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BOX 1?Folders 1-2?Papers relating to meetings of the Historical and Archival Committee of the Benevolent Society, and the Royal Hospital for Women; newspaper clippings, minutes, correspondence, draft papers, research, etc. for a seminar on the history of the Royal Hospital for Women, ca. 1972-1990??Folder 3?Department of Anaesthesia, Royal Hospital for Women, Annual Report July 1984-June 1985; papers, correspondence, and publication on the Benevolent Society’s Early Intervention Programme; history of the Physiotherapy Department by Pat Fleming, 1980-1995??Folder 4?Papers, correspondence, and clippings relating to personal experiences and historical accounts of the Royal Hospital for Women, 1960-1996??Folder 5?Papers, clippings, etc. primarily relating to meetings of the Royal Hospital for Women Historical Committee, and for the writing of a history of the Hospital, 1962-1997??BOX 2?Folder 1?Papers relating to the aims and objectives of the Royal Hospital for Women ca. 1986, together with papers relating to the Benevolent Society relinquishing the Royal Hospital for Women, also includes 1987-1988 Annual Report, 1985-1997??Folders 2-3?Papers relating to the development of the Guide to the Papers of the Benevolent Society, including Heritage Council application and reports, correspondence, diary of meetings, and drafts, 1995-1997??Folder 4?Papers and correspondence, mainly between Dr Ian Cope and Alistair Gunn, Hon Librarian Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, relating to the obtaining of antiquarian books, which are now held by the State Library of New South Wales within the Benevolent Society/Gordon Bradley Lowe Collection, 1964-1992 Author Details Alannah Croom Created 26 June 2018 Last modified 26 June 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

The Catholic Migrant Centre has been crucial to the provision of support services to immigrants to Perth for over twenty years. The Catholic Episcopal Migrqation and Welfare Association was set up shortly after the end of World War Two to assist Catholic Children from the United Kingdom, Ireland and Malta who had been brought to Western Australia without their parents. In 1970, the Catholic Family Welfare Bureau was established to monitor the placement of these kids in various institutions; by 1972 it had developed into a general counselling and welfare agency, receiving funding from the Department of Immigration, Local Government and Ethnic Affairs (DILGEA) to employ a dedicated migrant worker. In 1973, a separate Catholic Immigration Office was established, placed under the care of the Catholic Family Welfare Bureau. The Catholic Immigration Office grew and evolved, first changing its name to the Catholic Migrant Resource Centre and eventually becoming the Catholic Migrant Centre in 1984. In 1985 the Catholic Migrant Centre became an autonomous body accountable to the Western Australian Catholic Social Welfare Commission Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Report Mail Order Brides: A West Australian Study on Filipino Australian Marriages, Vogels, Guido, 1984 The Situation of Filipino Brides in the Northern Areas of Western Australia, Scaramella, Maria Archival resources State Library of Western Australia Gruszka Mietka papers Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 19 August 2006 Last modified 20 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Estelle Thomson was a member of the Queensland Naturalists’ Club, contributing flowers, paintings and drawings to the club’s annual wildflower show. She published Flowers of Our Bush (1929), a guide to Queensland wildflowers, which described and illustrated coastal species. From 1929 to the 1930s Estelle ran a weekly ‘Wildflowers’ column in the Brisbane Courier, illustrated by her own line drawings. This was followed by her column ‘Nature’s Ways’ in the Telegraph which she maintained until 1950. Additionally, Thomson lectured at women’s clubs and schools, illustrating her lectures with delicately hand-coloured lantern slides. During the 1940s Estelle gave a series of children’s talks on wildflowers on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and produced a series of paintings of poisonous plants for the University of Queensland’s Medical School. She deposited specimens in the Queensland Herbarium, including some collected on the Granite Belt and at Caloundra. Estelle was also an expert on Queensland birds. Estelle Thomson was the daughter of George Comrie-Smith, photographer and artist, and Ethel, nee Thomson. Both her parents were keen naturalists. Estelle’s early love of nature was inspired by family visits to the Scottish Highlands and the Lakes District of Cumberland. She was educated at Calder House School at Seascale, Cumberland, and later at a school of physical culture at Dartford, Kent. Estelle was a teacher of physical culture and eurhythmics before her marriage in Glasgow in 1917 to her second cousin, the Queensland surveying engineer Aubrey Frederick Thomson (formerly von Stieglitz), then serving with the Australian Army in Europe during the First World War. In 1919 Estelle and Aubrey Thomson arrived in Brisbane, later to be followed by her parents. They settled on a farm, Wombo, at Eight Mile Plains south of Brisbane, where they raised poultry and small crops until forced to abandon the venture in 1923. The then unspoilt bush of Eight Mile Plains made a lasting impression on Estelle and she became an active member of the Queensland Naturalists’ Club from the 1920s. Estelle was vice-president in 1929-30 and president in 1930-31. She was to spend the rest of her life awakening public appreciation of Australian wildflowers, while also raising her four children. Published resources Book Brilliant Careers - Women collectors and illustrators in Queensland, McKay, Judith, 1997 Flowers of Our Bush: with an introduction by C. T. White, Thomson, Estelle, 1929 Resource Early Days of Brisbane Lyceum, Mittelheuser, Dr Cathryn AM, 2006, http://www.lyceumbrisbane.org.au/History.htm Lyceum Club Brisbane Incorporated, Lyceum Club Brisbane Incorporated, 2006, http://www.lyceumbrisbane.org.au/ Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources John Oxley Library, Manuscripts and Business Records Collection R 1694 Lyceum Club Brisbane Inc Records TR 2080 Lyceum Club Brisbane Inc. Records 1998-2000 R 1453 Lyceum Club Brisbane Inc. Records R 1229 Lyceum Club Brisbane Inc. Newsletter R 1600 Lyceum Club Brisbane Inc Records 1995-1996??R 1600 Lyceum Club Brisbane Inc Records 1995-1996??R 1600 Lyceum Club Brisbane Inc Records 1995-1996 R 1218 Lyceum Club Brisbane Inc. Records 1931-1994; 2013 6602 Estelle Thomson's Lantern Slides Author Details Lee Butterworth Created 22 June 2009 Last modified 19 February 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Madge Cope discusses the women’s movement in Western Australia. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 1 April 2004 Last modified 7 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

16 sound tape reels.??Ryan talks about her family background; political discussions at home; general domestic situation; bubonic plague in 1900 and growing up in Pyrmont, N.S.W. She then describes her introduction to the I.W.W. (Industrial Workers of the World); anti-conscription campaign; impact of WWI and the Russian Revolution. Ryan also describes her Bohemian days; 1st jobs; Australian Socialist Party; timber workers’ strike of 1929 and her involvement with the Communist Party. Author Details Elle Morrell Created 29 August 2000 Last modified 21 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

1 hour??Miriam Tonkin, nee Brunning, was born in Melbourne, Victoria. She left school at 13 years of age to begin work. She was very active in the Eureka Youth League as a teenager and describes an intensive period working on the Communist Party’s Guardian newspaper. Miriam married in 1950 and she and her husband moved to Adelaide with their five young children in 1958. In the late 1960s Miriam became involved in the peace movement and Women’s Liberation. Her belief in women’s right to control their fertility led to her involvement in organisations including the Humanist Society, the Abortion Law Reform Association and the Friends of the Pregnancy Advisory Centre. She also speaks about the current status of the abortion reform campaign. Miriam qualified as a kindergarten teacher in the mid 1970s and became active in her union and in education reform as well. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 2 February 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Read more about Tanja Lietdke in our sister publication The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia. German-born Tanja Liedtke took her first dance and theatre studies at the age of 8 in Spain. Her dance training continued at Elmhurst Ballet School, Surrey, and Ballet Rambert School London, from which she graduated in 1995. Tanja moved to Sydney in 1996 and studied under ballet teacher Tanya Pearson. A fellowship took her to Canberra’s Australian Choreographic Centre in 1998 and the following year she joined the Australian Dance Theatre (ADT) in Adelaide. She worked with the ADT until 2003, touring across Australia, Asia, Europe and North America. In 2003 Tanja joined Lloyd Newson’s London-based DV8 company and performed in the internationally acclaimed production The Cost of Living, which eventually became a Channel 4 film. In addition to her career as a dancer, Tanja was commissioned to create works for other countries, including Brazil, Germany and Scotland. Her first full-length work Twelfth Floor won the 2006 Australian Dance Award for outstanding choreography. Another of her productions, Construct, was premiered at London’s Southbank Centre in May 2007, followed by an Australian premier in 2008. Tanja was honoured with the prestigious Helpmann Award for Best New Choreography in 2008 for her work on this production. Tanja was appointed artistic director of the Sydney Dance Company in May 2007 however, before she could take up the position, Tanja was tragically killed in a road accident in August 2007. In 2017, to commemorate ten years since Tanja Liedtke’s passing, the Australian Dance Theatre (ADT) staged a second season of Construct. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia, Smart, Judith and Swain, Shurlee (eds.), 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders Archival resources National Library of Australia, Ephemera Collection [Liedtke, Tanja (dancer and choreographer) : programs and related material collected by the National Library of Australia] National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Papers of Tanja Liedtke, 1996-2012 [manuscript] Author Details Helen Morgan Created 23 April 2014 Last modified 7 April 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Monash University M.A. thesis on the Save Our Sons Movement in Victoria 1965-73 (1991); folder of copies of cuttings containing reviews, review articles and comments (at least one unpublished) on Pauline Armstrong’s book ‘Frank Hardy and the Making of Power Without Glory’. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 9 January 2018 Last modified 9 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

5 hours 26 minutes??Andi Sebastian was born in Bordertown, South Australia. She majored in English and Drama at university. In 1977 Andi joined the Women’s Unit of the Premier’s Department and established the Women’s Information Switchboard. She became involved in sex industry politics when she helped the Scarlet Alliance to make a submission to a Select Committee of Enquiry into Prostitution and became their media spokesperson. Andi discusses the defeat of the Millhouse reform bill in the early 1980s; her renewed involvement in the mid 1980s with the establishment of the Prostitutes’ Association; and the drafting and withdrawal of the Pickles decriminalisation bill. Andi describes changes in the sex industry during the 1980s; sex workers’ health programs of the late 1980s; and the organisation of a national conference in 1988. In 1990 Andi was appointed General Manager of the AIDS Council of South Australia, a position she held for three and a half years. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 2 February 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

The War Widows’ Guild of Australia was formed in 1945 in Victoria by the late Mrs Jessie Mary Vasey OBE, CBE, widow of Major-General George Vasey. In 1947 the Queensland State Branch was formed. The Guild aims to watch over and protect the interests of war widows by lobbying politicians and offering its members friendship, empathy and comfort in times of need, particularly in the loss of a partner. Its motto is as relevant today as it was at the Guild’s formation over 60 years ago:- We all belong to each other We all need each other It is in serving each other And in sacrificing for our common good That we are finding our true life (Extract from an Empire Day Message from His Majesty the late King George the Sixth in 1949). It was Mrs Vasey’s belief in “self-help” that led to the establishment of the Guild through craft classes. The sale of crafts also augmented the widows’ meagre pensions. Queensland established a very successful weaving school under the leadership of Mrs Connie Hoffman who came up from Melbourne to teach. These craft groups brought the young widows together and gave them a purpose as well as the companionship of other widows. The first Sub-Branch was formed in Toowoomba on 8 August 1947, just four days before the State Guild. Today there are 24 Sub-Branches throughout Queensland and five Social Groups in Brisbane where volunteer war widows look after the interests of their members by living the words of the Guild Motto. Today the Guild not only provides a “listening ear”, it provides friendship, welfare advice, social functions and activities, new member orientation, tours, a quarterly Bulletin magazine, volunteer hospital visitor service, nursing home visitors, various scholarships to universities in Queensland, Maj-jong, Bridge classes and Alexander Technique classes (the art of gentle exercise). A further service the Guild provides is that of a Community Services Officer (CSO) who informs members and their families of services available in the community and how to access these services. The CSO will discuss any matters or concerns the members may have, either by a visit to the member’s home or by telephone, and make any necessary referrals. The Queensland Vasey Housing Auxiliary (War Widows’ Guild) was established in 1961 to provide suitable accommodation at an affordable price for war widows over 55 years of age and other eligible persons. Today the Auxiliary manages 6 blocks of units in and around Brisbane (110 units) as well as 2 holiday units at Caloundra on the North Coast. The Queensland Guild owes its success to the early foundation members. Those who took up the challenge at the inaugural meeting in 1947 were Mrs Hazel Sanders (Hopkinson) – President; Mesdames Betty Crombie (Deshon) and Edna Duff – Vice-Presidents; Mrs Doris Houston – Honorary Treasurer and Mrs J. Bird – Honorary Secretary. The subscription was set at one shilling a year. [1] Subsequent State Presidents Mrs Betty Crombie (Deshon) 1948-1950 Mrs Gertrude McKay 1950-1951 Mrs Margaret Gordon 1951-1954 Mrs Billie Hughes OAM 1954-1994 Mrs Jean Walters 1994-1997 Mrs Marjory Brown BEM 1997-2000 Mrs Alison Armstrong FCPA 2000 -2003 Mrs Norma Whitfield 2003-2006 Mrs Barbara Murphy 2006- Mrs Billie Hughes OAM held the position of National President from 1981 to 1986. Mrs Norma Whitfield is the current National President (2004 to date). Today the Guild is managed by a State Council of 25 comprising the State President, two Vice Presidents, Honorary Treasurer and 21 Council members. The Guild is represented on various ex-service committees and the State President attends several memorial services throughout the year to lay a wreath on behalf of war widows. Sub-Branch representatives lay wreaths on behalf of their local members in the regional centres. 2007 marks the 60th anniversary of the War Widows’ Guild in Queensland and members are proud of the achievements of the strong and dedicated women who have gone before them, particularly the earlier members who laid the foundations for the success of the organisation and the benefits that war widows receive today. To be eligible for membership, a widow must be designated “War Widow” by the Department of Veterans’ Affairs, meaning that their partner’s death has been accepted as due to war causes. Re-married war widows, war widowers or Defence Service Widows in receipt of compensation from the Department of Veterans’ Affairs are also eligible. The majority of members are widows from the Second World War. As our members age, we are now looking towards our younger widows from subsequent wars as well as Peacekeeping personnel widows to carry on the wonderful work of our forebears and preserve Mrs Vasey’s aspiration to have all war widows living with dignity and security. This entry was provided by Veronica Kratzmann, State Secretary of the War Widows’ Guild of Australia (Queensland) Inc., April 2007. Published resources Book No Mean Destiny: The Story of the War Widows' Guild of Australia 1945-85, Clark, Mavis Thorpe, 1986 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 12 April 2007 Last modified 20 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Amirah Inglis was a devoted and active member of the Communist Party in Australia during the politically turbulent Menzies era. Her autobiographical works describe the difficulties and confusion of growing up a migrant in Australia, born of Polish-Jewish parents. She has also written essays, reviews and books on Papua New Guinea, and on the Spanish Civil War. The hammer & sickle and the washing up: memories of an Australian woman Communist includes descriptions of Amirah’s life in Canberra in the 1960s, and her marriage to academic Ken Inglis. Amirah’s father, Itzhak Gutstadt (later changed to Gust), migrated to Melbourne in 1928. Amirah and her mother joined him there in 1929. Two of her books tell the story of her life. Amirah, an Un-Australian Childhood, published by William Heinemann Australia in 1983 and reprinted 1984, 1985 and in paperback 1989, a ‘loving and sensuous account…paints a perfect sociological portrait’ (Weekend Australian) of Melbourne in the 1930s and 1940s. It portrays her loving, Polish Jewish Communist parents and the joys and difficulties of living as migrants. The Hammer and Sickle and the Washing Up, Hyland House, Melbourne, 1995, tells of her involvement with the Communist Party of Australia during the 1950’s and 60’s, including the Menzies government’s attempts to outlaw the Communist Party and the Petrov Affair. It is Amirah’s story: her struggle to balance political activism and family responsibilities. Amirah Inglis’ other books reflect a desire to understand the complexities of her world within the framework of the humanitarian, internationalist, European-based communist ideology of her migrant parents and the completely new world of Papua New Guinea where she lived and worked between 1967-1974. In 1998 in an interview with Sarah Dowse (4 digital audio tapes, held at the National Library of Australia) Inglis speaks of her current project, editing her Polish-born father’s memoirs; her family and her own childhood in Melbourne; her political activism as a member of the Communist Party of Australia; her marriage to Ian Turner and events surrounding their move to Canberra in the 1960s; her involvement with the Australian National University and her teaching position at Lyneham High School; her second marriage to Ken Inglis and how their move to New Guinea in the 1970s was the inspiration for her first book which launched her writing career.[1] Amirah Inglis died in Melbourne on 2 May 2015, aged 88. [1] Summary from National Library of Australia Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Book Not a White Woman Safe: Sexual Anxiety and Politics in Port Moresby 1920-1934, Inglis, Amirah, 1974 Amirah, an un-Australian childhood, Inglis, Amirah, 1983 The hammer & sickle and the washing up : memories of an Australian woman communist, Inglis, Amirah, 1995 Journal Article Coming of Age in Australia, Shrubb, Lee, 1984 Memoirs of a dutiful (Red) daughter, Inglis, Amirah, 1987 Site Exhibition From Lady Denman to Katy Gallagher: A Century of Women's Contributions to Canberra, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2013, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/ldkg Archival resources The University of Melbourne Archives Fitzpatrick, Kathleen Elizabeth (1905-1990) Noel Butlin Archives Centre, Australian National University Amirah Inglis Collection National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Papers of Amirah Inglis, 1950-2005 [manuscript] National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Amirah Inglis interviewed by Peter Biskup [sound recording] Amirah Inglis interviewed by Sara Dowse [sound recording] State Library of New South Wales Audrey Blake and Jack Blake further papers, 1937-2004 Author Details Anne Heywood Created 12 February 2003 Last modified 15 October 2018 Digital resources Title: Mrs Amirah Inglis completing a book about the Spanish Civil War Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

1 hour 39 minutes??Gaye Barnes, nee Robinson, grew up in Angle Park, Adelaide where her parents ran racing stables. Gaye explains how, within an eighteen month period aged 19 and 20, she had three abortions for personal convenience, and the severe psychological effects on her. She describes a life-altering religious experience arising out of continuing depression and her later determination to help others. In 1990 she and her husband Peter, also a Christian, had three children. They sold their home to establish the non-denominational Genesis Pregnancy Support service at Marden. She describes the centre’s publicity, fund raising, training for support workers, support groups, and its relationship to other organisations. Gaye also discusses the issue of post-abortion grief. She concludes by voicing her disappointment at the lack of support from some churches but also describing the rewards of seeing lives changed by her work. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 30 January 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

The Women’s Theatre Group was active in Adelaide from 1975 to 1989. The group wrote, produced, directed, scored, performed and built the stage for their productions. They performed cabaret and theatrical works. All-women productions were a first in Adelaide. The women worked through a collective. They won the Adelaide Festival Centre best production award for ‘Redheads Revenge’ in 1978. Other productions included ‘Christobel in Paris’ 1975, ‘Caroline Chisel Show’ 1976, International Women’s Day Concert and ‘Chores 1’ in 1977, ‘Chores 2’ and ‘I want I want’ 1979, ‘Out of the Frying Pan’ 1980,’ Onward to Glory’ 1982, ‘Margin to Mainstream’ and ‘Women and Work Women and Paid Work’ 1984, ‘Sybils Xmas Concert ‘1985, and 1989 ‘Is this Seat Taken?’, this last show explored relationships between Indigenous and non-Indigenous women. The group included the Women in Education Theatre Group and the Feminist Theatre Group. During International Women’s Year (1975) a grant was awarded for a women’s cabaret called ‘Christobel in Paris’. The women formed a collective to produce, write, perform, manage, and build stages for their own plays and revues. In December 1976 the ‘Caroline Chisel Show’ written by Jenny Pausacker with musical direction and arrangement by Janet Seidel was performed. The following year they performed at the International Women’s Day Concert and produced ‘Chores’ which later became ‘Chores 1’. In 1978 Jenny Pausacker and Janet Seidel teamed up again for ‘Redheads Revenge’. This was performed at the Space theatre Adelaide Festival Centre and the play won the best production award from the Centre for 1978. ‘Redheads Revenge’ was based on the conventions of melodrama and its cast included Fran and Pat Kelly, Helen Bock, Minnie Applemy along with many others. ‘Redheads Revenge’ turned a profit and the collective created the Feminist Theatre Fund for future productions. In 1979 these productions included ‘Chores 2’ and ‘I want I want’. In November 1980 ‘Out of the Frying Pan’ collectively written by Jacki Cook, Jenny Pausacker, Miranda and Pat Roe, Sue Higgins [Sheridan], Andi Sebastian, Anne Dunn, Lindy Sharne and Judy Szekeres. The ‘Lonely Motherhood Show’ was produced in 1981. In 1982 Anne Dunn directed ‘Into the 30’s’. Women’s Education Theatre Group mounted a production in 1982 of ‘Onward To Glory’ at the Royality Theatre. Jenny Pausacker and Anne Dunn wrote ‘Margin to Mainstream’, performed in 1984. ‘Women and Work Women and Paid work’ and ‘Sybil’s Xmas Concert’ were performed in 1985. The final production in 1989 was ‘Is this seat taken?’, written by Jenny Pausacker and other collective members. This last show explored relationships between Indigenous and non-Indigenous women. Many of the performances were videoed and or audio taped including post production meetings. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources State Library of South Australia Women's Theatre Group Adelaide Women's Liberation Movement Archives Collection Author Details Kathleen Bambridge Created 18 December 2009 Last modified 21 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

The collection comprises personal papers, including on Lutton’s studies and the Girl Guides; personal and work files from Papua New Guinea; personal and work files from Perth; records relating to Pacific Regional Branch of the International Council on Archives (PARBICA); records from Lutton’s time in Canberra; research files including on Sir Donald and Dame Rachel Cleland; inward correspondence; and cassette tapes. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 2 January 2018 Last modified 27 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

MS 7583 comprises correspondence, board minutes, executive records, conference records and papers relating to submissions and campaigns. There are also papers relating to the International Council of Women (24 boxes).??The Acc GB 1993/1502 instalment comprises records of the National Council of Women of the Australian Capital Territory and includes minutes, correspondence, membership lists, reports, including annual reports for 1952-1990, photographs, cuttings and financial records (4 cartons, 1 small carton).??The Acc07/96 instalment comprises records relating to seminars and conferences, policy and the history of the National Council of Women of Australia, correspondence, publications, submission papers and meeting minutes (35 boxes).??The Acc GB 1993/1502 instalment comprises records of the National Council of Women of the Australian Capital Territory and includes minutes, correspondence, membership lists, reports, including annual reports for 1952-1990, photographs, cuttings and financial records (4 cartons, 1 small carton).??The Acc07/96 instalment comprises records relating to seminars and conferences, policy and the history of the National Council of Women of Australia, correspondence, publications, submission papers and meeting minutes (35 boxes).?The National Council of Women of Australia originated with various state councils, the first being formed in 1896 in New South Wales. In 1931 the Australian National Council of Women was founded as a non-profit organisation promoting women’s issues and social welfare. In 1970 the Council’s name was changed to the National Council of Women of Australia. The Council is an affiliated member of the International Council of Women, a federation of non-government organisations in many countries.?Manuscript reference no.: MS 7583, MS Acc GB 1993/1502, MS Acc07/96.??Associated materials: Records of the National Council of Women of Australia, 1936-1972 MS 5193. Author Details Elizabeth Daniels Created 6 September 2013 Last modified 12 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Sylvia Curley qualified as a nurse in 1926 and spent her early years of nursing in country New South Wales. She worked for the Canberra Community Hospital (later known as the Royal Canberra Hospital) from 1938 until her retirement in 1966 as deputy matron. In her ‘retirement’ years she ran a nursing employment agency in Canberra and was a strong advocate for changes to nurses’ education. In 1994 she donated her family home, Mugga Mugga, to the people of Canberra and oversaw its development into an environmental education centre. Sylvia Curley was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia on 8 June 1992 for her services to nursing, to local history and to the National Trust. Sylvia Curley was born into a pioneering Canberra family and grew up on Duntroon estate, before moving to Mugga Mugga homestead in 1913. She trained as a nurse at Goulburn for four years, and at Leeton and Narrandera she developed her lifelong commitment to patient care and student nurses education. As matron at Gundagai, in five years she changed a run-down hospital to one described by the then New South Wales (NSW) minister for health as ‘the cleanest and best of its size’, which she achieved through influencing administrators and community fundraising. During her time there she took leave without pay to further her training in New Zealand and Sydney. Curley returned to Canberra in 1938 to take up the position of sub-matron of the then Canberra Hospital, only to find that the hospital had been the subject of a royal commission. Staff morale was very low and a group of nurses had resigned in protest at the actions of the hospital board and the sacking of the previous matron. Not to be deterred, she set about improving the hygiene of the kitchen, management of food supplies, menus, diets and she paid from her own salary for a Coolgardie safe to be built when the hospital board refused. Curley also introduced the tray system for patient meals. Concerned at the lack of social lives and the rule of no visitors to nurses quarters Curley organised hospital balls and dances, largely funded from her own pocket, which were great successes and attracted up to 800 guests. She organised fetes and other fundraising events for a student nurses reference library, and for years she lobbied hospital management for improved nursing training and superannuation. Curley went on largely self-funded study tours to New Zealand, the United Kingdom, the United States and Canada, and reported back on developments in hospital practice and nurse training, showing Australia to be behind the times. Her efforts saw the establishment in 1957 of the Nursing School in Canberra, the second in Australia, which was based on a model she had seen in New Zealand. In 1964 a nursing home on the site of the former nurses quarters at Canberra Hospital was named in Curley’s honour. In 1966, after twenty-nine years at the Royal Canberra Hospital, she retired from nursing, but without superannuation she was forced to continue working and she started an employment agency. This she ran for twenty years, during which time a dental nurse training course at Canberra Technical College was established at her suggestion and she lobbied for a medical records course for secretaries. On retiring she set herself the project of documenting the history of the Canberra region, most of which she knew first hand, and was anxious for children to understand how things were in Canberra’s past. At the age of 91 she was recognised with a Medal in the General Division of the Order of Australia for services to nursing, local history and the National Trust. After the death of her last family member, she maintained her family’s Mugga Mugga property herself in excellent condition, receiving praise from the Department of Agriculture on her management of the farm. In 1995 Curley bequeathed the historic 17ha property to the people of Canberra, and established an education centre for environmental studies and turned the homestead into a cottage museum, which she said was the only museum in Canberra to contain original pieces of property of a pioneering family. In 1998 her memoirs were published documenting her life at Duntroon and Mugga Mugga and her ‘three careers’ as a nurse, employment consultant and lessee farmer. At her 100th birthday thanksgiving mass, she described the Mugga Mugga education centre as her vision and dream. She died in the same year. Published resources Book A long journey : Duntroon, Mugga Mugga and three careers, Curley, Sylvia, 1998 Resource Section Curley, Sylvia (1898 - 1999), Biographical Entry, 2002, http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/bsparcs/biogs/P004135b.htm Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition From Lady Denman to Katy Gallagher: A Century of Women's Contributions to Canberra, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2013, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/ldkg Author Details Ros Russell Created 27 February 2004 Last modified 8 February 2013 Digital resources Title: Sylvia Curley Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Papers of Mrs Grace (Gretta) Margaret Lewis, wife of Major Lancelot Lewis, comprising correspondence, papers on various topics, photographs, newspaper cuttings, diaries, notebooks, minutes of the Women’s Defence Services 1939-1940, and correspondence and newspaper cuttings on National Flower Day. Also comprising papers relating to the Girl Guides Association, prevention of Tuberculosis in Australia, overseas lectures on horticulture, financial correspondence, and obituaries and condolence letters. Author Details Jane Carey Created 15 June 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

The Friendly Union of Soldiers’ Wives and Mothers was founded by Lady Helen Munro Ferguson, wife of the Governor General, Sir Ronald Crauford Munro Ferguson, later Lord Novar, soon after the beginning of World War I. The object of the organisation was: The promotion of a friendly feeling amongst the relations of members of the A.I.F., and the giving of mutual help and advice in any trouble or difficulty arising in connection with the Members’ affairs. The first president of the Union was Lady Bridges, wife of General William Throsby Bridges, commander of the First AIF. When General Bridges left his previous position as Commandant of Duntroon Military College in 1914, his wife Edith Bridges and family left Canberra to live at South Yarra in Melbourne. From Federation in 1901 to the opening of Parliament House in Canberra in 1927, the seat of government was in Melbourne and World War I was prosecuted from Victoria Barracks in St Kilda Road. This presence was reflected in the organisation of the Friendly Union which remained predominantly a Victorian organisation centred on Melbourne and drawing many of its senior members and office bearers from the wives of senior military officers. When Lady Bridges the first president resigned due to ill health to become one of the vice presidents, her place was taken by Lady Chauvel, wife of General Sir Harry Chauvel. The vice presidents included Mrs G.F. Pearce, the wife of the Minister for Defence, Mrs Legge, wife of General J.G. Legge and Mrs Sellheim, wife of General Victor Sellheim. The other vice presidents were drawn from women prominent in patriotic and women’s organisations in Melbourne. They included Mrs Eva Hughes, a prominent figure in women’s groups as well as charitable and patriotic organisations including holding the position of president of the conservative, anti-socialist group the Australian Women’s National League. The Friendly Union held monthly meetings beginning with a prayer at the Masonic Hall, Collins Street. Subscription rates were set at 1/- per half year for members and 5/- per half year for committee members. Specific roles were established covering the social and organisational aspects of the Union. There was an Organiser for Visiting, an Organiser for Clothing, a Musical Directoress, an Organiser of Social Teas as well as an Honorary Secretary, Assistant Secretary, and Treasurer. A system of District Visitors was set up with women appointed to cover each of the then major suburbs of Melbourne. Almost all the District Visitors lived in the more affluent suburbs in the south-east of Melbourne as did the Committee Members. These suburbs were all allocated visitors, but it is noticeable that for each of the less affluent suburbs, Brunswick, Coburg, Collingwood, Fitzroy, North Melbourne, Preston and Port Melbourne no District Visitor was named. The establishment of the Friendly Union by Lady Helen was well publicised in country newspapers in Victoria and there is evidence of branches operating in Wangaratta and Geelong. Towards the end of 1915 the Wangaratta branch persuaded Lady Helen Munro Ferguson to break her train journey from Sydney to Melbourne to attend a meeting of the Friendly Union. She urged the hundred women who attended the meeting at the Masonic Hall to draw closer together and seek to strengthen one another by their sympathy and encouragement and kindly words. She also urged them, when they wrote to the ‘brave men at the front’, to write cheerful and happy letters and not mention ‘the little worries at home’. Although there was a report that branches of the Friendly Union were being established in New South Wales, there appears to be no evidence of activity. Some meetings were held in Perth, Western Australia, but the organisation remained predominantly Melbourne-based. Meetings continued to be held after World War I ended and in Sydney a Friendly Union of Sailors’ Wives was active for some years. Archival resources Australian War Memorial Research Centre Friendly Union of Soldiers' Wives and Mothers, Australian Imperial Forces Author Details Patricia Clarke Created 14 February 2019 Last modified 18 February 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Sylvia Kinder was active in both the Adelaide Women’s Liberation Movement and the Sydney Women’s Liberation Movement. As a teacher she was involved with the South Australian Institute of Teachers (SAIT) which questioned sexist teaching practices within schools. She helped bring changes in education standards designed to reduce gender discrimination, including the use of non sexist language in school and equal opportunities for girls. Sylvia was a member of the Australian Women’s Education Coalition (South Australian Branch). She was involved in the establishment of the Adelaide Women’s Liberation Movement, Women’s Studies Resource Centre, Adelaide Women’s Liberation Movement Archives and the Hindmarsh Women’s Community Health Centre. She was a member of International Women’s Year National Advisory Committee 1974-1976. She wrote a book about the women’s liberation movement in Adelaide. The need for a women’s studies courses became apparent to Sylvia Kinder and other concerned teachers who, in response, set about establishing a women’s library as part of the Women’s Liberation Movement. Books and papers were donated and the Women’s Studies Resource Centre was created. She taught women’s studies at the Women’s Studies Resource Centre. She was a collective member of Liberation, Adelaide Women’s Liberation Newsletter. She served on the Status of Women’s Standing Committee from 1974-1976. Sylvia addressed International Women’s Day rallies or marches. She helped organise conferences including the Young Women’s Festival and the Women in Labour Conference both held in Adelaide. She was also active in gay liberation in South Australia. Some of the other groups she was involved with included Women Behind Bars, Salisbury Women’s Group Newsletter, Salisbury Women’s Health Centre, National Women’s Consultative Council, SAIT Professional Development Committee, International Women’s Day Collective. Women’s Theatre Group (South Australia). There is a collection of taped interviews with South Australian feminist including Pat Ronald, Liz Byard, Anna Yeatman, Judy Gillett, Betty Fisher, Connie Frazer, Deborah McCulloch, Jill Mathews, Sue Higgins (Sheridan) and Gail Tauscher. Sylvia Kinder wrote Herstory of the Adelaide Women’s Liberation Movement 1969-1974. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Newsletter Liberation, 1970 Book Herstory of Adelaide Women's Liberation 1969-1974, Kinder, Sylvia, 1980 Archival resources State Library of South Australia Sylvia Kinder : SUMMARY RECORD Hindmarsh Women's Community Health Centre Women's Theatre Group Adelaide Women's Liberation Movement Archives Collection Adelaide Women's Liberation Movement : SUMMARY RECORD Address by Sylvia Kinder [sound recording] Author Details Kathleen Bambridge Created 18 December 2009 Last modified 15 December 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Personal papers. Correspondence and other papers relating to his parliamentary life, Australian Labor Party, election campaigns, work with Australia-China Council. Conference reports, brochures and publicity material relating to the international peace movement of 1940’s and later. Personal correspondence, diaries and press clippings relating to his overseas tours. Biographical files including details of the Lenin Peace Prize award in 1961. Associations: Australian Railways Union, Workers’ Political Organisation, Australian Labor Party, Australian Peace Council, World Council of Peace, Australian Assembly for Peace. Correspondents include: Lady (Jessie) Street. Large collection of photographs, including many of representatives at world conferences for peace and disarmament. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 2 January 2018 Last modified 31 July 2020 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Genevieve Rankin’s commitment to social justice, peace and the environment has directed her career in local government, education and community activism. She first ran for parliament in 1991 as an ALP candidate for the New South Wales Legislative Assembly seat of Sutherland. She re-contested the seat in 1995, but again failed. However Genevieve Rankin was successfully elected to the Sutherland Shire Council in 1991-2004 and was appointed Mayor from 1994-95. Genevieve Rankin grew up in the St George area of Sydney. She worked as a policy officer at the Australian Council of Social Service, and coordinator of Crossroads Community Care Centre at Miranda. In 1995 she was a lecturer at the University of Western Sydney in Political economy, community work and industrial relations. She was the first President of the NSW Welfare Workers Union and President of the Milperra Branch of the Lecturers’ Association of the NSW Teachers’ Federation. Genevieve has been active in her community, in school, community, peace and environmental groups. A long time member of the ALP, she has held a variety of positions at branch, FEC and SEC level. As Mayor of Sutherland Shire Council, and later as a private citizen, Ms Rankin was active in opposing the new nuclear reactor at Lucas Heights, Sydney. She is married to Des, and they have two children. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 2 February 2006 Last modified 16 September 2013 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Photographs – 1 glass photonegative Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 4 December 2006 Last modified 31 October 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

The War Widows’ Guild Of Australia was established in Victoria by the late Mrs Jessie Mary Vasey CBE, OBE. The broad aims of the Guild were to watch over and protect the interests of war widows. Qualification for membership of the Guild was restricted to widows of men who were killed on active service or whose deaths were accepted as being war-caused and were therefore in receipt of a war widow’s pension. Later, widows of interned civilians who received a repatriation war widows’ pension were included, as were widows of allied ex-servicemen. The Guild began in Victoria and was founded by the late Mrs Jessie Mary Vasey CBE, OBE. Her husband, General George Alan Vasey, an army officer, commanded Australian forces in Greece and New Guinea during World War II. While on leave in 1945 he called on the widow of one of his men and was appalled at her living conditions. It was Major-General Vasey’s wish that after he returned from the battlefields he, with the help of his wife, would look after the families of the men who were killed while serving with him. On 5 March 1945, aged 49 years, Major-General Vasey was himself killed in an aircraft accident. Jessie Vasey formed the War Widows’ Guild of Australia on 22 November 1945. Qualification for membership of the Guild was restricted to widows of men who were killed on active service or whose deaths were accepted as being war-caused and were therefore in receipt of a war widow’s pension. Later, widows of interned civilians who received a repatriation war widows’ pension were included, as were widows of allied ex-servicemen. The broad aims of the Guild were to watch over and protect the interests of war widows. While maintaining that every woman whose husband’s death was due to war service should receive adequate monetary compensation from the Government, so that she and her family could maintain a dignified standard of living, Mrs Vasey believed that the surest way to rehabilitation was through self-help. To this end she organised the formation of craft groups. The women involved in these craft activities not only enjoyed the company of others in the same sad position as themselves, but they experienced the thrill of satisfaction that creativity brings and, by the sale of their work, were able to supplement the meagre compensatory pension at the time doled out to them by the Government. Through Mrs Vasey’s leadership, Guilds were formed in all States during 1946-1947 plus the Australian Capital Territory in 1966. All were united in a National Guild over which Vasey presided until her death in 1966. During this time she inspired the respect and devotion of a group of very able women in all States and through her efforts the lot of the war widow became better: many improvements took place in pensions, housing, children’s allowances and hospital care. In November 1947 Jessie Vasey called a conference of National Body delegates from all States to meet in Melbourne to form a federal body. While each State body is autonomous in domestic organisation, the Conference achieved unity and biennial congresses have been held ever since. Motto of the War Widows’ Guild We all belong to each other. We all need each other. It is in serving each other and in sacrificing for our common good that we are finding our true life. (Extract from an Empire Day Message from His Majesty the late King George the Sixth in 1949.) Kookaburra Badge The badge, made of silver and designed by Andor Meszaros, was introduced in 1951. The badge featured the kookaburra, an industrious and cheerful bird who mated for life, was fearless and aggressive in the defence of its young and the area of territory it regarded as its own. “The kookaburra goes for what he wants and fights for its family. Isn’t that what we are doing?” Mrs Vasey asked her girls. The bird also had a unique call, not a song but a laugh, a chortle of rollicking mirth. It was a call to win the war widow back to laughter. Published resources Book No mean destiny : the story of the War Widows' Guild of Australia 1945-85, Clark, Mavis Thorpe, 1986 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources Private Hands (These records may not be readily available) War Widows' Guild of Australia Author Details Anne Heywood Created 29 January 2003 Last modified 29 October 2018 Digital resources Title: Kookaburra Badge Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Written by Elizabeth Guy after the death of Ellinor Walker on 7 November 1990 aged 97 years Author Details Anne Heywood Created 28 January 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Correspondence files of Laurence Pollinger Ltd relating to Christina Stead. Contains one autographs letter, one autograph postcard, 135 typed letters and several telegrams from Stead to Laurence Pollinger Ltd written from Surbiton, Canberra, New York, Sydney and elsewhere, 1969-1981. The letters are inter-filed with a least two hundred carbon copies of letters to Stead from the Pollingers and members of their staff together with related internal memoranda. Also includes two typed letters from David Stead, written after his sister’s death in 1983. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 17 April 2018 Last modified 17 April 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Records consisting of minutes of annual, monthly and committee meetings and annual reports, together with an unpublished history of the club. Author Details Jane Carey Created 22 July 2004 Last modified 24 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Contents include minutes, alphabetical files, pictorial material correspondence relating to the Australian Women’s Digest, women in war, women in the Public Service and women and the Church Author Details Anne Heywood Created 29 June 2004 Last modified 27 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

This collection includes (1) 9 minute books of meetings, Sept. 1946-Oct. 2000; (2) 3 attendance books relating to meetings, Feb. 1955-Oct. 2000; (3) correspondence, 1955-2000, including correspondence regarding the push allowing for A.W.L.A. members to participate in the ANZAC Day March; (4) photograph album, inscribed to Hazel Fenwick, dated 1945, including signatures at the front of the album of fellow workers from Hanwood, N.S.W. The photographs depict people as well as farms in Griffith and surroundings districts. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 26 June 2018 Last modified 26 June 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Includes correspondence, drafts, reviews, cuttings and other papers. Drafts include The golden fish, Mines and men, The division of love, Venom, Dream run and various short stories. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 17 April 2018 Last modified 17 April 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Louise Joy stood as an Independent candidate in the Legislative Assembly seat of Warrandyte at the Victorian state election, which was held on 30 March 1996. Her political career followed an important career in social work, locally and abroad. Daughter of medical missionaries, Louise Joy completed her tertiary education at the University of Melbourne with a Bachelor Arts (Honours) in History and a Diploma in Social Studies. At the conclusion of her Social Work studies at the University of Melbourne, Louise did her final three months Social Work placement at the Mental Health Centre CMC Vellore, South India. Louise and her husband Stewart, took their four children to India, spending time at Vellore and other scenes of her childhood. In her Social Work life Louise worked in hospitals and family support agencies in Melbourne and London. As a Social Worker from 1952-62 she worked with women who attempted suicide at the Alfred Hospital. After her marriage in the early 1960s she worked in Central London hospitals with single, pregnant women while her husband was based in the United Kingdom. She served on the Doncaster and Templestowe Council from 1990-94 after a period of establishing community services in Warrandyte. During the 1990s she spent ten years working for the Caroline Chisholm Society Pregnancy and Family Support which assisted women and young families in the western suburbs of Melbourne. In her community life Louise was a Local Government Councilor and started a range of groups in Warrandyte through a Coop. Louise has always been active in recruiting people for Vellore Dinners. She joined the committee Friends of Vellore Victoria in the late 1990s holding several positions including Secretary. 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 10 September 2008 Last modified 20 July 2020 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Collection of articles about Australian tenpin bowler, Cara Honeychurch Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 4 December 2006 Last modified 4 December 2006 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Record Repository State Library of South Australia Reference SRG 760 Date Range 1984 - 2001 Quantity 0 0.26 m Access No access to membership records prior to 2027 Records of the International Women’s Day Committee (SA) Incorporated comprising an outsize ‘Women’s Roll of Honour for the 20th Century in South Australia Volume 1’, compiled by Betty Fisher with artwork by Jenny Lee; and a circular letter sent by Betty Fisher for the International Women’s Day Committee call for ‘Reconciliation : women’s response from the non-indigenous community’. (A smaller printed copy of the honour roll is available for reference.) Author Details Anne Heywood Created 28 January 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Jessie Street, Feminist, Pacifist, Socialist and Human Rights Worker. Part 1 Presents a commentary on Jessie Street from some who knew her and worked with her, and readings from her autobiography ‘Truth Or Repose’. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 2 January 2018 Last modified 2 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

40 minutes??Dr Winifred talks about her childhood in Broken Hill and Georgetown in the mid north of South Australia, bush schooling, Gladston and Adelaide High Schools, medicine scholarship, two other female medical students 1918-1922 – Dorothy Adams and Ricca Hubbe – Royal Adelaide Hospital, returned servicemen, marriage to Dr Fred wall, four children, private practice, World War II, specialising in anesthesia and working at the Royal Adelaide Hospital, committee involvement, President of the Medical Women’s Society, member of the Adelaide University Council, awards, and involvement in the Lyceum Club. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 5 April 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

National Archives Australia (Melbourne). ‘M’ – Mackie to Musgrove.??The Trust required that applications for grants be lodged on their prescribed application forms, the format of which varied slightly over the years, but which always requested the following general details: name and address of applicant, whether permanent resident in Victoria, date and place of enlistment, date and place of nursing training, hospitals worked in abroad, illnesses contracted abroad, name of medical adviser, occupation and details of any income, and reasons for application.??The applications are arranged alphabetically by surname of applicant in folders also alphabetically ordered. Applications made in 1975 at the invitation of the Trust in its attempt to disburse all remaining funds are mostly in letter form and contained in the folders of correspondence. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 31 October 2017 Last modified 23 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

3 tape reels (ca. 90 min)??Folkloric recording, Mrs Oldfield speaks about other local families; clearing the land; her husband Doug Oldfield; social activities; farm chores; living conditions in 1930s; her children; Ash Wednesday bushfire; her dressmaking business; her wedding celebrations; lack of medical services; and her involvement with the Country Women’s Association.?Part of a collection of recordings made by Helen O’Shea in the township of Ecklin South, Victoria in 1989 and 1990. The recordings aim to reveal the social fabric of life in a small rural community between 1900 and 1988. Author Details Jane Carey Created 14 May 2004 Last modified 21 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Two letters to Sapper W.E. Douglas Hamersley, 6th Field Co., Aust. Engineers, A.I.F. Frame, 20 October and 3 November 1918. Author Details Lisa MacKinney Created 21 August 2009 Last modified 7 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Mary Maguire was one of the first female presenters for ABC Local Radio in Broken Hill, New South Wales. Mary Maguire was born and raised in Broken Hill. Her mother, too, was locally-born but her father had come to Australia as a migrant from England and worked as a winder house driver in the mines. With her older sister Grace, Mary attended Morgan Street Primary School and North Broken Hill Primary School before completing her education at Broken Hill High School. On leaving school she found work at a grocery store owned by Mr. Dry and earned 10 shillings a week delivering groceries to customers’ houses by pushbike, enjoying the opportunity to meet different people in the Broken Hill community. After several years Mary gained employment at Wendt’s Jewellers in Argent Street as a shop assistant, and took pride in her smart red uniform with silver buttons down the side and a black skirt. Both she and Grace joined the Broken Hill Repertory Society, which opened in 1944, and relished the chance to act under the direction of Victor A. Bindley, who had worked with J.C. Williamson before moving to Broken Hill from Sydney. In due course Mary moved to Adelaide, where she continued to work for Wendt’s Jewellers. Again she became involved in theatre, this time under the tutelage of Jack Hume, and joined several productions for ABC Radio in Adelaide. After some years Mary moved to Sydney and began work at Proud’s Jewellers. During a holiday in Broken Hill she met the man she would later marry, and subsequently returned to Broken Hill to live permanently. In 1951, Mary became one of the first women presenters at the ABC Local Radio station in Broken Hill and worked on numerous programs including the West Darling Magazine and the Silver City Interlude. She compered talk shows such as the Today program, interviewing prominent people passing through Broken Hill, as well as people from the local community. Mary also contributed material for ABC Radio National, and produced a segment about Broken Hill for the women’s program. From 1982 she presented A Touch of Silver at 2NB in Broken Hill, focussing on issues relating to elderly citizens. Described as ‘a pioneer radio woman’, Mary Maguire died in July 2011 after a long illness. Her interviews and the sound of her voice are safely collected in the ABC Radio Archives. This entry was prepared and written by Georgia Moodie. NB: Interviews with Mary Maguire are also held in the ABC Broken Hill audio archive. Published resources Newspaper Article ABC Celebrates 50th Birthday, 1982 Site Exhibition Unbroken Spirit: Women in Broken Hill, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2009, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/bh/bh-home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources Private Hands (These regards may not be readily available) Interview with Mary Maguire Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 3 March 2009 Last modified 13 October 2011 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

A cryptic drama of tensions and manoeuvres among a group of people. The film explores possibilities of expression outside traditional narrative. Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 23 December 2010 Last modified 1 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Born in Poland in 1944, Anna Volska migrated to Australia with her mother when she was seven years old. She graduated from the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) in 1962 and acted with the Old Tote Theatre Company for two years. It was there she met John Bell and they married in 1965. Following John’s career, they moved to England, where Anna spent three seasons with the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford-on-Avon. She was co-founder of the Nimrod Theatre and directed several of their productions. Anna has also directed productions for various other companies, including NIDA and the Queensland University of Technology (QUT). Anna and John set up the Bell Shakespeare company in 1990. Anna has appeared in many Shakespeare plays and Australian television drama series. In 1973 she won a Best Actress Logie for her portrayal of Helena Rubenstein in an episode of the ABC biographical series Behind the Legend. Anna and John have two daughters, Hilary and Lucy. Archival resources National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Papers of John Bell and Anna Volska, 1935-2008 [manuscript] National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Anna Volska interviewed by Michelle Potter in the Esso Performing Arts collection [sound recording] National Library of Australia [Biographical cuttings on Anna Volska, actress, containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journals] Author Details Alannah Croom Created 5 April 2018 Last modified 5 April 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Essie Coffey looks at life of the Aboriginal people in the NSW town of Brewarrina and reflects on how life as changed since she made the film, My Survival As An Aboriginal, in 1978. Subtitled by SBS Australia.??There is documentation associated with the production of the film held in the NFSA collection. Author Details Hollie Aerts Created 21 December 2010 Last modified 1 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Lillian Armfield was one of the first female plain-clothes detectives in Australia. She joined the New South Wales Police Force as a special constable in 1915 and retired 34 years later in 1943 as a special sergeant 1st class. During that time she helped runaway girls return home and dealt with female suspects or victims. Armfield was awarded the King’s Police and Fire Service Medal for outstanding service in 1947. Four years later, after her retirement, she was awarded the Imperial Service Medal. The daughter of labourer George Armfield and his wife Elizabeth (née Wright), Lillian Armfield was educated locally and became a nurse at the Callan Park Hospital for the Insane, New South Wales. In 1915 Armfield applied for a newly created position in the New South Wales Police Force. Recruited as a special constable, she was not supplied with a uniform or paid for overtime or expenses during her probationary year. A year later Armfield was enrolled as a special constable after she signed an agreement. The agreement denied her the right to compensation if she were injured while performing her duties or any right to superannuation upon her retirement. For Armfield, promotion was slow in her chosen career. Eight years after entering the police force she became a special sergeant, 3rd class and rose to 1st class in 1943, six years before her retirement. The basis of her work was with women and girls, often providing advice and dealing with crimes committed by or against women. In 1949, she retired from the police force, aged 65, and lived on an old-age pension until the New South Wales Government granted her a special weekly allowance in 1965. Lillian Armfield died on 26 August 1971, aged 86 years. Events 2001 - 2001 Inducted into the Victorian Honour Roll of Women Published resources Book Rugged Angel: The Amazing Career of Policewoman Lillian Armfield, Kelly, Vince, 1961 Women Make Australian History : Women in Wartime 1914-1918, 1939-1945, Dugan, Michael and Gunter, Anne, 1996 Resource Section Armfield, Lillian May (1884-1971), King, Hazel, 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A070095b.htm Edited Book Monash Biographical Dictionary of 20th Century Australia, Arnold, John and Morris, Deirdre, 1994 Site Exhibition Faith, Hope and Charity Australian Women and Imperial Honours: 1901-1989, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2003, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/honours/honours.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Anne Heywood Created 16 October 2002 Last modified 19 September 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Farms Gathering Proceedings, Material Culture Icons, Banners, Newsletters, Programs, Cultural Partnership Agreement, Rural Women’s Network Events Kit Author Details Janet Butler Created 18 December 2009 Last modified 27 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Margaret McLean, a founding member of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union of Victoria in 1887, became Melbourne’s foremost advocate of votes for women. An active and well-known feminist, Margaret McLean was the first person to sign the Women’s Suffrage petition. She signed the petition as Mrs. William McLean, possibly to indicate the support of her husband, who was an influential Melbourne businessman. Despite receiving little recognition for her feminist activities, Margaret McLean was a strong political force for women’s rights in Melbourne throughout her life. Born in Ayrshire, Scotland in 1845, Margaret was the eldest child of Andrew Arnot, builder and carpenter, and his wife Agnes. The family migrated to Melbourne in 1849 where her father became treasurer of the Melbourne Total Abstinence Society. Margaret became a teacher at the United Methodist Free Church School, Fitzroy in 1859 and as such, was one of the first trained teachers in Melbourne. She attended the Melbourne Training Institution for teachers from 1862-64, and worked as an assistant at Sa range of voluntary work, including visiting gaols, courts, and public houses, spending whole nights in slum areas, endeavouring to assist and protect young women. Margaret Arnot married William McLean, a hardware merchant on 10 March 1869 in Fitzroy. They later built and lived in Torloisk, East Melbourne. She was baptised by the Rev. James Taylor at the Collins Street Baptist Church in 1866. Her husband died some years before she did, in 1905. Margaret McLean became the founding President of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) of Victoria in 1887. She was the first president of the Melbourne Branch of the WCTU, and was the acting president and president of WCTU Victoria from 1891-1893 and again from 1899-1907. During these twelve years she travelled extensively throughout Victoria working for the WCTU. Her pamphlets Womanhood Suffrage (1890) and its sequel More about womanhood suffrage were circulated widely. She was instrumental in organising the Victorian Women’s Petition for the franchise, presented to parliament in 1891. The petition had 30,000 signatures, gained over 10 weeks, and Margaret McLean was the first person to sign it. In 1893 the WCTU made a plea for equal pay for women. Margaret McLean led a delegation to the Chief Commissioner of Police urging the appointment of women police and facilities for women at lock-ups. This was after learning that about 40 women were arrested each week as a result of protests against the prevalence of ‘sweating’ and a call for female factory inspectors. In 1900, she was the Australian delegate to the World’s WCTU Convention in Edinburgh, Scotland, where she also conducted a service in St Giles’ Cathedral. In March 1902, seeking the support of a wider constituency, she moved the resolution which began the National Council of Women in Victoria. This organisation, with the WCTU, pressed for women’s suffrage, juvenile courts, police matrons and other reforms, including raising the age of consent. She was appointed honorary life president of the WCTU in 1907 in recognition of her long and distinguished service to the organisation. This decision was made by a special resolution at the 1907 Convention of the WCTU. 1908 the right to vote was granted to women, and the age of consent was raised from 12 to 16 years. In retirement, Margaret continued to work for temperance, social reform and the Baptist Church. All photographs taken of Margaret McLean show her wearing a white ribbon tied in a bow, the badge adopted by the WCTU to symbolise purity. Margaret McLean died in Malvern on 14 February 1923, survived by eight of her eleven children. Six of her daughters’ lives reflected aspects of their mother’s career. Only Eva (1886-1968) and Jessie (1888-1964), a graphic artist, led domestic lives. Ethel (1873-1940) was head of staff at Lauriston Girls’ School, Melbourne. Winifred Lucie (1877-1944) was a nurse, Hilda (1879-1938) was a Baptist missionary in India, and Alice (1884-1949; Dr Alice Barber) graduated in medicine in 1906 and was a missionary in India for many years. Dr Barber also helped to run the Women’s Hospital, Melbourne, during World War I and later practised psychotherapy, making an influential contribution to its establishment in Melbourne. Published resources Resource Section McLean, Margaret (1845-1923), Hyslop, Anthea, 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A100322b.htm Mrs William McLean of East Melbourne, Wright, Norman, http://wiki.prov.vic.gov.au/index.php/McLean#Mrs_William_McLean_of_East_Melbourne Newspaper Article A Social Reformer (in the series 'Our Pioneers'), Brown, Basil S, 1992 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Jenni Colwill Created 18 March 2009 Last modified 26 September 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Folder contains a Percy Grainger labelled Envelope (marked 446 – 1,2,3 Melba to Rose and Percy Grainger) which contained letters to Percy Grainger and Rose Grainger from Nellie Melba. Most are undated (with archivists estimates). 10 original letters in Melba’s hand, 2 telegrams with Percy Grainger’s reply written on one and also with accompanying poem entitled “The Flag”, Also Percy Grainger’s typescript of an article from the Australian Musical News regarding Melba’s impromptu during a performance of his composition “Colonial Song”. Other Information: Many are undated and have previous archivists estimates of dates made from the contents of the letter. Also contains a photo image of the letter from Melba headed “Hotel Majestie New York”. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 17 October 2017 Last modified 17 October 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

The Australian Women’s Conference for Victory in War and Victory in Peace was held in November 1943, organised around the theme ‘A War to Win, a World to Gain’. In a feat of organisational excellence, given the restrictions placed on interstate travel during war time, ninety-one women’s organisations from around Australia met in Sydney, Australia, to discuss post war reconstruction and the ‘problems that will effect women and children in the post war period.’ The Australian Women’s Charter, which documents the resolutions brought forward during the conference and is considered a landmark feminist manifesto, was an important outcome of the conference. Described as ‘the largest and most representative feminist conference held until that time’, the 1943 Australian Women’s Conference for Victory in War and Victory in Peace brought together representatives of over ninety women’s organisations across a range of political ideologies to consider the problems of post war reconstruction, and the role of women within the ‘new order’ when peace returned. Organised by the President of the United Associations of Women, Jessie Street, the conference, held in Sydney, New South Wales in November 1943, has been referred to as ‘the high point of feminist solidarity and political mobilisation in the twentieth century’. Organised at a time when planning for peace was a politically bi-partisan priority, the conference addressed the complexity of women’s lives and interests but focused on one over-riding question: how would these be advanced in the planning of post war reconstruction? An important outcome of the conference was the development of a charter of rights for women in the post-war world. The Australian Women’s Charter, regarded as a land-mark feminist manifesto, was endorsed by the conference and represents a moment in time when Australian women prioritised the single category of gender over other political categories. The conference did not emerge from a vacuum. As early as 1941, the United Associations of Women (U.A.) had begun discussing the needs and roles of women in post war reconstruction. A Women’s Forum for Social and Economic Reconstruction was established; this forum held several important discussions. In 1942 the U.A. called a conference to consider ‘problems concerning women under war conditions’. Given the wide ranging subject matter which included: the status of Australian girls marrying American troops; the need for canteens in factories and schools; the provision of crèches and kindergartens etc. for the children of working women; the investigation of conditions surrounding rationing and the brownout, the conference attracted a lot of attention and left a lot of matters unresolved. The women of the U.A decided that a national conference was required. A separate committee, comprised of women from the U.A., as well as non-members with connections to a wide range of women’s groups, set about organising the conference. Preparation for the conference included consulting with as many women’s organisations as possible prior to the conference, in order to amass the resolutions which, when adopted, became the Australian Women’s Charter. After the conference, 20,000 copies of the Charter booklet were distributed to individuals and organisations in Australia and overseas. The Australian Women’s Charter Movement was established to provide concrete follow-up activity based on the resolutions outlined in the Charter. State conferences were organised, charter deputations lobbied members of the federal parliament on specific points and a follow up conference was organised in 1946. Representations of fewer organisations attended this conference, held in Sydney, New South Wales, in August 1946, however, there were a number of overseas delegates in attendance. Nevertheless, while it is true that the 1943 conference reflected the politics of unity that accompanied some forms of war-time political activism, the 1946 conference reflected the changes in the global political climate that developed in the post war period. Representatives of some of the more conservative women’s organisations had difficulty finding common ground with women like Jessie Street, president of the U.A., given their leftist connections. Maintaining a united feminist front became increasingly difficult as the world plunged into a new, cold war. In order to demonstrate the extent of unity amidst diversity that was present at the conference, the following list names all the organisations that were represented at the conference: New South Wales: Austral India League Australian Institute of Sociology Australian Railways’ Union – Women’s Auxiliary Australian Labor Party (Official) Australian Labor Party (State) Australian Labor Party (Concord West Branch) Australian Federation of Women Voters (N.S.W. Committee) Australian Association of Scientific Workers (N.S.W. Division) Australian Women’s Party Amalgamated Hospital Employees’ Association Amalgamated Engineering Union Board of Social Studies Balmain Council – Alderman Gallimore Bankstown Women’s Committee Communist Party Care of the Child in Wartime Committee Commonwealth Temporary Clerks Association Council for Women in War Work Christian Social Order Movement Domestic Employees’ Union Fellowship of Australian Writers Friendship with Russia League Federation of Infants’ School Clubs Friday Club Girls Friendly Society Glebe Council – Alderman Pitt Greenwich Women’s Committee Guildford Comforts Fund Granville Mothers’ Club Hairdressers’ Union Hotel, Club and Restaurant Employees’ Union Humane Movement Ironworkers’ Union Municipal and Shire Council Employees’ Union National Council of Jewish Women New Education Fellowship Our New Order Presbyterian Women’s Federation Printing Industries Union Roseville Group, United Associations of Women Recreation and Leadership Movement Seamen’s Union, Women’s Auxiliary Sheet Metal Workers’ Union Sydney Women’s Cooperative Guild Teachers’ Federation Textile Workers Union Travellers’ Aid Society United Associations of Women Women’s Christian Temperance Union Watson Labor Women’s Auxiliary Widows of the A.I.F. Association Women for Canberra Y.M.C.A. Country Newcastle Housewives Association Newcastle Social Hygiene Committee Women’ Auxiliary, Coal and Shale Employees Federation, Newcastle Crippled Children Society, Newcastle Newcastle Trades Hall Council Katoomba P. & C. and Mothers’ Clubs Katoomba Crippled Children’s Society Katoomba R.S.S.I.L.A., Women’s Auxiliary Katoomba Congregational Church, Women’s Guild Lithgow Child Care Committee Democratic Housewives Association, Wollongong Goulburn A.R.U. Women’s Auxiliary West Maitland Branch, United Associations of Women Queensland National Council of Women Y.W.C.A. Women’s Auxiliary, Townsville Trades and Labor Council Women’s Auxiliary, Maryborough Trades and Labor Council Federated Clerk’ Union Storemen and Packers’ Union Town and Country Women’s Association Victoria Women’s Christian Temperance Union Council for Women in War Work Communist Party Munitions Workers Union Tasmania Housewives Association R.S.S.I.L.A. Guild of Remembrance National Council of Women Council for the Mother and Child Women’s International League South Australia Adelaide Jewish Women’s Guild Jewish Red Cross Society Women’s Christian Temperance Union League for the Protection of Aboriginal Women Communist Party West Australia Hotel, Club and Caterers’ Union Council of Churches Housewives Association Published resources Resource Section DRB Mitchell to Director, Commonwealth Investigation Branch, 7 June 1941, National Archives of Australia, http://www.uncommonlives.naa.gov.au/detail.asp?exID=93&iID=346&eID=&lID=3&cID=36 Jessie Street (left) with delegates to the second Australian Woman's Charter conference in Sydney in 1946., National Archives of Australia, http://www.uncommonlives.naa.gov.au/detail.asp?iID=367&lID=3&cID=29 Jessie Street, National Archives of Australia, 2018, http://www.naa.gov.au/collection/snapshots/uncommon-lives/jessie-street/life.aspx Edited Book Jessie Street : documents and essays, Radi, Heather, c1990 Book Getting Equal: the History of Australian Feminism, Lake, Marilyn, 1999 Book Section Girdled for War: Women's Mobilisations in World Wat Two, Saunders, Kay and Bolton, Geoffrey, c1992 Archival resources State Library of Western Australia Records, 1960-1991 [manuscript] Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection United Association of Women - Records, ca.1930-1970 National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Papers of Jessie Street, circa 1914-1968 [manuscript] Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 29 June 2004 Last modified 25 July 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Annual reports (incomp.); minutes 1980- Author Details Anne Heywood Created 12 September 2003 Last modified 13 September 2013 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

A. WOOD ENGRAVINGS BY GLADYS OWEN?1. The Bridge Workshops, 1930s?2. The Bridge, 1930s?3. Sydney Harbour, ca. 1950s?4. Convent at Vaucluse, ca. 1930s?5. The Bush Pool, ca. 1930s?6. The Shed, ca. 1930s?7. The Big Tree, ca. 1930s?8. The Bush Dairy, ca. 1930s?9. Camden Country, ca. 1930s?10. [Church in Spain], ca. 1920s-1930s?11. [Spanish town], ca. 1920s?12. [Spanish town with tower], ca. 1920s?13. [Spanish church], ca. 1920s??B. WOODCUT BY MAUD SHERWOOD?14. St. Peter with the keys, ca. 1920s-1930s Author Details Alannah Croom Created 30 August 2002 Last modified 24 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Lillian Wells was the first moderator of the New South Wales synod of the Uniting Church (1977) . On 31 December 1977 she was appointed as an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (civil) for services to the church.

Diaries (1886-1959); personal papers; correspondence, including that with her husband Martin Edward Jull; material re conscription referendum (1916), Royal Commission on administration of W.A. Health Act (1938), schools medical service (1920’s), University of W.A. (1922-1941), National Council of Women (1915-1939); and numerous articles, talks, etc. (1895-1942). Author Details Anne Heywood Created 12 September 2003 Last modified 7 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Lorna Bell was born in Kunanalling and went to school in Kalgoorlie and Coolgardie. She married Rex Mitchell in 1934 and they had one daughter, Jan. Rex died in 1985, aged 83. During the Second World war she joined the Red Cross where she became known as ‘Mrs Bottletops’ as she collected aluminium tops from bottles for recycling as part of the war effort. She met the Australian Troop trains full of soldiers going to or returning from the war, providing soup and other special meals. She ran the Parakeet Dance Hall to raise funds for ‘the boys’ and later met the trains carrying war brides on to Melbourne and Sydney and on to the US to provide a last touch of home in Kalgoorlie for the women. Lorna said that after a chance to change clothes and freshen up, ‘… many was the girl who cried on my shoulder before getting back on that train’. She also helped run the Blood Bank and assisted in the rehabilitation of the returned soldiers. After the war Lorna became involved in the Fresh Air League, a charitable organisation that gave underprivileged goldfields children the opportunity to enjoy a ‘fresh air’ holiday by the sea. From 1946 Lorna devoted much of her time as a voluntary aide assisting deaf children with their education. In August 1947 she became an assistant teacher – special education with the then superintendent recognising her incredible perception and ability to teach deaf children and others deemed ‘unteachable’ because of their disabilities. In 1951 as principal she opened her school dedicated to the teaching of these children. It became the greatest achievement of her life for 33 years, and in 1985 the school was named after her. For her work she received the British Empire Medal and as a further honour in 1998 for her continued work with people with disabilities the Active Foundation made her an Honorary Life Member and Life Governor. In 1969 she was elected the first woman to the Kalgoorlie town council and later became deputy Mayor. In a decade of service to the council and community affairs she raised the status of women and opened the door for many to follow. A select list of her other contributions to the community includes helping organisations such as the Citizens Advice Bureau, Women’s Health Care Centre, Friends of the Hospital, Police and Aboriginal Community Relations Committee, Goldfields Childcare Centre and Goldfields Aged Welfare along with active roles in social or professional organisations such as Business and Professional Women’s Association, Hannans Golf Club, Goldfields Repertory Club, president of the Senior Citizens and president of Prospect Lodge, Lorna is a Justice of the Peace and Kalgoorlie’s best fundraiser, ticket seller and tin rattler for numerous worthy causes. In 1996 she received the Order of Australia for services to the community. Published resources 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 Karlkurla Gold: A History of the Women of Kalgoorlie-Boulder, Criena Fitzgerald and National Foundation for Australian Women, 2012, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/wikb/wikb-home.html Book One Hundred Women of the Eastern Goldfields, 2000 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Lorna Mitchell interviewed by Criena Fitzgerald [sound recording] Author Details Criena Fitzgerald Created 7 August 2012 Last modified 20 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

On 1 January 1954, Pattie Menzies was appointed Dame Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire (Civil). The official citation, conferring the GBE to her under her married name, Mrs R. G. Menzies, read: “In recognition for her years of incessant and unselfish performance of public duty in hospital work, in visiting, addressing and encouraging many thousands of women in every State of Australia, including very remote areas, and in the distinguished representation of Australia on a number of occasions overseas.” Daughter of John William (later Senator) and May Beatrice (née Johnston) Leckie, Pattie Mae Leckie was born in Alexandra, Victoria. The eldest daughter of a farmer turned politician she attended Fintona Girls’ School. In 1953 there she returned to open new buildings, along with her husband, the Rt. Hon. R. G. (later Sir Robert) Menzies. Pattie Leckie met Robert Menzies in 1919, and the couple were married on 27 September 1920. The Menzies had four children, one of whom died at birth. Throughout their 58 years of marriage Dame Pattie was involved with charitable work whenever possible. Dame Pattie was appointed Dame Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire in recognition of her charitable work. She received this honour nine years prior to her husband receiving his knighthood (1963). On 19 September 1995, Kate Carnell, Chief Minister of the ACT, in a tribute to Dame Pattie, stated: “[Dame Pattie] had great concerns for her fellow citizens, particularly for women. She was mindful of the importance of recognising the role of women in the development of the nation…Dame Pattie excelled at making people feel at ease and was at home talking to people from all walks of life. She supported community work…I am sure many former girl guides and brownies…remember cleaning the silver at the Lodge for Dame Pattie as part of Bob-a-Job Week.” Dame Pattie’s life spanned 96 years. During that time she lived through two world wars, the depression and the postwar reconstruction of Australia. Sir Robert (1972) and two sons predeceased Dame Pattie. In 1992 she returned from Melbourne to Canberra, where she had spent many years during the time that Sir Robert was prime minister, to live with her daughter. Dame Pattie passed away on 30 August 1995. Published resources Sound recording The speeches of Sir Robert Menzies. Prime Minister Menzies and Dame Pattie Menzies giving their speeches at the opening of the T.I. Power Station , Tumut Ponds of the Snowy Mountains Scheme on October 31, 1959, Menzies, Robert, Sir, 1894-1978, 1959 Resource Section Robert Menzies/Pattie Menzies, National Archives of Australia, 2002, http://primeministers.naa.gov.au/meetpm.asp?pmId=12&pageName=wife 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 From Lady Denman to Katy Gallagher: A Century of Women's Contributions to Canberra, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2013, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/ldkg Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Papers of Sir Robert Menzies, 1905-1978 [manuscript] Papers of Phillip L. Lawrence, 1928-1971 [manuscript] Papers of Hector Harrison, 1915-1978 [manuscript] National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Dame Pattie Menzies interviewed by Heather Rusden [sound recording] State Library of New South Wales Cutler family - papers, 1909-1995 Author Details Anne Heywood Created 24 April 2002 Last modified 12 February 2013 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

In 1972 Pat Eatock became the first Aboriginal to stand for Federal Parliament in the Australian Capital Territory (ACT). She participated in the Aboriginal Embassy and Women’s Liberation in 1972. In 1973 she became the first non-matriculated mature aged student at the Australian National University(ANU), graduating as a Bachelor of Arts in 1977. In 1975 she attended the 1975 Women in Politics Conference and the International Women’s Year World Conference in Mexico City. She has worked as a public servant, university lecturer, and established and managed the Perleeka Aboriginal Television, producing films for community television and training Aboriginal film makers from 1992-96. Pat Eatock passed away on 17 March, 2015 after a long period of ill health. Pat Eatock was born at Redcliffe, Queensland on 14 December 1937. Her mother, Elizabeth Stephenson Anderson, was a Scottish immigrant, and her father, Roderick Eatock was of Aboriginal and English descent. She had a disrupted education due to her father’s mental illness and she left school at 14 to work in various factories. At 18 she moved to Sydney and married a cousin, Ron Eatock. They lived in Green Valley and by the time she was 26 she had had two miscarriages and five children, one of which was profoundly disabled. She began to publicly identify as an Aboriginal in 1957 when she attended a meeting of the Union of Australian Women at which Faith Bandler spoke, but her political activities were limited by her family commitments until 1972, when she attended a FCAATSI land rights conference in Alice Springs with her sixth child. In 1972 she left her husband and, with her baby, joined the Aboriginal Embassy in Canberra and participated in the protests against its removal. She lived initially in the Canberra headquarters of the Women’s Liberation movement. She became the first Aboriginal candidate to stand for Federal parliament in the ACT when she campaigned, unsuccessfully, as an independent in the 1972 elections. Her platform, endorsed by the newly-formed Women’s Electoral Lobby, focussed on Aboriginal, women’s and children’s issues. In 1973 she enrolled in a Bachelor of Arts degree, becoming the first non-matriculated mature age student at the Australian National University. Majoring in Philosophy and History, she graduated in 1977. In 1975 she was sponsored by the government to attend the Alternative Tribune to the International Women’s Year World Conference in Mexico City, and also attend the Women in Politics Conference in Canberra that year. Her public service career included working as a Project Officer in the Department of Social Security’s Aboriginal Unit (1978-81), and in the EEO unit of the NSW Department of TAFE (1987-89). In 1991-92 she lectured in community development at Curtin University, Western Australia. In December 1992 she established Perleeka Aboriginal Television, which she managed until its demise in 1996. Through it she trained Aboriginal film-makers, produced films for community television, and unsuccessfully attempted to open an Aboriginal TV channel. She taught Aboriginal Studies at James Cook University in 1997, and in 1999 undertook a one-year preliminary course with the intention of beginning a Masters degree in history at the University of Queensland. In 2011 Pat Eatock came to public attention when she brought a case of racial discrimination against Andrew Bolt, journalist with the Herald and Weekly Times newspaper, the Herald Sun. The case was heard in the Federal Court of Australia. Bolt wrote a number of articles implying that people of fair skin who identified as Aboriginal did so for social and political advantage. Pat Eatock’s case was upheld and the court directed the newspaper organisation to print a corrective notice. Published resources Article Aunty Pat Eatock Passes Away Quietly After a Lifetime Of Glorious Noise Making, Graham, Chris, 2015, https://newmatilda.com/2015/03/17/aunty-pat-eatock-passes-away-quietly-after-lifetime-glorious-noise-making A History of Section 18C and the Racial Discrimination Act, Marlow, Karina, 2016, http://www.sbs.com.au/nitv/article/2016/08/16/history-section-18c-and-racial-discrimination-act Book Section There's a Snake in My Caravan, Eatock, Pat, 1987 Pamphlet A small but stinging twig : reflections of a black campaigner, Eatock, Pat, 1973 Journal Article Black Demo, Eatock, Pat, 1973 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Federal Court of Australia: Eatock v Bolt (No 2) [2011] FCA 1180, Federal Court of Australia, 2011, http://www.justinian.com.au/storage/pdf/eatock_bolt_2.pdf Site Exhibition From Lady Denman to Katy Gallagher: A Century of Women's Contributions to Canberra, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2013, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/ldkg The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia, Smart, Judith and Swain, Shurlee (eds.), 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders Resource Section Law, Kerwin, Hollie and Rubenstein, Kim, 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders/biogs/WLE0624b.htm Archival resources National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Pat Eatock interviewed by Ann-Mari Jordens [sound recording] Interview with Pat Eatock for the 'Interchange' programme December 21, 1977: a 2XX Radio Station broadcast [sound recording] / interviewer: Biff Ward. 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Red Cross Archives series reference: NO22 Comprises meeting minutes and papers from a range of National Office sub-committees including those administering: National Youth Committee, Youth and Education Advisory Committee, Women Personnel Sub-Committee, Florence Nightingale Memorial Committee, Conference of Directors of Welfare Services and National Publicity Conference. Some of these records pertain to funds and fundraising. This series has been artificially created and arranged by the Red Cross Archives, 2015. See also: Minutes and Meeting Papers, National Council (2016.0058); see also Minutes of the Finance Committee (2015.0030) Researchers should note that under the Geneva Conventions Act 1957 protections govern the use of the Red Cross emblem. For further information see Archives staff. Author Details Stella Marr Created 9 August 2017 Last modified 9 August 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

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Margaret Farmer was a social worker and psychotherapist. She was a foundation member of a group of child care centres established in the 1970s in Caulfield, Victoria. She was a volunteer visitor for 17 years of the Anti-Cancer Council Breast Cancer Support Service. Margaret Farmer was awarded her B.A. Dip. Social Studies in 1956 and her B.Social Work in 1978, both from the University of Melbourne. She was a member of the Women’s Electoral Lobby, International Women’s Development Agency, Amnesty International, Coalition against Trafficking Women, Austcare, UN NA, Soroptimist International, Unifem and Genealogical Society of Victoria. Margaret is the daughter of Margery Johnson (née Warren), and mother of Felicity, Celia and David. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Elle Morrell Created 14 February 2001 Last modified 5 April 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

The papers relate to her membership of the National Council of Women of Australia, National Women’s Advisory Council, National Women’s Consultative Council, Federation of University Women, and International Council of Women. Includes reference files, correspondence, minutes, speeches, press clippings and articles. Author Details Clare Land Created 9 December 2001 Last modified 5 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Papers of Winifred Hilliard comprising details about Ernabella designs and their development, copies of magazine articles, papers given, notes, report, biographies, letter and transcript of interview. (Photocopies only). Author Details Alannah Croom Created 17 November 2017 Last modified 24 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

1. Anonymous letter to Smith Elder & Co., 1853. 2. Estimate of character of C. H. Spence. 3. Letter to editor of Cornill Magazine, 1873. 4. Holograph postcard to Miss Windeyer. 5. Letter from E. Nanson to Miss Spence. 6. Letter from Emily Clark to Lady Windeyer. 7. Letter from Emily Clark to Henry Parkes.????A guide to the material is available at MG mfm G 7743.??Microfilm copy of original documents in the Mitchell Library. Author Details Clare Land Created 19 December 2001 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Joyce, an Australian pianist, speaks about her first piano; school; music lessons; her hands; early life; Percy Grainger; conductors; her first concert; agents; her overseas tours; her interest in the harpsichord; her own pianos; studying in Liepzig; her teachers; her recording career; playing in films; Frank Calloway; Sydney Pianists Competition; her marriages; her Australian tours; and her repertoire. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 3 April 2003 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Jan Marsh is a significant member of the trade union movement in Australia, arguing many of the Australian Council of Trade Union’s submissions in national wage and industry cases. Throughout her career she has advocated not only for the improvement of women’s opportunities in the labour movement, but also for more equal representation within Australia’s trade unions themselves. Jan Marsh graduated from Monash University with a Bachelor of Economics in 1969 and the following year joined the Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) as an Assistant Research Officer. As part of a larger research team, Marsh assisted in developing the 1983 Prices and Incomes Accord, a series of agreements between the Labor Party and the ACTU which moderated wages demands in return for improved ‘social wages’, such as employment, Medicare, superannuation. Additionally, she successfully argued the case for unpaid maternity leave before the Arbitration Commission in Melbourne, securing leave of up to 52 weeks for Australian women. In 1978 the National Women’s Advisory Council was established to provide advice to the Fraser government on women’s issues, and Marsh was successfully selected as an initial member. With her extensive experience as a trade unionist, Marsh was able to contribute to the Council’s two annual reports, More Than A Token Gesture and An Equal Voice. In 1979 she was promoted to industrial advocate of the ACTU, a move which placed her in the, ‘most important office ever held by a woman in the history of the trade union movement’, (Veitch, ‘Jan wins time off for mothers’, People, 1979). From 1989 until 2008, Marsh worked at the Australian Industrial Relations Commission (AIRC), serving in the positions of Deputy President and Senior Deputy President. She was also a member of the first all-female bench in 1989. At the time of her resignation Marsh was the most senior female member of the AIRC. Archival resources National Archives of Australia, National Office, Canberra National Women's Advisory Council - Jan Marsh (member) Trade, business and trades unions - Jan Marsh at the office of the Australian Council of Trade Unions National Library of Australia Biographical cuttings on Jan Marsh, unionist, ACTU chief officer and advocate, containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journals Author Details Dana Pjanic Created 17 November 2020 Last modified 17 November 2020 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Research papers and notes on PNG elections, Kuma, Aboriginal Australians and gender relations; fieldwork notebooks, correspondence, draft manuscripts and completed MA thesis, sketches of kinship diagrams, reports and publications, financial records, newspaper clippings, photographs, maps, sound cassettes and reel tapes. Includes material from the Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies (AIAS). Author Details Maggie Shapley Created 25 July 2017 Last modified 3 October 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Nalda Searles is nationally recognised for her baskets and artworks using materials found in the bush. Working within the landscape her art reflects a deep commitment to nature and culture. Her inspirational workshops and involvement with Aboriginal women have seen new methods of making grass basketry and sculpture spread into remote indigenous communities. Nalda Searles was born in Kalgoorlie and went to the Boulder, then Bullfinch, Primary Schools before attending Northam Senior High. She left for Perth to study and work as a psychiatric nurse. Travel abroad gave her a deeper appreciation of the arts, and on return she undertook a brief course in macramé at the Midland Technical School. This quickly led to a life long commitment to working with fibres. Renowned potter and friend Eileen Keys encouraged Nalda to source her materials from the environment, and in 1983 a six-week bush camp in the Yilgarn resulted in an exciting collection of baskets made from bark, grass, flowers and sticks. This led to her first major solo exhibition Bush Meetings and Basketry (1985) at the Craft Council of Western Australia. In 1989 she featured in the ABC television series The Makers. A Fine Arts degree at Curtin University followed. In 1993, while working on the Wama Wanti Street Art Project for indigenous people in Kalgoorlie, she met senior Wongi woman Pantjiti Mary McLean. The two women became close friends, shared their skills, and collaborated in joint exhibitions of their work. Nalda has worked overseas as an artist-in-residence, and her works are held in numerous public and private collections. A major survey of her work ‘Drifting in my own land’ was held in 2009 at Curtin University, and has toured nationally. In 2009 her contribution to the arts was recognised by the state with a Lifetime Achievement Award. Published resources Edited Book Nalda Searles, Drifting In My Own Land, Nichols, Andrew, 2009 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Karlkurla Gold: A History of the Women of Kalgoorlie-Boulder, Criena Fitzgerald and National Foundation for Australian Women, 2012, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/wikb/wikb-home.html Author Details Nalda Searles Created 9 August 2012 Last modified 16 September 2013 Digital resources Title: Amalfi Restaurant, Kalgoorlie Boulder Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Title: Mrs Marinka, waitress at the Amalfi Restaurant Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Title: Maude Wordsworth James Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Title: Pantjiti Mary McLean (sat down) and Nalda Searles Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Title: Nalda Searles: Trading Teapot Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Title: Mary-Nalda_ca-1990s.-Photograph-courtesy-of-Nalda-Searles.jpg Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Title: NaldaSearles-Courtesy-Nalda-Searles.jpg Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Title: tran9 Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Reports of W.A.A.A.F. Officers, 26 Jan.-3 Oct. 1942 (Call No.: ML MSS 5364, ADD ON 2072/2)?’Letters to & from W.A.A.A.F. Officers 1-9-42 [7 Aug. 1942] – 1-6-43 [27 May 1943]’ (Call No.: ML MSS 5364, ADD ON 2072/2)?’Letters to & from W.A.A.A.F. Officers 1-6-43 [17 May 1943] – 1-1-44? (Call No.: ML MSS 5364, ADD ON 2072/2)?’Letters to D. W.A.A.A.F. from W.A.A.A.F. Officers [being correspondence] 1-1-44 – 1-1-45 [17 Jan. 1945]’ (Call No.: ML MSS 5364, ADD ON 2072/2)?’Unofficial letters to and from W.A.A.A.F. Officers 1-1-45 [27 Nov. 1944] – end [29-1-46]’ (Call No.: ML MSS 5364, ADD ON 2072/3)?’Letters from Sq/Off. [Edna] Speed 1-1-45 [9 Dec. 1944] – [7 Feb. 1945] (Call No.: ML MSS 5364, ADD ON 2072/3)?’Unofficial letters from Ft/O [Jean] Lawson [19 Aug.-26 Dec. 1944]’ (Call No.: ML MSS 5364, ADD ON 2072/3)?’Semi-Private Letters to [and from] Sqdn/Off. C. Stevenson 1-8-41 [18 Aug. 1941] – 1-6-42 [18 Apr. 1942]’ (Call No.: ML MSS 5364, ADD ON 2072/3)?’Unofficial letters (G/O Stevenson) 1-6-42 [30 Mar. 1942] – 2nd Sept. ’42’ (Call No.: ML MSS 5364, ADD 0N 2072/3)?’Unofficial letters (G/O Stevenson) 1-9-42 [17 June 1942] – 29-12-42? (Call No.: ML MSS 5364, ADD ON 2072/4)?’Unofficial letters G/O/Stevenson 1-1-43 [12 Nov. 1942] – 1-6-43 [6 July 1943] (Call No.: ML MSS 5364, ADD ON 2072/4)?’Unofficial letters to & from G/O Stevenson 1-6-43 [15 May 1943] – 31-12-43? (Call No.: ML MSS 5364, ADD ON 2072/4)?’Unofficial letters to & from D. W.A.A.A.F. 3-1-44 [20 Dec. 1943] – 1-145 [10 Jan. 1945]’ (Call No.: ML MSS 5364, ADD ON 2072/5)?’Unofficial letters to & from D. W.A.A.A.F. 1-1-45 [20 Sep. 1944] – [11 Apr. 1946]’ (Call No.: ML MSS 5364, ADD ON 2072/5)?’Unofficial letters [correspondence of] S/Off. [Mabel Flora] Miller [1 Oct. 1942 – 23 Nov. 1943]’ (Call No.: ML MSS 5364, ADD ON 2072/5)?’Semi-Private Letters [correspondence of] S/O [Eugenie Camille] Wickham Lawes [18 May-13 June 1942]’ (Call No.: ML MSS 5364, ADD ON 2072/5)?’Semi-Private Letters to [correspondence of] Flt/Off. Sybil-Jean Burnett [10 June 1940, 6 Aug. 1941-22 May 1942]’ (Call No.: ML MSS 5364, ADD ON 2072/5)?Correspondence of Clare Grant Stevenson, 1941-1946, mainly concerning the W.A.A.A.F., including letters received from Wing-Officer Audrey Beatrice Herring and Helen Palmer, and Department of Air Minute Paper concerning enlistment of W.A.A.A.F. personnel for duration of the war (Call No.: ML MSS 5364, ADD ON 2072/5)?Correspondence of Clare Grant Stevenson, 1942-1945, mainly concerning W.A.A.A.F. personnel, including letters received from Wing-Officer Audrey Beatrice Herring (Call No.: ML MSS 5364, ADD ON 2072/5)?W.A.A.A.F. Officer Trainees’ Essays, 1943 (Call No.: ML MSS 5364, ADD ON 2072/6)?’Broadcasts, Speeches and Newspaper Articles [mainly by] Group Officer C.G. Stevenson’ (Call No.: ML MSS 5364, ADD ON 2072/6)?’D. W.A.A.A.F.’s Invitations [and related correspondence]’, 1 Oct. 1944-Feb. 1946 (Call No.: ML MSS 5364, ADD ON 2072/6)?’Personal Receipts of Group Officer Stevenson 1-4-42 to [1946]’ (Call No.: ML MSS 5364, ADD ON 2072/6)?’W.A.A.F. Publicity’, 1942-1946 (Call No.: ML MSS 5364, ADD ON 2072/6)?Parcel of papers, 1941-1945, including Royal Australian Air Force orders and handbook of administration; publications concerning the R.A.A.F.; reports and studies on, among other things, German psychological warfare, and fatigue; and officers’ accounts/biographies (Call No.: ML MSS 5364, ADD ON 2072/7)?Notebook of D. W.A.A.A.F. visits to units, 1 Mar. 1943-11 Apr. 1945 (Call No.: ML MSS 5364, ADD ON 2072/7)?Printed material, 1943-1946, being British and Australian publications concerning military service, demobilisation and postwar reconstruction (Call No.: ML MSS 5364, ADD ON 2072/7)?Papers concerning An Investigation into the Selection, Training and Placement of Officers in the Women’s Auxiliary Australian Air Force, 1947, including report, completed questionnaires and letters received from ex-W.A.A.A.F.s (Call No.: ML MSS 5364, ADD ON 2072/8)?Original wrappings of Clare Grant Stevenson’s personal W.A.A.A.F. files originally containing most of the papers at ML MSS 5364, ADD ON 2072/2-8 (Call No.: ML MSS 5364, ADD ON 2072/8) Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 11 May 2004 Last modified 23 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

[Red Cross Archives series reference: V30]??This series comprises two volumes containing details of those enrolled with Red Cross Voluntary Aid Detachments and available for work at military, civilian and temporary hospitals as well as convalescent homes around Melbourne and surrounding districts from 1915 to 1919.??Established in 1915 Voluntary Aid Detachments (VAD) were members of the Australian Red Cross and the Order of St. John Members who received both first aid and home nursing instruction from St. John Ambulance Association. They performed duties such as a medical orderly or nursing assistant. http://www.womenaustralia.info/biogs/AWE0491b.htm?https://www.awm.gov.au/encyclopedia/vad??See also to series FIELD FORCE AND VOLUNTARY AID DETACHMENT SERVICE RECORDS (2016.0050).??Researchers should note that under the Geneva Conventions Act 1957 protections govern the use of the Red Cross emblem. For further information see Archives staff. Author Details Stella Marr Created 9 August 2017 Last modified 30 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Personal File – Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Created 13 October 2020 Last modified 13 October 2020 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

3 digital audio tapes (ca.158 min.)??Prof. Kerr, art historian, recalls her upbringing in Sydney (late 1930-early 1950s), then onto Brisbane, Qld in 1951; her early education; her undergraduate study at the University of Queensland (late 1950s); meeting her future husband at the University and marriage in 1960; her husband’s job at QANTAS and their work related overseas travels in Europe and England; her work as a journalist under Donald Horne at the Weekend magazine, Sydney (early 1960s); motherhood; her developing interest in art and architecture, including her studies at Courtauld Institute and Birkbeck College, University of London; her studies and work at the Power Institue of Fine Arts, Sydney, expressing her views on the politics and administration of the Institute.??Prof. Kerr speaks about her doctoral studies on Australian church architecture at York, England; her work at the Australian National University, Canberra as a tutor and postdoctoral fellow; upon her return to Sydney, becoming a lecturer in Fine Arts, University of Sydney (end of 1981); along with Terry Smith teaching the first undergraduate course in Australian art at University of Sydney; her political attitudes and feminism; her research projects including the Dictionary of Australian Artists; her experiences in publishing her scholarly works; her move to the position of research professor at the College of Fine Arts, University of N.S.W. for 3 years; her views on the importance of good publications catalogues for exhibitions, etc; her general views on Australian art. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 6 March 2018 Last modified 6 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Miscellaneous newspaper cuttings, notes etc. dealing with women’s achievements and rights, music scores, photographs, pamphlets, songsheets; minutes of the Equal Pay Conference, 1958; items about Vida Goldstein, British women police, Eleanor Mary Hinder, Henrietta Szold, and general women’s matters; postage stamps and a curriculum vitae. Author Details Clare Land Created 9 December 2001 Last modified 12 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

1 hr 59 min?Oral history?audio cassette; TDK AR60; stereo Author Details Anne Heywood Created 21 July 2003 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Monica Maughan’s acting career spanned many media and genres, including stage, television, cinema, comedy, drama and ballet. Throughout her career she was awarded two ‘Erik’ awards, three Green Room Awards and two AFI awards. Monica Maughan, was born in Tonga, where her father, Harold Alfred Wood (1896-1989) was head of Tupou College at Nafualu, near Nuku’alofa, Tonga. He later became Principal of Methodist Ladies’ College, Melbourne for almost thirty years. Her birth name was Monica Cresswell Wood. Few actors in Australia were better known in so many media and genres, covering stage, television and cinema, comedy, drama and ballet. Monica Maughan began her acting career while at the University of Melbourne, appearing with Barry Humphries, Robin Ramsay, Maggie Millar, Dennis Olsen, Germaine Greer and Richard Pratt. Her obituary in The Age noted that: The multi-award-winning Maughan, whose more than 100 theatre credits cover just about every memorable play produced by Australia’s leading theatre companies – plus nine stage plays in Britain – also appeared in four short films, 18 feature films, 42 television drama and comedy shows, and twice with the Australian Ballet.[1] She took her BA in 1960 from the University of Melbourne and spent 1963 to 1968 in Britain, returning to a stellar performance in the first production of the newly-renamed Melbourne Theatre Company (formerly the Union Theatre Repertory Company) as Miss Jean Brodie. The role won her the first of two ‘Erik’ awards. This annual award is named in honour of Erich Kuttner, a German refugee actor who came to Australia in 1939. The second was awarded in 1971 for her performance as Anna Bowers in Three Months Gone by Donald Howarth. Monica Maughan’s other awards included three Green Room Awards for best supporting actress, one for best actress and two AFI awards. Her television parts included roles in series on commercial television in The Box and Prisoner. The role of Monica McHugh in the ABC’s The Damnation of Harvey McHugh won her a Silver Logie as Most Outstanding Actress in 1995. She toured Australia between 1988 and 1992 playing Miss Prism in the MTC production of The Importance of Being Earnest with Frank Thring, Geoffrey Rush and Ruth Cracknell. As well as appearing twice with the Australian Ballet she played the piano live on stage in Justin Fleming’s award-winning Burnt Piano. One of her last and best-received cinema performances was in The Road to Nhill, the 1997 film directed by Sue Brooks. [1] Gerry Carman. ”Wonderful’ Thespian a Real Trouper’. Age. 9 January 2010. Published resources Book 40 Years 40 Women: Biographies of University of Melbourne Women, Published to Commemorate the 40th Anniversary of the International Year of Women, Flesch, Juliet, 2015, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/4040/ Author Details Juliet Flesch Created 31 July 2017 Last modified 8 August 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Glass photographic negatives of teaching aids, toys, crafts etc. at Errol Street School (one item October 1914); various photographs of children in kindergartens, with one of the Lady Gowrie Centre, Carlton, 1940, the Forest Hills Holiday Home 1937, and a children’ miniature theatre, 1887; photographic slides of “Mooroolbeek” and the Abbotsford Convent site; film ‹End of the Beginning”, 1979 and audio tapes of graduations etc., photographs of students 1930’s-1970’s; 78 rpm records of student recruiting talks; published reports; etc. Author Details Clare Land Created 10 September 2002 Last modified 30 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

83 min 14 sec??Mrs Adam-Smith became a Voluntary Aide working in hospitals in North Queensland for three years. The nursing consisted mostly of inoculations, malaria and worms were rife. Causalities were from New Guinea. Mrs Adam-Smith discusses contraceptives and their availability. Clare Stephenson is mentioned- she founded the Women’s Australian Airforce Corp. She discusses the problems encountered by girls who became pregnant. VD clinic lectures are mentioned as a total waste of time-incomprehensible in their presentation. Relations with the American servicemen are mentioned. Attitudes to women in the war- both civilian and servicewomen are discussed- servicewomen were well thought of. Mrs Adam- Smith comments on women having to give up work at the end of the war. There was no organisation for civilian women, like the ex-service women for after the war. Women’s war effort hasn’t been recognised. Identity cards for movement and rations are mentioned. She remarks that since General Macarthur was running the war here, this put Prime Minister John Curtin and General Blamey into difficult positions. Mrs Adam-Smith lists prominent women in the services- Clare Stephenson in the RAAF, Sybil Irving in the Army. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 22 July 2003 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Rosemary Joan Brudenell Derham was the wife of David Plumley Derham, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Melbourne from 1968 to 1982. Rosemary took a keen interest and concern in local engagement and child welfare. She belonged to a number of women’s organisations and also served on the Committee of Management of the Royal Children’s Hospital.

I. Alphabetical files, 1902-1991 (Call No.: ML MSS 6254/4-22)?II. Marbig PVC Divider Foolscap Files, 1988-1991, established in 1990 (Call No.: ML MSS 6254/23-24) Author Details Clare Land Created 24 September 2002 Last modified 24 October 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

MS 9616 comprises five files of “whites”, ie. Copies of Jean Whyte’s official letters and minutes during her employment with the National Library of Australia, with letters and minutes of A.P. Fleming, the National Librarian 1970-1973, and drafts of articles. Colour transparencies taken at Whyte’s farewell from the National Library include Pauline Fanning, Dulcie Penfold, George Clark and Dr George Chandler, National Librarian 1974-1980. The collection also includes letters and poems of Donovan Clarke (2 boxes).??The Acc02.171 instalment includes notebooks from Whyte’s undergraduate days in the early 1950s, papers relating to her training as a librarian, and correspondence, references, talks, notes of meetings and reports dating from her time at the State Library of South Australia, Fisher Library, the National Library of Australia and Monash University. There are also diaries and audio tapes (2 boxes, 6 A3 cartons).??The Acc07.199 instalment comprises papers collected or created by Whyte for Uniting a profession including rough notes, draft chapters of the book, card indexes, lists of figures associated with the Australian Institute of Librarians and Library Association of Australia, and series of subject files containing original and photocopied manuscripts from the Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) archives (7 boxes).??The Acc10.044 instalment comprises correspondence, appointment diaries, family papers, photographs, and poetry and other writings of Whyte (2 boxes).??The Acc11.052 instalment comprises unpublished articles on library themes written by Whyte, university newsletters and business correspondence (1 packet). Author Details Alannah Croom Created 13 March 2018 Last modified 13 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Digitised soundfile (82 minutes). Interview conducted in Melbourne on 7 June 2010. Created 19 November 2020 Last modified 19 November 2020 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

The Women’s Club was founded in 1901 by Dr Mary Booth to provide a place where women interested in public, professional, scientific and artistic work ‘might spend their leisure moments and associate together.’ The first committee also included Lady David and Rose Scott. It began with 100 members – rising to 807 by 1929. Within the Club there was a debating group and a Thursday Group, while the Sydney University Women Graduates Association and the Professional Women Workers Association were also associated with it. The annual reports of these last two associations are included with those of the Women’s Club. The preliminary meeting of the Club, called by Mary Booth, was held at the Women’s College of the University of Sydney and attended by more than 100 women. The first president was Lady Beaumont, wife of the Admiral of the British fleet stationed in Sydney. Published resources Report Annual Report and Balance Sheet, Women's Club, 1906-1987 Book Memorandum and articles of association of the Women's Club, as amended up to 31st January, 1963 and by-laws of the Women's Club in force as at 31st January, 1963., Women's Club, [1963?] Memorandum, 1920|| 1923 Rules, Women's Club, 1905|| 1917 The Story of The Women's Club: The first fifty years, Hooper, Florence Earle, [1964] Calendar Calendar, Women's Club, 1911-1914 Journal Article Cara David: A leading woman in Australian education, Kyle, Noeline J., 1993 Edited Book Women in Australia : an annotated guide to records, Daniels, Kay, Murnane, Mary, Picot, Anne and National Research Program (Australia), 1977 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources State Library of New South Wales Scott family - Manuscript and pictorial material, 1777-1925 Life stories presented by members of the Women's Club, 2002-2005 Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection Box 09: Fry family - papers of Edith Fry, 1881 - 1940 Irene Victoria Read papers, pictorial material and relics, 1839-1951 Author Details Jane Carey Created 7 June 2004 Last modified 22 December 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

2 hours 20 minutes??Joyce Candy, nee Cope, was born in Magill, South Australia, where she grew up much involved in community activities, particularly sport and church. She met her future husband at a Liberal Country League meeting. They married in 1942 and Joyce left her job with the Government Printing Office to move onto the Candy family property at O’Halloran Hill. She maintained her community interests and was a foundation member of the Happy Valley Branch of the Country Women’s Association. The Candy’s began to subdivide the property in the late 1960s. Joyce and her husband Dick had a daughter and a son. Author Details Jane Carey Created 7 May 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

6 min 2 sec. Actuality footage, Television news footage.?16mm/b&w/silent??The first members of the Women’s Royal Australian Army Corps to serve overseas since the corps was formed in 1951 have arrived in Singapore. They are Captain Heather Gardner of Malvern, Victoria; Lieutenant Pam Smith of Padstow, NSW; and Warrant Officer Mary Bulmer, of Brighton, Victoria. Captain Gardner and Warrant Officer Bulmer are working at Australian Army Headquarters, Far East Land Forces, in Singapore. Lieutenant Smith is employed at the 121st Signals Squadron, an Australian Army unit in Singapore. The three WRAAC members are the advance party of a larger contingent of the corps who are due in Singapore during December. A WRAAC sergeant, two corporals and four privates will also be employed at 121 Signal Squadron. The three members of the WRAAC spent their first week sight seeing and familiarizing themselves with the city. They visited Change Alley – line up of traders who deal in clothing, souvenirs, furnishings and even tool kits for tourists. Change Alley, where price bargaining is a way of life, is in the heart of the city’s major tourist attraction blocks. They also walked the outskirts of the city’s Chinatown where 80,000 people live in one square mile. The women, who are on clerical and administrative duties, are quartered in hired accommodation and with the British Women’s Royal Army Corps. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 3 April 2003 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Sue Chilly is a staunch member of the Aboriginal rights movement, progressing reform both as an activist of groups such as the Australian Black Panthers, and as a field officer of the Department of Aboriginal and Island Affairs. Please note; this entry draws substantially upon an ASIO dossier on Sue Chilly. We understand that these files often say more about the notetaker than the subject. Sue Chilly was born in the country town of Nambour and moved to Brisbane at a young age to find work. She soon became involved in the Brisbane chapter of the Australian Black Panther Party, where she served as the Minister for Information. Within this activist group, she helped provide free medical, legal and childcare services for Indigenous Australians, and also travelled to several cities to speak at conferences on racism and inequality. She additionally participated in a protest which briefly established an Aboriginal embassy in King George Square, Brisbane. Chilly held a number of various positions in many political groups. In 1974, she was the President of the Black Community Housing Service and the Secretary of the Queensland Committee Against the Act. She was also appointed to assist in conducting an Aboriginal education scholarship scheme and was employed by the Department of Aboriginal and Island Affairs as a field officer. The next year, she was elected the State Secretary of the Federal Council for the Advancement of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders. In 1976, Chilly was a member of the Australian delegation to attend the International Tribunal of Crimes Against Women, held in Brussels. She was sponsored in this opportunity by the Australian Union of Students. At the conference, Chilly presented two papers describing how, ‘By colonialism, racism and sexism, Aboriginal women’s status [have] been reduced to the lowest level in the hierarchy of Australian society’ (‘Crimes Against Women’, Les Femmes, 1976, p. 67). Chilly was dissatisfied with the scope of issues discussed at the conference, feeling the event to be dominated by a western European viewpoint. This sentiment would remain a common theme throughout Chilly’s career as a feminist and Aboriginal rights activist, as she experienced how the lack of intersectional values of Australia’s second-wave feminism and the women’s liberation movement would continually serve to exclude and sideline Aboriginal women. Archival resources Queensland State Archives Chilly, Sue National Archives of Australia, National Office, Canberra CHILLY, Iris Suzanne Colleen ( aka CHILLY aka CHILE, Sue ) Volume 1 CHILLY, Iris Suzanne Colleen ( aka CHILLY aka CHILE, Sue ) Volume 2 The Black Panther Party of Australia Volume 1 The Black Panther Party of Australia Volume 2 CUMMINS, Marlene National Library of Australia Biographical cuttings on Sue Chilly, delivered a paper at the International Tribunal on Crimes Against Women, containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journals Museum of Australian Democracy Australian Black Panthers Poster #2014-0233 Author Details Dana Pjanic Created 12 October 2020 Last modified 16 November 2020 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)