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Records of the Unitarian Christian Church, Wakefield Street, Adelaide and Osmond Terrace, Norwood, and Tranmere, comprising minutes, annual reports, church calendars, correspondence, marriage registers, membership register, cash books and financial records, indenture of land sale, photographs, newspaper cuttings, memorandum, abstracts from minutes, subscription lists for erection of church, list of seat rents, trust deeds, rules and constitutions, library catalogues, orders of service, sermons and lectures, posters, architectural plans, and printed material. A later donation comprises a manuscript sermon possibly written by Francis Duffield or Frederick Smith; Duffield’s name and Mount Barker address are written on one of the small pieces of paper accompanying the manuscript. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 14 May 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Maudie Naylon was the last fluent speaker of the Ngamini and Yarluyandi languages. Maudie Naylon Akawiljika, of Wangkangurru and Arrernte descent, was born in the Simpson Desert in c1885. Despite her exceptional traditional knowledge and the fact that among Wangkangurru and related groups women shared in practically all ceremonies, anthropologists never asked her for information – only men were asked to sing or relate traditional matters. Although her main language was Wangkangurru, she also had a command of Yarluyandi, Lanima, Ngamini and Jauraworka. With her death in Birdsville in 1980, Ngamini became extinct and Yarluyandi lost its last fluent speaker. Published resources Edited Book The Encyclopaedia of Aboriginal Australia : Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander history, society and culture, Horton, David, 1994 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Leonarda Kovacic and Barbara Lemon Created 20 May 2005 Last modified 24 March 2006 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Various records 1908-89 including autobiographical material written for inclusion in “Women physicians of the world: autobiographies of medical pioneers” (1978) [3 boxes, ML MSS 5195]. Author Details Gavan McCarthy Created 15 October 1993 Last modified 27 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Manda Ravlich emigrated to Broken Hill from the former Yugoslavia, and became a central figure in the town’s emerging Yugoslavian community. Manda was born and grew up in Kozica, former Yugoslavia. At the age of 19 she married Ante Ravlich, who had returned to Yugoslavia after travelling to Australia for work in 1911. Manda gave birth to their eldest child, Nick, on 6 March 1923, and later that year Ante returned to Australia. Ante worked on sugar cane plantations in Queensland in order to pay for his wife’s and his sister Mara’s fare to Australia. After spending five weeks journeying by ship, Manda and Mara finally arrived in Australia in December 1924. They were supposed to be disembarking at Sydney and travelling to Cairns to join Ante, however they were met at Port Adelaide by Mr Okmazich, a friend of Ante. He informed Manda that her husband was waiting for her in Broken Hill, where he had found employment working in the mines. The two women travelled to Broken Hill by train and arrived at the house that Ante had bought in a horse and sulky. The house was a little old log cabin with running water but no electricity and dirt floors in the kitchen. Life in Broken Hill was a shock for Manda. The landscape and climate were vastly different from her home in Yugoslavia, and she had to deal with cultural and linguistic barriers as she spoke little English. Manda also struggled with home sickness and a sense of isolation as there were only five other Yugoslav women in Broken Hill when she arrived. Manda and Ante had two more children: Millie, who was born in October 1925, and Stanislav in 1927. While her husband worked in the mines, Manda had to supplement their income by taking in Yugoslavian men working in the mines as boarders. On top of her own housework and looking after her children, Manda washed and cooked for these young men, sometimes taking in six at a time, to make an extra 25 shillings a fortnight. Manda and Ante’s hospitality extended to other members of the Yugoslavian community in Broken Hill, and their house became a meeting place where one could enjoy a game of cards and a glass of wine. During the Depression in the 1930s, many young Yugoslavian men came to Broken Hill from West Australia looking for jobs, and Manda, compelled to help these men with no wives or families, housed, fed and washed for them free of charge. Manda and Ante returned to visit Yugoslavia for the first time in 1959. They were both active members of the Broken Hill Napredak Club. Manda died in Broken Hill in 1991, aged 89. This entry was prepared and written by Georgia Moodie. Published resources Book Sharing the Lode: The Broken Hill Migrant Story, Adams, Christine, 2004 Site Exhibition Unbroken Spirit: Women in Broken Hill, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2009, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/bh/bh-home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Broken Hill Social History Project [sound recording] Manda Ravlich interviewed by Edward Stokes in the Broken Hill social history project [sound recording] Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 3 March 2009 Last modified 3 March 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

24 Boxes including submissions by Elizabeth Durack. Author Details Judith Ion Created 9 September 2002 Last modified 16 September 2002 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Rosalind Philippa Phillips was, for much of her long life, better-known as a music critic than for her own compositions and performance as a pianist. Her talent, however, had been noticed early, with a comment, which would not be published today, in the Graphic of Australia that: Linda Phillips, who was honoured at the recent Conservatorium concert by having a number of her own song compositions sung, is only in her ‘teens, and is really a musical genius. At the age of three she was able to sit up to a piano and play correctly without music, and at the present time, rarely, if ever, uses a score. She is dark, petite, nervy, and is a member of the Jewish persuasion – always lovers of music.[1] Linda Phillips attended the Melbourne Conservatorium at the University of Melbourne and the Albert Street Conservatorium, where she was able to concentrate on composition rather than performance. She quickly became known for the songs in which she set her own lyrics to music, also enjoying a career as a pianist, especially on the ABC. After the death of her husband (Adolph) Maurice Kauffmann in 1945 Linda Phillips began her journalist’s career with the Melbourne Sun, where she was to work until 1976 and for the Australian Musical News. She was an adjudicator of the Sun Aria Contest, published poetry and contributed to scholarly journals.[2] In Meanjin Papers she made an eloquent plea for the publication of a broad range of Australian composition: Australia must have her devotees of Beethoven and Chopin, of Romberg, of Irving Berlin – even of boogie woogie, and the sentimental ballads that ‘touch all hearts.’ The last two are among the best commercial speculations; but is there no place for ‘middle-brow’ music which, is pleasant to hear, not too difficult to play or sing, and not too abstruse to understand? Such music should receive encouragement, along with the greater works which Australians are writing, and will not be discouraged from undertaking.[3] Her compositions fell out of favour as Australian music became more modernist while hers remained untouched by the changing fashion. Those influenced by her study of Jewish and Middle Eastern melodies remain the most popular. She was awarded an OBE in 1975 and named Composer of Honour by Monash University in 1994. [1] ‘Girls’ Gossip’. Graphic of Australia . 5 October 1917: 27. [2] Linda Phillips. From a City Garden. Melbourne: Endacott, 1922. [3] Linda Phillips. ‘Creative Music in Australia’. Meanjin Papers. v.5 no. 4(Summer 1946):312-315. Published resources Book 40 Years 40 Women: Biographies of University of Melbourne Women, Published to Commemorate the 40th Anniversary of the International Year of Women, Flesch, Juliet, 2015, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/4040/ Author Details Juliet Flesch Created 31 July 2017 Last modified 15 October 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Dramatic trilogy comprising three self-contained ghost stories which are not related to each other but which form a cohesive whole: 1. ‘Mr. Chuck’ about a white woman and an Aboriginal boy as lovers — 2. ‘Choo Choo Choo Choo’ about an Aboriginal family living beside a rail-line — 3. ‘Lovin’ the Spin I’m In’ about group optimism and pessimism.??There is documentation associated with the production of the film held in the NFSA collection. Author Details Hollie Aerts Created 20 December 2010 Last modified 1 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

MS 7073 comprises manuscripts, research notes, typescript drafts, galley proofs, draft notes and correspondence concerning writing and publication of Summers’ book Damned whores and God’s police, and her autobiography Ducks on the pond. Correspondents include Henry Mayer, Melanie Beresford, Ann Curthoys and staff of Penguin Books. The collection includes a cuttings book containing press cuttings about Summers and Damned whores and God’s police; files of research notes; cuttings; and, correspondence on a wide range of topics including women and poverty, single parents, family, Caroline Chisholm, child care, aborigines, rape reform proposals, suicide, women unionists, education, prostitution, racism, Womens’ Electoral Lobby, Adela Pankhurst Walsh, women and the media.??The collection also includes material relating to the journal Refractory girl and the publication of Her story: Australian women in print 1788-1975. There are papers and material relating to Gamble for power; papers relating to the “free Sandra Willson” campaign and Ms and Sassy magazines; transcripts and video tapes relating to the ABC TV program “Anne Summers in conversation with six Aussie men” (1994); and, various papers relating to women’s issues (66 boxes, 7 fol. Boxes).??The Acc07.177 instalment includes a wide range of correspondence; files on various publishers and projects; and, material relating to The end of equality, Ms and Sassy magazines, Good weekend and Greenpeace International (19 boxes).??The Acc08.057 instalment comprises papers relating to Summers’ role as advisor on women’s issues to Prime Minister Paul Keating, including letters, briefing notes, press releases and press clippings; a range of publications containing material generated or arranged by Summers; Privilege, a play by Summers commissioned by the ABC; 1974-2007 speeches and lectures, comprehensive; papers relating to New York, National times journalism, and the Office of the Status of Women; three rolodexes of business cards from Summers’ time in New York, 1987-1992; one rolodex of business cards from Summers’ time as editor of Good weekend; and, material relating to journalism and employment by Fairfax. Also contains some digital and audio material (12 boxes, 1 carton). Author Details Anne Heywood Created 9 January 2002 Last modified 12 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

A member of the Liberal Party of Australia, from 1968, Prue Sibree served as the member for Kew in the Legislative Assembly in the Victorian Parliament from 1981-88. Daughter of William Turnor, retail dairyman, and Patricia Kidd, secretary, Prue Sibree was educated at Chalgrove Girls’ School in Box Hill and Strathcona Baptist Girls’ Grammar School in Surrey Hills. She completed her tertiary education at the University of Melbourne, gaining a Bachelor of Laws in 1967. She practised as a solicitor from 1968-81 and established her own firm, Prue Sibree & Co. in 1979. On 9 August 1969 she married Mark William Sibree, a computer specialist. They had a son and two daughters. Her community interests included membership of the Citizens Welfare Services Board in 1973; membership of the Victorian Consumer Affairs Council 1976-81, the Metropolitan Transit Council 1979-81 and the University of Melbourne Council 1983-88. She was Chairman of the Kew Freedom from Hunger committee 1981. Published resources Book Biographical register of the Victorian Parliament, Browne, Geoff, 1985 Edited Book Who's Who in Australia 1983, Draper, W. J., 1983 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 Australian Women Lawyers as Active Citizens, Trailblazing Women Lawyers Project Team, 2016, http://www.womenaustralia.info/lawyers Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 3 June 2005 Last modified 1 November 2016 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Ellen Arnold was the first missionary to serve with an Australian Baptist missionary society. Ellen Arnold migrated with her family to Adelaide, South Australia, in 1879. Her father was Alfred Arnold, a jeweller and Congregational lay preacher. Ellen joined the Flinders Street Baptist Church and trained at Adelaide Teachers’ College in 1880. After a brief teaching stint, she applied to the South Australian Baptist Missionary Society and departed for Faridpur, India, in October 1882. She and her friend Marie Gilbert were the society’s first Australian workers. Arnold returned to Australia to convalesce in 1884, but was back in Bengal by 1885 with four new female recruits for the society. She supervised medical, educational and building projects before shifting to Comilla in 1886 on behalf of the New South Wales Baptist Missionary Society. In 1892, Arnold moved to Pabna where she spent a good portion of her life preaching and setting up schools and dispensaries in the villages of Atailkola and Bera. She played an active part in forming the East Bengal Baptist Union. In 1919 she declined to accept the Kaiser-I-Hind medal for public service in India. After a brief return to Australia in 1930, Arnold returned to Ataikola where she continued her voluntary work until her death in 1931. Published resources Resource Section Arnold, Ellen (1858-1931), Ball, G. B., 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A070100b.htm Edited Book Australian Dictionary of Evangelical Biography, Dickey, Brian, 1994 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 20 February 2009 Last modified 20 February 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

1 hour 3 minutes. Author Details Margaret Allen Created 18 December 2009 Last modified 24 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Heather Powell was the first female union secretary in Broken Hill, serving with the Clerks’ Union for 23 years from 1977. In 1994 she was elected to the Barrier Industrial Council (BIC) executive. Heather retired in 2001. With five brothers, Heather was the only daughter of Lance Joseph and Eileen May McQuillan. Her great-grandparents on both sides migrated from Ireland in the mid 1840’s and settled on farming land in South Australia and Bendigo respectively. They were among the pioneers of Broken Hill, settling there in 1885 and 1886. Heather’s father and brothers all worked at the mines and union matters and politics were regularly discussed at home, absorbed by the young Heather ‘like osmosis’. Her mother, in Broken Hill tradition, could not undertake paid work outside the home but raised her six children as well as volunteering for the St John’s Ambulance, the Red Cross blood bank, polio immunisation, meals on wheels and home care. In 1988 she was awarded the Broken Hill Citizenship medal for her services to the community. Educated at St John’s, then St Joseph’s Convent School at Broken Hill, Heather held ambitions to be a doctor or a teacher but the family was not wealthy and she accepted a commercial scholarship with the mines. The scholarship paid her school fees with the promise of a job at the mine following matriculation, but the job was declined on her behalf by the headmistress of St Joseph’s who declared that ‘a monkey can be taught to use a machine: you have a brain’. Instead, Heather took up a secretarial position with the De Franceschi family. After some years Heather moved to Sydney and continued secretarial work. She married Barry Ellis, bought a farm on the North Coast of Australia and had two children, Louisa and Luke. After some years they moved back to Sydney but finding the urban lifestyle too stifling, she decided to move back to Broken Hill in 1975 to enable the children to enjoy a free, independent and safe lifestyle. Heather began work for the Clerks’ Union in 1977 as union secretary (the first female) and retained her position for 23 years. In 1994 she became secretary of both the Clerks’ Union and the Shop Assistants’ Union and was elected to the Barrier Industrial Council (BIC) executive, charged with resolving disputes, setting up a system of delegates, and drafting policy around employee wages and conditions. She was elected vice-president of the Barrier Industrial Council in 1996. In 1998, she amalgamated her two unions with the Shop, Distributive and Allied Employees Association (SDA) in Adelaide. Heather married Michael Powell in 1996 and retired from the Barrier Industrial Council and the Unions in 2001. Published resources Site Exhibition Unbroken Spirit: Women in Broken Hill, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2009, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/bh/bh-home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources Private Hands (These regards may not be readily available) Interview with Heather Powell Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 3 March 2009 Last modified 16 September 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Photographs and other records relating to Dow’s pharmacy; plaque commemorating Dow family. Author Details Janet Butler Created 18 December 2009 Last modified 20 January 2010 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Speech given at the launch of the book ‘Tenacious of the Past: The Recollections of Helen Brodie’. 19 December 1994. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 30 January 2002 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Zelda D’Aprano was an active unionist and an activist in the women’s movement. She chained herself across the doors of the Commonwealth Building and later the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission in Melbourne, Victoria in protest against the inadequacy of the decision on the Equal Pay case in 1969. D’Aprano was one of the initiators of the Women’s Action Committee in 1970, and the Women’s Liberation Movement in Melbourne in 1971. She was a member of the Australian Women’s Party and was a member of the Communist Party of Australia from 1950-1971. Doctor of Laws honoris causa, Macquarie University, 2000. Left school aged 14. Married at 16. Resumed study aged 37, and completed the Leaving Certificate in 1963. Worked as a machinist in the clothing trade. Qualified as a dental nurse in 1961 and worked in this capacity at Larundel Psychiatric Hospital for 15 years. Qualified in Chiropody in 1967. Employed as a clerk in the Meat Industry Union, and as a mail sorter at the General Post Office. D’Aprano was involved in campaigns around Equal Pay for women, the gender-bar at public bars, the Miss Teenage Quest, entitlements of pregnant workers and women’s participation in left-wing and workers’ movements. D’Aprano was also involved in establishing the Women’s Liberation Centre in Little Latrobe St, Melbourne, and was a representative of the Women’s Liberation Movement on the International Women’s Year committee, 1975. She self-published an autobiography, ‘Zelda: the Becoming of a Woman’ in 1977; republished by Spinifex Press as ‘Zelda’ in 1995; Spinifex also published D’Aprano’s ‘Kath Williams – The Unions and the Fight for Equal Pay,’ in 2001. D’Aprano has spoken in numerous forums around Melbourne, as well as on radio and at conferences and has written many articles for magazines, particularly the Women’s Liberation Newsletter. In 1995 she received a Special Mention Award from the Centre for Australian Cultural Studies (Canberra) for ‘An Outstanding Contribution to Australian Culture’. Events 2001 - 2001 Inducted into the Victorian Honour Roll of Women Published resources Videorecording Zelda D'Aprano, Robin Hughes and Linda Kruger, 1996 Book Zelda, Zelda D'Aprano, 1995 Zelda : the becoming of a woman, Zelda D'Aprano, 1977 Human sexuality, Zelda D'Aprano, Australian Union of Students. Women's Dept. , Conference on Women and Health (1975 : University of Queensland), 1975? Kath Williams : the unions and the fight for equal pay, Zelda D'Aprano, 2001 Article Thirty years on, how much has really changed?, Sheil, Fergus, 1999, http://www.theage.com.au/daily/990628/news/specials/news5.html Edited Book Australian Feminism: A Companion, Caine, Barbara, Gatens, Moira et al., 1998 Resource Section Williams, Katherine Mary Isabel (1895-1975), D'Aprano, Zelda, 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A160657b.htm 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 The University of Melbourne Archives D'Aprano, Zelda D'Aprano, Zelda D'Aprano, Zelda State Library of Victoria Papers, 1971-1987. [manuscript]. Papers, 1912-1980. [manuscript]. Papers, 1972-2001 [manuscript]. National Library of Australia, Pictures Collection Demonstration outside Fairlea Women's Prison, Melbourne, ca. 1970 [picture] Author Details Clare Land Created 16 August 2001 Last modified 29 October 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Interviewer Julianne Schwenke.?1 sound cassette (630 min.) Author Details Clare Land Created 2 September 2002 Last modified 9 July 2020 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Records relating to the life and work of Elizabeth Johnston, nee Teesdale-Smith, including: International Women’s Day Certificate of Community Service (1993); statement of academic record, notebook and other items relating to Woodlands Church of England Girl’s Grammar School and Old Scholars; death certificate; correspondence; speech to Australian Services Union National Women’s Conference; several transcripts of hearings of the Sex Discrimination Board (1976-1977) of which Elizabeth Johnston was chairperson; papers relating to her work with the Federated Clerks Union, SA Branch; application, work history and notice of appointment as Assistant Crown Solicitor (1976) in the public service; handwritten notes relating to the proposed Emergency Housing Office. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 5 June 2018 Last modified 5 June 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

A peace, environment and health activist, Margaret Perrott was a Democratic Socialist candidate for Illawarra in 1999 and a Socialist Alliance candidate in the House of Representatives for Cunningham in 1996 and 1998, and for Throsby in 1993, 2001 and 2004. A doctor with a special focus on the welfare of children, Margaret Perrott is a veteran peace movement and environmental activist. She has been involved for many years in organising International Women’s Day and Reclaim the Night activities in Wollongong. Published resources Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 29 August 2005 Last modified 25 February 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Vol. ML MSS. 2024/1 a. Minute book 25 Oct. 1907-16 Nov. 1907. Folder ML MSS. 2024/2 b. Miscellaneous papers, being letter received, 18 Dec. 1907 and annual report, 1908 Author Details Jane Carey Created 21 June 2004 Last modified 27 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Antoinette Kennedy was the first woman judge to be appointed in Western Australia when appointed to the Bench of the District Court in 1985. Justice Antoinette Kennedy has been a leader and a mentor in the legal profession and has achieved many ‘firsts’ that have allowed others to follow in her footsteps. These include: She was the only woman from her year at high school to attend university She was the only woman from her graduating class at the University of Western Australia to gain articles of clerkship She was the second woman to join the Independent Bar in Perth to practise as a barrister She was the first woman judge to be appointed in Western Australia when appointed to the Bench of the District Court in 1985 She was a founding member of Women Lawyers of Western Australia Inc. (she ahs been a Patron of that group since 1999) She was the first woman to be appointed Chief Judge of the District Court of Western Australia in 2004. Published resources Journal Article An Interview with Chief Judge Antoinette Kennedy, Fletcher, Catherine, 2010, http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/journals/UWALawRw/2010/8.pdf Site Exhibition Australian Women Lawyers as Active Citizens, Trailblazing Women Lawyers Project Team, 2016, http://www.womenaustralia.info/lawyers Author Details Larissa Halonkin Created 27 January 2016 Last modified 1 November 2016 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

2 hours 37 minutes.??Deirdre Frances Jordan was born in Loxton, South Australia. After attending the local primary school she boarded at St Aloysius College, Adelaide. She won a scholarship to Adelaide University and in the third year of her BA studies joined the Sisters of Mercy. In 1948 Deirdre completed a DipEd and embarked upon a teaching career at St Aloysius. By 1954, aged 28, she was headmistress, a position she held until 1968. During this time she also completed an MEd at Adelaide University. Deirdre then joined the Education Department, where she held positions including Senior Lecturer and Chairman during the 1970s and 80s. She also completed an MA(Sociology) and a PhD. Her association with Flinders University began as a Foundation member of its Council in 1966 and culminated in her appointment as Chancellor in 1988. The interview focusses on her status as a religious and a woman in her educational roles, as well as her research concerning Aboriginals and adolescents. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 30 January 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

20 minutes??The opening announcement for this broadcast includes the following information: ‘We have as our guest a lady who has long been a protagonist of women’s interests in South Australia, and who has herself set an example of how diversified those interests can be in personal life. Miss May Mills was born at Millbrae in South Australia’s Native Valley, the daughter of farming parents, and after learning and practising the tasks of running a farm, she turned to teaching as a career, and served in both primary and secondary schools, in country and city; but perhaps she is best remembered for her many years at Unley High School. She retired from teaching in 1960, but has long been an active member of the National Council of Women; was one of the founders of the South Australian Film and Television Council, is past President of the Royal Commonwealth Society, is President of the South Australian Women’s Cricket Association, and she was the L.C.L. candidate for Edwardstown in 1961 State elections.’. Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 12 January 2007 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

MS Acc03.165 comprises cuttings, scrapbooks, typescript articles, passport and numerous photographs. People in the photographs include Sally Baker, members of her family, Gough and Margaret Whitlam, Jim Cairns and Doris Day. It also includes a file of biographical material on newspaper editor Lindsay Clinch, Sally’s husband.??The Acc05.027 instalment comprises a funeral service and obituary. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 24 April 2018 Last modified 24 April 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Mahboba Rawi founded the aid organisation, Mahboba’s Promise, in 1998 to assist Afghanistan’s people in rebuilding their lives after two decades of war and oppression. Born in 1965 in a middle class suburb of Kabul, Mahboba Rawi was one of nine brothers and sisters. Having joined street demonstrations following the Russian invasion of Afghanistan in 1979, her family feared for her safety, and Mahboba left Afghanistan for Peshawar in 1982. In 1984 Mahboba married an Afghan man who was a permanent resident of Australia. Living in Sydney, she worked as a cleaner before the pair shifted to Glen Iris, Melbourne, where she worked as a machinist for a clothing company. Here she gave birth to a son, and two years later back in Sydney, a daughter. Following the tragic death of her son in 1992 in a freak drowning accident at the Kiama Blowhole, Mahboba threw herself into study. She passed year 11 and 12 before completing an Advanced Community Welfare Course at Granville College in 1996. This same year her second son was born, but Mahboba’s marriage had broken down. From here, Mahboba began work with the Afghan Women’s Group, drawing Afghan women out of the more traditional approaches to living and into the ‘Australian way’. She began swimming classes for migrant women through the Parramatta City Council. On seeing a letter from Dr Nasrin Seddiqee in Peshawar detailing the horrors of the refugee camps there, Mahboba and her English class raised a small sum. Dr Nasrin sent thanks and pleaded for more help. From here began Mahboba’s Promise, providing financial and practical support for projects on the ground that focus on improving living conditions and education standards for women and children. Recognised in recent years by UNICEF and a variety of Australian community groups and media outlets for her work on behalf of some of the world’s most traumatised people, Mahboba has made a difference to the lives of women in Australia and abroad. Published resources Book Mahboba's Promise, Rawi, Mahboba with Vanessa Mickan-Gramazio, 2005 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 1 February 2006 Last modified 13 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Dymphna Cusack was one of Australia’s most prolific and translated writers. Educated at St Ursula’s College, Armidale she won an Exhibition and Teaching Scholarship to the University of Sydney, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts and a Diploma of Education. While at the University of Sydney, she developed life-long friendships with fellow authors Florence James and Christina Stead, and lawyer Marie Byles. After graduating she worked as a teacher until her early retirement in 1944 due to ill-health. Cusack’s literary career took off in 1935 when her first novel, Jungfrau, was published to critical acclaim. A further eleven novels, seven plays, three travel books, two children’s books and one non-fiction book followed. Two of her novels were collaborations: Pioneers on Parade (1939) with Miles Franklin; and Come In Spinner (1951) with Florence James. Cusack’s books were translated into over 30 languages worldwide, making her one of Australia’s most translated authors. Her anti-bomb play, Pacific Paradise (1955), written in response to the United State’s atomic tests on Bikini Atoll, sealed her reputation across Asia, Eastern Europe and the Pacific. During the 1950s and 1960s Cusack spent long periods overseas with her partner (later husband) Norman Randolph Freehill, a journalist and founding member of the Community Party of Australia. After returning to Australia in 1962 she became associated with Faith and Hans Bandler, leaders of the Aboriginal rights movements. In 1963 Cusack was a foundation member of the Australian Society of Authors. In 1975 she was named Woman of the Year by the Union of Australian Women. In 1976 she refused the Order of the British Empire due to her republican ideals, but in 1981, soon before her death, she was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) for her contribution to Australian literature. The following list represents some of Cusacks more important publications: Novels Jungfrau (1936) Pioneers on Parade (1939), with Miles Franklin Come In Spinner (1951), with Florence James Say No to Death (1951) Southern Steel (1953) The Sun in Exile (1955) Heat Wave in Berlin (1961) Picnic Races (1962) Black Lightning (1964) The Sun is Not Enough (1967) The Half-Burnt Tree (1969) A Bough in Hell (1971) Plays Shallow Cups (1934) Red Sky at Morning (1942) Morning Sacrifice (1943) Three Australian Three Act Plays (1950), comprising Comets Soon Pass, Shoulder the Sky, and Morning Sacrifice The Golden Girls (1955) Pacific Paradise (1963) Travel books Chinese Women Speak (1958) Holidays Among the Russians (1964) Illyria Reborn (1966) Children’s stories Kanga-Bee and Kanga-bo (1945) Four Winds and a Family (1947), with Florence James Non-Fiction Caddie, the Story of a Barmaid (1953), edited and introduced only Biography Norman Freehill with Dymphna Cusack, Dymphna Cusack, T. Nelson, West Melbourne (Vic.), 1975 Dymphna Cusack, A window in the dark, National Library of Australia, Canberra, 1991, introduced and edited by Debra Adelaide Events 1963 - 1963 Helped establish the Australian Society of Austhors 1975 - 1975 Named Woman of the Year by the Union of Australian Women 1976 - 1976 Refused to accept the Order of the British Empire due to her republican ideals 1981 - 1981 Appointed a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) for her contribution to Australian literature Published resources Edited Book Yarn spinners : a story in letters, Dymphna Cusack, Florence James, Miles Franklin, North, Marilla, 2001 Book Dymphna Cusack, Freehill, Norman, 1975 A window in the dark, introduced and edited by Debra Adelaide, Cusack, Dymphna, 1991 Caddie, a Sydney barmaid : an autobiography / written by herself ; with an introduction on by Dymphna Cusack, Caddie, 1953 Come in Spinner, Cusack, Dymphna and James, Florence, 1951 Heatwave in Berlin, Cusack, Dymphna, 1961 Book Section Dymphna Cusack (1902-1981), North, Marilla, 2002 Resource Section Dymphna Cusack (1902-81), Middlemiss, Perry, 2006, http://www.middlemiss.org/lit/authors/cusackd/cusackd.html Cusack, Ellen Dymphna (Nell) (1902 - 1981), North, Marilla, 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A170280b.htm Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection Florence James - papers, 1890-1993 Miles Franklin papers, mainly literary manuscripts, [1900-1954?] National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Correspondence and literary papers 1887-1954 [microform] Papers of Nancy Cato, 1939-1995 [manuscript] Papers of Dymphna Cusack, 1937-1983 [manuscript] Papers of Donald Crick, 1955-1993 [manuscript] Pacific paradise, 1955 [manuscript] Cuttings book of Dymphna Cusack, approximately 1951-1983 National Archives of Australia, National Office, Canberra CUSACK, Ellen Dymphna (Freehill) [76 folios of which 24 contain exemptions] Ellen Dymphna Cusack [154 folios of which 101 contain exemptions] CUSACK, Ellen Dymphna Volume 2 CUSACK, Ellen Dymphna Volume 3 Eternal Now by Dymphna Cusack National Archives of Australia, Sydney Office Drama and Features - Correspondence with Playwrights - Dymphna Cusack Author Details Isobelle Barrett Meyering Created 14 September 2009 Last modified 16 September 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

MS Acc12.131 comprises a personal copy of ‘Poll Cott: a tale of a termagant’, signed by Colonel John Dean, together with hand bill of Dean’s lecture entitled ‘Poll Cott’ to be held Monday, 1st July (year omitted) at the Salvation Army Citadel in Parkhead and 3 personal letters from Mary “Poll” Cott to Dean dated between 1902 and 1903. Includes lecture syllabus and hand written prayer meeting program (1 packet). Author Details Alannah Croom Created 24 April 2018 Last modified 24 April 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

1 hour 52 minutes??Alison Gent, nee Hogben, was born at Rose Park, Adelaide and brought up by her widowed working mother. Alison attended Walford School and went on to gain an MA at Adelaide University. She married an Anglican priest in 1947 and they had five children. She explains her deep interest in the church and her awareness of inequities for women. Alison returned to part-time tutoring and saw publicity about the proposed Women’s Liberation Movement in 1970. She describes early activities, including marches and demonstrations. In 1980, the year that Alison and her husband separated, she began a discussion group about the ordination of women, her interest stemming in part from her personal frustration. She also explains her involvement in the Movement for the Ordination of Women, which began in Adelaide in 1984, and her continuing commitment to both Christianity and feminism. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 30 January 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Records of the S.A. Division of the Sportswomen’s Association of Australia Incorporated comprising minutes of state meetings, national Executive and annual general meetings, perpetual trophies awarded 1979-1996, papers about the awards, constitutions and rules, judging procedures, programs of state and national awards ceremonies, scrapbooks of newspaper cuttings about Australian sportswomen who were recipients of Association awards, brief histories of the S.A. Division and national body, memos and correspondence lists of national Association, reports about the Association and its identity, and women in sport, papers about sponsorship arrangements with Ansett and Foundation South Australia for the annual national awards. Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 12 January 2007 Last modified 29 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Collection of souvenir programmes, newspaper cuttings and other miscellany relating to Girl Guides and other interests. Author Details Jane Carey Created 15 June 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Ros Kelly was elected with a large majority as the first woman member of the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) House of Assembly and later became the first Labor woman federal minister in the House of Representatives and the first to give birth while holding office. Ros Kelly was educated at St. Ursula’s College, Ashbury, and obtained a BA DipEd from the University of Sydney. She worked as a high school teacher from 1969 to 1974. She moved to Canberra in 1970 and was elected the first woman member of the ACT House of Assembly from 1974 to 1979. She also became the first woman chair of the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) Schools Authority from 1978 to 1979 and a foundation member of the ACT Legal Aid Commission from 1978 to 1979. Kelly has been patron of numerous ACT sporting clubs and a member of many ACT ethnic, social and community associations. In 1980 Kelly was elected to the federal seat of Canberra with one of the largest swings against the then Liberal government, and in 1983 she became the first federal parliamentarian to give birth while an MP. In 1987 Kelly became the first Labor woman federal minister in the House of Representatives. As member for Canberra, Kelly was secretary of the Federal Labor Caucus from 1981 to 1987 and held office as minister for the portfolios of Defence, Science and Personnel from 1987 to 1988; Communications and Aviation Support from 1988 to 1990; Arts, Sport, Environment, Tourism and Territories from 1991 to 1993; Environment, Sport and Territories from 1993 to 1994; Arts, Sport, the Environment, Tourism and Territories from 1994 to 1995. She also served as Minister Assisting the Prime Minister on the Status of Women until 1994. Kelly resigned from federal politics in 1995, and has worked as a senior executive in environmental management since that time. She is currently on the Board of Trustees of the National Breast Cancer Foundation, a trustee for the World Wide Fund for Nature and a board member of the Westpac Emergency Helicopter Service. In 2004 Kelly was made an Officer of the Order of Australia for service to the community through promoting corporate environmental responsibility and fostering dialogue between business and conservation groups, to the Australian Parliament, and to women’s health. She has two children. Events 1978 - 1979 Chairperson of the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) Schools Authority 1978 - 1979 Foundation member of the Legal Aid Commission Published resources Edited Book Who's Who in Australia 2004, 2004 Who's Who of Australian Women, Lofthouse, Andrea, 1982 Who's Who in Canberra 1991, 1991 Book Capital women : a history of the work of the National Council of Women (A.C.T.) in Canberra, 1939-1979, Stephenson, Freda, 1992 A history of Australia's capital, Canberra, Davies, E. V., 1990 Canberra 1954-1980, Sparke, Eric, 1988 No ordinary lives: pioneering women in Australian politics, Jenkins, Cathy, 2008 Resource Section Primary description of person CP 529; Hon Roslyn Joan Kelly. Registration of person: 23 January 1991, 2004, http://naa12.naa.gov.au/scripts/SearchOld.asp?Number=CP+529 Resource A brief history of the ACT ALP, 2004, http://www.act.alp.org.au/about/history.html Women's suffrage timeline, Sawer, Marian, 2002, http://www.wcc2002.asn.au/suffrage.htm Members of the House of Representatives since 1901, 2003, http://www.aph.gov.au/library/handbook/historical/representatives/index.htm Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition From Lady Denman to Katy Gallagher: A Century of Women's Contributions to Canberra, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2013, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/ldkg Archival resources NULL Australian Council for Women - ACW - Collection - NJSN_AC-005 National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Papers of Ros Kelly, 1992 [manuscript] National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Ros Kelly interviewed by Mark O'Neill [sound recording] Ros Kelly interviewed by Peter Sekuless [sound recording] National Library of Australia [Biographical cuttings on Roslyn Joan Kelly, politician, containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journals] Author Details Ros Russell Created 27 February 2004 Last modified 23 October 2015 Digital resources Title: Women members of parliament (l-r) Senator Margaret Reynolds and Ros Kelly with 1908 Women's banner - Old Parliament House Canberra, 1988 Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Series 01:Ruth Park, 1938-1976?Item 1?a. Correspondence, 1938-1957. Correspondents include Eileen May Duggan, 1938, James Cowan, 1939, Eve Langley, 1941, Vance Palmer, 1944, Thomas Lewis Mills, 1952 and Dame Mary Gilmore, 1957??Item 2?b. Memoir on Eve Langley, 1940-1942, written in 1976??Item 3?c. Miscellaneous material, n.d.??Series 02: Eve Langley, 1960-1961?Item 4?Correspondence, 1960-1961. Correspondent being June Langley, 1960-1961 Author Details Alannah Croom Created 21 June 2018 Last modified 21 June 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Margaret Blaxell was an active and long-term member of the ALP. She was an ALP candidate for Ermington in 1991 and House of Representatives candidate for Dundas in 1983 and 1984. Margaret Blaxell worked as a nurse and public servant. She joined the ALP in 1974, and was campaign director for the seats of Dundas in 1977 and Ryde in 1978, 1981 and 1984. She was appointed to Ryde Hospital Board and Ryde-Hunters Hill Area Health Service. She was married to Greg Blaxell, and they had three sons. Events 1959 - 1959 General Nursing Certificate 1984 - 1984 BA Sydney 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 25 August 2005 Last modified 16 August 2024 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Kid First Australia is the trading name of The Children’s Protection Society (CPS), which was founded in 1896 as the Victorian Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children. An initiative of the Governor’s wife, Lady Sybil de Vere Brassey, its aims were to protect children from cruelty and neglect, to advance the claims of neglected, abandoned and orphan children to the general public, to co-operate with existing societies for this purpose and to enforce the existing laws for the protection of neglected children and juvenile offenders. It was one of the few secular non government agencies in the child welfare field and it operated on the philosophy of persuading or, in the last resort, compelling parents to fulfil their responsibilities. It became the Children’s Protection Society in 1971. Changes to welfare policy and legislative reform in 1985 meant a change in the Society’s role but not in the objective to reduce child abuse and neglect. In 2018 the Children’s Protection Society changed its name to Kids First Australia. Kids First Australia provides support services to children, young people, and families, such as counselling, treatment and theraputic healing for cases of absue and neglect, youth homelessness prevention, and mentoring and education services. The Society operated through a committee of ‘leisured upper-class women financing and overseeing the small salaried staff that had direct contact with the clientele’. The first object was to compel parents to discharge their duties and if it could not be done by persuasion, then they would put the law into force. Their uniformed inspectors followed up reports of ‘child cruelty’ by visiting the homes, issuing warnings and undertaking follow-up visits to ensure that the situation had improved. Only as a last resort did the Society exercise its statutory authority to bring such parents before the court. In 2004 its mission is ‘to provide leadership in the prevention and reduction of abuse and neglect by delivering innovative support services to children and their families, raising public awareness of the extent and impact of child abuse and neglect and to strengthen families and communities to create safe environments for children’. In 2018 the organisation changed its name to Kids First Australia. The organisation’s vision is one that acknowledges that ‘all children and young people thrive in resilient, strong and safe families and communities.’ Published resources Book Confronting cruelty: historical perspectives on child abuse, Scott, Dorothy and Swain, Shurlee, 2002 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources State Library of Victoria Records, 1896-1985, [manuscript] Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 17 March 2004 Last modified 20 November 2020 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

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Records of the Temperance Alliance of South Australia, comprising minutes of the Executive Council, Cabinet, Finance Committee, Literature Committee, Women’s Fair Committee, Advisory Committee and Early Closing of the Liquor Bar Committee, 1884-1969; minutes of the Australian Temperance Council, 1924-1964; membership cards; newspaper cuttings; correspondence relating to the Alliance Fair, 1963-1969; duplicated copies of proceedings of the Royal Commission on the Licensing Act, 1966; Church Service return sheets, 1963-1968; results of a market survey on total abstinence, 1970; printed material including copies of ‘The Patriot’ and ‘The Alliance and Temperance News’; photographs, and minutes of the Executive Committee of the S.A. Band of Hope, 1916-1968 and their banner. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 2 April 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Mary Marguerite Leneen Forde was admitted as a solicitor in Queensland in 1970, one of only six women in her graduating class. After a distinguished legal career, she was appointed Governor of Queensland a position she held from 1992 until 1997. When she was appointed, she was only the second woman to hold the position of governor of an Australian state and the first to take on the role in Queensland. In 1998 Forde was appointed to Chair the Commission of Inquiry into Abuse of Children in Queensland Institutions. Her report was handed down in May 1999. Go to ‘Details’ below to read an essay written by Leneen Forde for the Trailblazing Women and the Law Project. The following additional information was provided by Leneen Forde in May 2015 for the Trailblazing Women and the Law Project, and is reproduced with permission. The Honourable Ms Leneen Forde AC was born Mary Marguerite Leneen Kavanagh in Ottawa, Canada in 1935. She attended St Joseph’s Girls Primary School and Lisgar Collegiate, Ottawa, and received a Diploma of Medical Technology from Ottawa General Hospital in 1953. Moving to Brisbane in Queensland, Australia, in 1954, she secured work as a haematologist at the then General Hospital. In 1955, she married Gerry Forde whose father was the Australian High Commissioner to Canada (and previously Prime Minister of Australia for a week). Her husband ran a successful legal practice but after battling cancer for over a year, he passed away on Christmas Eve in 1966. Following her husband’s death, Ms Forde commenced full-time studies for a degree in Law at the University of Queensland, graduating with a Bachelor of Law in 1970. This achievement was particularly notable not least because Ms Forde was at that time widowed with five children but also because she was one of only six women in her graduating class of 170 students. Admitted as a solicitor in 1970, Ms Forde was later employed by Brisbane-based law firm Cannan & Petersen to undertake estate work. Given her own experiences, she brought great empathy to the position. And because she was a widow, she was a role model for female clients, most of whom were not used to making decisions about their lives. She became a partner in the firm in 1974. As a solicitor with 22 years of practice in Queensland, Ms Forde demonstrated an ongoing commitment to the continuing development and promotion of her profession. She was a Senior Counsellor and member of the Solicitors’ Disciplinary Tribunal of the Queensland Law Society; a Committee member of the International Bar Association, Estate Division; and served as Chair of the Queensland Supreme Court Probate Rules Review Committee. She was also Chair of the Social Security Tribunal, and was the first Convenor of the Queensland Women’s Consultative Committee. In 1973, Ms Forde became the founding President of the Queensland Women Lawyers Association where she was instrumental in advancing and promoting women within the legal profession and combating gender discrimination in this occupational group. The Association and its members also supported Justice for Juveniles, the establishment of the Youth Advocacy Centre, changes to inheritance laws for defacto partners, and supported women victims of domestic violence. In 1971, Ms Forde became a member of Zonta, a world-wide organization of executives and professionals working to support and advance the status of women through service and advocacy. In 1990, she was elected as Zonta’s International President – the first Australian woman to hold this position – and presided over a board comprising members from Belgium, Switzerland, India, the USA, New Zealand and Hong Kong. Her leadership style was to discover what each member had best to offer and to encourage it. Following a distinguished legal career, Ms Forde was appointed the 22nd Governor of Queensland in 1992 – the first ever woman to be appointed to this role in Queensland, and the second only in any Australian State. During her five years as Governor, Ms Forde travelled the State extensively to meet ordinary Queenslanders, realising that she could use her role as an important conduit between communities and the Government. She was renowned for her tremendous capacity to communicate with people from all walks of life. In 1998, Ms Forde was appointed Chair of the Commission of Inquiry into the Abuse of Children in Queensland Institutions. She described this appointment as one of the most significant contributions that she has made to public life. The Forde Inquiry heard evidence from over three hundred people who had been abused in orphanages and detention centres across the state. Having gained the trust of those who came forward to tell their stories, Ms Forde was profoundly affected by what she heard. She was pleased that having to confront the terrible things that happened to them as children had enabled some of them to move forward with their lives. The forty-two recommendations of the final report set out the ground rules for major changes in legislation, policy and practice in child protection. The community was well-served by the appointment of Ms Forde, who brought to the inquiry not only an astute legal mind but also her notable humanity and compassion. In response to the report, the Queensland Government established the Forde Foundation to assist persons who had been a ward of the state or had been a child resident at a Queensland institution. In June 2000, Ms Forde was elected as the fourth Chancellor of Griffith University. She was the first female Chancellor of the University and the University’s longest serving Chancellor having served for fifteen years. In this role she provided outstanding leadership and guidance to the governing body of the University and to management in developing the University’s strategic direction and ensuring good governance. In addition to chairing the Griffith Council, she served on a range of key University committees, officiated at numerous graduation ceremonies in Australia and overseas, and was a wonderful ambassador for the University at a long list of international, national, and local events. Ms Forde also contributed to developing and enhancing the University’s relationships with industry and with government, and forged strong links with local communities and organisations. Active in Australian and Queensland community life, Ms Forde has served as the Chair of the Forde Foundation Advisory Board, President of Scouts Australia, Chair of the National Defence Reserve Support Council, and as a member of the Queensland Ballet Board. She has also served as Patron of ‘Rosies’, the Karuna Hospice Service, the National Pioneer Women’s Hall of Fame (Alice Springs), the Alzheimer’s Association of Australia (Darling Downs and South West Inc) and the Foundation for Survivors of Domestic Violence. The diversity of her interests and community involvement, together with her boundless energy, are also apparent in the list of her other accomplishments. Significant appointments have included Chair of the Board of the Office of Economic Development for the City of Brisbane, Director of the Queensland Small Business Corporation, Director of the Queensland Institute of Medical Research Trust, and a member of the Brisbane Institute, the Institute of Modern Art and the Queensland Council for Civil Liberties. She was also made an Honorary Ambassador, City of Brisbane and Office of Economic Development. All these organisations have benefited from Ms Forde’s support and expertise, and they have also benefited from her impeccable reputation – for honesty, for integrity and for her unshakeable commitment to social justice, equity and fairness, particularly for women and for the disadvantaged in the community. Ms Forde’s significant service to the community has been extensively recognised. In 1991 she was named Queenslander of the Year; in 1993 she was awarded a Companion of the Order of Australia ‘in recognition of service to the law, to improving the status of women and to economic and business development’; she was a recipient of a Centenary Medal in 2003; and in 2007 she was the recipient of a Queensland Greats award. Ms Forde holds the honorary degree of “Doctor of the University” from Griffith University, the Australian Catholic University, the University of the Sunshine Coast, and the Queensland University of Technology. She has also been awarded a “Doctor of Letters” by the University of Queensland. Born Leneen Kavanagh in Ottawa, Canada, Leneen worked as a medical laboratory technician in Ontario and studied part-time for a Bachelor of Arts before moving to Australia in 1954. In 1955, she married Francis Gerard Forde, the son of the Right Honorable Francis Michael Forde, former Prime Minister of Australia and High Commissioner to Canada. Forde worked in the Haematology Department of Royal Brisbane Hospital for two years prior to full-time legal study following her husband’s death in 1966. She graduated a Bachelor of Laws from the University of Queensland in 1970 and from 1971 was employed as a solicitor at Cannan and Peterson. In 1973, Leneen became the founding President of the Queensland Women Lawyers’ Association. In 1974, she was made a partner at Cannan and Peterson and that same year, represented Queensland in the Australian Women Lawyers’ Association. In 1992, Leneen Forde was appointed Governor of Queensland, a position she held until 1997. In 1998, she was appointed Chair of the Commission of Inquiry into the Abuse of Children in Queensland Institutions, a position she held for one year. She has been involved with the following groups and organisations: Chair Defence Reserves Support Council 2002-06 Forde Foundation Advisory Board. 2000-07 Board Member Starlight Foundation since 2008 All Hallows School Council (Queensland) since 2008 Member Board Governor’s Queensland Community Foundation since 2008 President Scouts Australia 1997-2003 Vice-President Scouts Australia since 2003 Board Member Queensland Ballet since 2000 Chair Queensland Government Forde Foundation 2000-06, Brisbane College Theology Board 1999-2000 St Leo’s College Board 1998-2000 Brisbane City Council Arts and Environment Trust 1999-2000 Commissioner Royal Commission of Inquiry into Abuse of Children in Queensland Institutions 1998-99 Patron Forde Foundation since 2007 Chaired Queensland Supreme Court Probate Rules Review Committee 1988-1990 National Pioneer Women’s Hall of Fame since 1999 President of the Scout Association of Australia Convened Queensland Women’s Consultative Council 1991-1992 Chaired Office of Economic Development for the City of Brisbane 1991-1992 Member Solicitors’ Disciplinary Tribunal – Queensland Law Society Member Queensland University of Technology Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Advisory Committee Member Queensland University of Technology Council Member Queensland Small Business Corporation Member. Women Chiefs of Enterprise International since 1989 Member Zonta Club Brisbane Inc. since 1971 Member Zonta International Foundation Board 1986-1992 President Zonta International 1990-92 Chaired Social Security Appeals Tribunal during 1980’s Member Queensland Law Society since 1971 Member of the Queensland Council for Civil Liberties during 1970’s Founder Queensland Women Lawyers Association 1976 recipient Centenary Medal 2003 Queenslander of Year Award 1991 Woman of Substance Award Queensland Girl Guides’ Association 1990 Paul Harris Fellow Rotary Club Brisbane 1990 Published resources Book Women Who Win, White, AnneMarie, 2002 Resource Section Leneen Forde (b1935), National Pioneer Women's Hall of Fame, 2000, http://www.pioneerwomen.com.au/leadfound.htm Leneen Forde, Supreme Court of Queensland Library, 2003, http://www.sclqld.org.au/schp/exhibitions/witl/biographies/forde.htm Edited Book The International Who's Who of Women: A biographical reference guide to the most eminent, talented and distinguished women in the world, Sleeman, Elizabeth (ed.), 2002 Report Commission of Inquiry into Abuse of Children in Queensland Institutions, Forde, Leneen, 1999, http://www.communityservices.qld.gov.au/community/redress-scheme/documents/forde_comminquiry.pdf 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 Australian Women Lawyers as Active Citizens, Trailblazing Women Lawyers Project Team, 2016, http://www.womenaustralia.info/lawyers Book Section Leneen Forde, Currie, Susan, 2005 Archival resources John Oxley Library, Manuscripts and Business Records Collection Wives of former governors of Queensland : inaugural Janet Irwin endowed lecture / delivered by Her Excellency Mrs. Leneen Forde, A.C., Governor of Queensland, 13 August 1994 31096 Leneen Forde Papers 1990s Author Details Leneen Forde (with Lee Butterworth) Created 22 June 2009 Last modified 21 November 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Francine McNiff was a major benefactor of the University of Melbourne, funding Chairs in Human Rights (Law School) and in Criminology (Arts) and a Scholarship Fund for doctoral researchers in medical jurisprudence. McNiff also bequeathed a large sum to her alma mater, Monash University. It was the largest bequest the university had ever received from an alumnus. The donation established a Francine McNiff Chair in Criminal Jurisprudence and funded two PhD students from disadvantaged backgrounds annually, to study criminology. Francine McNiff was educated at Star of the Sea College. She graduated B Juris, LLB from Monash University; then did graduate work at the University of Edinburgh (Diploma in Criminology). She returned to teach in the Law School at Monash, from which she then graduated LLM by major thesis. She taught at Monash for some 10 years and was Sub-Dean Graduate Studies. Francine was admitted to practice in 1980 and was a Consultant with Martin Bartfeld & Associates, Solicitors, while still teaching at Monash. She was then a Principal Legal Officer and sometime Acting Director of the Policy & Research Division of the Victorian Law Department. On 30 August 1983 she was appointed a Children’s Court Magistrate – the first woman Judicial Officer in Victoria. Francine came to the Bar in November 1987 and read with Joseph Gullaci. She practised for some 23 years, and was a member of the Bar Council in Susan Crennan’s year as Chairman. For the last many years illness prevented active practice. In 2010 she allowed her practising certificate to lapse, and in 2014 she transferred to the List of Retired Counsel. She passed away in 2015. Published resources Site Exhibition Australian Women Lawyers as Active Citizens, Trailblazing Women Lawyers Project Team, 2016, http://www.womenaustralia.info/lawyers Author Details Larissa Halonkin Created 17 August 2016 Last modified 21 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

In 1996, as part of the Queen’s Birthday Honours, Fleur Spitzer was awarded a Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) for service to women. She was recognised in particular for services to the ageing through the work of the Alma Unit, Australia’s first multidisciplinary research and teaching unit focussing on the health and well-being of women aged 65 years and over. Established in 1993 at the University of Melbourne with an endowment from Spitzer, the Unit moved to Victoria University before closing in 2005. Fleur Spitzer was one of three siblings born to a Polish father and an Australian mother of English descent. Her maternal grandparents arrived in Australia in 1889 – her grandmother regularly met ships docking at Station Pier to offer temporary board free of charge to those with nowhere to go. Spitzer’s father emigrated from Poland as a nineteen-year-old in 1922. Her husband, Vic, emigrated from Hungary with his parents in 1939 and became an entrepreneur, establishing a series of private hospitals. Relatives of Spitzer’s father joined the family in Australia in the 1930s and 1940s, and Spitzer became increasingly aware of the impact of racial discrimination. In later years, this awareness would feed into her philanthropic endeavours on behalf of refugees and asylum seekers. As a woman, Spitzer was equally alert to the impact of sexual discrimination. Her involvement in the women’s movement from 1973 was highly formative. By 1990, the year of her mother’s death, she had developed an interest in myths and stereotypes around women and ageing. Armed with an inheritance from her mother, she established the Alma Unit for Women and Ageing at the University of Melbourne. The Unit later moved to Victoria University, but folded in its twelfth year. Similar work has since been taken up by Monash University. Prior to the establishment of the Alma Unit, Spitzer worked as a volunteer with Court Network Victoria, offering personal information and support to people attending the various courts. She became president of the Network’s committee of management. In later years she served as vice president of the Australian Association of Philanthropy (now Philanthropy Australia). Spitzer found a mentor in Jill Reichstein, and continues to channel a significant proportion of her philanthropic funding through the Reichstein Foundation. Spitzer heads the Melbourne Community Foundation’s Ageing Well Theme Fund, is a member of Philanthropy Australia and the Arts Victoria Centre, and an associate supporter of the International Women’s Development Agency (IWDA). Her interests still include the well-being of older women as well as indigenous Australians and asylum seekers. In 2003 she offered seed funding for a pilot project, Access to Justice in the Modern Campaspe Region, which resulted in the establishment of a community legal centre with the support of the Buckland Foundation, the Ian Potter Foundation and the State government of Victoria. Events 2004 - 2004 Inducted into the Victorian Honour Roll of Women Published resources Thesis In Her Gift: Activism and Altruism in Australian Women's Philanthropy, 1880-2005, Lemon, Barbara, 2008 Site Exhibition In Her Gift: Women Philanthropists in Australian History, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2009, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/wiph/home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 16 January 2003 Last modified 15 July 2020 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

45 minutes??Esther Bright worked in the Education Department for 40 years as an infants teacher and finally as Inspector of schools. She talks about her family who migrated from England, living in the Adelaide Hills, Sir Ross and Keith Smith, visit of the Prince of Wales, teacher training in Adelaide, Victorian era style of teaching, the depression, helping the children, career as a teacher, Principal of Pennington school, migration, marriage and women teachers, joining the Lyceum Club, becoming an Inspector of Infant schools, conference centre at Raywood, teaching refresher courses for teachers, Aboriginal children and reading difficulties, travel, and the Lyceum Club Author Details Anne Heywood Created 5 April 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Belonging to the small aristocracy of the Ionian Islands, Lady Diamantina Bowen married Sir George Fergerson Bowen on 28th April 1856, who later went on to become the first governor of Queensland, Australia in 1859. An advocate for the underprivileged, injured and infirm, Lady Bowen founded many benevolent and charitable organisations, particularly in the field of public health, and was instrumental in the development of health care services in Queensland. Career Highlights: During her life, Lady Bowen established the following organisations: The Lady Bowen Hospital (now the Royal Women’s Hospital), established in 1863. This was one of the first hospitals to reduce maternal and infant mortality rates. Brisbane Servants Home, also established in 1863 to train young female servants. Diamantina Home for Incurables, focused on the care of terminal ill patients. Princess Alexandra Hospital, beginning as the Diamantina Orphanage in 1864. This later became the Diamantina Hospital for Chronic Diseases in 1901 before finally changing names to the Princess Alexandra Hospital in 1956. Since her death in 1893, Lady Bowen has been, and continues to be commemorated. Among the many place names commemorating her are: the Diamantina River and shire in outback Queensland, Roma Street in Brisbane, Queensland the Lady Bowen Park in Brisbane, Queensland, Diamantina Falls in Victoria, the towns of Roma in Queensland and Western Australia, The Greek Club of Brisbane erected a bronze statue of Lady Bowen in recognition of her work in Brisbane’s Greek community. In 2004, The Princess Alexandra Hospital opened the Diamantina Health Care Museum in her honour. The museum tracks the genesis of modern health and nursing care by conserving evidence of past hospital practices. The Lady Bowen Trust, was established by the Queensland Government in 2006, with the aim of reducing homelessness. The Diamantina Institute opened at the University of Queensland in 2007, focusing on research into cancer biology, immunology and metabolic medicine. Published resources Resource Lady Bowen, Cazalar, L., 2006, http://eresearch.griffith.edu.au/brisbanememories/index.php/Lady_Bowen Bowen, Diamantina (1833 - 1893), Gilchrist, Hugh, 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/AS10053b.htm Lady Bowen Trust, http://www.ladybowentrust.org.au History of the Princess Alexandra Hospital, Harris, O., http://www.health.qld.gov.au/pahospital/history/contessa_roma.asp Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Book Diamantina, Lady Bowen: Queensland's First Lady, Prentice, U., 1984 Author Details Lee Butterworth Created 22 June 2009 Last modified 8 May 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

1 cassette (ca. 90 min.)??Thomas speaks about playing women’s cricket in 1950s; her childhood in an Aboriginal children’s home; becoming a nurse; racial prejudice she suffered; present situation of Aboriginals; the Adnyamathanha people; providing health services to Aboriginals in remote areas; playing cricket for Australia; playing hockey; her husband and son; and Aboriginal beliefs and customs. Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 31 December 2006 Last modified 21 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Louisa Macdonald was the first Principal of the Women’s College at the University of Sydney. As Principal of the Women’s College, Macdonald played an active role in university life. She was involved in the Sydney University Women’s Association, which she helped found in 1892; the University Women’s Society (University Settlement); and the Women’s Club. During the 1890s she was also active in the Womanhood Suffrage League of New South Wales and the Women’s Literary Society. In 1907 Macdonald was the first woman to stand for the University Senate, but was defeated. Events 1970 - 1970 Bachelor of Arts with First Class Honours in classics, University of London 1970 - 1970 Master of Arts, University of London 1970 - Worked as a private tutor, and as a researcher in classical antiquities at the British Museum. 1970 - 1970 Moved to Australia to become the founding Principal of the Women’s College, University of Sydney 1970 - 1910 While Principal of Women’s College, Macdonald continued to pursue her interest in classics, lecturing and cataloguing the Greek vases in the Nicholson Musuem of Antiquities. 1914 - 1915 Vice-President of the Classical Association of New South Wales 1919 - 1919 Returned to London, where she joined the council of the University of London 1907 - 1907 First woman to stand for the University of Sydney Senate, but was defeated Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Miss Louisa Macdonald 1858-1949, The Women's College, 2009, http://www.thewomenscollege.com.au/louisa.html Resource Section Macdonald, Louisa (1858-1949), Alexander, H., 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A100245b.htm Book Letters from Louisa: A Woman's View of the 1890s, Based on the Letters of Louisa Macdonald, First Principal of the Women's College, University of Sydney, Beaumont, Jeanette and W. Vere Hole, 1996 The History of the Women's College within the University of Sydney, Hole, W. Vere and Anne H. Treweeke, 1953 Pamphlet A mask / designed by Louisa Macdonald ; verses composed by C.J. Brennan and J. le Gay Brereton, Macdonald, Louisa, 1913 Archival resources University of Sydney, Archives A mask/designed by L.M. Archives of the Women's College, University of Sydney State Library of New South Wales Letters by Louisa Macdonald, 1892-1898 Author Details Isobelle Barrett Meyering Created 24 September 2009 Last modified 26 February 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Professor Verity Burgmann is a leading Australian political scientist who has taught in Europe and Australia. She was the first female professor at Melbourne University’s School of Social and Political Sciences and has been active in the Women’s Caucus of the Australian Political Studies Association from its early days. She has a long history of radical political activism, including for Aboriginal land rights, the anti-Apartheid movement, female prisoners’ rights, the Public Education Group and environmental groups. Verity is currently Adjunct Professor of Political Science in the School of Social Sciences at Monash University, and Honorary Professorial Fellow in the eScholarship Research Centre at the University of Melbourne. Read more about Verity Burgmann in our sister publication The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia. Verity Burgmann was born in Sydney, Australia on 17 September 1952 to Lorna Constance (née Bradbury) (1915-2004) and Victor Dudley Burgmann (1916-1991), the youngest of four children after Jon (former civil engineer), Dr Beverley Firth (former public servant) and Dr Meredith Burgmann (former Labor MLC and President of the New South Wales Legislative Council). Lorna Burgmann named Verity after Verity Hewitt, well-known Canberra bookshop proprietor, with whose sister Mary Lorna had shared a flat while a student at Sydney University. Fourth-generation graduates, Verity and her two sisters became the first three sisters in Australia to all achieve doctorates. The family’s strong intellectual and social service ethos shaped their lives. Verity’s paternal grandfather Dr Ernest Henry Burgmann was a politically progressive churchman who served as Bishop of Goulburn (1934-50) and Bishop of Canberra and Goulburn (1950-60). Her father Victor Burgmann worked in radar research during World War II then at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), becoming CSIRO Chairman in 1977. Former NSW Labor politician, Verity Helen Firth, is her niece. In 1975 Verity completed a Bachelor of Science (Economics) with First Class Honours at the London School of Economics (LSE) where she was awarded the Harold Laski Scholarship for best undergraduate essay and the Bassett Memorial Prize for topping her final year in the Department of Government. She returned to Australia in 1977 where she completed a PhD on Revolutionaries and Racists: Australian Socialism and the Problem of Racism at the Australian National University in 1981. From mid 1975 until early 1977, Verity taught British Government at South London College and worked in the India Office Library as research assistant for an academic writing about communism in Kerala. Between 1978 and 1980 she tutored part-time in General Studies at the University of New South Wales and in Government at the University of Sydney, where she was impressed by political theorist Carole Pateman and concerned by her departure to the USA. After one year as full-time tutor in History at the University of New South Wales, she moved to Melbourne with her husband, where she worked as full-time tutor in Political Science (1981) and History (1982-83) at the University of Melbourne, then as Post-Doctoral Fellow at Deakin University (1984-86) and University of Melbourne (1986-87). From 1988, she lectured in the Political Science Department at the University of Melbourne, subsequently the School of Social and Political Sciences. In 2003, she became its first female professor. Verity remained an active member of the National Tertiary Education Union while working as an academic. Briefly in the late 1980s, Verity was the sole female academic above tutor level in her department. Joined soon after by three new female lecturers, these young women academics discovered their male colleagues referred to them as ‘The Gang of Four’. Finding Australasian Political Studies Association (APSA) conferences similarly male-dominated, Verity became active in the Women’s Caucus of APSA, especially encouraged by, and collaborating with, Carol Johnson, Marian Sawer and Marian Simms. She became President of APSA 2002-03 following a year as its Vice-President. Verity was elected to the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia (ASSA) in 1999 for her scholarship in labour history and politics, social movements and Australian studies. Within ASSA, she was especially inspired by the activism of Patricia Grimshaw and Jill Roe, who did much to confront ASSA’s patriarchalism. As Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Arts between 2004 and 2007, she chaired more than fifty selection committees presiding over new academic appointments. However, following significant regime change in both the Faculty and the School of Social and Political Sciences, Verity felt beleaguered and bullied, and so decided to leave paid employment at the University of Melbourne in January 2013. From 1 April to 30 July 2013, Verity was Ludwig Hirschfeld Mack Visiting Professor of Australian Studies at the Institut für Englische Philologie at the Freie Universität Berlin. On her return from Berlin, she became an honorary Adjunct Professor of Political Science in the School of Social Sciences at Monash University, with the support of Monash Dean of Arts Rae Frances and Monash Politics Professor James Walter. Also in 2013, she was appointed an Honorary Professorial Fellow in the eScholarship Research Centre at the University of Melbourne, where she is Director of the Roger Coates Labour History Project and Reason in Revolt digital-scholarship platform (accessible at www.reasoninrevolt.net.au), an online resource of primary source documents of Australian political and cultural radicalism from the 1850s to the present day. In addition to more than 70 refereed journal articles and book chapters, Verity is the author of Globalization and Labour in the Twenty-First Century (2012); Climate Politics and the Climate Movement in Australia, with Hans Baer (2012); Power, Profit and Protest (2003); Unions and the Environment (2002); Green Bans, Red Union, with Meredith Burgmann (1998); Revolutionary Industrial Unionism (1995); Power and Protest (1993); and ‘In Our Time’: Socialism and the Rise of Labour, 1885-1905 (1985). She is editor of Changing the Climate: Utopia, Dystopia and Catastrophe, with Andrew Milner and Simon Sellers (2011), and the four-volume A People’s History of Australia, with Jenny Lee (1988). Her work has been translated into Spanish, French, Japanese, Korean and Swedish. She regularly presents papers at conferences overseas and in Australia, including invited keynote and plenary addresses. Verity has a long history of radical political activism, beginning in 1971 when a first-year student at the University of Sydney. She became involved in supporting Aboriginal land rights. She joined the anti-Apartheid movement, specifically the campaign that disrupted the tour of the racially selected Springboks Rugby Union team and forced cancellation of the impending South African cricket tour. While protesting at the Sydney Cricket Ground during the Springboks versus Wallabies match, she and her sister Meredith Burgmann were arrested for interrupting play. Verity succeeded in reaching the centre of the ground and kicked the ball out of the scrum. She received a $400 fine for ‘offensive behaviour’ while Meredith received a jail sentence that was suspended on appeal. Through this campaign, Verity met Gary Foley and became involved in support for Aboriginal land rights, especially the Tent Embassy established in January 1972. This political activism during the early 1970s brought her to the attention of the Australian Security and Intelligence Organisation (ASIO); she would later discover through accessing her ASIO file that not only ASIO but also MI6 in Britain kept her under surveillance. MI6 became interested when she commenced a relationship during 1971 with Peter Hain, pioneer of the international sporting boycott of racially selected South African teams and leader of the UK Stop the Seventy Tour campaign. Verity discontinued her Arts degree at the University of Sydney and moved to London in July 1972 where she lived with Hain and his family, mixing with South African expatriate political activists, while commencing her politics degree at the LSE. Also in London, Verity joined the International Socialists, a Trotskyist-influenced organisation, which argued that the Soviet Union and similar Eastern Bloc countries were not socialist models but ‘state capitalist’ countries just as deplorable as capitalist ones, and emphasised militant rank-and-file working-class activism rather than reliance on reformist politicians and union officials. Back in Sydney and Canberra from February 1977, Verity campaigned for female prisoners’ rights through Women Behind Bars, influenced by Virginia Bell and Julie McCrossin; marched in Sydney’s first Mardi Gras demonstration in 1978; and supported Indigenous rights campaigns. In Melbourne in the early to mid 1980s she was frenetically active in People for Nuclear Disarmament, even during the pregnancy and after the birth of her first child. A long-time critic of private school education including her own at Abbotsleigh, a private Anglican school for girls in Sydney, and experiencing the effects of underfunding of her sons’ local state high school, Verity became involved in the Public Education Group from the late 1990s onwards; she has frequently served as an office bearer in this organisation. Since early this century, she has joined in climate movement actions through participation in summits and demonstrations, and speaking often and writing much about ‘red-green’ issues, based on her scholarly work on the green bans movement and trade union environmental activism. In 1977 Verity married the British-Australian cultural theorist and literary critic Andrew Milner whom she met at the LSE; they have three sons (David, James and Robert) and a grand-daughter Norah, named after the strong, female protagonist of Mary Grant Bruce’s Billabong books. The revision of this entry in 2017 was sponsored by a generous donation from the later Dr Thelma Hunter. Published resources Resource Section Verity Burgmann, Harrison, Sharon M., 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders/biogs/WLE0498b.htm Political Science, Grey, Madeline, 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders/biogs/WLE0178b.htm Resource Fellows List, Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia, 2017, http://www.assa.edu.au/fellows-list/ Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Book A Woman's Place: Women and Politics in Australia, Sawer, Marian and Simms, Marian, 1993 Edited Book Australian Women and the Political System, Simms, Marian, 1984 Site Exhibition Women Who Caucus: Feminist Political Scientists, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2017, http://womenaustralia.info/exhib/caucus/ The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia, Smart, Judith and Swain, Shurlee (eds.), 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders Author Details Niki Francis Created 23 April 2014 Last modified 21 November 2018 Digital resources Title: Verity Burgmann Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Title: Verity-Burgmann-Lisbon-Demo-2011.jpg Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

TYPE OF WORK Literary Work : APPLICANT Elizabeth Kenny : DATE OF APPLICATION 14 May 1935 : DATE COPYRIGHT REGISTERED 23 May 1935 Author Details Anne Heywood Created 9 December 2002 Last modified 21 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

BOX 1 Records of Centenary Year, 1996?Large size sample of two centenary postage stamps, mounted on cardboard??Folder 1?Australia Day luncheon; 1896-1996 Chronology, January-May 1996??Folder 2?Exhibition at New South Wales Parliament House; re-enactment of first meeting held 26 June 1896; Centenary Dinner, April-June 1996??Folder 3?Civic reception at Sydney Town Hall; Centenary stamp launch; Foundation Day luncheon; Annual General Meeting; A woman’s walk through the history of Sydney University, June-September 1996??Folder 4?Thanksgiving service at St. James; papers relating to the first meeting; minutes of Centenary Committee, May 1993-December 1996??Folder 5?Centenary year publicity and marketing material; papers, correspondence etc., 1994-1996??BOX 2 Captain Cook Bi-centennial celebrations, 1970?Folder 1?Souvenir programme of the Pageant of Endeavour, Sydney Town Hall, 22-29 April, 1970??Folder 2?National Council of Women of New South Wales publication, ‘Endeavour: Women’s Organisations in New South Wales 1896-1978’, 1981??Folder 3?Photographs of segments in the Pageant of Endeavour, Captain Cook Bi-Centenary celebrations, 1970??BOX 3?Published books, Untamed by time / Ruth Marchant James: 1987; Women, world war and permanent peace / May Wright Sewall: 1915; Life and labour in Shanghai / Eleanor M. Hinder, 1944; The splendid vision / N.E.S. Griffiths: 1993; India: torture, rape & deaths in custody / Amnesty International, 1992; A book on South Australia: women in the first hundred years, 1936; Women in Australian parliaments and local governments past and present / A. Viola Smith, 1975; Official history of the Lord Mayor’s Patriotic War Fund of New South Wales / C. O. Badham Jackson: 1947; Book of dedications, 1990; The pre-school child and society / John Bostock and Edna Hill, 1946; A woman in a man’s world / Helen Moyes, 1971??Folder 1?N.C.W. News, No. 189, May 2002??BOX 4?Published books, Centenary gift book / Frances Fraser and Nettie Palmer (eds): 1934; The vision unfolding: Deaconess Institution 1891-1991; Nothing new under the sun: a history of the Toronto Council of Women, ca. 1978; High living: a study of family life in flats / Anne Stevenson, Elaine Martin, and Judith O’Neill, 1967??Folders 1-4?Papers, brochures, newsletters, publications, photographs, etc. relating to the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing, September 1995??BOX 5?Papers, brochures, newsletters, publications, photographs, conference papers, newspapers and cuttings, business cards, etc. relating to the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing, September 1995??BOX 6?1 cassette (unlabeled) from the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing?Not to be issued – master tape only. For access please contact the Curator of Oral History??Papers, brochures, newsletters, maps, publications, invitations, photographs, negatives, conference papers, newspapers etc. relating to the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing, September 1995??BOX 7?Published books, International Council of Women combined third and fourth annual report of the seventh quinquennial period / compiled by Anna Backer: 1922/1924; The International Congress of Women ’99: women in professions / Ishbel Aberdeen (ed.), 1899; The International Congress of Women ’99: women in industrial life / Ishbel Aberdeen (ed.), 1899; The International Congress of Women ’99: women in social life / Ishbel Aberdeen (ed.), 1899; International Council of Women quarterly review, October-December 1961, no. 7; Transactions of the National Council of Women of the United States … / Rachel Foster Avery (ed.), 1891; Art and handicraft in the Woman’s Building of the World’s Columbian Exposition / Maud Howe Elliott (ed.), 1893; Memorial of the World’s Columbian Exposition, 1893??BOX 8?Published books, Report of the First Post War Conference … Philadelphia: Power and responsibilities of freedom, 1947; International Council of Women report of the triennial council meeting, 1963; Report of the 18th triennial meeting of the International Council of Women, 1966; Report of the centennial celebrations and 25th plenary conference of the International Council of Women, 1988; Report of the 26th plenary conference of the International Council of Women, 1991; International Council of Women bulletin, March 1952, October 1957; President’s memorandum regarding the Council meeting of the International Council of Women, 28 September-9 October 1936, 11-21 July, 1938; International Council of Women combined first and second annual report of the seventh quinquennial period, 1920-1922; The International Congress of Women ’99: report of council transactions / Ishbel Aberdeen (ed.), 1899; The International Congress of Women ’99: women in education / Ishbel Aberdeen (ed.), 1899; International Council of Women quinquennial meeting, 1914??BOX 9?Book 1?National Council of Women of New South Wales minutes of executive meetings, July 1985-July 1998??Folder 1?National Council of Women of New South Wales biennial reports, 1966/1968-1976/1978; National Council of Women of New South Wales annual reports, 1978/1979-1995??Folder 2?N.C.W. News, May 1960-October 1973??BOX 10?Folder 1?N.C.W. News, January 1974-November 1984??Folder 2?N.C.W. News, February 1985-November 1993??BOX 11?Executive minutes, August 1988-July 1996???BOX 12X?Enlarged copies of photographs?1. The NWTUL biennial conference, New York, June 1915. Secretary-Treasurer Miles Franklin?2. [Frances Willard?], ca. 1874-1898 Author Details Alannah Croom Created 11 September 2013 Last modified 21 June 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Series 01: Private correspondence, 1916-1964.?A. Correspondence with overseas students, 1961-1964.??B. Unidentified correspondence, 1916-1964.??C. Miscellaneous correspondence, 1944-1964.??Series 02: Correspondence with various charities and institutions, 1940-1964.?A. Associated Country Women of the World, 1938-1964.??B. Country Women’s Association of N.S.W., 1930-1964.??C. Other miscellaneous bodies, including Far West Children’s Health Scheme, 1940-1964 Author Details Jane Carey Created 15 September 2004 Last modified 27 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Mary Windeyer was president of the Women’s Suffrage League of New South Wales from 1891-1893, and co-founder of the Ashfield Infants’ Home and the Temporary Aid Society. Born in England, the second daughter of nine children of Jane (née Ball) and Reverend Robert Thorley Bolton, Mary migrated to Sydney with her parents while still a toddler. She married William Charles Windeyer in 1857 and the pair had nine children, including one daughter who died in infancy. Three years after their marriage, William was elected to parliament. He rose from Solicitor-General to Attorney-General, to Judge. Heather Radi describes Mary Windeyer as a ‘charity organizer and champion of orphans’ welfare and women’s suffrage’. She pushed for better care of orphanages, and favoured foster care with loving families. She helped to establish what later became the Ashfield Infants’ Home – a foundling hospital, open to mothers with illegitimate children – and opened her own cottage home for orphans. In the 1880s, following her husband’s promotion of legal forms allowing for desertion as a case for divorce, she began to push for increased employment opportunities for women. With Lucy Osburn she organised an Exhibition of Women’s Industries, promoting nursing as a profession, and raising enough money to set up a Temporary Aid Society to help women in financial difficulty by providing them with small loans. Later, with her daughter Margaret and others, Mary helped to establish a women’s college at the University of Sydney. Mary Windeyer became Lady Windeyer in 1891 when William was knighted. That year she was honorary secretary for the second Australasian Conference on Charity and a committee member of the Thirlmere Home for Consumptives. She was president of the Women’s Suffrage League of New South Wales from 1891 until 1893 and a member of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union. She sponsored, Radi tells us, a ‘silk-growing cooperative, a shorthand writers and typists’ society, and hospital training for nurses’ and organised the women’s industries section of New South Wales’ exhibit in the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago, USA. In 1893, Lady Windeyer’s proposal for a women’s hospital led to the opening of a district service that became the Women’s Hospital in Crown Street, Sydney. Lady Windeyer died in 1912 and was buried in the Anglican section of the Raymond Terrace cemetery. Her estate was valued at £11,408. Published resources Resource Section Windeyer, Mary Elizabeth (1837-1912), Radi, Heather, 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A120604b.htm Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Edited Book 200 Australian Women: A Redress Anthology, Radi, Heather, 1988 Thesis In Her Gift: Activism and Altruism in Australian Women's Philanthropy, 1880-2005, Lemon, Barbara, 2008 Book The Windeyers: Chapters of Family History, Windeyer, Victor, 1992 Site Exhibition In Her Gift: Women Philanthropists in Australian History, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2009, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/wiph/home.html The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia, Smart, Judith and Swain, Shurlee (eds.), 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders Archival resources National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Papers of Lady Mary Windeyer and Margaret Windeyer, 1894-1926 [manuscript] Papers of W. C. Windeyer, 1838-1944 [manuscript] State Library of New South Wales Windeyer family - Papers, 1827-1928 Windeyer family papers, 1829-1943 Photographs relating to the Windeyer family, 1829-1943 Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 24 August 2006 Last modified 20 March 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Review of Olive Pink Botanic Gardens, Alice Springs. 2005.?Working papers include: 2 files, spiral bound notebook, Olive Pink Society Bulletin vol 6 no 2 1994, article on Olive Pink in Bush Mag; Journal of the Outback) (Spiral notebook also contains notes of research and meetings on weeds, ca 2004) Author Details Alannah Croom Created 9 January 2018 Last modified 6 February 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Jennifer Fowler is an internationally renowned composer who was born in Bunbury, Western Australia. She works as a freelance composer in London, where she has lived since 1969. Jennifer Fowler was born in Bunbury, Western Australia, in 1939. She studied at the University of Western Australia, during which time she won several composition prizes. While still a student, her pieces were performed in the Festival of Perth and broadcast by the Australian Broadcasting Commission (ABC). In 1968 Fowler spent a year working at the Electronic Music Studios of the University of Utrecht on a Dutch Government scholarship. Since 1969 she has been living in London where she works as a free-lance composer. Fowler’s output includes orchestral works, chamber pieces, works for voice and instrumental ensemble, solo music and vocal ensembles. Her international prizes include an award from the Academy of the Arts in Berlin (1970), joint winner of the Radcliffe Award of Great Britain; first prize in the GEDOK International Competition for Women Composers (1975) and the Miriam Gideon prize from the International Association of Women in Music (2003). Fowler’s works are regularly performed at international festivals; past performances include the ISCM World Music Days, the Gaudeamus Music Week (Holland), the Huddersfield Festival of Contemporary Music (UK), the International Sydney Spring Festival and Women in Music festivals in USA, UK, Italy and Australia. She has received commissions from organisations including the British Broadcasting Commission (BBC), the Australian Broadcasting Commission (ABC), the Festival of Perth, the Music Board of the Australia Council, The Song Company (Sydney), Donne in Musica (Italy) and Women in Music (UK). Published resources Resource Jennifer Fowler Website - Contains Biographical Information, News, List of Works, Audio Samples and Contact Details, Fowler, Jennifer, http://www.impulse-music.co.uk/fowler.htm Australian Music Centre entry for Jennifer Fowler, Fowler, Jennifer, http://www.australianmusiccentre.com.au/artist/fowler-jennifer Grove Music Online Entry for Jennifer Fowler, Fuller, Sophie, http://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/subscriber/article/grove/music/10067 Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Journal Article Of Small Bagpipes and Double Basses, Fowler, Jennifer, 1994 Archival resources NULL Jennifer Fowler Collection Author Details Lisa MacKinney Created 21 August 2009 Last modified 14 May 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Incl. protocol to prevent, suppress and punish trafficking especially women and children; Incl. Materials by Vicki Dunne (Member for Ginninderra) relating to real-life trafficking and to film The Jammed (2007); “Organised Crime and people smuggling/ trafficking to Australia Australian Institute of Criminology Trends & Issues, no. 208, May 2001; Trafficking and the Sex Industry: from Impunity to Protection (Parliament of Australia); ‘On the dark side’ The Canberra Times 2007; ‘Illegal Immigration’ Lynch; ‘The Jammed’ Project Respect 2007; ‘Globalized Female Slavery’ Said It: feminist news, culture, politics 2007; Maltzahn, Kathleen ‘Policing trafficking in women for prostitution’; ‘The slave traders of Sydney’, AFPA journal, Autumn 1997; David, Fiona, ‘Human smuggling and trafficking: an overview of the response at the Federal level’, Australian Institute of Criminology Research and Public Policy Series, n. 24; “Talk to U2A Batemans Bay 2.4.2008: Human trafficking in Australia”; “Trafficking prevention – its time for action”, by Elena Jeffreys, 2008; “Anti-trafficking measures and migrant sex workers in Australia” by Elena Jeffreys, in Intersections: Gender and sexuality in Asia and the Pacific,19, Feb 2009. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 9 January 2018 Last modified 9 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Greenwood discusses her life and views on feminism and the women’s movement in Western Australia.?Broadcast on the Australian Broadcasting Commission programme “In person”, 1 Aug. 1982. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 31 March 2004 Last modified 7 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Australia’s first world champion skier, Kirstie Marshall won seventeen World Cup gold medals. She was named Australian Skier of the Year six times and Victorian Sportswoman of the Year four times. A member of the Australian Labor Party, Marshall was elected as the Member for Forest Hill in the Legislative Assembly of the Parliament of Victoria in 2002, and re-elected in 2006. She retired at the November 2010 election. Educated at Mentone Girls High School, Firbank Anglican Grammar School and Taylors College, Kirstie Marshall commenced skiing in 1986. In her first international season she was Australia’s top ranking winter sportsperson, finishing 10th in the world. In 1992 she was crowned Grand Prix champion. Two years later Marshall was Australia’s flag bearer at the Winter Olympics in Lillehammer where she was placed sixth in the women’s aerial skiing event – the nation’s best Olympic result at the time. In 1997 Marshall became Australia’s first world champion in a winter sport, and she competed in the Winter Olympics at Nagano in 1998. Marshall set several world records over the course of her skiing career and became the first woman in history to score over 100 points on a single competition jump. Marshall was Director of the Olympic Winter Institute before being elected to the seat of Forest Hill in 2002, representing the Australian Labor Party (ALP). She was re-elected in 2006. Today, she is a Member of the Drugs and Crime Prevention Committee and is involved with over forty charities annually. A practiced public speaker, she makes regular television appearances. Kirstie Marshall was awarded an OAM for her contribution to skiing and sports administration on the Queens Birthday Honour List in 2003. She is married with two children. Published resources Book Victorian Parliamentary Handbook, no. 8, the 55th Parliament, 2004 Resource Victorian Parliamentary Handbook Electronic Edition, 2005, http://www.parliament.vic.gov.au/handbook Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Article Kirstie Marshall wins Forest Hill, Mottram, Murray, 2002, http://www.theage.com.au/articles Site Exhibition She's Game: Women Making Australian Sporting History, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2007, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/sg/sport-home.html Carrying on the Fight: Women Candidates in Victorian Parliamentary Elections, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2008, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/cws/home.html Edited Book The Oxford Companion to Australian Sport, Vamplew, Vray; Moore, Katharine; O'Hara, John; Cashman, Richard; Jobling, Ian, 1997 Author Details Rosemary Francis and Barbara Lemon Created 25 November 2005 Last modified 3 May 2016 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

The letters, written to friends in England from Strathmore, Glebe Point, Wallabadah station and the Women’s College refer to happenings during the foundation years of the College and also contain comment on Sydney society of the period. Part of a letter to Miss Macdonald, 1 January 1895, by an unknown writer, is at the end of the reel Author Details Alannah Croom Created 26 June 2018 Last modified 26 June 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Contents : I. PERSONAL CORRESPONDENCE, 1923-1963?II. PROFESSIONAL FILES, ca. 1919-1963?A. Farmer and Company, ca. 1919-1926?B. Young Women’s Christian Association of China, 1896, 1927-1937?C. Pan-Pacific Women’s Conference, Honolulu, Hawaii (1928), 1928-1929?D. Employers’ Federation of Shanghai, 1931-1945?E. Shanghai (China). Municipal Council, 1933-1954?F. International Labour Office, 1942-1948?G. United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration, 1934-1952?H. Great Britain. Foreign Office, 1944-1954?I. Board of Trustees and Rehabilitation Affairs, 1947-1950?J. United Nations, 1937, 1949-1963??III. SUBJECT FILES, 1918-1975?A. Individuals, 1924-1963?B. Organisations, 1951-1971?C. Miscellaneous, 1918-1975??IV. WRITINGS, 1927-1963?A. Autobiography and related papers, 1957-1963?B. Other writings, 1927, 1945, 1952-1959??V. GENEALOGICAL PAPERS, 1837-1970?A. Hinder family, 1837-1970?B. Tuckerman family, 1952-1966??VI. MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS, 1914-1974??VII. PAPERS OF AND CONCERNING AGATHA HARRISON, 1916-1962??VIII. PRINTED BOOKS, 1837-1970??IX. PHOTOGRAPHS AND REALIA, 1916-1968??X. PAPERS OF A. VIOLA SMITH, ca. 1850-1975?A. Hinder family genealogy and chronology?B. Correspondence concerning Hinder family genealogy?C. Genealogical subject files – Hinder family – Paternal line?D. Genealogical subject files – Hinder family – Maternal line?E. Genealogical subject files – Tuckerman family?F. Subject files – Organisations?G. Subject files concerning Eleanor Hinder’s immediate family?H. Miscellaneous personal papers?I. Papers concerning the estate of Eleanor Hinder Author Details Jane Carey Created 28 July 2004 Last modified 24 October 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

ALRA newsletters; copies of “Abra”; minutes of Victorian Civil Liberties Sub-Committee for Investigation of Problems of Abortion 1966; draft report of ALP sub-committee on Health and Social Welfare 1970. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 6 February 2004 Last modified 29 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Printed under photograph “Dame Florence Cardell Oliver. First woman Minister of the Crown in any State Parliament in Australia. Minister for Health W.A. & M.L.A. Subiaco. 1915 President first W.S.G. at Albany.”??1 photoprint, mounted : b&w ; 32 x 23 cm. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 25 March 2004 Last modified 7 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

11 boxes of papers and associated records pertaining to feminist activities in Canberra, including a typed copy of the minutes of the Canberra Women’s Liberation movement 1970-1973. Author Details Patricia ni Ivor Created 3 May 2000 Last modified 29 September 2020 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

The Panhellenic Women’s Movement was a broad-based, progressive women’s organisation established in 1977 in order to assist and represent Australian women of Greek heritage. The goals of the Panhellenic Women’s Movement were as follows: 1.To advance the social and mental development of its members, the cultivation of friendly relations and solidarity amongst the members of the organisation, 2.The accomplishment of women’s equality in society; professional, social and political, 3.The cultivation of friendly relations between Greek women and the Australian people, as well as other women’s organisations of the other nationalities and with all Greek organisations, clubs and brotherhoods, 4.To make claims for working rights, 5.To support every effort for maintaining world peace Organisations such as the Panhellenic Women’s Movement were extremely active in their attempts to network with other women’s organisations. The fact that we know of their existence is proof of this – they corresponded with the Union of Australian Women (UAW) quite regularly and their letters can be found in the UAW archives. Evidence that they (and no doubt other migrant women’s organisations) had an impact on the thinking of established women’s organisations can also be found in this correspondence. A note in the UAW records, with the Panhellenic Women’s Movement correspondence, notes the following: ‘Our work is two-fold – on the one hand to become cognisant of the problems of migrant women and to assist them with regard to language, job opportunities, conditions etc. and by takin up the various issues contained in the Charter for Women Workers Rights, on the other hand, by extending solidarity to women in their homelands – for example, protesting at the closure of the Progressive Women’s Organisation’s office in Turkey, protesting about the atrocities against women in Chile and Uruguay.’ Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources State Library of South Australia Papers re: Panhellenic Women's Movement Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 18 June 2006 Last modified 20 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Irene Greenwood discusses civil rights, equal opportunity, discrimination, law and legislation in Western Australia and Australia in relation to the Australian Bill of Rights and the Western Australian Equal Opportunities Bill.?sound cassette (ca. 30 min.): mono Author Details Anne Heywood Created 31 March 2004 Last modified 27 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Papers relating to the Women’s Electoral Lobby campaign on enterprise bargaining; miscellaneous personal papers. Includes files, press cuttings, correspondence, pamphlets, leaflets, serials and arbitration case files. Author Details Elle Morrell Created 23 August 2000 Last modified 23 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

A lifelong political and social activist, Evelyn Barron served a full 12-year term in the Legislative Council of New South Wales (1964-76) as a member of the ALP. Prior to this she had unsuccessfully run as an ALP candidate for Collaroy in 1953. Evelyn Barron joined the ALP in 1938. She was a member of the Central Executive of the party from 1957 to 1964, and president of the Women’s Central Organising Committee in 1964. She was President of the NSW Women Justices Association, 1958-60, President of the League of Women Voters, 1961-62. Evelyn Barron was also active in a number of other organisations including the Civilian Widows’ Association, the Good Neighbour Council, the NSW National Council of Women, and the Australian Women’s Charter Movement. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 6 December 2005 Last modified 5 April 2016 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Contents: Reproduction of book’s cover — Poster for launch at the Northern Territory Library, 4 June 2009 — Launch speech by Nicholas Hasluck — Pictures of the Library launch — Selection of pictures from the book used in the accompanying exhibition at the Library — Pictures of some of those who attended the launch, “Sunday Territorian”, 21 June 2009 — Letters to booksellers — Web page advertising the book, The Bookshop, Charles Darwin university — Display of books, The Bookshop, The Galleria, Smith Street Mall — Article/interview, “Off the Leash”, June 2009 — Article, “The Darwin Sun. 27 May 2009 — Review, Keith Suter, Radio 2GB, Sydney, June 2009 — Article/invitation, The Chung Wah Society newsletter, Darwin, May 2009 — Listing of book in “Gleebooks Gleaner”, Sydney, May 2009 — Review, Peter Ryan, “Quadrant, July-August 2009 — Article, Christopher Pearson, “The Australian”, 23 May 2009 — Book of the Month, July 2009, Northern Territory Library — Extracts from reviewers’ and readers’ responses to the book. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 31 July 2018 Last modified 31 July 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

In 1968, Paulette Bisley (nee Parkinson) became the tenth woman to sign the Victorian Bar Roll. Although she spent most of her career pursuing activities outside the legal profession, she credits the legal training and experience she received for helping to ‘shape and define different parts of my life. It made me stronger and helped find my voice that I could use to help others.’ Go to ‘Details’ below to read a reflective essay written by Paulette Bisley for the Trailblazing Women and the Law Project. The following additional information was provided by Paulette Bisley and is reproduced with permission in its entirety. My career at the Bar was fuelled by ignorance and optimism. I attended Elwood High School, a newly established high school, and matriculated in 1962. I received a Commonwealth Scholarship to attend University. My elder sister went to Monash University to become a teacher but I chose to go to Melbourne University to study law. The University appealed to my love of history. The Law School was somewhat confronting. There were very few women and they were mostly private school girls. There has always been snobbishness in Melbourne about schools but up until then it did not concern me. At Law school, indeed at the University, the refrain was often, “but tell us where did you really did go to school”. My parents had decided that a University education was better than paying for a private school – the stipulation being “unless we were brainless” and then they would have to use connections to find a vocation. I confess to enjoying myself at Law School to the detriment of my studies. I met my future husband at University. I passed, but many law books were left unread. As a High School girl without inspiring marks it was very difficult to get Articles. I ended up, through my husband’s family connections, to be Articled in Dandenong. I was set to work with an unqualified Law Clerk in Common Law. The practice was commercial and the partners largely left the Law clerk to his own devices. This was my first experience of being marginalised by a male. The clerk corrected every sentence I wrote and I dumbly believed he was helping. He hid my work and made me appear foolish in front of the partners. He was later sacked when he did this to a male colleague. The politics of the office left me cold and the Bar beckoned. My inspiration came from the young barristers whom I had briefed. I knew I was bright and with the arrogance of youth and lots of encouragement thought I would become a Barrister. My admission to practice was moved by Richard McGarvie QC. Since I was a woman it was decided that I would most likely only succeed in a practice in Domestic Relations. Bear in mind I had no connections whatsoever with the legal profession, and no old school ties to help. But encouraged by a family that believed women could do anything, and with the financial and positive support of my husband, I was prepared to have a try. My Master was a specialist in Matrimonial Causes as it was then. There was no formal training to be a barrister and you relied on learning from your Master. I signed the Bar Roll and was told that a Bar Council meeting was held to determine the length of my dress. I was never sure if that was true or not. My borrowed wig (when I needed one) perched upon the bouffant sixties hair. I engaged a Clerk, put a desk in the corner of my Master’s room, and awaited a brief. My Clerk was very supportive and encouraging. The only woman at the Bar then was Molly Kingston. I was too much in awe of her to seek any advice and she certainly did not make any attempt to welcome me. The other women were absent as Joan Rosenove had retired and Lynne Opas was in New Guinea. My Master had no idea what he should do with me so did nothing. Not once did he help, just kept saying “have a go, have a go”. I quickly realized this was largely because work I received was nothing to do with Domestic Relations. It was largely motor accident damages described in those days as ‘crash and bash’, drunk driving, petty crime and the Imprisonment of Fraudulent debtors. The cases were mostly in the Court of Petty Sessions but sometimes in the County Court and rarely in the Supreme Court. None were to do with Matrimonial Causes. Cramming at night, I survived and learnt much from the men on my floor who were very supportive and helpful. I was known as Bisley Mrs. I could never pluck up the courage to eat in the Dining Room which was on the top floor of Owen Dixon Chambers. I could not eat in my room as my Master I discovered, to my horror, spent his lunch hour reading girlie magazines. I was appalled. Most barristers were supportive but many thought it would be fun to tease and make suggestive remarks. I was often asked what was in my brief case, was it the shopping and did I carry my books in a shopping bag. I was often asked out but I learnt quickly to say no as their motives were less than honourable. I duly finished my six months, slightly terrified but exhilarated at the same time. I set up Chambers in Tait Chambers. I was often told that “this case is hopeless but since you are a woman you can talk the magistrate/judge around.” I was also advised, tongue in cheek (I thought so), to wear a low cut dress in front of some Magistrates. I did not. Without adequate training and lack of support of a Master, as my practice started to build up I was becoming out of my depth. Supreme Court appearances to do with Company Law, which I had not studied, were fearful. I was and am still indebted to Harry Emery, Kevin Mahony, Charles Wheeler, Graeme Uren and the other men on my Floor for their support at this time. My biggest fear was that they would be on the other side of a case and could not help. Despite the loving support of my husband who believes that women can do anything, I had what is called an anxiety state. I was supplied with a prescription and told to continue working. Neither of those options was a match and I decided it was time to leave practice to start a family. My thought being that I would have children, resume study and then go back to work. However it transpired that an overseas posting when my youngest child was in prep meant I had to make alternative plans. We stayed away eleven years but my legal career was my passport to many different roles. My husband worked for Exxon Chemical Company and we went first to Connecticut, USA. I learnt quickly that I could not work for money (no visa) but could do volunteer work. American women were not ashamed to put volunteer work down on their CVs. I learnt to do the same. I became involved in their Newcomer Group, that was very active as most of the population of our town was itinerant. American women moved at least every three years. These were often professional women who gave up a lot for their husband’s career. My law degree was highly respected and gave me entrée to many interesting and exciting activities including being a docent at the Wilton historical society. I could say it helped define me and my time at the Bar gave me confidence to express myself. From Connecticut we went to Hong Kong. I was never a lady who ‘lunched’. It was important to me that the social issues that arose for women in the expat life be addressed and support systems put in place. In Hong Kong I became the Secretary of the English Speaking Members Department of the Young Womens’ Christian Association (YWCA). In this role I determined the activities of the organisation. My law degree was highly regarded by the Board of the Association, the members of whom were all Chinese. Indeed when it came time to leave because we were moving to Tokyo they refused to take me off their books. They even suggested that I fly back to Hong Kong weekly. On $6000 Hong Kong dollars a month I did not think so. I was told that the Chinese husbands would allow their wives to attend this very British department because I was a barrister. The YWCA with its ‘At Home’ programme for newcomers taught me how to understand the problems relating to relocation. There were many issues, particularly for women who had had busy professional lives but now could not work and lacked friendship groups, family and an inability to network. Asia in those days was very trying for intelligent western women. In the programs we developed we were able to provide the framework from which they could launch themselves into a productive life. Again I became involved with history and museums as I had done in America. In Japan I had to really stand on my own two feet as my husband was often away and we relocated into a largely Japanese community. Very little English was spoken in the 1980’s. Friends were made through the Australian-Japan Association. Again my law degree opened doors and earned me initial respect. I was asked at one stage to speak on the role of women in Australia – I had not lived in Australia for some years so I spoke to academics at Latrobe University who had completed research in this area. I was a bit depressed as women had not progressed very far. I returned to Australia hoping to study for a social work degree and to prepare I decided to volunteer and do the course for the Citizens Advice Bureau. It was from this role that I was nominated to sit on the Legal Aid Review Panel. Then life changed again. I was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1995. And in 1997 we left for Singapore for a final posting. In the meantime we had started a vineyard in the Yarra Valley which was demanding my attention. In Singapore I again looked to museums to hold my interest. I became a docent and trained with Singaporean colleagues. Believe it or not they were the first ever Singaporeans trained as docents for their museum (the first Museum was started in 1819). Again my law degree was my currency. I also worked with the Australian Association and worked towards making life easier for newcomers. Depression and anxiety were common among many women. Many were successful in their careers but had chosen to accompany their spouse, take a few years holiday and have a bit of fun. However many found that it was very difficult to start a new life. This was where my experience at the YWCA proved helpful. I also worked on the Magazine committee of the Tanglin Club where my Law degree gave me entrée. We returned home to Australia in 2001 and since then I have been involved in the vineyard and my three acre garden which is open often for the public for charities. I am now Chairman of the Trust of the Regional Museum of the Shire of Yarra Ranges amongst other interests. While I left the Bar many years ago the experience helped shape and define different parts of my life. It made me stronger and helped find my voice that I could use to help others. It has proved to be my entrée to a very different life than I had imaged when I first entered the courts in my borrowed wig. Published resources Resource Women Barristers in Victoria: Then and Now, The Victorian Bar, 2007, https://www.vicbar.com.au/wba/ Site Exhibition Australian Women Lawyers as Active Citizens, Trailblazing Women Lawyers Project Team, 2016, http://www.womenaustralia.info/lawyers Author Details Paulette Bisley Created 4 May 2016 Last modified 21 November 2019 Digital resources Title: Paulette Bisley Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Talk entitled: ‘The use of art history in the art museum’, given at the Art Association Conference, 1974. Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 13 November 2002 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Slides to accompany thesis, ‘An anthroposcopic and anthropometric study of the skeleton of a full-blood Tasmanian Aborigine (Truganini)’, B.Med.Sci thesis, University of Tasmania?Creator/photographer – Meumann, Frank Olaf?Photographs of the skeletal remains of Truganini Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 18 October 2004 Last modified 6 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

2 digital audio tapes.??Interview taped in January 2006 with Matina Mottee, a long time advocate on behalf of women of culturally and linguistically diverse background. The interview was conducted in Mottee’s home and features some external noise. Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 13 June 2006 Last modified 21 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Rebecca Irwin holds the position of Senior Manager Government Relations and Public Policy at the global resources company BHP Billiton. An experienced leader and negotiator, she has served in the upper echelons of Australian government, including the Attorney-General’s Department and as a Senior Advisor to the Prime Minister, since graduating with first-class honours in Law from the University of Sydney in 1995. In May 2000, Ms Irwin made history when she became the first Australian woman lawyer to address an international tribunal, in her capacity as counsel for Australia in the Southern Bluefin Tuna Case against Japan. She has been a first assistant secretary in the Department of Immigration and Citizenship and in the Department of Agriculture; she has also been a senior executive working on national security and law enforcement policy with the Australian Federal Police and the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet in Canberra. A former associate to the Hon. Justice Margaret Beazley (later AO) of the Federal Court of Australia, Sydney, Ms Irwin practised as a solicitor at the law firm Mallesons Stephen Jaques. The recipient of a Fulbright Scholarship, she has a Master of Laws from Harvard Law School in the United States. Rebecca Irwin was interviewed by Kim Rubenstein for the Trailblazing Women and the Law Oral History Project. For details of the interview see the National Library of Australia CATALOGUE RECORD. Rebecca Irwin graduated from the University of Sydney with a Bachelor of Arts in 1993 and a Bachelor of Laws (First-class Honours) in 1995. Awarded a Fulbright Scholarship and a Lionel Murphy Scholarship for 1996-7, she declined the latter in favour of the former, going on to attend Harvard Law School, where she graduated with a Master of Laws and won the Laylin Prize for best thesis in international law. After returning to Australia, Ms Irwin became associate to the Hon. Justice Margaret Beazley (now AO) of the Federal Court of Australia in Sydney. Admitted to the Supreme Court of New South Wales and the High Court of Australia in 1997, she practised as a solicitor at Mallesons Stephen Jaques in Sydney, advising on competition law and trade practices. In 1998, Ms Irwin changed direction, taking up a role as principal legal officer in the Office of International Law, Attorney-General’s Department, Canberra. There, Ms Irwin advised on the consistency of government policy with international law across a range of matters and also on the implementation of international law in Australia and treaty negotiations. In 2000, Ms Irwin created legal history in her capacity as counsel for Australia in the Southern Bluefin Tuna Arbitration Case against Japan. The countries were in dispute over whether southern bluefin tuna, a valuable migratory species of tuna which ranges over southern seas near the Antarctic and is prized in Japan for sashimi, was recovering from a state of severe over-fishing. The case was heard before the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea, Hamburg, Germany, and an arbitration hearing on jurisdiction in Washington DC, USA. Ms Irwin was the first woman to have a speaking part, in presenting material, to the Tribunal – thus making her the first Australian woman lawyer to address an international tribunal. That year, Ms Irwin was awarded an Australia Day Achievement Award by the Attorney-General’s Department. In 2001, Ms Irwin was seconded to the Office of the Attorney-General as a departmental liaison officer. During this time she was closely involved in the Government response to 9/11, increasingly advising the Attorney on national security issues. She then returned to the Office of International Law in the Attorney-General’s Department as assistant secretary. Ms Irwin led delegations on multilateral treaty negotiations which concerned the Timor Sea treaty, Indonesian maritime boundary, United Nations (on the independence of East Timor), and commercial negotiations with the international oil and gas industry. Continuing her public international law litigation work, she also appeared as junior counsel in the PetroTimor litigation in the Federal Court of Australia. From 2005 until early 2008, Ms Irwin worked as assistant secretary responsible for domestic security, in the National Security Division, Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, Canberra. She built and led a branch responsible for counter terrorism and law enforcement; transport and border security; critical infrastructure and emergency management; and the National Counter Terrorism Committee Secretariat. During this period, Ms Irwin was panel chair at the American Society of International Law Conference, and participated in bilateral homeland security briefings in Washington DC. She was also a member of the Australian delegation to Indonesian Regional Counter Terrorism Conference. Ms Irwin was presented with the Australia Day Achievement Award in 2006 by the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. In early 2008, Ms Irwin took up the role of senior adviser in the office of the then prime minister, The Hon. Kevin Rudd MP. Ms Irwin was the lead adviser for four portfolios: Attorney-General and Home Affairs, Immigration, Special Minister of State, and the Status of Women. From 2009 until June 2010, Ms Irwin was employed by the Department of Immigration and Citizenship as first assistant secretary. In this role she drove research and analysis on medium to longer term policy issues across all areas of immigration policy and operations, including skilled migration, population, refugees and irregular maritime arrivals, border protection, citizenship and multicultural affairs, and service delivery. The result was the establishment of a research program to build policy capability within the Department. Once more demonstrating her capacity to bring exceptional leadership, policy knowledge and relationship-building to bear on a new environment, Ms Irwin became national manager policy and governance in the Australian Federal Police in Canberra. Ms Irwin again managed a new division within the Australian Federal Police, developing strategic policy on law enforcement, policing and national security. From 2012 to November 2014, Ms Irwin was employed by the Department of Agriculture as first assistant secretary in the Live Animal Division. Given the task of building a new division to manage live animal export matters, Ms Irwin led and managed a national team while working closely with Australia’s agricultural counsellors at overseas posts. Since 2014, Ms Irwin, in her role as Senior Manager Government Relations and Public Policy at BHP Billiton, has guided the company’s engagement with the Australian Government in Canberra across a broad range of matters concerned with the economic, industry, environment and international policy. As part of BHP Billiton’s global public policy team, Rebecca also works with her counterparts in the United States, United Kingdom and Asia on key policy matters which affect the company’s operations. Ms Irwin also works with a number of think tanks and policy analysts on emerging policy and political trends. She is a member of the Institute of Public Administration. Leadership and strategic policy development in the public sector, advocacy in international tribunals and lead knowledge on agriculture, immigration, international law and national security have enabled Ms Irwin to foster the important relationship between the public sector and business in Australia. Ms Irwin is an inspiring woman who drives innovation and change and has made a significant contribution to Australia’s key public and commercial institutions. Published resources Site Exhibition Australian Women Lawyers as Active Citizens, Trailblazing Women Lawyers Project Team, 2016, http://www.womenaustralia.info/lawyers Archival resources National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Rebecca Irwin interviewed by Kim Rubenstein in the Trailblazing women and the law pilot oral history project [sound recording] Author Details Larissa Halonkin Created 30 May 2016 Last modified 11 November 2016 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

[Red Cross Archives series reference: NO26]??Comprises annual reports received by the National Office of the Australian Red Cross from its state and territory divisions and from the Blood Service. Annual reports of the National Office itself are not included in this series – refer to Series number 2015.0027.??Contains annual reports from the Divisions of the: Northern Territory (1941-2001), Queensland (1914-2004), Australian Capital Territory (1953-2001), Western Australian (1915-2005), New South Wales (1915-2005), Norfolk Island (1940-1947). Tasmanian (1915-2005), South Australian (1915-2006), Victorian (1914-2007), as well as from the National Blood Transfusion Service later known as the Blood Transfusion Service (1989-2006). University of Melbourne Archives holds a digital copy of the Annual Reports of the Victorian Division of the Australian Red Cross for the years 1914-2006, which are available to researchers upon request. The digital copy was made by the Red Cross and has been made from another version of the Victorian Division minutes – not the one maintained by the National Office as part of series 2015.0029 – and in places there are annotations or attachments in one version which differ from the other version.??See also published Annual Reports including Financial Expenditure (2005 – present) http://www.redcross.org.au/annual-reports.aspx??Some Victorian Division Reports digitised and available on request.??Researchers should note that under the Geneva Conventions Act 1957 protections govern the use of the Red Cross emblem. For further information see Archives staff. Author Details Helen Morgan Created 13 February 2004 Last modified 29 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

1 sound tape reel (ca. 64 min.)??Whittle speaks of the heartaches of her divorce ; meeting her present husband and subjugating her own interests for the time being ; she speaks of her plans for the future. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 10 April 2018 Last modified 10 April 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

The archival holdings are organised in the following collections:?1 Private Collections?2 Archives of the Community?3 Printed Material?4 History of organisations?5 Photographic material?6 Visual aids?7 Recordings of events?8 Ecclesiastical items?9 Costumes?10 Library??Women’s committee material can be found in the archives of the community Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 16 June 2006 Last modified 17 October 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

MS 9726 includes correspondence between Dr. Veronica Condon (ne?e Syme) and Sister Veronica Brady in the form of letters, postcards and email, and two photographs of Veronica Syme and Pat Brady taken in 1945, and notes on the correspondence, by Condon (1 folder).??The Acc07.154 instalment comprises Condon’s biography of her father, Sir Geoffrey Syme, a bound volume with spine title “Geoffrey Syme, Vol. 1”, signed by the author and numbered “Copy 3” (1 box).??The Acc08.167 instalment includes a news clipping from The Age on David Syme, photographs and details of a dinner party in honour of the late Sir Geoffrey Syme at the Alexandra Club, Melbourne, 14 February 2008, and, a typescript of an article on David Syme and Geoffrey Syme by Veronica Condon (1 folder).??The Acc10.078 instalment comprises a letter from Condon to Brenda Niall, together with Niall’s reply, detailing incorrect information about Condon’s mother, Lady Veronica Syme, contained in Niall’s book, The riddle of Father Hackett: a life in Ireland and Australia (1 folder). Author Details Alannah Croom Created 20 February 2018 Last modified 20 February 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Nikki Henningham Created 30 May 2016 Last modified 21 November 2018 Digital resources Title: Magistrate Nerida Wilson Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Collection of pamphlets, press cuttings, petitions, and other documents relating to women’s suffrage, dating from ca. 1884 to 1902.Online images available via the State Library of NSW at: http://acms.sl.nsw.gov.au/album/albumView.aspx?itemID=1063989&acmsid=0 ; Digital order number a9594. Author Details Jane Carey Created 11 February 2004 Last modified 23 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Series B883 consists of service documents for people who served in the Second Australian Imperial Forces (AIF) for the Second World War. The series is controlled by AIF service numbers: a single number series with alphabetic regional prefixes (based on place of enlistment) and an X prefix (indicating enlistment in the AIF). Additional ‘F’ prefixes were used for female enlistees. Author Details Criena Fitzgerald Created 6 August 2012 Last modified 1 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

The Hon. Margaret Wilson QC was a barrister and judge of the Supreme Court of Queensland. She is known for her contribution to mental health law, as the first judge of the Mental Health Court and as the Commissioner who inquired into the closure of the Barrett Adolescent Centre, as well as for the part she played in procedural and substantive law reform in Queensland through her membership of the Rules Committee and the Queensland Law Reform Commission. Margaret Wilson was born in Brisbane, Queensland, in 1953. Her parents were not lawyers – her father was a civil engineer, and her mother, a former nurse, was active in community organisations. Like many parents, they valued hard work and education, and with their encouragement, Margaret excelled in her studies. In 1970, she completed her schooling at Clayfield College as school captain and dux and won an open scholarship to study at the University of Queensland. Initially enrolled in a Bachelor of Arts, Margaret majored in Japanese language and culture. In her third year of study, she undertook two subjects in the TC Beirne School of Law, beginning her lifelong interest in the law. She graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in 1973, and a Bachelor of Laws with Honours in 1976, winning a number of academic prizes. Margaret entered the legal profession as an articled clerk at Feez Ruthning & Co (now Allens) and was admitted to the bar in 1979. She developed a broad practice, advising and appearing in all areas of civil litigation, including administrative law. In 1992, she was appointed Queen’s Counsel. Outside the demands of her practice, she was a member of the Bar Association of Queensland’s Committee (now Council), a Legal Aid Commissioner and board member, and a member of The Incorporated Council of Law Reporting for the State of Queensland. In August 1998, Margaret was appointed a judge of the Trial Division of the Supreme Court of Queensland. It was a time of significant change in the composition of the court, and in the way civil and criminal cases were conducted. She was the fourth woman to join the Supreme Court. In her role as a Trial Division judge, Margaret sat on a number of high-profile cases, including a civil jury trial about the sexual assault of a pupil at a boarding school in regional Queensland, and the State’s first judge-alone murder trial. She was a Commercial List Judge from 2009 to 2011, and an Additional Judge of the Queensland Court of Appeal from 2011 to 2012. Soon after her appointment to the bench, Margaret joined the Rules Committee where she served actively for 12 years. Comprised of representatives of all levels of Queensland courts, the Registry of the Supreme and District Courts and the Department of Justice, the Rules Committee finalised Queensland’s Uniform Civil Procedure Rules 1999 – one set of rules that applied to all civil proceedings in the Magistrates, District and Supreme Courts, simplifying litigation for the benefit of all who came before the courts in their civil jurisdiction. It also formulated the Civil Proceedings Act 2011 (Qld), which updated the statutory infrastructure supporting the Supreme Court of Queensland in significant respects. It repealed and replaced an array of provisions, many dating from the 19th and early 20th centuries, about the judicature system and some aspects of substantive law, as well as provisions about the structure of the Court, its registry and its officers. Margaret was impressed by the shared commitment and co-operative approach of everyone on the Rules Committee, and she took pride in its quiet achievements under the leadership of Justice Glen Williams and then Justice John Muir. In 2002, Margaret became the first judge of the Mental Health Court. That Court’s primary function is to determine the sanity and fitness for trial of persons charged with criminal offences. It was set up on the inquisitorial model, constituted by a Supreme Court Judge assisted by two experienced psychiatrists acting as assessors. The new Court benefited from the legacy left by its predecessor, the Mental Health Tribunal, which had been established in 1985. As the Court’s first judge, Margaret performed a pivotal role in developing new procedures, consulting Health Department officers and medical experts, and presiding over the Court as it sat in Brisbane, Townsville and Cairns. Margaret’s interest in court architecture led to her serving on an advisory committee associated with the design of the new metropolitan courthouse for the Supreme and District Courts of Queensland. It facilitated liaison between the judges, the architects, the builders and relevant Government departments involved in what was a significant public works project. The new building was opened as the Queen Elizabeth II Courts of Law in August 2012. Margaret retired from the Supreme Court of Queensland in April 2014. Early retirement was a big decision for her, but she felt comfortable it was the right one. As she was leaving the court, she reflected on the previous fifteen and a half years as a period of enormous privilege and continuous challenge in her life. But she had always believed that there is a time to come and a time to go in all things, not least in public office – that renewal is important for any institution and for individuals. She vowed not to lose touch with her friends in the legal world, or to forsake her interest in the law. Later that year Margaret was appointed as a Justice of the Solomon Islands Court of Appeal and as a part-time member of the Queensland Law Reform Commission. She embraced both of these new roles with enthusiasm and industry. Margaret savoured the opportunity to participate in reshaping Queensland law in response to a number of contemporary challenges. The Queensland Law Reform Commission made recommendations for reform in a number of important areas over the six years she was a commissioner. These included civil surveillance and the protection of privacy, termination of pregnancy, expunging historical gay sex convictions and extension of mandatory reporting of suspected child abuse to the early childhood education and care sector. She holds Justice David Jackson (the Commission chair), her fellow commissioners and the small team of exceptionally talented legal and administrative officers in the secretariat in the highest regard. Despite frequent and intense pressure to meet tight deadlines, they never deviated from the pursuit of legally sound and practical solutions to what were often complex issues. The Commission’s reports were produced by true collaboration in a harmonious and mutually respectful environment. In September 2015, Margaret was commissioned to inquire into the closure of the Barrett Adolescent Centre, a facility for the treatment and rehabilitation of young people with severe and complex mental illnesses. The Queensland Government implemented all of the recommendations in her report, including the establishment of a new facility, Jacaranda Place on the campus of Prince Charles Hospital. She is presently a PhD candidate at the University of Melbourne Law School, exploring sub judice contempt of court and the internet. In 2019 the Women Lawyers Association of Queensland Inc conferred its Woman in Excellence award on Margaret. She is a fellow of the Australian Academy of Law. Her career has been, and continues to be, one of diligent service in and to the law, marked with many professional successes. She has always set high standards for herself. As a judge she strove to approach every case with an open mind and to ensure all parties were given a fair hearing and the opportunity to respond to the case against them. She worked hard to produce summings-up and reasons for judgment that were thoughtful and expressed in clear and simple terms. Margaret is a very private person, embarrassed by focus on her personal qualities. She is independently minded and resilient, but quick to acknowledge the contributions of others and to ensure that they feel valued personally and professionally. She has often said how much she enjoyed working with the young people who were her associates – and they have consistently commented on her generosity of spirit, patience, kindness, and ability to relieve tension in the courtroom (for her associates, counsel and court staff alike). Her unique blend of personal and professional qualities is part of the rich tapestry of Australian women lawyers. Published resources Book Section Margaret Wilson, Keenan, Sarah and Batch, Margaret Mary, 2005 Site Exhibition Australian Women Lawyers as Active Citizens, Trailblazing Women Lawyers Project Team, 2016, http://www.womenaustralia.info/lawyers Author Details Mei Ying Barnes and Margaret Wilson Created 9 May 2016 Last modified 16 November 2020 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Journal kept by Rose Scott between 7 October 1889 and 17 December 1893. On the inside of the front cover is written: ‘Days & Strengths in a Womans Life’. Also included are a number of miscellaneous pages which were found interleaved throughout the journal. Author Details Jane Carey Created 29 October 2004 Last modified 31 October 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Shirley Berg is best known for her leadership of Public School Parents’ organisations. However, she was a member of the Australian Democrats and was their candidate in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly, for Fuller, in 1978. Shirley Berg was president of the Federation of Parent and Citizens Associations in the 1980’s and had previously been President of the Federation of School Community Organisations. She has been a tireless campaigner for public schools over several decades. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 6 December 2005 Last modified 1 September 2008 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

There is additional documentation associated with the production of the film held in the NFSA collection. Author Details Hollie Aerts Created 10 January 2011 Last modified 1 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Women teachers talk about their careers, the education of women, gender roles etc. Author Details Clare Land Created 22 October 2002 Last modified 27 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

On 26 January 1998 Nina Buscombe was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia for service to the community through the Motor Neurone Disease Association of Victoria, the Victorian School for Deaf Children, the Victorian Council of Social Service, and Zonta. In 1987 she was honoured with an Anzac of the Year Award for her contribution to the community and the Motor Neurone Disease Association of Victoria awarded her a Life Governorship and instituted The Nina Buscombe Award in her honour. The only daughter of Sydney and Celia Buscombe’s six children was raised in the Box Hill area of Victoria. From October 1942 until 1946 she served with the Women’s Royal Australian Naval Service (WRANS) at Cerberus, Lonsdale and Magnetic. Buscombe joined the Ex-WRANS Association (Victoria) when formed in 1966 and for a number of years she assisted as Honorary Secretary/Treasurer and Honorary Auditor. Following World War II Buscombe completed an accountancy course at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) through the Repatriation Scheme. She spent 1952 and 1953 in England and later worked as an accountant, assistant secretary and volunteer to fundraising committees and auxiliaries with the Victorian School for Deaf Children, before retiring in 1980. Buscombe also was a member of various committees with the Victorian Girl Guides Association for over 10 years, the Victorian Council of Social Services Combined Charities Christmas Card Shop for 18 years and Zonta (Melbourne/Yarra Branch) for over 20 years. In 1981 she became involved with the Motor Neurone Society (later the Motor Neurone Disease Association of Victoria – MNDAV) and helped create the national body. The association recognized her contribution by awarding her Life Governorship and establishing a travel bursary – The Nina Buscombe Award – in her honour. Published resources Journal Article Nina Buscombe, OAM, Buscombe, Tom and Ryan, Brenda, 2003 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 3 December 2003 Last modified 16 September 2013 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

This series consists of typed copies of historical notes relating to the Northern Territory. Includes six documents titled; “List of names linked with Northern Territory history, and a list of ships” (no.1), “History of Darwin today” (no.2), “The Malays” (no.3), “Our Aborigines” (no.4), “Bibliography of the Northern Territory (chronological)” (no.5), and “Derivations of Northern Territory place names” (no.6). The original manuscript was left to the Bread and Cheese Club, Melbourne. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 26 June 2018 Last modified 26 June 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Prior to her election to the House of Representatives as the member for Bennelong in 2007, Maxine McKew was an award-winning journalist with thirty years experience. She hosted a number of programmes on Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) television and radio, most recently Lateline and The 7.30 Report. In 2000 Maxine took up a position with the Bulletin Magazine as a regular contributor of feature interviews with prominent political business and arts/entertainment figures. She is the winner of both a Walkley and a Logie award and is the recipient of a Centenary Medal for services to broadcasting. She remained in the federal Parliament for only one term, as she was defeated at the 2010 election. Maxine McKew was only five years old when her mother died. Her father had a drinking problem and was ill-equipped to take care of her so, after her mother’s death, she lived with her grandparents, who ran a corner shop in the Brisbane beachside suburb of Scarborough. Her grandmother – who McKew regards as the main influence on her life – did most of the work, rising at five to take deliveries, doing the washing in a big old copper, cooking for the family and spending her evenings keeping the books. After three years with her grandparents, McKew’s father remarried. Maxine moved back with her father and had to adjust to living with a stepmother and an increasingly ‘unwell’ father. It was not a happy time. Her stepmother, now a good friend, kept the household together. ‘She ran a very tight ship. As I get older, I am more and more like her,’ says Maxine. Maxine was educated by the Sisters of Mercy at All Hallows’ School, where she was known to be a very good student. She began a degree at the University of Queensland but dropped out. Says McKew, I was bursting to get out there and make enough money to fly away from Brisbane, and I did.’ She travelled to London and worked as a typist with the BBC. From there, her career in journalism developed. She returned to Australia and started with the ABC in Brisbane in 1976 as a cadet reporter for the original This Day Tonight programme. She worked in Adelaide and in Canberra on Nationwide in the 1980s and was also news anchor and reporter on the Carleton/Walsh Report. She was then appointed to the Washington Bureau in 1986. The early nineties saw McKew take up a position as chief political correspondent in Canberra for ABC Radio on the AM and PM programmes. McKew moved to Sydney in 1993 and worked on the business programme The Bottom Line. When the host, Kerry O’Brien, moved into the anchor spot for the 7.30 Report, McKew in turn became Lateline presenter. In that capacity, she interviewed a host of national and international figures, including Tony Blair, Shimon Peres, Chris Patten, Fidel Ramos, B.J. Habibe and Aung Sang Suu Kyi. In the late 1990s, McKew branched out into print journalism and combined her successful ‘Lunch with Maxine McKew’ column for The Bulletin magazine with stand-in anchor duties on both the 7.30 Report and Lateline. For the past ten years, McKew has also been part of the ABC’s federal election commentary team, along with Kerry O’Brien and Antony Green. In 2006, McKew resigned from the ABC in order to seek out ‘new challenges’. Chief amongst them was winning ALP pre-selection and then election for the Sydney seat of Bennelong in the Federal House of Representatives in November 2007. This she did, and on 29 November, 2007, newly elected Prime Minister Kevin Rudd announced that McKew would be his Parliamentary Secretary for Early Childhood Education and Child Care. Maxine McKew delivered her first speech in the House of Representatives on 14 February 2008. Events 1976 - 2006 2007 - 2007 1998 - 1998 Broadcast Presenting – Australian Broadcasting Corporation Published resources Newspaper Article Agent of Influence, Simons, Margaret, 2003, http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/11/07/1068013376610.html Book The Battle for Bennelong: The adventures of Maxine McKew, aged 50something, Saville, Margaret, 2007 Resource Hansard, Parliament of Australia, 2008, http://www.aph.gov.au/hansard/reps/dailys/dr140208.pdf Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Book Section Beyond the Disconnect: Practical Ethics (Interview with Maxine McKew), Lumby, Catharine and Probyn, Elsbeth, 2003 Site Exhibition The Women's Pages: Australian Women and Journalism since 1850, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2008, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/cal/cal-home.html Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 6 November 2007 Last modified 5 September 2012 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

MS 3341 comprises an invitation to a Women’s Literary Society meeting, August 1894; a letter of 17 June 1897, from Sara S. Nolan, colonial president for the New South Wales Woman’s Christian Temperance Union, to Lady Windeyer; and, a letter from Reverend F.B. Boyce to Miss Windeyer, 29 June 1926. The collection also includes two newscuttings, relative to women’s suffrage, taken from The Daily telegraph, 25 December 1923 (1 folder). Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 24 August 2006 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Lyla Daphne Elliott joined the Australian Labor Party in 1955, and was a member of the Legislative Council in Western Australia from 1971 until 1986. Lyla Daphne Elliott was born in Geraldton, Western Australia, in 1934. She was educated at Reedy and Waroona State schools, and completed her Junior Certificate at St Joseph’s Convent, Waroona. Her father, Albert Elliott, worked as a brewer, tool sharpener and fitter and turner. Lyla described her background as ‘working class,’ and her parents as ‘decent living people who struggled all their lives…although not to the point of poverty.’ In May 1976, Lyla married Edwin John (Jack) White, at Caversham, WA. Elliott joined the Australian Labor Party in 1955, and was secretary to the General Secretary of the State Executive of the Australian Labor Party (ALP), F.E. (Joe) Chamberlain, for almost twenty years. She was first elected to the Legislative Council (LC) for the North-East Metropolitan Province, succeeding Ruby Hutchison (the first woman elected to the LC) when she retired in 1971. During her fifteen years in the LC, Elliott consistently raised matters of community concern, particularly those involving injustice. In her inaugural speech Elliott drew urgent attention to the plight of Australia’s indigenous population, and continued to throughout her career to give special emphasis to issues directly affecting women, including equal opportunity, abortion legislation, and family planning. Elliott also chaired a task force for the Burke Government on domestic violence, and worked to address other concerns including child welfare, housing, care of the aged and mental health patients, the treatment of disabled people, animal welfare and nuclear disarmament. Lyla Elliott was the first woman to hold the post of Chairperson of the State Parliamentary Labor Party, from 1978 to 1986. She served extensively in the Labor Party policy committees, including ten years as convenor of the ALP Health and Social Welfare Committee. Earlier, from 1974 to 1976, she was the first woman to be Deputy Chairman of Committees, a position she again occupied from 1983 until her retirement from Parliament in 1986, after which she spent time studying History at Edith Cowan University. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Book We Hold Up Half the Sky: The Voices of Western Australian ALP Women in Parliament, Watson, Judyth [ed.], 1994 Edited Book Biographical Register of Members of the Parliament of Western Australia, Vol. 2, 1930-1990, Black, David and Bolton, Geoffrey, 1990 Book Section Making a Difference: Women in the West Australian Parliament 1921-1999, Black, David and Phillips, Harry, 2000 Site Exhibition The Women's Pages: Australian Women and Journalism since 1850, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2008, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/cal/cal-home.html Archival resources State Library of Western Australia [Interview with Lyla Elliott] [sound recording] / [interviewed by R. Jamieson] [Harold Peden Memorial Lecture by Lyla Elliott; Book launch of Blacklegs by Bill Latter] [sound recording] Lyla Elliott papers, 1962-1985 [manuscript] Author Details Lisa MacKinney Created 7 October 2009 Last modified 16 August 2024 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

From 1974 to 1993 Margaret McAleer served in the Parliament of Western Australia. She was the first non-Labor member of the Legislative Council, and served as Whip from 1980 to 1993. Margaret McAleer was born in 1930 to medical practitioner James McAleer and his wife Kathleen. Margaret was educated at Stella Maris College in Geraldton, Western Australia, then at Loreto Convent in Claremont, Perth. She completed a Bachelor of Arts with Honours (History) at the University of Melbourne, and during this time became a member of the Liberal Party of Australia. She travelled to Europe in 1951, then returned to Perth and studied at the University of Western Australia. During the mid-1950s, McAleer became a director of the Woopenatty Pastoral Company, and through the 1960s was actively involved in farming with her brother at Arrino near Three Springs, about 300 kilometers north of Perth, Western Australia. She served for seven years on the Three Springs Shire Council, and was also a member of the Pastoralists and Graziers’ Association, Farmers’ Union, Country Women’s Association, Business and Professional Women’s Association and Karrakatta Club. In May 1974 Margaret McAleer became the first female non-Labor politician to sit in the Legislative Council, after an unsuccessful attempt to enter the Senate in 1970. McAleer’s extensive farming experience ensured that the needs of her rural constituency were always high on her Parliamentary agenda. She was re-elected for the Upper West Province in 1980 and 1986 and then for the Agricultural Region in 1989. From 1980 to 1983 she held the position of Government Whip, and was Opposition Whip from 1983 to 1993. In 1990 McAleer served as Assistant Shadow Minister for Women’s Interests, and was also member of a Commonwealth Parliamentary Association delegation to Zimbabwe. She retired from politics when her term expired in May 1993. In 1985, McAleer married Angus Cameron, who died in 1988. Margaret McAleer died in 1999 after a long illness. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Edited Book Biographical Register of Members of the Parliament of Western Australia, Vol. 2, 1930-1990, Black, David and Bolton, Geoffrey, 1990 Book Section Making a Difference: Women in the West Australian Parliament 1921-1999, Black, David and Phillips, Harry, 2000 Site Exhibition The Women's Pages: Australian Women and Journalism since 1850, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2008, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/cal/cal-home.html Archival resources State Library of Western Australia [Interview with Margaret McAleer, politician] [sound recording] / [interviewed by Erica Harvey] Author Details Lisa MacKinney Created 7 October 2009 Last modified 21 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Manuscripts, research notes, correspondence, publications. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 6 January 2018 Last modified 29 July 2020 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

A distinguished health professional, Margaret Atkin was also recognised for her service to the Australian Labor Party. She ran as their candidate for Gordon in 1976. Born in Sydney, Margaret Hennessy grew up in Kingsford and was educated at St Vincent’s College, Potts Point. She trained as a general nurse at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital 1952-56 and then did midwifery at the Royal Women’s Hospital, Paddington. Margaret went to London in the late 1950s, worked in various English hospitals and married, in 1960, English-born Ted Atkin. The Atkins returned to Australia in 1962 and settled in Wollongong until 1966, when they moved to Sydney and Margaret began working at the Mater Misericordiae Hospital in North Sydney. She did further training in psychiatric nursing in the 1980s and worked at Ryde Psychiatric Hospital until her retirement in 2001. She was a Director of the Northern Area Health Service from 2002 until its disbandment in 2004. Margaret joined the ALP in 1974 and was awarded a McKell award for service to the party in 2003. Her campaign in Gordon in 1976 was complicated as she was working on night duty at the Mater and had five small children to care for when at home. It is remarkable then, that she outpolled the DLP sitting member, although she did not win the seat, which reverted to the Liberals. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 6 December 2005 Last modified 1 September 2008 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Hope Hewitt reminisces about her childhood and youth in New Zealand and Australia; her studying years in Europe; her private life which took her back to Europe as the wife of Sir Lenox Hewitt and her working life as a female university lecturer, writer, poet and critic. Author Details Patricia Clarke Created 21 June 2012 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Dr Patricia Clarke is a writer, historian, editor and former journalist, who has written extensively on women in Australian history and media history. Several of her publications are biographies of women writers and others explore the role of letters and diaries in the lives of women. Since the 1980s she has played an active part in national cultural institutions and community organisations in Canberra and her work has been recognised by a number of awards and grants. Patricia Clarke was born in Melbourne in 1926, the daughter of John Laurence Ryan, teacher, and Annie Teresa neé McSweeney, bookbinder. Educated at St Anthony’s School, Alphington, and Notre Dame de Sion, Sale, Victoria, she matriculated with honours in 1942. Her studies at the University of Melbourne that included economics, pure maths, English and political science subjects, were interrupted by illness for four years with tuberculosis, which led to a reappraisal of her goals. In 1951 she joined the Commonwealth News and Information Bureau and became the only woman journalist in its Melbourne office, transferring to its Canberra branch in 1957. In 1961 she married Hugh Vincent Clarke (1919-1996), writer, public servant and former prisoner of war in Thailand and Japan. While raising five children, Patricia worked as a casual but full-time journalist with the Australian Broadcasting Commission in the parliamentary press gallery (1963-68); as the editor of Maxwell Newton’s weekly business newsletters (1968-74) and Canberra representative for Daily Commercial News (1968-74) and Editor of Publications with the National Capital Development Commission (1974-79). Since the 1980s, Patricia has published 13 books, innumerable articles and 15 book chapters on women in Australian history and media history. Several of her publications are biographies of women writers and others explore the role of letters and diaries in the lives of women. In 2004 she was awarded a PhD by Griffith University for her thesis, based on six of her books, entitled ‘Life Lines to Life Stories. Some Publications about Women in Nineteenth Century Australia’. She has also played an active part in Australian cultural institutions and community organisations in Canberra. She has been a contributor to and member of the Commonwealth Working Party for the Australian Dictionary of Biography since 1987. At various times she served as President, Vice president and Councillor of the Canberra & District Historical Association (1987-2004 and 2013 to date) and edited the Canberra Historical Journal from 1987-2000. She was a Committee Member of the Centre for Australian Cultural Studies from 1993-2003, was on the Manning Clark House committee in the first part of the 2000s and from 1995-2001 was founding honorary secretary of the Independent Scholars Association of Australia (ISAA). Elected an Honorary Member in 2001, she was a member of ISAA’s ACT council until 2018. A Committee Member of the Friends of the National Library of Australia from 1997-99 and its Deputy Chair in 1998, she represented the Australian Society of Authors as a member of the Library’s Fellowship Advisory Committee from 1997-2017 and chaired its National Folk Fellowship selection Committee 2003-17. She has been an active member of the Canberra committee of the National Foundation of Australia’s Women’s Archive project and served on the ACT Historic Houses Advisory Committee between 2010-16. She has been a Consultant to the Media Hall of Fame from 2011 to the present. Her work has been recognised by a number of awards and grants. She was awarded a NSW Premier’s Department Cultural Grant in 1883; Literature Board Project Grants in 1986 and 1988; a NLA Harold White fellowship in 1993; in 1995 she was joint winner of the Society of Women Writers non-fiction award and was awarded a one-year Fellowship by the Australia Council Literature Fund and a two-year Fellowship in 2000-01; she was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia in June 2001 ‘for services to the promotion of Australian history through research and writing, to the study of Australian writers of the nineteenth century and to the Canberra and District Historical Society’. She was made a Fellow of the Federation of Australian Historical Societies in 2002 and an Honorary Fellow Australian Academy of Humanities in 2005. In 2016 she received the Friends Medal of the National Library of Australia for her significant contribution to the NLA over many years. She is currently working on another book. Events 1995 - 1997 Vice-president of the Canberra & District Historical Society 1997 - 1999 President of the Canberra & District Historical Society 1989 - Member of the Commonwealth Working Party for the Australian Dictionary of Biography 1993 - Committee Member of the Centre for Australian Cultural Studies (ACT) 1995 - 2001 Founding Honorary Secretary of the Independent Scholars Association of Australia (ISAA) 1997 - 1999 Member of the National Library of Australia’s Friends Committee 1999 - 1999 Vice-president of the National Library of Australia’s Friends Committee 1989 - 1989 Australia Council, Literature Broad Project Grant 1993 - 1993 Harold White Fellow at the National Library of Australia 1995 - 1995 Joint winner of the Society of Women Writers non-fiction award (for Tasma 1995 - 1995 One-year Fellowship from the Literature Board at the Australia Council 2001 - 2002 Two-year Fellowship from the Literature Board at the Australia Council 2001 - 2001 Awarded a Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) For service to the promotion of Australian history through research and writing, to the study of Australian women writers of the 19th Century, and to the Canberra and District Historical Society 2002 - 2002 Awarded a Fellow from the Federation of Australian Historical Societies 1987 - Councillor with the Canberra & District Historical Society 2000 - 2002 Committee Member at Manning Clark House 1951 - 1961 With the News and Information Bureau, Melbourne, Journalist Grade D, Canberra, Journalist Grade C 1963 - 1968 Casual Journalist Grade B with ABC in Canberra 1968 - 1974 Journalist (Grade A) /Editor of weekly business newsletters with M Newton publications 1974 - 1979 Editor of publications (Journalist Grade A1) with the National Capital Development Commission 1985 - 1985 New South Wales Premier’s Department Social History grant 1987 - 1987 Australia Council, Literature Board Project Grant 1998 - 1998 Member of the National Scholarly Communications Forum (representing Australian Society of Authors) Published resources Edited Book The Equal Heart and Mind: Letters between Judith Wright and Jack McKinney, Clarke, Patricia and McKinney, Meredith, 2004 With Love & Fury: Selected Letters of Judith Wright, Clarke, Patricia and McKinney, Meredith, 2007 Newspaper Article Rich addition to area history, Clarke, Patricia, 2002 The Federation decade, Bryant, John, 2001 Those perfect English ladies, Clarke, Patricia, 2001 Women who shaped an era, Clarke, Patricia, 2001 "Comfort women" of the colonies, Clarke, Patricia, 2001 Fascinating letters inspire novel, Clarke, Patricia, 2001 Fighter for women's rights, Clarke, Patricia, 2001 Journal Article Rosa! Rosa! : a life of Rosa Praed, novelist and spiritualist, Kingston, Beverly, 2000 Rosa! Rosa! A Life of Rosa Praed, Novelist and Spiritualist, Evans, Julie, 2001 Rosa! Rosa! A Life of Rosa Praed, Novelist and Spiritualist, Ferres, Kay, 2002 Nettie Palmer : search for an aesthetic, Clarke, Patricia, 2000 Book The governesses: letters from the colonies 1862-1882, Clarke, Patricia, 1985 Site Exhibition The Women's Pages: Australian Women and Journalism since 1850, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2008, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/cal/cal-home.html 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 Patricia Clarke, 1887-2010 [manuscript] National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Patricia Clarke interviewed by Ann Moyal [sound recording] Patricia Clarke interviewed by David Walker in the Australia-Asia studies oral history project [sound recording] Author Details Mary Sexton & Ann-Mari Jordens Created 3 November 2003 Last modified 29 October 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

25 minutes??Dorothy Somerville talks about the first meeting of the Lyceum Club, the early members, membership, her schooling at the Brownhill Creek School in Mitcham and the Methodists’ Ladies College, Adelaide Law School, and the university rowing club Author Details Anne Heywood Created 6 April 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Items/Issues Held:?no.1 (1984:Apr) – no.2 (1984:Jul)?no.4 (1985:Jul) – no.34 (1994:Oct)?no.35 (1995:Spring) – no.38 (1996:Winter)?no. 39-40 (1997)?no. 41-55 (1997:Nov. – 2002:Mar.) Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 11 September 2006 Last modified 1 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Members of a women’s hockey team representing South Australia; third from left front is Evelyn Tazewell and fourth from left front is Nessie Magarey. Nessie (Agnes Campbell) Magarey was born in 1887 and died in 1965. Both women were leaders in SA and Australian Hockey. Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 18 September 2006 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

1. Correspondence, 1933-1992. Correspondents include many literary figures?2. Appointments diaries, 1974-1991?3. Bibliography of literary works, 1987-1990?4. Poetry, 1978-1993?5. Novel, ca. 1980 (unpublished)?6. Short stories, 1952-1992?7. Reviews and articles, 1967-1991?8. Lectures and speeches, 1972-1989?9. Autobiographical material, 1913-1992?10. Notebooks, 1946-1980?11. Folklore, 1979-1991?12. Jewish literature and history, 1963-1992?13. Historical writing, 1960-1988?14. Papers re Andras Dezsery, 1988-1991?15. Legal and financial records, 1954-1991?16. Papers re The Keesing Studio in Paris, 1984-1992?17. Membership of Boards – Literature Board, Winifred West Schools, Kuring-Gai College, Geraldine Pascall Foundation, Overland Society, 1973-1992?18. Travel, 1983-1990?19. Miscellaneous, 1980-1992?20. Bibliographic records and printed material, 1980-1993 Author Details Alannah Croom Created 10 April 2018 Last modified 10 April 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

1 hour??Eve Ainsworth was born in Adelaide, South Australia and was adopted in infancy by the couple whose name she was given. Eve’s childhood was spent at Tarcoola and Port Augusta, and later at Ashfield. In 1933 Eve began training at the Hutt Street Private Hospital, and did midwifery training in Melbourne. She was called up for duty with the Australian Army Nursing Service in 1941 and went to the Middle East later that year. On her return to Australia Eve nursed in Queensland, until her marriage in 1944. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 8 April 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

A founder of the Winnunga Nimmityjah Aboriginal Health Service, Olive Brown was central in the fight to improve Aboriginal health services generally in the Canberra region. An inspirational figure and tireless promoter of community services, Olive Brown was a central combatant in the fight to improve Aboriginal health services in the Canberra region. While most widely recognised in Canberra as the founder of the Winnunga Nimmityjah Aboriginal Health Service, Olive Brown had a varied, rich life before arriving in the capital in 1987. After training as a teacher’s aid at Sydney University, Brown worked for the Rural Bank. Utilising her natural beauty and iconic Australian looks, Brown also modelled for the Australian Wool Board and David Jones in the 1960s. She starred as part of a ‘bunch of Australian beauties – blondes and brunettes, out-doorsy or sophisticated, of European or indigenous stock’ in a 1969 feature called ‘Beautiful Australians’ in Vogue magazine. Winnunga Nimmityjah, which means strong health in the Wiradjuri language, was established in 1988 by a group of local Ngunnawal people, the Traditional Owners of the lands that form the ACT. Inspired by the influx of people from across the nation around the time of the opening of the new Parliament House in May 1988 and the Queen’s visit, Olive Brown recognised the need to set up a temporary medical service at the Tent Embassy site and enlisted the support of Dr Sally Creasey, Carolyn Patterson (registered nurse/midwife), Margaret McCleod and other volunteers to assist. Thus Winnunga was created. From this transient beginning, formed by the movement of people, Winnunga became a permanent entity, taking up residence in the back rooms of Shortcuts, a youth support centre in the city. From 1989 to 1990, Winnunga ran a clinic twice a week (Tuesday and Thursday mornings) and on Saturday mornings. The current Winnunga Medical Director, Peter Sharp, began work at Winnunga in 1989. Other staff worked as volunteers. The then ACT Minister for Health, Wayne Berry, was shocked by its accommodation in a visit to the service in 1989. In 1990 he was able to provide a small amount of funding. By January 1990 the service began full-time operations. In 1991 the clinic was operating out of the Griffin Centre, from 1998-2004 in Ainslie and is today located in Boolimba Crescent, Narrabundah. While the centre has struggled to gain adequate funding and resources, and to keep up with an increasing demand for its services, it has persevered despite the challenges. Olive Brown’s vision of a community empowered to know and own information about itself, therefore enabling self-determined planning and decision making is central to Winnunga’s fabric and drive. In Chief Investigator Michele Moloney’s dedication to “‘Bumpa Shooters’ A study of the smoking habits among the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community of the ACT region”, she noted Brown’s conviction that health care needed to be reintroduced as a process in Aboriginal people’s lifestyles: ‘That not only do we need to have access to Aboriginal services, but we also need to be at the forefront of identifying the issues and developing the processes which will ensure wellness and holistic health.’ It was this fundamental component which she saw as Aboriginal people’s right to self-reliance and self determination at community, family and individual levels. Olive Brown’s frenetic activity as adviser, helper and friend drove her to help set up the Aboriginal Children’s Service, the Murralingabung Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Drug and Alcohol Organisation, and be active as a member of the executive of the Diocesan Pastoral Council of the Catholic Archdiocese of Canberra and Goulburn for two years, and a member of the Council for four. Her active commitment to the ACT Aboriginal community and beyond continued until the end of her life. As her sister Kaye Mundine noted in her obituary, it said a lot about the pace and nature at which Olive Brown lived her life that it ended while meeting with friends early on a Sunday morning, 31 January 1993. This entry was prepared in 2006 by Roslyn Russell and Barbara Lemon, Museum Services, and funded by the ACT Heritage Unit. Published resources Resource Winnunga Nimmityjah Aboriginal Health Service, http://www.winnunga.org.au Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition From Lady Denman to Katy Gallagher: A Century of Women's Contributions to Canberra, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2013, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/ldkg Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 4 May 2006 Last modified 12 February 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Marian Eldridge was an acclaimed short-story writer, novelist and poet, and was instrumental in establishing the ACT Writers Centre. Her legacy is the Marian Eldridge Award to nurture promising women writers. (This entry is sponsored by generous donation from Christine Foley.) Marian Eldridge grew up on her parents’ property, ‘The Gap’, near Lancefield in Victoria. She graduated Bachelor of Arts from the University of Melbourne in 1957. She married Ken Eldridge in 1958 and lived at Traralgon, Victoria until 1966 and in Canberra from 1966 to 1997. The couple had four children. Eldridge worked as a high school teacher of English and History in Traralgon, Victoria and in the ACT, and as a literature tutor at the Centre for Continuing Education, Australian National University. She became a prolific short story writer, and collections of her work were published in Walking the Dog (1984), The Woman at the Window (1989) which earned high praise from the New York Times Book Review in 1990, and The Wild Sweet Flowers: The Alvie Skerritt Stories (1994) which chronicled ‘the life of a fairly typical Australian family’. Her work also appeared in a number of newspapers and academic journals and more than twenty short story collections. She also published a novel, Springfield (1992), which used healing of the land as a metaphor for healing its characters, who were damaged by drug abuse and the Vietnam war. In 1996 she wrote twelve poems that were published in the Senate Hansard of 19 June 1997. Eldridge was a book reviewer for the Canberra Times and the Australian Book Review, and became the first literature co-ordinator for the ACT Arts Council in 1986. She was writer-in-residence at Darwin High School in 1989, received an ACT Arts Bureau Literary Fellowship in 1992 and an Australia Council Literary Board Grant 1994. She was a member of Seven Writers – a group of seven Canberra-based women writers whose work vividly portrayed life ‘beneath the surface of Canberra’ – and as part of this collective she contributed to Canberra Tales (1988), republished as The Division of Love in 1996, which was an anthology of short stories about life in Canberra. The work received an ACT Bicentennial Award. Eldridge’s other awards included: the Robin Hood Committee Annual Literature Competition (1972); the Canberra Times /Commonwealth Bank national Short Story Award (1981); the Syme Community Newspapers Short Story Competition (1983) and International Year of the Family Award in the NSW State Literary Awards (1994). Marian Eldridge was instrumental in establishing the ACT Writers Centre and in the last few months of her life she expressed a desire to further nurture writers. Through a cash donation from her estate, the Marian Eldridge Award was established in 1998, under the auspices of the National Foundation for Australian Women, to encourage an aspiring woman writer to undertake a literary activity such as a short course of study, or to complete a project, or attend a writers’ week or a conference. Six awards have been given to date. Eldridge Crescent is named after her in the Canberra suburb of Garran where she lived and wrote for 30 years. Published resources Book The Division of Love: Stories, Barbalet, Margaret et al, 1995 Springfield, Eldridge, Marian, 1992 Photograph Collection of Marian Eldridge photographs, 1994, http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-an20811737 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition From Lady Denman to Katy Gallagher: A Century of Women's Contributions to Canberra, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2013, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/ldkg Archival resources National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Records of the Seven Writers group, between 1986 and approximately 2000 Papers of Marian Eldridge, 1942-1997 [manuscript] National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Marian Eldridge interviewed by Heather Rusden [sound recording] Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 1 June 2006 Last modified 20 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

-Folio 1: 3 Latin lyrics: At beauty’s altar?- Take thou this rose?- Fire in my heart?- and, Thoughts at dark.?- Folio 2: Nightfall at the river / by Miriam Hyde ; [lyric by W. Alder Mollison]. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 15 February 2018 Last modified 15 February 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Karin Geradts stood as a candidate for the Australian Greens Party in the Legislative Assembly seat of Broadmeadows at the Victorian state election, which was held on 30 November 2002. She stood again unsuccessfully at the 2006 election as the Greens candidate in the seat of Yan Yean. Karin Geradts lives in Hurstbridge and is a primary school teacher. She is committed to conserving the natural environment and is a member of the Cottlesbridge Landcare and the Green Wedge Protection Group. 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 30 July 2008 Last modified 5 September 2012 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

54 pages of correspondence from Kathleen Fitzpatrick to Mr and Mrs John Pitt. Correspondence including loose page letters and aerograms. Kathleen Fitzpatrick writing from Rome, Palermo, Rapallo and Madrid, Spain. Mainly personal correspondence but includes references to giving a lecture about Australia to the International Women’s Society in Milan (1961) and another about Henry James to the British Institute in Milan (1961) while she was on leave from Melbourne University; discussion about planning further university leave; and arrangements relating to the lease of her property in Grattan Street, Carlton. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 30 December 2017 Last modified 30 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Minute books, 2 September, 1890-24 September 1893; 21 November, 1916-22 July, 1925. Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 2 October 2003 Last modified 29 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)