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Josephine Conway is a feminist activist who has made a difference to the lives of women living in New South Wales’ Hunter Valley District for over thirty years. Best known for her long term involvement in the Right to Choose Abortion Coalition, she remains active in the Women’s Electoral Lobby, the Hunter Valley Home-Birth Group, Women’s Action against Global Violence, the Union of Australian Women, Jobs for Women and the Women’s Action Group. In 2005, as a mark of appreciation and respect for her commitment to the promotion of women’s issues, she was awarded the National Foundation For Australian Women’s Edna Ryan Award for Community Activism.

Lillian Holt was a member of the first generation of Aboriginal high school and university graduates and had an impressive track record of full time work, study and concomitant achievements. She traversed new terrain in order that younger ones might follow. Lillian worked or studied full time since the age of 17. She worked as an educator in Aboriginal affairs and education “25 hours a day, eight days a week”! She was appointed as a University of Melbourne Fellow in 2003 -2005, prior to that she was Director of the Centre for Indigenous Education, University of Melbourne. Lillian Holt passed away on her birthday in February 2020, at the age of 75.

1. Handwritten text by Oodgeroo Noonuccal, to accompany slide images for book. 2. Typescript by Paul Cliff of emendations to Oodgeroo’s text. 3. Edited typescript version by Paul Cliff, of Oodgeroo’s and Vivian Walker’s script for The Rainbow Serpent. This was performed at Expo ’88, Brisbane, and used as the introduction to The Spirit of Australia. Accompanied by letter from Paul Cliff to Oodgeroo and Vivian Walker, 19 Jan. 1989. (Note : Vivian Walker later became known as Kabul Oodgeroo Noonuccal.)??Paul Cliff worked as co-editor and author with Oodgeroo on the book, The Spirit of Australia. Author Details Clare Land Created 2 September 2002 Last modified 29 July 2020 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Minutes, constitution, policy, press releases, correspondence, submissions, reports, photos, speech, itinerary, historical notes, memorial service address for Ruth Gibson OBE, booking form to hear Moral Crusader Mary Whitehouse, manuscript of book edited by Helen Jones ‘Greater Than Their Knowing’, financial records and membership lists. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 12 September 2003 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

A film fragment, assumed to belong to Kate Howarde. The couple standing could possibly be Franklyn and Mabel Barrett. Author Details Hollie Aerts Created 21 December 2010 Last modified 1 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Gwen Meredith was the writer of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) radio serial Blue Hills. On 10 June 1967 she was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) for her services to radio entertainment and on the 11 June 1977 an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for her services to the Arts. Daughter of George and Florence Meredith, Gwen completed her secondary education at Sydney Girls High School and her tertiary education at the University of Sydney, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts. From 1932 – 1939 she was the owner of the Chelsea Bookshop (which led to the development of the Chelsea Drama Club) before working as a freelance writer for four years. In 1943 Gwen Meredith commenced a 33-year relationship with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, contracted to write radio plays, serials and documentaries. For five years she wrote for radio serial The Lawsons, highlighting the problems of rural Australia in wartime. Her next serial, Blue Hills, depicted rural life in the wheat belt, the high country and the red centre, and ran for 5795 episodes over 27 years: ‘During the high noon of radio’s golden era’, claims Richard Begbie in the Canberra Times, ‘it was estimated that nearly half the Australian radio sets operating on 1pm weekdays were tuned to Blue Hills.’ Gwen Meredith married engineer Ainsworth Harrison on 24 December 1938. She enjoyed gardening and painting, as well as bush-walking and fly-fishing with her husband. Her publications include: Wives Have Their Uses (1944); Great Inheritance (1946); The Lawsons (1948); Blue Hills (1950); Beyond Blue Hills (1953), Inns and Outs (with husband Ainsworth Harrison) (1955) and Into the Sun. Published resources Edited Book Who's Who in Australia 2002, Herd, Margaret, 2002 Monash Biographical Dictionary of 20th Century Australia, Arnold, John and Morris, Deirdre, 1994 Sound recording [Conversation with Gwen Meredith] / [interviewer : Hazel de Berg], Meredith, Gwen, 1907-, 1975 Book The golden age of Australian radio drama 1923-1960 : a history through biography, Lane, Richard, 1994 Australian women writers : a bibliographic guide, Adelaide, Debra, 1988 Wives have their uses : a comedy in three acts, Meredith, Gwen, 1907-, 1944 Great inheritance, Meredith, Gwen, 1907-, 1945 The Lawsons, Meredith, Gwen, 1907-, 1948 Blue Hills, Meredith, Gwen, 1907-, 1950 Beyond blue hills : the Ternna-Boolla story, Meredith, Gwen, 1907-, 1953 Inns and outs, Meredith, Gwen, 1907- and Harrison, Ainsworth, 1955 Into the sun : a Blue Hills novel, Meredith, Gwen, 1907-, 1961 Upstaged : Australian women dramatists in the limelight at last, Arrow, Michelle, 2002 Site Exhibition Faith, Hope and Charity Australian Women and Imperial Honours: 1901-1989, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2003, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/honours/honours.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Papers of Gwen Meredith, 1938-1987 [manuscript] National Library of Australia [Biographical cuttings on Gwen Meredith, author, containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journals] Author Details Anne Heywood Created 16 October 2002 Last modified 16 September 2013 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

The United Associations of Women (U.A.) was one of the most radical feminist groups of the mid twentieth century. It was formed in Sydney, New South Wales, in 1929 by women who perceived a need for a more politically forceful alternative to the range of Australian women’s organisations already in existence. Concerned that groups like the National Council of Women and the Feminist Club had become, by the late 1920s, social clubs rather than political lobby groups, Jessie Street, who had been an office-bearer of both the aforementioned organisations, but had become increasingly frustrated by their conservativism, took action. A series of meetings late in 1929 involving Street and other like-minded women such as Linda Littlejohn, Ruby Rich and Adela Pankhurst Walsh culminated in the establishment of the United Associations on 18 December 1929. The UA was extremely active throughout the 1930s and 40s, and played a major role in organising the Australian Women’s Charter Conference in 1943. The interwar period saw Australian women establishing clubs and joining organisations at an extraordinary rate. The battle for woman suffrage had been won, but there was still much to be achieved by and on the behalf of women. By the late 1920s, however, many committed feminists felt that the existing women’s organisations were too conservative and not forceful enough in their attempts to achieve gender equality. Inspired by the activities of a group of similarly dissatisfied English feminists (The Open Door Council), whose singular aim was to focus on women’s economic needs and their rights to equal work for equal pay, regardless of marital status, a number of prominent Australian feminists joined forces to form the United Associations of Women Workers (UA). Jessie Street resigned from the Feminist Club in 1929 to become the UA’s first president. She was joined by the presidents of three other important New South Wales women’s organisations: Mrs. A Roberts of the Women’s League; Mrs Dougall-Laing of the Women’s Service Club and Mrs. Linda Littlejohn of the Women Voters’ Association. Jessie Street was elected president, with the leaders of the other organisations becoming vice presidents. In quick time, the membership of the organisation grew to well over 200. Mary Bennett, Ada Bronham, Dymphna Cusack and Ruby Rich were all members at one time or another. The new association operated under the motto ‘For freedom and equality of status and opportunity’ and had a wide range of objectives. They aimed to: 1. Achieve by legislation, administration, organisation or any other means considered advisable, a real equality of status, opportunity and liberties for mean and women. 2. Secure equal pay for men and women and equality in all laws, rules and regulations. 3. Secure economic independence for married women. 4. Improve the legal status of mothers. 5. Promote an equal moral standard for men and women. 6. Support the candidature of qualified women for public office, who shall have pledged themselves to support constitutional methods and who shall be endorsed by the Council. 7. To promote the welfare of children. 8. To promote the study of social, political and economic questions. 9. To promote international peace and understanding. 10. To secure an amendment to the Constitution of the Commonwealth of Australia to provide that men and women shall have equal rights in Australia and all territories under the jurisdiction of the Commonwealth Government. The women of the UA campaigned vigorously to achieve these aims in the 1930s and 40s. The highpoint of this political activism, arguably, was seen when representatives of over ninety women’s organisations met in Sydney, Australia, in November 1943, at the Australian Women’s Conference for Victory in War and Victory in Peace. Organised at a time when planning for peace was a politically bi-partisan priority, the conference focused on one over-riding question: how would women’s interests be advanced in the planning of post war reconstruction? An important outcome of the conference was the development of a charter of rights for women in the post-war world. The Australian Women’s Charter, regarded as a land-mark feminist manifesto, was endorsed by the conference and represents a moment in time when Australian women prioritised the single category of gender over other political categories. Once the war was over, however, this fragile unity was shattered as the politics of the cold war came to impact upon the politics of postwar feminism. Many of the more conservative women’s groups were confronted by Jessie Streets communist sympathies and chose to break ties with the U.A. For instance, the U.A.’s relationship with the Australian Federation of Women voters was harmed to breaking point by Cold War tensions. Furthermore, as time progressed, some of the U.A.’s causes were taken up my other political groups: the trade union movement, for instance, took up the struggle for equal pay. In the 1960s many of its objectives were met, as married women entered the workforce and some women achieved equal pay. A victim of it’s own success, the organization continued to assist with the major campaigns of the 1970s, however, its membership and financial base had by the late 1970s could no longer support it as an independent entity. Published resources Book Getting Equal: the History of Australian Feminism, Lake, Marilyn, 1999 50 years of feminist achievement : a history of the United Associations of Women, Mitchell, Winifred, 1979 Book Section Girdled for War: Women's Mobilisations in World Wat Two, Saunders, Kay and Bolton, Geoffrey, c1992 Edited Book Jessie Street : documents and essays, Radi, Heather, c1990 Resource Section Information from Special Branch, New South Wales Police, 19 March 1957., National Archives of Australia, http://www.uncommonlives.naa.gov.au/record.asp?iID=279# Jessie Street to Prime Minister John Curtin, 6 April 1942 Jessie Street's complaint about staff of the Department of Air's response to a delegation, originally filed by the Prime Minister's Department., National Archives of Australia, http://www.uncommonlives.naa.gov.au/detail.asp?iID=351&lID=3&cID=29 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection United Association of Women - Records, ca.1930-1970 Kathleen M. M. Sherrard papers, ca. 1918-1975 United Association of Women - Further Records, 1930-1978 State Library of Western Australia Records, 1960-1991 [manuscript] National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Papers of Jessie Street, circa 1914-1968 [manuscript] State Library of New South Wales Photographs relating to the United Associations of Women including portrait of Jessie Street, 1936-1949 Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 29 June 2004 Last modified 1 May 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

This collection contains diaries, letter books, address books, photographs, invitations, school and university certificates and exams and other miscellaneous items belonging to the members of the Cribb family. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 17 October 2017 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

A member of a stong Australian Labor Party family, Elaine Darling was the first woman from Queensland to be elected to the House of Representatives in the Australian Parliament in 1980. She was the fifth woman elected to the House of Representatives, and the second female Labor member of that House. She represented the electorate of Lilley until her retirement in 1993. When Elaine Darling first arrived in parliament in 1980, as one of three women elected, the custom was still to refer to parliamentarians as a collective as ‘The Honourable Gentlemen of the House.’ When the Speaker of the House, Billy Sneddon, called the House to order, he asked the Honourable Gentlemen to sit. Elaine Darling remained standing and, when asked to explain herself, said ‘Mr. Speaker, I am no gentleman’. That custom changed, and slowly, progressively, others did too. Elaine Darling was educated at the University of Queensland before becoming a teacher. She rose to the role of assistant to the Director of the Brisbane Kindergarten Training College. Her father, Jack Melloy, was a long serving member of the Australian Labor Party and member of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland. Her daughter, Vicki Darling, was a Member of the Queensland House of Assembly from 2006 – 2012. Published resources Book They spoke out pretty good: politics and gender in the Brisbane Aboriginal Rights Movement 1958-1962, Darling, Elaine, 1999 Journal Article They spoke out pretty good: the leadership of women in the Brisbane Aboriginal rights movement, 1958/ 1962, Darling, Elaine, 1996 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Rosemary Francis and Nikki Henningham Created 1 April 2009 Last modified 10 September 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Photographs, family recollections, notes prepared for study of Zoe McHenry; letters; certificates; Jennifer Gilmour Hearn, The Wedding Blessing: Ada Grace Rosa Brown, 1888-1973, self-published booklet detailing life of subject until her marriage. Author Details Janet Butler Created 18 December 2009 Last modified 20 January 2010 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Edith Quin emigrated to Australia from England and, with her husband, was one of the first graziers in the Wilcannia district. With her parents and brothers, Edith Quin left England for South Australia in 1853 and settled in Adelaide. There her mother had three more children before Edith’s father died in 1860. At the age of eighteen Edith began work as a governess for the family of Mr. J. J. Bonnor, a solicitor living at ‘Strathalbyn’, 65 kilometres from Adelaide. After five months she moved to Wentworth to teach at the local school. In January 1871, Edith travelled up the Darling River to the budding township of Wilcannia, almost 200 kilometres from Broken Hill. There she was married, and with her new husband she moved in November 1872 to ‘Tarella’, a pastoral station 80 kilometres north of Wilcannia. Conditions were very tough at ‘Tarella’. The delivery of stores was reliant on river transport and in years of drought, low river levels caused long delays that often lasted months – the longest was two years. The Quins experienced extreme weather conditions including periods of drought, dust storms and floods, as well as plagues of grasshoppers, locusts, rats, mice and rabbits. Edith and her husband stayed at ‘Tarella’ until 1908, and eventually sold the property at the end of 1910 after moving to a farm in the Lysterfield Valley in Victoria. Before she died Edith composed a brief memoir, currently held by the Outback Archives in Broken Hill. This entry was prepared and written by Georgia Moodie. Published resources Book Section Memoirs to my Dear Children, Quin, Edith, 1979 Site Exhibition Unbroken Spirit: Women in Broken Hill, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2009, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/bh/bh-home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources National Library of Australia [Biographical cuttings on Edith Quin, wife of pioneering sheep farmer during the 19th century, containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journals] Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 3 March 2009 Last modified 25 March 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

3 tape reels (79mins)??Folkloric recording. Mildred Mattinson speaks about the two halls at Ecklin; her early life; her husband’s farms at Allansford and Ecklin; Ecklin school; her involvement with local organizations; Ecklin post office; local dances and card parties; the send off for she and her husband when they left the district; Ecklin store; other local families; celebrating Christmas and birthdays; and her involvement with the Country Women’s Association. Author Details Jane Carey Created 14 May 2004 Last modified 21 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Barbara Blackman discusses her memories and relationship with artist Joy Hester. General note: This is an audio recording of the filmed interview which was used in the documentary ‘The Good Looker’. Discussions between talent, producer and crew can be heard in between takes. Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 23 December 2010 Last modified 1 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

SERIES 01?Association of Non-English Speaking Background Women of Australia (ANESBWA) records, 1985-2000, being mainly administrative and subject files??SERIES 02?Association of Non-English Speaking Background Women of Australia (ANESBWA) audio cassettes??SERIES 03?Association of Non-English Speaking Background Women of Australia (ANESBWA) pictorial material Author Details Alannah Croom Created 26 June 2018 Last modified 26 June 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Papers relate to her service with the New South Wales Bush Nursing Association; with newspaper cutting. Xerox copy. This collection includes pictorial material ( see Pic. Acc. 3458 in Pic. Source File.) Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 1 July 2004 Last modified 27 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

50 hours (approx. to date)??A series of informal interviews with members of the Adelaide Lyceum Club recorded by their peers. The interviews provide insight into members’ lives and careers as well as their participation in Club activities and many women’s organisations. The collection includes interviews with physicians, lawyers, health and welfare workers, judges and other professional women. The collection includes some other recordings of Lyceum Club events, particularly talks given by members. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 5 April 2004 Last modified 24 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Notes: ———- Jessie Street, feminist, pacifist, socialist and human rights worker. Part 2 includes her visit to the Soviet Union in 1938, and how her reputation was affected by Australia’s changing relationship with the USSR. Friends & colleagues speak about her and there are readings from her autobiography ‘Truth or Repose’. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 2 January 2018 Last modified 2 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Articles about women’s suffrage and a short story. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 28 January 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Mary Kalantzis migrated to Australia with her family in 1953. Against the wishes of her husband and parents she continued her formal education in Australia, winning two prestigious scholarships. Today Kalantzis is Dean of the Faculty of Education, Language and Community Services at RMIT University. Mary Kalantzis was born in 1949 in a village in the Greek Peloponnese, the daughter of agriculturalists without formal education. The family migrated to Australia in 1953, both parents starting life here as wage earners. The eldest of three children (one of whom was born here), Mary entered into an arranged marriage soon after completing high school. Not content with her life as a wife and mother at home, she decided to return to study, a decision that was not well received by her husband nor her parents, Nicholas and Diamondo. She persisted despite their objections, even as a sole parent after her husband left. Mary’s decision to continue with study has been vindicated by the extraordinary career she has since embarked upon. In 1982 she was the recipient of a Commonwealth Postgraduate Research Award and in 1990-91 she was a Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence at the University of New Hampshire in the United States. She has since been appointed Director of the Institute of Interdisciplinary Studies at James Cook University of North Queensland; Director of the Centre for Workplace Communication and Culture at the University of Technology, Sydney; and a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Multicultural Studies at the University of Wollongong. She has been a part time Commissioner of the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission and Chair of the Queensland Ethnic Affairs Ministerial Advisory Committee, set up to advise the Queensland Premier on all matters relating to multiculturalism. Mary Kalantzis is now a Professor and Dean of the Faculty of Education, Language and Community Services at RMIT University. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia, Smart, Judith and Swain, Shurlee (eds.), 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 1 February 2006 Last modified 20 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

2 sound files (approximately 133 min.) Author Details Alannah Croom Created 17 April 2018 Last modified 17 April 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Cutting from ‘The Advertiser’, 4 December 1939, heading ‘Women Voters’ Successful Dinner’. See also Series 4, Items 3, 13 and 18 for newspaper cuttings contained in papers relating to pageants devised by Ellinor Walker. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 28 January 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Originally a ballerina in Perth, Western Australia, Joan Dowson served throughout World War II as a nurse. She continued her association with the Australian Red Cross throughout her life. Born Dorothy Richardson, but always known as Joan, this one-time ballerina joined the Australian Cross in 1937. As well as entertaining servicemen with concert parties, she completed a course in home nursing during her first year. In 1941, Joan enlisted as a nursing VAD in the army and on 17 March 1943 joined the Australian Army Medical Women’s Service. She served in Egypt, Syria, Rehoveth and Gaza with the 9th Division and later in New Guinea. In 1945 she transferred to serve on the aircraft carrier HMS Formidable. She was discharged on 19 March 1945. After the war Joan Dowson continued working with the Australian Red Cross and Girl Guides. She joined the Western Australian Branch of the RSL and was a member of the State Executive for 20 years – she was the third woman to be elected to the executive. Joan Dowson also became a member of the Friends of Battye Library. On 14 June 1980, Joan Dowson was appointed The Order of the British Empire – Member (Civil) (MBE) for services to the Red Cross and Ex-servicemen and women. In 1991 she received the RSL meritorious medal and was awarded life membership of the Red Cross in 1992. Joan Dowson was awarded the Medal of Australia (OAM) on 11 June 1996, for service to the community, particularly the RSL and ex-servicewomen, Red Cross, Girl Guides and as a member of the cancer crusade of Western Australia for 30 years. Published resources Journal Article Joan Dowson receives Order of Australia, Clinton, Barbara, 1996 [Receives Order of Australia award for community service], Clinton, Barbara, 1996 [Receives RSL meritorious medal], 1991 [Awarded Red Cross life membership], 1992 Resource Section RICHARDSON, DOROTHY JOAN, Department of Veterans' Affairs, 2002, http://www.ww2roll.gov.au/script/veteran.asp?ServiceID=A&VeteranID=753722 RICHARDSON, DOROTHY JOAN, Department of Veterans' Affairs, 2002, http://www.ww2roll.gov.au/script/veteran.asp?ServiceID=A&VeteranID=753722 Book Australian women at war, Adam-Smith, Patsy, 1984 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Dorothy Dowson interviewed by Victoria Hobbs for the Australia 1938 oral history project [sound recording] Australian War Memorial, Research Centre Miss Joan Bucknell and Miss Joan Richardson, two Australian Red Cross Society Representatives, returning home after being attached to HMS Formidable Author Details Anne Heywood Created 24 January 2003 Last modified 5 June 2009 Digital resources Title: Miss Joan Bucknell and Miss Joan Richardson Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Papers of the Save Our Sons Movement comprising minutes, correspondence, newsletters and pamphlet material. Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 23 July 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

This collection includes pictorial material at Pic.Acc.6959 Author Details Alannah Croom Created 21 June 2018 Last modified 21 June 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Women and the Australian Church was established in 1984 as a means of changing the understanding of the role of women in the Australian church and in society. It was initiated by the women Religious within the Catholic church and has been supported ideologically and to some extent financially by the Religious Orders of both men and women. It has developed into a network of local and regional groups in the various states of Australia. Men are included in the membership. Although Catholic by origin, it encourages membership from other religious denominations. On its establishment as a national project of the Religious women and men of Australia, Women and the Australian Church Inc (WATAC) nominated the primary task to be consciousness raising of women on Christian feminist issues. It has a membership of approximately 2000. WATAC is committed to ‘a participative, inclusive model of church which commits women to work towards new forms of partnership with men and with each other in the church’, and to ‘the emergence of the feminine as intrinsic to an understanding of God, to human wholeness and thereby to church renewal’. The name, WATAC emerged from the ideas of the founding committee who wanted to include all women regardless of whether they were active members of an institutional church. Separate groups operate in the Australian states and territories. Published resources Book Woman and man: one in Christ Jesus: Report on the participation of women in the Catholic Church in Australia, Research Management Group, 1999 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources Women and the Australian Church Women and the Australian Church records Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 11 March 2004 Last modified 22 March 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Maurene Horder was elected to the first Australian Capital Territory House of Assembly at its election in 1979. Representing the Australian Labor Party, she was one of the nine members from the electorate of Canberra. She was re-elected in 1982 but resigned in mid-1985 to take up an appointment as a ministerial advisor. Before entering the Assembly Horder was a primary school teacher and a public servant. Maureen Horder was the fifth of nine children born to Mary (neé Brown) and Mervyn Horder and was raised in Cabramatta, attending Bethlehem College in Ashfield. Her mother was an elected member and deputy mayor of the Fairfield Council in the 1970s and 1980s and her father was a postal worker. After completing her teacher-training at Salisbury Teachers’ College Horder taught in Brighton-Le-Sands. She moved to Canberra in 1972 and worked as a public servant in Treasury and the Department of Education and completed a Bachelor of Applied Science (Applied Geography) degree at the Canberra College of Advanced Education. She changed her name from Maureen to Maurene by deed poll in the 1970s. In 1976 she married a demographer, Dr Graham Harrison (1949-2000) and their two children, Adrian and Virginia Harrison, were both born while she was a member of the Assembly. They lived in the suburbs of Garran, Swinger Hill and Holder. Horder was one of the eight ALP members elected to the part-time 18-member ACT House of Assembly at the election held on 2 June 1979. In the First Assembly (1979-1982) the ALP, with the support of the two Australian Democrat members and two independent members, gained a majority and was thus able to elect its President and to fill the plum positions representing the Assembly on ACT statutory and non-statutory bodies. Horder was appointed to the ACT Schools Authority and to the Canberra Week Committee, and was a member of the Assembly Standing Committees on Education and Finance. Horder made substantial contributions to the debate and criticisms of the Galbally Report, Migrant services and programs: report of the Review of Post-arrival Programs and Services for Migrants, tabled in the Commonwealth Parliament in May 1978. She felt there had been very little consultation with the ACT community on the provision of education programs for newly-arrived migrants, particularly for children and women. Other matters Horder discussed in the Assembly in her first term included the staffing formulae for ACT government schools, the need for a commercial tenancy disputes tribunal, and the poor quality of broadcasting services and programs for children in the ACT. She opposed the introduction of tertiary fees and with a Liberal member of the Assembly, Liz Grant, she presented a report on rape law reform. At the election on 5 June 1982 for the second Assembly the Liberal Party, together with the ultra-conservative Family Team, was able to form a majority, so Horder’s position on the ACT Schools Authority ended, although she was appointed to a new Police Liaison Committee to promote community involvement with policing. In a surprise move on 7 March 1983 Horder was elected leader of the ALP caucus, defeating Ken Doyle. The Hawke Government had been elected days earlier and it was believed that the new leadership would be able to build a closer relationship with the new federal government and with the incoming minister with responsibilities for the ACT. During the second Assembly (1982-1986) Horder was a delegate to the National Economic Summit in April 1983, convened by the newly-elected Hawke Government. She was active in opposing the closure of Watson High School, supporting measures to reduce the road toll and the campaign to keep the Belconnen Mall in public hands. She was one of the Assembly’s two delegates to the Constitutional Convention held in Adelaide in April 1983 and was a member of the Assembly’s Standing Committees on Business, on Development and Planning, and on Health, Housing and Welfare. In August 1984 Horder led a delegation to the Northern Territory, as chair of the Assembly’s Select Committee on the Transition of Power to a Territorial Government, for discussions with that Territory’s administrators. When foreshadowing the tabling that committee’s report in the Assembly Horder called for the federal government to release its White Paper on self-government as soon as possible. Further frustration with the difficulties, delays in providing a timetable and the lack of details from the federal government, coupled with the announcement by the Minister for Territories that the term of the Assembly would be extended by another year, contributed to Horder’s resignation from the Assembly on 24 June 1985. The following day her appointment as ministerial adviser to the Honourable Christopher Hurford MP, Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, was announced, a position she held until the following year. Within the ACT Branch of the ALP Horder was elected Vice-President at its annual conference in June 1980 and President in June 1981, retiring at the June 1982 conference. She stood unsuccessfully for ALP preselection for the federal seat of Fowler before the 1984 election and was also unsuccessful in gaining endorsement for the ALP for the by-election for the State seat of Liverpool in 1989. Horder left Canberra in 1985 and held the following positions: 1990 – 1998 Southeast Australian Manager, Plastics and Chemical Industries Association 1999 – 2008 CEO, National Marine Safety Committee 2008 – 2013 CEO, Migration Institute of Australia and a member of the Migration Registration Authority 2014 – 2015 Executive Officer (NSW), Planning Institute of Australia Horder has also served on the boards of Sunnyhaven Disability Services, the National Standards Development Organisation, and Clean-up Australia. Published resources Maurene Horder, Wikipedia entry, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurene_Horder Author Details Janet Wilson Created 11 August 2024 Last modified Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Margaret Ratcliffe was a committed Christian activist. She first stood for election in 1995 as a Call to Australia party candidate in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly elections for Gordon. This was followed by two attempts at obtaining the seat of Bradfield in the House of Representatives in 1996 and 1998. The following year she changed political allegiance and contested the seat of Denison on behalf of the Christian Democrat Party. Margaret Ratcliffe was born in Sydney and educated at the Presbyterian Ladies’ College and the University of Sydney. She practised her profession of physiotherapy in Lane Cove for 38 years. She married in 1957 and had three sons. She was a member of the Sydney Philharmonic Choir. Margaret Ratcliffe lived on the North Shore all her life, and although previously a Liberal Party member, by 1995, had joined the Christian Democratic Party because of her concern about youth unemployment and lack of strong moral leadership. Her Christian activities included Sunday School teaching and scripture teaching in public schools. 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 2 February 2006 Last modified 14 August 2024 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Florinda Katharine Ogilvie was a pioneer in the developing field of medical social work, who served as a fellow of the University of Sydney Senate in the 1940s. Education 1923: Bachelor of Arts, University of Sydney. 1931: Studied hospital administration in the United States for two months, sponsored by Rachel Foster Hospital. 1933-34: Completed a course in medical social work in Britain and became an associate of the Institute of Almoners. 1950-51: Returned to Britain to study methods of teaching social work for six months, visiting the Universities of London and Oxford, the British Institute of Almoners, St Thomas Hospital and Radcliff Infirmary. Career highlights 1926-1940: Secretary, Chief Executive Officer and Almoner at Rachel Foster Hospital for Women and Children, Sydney. 1941-1954: Senior Almoner, Sydney Hospital; Director of Training for the NSW Institute of Almoners. 1954: Appointed to a temporary lectureship in the Department of Social Work at University of Sydney. 1957: Appointed to a permanent lectureship in the Department of Social Work. 31 December 1964: Retired. Community work 1943-1949: Fellow of the University Senate 1941-1950: Member of the Child Welfare Advisory Council 1950s/1960s: Member of the executive committee of the NSW Old Peoples’ Welfare Council. 1969: Member of the working party of the NSW Council for the Aging Advisory Committee on Accommodation and Care for the Aging. Ogilvie also held positions as: President, NSW Council of Social Service; Honorary Consultant in social work to the Australian Red Cross; Honorary Director, Family Welfare Bureau. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Resource Section Ogilvie, Florinda Katherine, Gavan McCarthy, http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/bsparcs/biogs/P002073b.htm Site Exhibition The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia, Smart, Judith and Swain, Shurlee (eds.), 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders Archival resources University of Sydney, Archives Personal archives of OGILVIE Florinda Katherine [1902-1983] Author Details Isobelle Barrett Meyering Created 17 September 2009 Last modified 16 May 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

A small number of papers relating to the Congress of the Australian Peace Council held in Melbourne in 1950; included are the speech delivered by Jessie Street and letters and papers dealing with the visit to the Congress by Dr. Hewlett Johnson, Dean of Canterbury. Also included are the minutes of the A.P.C. National Executive Council meeting in 1955, and a typescript manuscript entitled “Notes on the history of the Australian Peace Council”, covering the years 1949 and 1950. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 2 January 2018 Last modified 2 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Ms Print was established to provide inexpensive quality women’s work, to print women’s artistic work and to run workshops for sharing experiences. It operated out of the Women’s Studies Resource Centre from 1979 to 1983. Ms Print was established to provide inexpensive quality women’s work, to print women’s artistic work to run workshops to sharing experiences. It operated out of the Women’s Studies Resource Centre from 1979 to 1983. It applied for a Department of Arts Grant but was unsuccessful and thus they sold feminist books to raise money. The minutes of the meetings shows they had a high turnover in the collective membership and the relations with the Women’s Studies Resource Centre were strained. They sold books at conferences, on International Women’s Day and from the Women’s Studies Resource Centre. Some of the women involved include, Kate Barrett, Jillinda Thompson, Pat Gallasch, Jill Whithead, Suzi Jones, Karen Elliott, Jan Egan and Jan Phadke. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Kathleen Bambridge Created 18 December 2009 Last modified 21 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

The papers comprise official and private correspondence, cables, genealogical and biographical papers, legal and financial records, speeches, broadcasts, photographs, newspaper cuttings and memorabilia relating to Lord Gowrie’s life and military and public career including his service in Australia as Governor of South Australia (1928-34), Governor of New South Wales (1935-36), and Governor-General of Australia (1936-44). Aspects of the life and work of Gowrie’s wife, Zara, and their son, Patrick Hore-Ruthven, are also detailed in the papers.??Amongst the fellow governors, politicians, military leaders, monarchs and other prominent individuals, from both Australia and overseas, whose letters can be found in the collection are Lord Kitchener, Joseph and Enid Lyons, Lord Baden Powell, Sir George Murray, Lord Bruce, Stanley Baldwin, Sir John Latham, Sir Keith Officer, F. M. Forde, R. G. Menzies, W. M. Hughes, General Douglas MacArthur, Eamon de Valera, Maie Casey, Sir Donald Bradman, Sir Lloyd Dumas, Sir Earle Page, Sir Robert Garran, Sir Winston Churchill, Lord Montgomery, Ben Chifley, Daisy Bates, Lloyd Rees, Lord Dudley, Joan Hammond, Sir Keith Hancock, May Gibbs, Lady Stonehaven, Ivy Brookes, Lord Slim, Paul Sorensen, Mab Grimwade, Emily Dutton and Sir Philip Game. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 2 January 2018 Last modified 2 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

The Adelaide Women’s Liberation Movement Archive was established in 1984 by a concerned group of women who wanted to preserve the history of what was called the second wave of feminism. With the aid of the Community Employment Program and the feminist community, memorabilia was collected along with the papers of a variety of groups and individuals. The material was collected from late 1969 through to 2008. The Adelaide Women’s Liberation Movement Archive gathered the memorabilia of women and groups who had been and were part of the Women’s Liberation Movement. The archive includes minutes, agendas, correspondence, films, photographs, video and audio tapes, posters, flyers, pamphlets, banners, badges, newspaper clippings, scrapbooks and financial records. A Collective was formed and they set about writing the rules of the archive and for collecting. They created forms for the donors, with reference to copyright and for biographies for the groups and individuals. However over the years a lot of material was just left as donations with little or no detail as to its provenance. As women’s organisations folded with the Fraser government’s cuts to women’s programs in the early eighties the archive was a safe alternative to the loss of these records. The organisations which contributes included the Women’s Liberation Movement. This material from the Women’s Movement includes daybooks for many women’s group, pamphlets, information, booklets, news clippings, posters – both theirs and those of other groups. The papers of Feminists Against Nuclear Energy Group (FANG) and Women Against Nuclear Energy (WANE) were listed as the Women’s Peace Movement. Many women donated material on the Women’s Theatre Group, including film, video, audio tapes scripts and music along with photographs. The Women’s Art Movement (WAM) donated their records which includes, posters, minutes, correspondence, prints, and a newsletter. WAM was also involved with the Women’s Art Register so there are many slides of photographs of performance art and exhibitions along with a profile of slides showing the women’s artwork. The Women’s Advisory Unit donated their news clippings used for women’s policy development and in highlighting women’s needs. The Hindmarsh Women’s Community Centre, Women’s Studies Resource Centre pamphlets and information on a wide range of women’s services and issues. Individuals including Sue Sheridan, Molly Brannigan, Sylvia Kinder, Frances Phoenix, Suzi Jones, Annie Dugdale and Margaret King and Robin Eagle donated posters, information, and papers. Sandra Grimes donated her collection of audio and video interviews with bar women in Adelaide done for her Ph D thesis. Janet Maughan donated her scrapbooks on many feminist issues. Silver Moon donated the Women’s Environmental Action Group and the Unemployed women’s Union papers. The St Peters Women’s Community Centre now called the Women’s Community Centre donated records. The collection was documented until the late 1990s, when the collective was reduced to a few dedicated members. While the collection was accessed from time to time by various researchers the collective decided to hand the collection over to the State Library of South Australia in 2009. As part of the process of moving the Archive from the Women’s Studies Resource Centre to the State Library, the records of The St Peters Women’s Community Centre, now called the Women’s Community Centre, were returned upon their request. There is a separate entry to these records in the AWAP register. There were a number of journals and newsletters with the Archive and these have now been donated to various libraries in Australia including to the Women’s Studies Resource Centre. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources State Library of South Australia Adelaide Women's Liberation Movement Archives Collection Sylvia Kinder : SUMMARY RECORD Author Details Kathleen Bambridge Created 18 December 2009 Last modified 21 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

2 hours 6 minutes??Antonia Mary Turnbull, nee Richmore, was born in Japan where her father was stationed. Toni went to school in several countries and matriculated at an Adelaide Catholic girls school. She began Science at Adelaide University before transferring to Medicine. In her fourth year Toni married, and in her final year her first child was born. Toni describes experiences crucial to her later activism: participating in an abortion during her pregnancy, and caring for her baby as a resident at Queen Elizabeth Hospital. Working for the Family Planning Association and in general practice, Toni became increasingly disturbed by the number of women seeking abortions for convenience. In the early 1980s Toni came to believe that God was asking her to speak out and she also became convinced of the extent of post-abortion grief. She discuss specific issues in the pro-life/pro-choice debate, as well as her identification with the women’s movement. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 30 January 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Sarina Jan is a Bardi descendent (Nyul Nyul clan) from the Kimberley region (Family name: Hunter) and is strong in her Aboriginality, identity and culture. She is also of Chinese descent and is proud of her Asian ancestry. Sarina completed her Bachelor of Arts (Public Relations) and Bachelor of Business (Marketing) in 1996 making her the first Aboriginal person in Western Australia to graduate in both of these specialised fields. She later became the first Aboriginal person to become a member of both the Public Relations Institute of Australia and the Australian Marketing Institute. Since 1996, Sarina has successfully run her own small public relations and marketing business (SARJAN CONSULTANCIES) in Western Australia and in 1999, with a group of other like-minded Aboriginal professionals, helped to establish The Indigenous Business Institute Ltd. The Institute’s purpose is two-fold. Firstly, to specifically assist Aboriginal business people in gaining appropriate and professional business acumen and prowess so that they can cultivate greater Aboriginal independence and business commercialism; and secondly, to encourage linkages (strategic partnerships) between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal industries, governments, private and public sector businesses that will improve the status, value and asset base of the Institute and its 130 Aboriginal members. As the founding Director and Chairperson of this non-profit organisation, Sarina is responsible for facilitating the development and growth of Indigenous entrepreneurialism within Western Australia. Other positions Sarina holds include Chairperson of the Aboriginal Customary Law Reference Council (WA Law Reform Commission); Member of the WA Parole Board and the WA Mentally Impaired Board; Councillor for the Australian Marketing Institute (WA) and the University of Western Australia’s Research Centre for Women in Business & Management; and Justice of the Peace. Sarina’s professional logo “Strong woman bringing different people together for Business in a Meeting Circle” is reflected in her life’s philosophy: that she is “a cultural experience worth incorporating … “. For more information, write to: The Indigenous Business Institute Ltd: theibiltd@hotmail.com Sarina Jan: sarjan2@bigpond.com This entry was research and written by Philida Sturgiss-Hoy Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Anne Heywood Created 12 February 2003 Last modified 12 February 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

The collection comprises papers relating to both Guy and Phyllis Boyd. There is correspondence with gallery directors, exhibition catalogues and photographs relating to the life and career of Guy Boyd. The main correspondents include Philip Bacon, Ron and Betty Beaver, Kim Bonython, Eva Breuer, Andrew Ivanyi, Gisella Scheinberg, Max Stern and Ann von Bertouch. Phyllis Boyd was actively involved with organizations covering a wide range of social, feminist and religious issues. There is correspondence, papers and subject files relating to this involvement, including with Women Who Want to be Women, The Australian Family Association and Women Against the Ordination of Women. There are also papers relating to the estate of Phyllis Boyd’s aunt, the artist Agnes McNamara. The Boyds were amongst the first to be involved in what was to become a national campaign for a judicial enquiry into the 1982 murder conviction of Lindy Chamberlain. There is correspondence, campaign ephemera and newspaper cuttings relating to the ‘A plea for mercy’ campaign which they initiated. Guy Boyd was executor of the estate of his uncle, the author Martin Boyd. Included in the papers is correspondence relating to the administration of the estate and the sale and distribution of Martin Boyd’s books. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 24 April 2018 Last modified 24 April 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Films and sound recordings relating to the Girl Guides movement in South Australia. Also includes minutes of various committees and groups, photographs, unpublished history, poster, scrapbooks, newspapers and reports. Author Details Jane Carey Created 15 June 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Trained as a pharmacist in Brisbane, Kate Carnell came to Canberra in 1977, becoming one of the first woman pharmacy owners there in 1981. From 1982 she held positions in a number of professional organisations, including inaugural and first female president of the Australian Capital Territory Branch of the Pharmacy Guild of Australia 1988–94. Elected to the Legislative Assembly for the Australian Capital Territory in 1992 she became Liberal Leader in 1993 and Chief Minister from 1995 to 2000. Her subsequent positions include director of the NRMA and chief executive officer of the Australian Divisions of General Practice, the Australian Food and Grocery Council, Beyond Blue and the Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry. She was the inaugural Small Business and Family Enterprise Ombudsman from 2016 to 2021. Kate Carnell was born in Brisbane on 30 May 1955, the eldest child of Dorothy née Grenning, and Donald Knowlman, an accountant and owner of a building company. Educated at Sherwood State School and St Aidan’s Church of England Girls School, between the ages of 14 and 17 she struggled with anorexia. Her experience with other disturbed adolescents in the psychiatric ward of a Sydney hospital gave her a life-long interest in mental health issues. She initially enrolled in medicine at the University of Queensland then transferred to pharmacy, graduating as BPharm in 1976. Following her marriage to Ian Carnell in July 1977 she moved to Canberra where she worked first as a pharmacist at Woden Plaza before becoming one of the first women in Canberra to own a pharmacy in 1981 when she bought the Red Hill Pharmacy. In 1984 she acquired a second pharmacy at Gowrie. Her children were born in 1984 and 1986. She held positions in a number of professional organisations becoming chair of the Southern District Pharmacists Company 1982–92, vice president of the Retail Industry and Training Council of the ACT 1987–91, the first female and inaugural president of the ACT Branch of the Pharmacy Guild of Australia 1988–94, member of the ACT Pharmacy Registration Board 1985–91, counsellor at the Australian Institute of Pharmacy Management 1990–91, member of the ACT Board of Health 1990–91, member of the Pharmacy Restructuring Authority 1990–91, national vice president of the Pharmacy Guild of Australia and the first woman on its executive 1990–94, and board member of the Canberra Chamber of Commerce 1991–92. Carnell joined the Liberal Party in 1991 and the following year stood successfully as a Liberal candidate for the ACT Legislative Assembly. Elected Liberal leader in 1993, she became Chief Minister of the ACT following the 1995 election. During the period 1995–2000 she held the portfolios of Treasurer, Business and Employment 1997–98, the Status of Women, Aboriginal Affairs, Health and Community Affairs 1995–98, Arts and Multicultural and International Affairs 1995–2000. She pursued liberal social policies legalising abortion, prostitution, non-commercial surrogacy and decriminalising marijuana. She unsuccessfully attempted to introduce a heroin injecting room in the ACT. She aggressively promoted business investment and tourism to Canberra and the settlement of skilled migrants and refugees, particularly those from Kosovo in 1999. Her government was severely criticised for its management of the implosion of the Royal Canberra Hospital in July 1997 that resulted in the death of twelve-year-old Katy Bender. In 2000 she briefly served as Minister for Business Tourism and the Arts before resigning as Chief Minister of the ACT on 17 October that year, following a no-confidence vote over the funding of the Bruce Stadium development. After leaving politics Carnell became Chief Executive of Development at the Canberra-based telecommunications company TransACT before being elected a director of the National Roads and Motorists’ Association (NRMA) in August 2001. She resigned from this position in 2002. In 2001 she was appointed chairperson of General Practice Education and Training Ltd by the health minister Michael Wooldridge and reappointed by his successor Tony Abbott in 2004. From 2001 to 2004 she was executive director of the National Association of Forest Industries. Between 2006 and 2008 she was chief executive officer of the Australian Divisions of General Practice and a board member of the Australian Red Cross 2006–11. She served as CEO of the Australian Food and Grocery Council 2008–12. Between 2008 and 2014 she was board director of Beyond Blue, a non-profit organisation supporting mental health and wellbeing and its CEO 2012–14. She was CEO of the Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry 2014–16 and in March 2016 she was appointed the inaugural Australian Small Business and Family Enterprise Ombudsman, serving until March 2021. Kate’s marriage to Ian Carnell was dissolved in 1997 and in 2007 she married Ray Kiley. She was a recipient of the 2001 Centenary Medal and in 2006 was appointed Officer in the Order of Australia for her services to the ACT. In April 2013 she received an honorary doctorate from the University of Canberra and in 2019 she was named one of the Australian Financial Review’s 100 women of the influence in the Public Policy Category. Published resources Edited Book Who's Who in Australia 2004, 2004 Resource Section Carnell, Anne Katherine (Kate) (1955 - ), Biographical Entry, 2003, http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/bsparcs/biogs/P004193b.htm Book Contemporary Australians 1995/96, 1995 Resource Where are the Women in Australian science?, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, 2003, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/wisa/wisa.html Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 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 The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia, Smart, Judith and Swain, Shurlee (eds.), 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders Shades of blue: Lunch with Kate Carnell, Maley, Jacqueline, 14 April 2012 Oral history interview with Kate Carnell 2006 Consultation, commonsense and commitment: A vision for the government in the ACT, 30 November 1993 Author Details Ann-Mari Jordens Created 27 February 2004 Last modified 21 July 2024 Digital resources Title: Portrait of Kate Carnell at the National Library of Australia, 26 June 2006 Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

1 hour 22 minutes??Marina Elizabeth Anne Berton was born at Mildura, South Australia in 1948 to Italian-born parents who had emigrated in 1937. Marina describes the strong cultural traditions upheld by her close-knit family and her ‘deprived’ education at a local Catholic school. Marina moved to Adelaide to attend Wattle Park Teachers College in 1965. Early in her teaching career she became involved in English language adult education for migrants, and more recently in developing Italian language education for second generation Italo-Australians. Throughout, Marina has been much involved with the Italian Federation of Emigrant Workers and their Families (FILEF), including six years as its President. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 2 February 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

The MS 9878 collection largely consists of research material collected by Pauline Armstrong during the preparation of her theses on the Save Our Sons Movement of Victoria and Frank Hardy. Included are correspondence, photocopies of articles and book extracts, photographs and other graphic material, audio-visual material, interview transcriptions, drafts and proofs. The collection was maintained and listed by Armstrong’s husband, Bruce Armstrong, and his lists and explanatory notes have been incorporated into the collection (25 boxes, 5 cartons). Author Details Alannah Croom Created 9 January 2018 Last modified 9 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

1 hour 52 minutes??Maria Luisa Sheehan, nee Drescher, was born in Italy. Her mother was widowed two years later. In 1945, when the region was occupied by Yugoslavia, the family moved to Trieste. Luisa’s mother married an English officer and in 1952 the family joined him in Khartoum. From there they emigrated to South Australia in 1955 where two of Luisa’s uncles had already settled. Luisa found work immediately and within two years married a fellow employee at Philips Electrical Industries. She left the workforce for 21 years while raising her family. In 1978 she returned to paid work as one of the six original staff members of the Women’s Information Switchboard. Luisa worked there as an information officer until her retirement in 1993. She discusses a range of the Switchboard activities and her responsibilities, including her role in relation to the Italian community. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 2 February 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

MS Acc07.148 comprises a range of material relating to Margaret Reid’s political career and official duties, including correspondence, speech notes, diaries, presentation plaques, photographs, press cuttings and ephemera (9 boxes).??The Acc08.083 instalment comprises photographs, ephemera from official functions, press cuttings, speech notes, correspondence, appointment diaires, notebooks, reports of parliamentary delegations and a VHS videocassette (10 boxes). Author Details Alannah Croom Created 9 January 2018 Last modified 9 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

2 sound cassettes (ca. 90 min.)??Born in Pyrmont, Sydney, Ryan speaks of her early life; going to school; clerical employment; studying at business college; different homes in Sydney; strikes; family life; memories of and attitudes during WWI; memories of the 1917 general strike; the working classes; International Workers of the World (IWW); politics of 1910-1930; her political interests; street corner meetings; family reading material; memories of the Domain; life as a Socialist, meeting places and haunts; favourite speakers; socialists being framed for crimes; socialist/working class communication; social conditions, her own research of the period; the War Precautions Act; socialism and the Labor Party; her interest in, and reading of Lenin and Russia; Justice Beeby and working class leaders. Author Details Elle Morrell Created 29 August 2000 Last modified 21 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Item 1?Petition to the Honorable, The House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Australia, regarding the South African War, ca. 1901 (typescript carbon copy)??Item 2?Letter from the Victorian Women’s Federation, Melbourne, thanking Alice Henry for her assistance at the meeting of the Children’s Committee, 25 June 1903 Author Details Alannah Croom Created 26 June 2018 Last modified 26 June 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

4 sound files (approximately 258 min.) Author Details Alannah Croom Created 12 September 2014 Last modified 21 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Annette Cameron was born in Middle Swan WA in 1920. Her interest in politics was sparked by the Spanish Civil War, prompting her to join the Modern Women’s Club, the Anti-Fascist League, and, in 1941, the Communist Party. She was an active campaigner for peace, human rights, and Aboriginal causes. Annette Elizabeth Moore was born in 1920 in Middle Swan, Western Australia. Her family had helped develop the area; her great-grandfather’s brother, George Fletcher Moore, had arrived from Ireland in 1830 and obtained a grant, which he called Millendon, on the Upper Swan. Annette’s grandfather, William Dalgety Moore, had represented Fremantle in the colony’s Legislative Council from August 1870 to May 1872, and in 1890-94 was a nominee in the first Legislative Council. Annette was educated in Perth, and gained a reputation as a rebel while attending St Hilda’s Anglican School for Girls. Her interest in politics was aroused by the Spanish Civil War, and after attending meetings of the Modern Women’s Club and joining the Anti-Fascist League, Cameron became a member of the Communist Party of Australia in 1941. She then moved to Sydney, worked in the Party offices, and began what was to be a lifelong friendship with Katharine Susannah Prichard. She was jailed for a short time after her arrest during a campaign supporting Indonesian independence from Dutch colonialism. Annette moved back to Perth after the war, joining Sam Aarons, who she had met in Sydney. They had a son, Gerald, in 1949. In the late 1950s, when Sam was travelling in China and suffered a heart attack, the Chinese Authorities flew Annette and Gerald to China to be with him during his lengthy recuperation. Banquets were held in their honour, and Annette apparently made a lasting impression on Chairman Mao. According to Perth newspaper The West Australian, he was so impressed by her ‘beauty and intelligence’ that he ‘made it clear that a place was waiting for her as his consort.’ The Aarons family returned to Australia after about a year, however, and resumed working for the Party. Sam Aarons died in 1971, and Annette later married Duncan Cameron. Annette Cameron worked in many different capacities for the Communist Party, including painting political slogans and selling Workers’ Star and Tribune. She was also active on a number of committees, attended countless meetings, addressed audiences on the Esplanade, and directed the campaigns of political candidates. She stood as a Communist Party candidate in State elections, for the Senate in 1955 and 1958, and for the House of Representatives in 1966. In the 1960s, Annette was at the forefront of the Communist Party’s anti-Vietnam War marches. At the Vietnam War Moratoriums, which attracted thousands of people, Annette and Duncan became leading activists at large-scale rallies and assisted young men who refused conscription. Annette and Duncan also campaigned actively for Aboriginal rights. Annette Cameron suffered from multiple sclerosis for thirty-five years, making the years following the death of Duncan in 2005 particularly difficult. She died at the age of eighty-eight in 2008. Published resources Finding Aid Well read : a bibliography of Communist Party & other sources collected in Western Australia by Annette and Duncan Cameron, Bosworth, Michal, 1997 Book The first furrow, Williams, Justina, 1976 An Index to Parliamentary Candidates in Western Australian Elections 1890-1989, Black, David, 1989 Newspaper Article Mao took shine to Perth 'red' activist, Mendez, Torrance, 2008 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources State Library of Western Australia Records, 1938-1973 [manuscript] Cameron collection, 1919-1995 [manuscript] Author Details Lisa McKinney Created 2 April 2004 Last modified 17 April 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

The collection contains some personal papers, but mostly reflects the Gilchrists’ involvement with various radical organisations. The papers at ACC 3532A, documenting their friendship with Katharine Susannah Prichard which began in the 1930s, includes diaries (incomplete) for 1964 and 1969, envelopes from various countries, films (including film from Katharine Susannah Prichard’s funeral) taken by John Gilchrist, letters from Prichard, manuscripts, publications, recordings and reminiscences about Prichard by John Gilchrist. ACC 3801A deals mainly with Roma Gilchrist’s involvement with the Women’s Movement, 1940-1982. ACC 3255A & 5894A include certificates; conference papers; correspondence (much with the Union of Australian Women, 1962-1982); press cuttings of reviews of plays by the Workers’ Art Guild (1954-1981); diaries of holidays in Europe, South East Asia, Japan and the USSR; files on the Humanist Society (1966-1968), disarmament, the Workers Art Guild, the Union of Australian Women and other subjects; histories; lists of the members of the Union of Australian Women and the Modern Women’s Club; memoir of organisations and people they worked with; newsletters; notes and notebooks; photographs; plays (some written by the Gilchrists); poetry of John Gilchrist; programs; publications on communism, socialism and the working classes; reports; scrapbooks; songs; specifications; and other writings.??The papers at ACC 3532A, documenting their friendship with Katharine Susannah Prichard which began in the 1930s, includes diaries (incomplete) for 1964 and 1969, envelopes from various countries, films (including film from Katharine Susannah Prichard’s funeral) taken by John Gilchrist, letters from Prichard, manuscripts, publications, recordings and reminiscences about Prichard by John Gilchrist. ACC 3801A deals mainly with Roma Gilchrist’s involvement with the Women’s Movement, 1940-1982. ACC 3255A & 5894A include certificates; conference papers; correspondence (much with the Union of Australian Women, 1962-1982); press cuttings of reviews of plays by the Workers’ Art Guild (1954-1981); diaries of holidays in Europe, South East Asia, Japan and the USSR; files on the Humanist Society (1966-1968), disarmament, the Workers Art Guild, the Union of Australian Women and other subjects; histories; lists of the members of the Union of Australian Women and the Modern Women’s Club; memoir of organisations and people they worked with; newsletters; notes and notebooks; photographs; plays (some written by the Gilchrists); poetry of John Gilchrist; programs; publications on communism, socialism and the working classes; reports; scrapbooks; songs; specifications; and other writings. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 1 April 2004 Last modified 7 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Kate Cable was the longest serving postmistress in Australia. On 1 July 1927 she was appointed postmistress at Macrossan, on the Flinders Highway, west of Townsville, earning 15/- per week. Kate outlived the official history records of the postal service of Queensland. Her 59 years service at the Macrossan post office officially ended when the exchange went automatic on 31 March 1986; however Kate continued to maintain her links with Australia Post and the district, acting as Community Mail Agent for the collection and distribution of mail. Her duties as a postmistress involved sorting incoming and outgoing mail, banking, money orders and operating the old cordless pyramid switchboard. The Divisional Manager of Australia Post, Don Watson, presented Kate Cable with a plaque depicting a sketch of the early type of pyramid switchboard, to commemorate her 59 years of service at the Macrossan post office. The cordless pyramid switchboard was removed when Macrossan became an automatic exchange in March 1986. The busiest time with telephone communications for Kate was when the Second Field Supply Battalion of the Royal Australian Air Force and the army established bases at Macrossan during World War II. The bases were connected to the Macrossan telephone exchange. The first subscriber to be linked to the exchange was Fanning Downs Station. The population of Macrossan fluctuated over time with the most significant decrease occurring in 1928 when the Burdekin Meatworks closed. The number of residents went from 300 to 30. In 1961 the town was once again revived when 300 to 400 men moved into the district to construct the new railway bridge and traffic bridge, which took approximately 6 years. Macrossan now only consists of 10 families. When she was 7 years old Kate had her leg amputated as a result of being bitten by a Black Whip snake when living near Ingham. Doctors told her parents that she would not live past 14, but the indomitable Kate proved them wrong and lived to 4 days short of her 100th birthday. She married Thomas William Cable, a direct descendant of Henry Cable and Susannah Holmes, convicts sent to Botany Bay in 1788. A parcel of goods valued at £20 belonging to the couple was plundered on the voyage, and Cable won damages of £15 against the captain, Duncan Sinclair, of the Alexander, in the first civil suit heard in New South Wales. Published resources Newspaper Article Townsville Bulletin, 16 March 1990, Anna Cahill, 1990 Townsville Bulletin, 9 July 1999, p. 3, 1999 The Northern Miner, 9 July 1999, p. 8 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources Private Hands (These regards may not be readily available) Private collection of Carrie Bell, granddaughter of Kate Cable Author Details Lee Butterworth Created 22 June 2009 Last modified 21 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Meitka Gruszka is a member of the Polish community in Western Australia who has taken an active role in multicultural issues. As well as being a leader in the Polish community, having served as President of the Polish Association of Western Australia, she was involved in a number of multicultural organisations. At various times throughout the 80s and 90s she was a member of the Ethnic Communities Council of Western Australia, the Catholic Migrant Centre and the National Ethnic and Multicultural Broadcasters’ Council. Meitka Gruszka was born in Poland just before the outbreak of World War 2. As a baby, she was transported with her mother to the USSR where her mother worked in a Siberian forced labour camp. After the was, she and her mother travelled as refugees to Iran and then East Africa. They arrived in Western Australia in 1950. She completed her education here and became a primary school teacher, working for fifteen years in both the state and catholic school systems. She furthered her education by completing a Bachelor of Education, specialising in teaching English as a Second Language (ESL). In 1979 she was employed by the Catholic Education Office in the area of ESL and Multicultural Education. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources State Library of Western Australia Gruszka Mietka papers Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 19 August 2006 Last modified 25 September 2015 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Caroline Le Couteur served two terms as a Member of the ACT Legislative Assembly. She represented the electorate of Molonglo from 2008 to 2012 and the electorate of Murrumbidgee from 2016 to 2020 as a member of the Greens Party. Le Couteur entered politics as a seasoned campaigner for environmental sustainability, ethical business and investment practices, and improvements in community and social lives. She was a founding director of Australian Ethical Investment, an ASX listed company, and worked as their information technology manager. She also served as the Executive Director of the Australasian Centre for Corporate Responsibility, a not-for-profit organisation that fights to improve the sustainability of Australian businesses. She was a national councillor of the Australian Conservation Foundation and active supporter of several environmental groups. Caroline Le Couteur was inscribed on the ACT Women’s Honour Roll in 2008. Caroline Le Couteur was born in England in 1952 to Kenneth James Le Couteur and his wife Enid Margaret (née Domville). The family came to Canberra in 1956 when her father was appointed as foundation Professor of Theoretical Physics at the Australian National University. Caroline was the oldest of four daughters (the others being Penelope, Mary and foster daughter Marion Chesher) and was educated in Canberra and completed an economics degree at the ANU. She later went on to complete a Bachelor of Business at the Northern Rivers College of Advanced Education (now Southern Cross University). She has one daughter and three grandchildren. Caroline is married to Guy de Vanny. Le Couteur moved to Nimbin after attending the Aquarius Festival there in 1973. Her daughter was born during the 11 years she lived in a community at Tuntable Falls, Nimbin. Becoming a mother led to Caroline joining with other parents to found a pre-school and primary school. She was an early adopter and advocate of renewable energy technology, becoming a retailer and installer of solar panels. Her experiences led her to become an active supporter from the 1980s of the Australian and New Zealand Solar Energy Society and the Alternative Energy Association. In 1985 Le Couteur moved back to Canberra and worked for the federal and ACT governments, firstly in information technology and later in renewable energy policy. In 1991 she was one of the founders of now ASX-listed company Australian Ethical Investment. She was an executive director as well as its information technology manager. She remained a Director for over 17 years, seeing the company grow from one part-time employee to over 60 staff with over $600 million under management. Le Couteur’s deep concerns about environmental sustainability and dangers of climate change led to her involvement in the Australian Conservation Foundation. She served as the ACT Councillor on the ACF’s National Council from 1993 to 2008. In addition, she completed a Graduate Diploma in Environmental and Development Management at the Australian National University. Le Couteur joined the Greens Party in the mid 1990s and first stood for election to the ACT Legislative Assembly in 1998, as a support Greens candidate to then incumbent Kerrie Tucker. She remained active in the Greens Party over the next decade, holding various offices including convening the Party’s Donations Reference Group. She was elected to the seat of Molonglo in 2008. Three other Greens candidates also won seats at that election, giving the Party the balance of power. During her first term as an MLA, Le Couteur was the Greens spokesperson on planning, Territory and municipal services, business and economic development, Indigenous affairs, the arts, and heritage. She was Assistant Speaker; she also chaired the Assembly’s Public Accounts Committee and was Deputy Chair of the Planning, Public Works and Territory and Municipal Services Standing Committee. Le Couteur, Bresnan and Hunter lost their seats at the 2012 election. In 2013 Le Couteur became the first executive officer of the Australasian Centre for Corporate Responsibility, a not-for-profit organisation that uses shareholder action to improve the sustainability of Australian businesses and held that position till 2016, when she stood for the Greens again and was re-elected to the Assembly – this time for the new seat of Murrumbidgee. In her second term, Le Couteur was one of two Greens representatives and the Party entered a power-sharing alliance with the Australian Labor Party which gave the latter government. Le Couteur chaired the Assembly’s Planning and Renewal Committee, and sat on the Health, Aging and Community Services Committee and the Integrity Commission. Later she would express unease that the arrangement had diminished the Greens’ independent scope of action and capacity to exercise a real balance of power. In a 2019 interview with the Canberra Times announcing her retirement, Le Couteur pointed to her work on climate change as her proudest achievement in her time in politics. She helped pass the ACT’s ground-breaking legislation to achieve 100% renewable energy and a 40% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions from 1990 levels by 2020. She put improvements in tree-planting and support for household food composting solutions on the political agenda, and worked for better public transport and expansion of access to affordable solar power. In addition, she pushed for more community involvement in planning and helped secure commitments to increased accessible and affordable housing, especially in new land releases and urban renewal. She also pursued improvements in the treatment of victims of sexual assault, including legislation around sexual consent and abuse of intimate images – often called ‘revenge porn’. In retirement Le Couteur continues her community work as a volunteer, in particular for the Friends of Mawson Ponds which aims to create a wildlife corridor in the Woden Valley. She is a member of the Brougham Street cohousing project and part of Cohousing Canberra. Published resources Caroline Le Couteur - Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caroline_Le_Couteur LeCouteur-Caroline - ACT Legislative Assembly, https://www.parliament.act.gov.au/members/ninth-assembly-members/murrumbidgee/lecouteur-caroline Caroline Le Couteur | ACT Greens, https://greens.org.au/act/person/caroline-le-couteur Thank you for all your contributions, Caroline Le Couteur MLA, ACT Greens Member for Murrumbidgee | ACT Greens, https://greens.org.au/act/news/thank-you-all-your-contributions-caroline-le-couteur-mla-act-greens-member-murrumbidgee Caroline Le Couteur, the Greens politician with an activist investment portfolio, Kirsten Lawson, 2016, https://www.canberratimes.com.au/story/6039459/caroline-le-couteur-the-greens-politician-with-an-activist-investment-portfolio Greens MLA Caroline Le Couteur to leave ACT Legislative Assembly, Daniel Burdon, 2019 Greens in government in the ACT – reflections on successes and challenges from a former MLA, Caroline Le Couteur, 2022, https://greenagenda.org.au/2022/04/greens-in-government-in-the-act Former ACT MLA says party is now too close to Labor, paying a high price for cabinet positions, Lottie Twyford, 2022, https://the-riotact.com/former-act-greens-mla-says-party-is-now-too-close-to-labor-paying-a-high-price-for-cabinet-positions/549780 Author Details Louise Moran Created 26 April 2023 Last modified Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Irene Greenwood talks about her mother, Mary Driver’s membership in the Women’s Service Guilds and some of the organizations early members. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 31 March 2004 Last modified 7 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

June Craig was a member of the Western Legislative Assembly from 1974 until 1983, and served also as a cabinet Minister. In 1994 she received an Order of Australia (AM) for her long and distinguished parliamentary and community service. Margaret June Lynn was born in Perth in 1930. She was three years old when her family moved to Mosman Park, where she was educated at St Hilda’s Primary School, and later at Presbyterian Ladies’ College. She preferred to be known as June, and was in her youth a champion tennis player selected for the Wilson Cup State teams in 1948 and 1949. June studied physical education at the University of Western Australia and University of Melbourne. In September 1951, she married Frank Craig, whose father, Leslie Craig, was a long-serving member of the Legislative Council. June’s great grandfather, Robert John Lynn, had also sat in the Legislative Council from 1912 to 1924. June and Frank Craig had three children, one of whom was tragically killed by a falling tree from a bushfire near Rockingham in March 1977. June Craig joined the Liberal Party in 1950, and was elected to the Legislative Assembly for the south-west seat of Wellington in 1974. After only one term in Parliament, she became only the second woman (after Dame Florence Cardell-Oliver) to achieve Cabinet rank in Western Australia, after which she held various Cabinet posts until losing her parliamentary seat in the 1983 State election. Craig was actively involved in a wide variety of community affairs and organizations, including the St Mary’s Anglican Guild, the Citizens’ Advice Bureau and Good Neighbour Council, the Save the Children Fund, the Karrakatta Club, the Commonwealth Games Association and the Western Australian Olympic Council. After leaving Parliament she was a partner in a children’s clothing business and served as senior Vice-President of the Forrest Division of the Liberal Party. In 1994 June Craig was appointed a Member in the General Division of the Order of Australia (AM) for her long and distinguished parliamentary and community service. Published resources Book Section Making a Difference: Women in the West Australian Parliament 1921-1999, Black, David and Phillips, Harry, 2000 Edited Book Biographical Register of Members of the Parliament of Western Australia, Vol. 2, 1930-1990, Black, David and Bolton, Geoffrey, 1990 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 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources State Library of Western Australia [Interview with June Craig] [sound recording] / [interviewed by R. Jamieson] Author Details Lisa MacKinney Created 21 September 2009 Last modified 23 October 2015 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

6 sound files.??”Mary Hiscock is a graduate of the Universities of Melbourne and Chicago. She is a legal practitioner in Victoria, Queensland, New South Wales and in federal jurisdictions. She is an Emeritus Professor of the Law Faculty at Bond University. She has taught for many years at Bond University and the University of Melbourne, and in Europe, Asia, and North America. Professor Hiscock has represented Australia at the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL). She was an Expert Adviser to the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development for many years and also a Consultant to the Asian Development Bank. She is a member of the Boards of the Australian Journal of Asian Law and of the Melbourne Journal of International Law. She is a past Chair of the International Law Section of the Law Council of Australia, and a past President of the International Academy of Commercial and Consumer Law”–‘Personal property securities in Australia’ (2010). LexisNexis; Chatswood, N.S.W., p. 106. Author Details Helen Morgan Created 12 September 2014 Last modified 22 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

A tireless campaigner and activist for over fifty years, Irene Adelaide Greenwood’s interests in feminism and the peace movement were formed through her mother Mary Driver’s involvement with the Women’s Services Guild. The achievements of Greenwood’s life’s work are considerable and her commitment and energy was recognized in the many awards bestowed on her. These include Member of the Order of Australia, the first woman to receive an Honorary Doctorate at Murdoch University, recognition as the strategist behind the implementation of the Chair in Peace Studies at Murdoch University, the United Nations Association of Australia Silver Peace Medal and honorary life membership, Queen’s Silver Jubilee Medal, appointment to the National Advisory Committee on Women’s Affairs in 1974 and the naming of the flagship of the State ship’s fleet M.V. Irene Greenwood in her honour. Greenwood was also a life or honorary member of many key international, national and state peace and women’s organizations. As early as 1916 Irene Greenwood was sensitized to issues of social justice sharing her mother’s concern for the oppression of Aborigines and women. In 1920 she participated in Perth’s first strike by civil servants marking the beginning of a long career in political activism. In 1931 she moved from Perth to Sydney where she began a career in broadcasting, at the same time developing a radical political consciousness and experience in the women’s movement. Returning to Perth in 1935 she worked on the ABC’s Women’s Session and then moved to commercial radio instituting the popular Woman to Woman programme. Greenwood retired from radio in 1953. Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, she intensified her involvement in the women’s and peace movements, traveling as a delegate to national conferences and forums and in 1965 to The Hague and Zurich for the Golden Jubilee Congress of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom. She edited Peace and Freedom the official organ for Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom until she was into her seventies. Locally Greenwood was party to the formation of the Western Australian Council for Equal Pay and Opportunity and edited Equal Pay News for the duration of the organization’s existence. She participated in the foundation of Western Australian branches of the Family Planning Association, the Abortion Law Repeal Association, Women’s Liberation and Women’s Electoral Lobby. Greenwood expressed a special love for history, organising displays of the founders of the Women’s Movement and documenting the history of Western Australian women’s organizations and feminism. She bestowed a vast archive of unique and rare material relating to women and the peace movement to Murdoch University. (As Giles (1999) notes Greenwood publicly changed her date of birth to 1899 to coincide with the year that non-Indigenous women won the vote in Western Australia) Published resources Book The Irene Greenwood Collection : a classified list of holdings in Murdoch University Library of material received from Irene Greenwood as of May 1986, Murdoch University. Library, 1986 First lust, Greenwood, Irene, 1973 Women on the warpath : feminist of the first wave, Davidson, Dianne, 1997 On air : the story of Catherine King and the ABC Women's Session, Lewis, Julie, 1925-2003, 1979 Thesis The limits of authorship : the radio broadcasts of Irene Greenwood, 1936-1954, Richardson, John Andrew, 1988 Irene Greenwood: A Voice for Peace, Murray, K J F, 2002 Book Section Irene Greenwood, Cornish, Diana, 1978 Greenwood, Irene, Caine, Barbara, 1998 Edited Book Who's Who of Australian Women, Lofthouse, Andrea, 1982 Conference Paper Irene Greenwood: 1899(sic)-1992, a hero of the feminist movement, Giles, Patricia, 1997 Journal Article [Irene Greenwood - autobiography of feminist activist], 1992 [Irene Greenwood - obituaries for feminist and social activist], 1992 [Irene Greenwood - obituaries for feminist and social activist], 1992 [Irene Greenwood - obituaries for feminist and social activist], 1992 In Memoriam ; Irene Adelaide Greenwood 1992, Baldock, C V, 1993 Irene Greenwood; a hero of the feminist movement 1899-1992., Giles, Patricia, 1999 Newspaper Article [Irene Greenwood - interview with W.A.'s leading feminist], 1987 Irene Greenwood - obituaries for feminist and social activist], 1992 [Newspaper article about Greenwood: relationship with Broome], 1984 [Newspaper article about Greenwood: hears anti-discrimination bill introduced], 1984 Resource Section The Limits of Authorship: The Radio Broadcasts of Irene Greenwood, 1936-1954, Richardson, John, 1996, http://wwwmcc.murdoch.edu.au/ReadingRoom/Richo/RichCont.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Papers of Irene Greenwood, 1912-1981 [manuscript] Papers of Jessie Street, circa 1914-1968 [manuscript] Records of the Australian Federation of Women Voters, 1920-1983 [manuscript] Murdoch University The Irene Greenwood Collection [Birthday party at Cockburn Sound] [The Australian Bill of Rights] Irene Greenwood talks to Robin Juniper Irene Greenwood talks with Grant Stone Irene Greenwood talks with Angela Douglass [Irene Greenwood Library Resources Trust] : Food for Feminism Dinner, November 7th, 1986 [Irene Greenwood] [picture] National Library of Australia [Biographical cuttings on Irene Greenwood, containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journals] National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Irene Greenwood interviewed by Hazel de Berg in the Hazel de Berg collection [sound recording] State Library of Western Australia [Interview with Irene Greenwood] [sound recording] / [interviewed by Nancy Lutton] [Interview with Irene Greenwood] [sound recording] / [interviewed by Nancy Lutton]. Interview with Irene Greenwood] [sound recording] / [interviewed by Rica Erikson] [Interview with Irene Greenwood] [sound recording] / [interviewed by Ken Spillman] [Interview with Irene A. Greenwood] [sound recording] / [interviewed by Clive Moore] [Interview with Mrs Irene Greenwood] [sound recording] / [interviewed by Gillian Waite]. [Interview with Irene Greenwood, feminist] [sound recording] Women's Service Guilds of Western Australia records Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection Jean Fleming Arnot - personal and professional papers, 1890-1995 Lorelei Booker - papers, ca. 1890-1991 State Library of New South Wales Irina Dunn papers, ca. 1980-1984, with papers collected relating to early feminists, 1873-1983 Author Details Denise Tallis Created 26 March 2004 Last modified 16 September 2013 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Agnes Bannon was a committed Democratic Labor Party member who ran for election three times: for Burwood in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly in1973 and for Lowe in the House of Representatives in 1969 and in 1972. Agnes Bannon was the mother of two sons and two daughters. She lived most of her life in the Strathfield/Burwood area, and had taught music there for many years when she first ran for election in 1969. She campaigned by inviting people to “information afternoons” at her home, which consisted of afternoon tea and a discussion of policy. She also door-knocked extensively in the Strathfield area. She was strongly in favour of state aid. In 1972 the Women’s Electoral Lobby ranked her responses to their questions as the second lowest of the nine candidates standing. 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 and Helen Morgan Created 6 December 2005 Last modified 23 October 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Eva Cox papers, ca. 1974-ca. 1994, including material related to the Pearl Watson Foundation, ca. 1985-ca. 1995, personal papers, ca. 1974-ca. 1994, volunteer feminist advocacy work, 1990-1993, Women’s Peace Group, 1990-1991, The Women’s Academy, 1991-1994, Women’s Economic Think Tank (WetTANK), 1990-1993, Refractory Girl Collective, 1979-1993, Distaff Associates, 1990-1994, private consultancy, Sole Parents’ Union, 1979-1992, and draft manuscripts of lectures and books by Eva Cox. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 26 June 2018 Last modified 26 June 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Leah Cameron is a Palawa woman from Tasmania and the Principal Solicitor and owner of Marrawah Law, a Supply Nation certified Indigenous legal practice. Her primary areas of practice are native title, cultural heritage, future acts and commercial law. Leah Cameron’s passion for her work is unwavering and has assisted her in achieving six native title consent determinations to date. Her efforts were recognised in 2008 when she was awarded the Tasmanian Young Achiever of the Year Award in the category of Trade and Career Achievement. Her commitment has also led to her being awarded the Centenary Medal of Australia and the Robert Riley Law Scholarship whilst studying at the University of Tasmania. Her greatest honour was being asked to negotiate and repatriate her ancestors’ remains from the British Museum in London on behalf of the Tasmanian Aboriginal community. Leah is a regular contributor to the National Talk Black radio program presenting on topical legal issues. She is also a director of Access Community Housing and a member of the Queensland Law Society, North Queensland Law Association and the Far North Queensland Law Association. Some of her significant achievements in the field of law include: Acting for first Indigenous homeowner (99-year lease) under Indigenous Home Ownership program in Queensland; Acting as solicitor for the applicants in the Djiru People #2 and #3 native title consent determinations 2011; Acting as solicitor for the applicant in Wanyurr Majay People native title consent determination 2011; Acting as solicitor for the applicant Jirrbal People #1-#3 native title consent determination 2010; Supervising solicitors with the successful consent determination of the following native title matters: Muluridji, Djungan, Combined Gunggandji, Gugu Badhun, Jangga, Juru, Tableland Yidinji and Combined Mandingalbay Yidinji Gunggandji; Successfully preparing the first application for National Heritage listing for an Aboriginal site within North Queensland. Published resources Site Exhibition Australian Women Lawyers as Active Citizens, Trailblazing Women Lawyers Project Team, 2016, http://www.womenaustralia.info/lawyers Author Details Leah Cameron Created 18 May 2016 Last modified 28 October 2016 Digital resources Title: Leah Cameron Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

MS 7847 comprises manuscripts, typescripts, notes, newspaper clippings and correspondence relating to Clark’s work as a writer. The correspondence is mostly with publishers and editors, including, Cole Turnley, E.W. Cole, W. Heinemann, George Robinson, Edward Vidler, Derek Smith, Sir Donald Bradman, Zola Kay, Chris Tangey, Catherine Hennessy, and Jackie McDonald.??The MS Acc99.226 instalment includes notes and notebooks, talks given by Clark, newspaper cuttings, press releases and correspondence relating to several of her works, including, No mean destiny, They came south, Nowhere to hide, Blue above the trees and her autobiography, Trust the dream. In addition, manuscripts of various unpublished works, a scrapbook on Pastor Doug, and papers relating to conferences Clark attended.??The MS Acc05.016 instalment comprises correspondence, drafts, screenplays, royalty statements, agreements, files on Public Lending Right and Copyright Agency Limited, diaries and photographs. Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 7 October 2004 Last modified 5 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Glen Tomasetti was born in Melbourne, Australia. An academically and musically gifted woman, she was well-known throughout the Australian folk music circuit, working on commercial television and cutting eleven albums in the 1960s. A left-leaning environmentalist and feminist, Glen was vehemently opposed to the Vietnam War and was a member of the Save Our Sons Movement in Victoria. In 1967 she made headlines when she was subpoenaed to court for withholding one-sixth of her income tax on the grounds that this was the exact proportion used by the Holt government to finance the war in Vietnam. She became a hero of the feminist movement in 1969 when she adapted the words to an old shearing gang ballad, ‘All among the wool boys’. Glen’s version ‘Don’t be too Polite, Girls’ was written to support the 1969 case for equal pay that was being heard by the high court. Glen Tomasetti had three children and believed that motherhood was the emotional core of her life. She has been described as “a woman of singular passion that found focus in motherhood, friendship, art, the environment and justice for the oppressed. Her creativity was multifaceted. She was a historian, poet, novelist and actor. She was formidably intelligent and her god had bestowed on her extraordinary physical beauty.” Don’t Be Too Polite, Girls Tune: All among the wool, boys Lyrics: Glen Tomasetti 1. We’re really on the way, girls, really on the way Hooray for equal pay, girls, hooray for equal pay They’re going to give it to most of us, in spite of all their fears But did they really need to make us wait for all those years? Chorus: Don’t be too polite, girls, don’t be too polite, Show a little fight, girls, show a little fight. Don’t be fearful of offending in case you get the sack Just recognise your value and we won’t look back. 2. I sew up shirts and trousers in the clothing trade Since men don’t do the job, I can’t ask to be better paid The people at the top rarely offer something more Unless the people underneath are walking out the door. Chorus 3. They say a man needs more to feed his children and his wife Well, what are the needs of a woman who leads a double working life When the whistle blows for knock-off it’s not her time for fun She goes home to start the job that’s not paid and never done. Chorus 4. Don’t be too afraid, girls, don’t be too afraid, We’re clearly underpaid girls, clearly underpaid. Though equal pay in principle is every woman’s right To turn that into practice we must show a little fight. Chorus 5. ‘We can’t afford to pay you,’ say the masters in their wrath. But woman says ‘Just cut your coat according to the cloth. If the economy won’t stand it then here’s your answer boys, Cut out the wild extravagance on the new war toys.’ Chorus 6. All among the bull, girls, all among the bull, Keep your hearts full, girls, keep your hearts full. What good is a man as a doormat or following close at heel? It’s not their balls we’re after, it’s a fair square deal. Chorus Published resources Book Thoroughly decent people : a folktale, Tomasetti, Glen, 1976 Man of letters : a romance, Tomasetti, Glen, 1981 Newspaper Article Brains, beauty and heart, Jones, Philip, 2003 A life's song for the heart and soul of Australia, Wright, Clare, 2003 Singer-writer Tomasetti dies, aged 74, Jackson, Andra, 2003 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources National Library of Australia [Biographical cuttings on Glen Tomasetti, author, containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journals] National Library of Australia, Pictures Collection Portrait of Glen Tomasetti at her home in Armadale Vic., July 1970 [picture] / Mark Strizic Author Details Anne Heywood and Nikki Henningham Created 15 October 2003 Last modified 29 October 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Traditional music of migrant groups in Australia and other Australian Folk Lore. Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 15 August 2006 Last modified 29 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

1. Anna Eckford Somers Cocks, 1876-1890, re marriages and family matters.?2. Papers of Arthur Somers Cocks, 1918-1937, 6th Baron. Includes official papers, correspondence, photographs, memorabilia, declarations of loyalty and presentation addresses and masonic material. Most of the material relates to period while governor of Victoria, 1926-1931.?3. Lady Finola Somers papers, 1926-31.? Australian material including letters, souvenirs, programmes, menu, scrapbook, speeches and other papers. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 16 February 2004 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Evelyn Evans was a young English girl from a well-to-do family, who while in Australia as part of a world trip, met and married station manager Charles Maunsell in 1912. They lived at Mulgrave Station which was located on the frontier of far north Queensland. Evelyn endured incredible hardship, with pioneering forcing her to endure hazards that pushed her far beyond the traditional female role; that of mother, wife and homemaker. Her courage and resourcefulness helped further the position and importance of women in colonial society. A young Evelyn Evans left England on a ’round-the-world’ adventure and instead found love and a new life in Australia in 1912. She married property manager Charles Maunsell in Cairns, and they lived together at Mulgrave Station near Mareeba, in a tin shed with a concrete floor. Contrary to the soft grey of England, life in the Atherton Tablelands was hot, wet and isolated. Despite Evelyn striking up friendships with local Aboriginal children, and running a small school for them on the property, white settlers had a poor reputation among tribal Aborigines in the area. When Charles Maunsell was away mustering they invaded the station and Maggie, mother of the Aboriginal children, hid Evelyn under the bed in order to save her life. Evelyn also survived malaria and several miscarriages, proving to those around her she was no English rose. Later she and Charles set up their own dairy property on the Atherton Tableland. They retired to Brisbane where Evelyn became actively involved with the Country Women’s Association. In 1968 Evelyn’s one and only son Ron Maunsell, won a Country Party plebiscite and in March 1969, took a seat in Federal Parliament as Senator Ron Maunsell. The book, S’pose I Die (1981) was based on Evelyn’s diaries and her conversations with author, Hector Holthouse. Published resources Book Great pioneer women of the outback, De Vries, Susanna, 2005 S'pose I die : the story of Evelyn Maunsell, Holthouse, Hector, 1981 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources National Library of Australia [Biographical cuttings on Evelyn Maunsell, former pioneer, containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journals] Author Details Lee Butterworth Created 22 June 2009 Last modified 11 June 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Jean Manuel was a dedicated local activist in southern Sydney, with a wide range of voluntary and community interests. She was a Councillor on the Sutherland Shire council from 1965-80, including stints as the Deputy Shire President from 1968-71 and 1977-78 and Shire President from 1978-79. Jean was less successful in state politics, having been an unsuccessful Independent candidate in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly elections for Woronora in 1973 and for Sutherland in 1988. Educated Belmore North PS, NSW, St Joseph’s School, Belmore NSW, Burwood HS NSW Married Kenneth Manuel, 1946, two daughters and one son. Voluntary Red Cross worker, 1939-45, 1945-47. Infants teacher, St Joseph’s School Oyster Bay 1955-63. First woman councillor, deputy shire president and shire president in her long career with Sutherland Shire 1965-80. Australian Local Government Women’s Association office holder, records officer and historian, life member from 1970. MBE 1977. Patron of many organizations in Sutherland Shire, including Amelie House Women’s Refuge 1978-80. Published resources Edited Book Who's Who of Australian Women, Lofthouse, Andrea, 1982 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 31 January 2006 Last modified 16 September 2013 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

3 hours (approx. to date)??A project initiated by the Multicultural Communities Council of South Australia, aimed at giving migrants to Australia the opportunity to record the stories of their migration experiences. The interviews will form the basis for creating initiatives and strategies for developing greater community harmony and increased understanding of cultural diversity and how it enhances life in South Australia. The project aims to establish partnerships with a number of organisations including Federal and State Government, educational bodies, police, business, the media, industry and trade. The project commenced in 2001 and is a work in progress. Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 2 July 2006 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Rendering for Australian servicewomen’s memorial design.?Drawing. Watercolour on card Author Details Anne Heywood Created 17 February 2004 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

MS Acc09.159 comprises papers relating to Eleanor Harriett (Nell) Rivett (1883-1972) including invitations and cards, material relating to Women’s Christian College, Madras, autobiography and memories of childhood, letters, clippings and tributes to her father Albert Rivett, correspondence with London Missionary Society, and press clippings on Nehru. Also included are press clippings and eulogy on Nell Rivett and the Rivett family, information on the Eleanor and David Rivett Memorial Library, family letters, Children’s Library and Craft Club material. There are medals and associated materials including Kaisar-I-Hind gold medal for public service in India, University of Sydney prize medals (Doris Mary Rivett), Albury S.P. School dux 1904 (Olive Rivett); family photographs, albums and framed photographs; a portfolio of Indian art, and university certificates. Papers relating to Sir Albert Cherbury David Rivett (1885-1961) include letters, newspaper clippings, research publications, David Rivett memorial lectures and biographical materials. Documents and letters relating to Mary Matheson (ne?e Rivett), Christine Rivett, Else Rivett, Olive Long (ne?e Rivett), and letters from E.M. (Lil) Rivett (7 boxes, 2 fol. Boxes). Author Details Alannah Croom Created 9 January 2018 Last modified 9 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Peg Lusink was the first Victorian woman appointed to the Judiciary and also the second woman appointed to the Family Court, when it began operations in 1976. Prior to her judicial appointment, Peg was a Partner at Corr and Corr, working principally in the areas of matrimonial causes and family law. She briefly practiced at the Melbourne Bar before becoming a Family Court Judge. Upon retirement from the Family Court, in 1990, Peg became one of the foundational Professors in the Law Faculty at Bond University. In 1996, Peg accepted another judicial appointment, becoming the President of the Commonwealth Professional Services Review Tribunal. In that same year she was appointed AM for law for services to the Family Court and the community. Peg Lusink 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 AustraliaCATALOGUE RECORD. Peg Lusink was born in Tocumwal, New South Wales to Joan Rosanove QC and Dr Edward Rosanove. She was educated first at Loreto Mandeville Hall and then later at Merton Hall. In 1939 Peg enrolled at the University of Melbourne to study law. At age 16, she also made history by being articled to her mother, Joan Rosanove. Six months later, in 1940, she married Dr Graeme Larkins and went on to have three sons. Upon Graeme’s early death in 1959, Peg returned to the University of Melbourne in 1960, as a mature aged student, and completed a Bachelor of Laws degree. Admitted to the Bar in 1965, Peg went on to become a Partner at Corr and Corr, Solicitors working in the matrimonial causes area. She practised briefly at the Victorian Bar before becoming Victoria’s first female judicial officer and the second woman appointed to the Family Court in 1975. In 1984 Peg was appointed the Judge Administrator of the newly established Dandenong Registry of the Family Court and pioneered a progressive counselling approach to family disputes until her retirement in 1988. In 1990 Peg became one of the foundational Professors in the Law Faculty at Bond University, teaching family law and running the Moot Court Program. In 1996, Peg accepted another judicial appointment, becoming the President of the Commonwealth Professional Services Review Tribunal, and in that same year was awarded an AM for law for services to the Family Court and the community. The following essay was written with the cooperation of Peg Lusink in May 2016. Lusink, Peg (Margaret) AM Justice of the Family Court of Australia Peg Lusink was the first Victorian woman appointed to the Judiciary of a Superior Court of Record and also the second woman appointed to the Family Court of Australia, when it began operations in 1976. Prior to her judicial appointment Peg was a partner in Corr and Corr, Solicitors, working principally in the area of family law under the then Matrimonial Causes Act. She signed the Roll of Counsel and worked as a barrister for a brief period until taking up her appointment in February 1976 on the newly established Family Court of Australia, which was created within the newly introduced Commonwealth legislation, the Family Law Act 1975. In 1984, upon the opening of the new Dandenong Registry she became the Judge Administrator where she was given the opportunity by the Chief Justice of the Court, Justice Elizabeth Evatt to pioneer a more progressive approach to family disputes. Upon resignation of her commission in 1990 she became one of the foundation professors in the Law Faculty of the newly established Bond University and in 1996 accepted another judicial appointment as President of the Commonwealth Professional Services Review Tribunal. In that year Peg received the honor of an AM for law, services to the Family Court and to the community. Peg Lusink was born in 1922 in Tocumwal, New South Wales. Her mother was Joan Rosanove QC, the renowned trailblazing female barrister at the Victorian Bar. Her father, Edward Rosanove, was a General Practitioner in Tocumwal at the time of Peg’s birth, before the family relocated to Westgarth, in the inner northern suburbs of Melbourne. Peg was raised by parents who had a ‘remarkable’ relationship being ‘absolutely devoted to each other’ in their support of each other’s professional careers (Interview Rubenstein). For a significant period of time Joan Rosanove was the only woman at the Victorian Bar and was unusual in pursuing a career in law at that time. Peg particularly adored her father who she says ‘allowed her mother to work and was ahead of his time’ (Interview Rubenstein). Peg’s father relocated the family to London, England in 1932 to further his studies in dermatology. Peg’s younger sister Judy was born in London, and when the family returned to Melbourne they lived in Toorak. Peg was enrolled first at Loreto Mandeville Hall and then later at Merton Hall. In 1939 Peg enrolled at the University of Melbourne to study law. This event was recorded by The Daily News in Perth as ‘legal history’ in the making with Peg articled, aged just 16, to her mother Joan Rosanove (Daily News). However, this period of time at the University of Melbourne and undertaking articles with her mother was short lived; she studied for six months and in 1940 married ‘the love of her life’ Dr Graeme Larkins (Interview Rubenstein). Peg went on to have three sons with Graeme and enjoyed many happy years of marriage living in Corryong, where life as a doctor’s wife in the country guaranteed much community work and a good social life. Peg returned to England, again living in London, as Graeme pursued his medical career. Graeme’s early death in 1959 left Peg bereft but nonetheless a young widowed mother with the responsibility for raising three sons. While law was never high on her list of priorities, and grieving the loss of her dearest companion and husband, Peg realised she had to provide an income for her family. Supported by her son John Larkins, who was already a law student at the University of Melbourne, in 1960 she returned to her studies in law. Completing her degree at the University of Melbourne as a mature aged student, Peg found support from then Dean Harold Ford and from lecturers such as Sir Zelman Cowen and Professor Robin Sharwood. Peg was one of only four female mature aged students at the Law School. In this environment she met another mature aged law student, Theo Lusink, a Dutch national who had re-located to Australia after World War 2 and joined the Royal Australian Air Force. In November 1964 she and Theo married. Soon after, at the beginning of 1965, Peg’s admission to practice was moved in the Supreme Court of Victoria by her mother Joan Rosanove Q.C with her son John Larkins as her Junior. As a solicitor, she commenced articles with the law firm of Corr and Corr (as it then was). Almost immediately she was asked to run the then small matrimonial practice which was conducted under the existing State legislation, the Matrimonial Causes Act. At this time Peg quickly found support and friendship with members of the legal fraternity and was inspired by many including the Hon. Esler Barber who was in the Supreme Court sitting mainly on family disputes. In the late sixties Peg was made a partner in the firm, becoming the first woman to do so in a large prestigious commercial law firm in Melbourne. In June 1974 Peg was called to the Bar reading with Bill Gillard, who would later become Justice Gillard of the Supreme Court. However, her time as a Barrister was short lived, as in February 1976 she was appointed a Justice of the Family Court of Australia becoming the first woman in Victoria to be appointed under the newly introduced Commonwealth Family Law Act 1975 and the first Victorian woman to be appointed to a Superior Court of Record. Peg was mentored among others by Chief Justice Elizabeth Evatt who she describes as “a woman of great intellect” (Interview Rubenstein). Peg further states that she was a woman of compassion and vision. However, the Family Court was in its infancy at a time of great excitement and anticipation, the radical reform legislation having been led and introduced by the Whitlam government. Peg recalls “”being thrown in at the deep end being given a whole new meaning” as a Judge of a new and unexpectedly popular Court. A court “without any mentors or experienced judges to tell us how to do it, no precedents to follow or assist, a brand new law to interpret and rule upon behavioural scientists who had had no training in the law and lawyers who had had no training in counselling. Having done a brief year of psychology -1 I was marginally better equipped- if you’d call it that and we were plopped in this commercial building and told to be a “nice friendly helping Court”” (Interview Brodsky). In the early months Peg was operating in this environment with three male judges enjoying with them the stimulation and challenge of riding a steep learning curve in the shaping of this new court and its law. In 1984 Peg was appointed to be Judge Administrator of the new Registry of the Family Court, which was established at Dandenong. It was an initiative of Chief Justice Evatt who provided five counsellors to one Judge, an unheard of ratio, and a more formalized Court setting with the idea of pioneering less adversarial solutions. This proved popular and very successful leading to Judges visiting at first from Melbourne, and later a second Judge being appointed by the Attorney General Mr. Bowen. During these years Peg was also invited by the Premier of Victoria to become Foundation President of the newly established Victorian Womens’ Trust. Until her retirement, aged 66 in 1988, Peg shared the Family Court bench in Australia with only a handful of women with whom she was on very friendly terms. These included Chief Justice Elizabeth Evatt and Justice Josephine Hemsley-Maxwell both from Sydney and Justice Kemeri Murray from Adelaide. Of this time historian Shurlee Swain observed “Justice Peg Lusink’s excitement at the prospect of change which the Family Law Act provided is shared by many of those with whom she worked during the early years of the Family Court. However much of the dream faded over subsequent years, they remain proud of the contribution they made to reforming the way in which the breakdown of relationships was managed in Australia. Hailed as the ‘fulfilment of possibly the most humane and enlightened social reform to be enacted in Australia since the Second World War” (Swain). Retirement from the law was to be a brief interlude. In 1990 Peg was approached by Bond University to join its newly created Law School. In these “exciting times” Peg taught Family Law and was instrumental in developing the Law School’s Moot Court program (Interview Rubenstein). In 1992 Peg and her husband returned to Victoria where she and some like-minded Solicitors provided mediation for matrimonial disputes as an alternative to the adversarial alternative. Although “mediation” was in its infancy this proved very successful. This was in Benalla in the North East of the State and was conducted whilst her husband Theo continued his passion for farming. Further appointments followed in 1996 with Peg becoming the President of the Commonwealth Professional Services Review Tribunal investigating medical professionals and Medicare fraud. Peg was also appointed a Member of the Adult Parole Board of Victoria and was awarded an AM for law for services to the Family Court and the community. In 2004, Peg was honoured with induction into the Victorian Women’s Hall of Fame as a leader in law, women’s health and education. Having spent significant periods of her life in regional Victoria, New South Wales and Queensland, Peg has contributed enormously to the cultural fabric of rural communities, forming many lasting friendships. In 1992, she convened the Friends of the Library in Euroa and subsequently became Chairperson and Honorary Life Member of the National Friends of the Libraries of Australia. She has also been a board member of a number of local hospitals and was the representative of the Euroa Bush Nursing Hospital on the Victoria Bush Nursing Hospitals Association. Principally considered a trailblazer for her appointment as Victoria’s first female Judicial Officer of the Family Court and first female Partner in a Melbourne commercial law firm, Peg has been privileged, over nine decades, to observe tremendous social change and developments in the law. However, Peg’s greatest achievements must also be noted to include the deep and enduring relationship with her two adored husbands and three sons. As Peg observes of her life both inside and outside the law: ‘it’s a great history’ and ‘an extraordinary journey’ (Interview Rubenstein). Events 2004 - 2004 Inducted into the Victorian Honour Roll of Women Published resources Book Born in hope : the early years of the Family Court of Australia, Swain, Shurlee, 2012 Newspaper Article Law in Family, 1939 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 Peg Lusink interviewed by Kim Rubenstein in the Trailblazing women and the law oral history project Author Details Larissa Halonkin with Peg Lusink Created 12 May 2016 Last modified 21 November 2018 Digital resources Title: Peg Lusink Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Title: lusink1980.jpg Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

2 cassettes (ca. 75 min.).??Orn in Eden, NSW, Symonds speaks of her family background ; parents’ background ; lifestyle in Eden ; Jewish customs ; the family moving to Sydney when she was 11 ; childhood memories ; family life, home and living conditions ; family shops in Eden and Sydney ; courtship and marriage ; her brothers and sisters ; her daughter travelling to Palestine after World War II ; her schooling ; family maids ; her husband’s background ; kosher foods ; employment in shoe shop ; social life before marriage ; picnics and recreation ; trip overseas with husband ; husband’s employment ; memories of World War I ; her children ; forming the first Council of Jewish women ; council activities, its purpose ; Jewish immigrants. Author Details Jane Carey Created 22 September 2004 Last modified 21 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Pam Arnold had a long and successful career in local government as a Councillor for Shoalhaven from 1995-2004. She also ran as an Independent candidate for the South Coast in 2003. Elected to the Shoalhaven Council in 1995, Pam Arnold did extensive work on Council Committees, notably the Aboriginal Advisory Committee (1997-2004), Industrial Development and Employment Committee (1997-2004), The Shoalhaven Tourism Board (1997-2004), the Youth Advisory Committee (1996-2004) and the Works and Finance Committee (2000-04). Outside Council duties, she was also a member of the Animal Welfare Advisory Council, the National Parks and Wildlife Advisory Council and was appointed by the Minister to the NSW Fire Brigades Advisory Council (1999-2004). Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 6 December 2005 Last modified 1 September 2008 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Carmel Galvin talks about her parents background; her schooling; religion and religious beliefs; the death of her partner; her first marriage; purchasing a brothel in Kalgoorlie, Questa Casa; her impressions of Kalgoorlie; characteristics of sex workers; the role of the brothel madam; Brothel containment and the lifting of that containment at a later date; accounts and finances; the number of working girls; brothel operations, police rules; description of the rooms; drugs; the number of clients in a shift; prices and services; clients; the number of mines around Kalgoorlie and Coolgardie; mature aged workers; amounts earned; the stigma attached to prostitution; the number of brothels in Kalgoorlie and closures of some houses; Langtrees; Dominatrix; the rights of working girls; difficult clients; changes in Kalgoorlie; Privacy Act and health checks; Worker’s compensation; leasing out the brothel during the boom; her return to take over running the brothel in 2000; tourists and brothel tours; dress standards; day and night trade; Women’s Liberation and brothel work; taxation classifications; licensing; the increase in the number of brothel tours. Author Details Criena Fitzgerald Created 15 August 2012 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

The thesis ‘examines through a series of case studies the work of practitioners in the arts, individual patrons or supporters of particular artists or cultural groups, and networks of supporters. It explores the dynamics of respective movements initiated or driven by women within musical, artistic, literary and theatrical circles, and in the wider community of the culturally concerned’. In nine chapters the work explores the early patronage of Miles Franklin, 1900-1906; the role of the ‘Fairfax women’,( members of the prominent Sydney family), in the arts and crafts movement, 1899-1914; the Canadian born Ethel Kelly, who acted in Sydney theatre in 1903, and took up charity work after her marriage; Mary Gilmore and women writers of the 1920s; Ethel Anderson, 1924-1940; Lilian Frost, the Pitt Street Congregational Church organist, 1895-1949; Lady Margaret Gordon and the ‘little theatre’ movement, 1929-1939; the Sydney Symphony Orchestra and Beatrice Swinson, Ruth Fairfax and Lady Gordon; and Mary Alice Evatt and the Art Gallery of N.S.W. Author Details Jane Carey Created 22 October 2004 Last modified 27 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

The Victorian Branch of the Australian Railways Union (ARU), in contrast to many other male unions, did not encourage female rail workers to set up a separate section. In 1920 the Victorian Railways commenced employing women in sizeable numbers mainly as waitresses, barmaids, laundresses and cooks at various city and country railway stations. At this time, the Refreshment Services Branch was established with the introduction of new machinery into railway administrative offices, however females began to perform clerical work traditionally done by better-paid men. During World War II women began working in positions traditionally reserved for men. The Union participated in the Council of Action for Equal Pay, a body formed in 1937 to further the interests of female workers, as well as contributing to the Australian Council of Trade Union organized conferences on equal pay held in April and September 1942. Women paid junior rates for their union fees until equal pay was achieved. Victorian rail unionism began with the labourers’ Mutual Service Association of 1884. Others formed (of which the Locomotive Enginemen’s retained separate identity until 1990s), but moves to form an ‘all-grades’ union culminated with the establishment of the Victorian Railways Union (VRU) in 1911. Though attracted by the idea of One Big Union, VRU opted to become Victorian Branch of the Australian Railways Union (ARU) in 1920. The ARU in Victoria has long been militant and active in all major industrial campaigns of its existence. In 1993 it merged with Tram and Bus union and became a division of the Public Transport Union. Published resources Book In the service? : a history of Victorian Railways workers and their union, Butler-Bowdon, Eddie, 1991 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources The University of Melbourne Archives Australian Railways Union, Victorian Branch Australian Railways Union, Victorian Branch Australian Railways Union, Victorian Branch Australian Railways Union, Victorian Branch Australian Railways Union, Victorian Union Australian Railways Union, Victorian Branch Australian Railways Union, Victorian Branch Australian Railways Union, Victorian Branch Australian Railways Union, Victorian Branch Australian Railways Union, Victorian Branch Museums Victoria Collections Banner - Australian Railways Union, Victorian Branch, circa 1911 Author Details Anne Heywood Created 15 December 2003 Last modified 1 May 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Anne Hamilton was the second Queensland president of the Australian National Council of Women. She held office between 1964 and 1967, having already served as president of the Queensland Council from 1961 to 1964. Her period as state president was notable for successfully hosting the ANCW triennial conference and the International Council of Women regional seminar on international understanding in Brisbane in 1964. As national president in the ensuing 3 years, she set up the twinning relationship between the Australian and Thailand NCWs-a program initiated by the ICW to encourage ‘reciprocal relationships between N.C.Ws of contrasting economic patterns’. Her period in office also saw continuing lobbying of the federal government for the lifting of the marriage bar on the employment of women in the Commonwealth public service (achieved in 1967), for equal pay, and for seeking Australia’s re-election to the UN Status of Women Commission (achieved in 1967). As president, she also encouraged state NCWs to include welfare of Aborigines in the considerations of their standing committees, succeeded in persuading the government to include the portrait of an outstanding Australian woman on the new $5 note, and agitated for liberalising the means test for pensions with the aim of its eventual abolition. Hamilton represented the ANCW and the ICW at the International Federation of University Women conference in Brisbane in 1965, and led the ANCW delegation to the ICW triennial conference in Tehran in 1966. Hamilton’s other major interest was the propagation and growth of Australian plants, and she served as president of the Society for Growing Australian Plants, Queensland from 1965 to 1966. Annie Dorothy Hamilton was born on 22 June 1910 in Kerang, Victoria, daughter of William James Norwood McConnell of Barham, NSW, hotel manager, and his second wife, Eliza Anne Hobbs of Strathbogie, Victoria. Anne (as she preferred to be known) was educated at Esperance Girls’ School in Victoria before embarking on a business course. She subsequently engaged in office work, apart from a short period as a dressmaker in partnership with an aunt in Swan Hill. On her return to Melbourne she met and subsequently married Charles A. Hamilton, architect, at the Gardiner Presbyterian Church, on 27 March 1936; they had 1 son, Peter (born 1938) and 1 daughter, Prudence (born 1947). Anne Hamilton’s first public activism occurred in the immediate postwar period when, in opposition to continuing wartime rationing, she joined other women in campaigning to elect the first Liberal Party member for the Victorian federal seat of Balaclava in 1946. The family shifted to Brisbane in 1947 when Charles was appointed deputy city architect to the Brisbane City Council. To overcome her sense of isolation and constriction at home, she joined Forum, a group for encouraging women in public speaking. It was as this club’s delegate that she joined the National Council of Women of Queensland. Like many women leaders of her generation, Hamilton found the domestic routine unstimulating, and NCW activities provided a more satisfying outlet for her talents and energies. She was elected state president in 1960. Her desire for effective and meaningful work is evident in her summation of the role as ‘trying to stir NCW women to logical, informed mental processes and consequent action towards community welfare’, and ‘to attract women of spirit and intelligence to work with an organization of some significance … by persuading them that what they did had some real effect’. Her energetic leadership was focused first on finding solutions to the parlous state of the Council’s finances, and, second, on shifting its headquarters from the ‘squalid rooms in Celtic Chambers’ to more comfortable accommodation in Ann Street. She was also responsible for beginning NCWQ’s news-sheet, NCW News, in 1961, for using NCW auspices to inaugurate the Children’s Film and Television Council and the Consumers’ Association of Queensland, and for establishing a Townsville branch of NCWQ. The Council’s new rooms were used to host the International Council of Women’s regional seminar on international understanding in Brisbane in September 1964, and Hamilton’s home and gardens in Bardon were made available for a luncheon for delegates both to the seminar and to the Australian National Council of Women triennial conference held in conjunction with the ICW meeting. It was at this ANCW conference that Hamilton was elected president for the ensuing triennium. As national president in the ensuing 3 years, Hamilton extended her interests into the international arena and was responsible for overseeing the setting up the long-mooted twinning relationship between the Australian and Thailand NCWs-a program initiated by the ICW to encourage ‘reciprocal relationships between N.C.Ws of contrasting economic patterns’. As Hamilton reported to the 1967 ANCW conference, the ‘joint association was a bit slow to get off the ground’ owing to communication problems, but face-to-face meetings helped overcome initial difficulties. In 1965, Hamilton’s ANCW Board set up a fund to help the Thai Council with developmental education programs enabling small numbers of village children in the north of the country to be brought to the city for a course of training at the University of Agriculture, so they could take necessary skills back to their communities, and for 40 village women to be taught to sew to provide school children with uniforms, among other things. Both programs were supervised by project committees established in the village, thus providing their members with administrative skills and experience. Hamilton visited the Thai NCW in 1966 and reported back that, as a result of these initiatives, the idea of education had been encouraged, and also the development of ‘self respect, independence and cooperation’. ANCW would continue to provide funds, she said, including for a scholarship to educate a Thai student in her own country. ANCW also hoped to continue its participation in UNESCO’s Study Tours for Women Educational Leaders and Leaders of Women’s Voluntary Organisations, having in 1965 sponsored a 3-month tour of Australia by Mrs Tameno, a teacher and member of the Kenyan NCW. Hamilton represented the ANCW and the ICW at the International Federation of University Women conference in Brisbane in 1965, and led the ANCW delegation to the ICW triennial conference in Tehran in 1966, where she attended the seminar on literacy held in conjunction with the conference. The main message she brought back to ANCW was that ‘the true development of nations depends on the state of advancement of women and their participation in their communities’, and that literacy, understanding and skills of communication formed the bedrock of the ability to participate. Like her predecessors, she had come to see support for the work of the United Nations as crucial for women everywhere, and her Board lobbied the federal government to seek Australia’s re-election to the UN Status of Women Commission (CSW), achieved in 1967. She also put consideration of CSW’s Draft Declaration on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women on the agenda for discussion at the 1967 ANCW conference in Melbourne. At the national level, Hamilton, like her predecessor Dorothy Edwards, was concerned to ‘to streamline methods of working’-‘If A.N.C.W. is to tackle social problems, our lines of communication have to flow still more smoothly, administration has to be firmer’. But she was forced to admit, as other Boards had also found, that progress was ‘slow and difficult’, largely because of the limitations on continuity imposed by reliance of voluntary workers and the inevitable high turnover of personnel. On policy matters, Hamiltons’s period in office saw continued lobbying of the federal government for the lifting of the marriage bar on the employment of women in the Commonwealth public service (achieved in 1967) and for equal pay. As president, she also encouraged state NCWs to include the welfare of Aborigines in the considerations of their standing committees, succeeded in persuading the government to include the portrait of an outstanding Australian woman on the new $5 note, and agitated for liberalising the means test for pensions with the aim of its eventual abolition. Her term in office is also notable for the evidence it provides of anxieties about changes taking place in social mores; in her 1967 presidential address, Hamilton expressed concern about an apparent growth in ‘selfish egoism’, reckless self-indulgence’ and ‘callous disregard for human life and for the rights of others’, reflected in problems as diverse as the rising road toll, offences against girls and women, and ‘the rising rate of illegitimate births’. Conference resolutions and standing committee reports also reflected this anxiety, protesting against smoking in public places, lowering of censorship standards, and an evident rise in ‘sexual promiscuity’ and venereal disease. These and other matters were the focus of a seminar, Ethical Standards for Modern Living, which followed the 1967 conference and at which it was admitted that: ‘Uneasiness and concern had been felt by NCW about the changing pattern of society’. Participants in the end fell back on old verities in confirming ‘the importance of the family unit for stability in society and the principle of one moral standard for both men and women’. In the years following her national presidency, Anne Hamilton began to withdraw from NCW activities as a consequence of a series of family crises including hospitalisation of her daughter for several months after a car accident in 1967, her own increasing incapacity from an old back injury and arthritis, and husband Charles’s severe heart attack in the mid-1970s. She focused her activities more on the Society for Growing Australian Plants (of which she had been president from 1965 to 1966, at the same time as she presided over ANCW) and, after Charles’s recovery, on the investment portfolio she started as part of the family company Charles set up to fund their retirement. After Charles’s death in 1986, Anne was able to continue living at home with the support of her daughter and son and their families until the mid-1990s. When the level of care she required increased beyond what the family was able to provide, she agreed to sell up and move to a retirement village at Taringa, then, as she deteriorated further, to the Tricare Nursing Home at Jindalee where she was still able to maintain a modicum of independence. She died there, aged 94, on 25 July 2002. Published resources Site Exhibition Stirrers with Style! Presidents of the National Council of Women of Australia and its predecessors, National Council of Women of Australia, 2013, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/ncwa Book The National Council of Women of Queensland: The Second Fifty years 1955 - 2005, Buckley, Daphne M., 2005 Edited Book Who's Who in Australia 1965, 1965 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Records of the National Council of Women of Australia, 1924-1990 [manuscript] John Oxley Library, Manuscripts and Business Records Collection 7266 National Council of Women of Queensland Minute Books 1905-2004 Author Details Jan Hipgrave, Marian Quartly and Judith Smart Created 3 September 2013 Last modified 28 October 2013 Digital resources Title: Ann Hamilton Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

On 1 July 2003 a dedication of a WRANS Memorial, formally recognising Harman as ‘The Birthplace of the WRANS,’ was held. The WRANS Memorial HMAS Harman is dedicated to those who have served in the Woman’s Royal Australian Naval Service (WRANS) and those females who have and are currently serving in the Royal Australian Navy (RAN).

Part of a collection of recordings which originally accompanied the Papers of Christine Williams (MS 8065) held in the Manuscripts section at the National Library of Australia. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 20 February 2018 Last modified 20 February 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

[Red Cross Archives series reference: NO2]??Comprises records of Australian Red Cross personnel who served as Voluntary Aid Detachments (VAD) or Field Force officers in Australia and overseas. The service cards are alphabetically sorted into groups Field Force Female A to D, Field Force Male J to M etc. They record the Army Number, Rank, Names & Addresses, places served and the period of service as well as dates that information was added to the card.??Also includes a register controlling the index cards, a small collection of passport sized photographs of personnel, list of the first official Australian contingent of VAD’s to serve in England and France in 1916 as well as a Register of Certificates awarded to Field Force personnel (1946-1961).??Formed in 1915, Voluntary Aid Detachments had basic medical and home nursing certificates and were tasked with administering first aid, nursing and domestic assistance and other support for returned and wounded soldiers in convalescent homes, hospital ships and in blood banks. In 1916, Australia Red Cross sent Voluntary Aid Detachments to serve in military hospitals in France and England under the British Red Cross, subsequently in 1918 the Australian Imperial Voluntary Aid Detachment (AIVAD) was formed. Upon their return from Europe VADs were tasked with assisting the temporary hospitals treating the influenza epidemic of 1919. http://www.womenaustralia.info/biogs/AWE0491b.htm??Red Cross Field Force officers were deployed during World War II with the Far East Land Forces (FARELF) and in subsequent theatres of Japan, Korea and Malaya. Field Force officers were attached to land based military units to meet operational commitments. The last Field Force officer returned to Australia following the closure of the Butterfield RAAF base in Malaysia in 1988.??Researchers should also refer to: ‘Voluntary Aid Detachment Membership Registers’ (1915- 1919) (2016.0074) Previous control V30 as well as ‘Correspondence Files, National Headquarters’ (2015.0033) Previous control NO.33.??Researchers should note that under the Geneva Conventions Act 1957 protections govern the use of the Red Cross emblem. For further information see Archives staff. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 13 February 2004 Last modified 30 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

In 1924 a committee of middle-class women of Geelong, concerned that girls beginning work at fourteen were not fully prepared for life, met to form the Blue Triangle Community. Their stated aim was ‘to help Girls to find the best in life by offering opportunities to develop all their powers’. Employers provided support, including an annual donation. Industry-based teams played basketball on Saturday afternoons, and tennis clubs and a swimming club were formed. Club rooms were secured, and educational and social activities were held for Senior girls (those over 20) and younger ‘Girl Citizens’. They included sex education. A Friday night ‘At Home’ and Sunday teas were instituted. Volunteers visited workplaces each pay day to collect money to bank on the girls’ behalf, a summer camp was run to provide an annual holiday at a reasonable cost, and opportunities were provided for service to the community. Chronology 1929 & 1933: The Community tried closer co-operation with the YWCA. Though their concerns overlapped, the Blue Triangle Community had its own clearly defined purpose, and both attempts were abandoned. 1935: The name of the organisation was changed to the ‘Geelong Girl’s Unity Club’, to avoid confusion with the YWCA, and its ‘Blue Triangle Forward Movement Appeal’. 1936: Junior girls severed their connection with the Girls Citizens movement. 1927: The Club affiliated with the Women’s Peace Movement. 1939: A former members’ club formed, becoming the Unity Club Auxiliary. 1944: The club affiliated with the new branch of the National Council of Women of Victoria. 1942: The club instituted a luncheon hour for business girls to bring in lunches. 1948: ‘Teens Club’ begun. 1956: ‘Young Marrieds’ Club’ begun. 1963: ‘The Younger Set’ formed, in which Teens, Young Married and others combined for sporting events. 1965: With attendance down, the Club dissolved. The Unity Basket ball Association was self-supporting, and continued. It still operates today, as the Geelong Unity Netball Association Inc. Published resources Resource 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 Archival resources Geelong Heritage Centre Geelong Girls Unity Club Freeman, May - Collection Author Details Janet Butler Created 21 August 2009 Last modified 12 February 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Letters (1907-1940); correspondence with L. Glauert (of the W.A. Museum) concerning specimens while at Ooldea native camp (1922-1935); several drafts of “The passing of the Aborigines” with notes used in the preparation of the mss. The bulk of the National Library of Australia’s Daisy Bates collection is the manuscript of her work “The native tribes of Western Australia”, written during her period of service with the Western Australian government from 1904-1912. Many of the drafts have been annotated by A.R. Radcliffe-Brown, a British social anthropologist. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 6 January 2018 Last modified 6 February 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

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Ann Drew settled in Toowong, with her husband Richard Langler Drew in the early 1860s. Over the next four decades Ann advocated and helped administer an array of welfare institutions. Most importantly, in April 1871 she founded the Female Refuge and Infants’ Home (‘Mrs Drew’s Home’) for young single mothers and their babies. Initially funded by Ann and her friends, the refuge eventually gained government assistance, however, this funding was withdrawn in 1900. As lady president of the Social Purity Society, Ann was involved in the establishment of Lady Musgrave Lodge (1891-1892) as a hostel and training place for immigrants and other ‘friendless’ girls. She also took part in agitation to repeal the Contagious Diseases Act of 1868 and held the position of secretary of the committee of the Lady Bowen Hospital from 1870 to 1879. In 1906 Ann Drew retired as ‘Foundress and Superintendent’ of the Female Refuge and Infants’ Home. On 21 December 1848 at St James’s Church, Exeter, Ann married Richard Langler Drew. The couple migrated to Victoria in about 1858 and after three years they moved to Queensland. In 1862 Richard Drew acquired land a few kilometers from Brisbane where he established the ‘Village of Toowong’. Considered the driving force behind the growth of Toowong, Drew made land available for the first Church of St Thomas the Apostle, and was one of its original trustees. Richard died on 8 October 1860. Published resources Resource Section Drew, Ann (Anne) (1822-1907), Routh, S J, 2006, http://adbonline.anu.edu.au/biogs/AS10134b.htm Resource In Retrospect: Government Institutions, Child Safety Services, Department of Communities, Queensland Government, 2009, http://www.childsafety.qld.gov.au/publications/documents/centcareretrospect.pdf Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources John Oxley Library, Manuscripts and Business Records Collection Female Refuge & Infants' Home, Brisbane, ca. 1885 Lady Musgrave Lodge, Brisbane, ca. 1910 Author Details Lee Butterworth Created 22 June 2009 Last modified 30 October 2012 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Eleven letters from Daisy Bates to the Fairbairn family in Perth, mostly written from her desert camps. The first letter (20 Sept. 1901) is to Robert Fairbairn, a magistrate, commissioner and governor of Freemantle Prison. Bates thanks Fairbairn for sending “the copy of the Govt Gazette containing your letter re the native question” besides other references. The second letter is addressed to Mrs Fairbairn (20 November 1912) and includes a detailed description of the journey and arrival at Eucla (WA). The other nine letters are addressed to their daughter, Ainslie, between 1913-1946. In the letter dated 16 October 1943, Bates describes this month as her “84th Birth month”, confirming the recent research in Ireland which established her birthdate as 1859, not 1863 as previously thought. In the letter she adds, “I have never asked the natives to work for me & do every last-least-littlest-duty myself. I never thought, from the beginning of my work amongst them, that it was fair to them, to expect them to wait on me, nor have I ever “trained” them to such work. Missions do these things …” Author Details Alannah Croom Created 6 January 2018 Last modified 27 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Colleen is a former Washington correspondent for the Australian Financial Review (1996-1998) and was editor of the newspaper from 1998-2002. After completing a Bachelor of Economics at the University of Sydney, Colleen joined Arthur Andersen as an accountant. However, she was clearly destined for a life in the media and joined the AFR as a business writer just one year later. This marked the beginning of a distinguished media career stretching over three decades. Collen Ryan has achieved a number of remarkable positions throughout her career including: Papua New Guinea correspondent of the AFR (1976-1978); assistant editor of 8 Days Magazine, London (1979-1980); editor of the AFR’s Weekend Review (1980-1982); business editor of the National Times (1982-1986); and associate editor of the Sydney Morning Herald (1986-1996). Colleen’s work has been recognised with numerous industry awards including: Gold Walkley Award for Journalism (2004); Walkley Award for Best Business Report (2004); Centenary Medal for Services to Journalism and Publishing (2003); Australian Journalist of the Year (1992); and the Walkley Award for Best News Report (1992). Colleen has also published one book Corporate Cannibals: The Taking of Fairfax (1992), co-authored with Glenn Burge. Events 1993 - 1993 Best Coverage of a Current Story (Print) – ‘Spot of Bother Over at A’ – The Sydney Morning Herald – Fairfax (withKate McClymont) 1990 - 1990 Best Feature, ‘The Secret Society which sank Australia’ – Highly Commended – The Sydney Morning Herald – Fairfax (with Deborah Light and Paul McGeogh) 1975 - Published resources Site Exhibition The Women's Pages: Australian Women and Journalism since 1850, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2008, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/cal/cal-home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 31 October 2007 Last modified 5 September 2012 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Angela Luvera is a committed socialist and activist. She represented the Democratic Socialist in the 1999 elections for the New South Wales Legislative Assembly seat of Wollongong. Then in 2003 she stood for the Socialist Alliance party in the New South Wales Legislative Council. Angela is active in student politics and in campaigns against racism and violence. She has campaigned for abortion rights and is opposed to cuts in government services. At the time of her campaign for Wollongong, she was a member of Resistance and had helped lead school walkouts against racism in 1998. She was also involved in International Women’s Day collectives, and was a member of the national Union of Students Women’s Committee. In 2003 she was elected to the National Committee of the Democratic Socialist Party. 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 31 January 2006 Last modified 31 January 2006 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Gwen Roderick was the first Western Australian woman to be elected president of the National Council of Women of Australia-63 years after it was founded. She brought to the presidency a passion for efficient management that served the association well during a difficult period in terms of its relationship with government. Gwen Roderick was born Gwendolyn Blanche Pearce in Toowoomba, Queensland, and educated at Fairholme Presbyterian Ladies College in that city. She trained as a secretary and held several administrative positions, including that of personal assistant for public relations to the Queensland manager of the ANZ Bank. She then travelled overseas, working in London and then Canada, where she was employed as an assistant producer for Canadian Television. Gwen married a Canadian geologist, Stanley Roderick, and had two children born in Canada. The family then spent 6 years in Brazil and 5 years in Queensland, finally settling in Perth, Western Australia, where she was a producer for community radio. Roderick joined the National Council of Women of Western Australia as a delegate from the State Women’s Council of the Liberal Party. In 1984, she became the state convenor of economics, in 1987 the honorary secretary, and, from 1991 to 1994, president of NCW WA. Relations with the state government were excellent during this period. When Roderick was elected president of the National Council of Women of Australia for the 1994-1997 triennium, she was the first Western Australian woman to hold this position, an indication that, after 6 decades, communication barriers with the state most distant from Canberra had finally become less significant within the NCWA. Furthermore, Western Australia’s minister for women’s interests assisted in facilitating communication with the eastern states by supplying an office and office equipment for the NCWA Board, allowing administrative processes to be modernised, with teleconferencing employed to overcome the remaining elements of the tyranny of distance. Roderick was always an advocate of bureaucratic and business efficiency. In 1995, she took the NCWA Board through a SWOT analysis (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats) of the organisation. The major challenge was the rise of a new coalition of women’s organisations, CAPOW! (Coalition of Participating Organisations of Women) initiated by the Women’s Electoral Lobby, which, under the Keating federal Labor government, was displacing NCWA as the peak body linking government and women’s groups. Government funding of NCWA was also under threat. Roderick and the Board responded by developing promotional material, publicising the fact that NCWA represented some 500 organisations, looking to maintain a corporate image with a national logo, badges and stationery, cultivating bureaucrats and media representatives, producing high-quality submissions, and organising high-profile national seminars with prominent speakers on matters of public interest, such as women and technology. The election of the Howard Liberal-National Party government in 1997 undermined CAPOW!’s ministerial access and raised that of NCWA once more but failed to guarantee recurrent funding for non-government women’s organisations. Roderick’s Board faced a further challenge in the ongoing and growing antagonism between the Hobart-based National Council of Women of Tasmania and the National Council of Women of Launceston. An attempt was made by Launceston delegates to the Perth conference of 1997 to redirect and resolve this conflict by focusing on the principle of regional organisation but without success. The continuing conflict became the major challenge confronting Roderick’s successor as president of NCWA. As national president, Roderick represented NCWA at many national and international meetings. She has been a member of the Optus, Telstra and Austel telecommunication advisory councils, where she spoke as a consumers’ representative. In 1995, she was a delegate representing NCWA and Australia at the 39th session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women in New York. This was the final preparatory meeting for the Beijing 4th World Conference on Women: Action for Equality, Development of Peace, which she also attended in September 1995. Roderick then led the Australian delegation to International Council of Women conferences in Auckland and Ottawa in 1997, acknowledging the importance of putting Australia’s views to ICW although she emphasises that her major concerns were national ones and that ‘Australian women were my priority’. In August 1997, Gwen Roderick was one of 10 representatives from women’s organisations invited to meet with Prime Minister John Howard. The NCWA’s major areas of concern were economic security for older women, women on public service boards and committees, domestic and community violence, availability of clean water for all Australians and family-friendly workplaces. Roderick was also a member of the WA Censorship Advisory Committee, an executive member of the WA branch of the Order of Australia Committee, and a life member of the Australian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy Women’s Auxiliary. In 1998, Gwen Roderick received the NCWA Centenary Award, and, in 1999, she was made a Member of the Order of Australia, for ‘service to women, particularly through the National Council of Women of Australia’. ‘The challenges ahead are unlimited in the support of women and their families in the community.’ Published resources Site Exhibition Stirrers with Style! Presidents of the National Council of Women of Australia and its predecessors, National Council of Women of Australia, 2013, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/ncwa Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources State Library of Western Australia National Council of Women of Western Australia records, 1911-2001 National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection NCWA Papers 1984 - 2006 Private Hands (These records may not be readily available) Interview with Gwen Roderick Author Details Jan Hipgrave, Marian Quartly and Judith Smart Created 3 September 2013 Last modified 19 November 2015 Digital resources Title: Gwen Roderick Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

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File. Correspondents include Peter Sculthorpe, Arthur Benjamin, James Penberthy, Eugene Goossens, George Dreyfus, Miriam Hyde, Gerard Willems, Georg Pedersen, Patrick Thomas, Myer Fredman, Florence Taylor, Paul Dyer, Anne Boyd, Philip Swanton, Joseph Post, Eric Gross, Vincent Plush, Andrew Ford, Larry Sitsky, Colin Brumby, Richard Strauss, Winsome Evans, Roger Covell, Robert Pikler, William Lovelock, James Murdoch, Leo Schofield, Michael Askill, Robert Ampt, Neal Peres da Costa, Mark Walton, WG James, Donald Peart, Florence Taylor, Ken Tribe, Kenneth Hince, Isador Goodman, David Stanhope, Ann Carr-Boyd, Michael Dudman, Helen Bainton, Barry Jones, Bob Hawke, Gough Whitlam, Anne Goossens Obermer, David Helfgott, Roger Woodward, Arthur Jacobs, Christopher Dearnley, Sidonie Scott Goossens, Franz Holford, Tessa Birnie, David Ahern, Grant Foster, Albrecht Dumling, George Kraus, Rex Hobcroft, Stuart Challender, Simon Tedeschi, Peter Platt, John Gordon, Michael Dyer, Warren Thomson, Richard Goldner, Nicholas Routley, Nigel Butterley, Graham Abbott and numerous others, 1916-2009 – Box 3 Author Details Alannah Croom Created 15 February 2018 Last modified 15 February 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

MS Acc13.074 comprises a two page letter from Miriam Hyde to Florence Simpson written on the 4th November 1966, describing in detail how she wrote the piece The nest in the rose bush, published by Southern Music Publishers in the same year (1 folder). Author Details Alannah Croom Created 13 February 2018 Last modified 13 February 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Patricia Riggs became a cadet journalist on the Macleay Argus at the age of thirty-five. She went on to win two Walkley awards for provincial journalism and eventually became editor of the newspaper. She was a fighter for Aboriginal advancement long before the cause was a popular one. After retiring as editor, she became a Shire Councillor in 1983, a position she held until 1991.

20 minutes??Anne Stanton was born in Adelaide and educated at the St Peter’s Girls’ School. On leaving school she attended the Conservatorium of Music and then joined the School of social studies. Her first job was with the Probation Branch and then she became a senior social worker for the Crippled Children’s Association. As Vice President of the Muscular Dystrophy Association she did many country visits and in Legacy she helped set up holiday camps for children. She was involved with the National Trust, Friends of the Gallery, opera, theatre and the Lyceum Club. In 1978 she was awarded the Australian Medal for her work with crippled children. She enjoyed ebing presented to the Queen Author Details Anne Heywood Created 6 April 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Records in this series were created by the Honourable Justice?Elizabeth Evatt when she was Chief Judge of the Family Court of Australia. Included in the series are files of her associates, and records of the Pearl Watson Foundation, which was set up in 1985 in memory of the murdered wife of a Family Court judge.??Approximately half of the series contains administrative files arranged alphabetically while half of the records are subject based. The administrative files include bound files of photocopied correspondence with the Attorney-General, records of parliamentary debates, copies of family law legislation, conference papers, minutes of committee meetings, journal articles, press releases ?and cuttings. Also included are booklets and leaflets on family?law issues, and copies of publications on legal issues designed?for high school students.??The records in the subject-based files concern the history of the Family Court and problems faced by it, papers of the Chief Judges’ Committee and the annual Family Law Judges’ Conference, annual reports of the Court and its counselling services, and papers analysing legislation and Family Court practice. Included are desk diaries of Justice Evatt and three judges’ notebooks containing handwritten notes of family hearings.??The records of the Pearl Watson Foundation contain details of the setting up, funding and projects of the foundation, one of which was the publication of “A Guide to Family Law”. Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 2 November 2006 Last modified 21 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

1 sound tape reel (ca. 63 min.)??Dutton speaks of her interest in enamelling and studies pursued in this field ; she describes the qualities and difficulties encountered when working with this medium and speaks of enamelling as an art form. Dutton recalls her beginnings as a writer and provides us with biographical details on her childhood, student days and married life. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 6 March 2018 Last modified 6 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Microfilm copies of Registrar’s correspondence. The original correspondence was damaged by a damp substance, mould and was too fragile to handle.??According to Ada Mary a’Beckett’s entry in the Australian Dictionary of Biography information relating to her can be found in these records. Author Details Helen Morgan Created 9 February 2001 Last modified 30 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Comprises case files, ca. 1858-1959; minute books, 1845-1851, 1858-1863, 1882-1892, 1899-1935, 1938-1945, and 1948-1954; annual reports, 1854/1855, 1858-1919, 1921/1922, 1931-1952, and 1954-1956; scrapbooks, 1923-1976; admissions book, ca. 1850-1986; journal and letter book, 1858-1861; official register of inmates, 1887-1975; reports on apprentices, 1913-1917; account book, ca. 1917-1955; wills and other legal documents; war medals; and printing blocks. Further material added in 2013 comprising General Committee minutes to 1987, Library Sub-Committee minutes 1986-1987, and the Ladies Sub-Committee minutes 1931-1962. Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 22 October 2003 Last modified 29 December 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 3 March 2009 Last modified 3 March 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

[Red Cross Archives series reference: NO37]??The National Council of the Australian Red Cross Society established a Finance Committee in 1915, initially comprised of one representative of each state and territory division and additional office-bearers from national headquarters.??This series complements series 2015.0028 (Minutes and Meeting Papers of the National Council). For the pre- World War Two period there is some duplication between the two series, and some Finance Committee minutes which are missing from this series may be found in 2015.0028.??Researchers should note that under the Geneva Conventions Act 1957 protections govern the use of the Red Cross emblem. For further information see Archives staff. Author Details Helen Morgan Created 17 August 2015 Last modified 30 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Scrapbooks containing news reports, letters, cards, insignia and nominal rolls covering both wars. Letters regarding the nursing service. Photograph album presented to Matron Hetherington by patients at Reinga, 1916. Certificate of service, diaries. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 14 February 2002 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

The Women’s Information Centre was established by the Women’s Officer of the Students Union. It had a collection of articles, books and information on women’s issues. It catered for the Women’s Studies Students and others interested in feminist issues. The Centre was a rallying point when there was a threat to the Women’s Studies course. It changed it name to the Southern Women’s Resource Centre and issued a newsletter, Connections. Author Details Kathleen Bambridge Created 18 December 2009 Last modified 18 December 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Carol Dance ran unsuccessfully as a Liberal candidate for election twice: New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Bligh in 1991. House of Representatives for Kingsford Smith in 1990. Carol Dance was at Chief Executive Officer of the Australian Commercial Disputes Centre in the 1990s. She co authored a collection of seminar papers on dispute resolution for the NSW College of Law. Her campaign in Bligh in 1991 was marked by full page advertisements in the local paper, The Wentworth Courier, and strong support from the then premier, Nick Greiner. She has graduated with a B.A. (Drew) and MBA (AGSM). Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Created 12 December 2005 Last modified 25 September 2015 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

WILLIAMSTOWN, SA. 1944-11. DIRECTOR OF WAAAF, CLARE STEVENSON (MIDDLE), AND WARRANT OFFICER GWEN “STARKIE” STARK (OBSCURED) ON INSPECTION OF NO. 5 OPERATIONAL TRAINING UNIT, RAAF. ALSO PRESENT ARE CORPORAL CLAIRE WEBB (FAR LEFT), AIRCRAFTWOMAN JEAN CURRY (2ND FROM RIGHT) AND BERYL LISTER (FAR RIGHT). (DONOR: C. SCHOMBERG) Author Details Anne Heywood Created 24 March 2003 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Interview conducted in Broken Hill as part of the AWAP Broken Hill exhibition. To be lodged with the Outback Archives, Broken Hill City Library. Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 27 February 2009 Last modified 27 February 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Jenny Hammett stood as a candidate for the National Party in the Legislative Assembly seat of Morwell at the Victorian state election, which was held on 30 November 2002. She stood again unsuccessfully at the November 2006 election in the Legislative Council region of Eastern Victoria Jenny Hammett holds the position of Chief Executive Officer of i-Gain Quality Learning which is located in the Latrobe region of Victoria. It provides educational and training services and oversees the Gippsland Community Leadership Program. Published resources Site Exhibition Carrying on the Fight: Women Candidates in Victorian Parliamentary Elections, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2008, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/cws/home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 5 August 2008 Last modified 5 September 2012 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)