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Folder contains photocopies of letters from Nellie Melba to Percy Grainger (most of which appear in folders 02.0020 & 02.0021). Also contains a photocopied concert program (Dorum Acquisition) and typed copies of letters to Percy Grainger from Melba and Percy Grainger to Melba. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 17 October 2017 Last modified 17 October 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

The Women’s Literary Society was formed in Sydney in 1889 with the object of ‘mutual help in the study of general literature’. Later its activities were defined as ‘searching out and bringing before the meetings such matters as shall be of interest and improvement to members. Discussion upon important topics of the day. Papers upon various matters of interest, criticism upon literary or artistic work or theories upon practical matters.’ It is believed to be the first Australian women’s group to meet at night. Prominent members included Rose Scott, Maybanke Anderson and Dora Montefiore. In 1891 members of this group were instrumental in forming the Womanhood Suffrage League of New South Wales. All members were encouraged to present papers and discussions covered topics from Mary Woollstonecraft to socialism to ‘Suggestions for the Improvement of affairs for Wage Earning Women.’ In one paper, Montefiore suggested that the Society ‘brought together the floating feminine intellectuality.’ By the end of 1893 it claimed 125 members and at this stage there was some conflict between members who wished to admit men and those who did not. Published resources Report Annual Report/Report, Women's Literary Society, 1892-1896 Book Rose Scott: Vision and Revision in Feminism, Allen, Judith A., 1994 Woman suffrage in Australia : a gift or a struggle?, Oldfield, Audrey, 1992 Edited Book Women in Australia : an annotated guide to records, Daniels, Kay, Murnane, Mary, Picot, Anne and National Research Program (Australia), 1977 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection Women's Literary Society - Minute book, 15 Aug. 1892 - Aug. 1893, with annual reports 1893, 1896 Author Details Jane Carey Created 15 June 2004 Last modified 30 April 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Notebooks and diaries 1940-1990 0.54m?Collection spanning 1963 to 1990, together with several University of Melbourne lecture notebooks for 1940.??Research and teaching papers 1945-1992 5.58m?Files related to work at Monash including courses taught and students supervised. Also included are files related to earlier studies at University of Melbourne, and files related to research arising from MLC history, in particular the Corr family. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 26 October 2017 Last modified 27 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Fay Newell was a nursing sister at the Broken Hill and District Hospital. She was named Broken Hill’s Citizen of the Year in 2008 in recognition of her contribution to the community. Fay Newell began her general nursing training at the Broken Hill and District Hospital on 12th July 1954. The four-year course that she undertook involved courses in Medical, Surgical, Paediatric, Accident and Emergency, Infectious Diseases and Operating Theatre procedures. After graduating as a Single Certificate Nursing Sister in 1958, Fay completed her midwifery training at St. Margaret’s Hospital in Sydney before working at the Royal North Shore Hospital. Upon her return to Broken Hill, Matron Gladys Vance made her the sister in charge of the Women’s Medical Ward. Fay continued to further her education, gaining a Certificate in Coronary Care from the Royal Melbourne Hospital and matriculating in Broken Hill in 1979. She also received a Diploma in Teaching from the University of Newcastle in 1981. In November 1991 Fay retired from nursing, and from 1994 to 2004 became a Palliative Care volunteer. In 2008, she was named Broken Hill’s Citizen of the Year in the annual Australia Day awards for her contribution to the community. This entry was prepared and written by Georgia Moodie. Published resources Lecture My Memories in Nursing: An Overview, Newell, Fay, 2006 Site Exhibition Unbroken Spirit: Women in Broken Hill, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2009, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/bh/bh-home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 3 March 2009 Last modified 3 March 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Early and later drafts of “A friend indeed : Louisa Clifton of Australind W.A.”; mss. Of two radio plays on the Fenians (Voices from the tomb, and Fenian feelings); scrapbook containing photocopies of articles in manuscript form and those published in newspapers in England and Australia, reviews, letters to the press; map of Bishop Salvado’s voyages, correspondence, university assignments written by Russo’s students, historical writings on Western Australia. Author Details Lisa MacKinney Created 21 August 2009 Last modified 7 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

MS 1518 comprises a folio of cuttings, pamphlets, letters and photographs named “Poland 1946”, including “Copy of community letters from Poland 1946”, war photographs and the typescript titled “Welfare services in Poland”; scrapbook with certificate inside cover stating “This records the loyal and valued services of Muriel Knox Doherty to the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration… 31 December 1946” containing papers, official letters, newspaper cuttings and photographs; typescript extracts from the Polish bulletin (Dec. 1951-Sept. 1952), on the Katyn war murders; two circular letters relating to “Youth auxiliary for European relief”; and, a large four-page newssheet from The Sydney morning herald (Sept. 2, 1939) (1 box, 1 fol. Box, 1 map folio). Author Details Alannah Croom Created 14 February 2002 Last modified 12 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

RTZ Mining and Exploration Department files on Australia. Contain correspondence as well as technical reports and maps. ZC London: Records relating to the boards of NBHC Ltd, Southern Power Corporation P/L, Interstate Oil Ltd, IOL Petroleum Ltd and NBHC Holdings Ltd??This collection consists of records relating to Australia from the RTZ (London) Mining and Exploration Department. They have been arranged in four series as sent from London:?1 Subject series?2 Numerical series?3 Oversize series?4 Maps?An additional series contains drawings by Elizabeth Durack of CRA Exploration activities on Bougainville Island.??The first four Series seem to have been amalgamated from previous series from other RTZ subsidiary or associated companies to become the RTZ Mining and Exploration Department Files. For example some files in the Subject Series are identifiable as having belonged to Rio Tinto Finance and Exploration Ltd., a subsidiary of RTZ. Other files in the Subject Series are of the RTZ Mining and Exploration Department proper.??The reasons for, and date of, the amalgamation of files into the existing Series is unknown, although it probably occurred some time after Consolidated Zinc Corporation Ltd. and Rio Tinto Company Ltd. amalgamated to form Rio Tinto Zinc Corporation Ltd. in 1962. Author Details Clare Land Created 9 September 2002 Last modified 30 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Organisational papers (newsletters, admin papers); Publicity; Still Image Author Details Hollie Aerts Created 21 December 2010 Last modified 1 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Collection comprises – 3 cassettes – 2hrs 30mins. Author Details Clare Land Created 24 September 2002 Last modified 31 October 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Cordelia Gundolf, who taught Italian, and headed the department from 1971 to 1982, had, like many immigrants to Australia, an extraordinary life. Her father, Friedrich Gundolf (1880-1931) was a renowned literary critic and university professor, her mother, Agathe Mallachow (1884-1983) a pianist. Brought up in the heart of the German cultural elite, she learned to speak English, French and Italian as a child. She also became very competent in Latin and Ancient Greek, Spanish, and taught herself to read Modern Greek, maintaining it was not very different from Ancient Greek, once one got the hang of it. When Hitler assumed power in Germany, her mother, conscious of the peril in which her Jewish father (even after his death) might place her, asked Albert Einstein for advice. They met in Paris and following his suggestion, mother and daughter went first to Capri, where they were used to spending the summer, and subsequently to Rome. In 1935 her Italian diary, Myrtles and Mice: leaves from the Italian diary of Cordelia Gundolf was published by John Murray.[1] Cordelia Gundolf took her doctoral degree from Rome’s La Sapienza University with a thesis on Germans in Naples in the 18 th century. In 1944 she married Fred Manor and at the end of the War she was employed by the Allies translating German documents into Italian. Divorced and with two young children, she took up a lectureship in the newly-established Italian Department in 1960. The Age reported the arrival of a ‘dark-haired, dark-eyed’ new lecturer who ‘has a quick, ready smile and speaks English in a series of quick, rapid phrases’, noting also that she was bilingual in German and Italian and had translated a biography of Konrad Adenauer.[2] She continued to publish scholarly articles and translate books from both English and German into Italian, among them Friedrich Meinecke’s Die Entstehung des Historismus.[3] Cordelia Gundolf’s principal interest lay in Italian literature rather than language teaching and her wide knowledge and approachability made her an engaging teacher. Both of her daughters are University of Melbourne alumnae. Olivia Manor took her BA in 1968 and DipEd in 1969. She taught Italian at a number of secondary schools for almost 40 years and, with her mother’s help, published two Italian text books for junior and middle secondary school.[4] Delfina Manor graduated BA DipEd in 1974. She runs Good Reading Secondhand Books in Benalla. [1] Cordelia Gundolf. Myrtles and Mice: leaves from the Italian diary of Cordelia Gundolf. Translated by R.W. Reynolds. London: John Murray, 1935. [2] ‘Translator is House Hunting’. Age. 14 April 1960: 6; Edgar Alexander. Adenauer e la Nuova Germania. Naples: Politica Popolare, 1959. [3] Friedrich Meinecke. Le Origini dello Storicismo. Florence: Sansoni, 1967. [4] Olivia Manor. Dimmi una Parola. Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1983; Olivia Manor. Dimmi un’altra Parola: an intermediate Italian course. Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1985. 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 15 May 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Typescript memoir (98 pp) titled “Eastern Interlude”, written in 1998 by Janet ‘Pat’ Darling (nee Gunther) covering her Second World War nursing service in Malaya and, following the sinking of the ‘Vyner Brooke’ off Banka Island, subsequent experiences as a prisoner of war of the Japanese in Sumatra (Palembang). Also included is an illustrated publication ‘Portrait of a Nurse: Prisoner of War of the Japanese 1942-1945, Sumatra’, by Pat Darling (nee Gunther), MID, signed by author (published by Don Wall, Moss Vale, ISBN No 0 9585418 1 7). Author Details Anne Heywood Created 24 July 2003 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Records of Jean Whyte, librarian and teacher, comprising family papers, letters from friends, newspaper cuttings relating to the family and Dame Roma Mitchell, and photographs. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 13 March 2018 Last modified 13 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Biographical cuttings files contain cuttings, e.g. articles, obituaries, from Australian newspapers and journals from the early 20th century to 2000. Created 17 November 2020 Last modified 17 November 2020 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

The Ladies Drawing Room was formed in 1956 to organise social functions for women members and the wives of members of University House. The group took its name from the Room so dedicated in University House, ANU, Canberra. The Ladies Drawing Room enabled creation of a community of likeminded women which resulted in lifelong friendships, and provided intellectual stimulation in a city which was initially small and lacking in social or cultural facilities. The Ladies Drawing Room continued to hold regular lunches and other social activities for nearly 50 years until the age of remaining members, and lack of new membership, caused the group to wind up its affairs in 2003. Its story is a microcosm of the social history of the women associated with the University who played a significant but typically discreet part in creating the community and culture of the ANU. When University House was opened at the Australia’s National University (ANU) in 1954 Canberra was a small city of 28,000 people with few social facilities. Rented houses were often too small for entertaining, and opportunities were rare for women to meet up with other women away from their home duties and childcare responsibilities. In 1954 the Governing Body of University House decided to help offset those limitations by dedicating a room – named the Ladies Drawing Room – for the use of women members of the House and, mostly, the wives of academic members. Mrs (later Lady) Mary Melville, wife of the Vice Chancellor, convened a meeting of interested women in July 1956 which created an Ladies Drawing Room organising committee. Its membership reflected the ANU’s structure with representation from each Research School and the Administration and, after 1960 (when the ANU amalgamated with the Canberra University College) the School of General Studies. The Committee’s membership over the next 47 years reads as a Who’s Who of the wives of the University’s creators and leaders. The first gathering (a morning tea) attracted nearly 80 women. By the early 1960s a pattern was established of monthly formal lunches, usually with a speaker. The events were both social and intellectual. Early speakers were members of the Drawing Room – e.g. Rosalie Gascoigne, Honor Maude and Nancy Parker. Later on they were drawn from elsewhere in the University and beyond, and covered an eclectic range of topics. The Ladies Drawing Room enjoyed its heyday in the 1960s and 1970s as the ANU expanded. University House was central to the University community overall and the Ladies Drawing Room was considered the most club-like aspect of the House. The Ladies Drawing Room came to play a significant part in its members’ lives – lifelong friendships were formed which continued long after retirement. The longevity and loyalty of the membership indicates the significant role the Ladies Drawing Room played in their lives. Many served as Convenors or Committee members for five or more years; a few for many more – e.g. Pat Back (14), Lena Karmel (15), Belle Low (10), Jean Moran (20), and Joy Wilson (16). By the 1980s many of the University’s early academic staff were retiring and the membership of the Ladies Drawing Room became both older and smaller. Canberra’s social amenities and cultural hubs had grown apace; younger women tended to work and had little free time. In the 1990s members of the ANU Club for Women (founded in 1961 with a considerable overlap in membership with the Ladies Drawing Room) joined in some luncheons but by the end of the decade it was clear that the Ladies Drawing Room had served its purpose and the ladies wound up the organisation in March 2003. However, in recognition of the importance of the group in the life of University House and ANU more broadly, the House itself instituted a program of three reunions a year which continues to attract some 30 women. Published resources Resource ANU Club for Women Inc, http://clubforwomen.anu.edu.au/ Book University House as They Experienced It: A History 1954-2004, Waterhouse, Jill, 2004 Site Exhibition From Lady Denman to Katy Gallagher: A Century of Women's Contributions to Canberra, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2013, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/ldkg Archival resources Australian National University Archives Research Material for the 50th anniversary history of University House Author Details Louise Moran Created 21 June 2012 Last modified 14 February 2019 Digital resources Title: Planting a Japanese maple, gift of Ladies Drawing Room to University House in its Jubilee Year 2004 Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

4 min. Home movie.?8mm standard/Colour/silent??Women’s Royal Australian Army Corps (WRAAC) Training Company Queenscliff. RAANC and WRAAC marching together. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 3 April 2003 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

46 minutes??Mr and Mrs A. L. Walsh were amongst the original residents of the Cabin Homes at Salisbury and have remained in the district ever since. Mr Walsh, a carpenter, came to Salisbury earlier in the war years to build munition factory buildings. He was able to bring his family to Salisbury when the first of the Cabin Homes were available. Mrs Walsh remembers Salisbury at this time as one of the ‘unfriendliest country towns’ she’d ever been in and they both describe the problems involved in the lack of facilities and services provided to the new residents. Mrs Walsh became involved with the Progress Association and after the war helped the migrants moving into the area through her activities with the Country Women’s Association, the Red Cross and the Good Neighbour Council. Author Details Jane Carey Created 7 May 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Papers of Heather Gell, pioneer of eurhythmics and dance teacher, comprising lesson notes, scripts, music scores, including original music scores for ‘Heritage’, correspondence, papers relating to the Dalcroze method and the 1936 production of ‘Heritage’, photographs, programmes, scrapbooks, certificates and sound cassettes. Also included are some papers relating to the 1991 exhibition of ‘Heritage’ designs and photographs, an album relating to Miss Enid Campbell’s Albion Street Infant School eurhythmics class, Paddington NSW, Heather Gell’s theatre productions, an interview with her recorded by the ABC and including a copy of an ABC Music Through Movement radio broadcast for schools programme, and papers relating to her father Harry Dickson Gell. Originals of photographs in RESERVE collection with copies available for reference. For details of series 1-59 see attached series list. For series 60 onwards see under items below. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 11 May 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Esther Scholem is a once only candidate who stood for the Australian Democrats in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly seat of Blue Mountains in 2003. Esther Scholem moved to the Blue Mountains of New South Wales in 1991 and became involved professionally and voluntarily in community activities there. She is a Past President of the Blue Mountains Migrant Residents Association, on the Management Committees of the Blackheath Area Neighbourhood Centre and the Blue Mountains Wildplant Rescue Service. She is a member of the Blue Mountains Refugee Support Group and Australians for native Title and Reconciliation (ANTAR). She campaigned for more funding for community services and for the Blue Mountains area to be treated as a region in its own right and not just a part of the Greater Western Sydney Region. As an Australian Democrat she stressed the need to create a fairer civil society based on social justice, environmental sustainability and economic responsibility. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 14 December 2005 Last modified 14 February 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Autobiography of Jennie Scott Griffiths. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 6 March 2018 Last modified 29 July 2020 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

MS 9551 comprises correspondence, diaries, notes, minutes, newspaper cuttings, photographs, artwork, circulars and publications, mostly dating from the period 1930-1950. They deal in particular with Joan Kingsley-Strack’s strong interest in Aboriginal culture and welfare and her involvement in the Committee for Aboriginal Citizenship, the Oxford Group and other organisations. The correspondents include Mary Gilmore, Alfred James, A.W. Platts, William Ricketts, Pearl Gibbs, Albert Thompson and Michael Sawtell (13 boxes, 1 fol. box, 2 map folios).??For information on Helen Baillie, see Series 8. Committee for Aboriginal Citizenship, 1935-1953 Author Details Alannah Croom Created 31 October 2017 Last modified 27 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

2 sound files (ca. 202 min.)??Merran Martin speaks about her pioneer ancestors and early life in Canberra; her schooling in Geneva (1958); her education; her European trip (1971); teaching English in Germany; returning to Canberra and finishing degree in Modern Languages; learning to teach Situational English to migrants; Endeavour Migrant Hostel; her role as Shipboard Education Officer (1974); training volunteers; nationalities taught; migrants knowledge of Australia, the hostel system; Government subsidised travel; working in Department of Immigration, Canberra (1974); her resignation (1975); working at Bruce TAFE; changes in teaching methods; her reasons for leaving Bruce TAFE (1988); teaching overseas students; returning to the Canberra TAFE (1991); working part time at CIT; dealing with conflict between Serbian and Croatian students; dealing with traumatised refugees; changes in teaching methods in the 1990s; computer literacy; Visa categories eligible for free English training.??Martin talks about learning of refugees’ experiences; employment difficulties; effects of current funding arrangements of the Adult Migrant English Program of the CIT; exclusion from Commonwealth funded AMEP program of people on Temporary Protection Visas; ACT Government funding; changes to CIT citizenship education; migrants and refugees with good English; access to citizenship courses; ACT Government funding for TPV or Bridging Visa holders; unsupported refugees; role of community based organisations; new roles of CIT; career planning; CIT funding arrangements; her current functions; Home Tutor Scheme; Social welfare information; cultural awareness; gender differences in English learning and teaching; childcare facilities; cultural assumptions about learning; students illiterate in own languages; older students; main obstacles to learning English; teaching beginner classes; social harmony; socially isolated students; refugees’ issues; her greatest satisfaction in her work; the importance of language. Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 1 May 2009 Last modified 22 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Diane Lemaire was the first woman to take her Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering from the University of Melbourne in March 1944. Diane worked as a Technical Officer in the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research Division of Aeronautics and after the war took up a position at the National Physical Laboratory in England. In 1962 she received the Amelia Earhart Fellowship, despite not being a member of Zonta International. Diane retired in 1986. Diane Adrienne Lemaire left St Catherine’s School in 1939 having won a prize for mathematics and lived in Janet Clarke Hall until 1943. She was the daughter of Lionel Henry Lemaire, who served in the AIF and was mentioned in despatches. In March 1944 she became the first woman to take her Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering from the University of Melbourne. Despite this distinction she attracted a certain amount of press publicity, some of which seems both sexist and extraordinary today. In 1946 the Argus reported on a party she and her brother Peter, at the time an Agricultural Science student who graduated in 1950, hosted for some 130 ‘Ex-University students, a group of young doctors, and some service types’ and the following year, the Northern Argus reported that: ‘About one mile South of Penwortham on the Main North Road on the night of May 27th, two cars driven by women drivers came into collision. The headlights of both vehicles were on.’ Although there appear to have been no injuries both drivers and all passengers, including Diane Lemaire, were carefully named.[1] Another brother, James, took his LLB in 1940. She took a position as Technical Officer working in experimental stress analysis in the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research Division of Aeronautics, later the Aeronautical Research Laboratories, running the low speed wind tunnel used in missile testing and other aircraft studies. After the war, she worked for two years at the National Physical Laboratory, in England. Although not a member of Zonta International, in 1962 she received their Amelia Earhart Fellowship. In America she took her MSc from Cornell University in 1964 with a thesis entitled ‘On the Question of the Existence of a Homogeneous Solution to the Equation for the Flow over the Shroud of a Ducted Propeller’. Returning to the Aeronautical Research Laboratories, Diane Lemaire published several more reports before her retirement in 1986. She was an active member of the Lyceum Club and bred Lhasa Apso dogs. She made several generous bequests to the University, including one to the Department of Engineering, which supports the Diane Lemaire Scholarship and another to the University of Melbourne Veterinary Hospital as well as to the Janet Clarke Hall scholarship programme and Zonta International. Sadly, she was notoriously camera-shy, so a really good photograph of her proved impossible to find.[2] [1] ‘At 9 Darling Street.’ Argus . 5 October 1946: 13; ‘Two Women Motor Car Drivers in Accident.’ Northern Argus. 5 June 1947: 13. [2] Personal correspondence, Dr Elizabeth Flann to Juliet Flesch, 23 January 2015. 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 29 August 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

1 hr 2 min. Oral history. Audio cassette; TDK AD60; two track mono Author Details Anne Heywood Created 21 July 2003 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

1 sound file (ca. 85 min.) Author Details Alannah Croom Created 23 March 2018 Last modified 27 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Ephemera: EYL scarf, badge, tie pin and ‘plank’ sold for 2/- each to raise funds for Camp Eureka. Author Details Clare Land Created 19 December 2001 Last modified 30 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Born in Perth in 1906, Dame Rachel Cleland lived an active life which was centred around politics and community organisations. At one time considered the matriarch of the liberal party, in her later years Dame Rachel was very vocal on her opposition to the logging of old-growth forests. She insisted that the Liberal party under Menzies would never have taken the same stance as the current party on such issues. Dame Rachel’s community work with women and children was recognised in 1959 when she was appointed as a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) and again in 1966 when she was appointed as a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE). In 1980 Dame Rachel became the only western woman to be appointed as a Dame of the British Empire (DBE) by the government of Papua New Guinea for the volunteer work she did for many Papua New Guinea organizations and for helping involve women in public affairs. I enjoy now whatever is happening – my idea is you can’t enjoy tomorrow, and you can only enjoy yesterday if you are enjoying today.’ At 90, Dame Rachel Cleland was still keeping audiences entertained with her words of wisdom born of a life of political activism and community work. Born in Perth beside the Swan River, the oldest of six children, Rachel Cleland remembers her childhood as being happy and free-ranging. She, like her brothers and sisters, was encouraged to take an interest in social issues from an early age and was given a range of regular chores to do that encouraged them to be independent and resourceful. Dame Rachel’s background and her later training and work as a kindergarten teacher stood her in good stead for the expatriate life she eventually embarked on in Papua New Guinea. Her husband, Sir Donald Cleland, was Administrator of Papua New Guinea for 15 years from 1951. Like many expatriate wives in the 1950s, Dame Rachel identified with her husband’s work, which in turn provided her with the opportunity to get to know and help the local people. She was well liked and respected by the local people who appreciated her contribution to organisations like the Red Cross, Girl Guides, Country Women’s Association, and Young Women’s Christian Association (YWCA) as well as the integral role she played in establishing pre-schools throughout Papua New Guinea. Not surprisingly perhaps, recent research also indicates that Dame Rachel was more involved than was earlier thought in Papua New Guinea affairs via her husband’s work. After Sir Donald’s retirement the Clelands decided to remain living in Port Moresby, never seriously considering moving back to Australia. Sir Donald died in 1975, two weeks before Papua New Guinea’s independence ceremonies. Dame Rachel stayed for a further three years before eventually returning to her extended family in Australia, where she felt herself to be something of a displaced person. She had, by then, lived in Papua New Guinea for 27 years. She continued to make trips back to her expatriate home country for the rest of her life, making a total of eight visits between 1979 and 2000. Dame Rachel was appointed as a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in 1959 and a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 1966 for her work with women and children. In 1980 Rachel Cleland became the only western woman to be appointed as a Dame of the British Empire (DBE) by the government of Papua New Guinea for services to the country she had lived in for so much of her adult life. She was honoured for the volunteer work she did for many Papua New Guinea organisations and for helping involve women in public affairs. Dame Rachel died peacefully in Goondiwindi, Queensland, aged 96, on 18 April 2002, after a heart attack. She had only a week earlier moved there from Perth to be near her son Evan and his family. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Resource Section Condolences to Cleland Family, 2002, http://www.pm.gov.pg/pmsoffice.nsf/7/f3 Dame Cleland dies at 96, 2002, http://www.thenational.com.pg/0419/nation3.htm Dame Rachel Cleland, 2002, http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0||||60-321874||00.html Australian Story Online Forum about Dame Rachel Cleland, 1999, http://www2.abc.net.au/austory/april29/default.htm Nothing Like A Dame, Holmes-A-Court, Janet, 1999, http://www.abc.net.au/austory/series4/9911text.htm Cleland, Sir Donald MacKinnon, Nelson, H N, 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A130486b.htm Newspaper Article Conscience of the Libs, 2002 Obituary [Dame Rachel Cleland], 2002 Dame Rachel Cleland dies at 96, 2002 Dame Rachel, 78, still calls Papua New Guinea home, 1984 Lady Cleland to Live in Perth, 1978 Liberal Matriarch Dame Rachel Cleland dies, 2002 Liberals lose matriarch, 2002 Making a difference [Dame Rachel Cleland], 2002 Poverty requires "community help", 1996 Stalwart won praise of party leader, 2002 Liberals mourn the loss of Dame Rachel, 2002 Mayman, Jan, Old-growth forests inspire old-guard crusader, 1999 Caring Grand Dame who went at life full tilt, Farquarson, John, 2002 The Dame Who Was Game for Anything, Farquarson, John, 2002 Obituary [Dame Rachel Cleland], 2002 PNG friend dies, 2002 Book Grass roots to independence and beyond: the contribution by women in Papua New Guinea 1951-1991, Cleland, Rachel, 1996 Papua New Guinea: pathways to independence: official and family life 1951-1975, Cleland, Rachel, c1983 Edited Book Who's Who in Australia 2002, Herd, Margaret, 2002 Site Exhibition Faith, Hope and Charity Australian Women and Imperial Honours: 1901-1989, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2003, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/honours/honours.html Archival resources National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Papers of Nancy Lutton, 1918-2007 (bulk 1960-2007) [manuscript] Papers of Dame Rachel Cleland, 19-- [manuscript] National Library of Australia [Biographical cuttings on Dame Rachel Cleland, Community worker and wife of Sir Donald Cleland, containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journals] National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Rachel Cleland interviewed by Nancy Lutton [sound recording] State Library of Western Australia Community Kindergartens Association records Author Details Judith Ion Created 9 September 2002 Last modified 27 February 2004 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Correspondence, circulars, references, statements, opinion papers, reports, notes, forms, ephemeras. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 17 November 2017 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Born England 1903, arrived Western Australia in 1930; volunteer work with YWCA during the Depression; handicraft classes; Country Women’s Association; tours to group settlements in the South West; radio talks on 6WF; work with Women’s Service Guilds; formation of the Civilian Widows Association; League of Home Help; the Red Cross; work with handicapped children; association with Princess Margaret Hospital; Marriage Guidance Council; appointment as a Justice of the Peace; work with Citizens Advice Bureau; Council for the Ageing; Telephone Samaritan Service. Author Details Jane Carey Created 7 May 2004 Last modified 7 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

1 digital audio tape (ca. 55 min.)??At the launch of the 1995 ABC Radio Australian Rural Woman of the Year Award, Debbie Thiele, farmer and 1994 ABC Radio Australian Rural Woman of the Year Award winner, discusses the varied and changing role of women in rural Australia, noting increases in female participation in agricultural education and in industry utilisation of information technology. Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 2 August 2017 Last modified 21 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Nerina Beccarelli was born in Gwalia the youngest child of Maria Tavalli nee Calneggia and Mick Calneggia. Her parents had migrated from Italy to Western Australia, where her father first worked on the Lakewood Woodline and then the Sons of Gwalia Mine. In 1919 her father Mick died of an infection in the Leonora Hospital and the family moved to Kalgoorlie where her mother worked as a cleaner and was paid from the Mine Workers’ Relief Fund. Maria Tavalli married coal miner, Martin Bonazzi, who died of silicosis in 1940s. Nerina attended the South Boulder Primary School, playing baseball and other sports. She continued to speak Italian at home, but speaks of other Italians as foreigners. She left school at fourteen to work as a domestic and she later worked as a waitress at the Cornwall Hotel. She married at twenty one to Frank (Francesco Becarelli), a miner, and moved to Norseman. They had three sons, Louis, Albert and Frank. Post-war, Nerina helped her husband work in a market garden in Sommerville. In 1983 her husband died of silicosis. Nerina died in Esperance in 2018. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 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 Author Details Criena Fitzgerald Created 10 August 2012 Last modified 11 November 2019 Digital resources Title: Nerina Beccarelli Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Florence Stuart wrote regular columns for the Westralian Worker under the pseudonyms of ‘Hypatia’ and ‘Adohr’. The Westralian Worker was published in Kalgoorlie from 1900 – 1912. Florence Collings was born in Brighton, England, the child of Quaker parents, c.1872. She moved to Queensland with her parents in 1883. She was a committed socialist and an accomplished singer who performed at the opening of the Brisbane Trades Hall. She married Julian Stuart soon after his release from imprisonment for his part in organizing the 1891 shearers’ strike and they moved to the eastern goldfields of Western Australia in the late 1890s. A political activist, she helped to organize the Eastern Goldfields Women’s Labour League and was elected secretary to the first Western Australian Labor Women’s Conference in 1912. Under the pseudonym ‘Hypatia”, Florence wrote fierce columns on socialist, feminist and labour issues in the Westralian Worker (December 1904-April 1906, August 1907-February 1908, and July 1911-September 1911). She exhorted all socialists to raise their children to be class conscious. She damned those Labor Parliamentarians for attending government house functions in frock coats and top hats, ‘I am sick and tired of finding excuses for the average labor member’s want of backbone and dignity’, and for forgetting that their first loyalty should be to the workers who had turned out to elect them. She was equally hostile to those workers who wasted their time on sport, in gambling on dogs and horses and in reading ‘trashy literature’. On other occasions she reflected on the working conditions of meat packers in Chicago and of local bar-maids. She fiercely rebuked anyone who purchased any article at all – even an ice cream – from an Asian person and warned those who had cheered the victory of Japan over Russia that they would live to regret their attitude. Florence admired the honesty of ‘Guido Fawkes’ (Guy Fawkes) and the sober example of Paul Kruger, President of the Boer Republic. When she left the goldfields to live in the seaside suburb of Cottesloe, she applied her verbal scourge to the ‘ladies’ whom she encountered on train rides to Fremantle. She condemned the action of labor men who supported Australia’s involvement in WW I as a ‘shuddering blasphemy’. Florence raised five children and died in 1932. Published resources Journal Biographical register of members of the Parliament of Western Australia, Black, David and Bolton, Geoffrey; assisted by Mozley, Ann and Simpson, Patricia, 1990 Resource Section Stuart (nee Collings), Rhoda Florence (c.1872-1932), http://workinglives.econ.usyd.edu.au/stuart.html 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 Andrew Gill Created 3 August 2012 Last modified 16 September 2013 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

[Red Cross Archives series reference: NO11]??Comprises publications from the Australian Red Cross including pamphlets, newsletters, bound books, training handbooks and retail catalogues. Long run newsletters include Monthly Reports (1916-1923); Australian Red Cross Quarterly (1923-1960) and Notes on Activities (1940-1956).??Single issue information manuals relating to Administrative Instructions, Nursing, Management of Convalescent Homes, Volunteer Aid Detachments (VAD), Mental Health, the Blood Transfusion Service, AIDS, Information Bureau Service, Uniforms, Child Management, Facts for Speakers, Membership Drives, Fundraising Programmes, Retail Catalogues (1966-2000), Driving and Mechanical hints, Rules & Regulations, Disaster Relief & Precautions, Emergency Catering Manuals, Meals on Wheels, Knitting Patterns, Unemployment, Foreign Language Medical Phrases, quick fact books about the International and Australian Red Cross activities, What You Should Know About the Atomic Bomb (1953) Personal Protection relating to gases used in warfare (1943) and exercise manuals for stretcher bearers (1940-1949).??Contains National, Divisional as well as International publications. This series is described at item level, with some items consisting of a full annual year of publications. See also Annual Reports series (2015.0029) and Junior Red Cross and Red Cross Youth series (2016.0051).??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)

Helen Blaxland spent much of her life working for charitable institutions, particularly the Australian Red Cross Society, for which she was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire in 1967. Her other interests included flower arrangement, on which she published two books. She was appointed as a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire on 14 June 1975 for service to the community in recognition of her contribution to the National Trust (New South Wales) and the Parramatta Properties Committee. Helen Blaxland was the daughter of the late Brigadier General Sir R M McCheyne Anderson. She was educated at Bedales in England and later at Frensham in Mittagong, New South Wales. She married Gregory Blaxland on 10 November 1927, and had one daughter, Antonia, who became a photographer. She worked in several charitable organisations, including the Australian Red Cross Society. She was appointed OBE in 1967 for her contribution to the Society and awarded the Order of the Red Cross Society in the same year. She was foundation chairman of the Women’s Committee of the National Trust (New South Wales), the Lindesay Committee and the Parramatta Properties Committee, which was concerned with the restoration of Experiment Farm Cottage and Old Government House, Paramatta. She published two books on flower arrangement, entitled Flower pieces (1946) and Collected Flower pieces: on the arrangement of flowers (1949), for which her daughter Antonia took the photos. Published resources Book Flower pieces, Blaxland, Helen and Haxton, Elaine (decorated by), 1946 Collected flower pieces: on the arrangement of flowers, Blaxland, Helen, 1949 Book Section Blaxland, Dame Helen Frances, DBE, 1988 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 Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 24 April 2002 Last modified 29 January 2013 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Records include conference papers, constitutions, correspondence, financial records, minutes, membership lists, histories and reports; also includes material relating to the Australian Federation of University Women and the International Federation of University Women. Author Details Clare Land Created 9 December 2001 Last modified 7 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Distinguished librarian, trade unionist and feminist, Jean Fleming Arnot, worked at the State Library of New South Wales from 1921 until her retirement in 1968. During her life Arnot was a member and leader of numerous women’s organisations. Arnot was appointed as a Member of the Order of the British Empire (Civil) on 12 June 1965 for her community services in Sydney. She died in Sydney on 27 September 1995, at the age of 92. Born at Pymble, New South Wales, Jean Arnot was educated at Fort Street Girls’ High School. She never married. Her distinguished career in librarianship was served with the Public Library of New South Wales from 1921 until her retirement in 1968. She was extension librarian in charge of services to country areas, 1944-1948; head cataloguer, 1950-1968; and acting Mitchell librarian, 1956-1958. In 1948-1949 Jean received grants from the British Council and the Carnegie Corporation of New York to study library services in Great Britain and North America. She was a member of the Australian delegation to the First International Conference on Cataloguing Principles, held in Paris in 1961. A founding member of the Library Association of Australia (LAA) in 1949, she was convenor of its Cataloguing Code Revision Committee, 1962-1968, and elected Fellow in 1963. With the LAA’s precursor, the Australian Institute of Librarians, she had served as a councillor, general secretary,1941-1943, and president of the New South Wales branch, 1941-1942. After she retired, Miss Arnot became honorary librarian of the Royal Australian Historical Society, 1975-1980. Her expertise remained much in demand; she advised on the cataloguing of private libraries and assisted the booksellers, Berkelouw. From 1937 Jean became an active campaigner for equal pay for women. In 1944 she was the recipient of the Gold Medal of the Public Service Association of New South Wales. An accomplished and popular public speaker, Miss Arnot addressed a range of issues ranging from the historical to the contemporary. She had honed her debating skills through her involvement with the women’s service organisation, the Kooroora Club, in the 1930s. The Club’s affiliation with the National Council of Women of New South Wales led to Jean’s long-time association with the latter, becoming president from 1960-1966, and elected honorary vice-president in 1972. In 1959 she was the only female representative at the Conference on Unemployment, convened by New South Wales Premier, R. J. Heffron. She was also prominent in the activities of several other organisations. Arnot was president of the Business and Professional Women’s Club, 1953-1954 and 1959-1960; president of the Australian Federation of Business and Professional Women, Division of New South Wales; founding member in 1961 and executive council member of the Australian Freedom from Hunger Campaign; vice-president of the League of Women Voters, 1974-1980; longtime member of and fund-raiser for the Pan-Pacific and Southeast Asia Women’s Association; and multiple office bearer of the Women’s Club (Sydney, New South Wales). Jean Fleming Arnot was appointed MBE in 1965 for services to the community. Published resources Edited Book Who's Who of Australian Women, Lofthouse, Andrea, 1982 Site Exhibition Faith, Hope and Charity Australian Women and Imperial Honours: 1901-1989, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2003, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/honours/honours.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection Ros Bowden - interviews with people who knew Ida Leeson, former Mitchell Librarian, 1985 State Library of New South Wales - Jean Arnot interviewed by John Macallister about her career in the State Library of New South Wales, 1991 State Library of New South Wales - Jean Arnot interviewed by Rosemary Block about her life after she retired from the State Library. She also speaks in some detail of her colleagues Miss Nita Kibble and Miss Nita Dobbie, 1994. State Library of New South Wales - Jean Arnot interviewed by Rosemary Block, 1994 Jean Fleming Arnot - personal and professional papers, 1890-1995 Jean Arnot - interviews, 1974-1994 Jean Arnot Memorial Luncheon - Book of Honour, 1994-1997, being a selected compilation Jean Arnot Memorial Service - papers, 1995 Jean Fleming Arnot - pictorial material and medals, 192--1995 Jean Fleming Arnot papers, 1931-1976, mainly relating to equal pay and status of women Jean Fleming Arnot papers, 1907-1988, including files relating to librarianship, bibliography, social issues and invitations received Ros Bowden - interviews conducted for radio programs and documentaries, ca.1975 - 1989 National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Jean Arnot interviewed by Amy McGrath [sound recording] Author Details Clare Land Created 24 September 2002 Last modified 14 September 2005 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Elle Morrell Created 9 February 2001 Last modified 20 November 2020 Digital resources Title: The Honourable Dame Margaret Guilfoyle Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

An Annotated Guide to the Alice Henry Papers held in the RHSV Manuscript Collection, researched and compiled by Holly de Kretser while on placement (History Undergraduate). Author Details Alannah Croom Created 27 November 2017 Last modified 27 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Anne Heywood Created 16 January 2002 Last modified 29 October 2018 Digital resources Title: Carmen Lawrence Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Anne Heywood Summer Nights, Boyd, Anne, [1999] Created 16 January 2002 Black Sun, Boyd, Anne, [1996?] Last modified 26 April 2007 Concerto for Flute and Strings, Boyd, Anne, [1996?] Revelation of Divine Love Choral, Boyd, Anne Angklung for Solo Piano, Boyd, Anne, c1976 My Name is Tian for Soprano, Flute, Viola, Harp and Percussion, Boyd, Anne; Kim, Don'o (text by), 1982 Goldfish Through Summer Rain for Flute and Piano, Boyd, Anne, 1980 Sound recording [Conversation with Anne Boyd], de Berg, Hazel (interviewer), 1969 Edited Book Who's Who in Australia 2002, Herd, Margaret, 2002 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

A general view of Mrs Chisholm’s canteen. A greatly appreciated canteen conducted by two Australian ladies, Mrs Alice Chisholm and Miss Verania (Rania) MacPhillamy, afforded the nearest home comforts available to the troops in Sinai and Palestine. This canteen was originally founded by Miss Rout, a New Zealander, who was forced through illness to relinquish it. Rania MacPhillamy, born in 1889, was the daughter of a wealthy squatter from Forbes NSW. In 1915 she trained as a VAD and went to Egypt to help nurse the wounded from Gallipoli. After the death of her sweetheart, Ronnie MacDonald of the 1st Light Horse Regiment, Rania stayed on in Egypt and formed a remarkable partnership with an older Australian, Mrs Alice Chisholm. Together they ran a canteen for the Light Horsemen at Port Said, and in early 1917 took over the running of another canteen at Kantara, a busy railway junction on the Suez Canal. Known as the ‘Empire Soldiers Club’, this became one of the best-known and best-loved institutions in Egypt. Thousands of soldiers were able to enjoy low-cost meals and friendly hospitality on their journeys to and from the front line: the club was open 24 hours a day and operated without a break from early 1917 until after demobilisation. Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 11 September 2002 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

52 min. Oral history. Audio cassette; TDK AD60; two track mono Author Details Anne Heywood Created 21 July 2003 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Valda May McRae nee Heraud entered the University of Melbourne in 1953 with a scholarship that bonded her to the Victorian Education Department for three years after the completion of her BSc and BEd in 1956. She taught at McLeod and Numurkah High Schools before returning to the University of Melbourne in 1960, working part-time in the Department which was to occupy virtually all of her working life. She took her PhD on some reactions of antimony pentafluoride and related compounds and spent 1966 to 1968 at the University of Leicester, one of the few universities where it was possible to continue her study of fluorine chemistry on a postdoctoral fellowship. Back in Australia she worked in the Science Faculty Office of the University of Melbourne, as Assistant to the Sub-Dean and as Sub-Dean herself. In 1974 she took a position in the Chemistry Department as principal tutor and was appointed lecturer in 1984 and senior lecturer in 1988. Her research was in analytical and radiochemistry. In 1995 she took the position of Executive Manager of the School of Chemistry, principally responsible for its academic administration, with considerable emphasis on the planning and organisation of timetables, tutorials and practical classes. When Valda McRae retired in 2000 she continued direct contact with students through examination supervision of people with special needs, but her main interest was recording the history of the Department of Chemistry and Melbourne University Chemical Society. Three publications resulted. She published the Lady Masson Lectures to 2001, which listed all the lectures and provided the text on CD-rom. Her exhaustive history of the Department from 1960 to 2000 began where Joan Radford’s earlier history had finished. In the course of writing it she was in direct personal contact with virtually every living graduate, thoroughly enjoying renewing old links. From Chalk and Talk to PowerPoint provided an account of the first 1000 meetings of the Melbourne University Chemical Society.[1] Valda McRae took a sustained and serious interest in the University of Melbourne at large. She was President of University House from 2000 to 2002 and donated the herb garden in its eastern garden in 2011. From 2008 to 2011 she was a representative of the Science Faculty on the Committee of Convocation. She was honoured as a Life Member of the Friends of the Baillieu Library in 2012. The first Valda McRae Memorial Lecture of the MUCS was delivered by Emeritus Professor Don Cameron in April 2014, entitled ‘What Possible Use Can Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy Have for Chemistry?’ [1] Joan Radford. The Chemistry Department of the University of Melbourne: its contribution to Australian science, 1854-1959. Melbourne: Hawthorn Press, 1978; Valda M. McRae. The Lady Masson Lectures, 1949-2001. Melbourne: School of Chemistry, University of Melbourne, 2003 (pamphlet and CD-rom): Chemistry @ Melbourne 1960-2000. Melbourne: School of Chemistry, University of Melbourne, 2007; From Chalk and Talk to PowerPoint. Melbourne: University of Melbourne, School of Chemistry, 2013. 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 7 August 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

MS 9917 comprises files on Australian artists (alphabetical from Barossa Studios to A.R. Betteridge) (1 packet).??The Acc05.156 instalment comprises the “Index to Professor Joan Kerr’s files on Australian art history, 1788-2003” in both printed format and on floppy disk (1 folder).??The Acc05.163 instalment consists of files that contain original research and secondary material, much from obscure articles and catalogues, which are difficult to access in the original. The consignment includes catalogues of exhibitions, extracts from auction sale lists, copies of newspaper and journal articles, reproductions of images, letters and draft articles. Some of the material was intended for use in the two dictionaries which Kerr edited: The dictionary of Australian artists: painters, sketchers, photographers and engravers to 1870 (1992), and, Heritage: the national women’s art book, 500 works by 500 Australian women artists from colonial time to 1955 (1995) (113 boxes). Author Details Alannah Croom Created 6 March 2018 Last modified 6 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Megan Sampson only ran once for election to the New South Wales parliament but was a multiple candidate for the Federal parliament. In all but her 2002 campaign, when she ran as an Independent, Megan was an Australian Democrats candidate. She ran in the following elections: House of Representatives for Cunningham in 1980, 1990, 1993 and 2002 by-election. New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Wollongong in 1981. New South Wales Senate in 1983. House of Representatives for Macarthur in 1984. Megan Sampson holds the honour of being the Democrat candidate who came closest to winning a seat in the House of Representatives. In 1990, she took the sitting member (and Minister) Stewart West to preferences and the final figures were West 52.4% and Sampson 47.6%. By 2002, when she ran in the by-election following Stephen Martin’s resignation, she ran as an independent, having left the Australian Democrats. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 14 December 2005 Last modified 14 February 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Clara Saunders, accompanied by her mother and younger sister Susan, arrived in Southern Cross in Western Australia in 1892. She worked for her brother in law Tom Farren at the Club Hotel. In 1893, aged fifteen, she travelled alone to Coolgardie to take up a new job at the Exchange Hotel assisting the housekeeper Mrs Fagan. Clara and Mrs Fagan also provided nursing care for miners ill with dysentery and typhoid, feeding them nourishing food and caring for them in clean and comfortable surroundings. One of these miners was the successful mining pioneer Paddy Hannan, who discovered gold at Kalgoorlie. He gave Clara a gold nugget in recognition of her service to him. Clara continued to work in hotels, running the dining room at the Great Western Hotel in Bayley Street where she met her husband Arthur Williams who ran the billiard room at the same hotel. Clara married Arthur Williams on 1 July 1894. She was the first settler woman to be married in Coolgardie. She wore her gold nugget mounted on a brooch for good luck on the day. Arthur and Clara moved to Goongarrie, where she continued to nurse and care for ill prospectors and act as a midwife to local women. She had two children, Lillian and Mary. Arthur died in 1902 and Clara took over the licence of the Mt Morgans Hotel, running the business. Successfully until her second marriage to Joseph Lynch. Clara, Joseph and their two sons John and Edward sold the hotel and began farming in Narrogin. They lost their farm during the Depression and Clara opened a boarding house in Marvel Loch. Joseph died in 1939 and in 1944 Clara married for the third time to John Paton. She died in 1957 at the age of 80. Published resources Resource Section Coolgardie Wedding, 1894, http://www.outbackfamilyhistory.com.au/Coolgardie/coolwed.htm Clara Saunders - a pioneer of Coolgardie, 1894, 2006, http://www.valuingheritage.com.au/learningfederation/5509.html 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 Dorothy Erickson Created 2 August 2012 Last modified 12 December 2012 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

War Establishments and Amendments – [Colleges and Schools:] [Divisional Battle School; Royal Military College; School of Signals; School of Tactics and Administration; Royal Australian Army Service Corps School; Officer Cadet School; Army Technical School; School of Land/Air Warfare; Women’s Royal Australian Army Corps School; Personnel Seconded or Detached and Long Term Students; BCOF Fire Fighting School; Central Army Training School BCOF] Author Details Anne Heywood Created 3 April 2003 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Jean Blackburn speaks of her parents’ backgrounds which modelled her socialist & feminist views, how the contrast between her early public school & her later experience at a selective high school has lead her to advocate the critical importance of good quality teaching & resources in shaping childrens’ lives, why she was dissatisfied as a primary school teacher completing her matriculation at night school, her involvement in the Melbourne Univ. Labour Club later joining the Communist Party, how she majored in economics in 1940 becoming a research assistant for the Dept. of Economics, her work for the War Organisation of Industry as an economist giving her experience in policy advice, married in 1943 leaving work and had a child in 1945 moving to Adelaide, her involvement with Winifred Mitchell in organising the New Housewives’ Association to overcome isolation of housewives, how she educated herself as a feminist through the Public Library, her rejection of communism how she completed her Dip. Ed. in 1964 & wrote a book, seconded in 1969 by Peter Karmel as a consultant to the Committee of Enquiry into South Australian Education issuing the Karmel Report in 1973, appointed Vicechair of the Schools Commission established by Whitlam to improve govt. funding of schools, later retired from the Education Commission in 1980, how she in 1983 conducted a public enquiry into Victorian senior secondary education issuing the Blackburn Report in 1985, current educational issues. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 3 April 2003 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

1 hour 44 minutes??Kay Harding, nee Cowan, was born in Adelaide, South Australia and grew up in her family’s large home in Tranmere in the eastern suburbs. After finishing high school she trained at the Adelaide Kindergarten Teachers’ College for three years and then worked briefly in the country as a governess. She found that she enjoyed teaching older children and asserted her independence by gaining primary school teaching qualifications after a further year studying at the Adelaide Teachers’ College in 1939. She was appointed first to Burra, where she recalls refugees from the Darwin bombing, and then to Black Springs where she was the only teacher. Ilsa met her future husband at a local dance. They married in 1944 and settled in the district. Ilsa joined the Country Women’s Association, an involvement which has led to her taking up writing as well as participating in CWA activities on an international level. Kay and her husband Gordon had a daughter and a son. Author Details Jane Carey Created 7 May 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Felicity Boyd has been an active member of the Australian Democrats. She stood for them in the following elections: New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Davidson in 1991. New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Port Stephens in 1999 and 2003. Felicity Boyd was born in Sydney and went to school at Hastings-on-Hudson High School, New York. She attended Briarcliff College, New York and the University of Sydney (Grad Dip Soc St (1958)), living at the Women’s College. After graduation, she worked as a social worker for the NSW Society of Crippled Children and as a market research interviewer and analyst. She was social worker at St Joseph’s Hospital, Auburn, 1977-82 and from 1982-1987 at the Spastic Centre of NSW. She did locum work at various hospitals and at the Office of the Public Guardian, 1988-1995 and 1995-2002 she was a court visitor. Felicity Boyd married Ian Boyd in 1961 and they have three children. Published resources Edited Book Biographical register : the Women's College within the University of Sydney, Annable, Rosemary, 1995 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 12 December 2005 Last modified 24 April 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Agnes Mary Lions, personal records and records relating to the New South Wales College of Nursing Author Details Helen Morgan Created 21 February 2002 Last modified 22 June 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Drafts of The battle of the galah tree, No gun for Asmir, The birthday tooth, Black dog, The long walk, Queen of the what castles and Tiger’s milk. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 6 March 2018 Last modified 6 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

1914-1969; Correspondence, being ms. and ts. letters received and carbon ts. letters sent along with miscellaneous notes, cards and ts. reports. Letters sent include carbon ts. letters and reports written by Watts and sent from Germany during 1948 describing conditions in Berlin for the civilian population and describing relief work undertaken by Watts and others. (Call No.: MLMSS 7097/1)?1914-1973; Papers of Margaret Watts, being ms. and ts. notes, correspondence and miscellaneous photographs. Papers include family papers concerning Watts parents and brothers and sisters. (Call No.: MLMSS 7097/1)?1919; 1935; 1948; Diaries, being ms. diaries with detailed entries: diary, 1919, includes description of peace work in Europe after World War I; travel diary, 1935, with notes and illustrations, includes detailed description of Watts travel around Europe and America; diary, 1948, includes description of post war reconstruction work in Germany. (Call No.: MLMSS 7097/1)?ca.1974; ‘Faith My Shield’, an unpublished autobiography by Margaret Watts, being three incomplete ts. and carbon ts. draft versions along with ms. and ts. fragments and notes. (Call No.: MLMSS 7097/2)?1920-1968; Passports and travel permits of Margaret Watts (Call No.: MLMSS 7097/2)?1945-1976; Printed material, including The History of the New South Wales Society For Crippled Children (Sydney, 1976) inscribed to Margaret Watts, Handbook of Practice and Procedure (Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in Australia:Sydney,1967) and various printed brochures and booklets (Call No.: MLMSS 7097/2)?1917-1977; Scrap books of Margaret Watts, being 2 vols. including newscuttings, notes, letters and cards received (Call No.: MLMSS 7097/3)?1978-1982; Papers concerning Margaret Watts, including Quaker testimonies, newscuttings, letters sent to Eileen Barnard Kettle concerning Margaret Watts and a Memorial Service sheet. (Call No.: MLMSS 7097/3)?1973-1978; Biographical notes concerning Margaret Watts (Call No.: MLMSS 7097/3) Author Details Clare Land Created 24 September 2002 Last modified 31 October 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

An significant part of the collection relates to communism, including the records of the West Australian Branch of the Communist Party of Australia which closed in 1991. Other papers concern women’s issues, human rights, Eureka Youth League, civil liberties, Vietnam anti-war protests, world peace, disarmament, anti-nuclear campaign, Aboriginal issues, and China. Papers of individuals include Les Bloomfield, Kevin Healy, Paul Robeson, Joe Chamberlain, Bill and Dorothy Irwin, Paddy Troy, and Katherine Susannah Prichard.??Also available as a published monograph entitled: Well read : a bibliography of Communist Party & other sources collected in Western Australia by Annette and Duncan Cameron / compiled by Michal Bosworth. Author Details Lisa McKinney Created 17 April 2009 Last modified 7 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Small, brown, compressed fibre suitcase with steel clips and carry handle. The inside lid of the case has a typed sheet glued to it outlining the ‘simple requirements’ contained within. The case interior has been partitioned into sections using wooden slats. The medical case contains the following supplies. One bottle of ‘Acriflavine lotion’; one box each of ‘BEX’ and ‘VINCENTS’ powders; one tube of zinc cream; one tube of ‘TANNAFAX’ tannic acid jelly; thirty four assorted steel safety pins; a white calico medical tool roll containing four pairs of tweezers, two pairs of scissors and a mercury thermometer stored in a chromed brass tube; a small sealed packet of oiled silk; an assorted bag of eleven rolled, open wove bandages; bag of two ‘Boric Lint’ antiseptic dressings; one small bottle of ‘Epsom Salts’; one medicine glass; one tin of ‘Caress’ talcum powder; one blue and gold ‘Clayton’ brand first aid tin containing a small bottle of ‘MELANYL’ ink, a small tin of ‘Potassium Permanganate’, a small glass jar of ‘Boracic ointment’, a small glass jar of ‘Solidified iodine’; a small tin of ‘Boric ointment’ and a small cork stopper; a bag containing four types of cotton wool; one hand towel and face washer; six assorted sized cotton slings; two cotton calico bags marked ‘Dressings wool and Gauze’; one cotton calico bag marked ‘Dressings’; one cotton calico bag marked ‘Dressing towels’; one cotton calico bag marked ‘Sundries’; one bag containing two reels of white cotton thread, a packet of steel needles, two loose steel needles and a roll of white cotton tape; one bag containing some discarded cellophane wrappers and a blue and white paper label; one bag containing a newspaper clipping, titled ‘Medicine Chest to meet emergencies’. The clipping lists how a well stocked medicine chest is made up.??Used by Maud Ethel Smith while serving with the Voluntary Aid Detachment in Australia during the Second World War. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 22 July 2003 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Kathleen Rose Funder is recognised for her significant contribution to the Australian Institute of Family Studies, which she joined in 1983 as a Principal Research Fellow. During this time, Kathleen led and participated in research pertaining to the issues that determine family wellbeing. She published widely on her findings. Kathleen was also an influential public speaker, and regularly contributed to journals, government investigations and the mainstream press. In 2008, the Kate Funder Scholarships were established. The scholarships provide support for two medical students at the University of Melbourne’s Newman College. Kathleen Rose Funder nee Brennan took her BA in 1963, MA in 1982 and PhD in 1993.[1] She is one of the relatively small number of women to have a Canberra Street named in her honour. Funder Street in Bruce was proclaimed in 2005. The citation notes that her research had direct practical implications and changed the lives of many. After graduation Kathleen Funder taught English at Geelong West Technical School and the Emily McPherson College before joining the Department of Education as a psychologist and, with her husband John (Director of the Baker Medical Research Institute from 1990 to 2001), brought up three children, Anna, Hugh and Joshua, all University of Melbourne graduates. She joined the Australian Institute of Family Studies as a Principal Research Fellow in 1983, beginning a fifteen-year career during which she led and participated in research into the issues that determine family wellbeing – including divorce, single parenthood, care of children, and property rights. She was an influential voice in public debates, contributing to scholarly journals, government investigations and the mainstream press. Among her many publications were Settling up: property and income distribution on divorce in Australia.[2] She was principal author of Settling down: pathways of parents after divorce and the sole author of the third title in the trilogy, Remaking Families: adaptation of parents and children to divorce informed by research for her PhD dissertation.[3] Many of her contributions to Family Matters deal with the rights of children of separating parents, the complexities of access, conflict resolution and the responsibilities of practitioners. She was a frequent speaker at national and international conferences addressing the meetings in South Africa, Europe and the United States and the Chinese Academy of Social Science in Beijing. Much admired for her skills in both research and debate, she was described as possessed of ‘a rare ability to analyse and convert the driest of statistical collections into a blueprint for change’.[4] The Kate Funder Scholarships were established in 2008, providing support for two medical students at Newman College. In recognition of Kathleen Funder’s early wish that she had been able to study medicine, the scholarships are normally awarded to women. [1] Kathleen R. Funder. Relationships between Expressed and Inventoried Career Choices in Adolescence: a cross-lagged panel correlation analysis. Thesis (M.A.) — University of Melbourne, 1983; Kathleen R. Funder. Adaptation to Divorce: a longitudinal study of parents and children. Thesis (PhD) — University of Melbourne, 2001 [2] Settling up: property and income distribution on divorce in Australia. Compiled by the Australian Institute of Family Studies; editor-in-chief, Peter McDonald. Sydney: Prentice-Hall of Australia, 1986. [3] Kathleen Funder, Margaret Harrison, Ruth Weston. Settling down: pathways of parents after divorce. Melbourne: Australian Institute of Family Studies, 1993: Kathleen Funder. Remaking Families: adaptation of parents and children to divorce. Melbourne: Australian Institute of Family Studies, 1996. [4] John Faulks. ‘Researcher Shed Light on Families in Crisis: Obituary, Kathleen Rose Funder’. Australian. 11 July 1998. 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 29 August 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Additional papers from the estate of Jane Macgowan (daughter). The collection contains correspondence as well as manuscript and proof copies of Lady Casey’s books “Tides and Eddies” and “Australian story”. Correspondence, notes, photographs, posters and articles relating to the book “John Cotton’s birds of the Port Phillip District of New South Wales, 1843-1849. Also correspondence and articles written by Lady Casey about John Cotton. Correspondence and catalogues about the Cottonian Collection held at the Plymouth City Art Gallery and Public Library. The collection aslo contains a poster advertising John Cotton’s birds of the Port Phillip District and 6 coloured lithographs of birds. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 23 March 2018 Last modified 23 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Papers of the Women Justices’ Association and the International Association of Youth Magistrates (Victoria). Includes correspondence, minutes, agendas, annual reports, newsletters, attendance roll and related items. Also, minutes, reports and newsletters of the National Council of Women of Victoria and the Australian Local Government Women’s Association (Victorian Branch). Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 4 September 2003 Last modified 29 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Currently held privately: collection of press clippings and speeches, subject areas include getting women into politics Author Details Clare Land Created 15 December 2001 Last modified 1 October 2002 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

These early files may contain references to Zoe McHenry. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 23 November 2017 Last modified 23 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

[Red Cross Archives series reference: NO39]??This series comprises deeds of trust, amendments to the deed, minutes of the board and sub-committees, circulars, annual reports, correspondence, financial documents, terms of reference with Curtain University of Technology, historical account of the scholarship, press cuttings, newsletters, ephemera, brochures as well as publications pertaining to profiling trust fund recipients. The AIF Malaya Memorial Nursing Scholarship established as ‘a living memorial’ to the Australian Imperial Force (AIF) Malaya personnel who lost their lives during World War Two. The annual scholarship supports the education and training of Malayan and Singaporean nurses in Australia who then return to their communities to practice. Prior to 1988, this consisted of in-service hospital courses in institutions across Victoria – thereafter the scholarship has been hosted in conjunction with Curtin University of Technology, Perth. http://www.aifredcross.com.au/a-living-memorial/ See also: Correspondence Files, National Headquarters (2015.0033)??Researchers should note that under the Geneva Conventions Act 1957 protections govern the use of the Red Cross emblem. For further information see Archives staff. Author Details Stella Marr Created 9 August 2017 Last modified 29 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Judith Anderson was the first Australian-born actress to be conferred with the title of Dame. On 01 January 1960 she was awarded the Order of the British Empire – Dames Commander, for services as an actress. daughter of James and Jessie (née Saltmarsh) Anderson. Frances Margaret Anderson, attended Norwood High School, South Australia. Her acting career commenced at the age of 17. Using the name of Francee Anderson she appeared, with English actor Julius Knight, at the Theatre Royal, Sydney. Three years later, she travelled to the United States and worked with the Fourteenth Street Theatre in New York and the Emma Bunting Stock Company, in 1918-1919. In September 1922, using the name Frances Anderson, she made her debut on Broadway, in On the Stairs. After changing her name to Judith Anderson, she appeared in Cobra (1924), Interlude (1928) and Mourning Becomes Electra (1932). As Judith Anderson, she later played female roles in Medea, Hamlet and Macbeth. Anderson’s film credits include Mrs Danvers in Rebecca, for which she was nominated for an Oscar. Others films in which Anderson acted are Edge of Darkness, The Ten Commandments, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, A Man Called Horse and Star Trek 111. For her two performances of Lady Macbeth, Anderson was the first recipient of two separate Emmys for two separate performances. Also Anderson received the Women’s International Centre (WIC) Living Legacy Award in 1986. Dame Judith Anderson, who was twice married, died at the age of 93 in Santa Barbara, California in 1992. Published resources Edited Book Who's Who of Australian Women, Lofthouse, Andrea, 1982 Site Exhibition Faith, Hope and Charity Australian Women and Imperial Honours: 1901-1989, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2003, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/honours/honours.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Anne Heywood Created 24 April 2002 Last modified 2 May 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Includes material on pre-history of the Centre from 1962-5, the Second Vatican Council; steps taken to implement the ACU Research project in Women’s History, Theology and Spirituality as the first step towards the establishment of a Centre; the activities of the Project period including its annual biannual newsletter, and the history of the centre to date. Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 4 May 2004 Last modified 14 May 2004 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Daughter of Frank Aloysius Mumme and Annie Miller Fraser, Lillian Annie Mumme was born in Boulder on 5 December 1906. The family moved to Collie in Western Australia for Frank’s work. Lillian completed her nursing training at the Kalgoorlie Government Hospital, and later worked in Busselton Hospital. In WWII she served with the Second Australian Imperial Force (2nd AIF) enlisting in Moora Western Australia, she then from 16 October 1942 served with the 2nd/4th Australian Army Nursing Service in Queensland as Lieutenant. She was discharged from service on the 11 February 1946. Lillian never married but continued to work as a nurse at various hospitals in Western Australia. She died on 20 November 1989 in Bicton Private Hospital in Fremantle at the age of 82, and was buried in Fremantle Cemetery, Western Australia. Published resources 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 Archival resources National Archives of Australia, Various Locations Second Australian Imperial Force Personnel Dossiers, 1939-1947 Author Details Criena Fitzgerald Created 6 August 2012 Last modified 5 October 2012 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Mary Smith nee Steedman was the first white woman to live in Bardoc, approximately 30 km from Kalgoorlie. She ran the Bardoc Hotel from 1896 until 1924. Mary Dudley left Victoria for the goldfields of Western Australia in 1893 with her husband Lionel, her brother Timothy Steedman and her four children Lionel, Fred, Adelaide and Rene. The family travelled by boat, The Bothwell Castle, by train to Southern Cross and by wagon to Coolgardie. The journey to Coolgardie took eight days. In 1894 the family moved to Bardoc, where Lionel sold liquor to miners from a wayside shanty, building the more substantial Bardoc Hotel two years later in 1896. Lionel died that same year leaving Mary to run the hotel with the help of her family. She married miner William Smith in January 1900 and in 1903 a daughter Kathleen Mary was born. She continued to run the Bardoc Hotel cleaning, cooking for boarders and tending the bar. Even a dose of Spanish Influenza in 1919 failed to deter her. Her daughter Kathleen worked as a housemaid and waitress. Mary’s second husband died in 1916, but she remained at Bardoc, leaving only when the mining population dwindled and it became unprofitable to continue. In 1924, after a lifetime of hard labour, Mary sold the hotel and retired to Perth with Kathleen. She was 64. Published resources 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 Robyn McLean and Kevin Imms Created 8 August 2012 Last modified 20 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

1 sound file (ca. 48 min.)??Folkloric recording. Pam Fielding, born 1945, has spent her entire working life in farming. Fielding talks about her early life, education and starting work on the family property; the changes in agriculture over the years and her thoughts on farming in the current era including the growing of opium poppies in Tasmania; her love of music and playing keyboards in the Woodfield’s orchestra. Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 2 August 2017 Last modified 27 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Lily Beaurepaire was one of Australia’s first women Olympians, when she competed at the 1920 Antwerp Olympics in swimming and diving. She was the first Australian woman to compete in diving but was unplaced. The only woman in Australia’s small team, she joined her brother Frank and they were the first sibling Olympians. Frank, (later Sir Frank Beaurepaire), was already an Olympian from the 1908 Games. During WW1, the 1920s and into the 1930s, Lily, Frank, and May Cox, the Education Department of Victoria’s Supervisor of Swimming and Lifesaving, promoted swimming and diving at exhibitions which raised patriotic funds and supported the Victorian community through charity events. A strong swimmer, over short and long distances, Lily competed in the sea, surf and swimming baths, was a fearless high diver and leapt off bridges into rivers. In 1910, Lily was one of the first people to be qualified as a lifesaver when she gained the Bronze Medallion for Lifesaving awarded by the Royal Australian Lifesaving Association. For a decade she was sometimes the only lifesaver at Lorne surf beach. In 1933, aged in her forties, she won fame for a dangerous lifesaving rescue of three men in rough seas. In 1967, Lorne’s Lilian Beaurepaire Memorial Swimming Pool was opened. Lily Beaurepaire was born in 1892 in Albert Park. Her parents were Francis Edmund de Beaurepaire, a sailor, tram-conductor, trader and a hotel proprietor and Mary Edith, nee Inman. She attended Albert Park State School until she was 15 years old. Her brother, Frank was one year older, and as students they were State Swimming Champions. Aged 17 in 1908, he represented Australia at London’s Olympic Games. Lily was a strong, versatile swimmer and award-winning diver. She was coached at school by her teacher May Cox, who would go on to be the Education Department of Victoria’s Supervisor of Swimming and Lifesaving. For decades, Lily, Frank and May collaborated in the promotion of swimming and lifesaving across Victoria. Albert Park State School was famous as it was Victoria’s leading swimming school. Since 1898 it regularly won state championships. Lily was in the school’s championship team in 1905, 1906 and 1908, winning First Prizes for swimming and diving in the state championships. After leaving school she raced as a teenager in open state and interstate competitions, over varied distances, and in diving. Aquatic events were popular, and many competitions were organised at Hegarty’s and Stubbs Baths, in St Kilda, and other centres, including Richmond, Brunswick, Williamstown, and the City Baths. Local and interstate newspapers regularly reported on swimming carnivals. By 1910, aged 18, Lily had won 16 state level championship medals. Her swimming skills and physical strengths were rewarded further in 1910, when she was one of the first people in Victoria to qualify for the Bronze Medallion for Lifesaving and in 1911, she gained the Royal Life Saving Society’s Award of Merit. Swimming and lifesaving clubs held regular events. During WW1 they organised swimming carnivals to raise funds for charities and the patriotic war effort. In 1916 The Brunswick Baths held a carnival, for the St John’s Ambulance Association. In 1917, Footscray Swimming Club held a gala on the Maribyrnong River and in 1917 the Richmond Ladies Life Saving team displayed lifesaving techniques. Lily was the Albert Park Ladies Swimming Club’s (APLSC) efficient Honorary Secretary for nine years. It involved managing, fund raising and organising. During the World War 1 years (1914-1918) fewer swimming events were held, due to male swimmers serving in the forces. The 1916 Olympic Games were cancelled. Women swimmers, led by Lily Beaurepaire, considered that they should keep the sport ‘before the public’. The APLSC requested to join the Victorian Amateur Swimming Association. Their request was refused so they formed the Victorian Lady’s Amateur Swimming Association (VLASA) The women’s clubs, after some negotiation all joined in 1916. From then the VLASA conducted its own championship races. This pioneering organisation was influential as it promoted women’s sport and raised funds to send women swimmers interstate and overseas. Lily was the VLASA ‘s inaugural honorary secretary. She continued as the APLSC’s secretary too. In 1917, as the VLASA’s honorary secretary, Lily wrote in the Weekly Times that swimming and lifesaving should be compulsory for girls in schools. She argued that it needed to be properly taught and it was important for developing a ‘fondness for physical recreation’ which was ‘beneficial’ to health and could prevent drowning. The VLASA affiliated with interstate women’s associations and in 1917, held its first state championships at the City Baths. Lily easily won the 220 yards which qualified her to represent Victoria in the national championships. Unusually for a women Lily used the trudgeon stroke for racing. Swimmers in the Olympic Games used it for Freestyle events because it was the fastest stroke and eventually it developed into the ‘Crawl’ or ‘Freestyle’. Lily was beaten in national racing by the seasoned competitive swimmer, and Olympian, Fanny Durack. She had won a gold medal in 1912, making her the first Australian woman to win a gold medal for swimming at the Olympics and the first woman in the world. In early 1920, the VLASA decided to support Lily to compete in the next Olympics to be held in Antwerp. The Australian Olympic Council whose membership was representatives of male amateur sporting bodies, had already decided not to send a team of women swimmers due to lack of funds so she would need to pay her own way. The VALSA established an appeal for £100 to defray her living and general expenses. Newspapers advertised for donations. She paid her own ship-fare and was chaperoned by her mother. As Frank was in the men’s Olympic team, they were the first siblings to represent Australia in the Olympics. A few months earlier though, Fanny Durack had intended to defend her 1912 title. As the Olympics were cancelled in 1916, 1920 was her first opportunity to do so. However, Fanny became very ill before she left Australia. She had an emergency appendectomy, followed by typhoid fever and pneumonia. Luckily Fanny recovered but retired from competition. Lily had come second to her in the last Australian championships. The VLASA described her as ‘a thorough amateur and a credit to her country’. At the Olympics she raced in the 100-metres, and the 300-metres freestyle events as well as the 10-metre platform diving but failed to win a place. While overseas she competed in England, South Africa, the United States and Canada. On the way home Frank and Lily gave swimming and diving exhibitions in New Zealand. Upon her return, she retired from competitive swimming. Unfortunately, most of her swimming feats were left unrecorded other than unofficially in newspapers, as it would be 1930 before women’s swimming times were recognised by the Victorian Amateur Swimming Association. In 1922, Lily moved with her parents from Albert Park to Lorne. She assisted with managing the popular Carinya Guest House and later the large Cumberland Hotel. However, she continued swimming and lifesaving pursuits. At Lorne’s surf beach Lily was often the only lifesaver and she was credited with 50 rescues. Organising swimming and life-saving demonstrations with local swimming clubs, including Torquay, Rippleside and Geelong, she supported charities such as the Lorne Bush Nursing Hospital. When available she worked on Education Department swimming and lifesaving programs for teachers and students. Aged 41, she famously rescued three men in rough surf at Lorne, in 1933. Described by newspapers across Australia, as a thrilling rescue, there were three men who were dangerously carried out to sea on a Hawaiian surfboard. Lily brought them in from 300 yards out. Newspapers across Australia reported the rescue. In 1936, Lily married Herbert Clarke and from then she was rarely found in the public record. However, in 1967, the Lillian Beaurepaire Memorial Swimming Pool was proudly opened for community use on the Lorne Foreshore, by her nephew Ian Beaurepaire, a Melbourne City Councillor. Partially funded by the Beaurepaire family who had worked in Lorne since 1922, she attended the opening with her husband. Aged 89, she died in 1979 at Chesterfield Private Hospital, Geelong. Sadly, it was recently revealed that the memorial pool was updated and renamed the Lorne Sea Baths. However, early in 2021 the Surf Coast Council announced their intention to name a new road, Lillian Close, in her honour. Local Councillor, Gary Allen said ‘Lillian was a strong but humble person who served our community well, and its with a great deal of pleasure that I move this motion’. Events 1920 - 1920 Author Details Deborah Towns OAM Created 4 October 2021 Last modified 4 October 2021 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Georgina Sweet was Australia’s first female Acting Professor (Biology, University of Melbourne, 1916-1917). She was Associate Professor of Zoology at the University of Melbourne from 1920 to 1924. Sweet’s research included the zoology of Australian native animals and the parasites infesting Australian stock and native fauna. She was appointed OBE – Officer of The Order of the British Empire (Civil) – 3 June 1935, for services to women’s movements. Georgina Sweet was born in Brunswick, Melbourne, the eldest daughter of George Sweet and his wife Fanny (née Dudman). Both parents were born in England. George was a tradesman and later ran the Brunswick Brick, Tile and Pottery Company. Georgina Sweet was the University of Melbourne’s first female Associate Professor. She was a member of the Royal Society of Victoria and the Australian Association for Advancement of Science. She was highly intelligent and ambitious enough to use her talents. She won the University of Melbourne’s MacBain scholarship and completed her Bachelor of Science, then a Masters and finally her Doctorate in 1904. Though Sweet reportedly never felt disadvantaged by her sex, she was a strong supporter of women’s rights. She pushed for the admission of women to the University senate and worked to establish the University Women’s College. She served as Australian president of the YWCA (1927-1934); vice-president of the world YWCA from 1934; foundation member of the Victorian Women Graduates’ Association; and first president of the Pan-Pacific Women’s Association (1930). Having inherited some wealth from her father, Sweet’s philanthropic gifts were largely directed toward the University of Melbourne and the Methodist Church. Publicity material from the University states that Sweet left ‘a generous bequest to endow fellowships in geology, zoology and medicine’. In fact, her original gift of £22,500 is now worth over half a million dollars to the institution with a further $200,000 in accumulated income. The Georgina Sweet bursary in social studies was established in 1946, the year of her death, in her memory. Published resources Journal Article Georgina Sweet: A Brilliant Career, Anderson, F, 2000 Obituary: Dr Georgina Sweet, Agar, W. E., 1946 Resource Section Sweet, Georgina(1875-1946), MacCallum, Monica, 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A120168b.htm Sweet, Georgina (1875 - 1946), Biographical Entry, 2002, http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/bsparcs/biogs/P000820b.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 Book Degrees of liberation : a short history of women in the University of Melbourne, Kelly, Farley, 1985 Jessie Webb, a memoir, Ridley, Ronald T, 1994 Book Section Garden Parties and Politics : The Victorian Women's Graduate Association 1920-1945, Ruljancich, Sally, 2000 Edited Book 200 Australian Women: A Redress Anthology, Radi, Heather, 1988 Thesis In Her Gift: Activism and Altruism in Australian Women's Philanthropy, 1880-2005, Lemon, Barbara, 2008 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 In Her Gift: Women Philanthropists in Australian History, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2009, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/wiph/home.html The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia, Smart, Judith and Swain, Shurlee (eds.), 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders Archival resources The University of Melbourne Archives Sweet, Georgina (1875-1946) Webb, Jessie Stobo Watson Museums Victoria Collections Georgina Sweet - Records National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Papers on various Australian women [19--] [manuscript] Author Details Helen Morgan and Barbara Lemon Created 20 October 1993 Last modified 15 March 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

The poster text includes: Equal education, work & pay opportunities – free contraception – child care – welfare benefits . . . Women’s Electoral Lobby, Box 442 Camberwell 3124. Author Details Clare Land Created 19 December 2001 Last modified 30 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Minutes of the State Council (1980-1990) and Executive (1980-1987), correspondence, subject files, meetings with other unions files, and printed material. Minutes and other records of branches: Avoca, Bendigo, Bunyip, Traralgon, Yallourn, Women’s, Head Teachers’, High School, Infant Mistresses’, Infant Teachers’, Male Assistance, Metropolitan Technical Men’s, Metropolitan Technical Teachers’ (microfiche), Primary Men’s, Primary Principals’, Primary Women’s, and Technical Women’s Branches, and of affiliated organisations: the Association of Teachers of the Intellectually Handicapped, the Kindergarten Teachers’ Association of Victoria, the State School Teachers’ Union of Victoria (1895-1897, microfiche), the Technical Teachers’ Association of Victoria (some microfiche), the Technical Teachers’ Union of Victoria (some microfiche), the Victorian High School Principals’ Association and the Victorian Secondary Teachers’ Association. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 17 November 2017 Last modified 17 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Central Executive report 1956-1957; Central Executive meetings including agendas, minutes and correspondence; ALP Victorian Branch Womens’ Central Organising Committee including circulars and correspondence; miscellaneous statements on communism, Suez Canal crisis, politics; minutes of the Foreign Policy, Defence and Immigration Rural and General Committee; ALP conference material; notes on Flinders Campaign; memorabilia; 1948 Referendum material; miscellaneous articles. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 6 February 2002 Last modified 29 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

A series of seven five minute films for television produced for the Women’s Program of the Australian Bicentennial Authority. They celebrate and promote past and present Australian women’s achievements and their diverse contributions to the evolution of Australian society. Author Details Hollie Aerts Created 20 December 2010 Last modified 1 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

NS1024 Scrapbooks, letters and photographs of Dame Mabel Miller Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 28 August 2002 Last modified 27 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Records of the Council consisting of a floppy disc and hardcopy which records the results of a research project undertaken on compiling a list of names of the South Australian women who served in World War II. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 12 September 2003 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Correspondence, publications, notes, minute book, miscellaneous material Author Details Janet Butler Created 18 March 2010 Last modified 26 April 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Faith Bandler & Federal Council for the Advancement of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders?Conference on Aboriginal Affairs, 9th, 1966; 10-11?Located in Series 11, Item 2 of MS 3759?Includes information on wages, welfare, education, unions, reserves, seasonal workers, and work of organizations Author Details Clare Land Created 3 September 2002 Last modified 6 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Correspondence (1940-1965); diaries; manuscripts, including unpublished manuscript entitled “Moment of light” (1966), as well as various versions of “Voyage to disaster”; notebooks; material used when writing “Voyage to disaster”, including microfilm copy of Journal of the ship “Batavia”; newspaper cutting relating to a biography of Caroline Chisholm (1950); photographs; poem from her son Paris (1947) Author Details Anne Heywood Created 12 September 2003 Last modified 7 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Barrett Reid is interviewed about his memories and perceptions of artist Joy Hester. General note: The information gleaned from this interview was used to formulate the script for the documentary ‘The Good Looker’. Author Details Hollie Aerts Created 23 December 2010 Last modified 1 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Mildred Manning was a full-time staff member at Wesley College (Perth) from 1930 until her retirement in 1970. The College named the biology laboratory in the then new science block after her in December 1963. On 1 January 1964 Mildred Manning was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire (Civil) (MBE) for services to education in Western Australia. Mildred Manning was the daughter of Ernest Le Souef, planner and director of the Perth Zoo, and his wife Ellie. One of four children who all grew up with the animals and birds of the zoo as playmates, Mildred Le Souef completed her education at Perth College and the University of Western Australia. After graduating with a science degree in 1923, Mildred Le Souef taught biology part-time at Wesley College and Presbyterian Ladies’ College. In 1930 she became a full-time teacher at Wesley College, a position she held until 1970, and then helped the new science master until 1976. During World War II she was at first a receiver of messages, and then a spotter with the Volunteer Air Observer Corps at Crawley. In 1951 Mildred Le Souef married Bernard Manning (deceased 1961) – a Gilbert and Sullivan actor who also founded the Gilbert and Sullivan Society in Perth in 1951. Mildred Manning was a member of the Young Womens’ Christian Association (YWCA) and the Science Teachers’ Association of Western Australia, who made her a Life Member in 1970. Published resources Book Reflections : profiles of 150 women who helped make Western Australia's history; Project of the Womens Committee for the 150th Anniversary Celebrations of Western Australia, Popham, Daphne; Stokes, K.A.; Lewis, Julie, 1979 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 Author Details Anne Heywood Created 17 October 2002 Last modified 18 June 2004 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Margot White was born and raised in Broken Hill, New South Wales, where she worked as a comptometrist and as a clerk. Margot is a dedicated member of the Broken Hill Family History Group and does other voluntary work in the community. The only daughter of Cecil and Nydia Edes, Margot attended Morgan Street Infant School, North School, Central School, and finally Broken Hill High School, where she remained until the age of 16. On leaving school, she travelled to Adelaide to undertake a four month course in comptometry at the Peacock Brother’s Business College. Back in Broken Hill, Margot spent four years in the employment of accountant Jack Firth before taking up a position at the Zinc Corporation. In 1956 she married Ray White. Despite union laws discouraging married women from working, Margot was equipped with comptometry skills and returned to the workforce in 1958 – had a qualified single girl applied for her job, she would have had to relinquish it. Margot’s responsibilities included calculating the ‘lead bonus’ each month for employees of the mine. This was a payment made in addition to the regular salary and based on the price of lead on the London metal exchange. In 1967, Margot resigned from her job to travel overseas with Ray and gave birth to her daughter the following year. In 1970, when her daughter was two years old, she somewhat reluctantly recommenced work for accountant Eric Minchin, who desperately needed help with an audit. In between looking after her daughter and doing the housework, Margot would work from home on the dining room table. Margot retired in 1997 at the age of 64, and is an active member of the Broken Hill Family History Group. This entry was prepared and written by Georgia Moodie. Published resources Site Exhibition Unbroken Spirit: Women in Broken Hill, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2009, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/bh/bh-home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources Private Hands (These records may not be readily available) Interview with Margot White Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 3 March 2009 Last modified 20 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Letter to Miss M. St. Clair Layman thanking her and her family for their support during the recent elections. Author Details Lisa MacKinney Created 21 August 2009 Last modified 7 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

The Association of Women’s Forum Club of Australia was established in 1941 with the aim fostering public speaking abilities in women. By 1988, some eighty clubs had been established although only thirty seven were currently active. In 1997 the Association, by now limited entirely to the Association of Queensland Women’s Forum Clubs, was renamed the Forum Communicators Association and was no longer exclusively a women’s association. The Association produces constitutions, syllabuses, newsletters and holds biennial conferences. On 22nd July 1941 a public meeting was called of women interested in the formation of a Club to foster public speaking amongst women. The first President was Miss Ruth Don OAM. The three original Founders of Forum, Lady Groom, Mrs Marjorie Puregger and Miss Ruth Don remained active members throughout their lifetime. During 1945 a movement grew for the establishment of further clubs and the organisation grew throughout Queensland. It became apparent that a supervising committee would be necessary and in October 1947 the Association of Queensland Women’s Forum Clubs was formed, known as the Dais and eventually regional councils were formed. In 1997 the name was changed to Forum Communicators Association Inc. In 2004 there are 23 Forums in various locations in Queensland and the organisation described itself as: ‘an organisation for you to increase your self esteem and gain confidence through learning specific skills; effective communication; club administration; chairing meetings; leadership; the duties of office bearers – all in an atmosphere of support and encouragement.’ Published resources Report Forum: 50 golden years, 1941-1991 / The Association of Women's Forum Clubs of Australia, [1991] Secretary's report, 1965-1997 Conference Proceedings Biennial Conference / The Association of Women's Forum Clubs of Australia, ?-1997 Conference / Forum Communicators Association Inc., 1999- Book Criticism: A guide for critics' circle and other members, 1977 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources Australian Historic Records Register The Association of Women's Forum Club of Australia Author Details Jane Carey Created 21 June 2004 Last modified 29 April 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

The series consists of Executive and General Committee minutes from the original Australian Federation of University Women South Australian Branch Records. The first minute book records the inaugural meeting of the Women Graduates’ Club held in 1914 where “it was proposed to form a Graduate sub-society to promote social intercourse among graduates and to deal with questions primarily affecting graduates”. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 3 October 2017 Last modified 23 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Australian Branch Annual Reports 1914-39 and Victorian Division annual reports 1914-39. Author Details Gavan McCarthy Created 15 October 1993 Last modified 1 October 2002 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

For over fifty years, union policy in Broken Hill prohibited married women from taking on paid employment unless they were professionally trained. Clerical and retail positions were to be kept open for young unmarried women or widows. By the mid-1920s Broken Hill had become a fully unionised city and all workers, whether they worked on the mines or in town, had to have an ‘O.K.’, or union ticket, to be eligible for employment. Union tickets were distributed by the powerful peak union body, the Barrier Industrial Council. With the exception of the six years during World War Two when the bar on married women was lifted, the Barrier Industrial Council excluded women from paid employment after they married. The policy was intended to encourage young women to stay in Broken Hill by ensuring that there were positions available for them when they left school. An article in the Barrier Miner in March 1957 explained the policy as an attempt to ‘combat the difficulty of girls leaving school and struggling to find work’. The article also described the three-point-plan devised and adopted by the union: employers were requested not to offer employment to married women; to dismiss women if they married and make their position available for a single girl; and to put off married women first in cases of retrenchment. Teachers and other professionally trained married women were allowed to continue working on condition that there were no qualified single women available for the role. Women working in unskilled or low-skilled professions such as shop assistants, receptionists and domestic staff would lose their jobs upon marriage. This long-standing union policy was challenged in 1981 by Mrs Jeanine Whitehair, who was employed as the most senior of five dental assistants at the Town Dental Clinic in Broken Hill. After her marriage in November 1980, Jeanine was one of three people who lost their jobs at the clinic purportedly for economic reasons. With the support of the New South Wales Equal Opportunities Board, Jeanine was successful in her attempt to seek reinstatement. This was a landmark case which not only engendered a significant shift in the nature of women’s employment in Broken Hill, but also signalled the beginnings of the erosion of the power of the Barrier Industrial Council. This entry was researched and written by Georgia Moodie. Published resources Newspaper Article Union Closes Book: Ban on Married Women in Shops, 1957 Women Against the Barrier - SMH, 1981 Jeanine looks back on a turbulent time, 2009 Fighting for what's right, 2009 Women Up Against the Barrier, Hope, Deborah, 1981 Conference Paper Exploring Peak Union Purpose and Power: The Origins, Dominance and Decline of the Barrier Industrial Council, Ellem, Bradon and John Shields, 2000, http://www.mngt.waikato.ac.nz/departments/Strategy%20and%20Human%20Resource%20Management/Airaanz/old/conferce/newscastle2000/Vol3/ellem.pdf Site Exhibition Unbroken Spirit: Women in Broken Hill, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2009, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/bh/bh-home.html Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 4 March 2009 Last modified 16 September 2013 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Book of newspaper cuttings relating to Victorian pioneers. Author Details Janet Butler Created 21 August 2009 Last modified 24 August 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Contains: Set of 22 negatives taken c.1915. Includes: New York 1915 trip, Kate Howarde with the Barretts, streetscapes and journey on the steam ship. Author Details Hollie Aerts Created 21 December 2010 Last modified 1 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Emma Kearney was awarded the 2018 Australian Football League Women’s (AFLW) Best and Fairest medal at the W Awards. She was also awarded an AFLW All-Australian guernsey in both 2017 and 2018. In addition, Emma won both the 2017 (alongside Ellie Blackburn) and 2018 Western Bulldogs AFLW best & fairest award. She was also the recipient of the 2018 Shadforth Financial Group AFL Coaches AFLW Champion Player of the Year, tying with Adelaide Crows co-captain Chelsea Randall on 42 votes. Emma Kearney grew up on a sheep farm in Cavendish, a small town in western Victoria. As a child she enjoyed many sports, including football, cricket, basketball and hockey, however she was forced to give up football at the age of 12 due to league rules prohibiting her from playing with the boys. She attended high school at Monivae College, Hamilton, and then completed a teaching degree in Ballarat. She currently works as a physical education teacher at Mount Alexander College in Flemington. Emma plays both football and cricket professionally. She is a midfielder for the Western Bulldogs women’s AFL team and is signed to the Melbourne Stars for the Women’s Big Bash League (WBBL). Prior to her work with the Melbourne Stars, Emma played for the Essendon-Maribyrnong Cricket Club and was chosen for the VicSpirit team in 2013-14. Emma was a member of the Western Bulldog’s women’s team when exhibition games started in 2013 and played a key role in the Western Bulldogs All Girls Auskick Centre. Previously, Emma played football for the Melbourne University’s women’s team. It was announced in April 2018 that Emma had accepted a position with North Melbourne for their inaugural AFLW season. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 5 April 2018 Last modified 22 May 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Papers of the Women’s Electoral Lobby (S.A.), 1972-2000, comprising: articles of association; agendas and minutes of meetings; minute books; correspondence; and papers of various Action Groups within WEL. Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 23 July 2004 Last modified 29 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Interview with Gwen Roderick, AM, Perth, January 2012, transcript in possession of Leonie Christopherson, Marian Quartly and Judith Smart Created 12 September 2013 Last modified 13 September 2013 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

MLOH 81/1-3?1. Includes excerpts from ABC archives for Irina Dunn’s film ‘Fighting for Peace’?2. Original soundtrack for her film ‘Frame Up. Who bombed the Hilton, who didn’t?’ (1983)?3. Music by Judy Small, Devishti and Jan Preston for Dunn’s movie ‘Fighting for Peace’.??This collection includes video recordings at VT 123-176 Author Details Alannah Croom Created 21 June 2018 Last modified 21 June 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

MS Acc09.119 comprises correspondence, legal and financial papers of the ANZAC Fellowship of Women and other papers documenting Fellowship activities. The collection includes newsletters, songsheets and a diary containing meeting details and news cuttings. The correspondence includes a letter addressed to Dr Mary Booth in relation to Anzac Day 1918 (1 packet).??The Acc09.143 instalment comprises an autograph book belonging to Herbert Philpot. Contents of the book include signatures, recipes and poems. It was apparently taken on board a ship transporting soldiers from Australia to Europe during World War I. Many of the entries comprise name, rank, serial number and brigade details of persons on board, along with the phrase “On service abroad” or similar (1 folder). Author Details Alannah Croom Created 17 April 2018 Last modified 17 April 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Photographs of and relating to Nellie Walker. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 28 January 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Diary talks of early life in Germany including persecution of Lutherans. Also talks of first impressions of South Australia with details of daily life and religious upbringing. Discusses daily parish life and politics. Mentions Hermannsburg Mission in South Australia.?Collection consists of a published memoir: D.M & A.P.H. Freund, Early Lutheran Congregations in South Australia: Memoirs of a Pastor’s Wife – Anna Ey. Lutheran Publishing House, Adelaide South Australia, 1986; a notebook with two typed translations and some miscellaneous papers. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 29 January 2004 Last modified 12 June 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

This series comprises records created by the Chief Justice’s Chambers of the Family Court. Records in this series were created by the Honourable Justice Alastair Bothwick Nicholson and his predecessor the Honourable Justice Elizabeth Evatt. Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 2 November 2006 Last modified 21 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Sandra Nori, a member of the Australian Labor Party, was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly as the Member for McKell in 1988. That seat was abolished in 1991 and she won the newly established seat of Port Jackson in 1991 and was re-elected in 1991, 1995, 1999 and 2003. She held the ministerial portfolios for Tourism and Small Business 1999-2003; for Women 2002-2007; Sport and Recreation 2003-2007. She retired from the New South Wales Parliament in 2007. Sandra Nori was born in Newcastle, of Italian parents. She was educated at Petersham Girls High School and the University of Sydney (B.Ec.). She worked as co-ordinator, South Sydney Women’s Health Centre 1976-78, Health worker, Leichhardt Community Health Centre 1981-2, and Research Officer to Peter Baldwin, MHR, 1983-4. She was a member of the NSW Social Security Appeals Tribunal 1987-88. She married John Faulkner, and they had two children, Bonnie and Lachlan. The marriage ended in divorce. Published resources Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 1 February 2006 Last modified 20 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Photos, passports, entrance tickets, and newspaper clippings. Also letters written to family members from the League of Nations Assembly in 1933, and the women’s alliance meeting in Instanbul in 1935. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 17 April 2018 Last modified 17 April 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

MLMSS 10057?BOX 1?Personal papers and correspondence of Rev. Alison Cheek and Rev. Barbara Harris, 1974-1989. Includes publications and records relating to Episcopal Church in USA, 1974-1989?Correspondence, meeting minutes and articles of Episcopal Women, 1985-1989?Women of Vision (WOV) Presenter’s manual?Records and correspondence of Sydney Diocesan Synod, 1984-1992, including order of business for Diocesan Synod of 1987, Presidential address to Synod 1987 and Opening Service of the 7th General Synod of the Anglican Church of Australia, 25 August 1985?Legal records and correspondence of the Appellate Tribunal of the Anglican Church of Australia on the ordination of women to office of Priest Act 1988 of Diocese of Melbourne, 1986-1990, and Presbytery of Sydney Inquiring into Sermon Preached bv Reverend Dr Peter Cameron 1992?Meeting minutes, research papers and publications relating to Ordination of Catholic Women (OCW), 1990-1997??BOX 2?Correspondence, minutes and agendas of MOW Sydney, 1983-2009?Correspondence and records to Patricia Brennan, 1983-1996?Research papers, notes, submissions and records re MOW Sydney Committee and Womens studies, 1980-1987?Financial records of MOW National, 1986-1992?Correspondence and submission by MOW National to National Consultation & Assistance Programme for Women, Office of the Status of Women, Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet for research grants and funding, 1985-1987?Newsletters articles, publicity material, notes, conference and research papers, meeting minutes and correspondence relating to MOW National Network and National Conference for the Ordination of Women, 1985-1997?Contact lists of the MOW, ca. 1986-1994??BOX 3?Publications, newsletters and articles, including letters to members 1981-1999?Newspaper articles, research notes and correspondence MOW, 1983-1989?newsletters, newspaper articles, 1987-2006??BOX 4?Lecture notes, research material and news clippingss relating to Anglican Female Conservative and MOW, 1975-2009??BOX 5?Prayers, poems and sheet music?Annotated script of ‘The Bride’s Pie’?Liturgies, church order of services for ordination ceremonies of women, 1985-1992?Draft notes for MOW speeches, talks for media, events and conferences, ca. 1967-1993?4 sound cassette tapes: Pat Brennan Pressure Point ABC, 16 May 1985; Cassandra Tape 1; Pachelbel Canon; Harmonic Convergence Aug 1987 – Earth Note?Patricia Brennan letters to members of Australian Feminist Theology Foundation, MOW Sydney, 2007-2008?Anthea Johnstone Eyres research papers, typescripts and notes 1987 1988?Photographs National Network Canberra, March 1987?Minutes of National Network, 1986-1995?Conference papers and records of National Conference of the Movement of the Ordination of Women, 1988, 1989, 1990 and 1995??BOX 6?Newspaper cuttings, research papers, articles and notes, ca, 1980- 2003?Minutes and agendas of MOW Sydney Committee 1983-1993, and MOW National Network, 1985-1988?Correspondence of publicity officer and minutes of MOW Committees, 1983-1986?Newsletters of MOW, 1983-1989??BOX 7?Membership records, correspondence and applications MOW Sydney, 1983-1989?Conference notes and papers from N.E.A.C. 1981, Women in Leadership 1968-1990. National Conference 1988 and Collaroy 1989?National Constitution 1985 & Incorporation?Correspondence and papers relating to MOW organisational development, objectives, process and self analysis papers, 1985-1990 and letters to and from Patricia Brennan on MOW beginnings, 1985-1988?Bibliography re Women Priests?Letters from Monica Furlong, 1984-1985?Photographs MOW Conference, ca. 1985-1986?Postcards 1987-1993??BOX 8?Newsletters, articles and letters re MOW International Network UK, 1986-1993?Letters from General Synod Action Committee, 1989-1993, and protest creed?Papers, correspondence and minutes of Priesthood Committee, 1982-1983?Newspaper clippings, magazines and media articles, 1971-2002?Correspondence, mainly letters to and from Patricia Brennan, 1981-1994?Legal records relating to legal challenges and MOW National Constitution, 1986-1992?Members address lists, 2008-2009?MOW meeting notices, newsletters, pamphlets, fliers, ca. 1985-1994??BOX 9?Notes by Patricia Brennan?Research papers, essays, book excerpt, ca. 1980?Conference papers, programs, minutes, notes and letters Women Authoring Theology Conference WATC 1991, MOW National Conference 1985 and MOW Annual Conference 1987?Newsletters, correspondence, reports of MOW Victoria 1984, Canberra-Goulburn MOW 1988, MOW Brisbane 1987-1990 and MOW SA 1986-1987??BOX 10?Media releases, 1987-1993?Newspaper clippings, articles and correspondence, ca. 1983-1994?Letters to Patricia Brennan, 1980-1993??BOX 11?Poems?Newsletters, media releases and minutes of MOW Sydney, 1985-1992?Minutes and agendas of MOW National Network, 1984-1991?Ordination Papers 1987?Correspondence, newspaper clippings, articles and manuscript notes relating to New Women Romantic Love History & Ideas, 1989-1994?Contact list of Women Deacons 1990?Minutes, newsletters and surveys of Aust. Womens Assembly Committee / WATAC, 1989-1993?Press releases of MOW Sydney, 1987-1992?Conference proceedings and records of MOW National Conference, 1985?Newsletters, correspondence and minutes re MOW Sydney AGMs, 1986-1999??BOX 12?Research papers and reports, articles and news clippings on ordination of women in Australia and feminism, 1987-1992, and lecture notes 1972?Pamphlets and flyers and MOW London records ca. 1980-1984.?Prayer diary for MOW National?Membership and conference flyers, 1980-1990?Copy of letter to Bishop Browning from Rev Betty Bone Schiess with two photographs, ca. 1988?Report ‘A summary of the Appellate Tribunal’s Decision on the ordination of women as deacons’ Keith Mason QC. June 1987?Program ‘Women spirit rising: toward wholeness’, Lambeth 1988??BOX 13?Letters to Patricia Brennan, 1989-1993?News clippings, 1975 -1994?Research notes and papers, ca. 1988-1994?Correspondence, newsletters, workshop papers and flyers, ca. 1984-1988??BOX 14?Letters to Patricia Brennan from the public, ca. 1987-1988?Correspondence and conference papers relating to Lambeth Conference, 1988?Correspondence and records relating to General Synod, Womens Commission, Doctrine Commission,1985-1991?Records and papers of MOW Sydney, 1983 and 1986?Research paper and flyers re Women Against Ordination, ca. 1975-1984?Letters, papers and notes re Monica Denison and Goulburn non-ordination, ca. 1992?Notes and research papers re documentary film Fully Ordained Meat Pie, ca. 1987-1988,?Play scripts and notes for street plays and dramas ‘The Ordination’ and ‘Checkmate’, 1983-1984??BOX 15?Papers and records Patrician Brennan, 1982-1990?Letters to Secretary Australian Feminist Theology Foundation, ca. 1990-1994?Finance records, receipts and cashbooks, 1989-1994??BOX 16?Records and correspondence Angela, Stroud Monastery, Gunya Chiara, Clare Library, ca. 1989-1998?Comics?Records, correspondence and research papers of Australian Feminist Theology Foundation, ca. 1984-1996??BOX 17?Newsletters, pamphlets and flyers, ca. 1975-1992?Financial records, bank statements and membership applications Australian Feminist Theology Foundation, ca. 1992-1995?Letters to Patricia Brennan and Eilleen,1985-1999??PXD 1477?Folder 1?Photographs??Folder 2A?uPtlhaocra rDdes?taPiolsster – August 1987: Anglican General Synod, Rite time for women Alannah Croom Created 26 June 2018 Last modified 26 June 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

This extensive collection contains material relating to Barbara Curthoys professional and political life. There are reports, notes, minutes and correspondence relating to the Union of Australian Women for the period 1953-1997; papers relating to Curthoys’ membership in the Communist Party of Australia and the Socialist Party; correspondence and documents relating to her membership of the Newcastle Peace Forum and the Australian Peace Committee in the mid-1980s, papers relating to the Newcastle Housewives Association and numerous interviews with women who were past members of the Union of Australian women. Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 2 July 2004 Last modified 30 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

May Holman was the first Labor Party woman parliamentarian in Australia. Representing the Legislative Assembly seat of Forrest, she was also the first Labor woman MP to serve more than ten years in parliament. May Holman was the eldest of nine children of John Barkell Holman, miner, and Katherine Mary Holman (nee Rowe). The family lived at Broken Hill, New South Wales, before moving to Cue in Western Australia. May was educated at the Sacred Heart Convent in Perth. On leaving school, she found employment at the Perth Trades Hall and the Westralian Worker. In 1914 she married Peter Joseph Gardiner, a Labor Party member for the State parliament, but the marriage could not withstand their varied professional commitments and ended in divorce in 1920. Holman’s mother was an active member of Labor women’s organisations in Perth. Her father was a Labor politician and member of the Timber Workers’ Union. After his death in 1925, May Holman became secretary of the Union and won preselection for her father’s seat, Forrest, where timber was the dominant industry. She was instrumental in formulating the Timber Industries Regulation Act in 1926. Holman retained her seat through four elections. She was president of the Labor Women’s Central Executive from 1927; secretary of the Parliamentary Labor Party from 1933; and member of the royal commission into sanitation and slum clearance in Perth in 1938. May Holman was involved in a car accident on 17 May 1939, the eve of the 1939 election. She died three days later on 20 May 1939. She was buried in Karrakatta cemetery. Published resources Newspaper Article Miss Holman's Death, 1939, http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/46375817 Edited Book 200 Australian Women: A Redress Anthology, Radi, Heather, 1988 Book Some Outstanding Women of Broken Hill and District, Camilleri, Jenny, 2002 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia, Smart, Judith and Swain, Shurlee (eds.), 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders Archival resources National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Papers on various Australian women [19--] [manuscript] State Library of Western Australia Holman family papers, 1893-1965 [manuscript] [Interview with Sheila Moiler (nee Holman)] [sound recording] / [interviewed by Jennie Carter] Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 3 October 2008 Last modified 7 March 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

An activist for health, equality and the Australian Democrats. Candidate for Vaucluse in 1991, for the House of Representatives, Wentworth in 1984 and 1987, and Councillor for Waverley Municipal Council from 1987 to 1991. At the time of her State campaign (1991) Yvonne Jayawardena was a widow, with one son, and was working as a researcher in health services at the University of NSW. She had previously had a career in nursing care and health administration, and had been awarded the Queen’s silver medal for nursing. She was particularly opposed to discrimination on the grounds of race, sex or religion, and was in favour of increased participation by citizens in the decisions that affected their lives. She was a keen environmentalist. While a councillor , she served on the NSW executive of Australian Local Government Women’s Association. She continued to take an interest in public affairs in later life and made submissions to Senate committees of enquiry. Published resources Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Book Women in Australian Parliament and Local Government: An updated history 1975-1992, Decker, Dianne, 1992 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 25 August 2005 Last modified 13 August 2024 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)