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Naturalisation Certificate: Helen Waldsax. From Germany. Resident in London. Certificate DZ3064 issued 25 August 1945. Note(s): Re-admission. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 6 March 2018 Last modified 6 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Patsy Adam-Smith introduced many readers to Australian history. Of her many publications three in particular stand out: The Anzacs (1978), Australian Women at War (1984) and Prisoners of War (1992). On Australia Day 1994 Patricia Adam-Smith was made an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) for service to community history, particularly through the preservation of national traditions and folklore and the recording of oral histories. She also received an Order of the British Empire – Officer (Civil) (OBE) in the Queens Birthday Honours list on 14 June 1980 for her services to literature. The daughter of railway workers, Patsy Adam-Smith was raised in a number of small Victorian country towns. She enlisted as a Voluntary Aid Detachment during the Second World War and was the first female to be articled as a radio officer when she worked on an Australian merchant ship from 1954-1960. In Hobart from 1960-1967 she was employed as an Adult Education Officer before taking the position of manuscripts field officer for the State Library of Victoria from 1970-1982. In 1978 her book The Anzacs shared The Age Book of the Year Award and was made into a 13 part TV series. In 1980 she was the recipient of an OBE for services to literature. Prisoners of War won the 1993 triennial Order of Australian Association Book Prize. In 1994 Adam-Smith was made an Officer of the Order of Australia for her outstanding services to community history. Her autobiography was published in two parts – Hear The Train Blow and Good-bye Girlie. For Good-bye Girlie Adam-Smith won the 1995 Benalla Award for Audio Book of the Year, and the 1995 TDK Australian Audio Book Awards, Unabridged Non-Fiction Category. Events 1983 - 2001 Committee Member of the Museum of Victoria 1976 - 2001 Member of the Board of Directors for the Royal Humane Society Australasia 1973 - 1973 Federal President of the Fellows Australian Writers, Victoria 1973 - 1973 State President of Australian Writers, Victoria 1970 - 1982 Manuscript Field Officer for the State Library of Victoria 1960 - 1967 Adult Education Officer in Hobart 1954 - 1960 Radio operator on an Australian merchant ship 1993 - 1993 Received Triennial Award from the OBE Association 2043 - 2044 Served with the Australian Army Medical Women’s Service 1994 - 1994 Awarded an Officer of the Order of Australia 1980 - 1980 Appointed Officer of the British Empire Published resources Newspaper Article Patricia Jean (Patsy) Adam-Smith, AO, OBE, Lahey, John, 2001 The Anzac legend's great storyteller dies at 77, Johnson, Lyall and Cameron, Deborah, 2001 Anzacs author led us through our history, Ricketson, Matthew, 2001 Storyteller brought Anzac legend alive, Stanley, Peter, 2001 Leading Tasmanian literary figure dies, Wood, Danielle, 2001 Weaver of dreams, teller of our tales, Ebury, Sue, 2001 Edited Book Who's Who in Australia 2001, Herd, Margaret, 2000 Article Penguin Books Author Profile: Patsy Adam-Smith, 2001, http://www.penguin.com.au Patsy Adam-Smith AO OBE, 2001, http://www.saxton.com.au/speakers Adam-Smith, Patsy, (1926-, 2001, http://www.digital.library.upenn.edu/women/ Book Folklore of the Australian Railwaymen, Adam-Smith, Patsy (collected and edited), 1969 Hobart Sketchbook, Adam-Smith, Patsy (text), Angus, Max (drawings), 1968 No Tribesman, Adam-Smith, Patsy, 1971 Romance of Australian Railways, Adam-Smith, Patsy, 1973 The Desert Railway, Adam-Smith, Patsy, 1974 Neon Signs to the Mutes: Poetry by Young Australians, Adam-Smith, Patsy; Dugan, Michael and Hamilton, J S (edited by), 1976 Footloose in Australia, Adam-Smith, Patsy, 1977 Historic Tasmania Sketchbook, Adam-Smith, Patsy and Woodberry, Joan (text); Angus, Max; Mather, Frank and Phillips, Arthur (drawings), 1977 Trader to the Islanders [There was a Ship], Adam-Smith, Patsy, 1977 The ANZACS, Adam-Smith, Patsy, 1978 Islands of Bass Strait, Adam-Smith, Patsy (text); Powell, John (photographs) Victorian and Edwardian Melbourne from old photographs, Adam-Smith, Patsy, 1979 Outback Heroes, Adam-Smith, Patsy, 1981 The Shearers, Adam-Smith, Patsy, 1982 When We Rode the Rails, Adam-Smith, Patsy, 1983 Australian women at war, Adam-Smith, Patsy, 1984 Heart of Exile: Ireland, 1848, and the Seven Patriots Banished…, Adam-Smith, Patsy, 1986 Australia: Beyond the Dreamtime, Keneally, Thomas; Adam-Smith, Patsy and Davidson, Robyn, 1987 Prisoners of War, Adam-Smith, Patsy, 1992 Trains of Australia: All Aboard, Adam-Smith, Patsy, c1993 Goodbye Girlie, Adam-Smith, Patsy, 1994 Patsy Adam Smith's Romance of Australian Railways, Adam-Smith, Patsy, 1974 Moonbird People, Adam-Smith, Patsy, 1965 Hear the Train Blow: An Australian Childhood, Adam-Smith, Patsy, 1964 Across Australia by Indian-Pacific, Adam-Smith, Patsy, c1971 Port Arthur Sketchbook, Adam-Smith (text); Phillips, Arthur (drawing), 1971 Re-discovering Tasmania: The North-West Coast, Beckett, Pat and Piet Maree; Harris, Ian (ed.), 1955 There was a Ship, Adam-Smith, Patsy, 1967 The Barcoo Salute, Adam-Smith, Patsy, 1973 Tasmania Sketchbook, Adam-Smith, Patsy (text); Angus, Max (drawings), 1982 Launceston Sketchbook, Adam-Smith, Patsy (text); Phillips, Arthur (drawings), 1973 Tiger Country, Adam-Smith, Patsy, 1968 The Rails Go Westward, Adam-Smith, Patsy, 1969 Australian women writers : a bibliographic guide, Adelaide, Debra, 1988 Resource Section BECKETT, PATRICIA JEAN, Department of Veterans' Affairs, 2002, http://www.ww2roll.gov.au/script/veteran.asp?ServiceID=A&VeteranID=526213 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 AustLit: The Australian Literature Resource, 2002, http://www.austlit.edu.au/ Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Patsy Adam-Smith interviewed by Hazel de Berg in the Hazel de Berg collection [sound recording] National Archives of Australia, Melbourne Office BECKETT, Patricia Jean [nee Smith] VFX124737 [6 pages] Australian War Memorial, Research Centre Interview with Patsy Adam-Smith (When the war came to Australia) State Library of Victoria Christmas letters, 1974-1995, [manuscript] / Patsy Adam-Smith Papers, 1993-1994 [manuscript] Papers of Patsy Adam-Smith, [not after 2000] [manuscript]. National Library of Australia [Biographical cuttings on Patsy Adam-Smith, containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journals] [Biographical cuttings on Patsy Adam-Smith, containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journals] National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Literary papers 1969-1981 [manuscript] Author Details Anne Heywood Created 26 September 2001 Last modified 16 September 2013 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Contents include minutes [1929-1968], annual reports, financial records, newscuttings and miscellaneous papers, correspondence and subject files on topics such as the Child Welfare Act and divorce laws. Author Details Jane Carey Created 5 September 2000 Last modified 27 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

1 sound cassette (ca. 35 min.)??Ebsary speaks of her farming background, her current farm, the importance of diversification, her farm duties, raising an autistic child, hopes for the future, and the importance of the Rural Women of the Year award. Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 3 March 2010 Last modified 21 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

In 1895 Augusta Zadow was appointed the first female Factory Inspector in South Australia. Zadow was the daughter of Johann Georg Hofmeyer and Elizabetha Hemming. After finishing her education at the Ladies Seminar, Biebrich-on-Rhine, Augustine became a governess and ladies companion. She travelled through Germany, France, Russia and finally England, where she settled in 1868. In London she worked as a tailoress (or seamstress) and helped to reform the conditions for female clothing workers. She married Heinrich Christian Wilhelm Zadow in 1871 and together with their three-year-old son, John, the couple travelled as assisted migrants to South Australia six years later, in 1877. There they both became active trade unionists. Known as Augusta (having anglicised her name while in England), Zadow worked in a boot factory and helped to establish the Working Women’s Trade Union, becoming its foundation treasurer in 1890. She was a delegate to the United Trades and Labor Council as well as an active suffragist. In 1893 she established and managed the Distressed Women and Children’s Fund (later the Co-operative White Workers’ Association). Augusta Zadow was appointed an Inspector of Factories in February 1895. The following year she contracted influenza and on July 7, 1896, died of haematemesis in Adelaide. She was buried in the West Terrace cemetery. Published resources Edited Book Australian Feminism: A Companion, Caine, Barbara, Gatens, Moira et al., 1998 Resource Section Zadow, Christiane Susanne Augustine (1846-1896), Jones, Helen, 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A120677b.htm Augusta Zadow, http://www.slsa.sa.gov.au/women_and_politics/sa1.htm Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Anne Heywood Created 10 April 2002 Last modified 24 April 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

A life-time activist for Peace, Barbara (Babs) Fuller-Quinn has been a political and local government figure of distinction: She was elected to the Waverley Council as Alderman from 1977-83 and stood as an ALP candidate in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Vaucluse in 1976 and 1978. Barbara Fuller-Quinn passed away in May 2020. When she died her family asked that in lieu of flowers, donations be made to Aboriginal Medical Service Redfern. Babs Fuller-Quinn was educated at St Catherine’s and Kambala Schools. She married, Leo Fuller-Quinn, an advertising executive, and they have 4 children. Elected to Waverley Council in 1977, she was Chairman of the Works Committee. She remains a regular attendee at her local precinct committee. She was also active in the local area, being President of Waverley Action Youth Services, and a member of the Waverley Creative Leisure and Hobbies Centre. She was a member of the Advisory Board of the Centennial Park Trust from 1980. She was appointed Consumer representative, Builders’ Licensing Board c.1980 – 1986. Babs Fuller-Quinn joined the ALP in 1973 and was an office holder at branch, state and federal electorate council levels, as well as being a delegate to the Labor Women’s Conference. Barbara is best known for her service to the Peace movement, serving in various executive positions in the Sydney Peace Committee, and the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom. With others, she was instrumental in establishing the Sydney Peace and Justice Coalition, which grew out of the Walk against the War Coalition in 2002. She has also contributed extensively to the movement for Reconciliation, and is Secretary of the Eastern Suburbs Organisation for Reconciling Australia (ESORA) and on the New South Wales Council of Reconciliation Australia. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 12 December 2005 Last modified 4 August 2021 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Roxy Byrne was born in South Australia in 1912 and attended school in Adelaide. From 1922 to 1929 she attended the Methodist Ladies College (now Annesley College) where she developed her love of the theatre, as well as her skill in hockey. An excellent student (she was dux of the school in her final year) she went on to complete a Bachelor of Arts at Adelaide University in 1933, majoring in Botany and French. After graduation she joined the Adelaide Repertory Theatre, becoming a leading actress who played a variety of outstanding roles for a period of 40 years. She was active in a number of women’s organisations, including the Lyceum Club of Adelaide. She married Dr. Dudley Byrne in 1940 and had three children. 1912. b. Roxy Sims. (Her father, Dr. Roy Sims, was the first government dentist.) 1922 – 1929 – attended Methodist Ladies College (now Annesley College) and had a brilliant school career culminating as Head Prefect, Dux of the School and Captain of Hockey. 1930 – 1933 – attended the University of Adelaide, graduating with a Batchelor of Arts Degree and majoring in Botany and French. Won the Bagot Medal as the Botany Prize. Prominent as Secretary of the Adelaide University Theatre Guild and also Captain of Hockey. Played hockey for South Australia on multiple occasions and also for the All Australian Universities women’s hockey team against the English International side. 1936 – played a key role in a pageant play in called “Heritage” to mark the South Australian Centenary. 1951 – member of the cast of the Lillian Hellman play “The Little Foxes” with which the Adelaide Repertory Theatre won the Australian Commonwealth Championships in Hobart. President and then Vice President for many years of the South Australian Women’s Hockey Association. President of the MLC Old Scholars Association and served on the School Council. Seal Holder and a leading member of the Lyceum Club of Adelaide. President of the Women Graduates Association University of Adelaide and was a great supporter of St. Anne’s college. Active member of Subscribers Committee of the South Australian Symphony Orchestra. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources State Library of South Australia Recording of reminiscences at Lyceum Club's 70th Anniversary Dinner [sound recording] Interview with Roxy Byrne [sound recording] Interviewer: Yvonne Abbott Interview with Roxy Byrne [sound recording] Interviewer: Kerrie Round Author Details Anne Heywood, Robin Secomb and Nikki Henningham Created 6 April 2004 Last modified 13 April 2007 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

14 sound files (approximately 891 min.) Author Details Helen Morgan Created 21 August 2015 Last modified 22 December 2017 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. Author Details Kathleen Bambridge Created 18 December 2009 Last modified 24 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Champion marathon swimmer Susie Maroney set six world records in her eighteen year career. She was awarded the OAM and is an Australia Day Ambassador. Susie Maroney began competing in swimming carnivals at the age of seven. A successful endurance swimmer, she came second in the first Australian marathon (16 km) at the age of fourteen. At fifteen, she became the youngest person and fastest Australian to swim the English Channel. Two years later she was the fastest person to complete a return swim across the Channel. She won the Manhattan Island swim race three times: in 1991, 1992 and 1994. In 1993, the Maroneys became the first family to swim the English Channel. The relay included Pauline (50), Mike (26), Karen (24), Lindy (22), Susie and Sean (18). In May 1997, at the age of twenty-two, Maroney completed a 180 km swim from Cuba to Florida, the first person to do so. The following year she swam a record 197 km from Mexico to Cuba, the longest distance ever swum without flippers in the open sea, in 38 hours and 33 minutes. In Havana she dined with President Fidel Castro, who applauded her achievement. Maroney made the Guinness Book of Records for the longest distance swum in 24 hours (93.6 km) and was twice inducted into the International Hall of Swimming Fame. Twin brother Sean, a triathlete who often accompanied his sister on her marathon swims, died in 2002 and Maroney retired from swimming the following year. Published resources Book Susie: a mother's story, Maroney, Pauline, 2005 Resource Section Susie Maroney hangs up swimming costume, Nolan, Tanya, 2003, http://www.abc.net.au/worldtoday Ministerial Statement: Marathon Swimmer Susie Maroney, Harrison, The Hon Gabrielle, Minister for Sport and Recreation, and Downy, Mr Christopher, 1997, http://www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/prod/PARLMENT Ministerial Statement: Marathon Swimmer Susie Maroney, Harrison, The Hon Gabrielle, Minister for Sport and Recreation, 1998, http://www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/prod/PARLMENT Article Marathon girl swims to Cuba, 1999, http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas Dangerous swim for world record breaker, 1998, http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas 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 Edited Book The Oxford Companion to Australian Sport, Vamplew, Vray; Moore, Katharine; O'Hara, John; Cashman, Richard; Jobling, Ian, 1997 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 24 January 2007 Last modified 16 April 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

The Victorian Women’s Trust (VWT) was established in 1985 with a gift from the state government to the women of Victoria, in acknowledgement of their contribution to Victoria’s history and achievements. Now independent of government, it operates as both a philanthropic organisation and lobby group that champions the rights and entitlements of women. As part of Victoria’s 150th anniversary celebrations in 1982, $1 million was allocated to Victorian women in recognition of their contribution to the State. Though the Victorian Premier, the Hon. John Cain, announced that the money would be used for a women’s centre in the city of Melbourne, it soon became apparent that funds would not stretch to cover the purchase and upkeep of a city building and plans were abandoned in favour of a women’s trust fund. A specially appointed Implementation Committee fought hard to ensure that the Trust would be administered by an all-female board. They received strong support from the Hon. Joan Kirner and other female Labor caucus members. The establishment of the Victorian Women’s Trust in 1985 represented a departure from the traditional philanthropic foundation in several important ways: the Trust was government-funded, it was run by and for women, and none of the women involved in its establishment were wealthy benefactors. The original trustees of the VWT were the Hon. Mrs. Justice Peg Lusink, Heather O’Connor, Joan Baird, Jenny Florence, Fran Kelly, Jenny McGuirk, Loula Roudopoulos and Jean Tom. Early projects supported by the VWT focused particularly on assisting Victorian women to attain economic independence, but they also included inventive schemes such as the Women’s Garage at Ceres, equipping women with mechanical skills, or Oozzing Juices, a women’s drama group that performed in metropolitan housing estates and regional community venues. The emphasis on community involvement was strong from the outset. By August 1998, the VWT was launching its Purple Sage Project with the aim of gathering community groups for discussion around the politics of the day. At a time when companies were downsizing and the free market philosophy was dominating, the project offered a much-needed opportunity for communities to speak out about their concerns. 600 group leaders were appointed around Victoria, and findings were presented to the government. In recent years, the Trust launched another large-scale project of vital importance with Watermark, encouraging community discussion to raise awareness about Australia’s dangerous water shortage. With the Stegley Foundation and the Reichstein Foundation, the VWT founded a Women’s Donor Network in Melbourne. By the mid-1990s, this network had become Women in Philanthropy (WIP), an advocacy and discussion group with the aim of directing philanthropic funds toward women and girls. In recent years, WIP has been revived once more as the Women Donors Network under the direction of Eve Mahlab. The VWT operates multiple projects, dispensing something in the order of $100,000 annually. It relies upon philanthropic support from Victorian women. Recent programs include a Women’s Circus Workshop for women with histories of physical, sexual and emotional abuse; the Purple Room Support Service, offering mentoring and employment advice for young people who have completed custodial sentences; and the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre, sponsoring a women’s human rights worker to undertake legal casework for asylum seeker women. Published resources Thesis In Her Gift: Activism and Altruism in Australian Women's Philanthropy, 1880-2005, Lemon, Barbara, 2008 Book Creative Philanthropy: Toward a New Philanthropy for the Twenty-First Century, Anheier, Helmut K. and Diana Leat, 2006 Catalogue Ordinary Women, Extraordinary Lives, Victorian Women's Trust, 2001 Report Our Water Mark: Australians Making a Difference in Water Reform, Victorian Women's Trust, 2007 The Purple Sage Project, Victorian Women's Trust, 2000 Site Exhibition In Her Gift: Women Philanthropists in Australian History, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2009, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/wiph/home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources State Library of Victoria Records, 1975-2001 [manuscript]. Author Details Anne Heywood and Barbara Lemon Created 3 October 2001 Last modified 29 October 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Papers in relation to original work on Caroline Chisholm and typescript of ‘Men of yesterday, academic life, tutorial notes, school broadcasts, etc. Papers included are related to ‘Moonbeam stairs’, ‘Defoe and his England’ (thesis), ‘The work of Caroline Chisholm’ as a bound vol. (MA thesis) Author Details Alannah Croom Created 29 December 2017 Last modified 29 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

1 sound cassettes (ca. 13 min.)??Williams, a dairy hand and agriculturalist, speaks of growing up in Warrnambool, Vic., her dairy farming background, her qualifications and experience in agriculture, marrying a stockman and starting a family, her current involvement in a Dept. of Agriculture dairy farm management and lifeskills project (partly an extension of the Target Ten Project pasture management courses), her use of leadership skills training, her interest in travelling and meeting?Recorded in 1995. Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 3 March 2010 Last modified 21 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

5 hours 45 minutes (approx.)??A series of recordings of Joyce Steele, the first South Australian woman Member of the House of Assembly. OH 368/1 is an informal interview recorded over five sessions in late 1990 and early 1991 by Meg Denton who had met Mrs Steele while researching the career of dance teacher Joanna Priest. Ms Denton agreed to help Mrs Steele record some of her reminiscences, and the interview ranges widely over her childhood and early work experiences in Western Australia (including anecdotes about an employer, woman orthopaedic surgeon Dr Radcliffe-Taylor), family history and experiences in politics. OH 368/2 is a recording of the speech made by Lance Milne at Mrs Steele’s eightieth birthday party in 1989. Her son Christopher Steele hosts the proceedings at which Mrs Steele speaks briefly. Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 25 February 2009 Last modified 24 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Files of articles, newsclippings, leaflets and campaign material on women’s refuges and housing, Women against Rape Collective, women’s studies courses (establishment of), women’s health. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 6 February 2002 Last modified 29 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

In 1973, the first national conference on Sexism in Education was convened by the Women’s Liberation Movement, fuelled by concern for the position of women and girls in society and Women’s Studies courses were established at Flinders and Adelaide Universities. Teachers and Students quickly became aware of a shortage of materials in this area and a group of women educators began meeting in 1974 to redress this. In July 1975 the Women’s Studies Resource Centre was established at Wattle Park Teachers College funded by a grant from the Australian National Advisory Committee for International Women’s Year. After moving several times the WSRC relocated to its present address in the suburb of North Adelaide. The WSRC’s primary function is to provide resources that counter sexist assumptions in society while also providing non-sexist women’s studies, gender studies and feminist materials. The collection contains over 18000 items including fiction, non-fiction, videos, DVDs, CDs, cassettes, posters, journals and teaching kits. It also holds extensive records concerning many key women’s groups and organizations such as the Women’s Art Movement, Women’s Liberation Movement, Women’s Electoral Lobby, Rape Crisis Centre, and the St Peters and Hindmarsh Women’s Community Health Centres. There are also a number of items from specific issue groups such as Women Against Nuclear Energy, Association of Country and City Women Writers, Women’s Abortion Action Campaign, and Women’s Action Against Global Violence. These records take the form of minutes, financial records, submissions, articles, photographs, posters, pamphlets, constitutions, newsletters and more. Many significant activists are also represented such as Anna Yeatman, Anne Summers, and Jill Matthews. These records are mainly housed in filing cabinets and not all have been itemised. Additionally the collection contains many sensitive papers and so access and publishing permission must be sought. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Newspaper Article Women's studies conference to be national event, 1985 Archival resources State Library of South Australia Women's Studies Workshop, 1979-1981 : SUMMARY RECORD [sound recording] Sylvia Kinder : SUMMARY RECORD University of Sydney, Archives S94 Women's Studies Conference Committee Author Details Robin Secomb and Rosemary Francis Created 23 July 2004 Last modified 11 April 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

New Guinea. 28 November 1943. Winners of the nurses and Australian Army Medical Women’s Service (AAMWS) championships chat together after their victories. Left to right: Private (Pte) Vivien Stranger of St Kilda, Vic, breast-stroke; Major Joan Christie of Dubbo, NSW, freestyle; Pte Marie Kimber of Mascot, NSW, backstroke. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 1 April 2003 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Joan Kellett’s community activism focused on the education and welfare of children in the ACT. In 1977 she established one of Australia’s first after-school programs and a home for the Australian Early Childhood Association in the Majura Primary School, Watson. She served as Chair of the school board at North Ainslie Primary School and on the boards of Lyneham High School and Dickson College. For 30 years from 1984, she was an executive member of the ACT Council of Parents and Citizens Associations. Her dedication to the sport of swimming as an administrator and official, and her contribution to the Canberra community, was recognised by the award of the Order of Australia Medal in 2003. Joan Kellet was inscribed on the ACT Honour Walk in 2018. “Joan Mary Kellett was born in Brisbane on 2 May 1929, the eldest daughter of Gertrude and Alec Bell. She lived with her family above their pharmacy in Logan Road, Greenslopes and attended the local public primary school. She completed her secondary education at All Hallows Catholic school in Brisbane before studying science at the University of Queensland. She worked as a pathology biochemist at the Mater Hospital, Brisbane, and at Lewisham Hospital, Sydney, before marrying Harry Kellett in 1957. Following Harry’s appointment to the plumbing department of Canberra TAFE, the couple moved to Canberra with their young son in 1960, settled into their lifelong home in Dumaresq St, Dickson, and subsequently had three daughters. Joan devoted the rest of her life to promoting the education and welfare of children in the ACT. Joan’s commitment to high quality public education and effective school management began in 1977, when she established one of Australia’s first after-school programs and a home for the Australian Early Childhood Association in the Majura Primary School, Watson. As resources officer she maintained a library on education strategies and policy. She served as Chair of the school board at North Ainslie Primary School and joined the boards of Lyneham High School and Dickson College. For 30 years from 1984, she was an executive member of the ACT Council of Parents and Citizens Associations and was awarded life membership of that body in 2003. In this role she formulated policy, prepared submissions and represented the Council’s views on several government advisory committees. From 1984-89 she was the Council’s elected nominee on the ACT Schools Authority (later the ACT Education Council), and took on the Teachers’ Union to ensure that parents’ representatives had a say in the appointment of school principals. She was a founding member of the Education Council’s Disability Working Group and for 12 years the Council’s delegate member of the Turner School Board, and for a time its Chair, retiring in 2015. Believing that drowning was one of the principal causes of children’s death, Joan was determined that all ACT children should be water-safe by the time they finished primary school. In 1967, the Kellett family joined the Dickson Swimming Club, with both Joan and Harry taking leadership roles in its administration and volunteering in coaching and officiating duties. Joan initiated a free Learn-to-Swim program at the pool and changed the focus of the Dickson swimming club from competitive swimming to be a more inclusive community-based body. Over the next 50 years Joan promoted the sport through leadership in several peak swimming organisations. From 1981 to 1985 she was an office bearer in the ACT Swimming Council, President of the Capital Territory Amateur Swimming Association (later Swimming ACT) in 1985, and its Secretary until 2004. In this role Joan had input into the construction of a number of public facilities, including the learners’ pool at Dickson. Noticing how few women were involved in sports administration, she became involved in the Women in Sport Committee for many years. As member of the Minister’s Advisory Committee for Sports and Recreation, and its Chair for three years, she lobbied for the construction of pools in Tuggeranong and Belconnen and was instrumental in the development of Swimming ACT’s program for people with disabilities. An accredited race official, she officiated at events from local club competitions and school carnivals to Special Olympic meets and country, state and national swimming championships, clocking up more hours officiating at swimming events than any other person in the ACT. A volunteer at the Sydney Olympic and Paralympic Games in 2000, she headed the swimming working party for the 2008 Pacific School Games. Her dedication to the sport of swimming as an administrator and official, and her contribution to the Canberra community, was recognised by the award of the Order of Australia Medal in 2003. In 2010 she received Life Membership of Dickson Swimming Club and was named Volunteer of the Year. In 2011 she was awarded the title of ACT Sportstar of the Year and given Associate Membership of the ACT Sport Hall of Fame. Joan also volunteered for 20 years with the Girl Guides as a Brownie unit leader and later Division Commissioner, served on the Board of the YMCA from 2002 to 2016 and volunteered with the social program run by Alzheimer’s Australia from 2006 to 2016. Joan stood unsuccessfully for the first ACT Government election in 1989 on the Residents Rally ticket. Before the election she had collaborated with the Rally’s founder, Michael Moore, in developing the Party’s philosophy relating to the balance of power. She was particularly influential in preventing cuts to the education budget and was, Moore observed, ‘a somewhat understated but powerful influence’ on Canberra’s politics. Her belief in the importance of community input to planning and development inspired her to chair the North Canberra Community Council in 1994-95 and 2004, and to become a member of the Majura Local Area Planning Advisory Committee. She attended hearings in the ACT Assembly and represented the Council in a variety of fora. In 2010 she helped form the Dickson Residents Group and remained a member for the rest of her life, working to maintain a balance between development and the preservation of the character and amenity of the neighbourhood. She valued Canberra’s heritage, serving as a committee member of the Friends of the Albert Hall for several years. She appreciated the cultural institutions of Canberra, holding long time memberships of the Friends of the National Library and the National Gallery of Australia. An unassuming woman with exceptional skills as a listener, her empathetic nature made her an effective and influential agent in her various spheres of action and earned her many friends. ‘I just see myself as someone who sees things to be done and thinks how I can do them’, she once observed. She died in Canberra on 20 June 2017, leaving four children and nine grandchildren. About 350 mourners attended her memorial service. Her name was inscribed on the ACT Honour Walk in 2018.” Published resources ACT Government website, https://www.communityservices.act.gov.au/women/awards/act-womens-honour-roll/2011/joan-kellett-oam Author Details Ann-Mari Jordens Created 27 June 2023 Last modified Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Essay entitled: The circle of learning, or, The growth of encyclopaedic knowledge, with special reference to encyclopaedic attitudes to the arts and sciences. Used by Marjorie Tipping to support her application for membership of the National Library Council. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 20 February 2002 Last modified 5 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

The ACFC collection now comprises 13 series:??HT 8466 Archive – ACFC Series 1, Card Files: Verbal Lore & Games, 1970-2004??HT 8467 Archive – ACFC Series 2, Folklore for Children (Multicultural), 1976-1987??HT 8468 Archive – ACFC Series 3, Dorothy Howard Collection??HT 8469 Archive – ACFC Series 4, Debney Meadows Primary School, Flemington, 1984??HT 8470 Archive – ACFC Series 5, Student Fieldwork & Essays, 1970-1999??HT 8471 Archive – ACFC Series 6, Children’s Folklore: General??HT 8472 Archive – ACFC Series 7, Collecting, Archiving & Studying Children’s Folklore??HT 8473 Archive – ACFC Series 8, ‘You’re IT!’ Collection??HT 8474 Archive – ACFC Series 10, World Play Summit??HT 8475 Archive – ACFC Series 11, Regional Collections of Games & Rhymes??HT 8476 Archive – ACFC Series 12, Exhibiting Children’s Folklore??HT 8477 Archive – ACFC Series 13, Aboriginal Children’s Play Author Details Alannah Croom Created 6 March 2018 Last modified 6 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Alexandra Cameron was a music teacher, music educator, administrator and founder of a number of music performance programs in Victoria. As the first Inspector of Music in Victoria and through her publications, she influenced and shaped Victorian music education in the second half of the twentieth century. Alexandra Cameron was born on 8 February 1910 in Allora Queensland, the eldest of two daughters of Mary Cluitt and her husband John Kenneth Cameron, a policeman. The family moved to the nearby town of Warwick where her father was promoted to a Sergeant and in 1922 Alexandra was sent to Southport to attend St Hilda’s Church of England Grammar School. Cameron was a product of both examination and academic music training. Although she had no formal musical training prior to attending school, by the age of sixteen she had completed her ATCL (Associate Diploma from Trinity College, London), and the following year had passed the LTCL (the Licentiate of Trinity College London), the qualification which enabled her to teach music. After an initial career as a music teacher at Faith’s Church of England Grammar School, in Yeppoon, she turned her attention to academic music training (Brisbane Courier, 9 February 1929, p.25). She enrolled in Adelaide’s Elder Conservatorium of Music to undertake a bachelor’s in music performance, whilst teaching at Woodland’s Church of England School. With the outbreak of war, she enlisted in the Voluntary Aid Detachment, joining the AIF, where she was posted first to Alice Springs, followed by Katherine and Berrimah in the Northern Territory. A tiny woman, in order to see over the steering wheel, she required a box on her seat (Dumont). With the cessation of hostilities, she was seconded for a time as a rehabilitation officer for the returning troops based both in Lae, New Guinea and in Melbourne. Returning to University on a war service scheme, she supported herself through teaching at private schools, while she enrolled in the Faculty of Music at the University of Melbourne, completing her degree, before undertaking Post Graduate studies with Harold Craxton at the Royal Academy of Music in London (Comte). She was awarded a Diploma of Education in 1953, after which she travelled to Europe to observe music education practices. Returning to Australia she taught in a number of Melbourne high schools. In 1956 she resumed her studies at the University of Melbourne undertaking a Bachelor of Education, whilst lecturing in the Faculty of Education. Balancing classroom teaching with academia, she remained a part-time lecturer in music method at the University of Melbourne in 1963-1964, and in 1965-1966 she taught Choral classes at the Conservatorium. Throughout her working life she was also involved with a number of professional associations, including: the Victorian School Music Association (1954-1964), the Victorian Music Teachers Association (1963-1967), the music representative to the Victorian Universities and Schools Examination Board 1965-, Chairperson of the Music Advisory Committee for Secondary Schools 1966-, Chairperson of the Secondary Schools Concert and Music Library Committee 1967-, Committee Member of the Australian Society for Music Educators (Victorian Chapter) 1968. Returning to the University of Melbourne, in 1970 she completed a master’s degree in education, wining the Harold Cohen Graduate Prize for Research. This passion for music education led to Alexandra Cameron writing and publishing on both the theoretical and practical applications of music in Music Appreciation for Australian Schools (1958), and Singing Together (1965) and The class teaching of music in secondary schools, Victoria, 1905-1955: an investigation into the major influences affecting the development of music as a class subject in Victorian secondary schools (1969). Her appointment as Inspector of Music in 1966 allowed her to initiate several innovations she had developed through her career and observed in her travels. Particularly important was the teaching of orchestral instruments. In an effort to improve music literacy, in 1967 the State Government introduced free instrumental tuition into government schools throughout Victoria. A number of Victorian schools, including University High and Blackburn High, were selected to develop significant music education programs, a program which was expanded by her successor Bruce Worland to include Melbourne High and MacRoberston’s Girls High School amongst others. Cameron was also a driving force in the establishment of the Victorian String Music Library, seconding its inaugural librarian Margaret McCarthy to the role. Supported by teachers, who at first Cameron convinced to volunteer their time, talented music students were encouraged and supported in developing their musical abilities through extra tuition and performance experience, initially at a program she established on Saturdays at University High School. Subsequently Cameron convinced the Education Department to pay her and the teachers as Emergency Teachers, an arrangement which continued until 1979. This resulted in the founding of the Secondary School Concert Committee and the Secondary Schools Orchestra in 1970, eventually becoming known as the Melbourne Youth Orchestra in 1971. This group of talented students rehearsed and performed across Victoria, as well as participating in international tours to England, Japan, Germany, Austria, Italy and France. These tours not only provided performing opportunities for the students but included opportunities for them to attend concerts by a range of international performers and orchestras, exposing the students to some of the most influential musicians and orchestras of their day. The tours also included music workshops with international orchestras and musicians. The impetus, organisation and at times funds for these ventures, came from the enormous strength and belief in social justice of Alexandra Cameron (Dumont). With Bruce Worland as conductor of the Orchestra, the group developed thirteen ensembles, including in 1972 the Melbourne Holiday Music Camp and throughout the 1970s the Melbourne Youth Orchestra, the Percy Grainger Strings, the Melbourne Youth Symphonic Band. The Melbourne Youth Choir, the Margaret Sutherland Strings, the John Antill Band and the Junior String School, engaging up to 600 music students (Comte, Worland). Although Alexandra Cameron ‘retired’ at 60, she continued to teach and act as honorary administrator of the Saturday Music School and Orchestra, later forming the Chamber Strings of Melbourne (Comte, Worland). Publishing several books on music education as well as a song book in the 1950s and 1960s, her final book A Story Culled from Happy Memories: Thirty Years of Music Making: May 1980-May 2010: the Chamber Strings of Melbourne, was published when she was over 100. In 1979, Alexandra Cameron was awarded an MBE for her service to music education and administration, and in 1996 she was awarded RMIT’s first Doctorate of Education Honoris Causa. For her 100th birthday, Alexandra Cameron arranged a concert at the Melbourne Town Hall to celebrate the Chamber Strings 30th anniversary and her final retirement. She left a bequest to the University of Melbourne to establish a scholarship for string or music education students to pursue further studies. Events 1979 - 1979 Author Details Sue Silberberg with Alannah Croom Created 23 January 2018 Last modified 28 October 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Previous control number : 876-18-B1 to B7?Envelope contains 7 black and white 120 mm negatives Author Details Alannah Croom Created 30 December 2017 Last modified 30 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

4 digital audio tapes (ca. 260 min.??RoadKnight speaks of her current projects such as teaching for Musica Viva, producing a programme called Out of Africa relating to the spread of African music, producing an ABC programme on gospel music, her experiences in performing, how her musical tastes developed while still at school, the folk music scene in Melbourne in 1962, the politics of the folk scene, her first regular gig at the Reata while working in the public service, coffee lounges in the 1960s and the other competition, the folk scene in Sydney, putting on her own concert and recording an album which won awards, singing with Frank Traynor’s band and Bentley’s Boogie Band, an Australia Council music study grant to visit the United States in 1974, her trip to China including an invitation to the Peking Conservatorium, her trip to a festival in Tonga as well as visit to South Korea, her interest in African music, her recording career and public exposure, her role as a singer in Australian society and the relevance of songs. Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 12 January 2010 Last modified 21 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Photographs and other material. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 30 December 2017 Last modified 30 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

87/048?RURAL WOMENS NETWORK??Items in the series number VPRS 11790?With consignment number P0001?Unit Number 352 Author Details Janet Butler Created 20 January 2010 Last modified 17 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

TBWL project team Created 29 June 2009 Last modified 20 November 2018 Digital resources Title: Her Excellency Ms Quentin Bryce Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Berlin, Germany. June 1946. Members of the Australian Victory Contingent on a visit to Berlin, watching fellow members of the contingent putting a digger’s hat on one of the statues (not in view) around Frederick the Great’s tea-house in the gardens of ‘San Souci’ Palace, Potsdam. Included in the pictured are, left to right: Warrant Officer E. Maher, RAAF; Major Joan L. Christie, Australian Army Medical Women’s Service, and Squadron Officer Doris Carter, Women’s Auxiliary Australian Air Force (formerly Australian Women’s High Jump Champion). Author Details Anne Heywood Created 1 April 2003 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Descriptions of Marjorie Tipping’s life and achievements as well as programme pamphlets for Victorian Historical Conferences, a pamphlet about La Trobe Library, an issue of Victorian Historical Magazine (diamond jubilee issue), a letter of recommendation from Professor Joseph Burke, programme of the 1959 Australiana Festival. Centenary programme of the National Gallery of Victoria 1861-1961, Meanjin Quarterly Index 1940-1965 (compiled by Mrs Tipping) and Textile Treasures of the National Gallery edited and produced by Mrs Tipping. Also an obituary notice for her husband. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 20 February 2002 Last modified 5 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Described in obituaries as ‘a ruthless battler, hard to beat’, and ‘a fiery champion of the battlers’, Ethel McGuire was a founding member of the Australian Association of Social Workers. She married in 1953 requiring her to resign from her permanent position in the Commonwealth public service, but she returned as a full-time temporary officer by the early 1960s, eventually becoming Assistant Director of the Welfare Branch in the Department of the Interior. Ethel was the driving force in the establishment of social welfare services in Canberra and in 1963 was instrumental in the creation of the ACT Council of Social Service. She played key roles in numerous Catholic voluntary and professional activities including marriage guidance, adoption, the development of the Marymead Child and Family Centre and the formation of Catholic Social Services in Canberra. She was renowned for her formidable advocacy for people, especially children, in need. Ethel Clarice McGuire was inscribed on the ACT Honour Walk in 2020. Ethel Clarice Cannon was born on 1 June 1923, the eldest surviving child of Thomas and Jane Cannon of Sunshine, Melbourne. A devoted Catholic all her life, Ethel’s family background was a potent mix of Irish Catholic working class and Scots Presbyterian, and she grew up in an environment of heated discussions around the dining table about politics, religion, trade unions, the public service, and family matters. These laid the basis not only for her steadfast determination to help children in need, in particular, but also for her formidable debating and advocacy skills later on. Her father died when Ethel was 11 and she helped her mother to raise her younger siblings, taking on part-time jobs to help the family finances. She won scholarships to secondary school and the University of Melbourne where she pursued a BA degree and studies in social science while also caring for homeless women through the Legion of Mary. Ethel graduated with a BA from the University of Melbourne in 1946 and became a founding member of the Australian Association of Social Workers. She worked for the Department of Social Security in Hobart, Melbourne and Perth where she met fellow public servant Kevin McGuire and married him in 1953. The McGuires moved to Canberra in 1955 where Kevin continued his public service career. They had five children – Thomas, Peter, Dermot, Justin and Jane. Canberra grew rapidly after World War 2 as public service departments were moved to the capital. The growing population was young: throughout 1950-1975, almost 40% of the population was under 21. Few people had an extended family nearby to help with burdens or crises, and social networks were insufficient to compensate for that lack. There were very few professional social workers in Canberra, and most of them were married women who were unable to pursue their careers full-time because of the near-ubiquitous ‘marriage bar’. Government-funded child welfare in the ACT was originally handled by the NSW Child Welfare Department from its offices in Cooma and later in Queanbeyan. Their staff visited Canberra and supported a number of families who made their homes available for fostering and short term placement as family crises emerged. Similarly, church-based social services in the ACT were typically managed by their larger NSW service systems – e.g. the NSW Catholic Adoption Agency handled adoptions for the ACT archdiocese. These arrangements became unworkable as Canberra grew, and in 1968 the Commonwealth government enacted a Child Welfare Ordinance for the ACT, funded through and administered by the Department of the Interior. The ACT then withdrew from the NSW system. The widespread ‘marriage bar’ had required Ethel to resign from her permanent job but in no way stopped Ethel from continuing her involvement in social welfare matters when she arrived in Canberra, first as a volunteer and, by the early 1960s, as a full time temporary officer in the Welfare Branch of the Department of the Interior. After the marriage bar was removed in 1966, Ethel regained tenure as a permanent officer, ultimately becoming Assistant Director of Welfare until her retirement in 1989. Ethel’s 40-year career coincided with significant shifts in philosophies and practices in social welfare practice. In the 1960s, for example, she was involved in the adoption programs of both government and the Catholic church, but by the 1980s she was helping change the law to make it possible for children and their birth mothers to obtain information about each other. As the senior social worker and then Director of Welfare, Ethel had a particular interest in child welfare. Through much of her career, the policy of removing children at risk from their parents or their environment, typically placing them in institutions or foster care, was widespread and taken for granted. Ethel insisted that the ACT try to ensure that children of Indigenous background were adopted or fostered by other Indigenous families. Later in her career, as the awful consequences for many children of being removed and placed in situations of abuse and fear became much clearer, Ethel was an adviser to the Catholic church and various religious organisations in trying to help and compensate people who had suffered in such places. When Ethel arrived in Canberra in 1955, she found a very small number of other professional social workers, most of them married women who could not work full-time and so volunteered in various organisations (e.g. Ethel herself was secretary of the Catholic Marriage Guidance Council). She brought them together as the ACT Social Workers Group to encourage and support the growing number of social welfare and non-for-profit organisations that were serving the Canberra community. Under Ethel’s leadership, the Group obtained a grant of 10 pounds from the local chapter of the National Council of Women to help establish an ACT Council of Social Service (COSS) as a coordinating mechanism to lead local service development, promote positive social change, be part of policy debates and contribute to the national network of Councils of Social Service. At the inaugural meeting of the ACT COSS on 30 July 1963, Ethel was appointed the Honorary Secretary of the Executive Committee. Twenty-nine agencies became members. Ten years later that had grown to 74 agencies and 34 individual members; by 2000 it had risen to some 130 agencies. The COSS was run on a shoestring in the 1960s, relying entirely on volunteers (the first paid staff member was appointed in 1972). Ethel was its driving force from the outset, and through the COSS she was able to influence almost every aspect of policy and practice in social welfare in the ACT over the next 25 years. Importantly, she ensured a significant, if hidden, subsidy from the relevant Commonwealth departments which gave their staff flexibility in volunteering their time to the COSS and its activities. As it grew, the COSS, with Ethel’s close involvement, addressed issues ranging from initiation of mental health services, public housing and child poverty, to needs of the elderly, day care services, and services for children and families in crisis. Ethel also played a key role in the formation of Catholic social services in the ACT, as the powerful NSW Catholic Welfare Service and Catholic Adoption Agency withdrew and the ACT developed its own social welfare systems and services from 1968. In particular, Ethel was instrumental in enabling the establishment in Canberra in 1967 by the Franciscan Missionaries of Mary of Marymead Child and Family Centre as an out-of-home care facility for children of families in crisis, with funding support from the Commonwealth. Over the ensuing 20 years Ethel championed Marymead and its services behind the scenes and, on occasions, in fiery battles with authorities in the Department, the ACT justice system and the Archdiocese. By the time she retired in 1989, Marymead had grown substantially and had expanded into in-home care for disadvantaged and vulnerable children and their families. Ethel joined the Board of Marymead on her retirement, serving until 1998. Ethel McGuire was renowned for her formidable political and networking skills. As Jack Waterford, former editor of the Canberra Times, noted in his obituary, she had ‘an inside line to powers through Catholic, feminist, judicial, public service, civic or old mates, as well as the experience of having been in Canberra from the time it was a fairly intimate town of under 10,000. She helped develop many of them. She never hesitated to co-opt anyone to a purpose; if her motives were invariably pure, she was entirely ruthless in pursuing her ends.’ Ethel McGuire was awarded an MBE in 1976 for her public service. In addition to her responsibilities as a public servant, and voluntary work for Marymead, she served on other boards such as the YMCA and Outreach and was the first woman elected president of the ACT branch of the Professional Officers Association of the Commonwealth Public Service. Her name was inscribed on the ACT Honour Walk in 2020 in recognition of her contribution to the ACT’s social services. Ethel died on 14 March 2011. Bishop Pat Power, in his eulogy at her funeral, commented that ‘everyone here today would have witnessed Ethel McGuire standing up for the most vulnerable in the Canberra community. She used her professional skills, her vast experience and her considerable influence in the community to be a fierce and tireless champion of those people who would have been damaged or disadvantaged without her intervention.’ Author Details Louise Moran Created 30 April 2023 Last modified Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Dr Burns’ copies of World University Service Minutes, correspondence, subject files, notebook/diaries, WUS annual reports, copies of various issues of “WUS in Action” (periodical). Author Details Anne Heywood Created 6 February 2002 Last modified 29 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

One of a series, the Third Women and Labour Conference intended to encourage research and experience sharing which furthered women’s understanding of their participation in the workforce and Australian society. More than 100 sessions were conducted with papers and workshops covering topics such as women and work, technological change and its impact upon women’s employment, women and the family, the programs to assist women to take up “non-traditional” employment, migrant women, women’s studies, feminist theory and practice, lesbianism, women and ageing, women and the media, women and art, work and unions, feminist literary criticisms and the strategies for women in the 80s (discussed by guest speakers Deborah McCulloch and Bettina Cass). The conference aimed to ensure the participation of a wide range of women and to promote contributions on important topics. Approximately 1200 women from all states of Australia, New Zealand, and Canada registered. 57 papers were presented and 54 workshops were conducted covering the disciplines of anthropology, politics, philosophy and fine arts with the role of women in education, social work, science and health also being discussed. A two volume collection entitled “All Her Labours” (1984, Women and Labour Publications Collective, Hale & Iremonger Pty. Ltd) was compiled from selected papers from those presented at the conference. Proceeds from the books sales and conference profits enabled a trust fund to be established. Grants were available to any woman or group of women who were undertaking a project of benefit to women. Although surplus funds had been available since the first Women and Labour Conference held in Sydney in 1978, it was no longer limited to literary projects. By 1984, funds from the Third Women and Labour Conference had been dispersed among almost 30 successful applicants. Further funds were obtained by the end of 1984 following the publication of two more volumes of conference papers. Published resources Edited Book Worth her Salt: Women at Work in Australia, Bevege, Margaret, James, Margaret and Schute, Carmel, 1982 All Her Labours: Working it Out, Women and Labour Conference Publications Collective, 1982 Journal Article A touch of nostalgia at the Women and Labour Conference, Allen, Margaret, 1995 Warmth and unity with all women? Historicizing racism in the Australian Women's Movement, Murdolo, Adele, 1995 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources State Library of South Australia Women & Labour Conference : SUMMARY RECORD Author Details Robin Secomb and Rosemary Francis Created 23 July 2004 Last modified 1 May 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

The Adelaide Women’s Liberation Movement began at the University of Adelaide in 1968, with the women who were active in young labour, the anti-Vietnam war campaign questing their frustration and roles in these groups that were male dominated. Anna Yeatman, Anne Summers and Julie Ellis are credited with starting the newsletters Sisterhood, and Body Political by late 1969 they produced Liberation, the Adelaide Women’s Liberation Newsletter which replaced Sisterhood. Their first protest was against the Miss Fresher competition, which gain media exposer to their ideas of women’s liberation. Public meetings where called and the broader community involvement brought about the establishment of the Women’s Liberation Movement housed at Bloor House. They provided an environment where ideas for supporting women’s rights were fostered. From this the Women’s Liberation Movement in Adelaide was the catalyst for the establishment of the Women’s Health Centre at Hindmarsh, The Rape Crisis Centre, Women’s Studies Resource Centre, Abortion Action Campaign, St Peters Women’s Community Centre, Women’s Health Centers at Chrisities Beach and Elizabeth, lobbied for Women’s Studies to be part of Tertiary education, women’s representation in parliaments, Working Women’s Centre to Protect women’s working rights, the Women’s Peace Movement. Bloor House provided a space for women to express their personal political ideas and to get feedback and support. The Women’s Liberation Movement moved from Bloor House to Eden St in Adelaide and then to Mary St, Hindmarsh were it was closed in 1989.??Records of the Adelaide Women’s Liberation Movement including correspondence, publications, newsletters and newspaper cuttings. Author Details Kathleen Bambridge Created 18 December 2009 Last modified 24 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

12 sound files (approximately 14 hr. 39 min.) Author Details Helen Morgan Created 21 August 2015 Last modified 22 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Papers of Kay Brownbill relating to research regarding painter Hans Heysen for an authorised biography. Includes letters, newspaper cuttings, catalogues and articles. Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 24 February 2009 Last modified 24 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

1 sound cassette (ca. 68 min.)??Vickers speaks of problems due to the lack of rain, the 1980s drought, hardship on the farm, her family, her background as teacher, her learning experience on the farm, being flexible according to the weather, breeding goats, analysing goats’ behaviour, shearing goats for cashmere, testing fleece measurements, growing crops, her family. Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 3 March 2010 Last modified 21 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Letters to W. P. Hurst concerning her work among the Aborigines. Also, articles, press cuttings, photographs, and ephemera. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 28 December 2017 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Following the birth of her children, Beryl Beaurepaire became involved with charity work and the women’s organisations of the Liberal Party. She summarises her liberal feminist views as follows: ‘If you’re a feminist you believe in equal opportunities and rights for women, but you also believe that women accept equal responsibilities.’ (As cited by Emma Grahame in Australian Feminism: A Companion, OUP, 1998) Dame Beryl passed away at her home in Mt Eliza, Victoria, on 24 October 2018. Beryl Edith Bedggood completed her schooling at Fintona Girl’s School in Balwyn, Victoria, before becoming a meteorological officer with the Women’s Auxiliary Australian Air Force in 1942. After marrying Ian Francis Beaurepaire in 1946 she became involved in the community and charity work of Melbourne’s society women. During the 1970s she was chairman of the Federal Women’s Committee (1974-1976), and later convenor of the first National Women’s Advisory Council (1978-1982) as well as being vice-president of the Victorian Division of the Liberal Party from 1976 to 1986. Beaurepaire was a member of the Australian Children’s Television Foundation Board (1982-1988), the Board of Victoria’s 150th Authority (1982-1987), and a member of the Australian Bi-centennial Multicultural Foundation (1989-1992). From 1985 to 1993 she was chairman of the Australian War Memorial Council and then chairman of the Australian War Memorial Fund Raising Committee (1993). She is Patron to a number of community organisations including: Children First Foundation since 2000, Peninsula Hospice Service since 1999, Palliative Care (Vic.) since 1999, Victorian College of the Arts since 1999, Epilepsy Foundation of Victoria since 1999, Australia Against Child Abuse since 1999, Peninsula Health Care Network Foundation since 1996 and the Portsea Children’s Camp since 1996. Events 1980 - 1980 The Order of the British Empire – Dames Commander (DBE) 1996 - 1996 Patron of the Peninsula Health Care Network Foundation 1996 - 1996 Patron of the Portsea Children’s Camp 1993 - 1996 Chairman of the Australian War Memorial Fund Raising Committee 1985 - 1993 Chairman of the Australian War Memorial Council 1982 - 1993 Member of the Australian War Memorial Council 1988 - 1990 President of the Victorian Association of Most Excellent OBE 1989 - 1992 Member of the Australian Bi-centennial Multicultural Foundation 1982 - 1987 Board member of the Victorian 150th Authority 1982 - 1988 Board member of the Australian Children’s Television Foundation Board 1978 - 1982 Convenor of the National Women’s Advisory Council 1977 - 1977 Member of the Federal Women’s Advisory Committee Working Party 1974 - 1976 Chairman of the Federal Liberal Party Women’s Committee 1973 - 1976 Chairman of the Victorian Liberal Party Women’s Section 1973 - 1987 Chairman of the Board of Management of Fintona Girls School 1970 - 1986 Vice-President of the Citizens Welfare Service Victoria 1969 - 1977 Member of the National Executive, YWCA Australia 1945 - 1945 Commissioned Assistant Section Officer 1942 - 1945 Served with the Women’s Auxiliary Australian Air Force 1977 - 1977 Awarded Silver Jubilee Medal 1946 - 1946 Married Ian Francis Beaurepaire 1991 - 1991 Companion Order of Australia (AC) 1975 - 1975 Appointed, Member of the British Empire (MBE) 2000 - 2000 Patron of the Children First Foundation 1999 - 1999 Patron of the Peninsula Hospice Service 1999 - 1999 Patron of the Palliative Care (Vic.) 1999 - 1999 Patron of the Victorian College of the Arts 1999 - 1999 Patron of the Epilepsy Foundation of Victoria Incorporated 1999 - 1999 Patron of the Australian’s Against Child Abuse 1976 - 1986 Vice-President of the Victorian Division Liberal Party 2001 - 2001 Inducted into the Victorian Honour Roll of Women Published resources Resource Section Australian Women's Honour Roll B, CAPOW, http://www.capow.org.au/Honourroll/honourroll-b.htm BEAUREPAIRE, BERYL EDITH, Department of Veterans' Affairs, 2002, http://www.ww2roll.gov.au/script/veteran.asp?ServiceID=R&VeteranID=1069542 Edited Book Australian Feminism: A Companion, Caine, Barbara, Gatens, Moira et al., 1998 Who's Who in Australia 2002, Herd, Margaret, 2002 A decade of Mary Owen dinners, Waterfield, Dorothy, 1995 Book Beryl Beaurepaire, McKernan, Michael, 1999 Getting Equal: the History of Australian Feminism, Lake, Marilyn, 1999 The matriarchs: twelve Australian women talk about their lives to Susan Mitchell., Mitchell, Susan, 1987 The Alexandra Club : A Narrative 1903-1983, Starke, Monica, 1986 The WAAAF in Wartime Australia, Thomson, Joyce A, 1992 So Many Firsts: Liberal Women from Enid Lyons to the Turnbull Era, Fitzherbert, Margaret, 2009 Resource Women and Politics in South Australia, Cadden, Rosemary, http://www.slsa.sa.gov.au/women_and_politics/index.html Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Newspaper Article War veterans honoured, 2001 Site Exhibition Faith, Hope and Charity Australian Women and Imperial Honours: 1901-1989, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2003, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/honours/honours.html The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia, Smart, Judith and Swain, Shurlee (eds.), 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders Archival resources State Library of Victoria Papers, ca. 1970-ca. 1985 [manuscript]. National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Heritage 200 entries, 1988 [manuscript] National Archives of Australia, National Office, Canberra BEAUREPAIRE BERYL EDITH : Service Number - 90770 : Date of birth - 24 Sep 1923 : Place of birth - CAMBERWELL VIC : Place of enlistment - MELBOURNE : Next of Kin - BEDGGOOD EDWARD Author Details Anne Heywood Created 10 April 2002 Last modified 1 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

1 sound cassette (ca. 8 min.)??Clowse, a reporter and producer, speaks of the establishment of the ABC Rural Woman of the Year Award and its development from a local to a national award, her impressions on the type of women nominated for the award and the impact on rural women generally through the advantages of broader networking. Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 3 March 2010 Last modified 21 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

A. Correspondence, 1929-1936?B. Papers, 1890-1938?C. Visitors Books, 1934-1937?D. Printed material, 1917-1932???BOX 1??A. Correspondence, 1929-1936??Folder 1?1929; Letters received, being mainly letters sent by professional associates during Sir Philip Street’s visit to England. Correspondents include judges David Ferguson, James Campbell, Langer Owen, John Harvey, William Parker and Alexander Gordon??Folder 2?1929; Letters received, being letters sent by family members during Sir Philip Street’s visit to England. Correspondents include Kenneth Street, Jessie Street, Belinda Street, Philippa Street, Roger Street, Ernest Street and Norah Street??Folder 3?1926-1936; Letters received??Folder 4?1936; Cables received, being carbon typescripts of official cables sent by the Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs on behalf of the British government during the abdication crisis of 1936??B. Papers, 1890-1938??Folder 5 / Items 1-3?1914-1921; Papers concerning Laurence Whistler Street (1893-1915), including Ms. transcript of letter written by Laurence W. Street describing landing at Gallipoli, 1915; letters of condolence; Commission as lieutenant in the AIF; studio portrait of Laurence W. Street in uniform??Item 1: Letter by Laurence W. Street describing landing at Gallipoli, and condolence letters, 1915, transcribed by Philip Street??Item 2: Official letters of condolence concerning Laurence Whistler Street, 1919, 1921??Item 3: Laurence Whistler Street photograph and papers, ca. 1914-1918???BOX 2??1890-1932; Miscellaneous papers, being invitations, menu cards, booklets and programmes including, official invitation ‘To commemorate the establishment at Canberra of the Seat of Government of the Commonwealth of Australia, May 9th 1927’??1914-1935; Papers of Philip Whistler Street, being miscellaneous papers and speeches given by Philip Street and others on his retirement in 1933??ca.1925-1938; Speeches given by Philip Whistler Street, being Ms. corrected drafts??1917-1932; Papers concerning the estate of the late Miss Harriett M. Poolman??1936; Bookplate, being bookplate designed by Gayfield Shaw for presentation to King George V. and including an explanatory letter to Sir Philip Street from Shaw??BOX 3??1908-1917; Cash book, being cash book of Philip Whistler Street??C. Visitors Books, 1934-1937?1934-1936; ‘List of Callers on His Excellency the Lieutenant Governor and Lady Street’, being three bound volumes??1933-1937; ‘Visitors Book of His Excellency the Lieutenant-Governor and Lady Street’, being one bound volume??D. Printed material, 1917-1932?1917-1928; Published journals, being ‘Hermes’ (1917-1918); ‘Blackacre’ (1926); and ‘The Pauline’ (1928)??BOX 4??1919-1923; Catalogues, being catalogues (3) of art exhibitions??1932; Newscuttings, being part of ‘Daily Telegraph’ 5 Feb. 1932 including article about Sir Philip Street Author Details Elle Morrell Created 5 September 2000 Last modified 31 October 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Photo published on page 8 of the 3 May 1973 issue of the Canberra Times. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 30 December 2017 Last modified 30 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

The Australian Servicewomen’s Memorial was dedicated by the Minister for Veterans’ Affairs, the Hon. Bruce Scott MP, on 27 March 1999. The Memorial, designed by Sydney sculptor, Anne Ferguson, commemorates all women who served, suffered and died in the defence of Australia.

Nola Fraser was well known as a whistle blower when she ran in the Macquarie Fields by-election (New South Wales Legislative Assembly) in 2005. Nola Fraser was one of the whistle blowers who drew attention to the poor administrative and medical practices at Camden and Campbelltown Hospitals. She also claimed that at her meeting with Craig Knowles, the Minister responsible (and the man whose resignation necessitated the by-election) she had been threatened. At the ensuing Independent Commission Against Corruption Inquiry, her story was not believed. At the time of the by-election she had left nursing and was running her own beauty salon. She achieved a 12% swing to the Liberal Party but did not win. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 12 December 2005 Last modified 7 February 2006 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Jager has worked as Executive Producer for the ABC’s Natural History Unit and the Head of Factual Division of Artists Services. She has also held positions as Documentary Manager at Film Victoria and Documentary Commissioning Editor for SBS Independent. Alongside these positions, Jager has managed the production company Arcimedia and has written, directed and produced numerous dramas, documentaries and television series.

Raised in a small farming community at Moulyinning, the Pearce sisters – May, Jean, Morna and Caroline – came to prominence in women’s hockey in that State from the mid-1930s to the mid-1960s. May, Jean and Morna Pearce all went on to captain both State and national teams. Caroline ‘Tib’ Pearce played at State and national levels. May Pearce (Campbell, 1915-1981), was one of Western Australia’s greatest players, scoring 100 goals in interclub, interstate and international matches in 1936. She represented Australia from 1936 to 1948 before working as a coach and administrator. Jean Pearce (Wynne, 1921 – ), represented Western Australia from 1939 to 1953. She made the Australian team in 1946 and captained it to victory over England in 1953. Caroline Pearce (Ash, 1925 – ), played from 1946 to 1950 and was a member, along with May and Jean, of the unbeaten 1948 Australian team that toured New Zealand. Morna Pearce (Hyde, 1932 – ), played under her sister Jean’s captaincy in 1953, becoming Australian captain herself by 1956 when the next international tournament was played in Sydney. Morna won Western Australia’s first Sportsman of the Year award in 1956. Her son, John Hyde, is a member of the Labor Party and represents the seat of Perth in the Legislative Assembly. Published resources 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 Edited Book The Oxford Companion to Australian Sport, Vamplew, Vray; Moore, Katharine; O'Hara, John; Cashman, Richard; Jobling, Ian, 1997 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 31 January 2007 Last modified 12 April 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Melbourne, Vic. C. 1945. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 24 March 2003 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

This collection consists of minute books which describe the weekly events in the Home including information about applicants, children and their families 1874-1965, other records of inmates 1875-1964, letterbooks, 1874-1896, a visitors’ book 1875-1899, Emily Trollope’s diary of the Home, 1875-1876, financial records, 1885-1893 as well as newscuttings 1877-1966 and photographs, ca. 1890. Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 21 May 2004 Last modified 24 October 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Sharyn Csanki is a loyal advocate for the Australian Democrats who ran for the New South Wales Legislative Assembly in Wallsend in 2003. Sharyn Csanki lived in the Newcastle suburb of Waratah when she stood for the adjoining seat of Wallsend in 2003. She was candid that her standing would assist in increasing the vote for the Australian Democrats candidates in the Legislative Council. In the event, she polled 2.2 % of the vote and ran last in a field of seven. Sharyn Csanki led the Australian Democrats team in the 2004 local government elections in Newcastle Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Created 12 December 2005 Last modified 16 September 2013 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

A member of the Australian Labor Party, Jane Lomax-Smith was elected to the seat of Adelaide in the House of Assembly of the Parliament of South Australia at the election, which was held on 9 February 2002. She was re-elected in 2006. She held the Ministerial portfolios of Education, Mental Health and Substance Abuse and Tourism. She was defeated at the 2010 election. Before entering the State Parliament she served three terms as a Councillor for the City of Adelaide and two terms as Mayor. Jane Lomax-Smith was born in the east end of London. She qualified as a clinical pathologist, medical researcher and teacher and worked in those capacities in London, Boston and Adelaide. She set up her own practice as a Pathologist in Adelaide before entering the political arena. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 28 January 2009 Last modified 8 April 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

The Port Adelaide Girls Technical School was part of the Port Adelaide Primary School. The primary school was opened in 1862 and the Girls Department was established in 1925. This was also known as the Central School. In 1940 the School was renamed Port Adelaide Girls Technical High School and operated on two sites. In 1962 the new building was opened by Lady Bastyan. This was the first time that the spouse of the Governor opened a school. The school provided single sex schooling in a mainly working class environment.??The collection has a scrapbook with a list of teachers names and some photographs. The principals included Marg Beagley and Carolyne Ryan. There are some school magazines, education programs and history of the school. Author Details Kathleen Bambridge Created 18 December 2009 Last modified 24 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Negatives, duplicate photographic prints and two computer disks used in the preparation of, A guide to the illuminated addresses in the National Library of Australia (3 v., 1993). The original guide is housed in the Special Collections Reading Room. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 6 March 2018 Last modified 6 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Comprises personal and family documents, and records of organisations concerned with health, welfare and aged care, e.g., Nappie Wash, Abbeyfield Society, Melbourne-South Yarra Group, Broadmeadows Community Health Centre, Melbourne District Health Council. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 10 November 2003 Last modified 28 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)

Recounts the life story of Anne Ramsay (nee Spear), including her birth in Fitzroy in 1865; the early death of her parents; her childhood in the Melbourne Orphan Asylum with her two brothers; her work as a domestic servant; her married life in the inner suburbs of Melbourne, and in Castlemaine and Warrnambool; and her death in Kew in 1962. Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 23 October 2003 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Correspondence; file of testimonials from medical practitioners and others in the United States and Canada; reports on her treatment method and summarised lecture notes; some patient case histories, biographical papers and newspaper clippings. Author Details Elle Morrell Created 9 February 2001 Last modified 31 July 2020 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Tania Giles stood as a candidate for the Australian Greens Party in the Legislative Assembly seat of Hawthorn at the Victorian state election, which was held on 30 November 2002. She stood again in the seat of Malvern at the 2006 state election, which was held on 25 November. Tania Giles served as a Councillor for the City of Happy Valley from 1991-97 and represented Local Government on the State Revegetation Committee from 1995-97. She stood as the Australian Greens candidate for the House of representatives seat of Bruce at the Federal election, which was held in 2004. A piano and violin teacher, Tania enjoys bushwalking, painting and ceramic sculpture. 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)

Gemma Edgar is a once only candidate for election to the parliament of New South Wales: Australian Democrats ticket at the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Menai in 2003. Gemma Edgar attended the NSW Schools Constitutional Convention in March 1997, representing Caringbah High School. She is Co-convenor of Twenty 10, a gay and lesbian counselling service, opened in 2004. Gemma was appointed to the Special Commission of Enquiry into the Waterfall rail accident. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 12 December 2005 Last modified 12 December 2005 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Minute books of council, policy committees, divisions and annual conferences, publication production files for THE LAMP, correspondence and committee files, reports, constitution and rules, and scholarships material. Author Details Helen Morgan Created 14 February 2002 Last modified 23 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

3 sound files (approximately 200 min.) Author Details Helen Morgan Created 7 August 2015 Last modified 22 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

The series contains a collection of nominal rolls and lists of medals and clasps awarded which relate to contingents and individuals from the New South Wales Military Forces who served in the Boer War.??Folder 3B lists the members of the New South Wales Army Medical Corp who were entitled to the South Africa Medal and Clasp under the Army Order granting the Medal issued on 1st April, 1901.??Page 11 lists the Nursing Sisters. The Nursing Sisters accompanied the Second Contingent which departed on 17th January 1900 on board the ship Moravian. Four remained in South Africa, Lady Superintendent and the others returned. Nursing Sister Elizabeth Nixon was awarded the Royal Red Cross; and was mentioned in despatches in the London Gazette, 27.9.01, and Nursing Sister Mary Annie Pocock was mentioned in despatches, in the London Gazette 27.7.01. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 26 February 2003 Last modified 23 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Records in this series relate to the Royal Commission into Human Relationships (CA 1891), established by Federal Parliament on 21 August 1974. The records in this series are subject based and consist of administrative files, incidental files, Open House hearings, consultants’ research reports, judge’s notes on hearings, exhibits and submissions. Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 2 November 2006 Last modified 21 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

25 minutes??Dr Marjorie Casley Smith was born in 1901. She grew up in Malvern with two brothers and a nurse Clara. Interested in healing from the age of five when a Dr Harold gave her a handbook on first aid. She was educated at the Methodist Ladies’ College. After graduation she spent two years at home learning music and the domestic arts, then studied medicine. Graduated in 1927 and went to the Royal Adelaide Hospital as House Surgeon under Dr Sleeman. She did obstetrics at the Queen Victoria Hospital. In 1928 her father died and she spent two years caring for her mother. In 1930 she married Roy Frisby Smith a lawyer and they moved to Mylor for a year. Returned to live at her family home in Malvern with her mother and Clare. Husband died in 1938 so she returned to work at the School Medical Health Service. She became SA Vice President of the National Council of Women, in 1940 the convenor of Health for SA and then the Australian Convenor of Health. Dr Casley Smith started the Marriage Guidance Council, was active in the Asthma Association, and the Mental Health Association. She was involved with music, was a member of the Lyceum Club from 1920, and her son John was a Rhodes scholar in 1958. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 6 April 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

This collection comprises two manuscript and pictorial record series. You may navigate to a more detailed description of each series from this collection record. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 9 January 2018 Last modified 23 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

30 minutes??Nancy Bryn Jones talks about her schooling, marriage to Keith Jauncey, becoming a widow, marriage to Bryn Jones, moving to Keith, building their house, working on the land, CWA, Italian prisoners of war, return to Adelaide, member of the National Council of Women, United Nations Association, League of Women Voters, joy of the Lyceum Club Author Details Anne Heywood Created 5 April 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Executive committee and general committe minutes; correspondence; reports 1972-1975, 1978-1982. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 9 January 2018 Last modified 23 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

MS Acc13.143 comprises three letters to the Strathfield Symphony Orchestra written by Miriam Hyde responding to requests for program notes on specific pieces, including “Lyric”, and “Heroic Elegy”. Also included in the letters are general biography and handwritten notes. The Strathfield Symphony Orchestra had a long history with the composer and performed a great number of Hyde pieces (1 folder). Author Details Alannah Croom Created 13 February 2018 Last modified 13 February 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

The collection includes adjudicators records, account books, agendas, correspondence, files (re Eisteddfords, Edgar Ford Memorial Lecture, Music Festival), financial records, lists of entrants, minute books, newspaper cuttings, registers of members and teachers, programmes, reports, rules, submissions, other miscellaneous records. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 15 February 2018 Last modified 15 February 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Seven letters from Arthur Bradford to Daisy Bates regarding funding for her work with Aboriginal people and Bradford’s liaison with politicians. Also, letters from H. S. Foll, on behalf of Senator Keane, Minister for the Interior, in response to representations from Bradford for assistance for Daisy Bates. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 6 January 2018 Last modified 6 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Winifred Piesse became the first woman to represent the Country Party in the Western Australian Parliament when she was elected to the Legislative Council for a six year term, beginning in May 1977. Her extensive experience in nursing ensured that health matters were high on her Parliamentary agenda. She was particularly concerned about issues affecting children and youth, and also urged the government to urgently fund research into breast cancer, especially its high incidence in young mothers. Winifred Margaret Aumann was born in 1923 to Frederick Benjamin Aumann, an orchardist, and Marguerite Gertrude Pettingill. She was educated at Narre Warren State School and Dandenong High School, and later completed certificates in Nursing, Midwifery and Child Health. Winifred worked as a nurse in Melbourne from 1944 until 1946, when she moved to Western Australia and worked in hospitals in Busselton and Narrogin. In 1947 she married Mervyn Piesse, a farmer at Wagin in Western Australia, about 230 kilometres south-east of Perth. Winifred Piesse joined the Country Party in 1948 and worked as both branch and divisional secretary. When her husband died in 1966, she returned to nursing and also managed farms in the Wagin area. She was the first woman to be elected to the Wagin Shire Council, in August 1971, and also became a Justice of the Peace in that year. Winifred Piesse became the first woman to represent the Country Party in the Western Australian Parliament when she was elected to the Legislative Council for a six year term, beginning in May 1977. Her extensive experience in nursing ensured that health matters were high on her Parliamentary agenda. She was particularly concerned about issues affecting children and youth, and also urged the government to urgently fund research into breast cancer, especially its high incidence in young mothers. Piesse lost her seat in 1983, her preferences helping to elect the Liberal candidate. After leaving Parliament Piesse served for three years on the local hospital board, and maintained her strong links with community organisations including the Country Women’s Association, Farmer’s Union, and the St. John’s Ambulance Brigade. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 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 Archival resources State Library of Western Australia [Interview with Winifred Margaret Piesse, politician] [sound recording] / [interviewed by Gail O'Hanlon] Author Details Lisa MacKinney Created 7 October 2009 Last modified 22 October 2020 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Rhondda Nicholas is an experienced employment lawyer at Nicholas Dibb, where she is the principal solicitor. She established OzPropertyLaw; the first legal practice in Australia to offer fixed fee conveyancing services online in every state and territory. A graduate of the ANU Law School, Rhondda also holds a BA (Hons) in political science from ANU and a Master of Philosophy from Griffith University, Qld in Australia – Asia relations. Rhondda Nicholas recognised early the possibilities for improving client service that was offered by the Internet. She also understood that consumers wanted lawyers who delivered service in plain English and who were open and transparent about their fees. Acting on these concerns, in June 2003 Rhondda established Australia’s first online or virtual law firm, Ozpropertylaw Pty Ltd, delivering residential and commercial conveyancing services direct to consumers. In developing Ozpropertylaw, Rhondda sought to set up an online legal service that was more convenient for clients in that they could communicate with solicitors and paralegals online and access their documents 24/7; which gave them certainty about the legal fees they would pay for the service up front; and which harnessed technology to provide a more efficient service. Consumers reacted by registering with Ozpropertylaw.com for their legal property services from its inception. Commencing practice in the ACT and NSW in 2003, Rhondda steadily added other states and the Northern Territory. By 2010 Ozpropertylaw Pty Ltd provided conveyancing and property legal services in each state and territory. Ozpropertylaw Pty Ltd is a pioneer of fixed fee conveyancing and consumers are able to obtain an instant online quote from its website. In 2015 that is still unusual in legal practice in conveyancing. Rhondda attracts and maintains a multinational staff to reflect her client base and so that clients are comfortable with Ozpropertylaw’s professional and administrative staff. Rhondda spoke about the pitfalls in online law firm service delivery in March 2010 at the Sinch Online Legal Services (SOLS) Conference in Sydney, Australia. At the SOLS Conference in Sydney in March 2011 she spoke about legal costs and online consumers. In March 2012 her presentation focussed on developments in UK conveyancing and lessons for Australia and in May 2014 Rhondda spoke about the need for lawyers operating in the online environment to develop business skills. As owner of the boutique law firm, Nicholas Dibb Solicitors, Rhondda advises employment law clients on difficult issues arising within the workplace and suggests solutions acceptable to all parties. Rhondda and her team have produced Fair Work compliant contracts for law firm clients and real estate agencies in several Australian states. Nicholas Dibb Solicitors practises in employment law, discrimination, commercial law and dispute resolution. Rhondda is presently working on innovating service delivery in other legal areas to facilitate client engagement with solicitors online. Published resources Site Exhibition Australian Women Lawyers as Active Citizens, Trailblazing Women Lawyers Project Team, 2016, http://www.womenaustralia.info/lawyers Author Details Rhondda Nicholas Created 11 May 2016 Last modified 9 November 2016 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Family and business papers relating to John Hamilton Mortimer Lanyon (1834-1863); business records of Lanyon (1834-1902); receipts for rent on runs, licence to occupy waste lands; Correspondence with John Davidson, solicitor of Goulburn, 1884-1886; Mining papers, 1888-1889; Bank records. Business letters and accounts relating to Moothumbil Station (on the Bland), Thomas Herbert and Andrew Cunningham, 1875-1880. Also includes a copy of P.G. Smith sermon and a copy of the Will of Mary Cunningham. Author Details Kim Doyle Created 22 June 2012 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Jessie Scotford was president of the National Council of Women of New South Wales (1967-1970), and national president (1970-1973). She brought to her work with the National Councils a strong sense of the importance of history and literature as the creators of national culture and identity. The same concern led her to join the National Trust, where she campaigned for ‘the importance of preserving not only the buildings, but the contents of the buildings’. In 1973, she ran in Sydney the first International Council of Women’s Regional Conference to be held in the Pacific region. Jessie Scotford was born in 1917 in Casino in outback New South Wales, where her father, Edward Vivian Timms, had taken up farming after returning injured from Gallipoli. The family returned to city life a few years later when Timms and his wife, Alma, decided he was better suited to a career as a writer. Timms went on to become a successful historical novelist; his best-known works are probably Forever to Remain (1948) and The Beckoning Shore (1950). Jessie Scotford remembered her country upbringing as a time when ‘we put down a lot of very good Australian roots’. Jessie attended Gosford High School, becoming the school captain in her final year. She went on to become an evening student at Sydney University, working by day at a number of jobs, including journalism. In 1940, before she graduated, she married Herbert Edward Scotford, at that time a sergeant in the AIF. For the next 6 years the couple were separated by war. Mrs Scotford was awarded a BA in 1942. After the birth of her children – twins, a boy and a girl – Jessie Scotford became involved in a range of community activities. She joined the Women Graduates Association and found herself preparing abstracts of United Nations documents on women’s rights for publication in the WGA newsletter. She joined the mothers’ association at her children’s school and soon became president. She worked as honorary archivist for the New South Wales National Trust for about 7 years, later joining its council. And, as president of North Shore group of the National Heart Campaign in its first year of operation, she became involved in fund-raising, event organisation, and public speaking. She became a speaker for the National Heart Campaign and subsequently for the Freedom From Hunger Campaign, discovering a talent for public persuasion. Advised by her husband that she needed a professional qualification, in 1955 Jessie Scotford undertook a Diploma of Education in the new education-by-distance program at the University of New England, again studying by night and teaching by day. A thesis written for this program became in Scotford’s words ‘a turning point in my whole life’. Taking a trunkful of 19th-century family letters, she analysed their potential as a means of teaching history. This innovative exercise also involved her in the new discipline of folklore studies, and the popular movement to establish folk museums for the preservation of ‘our Australian heritage’. After an overseas tour, during which she visited ‘all the major folk museums in the British Isles and on the Continent’, Jessie Scotford began to campaign through the National Trust ‘on the importance of preserving not only the buildings, but the contents of the buildings’. The idea was entirely new to the National Trust Executive Council and its members were difficult to convince. But Scotford established a large collection of historical costumes dating from early Sydney, and, by the mid-1970s, the Trust was persuaded to purchase these as the basis of a future folk museum. She was a council member of the National Trust of Australia (NSW) from 1974 to 1981. In parallel with this work on the heritage front, Jessie Scotford became involved in the national and international women’s movement. She joined the National Council of Women of NSW as a delegate of the Women Graduates Association, becoming convenor of the committee for arts and letters in 1965, and president of the Council from 1967. This led to her chairing the Women’s Committee of the Captain Cook Bicentenary Celebrations, and effectively managing a range of bicentenary events in 1970, including a women’s ‘Pageant of Endeavour’-an exhibition in the Sydney Town Hall demonstrating women’s contribution to the development of NSW. 120,000 people visited the exhibition. A series of ‘Life in the Home’ tableaux demonstrated ‘family life, costume, customs, household furniture and contents’. Scotford also collected and later published a collection of brief histories of all the 250 women’s organisations involved in the ‘Pageant’. In 1970, Scotford also became president of National Council of Women of Australia. As president she carried forward the reform programs of her predecessor, Ada Norris, including the long struggle for equal pay, finally achieved with the Arbitration Court decision to abolish the male basic wage in 1974. She initiated new programs to obtain equal treatment for women in the areas of pensions and taxation, and to improve the standard of care in child-care centres. She raised the issue of Aboriginal welfare within the National Councils, calling in 1972 for reports from all affiliates on the local treatment of Aborigines. In retrospect Jessie Scotford remembered as the major achievement of her presidency the staging of the 1973 International Council of Women’s Regional Conference in Sydney. She got funding for the conference from the United Nations Development Program in New York-‘probably the hardest thing I ever had to do’. Scotford was made a life member and a vice-president of ICW in 1979, in recognition of her skills and commitment in organising this and several later events for the ICW Board. She attended the United Nations Mid-Decade Conference for Women in Copenhagen in 1980, the United Nations World Conference for Women in Nairobi in 1985, the UNESCO General Conference in Paris in 1983, and the United Nations Conference on Decolonisation in Port Moresby in 1984. In Australia, Scotford’s work with the National Councils led her to undertake a range of voluntary positions: membership of the State Committee for Human Rights Year 1968; chair of the Sydney Opera House Festival Women’s Committee in 1973; membership of the board of governors of the Law Foundation of New South Wales, 1974-1977, the first non-legal woman so appointed; membership of the Council for the Royal Flying Doctor Service; and membership of the Standing Committee of Convocation at Macquarie University. In 1977, Scotford was appointed executive officer of the Cultural Council of the City of Sydney. This involved the organisation of the City of Sydney Eisteddfod, an event with over 20,000 entrants, and also a more general brief to promote the performing and creative arts in the city. In her later years, Scotford wrote a historical novel, The Distaff Side. It follows her ancestral female lines, to her great grandmothers and beyond. She wrote that ‘I wanted to honour my ancestors, not because they were great heroines, but because of the sort of people they were-steady, and good’. The book was published in 1996 by Harper Collins. Jessie Scotford was active for many years on the presbytery of St David’s church, Lindfield, and, with the union of the Presbyterian, Congregational and Methodist churches in 1977, she became an Elder in the Uniting Church of Australia-‘perhaps my greatest honour’. In 1976 she told an all-women service in St David’s that the impact of International Women’s Year was like a huge submerged ocean current whose force was not yet felt. Women are rising in slow persistent waves to effect a ‘revolution that is as vital a part of human progress as the discovery of the wheel, the invention of the printing press or the conquest of space’. Events 1973 - 1973 Festival Women’s Committee for the opening of the Sydney Opera House 1995 - 1995 Central West Region Women’s Committee of the National Trust of Australia NSW 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 Edited Book Who's Who of Australian Women, Lofthouse, Andrea, 1982 Who's Who in Australia, 1971, Legge, J S, 1971 Book The Distaff Side: An Epic Saga Spanning Five Generations of Women, Scotford, Jessica, 1996 Conference Paper A Super Achiever, Scotford, Jessie, 1995 Education for Citizenship, Scotford, Jessie, 1970 Journal NCWA Quarterly Bulletin, National Council of Australian Women, 1974 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection National Council of Women of NSW - program for the launch of the Centenary Stamp Issue and a complete set of the issue, 1996 National Council of Women of New South Wales further papers, 1895-1981 National Council of Women of NSW Inc. - further records, 1926-1927, 1937-1990 Papers relating to National Council of Women of New South Wales, 1895-1897 National Council of Women of New South Wales further records, 1895-1997 National Council of Women of New South Wales records, 1895-1976 National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Jessie Scotford interviewed by Hazel de Berg for the Hazel de Berg collection [sound recording] National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Records of the National Council of Women of Australia, 1924-1990 [manuscript] NCWA Papers 1984 - 2006 Author Details Jan Hipgrave, Marian Quartly and Judith Smart Created 3 September 2013 Last modified 14 August 2018 Digital resources Title: Jessie Scotford Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Hean Bee Wee was president of the National Council of Women of Australia from 2006 to 2009 (the first Asian-born woman to hold the position) and a vice-president of the International Council of Women from 2012. She brought to both positions a passionate commitment to gender and ethnic equality, first learned in her birthplace, Penang, and developed through voluntary work undertaken in South Australia. Her work for NCWA and ICW also benefitted from Wee’s professional expertise in business and international education. Hean Bee Wee was born in Penang, Malaysia, on 23 March 1946, daughter of Gan Chin Huat and his wife, Khoo Hong Sean. After completing her secondary education, she came to Australia to study economics at the University of Adelaide. On graduating as a Bachelor of Economics (Honours) in 1969, she chose to become a secondary school teacher specialising in business education. She married a fellow teacher, Victor Wee, in Adelaide in 1970. In 1973, she completed a Diploma of Education at the University of Adelaide and, in 2003, an Advanced Diploma of Financial Services at the University of Technology Sydney. Within her teaching career, she developed further expertise in international education, teaching and co-ordinating International Baccalaureate programs and becoming an ambassador for South Australian schools in Southeast Asia. Wee is passionately committed to the principle of social equality, in terms of both gender and ethnicity. Growing up in a society where girls were valued less than boys, she became aware of gender inequity at an early age. When she was 11 years old, her best friend told her that she would have to leave school because her parents could not afford to pay for her to sit the entrance examination to secondary school, preferring to save the money to pay for her younger brother’s examination the following year. Hean Bee Wee was horrified, and paid the examination fees from her own savings. In Australia, Wee carried her passion for equality into a range of voluntary activities. In 1991, she joined the City Group of the Penguin Club of South Australia, initially to develop her skills as a public speaker. Wishing to share these benefits, she set about recruiting other women from Non-English Speaking Backgrounds to join the club, with considerable success. The same drive for equality led her to become a delegate for the Penguin Club to the National Council of Women of South Australia. She also joined the South Australian branch of the Asian Pacific Business Council for Women, serving on the executive in 1994-1995 and 1998-1999. From 1995 to 1997, she took on the position of commissioner for the South Australian Multicultural and Ethnic Affairs Commission, and, from 1999-2003, she served as president of the Asian Women’s Consultative Council of South Australia. She has also served as treasurer of the South Australian Women’s Trust from 1999 to 2002. Her work on behalf of Asian and Non-English Speaking Women is ongoing. Within the National Council of Women SA, Hean Bee Wee soon undertook executive roles. From 2002 to 2004, she was economics adviser to the South Australian Executive and, from 2004 to 2006, vice-president. In 2006, she was elected president of the National Council of Women of Australia, representing the ACT Council and serving until 2009. Her proudest achievement as NCWA president was to obtain funding from the federal government for 2 projects, both directed to the advancement of women. The first of these worked to promote the well-being of Aboriginal women in Oodnadatta, the second to provide a culturally and linguistically appropriate leadership training course for Non-English Speaking women at TAFE; both have had successful outcomes. Hean Bee Wee has carried these concerns for education and equity into the international arena. In 2012, she was elected a vice-president of the International Council of Women, with responsibility for supervising a project in Samoa to establish a financially viable marketing structure for handicrafts produced by local Samoan women-a project bringing together the full range of her expertise and commitment. Hean Bee Wee is also the proud mother of Samuel and grandmother of 2, Sebastian and Annabel. Events 2012 - International Council of Women 1991 - 2012 Penguins Club of South Australia 1994 - 1999 Asian-Pacific Business Council for Women (SA) 1999 - 2002 South Australian Women’s Trust 1999 - 2003 Asian Women’s Consultative Council of South Australia 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 Author Details Jan Hipgrave, Marian Quartly and Judith Smart Created 3 September 2013 Last modified 7 November 2013 Digital resources Title: Hean Bee Wee Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Title: introducing-Hean-Bee-Wee.jpg Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Recording of the Society of Women Writers (Australia), Fourth Biennial Conference, Perth, 1984. Author Details Jane Carey Created 22 October 2004 Last modified 24 October 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Sandilands family, life on the goldfields and as a country school teacher, Bolgart, her work as a naturalist and historian. Author Details Criena Fitzgerald Created 14 August 2012 Last modified 29 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Drawing book drawn and coloured by Billingee, from Jajjala near Broome, W.A. showing Aboriginal weapons, implements, and artifacts, with labels by Daisy Bates ; 2 letters from Daisy Bates to Sir Frederick Bedford. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 6 January 2018 Last modified 27 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

[Red Cross Archives series reference: N017]??Comprises files relating to international projects where the Australian Red Cross responded to a humanitarian crises by providing assistance in the development of health plans; engineering and technical support in medical building projects; medical expertise and equipment; logistical advice regarding agriculture, water resources and sanitation. Other programs include health education programmes; first aid; the prevention of STDs; care and counselling for HIV/AIDS infections; English language programs; refugee support at transit camps and services for displaced and vulnerable persons. These programmes were managed by the Australian Red Cross, National Office – International Department. See also: Reports on project impacts in Africa and the Asia Pacific and Region http://www.redcross.org.au/program-impact.aspx?http://www.womenaustralia.info/biogs/AWE0722b.htm??These files typically contain legal agreements, correspondence, memoranda, studies, interim and final project reports including financial expenditure, publications, posters; some files contain photographs of project progress. Project locations include – but is not limited to – Zimbabwe, Tanzania, Kenya, Tanzania, Ethiopia, Botswana, Nigeria, Burundi, Senegal, Rwanda, Zaire, Sudan, Libya, Mauritania, Mali, Sri Lanka, India, Cambodia, Vietnam, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Thailand, Indonesia, China, Nepal, Fiji, Papua New Guinea, Bougainville, East Timor, Panama, Lebanon, Afghanistan and East-Jerusalem.??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)

MS 8065 contains manuscripts, proofs, correspondence, notes and photographs relating to Williams’ biography of Christina Stead and her later publication, Fathers & sons. For the biography of Stead, the correspondence is mostly with Stead’s friends and acquaintances. During the research Williams also corresponded with the Australian Archives, US Intelligence and FBI, Virago and McPhee Gribble. The chief correspondents are C.B. Christesen, Dorothy Green, Jack Lindsay and Kate Stead. Material for the book Fathers & sons includes correspondence, drafts of the interview manuscripts and photographs. The interviewees include Graeme Blundell, Ric Charlesworth, Marcus Einfeld, Michael Kirby, Lionel Rose, Norman Swan, Ted Whitten Jr., Robyn Williams and Michael Wilding (11 boxes, 1 fol. Box).??The Acc 05.121 instalment includes a typescript of Jiddu Krishnamurti: world philosopher (1895-1986): his life and thoughts, with related research material and correspondence concerning the publication. In addition, there are extensive extracts from Krishnamurti correspondence 1920-1986 and research on Krishnamurti’s visits to Australia, including transcripts of and notes on interviews conducted by Williams with people who attended Krishnamurti’s last (1970) Sydney meetings (4 boxes).??The Acc 06.174 instalment comprises papers associated with the research and writing of Green power: environmentalists who have changed the face of Australia (2 cartons). Author Details Alannah Croom Created 20 February 2018 Last modified 20 February 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

One of the original fourteen females to join the Royal Australian Navy (RAN), Jess Scott Doyle (née Prain) was the inspiration for the creation of a lasting memorial to all those in the Women’s Royal Australian Naval Service (WRANS) during the war and later in peacetime. Under her direction a memorial committee raised funds and completed research and design details for the window memorial. Arthur Griffiths and Patrick Pearce of Celtic Studios completed the memorial in time for the RANS 75th anniversary ceremonies in 1986. The window symbolizes things with which every WRAN can identify without favour to rank or rating. There are two figures, one in the dark wartime uniform representing the dark days of the war and the second in the white summer uniform representing the peacetime service. They both face slightly to the right thus eliminating their category badges. Every category badge is incorporated in a surrounding roped border and across the base are the rank badges from leading hand to officer. The background shows distant rolling hills with radio masts and ships in convoy, as many WRANS, including the original fourteen, worked inland in Canberra maintaining radio contact with ships at sea and all over the world. HMAS Harman was the telecommunications nerve centre of the naval war in the Pacific. The foreground suggests the bow of a ship and a bollard to show the strong link the WRANS had with ships in port. The window was unveiled by Lady Stephen, wife of the then Governor General Sir Ninian Stephen at the RANS 75th anniversary ceremonies in 1986. Window Committee Nan Carrol Gwenda Garde Margaret Jones Nance McQueen Jess Doyle (Prain) Jean Nysen Sue Timbury WOWR M Christensen WOWR M Weir, OAM Published resources Book Ships belles : the story of the Women's Royal Australian Naval Service in war and peace 1941-1985, Fenton Huie, Shirley, 2000 Author Details Anne Heywood Created 26 September 2003 Last modified 29 April 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

The collection consists of a diary for the year 1937 written by Aileen Palmer while in Spain during the Spanish Civil War, as well as a letter from Palmer to Mrs Thora Craig, written on 5th May, 1966. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 10 April 2018 Last modified 10 April 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Julie Duncan was a highly regarded journalist and journalism educator who developed some of Australia’s earliest journalism courses. Julie Duncan was born Julie Mary Badock in Launceston, Tasmania. Her career in journalism began at The Mercury in Hobart, where she won the Montague Grover Award for cadet journalists as well as the Alan Cane cadet award. She went on to work as a news reporter, features writer and public affairs journalist. In 1979, Julie married South Australian Attorney-General for the Labor Government, Peter Duncan, and moved to Adelaide, where she began lecturing in journalism at the South Australian College of Advanced Education (now the University of South Australia). Here she developed some of Australia’s earliest journalism courses. From 1986 to 1990, Julie Duncan was editorial training and development manager at The Advertiser in Adelaide. Under her management, the paper’s cadet training scheme enjoyed an excellent reputation as one of Australia’s best. Duncan promoted the hiring of The Advertiser‘s first indigenous cadet, whom she trained, and she worked closely with indigenous students and with Reconciliation Australia. She also championed the employment of the paper’s first female photographer. In 1987, Duncan convened and chaired the first national journalism education and training conference. She designed a three year training course, The Front Page and Beyond, which has since formed the basis of much journalism training in Australia. Those who knew Duncan noted that her passion for good journalism was unwavering. She was an active member of the Australian Journalists Association/Media Alliance, and served on state, federal, professional and judiciary committees. She had an excellent rapport with her students and relished teaching them. In 2003, Duncan received the Walkley Award for the most outstanding contribution to journalism. By then, having been diagnosed with cancer, she had returned to Tasmania to live with her parents. Her husband Peter was living in Lombok, Indonesia, following failed business dealings in Adelaide, but the pair were in daily contact. Julie Duncan died in February 2005, aged 52, survived by her husband Peter, her daughter Georgia, and her stepsons Macgregor and Jock. Memorial services were held in Hobart, Adelaide and Sydney – 300 people attended the Adelaide service alone. Today, the Julie Duncan Memorial Award for the best journalism student is offered as part of the South Australia Media Awards. The award is open to students of the University of South Australia’s journalism program whose published or broadcast projects reflect outstanding initiative and/or newsworthiness and technical skill, and adhere to ethical and legal standards. Events 2003 - 2003 Most Outstanding Contribution to Journalism – Journalism Trainer and Educator 1978 - 2003 Published resources Journal Article South Australia: New Club and Technology, Duncan, Julie, 1986 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 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 Author Details Barbara Lemon and Nikki Henningham Created 6 November 2007 Last modified 16 September 2013 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

152 sound cassettes + 20 transcripts.??This is a collection of material from the Women’s Archives, Australian National University comprising women’s issues, lobbying and conference proceedings. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 9 January 2018 Last modified 9 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

9 hours 25 minutes??During 1988 and 1989 community workers in Aberfoyle Park organised a three part project to document the experiences of migrant women in the local area. The pilot project involved discussions with migrants from different countries of origin and the development of a questionnaire. The second phase of the project included the appointment of a part-time project co-ordinator and the services of two third-year social work students from the South Australian Institute of Technology on ten week placements who conducted ten interviews with migrant women. The final stage of the project was the publication of a booklet ‘Living the Difference’. The summaries of the interviews in the item entries to this collection are taken from the profiles provided in the publication. Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 2 July 2006 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

The Doris Chadwick Collection comprises school magazines and texts, primary readers, curriculum and syllabus material, plus reference material for both students and teachers. The material originates from Australia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Great Britain and the United States, with publication dates ranging from the 1890s to the late 1960s. Nearly 5000 items are included in total. Many of the texts and readers are representative of the types used by Australian state Departments of Education (or Departments of Public Instruction). This collection represents a valuable source of information for research into the history of school education in Australia Author Details Alannah Croom Created 10 April 2018 Last modified 10 April 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

A once-only candidate in the unwinnable seat of Wakehurst in 1995 for the ALP. Patricia Armstrong was born in Sydney and educated at Loretto Convent, Kirribilli, Queens Gate College, London and Seaforth Technical College. She has worked as an administrative assistant at the NSW branch of the ALP, a travel consultant at Mary Rossi Travel and research officer for Senator Kerry Sibraa. Patricia Armstrong was active in a range of environmental community issues, including the preservation of bushland in Beacon Hill and improvement in the condition of Narrabeen Lagoon. 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)

SERIES 01?Fanny Reading papers, 1905-1968??SERIES 02?Dr Fanny Reading photographs, ca. 1890-1965 / various photographers??SERIES 03?Dr Fanny Reading realia, ca. 1920’s Author Details Jane Carey Created 22 September 2004 Last modified 21 June 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Carmel Meiklejohn and AGS (with Nikki Henningham) Created 12 May 2016 Last modified 21 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Correspondence:?1910-1991; Personal correspondence, miscellaneous business papers & correspondence, business correspondence with Angus & Robertson, Boobook, Golden Press, Kevin Weldon & Associates Pty. Ltd., Methuen, Rigby, The Carroll Foundation, fan mail (Call No.: MLMSS 7394/1)??Associated correspondence:?1967-1993; Correspondence to Pixie O’Harris estate (Halcyon & Vaughan Evans – daughter and son-in-law), miscellaneous correspondence, personal & business correspondence of Vaughan Evans, business correspondence of Bruce Pratt (husband), papers related to Rolf Harris (nephew) (Call No.: MLMSS 7394/2)??Journals & diaries:?1966-1974; 1966 utility diary, 1974 diary, undated Bathurst Hospital diary (Call No.: MLMSS 7394/2)??Literary papers (manuscript & typescript):?c.1920s-1980s; Poetry, short stories & loose jottings, novel notes, The Irish Girl (novel), Vennie (novel), songs & musicals, Marmaduke the Possum (play), poems by Alex Skovron, Betty Ogilvie & a photocopied speech by Patrick White (Call No.: MLMSS 7394/3)??Literary notebooks:?c.1930s-1980s; 12 notebooks, some only partially filled, of poems, ideas & miscellaneous writings (Call No.: MLMSS 7394/4)??Newscuttings:?1920s-1990s; Scrapbook (chiefly newscuttings) (Call No.: MLMSS 7394/5)?1977-1990S; Scrapbook (chiefly newscuttings) (Call No.: MLMSS 7394/6)?1930s-1980s; 7 scrapbooks (chiefly news & magazine cuttings), School Magazines, Art World newspapers, miscellaneous magazines & newspapers (Call No.: MLMSS 7394/7)?1930s-1980s; Loose newscuttings, loose magazine cuttings (Call No.: MLMSS 7394/8)??Printed & miscellaneous:?1930s-1980s; Copy of Childhood at Brindabella, inscribed by Miles Franklin, copy of Gems of English poetry, genealogy papers & documents, exhibition catalogues, publication lists & biographical notes, ephemera such as invitations & colouring competition forms, greeting cards with the author’s designs & miscellaneous printed items (Call No.: MLMSS 7394/8) Author Details Anne Heywood Created 7 November 2002 Last modified 23 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Letter from Mavis Thorpe Clark addressed to the Grade Fives of Blackburn South Primary School. Also a newsclipping showing her at Blackburn Library Author Details Leonarda Kovacic and Nikki Henningham Created 7 October 2004 Last modified 29 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Jillian Segal has held executive and non-executive positions in a variety of Australian corporations and across the financial sector. She is a Fellow of the Institute of Company Directors, Member of the Harvard Club of Australia, Member of Chief Executive Women and Founding Co-Chair, WomenCorporateDirectors (Australian Chapter). Jillian Segal has a BA LL.B from the University of New South Wales and an LL.M from Harvard Law School. She started her law career as an associate to The Right Honourable Sir Anthony Mason at the High Court of Australia after graduating from Law School with the University Medal. After completing her Masters at Harvard Law School and working in a New York law firm, Jillian returned to Sydney to become a Senior Associate and later a partner at Allen, Allen and Hemsley (now Allens Linklaters) in the corporate and environment fields. She then went on to become a Commissioner and later Deputy Chair of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC). After completion of her five year term she was a review member of the Dawson Review into the Trade Practices Act. In 2003 she set out to pursue a non-executive career. Since that time, she has held a range of corporate and government advisory board positions. Jillian is currently a Non-Executive Director of the National Australia Bank and the Garvan Institute of Medical Research. She is Deputy Chancellor of UNSW Australia, and Chairman of the General Sir John Monash Foundation, Australia’s national scholarship organization for postgraduate study overseas. Jillian is Chairman of the Australia Israel Chamber of Commerce (NSW). She is a Trustee of The Sydney Opera House Trust and a Member of the Australian War Memorial Council. Previous roles have included a non-executive director of ASX Limited; Chairman of the Banking and Finance Ombudsman Board (now FOS), the Administrative Review Council and a member of the Federal Government’s Remuneration Tribunal. Published resources Site Exhibition Australian Women Lawyers as Active Citizens, Trailblazing Women Lawyers Project Team, 2016, http://www.womenaustralia.info/lawyers Author Details Jill Segal (with Nikki Henningham) Created 18 May 2016 Last modified 30 January 2019 Digital resources Title: Jill Segal Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

The collection contains: letters from poets and artists including Eleanor Dark, Henrietta Drake-Brockman, Sumner Locke Elliott, Xavier Herbert, A. D. Hope, Dorothea Mackellar, Ian Mudie, and Katharine Susannah Prichard; a transcript of tape-recordings (1 v.); typescript for book “All roads lead to Rome” by Frank Clune; a list of books received with the collection, catalogued and shelved in the Whelan collection; a curriculum vitae for Grace Cuthbert Brown M.B.E. M.B. Ch.M., F.R. O.G.; a transcript “about Virgil Reilly” and biographical data on Bart. J. Bok. Author Details Clare Land Created 22 October 2002 Last modified 5 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

A. LITERARY MANUSCRIPTS, ca. 1923-ca. 1959?Manuscript and typescript copies of ‘Pilgrimage’, 1923-1924; ‘Prelude to Christopher’, c.1934; ‘Return to Coolami’, c.1936; ‘Sun Across the Sky’, c.1937; ‘Waterway’, c.1938; ‘The Timeless Land’, c.1937-1940; ‘The Little Company’, c.1945; ‘Storm of Time’, c.1944-c.1947; ‘No Barrier’, c.1953; ‘Lantana Lane’, c.1959. Also includes nauscripts of articles, lectures, plays and poems, an untitled manuscript concerning the Calder family and fragmentary literary manuscripts.??B. PERSONAL PAPERS, 1849-1980?Personal Papers, including diaries, 1936-1960; papers of the Dark and O’Reilly families, 1849-1978; research notes re historical trilogy, 1936-1960; bookjackets; newscuttings, including reviews of novels in American and Australian newspapers; printed short stories and poems, 1923-1978; correspondence, 1924-1980. (Call No.: MLMSS 4545/15-15)??C. PICTORIAL MATERIAL.?Photographs, drawings and locks of hair relating to Eleanor Dark, 1908-1967?Includes album of sketches, loose pencil and watercolour sketches, photographs (Locn No.: Pic.Acc.6073) Author Details Alannah Croom Created 26 June 2018 Last modified 26 June 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

An environmentalist and local and political activist. Jane Bange was an Australian Greens Party candidate for South Coast in 1999 and 2003, and in the House of Representatives for Gilmore in 1998 and 2001. She was a member of the Shoalhaven City Council between 1999 and 2004. Jane Bange grew up in Brisbane, and attended Queensland University on an Army scholarship to study Dentistry. After graduation she worked as an Army Dental Officer for four years, before leaving to travel overseas. She was later employed in private practice in Sydney and in the country. Meeting Bill Mollison and learning of the concept of Permaculture, led to her membership of the Greens Party and a change in the direction of her life. She retrained as a remedial massage therapist. She was elected to the Shoalhaven City Council in 1999 and during her term on Council, worked on many committees including the Development, Policy and Planning and Youth Advisory committees. Jane is an active member of local groups of Amnesty International, the Australian Conservation Foundation and Oxfam-Community Aid Abroad. She is also involved with Shoalhaven Women for Reconciliation and is Secretary of the Friends of the Brush-tailed Rock Wallaby. Jane was presented with a Certificate of Service to the Shoalhaven City Council when, in 2004, she decided not to seek re-election to the council. At the time she hoped to undertake a role as a dentist in East Timor. Published resources Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 6 December 2005 Last modified 16 September 2013 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Correspondence, drafts, original artwork and mock-ups, press cuttings, scrapbooks, photographs, costume design, ballet posters. Titles include Frisky, Alice in wonderland, Alice through the looking glass, Wippi, World of animals, and Yasmin the Yeti. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 10 April 2018 Last modified 10 April 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Meta Overman was a Dutch-born composer who studied piano and composition with leading figures in Rotterdam before emigrating to Western Australia in 1951. She earned accolades for her works, which included choral, instrumental, chamber pieces, ballets and operas. After lengthy sojourns in both Melbourne and Holland, she returned to Perth in 1978, where she remained until her death in 1993. Meta Overman was born in Rotterdam, Holland, in 1907. Her father made his living as an accountant but was also a violinist, and her mother was a professional pianist and teacher. It was she who gave Meta piano tuition until the age of nine, after which she was taught by Johan Kievid, who later became Professor of Music at the Hochschule in Berlin. At the age of eleven, Meta Overman played an arrangement for piano and orchestra of the Overture from Mozart’s ‘Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail’ (The Abduction from the Seraglio) with the Rotterdam Youth Orchestra. As a teenager, Overman studied piano and composition with Edward Flipse, Chief Conductor of the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra. She also worked as an accompanist for two children’s choirs and began work on what was to be a substantial collection of compositions for children, including four operas. In 1937, Overman was able to devote more time to studying composition, which she did with Willem Pijper, Director of the Rotterdam Conservatorium, who helped develop her compositional talents and became an important mentor. The occupation of Holland by the Nazis in 1940 resulted in widespread bombing, which destroyed both the Conservatorium and Willem Pijper’s house, including many of his manuscripts. Meta Overman continued working and composing, however, and in 1944 married pianist Frank Russcher, and they toured together throughout Holland playing piano duets. Their son, Marius, was born in 1945. During this time, Overman’s compositions were being performed with increasing regularity, and were attracting significant accolades in the Dutch press. Due to a post-war shortage of housing, the family migrated in 1951 to Perth, Western Australia, to live with relatives. A move to Albany on the south coast provided an escape from the summer heat, and allowed Overman to begin a fruitful relationship with the Scots Church Choir, for whom she completed Saul and David, and The Image of the Cross in 1953. The most significant work completed during this time, however, was Psyche (1953), a three act opera. It was performed at the 1955 Festival of Perth; while reviewed favourably, was poorly attended and a financial disaster. Overman’s marriage to Russcher also broke down, and in 1957 Overman, Marius, and new partner Robert Hyner settled in Melbourne, where they remained until 1969. Here Overman forged strong friendships with other composers and artists, including Keith Humble, Robert Hughes and Margaret Sutherland. Overman retuned for Holland in 1969 for a short visit, which, due to poor health, ended up being a nine year stay. She returned to Western Australia in 1978 to be near son Marius, and began writing again, having composed little while back in Holland. She wrote increasingly for flute (Hyner was a flautist), and in Haiku (1983), for flute and electric piano, united her philosophical and avant garde interests. Overman also continued her long-standing interest in writing for children, composing and dedicating a number of works to her grandson. Her last work was Concertino for Five Flutes, written as her eyesight and health were failing in 1993. Published resources Thesis The Life and Music of Meta Overman, Thorpe, Patricia, 1988 Conference Proceedings Meta Overman, Her Life and Music: A Feminine Response?, Thorpe, Patricia, 1994 Book Section Meta Overman, Bebbington, Warren Arthur, 1997 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources University of Western Australia Meta Overman Manuscripts Collection Author Details Lisa MacKinney Created 22 June 2009 Last modified 18 June 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Erika Feller has had an eminent career in international law, humanitarian protection and diplomacy. When she was appointed Assistant High Commissioner for Protection, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in 2006, she became the highest ranked Australian working in the United Nations at that time. In the ensuing years she undertook protection oversight missions to the large majority of the major refugee emergencies of recent years. She has been an ardent spokesperson for millions of vulnerable people throughout the world. Appointed a Fellow of the Australian Institute of International Affairs in 2013, in 2014 Feller was also named as Vice-Chancellor’s Fellow at her alma mater, the University of Melbourne. In June 2021, Feller was awarded an AO for distinguished service to the international community, to the recognition and protection of human rights, and to refugee law. Erika Feller was interviewed by Kim Rubenstein for the Trailblazing Women and the Law Oral History Project. For details of the interview see the National Library of Australia CATALOGUE RECORD. Erika Feller was born in 1949 in Melbourne, Victoria; the second child in the family, she grew up with an older brother and a younger sister. Her father, Karl, had come out to Australia as a German refugee; a graduate in architecture from the Milan Polytechnic, to practise in Australia he had to requalify, which he did after arriving in Australia, working in a blanket factory to support his studies. Feller’s mother, Elizabeth, was unconventional: a professional woman who worked as a pharmacist. Before her marriage she had led an independent and adventurous life, which included travelling on the Trans-Siberian Railway. She was said to have been disappointed that she could not volunteer as a pharmacist in the Spanish Civil War. Karl Feller’s career took the family to Montreal, Canada, during Feller’s pre-school years. When they returned, to the Melbourne suburb of Armadale, Feller entered Lauriston Girls’ School – chosen by her mother because it placed emphasis on academic achievement and sending girls on to university. Feller enjoyed her time at Lauriston. As well as being good at her lessons, she was a sporty child who was happiest horse-riding and playing basketball and tennis. During Feller’s adolescence, her father was away from the family for significant periods while he worked overseas. His trips, and a family holiday to the United States during her teenage years, impressed upon the young Erika that the world was not something of which to be afraid, but to be embraced enthusiastically. In 1967 Feller, influenced by her mother who imparted a strong sense of social justice, began to study law and arts at the University of Melbourne. Immersing herself in student life, Feller attended Vietnam War demonstrations and became treasurer of the Australian/African Association, raising money and collecting for Biafra. Feller wrote articles for ‘Farrago’, the student newspaper of which she was also news editor. She also wrote for the University of Melbourne Law Students’ Society’s periodical, ‘The Summons’, which was edited by Philip Alston (now John Norton Pomeroy Professor of Law at New York University School of Law). With her consciousness concerning women and the law growing, Feller wrote an article for which she interviewed Joan Rosanove, the first woman in Victoria to sign the Victorian Bar roll, about her experiences with discrimination. She was impressed by Rosanove as a professional woman. At the end of her university studies, Feller declined an offer of articles of clerkship from the commercial law firm, Arthur Robinson; instead, she joined the Department of Foreign Affairs. Had she taken up Arthur Robinson’s offer, Feller would have been the firm’s first female articled clerk: “I must have set the cause of feminism a few years back. The firm probably thought ‘Just like a woman, always changing her mind’!” [Hong]. “Lured by the promise of adventure it offered”, Feller moved to Canberra to begin her diplomatic career [Feller and Rubenstein]. Reality struck at a cocktail party signalling the end of the Department of Foreign Affairs’ recruitment process; she was taken aback to be told by a distinguished ambassador that the Department accepted women because they were “marriage fodder” [Feller and Rubenstein]. As women were expected to resign from the Department after marrying, there were few female role models for the budding diplomat. Feller’s first posting was to Berlin in 1973. While Berlin was not considered an important post for Australia at the time, Feller found her three years’ service stimulating, surrounded by dissident artists and writers [Feller and Rubenstein]. Her responsibilities included a visit by the then Prime Minister Gough Whitlam, a guest of the East German government. Returning to Canberra following the completion of her posting, Feller became Assistant to the Legal Adviser of the Department of Foreign Affairs, Elihu Lauterpacht. She was subsequently despatched by Lauterpacht to the Australian National University to research Australia’s practice and policy in International Law. This was the first year in which Australian practice in International Law became part of the Australian Yearbook of International Law. Feller then transferred to the Department’s general legal area where her responsibilities included work on the Dillingham Mining Company legal case, which involved sand mining in Fraser Island. In 1980 Feller arrived in Geneva, Switzerland, after a nine-month posting in Rome to cover the Italian presidency of the European Community. In Geneva, Feller was posted as the First Secretary at the Australian Mission to the United Nations, and then promoted to Counsellor. It was here that she began to observe refugee and humanitarian concerns; she also had her first professional encounter with the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). Feller represented Australia as a lead drafter in the United Nations Convention against Torture. She credits this experience as being when she learnt about the power and limitations of international law. It was also here that she met and married her husband. They went on to have two children: a son and a daughter [Feller and Rubenstein]. Her posting to Geneva completed, in 1984, with her first child, Feller returned to Canberra to lead the relatively new human rights section in the Department of Foreign Affairs. Two years later, however, desirous to reunite her family, she returned to Geneva and accepted a secondment with the Protection Division of the UNHCR; it included roles as Senior Legal Advisor and Chief of the General Legal Advice Section. She was inducted into research work and reacquainted herself with international law; however, she also wished to be in the field and so, in 1991, she was deployed on her first mission for UNHCR to Tajikistan – then in the hiatus of a civil war – assisting with drafting a law on internal and external displacement, bringing into force a regime of law protecting refugees. This mission was her first experience of the misery, generosity and hospitality of displaced people. Feller was steadily acquiring a reputation as an outstanding lawyer; as a result, her field rotation opportunities were becoming more limited as her legal expertise was being sought in Geneva. In 1993, the High Commissioner, Sadako Ogata, in an attempt to increase Feller’s field experience, directed that Feller be posted to Malaysia to head the Program there as her Representative. Refugee matters were, at that time, very high profile, as Malaysia had declared it was closing camps and repatriating refugees to Vietnam, the announcement resulting in violent clashes inside camps. Feller saw first-hand the potential for refugee camps to be destructive to people, to erode incentive for individuals to take control of their own lives. Her experience in matters relating to resettlement in Southeast Asia galvanized her to help refugees living in protracted situations. In 1996, at the age of 47, Feller returned to Geneva to re-join the Division of International Protection, as its Deputy Director. She took over management of the Division as its Director in 1999. In 2001, she initiated and managed the 2001-02 Global Consultations on International Protection, which gave rise to the Agenda for Protection, the internationally-endorsed global “road map” on protection policy for the years ahead [Feller and Rubenstein]. These global consultations coincided with the 50th anniversary of the 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees, generated an agenda for protection, reconfirmed global State support for the Convention and reinforced its value through updated interpretations of key provisions. Feller co-edited a book which brought these into a consolidated form. In 2006, Feller was appointed to the newly created role of Assistant High Commissioner for Protection, with the rank of Assistant Secretary General; she thereby became the highest ranked Australian working in the United Nations at that time. In the ensuing years Feller undertook protection oversight missions to the large majority of the major refugee emergencies of recent years, including in West Africa, Darfur and Chad, the Caucasus, the Balkans, Colombia, Timor and the countries which were the focus of UNHCR’s Iraq Operation. During these missions, Feller was instrumental in ushering in changes to ensure that matters concerning the protection of women and children became mainstream. Feller seized the opportunity occasioned by the 60th Anniversary of the 1951 Convention in 2011 to again raise the profile of women, convening dialogues concerned with the issue of pervasive sexual violence against them. She also used the event to draw attention to the anniversary of another important international convention: the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness. Significantly, Feller raised the matter of female statelessness – where women are unable to acquire citizenship or lose their citizenship through marriage or when their husband dies – in the international community’s consciousness on a number of missions. In 2013 Feller resigned as Assistant Commissioner for Protection. She was appointed a Fellow of the Australian Institute of International Affairs in 2013. In 2014, she was named a Vice-Chancellor’s Fellow at her alma mater, the University of Melbourne. During her career, Feller has been a powerful spokesperson for millions of vulnerable people throughout the world. She has contributed to initiatives to combat certain problems that principally affect women, such as sexual and gender-based violence, in the refugee setting. As she has remarked, her endeavours in the study and practice of international law have been a tool “for the betterment of people” [Feller and Rubenstein]. Published resources Site Exhibition Australian Women Lawyers as Active Citizens, Trailblazing Women Lawyers Project Team, 2016, http://www.womenaustralia.info/lawyers Archival resources National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Erika Feller interviewed by Kim Rubenstein in the Trailblazing women and the law oral history project Author Details Larissa Halonkin Created 30 May 2016 Last modified 11 August 2021 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

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Gwyneth Dow was appointed as a Lecturer in the Education Faculty at the University of Melbourne in 1958, a Senior Lecturer in 1963 and Reader in 1970. She was an inaugural member of the Steering Committee of the Curriculum Advisory Board in Victoria, and fostered pilot schemes to introduce curriculum and organisational changes in secondary schools. She published several reports relating to these schemes. She introduced a Diploma of Education Course “Systems of Education” and was instrumental in introducing an alternative Diploma of Education Course, Course B, which concentrated on method and practical teaching in the first year. Gwyneth Dow, a descendant of the early colonial Terry family, began researching the family history in 1965 after writing an article on Samuel and Rosetta for the Australian Dictionary of Biography. Gwyneth Maude Dow, nee Terry took her BA and DipEd in 1957, her MEd in 1961 and DEd in 1984. Before beginning a long career in academia she worked as a personnel officer during the war as one of the first industrial welfare officers employed in Melbourne factories and taught in schools in Australia and England. She was briefly married to the journalist Rohan Rivett. The couple lost two babies. In 1947 she married Hume Dow, a member of the English Department and author of two books of University recollections.[1] Engaged as a Lecturer in the Education Faculty at the University of Melbourne in 1958 after part-time work in 1957, Gwyneth Dow rose to Reader in 1970. She was proponent of change in both the school curriculum and teacher education. As a foundation member of the Victorian Curriculum Advisory Board, on which she served from 1966 to 1970, chairing it for the last seven years, she wrote many of its papers, in which she emphasised teaching was an art and stressed the importance of care, human relationships, spontaneity, imagination and intuition in teaching. She also argued passionately against streaming, IQ testing, the use of ‘teacher-proof resources’ and the transmission of inert ideas in classrooms.[2] She introduced a DipEd course in Systems of Education, and 1973 saw the launch of the Course B she had designed and worked for some years to establish. This course placed Education students in schools for three days a week with a stress on interdisciplinary curriculum studies and methods work. Gwyneth Dow was also an active unionist, succeeding, through the Victorian Teachers’ Union, in achieving permanent status for married women teachers. In retirement she devoted much of her scholarly attention to Tasmanian and family history. A book based on her Master’s thesis had been published in 1964. In 1974 her biography of her great-great grandfather, Samuel Terry, a convict who became the richest man in NSW and one of the largest shareholders in the Bank of New South Wales, appeared.[3] In 1990 she and her husband published a history of an Oxfordshire yeoman family in Tasmania entitled Landfall in Van Diemen’s Land.[4] [1] Hume Dow. Memories of Melbourne University: Undergraduate Life in the Years since 1917. Melbourne: Hutchinson of Australia. 1983; Hume Dow. More Memories of Melbourne University: Undergraduate Life in the Years since 1919. Melbourne: Hutchinson, 1985. [2] Anne Longmire. ‘Revolutionising Education For All: Dr Gwyneth Maude Dow Educational Reformer and Historian. Age. 1 October 1 1996. [3] Gwyneth M. Dow. George Higinbotham: Church and State. Melbourne: Pitman, 1964; Gwyneth M. Dow. Samuel Terry: the Botany Bay Rothschild. Sydney: University Press; Portland, Or: International Scholarly Book Services, 1974. [4] Gwyneth and Hume Dow. Landfall in Van Diemen’s Land: the Steels’ Quest for Greener Pastures. Melbourne: Footprint, 1990. Published resources Resource Section Terry, Samuel, Dow, Gwyneth M, 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A020468b.htm Book Samuel Terry :the Botany Bay Rothschild, Dow, Gwyneth M, 1974 Learning to teach, teaching to learn, Dow, Gwyneth, 1979 40 Years 40 Women: Biographies of University of Melbourne Women, Published to Commemorate the 40th Anniversary of the International Year of Women, Flesch, Juliet, 2015, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/4040/ Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources The University of Melbourne Archives Dow, Gwyneth Dow Family Dow, Gwyneth Author Details Anne Heywood and Juliet Flesch Created 15 October 2003 Last modified 15 July 2020 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Greenwood speaks of her work as a broadcaster for the ABC commencing in 1936 ; about her involvement with the feminist movement ; her mother, Mary Driver, who was a founder of women’s groups in W.A. ; the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 31 March 2004 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

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