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5 hours 3 minutes. Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 4 March 2009 Last modified 24 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Victorian Branch Minutes 1945-1973 Minutes of joint meetings, FNC Victorian Branch and College of Nursing Australia, Victorian State Committee, 1951-1955 FNCA National Executive Committee meetings, 1974-1980 FNCA National Biennial Conferences, 1969-1981 FNCA National Policy Manual, 1948 Subject files, 1950-1984 Florence Nightingale Orations, 1967, 1983 Author Details Anne Heywood Created 6 February 2002 Last modified 30 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

1 sound cassette (ca. 27 min.)??Armstrong, a farmer, speaks of her upbringing, her job in Sydney as a nurse, the fruit farm she manages with her husband, the Orange Export Co-operative, the exportation of fruits to South-East Asia, improvement of the fruits to satisfy an international market using more modern technology, the Integrated Pest Management programs, the Apple and Pear Corporation, her striving for equality between the sexes, her husband’s involvement in industry groups and the cycle of harvesting of the various fruits she owns. Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 3 March 2010 Last modified 22 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Correspondence, 1902; Telegrams, postcards, Christmas cards, 1902-1917; Household accounts, 1902-1919; Photographs; Employment references, 1914; Copies of “The Collegian”, a magazine of South Melbourne College, 1905-7 Copy of “The Australian Womens Mirror” 1929 State School Programme, 1882. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 20 February 2002 Last modified 30 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Patricia Clarke Created 8 June 2023 Last modified 8 June 2023 Digital resources Title: Sybil Henderson Type: Image Date: 22 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

The Australian Federation of Graduate Women (South Australia) Inc. was founded in 1914 as the Women Graduates’ Club, a sub-society of the Adelaide University Women Students’ Club. Its aims as adopted at the first meeting on 7 July 1914 were “To provide social intercourse among women graduates” and “to deal with questions primarily affecting University graduates”. From 1923 the association became an affiliate of the National Federation of Graduate Women (then known as the National Federation of University Women). First established in 1914, in 1923 the Club affiliated with the Australian Federation of University Women (AFUW). The same year the Club affiliated with the Women Students’ Union (as the Women Students’ Club had become known), assuming independent status rather than that of a sub-society. It disaffiliated with the Women Students’ Union in 1929 and became The Adelaide University Women’s Graduates’ Association. It later affiliated directly with the University Union in 1934. In 1968 the name of the Association was changed to the South Australian University Women Graduates’ Association, following the establishment of Flinders University. After the Brisbane Conference of January 1974 all branches of the AFUW altered their constitutions and names in the interest of uniformity and greater unity, and the Association became the AFUW – SA. The Association was incorporated in 1981. In 2009, the name was changed again in line with the National body. The objects of the Association as expressed in the 1929 constitution were “to promote understanding and friendship between the women graduates of this and other universities and to keep abreast of modern developments in academic subjects of interest to students”. A bursary fund was established in 1929 and donations were made to the Australian Federation for scholarships and bursaries, the funds being derived from subscriptions and from the hiring of hoods and gowns (initiated in 1935). In the 1960s, a formula was established for the apportionment of funds for bursaries, and the Association began a separate fund to finance its own bursaries while still contributing to AFUW. And IFUW fellowships. The Jean Gilmore bursary was established in 1969 (initial value $500, open to all Australian women graduates proceeding to a higher degree) and the Doreen McCarthy and Barbara Case bursaries in 1979. Vocations Conferences for female secondary students were initiated in 1933 and held regularly (with the exception of the war years) until 1973. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources The University of Adelaide Archives Series 1388 - Australian Federation of University Women South Australian Branch Records Series 1554 - Australian Federation of University Women Publications Series 1396 - Australian Federation of University Women South Australian Branch Minutes State Library of South Australia Letter signed by Helen Keller to the Australian Federation of University Women, and book entitled 'The Silent Storm: A Story of Annie Sullivan and Helen Keller' by Marion Marsh Brown and Ruth Crone Author Details Jane Carey Created 28 July 2004 Last modified 20 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Betty Feith is a teacher and volunteer whose work inside and outside the classroom has reflected her ideals of a peaceful, just and inclusive society, and her abiding Christian faith. Betty was a co-founder of the Volunteer Graduate Scheme for Indonesia, a programme established in the early 1950s that pioneered the concept of international volunteering as it is understood today. Betty herself worked in Indonesia in a volunteer capacity during the mid-1950s and again in the 1990s, both times with her husband, political scientist Herb Feith. Betty has taught at schools and tertiary institutions in Melbourne and Indonesia, and the Asian Studies and Indonesian history courses she taught in Melbourne during the 1960s and 1970s were among the first of their kind in Victoria. Betty has had a lifetime involvement in church and other service, including for the Christian World Service (renamed Act for Peace), the Division of Social Justice (Victoria) in the Uniting Church of Australia, and other ecumenical organisations. Betty is the eldest of four children born to George Maynard Evans and Ina Evans (née Shotten). The Evans family was closely involved in the Methodist church and Betty attended Methodist Ladies’ College, Kew from 1944 to 1947. Growing up, Betty’s involvement in church and community circles included Youth Club activities, Sunday School teaching and participation in the United Nations Club. Later, she was active in the Victorian International Refugee Emergency Council, helping to provide assistance to European refugees newly arrived in Australia, and she helped to establish the Victorian Committee for Interchurch Aid and Service to Refugees. As a student at the University of Melbourne, Betty was a campaign organiser for World Student Relief. At that time, and also in later years, Betty was closely involved in the Australian Student Christian Movement (ASCM). In 1952 she was selected to represent the Methodist Youth Fellowship of Victoria at the World Council of Churches Youth Congress in Travancore, India. In 1947, Betty met Herb Feith, whose Jewish Austrian parents had sought asylum from Nazism in Australia in 1939. Together, Betty and Herb undertook war relief activities, collecting door-to-door in Melbourne suburbs on behalf of Germans and other Europeans who were struggling with post-war shortages and hardships. Betty graduated from the University of Melbourne in 1951 with a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in history and english, and a Diploma of Education. As a newly qualified teacher, Betty taught at Swinburne Junior Girls’ Technical College, and Box Hill Girls’ Technical School. In 1950 Betty and Herb, together with a group of other University of Melbourne students and ASCM members, including John Bayly, Alan Hunt and Vern Bailey, set in motion a pioneering initiative in international aid focused on Indonesia. The main idea behind the programme – that Australian graduates would not only make available their technical expertise in response to the shortage of skilled graduates in the new Republic, but also take part in Indonesian society as a whole, living and working alongside their Indonesian colleagues – had first arisen during discussions at a World University Service Assembly that year. Betty was secretary of the initial planning committee of what would become known as the Volunteer Graduate Scheme for Indonesia (VGS). The Volunteer Graduate Scheme was the first incarnation of AVI (Australian Volunteers International), which has programmes in communities across Asia, the Pacific and the world. The founders of the VGS envisaged the initiative as an expression of unity and understanding across cultures, that would promote genuine understanding of and solidarity with Indonesia. Salary equality was a central aspect of the Scheme. Volunteer graduates worked on the same pay scales and conditions as similarly qualified Indonesians – a departure from the usual custom among expatriates working in Indonesia at that time. The VGS was officially recognised by both the Australian and Indonesian governments in 1954. In January 1953, while travelling home from India, Betty visited Herb in Jakarta, where he was then employed in the Ministry of Information. They became engaged, and were married on 29 December 1953 at the South Camberwell Methodist Church, Melbourne. From July 1954 to August 1956, Betty and Herb lived and worked in Jakarta, under the auspices of the Volunteer Graduate Scheme. Betty was employed in the English Language Inspectorate in the Ministry of Education, Instruction and Culture. In late 1957, Betty and Herb arrived at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, where Herb completed his doctorate on the decline of Indonesian constitutional democracy. The first draft of Herb’s thesis was typed by Betty – an example of the close supportive role she played in Herb’s work. The Feiths formed part of a circle of friends and colleagues who were from Indonesia or working in the field of Indonesian Studies at Cornell at that time, among whom was Indonesian teacher and academic, Kurnianingrat Ali Sastroamijoyo, and Australian scholar and public servant, David Penny, and his wife Janet Penny The Feiths returned to Australia at the end of 1960, living for a year in Canberra before re-settling in Melbourne with their son David and their daughter Annie. Another son, Robert, was born in 1963. After returning to Australia, Betty and Herb remained closely involved with Indonesia and with promoting understanding among Australians of their nearest northern neighbour. The family lived in Jakarta for a year in 1967, during which time Betty worked for the Indonesian Council of Churches. From 1968, Betty taught english and Asian studies at various secondary schools in Melbourne, including Strathcona Baptist Girls Grammar School. From the 1970s she taught Indonesian history and Asian studies at tertiary level, chiefly at Burwood Teachers’ College and Toorak Teachers’ College (both of which later became part of Deakin University). From the late 1970s Betty co-led several study tours to Indonesia in her capacity as a lecturer at the Burwood and Toorak Teachers’ Colleges. In 1984, Betty completed a Master of Educational Studies at Monash University. For her Masters thesis, Betty wrote a history of the Volunteer Graduate Scheme, in which she documented the ethos of the Scheme as an ‘episode in education for international understanding’, underpinned by a belief in racial equality and a spirit of identification with the Indonesian Republic. This history was published in 2017 in a book entitled Bridges of Friendship. In addition to her community involvement with refugees, Betty’s church service has focused on issues to do with peace and human rights. In 1994, she and Herb co-led an international relations workshop with the Karen Burmese leaders in Manerplaw on the Thai-Burma border. Manerplaw was at that time the headquarters of the Democratic Alliance of Burma (now Myanmar), which formed in the wake of the military regime coming into power in 1988. For four years from 1996, Betty and Herb lived and worked in Yogyakarta, this time through the Overseas Service Bureau’s Australian Volunteers Abroad programme – the successor of the Volunteer Graduate Scheme. Betty, who had gained a qualification at Deakin University in teaching English as a second language, taught english at the University of Atma Jaya. Betty has described women in the Uniting Church as ‘householders (as it were) in the tents and caravans of faith and in life, as in mutuality we pilgrim together in life’s journey’ (Women in Ministry, 46). This expression of common purpose, and of ideals married to actions, reflect convictions central to Betty’s life and work as a whole. Events 1979 - 1979 Victorian Area Council of the Australian Student Christian Movement 1940 - 1950 Betty Feith was actively involved in the ACSM during the 1940s-1950s and in later years 1954 - 1956 Betty lived and worked in Indonesia under Volunteer Graduate Scheme Volunteer Graduate Scheme Actively involved in the Methodist Church throughout her life. 1996 - 1999 Betty lived and worked in Indonesia under Australian Volunteers Abroad program Archival resources National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Records of Betty Feith - Transfer pending - Addition to Papers of Herbert Feith, 1946-2001 Correspondence from Herbert and Betty Feith to Anton Lucas, 1971-2001 [manuscript] Private Hands (These regards may not be readily available) Papers of Ailsa Thomson Zainuddin Author Details Ann McCarthy & Betty Feith Created 24 October 2017 Last modified 21 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Helen Musa enrolled in theatre studies at the University of New South Wales in the early 1960s and spent the subsequent twenty years teaching drama at secondary and tertiary level, including in Malaysia, while involving herself in theatrical productions of all sorts. In 1990 she became the editor of Muse, a monthly arts magazine, later becoming the Arts Editor for The Canberra Times and the founder and convenor of the Canberra Critics Circle. In 2015, she received a Medal in the Order of Australia for her service to the performing and visual arts as a critic and magazine editor and, in 2020, she was inscribed on the ACT Women’s Honour Roll for her advocacy for the visual and performing arts in Canberra and Australia. Helen Musa was inscribed on the ACT Women’s Honour Roll in 2020. “Helen Musa was born to Lillian May (Maysie) Dunn (1915–2008), a double certificated nurse and radiographer, and Gordon Alexander Duff (1907–1964), a civil engineer. The Duff family moved to Forbes in New South Wales early in Helen’s life. The younger of two sisters (her elder sister was Diana Robyn Duff, 1942–1968), Helen was educated at Forbes Public School and then Forbes High School. She concluded her schooling (in 1960 and 1961) at Methodist Ladies’ College (MLC), at Burwood in Sydney, as a boarder having been awarded the J A Somerville Memorial Scholarship. A home replete with books, questions and ideas, a creative mother who directed and made props for the local musical and dramatic society, and attendance at concerts and plays touring Forbes, introduced and fuelled Helen’s interest in acting and theatre. She sang, wrote plays, and was involved in theatrical productions at school and these passions shaped her university studies. Armed with a Commonwealth scholarship, she chose to study (1962–65) at the University of New South Wales as it had, in 1959, established the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) and, from 1961, had begun offering courses in theatre studies. She gained a Bachelor of Arts with 1st Class Honours enjoying subjects in both humanities and sciences. The stimulation and ferment of university life led to her involvement in debating, theatre, student politics, the choir at Christ Church St Laurence at Railway Square and writing for Tharunka (the University’s student magazine). Early signs of Helen Musa’s trademark independence, outspokenness and restless energy appeared consistently in school reports which noted her propensity to talk back and be forthright. She recalls that MLC prescribed Serepax for her, but this was short lived as she had an allergic reaction to it. In December 1966, having begun postgraduate studies earlier that year, she visited England (with a detour to Israel) on a Churchill Fellowship researching English provincial theatre records and how drama was taught there. Returning to Australia she embarked on doctoral studies (later abandoned) during which she tutored part time. Her marriage, in May 1965, to Alfred van der Poorten (1942–2010) ended in divorce in 1970 and she became drama teacher at Kambala School in Vaucluse, Sydney. Over the subsequent twenty years she taught at secondary and tertiary levels including at Mitchell College of Advanced Education in Bathurst (1971–72), the University of Newcastle (1973 and 1975–76), and Frensham School for girls in Mittagong (1982–86), all in New South Wales; and at Canberra College of Advanced Education (1974) and Canberra Boys Grammar School (1987), both in the Australian Capital Territory. A significant appointment, intellectually and personally, was as Lecturer in Performing Arts at the Science University of Malaysia, in Penang, teaching acting, directing, stage management, lighting, sound, and the history of western and Asian theatre. Taking up this role in August 1977 enabled her to experience and learn about Asian musical, dance, theatrical and religious forms and traditions and direct plays informed by them. While in Malaysia she directed eight plays including Hamlet in Malay. This introduced her to actor and poet Musa Bin Masran (born 1959) who starred in the production. Despite the play’s success its tour was curtailed following criticism that it was ‘deeply immoral’. In 1980, while in Malaysia, she married Musa Bin Masran, a devout Ahmadi Muslim, and converted to Islam. They have one son, Omar Musa (born 1984), a poet, novelist, rapper and woodcut artist. Helen Musa’s first job in theatre, in 1973, was as production and stage manager for the University of New South Wales Opera Company, established by Roger Covell. In 1975 she was Chief Dramaturg and head of play selection for the Australian National Playwrights Conference. As a teacher she balanced the academic with the practical, managing theatrical and other productions with students. In parallel, she worked on community theatrical productions (for example, with Hunter Valley Theatre Company), presented radio programs (for example, on the FM station in Bathurst and on 2CY in Canberra) and wrote reviews for a variety of papers and journals, including The Canberra Times. In the early 1980s she received a special writers grant from the Australia Council to write the history of NIDA and, in 1983, her edition of the stage adaptation of Steele Rudd’s On Our Selection was published. In 1990 she established, and has since convened, the Canberra Critics Circle a forum and resource for Canberra reviewers (of all major art forms) working in print and electronic media. The beginning of 1990 marked the start of another significant phase in her career with her appointment as editor of Muse, a monthly arts magazine published in Canberra. Six years later, she joined The Canberra Times as Arts Editor leaving that role a decade later in mid-2007. Following this she wrote for the Capital Magazine, a free bimonthly magazine, and Canberra CityNews, a free weekly magazine. In 2009 she became Arts Editor of the latter. From 2008-2010 she worked for the Asia-Pacific Journalism Centre. Her inaugural overseas trip as part of her Churchill Fellowship began a lifelong interest in travel and in the world’s cultures, particularly Islam. With the abatement of work commitments, travel, research on behalf of friends and the Australian Dictionary of Biography, studying languages and securing the future of the Canberra Critics Circle continue to be sources of intellectual stimulation. Guided by the dicta that one should question everything, that one should ‘say it straight’ and cultivate an inner life, she considers herself the eternal optimist. Asked to describe how others might describe her she nominates ‘big mouth’, ‘talks too much’ and that her enjoyment of the cut and thrust of debate could seem like ‘showing off’. In 2015, Helen Musa received a Medal in the Order of Australia for her service to the performing and visual arts as a critic and magazine editor and, in 2020, she was inscribed on the ACT Women’s Honour Roll for her advocacy for the visual and performing arts in Canberra and Australia.” Archival resources Oral history recorded with Helen Musa Author Details Anne-Marie Schwirtlich Created 12 June 2023 Last modified Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

1 sound disk (CD-R) (ca. 58 min.)??Recorded for ArtSound FM ‘Conversations’ program. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 27 February 2018 Last modified 27 February 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Marie Morris ran for election to parliament twice, both times as an Australia Party candidate. She stood for election to the House of Representatives seat of Phillip in 1975 and for the seat of Maroubra in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly in 1976. At the time of her candidacy, Marie Morris had been a resident of the Phillip Electorate for 11 years and was concerned that the quality of life in the Eastern Suburbs of Sydney was deteriorating. She was married with three children. Published resources Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 14 December 2005 Last modified 14 February 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Correspondence, notes, newspaper cuttings, speeches, pamphlets, reports and scrapbooks relating to the Labor Women’s Movement, including the Eastern Goldfields Women’s Labor League (1906-1909) and the Labor Women’s Central Executive of the W.A. Branch of the Australian Labor Party; also some personal papers and original poetry. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 18 September 2003 Last modified 7 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Interview conducted in Broken Hill as part of the AWAP Broken Hill exhibition. To be lodged with the Outback Archives, Broken Hill City Library. Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 17 February 2009 Last modified 17 February 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

5 sound discs (CD) (ca. 278 min.)??Elizabeth ‘Biff’ Ward, writer, poet and human resource consultant, talks about her family background; childhood memories of Sydney and Canberra; undergraduate degree at University of New England and moving to England for a few years. She then discusses her involvement in the anti-war movement; teaching experiences; establishment of Canberra Women’s Liberation; views on WEL (Women’s Electoral Lobby) and involvement in School Without Walls. Ward also discusses her work at the Canberra Women’s Refuge; women’s camp at Pine Gap; formation of organisation “Women for survival” and working as Equal Opportunity Officer at South Australian Institute of Technology. She then describes the establishment of her business Spectra Consultants in 1988 and her involvement in the book of poetry, “Three’s company”. Ward then talks about her continuing interest in Vietnam and involvement with veterans’ organisations; her plans for the future and her views on the women’s movement and its future. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 29 December 2017 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

The records include the constitution and papers connected with membership ca. 1945-1957, correspondence 1933-1963, reports, balance sheets, agenda and minutes of meetings 1932-1962, financial records 1933-1963, skiing competitions 1936-1962. Also the papers of the Ski Council of New South Wales, 1948-1964 and of the Ski Tourers’ Association, 1951-1962. There is mention made of the Club’s War Libraries Appeal and Food for Britain Appeal Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 28 May 2004 Last modified 27 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Roslyn Gay Atkinson AO is a Justice of the Supreme Court of Queensland, having been appointed to that position in 1998. In 2002 she also became the Chairperson of the Queensland Law Reform Commission, and served in that role until her retirement in 2013. Roslyn Gay Atkinson was born in November 1948 in Brisbane, to Oliver John Scott (Jock) Atkinson, DFC, and Heather Noelle Atkinson. She attended Brisbane Girls Grammar School (1962-1965), before graduating Bachelor of Arts with Honours in English language and Literature (1970) and Bachelor of Educational Studies (1975) from the University of Queensland. She obtained a graduate certificate in Speech and Drama at Rose Bruford College in the United Kingdom. Justice Atkinson initially pursued careers in the arts and education. She was a teacher from 1970 to 1974 and then became an Actor and Theatre Administrator from 1974 to 1978, before becoming a Lecturer of Literature, Drama, Film and Australian Studies at the Queensland Institute of Technology. In 1985 she entered the legal profession by becoming an Articled Clerk at Feez Ruthning. The following year she was an Associate to the Honourable Justice Brennan, then a Justice of the High Court of Australia. She was admitted to the bar in 1987 and practised there until her appointment to the Supreme Court. Justice Atkinson then completed a Bachelor of Laws degree with first class honours at the University of Queensland (1985). She received the Feez Ruthning Prize in Company Law (1983), the Ruthning Memorial Scholarship (1984), the Women Lawyers Prize (1984), the Virgil Power Prize (1984), the Morris Fletcher & Cross Prize (1984) and the Wilkinson Memorial Prize (1984). She commenced articles of clerkship at the Brisbane firm, Feez Ruthning (1985), and then served as Associate to Brennan J of the High Court of Australia (1986). On 23 February 1987, she was admitted as a barrister of the Supreme Court of Queensland and commenced practice at the bar in Brisbane. Whilst in practice at the bar, Justice Atkinson also served as a member of the Social Security Appeals Tribunal (1988-1990), a member (1990-1996) and deputy chair (1994-96) of the Queensland Law Reform Commission, a member of the advisory committee to the Law Faculty at the Queensland University of Technology (from 1991), a member (1992-94) and later inaugural president (1994-1997) of the Anti-Discrimination Tribunal, and a hearing commissioner for the Human Rights and Equal Opportunities Commission (1994-1997). She also served as a member of the management committee of the Caxton Legal Service and as subeditor of the Queensland Reports. On 3 September 1998, Justice Atkinson was appointed a judge of the Supreme Court of Queensland. Thereafter she also served as chair of the Queensland Law Reform Commission (2002-2014). Justice Atkinson has made contributions to the development and strengthening of judicial institutions internationally. Her Honour served as President of the International Commission of Jurists (Queensland) from 2000 to 2013. Her Honour led a delegation to South Africa in 1999 to advise with regard to the implementation of Equality Courts and presented at Anti-Discrimination Law workshops for the South African judiciary in 2000. In 2005, Justice Atkinson gave presentations at a training workshop for Iraqi Judges on International Human Rights Law. Justice Atkinson was Delegation Leader for the International Bar Association’s Report on Independence of the Judiciary in Fiji. Her Honour is a Vice-President of the International Association of Judges’ Study Commission on the Independence of the Judiciary. Her Honour is a Member of the National Judicial College of Australia’s National Indigenous Justice Committee. In that role, she led a project in 2013 that was aimed at better informing courts and the legal profession in Queensland about many urban, remote and regional Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities. Her Honour is also Co-Editor of the Equal Treatment Bench Book of the Supreme Court of Queensland. In 2015, Justice Atkinson was made an Officer of the Order of Australia ‘For distinguished service to the judiciary and to law reform in Queensland, through contributions to the legal profession and to promoting awareness of issues of injustice and inequality in Australia and internationally.’ Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Resource Section Judicial profile of The Honourable Justice Roslyn G Atkinson AO, Supreme Court Library Queensland, 2015, http://www.sclqld.org.au/judicial-papers/judicial-profiles/profiles/rgatkinson Book Section Roslyn Atkinson, Fotheringham, Richard, 2005 Site Exhibition Australian Women Lawyers as Active Citizens, Trailblazing Women Lawyers Project Team, 2016, http://www.womenaustralia.info/lawyers Author Details Supreme Court Library Queensland Created 10 November 2015 Last modified 28 October 2016 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Women Against Nuclear Energy (WANE) was formed out of a growing concern for, and a desire for action on, uranium mining and nuclear power. The women who founded WANE were members of the Campaign Against Nuclear Energy (CANE) but felt that sexism inherent in the hierarchical structure of CANE left women’s voices unheard. As such, the members of WANE felt that their direction and means for attaining their goal of a nuclear-free future had diverged from that of CANE, and WANE was formed. The two groups maintained strong links, as well as links to other women’s anti-nuclear groups and women’s peace groups.??WANE’s objectives included educating and activation of women, outside of appealing to women as mothers and carers. The exclusion of males was felt to better enable this, providing women with an environment free from the constraints of sexism that were felt to be inherent in the hierarchical structure of other anti-nuclear groups.?WANE aimed to work with women’s groups in unions against uranium, and educate and empower women to share this message amongst other women. The group’s primary concerns were regarding a nuclear-free future, as well as support for migrant and Indigenous women, and the support and investigation of alternative energy. WANE believed the implications of a solar future where inherent in feminist theory (for example, people before profits).?WANE produced and distributed a newsletter to its members. The group also helped organise Women’s Action for Nuclear Disarmament (WAND), supported women’s only actions such as the Sound Women’s Peace Camp in Western Australia and held dances to raise money. Author Details Kathleen Bambridge Created 18 December 2009 Last modified 18 December 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Darlene Johnson is one of Australia’s most prominent indigenous filmmakers. Her films and documentaries are centred upon Aboriginal identity and the position of Aboriginals within contemporary Australian society. Darlene Johnson is from the Dunghutti tribe from the east coast of New South Wales. Johnson graduated with First Class Honours from the University of Technology, Sydney, majoring in Indigenous and Post-Colonial cinema. In 1996, Johnson wrote and directed Two Bob Mermaid: A Short Film About Aboriginal Identity. The short film was set in the summer of 1957, a period of racial tension as government policy shifted its approach towards Aboriginal rights. The film followed the story of a young Koori girl who ‘passes for white’ at the local swimming pool. Two Bob Mermaid won the Australian Film Critics Circle Award for the Best Australian Short Film in 1996. Today the film is used as a teaching resource in primary and secondary schools throughout Australia. In c.2000, Johnson wrote and directed the documentary Stolen Generations. The film employed personal testimony, archival footage and photographs to tell the history of assimilation. The Government policy of assimilation involved the systematic removal of Aboriginal children from their families. The documentary addressed the reasons behind the policy, how it was implemented and maintained, and how it continues to affect Aboriginals. Stolen Generations was nominated for an International EMMY as well as an Australian Film Institute award for Best Documentary. In 2001, Johnson wrote and directed the documentary Stranger in My Skin for Film Australia. She also directed the documentary Following Rabbit Proof Fence which traced the journey of three young Aboriginal girls from their communities to starring in a Hollywood movie. In 2002, Johnson wrote and directed the documentary Gulpilil: One Red Blood, about the Aboriginal actor David Gulpilil. Gulpilil was nominated for a Logie Award, an Australian Film Critics Circle Award and an Australian Teachers of Media (ATOM) Award. In 2006, she wrote and directed Crocodile Dreaming. Crocodile Dreaming tells the story of a traditional Aboriginal community that upsets the spiritual world. As a result, a young man from the tribe is called to fulfil his ancient tribal obligation and find the power of his mother’s dreaming. It is his success that will restore peace and harmony to the natural world. The film received a number of international nominations and awards, including an AFI Award for visual effects. It was featured at the Melbourne International Film Festival 2007, and Flickerfest in Sydney 2008. It won the Audience Choice Award at the WOW Film Festival in Sydney and won Best Short Film at the Santa Fe Film Festival in New Mexico 2007. In 2007, Johnson graduated from the Australian Film, Television and Radio School with a Master of Arts (Hons). In 2008, she directed the documentary River of No Return. The film followed the story of Frances Djulibing, a 42 year old mother of three from the remote Ramingining community in North East Arnhem land. Frances had always dreamt of acting and stardom, despite living a traditional tribal life. Her acting break came with a role in the successful Australian film Ten Canoes (2006). The documentary highlighted the difficulties Frances faced in her attempt to reconcile her pursuit of an acting career with the cultural opposition from the ancient life of the Yolgnu. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Showcases, Screen Australia, 2010, http://www.screenaustralia.gov.au/showcases/8478/bios.asp Darlene Johnson, Ronin Films, 2010, http://www.roninfilms.com.au/person/136.html Article Lights Up! - Indigenous Filmmakers, Hessey, Ruth, 2008, http://www.timeoutsydney.com.au/film/indigenous-filmmakers-28.aspx Archival resources National Film and Sound Archive Stolen Generations Two Bob Mermaid : A Short Film About Aboriginal Identity River of No Return Gulpilil : One Red Blood Crocodile Dreaming Author Details Hollie Aerts Created 23 December 2010 Last modified 20 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

In 1927 Susan Francis stood as a Labor candidate in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly elections for Bondi. She then stood as a Lang Labor candidate in the Waverley Municipal Council elections of 1932. Susan Francis was born on 14 October 1877 in Brisbane, one of five children. She became a domestic servant, though she called herself a housekeeper, when she married Arthur Rawlins, known as Francis, in 1897. They had three children, two of whom survived to accompany her to Sydney in 1911. From the early 1920s Nurse Francis, although unqualified, advertised herself as a midwife and attended many births in inner city Sydney. She was the subject of two enquiries before the Nurses’ Registration Board in 1927 and 1930 but was never prosecuted. She was well known for her work during the influenza epidemic of 1918-1919, and widely liked for her tireless help for the poor. Susan Francis was active in the Labor Party and ran in the seat of Bondi in 1927, gaining 22.7% of the votes. She was president, then secretary of the Labor Women’s Organising Committee from 1928 to 1935 and led delegations to ministers, organised public meetings campaigned for candidates and was a delegate to the State Conference of the party. She was one of three delegates from New South Wales to the Interstate Women’s Conference in 1930. During the depression in the 1930s, Susan Francis helped to set up a hostel for homeless women and girls which opened in 1931, and she became matron of such a hostel in 1935. The regard in which she was held by the Labor Party was shown by the huge function put on in her honour in the Empress Room of Mark Foy’s department store, when she married again, in 1936. She subsequently became known as Nurse Francis Wilkes, and remained an active member of the ALP until her death in 1946. Published resources Resource Section Francis, Susan (1877 - 1946), Tracey, Sue, 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/AS10170b.htm Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 12 December 2005 Last modified 16 September 2013 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Alisa Camplin is Australia’s first female Winter Olympic gold medallist, dual Olympic medallist, World Champion, World Record Holder and two times WC Grand Prix Champion. In 2017 Camplin was a director on four prominent Australian Boards – including the Australian Sports Commission, Royal Children’s Hospital Foundation, Olympic Winter Institute of Australia and the Collingwood Football Club. The daughter of Geoffrey and Jennifer Camplin, Alisa Peta Camplin was born in Melbourne’s Mercy Hospital in 1974. With her two younger sisters, Georgina and Alexandrea, she was raised in Viewbank in north-east Melbourne. The family was sport-mad. Camplin recalls, ‘every week our whole family was at swimming lessons, ballet recitals, tennis lessons, hockey training and Little Athletics competitions all over the state. It was like being part of a full-time live-in sports camp’. A tomboy from the beginning, Alisa loved to play cricket and football, run through the paddocks, swim, ride bikes and play war games with the ten boys in her neighbourhood. None of them could beat her in a running race, even with a head start. At school she insisted on wearing the boys’ uniform and tried out for the boys’ cricket team. Aged five she was enchanted by the opening ceremony of the Moscow Olympics – here the dream was born. One day she would represent her country at the Olympic Games. By the age of seven, Camplin was breaking all the Little Athletics club records and beating the other girls by over 20 metres. Asked if she wanted to run with the boys, she accepted the challenge but it was tough competition and her first taste of losing a race. Determined to win again, she began training in the back paddock and before long was winning against the boys and taking out the Open Female All Stars events: ‘When I was younger, I rarely crossed a finish line without throwing up or dry-retching from giving so much – I always wanted to be the fastest, to finish first, to record my best time, to beat my opponent or break a record.’ Camplin won several state titles in the 800m and 1500m track events. Camplin began at Melbourne’s Methodist Ladies College in 1987 at the age of twelve. There she took up gymnastics – ‘I loved to tumble, jump, flip and twist, but I had neither flexibility nor grace’ – and was competing in her first state titles by 1989, winning three silver medals. The following year she attended trials for the national titles, but had to pull out because of stress fractures in her lower back. Forced to abandon the sport, she ‘followed a natural ex-gymnast’s progression into diving’ in 1991, attracted by the acrobatics. The move was short-lived as good coaches were hard to come by. In the summer of 1992, having completed her secondary studies, Camplin began sailing Hobie Cat catamarans with her best friend Kynwynn Jones. The girls crewed together in 1993 at the Port Stephens National Championships and finished second. When Sydney was announced as Host City for the 2000 Olympic Games, Camplin received a call from her old athletics coach, asking if she would be prepared to train with a view to competing in the marathon. She duly began to train but remembers ‘my heart was not one hundred per cent in it’. In 1994 – a fateful year – she attended a ski show in Melbourne. A trampoline had been set up by Mt Buller’s freestyle skiing program, Team Buller, and members of the audience were invited to try aerial manoeuvres in the trampoline harness. Camplin’s acrobatic skills were well honed. Encouraged by her friends, she ‘got in the rig and flipped around a bit’. She was soon approached by Geoff Lipshut (later CEO of the Olympic Winter Institute) and aerial skier Jacqui Cooper with an offer to begin training with the first Australian Aerial Skiing Development Squad. Camplin’s dream was still very much alive, and after some consideration, she took up the offer with the sole aim of making it to the Olympic Games. What followed was a long, hard slog. Camplin had been awarded an academic scholarship and entry into Swinburne University’s Bachelor of Information Technology degree, and she was determined to pursue her studies. It was in her second year at university that she began skiing and had to take on four jobs to help pay for ski lessons, mountain accommodation and petrol. She studied; coached gymnastics at MLC; worked for ANZ Bank; delivered pizzas; and cleaned houses. Every Friday night for three years she drove to Mt Buller at 10:00pm so as she could train over the weekend. It was not an easy ride: I endured ridicule from nine year olds who were better than me, plus spite and bitterness from those who thought my motivation for joining their sport was wrong. I also tolerated contempt from the alpine elite, as many of them thought my terrible skills and fancy team jacket made a mockery of their sport… It took seven years of my eight-year campaign before people began to believe that I might actually be able to win an Olympic Gold medal. Constantly fighting negative feedback on the ski fields, Camplin used the criticism as motivation: ‘Every person who said I wouldn’t make it stirred the fire in my belly and helped me train that much harder.’ After a shaky start in competitions at Lake Placid and, in 1997, at Breckenridge, Colorado, where coaches told her she was ‘the worst aerialist at training’, Camplin’s fight began to pay off. She finished seventh in her first Aerial World Championship event in 1999, and fourth in the World Cup finals in 2000/2001. 2002 was Camplin’s year. At the Salt Lake City Winter Olympics, despite multiple fractures in both ankles, Camplin won gold in the aerial skiing event, scoring 193.47 for her triple twisting somersault or ‘back full/double full’. She had asked her family not to come to the event as she felt it would be too expensive for them, and would place added pressure on her – but her mother and sister Georgina had hidden themselves in the crowd, and Camplin’s joy was doubled when they surprised her after her win. Back home, Australia Post designed a stamp in her honour. Camplin and Steven Bradbury became Australia’s first Winter Olympic gold medallists that year. Camplin had achieved greatness but the battle was not yet over. She suffered from depression – or ‘post-success burnout’ – after the Olympic Games and had to fight (ill-informed) accusations that she was something of a one hit wonder. In the 2002/2003 season, Camplin won the World Championship and the World Cup title, breaking a world record in the process. She was named the 2002 Female Athlete of the Year, and received the 2002 Donald Bradman Award for the athlete who has most inspired the nation. In 2002 she also received the Kitty McEwan Award for Victorian Sportswoman of the Year and the Governor’s Award for Victorian Sportsperson of the Year (she received both awards again in 2004). In 2003, she was selected as an Australian Institute of Sport all-time top twenty-one athlete. Rino Grollo and Mt Buller named a new building at the World Cup jump site the ‘Alisa Camplin Winter Sports Centre’. Camplin had proven her point spectacularly. The stress of competing and meeting expectations meant that Camplin developed stomach ulcers and had a gastrectomy in 2003. She took some time out from skiing to pursue other interests. She worked with the Seven Network; represented Australia at the IOC Convention in Greece; gave much of her time to work with charities; spoke to school students and corporate professionals across Australia; joined the Board of Directors at MLC; continued employment with IBM and began consulting with PricewaterhouseCoopers while the company supplied professional services to the Melbourne 2006 Commonwealth Games Committee. Camplin recommenced training for the 2004/2005 season, but snapped the anterior cruciate ligament in her right knee and underwent surgery for a knee reconstruction, including a hamstring graft. Injury is inevitable in such a dangerous sport, and Camplin later recalled: ‘I have broken my collarbone, dislocated my shoulder, broken my hand, broken multiple ribs, ripped my Achilles tendon, dislocated my sternum from my collarbone, fractured both ankles, torn my knee ligaments twice, suffered nine concussions and also had a full knee reconstruction.’ After six months of rehabilitation, training began again and Camplin competed in the 2006 Torino Winter Olympics, winning bronze with a score of 191.39. Camplin has retired from aerial skiing. She loves reading the classics and biographies of political figures, she is an amateur painter, and she has designed a range of thermal underwear. She continues her involvement with charities (including the Melbourne Citymission) and her television work has included commentary for the Athens Olympics and judging for Dancing on Ice . In 2006 Camplin began conducting ski tours to Colorado, including nine-day tours to Aspen and Steamboat Springs. Events 2003 - 2003 For service to sport as a Gold Medallist at the Salt Lake City 2002 Winter Olympic Games 2000 - 2000 2002 - 2002 Freestyle Skiing 2006 - 2006 Freestyle Skiing 2019 - 2019 Member of the Order of Australia (AM): For significant service to the community through support for paediatric health care. Published resources Book High Flyer, Camplin, Alisa, 2005 Newspaper Article Camplin pins hopes on donor tendon surgery, Magnay, Jacquelin, 2005 Snow Queen Alisa Camplin, Hawkins, Joanne, 2006 Sound recording Alisa Camplin's Bronze Jump, El-Chami, Margaret, 2006 Resource Australia at the Games, Australian Olympic Committee, 2006, http://corporate.olympics.com.au/index.cfm?p=25 Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition She's Game: Women Making Australian Sporting History, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2007, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/sg/sport-home.html Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 7 February 2007 Last modified 12 June 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Esma Banner was born by 01 January 1910. She left school at age 14 to look after her sick mother and attended a business college for one year in 1926. Ms Banner then started working as a shorthand writer and typist for a business and was promoted to the position of secretary to the Director; she worked there for thirteen years. When her mother died in 1940 she went back home to assist her father in his haulage business and also worked for a Sydney solicitor.??Ms Banner started work with United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) in 1944 in its Sydney office. From 15th to 20th February she attended the 7th meeting of the Committee of the Council for the Far East at Lapstone Hotel, Glenbrook, NSW. She then worked in the Melbourne office of UNRRA for a period of three months. Whilst there she was selected to work in Germany with the International Refugee Organisation (IRO) and left Sydney for London on 28 June 1945.??Ms Banner’s position as Area Employment Officer took her to many towns such as Munich, Nellingen, Ludwigsburg, Pforzbeim and Traunstein. Her final position in Germany was in a Displaced Persons’ Camp in Pforzheim and this brought her home in 1951.??A few years later Ms Banner studied at the University of Sydney for a Diploma Course in Social Work and was accepted. On completion of her course she worked for the Department of Social Security for a period of eighteen years and then retired. Author Details Cath Styles Created 18 March 2010 Last modified 23 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Helen Gay Murrell was sworn in as the Chief Justice of the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) Supreme Court on 28 October 2013, thus becoming the ACT’s first female Supreme Court Chief Justice. Murrell was first enrolled as a solicitor in 1977, working in the then Commonwealth Crown Solicitor’s Office and the New South Wales (NSW) Legal Aid Commission. She was called to the NSW Bar in 1981, appointed silk in 1995, and has practised across criminal law, administrative law, environmental law, common law and equity. In 1996, Judge Murrell was appointed a NSW District Court Judge in 1996. She is former president of the NSW Equal Opportunity Tribunal and set up the first NSW Drug Court in 1998 Her Honour, Chief Justice Helen Murrell, attended the University of New South Wales, from which she graduated in 1976 with Bachelor Arts/Bachelor Laws degree. In 1981 her Honour attended the University of Sydney and obtained a Diploma of Criminology. Her Honour was admitted as a solicitor to the Supreme Court of New South Wales in 1977. From 1977 to 1981 her Honour practised at the Commonwealth Crown Solicitor’s Office and NSW Legal Aid Commission. From 1981 to 1996 Her Honour practised as a Barrister in criminal law, administrative law, environmental law, common law and equity. From 1994 to 1996 her Honour was the first Environmental Counsel for the NSW Environment Protection Authority. In 1995 her Honour was appointed Senior Counsel in New South Wales. From 1996 to 2013 her Honour was a Judge of the District Court of New South Wales. In 1996 her Honour was also an Acting Judge in the Land and Environment Court of New South Wales. From 1997 to 1999 her Honour was President of the Equal Opportunity Tribunal of New South Wales and then Deputy President of the Administrative Decisions Tribunal of New South Wales, Head of the Equal Opportunity Division. From 1998 to 2003 her Honour was the first Senior Judge of the Drug Court of New South Wales. In 1999 her Honour was a member of the United Nations Expert Working Group on Drug Courts, Vienna. From 2005 to 2013 her Honour was Deputy Chairperson of the New South Wales Medical Tribunal. Her Honour has had a longstanding involvement in judicial education and is currently active within the National Judicial College of Australia (NJCA). Her Honour was appointed Honorary Air Commodore of No 28 (City of Canberra) Squadron in April 2014. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Article Introducing the ACT's first female Supreme Court Chief Justice, Inman, Michael, 2013, http://www.canberratimes.com.au/act-news/introducing-the-acts-first-female-supreme-court-chief-justice-20130912-2tlr1.html Site Exhibition Australian Women Lawyers as Active Citizens, Trailblazing Women Lawyers Project Team, 2016, http://www.womenaustralia.info/lawyers Author Details Her Honour Helen Murrell Created 6 October 2015 Last modified 1 November 2016 Digital resources Title: Helen Murrell Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

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Dame Elisabeth Murdoch was widely regarded as the ‘queen of Australia’s philanthropic community’. She was Patron of the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute in Melbourne, Victoria and supported 110 charitable organisations annually. The daughter of Rupert and Marie Green, Elisabeth Murdoch was educated at St Catherine’s School, Toorak and Clyde School, Woodend. Rupert was the wool expert of the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency, and was well known in racing circles as a starter for the VRC and VATC. Marie – or Bairnie as she was known – was twice president of the Alexandra Club and once of the Victoria League. Years later, Dame Elisabeth would recall that ‘that was very much my mother’s milieu. She really was so very much attached to the English part of her heritage’. At the age of nineteen, Elisabeth was courted by Keith Murdoch, then in his early forties, and the pair were married in 1928. They had four children: Helen (later Handbury), Anne (later Kantor), Rupert, and Janet (later Calvert-Jones). While still a schoolgirl, Elisabeth had begun knitting woollen singlets for babies at Melbourne’s Children’s Hospital, and by virtue of knitting the greatest number, was given a tour of the institution. She was ‘devastated by what she saw’, and here the seed was sewn for later philanthropic activity. After school she volunteered one day a week at the Lady Northcote Kindergarten, another eye-opener. After her marriage, Elisabeth’s voluntary work became a central part of her life. Through Keith she had become very friendly with Mr and Mrs Henry Gullett and, in 1933, was ‘enlisted’ by Lady Gullett onto the committee of the Royal Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Children, and by Lady Latham onto the management committee of the Royal Children’s Hospital. She maintains today that ‘of course I had that opportunity because Lady Latham and her husband knew Keith’ and wished to have the support of his Herald and Sun publications. Elisabeth dedicated her life to philanthropic activity. Asked why, years later, she claims that she felt so blessed in life that she was obliged to do the work ‘as a sort of thanksgiving’. Her own philanthropic work, she insists, was inspired by Keith’s and she says: ‘All the wonderful life I’ve had stemmed, I suppose, from my marriage, so I’m very conscious that I never would have made much of a mark… unless I’d married Keith and had the opportunities which he gave me and his position gave me.’ Sir Keith, as he became, passed away in 1952. Lady Murdoch went on to serve as president of the Royal Children’s Hospital management committee from 1954 to 1965, and was known for her personal touch in fundraising endeavours, hand-writing letters of thanks to each major donor. In 1963, Elisabeth Murdoch was appointed Dames Commander of the Order of the British Empire. 1968 saw Dame Elisabeth become the first woman on the Council of Trustees of the National Gallery of Victoria. She held the position for eight years. In 1976 she co-founded the Victorian Tapestry Workshop, and served as its Chairman from 1986-88. Dame Elisabeth’s philanthropic activities continued throughout her varied career, and in 1984 she was a founding member of the Murdoch Institute (known today as the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute). An honorary fellow of the Australian Institute of Landscape Architecture, she funded and helped to establish the Elisabeth Murdoch Chair of Landscape Architecture and the Australian Garden History Society. In 1968 she was awarded an honorary Doctorate of Laws by the University of Melbourne in acknowledgement of her contributions to research, the arts and philanthropy. Trinity College installed her as a Fellow in November 2000. In July 2006, BRW magazine wrote that ‘the 97-year-old mother of Rupert Murdoch is widely regarded as queen of Australia’s philanthropic community’. Today Dame Elisabeth supports 110 charities annually. Her philanthropic activities are too numerous to be listed here, but she has concentrated her efforts most particularly on: the Tapestry Workshop; the McClelland Art Gallery; the Advisory Council for Children with Impaired Hearing; Noah’s Ark Toy Library; the RSPCA; the Royal Botanic Gardens; the Maud Gibson Gardens Trust; the Chair of Landscape Architecture (Melbourne Uni); the Murdoch Research Institute; and Taralye, an oral language centre for deaf children. Dame Elisabeth Murdoch lived at Cruden Farm, Langwarrin until she died, in December 2012. Events 2001 - 2001 Inducted into the Victorian Honour Roll of Women Published resources Edited Book Who's Who in Australia 2002, Herd, Margaret, 2002 Book Elisabeth Murdoch: Two Lives, Monks, John 1929-, 1994 The Alexandra Club : A Narrative 1903-1983, Starke, Monica, 1986 Garden of a Lifetime: Dame Elisabeth Murdoch at Cruden Farm, Latreille, Anne, 2007 Resource Section Trinity has three new Fellows, http://www.trinity.unimelb.edu.au/publications/trinity_today/summer2001 A Great Form of Love: Women Philanthropists in Australian History, Lemon, Barbara, 2008, http://www.abc.net.au/rn/hindsight/ Book Section A Winning streak: The Murdochs, Browning, Julie, 2002 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 The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia, Smart, Judith and Swain, Shurlee (eds.), 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources State Library of Victoria Papers, 1972 Aug. 17-27. 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During the 1970’s Sinn was employed as a designer with Prue Acton. Upon her return from London she started her own business called Hedgehog. Born: 22 Jan 1949. Died: 19 Aug 2001. During the 1970s Sinn work as a designer with Prue Acton, before travelling overseas. Upon her return from London she commenced a business called Hedgehog, where she produced intricate jumpers on knitting machines. Sinn donated the denim dress she designed for her first wedding to the National Gallery of Victoria. Published resources Newspaper Article Obituary, Clegg, Jill, 2001 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Anne Heywood Created 26 September 2001 Last modified 24 March 2006 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

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Sydney-born journalist Geraldine Brooks worked as a Middle-East correspondent during the 1980s and early 1990s. Brooks worked for the Sydney Morning Herald before joining the Journal’s Australasian bureau in the mid-1980s and then transferring to the Middle-East. She spent several years as a Middle-East correspondent for the Wall Street Journal. Brooks reported on the Iran-Iraq war, the Palestinian uprising and the Gulf War. From 1993 to 1994 she was the United Nation’s correspondent covering the peacekeeping operations in Somalia. Her first book Nine Parts of Desire: the Hidden World of Islamic Women was published in 1995. In 1999, Brooks was the recipient of the Kibble Literary Award for Women Writers for her second publication Foreign Correspondence. Her third publication, Years of Wonders: A Novel of the Plague, was released in 2001. Brooks is married to American journalist Tony Horwitz and they have a son, Nathaniel. Published resources Edited Book Who's Who in Australia 2001, Herd, Margaret, 2000 Resource Geraldine Brooks, http://www.randomhouse.com/boldtype/0398/brooks From Bland Street to Bosnia, Waldren, Murray, http://members.ozemail.com.au/~waldrenm/bland.html Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Newspaper Article The chronicler of chaos, Perkins, Corrie, 2001 Australia Day honours: David Walsh and Elizabeth Broderick among recipients, Davey, Melissa and Brereton, Adam, 2016, https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2016/jan/26/australia-day-honours-david-walsh-and-elizabeth-broderick-among-recipients Book Nine Parts of Desire: The Hidden World of Islamic Women, Brooks, Geraldine, c1995 Foreign Correspondence, Brooks, Geraldine, 1998 Years of Wonders: A Novel of the Plague, Brooks, Geraldine, 2001 Archival resources National Library of Australia [Biographical cuttings on Geraldine Brooks, journalist, containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journals] National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Papers of Janet Hawley, 1946-2006 [manuscript] Author Details Anne Heywood Created 10 October 2001 Last modified 9 May 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

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Champion sprinter and hurdler, Shirley Strickland (as she was then known), became the first Australian female to win an Olympic medal in a track and field event at the London Olympic Games in 1948. Shirley de la Hunty was appointed Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) on 26 January 2001 for service to the community, particularly in the areas of conservation, the environment and local government, and to athletics as an athlete, coach and administrator. She had been appointed a member of the Order of the British Empire (Civil) (MBE) for services to athletics on 1 January 1957. Shirley Strickland studied nuclear physics, completed an honours degree and became a science teacher. In 1948 she won the Australian sprint and hurdles titles. Later that year she represented Australia at the London Olympic Games and became the first Australian female athlete to win a track and field medal. The champion sprinter and hurdler took part in three Olympic Games (1948, 1952 and 1956) and was the winner of three gold, one silver and three bronze medals. She also set world records and won three gold medals and two silver medals at Empire (later Commonwealth) Games. In 1950 Shirley Strickland married Lawrence Edmund de la Hunty and they had four children. In 1960 she was selected for the Rome Olympics but did not compete due to her third pregnancy. After retiring as a competitor Shirley de la Hunty continued teaching at various Perth high schools and later became a university lecturer. She maintained her interest in sport by coaching athletes including Raelene Boyle, and was involved in athletics administration as manageress of the Australian women’s team at the Mexico (1968) and Montreal (1976) Olympics. Besides sport Shirley de la Hunty is interested in nature and conservation issues. She has featured on ‘This is Your Life’ and ‘Australian Story’. A recipient of the Helm award (now World Trophy) and the Queen’s medal, in 1995 she was elected to the Australian Sports Hall of Fame. A Fellow of Edith Cowan University, Shirley de la Hunty won the Advance Australia Award in 1987. At the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games Opening Ceremony Shirley de la Hunty was an Olympic Torchbearer along with Raelene Boyle, Betty Cuthbert, Dawn Fraser and Cathy Freeman. 1948 National Championships 80 metre hurdles 1948 London Olympic Games 4 x 100 metre relay – silver medal 100 metre sprint – bronze medal 80 metre hurdles – bronze medal 1950 National Championships 80 metre hurdles 440 yards sprint 1950 Auckland Empire Games 80 metre hurdles – gold medal 4 x 440 yards relay – gold medal 4 x 660 yards relay – gold medal 100 yards sprint – silver medal 1952 National Championships 80 metre hurdles 440 yards sprint 1952 Helsinki Olympic Games 80 metre hurdles – gold medal 100 metre sprint – bronze medal 1955 World University Games 100 metre sprint – gold medal 80 metres hurdles – gold medal 200 metre sprint – bronze medal 1956 National Championships 440 yards sprint 1956 Melbourne Olympic Games 80 metre hurdles – gold medal 4 x 100 metre relay – gold medal 1960 National Championships 4 x 110 yards relay 1962 National Championships 4 x 110 yards relay Events 2001 - 2001 Inducted into the Victorian Honour Roll of Women 1948 - 1948 Athletics – 80m Hurdles and 100m sprint 1948 - 1948 Athletics – 4 x 100m relay 1952 - 1952 Athletics – 80m Hurdles 1950 - 1950 Athletics – 80m Hurdles; 440y Medley Relay; 660y Medley Relay 1952 - 1952 Athletics – 100m sprint 1956 - 1956 Athletics – 80m Hurdles and 4 x 100m Relay 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 Outstanding Women in Australia: Women in Sport, Rolton, Gloria, 1997 Edited Book Who's Who in Australia 2002, Herd, Margaret, 2002 Monash Biographical Dictionary of 20th Century Australia, Arnold, John and Morris, Deirdre, 1994 Resource Where are the Women in Australian science?, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, 2003, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/wisa/wisa.html Australia at the Games, Australian Olympic Committee, 2006, http://corporate.olympics.com.au/index.cfm?p=25 Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Newspaper Article Shirley Strickland, legend of the track, dies, Dowling, Jason and Evans, Chris, 2004 Strickland the first lady of Australian aths, Johnson, Len, 2004 Champion runs her race, Oakley, Vivienne and Collier, Karen, 2004 Enigma who lit the way for others, Reed, Ron, 2004 Resource Section Interview with Shirley Strickland de la Hunty, Hughes, Robin, 2006, http://www.australianbiography.gov.au/strickland/index.html Site Exhibition She's Game: Women Making Australian Sporting History, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2007, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/sg/sport-home.html Faith, Hope and Charity Australian Women and Imperial Honours: 1901-1989, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2003, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/honours/honours.html The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia, Smart, Judith and Swain, Shurlee (eds.), 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders Author Details Anne Heywood Created 18 October 2002 Last modified 12 September 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

The National Fitness Council of South Australia was a government advisory body established in 1939 that alerted individuals to the importance of gaining physical fitness, and encouraged community interest in open space and the “Quality of Environment.” In 1976 the Council was taken over by the Department of Tourism, Recreation and Sport. From its inception the National Fitness Council offered women a decided role in the organization and promotion of recreation in South Australia. As most of its programmes were sex segregated, administrative and practical positions for women within the agency were assured. The Council continued to play a major role in fostering women’s sport in the post-war years. It provided coaching assistance in a variety of sports (including tennis, athletics, hockey, netball and was also instrumental in organizing and promoting new team sports. It was responsible for the formation of the South Australian Amateur Gymnastic Association in 1952, and the introduction of softball, cricket and court cricket to girls’ schools. In 1941, the Council expanded its activities outside the country areas into rural and regional South Australia. Through the provision of financial and administrative assistance, played a major role in the formation of the South Australian Women’s Amateur Sports Council which, in turn, was important in providing suitable playing grounds for women’s sport. Repeated attempts by the National Fitness Council and the South Australian Women’s Amateur Sports Council to get government assistance were partially rewarded in 1952 when the state government donated 19 acres of land for the development of a women’s sports field. This was the area that would become known as the South Australian Women’s Memorial Playing Fields. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Thesis A Fair Go?: Women in Sport in South Australia: 1945 - 1965, Randall, Leonie M., 1986, http://www.aafla.org/SportsLibrary/ASSHSSH/ASSHSSH06.pdf Site Exhibition She's Game: Women Making Australian Sporting History, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2007, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/sg/sport-home.html Archival resources State Records of South Australia Miscellaneous records - National Fitness Council?National Fitness Council records?National Fitness Council records State Library of South Australia Papers relating to the National Fitness Council of South Australia Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 12 January 2007 Last modified 20 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

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Amanda brown was born in Middle Swan in 1956, and brought up in a European Jewish and Irish Heritage. She studied Photomedia Design at the Central Institute of Technology in Perth, Western Australia. Over the years, Amanda has observed and documented in images the Australian and international social, political and industrial landscape. Her photojournalism has been informed by a commitment to advocacy for social justice for indigenous and working people, both here and in the United States. In 1988, Amanda travelled from Perth with indigenous Australians and documented their journey in the Anti- Bicentennial march in Sydney. This march highlighted issues such as deaths in custody and the effects of colonisation on the indigenous Australian population. In 1998, she documented the waterfront dispute by wharfies striking against Patrick’s Stevedores at Fremantle wharf, Western Australia. In 2000, travelled to America and spent time with Native Americans in remote areas photographing the people and the landscape. This is an ongoing project that has also included documentation of journeys through American small towns of Greyhound buses. In 2000 she instigated a town bus service for the city of Gallup, New Mexico. Her advocacy has included work on behalf of incarcerated Native Americans, writing letters of support for parole and prison visits. She has spent time at the communities of Kaltukatjara (Docker River) in the Northern Territory in 2008 and Pukatja (Ernabella) in South Australia in 2010 as a community worker. These opportunities have enabled a personal insight and knowledge into indigenous remote Australian culture. Events 1980 - Published resources Resource 100 days of active Resistance, Vivian Westwood + Lee, 2010, http://ar100days.com Photos including: Wild it was Beautiful, Solo, Skyetching, City of Fremantle Festival of Photography, 2008, http://www.fotofreo.com/ Bienala Intercontinentala De Grafica Mica, Muzeul De Istorie, Aiud, Romania, 2006, http://www.aiud-art.ro Out of Site: Industrial, Breadbox Gallery, Artrage,, 2006, http://www.artrage.com.au/ Picture This, Art Gallery of Western Australia, 2011, http://artgallery.wa.gov.au Ten Years Invisibility, 2011, http://www.pica.org.au Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 6 May 2011 Last modified 13 May 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Kerry Saxby became the most prolific world-record breaker in athletic history in Melbourne in February 1991 when she set a new record of 11 minutes 51.26 seconds in the 3 kilometer walk event. This took her number of world bests to thirty, which was one better than the previous mark, created by the distance runner Paavo Nurmi. Her world records have been established across a range of distances and venues, sometimes at mixed competitions. Saxby regularly trained with and competed against men and believes this contributed to her success. In the decade of competition when she was at her peak, she never finished outside the top five, and was only disqualified for losing foot contact with the track once. Saxby’s sporting achievements include representing Australia 24 times in major international competitions. She won 13 individual international medals, won a record 27 Australian National Championships, set 32 world records or world bests, and at 38 years of age she was the oldest athlete to win a medal at world level in 1999. She retired from competition in 2001, but not before achieving a very creditable 7th place in the 20 kilometer walk at the Sydney Olympic Games in 2000. In 2006, the Australian Institute of Sport selected her as one of their twenty-five ‘Best of the Best’. Kerry Saxby was born in young NSW in 1961 and moved to Ballina in northern New South Wales when she was thirteen. Initially a swimmer and middle distance running, Kerry changed to walking in 1981 competing with the Ballina Athletic Club. She won a scholarship to the Australian Institute of Sport in 1986 and was a scholarship holder until September 2001 when she retired from athletics. Saxby has lived in Canberra since 1986, when she first moved there. She married Ray Junna, an assistant coach for soccer at the Australian Institute of Sport. Since her retirement, Kerry has coached junior walkers in the Australian Capital Territory. In 2004 she became a director of the Bendigo Bank in Canberra. Events 1994 - 1994 Athletics – 10km Walk 1987 - 1989 1989 - 1989 1992 - 1992 1987 - 1987 1989 - 1990 1989 - 1990 1989 - 1990 2006 - 2006 1998 - 1998 1987 - 1987 1999 - 1999 1989 - 1989 1991 - 1991 1993 - 1993 1989 - 1989 1986 - 1986 1990 - 1990 1996 - 1996 Set the world record of 20:03.00 for the 5000 meter race work. The record still stands (2007) 1990 - 1990 Athletics – 10km Road Walk Published resources Edited Book The Oxford Companion to Australian Sport, Vamplew, Vray; Moore, Katharine; O'Hara, John; Cashman, Richard; Jobling, Ian, 1997 Site Exhibition She's Game: Women Making Australian Sporting History, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2007, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/sg/sport-home.html 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 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources National Sport Information Centre Kerry Saxby File Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 4 January 2007 Last modified 20 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

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Helen Leonard worked with numerous women’s organisations including the Nursing Mothers’ Association (now the Australian Breastfeeding Association), Women’s Electoral Lobby, National Women’s Media Centre, CAPOW!, the National Breast Cancer Foundation, the National Foundation for Australian Women and WESNET. As a lobbyist and photographer in the women’s movement from the 1970s onward, she recorded the activities of many women’s organisations, building an extraordinary library of photographs and recordings. An only child, Helen was educated at Hornsby Girls High School. Aged 17 she enrolled as a student nurse at Sydney’s Royal North Shore Hospital, and worked for three years as a nurse or dental nurse in various settings. Helen’s children, Christopher, Robin and Carolyn Inman were born within four years of each other. By 1973 Helen was an active member of the newly created Nursing Mothers Association (NMA), working at the local level in Group Leadership and counselling. Legislation in some States at the time meant that women could be charged with offensive behaviour for breast-feeding in public, and relatively few Australian mothers were encouraged to breast-feed. While running self-esteem and communication groups for the NSW Health department, Helen began representing the NMA at a national level. By 1988 she had been appointed to the National Women’s Consultative Council (NWCC) as a representative of NMA; was co-director of Distaff Associates; and co-convenor of WRITES, the umbrella for the Women’s Economic Think Tank, Refractory Girl, Women’s Radio Network and others. On behalf of the NWCC, with the Women’s Electoral Lobby, Helen organised the Women’s Tax Convention in Canberra. She began work as a consultant to the Office of the Status of Women in the Commonwealth Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet. Working with journalist, writer and friend Anne Deveson she explored the portrayal of women in the media, became an Australian expert, and founded the National Women’s Media Centre (www.nwmc.org.au). She also led the project to produce the 1998 National Women’s Media Directory, which registered women to provide expert comment to the media on issues of the day. In the mid 1990s, working for the NSW Department for Women, Helen coordinated state-wide International Women’s Day activities, the Women and Media Awards, and the Out of Line: 25 Years of Women’s Posters exhibition. She also created National Women’s History Month; This Day In History, which profiles the achievements of women; and The Australian Women’s Honour Roll, launched in March 2000. She moved to Canberra in 1998 to become National Executive Officer for the Women’s Electoral Lobby (Australia). From early 2000 she worked as National Executive Officer for WESNET (Women’s Services Network); as Iraq anti-sanctions Campaign Manager for the Medical Association for the Prevention of War; and as Manager, Government and Community Relations for the National Breast Cancer Foundation. She was Convenor of the Coalition of Australian Participating Organisations of Women (CAPOW!), the peak national women’s organisation. Helen was posthumously awarded a high commendation in the community section of the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission Human Rights awards, 2001, for her “tireless commitment to the rights of women, and broader issues of social justice.” She is survived by her partner, Judy Harrison, and her three children. Helen’s family have launched an appeal through the National Foundation for Australian Women (www.nfaw.org or telephone 02 62874422) to raise funds to create an accessible archive of her historic photographic work. Edited from an Obituary by Marie Coleman Published resources Book Fabulous Fifties: when life really begins. Interviews with Australian women in their fifties., Jan Bowen, 1995 Newspaper Article Tireless activist for women's movement, Coleman, Marie, 2001 'Real dynamo' on behalf of women, 2001 Web-Savvy and wired into the women's movement, Coleman, Marie, 2001 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition From Lady Denman to Katy Gallagher: A Century of Women's Contributions to Canberra, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2013, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/ldkg Author Details Anne Heywood and Clare Land Created 17 October 2001 Last modified 18 February 2013 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Three notebooks: 1. Autobiographical account by immigrant Russian, “Vladimir” of events in Russia c. 1912-1914, when he and others in a radical left group were active and subsequently investigated and sentenced. The recollections, written in 1952, aim to discover the identity of the person in their group responsible for their arrest. 2 and 3. English language notes of an unknown Russian studying English c. 1917. (See copy of letter E. Govor to Juliet Flesch, 8.3.96). Author Details Alannah Croom Created 30 December 2017 Last modified 30 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

I Notebooks, 1919-1931 A. Miscellaneous notes on exploration of Antarctica, c. 1819-1829. B. Extracts from and notes on Allan Cunningham, 1816-1839, including botanical notes. C. Extracts from Robert Howard: Biographical Sketch of the late Allan Cunningham, 1842. D. Copy of ‘A Journal of a Voyage from England to Van Diemen’s Land and Batavia in the Ship Caroline of Calcutta R. L. Hare A.D. 1827-1828 by Rosalie H. A. Hare’. E. Copy of ‘The Voyage of Pedro Sarmiento to the Straits of Magellan in the year 1579’. II Letters to Ida Marriott, Nov. – Dec. 1937, mainly about the publication of her books Author Details Elle Morrell Created 9 February 2001 Last modified 27 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Awarded the Australian Sports Medal on 30 August 2000, Heather McKay was made a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) on 26 January 1979 for her service to the sport of squash. She had previously been appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire (Civil) on 1 January 1969 for services to sport. An Australian representative in squash and hockey, McKay dominated ladies squash for two decades and lost only two squash matches in her career. Heather McKay (née Blundell) enjoyed a career of unparalleled dominance in her chosen sport and is one of Australia’s greatest ever sportspeople. During a playing career that lasted nearly twenty years, she won fourteen successive Australian Amateur titles in her sport (1960-73), sixteen British Amateur (later Open) titles (1962-77), the inaugural World Championship title (1976) and the World Championship again in 1979. She was named the ABC Sportsman (!) of the year in 1967. She lost two matches in all that time; one in 1960, the other in 1962. Even then, Heather McKay considered those losses to be steps towards later victories. The 1960 loss was to the late Yvonne West in the quarter final of the New South Wales Championship – a result she was tickled pink by considering it was the first time she’d played in the event after picking up the game the year before. She never lost an amateur title match in Australia again. The 1962 loss was to Fran Marshall, the reigning British Champion, in the final of the Scottish Championship. It was the last loss she would ever experience, and Heather was delighted with the result. It was the first serious hit out she had in Britain before her first attempt at the British Amateur Championship, a title she took from Marshall a few weeks later. These achievements are unmatched by other Australian sporting heroes, yet more Australians will be familiar with the accomplishments of Pat Cash, Shane Warne or the Brisbane Lions Australian Football League team than they are with McKay’s. She is a little frustrated by the lack of recognition, not because she needed it but because her sport could benefit from the publicity. Furthermore, she is confident the reason she has been overlooked has nothing to do with the fact that she is a woman and everything to do with her choice of sport. Heather McKay played squash. Despite there being a tradition of excellence in Australian squash at an elite level, and despite its popularity as a participant sport, squash in Australia has never had a high media profile, not even when an Australian woman was literally unbeatable. In fact, in a cruel paradox, the better she became, the less media coverage Heather McKay received. Her mother used to say to her, ‘I knew if I didn’t hear anything about you, that you had to be winning’. Clearly, if Mrs. Blundell relied on the press for news of her daughter’s achievements, she would be waiting a long time! Heather Blundell, born July 1941, was one of eleven children that grew up in Queanbeyan in New South Wales. Most of her brothers and sisters played sport regularly, some at a high level, in games like tennis, hockey, rugby and A.F.L. Her Dad was a champion country rugby league player and both parents played tennis. They actively encouraged all there children to live active lives and, as Heather says, ‘it’s just what you did in those days.’ Given that both parents were incredibly busy (Heather’s Dad worked as a baker by night and in his market garden by day, Heather’s mum had eleven children to care for) the children, the children had to entertain themselves. Sport was a cheap, accessible form of entertainment. While she was adept at most sports she tried her hand at, as a young woman Heather excelled at tennis and hockey. In fact, it was in order to keep fit for hockey that she initially played squash. After discovering the game when she was on holidays with a friend in Sydney, she came back to Canberra and, along with a group of other girls, made regular games at the ‘Squash Bowl’ in the city part of her training regime. It was pretty much hit and giggle stuff; they received no coaching, just a good cardio work out. Then one day when she was playing with a friend, Alan Netting, Alan told her that the New South Wales Country Championships were being held in Wollongong and suggested that they go down to them. After checking with Mum, who gave the plan the all clear, Heather and Alan joined the competition. She finished the tournament with victories in the Junior and Women’s titles, a performance that caught the eye of the late Vin Napier, president of the Australian Squash Association. He suggested that she should attend the New South Wales championships in Sydney. With the help of her mother and her grandmother made it to the quarter final and won the junior tournament, without ever having received any formal coaching, and with the NSW Country tournament her only experience. It was at this point that Heather decided to switch her focus from tennis to squash. This is not to say that she stopped playing other sports; on the contrary, she continued to play hockey throughout her squash career and well into her retirement from international competition. Indeed she was still playing good enough hockey to be named All Australian twice, in 1967 and 1971. But the fact that she never actually played representative hockey, because it clashed with her squash commitments, indicates where her priorities lay. After winning her first Australian title in 1960 (the first of fourteen straight), she was forced to make another choice; whether she was going to stay in Canberra and fiddle around, or further her career by moving to Sydney. Obviously, her meteoric rise in the sport suggested that she had the raw material to make the move worthwhile. The move was made easier because of the help of some good sponsors and friends. Spaldings (whose racquets she was using at the time) helped her to get a job at the Belleview Hill Squash courts, and Vin Napier put her touch with players and coaches who were generous with their time and advice. John Cheadle would have a hit with her once a week. Keith Walker taught her to think a bit more about the game, rather than just ‘hitting and hoping’. Heather spent her first year in Sydney listening, learning and playing a lot of squash. Having successfully taken on Australia twice, in 1961 and 1962, Heather thought it was time to take on the world. In the 1960s and early 1970s, the British Open was the unofficial world championship – an official world title did not come into being until 1976. Fortunately, she had an understanding employer, an enthusiastic and supportive state association and some helpful sponsors who regularly made it possible for her to find the time and money to take off to Britain for two months every year for sixteen years! She would play demonstration matches as fundraisers; the Australian Squash Association would provide some money, as would the Spalding Company and the cigarette company W.D. and H.O. Wills. All the money went through the New South Wales Association, who then arranged her travel and paid her an allowance; in the age of amateurism everything had to be arranged just so. It could not be seen that she was making money from her sport. In 1962, Heather flew across to London, knowing virtually no-one and without even a hotel room booked for her first night, in order to have a tilt at the British title. Stepping off the plane, she asked herself ‘Ok, what do I do now’ – it was a scary sensation. Fortunately, she was met by the late Janet Shardley (Bisley at the time) a renowned British squash champion. In what would become a regular feature of her annual migration, she stayed with Janet and her first husband, Joe and then, after Joe died, her second husband Ambrose. As Heather said, Janet was really her ‘second mum’, and both Joe and Ambrose were great friends. They were all vitally important to creating the stability that underlay her success in Britain over the next sixteen years, including that first year. Staying with friends, being billeted out while playing in various lead up tournaments around the country, spending a lot of time alone during the day because everyone else was working (‘I became a very good window shopper’ claims Heather); the life of an amateur sportsperson in the 1960s was a far cry from the experience of today’s professional sportspeople. There were no managers ensuring you ate and slept well in comfortable hotels, there was no coach scheduling adequate warm up, cool down and recovery sessions. There were no media or sponsor commitments. And of course, there was no money. Not unreasonably, Heather wishes that she had the opportunity to make more money from the game than she did, and believes that some of the restrictions placed on amateurs were ridiculous. (The people who insisted that she be classified as a professional because she didn’t pay for her half of the court where she practiced spring to mind as some of the most small minded!) Having said that, she still thinks that it was a great time to be playing the game. Precisely because their livelihood wasn’t at stake, amateurs could leave it all on the court and establish very good friendships off the court, friends who you could go out and have a drink, or catch a movie, with; friends who you looked forward to seeing again when you all met up at the next major tournament. She looked forward to hard games with players such as the English women Fran Marshall and Anna Craven-Smith and the Australians Jenny Irving and Marion Jackman, but she also looked forward to good times with them off the court. Why was Heather McKay so good? Apart from an extraordinary ability to stay fit and on the court, she was naturally athletic and very strong; she could get to balls that her opponents didn’t think possible and she could hit the ball so hard and accurately they couldn’t get it back. She was a technical perfectionist – ‘good technique doesn’t fall down when you are tired’. She played a conservative game, doing what she did well to the point that she virtually eliminated unforced errors from her game. She ‘took no prisoners’ on the court, but she did not ‘wipe the court’ with her opponents either, always preferring a good game to a whitewash. In the end, it was about fitness, technique and taking control of her own game. ‘I learned what was good for myself, what I enjoyed doing and what worked for me’. Her amateur status and late arrival to the sport may also have contributed to her career longevity, and hence, her extraordinary run. Heather McKay never suffered from the soft tissue and repetitive strain injuries that many of the current players succumb to. She recalls only one significant injury – cracked ribs. She can’t remember how she got them, but the impact on her game of having them was not serious enough to break her unbeaten run. When asked to speculate on the reasons for her durability, she suggests that she was one of the first squash players to include strength training and stretching as part of her fitness regime, and that this probably had an impact. The fact that she cross-trained, continuing to run and play hockey, was important. Attention to good technique was also a factor – applying good technique inevitably meant that the body was less likely to suffer stress. Good genes, good luck and, quite possibly, picking up the game at the age of eighteen and not ten, may have all played their part as well. McKay believes she was at her strongest and best between the ages of 29-31, an age by which many current day players are feeling old, injured or burnt out. Professionalism means that potential champions get identified early and receive excellent coaching and support. It also means that, sometimes, youngsters are required to specialise too early – meaning that the opportunities to cross train, and therefore avoid repetitive stress, are diminished. Heather recognises that these days it would be close to impossible to do what she did (i.e. pick up the game at seventeen and expect to become a world beater) but she does believe early specialisation does bring stress that needs to be managed carefully. Working as an assistant coach at the Australian Institute of Sport (1985-1999) gave her a lot of experience in managing this delicate balance. In the mid 1970s, however, Heather grew tired of the lack of financial support that accompanied her amateur status and turned professional. She and her husband moved to Toronto in 1975 where they were offered positions as club pros at the Toronto Squash Club, a huge, privately owned eighteen court centre that featured a gym, restaurant and pro shop; there was nothing like it in Australia. The McKay’s stayed in Toronto for ten years, moving to positions in different clubs in that period, and seeing the standard of Canadian Squash rise significantly in that time. It was while she was living in Toronto that she became the official champion of the world in 1976 by winning the inaugural Women’s World Squash Championship. This was a win with which she was very satisfied. She worked extremely hard for it, played incredibly well and, despite protests from some British officials who, for technical reasons, claimed that it wasn’t really an ‘official’ title, came away having achieved what she had set out to prove. She was the undisputed world champion. ‘I’ve got the T-shirt saying I’m the first’ – she received her second (and final) metaphoric t-shirt in 1979. At the age of thirty-eight, she decided that she didn’t have the time or inclination to put in the work that was required to compete anymore at the highest level. Heather and her husband loved their time in North America, but never anticipated retiring there permanently. Family and friends were in Australia and after nearly ten years of them, they had just about enough of the Canadian winters. A 1985 offer to join Australian men’s squash icon, Geoff Hunt, coaching at the A.I.S squash unit in Brisbane was just too good to refuse. She thoroughly enjoyed her position as senior coach, and learned a lot from Hunt, who was the unit’s head coach, over the thirteen years she was there. In 1999, she retired from the AIS, and from any informal involvement in squash. Heather still maintains a keen interest in the sport and is delighted to see the progress of world class players such as Sarah Fitz-gerald and the Grinham sisters, who went through the academy while she was there. She thinks Squash Australia is doing a great job promoting the sport, and maintains that it is one of the best ‘social’ games people can play, as well as one of the most efficient, in terms of the fitness benefits. ‘Forty minutes on the court and you have had a very good workout,’ she says. She still laments the lack of coverage the game receives, but puts this down to the difficulty of attracting large crowds to live matches and the problems of covering it for a T.V. audience. Four sided glass courts have helped, as have new peep-hole camera angles but, as Heather notes, ‘It’s very difficult for someone who has never played the game to sit and watch and appreciate the game fully. On TV you can lose the speed and the ball. People who’ve played can appreciate it, because they can appreciate what it takes to get to the ball. But those who haven’t don’t understand the effort and skill involved.’ Before Heather won her first Australian title, Pakistani champion Hashim Kahn, who Heather regards as one of the greatest players the game of squash has ever seen, observed for the benefit of the Canberra press that ‘this girl could be very good’. Fourteen Australian and sixteen British titles along with two world championships have proven him to be a good judge of talent and a master of understatement! Hopefully, it isn’t only squash players who can appreciate what it took for Heather McKay to achieve and maintain her extraordinary record. The world’s greatest ever female player of one of the most popular participant sports on the globe deserves better. Events 1985 - 1998 Squash Coach with the Australian Institute of Sport 1965 - 1965 Married Brian H McKay 2000 - 2000 Awarded the Australian Sports Medal 1979 - 1979 Awarded Member of the Order of Australia 1960 - 1973 Winner of the Australian Amateur Championships 1961 - 1973 Winner of New South Wales Championships 1961 - 1973 Winner of Victorian Championships 1962 - 1977 Winner of the British Open Championships 1976 - 1976 Winner of the World Squash Championship 1979 - 1979 Winner of the World Squash Championship 1977 - 1977 Winner of the American Championship 1979 - 1979 Winner of the American Amateur Racquetball Championship 1980 - 1981 Winner of the American Professional Racquetball Championships 1984 - 1984 Winner of the American Professional Racquetball Championship 1980 - 1980 Winner of the Canadian Racquetball Championship 1982 - 1985 Winner of the Canadian Racquetball Championships 2001 - 2001 Inducted into the Victorian Honour Roll of Women 1967 - 1967 Awarded ABC Sportsman of the Year 2069 - 2069 Appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire Published resources Book Great Australian Women in Sport, Brasch, Nicolas, 1997 The Dictionary of Famous Australians, Atkinson, Ann, 1992 The Champions: Australia's Sporting Greats, Smith, Terry, 1990 Outstanding Women in Australia: Women in Sport, Rolton, Gloria, 1997 Edited Book Who's Who in Australia 2002, Herd, Margaret, 2002 Journal Article Interview with Heather McKay (AM, MBE), Dobrez, Pat, 2001 Site Exhibition She's Game: Women Making Australian Sporting History, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2007, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/sg/sport-home.html Faith, Hope and Charity Australian Women and Imperial Honours: 1901-1989, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2003, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/honours/honours.html 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 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Heather McKay interviewed by Nikki Henningham [sound recording] Author Details Anne Heywood and Nikki Henningham Created 18 October 2002 Last modified 6 February 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

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Justice Elizabeth Evatt, Chief Judge of the Family Court of Australia, spoke on the Royal Commission on Human Relationships; the reasons for its establishment; reactions to the Commission’s recommendations; the Family Court; cases within the courts; problems raised and public access to the court. Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 2 November 2006 Last modified 21 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

File 3. Charles Fawcett (Harold Charles), 1937-61; Correspondence, 1945-57, photographs, invitations, membership cards, Christmas cards, autographs, receipts and other papers. Correspondents include Christina Mawdesley, J. Howlett-Ross, J.C. Davies, Edith Harrhy, Sam Simmons, Louis H. Clark – Box 50 Author Details Alannah Croom Created 13 February 2018 Last modified 13 February 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

The Melbourne Orphan Asylum was established in 1853 to provide residential care for orphans. It evolved out of the Dorcas Society, which was the first women’s organisation to be established in Melbourne in 1845 on the initiative of Mrs George Cooper and Mrs William Knight and the St James’ Visiting Society. It aimed to assist the most vulnerable members of society by providing emergency support for families and almost unintentionally launched into residential care work with children. The St James’ Visiting Society became the St James’ Orphan Asylum and Visiting Society in 1851, and in 1853 the Melbourne Orphan Asylum. Initially run by a committee of ‘ladies’, with Mrs Perry, wife of the Bishop of Melbourne, president, they had to accept occasional assistance from a committee of ‘gentlemen’, as married women were not permitted to hold property in their own names or to act as trustees. A Committee of Gentlemen was formed in 1854 to assist the Ladies Committee. The rules adopted imposed a men’s business committee on the existing committee of ladies. Despite this unusual arrangement, it was the first organisation in the colony to include both men and women. Rule four of the new constitution stated that the Asylum was to be ‘under the government of a president, six clergymen and six laymen of the various evangelical branches of the protestant church, elected annually by subscribers. The ladies became the junior partners, allocated the ‘management of the domestic affairs of the institution’. Eventually the two separate committees had merged into one by 1875 when the Melbourne Orphan Asylum was incorporated. By-law 11 abolished the dual committee system , making provision for a single committee of eighteen men, including five ministers and twelve women. The Asylum was conducted on principles of the Christian religion of the evangelical branches of the protestant church. Orphans were admitted regardless of their parents’ creed or country. A matron was appointed to run the Asylum and orphans’ relatives were permitted to visit only once a month. It occupied its first site in Emerald Hill from March 1856, then made the decision in 1876 to sell the Emerald Hill site and move to Brighton. By 1883 the address was ‘Windermere’, Butler St, Middle Brighton. This institution remained in operation until attitudes to the welfare of children changed during the 1950s to embrace the family group, rather than the child alone, as the centre of welfare policy. This meant that the model of normal family life should also be applied to residential care. In February 1958 the Committee agreed to experiment with three family group homes. By 1963 the new headquarters were located at Glen Waverley, and all the children were housed in fourteen family group homes. This changed concept was reflected in the name change in 1965 to the Melbourne Family Care Organisation and in 1987 to Family Action. Published resources Book Asylum to action: family action 1851-1991, a history of services and policy development for families in times of vulnerability, Jaggs, Donella, 1991 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources State Library of Victoria Records of the Melbourne Orphan Asylum, [manuscript] Anne's story, 1974. [manuscript]. National Library of Australia, Pictures Collection Melbourne Protestant Orphan Asylum, Emerald Hill [picture] / A. Willmore sc Royal Historical Society of Victoria Inc Miscellaneous papers re Melbourne Benevolent Institutions Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 22 October 2003 Last modified 29 October 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

5 sound files (ca. 273 min.)??Gyzele Osmani, born 1970 in East Kosovo, Serbia, talks about her early life; the dispersal of Albanians and life in her village; the effect of the political situation on the education of Albanian Muslims by 1984; her marriage and her five children; a blockade of the village by the Serbian army (May 1999); leaving the village and walking towards Macedonia; conditions in the United Nations refugee camp; Macedonian Red Cross; the children becoming sick; her daughter’s dislocated hip being diagnosed; meeting with Australian representatives but not understanding that Australia was only offering temporary protection; travelling to Australia with 400 other Albanians; the East Hills camp; contacting the doctors in Bandiana Safe Haven about her daughter’s hip; the journey to Albury-Wodonga, the facilities there; her daughter’s treatment in Wodonga hospital; being told on 3 March 2000 by the DIMIA that they had to leave Australia; Philip Ruddock’s earlier visit to Bandiana (1999); Michelle Harris; pressure from the Dept. of Immigration to leave the Bandiana Safe Haven; Bandiana becoming a detention centre (2000), how it changed.?Osmani discusses the family’s removal to Port Hedland, WA and the conditions in the camp; the system of numbering the refugees; getting to know the other refugees; the two mosques in the Centre; the playground equipment; schooling; the staff; the medical treatment available in Port Hedland; her family’s health problems; keeping a diary (in Albanian); the isolation block in Port Hedland; psychiatric problems amongst the other refugees; how they got out of Port Hedland; how other Albanians from Presevo were repatriated; Michelle Harris; Marion Le; the people who helped her; John Molony and Janet Mathews from the Kingston Baptist Church; her depression; speaking out in the media; being told of their release following Ministerial intervention; arrival in Canberra; first impressions of Canberra; permanent residency; studying English; her daughter’s hip and the need for a further operation; how her children have been affected by their time in detention; the Albanian community; her first job; studying Business Administration (2005); Melanie Poole; her story being published in a book by Eva Salis; speaking at a protest rally in Canberra against detention; SBS Insight Program (October 2001); the ABC Radio Eye program which won the 2003 Human Rights Radio Award; wanting to tell her story; her hopes for the future. Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 25 August 2006 Last modified 21 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

MS Acc00/211 comprises correspondence, minutes, reports, financial records, press releases, publications and newsletters, mainly relating to the Australian Conservation Foundation (4 boxes, 4 small cartons). Author Details Alannah Croom Created 13 February 2018 Last modified 13 February 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

1. Combined visitors book and scrapbook (known as “The Book of Words”) of the Pakies Club, containing photographs, pen and ink sketches, typescript poems and news clippings relating to Club activities and members. Names included in visitor book entries include Mary Gilmore, Walter Burley Griffin, Frank Dalby Davison, Katharine Susannah Prichard, Miles Franklin, Xavier Herbert, Nancy Keesing and Unk White. 2. Incomplete set of master copies of “Urge”, loosely bound in large folder: v. 1, no. 2, 9 March 1933; v. 1, no. 3, 9 April 1933; v. 1, no. 4, 9 May 1933; v. 1, no. 6, 9 July 1933; v. 1, no. 7, 9 August 1933; v. 1, no. 8, 9 September 1933; v. 1, no. 9, 9 December 1933; 1, no. 10, 9 February? 1934; v. 1, no. 11, 9 April 1934; v. 1, no. 11, 9 April 1934; July-August 1934; November-December 1934; February 1935. 3. Papers relating to the Burley Griffins: letters, photographs of Marion Griffin; architectural drawings; newspaper cuttings; 1990s papers about a Griffin designed house in Castle Crag. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 17 April 2018 Last modified 17 April 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Heather Henderson is the only daughter of former Australian Prime Minister Sir Robert Menzies and Dame Pattie Menzies. She was influential in the development of Australia’s capital city, Canberra. The transformation of Canberra from a paddock of public servants to a functioning civic community owed much to the sense and daughterly persuasion of Heather Henderson, née Menzies. Born in 1928, Heather is the only daughter of Sir Robert and Dame Pattie Menzies, and was from the beginning very much the apple of her father’s eye. Unlike some offspring of politicians who often see little of their parents, Heather was a solid fixture in her father’s routine, whether personal or political. After initially turning down Joseph Lyon’s invitation to join Cabinet in 1934 because he did not want to burden his family with long absences from their home in Melbourne, Menzies reconsidered and accepted the positions of Attorney General and Minister for Industry. Heather’s older brothers Kenneth and Ian were enrolled as boarders at Geelong College in 1936. While opportunities for the boys to see their parents were limited, Heather who had become a weekly boarder at Ruyton Girl’s School, Kew, was able to enjoy home life more regularly. In letters written during 1944-46 to Kenneth, who was serving with the AIF, Menzies wrote regular news of young Heather, by now a senior student at Ruyton. Very much a teenager, willowy, orthodontic bands and good at tennis, Heather was also already politically astute, as Menzies commented, ‘her sotto voce comments in the galleries during speeches by such favourites as Forde and Ward and Evatt are really worth going a long way to hear’.[1] Sir Alexander Downer, one of Menzies’ ministers, observed how father and daughter seemed united by a ‘mystical understanding’ and assessed Heather as ‘the principal joy’ in Menzies’ life during the period he knew him. Despite her slim figure, she resembled him in facial features, sharing the same wit, incisiveness, some of his intolerances and, occasionally, that tongue which entertained audiences but sometimes lost friends [2] Heather lived in Canberra for long periods during Menzies’ two terms as Prime Minister in 1939-41 and 1949-66. She also accompanied her parents on overseas trips, including attending the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in 1953. Travelling with Sir Robert and Dame Pattie on an unofficial visit to Europe in 1948, Heather demonstrated her sensitivity in assessing British suffering in relation to postwar food rationing. In a letter to her brother Kenneth she described her surprise at the unexpectedly good meals they had been having: Admittedly we’ve been mixing with the elite, & people with money are well fed. They can go for meals whenever they like & if they stay home they can afford to buy fruit and vegetables, which are dreadfully expensive . . . We have given a few tins of food away to maids . . . but we’re quite convinced that the people who need it are the poor people – quite apart from the rationing everything is terribly expensive. I’m blowed if I know how they exist. [3] Heather even entered the political lexicon of the day when, on one round trip including Washington, London and New Zealand in 1950, Menzies ferried a ‘very special present’ for his daughter, who was at the time studying music at Melbourne University: Its nature was a deep, dark secret and he wouldn’t let us in on it, but the parcel, he explained, was ‘enormous’, so much so that it had to be specially looked out for at every stage of his many journeys. ‘Heather’s parcel’ was, in fact, the subject of so much discussion by the members of the party that in the end it fell into line with the current trend for abbreviation, and by the time it reached New Zealand was referred to simply by all as ‘H.P’.[4] The mysterious ‘H.P’ was an evening dress, spectacular pink satin skirt and purple woollen top, purchased by Menzies in New York from a shop owned by a Mrs Livingston. He often went there and bought something for my mother or me. He would look round and pick some poor girl who looked roughly my size, and got her to try on whatever he had selected. H.P. was one of those selections. Heather was even more in the public eye in May 1955 when she wed Peter Henderson, then Third Secretary at the Australian Embassy in Djakarta. An estimated crowd of 2000, the largest mass of onlookers in Canberra since the 1954 Royal Tour, cheered the proceedings. Decreed by Sir Owen Dixon, Chief Justice of the High Court, in his toast to the bride and groom to be a ‘nationally known’ figure in her own right, the now Heather Henderson received a congratulatory cable from ‘All your friends in the household’ of Buckingham Palace.[5] In January 1956, Heather Henderson’s return to Canberra from Djakarta signalled a new period in her life as a married woman and acted as a catalyst for the development of the city. Canberra was still very much at the teething stage, possessing a meagre population of around 30,000, bereft of many basic facilities and lacking strongly defined social or structural cohesion. This stretched and ragged city, divided by the Molonglo flood plain, offered very little in the way of suburban infrastructure. Assisting Heather on the home search front, Menzies was struck by the reality of life in Canberra, as opposed to the more sheltered view from The Lodge. For Heather and Dame Pattie, even taking the baby for a walk proved difficult. The footpaths were poor or non-existent. A concerted campaign of family persuasion was launched on behalf of the capital: ‘I continually complained to Dad and I’m sure I had an influence in changing his attitude to the city’. According to Eric Sparke’s Canberra, the Chairman of the Public Service Board, Sir William Dunk, agreed with Heather’s assertion, as quite suddenly he was being ‘pushed around by the awakened Prime Minister with “Why this: Why not more of that? Who is responsible?”‘ [6] Under Menzies’ influence a Parliamentary Committee of Enquiry was set up to examine the situation – should Canberra remain a national capital in name only, or should it be developed? The Parliamentary Committee reported in favour of development. In 1958 the National Capital Development Commission was established and granted a charter ‘to design, develop and construct Canberra as the National Capital of Australia’. Up until the time of his retirement some eight years later, Menzies displayed an active interest in the capital’s progress. Canberra at last began to develop a civic atmosphere and the individuality worthy of a national capital. Sir John Overall acknowledges Canberra’s rebirth ‘is a reflection of the farsightedness of Robert Gordon Menzies and his interest and enthusiasm in clearing the way and making it possible for Australia’s young bush capital to be planned, developed and constructed to the status of a National Capital in the world scene’. [7] Heather and Peter Henderson had four daughters. Peter was Secretary of the Department of Foreign Affairs from 1979 to 1984 and died in September 2016. This entry was prepared in 2006 by Roslyn Russell and Barbara Lemon, Museum Services, and funded by the ACT Heritage Unit. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Edited Book Letters to my daughter: Robert Menzies, letters, 1955-1975, Henderson, Heather, 2011 Book Privilege and Pleasure, Henderson, Peter, Graham, Faithfull, 1986 Site Exhibition From Lady Denman to Katy Gallagher: A Century of Women's Contributions to Canberra, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2013, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/ldkg Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 27 April 2006 Last modified 12 March 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

A well known figure in Sydney political and socially active organizations and a staunch defender of civil liberties. Mary McNish stood for the Australia Party in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly elections for Willoughby in 1971 and 1973. At the time of her first candidacy Mary McNish was the NSW and National Secretary of the Australia Party, which she had helped to found. Prior to 1971, she was organising secretary of the JOBS project conducted by the Adult Education Department of the University of Sydney, which was responsible for pre-vocational training and final placement of 40 young Aborigines. Mary McNish was an active campaigner for the establishment of a library in Willoughby, the last municipality in the state without one. She was also an active member of the Council for Civil Liberties, and in subsequent years held all executive positions on it. She campaigned against the Queensland legislation prohibiting street marches in 1979, and in company with George Petersen, M.L.A., Senator George Georges, and 63 others, was arrested for her action. Mary McNish was born and educated in Queensland. She married (1) John Olsen, with whom she had a daughter, and (2) Alex McNish. 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 1 February 2006 Last modified 7 August 2015 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Justice Michelle May is a judge of the Family Court of Australia, Appeal Division and President of the Australasian Institute of Judicial Administration. Justice May has managed to combine her stellar career in the law with raising three (triplets) children. Born in England but brought up in Brisbane, Australia, Justice Michelle May attended primary school in Coorparoo and then secondary college at St Margaret’s Anglican School. She lived a simple but happy childhood, which included watching American sitcoms and television dramas of the 1960s, including the courtroom drama of Perry Mason. She was awarded a Commonwealth Scholarship to attend the University of Queensland to study an Arts Law degree. Before starting her degree, she spent a year in the United States (1974) on a Rotary Exchange Scholarship. She attended the State University of New York, where she completed a general study year, one that influenced her greatly. During her time away she developed a great interest in political theory, so she chose to major in that when she returned to Brisbane. She was tutored in her law subjects by both Margaret White (who went on to be a justice of the Supreme Court of Queensland) and Quentin Bryce, who went on to be Australia’s first woman Governor-General. After graduating with an LLB from the University of Queensland, she held the position of Associate to Judge Helman of the District Court of Queensland before being called to the Bar in 1978. Justice May was appointed Queen’s Counsel in 1993. She was the first barrister with a predominately family law practice to achieve that level of seniority in Queensland. Justice May has served as the chairperson of the Family Law Panel of the Bar Association of Queensland and as a member of the Family Law Council. On 7 September 1995 her Honour was appointed as Judge of the Family Court of Australia, being the first female appointment to that court from Queensland. In 2003 she was elevated by the Attorney-General to the Appeal Division of the Family Court. That same year, she was appointed a Co-ordinating Judge, a role entailing administrative responsibilities for Queensland, Northern New South Wales and the Northern Territory. Justice May became involved in the Australasian Institute of Judicial Administration in 2005 when she was appointed as a Council member. She was elected as a Deputy President in 2011 and elected as President in October 2013, a position which she currently holds. Events 2017 - 2017 Received for significant service to the law, particularly to the Family Court of Australia, to judicial administration, and to professional associations. Published resources Book Section Michelle May, Elphinstone, Kara, 2005 Site Exhibition Australian Women Lawyers as Active Citizens, Trailblazing Women Lawyers Project Team, 2016, http://www.womenaustralia.info/lawyers Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 23 May 2016 Last modified 29 August 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

1 hour 8 minutes??Dr Elma Sandford Morgan was born in 1890 in North Adelaide and brought up in a Baptist household. Attended Miss Martin’s school. At 14 her family sailed to Europe and Elma went to Cheltenham’s Ladies College for a year as a boarder. She returned to Adelaide in 1905. She studied piano at the Adelaide Conservatorium under Herr Reimann. She travelled with her family around Australia and in Queensland she met a doctor who suggested she do medicine. 1910 studied medicine at Sydney University. Studied for three years, then went with her family on a trip from China across the Siberian railway to Moscow. She graduated in 1917. She worked in Australia, London and at the Women’s Mission Hospital at Bewanee in the Punjab. Then in 1920 went to a hospital in Bagdad. Here she married Captain Harry Morgan and their daughter Rosemary was born in 1922. Son Gavin was born in 1925. Eventually settled in Sydney and she worked at the Rachel Forster Hospital. 1928 appointed Assistant to the Director of Maternal Welfare in the Public Health Department, and in 1929 first woman to become Director of Maternal Welfare in the Public Health Service. She was a district commissioner in the Girl Guides and a representative to the Australian Federation of University Women. Moved to South Australia as a Health Officer with the Mothers and Babies Association and helped set up Torrens House, a mothercraft training centre. During World War II joined the RAAN as a medical officer, was working in general practice, and for two years organised the Health Services of South Australia as the only woman member of the Parliamentary Commission. After the war she visited Europe and on return obtained a locum tenens as neoplasm registrar to the Anti-Cancer Foundation. She was appointed by the University of Adelaide to the Radio Therapy Department where she worked for eleven years. Retired in 1964 and then worked at the Red Cross Blood Transfusion Service until she was 80 years old. During 1966-68 she attended the Medical Women’s International Association conferences in Rochester and Vienna and became president of the Australian Medical Women’s Association to work against bias according to sex and equal treatment of women doctors. Her main interest was preventative medicine and public health. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 6 April 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Seven Writers was a group of Canberra-based women writers who met regularly to debate and critique one another’s work. This entry was sponsored by a generous donation from Christine Foley. Beginning with three members in 1980, the group grew to include seven female Canberra-based writers by 1984. They were founding member Dorothy Johnston (1948- ), Margaret Barbalet (1949- ), Sara Dowse (1938- ), Suzanne Edgar (1939- ), Marian Eldridge (1936-1997), Marion Halligan (1940- ) and Dorothy Horsfield (1948- ). Members’ published works include short stories, novels, children’s literature, non-fiction, articles and reviews, and in diverse ways their writing vividly portrays life ‘beneath the surface of Canberra’. Collectively the group authored Canberra Tales in 1988, later republished as The Division of Love in 1996, an anthology of short stories about life in Canberra. This was considered a landmark publication for Canberra fiction and received an ACT Bicentennial Award. Seven Writers raised the profile of Canberra-based authors, and in 1995 a photographic portrait of the group appeared in the National Library of Australia exhibition, Beyond the Picket Fence. After the death of Marian Eldridge in 1997, the group did not meet again for one year. Sara Dowse relocated to Canada in 1998. She returned to Australia in 2004. The members are still friends but no longer meet formally to critique one another’s work. Published resources Book The Division of Love: Stories, Barbalet, Margaret et al, 1995 The Fog Garden: A Novel, Halligan, Marion, 2001 Counting Backwards and other stories, Edgar, Suzanne, 1991 West Block: the hidden world of Canberra's mandarins, Dowse, Sara, 1983 Silver City, Dowse, Sara, 1984 Schemetime, Dowse, Sara, 1990 Sapphires, Dowse, Sara, 1994 Digging, Dowse, Sara, 1996 Dream Run, Horsfield, Dorothy, 1992 Venom, Horsfield, Dorothy, 2005 The House at Number 10, Johnston, Dorothy, 2005 The Worry Box, Halligan, Marion, 1993 The Apricot Colonel, Halligan, Marion, 2006 Cockles of the Heart, Halligan, Marion, 1996 Collected Stories, Halligan, Marion, 1997 Eat My Words, Halligan, Marion, 1990 The Golden Dress, Halligan, Marion, 1998 The Hanged Man in the Garden, Halligan, Marion, 1989 The Living Hothouse, Halligan, Marion, 1988 Lovers' Knots: a hundred-year novel, Halligan, Marion, 1993 Out of the Picture, Halligan, Marion, 1996 Self Possession, Halligan, Marion, 1987 Spidercup, Halligan, Marion, 1990 The Taste of Memory, Halligan, Marion, 2004 Wishbone, Halligan, Marion, 1995 Maralinga, my love, Johnston, Dorothy, 1988 One for the Master, Johnston, Dorothy, 1997 Ruth, Johnston, Dorothy, 1986 The Trojan Dog, Johnston, Dorothy, 2000 Tunnel Vision, Johnston, Dorothy, 1984 Springfield, Eldridge, Marian, 1992 Blood in the Rain, Barbalet, Margaret, 1986 Far from a Low Gutter Girl: the forgotten world of state wards, South Australia, 1887-1940, Barbalet, Margaret, 1983 Steel Beach, Barbalet, Margaret, 1988 Lady, Baby, Gypsy, Queen, Barbalet, Margaret, 1992 The Presence of Angels, Barbalet, Margaret, 2001 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition From Lady Denman to Katy Gallagher: A Century of Women's Contributions to Canberra, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2013, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/ldkg Archival resources National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Records of the Seven Writers group, between 1986 and approximately 2000 Papers of Sara Dowse, 1958-2007 [manuscript] Papers of Marian Eldridge, 1942-1997 [manuscript] Papers of Margaret Barbalet, 1974-1993 [manuscript] Papers of Marion Halligan, circa 1970-circa 2003 [manuscript] Maralinga cycle, 1988 [manuscript] Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 1 June 2006 Last modified 20 November 2018 Digital resources Title: Seven Writers 1990 Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Lady Hilda Garran, wife of Sir Robert Randolph Garran, was an agent of social cohesion in Canberra’s earliest days. While Sir Robert Randolph Garran was a major force for Federation, collaborator on the Constitution and our very first federal public servant his wife, Lady Garran, was an agent of social inclusion during the teething years of Canberra’s establishment. ‘How far that little candle throws its beams.’ Whenever I read that line it instantly recalls to mind the personality of one woman, who, in a short space of years, exercised a profound influence upon the people of a whole city, and that city the capital of Australia – Canberra.[1] Hilda Robson, who became Lady Garran, was the daughter of John Shield Robson, a shipbuilder from Monkwearmouth, Durham and Caroline (nee Iliff). Most of the family emigrated from Britain to Australia after the business became unprofitable as a result of the increasing popularity of steel ships. John Shield Robson was a kinsman of William Shield, Master of the King’s Musick at the beginning of the nineteenth century, and writer of such memorable tunes, according to the Oxford Companion to Music, as ‘The Thorn’ and ‘The Wolf’. Ernest Iliff Robson, first Headmaster of the North Sydney Church of England Grammar School was Hilda’s older brother, and adept in both the classics and rowing, while elder sister Gertrude was a precursory model of adventurous spirit. Giving up the social and cultural swirl of Sydney, Gertrude took up teaching in missionary schools at Thursday Island and in Papua New Guinea. In 1917, stricken with fever, she was dead within two days, but was mourned and remembered as a woman of immense courtesy, respect and courage. [2] On 7 April 1902 Hilda Robson, also a schoolteacher, married Robert Randolph Garran. In the late 1890s Garran was instrumental in the drafting and amending of the Federation bill and the Australian Constitution. As Secretary of the Attorney-General’s Department from 1901 he was the founding member of the Commonwealth Public Service. While many departmental heads and constitutional lawyers come and go without leaving a strong legacy Garran, through his roles in national, British Commonwealth or international affairs left an indelible mark on the nation, its institutions, its political evolution and its laws. [3] While Garran garnered widespread admiration through this host of endeavours, it was his partnership with his wife Lady Garran and, together, their cast-iron commitment to the betterment of Canberra, which won many a heart’s affection. When the initial contingent of public servants reluctantly made the move from Melbourne to Canberra in 1927, a chorus of moaning rose from the conscripted recruits. Many found leaving family, friends and the lifestyle of metropolitan Melbourne for their new career, and a daily life of mucking in and making do in a formative backwater, decidedly unpalatable. Sir Robert and Lady Garran refused to bow to this dirge of woe and dismay, and instead dropped anchor and rallied to mesh Canberra into a cohesive community. Employing quiet persistence and gracious humility, Lady Garran became a crusader for the cause of kindness, friendliness and culture. She made it her business to extend a personal welcome to every new resident with whom she could establish contact. Arranging events, organising amenities and famously ‘stalking’ newcomers on buses and later pursuing them with gift baskets of fresh produce, Lady Garran almost single-handedly ‘spread the love’. Rivalled only by her husband, Lady Garran instilled through her unfailing efforts a true sense of neighbourliness, and helped to unite a potentially stratified society. Lady Garran could lay claim to helping bring about loving memories of growing up in Canberra, as conveyed by Dawn Waterhouse: Canberra was a party place with house warmings and welcomings, with card evenings or sing-songs around the pianola. Every one dressed in their best… Societies flourished, hikers took to the hills, the Aero club to the sky, the alpine club to the snow. The Repertory to the stage the artists to their trestles, the philatelists to their magnifying glasses. We all went for a dip at the Manuka pool or the Cotter. If we did not know everyone we knew them by sight and nodded and smiled.[4] As a mother to four sons, Richard, John, Andrew and Isham Peter, and as a wife in active partnership with her husband, Lady Garran’s death in 1936 was a great loss to her family, but also to the city to which she had made such a commitment and nurtured for ten years. This entry was prepared by Roslyn Russell, Museum Services, and funded by the ACT Heritage Unit. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition From Lady Denman to Katy Gallagher: A Century of Women's Contributions to Canberra, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2013, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/ldkg Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 11 May 2006 Last modified 20 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

A collection of piano music, published overseas, which belonged to Beatrice Tange, an Australian concert pianist of the 1930’s. Most items bear her annotations, and represent her concert repertoire. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 15 February 2018 Last modified 15 February 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

1 hour 40 minutes??Ruth Hurn, nee Derbyshire, was born in Melbourne. She came to South Australia with her parents in 1920. During the early years of the Second World War she was a Red Cross volunteer at the Port Lincoln Hospital. In 1945 she commenced training at the Royal Adelaide Hospital (RAH). She nursed in Queensland for a year, before returning to South Australia where she had appointments at the RAH and the Queen Elizabeth Hospital. She also successfully completed the Sister Tutor Diploma course at the College of Nursing, Australia. In the 1960s Ruth was matron first of the Naracoorte hospital and then at Port Pirie. In 1969 she was appointed Nursing Advisor to the Hospitals Department. During five years in this post, Ruth was associated with several developments in nursing education including the tertiary nursing course at Sturt College. After retirement from the Hospitals Department she spent five years as Director of Nursing at the Berri Hospital. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 7 April 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Collection of records, including minute books, visitors’ books, syllabuses, correspondence and membership lists from the Brisbane Women’s Club.??Box 14984: First minute book of the Women’s Progressive Club, 20 Feb 1908-17 May 1914; First visitors’ book of the Brisbane Women’s Club, 1915-2001; Second visitors’ book of the Brisbane Women’s Club, 1952-1971; Memorandum from M. Macfarlane re: Country Women’s Conference; Outward correspondence of the Municipal Sub-Committee 1918-1924;?Outward correspondence of the Municipal Sub-Committee 1924-1926; Minute book of the annual meetings of the Women’s Progressive Club, Apr 1909-Nov 1914; Australian Red Cross Society Certificate of Service awarded to members of the Brisbane Women’s Club for service during WWII; Membership cards from 1926 and 1928; Original war circle knitting book; Original colour photograph of a woman standing outside the club rooms in Albert Street, ca. 1970; Brisbane Women’s Club rules and constitution from 1913 and 1917; Annual report of 1930; Silk ribbon celebrating 90 years of the Brisbane Women’s Club, 1988.?Box 14985: Minutes of the Brisbane Women’s Club, May 1914-May 1923 and Oct 1924; ; Minutes of the Brisbane Women’s Club, Sep 1922-Nov 1928; Minutes of the Brisbane Women’s Club, Dec 1928-Jul 1933; Minutes of the Brisbane Women’s Club, Aug 1933-Sep 1936.?Box 14986: Minutes of the Brisbane Women’s Club, Oct 1936-Sep 1942; Minutes of the Brisbane Women’s Club, Oct 1942-Oct 1950; Minutes of the Brisbane Women’s Club, Nov 1950-Mar 1959.?Box 14987: Minutes of the Brisbane Women’s Club, Oct 1966-Nov 1989.?Box 14988: Minutes of the Brisbane Women’s Club, Mar 1959-Sep 1966; Minutes of the Brisbane Women’s Club, Mar 1989-Nov 1993.?Box 14989: Minutes of the Brisbane Women’s Club, Apr 1993-Mar 1996; Minutes of the Brisbane Women’s Club, Apr 1996-Jul 2001.?Box 14990: Correspondence for the Brisbane Women’s Club, 1908-1925; Correspondence for the Brisbane Women’s Club, 1930s-1940s; Correspondence for the Brisbane Women’s Club, 1950s; Correspondence for the Brisbane Women’s Club, 1960s-1980s; Brisbane Women’s Club correspondence, essays and short stories re: Margaret Ogg Memorial Prize, 1955-1980; Brisbane Women’s Club miscellaneous records, notes, correspondence and cuttings, 1922-1993; Brisbane Women’s Club insurance policies, 1924-1956; Brisbane Women’s Club ballet costume sketches; Brisbane Women’s Club donation records, souvenir booklet and list of condolence, thank you and get well cards, 1968-1970;?Brisbane Women’s Club photographs, correspondence and clippings re: ex-member Nell Stirling’s 100th birthday, 2000; Brisbane Women’s Club correspondence re: estate of Maud Walker, 1963-1976; Brisbane Women’s Club correspondence re: estate of Henrietta Smith, 1994-1997; Record of gifts and donations of the Brisbane Women’s Club, 1962-1976.?Box 15086: Minutes, cuttings and correspondence of the Brisbane Women’s Club Home Help Service, 1943-1951; Minutes of the Brisbane Women’s Club Home Help Service, 1949-1951; Brisbane Women’s Club signature book for syllabus books and annual reports, 2001; Brisbane Women’s Club correspondence and lease agreements, 1923-1958; Brisbane Women’s Club reports, 1969; Brisbane Women’s Club charters, 1954-1978; Brisbane Women’s Club invitations, 1954-1988; Newspaper cuttings re: Vida Lahey, 1988-1989; Brisbane Women’s Club club news, 1975.?Box 15087: Brisbane Women’s Club members’ roll, 1908-1914; Brisbane Women’s Club members’ roll, 1916-1918; Attendance roll of the Brisbane Women’s Club annual meetings, Nov 1959 and Nov 1962-Nov 2001; Members’ roll for the Brisbane Women’s Club annual reports, 1979-2000; Members’ roll for the Brisbane Women’s Club annual and general meetings, 1924-1957; Brisbane Women’s Club membership lists, 1929; Brisbane Women’s Club membership lists, 1930-1978; Notes on the history of the Brisbane Women’s Club, 1968; Brisbane Women’s Club correspondence re: Queensland Country Women’s Association, 1922-1959.?Box 15088: Minutes of the Brisbane Women’s Club Civic and Civil Sub-Committee, Sep 1922-Oct 1931; Minutes of the Brisbane Women’s Club Civic Sub-Committee, Apr 1937-Nov 1946; Minutes of the Brisbane Women’s Club Civic meetings, Nov 1967-Sep 1970; Minutes of the Brisbane Women’s Club 8th-56th annual meetings, 1915-1963; Cassette tape containing 4RPH interview with the Brisbane Women’s Club broadcasted on 7 Aug 1994; Video tape of the Bunya Mountains Special Edition featuring two programs: Pioneer Lady of the Bunyas – The Nell Stirling Story and Lars Andersen’s Amazing Timber Tramways.?Box 15101: Minutes of the Municipal Sub-committee, May 1912-Jun 1914; Minutes of the Municipal Sub-committee, Jul 1914-Aug 1922; Minutes of the Civic Sub-committee, Mar 1947-Sep 1955; Scrapbook, 1908-1961; Playscript ‘The Old Battle-axe’ by Ernest Briggs, 1913 and 1917; Original poem by Ernest Briggs ‘The Unseen Company’, 1964; Report on women as jurors by Mrs Juppenlatz, 1955; Hand-written address by Mrs Stevens regarding women in political life; Women’s Progressive Club magazine, 1911.?Box 15362 O/S: Annual syllabuses for the Brisbane Women’s Club, 1908-1974 (the years 1913, 1915, 1920, 1970 are missing)?Box 15363 O/S: Annual syllabuses for the Brisbane Women’s Club, 1975-2008?Box 15371 O/S: 8 photographs of Brisbane Women’s Club members. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 26 June 2018 Last modified 26 June 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

A once-only candidate, Catherine Bell ran for Earthsave Australia in the 1999 Blue Mountains election. Catherine Bell was one of the candidates running for the newly formed Earthsave Party in 1999. The party advocated solving problems at the cause rather than offering band-aid solutions. Catherine Bell, being a natural therapist, was particularly interested in preventive health measures and wanted natural therapies covered by Medicare. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 6 December 2005 Last modified 16 September 2013 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

[Correspondence “I-J” – includes: Col Sybil Irving, Capt. Jamison] (Aug-Sep) Author Details Anne Heywood Created 8 November 2002 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Beatrix (Bix) McCay was the second woman to sign the Victorian Bar Roll when she did so in 1925. Unfortunately, her career at the Bar was cut short by a diagnosis of tuberculosis and the requisite sojourn in a sanitorium and subsequent convalescence. She nevertheless went on to contribute to public life through her involvement in numerous community organisations, including the Red Cross and the Girl Guides. Go to ‘Details’ below to read a tribute to Beatrix McCay written by her daughter in 2009, for which permission to reproduce has been granted for the Trailblazing Women and the Law Project. The following additional information was provided by Sophie Quinlivan (Beatrix McCay’s daughter) and is reproduced with permission in its entirety. Beatrix (Bix) McCay was born on 8 January, 1901 in Castlemaine. Her only sibling, Mardie was 4 years older. Both spoke of a childhood in which one of the highlights was being read to by their father, both stories and verses he wrote for them and the “Thinking” games they would play. This ‘pre-school’ education in language, literature, classics and mathematics was delivered by no mean teacher – their father, James McCay was, in 1885, co-owner and co principal of Castlemaine Grammar School, was M.A., LLM., wrote for The Argus and from 1901 to 1906 was a member of the Federal Parliament, Above all, James McCay was passionate about the rights of women to obtain as good an education as their male counterparts, and he did all he could to ensure that his daughters received that good education. Bix’s early formal education was at Castlemaine with a brief interlude at the Ballarat convent. Her mother died suddenly in July, 1915, the same month that her father was wounded in Gallipoli so her latter secondary years from 1916 were spent as a border at the Convent of the Sacred Heart, Burke Road, East Malvern. In 1918, Bix commenced her studies at Melbourne University, initially for a Bachelor of Arts, but in 1919 began a combined Arts/ Law course. She was in residence at Janet Clarke Hall from 1918 to 1920. She enjoyed university life, participating in many extra curricular activities including theatre, sport, particularly hockey and regular volunteer service at Yooralla Kindergarten for disabled children She bought a motorbike and became a familiar figure in breeches, leggings and leather coat around the University and, after graduation, around Melbourne town itself. To quote Smith’s Weekly’s Sidelights on 09.01.32: …. It was the said Bix who in her Janet Clarke Hall days used to startle the natives by careering around on a motorbike clad in breeches and leggings. In 1923, Bix graduated LLB (with honours) and in 1925 graduated LLM being, at that time, only the third woman to have done so. She did her articles with Moules Solicitors. In 1925, she was admitted to the ‘Bar’, the second woman to be admitted to the Bar, in Victoria. Bix read with Bob Menzies. She was the only woman at Selbourne Chambers at that time and it was with great joy and pleasure that she spoke of those two to three years. She had a great admiration for Menzies and I believe he respected her ability. She greatly enjoyed discussing points of law with other lawyers, was very quick mentally, was accurate in her analysis of material, had a good sense of humour and was a good speaker. I particularly admired her impromptu speaking. Unfortunately, her career at the Bar was cut short by a diagnosis of tuberculosis and the requisite sojourn in a sanitorium and subsequent convalescence. In August 1930, she married George Reid, my father, the marriage having been delayed considerably because of her lengthy convalescence. . Bix had always been very close to her father and the early completion of my parents’ home-to-be enabled her to personally care for her father in his final illness until his death in October 1930. She and George actually planned the house with a view to her father’s comfort, having a specially long bath to accommodate his wounded, unbending leg. From mid 1933, being a mother as well as a good wife claimed most of Bix’s time. Happy memories of my early childhood included wonderful bed-time stories, poetry and thinking games (styled on her own experience, I expect). When I was older, weekend meals could be very long because of great discussions. Guests were fascinated by their length and by the number of reference books which ended up on the table! During the 1939 – 1945 war, there was some discussion as to whether Bix should return to the law, but she felt she’d been out of it for too long and her child was still quite young. She therefore volunteered for the Red Cross Transport Services, for which women drove their own car on Red Cross duties. She did this from 1941 to 1947. My mother was a good and experienced driver – prior to her marriage the motorbike had been superseded by a car which, at this time, was a 1937 Oldsmobile. Red Cross Transport did do C.B.D. “waste collection” using a large truck on which Volunteers did training sessions. Manipulating this through the narrow lanes of the Melbourne CBD and manipulating the bales of waste from back door to truck was a challenge my mother accepted with alacrity and really enjoyed. My mother was associated with the Girl Guide movement from 1925, until the late 1960s. Initially she was a guider and later became a member of the State Council, and State Executive. She was convener of the Property Sub-committee. Also she drafted the first constitution for Victoria and was very much involved with the work relating to their Act of Parliament. On her retirement from guiding she was given the Emu Award. She was a Special Magistrate of the Children’s Court at Box Hill from 1937, probably up to the late 1960s. She used to sit on alternate Monday afternoons. She was an active member of the Children’s Court Magistrates Association and was vice-president for at least one term. In 1952, she also became an Official “Visitor” under the Children’s Welfare Act. In 1953, she was awarded a Coronation Medal. She was a great believer in Mens Sana in Corpore Sano and played golf once a week at the Croydon club where she was president of the Associates for a year or so. She was also a member of the Box Hill Archery Club. My mother was a great support to my father when he was a member of the Legislative Assembly. He won the seat of Box Hill in 1947, but lost it in the next election. He then regained it and held it till his retirement in 1973. People found it easy to pour out their troubles to my mother – she was a great listener and could often suggest a solution herself, and if she could see that their local Member’s help was what was required, she would assist them with preparing submissions to him. She was very interested in my father’s parliamentary activities and would often spend time in ‘the visitors’ gallery, especially when my father was speaking. Fate may have denied my mother a stellar career at the Victorian Bar, but I think she was very satisfied with the life she had. She was absorbed in her many voluntary activities in which her special talents and legal training were invaluable. Also she had a wonderful marriage, was best friends with her only child, had a loving family and an army of friends in all walks of life. Published resources Resource Women Barristers in Victoria: Then and Now, The Victorian Bar, 2007, https://www.vicbar.com.au/wba/ Site Exhibition Australian Women Lawyers as Active Citizens, Trailblazing Women Lawyers Project Team, 2016, http://www.womenaustralia.info/lawyers Author Details Sophie Quinlivan (with Nikki Henningham) Created 9 May 2016 Last modified 21 November 2019 Digital resources Title: Beatrix McCay Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Title: Beatrix McCay Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Title: BeatrixWig_crop.jpg Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

The collection comprises 20 manuscript record series. You may navigate to a more detailed description of each series from this collection record.?Diaries, 1931-1993?Correspondence with her family, 1916-1992?Correspondence with personal and literary friends, 1928-1992?Publishing correspondence and related material, 1951-1993?Papers concerning the novel ‘Four winds and a family’, 1946-1953, 1963-1974?Papers concerning the novel ‘Jungfrau’ by Dymphna Cusack, 1989?Papers concerning the novel ‘Come in spinner’, 1947-1992?Papers concerning the television mini-series ‘Come in spinner’, 1980-1993?Papers concerning books about Australia and New Zealand which Florence James was commissioned to write (not published), 1963-1992?Papers concerning her work as an editor and journalist, 1940-1991, nd?Papers concerning literature, writing method and talks about literature, 1947-1992?Papers concerning International PEN and Australian Society of Authors, 1955-1981?Travel diaries and related papers, 1934-1987?Papers concerning Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), ca.1960-1991?Legal and financial records, 1934-1992?Miscellaneous papers, 1951, 1972-1990?Personal documents and papers concerning family history, 1890-1993?Photographs, 1929-1991?Printed material, 1921-1990?Oral history tapes, 1991 Author Details Jane Carey Created 27 October 2004 Last modified 24 October 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

40 minutes??One of a series of interviews conducted by curatorial staff and volunteers at the South Australian Migration Museum as research towards the 1996 exhibition ‘Chops and Changes’. In this interview, Maria Gaganis talks about the role of the Greek community in the South Australian food importing industry. Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 18 June 2006 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

[Red Cross Archives series reference: NO7]??Comprises documents relating to the establishment of the Australian Red Cross by Royal Charter, granting the rights, powers and the terms of reference of the society. This series comprises additions and amendments to the Royal Charter (1928) and Supplemental Charter (1999), as well as correspondence regarding it history in being recognised as a separate body from the British Red Cross (2016.0052.00001).??This series also contains records relating to governance the Rules of the Australian Red Cross Society, as well as comprising regulations, by-laws, rules, objectives and management of branches within the Divisions of New South Wales, Victorian, Tasmanian, Northern Territory, Western Australian, Capital Territory, Queensland, and South Australia as well as regulations of the Papua New Guinea Division (2016.0052.0028) which was previously attached to the Queensland Division. Further records relating to Papua New Guinea – Division Records (2016.0060).??Documents have been artificially arranged by the Red Cross – National Office and ordered chronologically.??Published resources relating to the Royal Charter and the Rules of the Australian Red Cross Society:?http://www.redcross.org.au/files/Royal_Charter_Consolidated_and_Fourth_Supplemental_Charter.pdf?http://www.redcross.org.au/files/ARC_RULES.pdf??Researchers should note that under the Geneva Conventions Act 1957 protections govern the use of the Red Cross emblem. For further information see Archives staff. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 10 February 2004 Last modified 29 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

A former Australian Young Lawyer of the Year, Zoe Rathus is Director of the Clinical Legal Education Program and Senior Lecturer at Griffith University’s Law School in Queensland. She was previously a solicitor, and then co-ordinator, at the Queensland Women’s Legal Service, in whose establishment she played an integral part. In 2011 Rathus was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia for service to the law, particularly through contributions to the rights of women, children and the Indigenous community, to education and to professional organisations. Zoe Rathus was interviewed by Kim Rubenstein for the Trailblazing Women and the Law Oral History Project. For details of the interview see the National Library of Australia CATALOGUE RECORD. Zoe Rathus graduated from the University of Queensland with Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Laws (Honours) degrees in the early 1980s. One of Rathus’ Law tutors was Quentin Bryce, later Australia’s first woman to hold the office of Governor-General. Bryce was also a mentor and role model to Rathus when women in such positions were few and far between for female students [The Australian]. In 1983, Rathus was admitted as a solicitor, working at the time for Lillie and Associates, a small suburban law firm. She practised mainly in family and criminal law. She subsequently joined the firm Goss Downey Carne. In 1984 Rathus was one of those involved in setting up the Queensland Women’s Legal Service. (She recalls that Bryce, by this time the first director of the Queensland Women’s Information Service in the Office of the Status of Women, was a valuable supporter of, fundraiser and networker for the nascent Legal Service) [The Australian]. As a solicitor with the Legal Service, Rathus was an advocate for women who experienced domestic violence. She was chairperson of the Queensland Domestic Violence Council and assisted with the defence of Dagma Stephenson who successfully pleaded self-defence after the homicide of her violent husband of 22 years [Green Left Weekly]. In 1990, Rathus received the accolade of Australian Young Lawyer of the Year, awarded by the Young Lawyers’ Section of the Law Council of Australia. With the matter of women in the legal system continuing to occupy her thinking, in 1993 Rathus wrote what has been described as a ‘seminal’ report, entitled ‘Rougher than Usual Handling: Women and the Criminal Justice System’. The report was “[b]ased on the knowledge of women’s experiences before the law accrued from experience in the community legal sector, [and it was said to have] made an invaluable contribution to the reform of Queensland criminal law” [Galloway]. From 1995 to 1998 Rathus’ continuing contribution to gender issues and the law acquired an international focus. She became involved in consultations concerning a key policy document seeking gender equality for South Africa: ‘Justice Vision 2000? [Gender Policy]. Rathus became co-ordinator of the Queensland Women’s Legal Service in 1989. In this role, she enjoined the Queensland Government to make changes to stalking laws to increase women’s protection, and opposed funding cuts to Legal Aid which adversely affected women on low incomes who were involved with the Family Court [Courier Mail; Meryment]. In 1999, Rathus was deputy chair of the Women’s Taskforce Review of Queensland’s criminal justice system, which examined the impact upon women of the Queensland Criminal Code, court practices and the legal system. As a result of the Review’s findings, in 2000 law reform was enacted which provided increased protection for women and children in rape and child abuse cases [Monk & Parnell]. Rathus was presented with the inaugural Queensland Woman Lawyer of the Year Award by the Women Lawyers’ Association Queensland in 2001. Two years later she was the recipient of the Centenary Medal, for distinguished service to the law and women’s issues in Queensland. In 2005, Rathus became Director of the Clinical Legal Education Program at Griffith University. She was also appointed Senior Lecturer; she lectures on family law, particularly in relation to family violence and gender-related matters, and women and teaches ethics and professional practice, which includes consideration of diversity within the legal profession and access to justice. An inspiration to her students, in 2011 they showed their appreciation, with Rathus receiving the ‘Best Lecturer-Brisbane Award’ by the Golden Key International Honour Society for her work as Program Director [Griffith]. Also in 2011, Rathus was appointed as a Member in the General Division of the Order of Australia for service to the law, particularly through contributions to the rights of women, children and the Indigenous community, to education and to professional organisations. Rathus has, furthermore, been recognised with the Travis Lindenmayer Award for services to family law. She is a board member of the Innocence Project and also a member of the member of the management committee of the Immigrant Women’s Support Service. She was previously a board member of Legal Aid Queensland and the Legal Services Commission. Rathus was instrumental in establishing the Queensland Women’s Legal Service and her passion and longstanding advocacy for family law, for women’s and children’s rights and access to justice, continue to have an impact on communities across Queensland. Published resources Site Exhibition Australian Women Lawyers as Active Citizens, Trailblazing Women Lawyers Project Team, 2016, http://www.womenaustralia.info/lawyers Archival resources National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Zoe Rathus interviewed by Kim Rubenstein in the Trailblazing women and the law oral history project Author Details Larissa Halonkin Created 30 May 2016 Last modified 1 November 2016 Digital resources Title: Zoe Rathus Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

1. 20 notebooks of the 1940s containing research by Pizer and Holburn mainly into Australian radical poetry. (Box 1). 2. Draft typescript anthology of Australian poetry resulting from the above research. Precursor of the shorter published anthology “Freedom on the Wallaby” (1953). (Box 2). 3. Manuscripts and proofs of “The Sixtieth spring” (1982), “Fire in the heart” (1990) and “Equinox” (1987) – books of poetry by Pizer published by Pinchgut Press. 4. Correspondence with Angus & Robertson re her school anthology “Come Listen” (1966). 5. Notes on 27 half sheets by Muir Holburn for a talk on Adelaide Ironside, Inez Hyland and Lesbia Harford. 6. 17 small notebooks containing drafts of poems by Pizer, 1977-89. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 20 February 2018 Last modified 20 February 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Nance Loney, a once only candidate (ALP, New South Wales Legislative Assembly, Vaucluse, 1981), took an active part in matters of politics and public policy as a member of the New South Wales Labor Party and activist groups such as Citizens for Democracy, the Labor Women’s Conference, the nuclear non-proliferation movement, Eastern Suburbs Friends of the ABC and Labor for Refugees. Nance Loney was educated at Banbury High School, the University of Western Australia (BSc) and RMIT. She worked for 2 years as a hospital laboratory technician and then as a Methods Engineer in Textiles after graduating in science. She moved from Western Australia to Sydney in 1960 and from 1977 worked in the computing branch of the State Rail Authority. She was active in anti-uranium and disarmament movements, and was a Republican. A member of the Australian Computer Society and the Australian Transport Officers Federation, she was a director of the Trans National Co-Operative from 1979. Nance Loney joined the ALP in 1975 and held office at local and electorate level. She continued to take an interest in public affairs in later life, submitting a motion to the Australian Republican Movement’s conference in 2002, and making a personal submission to the Commonwealth parliament’s Joint Standing Committee on Treaties on the subject of the US/Australia Free Trade Agreement in April 2004. In 2004 she was on the executive committee of the NSW branch of the Friends of the ABC and assisted the ALP candidate, David Patch in his 2004 House of Representatives campaign for the seat of Wentworth. Published resources Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 31 January 2006 Last modified 13 August 2024 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Records of Nancy Flannery including sound recordings made as part of Nancy’s research for her book ‘This everlasting silence: the love letters of Paquita Delprat and Douglas Mawson, 1911-1914’ and photographs of friends and family of the Mawson’s who were interviewed. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 10 April 2018 Last modified 10 April 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

The MS 5396 collection comprises correspondence, manuscripts and typescripts, research material, corrected proofs, and photographs relating to Barbalet’s short stories and her books: Far from a low gutter girl: the forgotten world of state wards, South Australia, 1887-1940, Blood in the rain, and Lady, baby, gypsy, queen (5 boxes).??The Acc02.154 instalment includes drafts and papers relating to The wolf, the final draft of Blood in the rain, and correspondence, 1988-1991 (1 box).??The Acc03.146 instalment comprises papers relating mainly to the unpublished novel Joey, including several word-processed drafts, some handwritten pages and notes, and two photocopied cuttings (1 box).??The Acc03.245 instalment comprises drafts of Lady, baby, gypsy, queen (1 box).??The Acc04.073 instalment includes drafts of The presence of angels, plus proofs, cover proofs, and correspondence (1 box, 1 fol. Box).??The Acc04.192 instalment comprises correspondence relating to the children’s book The wolf, 1989-1990, drafts and marked up proofs of Steel beach (formerly called Joey), and the copyedited draft of Blood in the rain (1 box).??The Acc05.044 instalment includes a folder relating to Reggie, queen of the street, a folder relating to The presence of angels, an envelope of letters relating to Far from a low gutter girl, and an envelope of illustrations, text and proofs of Reggie (1 A3 carton).??The Acc05.074 instalment consists of files relating to the history of Adelaide Children’s Hospital (1 box). Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 1 June 2006 Last modified 27 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

MS Acc01.312 comprises diaries and other papers recording Wilhelmina Volk’s life in Townsville and Mt Isa, and a voyage taken with her husband in 1936-1938, which ended in shipwreck near Broome, Western Australia (7 boxes).??The Acc04.175 instalment includes letters, 1938-1993, copy of birth certificate, and papers relating to Volk’s 100th birthday and newspaper cuttings (1 folder, 1 packet). Author Details Alannah Croom Created 20 February 2018 Last modified 20 February 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

The Hon. Justice Jane Mathews AO was the first woman to be admitted to full judicial office in New South Wales, and she has continued to pave the way for women lawyers on a number of fronts. Mathews became the State’s first female Supreme Court judge, as well as its first female District Court judge and its first Crown prosecutor. In addition to these positions, she has served as president of the Administrative Appeals Tribunal and on the bench of the Federal Court of Australia. Other roles have included president of the International Association of Women Judges, following her involvement in establishing the Australian chapter of the organisation, and deputy chancellor of the University of New South Wales. Patron of the Women Lawyers’ Association of New South Wales, Mathews was appointed an Officer in the Order of Australia for service to the judiciary, to the legal profession, to the University of New South Wales, and to music. Mathews passed away on 31 August 2019. Recognised as a trailblazer in her field, prominent lawyers said the ‘”adored” and down-to-earth Mathews, who had a deep commitment to social justice, left an indelible mark on the legal profession and the women who followed in her footsteps.’ Jane Mathews was interviewed by Kim Rubenstein for the Trailblazing Women and the Law Oral History Project. For details of the interview see the National Library of Australia CATALOGUE RECORD. It was seeing the film ‘The Winslow Boy’ at an impressionable age that motivated The Hon. Justice Jane Mathews to study law. After attending Frensham School in Mittagong, she entered the University of Sydney, later graduating with a Bachelor of Laws degree. At a time when there were few female lawyers in the profession, Mathews succeeded in obtaining articles of clerkship at the Sydney firm Dawson, Waldron, Edwards and Nichols (later Blake Dawson Waldron): she became the firm’s first female articled clerk. After being admitted as a solicitor, Mathews practised briefly at a firm in Wollongong before returning to Sydney and joining the practice of Allen, Allen and Hemsley, where she was engaged in defamation work for the Packer Press [Jowett]. Mathews then embarked upon a career at the New South Wales Bar in Sydney; Mary Gaudron, who later became the first woman to be appointed to the High Court of Australia, was one of only a few female contemporaries. A decision to decline family law work meant that Mathews mainly dealt with legal aid and criminal law cases at the Bar. From 1974 to 1976, Mathews was Counsel assisting the Royal Commission on Human Relationships, which looked “at all aspects of society including the more controversial issues such as abortion, prostitution, rape, incest and homosexuality” [Jowett]. At the conclusion of the royal commission, Mathews accepted the offer of a role as a Crown prosecutor in New South Wales. Again she was the first woman to hold such a position. In her work, Mathews came to focus on sexual assault prosecutions, after recognising the difference it made for female complainants to be represented by a woman prosecutor. In 1980, Mathews was appointed a judge of the District Court of New South Wales, her appointment significant for being the first time in which a woman had been appointed to the Court. She enjoyed the circuit work and collegiate atmosphere of the Court. Mathews became a part-time commissioner with the New South Wales Law Reform Commission and from 1985 to 1987 she also led the New South Wales Equal Opportunity Tribunal as senior judicial member at a time when anti-discrimination legislation was new and cases ground-breaking [Jowett]. In 1987, in yet another ‘first’, Mathews became the first female judge of the Supreme Court of New South Wales; she was only the second woman after Dame Roma Mitchell to be appointed to a Supreme Court in Australia [Jowett]. In 1989 Mathews, then the only woman serving on a Supreme Court in Australia, attended a conference in Washington DC celebrating the 10th anniversary of the American Association of Women Judges (AAWJ). The event was life-changing for Mathews, who had felt the isolation of being the only woman on the bench [Jowett]. She returned to Australia and in 1991 founded the Australian Association of Women Judges. The AAWJ conference also spawned the International Association of Women Judges and Mathews was involved as treasurer and later president of the organisation between 2004 and 2006 [Jowett]. Mathews is also involved as patron of the Women Lawyers’ Association of New South Wales. From 1992 to 1999, Mathews was deputy chancellor of the University of New South Wales [Law Council]. In 1994, Mathews was appointed to the role of president of the Administrative Appeals Tribunal; consequently she also became a judge of the Federal Court of Australia. Between 1994 and 1999 she was also deputy president of the National Native Title Tribunal, which had recently been established [Jowett]. In 2001 Mathews returned to the Supreme Court of New South Wales as an acting judge. Nearly 10 years later, she was appointed an acting judge of the Supreme Court of the Australian Capital Territory [Corbell]. Beyond the law, Mathews has a great interest in music, especially that of Wagner. She is a former president of the Arts Law Centre and a continuing member of the Council of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra. She is also a self-described ‘Italy-phile’. Mathews has been awarded honorary degrees by the Universities of Wollongong and Sydney. She has also been appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia for service to the judiciary, to the legal profession, to the University of New South Wales, and to music. Mathews is a true trailblazer, embodying many ‘firsts’ in her considerable and wide-ranging legal career spanning both state and the federal courts. She has been a generous contributor to the development and reform of legal policy and case law, to fostering judicial leadership for women on a global level, and is an inspiration for all those who aspire to work in the law. Published resources Site Exhibition Australian Women Lawyers as Active Citizens, Trailblazing Women Lawyers Project Team, 2016, http://www.womenaustralia.info/lawyers Resource Section Interview: Acting Justice Jane Mathews AO, Jowett, Tina, 2015, http://www.nswbar.asn.au/docs/webdocs/BN032015_mathews.pdf Retirement of Hon. Justice Jane Hamilton Mathews, Speech by President of Law Council of Australia, 4 April 2001, 2001, https://www.lawcouncil.asn.au/lawcouncil/images/LCA-PDF/speeches/20010404matthewsretirement.pdf Archival resources National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Jane Mathews interviewed by Kim Rubenstein in the Trailblazing women and the law pilot oral history project Author Details Larissa Halonkin Created 30 May 2016 Last modified 12 September 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Associate Professor Jane Power completed her Law Degree at The University of Western Australia in 1983. She immediately commenced practice as an Articled Clerk with the Legal Aid Commission of Western Australia, specialising mainly in the area of Family Law. Jane continued to work in a part time capacity after the birth of the first of her three children, again concentrating in Family Law but also Juvenile Justice and minor Criminal Law. In addition to working for the Commission in Perth, she spent a number of years assisting as Duty Counsel and in the Advice Bureau in the Fremantle jurisdiction. She has also worked for a medium sized local firm and a sole practitioner. Jane currently holds the position of Director, Professional Legal Education at the Law School of The University of Notre Dame Australia (Fremantle Campus) having commenced the position in January 2012. She was previously the Associate Dean (Students) from 2004 – 2007, and Dean from 2008 – 2011. She was the second female Law Dean in Western Australia. She is responsible for the School’s Continuing Professional Development (CPD) programme, for practitioners and serves on numerous practitioner related bodies. She continues to hold her Practice Certificate. Jane Power is the eldest daughter (and third of five siblings) of Joan and Ken Mckenna and attended school at Iona Presentation College (where she was a prefect) before studying law at the University of Western Australia; she was admitted to practice in 1984 having completed her Articles at Legal Aid Western Australia. She was the first law graduate of Iona Presentation College. Between 1984 and 2002 she practised mainly in the areas of Family Law and Juvenile Justice in both a full time and part time capacity with Legal Aid and a small private firm. She is married to barrister Tony Power of Francis Burt Chambers and has three adult children. Jane has always maintained a passion for pro bono and volunteer legal work and has held her practice certificate for this reason continuously since her entry into academia in 2002. She maintains a specific interest in the education of women at both secondary and tertiary level, and served on the school board (as Chair for nine years) of an all-girls school. Her PhD, conferred in December 2015, included Education Law. From 2005 – 2010 she held various positions with the Curriculum Council of Western Australia in relation to writing and marking year 12 exams in Politics and the Law. She is, or has recently been, a member of the following: Law Society of Western Australia (LSWA) Women Lawyers of Western Australia (WLWA) WLWA Gender Bias Taskforce Report Review Committee Graduate Recruitment Advisory Group (Convener) Law Society’s Graduate and Academic Standards Committee (Deputy Convener) Law Society’s Mental Health and Wellbeing Committee Law Society’s Francis Burt Law Education Committee Australian and New Zealand Education Law Association (ANZELA, Vice President WA Chapter) Australian Law Teacher’s Association (ALTA) Australian and New Zealand Legal History Association (ANZLHS) As a member of Women Lawyers of Western Australia Jane was co-convener of Chapter 2 of the Chief Justice’s Gender Bias Report Review 2014 (‘the Review’, published in October 2014), a member of the Standing Committee of the Review and is currently a member of the Review’s Implementation Committee. She is committed to advancing the prospects of women in the law and ensuring a fair and equitable participation in practice. She was nominated for Senior Woman Lawyer of the Year by the WLWA and Woman Lawyer of the Year by the Law Society in 2012. Published resources Site Exhibition Australian Women Lawyers as Active Citizens, Trailblazing Women Lawyers Project Team, 2016, http://www.womenaustralia.info/lawyers Author Details Jane Power (with Nikki Henningham) Created 27 April 2016 Last modified 21 November 2018 Digital resources Title: Jane Power Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Papers concerning The Society of Women Writers (Australia), 1976-1992?Sound recordings, 1984 Author Details Jane Carey Created 22 October 2004 Last modified 26 June 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Savina Patroni talks about her Italian family background; her siblings; her husband emigrating after WWII following his brothers arrival before WWI; meeting her husband in Italy; her work as a dressmaker and tailor during the war; Milan; husband asks her to come to Kalgoorlie; coming to Australia by ship; Diphtheria; landing in Fremantle; the train trip to Kalgoorlie; their first house in Kalgoorlie, electricity on after five years; missing family; Italian neighbours; family move to live near her; food and refrigeration; learning English; husband’s work; birth of children in hospital; garden work, sending carrots and cabbage to market; her children’s careers; dressmaking; speaking Italian at home; carting water from the bush by bucket for the house and the water bag; outside toilets; coping with Australia; compares Milan to Kalgoorlie; Italian families living near Somerville Gardens; understanding dialects of neighbours; returning to Italy for a visit; men’s camps; first impressions of Australia; cousin visits from Italy and brought her own small gas stove; regularly writing long letters to Italy; how it is easier for men to migrate and then find work than women; her husband working with his brother; hotel work in Kalgoorlie. Author Details Criena Fitzgerald Created 19 September 2012 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Programmes and invitations associated with the visit of Their Royal Highnesses The Duke and Duchess of York in 1927. Programmes and entry tickets include a reception for the Duchess by the National Council of Women of Queensland; ceremony of conferring the Honorary Degree of Doctor of Laws on His Royal Highness The Duke of York; Garden Party in New Farm Park and a printed silk Commemorative ribbon.?Programme of a concert presented by members of the Brisbane String Orchestra in 1948 in aid of the Lady Mayoress’ Food for Britain Appeal Fund. The concert was conducted by Vada Jefferies assisted by Olwyn Jones and Robert Boughen and held in the Albert Hall. Also in the collection is a small greeting card in the shape of a fan from E.M.Gore to M.Blanks. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 26 June 2018 Last modified 26 June 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Thelma Bate was unsuccessful in her attempts to enter State and Federal Parliament, but worked for the community and for equality regardless of gender, race or creed throughout her life. She ran as a member of the Country Party in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Dubbo, 1947 (known as Harvey), in the Senate in 1951 and 1953 for Gwydir (now known as Kirkby) and in Kirkby’s 1953 by election for the House of Representatives. Thelma Florence Bate was born 3 August 1904, daughter of Olaf Olsen. She later took her stepfather’s name, Sundstrom, she was educated at Fort Street Girls’ High School and the University of Sydney, graduating BA 1928. After travelling abroad, she taught secondary school and in 1934 married a grazier, Richard Harvey, and went to live on his property near Ivanhoe, New South Wales. Widowed in 1946, she stood for the Country Party in the NSW Legislative Assembly seat of Dubbo in 1947 and was narrowly defeated. In 1949 she married Kenneth Kirkby. She ran for the Senate in 1951 and 1953, unsuccessfully, on the Country Party ticket. She was one of two Country Party candidates for the Federal seat of Gwydir in a by election in 1953, and was again unsuccessful. She later devoted her considerable energy to various organizations including the Country Women’s Association of NSW, which she represented in Toronto, Canada, 1953, at the Association of Country Women of the World. She was a member of the CWA for over 40 years, and served as secretary 1957-59, and president 1959-62. She was insistent that the Association include Aboriginal women and was an executive member of the Foundation for Aboriginal Affairs. She was actively involved in establishing the International Houses at both the University of Sydney and the University of New South Wales, which housed international students in Australia on the Colombo Plan. It was for this work that she received the CBE in 1969. In 1958 she married Henry Bate, known as Jeff, but the marriage ended in divorce in 1968. She had no children. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 6 December 2005 Last modified 20 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

This series contains files relating to the wartime administration of the military forces of Australia including administration, compensation, defence and fixed defences, medical and dental corps. There are three identifiable groups of records within MP508/1. The general or War correspondence series, correspondence dealing with the AIF [Australian Imperial Forces] and correspondence dealing with ‘Civil Staff’ matters. These groups have been distinguished by the allocation of secondary number groupings within the multiple number series. These three groups of records have been registered as three separate Commonwealth Record Series (CRS) B1539, B1543 and B1547 but the records have not been physically converted. All records should be requested from MP508/1. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 7 November 2002 Last modified 17 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

2 sound files (ca. 124 min.)??Belinda Hazell speaks about Judbury in the 1950s when the apple growing industry was at its peak; her parents and family background; being a triplet; moving to the Huon Valley at 13 years; her schooling and going to technical college; working for the Apple export board; the vibrant apple industry in the early 1980s; the Rural Youth Organisation; going on an exchange to Sweden; getting married (1990); working for her husband’s family; Hazell Brothers business and properties; her involvement in a tissue culture project, in vitro micro propagating apple and pear root stock; working with quality assurance systems, environmental and occupational health and safety systems; leaving Hazell Brothers (2000); working for the Department of Economic Development in the Food and Beverage unit; establishing a quality systems consultancy with her sister; advising on food safety systems, occupational health and safety and human resources; her current business activities.??Hazell talks about the Rural Safety Advisory Council; Tasmanian Women in Agriculture; helping people to deal with change; enjoyment working with systems and emergent ideas; her sister Caroline and her work; her nomination for the ABC Rural Woman of the Year Award (1997); being nominated as a Tasmanian Young Achiever for Tissue Culture work (1993); Ruth Paterson; working with traditional agricultural organisations to support families and communities; meeting with a delegation of agricultural women in Ireland; encouraging women to think about their opportunities; combining family and professional life; her hopes for her daughters’ futures; her confidence in the future of agriculture and horticulture in Tasmania; the decision to sell Forest Home; her excitement at the next phase of life; life after Forest Home; changes in Tasmania since 1997; the decline in apple industry; her concern about the lack of federal policy on the future production of safe, quality food; the impact of climate change. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 29 April 2011 Last modified 21 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

The Western Australian branch of the Movement for the Ordination of Women (MOW) was inaugurated in Perth in 1984. Some of its primary aims were to move the Anglican Church in Australia to admit women to the ordained ministries of the Church, and to encourage women to hear and respond to the call of God, and not be afraid of working towards fulfilling their vocations. At the Annual General Meeting, held in November 1994, it was agreed that the Perth movement had achieved its main aim and was disbanded.??Includes correspondence, financial records, invitations, membership lists, newsletters, research notes. Created 9 January 2018 Last modified 9 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

46 hours 30 minutes??Lithuanian language radio programs produced by the South Australian Lithuanian community were first broadcast in March 1977 on University Radio 5UV. From January 1980 the broadcasts were made at 5EBI-FM. Mr Algi Grigonis was the chief technician for the weekly program from its inception until his death in March 1992. He made a copy of each program with the intention of presenting them to an appropriate repository in Lithuania. Before proceeding with this plan, his family – with the assistance of Mr Leonas Gerulaitis, President of the Lithuanian Radio Committee – chose a sample of the programs for the Mortlock Library to copy. The sample deliberately emphasises programs with a South Australian, rather than a national or international focus, and does not include broadcasts later than March 1990 when news direct from Lithuania reporting the emergent independence movement dominated programing. Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 2 July 2006 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Zara Dare was 45 years-old when she applied for a position as a Queensland police officer. She had previously worked in China for the Salvation Army and, upon returning to Australia, she was an organiser of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union. Zara and her colleague, Ellen O’Donnell, commenced at the Roma Street Police Station in 1931. Neither of the women was sworn in and therefore did not receive the same pay allowances and privileges (including superannuation) as male officers. Zara’s work within the police force was restricted to looking after lost children, escorting female prisoners, and working with victims of domestic and sexual violence. Nine years after joining the police force, Zara retired to marry. It was not until 1965 that Queensland police women were officially sworn in and therefore entitled to some of the privileges enjoyed by men. The National Council of Women of Queensland (NCWQ) in 1911 drew attention to the need for women and girls in Queensland to be better served in matters of crime. There were no female police officers in Australia at the time and the NCWQ called for women, experienced and educated in social work, to be given the status of police officers. The appointment of two female police in New South Wales in 1915 was not enough to encourage the Queensland Commissioner of Police William Cahill to follow suit. By 1917 Queensland was the only state without female police. Newspapers and community groups began asking why. The Queensland Country Women’s Association (QCWA), the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Brisbane, James Duhig, the NCWQ and the Queensland Women’s Electoral League (QWEL) all called for the appointment of women in policing. It was not until Irene Longman was elected to State Parliament in 1929 that the opposition to female police began to be broken down. As past president of the NCWQ and a member of the QWEL, Irene made a submission to cabinet in 1930, outlining the necessity for women to handle sensitive cases such as children, girls and women who have been involved in sexual assault cases. Although the decision was not unanimous, Cabinet consented to the appointment of women in the police force. Zara Dare, along with Ellen O’Donnell, accepted the offer of positions and the women were based at the Roma Street police station. When the time came to review their appointments and make them permanent, the Police commissioner William Ryan stated that they were well paid for the job they were doing, and although there was nothing under the Police Act 1898 to stop them from being sworn in, he considered that their swearing in would reduce the number of male police constables by two. Zara kept her job by agreeing not to be sworn in. She never received the pay allowances and privileges of her fellow police, nor superannuation. The NCWQ continued to lobby to have Zara and Ellen made permanent, but Police Commissioner Ryan made it clear that if they were not satisfied, they were free to resign at any time. When Zara resigned from the police force to marry, the Queensland Times noted her departure with a small article, headlined “Policewoman Wanted”. A women’s police unit, attached to the Criminal Investigation Bureau (CIB), was established soon after Zara’s resignation. Published resources Resource 50 Firsts: Queensland Policewomen at Work, Queensland State Archives, 2009, http://queenslandfirsts.org/01_cms/details.asp?ID=39 Zara Dare (1886 - 1965), Grant, Heather, 2009, http://www.women.qld.gov.au/q150/1930/index.html#item-zara-dare Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Book Section Ellen O'Donnell and Zara Dare: Queensland's first policewomen, Grant, Heather, 2005 Book Journey to equality: an illustrated history of women in the Queensland Police, Prenzler, Tim, Jones, Lisa, Ronken, Carol, 2001 Archival resources Queensland State Archives Police Service File Author Details Lee Butterworth Created 22 June 2009 Last modified 21 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Daisy Bates sends Prof. J.A. Fitzherbert 11 pages of vocabulary from informants Gauera (f) and Bijarda (m) from north and west of Eucla, showing some similarities with Bibbulmun words and differences and connections with Eucla, Bight and north of Eucla. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 6 January 2018 Last modified 6 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

During World War II Elsie Byth was an executive and/or committee member of a number of organisations. President of the National Council of Women of Australia in 1944 and the National Council of Women of Queensland (1940-1945). She was vice-president of the Australian Comforts Fund in 1940 and the Women’s Voluntary National Register; member of the management committee for the Queensland Patriotic Fund; member of the War Saving committee and the War Accommodation committee. Married to solicitor George Leonard Byth (Len) in 1917, they had four children. Her hobbies included music, flowers and fine needlework. Elsie Byth was president of the National Council of Women of Australia from 1945 to 1948 and the National Council of Women of Queensland (1940-1945, 1948-1952). As national president, the first Queenslander to hold the position, she saw the NCWA through the final stages of the Second World War, the beginnings of postwar reconstruction and the re-establishment of international links via the International Council of Women. Active in the Australian National Committee of the UN (ANCUN), she was Australia’s second delegate to the Status of Women Commission in 1949. She maintained her commitment to international cooperation for the remainder of her life through the United Nations Association of Australia and also through the Pan Pacific and South East Asian Women’s Association. She was responsible for the NCWA’s first major engagement in the Asia-Pacific region when she organised a ‘Pacific Assembly’ in Brisbane in September 1948. Elsie Frances Byth was the daughter of John Gasteen of Brisbane. She was born in Brisbane on 14 September 1890 and educated at Brisbane Girls’ Grammar School and the University of Sydney. On 10 August 1917, Elsie married George L. Byth and they had 3 sons and 1 daughter. Elsie Byth performed a wide variety of roles in the National Council of Women, state and federal. She was president of the National Council of Women of Queensland from 1940 to 1945 and, again, 1948-1952. In between these terms of office in her home state, she was president of the Australian Council (1945-1948)-a critical period that included the end of the war and postwar reconstruction. During her presidency, the 1946 conference agree to a Launceston delegate’s request to allow branches that had ‘attained a sufficiently large affiliation as almost to equal in importance the parent Council in the capital city’ to communicate directly with the Australian secretary and international secretary, a step that was to create difficulties with regard to Tasmanian representation for the next 60 years. After her term had finished, Byth became a state delegate (1951, 1954) to the NCWA, an NCWA representative at the Pan Pacific Women’s Conference in Christchurch, New Zealand (1952), and Australian convenor for Radio and Television (1954). Elsie Byth was especially active in the international outreach of the Council movement, leading the NCWA during the period of reengagement with the re-formed ICW after the war. Under her presidency, the NCWA telegraphed a resolution to the secretary of the United Nations conference in San Francisco in April 1945 to ‘request in all future planning no discrimination against women on account sex and principle equality of status and opportunity be established for all citizens’. During 1946 and 1947, her board undertook the successful reestablishment of the Australian Liaison Committee of international women’s organisations on the lines of the Liaison Committee operating in London, as well as participating in the rival Australian National Committee of the UN (ANCUN) established in 1947 with government support to promote UN ideals and provide names of suitable persons as representatives of Australia on international bodies. Byth was also responsible for inaugurating a regional focus among the Australian Councils with the sponsoring of a ‘Pacific Assembly’ in Brisbane in September 1948 for the purpose of increasing knowledge and understanding as well as promoting ‘tolerance’ an appreciation of ‘interdependence’ and the ‘desire to be “a good neighbour”‘. Opened by Senator Annabelle Rankin and addressed by such luminaries as Professor G.S. Browne, as well as representatives of embassies of countries in the Pacific region, the conference received wide press coverage, its final session resolving to recommend compulsory study of international affairs in Australian schools and universities. The event marked the beginning of the NCWA’s identity as part of a regional network beyond the European and American spheres. Elsie Byth was a member of the United Nations Association of Australia for 30 years serving in a variety of roles, including as president of the Queensland division 1945-59. In 1949, the Australian government chose Mrs Byth as its representative to attend the third session of the Status of Women Commission (CSW) in Beirut, Lebanon, from 21 March to 4 April, following Jessie Street (1947-48). She was selected from a ‘panel of names’ submitted by ANCUN. At the CSW meeting, the USSR representative, referring to the significant number of women in paid employment in her country, informed delegates that Australian women received only 50 per cent of men’s wages. As the official Australian spokesperson at the Commission, Elsie Byth attempted to divert criticism of Australian government policy by stressing that the differences between men’s and women’s wages in Australia had declined during the past ten years. She advised delegates that an appropriately assessed ‘family wage’ would prevent the need for married women to search for work in order to ‘supplement the family income’. Nevertheless, the majority of CSW delegates agreed to a resolution supporting equal pay. Following instructions, Byth abstained from voting, despite her personal commitment, and that of NCWA, to the principle. The position Byth was obliged to take was consistent with the Labor government’s view that the ILO was the appropriate body to discuss ‘rates of pay, hours and conditions of work for both sexes’. Byth’s confidential report to the Australian government after her attendance at the CSW sessions explains this further, indicating that she followed the Department of External Affairs’ instructions to counter communist accusations directed towards Australia’s industrial relations system and that of other British Commonwealth countries. It seems highly probable that Byth’s advisor, Eileen Powell, as a former employee of the Department of Labour and National Service, was entrusted with the task of ensuring that Byth supported the Australian government’s position. This government attitude to the question of equal pay continued to be a problem faced by Australian women delegates to CSW during the 1950s and 60s. Within Australia, Byth and her successors continued to agitate for remuneration without discrimination based on sex. Elsie Byth was also involved in a great many other community organisations in a voluntary role, for example, UNICEF, Brisbane Women’s Club (president 1933-1936), the Queensland division of the Australian Comforts Fund (vice-president 1940-1945), the wartime state Women’s Voluntary National Register (vice-president), the Management Committee of the Queensland Patriotic Club, and the War Savings Committee. She also held a number of government appointments for which she was nominated by the NCWA, for example, on the federal consultative committee on Imports Licensing Control, the Commonwealth Council of Medical Benefits Fund, and the ABC. She was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in 1953. Prepared by: Jan Hipgrave, Marian Quartly and Judith Smart Events 1940 - 1945 President of the National Council of Women of Queensland 1944 - 1948 President of the National Council of Women of Australia 1940 - 1940 Vice-president of the Australian Comforts Fund 1933 - 1936 President of the Brisbane Women’s Club 2017 - 2017 Married G. Leonard Byth, they had 3 sons and 1 daughter Published resources Edited Book Who's Who in Australia, 1947, Chisholm, Alec H, 1947 Book The first fifty years in the history of the National Council of Women of Queensland, National Council of Women of Queensland, 1959 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Stirrers with Style! Presidents of the National Council of Women of Australia and its predecessors, National Council of Women of Australia, 2013, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/ncwa Newspaper Article ON THE WAY TO BEIRUT Status Of Women Commission, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article18107446 Archival resources National Archives of Australia, Various Locations National Council of Women of Australia [Queensland Branch], Mrs G.L. Blyth. Brisbane. National Archives of Australia, National Office, Canberra Applications for positions by Byth, Elsie Frances National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Records of the National Council of Women of Australia, 1924-1990 [manuscript] Records of the National Council of Women of Australia, 1936-1972 [manuscript] John Oxley Library, Manuscripts and Business Records Collection 7266 National Council of Women of Queensland Minute Books 1905-2004 Author Details Anne Heywood Created 14 October 2003 Last modified 24 October 2013 Digital resources Title: Elsie Byth Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Title: Byth-to-Beirut.jpg Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

After ten years as a partner at Norton Rose Fulbright, and four years prior to that at Bennett & Co., Jenni Hill is now (2016) a partner at the Perth office of international law firm, Clifford Chance. She is a litigation specialist, representing clients in the energy and resources sectors, and advising on corporate and shareholder disputes and investigations. Committed to promoting equality of opportunity in the legal profession, Hill was a joint winner of the Western Australian Women Lawyers Association Woman Lawyer of the Year award in 2011. When at Norton Rose Fulbright, she chaired a Workplace Flexibility focus group. She is on the board of CEOs for Gender Equity, an initiative of the Western Australian Equal Opportunity Commission launched in 2014 to promote gender equity in the corporate sector. A woman who is ‘astute at picking her battles’ and developing strategies ‘for the long term’, she intends to change discriminatory corporate cultures by asserting influence from within. Jenni Hill was interviewed by Nikki Henningham in the Trailblazing Women and the Law Oral History Project. For details of the interview see the National Library of Australia CATALOGUE RECORD. Except for a couple of years when her family lived in England, Jenni Hill grew up in Hobart, Tasmania, moving to Canberra in 1981, where she finished her schooling. Both her parents were teachers, a fact she is sure contributed to her ‘not remembering a time when she didn’t think she would go to university’. The excellent education she received at both the Friends Quaker School in Hobart and Canberra Church of England Girls’ Grammar made it certain. Hill graduated with a BSc/LLB (Hons) from the Australian National University in 1992. She was admitted as a solicitor in Western Australia and the High Court of Australia in 1994. Before graduating, Hill received many graduate offers from Sydney based firms but decided to make the move to Perth, where she had been offered a position as associate to Justice Walsh of the WA Supreme Court. A preference for the lifestyle options available in smaller cities, along with some personal connections (her best friend from university days, (the Hon. Justice) Janine Pritchard, had moved across to Perth), convinced her to stay, rather than return to Sydney to take up her graduate offer. What she hadn’t counted on was the time and effort it took to find a local firm to take her on to complete her articles; preference was given to local graduates, despite her excellent CV and experience. Fortunately, a colleague who she had worked with at the Supreme Court offered to put in a good word for her with Martin Bennett at Bennett & Co, and her career in litigation in Perth was launched. Thus, the experience of discrimination, as well as the importance of networking, were demonstrated very early as she progressed up the ladder. From her time as an associate, Hill had early exposure to criminal law but from that experience decided it wasn’t for her. She, nevertheless, wanted to do court work. She had always imagined herself a litigator; she enjoyed mooting as a student (she was a member of a successful all women team in her fourth year at university) and enjoyed the process of preparing and presenting an argument. Fortunately, working at a smaller firm, like Bennett & Co. gave her the opportunity to forge a career in litigation where court appearances were common, even for less experienced lawyers. Large top tier firms were less like to give recent graduates that sort of control and experience. From those early days, she has developed a reputation in Perth that has earned the respect of colleagues and clients alike. While developing a profitable practice and seniority in the industry, Hill has also felt a deep responsibility to improve corporate and legal cultures to promote and encourage diversity, not only in terms of gender, but also with regard to ethnicity and age. Recognising that her education has created opportunities for her she feels a responsibility to ‘use [her] sphere of influence to change what [I] can … to assess whether I have influence or power in a situation and then to use that for good’. This led her to be involved in initiatives such as the Workplace Flexibility task force when she was at Norton Rose Fulbright and the Western Australian Opportunity Commission project, CEOs for Gender Equality. She hopes that these types of initiatives will make combining work and family life easier for women and men coming through. She doesn’t accept the view of some more senior figures, who faced challenges and ‘pulling up the ladder after them’ say ‘well it was hard for me, it can be hard for you, too’. ‘I don’t accept that,’ she says. ‘It’s like saying I got bullied at school so you should be bullied so you know what it feels like’. Understanding where she is most effective means that she might not ever end up at the Bar. ‘That used to be a personal dream,’ she say, ‘but at the moment I actually think that my sphere of influence is probably better placed in the role that I have now.’ Working in a large, global firm, ‘diversity is a key issue’ …. There are fantastic opportunities for me to try to leave a lasting legacy.’ She hopes she can be part of a change, working from within. ‘I really do strongly believe that there is an obligation on… senior women to speak up and to try to change.’ Published resources Site Exhibition Australian Women Lawyers as Active Citizens, Trailblazing Women Lawyers Project Team, 2016, http://www.womenaustralia.info/lawyers Archival resources National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Jenni Hill interviewed by Nikki Henningham in the Trailblazing women and the law oral history project Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 30 May 2016 Last modified 1 November 2016 Digital resources Title: Jenni Hill Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

A once-only candidate for State Parliament (Liberal Party candidate for Bankstown in 1950), Blanche Barkl instead became a successful local councillor. She was Alderman for the Bankstown Municipal Council from 1948-54 and 1959-62, and was Bankstown Mayor from 1951-53. Blanche Barkl was the first woman elected to Bankstown Municipal Council (1948), and the first woman elected Deputy Mayor (1949) and Mayor (1951-53). She also served as Divisional Commissioner, Girl Guides Sir Joseph Banks Division. She and her husband, Jim, had two daughters. Published resources Book Women in Australian Parliaments and Local Governments, Past and Present : A Survey, Smith, A. Viola, 1975 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 6 December 2005 Last modified 16 September 2013 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Personal website of Romaine Rutnam, archived by the Australian Women’s Archive Project through the Australian Women’s Register in January 2011. Author Details Helen Morgan Created 3 February 2011 Last modified 4 February 2011 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Correspondence, diaries (1969-1975); typescript drafts of Courier-Mail “Medical Mother” column (1951-1979); Australian Home Journal (1965-1973); articles for the Newcastle Sun (1974-1979); drafts of broadcasts for 4BK “Medical Mother” programme; drafts of books; miscellaneous writings; lecture notes; speeches; newspaper cuttings, subject files; journals; books and pamphlets; scrapbook on Mothercraft Association of Queensland; photographs. Author Details Jane Carey Created 4 August 2004 Last modified 31 July 2020 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

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Nicole Lawder first entered the ACT Legislative Assembly in 2013, representing Canberra Liberals in the electorate of Brindabella in the Tuggeranong region. She was re-elected in 2016 and in 2020 and will retire from the Assembly at the 2024 election. Prior to her parliamentary service Lawder worked in the public service and as chief executive of the community organisations, Deafness Forum of Australia and Homelessness Australia. Born in 1962, in Penang in Malaya, the youngest of Joan McDonaugh and Oxley Gordon-Brown’s three children, Nicole Lawder had both an elder brother, Lee Nigel Gordon-Brown, and an elder sister, Alison Kim Gordon-Brown. Her mother was a secretary, her father a member of the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF). The family returned to Queensland in 1963 after the posting to Malaya which was followed by many further postings around Australia. Lawder’s primary schooling was completed in 1974 in New South Wales and her high schooling in 1979 in Victoria. She gained her undergraduate degree at the Australian National University (Bachelor of Arts in Psychology) followed by a Masters in Business from Swinburne University of Technology. She married, in January 1982, Timothy John Lawder who also served in the Royal Australian Air Force. They had two children, Catherine Louise Lawder and Alexander James Lawder. Service in the RAAF took the family around Australia and to the United States returning to Canberra late in 1988. Nicole and Timothy Lawder divorced in 1993. In 1998 she married Peter Badowski, the child of European refugees. Lawder began her career in 1989 at the Tidbinbilla Deep Space Communication complex as executive assistant to the director. She then managed the centre’s public affairs and its visitors’ centre. Various public affairs roles in the Australian Public Service followed as did a period with Deloitte Consulting. She cites the 2002 shootings at Monash University which left two people dead and five injured – including her brother, Lee Gordon-Brown – as the catalyst for the decisive change in the direction of her career. In a 2016 interview with Ginger Gorman of the website HerCanberra, Lawder said it made her re-assess her purpose in life and prompted her ‘to work in the community sector’. This, in turn, led to her interest in politics and her support for gun control. Lawder served as Chief Executive of the Deafness Forum of Australia (2006–2010) which supports Australians who are deaf or hard of hearing to live well in the community. She then took up the appointment as Chief Executive of Homelessness Australia (2011–2013), a national peak body providing advocacy for the homelessness sector and a unified voice seeking to prevent and respond to homelessness. She served as a Member of the National People with Disability and Carer Council (2008–2013) and on several government and other boards and committees. Her involvement as a volunteer in the Canberra community has included serving on the board of Tuggeranong Football Club, volunteering for Ronald McDonald House (which supports families with seriously ill or injured children), her local Community Fire Unit and the Red Cross. Lawder entered the ACT Legislative Assembly in June 2013, filling the casual vacancy resulting from the resignation of Zed Seselja in February of that year. She served as Deputy Leader of the Opposition (October 2016–October 2020) and as Opposition Whip (February 2022–October 2024). Lawder has held multiple shadow ministries, for example, Arts, City Services, Environment, Heritage, Water, Family and Community Services, Housing, Planning and Infrastructure, Seniors, Urban Services, Veterans’ Affairs and Women. Her commitment to accessibility and inclusion is reflected in her membership of several standing and select committees of the Legislative Assembly including Cost of Living Pressures, Economy, Education and Community Inclusion, Estimates, Justice and Community Services and Public Accounts. Lawder’s wide range of interests has included being a keen squash player, vegetable gardener and cook, cheese making and basket weaving; being a Game of Thrones devotee and having a predilection for colourful jackets and statement brooches. On leaving the Assembly she aims to continue to serve the Canberra community and will embark on her doctoral research at the Australian National University, in the School of Politics and International Relations. Published resources Lawder, Nicole: Legislative Assembly for the Australian Capital Territory website, https://www.parliament.act.gov.au/members/tenth-assembly-members/brindabella/lawder-nicole Nicole Lawder, Wikipedia entry, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicole_Lawder Looking out for the vulnerable, Jean, Peter, 6 July 2013 The moment: Nicole Lawder, Gorman, Ginger, 19 May 2016, https://hercanberra.com.au/life/people/moment-nicole-lawder 'Jeered, grabbed', MLA's abortion story, Bladen, Lucy, 5 August 2022 Brindabella Liberals MLA Nicole Lawder won't contest 2024 election, Fenwicke, Claire, 20 October 2023 Author Details Anne-Marie Schwirtlich Created 21 July 2024 Last modified Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

The Lespar Collection includes many out of print and hard to find books, the largest collection of lesbian novels in Australia, an extensive collection of journals, pamphlets, ephemera, magazines from international, national and state sources and the complete recordings of “Out of the gilded cage” radio shows. The collection is in two sections, the first being material collected by Karin Hoffmann and the second being the archives of women’s organizations and personal lodged after the collection moved to the Murdoch repository. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 1 April 2004 Last modified 7 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

I. N.S.W. BRANCH??1979-1981; Minutes, 13 Mar. 1979-14. Apr. 1981 (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/1)?1981-1982; Minutes, 12 May 1981-11 Dec. 1982 (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/1)?1983-1984; Minutes, Feb. 1983-Oct. 1984 (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/1)?1984-1986; Minutes, Nov. 1984-Apr. 1986 (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/1)?1986-1991; Minutes, May 1986-June 1991 (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/1)?1983-1987; Green plastic clip-folder of incomplete duplicate minutes, with related papers (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/1)?1978-1984; Meetings’ attendance book (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/1)?1984-1991; Meetings’ attendance book (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/1)?1965-1976; ‘List of Members 1965- ‘ (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/1)?1974-1978; Correspondence (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/2)?1988-1992; Correspondence (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/2)?1965-1978; ‘W.I.L.P.F. Resignations and Deaths’, being letters received (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/2)?1986-1990; Daybooks (3), being registers of correspondence and telephone calls (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/2)?1977-1978; ‘Australian Conferences’ (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/2)?1965; Papers concerning Australian Co-operation Year Convention, Canberra, 17-20 May, 1965 (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/2)?1988-1991; Papers concerning Women’s Action Network (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/3)?1960-1986; Financial records (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/3)??II. AUSTRALIAN SECTION??1971-1972, 1976, 1982-1989; Minutes of Committee and Executive meetings (incomplete) (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/4)?1984-1989; General correspondence for Executive meetings (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/4)?1986; ‘Policy & Action [Statement] 1986’ (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/5)?1984-1989; ‘O’seas Sections’, being correspondence with overseas sections (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/5)?1981-1987; Correspondence (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/5)?1980-1984; Financial records (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/5)?1986-1988; Papers concerning W.I.L.P.F. International Executive Committee (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/5)?1986-1989; Further papers concerning W.I.L.P.F. International Executive Committee (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/5)??Branch files, including correspondence and printed material:?1982-1988; ‘A.C.T. Branch’ (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/6)?1989-1990; ‘Wimminews (A.C.T.)’ (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/6)?1988-1989; ‘N.S.W. Branch’ (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/6)?1981-1987; ‘Queensland’ (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/6)?1982-1988; ‘South Australia’ (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/6)?1982-1988; ‘Tasmania’ (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/7)?1982-1987; ‘Victoria’ (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/7)?1963, 1981-1987; ‘W.A. Branch’ (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/7)??1986-1988; Papers concerning the Indian Ocean Zone of Peace Peoples Conference, Fremantle, W.A., 19-22 Sept. 1986 (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/7)?1985-1987; Papers concerning the Great Peace Journey, 1986-1987 (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/7)??Policy and Action files:?1982-1988; ‘ACDP [Australian Coalition for Disarmament and Peace] – Current’ (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/8)?1985; ‘Australian Pacific Women’s Peace Conference, Sydney, 28-30 June 1985’ (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/8)?1984; ‘Aust. Red X – International Humanitarian Law 1984’ (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/8)?1986-1988; ‘Belau’ (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/8)?1985-1987; ‘Catholic Commission for Justice & Peace – Inquiry ’86’ (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/8)?1982-1985; ‘C.N.F.A. [Coalition for a Nuclear Free Australia] (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/8)?1984-1987; ‘C.T.B. [Comprehensive Test Ban] Treaty Petition 25-10-84- ‘ (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/9)?1987; ‘Conservation – ‘ (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/9)?1982-1986; ‘Disarmament’ (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/9)?1975-1988; ‘East Timor’ (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/9)?1985-1988; ‘East Timor’ [2nd file] (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/9)?1987; ‘H. Evatt Foundation – H. R. [Human Rights] in Pacific Conference 11/87’ (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/9)?1983-1988; ‘Federal Status of Women’, including correspondence with Office of the Status of Women and Affirmative Action Agency (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/9)?1987-1988; ‘Fiji’, including issues of Movement for Democracy in Fiji Limited Newsletter (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/9)?1988; ‘Fiji’ (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/9)?1985-1987; ‘Gabriela [A National Women’s Coalition of Organizations] & Philippines’ (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/10)?1983-1988; ‘Human Rights’ (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/10)?1985-1987; ‘IYP [International Year of Peace]’ (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/10)?1988; ‘Japan’ (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/10)?1985-1988; ‘Kanaky’, including Australians for Kanak Independence (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/10)?1987-1988; ‘Kanaky’ [2nd file] (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/10)?1987; ‘Kerguelen [Island]’ (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/10)?1984; ‘Kurds’ (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/10)?1984-1992; ‘Land Rights – Aust.’, including papers concerning Aboriginal Deaths in Custody (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/10)?1986; ‘Libya’ (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/10)?1986-1987; ‘Marshall Isles – Micronesia’ (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/10)?1986-1987; ‘Nuclear Ships Safety – Senate Cttee – Submission 1987’ (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/10)?1987; ‘Overseas Aid – 1987’ (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/10)?1987-1988; ‘Palestine’ (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/11)?1984-1987; ‘Pax et Libertas’ (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/11)?1982-1987; ‘Peace Education” (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/11)?1984-1988; ‘Peace Games / War Toys’, including National Action Against War Toys (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/11)?1982-1988; ‘Peace Research Centre, ANU’ (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/11)?1987-1988; ‘Public TV’ (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/11)?1984-1988; ‘South Pacific – Jt. Parlt. F.A. & Def. Cttee – Submission 1987’, including papers concerning the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade (Subcommittee on the South Pacific) and the South Pacific Commission Pacific Women’s Resource Bureau (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/11)?1986; ‘Sub[mission] to [Office of] Status of Women 1987’ (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/11)?198-; ‘Tahita’, mainly concerning French nuclear testing on Murora Atoll (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/11)?1986-1987; ‘Union [of] Australian Women – Aust. [U.A.W.] & W.I.D. [Women’s International Democratic Federation]’, including correspondence with World Congress of Women (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/12)?1982-1986; ‘UNAA Status of Women’, including minutes of meetings of U.N.A.A. National Status of Women Committee, 1982-1985 (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/12)?1985-1986; ‘United Nations Decade for Women’ mainly concerning The Nairobi Forward-Looking Strategies for the Advancement of Women adopted by the World Conference to Review and Appraise the Achievements of the UNs Decade for Women: Equality, Development and Peace, Nairobi, Kenya, 15-26 July 1985 (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/12)?1983-1988; ‘UNESCO’ concerning the Australian National Commission for UNESCO (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/12)?1990-1991; ‘UNIFEM [United Nations Development Fund for Women National Committee]’ (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/12)?1987-1988; ‘UNSSDIII – 1988 [Third UN Special Session on Disarmament (UNSSODIII)]’ (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/12)?1982-1985; ‘Uranium 1984 & 1985’ (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/13)?1986-1988; ‘Uranium 1986+’ (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/13)?1987; ‘War Toys / Victim Toys’ (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/13)?1969-1985; ‘West Papua’ (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/13)?1983-1987; ‘West Papua’ [2nd file] (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/13)?1987-1988; ‘Women’s Policies – Political Parties 1987 (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/13)??Records concerning the 24th International Triennial Congress, Sancta Sophia College, University of Sydney, 15-22 July 1989:?1986-1989; Minutes of meetings, with related papers, of the Congress and Programme Committees (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/14)?198–1990; Files, including Congress programme; Congress and Seminar Participants’ Reports and Registration Reports; Branch correspondence, 1987-1990; Workshops, 1986-1989; Liaison Reports; Congress Resolutions; Finance Committee; Congress Pre Papers; Opening Address; Official Opening Speakers; and Congress Reports (Post) (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/14)?1989; Card file of Congress registrants, arranged alphabetically by country (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/15)?1989; ‘Participants’ List’, being Congress registrants and Seminar participants (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/15)?1989; Seminar files (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/15)?1985-1989; Files, including Congress-Prior Publicity; Dispalys; Entertainment; Venue (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/15)?198–1989; Correspondence files concerning, among others, overseas sections, and Congress accounts (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/16)?1989; Report of the Twenty-Fourth Congress of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom : Women Building a Common and Secure Future, Sydney, Australia, 14-25 July 1989. Geneva, Switzerland : Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, International Secretariat, 1989 (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/16)??1980-1986; Records concerning the Junior Media Peace Prize (JUMPP), organised by W.I.L.P.F. and the United Nations Association of Australia, including correspondence files (Call No.: MLMSS 7028/17) Author Details Alannah Croom Created 26 June 2018 Last modified 26 June 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

1. Six exercise books containing a handwritten draft of the novel “Old Blastus of Bandicoot”. 2. Typewritten draft of “Old Blastus of Bandicoot: a play in three acts”. 3. Photocopies of press cuttings concerning early settlers of the Monaro District. Also includes photographs, Brindabella Visitors’ Book, 1887; publications (2 boxes) including mostly works by and about Miles Franklin, some are autograph copies and some contain newsclippings and correspondence. Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 10 September 2004 Last modified 5 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

5 digital audio tapes (ca. 308 min.)??Ryan speaks of her childhood as the youngest child of feminist Edna Ryan, how she spent her adolescence largely alone with her mother as both her elder siblings had left home and her mother was recently widowed; the influences on her growing up in a politically active household including the impact on her of her mother’s political involvements and the emotional expectations imposed on her as a daughter; her current project in writing a biography of her mother, her education including her participation in the burgeoning cultural life of Sydney in the 1960s, her move to Canberra in the late 1960s where she was employed as a Manning Clark’s research assistant which motivated her pursuit of postgraduate studies in Canberra and Sydney; her doctoral thesis on Tasmanian Aborigines lead to groundbreaking work though her thesis remained uncompleted when she returned to Canberra soon after the election of the Whitlam Labor government in 1972, her involvement in the Priorities Review Staff report on child care.??Ryan speaks of her subsequent work in the Secretariat for the Interim Committee for the Children’s Commission and in the Women’s Affairs Section, which was then a branch of the Dept. of Prime Minister and Cabinet; her resignation from the Commonwealth Public Service in the mid-1970s in order to pursue her academic career; following appointments in Canberra, Brisbane and Adelaide, she currently holds the Chair in Australian Studies at the University of Newcastle and heads the School of Humanities at its Ourimbah Campus; her philosophy of education; her hopes for her students as citizens of an Australian democracy. Author Details Elle Morrell Created 29 August 2000 Last modified 21 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

1 hour 48 minutes??Heather Crosby, nee Gumley, was born in Oxford, England. Her father’s calling as an Anglican priest took the family first to India and then to Australia. Her Australian-born mother, played a prominent role in the parishes in which they lived, and Heather and her sisters were encouraged to gain tertiary qualifications. Heather came to Adelaide to study social work and married in 1944. She helped her husband establish his general practice in Blair Athol, and they had two daughters. Heather became involved in community work and began her association with the YWCA in 1960. She describes the organisation’s growing political role, professionalisation, and identification with feminism since then. She describes her work as President and Executive Director of the Adelaide YWCA, and as a member of the National Council and the World Executive. She also speaks about changes in her religious beliefs, describing herself as a ‘post-Christian’. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 2 February 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

The first branch of the Ukrainian Women’s Association was formed on September 13th, 1949 in Cowra migrant camp. Mrs. I Polensly was the inaugural president. Ukrainian women were holding meetings in all the migrant centres across Australia, however Cowra is always considered to be the cradle of the U.W.A in Australia The Ukrainian women who came to Australia in the period immediately after the second world war were highly organised at a very early stage. This, in part, can be explained by the fact that they regarded themselves to be simply ‘renewing’ pre-existing associations that were established in the Ukraine some years earlier. The National Women’s Council founded in Ukraine in 1919 served Ukrainian women during the period of Ukrainian independence and continued its work in exile in Prague, Czechoslovakia until 1937 when the Ukrainian Women’s Association in Lvov, Western Ukraine took upon itself the task of founding another co-ordinating centre – the World Association of Ukrainian Women. World War 2, however, terminated the work of this co-ordinating body. As well as organising events and services for the local community, the organisation took a keen interest in the position of women back in the Ukraine. They circulated petitions to bring attention to human rights abuses of women under the Soviet system. For instance, the following petition was circulated in 1975: ‘Among the violations are an alarming number of arrests and the persecution of Ukrainian women, who have been sentenced under the Criminal Code for simply raising their voices in defence of basic human rights and dignity, opposing the forced russification of the Ukrainian language and culture, and objecting to the state imposition of atheism and suppression of the freedom of worship and the pervasive police control of private and family life. Therefore, in the name of humanity and justice and in the spirit of the International Year of Women, we petition this House of parliament to intervene before the Government of the USSR and request it to grant amnesty to Ukrainian and other political prisoners in the USSR, and to allow them to return to their families and homeland with the restoration of all their citizen’s rights. In particular we request that you intervene on behalf of the following women political prisoners: Stasiv-Kalynec Iryna Onufrivna, Strokata_Karavanska Nina Antonivna, Svitlychna nadia Alexeivna, Shabatura Stefania Mychailivna, Oksana Popvych, inmates of camp p/ja ZH/CH 385/3 Potma, Mordovian ASSR, USSR. Under these conditions, it was impossible for some immigrants to leave their politics at the door. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection Ukrainian Women's Association in Australia of N.S.W. - records, 1949-1986 State Library of New South Wales Ukrainian Women's Association in Australia of N.S.W. - further records, 1949-1995 Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 18 June 2006 Last modified 20 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Inscriptions: “Official badge of the Women’s Social and Political Union and Australian and New Zealand Group”; “International Alliance of Women. Congress Badges worn by B.M.R. as Honorary Member International Board”–In ink on handwritten notes accompanying badges. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 26 March 2004 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

The first woman alderman, mayor and among the first women JPs and MPs in New South Wales, Lilian Fowler was a blunt and tenacious politician, who worked on behalf of women and the underprivileged. Labor candidate for Newtown in 1941 (unsuccessful), 1944 (elected) and 1947 (elected). Lang Labor candidate for Newtown-Annandale in 1950. Alderman Newtown Municipal Council 1928, first woman alderman in NSW, re-elected 1935-37, 1938-40, 1941-44, 1948. Mayor 1938-39. Lilian was educated at Cooma public school, and married Albert Edward Fowler, bootmaker, on 19 April 1909. She became Secretary of the Newtown-Erskineville Political Labor League. For 20 years from 1917, she was electorate manager for F.M. Burke, anti-conscriptionist Labor candidate for Newtown. Her Labor activism included being a Central Executive member of ALP 1920-21, 1923-25, and President of Labor Women’s Central Organising Committee, 1926-27. She was instrumental in pressuring premier Jack Lang to institute widows’ pensions and child endowment. Mrs Fowler was active in Newtown Municipal Council from 1928 – she established playgrounds and instituted a 40-hour week for council employees. From 1941 she stood against her former employer Burke, as a Lang Labor candidate. She remained critical of Labor’s centralist tendencies and of bureaucratic consolidation in labour and municipal politics. The Federal electorate of Fowler is named after her, as is Lilian Fowler Place, Marrickville, NSW, and Fowler Reserve in Newtown, NSW. Events 2001 - 2001 Inducted into the Victorian Honour Roll of Women Published resources Book Women in Australian Parliaments and Local Governments, Past and Present : A Survey, Smith, A. Viola, 1975 Book Section HERstory: Australian Labor Women in Federal, State and Territory Parliaments 1925-1994, 1994 Resource Section Fowler, Elizabeth Lilian Maud (1886 - 1954), Radi, Heather, 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A080578b.htm Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Australian Women Lawyers as Active Citizens, Trailblazing Women Lawyers Project Team, 2016, http://www.womenaustralia.info/lawyers Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 25 August 2005 Last modified 12 September 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

MS 5193 comprises correspondence of the Australian National Council of Women and its later body with government departments and state branches; executive minutes and reports, 1963-1968; various conference agenda, speeches and reports, 1936-1973; various committee reports; constitutions; newsletters for 1964-1967 and reports of United Nations conferences (8 boxes).??Associated materials: Records of the National Council of Women of Australia, 1924-1990 MS 7583, MS Acc GB 1993/1502, MS Acc07/96. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 11 September 2013 Last modified 12 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Papers of G.W. Goyder and family, comprising notebook and press cuttings about railway matters; notebook of J.H. Goyder while at Frome Downs and Netley Stations; reminiscences of Edwin Mitchell Smith, nephew of G.W. Goyder; correspondence; diploma from Roseworthy Agricultural College, papers of Mrs Mary Anne Goyder as Girl Guides Commissioner, scrapbook of material relating to G.W. Goyder, collected by his granddaughter Margaret Goyder Kerr and photographs. Author Details Jane Carey Created 15 June 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

1 hour 10 minutes??Isobel Richardson was born in Indianapolis in the United States. The family returned to South Australia when Isobel was four years old and, by the time she began secondary school at the Walford Anglican School for Girls, had settled in Blackwood. Isobel trained as a nurse and specialised in infant welfare, working for many years with the Mothers’ and Babies’ Health Association. She explains how she first heard about the Oxford Group and Moral Rearmament. The movement’s emphasis on self-knowledge, moral absolutes, the involvement of people of all faiths and nationalities, and working on a global scale responded to Isobel’s needs and interests. She describes her involvement with MRA which has, after her retirement, working at the MRA centre at Panchgani in India. She speaks of other South Australians involved in MRA and comments that many traditional MRA issues, such as Australia’s relationship to Asia, are now concerns of the wider community. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 30 January 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Minutes 1939-1953; Standing Committee papers 1941-1946 (Schools Board and V.U.S.E.B.); correspondence regarding Beaurepaire Centre 1956-1959; minutes of the Organizing Committee of the World Congress of Physical Education, Melbourne 1956; papers relating to a proposal to establish a degree course in Physical Education 1960-1970; lectures in Preventive work by Charles Hembrow, written in 1938. Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 1 January 2007 Last modified 30 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Comprises letter to Leslie Henderson, 7 May 1974, containing biographical information concerning the Goldstein and Champion families. Also, “The dignity of labour: contentment found in home service” written by Lizzie Kavanagh after 60 years’ service with the Goldstein family. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 24 April 2018 Last modified 22 May 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)