allow the fire to burn over the top of them. They all survived, but Florrie received horrific burns to her legs and back. She was hospitalised for several months and left disabled and disfigured. Stories of the heroics of ‘the little bush girl of Powelltown’ emerged quickly after the fires were put out and Florrie Hodges became something of a celebrity. Her bravery was recognised far and wide and she was awarded a Royal Humane Society medal. The following details are taken from an article written by the authors and published in the Victorian Historical Journal, June 2020 John Schauble’s excellent article about Victoria’s Forgotten 1926 Bushfires (published in this journal in December 2019) reminds us of the importance of this event to reframing the relationship between Victorians and their environment. It also reminds us how quickly events can be forgotten, when bigger, seemingly more catastrophic, events happen subsequently. The 1926 fires in Gippsland have been ‘jettisoned to a more distant past’, barely memorialised in art, literature or history, despite killing more Victorians, proportionately, than any fires before or since except the 1939 fires. Schauble makes a strong case for the ‘Great Fires of 1926’ to be remembered better, as a turning point, a moment in time when Victorians reviewed their relationship to ‘the bush’ and reorganised their ‘social and practical responses to bushfire’. As well as understanding the social and political lessons learned from them, we should remember the 1926 fires better because of their human cost. They devastated small communities in Gippsland and the impact of that trauma is a living memory for descendents of some survivors. Through the story of Florrie Hodges, a teenager who survived the fires and became a celebrity for her heroics, we can explore themes that resonate nearly one hundred years later, such as the nature of celebrity, gendered narratives of heroics and intergenerational impact of unresolved trauma. It is the latter of these themes I’d like to reflect upon here, with passing reference to the nature of fame and heroics. Schauble highlights the remarkable story of Florrie Hodges, a fourteen year old girl from a mill settlement near Powelltown, whose heroics captured the national imagination. On Sunday February 14, 1926, she was at home with members of her family when the fire exploded about them. Instructed by her mother to take the children to safety, she walked for some miles with her three younger siblings, Rita, Vera and seventeen month old Dorothy, finally lying down on a train track and shielding them with her own body when there was nothing to do except allow the fire to burn over the top of them. They all survived, but Florrie received horrific burns to her legs and back. She was hospitalised for several months and was left disabled and disfigured. Stories of the heroics of ‘the little bush girl of Powelltown’ emerged quickly after the fires were put out and Florrie Hodges became something of a celebrity. Her bravery was recognised far and wide; she was awarded a Royal Humane Society medal and a testimonial fund launched and administered by the Timber Worker’ Union raised some £1000 to be placed in trust until she was 21, her father being very anxious about her future and the need to make sure that the funds were to be clearly available fo her own use. Politicians, unionists, even famous actors were keen to share the stage with Florrie at various events held in her honour. Important labour figure Jean Daley spoke at an event held in May and the actor, Louise Lovely, appeared at one in September, along with a range of other artists and the Returned Soldiers Memorial Band. If, as Schauble suggests, the 1926 fires produced little in the way of cultural product, it seems that what little emerged was focussed on a fourteen year old girl. A souvenir booklet was published, 100,000 photographs distributed to schoolchildren across the nation, Queen Mary and the Duchess of York proudly received photographs of the ‘Australian Heroine’, a special gramophone recording of Florrie telling her story was released and Mary Grant Bruce wrote a special version of her story that was published in the School Magazine. She, through her deeds, was variously described as ‘carrying the spirit of many a pioneer mother’, exhibiting ‘the endurance of a Spartan and the pluck and fortitude of Nurse Cavell’ and equalling the heroics of soldiers in the Boer and Great Wars. ‘The battlefields of South Africa, Gallipoli and Flanders,’ said Jean Daley at her testimonial, ‘had not furnished a braver deed than the act of heroism performed by the little bush girl of Powelltown.’ Florrie was very proud of the various honours and accolades she received, but using a modest heroes’ refrain familiar to all of us, when asked to speak, told people ‘she thought that any Australian girl would have done what she did’. And despite a small glitch with a poorly attended Sydney event, organised by the Feminist Club and the League of Child Helpers, after which Sydneysiders were scolded for rushing to greet ‘every visiting celebrity, but not the girl ‘descended of the race that gave the world the Anzacs’ who exhibitied, ‘the most outstanding act of heroism of the year, if not the decade’, Florrie’s story still resonated some years after the events. In a 1931 issue of The Freeman’s Journal, children’s submissions were published under the title ‘My Favourite Heroine’. Ten year old Enid Casey asked her readers, ‘Do you remember the story of Florrie Hodges’ and explained why she was ‘her favourite Heroine’. and during ‘fire season’ in 1934, the story of ‘the ‘Heroine of Black Sunday’ was retold, in the wake of severe fires in Tasmania and Victorian timber country. After this, there is little to be found about Florrie and her life after the fires. Perhaps, after the 1939 fires, all other fires paled into historical insignificance. Perhaps there are other reasons to explain Florrie’s loss of celebratory over the years that relate more directly to her own life experiences after the fires? Finding an online image of her bravery award and the purse presented to Florrie at the testimonial in her honour created a chain of correspondence between my colleague at the Australian Women’s Archives Project, Helen Morgan, and one of Florrie’s descendents, Joy Welch. Helen had been tracing stories of early twentieth century ‘girl heroes’ and was immediately drawn to Florrie’s tale. She found the name of the donor of the purse to Museum Victoria via their website and this act of curation provided her with a contact to Joy. Joy offered to collect stories at a family gathering to be held in early February. Florrie passed away in 1972 but several elderly relatives who remembered her were willing to talk about what they knew and remembered. Many of them became very emotional while doing so, but persevered because they wanted Florrie’s story better known. ‘They thought the importance of remembering and recognizing her bravery, [talking about] what had happened to her goes quite a way to explaining her life after the event,’ said Joy. It had not been a particularly happy one. A nephew, Stan Gleeson, now 87, remembers her well and speaks of his visits to her house in Lyonville, near Trentham. Florrie married her cousin, Bill, soon after the accident, when she was sixteen. Bill worked in the timber mill and he had a couple of serious injuries, so both he and Florrie would have been in constant discomfort or pain. They lived a very simple life. Florrie was remembered as a tough, no nonsense woman, who didn’t talk much. She never spoke of the fire, the attention afterwards or the impact it had on her or her body. Her preference was to seek company at the pub, where she was seen regularly, an uncommon sight in those days. Most other women were at home with the children but Florrie was often to be found at the local with her husband drinking. Due to the couple’s history, it seems that the extended family looked out for them as much as possible. Everyone knew they both had alcohol issues and everyone attributed that to the trauma they experienced. They had 6 children, with only four living to adulthood, and the trauma was intergenerational. Their daughter Nancy had a number of children that were mainly placed in care due to her alcohol issues. Their son Bill did not have children but he passed away in a Salvation Army home as a chronic alcoholic. Little is known about the two youngest children, but it is known that all of them had been in and out of care due to Florrie and Bill’s inability to care for them. The extended family tried many times to take them all in (especially the two little ones) but the State judged their own families to be too large to permit them taking in any additional children. Some family members who Joy spoke with still got emotional when they spoke about their parents not being allowed to take care of them – they didn’t want the children to be placed in an orphanage. They were acutely aware that if it hadn’t been for Florrie, their mother’s would have perished in the fire and they would not be there, in 2020 telling her story. It is important to Stan Gleeson that Florrie be remembered because the past lives on in the present. His son, a Country Fire Authority (CFA) member, rescued people in the 2009 Black Saturday fires. He suffered from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), so Stan’s knowledge of Florrie’s story helped him to understand the impact similar trauma could have on his own son. He knows how trauma unresolved or dealt with can continue to play out for years to come. It has made a difference to them as they create a pathway to recovery for their son. In her email, Joy Welch sadly noted that ‘in saving others, Florrie lost herself’, and talking about it now, we can see the far-reaching implications, for Florrie, her children and her grandchildren. Even at the time, there were commentators who recognised that risk. Dr Irene Stable, the Medical Officer for the Victorian Education Department observed with some foreboding that: ‘The child will bear the marks of the fire throughout her life, as an external manifestation of her suffering; nothing will ever reveal the deep scar which this terrifying event has left on her memory; nothing will erase it….’ It’s fair to say that nothing ever did. Recognising Florrie’s story is to recognize the damage that continues to be done when past trauma is not acknowledged. It’s not just about celebrating bravery as achievement – it’s about remembering that for very many women and men, bravery as ‘achievement’ has come at a significant cost. Honouring the stories of brave women like Florrie helps us to reimagine what it means to be brave, and how careful we must be with our heroes. Events 1926 - 1926 Author Details Nikki Henningham and Helen Morgan Created 28 July 2020 Last modified 28 July 2020 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Comprises 69 Glass Lantern Slides which are within three functional sets.??The first set (2016.0081.00001 2016.0081.00056) comprises 52 black & white slides used by the Red Cross for talks on activities in the war effort. Images of the activities including: Central Prisoner of War (POW) Agency, Switzerland; Red Cross staff using a Hollerith machine to calculate POWs; visits by International Red Cross Delegates to POWs camps to ensure conditions are met; packing medical supplies, Red Cross packing centres and warehouses, POWs receiving care packages. Activities within the camps: sport, music, peeling vegetables as well as labouring on road works. These photographs were compiled by the British Red Cross and St. John War Organisation and include a number of press sources photographs (see: 2016.0081.00056). Please note there are four slides missing from this set and are not held by UMA (2016.0081.00006; 2016.0081.00030 – 2016.0081.000032).??The second set (2016.0081.00057 2016.0081.00062) comprises 6 colour slides which were created by the Australian Red Cross Publicity Department for use in cinemas, with the aim of engaging the community about the need for membership, fundraising and blood donations.??The third set (2016.0081.00063 2016.0081.00073) comprises 11 colour slides with song lyrics of popular songs used in rehabilitation contexts post WW2. The lyrics of a chorus, or verse and chorus are typed; some of these slides are also illustrated.??Further photographic prints will be added to this series in the final transfer of records.??Researchers should note that under the Geneva Conventions Act 1957 protections govern the use of the Red Cross emblem. For further information see Archives staff. Author Details Stella Marr Created 9 August 2017 Last modified 30 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Circulars, correspondence, files. They are records of the State Executive of the CWA. and include suggestions on forming a branch, raising money to build a seaside home, arrangements for girls coming out from England under the Rural Help Scheme and reports from various branches. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 7 November 2017 Last modified 7 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Minute books, with numerous reports etc. interleaved. 9 volumes. 1920-1949. Author Details Clare Land Created 8 December 2001 Last modified 30 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Rebecca Gorman is an award winning Social Affairs journalist of more than twenty years experience, most recently working on Life Matters on ABC Radio National. After graduating from the Radio Course at Australian Film Television and Radio School in 1984, Rebecca Gorman joined 2AY in Albury as a copywriter, newsreader, weekend announcer. She then moved to Brisbane to 4BK as a journalist & news reader, then to 2WS in Sydney, before joining Triple M (Sydney) as the network’s NSW Parliamentary reporter. Three years later she left for South America and a two year adventure freelancing there and in the UK during the Gulf War. She came home again to take up a series of casual jobs throughout ABC Radio and TV before starting full time with radio Current Affairs AM, PM & The World Today. She then moved to Life Matters as a producer and fill-in presenter. Events 1985 - 1993 - 1993 Best Application of the Print Medium to Journalism (Highly Commended) Published resources Site Exhibition The Women's Pages: Australian Women and Journalism since 1850, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2008, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/cal/cal-home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 20 November 2007 Last modified 20 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Anne Lampe won a Walkley Award in 1991 for her coverage of the so-called ‘Westpac letters’. She has been a business journalist with V since 1983. Before that Anne was the London correspondent for the Australian Financial Review.She has written about property, banking, insurance, superannuation, tax, commercial litigation and fraud. Anne is particularly interested in focusing on consumer issues and how policy changes affect consumer interests. Anne Lampe’s own statement of support for her application explained the story as follows: ‘The marketing of foreign currency loans and subsequent litigation by off-shore borrowers against major banks as their loan losses mounted has been aired in courts since 1988, with the banks vehemently denying that they were in any way negligent or incompetent in handling their borrowers’ foreign currency loans exposure and transactions. The Pacific Partnership/Westpac letters exploded one bank’s defence. ‘The letters showed mismanagement, staff incompetence and customer rip-offs on a large scale, involving millions of dollars of customer losses, illegal deal switching and secret commission taking on a big scale by dealers. ‘The lawyers’ findings in the letters were explosive, showing culpability of PPL as well as containing advice on how Westpac could control the damage. ‘It was to change the shape of foreign currency litigation, as well as focusing the attention of the Banking inquiry on the vexed question of who was to blame for the forex loan debacle. Events 1980 - 1991 - 1991 Best Coverage of a Current Story (Print), The Sydney Morning Herald – Fairfax Published resources Site Exhibition The Women's Pages: Australian Women and Journalism since 1850, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2008, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/cal/cal-home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance (Australia) - records of the W.G. Walkley Awards, 1956 - 1999 Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 14 November 2007 Last modified 20 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

The papers in MS 8290 are arranged into 16 series. The correspondence series, 1969-1991, includes general, overseas and business correspondence. Among the correspondents are Janet Bell, Carol Mills, Joan Allan, Patricia Mullins, Mavis Thorpe Clark, Elizabeth Tomlinson, Barbara Ker Wilson, Michael Horniman, Mem Fox and Elizabeth Jolley. Other series include manuscripts of books and other works, 1963-1989; diaries, 1975-1992; letterbooks, 1972-1984; and, children’s art work and fan mail, 1970-1990 (51 boxes, 2 fol. Boxes, 1 map folio).??The Acc02.165 instalment documents Christobel Mattingley’s career from 1991-2001, and comprises publications, correspondence, subject files, drafts and background material (16 cartons).??The Acc12.006 instalment comprises correspondence, research notes, manuscript drafts, publicity material and reviews pertaining to various articles written for the National Library of Australia magazine as well as Mattingley’s books: Battle order 204; Ruby of Trowutta; My father’s island; Chelonia Green; and Maralinga the Anangu story. Also includes artwork, transcripts, publisher files, handbooks from the University of Tasmania, fan mail, agreements as well as information related to school visits and travel arrangements (16 boxes, 2 archives boxes). Author Details Alannah Croom Created 6 March 2018 Last modified 6 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

2 hr 41 min. Oral history.??(NX148142/N443790) Stocks (née McKenzie), Lila (Private)?Discussing joining VAD; training at Ingleburn Camp; posting to 114 Australian General Hospital; posting to 2/5th Australian General Hospital; New Guinea; nursing POWs; contact with American servicemen; uniforms; nursing duties; hospital conditions; social life. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 22 July 2003 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Pioneering Australian feminist Dr Anne Summers AO is a best-selling author and journalist with a long career in politics, the media, business and the non-government sector in Australia, Europe and the United States. Anne is a leader of the generation and the movement that has improved women’s rights in Australia. Her first book Damned Whores and God’s Police changed the way Australia viewed women. Her contribution has earned her community respect: she has received five honorary doctorates and in 1989 became an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) for service to journalism and women’s affairs. She won a Walkley Award for journalism in the same year. Summers is a former editor of Good Weekend who regularly writes an opinion column for the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age. She was a founder of the important feminist journal, Refractory Girl, in the 1970s. Anne Summers was born in Deniliquin, New South Wales on 12 March 1945, the first of six children of Eileen Frances Hogan and Austin Henry Fairhurst Cooper, a navigation officer with the Royal Australian Air Force during World War 2. As a baby, she moved with her parents, strict Catholics, to Adelaide, South Australia where she later attended the local convent and then Cabra Dominican College. While former politician and Age and Disability Discrimination Commissioner the Hon. Susan Ryan AO and academic and writer Dr Germaine Greer, who both attended Catholic schools, said nuns were their first examples of strong independent women, Anne said few of the Dominicans she knew encouraged girls to be strong and independent. ‘The school was run by women but they deferred egregiously to men, and especially to priests’ (Summers, Ducks on the Pond, p. 69). Family life was difficult because of her father’s alcoholism and violent moods; Anne said in her autobiography that from this she ‘learned to be tough and that was a gift’ (Ducks on the Pond, p. 65). Although she won a Commonwealth Scholarship to attend university, Anne’s desire to leave home and get away from her father led her to Melbourne where her local priest had arranged a job for her at the National Civic Council, B.A. Santamaria’s organisation which aimed to mobilise Catholic unionists against communism. She later moved to a job she loved in an antiquarian bookshop, before returning to Adelaide in 1964 where she worked in the University of Adelaide library and had some formative experiences. With new friend Diana Kenwrick (now Beaton), who felt equally trapped by family and society, Anne discovered Adelaide’s bohemian underground, very different from her suburban upbringing, and met journalists for the first time. Fascinated by their work, she began to imagine being a journalist herself. That year, aged 19, Anne experienced first-hand the vulnerability, trauma and pain of women with unwanted pregnancies when she travelled to Melbourne to have a backyard abortion. The birth control pill was not available to unmarried women and abortion was illegal, so women were exploited financially by a system of power and corruption involving disreputable medical practitioners and corrupt police. As a result, women risked their lives, future reproductive capacity and health. Anne began her studies in politics at the University of Adelaide, still bleeding from the botched abortion. She joined the university’s Australian Labor Party (ALP) Club and was elected president in 1966; the same year she joined Young Labor, becoming an office bearer soon after, and meeting major political figures of the time including Bob Hawke, Don Dunstan, Gough Whitlam, Arthur Calwell, Mick Young and Jim Cairns. She graduated with a BA (Honours) in Politics. Involved in the movement opposing the Vietnam war, she experienced divisions in her family and wider society because of prevailing polarised views. She became impatient with Labor’s approach and by 1969 her interest was captured by the radical student movement and the evolving women’s liberation movement. In 1967 Anne married fellow Adelaide University politics student and ALP member John Summers. They moved to the remote Aboriginal community of Musgrave Park (now called Amata) in the far north-west of South Australia where John was an Arts and Crafts Officer. After returning to Adelaide a year later, and working part-time while she continued her degree, Anne found that all the possibilities suggested by the women’s movement were increasingly incompatible with marriage. She left John and moved to Sydney where she began a PhD at the University of New South Wales but transferred a year later to the University of Sydney. During this time, Anne became increasingly aware of the issue of domestic violence and, with a small group, was determined to do something. After reading Erin Pizzey’s Scream Quietly or the Neighbours Will Hear, a book about setting up a refuge in England, the group decided to do the same in Sydney. As a result, Elsie Women’s Refuge was founded. During her postgraduate years in Sydney, Anne’s encounter with the left-wing, intellectual Sydney Push widened her political views. In 1971, she became active in Women’s Liberation in Sydney and in 1972 she co-founded the women’s studies journal Refractory Girl. In 1975, her best-selling book Damned Whores and God’s Police: The Colonisation of Women in Australia was published; in 1979 the University awarded her a PhD for this work. Anne had felt driven to write something that helped Australian women understand themselves better by placing the emerging critique of women’s inferior position in society within a specifically Australian historical and social context. She had been influenced by an essay by historian Ann Curthoys, ‘Historiography and Women’s Liberation’, in the Marxist journal Arena which had argued: ‘we must find out how the assumptions of female inferiority in public life and subordination in the home have operated in history, and ask why some societies differentiate more than others’. She also wanted to reveal the women who had been ‘hidden from history’. Published in 1975 in both hard cover and paperback and reprinted three times by the end of 1976, Damned Whores and God’s Police has been reprinted many times since then, selling over 100,000 copies. This bestseller was updated in 1994 and in 2002, and stayed continuously in print until 2008. A new edition was published on International Women’s Day 2016. Despite the difficulties in her family, family was important to Anne. She was bereft in 1976 when, just a few months after the debut of the book, her youngest brother Jamie died of cancer. In 1999, she dedicated her autobiography to her brothers, David Cooper, Tony Cooper, Greg Cooper and Paul Cooper, saying ‘some of this story is also theirs’, ‘and in memory Jamie Patrick Cooper 1959-1976’. Academia and the news media took Damned Whores and God’s Police seriously from the outset. The major Australian newspapers chose serious men of letters to review it: Manning Clark in the Australian, Michael Cannon in the Age, J. D. Pringle, its former editor, in the Sydney Morning Herald. Although she had challenged most of these men in the book, without exception they treated it as important and ground-breaking, giving the book status. Ironically the two most dismissive reviews were written by feminists: Jill Roe in the National Review, and former advisor to Prime Minister Gough Whitlam, Elizabeth Reid, who described it in the Bulletin as ‘devastatingly bad’. After completing her PhD, Anne worked as a journalist on the National Times (1975-78), followed by: 1979-83 Political correspondent and Canberra Bureau Chief, Australian Financial Review, 1980-83 Canberra correspondent, Far Eastern Economic Review, 1983 Australian correspondent, Le Monde, 1983-86 First Assistant Secretary, Office of the Status of Women (now Office for Women) when Bob Hawke was Prime Minister, 1986-87 US Editor Australian Financial Review; North American manager and editor John Fairfax & Sons Ltd, 1989 Editorial Director, Sassy, 1987-89 Editor-in-chief, Ms. magazine. In 1987 Fairfax acquired the US landmark feminist magazine, and appointed Anne editor-in-chief. The following year, she and her business partner Sandra Yates bought Ms. and Sassy magazines from Fairfax, after raising US$20 million on Wall Street, in the second women-led management buyout in US corporate history, 1990-93 Editor-at-large, Lang Communications Inc., 1992-93 Advisor to Prime Minister Paul Keating, 1993-97 Editor, Good Weekend Magazine. In 1989 Anne was made an Officer in the Order of Australia for her services to journalism and to women. Anne was chair of the board of Greenpeace International (2000-2006) and Deputy President of Sydney’s Powerhouse Museum (1999-2008). In 2011, along with three other women, Anne was honoured as an Australian Legend with her image placed on a postage stamp. In November 2012, she began publishing Anne Summers Reports, a lavish free digital magazine that reported on politics, social issues, art, architecture and other subjects not covered adequately by the mainstream media. In September 2013 Anne launched her series of Anne Summers Conversations events, with former Prime Minister Julia Gillard in front of a packed Sydney Opera House. In addition to her classic Damned Whores and God’s Police, Anne has published 7 books: The Misogyny Factor (2013), The Lost Mother: A Story of Art and Love (2009, 2010), On Luck (2009), The End of Equality (2003), Ducks on the Pond: An Autobiography (1999), Gamble for Power (1983) and Her-Story: Australian Women in Print 1788-1975 (with Margaret Bettison, 1980). She writes a regular opinion column for the Sydney Morning Herald. Anne currently lives in Sydney with Chip Rolley, her partner of almost 30 years, who now has a senior position with PEN America in New York. Anne will join him there in late 2017. The revision of this entry in 2017 was sponsored by a generous donation from the later Dr Thelma Hunter. Events 2001 - 2001 Inducted into the Victorian Honour Roll of Women 1970 - 1990 1989 - 1989 Service to journalism and to women’s affairs. 1994 - 1994 2000 - 2000 2014 - 2014 2015 - 2015 2017 - 2017 1976 - 1976 Best Newspaper Feature Story, The National Times Sydney Published resources Edited Book Who's Who in Australia 2002, Herd, Margaret, 2002 Australian Women and the Political System, Simms, Marian, 1984 Article The Literary Luncheon Series, http://www.smh.com.au/news/literarylunches/trio.html Feminist Fighter, Rayner, Moira, http://home.vicnet.net.au/~abr/FebMarch00/ray.html Back to the Future: Urgent Issues for Men and Women of Australia, Summers, Anne, 1997, http://www.actu.org.au/actu-media/archives/1997/back-to-the-future-urgent-issues-for-the-men-and-women-of-australia Dangerous remedies: ending the horror of backyard abortions, Summers, Anne, 2012, http://theconversation.com/dangerous-remedies-ending-the-horror-of-backyard-abortions-10472 Book Damned Whores and God's Police: The Colonization of Women in Australia, Summers, Anne, 1975 Her Story, Australian Women in Print 1788-1975, Bettison, Margaret and Summers, Anne (compiled by); Roberts, Anne (photography by), 1980 Gamble for Power: How Bob Hawke beat Malcolm Fraser: the 1983 Federal Election, Summers, Anne; Cook, Patrick (cartoons by), 1983 Ducks on the Pond: An Autobiography 1945-1976, Summers, Anne, 1999 A Woman's Place: Women and Politics in Australia, Sawer, Marian and Simms, Marian, 1993 Australian women writers : a bibliographic guide, Adelaide, Debra, 1988 Uphill all the way: a documentary history of women in Australia, Daniels, Kay and Murnane, Mary, 1980 Conference Paper Children in Australia, Factor, June; Summers, Anne, c1985 The Curse of the Lucky Country, Summers, Anne, 1991 Videorecording Not a Bedroom War, c1993 Sound recording [Conversation with Anne Summers], Summers, Anne, 1975 Resource Section Memorable Summers, Summers, Anne, 1999 Political Science, Grey, Madeline, 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders/biogs/WLE0178b.htm Women's Liberation Movement, Magarey, Susan, 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders/biogs/WLE0139b.htm Public Service/Policy, MacDermott, Kate, 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders/biogs/WLE0446b.htm Movement against Domestic Violence, Murray, Suellen, 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders/biogs/WLE0404b.htm Journal Article The Impact of Feminist Scholarship on Australian Political Science, Sawer, Marian, 2004 Newspaper Article The operation that made me a criminal, Summers, Anne, 2012, http://www.theage.com.au/national/the-operation-that-made-me-a-criminal-20121102-28pgy.html Kay Daniels: writer, historian, scholar and bureaucrat, Summers, Anne, 2001 Lecture Her Rights at Work: The Political Persecution of Australia's First Female Prime Minister', Summers, Anne, 2012, http://www.annesummers.com.au/speeches/her-rights-at-work-the-political-perseucution-of-australias-first-female-prime-minister/ Site Exhibition Women Who Caucus: Feminist Political Scientists, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2017, http://womenaustralia.info/exhib/caucus/ 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 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 The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia, Smart, Judith and Swain, Shurlee (eds.), 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Papers of Anne Summers, 1967-2007 [manuscript] Flinders University Library, Special Collections Anne Levy celebration introducing Dr. Anne Summers National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Anne Summers interviewed by Humphrey McQueen [sound recording] Anne Summers interviewed by Hazel de Berg in the Hazel de Berg collection [sound recording] Anne Summers interviewed by Sara Dowse [sound recording] Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection Pat Richardson scrapbooks relating to the Women's Electoral Lobby and women's events, 1977-2002 State Library of New South Wales Elsie Women's Refuge records, ca. 1974-2014 Author Details Niki Francis Created 9 January 2002 Last modified 12 September 2017 Digital resources Title: Photo Montage Julia Gillard Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Title: Ann Summers Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

1926-1927, 1937-1990??Executive Committee Meeting Minutes, 17 April 1958 – 18 May 1971 (Call No.: ADD ON 2061/BOX 1)?Executive Committee Meeting Minutes, 15 June 1971 – 21 June 1977 (Call No.: ADD ON 2061/BOX 2)?Executive Committee Meeting Minutes, 19 July 1977 – 18 June 1985 (Call No.: ADD ON 2061/BOX 3)?General Council Meeting Minutes, 28 July 1955 – 25 May 1978 (Call No.: ADD ON 2061/BOX 4)?General Council Meeting Minutes, 29 June 1978 – 25 August 1988 (Call No.: ADD ON 2061/BOX 5)?Financial records : Cash books, 1926 – 1927, 1948 – 1990 (Call No.: ADD ON 2061/BOX 6)?Financial records : Auditor’s Statements of Income and Expenditure, 1937 – 1965, 1982, 1984 – 1985; Register of receipt books, 1966 – 1974 (Call No.: ADD ON 2061/BOX 7) Author Details Alannah Croom Created 31 October 2017 Last modified 31 October 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Vera White (née Deakin) the daughter of Australian Prime Minister Alfred Deakin and his philanthropic wife Pattie was appointed an Officer of the British Empire for her work with the Red Cross during the First World War. She received her award on 15 March 1918. Vera Deakin was born at “Llanarth” South Yarra, the youngest of the three daughters of Alfred and Pattie Deakin. She was educated first by her aunt – Catherine (Katie) Deakin who was an accomplished pianist. Vera then attended the Melbourne Church of England Girl’s Grammar School. She also studied the ‘cello and singing’. In 1913 she travelled with her aunt as chaperone to Berline and Budapest where she was a student at the Singing School and conservatorium of Music. During World War I, in 1915 with Winifred Johnson, she sailed to Cairo and set up, organised and administered the ‘Wounded and Missing Enquiry Bureau’ of the Australian Red Cross Society. In 1916, when Australian troops were sent to the Western Front, Vera and Winifred sailed to London, Vera with assistance of many Australian and English women including Lilian Whybrow (later Scantlebury) transferred the Bureau of London. Vera was awarded the OBE for her work. This was the first ever civilian list. She worked there (voluntarily) until 1919 when she became engaged to Captain T W White of the Australian Flying Corps (the only Australian to have escaped from a Turkish prisoner-of-war camp). In 1919 she returned home to Melbourne as her father was ill, he died in October 1919. Thomas White and Vera Deakin were married in March 1920, there were four daughters of the marriage – Lilian (Bennett) 1921-2002, Patricia (Sharp) 1923-, Shirley (Wadman) 1925-, Judith (Harley) 1929-. From 1929 Thomas White was a Federal member of Parliament. His wife Vera did a great deal for the constituents of his electorate (Balaclava, now Goldstein), particularly when her husband was overseas in the RAAF in World War II. Besides caring for her daughters, Vera was from 1931-39 a very active member of the Board of Management of the (Royal) Children’s Hospital and President of the Auxiliaries. She help to found with (Lady) Ella Latham the Victorian Society for Crippled Children and Adults at the of the polio epidemic. Later she became president 1961-66, then Vice-president in 1966 and worked on their committees until she was in her late 80’s. She was a member of the Limbless Soldiers Melba Welfare Trust from 1930. In 1935 she took her mother Pattie Deakin’s place as Trustee of the Sir Samuel McCaughey Bequest for the education of the children of deceased or incapacitated soldiers. She was the founder and President of The Anzac Fellowship of the Women of Victoria from its inauguration in 1935 until the 1950’s and then again from the 1960’s until her death. She was for many years on the Council of the Melbourne Church of England Girls’ Grammar School. Prior to World War II she helped the Victorian Division of Red Cross organise Emergency Training Groups and helped put in motion the mobilisation plans is 1939 all over Victoria. She with Lilian Scantlebury were Divisional Commandants and Honorary Directors of the Inquiry Bureau, as well as the Prisoner of War Department and Message Service to Occupied Europe from 1939-46. She was Vice-Chairman of the Society from 1949-51when she went to London when her husband was appointed Australian High Commissioner in London. While in London she was on the Council for the Care of Cripples and represented Australian Red Cross at conferences. With her husband she promoted and supported the Australian Musical Association in London, and she and her husband were instrumental in the appointment of the first Social worker at Australia House. Sir Thomas died in 1957 in Melbourne and Vera again became involved with Red Cross as a member of the Committee of the Red Cross Welfare Service and the first Chairman of the Committee for Music in Mental Hospitals. She also became patron of the Astra Music Society at its inception. She died at her home in South Yarra aged 87 in 1978 and was cremated. This entry was researched and written by Judith Harley, the youngest daughter of Vera Deakin White. Sources used to compile this entry: Australian Dictionary of Biography vol. 16 p. 535, Deakin papers at the National Library, family papers and Who’s Who in Australia 1977. Published resources Edited Book Who's Who in Australia 1950, Alexander, Joseph A, 1950 Resource Section Unsung heroes : Australia's military medical personnel, Australian War Memorial, http://www.awm.gov.au/1918/medical/ White, Vera Deakin (1891-1978), Rickard, John, 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A160637b.htm Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 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 Archival resources National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Papers of Alfred Deakin, 1804-1973 (bulk 1880-1919) [manuscript] Papers on various Australian women [19--] [manuscript] Letters from Stella, Catherine and Pattie Deakin, 1909-1914 [manuscript] Author Details Anne Heywood Created 8 October 2002 Last modified 4 May 2009 Digital resources Title: Vera Deakin White Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

I. Copy of letter to Secretary of State for the Colonies asking permission to resign as Gov. Gen., January 1908. Also draft MS document (in handwriting of H.H. Share, Private Secretary) requesting Royal permission to resign.?II. Farewell letters, addresses, etc. from individuals and institutions, June-September 1908. Correspondents include Lord Elgin, Senator H. de Largie, Sir John Quick, Vida Goldstein (Women’s Political Association of Australia), Britomarte James (Writers’ Club) and Ambrose Pratt. Also addresses from various towns.?III. Programmes of entertainments, menus, etc. July 1908. Also newscuttings, July 1908, re departure of Lord and Lady Northcote. Author Details Clare Land Created 9 December 2001 Last modified 12 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Born Charlotte Waring in London in 1796, Charlotte sailed for Sydney in 1826 employed to teach the children of Hannibal Macarthur. On the voyage she became engaged to James Atkinson who was returning to his property at Oldbury, Sutton Forest; they married on 29 September 1827 and had four children. When the youngest, Louisa, was only two months old James Atkinson died aged 34, leaving Charlotte to manage a large holding, run far-flung outstations and control convict labour in a district beset by bushranging gangs. In need of male protection, she married the Oldbury superintendent, George Bruce Barton, who turned out to be violent, unpredictable, a drunkard and mentally disturbed, from whom she made a daring escape with her children. Fiercely independent, Charlotte succeeded in challenging the male-dominated legal system and retaining custody of her children. In 1841 while receiving no money from the Atkinson estate, she wrote A Mother’s Offering to Her Children, the first children’s book published in Australia. Charlotte died at Oldbury on 10 October 1867. Charlotte Waring Atkinson Barton (1796-1867), governess, grazier, feminist, author, was baptised in London on 13 March 1796, third daughter of Albert Waring, a barrister of independent means, and his wife Elizabeth Turner, who died when Charlotte was less than two. Reputed to be a child prodigy, from the age of ten Charlotte attended a school in Kent where she was instructed in the ‘general branches of polite female education’ including music, drawing and French. She studied painting under the celebrated painter, John Glover, then President of the Society of Painters in Water-colours. Immediately after leaving school at the age of about fifteen she was engaged as a governess in the family of John Lochner of London and Enfield, under an arrangement that allowed her to continue her education. After about four years she took a position in the family of Thomas Trafford, of Trafford Park, Lancashire, where she was in charge of five children, the eldest fifteen. Two years later she resigned because of ill health. At 30 she was engaged by Harriet King, to teach the children of her brother-in-law, Hannibal Macarthur at his property The Vineyard in New South Wales at the very high salary of £100 a year. She sailed for Sydney on the Cumberland in 1826 on the voyage displeasing Harriet King by becoming engaged to James Atkinson, a leading agriculturalist and grazier in New South Wales. Atkinson was returning to his property at Oldbury, Sutton Forest, after publishing his book, An Account of the State of Agriculture and Grazing in New South Wales (1826). Charlotte dismissed Harriet King’s criticism of her engagement saying she ‘must be mistress of her own actions’. Charlotte Waring took up her position with the Macarthurs but left after seven months marrying James Atkinson on 29 September 1827 at St Paul’s Church of England, Cobbity. Her first child, Charlotte Elizabeth, was born at Oldbury on 22 July 1828; (Jane) Emily on 6 June 1830; James John Oldbury on 7 April 1832 and (Caroline) Louisa Waring on 25 February 1834. Two months after the birth of Louisa, James Atkinson died suddenly at the age of 34. Charlotte was left to manage a large property, run far-flung outstations, control convict labour in a district beset by bushranging gangs where there was a breakdown of law and order, as well as care for her children. In need of a protector, on 3 March 1836 at All Saints’ chapel, Sutton Forest, Charlotte married George Bruce Barton, superintendent at Oldbury. Her remarriage changed her legal position from being custodian of Oldbury to merely the lessor’s wife. The executors of Atkinson’s will, John Coghill and Alexander Berry, leased the property to Barton, who proved to be violent, unpredictable, a drunkard and mentally disturbed. In 1839 Charlotte fled from him with her children down the precipitous Meryla Pass through the wild gorges of the Shoalhaven River to a coastal outstation at Budgong where she continued their education, particularly inculcating a love of nature. In 1840 the family moved to Sydney and Charlotte applied for legal protection from Barton. In an unrelated matter that is an indicator of Barton’s violent disposition, he was tried for murder in February 1854 at the Bathurst Circuit Court and found guilty of manslaughter. Charlotte’s relations with the executors deteriorated, Berry referring to her as ‘a notable she-dragon’. She became involved in long-running legal battles, Atkinson v. Barton and Others, in which she fought to retain custody of her children and financial support. At one stage the master in equity determined that they should be taken from her and educated in boarding schools but this decision was overturned. At a time when she was receiving no money from the Atkinson estate, Charlotte published A Mother’s Offering to Her Children (1841). The first children’s book to be published in Australia, it was a collection of instructional stories arranged in the form of a dialogue between a mother and her four children. The anonymous author was ‘A Lady Long Resident in New South Wales’, but a contemporary review in the Sydney Gazette, where the book was printed, identified Charlotte Barton. Despite the disruption of continuing legal cases, Charlotte maintained a close-knit family life in an atmosphere of learning and scholarship. In 1846 the family returned to Oldbury. There, and later in Sydney and at Kurrajong, she particularly fostered the talents of her youngest daughter Louisa. Survived by a son and two daughters, Charlotte died at Oldbury on 10 October 1867 and was buried in the family vault at All Saints’ graveyard, where her first husband was interred. Charlotte was a small woman, 5 ft 1½ ins (156 cm) tall, of ‘particularly handsome and brilliant’ appearance with ‘full large black eyes, black hair which curled naturally and fine features’, well educated, with artistic talent and a great interest in natural history. Fiercely independent, as an abused wife and sole parent she succeeded in challenging the male-dominated legal system. Archival resources National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Papers of Patricia Clarke, 1887-2010 [manuscript] National Library of Australia Journal kept on board the "Cumberland" bound from England to New South Wales [manuscript] Author Details Patricia Clarke Created 9 August 2019 Last modified 9 August 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

[Red Cross Archives series reference: V11]??Comprises index cards detailing Junior Red Cross group activities administered within participating schools throughout Victoria. Cards are filed alphabetically by school or associated Junior Red Cross group names. Each card includes the school/group name, the teacher/s who coordinated the group, details of Victorian Red Cross office-bearers for each year and a summary of the activities undertaken by the group. The activities and actions of administration of each group are identified on a separate card titled “Particulars”, which date and list actions of communication, donations, expenditure and membership letters from the Red Cross to the school group or visa versa.??This series has an alphabetical list of participating schools and the dates groups were active. Researchers are encouraged to review this list to determine whether there likely to be an index card for a particular school or group.??Researchers should note that under the Geneva Conventions Act 1957 protections govern the use of the Red Cross emblem. For further information see Archives staff. Author Details Stella Marr Created 9 August 2017 Last modified 30 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Pearl Gibbs was a major figure in Aboriginal political activism from the late 1920s to the 1970s. She was involved in organising the Day of Mourning on 26 January 1938 to protest the invasion; spoke for the Committee for Aboriginal Citizen Rights; supported Northern Territory Aborigines in their conflicts with a frontier ‘justice’ system; called for Aboriginal representation on the New South Wales Board; set up the Dubbo branch of the Australian Aborigines’ League with Bill Ferguson in 1946; became the organising secretary for a new Melbourne-based Council for Aboriginal Rights in 1953; was elected as the Aboriginal member of the Aborigines Welfare Board in 1954 and its only woman member; established the Australian Aboriginal Fellowship (with Faith Bandler) in 1956 and the first hostel for Aboriginal hospital patients and their families in Dubbo in 1960; and continued contributing to Aboriginal conferences throughout the 1970s. Pearl Gibbs grew up in the Yass and Brewarrina areas. After attending racially-segregated schools at Yass and Cowra, she worked as a maid and cook and married an English sailor named Gibbs. They later separated, leaving Pearl to raise their daughter and two sons. From the late 1920s Pearl started organising Aboriginal protests and from 1937 became a major figure in the Aboriginal political network. She was an early member of the Aborigines’ Progressive Association, appearing at meetings in Sydney’s Domain and drawing large crowds because a woman speaker was rare and because Pearl spoke with such fluency and passion. During the campaign for full citizen rights and an end to the Aborigines Protection Board, Pearl concentrated on women’s issues: ‘apprenticeships’ (’employment’ of Aboriginal girls as domestic servants by the Aborigines Protection Board), school and hospital segregation, health and the meagre Board rations on Aboriginal reserves. She successfully lobbied many women’s organisations, including the Sydney Feminist Club, and made wider alliances with centre and left political groups than other Aboriginal activist in New South Wales at the time. Pearl Gibbs was secretary of the Aborigines’ Progressive Association from 1938 to 1940; vice-president and then secretary of the Dubbo branch of the Australian Aborigines’ League in the 1940/50s; the organising secretary for a new Council for Aboriginal Rights in 1953; the Aboriginal member of the Aboriginal Welfare Board from 1954 to 1957; and vice-president of the Australian Aboriginal Fellowship in the 1950s. Events 2001 - 2001 Inducted into the Victorian Honour Roll of Women Published resources Book Section Pearl Gibbs, Goodall, Heather, [1988] Book Turning the tide : a personal history of the Federal Council for the Advancement of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders, Bandler, Faith, 1989 Journal Article Gibbs, Pearl, 1971 Gibbs, Pearl, 1962 Gibbs, Pearl, 1957 Gibbs, Pearl Mary (Mrs), 1954 Pearl Gibbs : Aboriginal Patriot, Gilbert, Kevin, 1983 Lovable Natives' and 'Tribal Sisters' : Feminism, Maternalism, and the Campaign for Aboriginal Citizenship in New South Wales in the Late 1930s, Haskins, Victoria, 1998 Aboriginal Sydney, Hoddle, Vance, 2003 Pearl Gibbs : A Biographical Tribute, Horner, Jack, 1983 2001 Eldershaw Memorial Lecture Founding Fathers, Dutiful Wives and Rebellious Daughters, Lake, Marilyn, 2001 Edited Book Before it's too late : anthropological reflections, 1950-1970 : Jane C. Goodale, Ruth Fink, Jeremy Beckett, L.R. Hiatt and J. A. Barnes, Gray, Geoffrey G (edited and compiled by), 2001 200 Australian Women: A Redress Anthology, Radi, Heather, 1988 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia, Smart, Judith and Swain, Shurlee (eds.), 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders Author Details Leonarda Kovacic Created 8 June 2004 Last modified 12 September 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Elizabeth McKeahnie was a successful, independent pastoralist between 1882 and 1911, at a time when women generally did not run their own properties. She owned and operated Blythburn, an 810ha dairy and cattle property next to her parents’ property, Booroomba, near Tharwa. She usually worked the property singlehanded, when necessary employing only women to assist her. McKeahnie was also a poet, publishing poems in the local newspaper, particularly after the deaths of friends and relatives. The daughter of Charles and Elizabeth McKeahnie, who emigrated to New South Wales in 1838, Elizabeth McKeahnie was born and grew up in country New South Wales (in what is now the ACT). Over six-foot tall in adulthood, McKeahnie was an imposing figure. She apparently rode astride and carried an ivory-handled revolver. She was known as a skilled rider and horsebreaker, regularly travelling long distances on horseback to visit family and friends. As well as caring for her aging parents (her mother died in 1899 and her father four years later), she also ran her own dairy and cattle property independently. Among the women who worked for her, according to Canberra resident, Una West, who was interviewed in 1983, were Ruth and Grace Kirchner and Mary Ann Warner. One family story suggests that when she was too ill to do the milking, those men who volunteered to assist had to wear women’s clothing while completing the task. Mckeahnie seems to have been regarded as somewhat eccentric but her obituary also emphasized her ‘feminine’ qualities. She was remembered as a ‘gracious and warm-hearted lady.’ Always impeccably dressed…her conversational gifts were above the average, and, taken altogether, she was a woman as much higher in womanly qualities as she was in stature above the ordinary. McKeahnie’s homestead at Blythburn still stands and is on the ACT National Trust List of Classified Places. (Latitude: 42.224420° N, Longitude: 94.195630° W) The main structure, which consists of three rooms opening onto a verandah without interconnecting doors, still survives, along with a kitchen building. There is also evidence of further outbuildings. The building was lived in for several years during the 1940s, when one room was converted to a kitchen, but is otherwise reminiscent of McKeahnie’s occupation between 1882 and 1919. McKeahnie received Blythburn from her father in 1882 and after his death she bought adjoining land in 1905 and 1908. Her brother Charles assumed active management of the entire property in 1911, but McKeahnie lived in the house until her death. Like the rest of her family McKeahnie was active in the Presbyterian Church. Her family had a long association with St Stephen’s in Queanbeyan, where she is buried in the family plot. Her mother laid the foundation stones of both the church in 1872 and the manse eleven years later and her brother donated the McKeahnie Font, in memory of his parents and two daughters. A memorial tablet commemorating Elizabeth McKeahnie was unveiled inside the church in 1921. McKeahnie also wrote poetry, primarily in times of grief and distress. ‘My Darling Niece’ was written after the death in 1877 of her niece, Jane Elizabeth McKeahnie, and ‘In Memorial’ in 1907 for Charles, the son of her brother, Archibald. Several of her poems were published in the Queanbeyan Age. Other poems included ‘Effect of the Drought’ and ‘Gone’, neither particularly cheerful. ‘Gone’ was written in 1892, a few months after the death of Kenneth Cameron, who was also memorialized in ‘In Memory of Kenneth Cameron’. (1891) Cameron was a close friend who had proposed marriage to her. McKeahnie’s father refused to give his permission, although it is not clear why. Both were members of the same church and Cameron had no financial problems. He was twenty-one years older than McKeahnie. Neither Cameron nor McKeahnie ever married and legend has it that McKeahnie wore a black -banded wedding ring engraved with Cameron’s initials after his death. There has been a suggestion that Charles McKeahnie gave his daughter the Blythburn property as some sort of compensation for refusing to allow her to marry. A contributor to the Queanbeyan Age and Observer, writing about McKeahnie several months after her death, concluded ‘Nature seemed to point her for something else, but it was the old, old story of a wasted life and ‘what might have been.’ There is certainly a sense of disappointment in McKeahnie’s life, particularly in relation to her thwarted relationship with Kenneth Cameron, and some sadness is reflected in her poetry. Nevertheless, she seems to have been a well-respected and admired member of the local community. She had financial independence. She found enjoyment in her garden and her poetry and undoubtedly took pride in her ability to run a successful cattle and dairy farm. She remains remarkable as one of few rural women of her era to run a successful independent business on the land. Poetry (collected in Lyall Gillespie’s, Early verse of the Canberra region): Dear Land of My Ancestors (1876) Only A Dream (1876) Awa’ Cald Winter (1876) My Darling Niece (1877) What I Love (1878) In Memory of Mr Kenneth Cameron (1891) In Memory of Mr Kenneth Cameron: Fate (1891) Alone (date unknown) A Memoir (1895) In Memoriam (1906) Poetry (collected in Brian Moore, Cotter Country): Effect of the Drought (date unknown) Gone (1892) In Memoriam (1907) Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Classified Places: ACT National Trust List of Classified (C) or Recorded (R) Places, National Trust of Australia (ACT), 2008, http://www.nationaltrustact.org.au/?pageid=21 Book Early Verse of the Canberra Region: A Collection of Poetry, Verse and Doggerel from Newspapers, Other Publications and Private Sources, Gillespie, Lyall, 1994 Cotter Country, Moore, Bruce, 1999 Report ACT Heritage Register (Decision about Registration for Booroomba Station - Incorporating Blythburn, and Braeside and Adjacent Plouhlands), ACT Heritage Council, 2011, http://www.environment.act.gov.au/heritage/heritage_register/register_by_suburb Blythburn Conservation Plan - Stage 1: The Buildings. Report Prepared for Anna and John Hyles, ACT, Martin, Eric and Associates, 2000 Strine Design for Australian Department of Housing and Construction A.C.T. Region 'Blythburn Cottage conservation plan', Canberra Department of Housing and Construction, 1938 Resource Section Blythburn/2000/01, 2000, http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/SrlGjEPF183KcxkvMs_9-Q Elizabeth Julia McKeahnie, 2004, http://www.triviumpublishing.com/womenshistorymonth/featuredwomen/elizabethmckeahnie.html Journal Article Enterprising Gaels Become Pioneer Pastoralists, Corp, Tony, 1982 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 Catherine Bishop Created 22 June 2012 Last modified 20 November 2018 Digital resources Title: Elizabeth Julia McKeahnie Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

c. October 1941. Studio portrait of NX76505 Alice Burns, Voluntary Aid Detachment (VAD). Miss Burns served in the Middle East and then in Queensland after the VADs became the Australian Army Medical Women’s Service (AAMWS). (Donor A. Penman) Author Details Anne Heywood Created 3 April 2003 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

MS Acc10.210 includes a scrapbook kept by Betty Hocking of newspaper cuttings and correspondence primarily relating to the ACT division of the Australian Family Movement, the Family Team (ACT Division), as well as the Lindy Chamberlain Court case; together with loose newspaper cuttings relating to ballet and other performing arts (1 packet).??MS 17.106 comprises Hocking’s manuscript Facing the Wind, originally compiled in the 1980s while Hocking was a Member of the ACT House of Assembly, concerning the case of Graham Potter. The case was investigated by the National Freedom Council, of which Betty Hocking was President (1 packet). Author Details Alannah Croom Created 13 March 2018 Last modified 13 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

The papers include autobiographical notes by Muriel Heagney, inwards and outwards correspondence 1936-1968, drafts and notes for Are women taking men’s jobs? (1936) and Arbitration at the crossroads (1953), and for other proposed books, for articles, papers and talks. Also papers relating to her role in the Australian Labor Party and a complete set of minute books and correspondence of the Council of Action for Equal Pay, 1937-1949. Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 21 August 2003 Last modified 29 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Professor Marian Simms is internationally prominent for her work in the fields of gender studies and political science, ethics governance and Indigenous research policy. She has held senior academic and administrative roles in Australia and New Zealand and has long-standing interests in research culture and governance in New Zealand, Sweden, South Africa and Australia. She is a former president of the Australasian Political Studies Association (APSA), a former editor of the Association’s journal, and has published prodigiously. Marian has attended the Women’s Caucus of APSA from its inception. From 2011 to 2016 she was Executive Director for Social, Behavioural and Economic Sciences at the Australian Research Council. Marian Simms was born in Canberra and lived in the nearby country where she attended a country primary school, followed by Lyneham High School in Canberra. She won a Commonwealth University Scholarship and one of the University Scholarships awarded to the top 10 students in the ACT. At the Australian National University (ANU) in Canberra, Marian studied Arts/Law and graduated with honours degrees in History and Political Science. Her honours supervisor, L F ‘Fin’ Crisp influenced her work. While he supported her academic research, Crisp’s belief that the private sphere, rather than the public, was particularly important for women inspired Marian’s commitment to address the gender gaps in his otherwise authoritative contributions to Australian political history. At the time Thelma Hunter was an enthusiastic first-year tutor of Marian, who introduced students to a wider societal perspective in her political sociology lectures and through her supervision. After graduation, Marian took up a teaching fellowship at the University of Adelaide rather than taking up a PhD scholarship at the ANU. After twelve very interesting months at the Adelaide Politics Department she accepted a postgraduate scholarship for a Master of Arts in Political Science at the University of Melbourne. She soon moved her research to La Trobe University when offered a Commonwealth Scholarship for a PhD. She was co-supervised by Joan Rydon, who had a prodigious knowledge of Australian and British politics and was Australia’s first woman professor of politics (1975). While Joan provided great critical insights into her PhD research on the Menzies Government and Public Enterprises, she was less supportive of Marian’s research on women’s activism of the period. Marian presented her postgraduate research at conferences in Australia and the United States and had papers published in Women’s Studies: International Quarterly (edited by Dale Spender), and Politics (the forerunner to the Australian Journal of Political Science). Noted political psychologist Fred Greenstein’s visit to Melbourne University brought Marian in contact with a group of influential women scholars from the United States of America who invited her to present her work in the USA. These scholars included Judith Stiehm, Joyce Gelb, Rita Mae Kelly, Jane Bayes and Mary Hawkesworth. Under Kelly’s leadership, several of this group were crucial to the establishment of the Gender, Globalization and Democratization Committee of the International Social Science Council (ISSC) in 1998, and the Globalization, Gender and Democratization Research Committee of the International Political Science Association (IPSA) in 2002. As a postgraduate student at both Melbourne and La Trobe, Marian lectured part-time at the University of Melbourne. This provided her with valuable experience and a platform for subsequent appointments at the Canberra College of Advanced Education (from 1990 the University of Canberra) and the ANU. She returned to her undergraduate university, the ANU, in 1985 as Lecturer in Political Science and was promoted to Senior Lecturer and then Reader, acting as Head of Department in 1996-97. She taught Political Science 1 for many years, and supervised many Honours, Masters and PhD students, some of whom are now senior academics and public servants. Marian also enjoyed visiting fellowships to the Research School of the Social Sciences during this time to work on several projects including the Ageing and the Family project (part-time 1985-86) and then the Reshaping Australian Institutions project (1995-96) where she worked on the future of Australian political parties. In 2002 she was appointed Chair in Political Studies and Head of Department at the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand, the first woman to serve in these roles. In 2009, Marian returned to Australia as Head of the School of History, Heritage and Society at Deakin University, Melbourne. In 2011, Marian was appointed Executive Director, Social, Behavioural and Economic Sciences at the Australian Research Council (ARC). As an early career academic at the ANU, Marian was part of a small group, which established the first national survey of political candidates that included questions about attitudes to gender, among other things, that were being used in US and United Kingdom (UK) surveys. Marian subsequently used the gender questions in a set of surveys administered to Australian party elites in the mid-1990s funded by the ANU under the ARC’s small grants scheme. The Hon. Joan Kirner cited some of this research in the Victorian Parliament to illustrate that Labor Party conference and council delegates supported Affirmative Action as a gender equity strategy. The work was published in Australian and international journals and edited collections. In collaboration with Pippa Norris (US) and Joni Lovenduski (UK) and others, Marian also examined candidate selection systems for their role in the political under-representation of women and minority groups. Marian became involved in the Women’s Caucus of the APSA when it was founded by Carole Pateman and Marian Sawer at the 1979 APSA conference in Hobart. During her years as Executive Director at the ARC (2011-16), she presented regular reports to the Caucus’s Annual General Meeting on how women fared in ARC funding and updated the group on ARC’s gender and workforce policies. As a co-editor of the Australian Journal of Political Science (2011-16) she ensured that its annual reports showed the gender statistics in terms of submission and acceptance rates and publishing patterns, such as single versus multiple authorship. Marian’s publications list includes 5 authored/co-authored books, 9 edited/co-edited books, over 50 chapters in edited collections, a prodigious number of journal articles, conference papers, monographs, reports and published public lectures. She was awarded research funding by the ARC and its predecessor schemes, the United Nations Educational and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO), the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia (ASSA), the International Social Science Council (ISSC), the National Council for the Centenary of Federation, and the Sequi-Centenary Council of New South Wales. An edited collection of papers on women and politics, presented at sessions of the Women’s Caucus of APSA in the early 1980s, prepared for Politics, was subsequently edited by Marian for Longman Cheshire (Australian Women and the Political System, 1982). In 1984 Allen & Unwin published A Women’s Place co-authored with Marian Sawer; a substantially revised second edition was published in 1994. Her books on political parties commenced with A Liberal Nation (Hale & Iremonger, Sydney, 1982), followed by The Paradox of Parties: Australian Political Parties in the 1990s (edited) (Allen & Unwin, 1997). Marian’s continuing interest in gender regimes was reflected in articles, chapters and seminar papers on gender and leadership, exploring the opportunity structures and barriers to women’s political contributions, including a 2008 article in Signs: The Journal of Women, Culture and Society, and research comparing Margaret Thatcher and Helen Clark published in Paul ‘t Hart and John Uhr’s book Public Leadership: Perspectives and Practices (2008). Her work on the emergence of democracy included an edited book on the 1901 election (2001), a book on the origin and evolution of New South Wales democratic institutions, From the Hustings to Harbour Views (2006), her inaugural professorial lecture on ‘Settler Democracy’ in Australia and New Zealand (2004), and her co-edited volume on Political Parties and Democracy: Africa and Oceania (2010). This work both explained and critiqued these processes including their limitations in terms of equal representation for women and Indigenous people. Marian is active in the administration and evaluation of research. From 2005 to 2009 she was the inaugural convenor of the Humanities Research Cluster on Political Communication, Policy and Participation at the University of Otago. The cluster sponsored research on political communication in British, Australian and New Zealand elections, research workshops for postgraduates, public lectures and several high-profile visitors. From 2003 to 2006 she chaired IPSA’s Research Committee on Gender, Globalization and Democratization. The Swedish Research Council invited her to chair the process for selecting and evaluating new centres of research excellence in 2006 and 2008, and she served two terms as a member of the Social Science panel of the Performance Based Research Funding Evaluation in New Zealand (equivalent of Australia’s Excellence in Research for Australia). She reviewed the South African Indigenous Knowledges Program for the South African National Research Foundation; the final report was published in 2015. She has served on numerous boards and committees, including Deakin University’s Institute of Koori Education. Other activities have included the Quality of Governance Study Group, associated with the American Society for Public Administration, and the Gender and Politics Group, associated with the American Political Science Association. In her role as Executive Director for Social, Behavioural and Economic Sciences at the Australian Research Council from 2011 to 2016 Marian ‘contributed significantly to Australian research, including undertaking extensive outreach to promote and improve the ARC’s research workforce policies, to support early-career researchers, women researchers, researchers re-entering the workforce after career-breaks and Indigenous researchers. She also contributed to national research ethics reviews.’ (ARC media release, 29 Nov 2016). From October 2014, Marian was Adjunct Professor at Deakin University, Geelong, Victoria, Australia and from 2015 she was Adjunct Professor at the University of Canberra, ACT, Australia. She was appointed a Fellow of St Margaret’s College, University of Otago in 2003. This entry was sponsored by a generous donation from the late Dr Thelma Hunter. Events 1982 - 1982 Potter Foundation postdoctoral travel award 2003 - 2003 For contribution made to Australian society’, specifically for her research on the 1901 election. 1988 - 1989 University of Southern California Published resources Resource Section Political Science, Grey, Madeline, 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders/biogs/WLE0178b.htm Journal Article The Legacies of Federation: The Case of the 1901 General Election, Simms, Marian, 2002 Resource ARC welcomes Associate Professor Therese Jefferson and thanks Professor Marian Simms, 2016, http://www.arc.gov.au/news-media/media-releases/arc-welcomes-associate-professor-therese-jefferson-and-thanks-professor Book A Woman's Place: Women and Politics in Australia, Sawer, Marian and Simms, Marian, 1993 Edited Book Australian Women and the Political System, Simms, Marian, 1984 Lecture A Woman's Place: Women in Australian and British Politics, Simms, Marian, 1989 Book Section Political Science, Women and Feminism, Simms, Marian, 1984 Site Exhibition Women Who Caucus: Feminist Political Scientists, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2017, http://womenaustralia.info/exhib/caucus/ Author Details Niki Francis Created 1 May 2017 Last modified 3 July 2017 Digital resources Title: Marian Simms Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Minutes, music library, pictorial material, correspondence. Author Details Ann-Mari Jordens Created 29 May 2009 Last modified 29 May 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

The Nova Peris Collection comprises fifty-three items relating to Nova Peris’ sporting and artistic career. It includes her gold medals from the 1994 Hockey World Cup, 1995 Hockey Champions Trophy, 1996 Atlanta Olympics, 1998 Commonwealth Games and the 2001 Australian National Championships. Also included are her team uniforms and ephemera relating to the two Olympic Games and one Commonwealth Games at which she competed. Her torch and torchbearer’s uniform from the Sydney Olympics Torch Relay, two commemorative coins she co-designed for the Sydney Olympics and her Order of Australia medal are also in the collection. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 21 November 2017 Last modified 21 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

MS 1924 consists of correspondence, notes, diaries, minute books, photographs and cuttings covering every phase of the careers of Herbert and Ivy Brookes. There are papers on the Liberal Party, People’s Liberal Party, Commonwealth Liberal Party, Brown Society, 1907-1921, Australian Protective League, 1918, National Union, 1917, Loyalist League, 1918, Board of Trade, 1918-1928, Tariff Board, 1922-1928, Australian Broadcasting Commission, 1932-1940, University of Melbourne, 1933-1947, National Council of Women, 1921-1970, Women’s Hospital, 1912-1970, International Club, 1932-1958, and the Lady Northcote Permanent Trust Fund, 1908-1969 (140 boxes, 3 fol. Boxes, 4 fol. Items, 1 framed item).??The main correspondents are: Sir Kenneth Bailey, Sir James Barrett, Sir Norman Brookes, S.M. Bruce, W.J. Cleary, Sir Joseph Cook, Bishop Philip Crick, Alfred and Pattie Deakin, Sir Frederic Eggleston, Sir Littleton Groom, Sir Bernard Heinze, W.M. Hughes, Arthur Woodward, Sir Richard Jebb, H. Price, Ina Fisher, Timothy Littleton, J.S. Crow, Philip Kennedy, Sir Walter Leitch, A.H.S. Lucas, Jane McMillan, Professor G.W.L. Marshall-Hall, Sir Walter Massey-Green, Sir Walter Murdoch, George Nicholas, Sir George Pearce, Sir Claude Reading, Staniforth Ricketson, Sir David Rivett, Rohan Rivett, T.E. Ruth, Rev. Charles Strong and Mary Allen.??Card index to correspondence available.??The Acc05.153 instalment comprises a pocket diary, 1970, the last kept by Ivy Brookes (1 folder). Author Details Anne Heywood Created 29 August 2003 Last modified 5 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

International Women’s Development Agency (IWDA) is an Australian based non-government organisation, established in 1985, which undertakes projects in partnership with women from around the world, giving priority to working with women who suffer poverty and oppression. IWDA addresses economics, power, leadership, safety, security and systemic change to advance women’s rights and gender equality in Australia, the region and the world. The first IWDA meeting was held in 1985 by Ruth Pfanner, Wendy Poussard and Wendy Rose. That same year, the launch of IWDA was officially announced at the NGO Women’s Forum of the United Nations Third World Conference on Women in Nairobi. The IWDA office was opened in Melbourne with the support of volunteers and soon after the organisations first program was launched; providing health care training to women in the Philippines. IWDA became a full member of the Australian Council for Overseas Aid (now the Australian Council for International Development) in 1986. In 2000, IWDA funded their 300th overseas project. Since the organisation’s inception in 1985, IWDA has worked with 194 program partners across 36 countries and territories. At the centre of IWDA’s development philosophy is the upholding of women’s human rights and the promotion of equality. IWDA’s projects aim to increase women’s skills and their confidence to participate in decision making within their families and communities, both locally and nationally. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources State Library of Victoria Records and audio tapes, 1985-1996. [manuscript]. Author Details Elle Morrell and Nikki Henningham Created 14 February 2001 Last modified 5 September 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

1 sound tape reel (ca. 45 min.)??Casey speaks of her family and childhood; her reasons for writing; her art training; how she writes her books. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 23 March 2018 Last modified 23 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Lulu Benstead began her singing career in Coolgardie and performed from 1907 until 1911 throughout the goldfields and New South Wales. She retired in 1934. Lulu Benstead was born in Alice Springs the daughter of goldfields pioneer Bill (William) Benstead and Triphenia Benstead. She studied with Mrs Jack Wilson in Coolgardie and performed regularly in the goldfields. Indeed, the Western Mail newspaper described Coolgardie as the ‘…musical centre of the goldfields’. She also toured Australia, performing in Sydney and in country areas with the Lulu Benstead Company. The Coolgardie Lulu Benstead Continental Musical Education Fund Committee was set up in 1907 to raise money for Lulu’s further musical education. In 1911 Lulu travelled to Paris and Berlin with the assistance of money raised from benefit concerts in Western Australia and donations from her Western Australian supporters. A report of one benefit concert in 1909 described her performance thus: ‘…a brilliant display of her beautiful soprano voice, and added another laurel to her luxuriant wreath of success’. A successful entertainer, Lulu performed in the USA, Canada and England singing vaudeville, comedy, comic opera, burlesque and revue. She retired from the stage in 1934, married Englishman Mr Stelling and lived in England. Published resources Newspaper Article Lulu Benstead, 1908, http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/57581422 Lulu Benstead, 1909, http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/57596393 Miss Lulu Benstead, 1909, http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/57595769 Miss Lulu Benstead, 1925, http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/37644972 Book Daughters of Midas. Pioneer Women of the Eastern Goldfields, King, Norma, 1988 Site Exhibition Karlkurla Gold: A History of the Women of Kalgoorlie-Boulder, Criena Fitzgerald and National Foundation for Australian Women, 2012, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/wikb/wikb-home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Criena Fitzgerald Created 7 August 2012 Last modified 31 July 2015 Digital resources Title: Lulu Benstead Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

20 hours (approx. to date)??The second part in a series of interviews with South Australian women who are recipients of Australia Day and Queen’s Birthday honours. The interviewing program is funded by the Minister for the Arts and the Status of Women, the Hon. Diana Laidlaw, to celebrate the contribution of women to South Australia. The first series of interviews are held at OH 505. The project is supervised by the Oral History Officer, J.D. Somerville Oral History Collection, and the interviews have similar themes to those explored in the State Library’s Oral History of Women’s Political Activity, 1993-1994, held at OH 250. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 4 May 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Her correspondence comprises a large part of the collection. The papers also include addresses, articles, biographies, business cards, exhibition catalogues, diaries, documents, files, financial records, insurance certificates, inventories, invitations, invoices, journals, legal papers, lists, newspaper cuttings, notes, notebooks, photographs, printed material, references, sketches, and tickets. Some of the papers concern her father C.Y. O’Connor. Author Details Lisa MacKinney Created 25 November 2009 Last modified 7 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Doris Dillon was the founder and first matron of the Bush Church Aid Society (BCA) hospital at Ceduna, South Australia. The daughter of W.E.H. Percival, Doris was raised as a devout Christian – both of her brothers became clergymen. She trained as a nurse at the Royal Prince Alfred and Royal North Shore Hospitals before joining the Church Missionary Society (CMS). Doris was asked to set up a BCA hospital at Ceduna in remote South Australia. Her seven-bed hospital was opened in a galvanised iron cottage on a farm in 1926. With time, the hospital was extended to include more beds and a small operating theatre. In 1928 Doris married Rev. Fred Dillon, BCA missioner at Ceduna, and travelled with him to his various parish appointments. Widowed in 1959, she continued her involvement with the CMS and the BCA throughout her life. Published resources Edited Book Australian Dictionary of Evangelical Biography, Dickey, Brian, 1994 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 20 February 2009 Last modified 20 February 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

A documentary from 1989 about strong, successful Aboriginal women in Western Australia. Includes interviews with Sally Morgan, Lois Olney, Helen Corbett, Alice Stack, Laurel Winder, Joan Winch, Pat Dudgeon, Denise Groves, Sue Lundberg and Helen Dorondorf; stills of Aboriginal people and the land; stories in two Aboriginal languages about life after the coming of the white man. Aboriginal music and dance are presented between the interviews. — General note: The interviews take the form of continuous portraits with voice-overs that are ‘out of sync’ with the image, as the director’s intention was for the voices to speak for all Aboriginal women.??There is documentation associated with the production of the film held in the NFSA collection. Author Details Hollie Aerts Created 20 December 2010 Last modified 1 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

A photographic record of the EYL from its formation in December 1941 to circa 1949, reproduced and prepared by Bruce Armstrong, a foundation member of the Eureka Youth League in Victoria. Four former members contributed photos to Bruce for reproduction. Photos are arranged according to five themes: Cultural life, educational life, public presentation, recreation, personalities. Most photographs are identified. Also includes a scarf from the 1952 Youth Carnival for Peace and Friendship. Includes glass negatives of some prints. Author Details Clare Land Created 19 December 2001 Last modified 30 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

This series consists of a small number of items associated with Mrs Zara Holt (later Dame Zara), wife of former Prime Minister Harold Edward Holt. It includes roneoed copies of travel diaries and letters written for distribution to family and friends when she accompanied Holt on his overseas visit (mainly 1957-1960), some personal correspondence, financial papers, unused stationery and other items of ephemera including the order of service on her death in June 1989. Author Details Helen Morgan Created 5 September 2002 Last modified 21 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Nina Mikhailovna Christesen AM (née Maximoff) pioneered the study of Russian in Australia and founded the Department of Russian Language and Literature at the University of Melbourne in 1946. She remained at the head of the department until her retirement in 1977. In the 1987 Australia Day Honours Christesen was made a Member of the Order of Australia “in recognition of service to education, particularly to the study of Slavic language and culture”. Christesen arrived in Brisbane with her parents as a migrant in 1924. She had lived in St Petersburg until 1917 and then the Russian-Manchurian city of Harbin. She graduated from the University of Queensland, became senior mistress at St Aidan’s Girl’s School in Brisbane, and worked as a tutor at Women’s College. She met her husband to be, Clem Christesen, founder of the magazine Meanjin, after being recommended to him as a language teacher. In 1945, the Christensen’s moved to Melbourne, when the University of Melbourne offered to support Meanjin and its editor. In 1946, encouraged by members of the University of Melbourne Arts Faculty, Christesen established the Department of Russian Language and Literature, the first such course in Australia. In 1967 Christesen founded the journal, Melbourne Slavonic Studies (later Australasian Slavonic and East European Studies ) and in the same year the Australian Slavists’ Association (which later incorporated the New Zealand contingent). Published resources Newspaper Article Obituaries - Nina Mikhailovna Christesen, Armstrong, Judith, 2001 Book The Christesen Romance, Armstrong, Judith, 1996 150 years, 150 stories: brief biographies of one hundred and fifty remarkable people associated with the University of Melbourne, Flesch, Juliet and McPhee, Peter, 2003 Edited Book The Half-open door : sixteen modern Australian women look at professional life and achievement, Grimshaw, Patricia and Strahan, Lynne, c1982 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources The University of Melbourne Archives Meanjin Editorial Records of C B Christesen Christesen, Nina Mikhailovna (1911-2001) Christesen, Nina Mikhailovna (1911-2001) The Half Open Door National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Papers of Dorothy Green, 1943-1990 [manuscript] Author Details Anne Heywood Created 22 August 2001 Last modified 14 July 2020 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

1 hour 20 minutes.??A talk organised by the South Australian Centre for Australian Studies (Professional and Community Branches) in the Kingston Room at Old Parliament House to mark the Centenary of Women’s Suffrage, 1894-1994. The audience is welcomed by Brian Samuels, Acting Director of OPH, and the speaker is introduced by Elizabeth Ho, Interim Convenor of the Professional Branch. Dr Magarey’s talk examines the 1894 debates about women’s suffrage through a discussion of the roles of three individuals: parliamentarian Ebenezer Ward, reformer Rose Birks and a young prostitute depicted in the 1907 book ‘Darkest Adelaide’. Twenty minutes of questions and discussion follow the talk. Dr Leith MacGillivray proposes the vote of thanks. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 30 January 2002 Last modified 24 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Interview with Lyn Johnson conducted by Catherine McLennan at Warragul on 13 May 2007, 36 minutes. This interview forms part of the Women on Farms Gatherings Heritage Collection at Melbourne Museum. Author Details Janet Butler Created 18 December 2009 Last modified 26 April 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Records relating to the history she wrote of the transfusion service up to 1959, “An abiding gladness” (1965); family records. Author Details Gavan McCarthy Created 15 October 1993 Last modified 1 October 2002 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Reference collection of proof sheets and documentation also available in Documentation Room. Contact Collections Manager.??Photographs taken by Juno Gemes between 1978 and 1994. Subjects include individual and group portraits; land rights protest; dance; photographic display during NADOC Week; community scenes Author Details Anne Heywood Created 18 May 2004 Last modified 6 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Lorraine Mafi-Williams was an extraordinarily talented woman who ran once for parliament, as an Independent in the 1995 New South Wales Legislative Assembly elections for Ballina. She spent her lifetime in creative and caring activities. Parliamentary and Local Government Career Candidate, New South Wales Legislative Assembly, Ballina, 1995 Party: Independent Lorraine Mafi-Williams was born in 1940 at Purfleet, New South Wales. She was forcibly removed from her parents when young, and did not meet them again until she was 15 years old. By this time she had finished school and had been working in domestic roles for several years. In 1967 she moved to Sydney and became involved with the Aboriginal Family Education Centre. She spent three years as a health worker. During the 1970s and 1980s Mafi-Williams became part of a powerful activist group in Sydney. With her cousin Mum Shirl and her niece Isabel Coe, she was instrumental in helping care for over 4,000 children of many ethnic backgrounds. As well as being politically active, Mafi-Williams was culturally and creatively active. She became involved with the Aboriginal Black Theatre Art and Culture Centre in Redfern and helped found the Black Theatre in Newtown. She took courses in film-making, worked as a film production assistant, and acted in a series of films and plays, including The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith, Women of the Sun, The Timeless Land and Pig in a Poke. In 1988 she secured funding of $29,000 from the Australian Film Commission and the Aboriginal Arts Board of the Australia Council to make her own film, Eelemarni, based on the life of a warrior of her Gidabal (Bundjalung) people. Lorraine Mafi-Williams was also a writer and storyteller. She wrote children’s stories based on traditional Aboriginal stories, short stories and poems. She edited Spirit Song, an anthology of Aboriginal poetry, published in 1993. She ran as an independent candidate for the state seat of Ballina in 1995. She wanted to establish a cultural sanctuary at Leavers Lake, near Suffolk Park on the north coast of New South Wales, and this brought her into conflict with others in the area. In the late 1990s, her health deteriorated and she was diagnosed with diabetes. She died in February 2001. Published resources Edited Book The Encyclopaedia of Aboriginal Australia : Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander history, society and culture, Horton, David, 1994 Book Women of the sun, Maris, Hyllus and Sonia Borg, 1985 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 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 Leonarda Kovacic and Barbara Lemon Created 18 May 2005 Last modified 14 February 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Jane Macartney was a well-respected and much-loved member of both Irish and Victorian society during the nineteenth century. She dedicated much of her time to working with the sick and poor and was involved in the establishment of an Orphan Asylum, the Carlton Refuge, the Melbourne Home and the Lying-In Hospital. Jane was the wife of Hussey Burgh Macartney, the Dean of Melbourne from 1852 until his death in 1894. Jane Macartney was born on the 19th of January 1803 at Castle Bellingham in Ireland. Throughout her early life, Jane assisted in the establishment of a Girl’s School in a nearby underprivileged area. Together with her friends she raised enough money to construct the school house, as well as provide a wage for additional teachers. In addition to teaching at the school, Jane also took the time to visit those less fortunate living in the neighbourhood. Jane married her husband, Hussey Burgh Macartney, in March 1833. As a clergyman’s wife she taught every week at the Sunday school and also continued to care for the poor. After ten years of married life in Ireland, and the birth of eight children the decision was made to make the move to Port Phillip, where some of Hussey’s relatives already resided. Jane once again taught in Sunday schools when the family reached Victoria; initially settling in Heidelberg, followed by Geelong, and finally moving back to Melbourne at the height of the gold rush. Jane assisted with the establishment of an Orphan Asylum, the Carlton Refuge, the Melbourne Home and the Lying-In Hospital, at which she was a member of the committee. Jane and her daughters visited the Asylum and the Melbourne Hospital regularly until her busy schedule refrained her from doing so. One nineteenth century newspaper reported: ‘Ladies at the Orphan Asylum were often surprised that a woman beyond her eightieth year was able to travel so far and to take such a lively interest in all the details; but they did not know that, instead of returning home, she went straight to the Carlton Refuge, and ladies there, who wondered at the energy with which she entered into all the business presented to the committee, had little idea that her morning had been spent in exertions for another institution eight or nine miles away.’ Jane passed away at the Deanery in 1885. There were many obituaries published in the local newspapers and between three and four hundred people attended her funeral service. Archival resources Royal Historical Society of Victoria Inc Jane Macartney : Diaries, 1859-Sept. 1884 (1866 missing or not complete) Macartney family papers Author Details Alannah Croom Created 29 August 2017 Last modified 5 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Oil on linen.??The University of Melbourne Art Collection. Purchased 1986 Author Details Helen Morgan Created 6 September 2002 Last modified 17 October 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

As World War Two rages, a small team of scientists at Oxford University, led by Australian Howard Florey, make one of the greatest discoveries in the history of medicine: penicillin. As news of their funny yellow powder leaks out to the press, wartime Britain looked for a hero. Instead of Florey and the Oxford team, they choose someone else to shower with honours, Alexander Fleming, How it happened is a fascinating story of wartime scarcity, personal conflicts, and a sobering lesson in the damage done to truth by wartime propaganda.??There is documentation associated with the production of the television documentary held in the NFSA collection. Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 23 December 2010 Last modified 1 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Laura Margaret Tellick (1916-1992) enjoyed a varied career. Her theatrical talent showed itself early. In 1922 the Newcastle Sun reported a ‘fine entertainment’ in St Peter’s Hall Hamilton in which she was among those who ‘ably supported’ the stars of ‘Soot and the Fairies’.[1] She graduated BA DipEd in 1940 from the University of Melbourne and her involvement with the University continued long afterwards as she acted in and directed various theatrical productions with the Students’ Annual Revue and later, the Tin Alley Players. She became their President, adjudicating in that capacity at the second Tasmanian Drama Festival in 1948.[2] Peggy Tellick combined theatrical work with teaching and at the time of her Tasmanian trip (having previously worked at a school in Eltham) was teaching French and gymnastics at Camberwell High School. In the 1950s she took up journalism, writing in the Australian Women’s Weekly a feature article she described as ‘a theoretical drop of water engaged in wearing away a stony portion of top-management mentality’: The scarcity of women in public life in Australia could be due less to masculine domination than to feminine complacency. But I believe that, most of all, it is due to a strongly marked Australian characteristic – distrust of the unconventional. It is conventional for women to get married and concentrate on being wives and mothers. The woman who does not conform with this convention is therefore distrusted, persistently nudged back into what is felt should be her proper sphere.[3] In the early 1970s she worked in public relations for the British Nylon Spinners (Australia) Pty Ltd (later Fibremakers Australia). In 1978 Peggy Tellick took a new position at the University of Wollongong where: She was instrumental in laying the foundations for the good relations which the University still maintains with the local media. She rapidly became known as something of a campus character. Her career came to a sudden and untimely end when she suffered a massive stroke while attending a Christmas function in December 1979. Although severely physically disabled, Peggy lived in the Illawarra Retirement Trust Nursing Home at Towradgi until January 1992. Peggy endured the tedium of nursing home life with great courage and during this time she retained a remarkable memory and an acerbic wit.[4] [1] ‘Soot and the Fairies Fine Entertainment’. Newcastle Herald. 1 April 1922: 8. [2] Mercury. 10 April 1948: page 4; ‘Of Interest to Women: Melbourne Adjudicator for Drama Festival’. Examiner. Saturday 3 April 1948: 8. [3] Peggy Tellick. ‘No Room at the Top – for Women’. Australian Women’s Weekly. 4 April 1962: 4. [4] ‘Obituaries: Peggy Tellick’. Wollongong Outlook: the University Alumni Magazine. Autumn 1992: 23. Published resources Book 40 Years 40 Women: Biographies of University of Melbourne Women, Published to Commemorate the 40th Anniversary of the International Year of Women, Flesch, Juliet, 2015, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/4040/ Author Details Juliet Flesch Created 31 July 2017 Last modified 16 August 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Minutes of various committees, annual general meetings, statements of income and expenditure and scrapbook of newspaper cuttings. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 14 May 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

June Oscar, of Punuba descent, was born in 1962 at Fitzroy Crossing, Western Australia. She was sent to Perth for her secondary education at the John Forrest senior high school. She left school at the age of 16. After returning to Fitzroy Crossing, Oscar worked for the state community welfare and health departments. She later became a women’s resource officer with the Junjuwa community. She chaired the Marra Worra Worra resource agency until 1991, when she was appointed to the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission for a two-year term as a commissioner. She was a principal of Bunuba Productions, which made the film Jandamarra, based on the life of ‘Pigeon’, the leader of Punuba resistance against European settlement. June Oscar is a proud Bunuba woman from Fitzroy Crossing, Western Australia. She is an advocate and activist for Indigenous people, their languages and culture, with a particular interest in children’s and women’s issues. June was appointed the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner in June 2017; the first woman to hold this position. She currently sits on the governing council of the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AITSIS) and is the chief executive of the Marninwarntikura Women’s Resource Centre in Fitzroy Crossing. She also chairs the Kimberley Language Resource Centre and is a member of the Kimberley Aboriginal Law and Culture Centre. In 2016 June won the prestigious Desmond Tutu Reconciliation Fellowship. She was awarded an Order of Australia (AO) in the Queen’s Birthday Honours in 2013 and two years earlier, she was recognized as one of the most influential women in the world. The year 2012 saw June appointed as an Ambassador for Children and Young People by the Western Australian Commissioner for Children and Young People. She was also an Australian delegate to the UN Permanent Forum for Indigenous Issues in New York in both 2009 and 2012. June has previously been the Deputy Director of the Kimberley Land Council and was also the first woman to chair the Marra Worra Worra Resource Agency (Fitzroy Crossing). In addition to her work on Indigenous issues, June has also been influential in the education sector. She developed a curriculum for an Indigenous Knowledge Program for Wesley College in Victoria and has been a member of many education committees. June has also worked as a director of Bunuba Films for more than twenty years. Published resources Edited Book The Encyclopaedia of Aboriginal Australia : Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander history, society and culture, Horton, David, 1994 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Leonarda Kovacic and Barbara Lemon Created 20 May 2005 Last modified 14 February 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

BOX 1?Typescripts of entries included in Endeavour, 1980-1981?Current file 11 April 1980?Material collected for Endeavour (typescript and manuscript), 1969-1980?Copies of questionnaire for updating information relating to women’s organisations in N.S.W., 1969-1978??BOX 2?Alphabetical files on women’s organisations, 1969-ca. 1976:?A?B+ C?D, E, F + G?H+I?J,K, L + M??BOX 3?Alphabetical files, 1969-1970:?N, 0, F + Q?R, S?T, U, V?W, Y, Z Author Details Alannah Croom Created 31 October 2017 Last modified 31 October 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Records comprising minutes (annual general meetings, executive committee, various circles, house committee and library committee), correspondence, reports, by-laws financial papers, members records, annual reports, papers documenting the history and activities of the club, photographs, calendars, conference papers, menus, oral history interviews and other papers. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 2 April 2004 Last modified 24 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

The Council of Ex-Servicewomen’s Associations (NSW) was established in Sydney, New South Wales on 20 January 1975, as a vehicle for uniting and representing the many wartime service women who served Australia. The inaugural meeting of the Council of Ex-Servicewomen’s Associations (NSW) was held in Sydney on 20 January 1975 with five wartime servicewomen’s organisations as Founder Member Associations: • Australian Women’s Army Service Association (NSW) • Ex-AAMWS Association of New South Wales • Ex-WRANS Association (NSW) • The Ex-Servicewomen’s Association • WAAAF Branch, RAAF Association (NSW Division). The Council’s formation was due to the encouragement of the then Deputy Commissioner of Repatriation, Mr Bruce Auld. He suggested the establishment of a united body as a way of pursuing common objectives for the benefit of as many wartime servicewomen as possible. As a result a Joint Council was formed in order that the policies and representations of the Member Associations could be co-ordinated and means could be considered whereby through unity, common objects might be pursued for the benefit of as many wartime Australian female veterans as possible. Council has a restricted membership with state-wide membership but as a representative group it obtains and affords information and advice to kindred ex-servicewomen’s associations and other ex-servicewomen throughout New South Wales. Council keeps faith with the objectives and purposes for which it was established. All work is carried out in the interests of all Australian wartime servicewomen; it disseminates relevant information and acts as a joint voice for all; it preserves the memory and record of those who have died; it guards the good name and preserves the interest and standing of women who have served in the Navy, Army and Air Force; it assists in the provision of housing and other accommodation for Australian wartime servicewomen and it perpetuates the close spirit of friendship created by mutual service in the wars of the Commonwealth. Council’s most important achievement was the conception and completion of the ex-servicewomen’s building project: 12 self-contained units of The Friendship Court at the RSL Veterans’ Retirement Villages at Narrabeen for AAMWS, AWAS, WAAAF and WRANS. The units were handed over to the Board of the Veterans’ Retirement Villages on 31 March 1984 after 7 years’ hard work, not only by the Council but also by the ex-servicewomen of New South Wales and friends in the ex-service movement who assisted in raising money. The way they all related to this project was a source of inspiration to everyone and for Councillors it was a rewarding and enlightening time. There is a waiting list for admission from members of the four Women’s Services who do not own their own home and would find it difficult to provide themselves with one. Council placed a Memorial Plaque commemorating the WAAAF, WRANS, AWAS, and AAMWS in the foyer of the State War Memorial of New South Wales, Hyde Park, Sydney and it was unveiled on 7 February 1986 by Council’s Patron, Miss Clare Stevenson AM MBE, and dedicated at a small ceremony. Council commenced raising funds in 1987 for a State Memorial to the Wartime Servicewomen of New South Wales and finally on 16 February 1990 it was unveiled by His Excellency Rear-Admiral Sir David Martin KCMG AO, Governor of New South Wales at that time and dedicated in the presence of hundreds of war-time servicewomen, their friends and representatives of ex-service organisations from all parts of New South Wales, most of whom made its erection possible. It was the result of a labour of love. Erected in the Spirit of Friendship and located in Jessie Street Gardens in Loftus Street, Sydney, it is dear to the hearts of thousands of World War II servicewomen. Wreath laying ceremonies are held there on commemorative occasions. On 12 December 1991 a Tree Planting and Memorial Plaque Dedication Ceremony was held by Council at the western side of the main building of the Australian War Memorial to commemorate the 50th Anniversary of the formation of the Australian Women’s Services in the Defence Forces. The tree was a mint leafed peppermint. Throughout the years Council has continued to make representations to the Governments of the day and has had its wins and losses. Council’s support of its Chairman was the main catalyst for Defence Service Home Loans being granted to all World War II servicewomen in the 1995-1996 Budget, irrespective of where they served. It pressed for the recognition of men as war widowers when their TPI wives died or other female veteran wives died as the result of their war service, knowing full well how dependent upon their wives many men in the World War II age group were. Discrimination was also an issue in both these cases and this was recognised after much lobbying. Council is well-respected in the ex-service community and has been involved in many Federal projects, e.g. inter alia its Chairman was invited to represent the Australian World War II female veterans at the official proceedings at the Entombment of the Unknown Australian Soldier; to take part in the planning of Wartime Servicewomen’s National Day in Canberra during the 1997 Australia Remembers Year and to be a member of the Advisory Group to the Australian War Memorial for the Australian Servicewomen’s Memorial in the Sculpture Garden at the Australian War Memorial. The Councillors all contribute to the reputation Council has for reliability, as well as deep concern and action on behalf of those it represents. An annual Church Service has been held since 1981 at The Holy Trinity Garrison Church, Millers Point, to commemorate the four Women’s Services and this is well-attended by female veterans, their families and friends. Council’s only fundraising function is an annual Friendship Luncheon which provides funds necessary for administrative purposes, the annual subscriptions from Member Associations being kept to a minimum to assist those organisations. Large State Reunions were held to celebrate the 40th, 50th and 60th Anniversaries of the formation of the four Women’s Services. Simply, Council makes it possible for female veterans to meet and to celebrate on a state-wide basis when appropriate. Councillors are proud of what has been achieved and of the assistance that has been given to fellow female veterans since the formation of the Council of Ex-Servicewomen’s Associations (NSW) in 1975. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources Private Hands (These regards may not be readily available) Council of Ex-Servicewomen's Associations (NSW) Author Details Anne Heywood Created 19 December 2002 Last modified 5 June 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

The South Australian Country Women’s Association is a non-sectarian, non-party-political, non-profit lobby group and service association working in the interests of women and children in rural and urban areas. Although ostensibly non-party-political, in practice the group has tended to bolster conservative politics. The State association was formed in 1929. The first branch of the Association in South Australia was actually formed in 1926 at Burra by Mary Warnes. By 1988, nearly every small settlement in South Australia had a CWA branch and the Association comprised 270 branches with 7,500 members (at its peak in 1956 the Association boasted 277 branches and 14,000 members). The Association has engaged in an enormously diverse range of service and lobbying activities since its inception – from the provision of rest rooms and holiday houses for members, and handicraft and homecraft instruction, to the provision of health services in rural areas. Much of the Association’s energy has been directed towards providing relief in times of recessions, droughts, floods, war and disasters. Its size and scope made it one of South Australia’s most significant women’s organisations. Archival note: It is the policy of the headquarters archives to call in all paper-based material relating to all branches when no longer required. For many years the South Australian Association was also responsible for branches in the Northern Territory. The first moves towards forming a state-wide Country Women’s Association in South Australia actually took place in 1926 when Mrs T. Bowman, then president of the National Council of Women of South Australia, called a meeting of all country Mayoresses and wives of chairmen of district councils. No one replied. However, Bowman held an informal afternoon tea of country women which inspired Mary Warnes, of Koomooloo station, to establish the first CWA branch in Burra. Warnes saw the need for country women’s rest rooms, where children could be fed and tea made when women from rural areas had to visit town, and for the need to reduce the isolation experienced by women in the country. A Metropolitan branch formed in Adelaide in 1928,with a Metropolitan Younger Set forming soon after. By late 1931 there were8 branches and by 1937 there were 51 branches and six ‘Younger Sets’, totalling 3000 members. By 1946 this increased to 141 branches and by 1956 there were 277 branches with 14,000 members. By the 1970s members decreased to around 10,000, declining to 7500 by 1988. The early activities of the Association included the establishment of rest rooms in regional centres and the creation of a circulating library by the Metropolitan branch. They provided relief to rural families during the Depression and droughts of the early 1930s. From the 1930s they ran a kiosk and rest room at the annual Royal Show in Adelaide. In 1932 they also assisted with the establishment of the Baby Health Train, which provided much needed health services to remote areas, and worked with the Mothers and Babies Health Association. As in other states, handicrafts have featured prominently in the Association’s activities, and they have also produced numerous cookbooks and local histories. They also supported ‘Wool Week’ by holding exhibitions of woollen articles made by members. Many branches devoted their time to fundraising and organising social events. From the mid-1930s, several holiday homes for members were also purchased. During the war years, much energy was directed towards supporting the war effort, although normal Association activities were also continued. They assisted particularly with the Women’s Land Army, the nationwide CWA camouflage net making contract (of which 20,000 were made). Thousand of pounds were raised and donated to purchase medical equipment for the army, a trainer plane for the RAAF and to provide meals and other ‘comforts’ for soldiers in training camps, as well as large donations to the Red Cross. Almost every branch had an Emergency World Circle which made up various woollen garments and other items, as well as sheepskin vests. They also supported ‘Food for Britain One of the most immediate postwar developments was the flowering of music, drama and graphic art under the direction of the Combined Arts Advisory Committee for in 1947. Handicrafts activities also expanded – with numerous courses being held in branches across the state. The association also took an interest in new migrants and supported the work of the Good Neighbour Council. From 1957 they also held an annual Homemakers’ School at their headquarters and club in Adelaide as well as in regional centres. From 1934 the CWA was allocated a page in the Rural Review to report on its activities. From 1953-1971 they produced their own weekly newspaper, The South Australian Countrywoman. From 1971 this appeared as weekly segment of the Farmer and Grazier and from 1975 this became a monthly newsletter. Published resources Book 150 plus far west favourites, Country Women's Association of South Australia, Far Western Group, [1987] The Many Hats of Country Women: The Jubilee History of the Country Women's Association of Australia, Stevens-Chambers, Brenda, 1997 Getting things done : the Country Women's Association of Australia, Country Women's Association of Australia, 1986 Our First Forty Years: The South Australian Country Women's Association, Inc. Willunga Branch, 1947-1987, Young, Bertha, 1987 Kimba CWA, 1931-1981, Golden Jubilee, Kimba Country Women's Association, 1981 Fifty years of CWA at Tarcowie, 1988 So We Grow, 1954 The Passing Years, Snashall, Evelyn, 1946? Carinya 1956-1989, Ashby, Marjorie, 1989 In Their Own Words: History of the South Australian Country Women's Association from 1979 to 1999, Zabukovec, Victoria, 2000 The First Fifty Years: Golden Jubilee History of the South Australian Country Women's Association, Parker, Heather, 1979 A Continuation of the History of the CWA on Eyre Peninsula, Beard, Mary, 1985 Melrose CWA: 50 Years of History, Bishop, Jennette, 1989 The History of the Geranium CWA Branch 1946-2000, Hughes, Ann, 2000 Newsletter South Australian Country Woman, 1953-1971|| 1975- Report Annual Report, South Australian Country Women's Association, 1949-1981|| 1996- Journal The rural review: A weekly journal published in the interests of primary producers in South Australia, 1934-1953 Edited Book Musing and Amusing, Parker, Heather, 1981 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources NULL Country Women's Association of South Australia Australian Historic Records Register Minnipa Branch, Country Women's Association State Library of South Australia Interview with Mary Martin [sound recording] Interviewer: Neil Baron Interview with Kay Harding [sound recording] Interviewer: Neil Baron S.A.C.W.A., Kyancutta Branch : SUMMARY RECORD Interview with Joyce Candy [sound recording] Interviewer: Neil Baron Interview with Lorna Adams [sound recording] Interviewer: Neil Baron Interview with Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Walsh [sound recording] Interviewer: Margaret Allen Interview with Martha Kernich [sound recording] Interviewer: Neil Baron Interview with Valmai Webb [sound recording] Interviewer: Neil Baron Interview with Mavis Dawn Cooper [sound recording] Interviewer: June Donovan Author Details Jane Carey and Anne Heywood Created 19 March 2004 Last modified 29 October 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Records presented to the ACT Heritage Library by June Laszlo (Hon. Secretary) 20 February 2001. Collection includes assembly and executive minutes. Stated date range is 1982-1994, although contains Memorandum and Rules of Association from September 2000. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 17 October 2013 Last modified 27 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

1942-1996; Red album mainly of colour photoprints, with printed material, concerning events and functions?1942-1993; Blue album mainly of colour photoprints, with newscuttings, of events and functions, including A. W. L. A. Bicentennial Reunion, Sydney, 15-18 Oct. 1988, and 50th Anniversary, 1991?1942-1997; Green scrapbook/folder mainly of newscuttings, printed material, letters received and photoprints?1942-1996; Green scrapbook/folder of newscuttings, printed material and letters received Author Details Alannah Croom Created 26 June 2018 Last modified 26 June 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Interview with Laurel Macintosh, Brisbane, 26 June 2009, transcript in possession of Leonie Christopherson, Marian Quartly and Judith Smart Created 11 September 2013 Last modified 13 September 2013 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Esma Banner worked in Europe for the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) as an employment officer (c. 1945-50) and a welfare officer in a displaced persons camp (c. 1950-51). Esma Banner left school at fourteen to look after her sick mother. She attended a business college for one year in 1926. She then found a position as a shorthand writer and typist for a business and moved quickly through the ranks to the position of secretary to the Director. She worked there for thirteen years. When her mother died in 1940 she worked with her father in his haulage business as well as for a Sydney solicitor. Esma Banner started work with United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) in 1944 in its Sydney office. From 15th to2 0th February she attended the 7th meeting of the Committee of the Council for the Far East at Lapstone Hotel, Glenbrook, NSW. She then worked in the Melbourne office of UNRRA for a period of three months. Whilst there she was selected to work in Germany with the International Refugee Organisation (IRO) and left Sydney for London on 28 June 1945. Her position as Area Employment Officer involved travel to places such as Munich, Nellingen, Ludwigsburg, Pforzbeim and Traunstein. Her final position in Germany was in a Displaced Persons’ Camp in Pforzheim. She returned to Australia in 1951. A few years later Ms Banner applied to the University of Sydney for a Diploma Course in Social Work and was accepted. On completion of her course she worked for the Department of Social Security for eighteen years at which point she retired. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources National Archives of Australia, Sydney Office Esma BANNER Author Details Cath Styles Created 18 March 2010 Last modified 21 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Papers of the King, Clark, Langthorn and Wall families comprising correspondence, genealogical notes and photographs assembled by Dr A.W. Wall. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 5 April 2004 Last modified 24 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Anne Heywood Created 24 January 2003 Last modified 31 July 2015 Digital resources Title: Sister Margaret Anderson Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Mathews, athletics coach and administrator, and former champion Australian sprinter, speaks about her family background; her success in junior athletics; competing against Marjorie Jackson; her training regimen; track surfaces in Australia; competing against Betty Cuthbert; her injuries; winning bronze in 100 and 200 metres at 1956 Olympics; her world records in 100 and 200 yards; winning two gold medals and one silver medal at 1958 Commonwealth Games; competing at 1960 Olympics; winning gold at Nigerian Independence Games in 1960; attending 1972 Olympics as women’s assistant manager; involvement with the Rothmans National Sport Foundation; and the formation of the Australian Track and Field Coaches Association. Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 24 January 2007 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

The collection has correspondence from these women scattered throughout the boxes and is still in the process of being individually indexed. The letters contain details of daily life and experiences of mission life. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 29 January 2004 Last modified 29 January 2004 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Mary Quirk was the first Labor woman elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly, and was an assiduous local member until deselected in 1950. She was first elected in 1939 during the Balmain by election and was re-elected in 1941, 1944 and 1947. In 1950 Mary contested the seat again, this time as an Independent, but failed. Mary Quirk was educated at Rozelle Superior Public School. She worked as a domestic servant, until she married John Kelly on 28 September 1898, in Balmain, Sydney. They had a son and three daughters before he died in 1926. She then worked as a shop assistant and joined the Shop Assistants’ Union of NSW. On 9 February 1927 she married John Quirk, Labor MLA for Rozelle (1917-20, 1927-30) and Balmain (1920-27 and 1930-38). After he died in 1938, she was elected at the by election for Balmain in 1939. She and John Quirk were strong supporters of Lang. She was the first Labor woman and the second woman to be elected to the Legislative Assembly, and the galleries were filled with women on the day she was sworn in. She was especially concerned with the interests of housewives and industrial workers. She lost preselection after two contested ballots in 1950 and was defeated by the official ALP candidate when she stood as an independent in June 1950. She became a director of the Sunshine Home for children. When she died, the premier James McGirr said that she had ‘added a special dignity to our Parliament’. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Book Section HERstory: Australian Labor Women in Federal, State and Territory Parliaments 1925-1994, 1994 Resource Section Quirk, Mary Lilly May (1880 - 1952), Blackley, Leanne L., 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A160051b.htm 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 2 February 2006 Last modified 24 April 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

The papers document Brett’s writings from 1979, including her poetry, short stories, novels, essays, newspaper columns, articles and reviews, together with several unpublished works, including a screenplay. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 24 April 2018 Last modified 24 April 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Folder entitiled ‘The Austr. Women’s Cricket Council [Meeting Perth, Jan. 1966] May Mills (President)’. Includes correspondence, constitution, newspaper cuttings, minutes, reports and other material. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 5 June 2018 Last modified 5 June 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

An Australian Greens activist and candidate for Monaro in 1995, 1999 and 2003, for the House of Representatives, Riverina in 2001, for the Senate in New South Wales (NSW) in 1998 and for the Tallaganda Shire Council in 1995. Catherine Moore was born in Sydney but moved to Monaro in 1981, and lives outside Braidwood, in a solar-powered earth house. She has been a member of the Greens since 1993 and is the founder of the Braidwood Greens. She has been Policy Coordinator and Convenor of the Greens 1996-7. In 2001 she produced a CD “Greensongs” and in 2003 she was the Greens’ national membership secretary. She was elected to the 1998 Constitutional Convention, and was an Australian spokesperson at the Kyoto Climate Change Convention. She has been involved in many campaigns, such as the Native Title and Reconciliation campaigns and the fight to restore water flow to the Snowy River. Catherine Moore is an active member of the Landcare organisation and her local Volunteer Bush Fire Brigade. Her election leaflet stressed the environment, public education, water policy and social justice. She has one daughter, whom she has home-schooled to HSC level. 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 25 August 2005 Last modified 15 January 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

The bulk of the collection dates from about 1919-1959. There is a scrapbook, notes, letters, publications and art catalogues relating to Vida Lahey’s life and work, and to art in general. The scrapbook contains photographs, and also some original sketches and watercolours, executed mainly during the artist’s travels in Europe after the first World War. The notes are chiefly travel notes written during the same period. Author Details Helen Morgan Created 21 November 2002 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Newspaper clippings, photographs, memorabilia 1926-1976 (1 album). ??Minute and attendance books, 1926-1976 (20 vols).??Historical note:?Janet Cornes joined the Gympie branch of the Girl Guides Association in 1926, eventually attaining a commissioned rank. In 1947, Janet was appointed as District Commissioner for the Gympie, Maryborough, Bundaberg districts and between 1963 and 1967 served as Divisional Commissioner for South-east Queensland. In 1963, Janet was awarded the Oak Leaf Medal for meritorious service to the Girl Guides Association and was a member of the Trefoil Guide team 1967-1986. Author Details Jane Carey Created 15 June 2004 Last modified 15 June 2004 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Records of Miss Marion Sinclair consisting of her autobiography (original and typescript copy), original music scores, poetry, papers relating to the Girl Guides, Y.W.C.A., various schools and colleges, family papers, photographs, correspondence and miscellanea. Includes literary manuscripts. Author Details Jane Carey Created 15 June 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

A member of the Greens Party, Jo Clay was elected to the ACT Legislative Assembly as one of the five members for Ginninderra on 20 October 2020. She is the ACT Greens spokesperson for Arts and Culture, the Circular Economy and Transport, Active Travel and Road Safety. She has served on several committees, including as chair for the Planning Transport and City Services since December 2020, Environment, Climate Change and Biodiversity from December 2021, and as chair of Health and Community Wellbeing. After graduating in 1994 from Radford College in Canberra, Clay obtained her degree in Creative Writing and a Bachelor of Laws (Honours) from the University of Wollongong in 2000. She worked as a Legal Officer and Senior Legal Officer at the ACT Attorney-General’s Department from 2001 to 2003 and later as Project Manager with the ACT Law Society from 2004 to 2008. From childhood, Clay has been concerned about climate change and has become committed to urgent action. This commitment to environmentalism translated into her professional career, and she began working as an Operational Policy and Business coordinator for ACT NOWaste in 2004. In 2016 Clay became co-founder and CEO of the recycling company Send and Shred with national recycling expert Grahan Mannall. While running that business, she decided to set up a personal project with her family, The Carbon Diet, with the aim of cutting their household emissions, aiming for a 75 per cent reduction of their carbon footprint. Clay blogged about her Carbon Diet from 2018 to 2020. Clay’s commitment to tackling the climate crisis led her to run for the electorate of Ginninderra at the 2020 ACT general election. In her inaugural speech to the Assembly on 3 December 2020 she spoke of how it had never occurred to her to enter politics, but that she wanted more environmentalists at every level in parliament, leading her to ask ‘if not her, then who?’ Clay has been a member of the Standing Committee on Environment, Climate Change and Biodiversity, and she introduced a bill to amend legislation to ban fossil fuel company advertising at Canberra sporting venues. She has also been a strong advocate for a ’circular economy’ strategy, supporting Labor’s draft public consultation strategy in 2022. Published resources Clay, Jo: Legislative Assembly for the Australian Capital Territory website, https://www.parliament.act.gov.au/members/tenth-assembly-members/ginninderra/clay-jo Never fly again? Go vegan? It was too hard, Clay, Jo, 4 November 2003, https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/nov/04/never-fly-again-go-vegan-it-was-too-hard-but-i-still-cut-my-emissions-by-61-and-it-made-life-simpler-and-better How parenthood led Jo Clay MLA to stop running from climate change and start fighting it, Twyford, Lottie, 3 March 2022, https://the-riotact.com/how-parenthood-led-jo-clay-mla-to-stop-running-from-climate-change-and-start-fighting-it/537471 The Carbon Diet website, Clay, Jo, https://www.carbondiet.com.au/ Author Details Jen Coombes Created 12 August 2024 Last modified Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

The bulk of the papers comprise correspondence both with friends and of a business nature. There is a large series of letters written by Nicholas to her son Rix Wright and to her close friend Dorothy Richmond, which give a good insight into her day-to-day life and her art. Apart from correspondence with Howard Ashton and Henrietta Gulliver, there is little in the way of correspondence with other artists. Other correspondents include Will Ashton, Dion Boucicault, James Darling, John Galsworthy, Bernard Hall, John Masefield, Charles Masson, William Moore, Mary Raphael and Beatrice Tange. There are journals kept by Nicholas and her sister Elsie of their trip to Europe in 1907 and by Dorothy Richmond of the trip she undertook with Nicholas in 1924-1926. There are a large number of photographs, which include many of paintings by Nicholas. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 24 April 2018 Last modified 24 April 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

UM77. Minute Book, 1937-68, indexed. Minute book, 1969-1974. Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 1 January 2007 Last modified 30 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

2 hours??Lenore Bishop, nee Wilson, was born in Mount Gambier, South Australia where her father was a butcher. After finishing high school she began working, first as a legal secretary, then as a journalist, and then with her husband in a hardware business. Lenore outlines her extensive experience of community work during her three children’s school years. Following the retirement of Mount Gambier’s first woman councillor in 1959, Lenore was asked to stand. She was re-elected two years later unopposed. Lenore explains her feeling of responsibility as one of very few women in local government and the qualities she believes women bring to the role. In 1964 Lenore nominated for mayor and was unopposed, becoming the first women mayor in South Australia. Lenore explains her achievements as mayor and also describes the added burden of the traditional mayoress role. Lenore retired from council in 1967 but returned as the region’s first woman alderman in 1972. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 30 January 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Minutes, correspondence, newspaper cuttings and other records relating to the Citizens Committee for the Preservation of King’s Park and the Swan River, including discussion of the proposed aquatic centre in King’s Park, Mitchell Freeway complex, Swan River reclamation, site of Perth Town Hall, preservation of the Perth Barracks; printed leaflets relating to conscription and pacifism; pamphlets relating to Aboriginal welfare, biographical notes about Bessie Rischbeith, file relating to antiques exhibition at Government House, 1932. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 25 March 2004 Last modified 7 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Ukraine is located on the northern coast of the Black Sea in south-eastern Europe. The area of present-day Ukraine was populated only by Scythian nomads until the 6th century AD, when Slavic people begin to settle in the area. An organised political entity, known as Rus, evolved around Kyiv. (Russia, which later evolved around the principality of Moscow, did not yet exist). In the fifteenth century Ukraine became part of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, and then of the Polish-Lithuanian ‘Commonwealth’ (Rzeczpospolita), until the eastern half of the country was finally annexed by Muscovy in the seventeenth century. With the annexation of the Polish- Lithuanian Commonwealth by Russia in 1795, the whole of Ukraine came under Russia’s rule until 1918. Ukrainians managed to establish an independent Ukrainian state in 1918, but it could not withstand simultaneous attacks by Poland from the west and Russia from the east. Ultimately the fighting ended in the partition of Ukraine between Poland and the USSR. Ukrainians suffered greatly under Stalin’s repression during the inter-war period. An artificially-induced famine, in which Ukrainians estimate about six million people died, was used by Stalin to forcibly implement the collectivisation of agriculture in Ukraine. Ukraine remained occupied by the USSR until 1991, when the latter was dismantled. It is believed that prior to World War I up to 5,000 Ukrainian workers had settled in Australia. Ukraine was a major area of conflict in World War II and many Ukrainians fled to Western Europe, where they were interned as Displaced Persons (DPs). The first Ukrainians began arriving from the refugee camps in late 1948. They came to Australia on assisted passages which included two-year work contracts with the Commonwealth Government. Among the migrants were priests, lawyers, doctors and engineers, but the vast majority were people from a rural background. The 1947 census did not list Ukraine as a birthplace, but the 1954 Census recorded 14,757 Ukraine-born. After that the number of migrants from the Soviet Ukraine was negligible, apart from some Ukrainian Jews. There was also limited migration of Ukrainians from communities in Poland and Yugoslavia. Migration from Ukraine has only been significant since independence in 1991. The 1996 Census recorded 13,460 Ukraine-born people resident in Australia (up from 9,051 at the 1991 Census). Most live in Victoria and New South Wales. The latest Census in 2001 recorded 14,100 Ukraine-born persons in Australia, an increase of 5 per cent from the 1996 Census. The 2001 distribution by State and Territory showed Victoria had the largest number with 5,800 followed by New South Wales (5,020), South Australia (1,490) and Queensland (880). The median age of the Ukraine-born in 2001 was 64.8 years compared with 46.0 years for all overseas-born and 35.6 years for the total Australian population. The age distribution showed 4.3 per cent were aged 0-14 years, 6.7 per cent were 15-24 years, 19.1 per cent were 25-44 years, 20.3 per cent were 45-64 years and 49.7 per cent were 65 and over. Of the Ukraine-born in Australia, there were 6,280 males (44.6 per cent) and 7,820 females (55.4 per cent). The sex ratio was 80.4 males per 100 females. At the 2001 Census, the rate of Australian Citizenship for the Ukraine-born in Australia was 94.5 per cent. The rate for all overseas-born was 75.1 per cent. Published resources Edited Book The Australian People: An Encyclopaedia of the Nation, Its People and Their Origins, Jupp, James, 2001 Archival resources Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection Ukrainian Women's Association in Australia of N.S.W. - records, 1949-1986 State Library of Victoria Music of migrant groups in Australia, [197-?]. [sound recording]. Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 18 June 2006 Last modified 20 November 2018 Digital resources Title: A New Dress Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Title: dance.jpg Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

2 hours??Irene Florence Jeffreys was born in London, England. She migrated to Australia in 1922 with her parents. Determined from the age of 12 to be an accountant, Irene attended Adelaide Technical Highschool and after beginning work at 16, studied for the Federal Institute of Accountants diploma at night at the School of Mines. In 1942 she was the first South Australian woman to qualify by examination for the Institute of Chartered Accountants. Irene’s accountancy practice and personal interests included much involvement in the Church of England, particularly the Church Missionary Society and the General Synod, where again she pioneered the involvement of South Australian women. Irene supported the movement for the ordination of women and is herself licensed as a lay preacher. Irene speaks in less detail about her many years of involvement in the National Council of Women. She concludes by describing receiving her OBE at Buckingham Palace in 1978. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 2 February 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Includes successive policy statements from 1980 to 1986, correspondence and statements from Liberal Party members, particularly Senator Margaret Reid, speeches, media releases, newscuttings Author Details Alannah Croom Created 9 January 2018 Last modified 23 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

The ABC has a number of taped interviews with Edna Ryan from 1975 to 1996. Author Details Elle Morrell Created 29 August 2000 Last modified 29 August 2000 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

1. Family and personal correspondence, 1911-1959. 2. Travel diaries for 1927, 1946 and 1957. 3. Articles and broadcasts with accompanying notes, 1936-1950. 4. Collection of documents relating to the English Suffragette movement. 5. Papers relating to Australian women’s suffrage. 6. Papers relating to Rischbieth’s involvement in various women’s organisations. 7. Papers relating to the British Commonwealth League, which was formed in 1925 as a branch of the International Women’s Suffrage Alliance. 8. Papers relating to the International Women’s Suffrage Alliance, which was founded in 1904 and in 1946 became the International Alliance of Women. 9. Correspondence, reports and other papers relating to Rischbieth’s 1935 appointment as Australian Delegate to the League of Nations. 10. Papers relating to the formation of the United Nations, 1944-1945, with reports of the U.N. Commission on the Status of women. 11. Subject files on various countries and subjects. The files include correspondence, pamphlets, press cuttings and other Papers. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 26 March 2004 Last modified 12 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

GALAWA formed in the mid 1990s to collect and protect, precious material from the community. The GALAWA collection is housed securely in the basement of Murdoch University Library. A new committee formed in 2015 to revitalise the collection and we are working towards this. GALAWA is always interested in new members who wish to join and be a part of the committee, assist with archival work or to assist in other ways. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 1 April 2004 Last modified 7 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

(1) An album containing Christmas and New Year cards. (2) 3 folders of typewritten drafts of stories by “Brent of Bin Bin”. (3) Album containing postcards, some overseas, some of Australian country towns, especially Tumut, some Lampe family photographs. Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 10 September 2004 Last modified 21 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)