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Mary Rivett was trained as a psychologist and lectured briefly at the University of Sydney. With her sister Elsie she formed the free Children’s Library and Crafts Club in 1922. In 1934 they formed the Children’s Library and Crafts Movement which after their death became the Creative Leisure Movement. Educated Universities of Sydney (BA 1918) and Cambridge (first-class honours in psychology 1921). Lecturer, Bedford College, University of London ca1922, returned to Sydney 1922. University extension lecturer in psychology 1923-27, lectured at the Kindergarten Training College and edited her father’s paper the “Federal Independent”. Rivett left the university to promote faith healing and was interested in telepathy. She formed the free Children’s Library and Crafts Club 1922, and in 1934 the Children’s Library and Crafts Movement, of which she was secretary-organiser until 1961. Published resources Resource Where are the Women in Australian science?, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, 2003, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/wisa/wisa.html Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Resource Section Rivett, Doris Mary (1896 - 1969), Godden, J., 2006 Rivett, Elsie Grace (1887-1964), 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A110711b.htm Archival resources National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Papers of Elizabeth Long relating to the Rivett family, circa 1860-1960 [manuscript] Author Details Elle Morrell Created 9 February 2001 Last modified 5 March 2013 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Autographed manuscript poems by Louisa Lawson with carbon typescript and newspaper cutting Author Details Alannah Croom Created 7 November 2017 Last modified 7 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

The Australian Women’s Army Service (AWAS) was established on 13 August 1941, to release men from certain military duties for service with fighting units. The Service recruited women between the ages of 18 and 45 and they served in a variety of roles including clerks, typists, cooks and drivers. In 1945 a contingent was sent to Lae and a small group went to Holland. In June 1947, owing to the end of World War II, the AWAS was disbanded. On 13 August 1941 the War Cabinet of the Australian Government gave approval for the Formation and Control of an Australian Army Women’s Service to release men from military duties for employment with fighting units. The name was later changed to Australian Women’s Army Service (AWAS). From the time of the appointment of the Controller AWAS on 29 September 1941, until cessation of hostilities in August 1945, 24,026 women enlisted as volunteers in the Service. Hitherto there had been no women accepted by the Army except those in the Medical Services and the potentialities of women in other trades and professions had not been utilised. In addition, as the Service expanded women with no particular qualifications, apart from general intelligence were used in various occupations where willingness to serve and general adaptability were the main requirements. The first 29 officers were a representative selection of Australian women appointed after many women had been interviewed in each State. It was considered essential that those selected for the first officers appointments should have proved themselves as leaders in their own trade or profession or in some form of community service. They were expected to have qualities of enthusiasm and confidence in the contribution which women could take to the Army, balance and dependability in carrying through a task, consideration for the requirements and needs of other women, and most importantly, tact and patience necessary for pioneering a new organisation. The first Officer’s Training School was held in Victoria in November-December 1941. During this time Japan entered the war and the need for womanpower in the Army was accentuated, recruiting and training commenced as soon as AWAS Officers returned to their areas. The types of recruits were quite splendid, alert, responsible and invariably inspired to volunteer by strong personal motives. Initially the Army only envisaged that women would be employed as clerks, typists, cooks and motor transport drivers, and in small numbers, however, the demand grew very quickly and by the end of 1942 12,000 recruits had been enlisted and trained. While at first AWAS were posted only to Headquarters, and Base Installations, they later took up duty, after specialist training in almost all Army Services. It is of interest to note that 3,618 served with the Royal Australian Artillery and they manned the Fixed Defences of Australia from Hobart in the South and Cairns in the North, and Perth in the West. And again 3,600 served in the Australian Corps of Signals, where they proved themselves well adapted for the type of work required of them. Officers and other ranks of the Australian Intelligence Corps were commended for highly secret work. Motor transport drivers had truly varied lives driving cars, ambulances, trucks (up to 3 tons), jeeps, floating jeeps, Bren Gun Carriers, amphibious vehicles and driving convoys in all weathers. Australian Army Ordnance Corps employed 2,600 on a variety of tasks, some requiring a high degree of skill and all a marked degree of patience and perseverance. While quite unusual and somewhat trying work was carried out at the Proof and Experimental Range. Cooks, caterers and canteen workers were just as important as skilled Cipher clerks. There were several butchers in the AWAS. In 1945 War Cabinet gave special approval for 500 AWAS to serve outside Australia. These members were posted to HQ 1st Aust. Army in New Guinea, 350 were selected and sailed on the MV Duntroon in May 1945. In 1946, 1 Officer, 3 NCO’s, and 1 Private AWAS were included in the Army quota of 160 personnel in the Victory March contingent for London June 1946. During 5 ½ years AWAS served throughout Australia from Darwin to Hobart, in populous parts and in some very lonely places. Each one according to her character and talents served Australia faithfully and well. The Service was disbanded in June 1947. Statistics October 1941 – Initial establishment for 1,600 women January 1942 – Establishment increased to 6,000 women August 1942 – Establishment increased to 20,000 (at the time strength was 9,000) Total Enlistments – 24026 Maximum Strength – 20,051 in January 1944 Officers numbered – 679 (Colonel 1, Lt Cols 4, Majors 22, Capt. 93, Lieut. 559) AWAS Units Recruiting Depots in all areas. 71 AWAS Barracks. Administrative Cadre for Welfare Officers. Training Schools – LHQ Officers Schools – 25 Courses. NCOs Schools, AWAS Recruit Training Battalions & Coys. P & RT Schools, Supervisory Personnel School. These training units later became Army Women’s Services school and trained AWAS and Australian Army Medical Women’s Service (AAMWS). Recreation Centres 4 (1 Northern Territory, 3 Queensland) AWAS first served on HQs and Base Installations and in the second half of 1942, employment was extended generally and covered Units as follows:- HQ 1st & 2nd Aust. Army, HQ 2nd & 3rd Aust Corps. HQ 8th Aust. Div., HQ Lae Base Sub-Area, Camp Staffs. Artillery, Engineers, Survey, Signals, Infantry, Intelligence, Supply & Transport, Ordnance, AEME, Pay, Veterinary, Postal, Provost, Printing & Stationary, Canteens, Amenities, Education, Schools including RMC, Aust. Staff College & Training Units; Salvage. AWAS worked as Drivers in Car Coys, and regimental establishments. Drove cars, 3 ton trucks, Jeeps, Brenguin Carriers, amphibious vehicles, ambulances and attended to the maintenance of vehicles. They worked in watercraft workshops and in AEME repair shops: all duties connected with Signals, in the Broadcasting Unit, in Entertainment Unit, photographic unit, in Field Trail Coys. They manned A/A guns and Searchlights and they worked as hairdressers (women only), as mess and kitchen staff including several butchers and as interpreters. Officers were appointed to staff duties as follows: AAG (Women’s Services), Director of Military Training, Signal Officer in Chief, Chaplain’s Department, Director of Education, Director Public Relations, Director of Amenities, Director of Rehabilitation, In Quartering, Military Intelligence, Psychology and as ADC to a GOC. Special duties were performed by an Anthropologist, a linguist, a Veterinary Surgeon, a sculptress; also as guards for Italian female internees in hospital and assisted in courts and in one mental home during an emergency. Several ADCs were appointed from time to time for duty with the Colonel-in-Chief of AWAS. This office was accepted by the wife of the Governor-General and was held in turn by: Her Excellency The Lady Gowrie Her Excellency Lady Dugan Her Royal Highness The Duchess of Gloucester. AWAS in RAA numbered 3,618 in Fixed Defence AWAS in Signals numbered 3,600. Published resources Book Women in khaki, Oliff, Lorna, 1981 AWAS : women making history, 1988 Memoirs of an AWAS driver, Staube, Lorna Staub, 1989 Australian women at war, Adam-Smith, Patsy, 1984 We answered the call : AWAS of Western Australia and their mates, Tucker, Eileen, 1991 History of the Women's Australian National Services, 1940-1946, 1947 2nd Australian Ambulance Car Company, 1942-1946., [198-] Khaki-clad and glad : 30 years after, A.W.A.S. Association (N.S.W.), [1971] Remember, Penrose, Patricia (Ed. and convenor), c1992 Candles in the sky, Alldritt, Nancy, [1998] You'll be sorry!, Howard, Ann, 1990 We also served, far north coast N.S.W. ex-servicewomen 1939-1945, Buckley, Martin J., c1995 Colonel Best and her soldiers: The Story of the 33 years of the Women's Royal Australian Army Corps, Ollif, Lorna, 1985 Edited Book Backing up the boys : the Australian Women's Army Service and Albury army area, Martin, Desmond (Ed.), 1988 A special job : the Wheatstone girls, 1943-45, Kirby, June (compiled and edited by), 1999 Resource Section Australian Women and World War ll: Kit, http://infocus.sl.nsw.gov.au/res/resdesc.cfm?res_code=1269 The mobilisation of women into active services / the 'Yankee' invasion / How the war affected women, http://infocus.sl.nsw.gov.au/res/resdesc.cfm?res_code=1272 Australian Servicewomen's Memorial, Southwell-Keely, Michael, 1999, http://www.skp.com.au/memorials/pages/00018.htm Book Section Women in wartime - May Douglas, who played a prominent part in the Australian Women's Army Service raised in August, 1941, contributes some of her memories, Douglas, May Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources State Library of Victoria Papers, ca. 1941-1946 [manuscript]. State Library of New South Wales Australian Women's Army Service Association (N.S.W.) : pictorial material Cutler family - papers, 1909-1995 Sibyl Howy Irving scrapbooks relating to the Australian Women's Army Service, 1941-1946 Australian War Memorial, Research Centre Group of Australian Women's Army Service officers from the Victorian Land Headquarters on the steps of the Shrine of Remembrance Two senior members of the Australian Women's Army Service (AWAS) taking a wreath into the Shrine of Remembrance during the Armistice Day ceremony An informal group of members of the Australian Women's Army Services (AWAS) model their improvised costumes for a musical comedy and revue. General Sir Thomas Blamey inspects units of the Australian Women's Army Service at their headquarters Major M. K. Deasey, Australian Women's Army Service (AWAS) Portrait of Major Kathleen Deasey who in November 1941 was appointed Assistant Controller in Victoria of the Australian Womens' Army Service. Some of the 900 members of the Australian Women's Army Service taking part in a march past as a farewell to Major Lorna Byrne Major Lorna Byrne, Assistant Controller, Australian Women's Army Service, Land Headquarters AWAS wants 100's of Australia's keenest women urgently… Release a man. Join the A.W.A.S. Australian Women's Army Service (AWAS, Northern Territory) Tucker, Eileen (Corporal, b.1920) Woods , Mrs H A Interview with Jean Scott (When the war came to Australia) Australian servicewomen's memorial John Oxley Library, Manuscripts and Business Records Collection 3336 Australian Women's Army Service Association Queensland Inc. Records Author Details Anne Heywood Created 14 October 2002 Last modified 12 June 2009 Digital resources Title: AWAS wants 100's... Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

19 minute books (1946-2003), financial statements (1946-2003), 1 cardboard expanding file containing general information, 6 books recording matters passed at meetings, 6 attendance books. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 20 August 2003 Last modified 20 August 2003 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

The Australian Comforts Fund was established in August 1916 to co-ordinate the activities of the state based patriotic funds, which were established earlier in World War I. Mainly run by women, they provided and distributed free comforts to the Australian ‘fit’ fighting men in all the battle zones. They became divisions of the Australian Comforts Fund. The Council of the Fund comprised two delegates from New South Wales, Victoria and Queensland and one from the states of Western Australia, South Australia and Tasmania. The Executive headquarters was located in Sydney. It ceased operation on 10 April 1920 and was reconstituted in World War II in June 1940 and ceased operation again on 27 June 1946. The state bodies in World War I were: New South Wales: the ‘Citizens’ ‘War Chest’ Fund; Queensland Patriotic Fund; South Australia: League of Loyal Women; Tasmania: ‘On Active Service Fund’; Australian Comforts Fund, Victorian Division; Victoria League of Western Australia. During World War II the state bodies were called : The Lord Mayor’s Patriotic and War Fund of New South Wales; the Australian Comforts Fund, Victorian Division; the Australian Comforts Fund, Queensland Division; the Australian Comforts Fund, Tasmanian Division; the Fighting Forces Comforts Fund SA Inc; the Victoria League Camp Comforts Fund ( W A ) Australian Comforts Fund commissioners conducted its activities in the field, holding honorary rank as officers of the Army or Air Force. Published resources Book Proud story: the official history of the Australian Comforts Fund, Jackson, C O Badham, 1949 Edited Book The History of the Australian Comforts Fund: being the official record of a voluntary civilian organisation which during the Great War (1914-1919) and until the return of all the Australian troops (1920) provided and distributed free comforts to the Australian fit fighting men in all the battle zones and in other ways alleviated the distress inevitable in war, Bowden, Samuel H, [1922] Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection Australian Comforts Fund papers, 1916-1919 Author Details Rosemary Francis and Carolyne Carter Created 1 June 2004 Last modified 29 April 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

2 hours 50 minutes??Lesley Cuthbertson, nee Cox, was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) in the Australia Day honours list, 1998, for service to child development, in particular as the Director of the Lesley Cox School of Music, Movement and Drama, and to the community. Lesley Cuthbertson was born in Unley, South Australia. She speaks about her early education; nervous illness; introduction to Eurythmics with Heather Gell; her office work; marriage to her first cousin Roderic in 1947; adopting their 3 children; development of the Lesley Cox School of Music, Movement and Drama; charity work; working with children with disabilities; producing books; radio and television programs (Playroom); and inclusion of her methods into teacher training in 1998. She also discusses various productions that she staged including Sacred Dance in 1962 for the Festival of Arts, receiving her OAM, and the scholarship she has set up to honour her late niece, Robin Follett. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 10 May 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Elizabeth Bilney was a founding member of the Women’s Electoral Lobby in the Australian Capital Territory during the mid-1970s and took a lead in the campaign for working mothers’ access to childcare. She made a significant contribution to the acceptance of the right of children to good care and the responsibility of government to support this in Australia. Elizabeth also edited and managed the publication of The Heritage of Australia (1981) for Macmillan of Australia in association with the Australian Heritage Commission; she established the journalHeritage Australia for the Australian Council of National Trusts, and was publishing co-ordinator for the National Gallery of Australia, and publications manager for the National Library of Australia. Elizabeth Joan Gunton was born in Yorketown, South Australia on 12 August 1943, the second of three daughters to schoolteachers James Donald Gunton and Jessie Helen McLellan. The family lived in Stansbury at the time of the birth and James Gunton’s job as a rural school inspector prompted moves to Streaky Bay in 1945, Port Lincoln in 1948, Kadina in 1951 and Adelaide in 1953. The young Elizabeth Gunton and her sisters attended local primary schools. Her younger sister, Barbara, as a toddler learning speech, metamorphosed Elizabeth’s four syllables into ‘Bibi’, a name used by some close friends and family for the rest of her life. Elizabeth was selected to attend Adelaide Girls’ High School (AGHS) and studied there from 1956-1960. Headmistress, Vera Macghey’s, commitment to equal rights for women was a formative influence. From AGHS Elizabeth won a Commonwealth Scholarship to Adelaide University where she commenced a Bachelor of Science in 1961 but left early to take up a cadetship with the Institute of Medical and Veterinary Science where she discovered she was allergic to chemicals. During her time at Adelaide University Elizabeth played a significant part in university revues with her creative design and sewing skills. Gordon Bilney, whom Elizabeth met at Adelaide University and later married, writes, “In the university revues – she was a major contributor in the costume-making part of the productions, which was actually a big deal since original costumes were a big part of the shows. And very good she was too – a skill she carried on into our early marriage years.” From 1963-1965 Elizabeth worked as a reference librarian at the South Australian Public Library during which time she completed a Diploma in Librarianship. She moved to Sydney to take up a position at Sydney University’s Fisher Library in 1966 and the following year she married Gordon Bilney in Manila, where he was on a diplomatic posting with the Australian Department of External Affairs. Elizabeth and Gordon Bilney lived in Manila from 1967 to1969, during which time Elizabeth worked for the Asian Development Bank. While living back in Canberra, she gave birth to Caroline Jane Bilney in 1970 and Sarah Louise Bilney in 1971. Further diplomatic postings took Elizabeth, Gordon, Caroline and Sarah Bilney to Geneva (1971-1972), Paris (1975-1977) and Kingston, Jamaica (1980-1982). While in Canberra during the middle years of Gough Whitlam’s prime ministership (1973-1974), Elizabeth discovered the childcare difficulties she had experienced overseas were as problematic in Australia. She became a founding member of the Women’s Electoral Lobby (WEL) in the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) and took a lead in the campaign for working mothers’ access to childcare. In 1973 Elizabeth and other ACT WEL activists approached Marie Coleman, Social Welfare Commission Chair, to discuss how best to pursue their ideas about expanding childcare. Later Prime Minister Gough Whitlam requested a policy report from the Social Welfare Commission and this was published in 1974 as Project Care, Parents Children Community. Susan Ryan, a senior minister in the Hawke government (1983-1991) wrote to Elizabeth shortly before she died, ” we all take satisfaction from the reforms for women and children we were able to embed in the agendas of Labor governments, so firmly that even Liberal coalition governments have never dislodged them. You were a heroine of childcare … the near universal acceptance of the right of children to good care and the responsibility of government to support this, constitutes a real revolution. Your work was crucial in bringing this revolution about.” Yet this significant work was something Elizabeth’s inherent humility prevented her from talking about so that it was only at her funeral when husband Allen Mawer mentioned these achievements in Elizabeth’s eulogy that some younger family members and friends became aware of her earlier activism and significant achievements for women and children in Australia. Back in Canberra in the late 1970s, between the Paris and Jamaica postings, Elizabeth edited and managed the publication of The Heritage of Australia (1981) for Macmillan of Australia in association with the Australian Heritage Commission. This became her magnum opus from which she moved on to establishing the journal Heritage Australia for the Australian Council of National Trusts, and later became publishing co-ordinator for the National Gallery of Australia, and publications manager for the National Library of Australia. In 1990 Elizabeth took up freelance editing and for the next fourteen years she worked as a consultant on a wide range of publications including Decorative arts and design from the Powerhouse Museum (1991) and the National Foundation for Australian Women (NFAW) Social Policy Committee Health Futures report. Elizabeth’s marriage to Gordon Bilney ended in 1992. Seven years later – on 31 December 1999 – she married Allen Mawer, author and former senior executive at the Department of Employment, Education and Training. Elizabeth Bilney and Allen Mawer lived at Wallaroo, New South Wales (NSW) where Elizabeth established a garden in the challenging soil of their home above the Murrumbidgee River. In retirement, from 1998, Elizabeth became involved in the Australian National Botanic Gardens, Canberra, as a member of the Friends’ Committee, newsletter editor and volunteer guide. She also engaged with the creativity that had her designing and constructing theatre costumes at Adelaide University in the 1960s and took up jewellery making. She particularly enjoyed setting sea glass from the Walter Hood wreck at Bendalong where she had been part owner with a group of friends in a holiday home since 1979. Another of Elizabeth’s significant achievement that compels acknowledgment is the parenting of her daughters, Caroline and Sarah. In his tribute to Elizabeth at her funeral in Canberra on 1 November 2010, her husband Allen Mawer said “She was immensely proud of Callie and Sarah. With careers as well as partners and children, they had grown into the kind of women she had encouraged them to be; like her, independent, resourceful and self-confident.” Published resources Elizabeth Bilney died of cancer on 26 September 2010 at Clare Holland House, Canberra’s hospice. Newspaper Article A champion of equal rights - Elizabeth 'Bibi' Bilney., 2010 Edited Book Who's Who in Australia, 1988, Cadman, Kerith A, 1988 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 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Niki Francis Created 13 October 2011 Last modified 5 March 2013 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

34 minutes??A recording of the launch of the second stage of the State Library of South Australia’s Honoured Women Oral History Project in the Lecture Theatre of the Institute Building. Bronwyn Halliday, Director of the State Library, chairs the launch and introduces the Hon. Diana Laidlaw MLC, Minister for the Status?of Women, and Beth Robertson, Manager, Audio-Visual Project Team, State Library. The Minister reflects on the project’s instigation and in particular her annual luncheon for new women recipients of Australia Day and Queen’s Birthday honours. Ms Robertson explains the focus of the project and promotes the Library’s J D Somerville Oral History Collection that now contains a substantial archive about women’s community service. She plays excerpts from Honoured Women interviews. Speeches and an interview excerpt include references to recently deceased Dame Roma Mitchell. Pianist Stella Panozzo plays before and after the speeches. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 3 May 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

The Germaine Greer Archive currently fills 487 archive boxes (occupying 82 metres of shelf space) mainly documenting the period 1959-2010. It is still in the process of being created; two deposits were received in 2016 and a third was delivered by Germaine Greer in March 2017. The University of Melbourne purchased the archive in 2013.??The archive documents Greer’s work as an academic, a film, TV and theatre performer, a writer (notably her extensive work as a journalist) and an environmentalist, as well as her personal relationships with friends, lovers, family, colleagues, students and fans.??A detailed list of the archive and access conditions is available via the link below. Created 20 July 2020 Last modified 31 August 2020 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Papers include:, details of Melbourne’s first charitable institutions, Melbourne Benevolent Asylum, Melbourne Orphan Asylum, the work of Mrs James Simpson, and many other women; and, correspondence re above signed by Mrs E. J. MacMicking, dated 1912 and 1921. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 27 November 2017 Last modified 27 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

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Diana Graham was a member of the Women’s Electoral Lobby (WEL) Rape Law Reform Action Group from 1976, and co-convenor of the WEL Family Law Action Group from 1977. Di Graham was central to the debate on probate duties. Legislation around probate duties discriminated against women, she argued, as wives were obliged to wait for the probate period to expire despite their substantial direct and indirect contributions to assets which were seen as wholly belonging to their husbands or partners. Graham was convenor of the WEL probate group from c.1973. From 1977, Graham was co-convenor (with Dr Jocelynne A. Scutt) of the WEL Family Law Action Group, of which Kerry Heubel was also an active member. She wrote numerous submissions to federal members of parliament, including a submission (written with Scutt and Heubel) to the joint select parliamentary committee on the Family Law Act in 1979. In 1976, Graham had become a member of the WEL Rape Law Reform Action Group (again, convened by Scutt). The WEL draft bill on rape and other sexual offences formed the basis of rape law reform around Australia as well as substantially affecting reform and reform discussions in Aotearoa/New Zealand, the United Kingdom, Fiji, Canada and the USA. It was the basis of discussion at the first national conference on rape law reform, held in Hobart, Tasmania, in 1980 and hosted jointly by the Australian Institute of Criminology, the Tasmanian Law Reform Commission, and the University of Tasmania Law School. Published resources Edited Book Different Lives, Scutt, Jocelynne A., 1987 Conference Proceedings Rape Law Reform, Scutt, Jocelynne A., 1980 Book Getting Equal: the History of Australian Feminism, Lake, Marilyn, 1999 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Newspaper Article Di Graham, OAM, Scutt, Jocelynne A., 1999 Archival resources National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Papers of Di Graham, 1975-1997 [manuscript] Author Details Elle Morrell Created 15 February 2001 Last modified 24 April 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Mildred Macfarlan Barnard was a statistician, mathematician and biometrician. She worked as an Assistant Biometrician in the Division of Forest Products at the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) from 1936-41. Mildred lectured at the University of Melbourne and the Women’s College, and later at the University of Queensland. She was also the first woman to chair the Brisbane Branch of the International Biometrics Society, Australasian Region, in 1972. Mildred Macfarlan Barnard was the child of Richard James Allman Barnard who taught mathematics at Queen’s and Ormond College before lecturing at Duntroon Military College. From 1922 to 1933 he lectured at Melbourne University. The family had been long established in Victoria: Mildred Barnard’s grandfather owned a pharmacy where the old Kew Post office now stands. Mildred Barnard excelled in mathematics, winning the Dixson Scholarship in 1931, graduating BA and BSc. She took her MA the following year and in 1935 attended University College, London where she wrote the three papers that were accepted for her PhD from the University of London. Returning to Australia, she worked with Betty Allan (like her, an alumna of Melbourne Church of England Girls’ Grammar School) as Assistant Biometrician in the Division of Forest Products of the CSIR from 1936 to 1941.[1] Her investigations covered such aspects as the holding power of coach screws and the serviceability over time of railway sleepers and telegraph poles. It has been noted that: Barnard was quick to point out the defects in such practices as picking out average-looking trees and taking many samples from a few trees rather than the other way around, advocating that representative samples be a priority, that random samples be used wherever practicable, that stratification takes place whenever appropriate, and that samples should be reasonably large in relation to the variability of the characters of interest. She would also point out that before sampling a population or obtaining material for an experiment, it is generally wise to obtain the advice of a statistician! [2] In 1939 she married and until 1956, when the family left for Queensland, she lectured part-time at both the University and Women’s College. She lectured thereafter at the University of Queensland. Her Elementary Statistics for Timber Research Workers, twice printed for internal CSIR use, was formally published in 1956.[3] In 1972 she became the first woman to chair the Brisbane Branch of the International Biometrics Society, Australasian Region. [1] For a brief description of Allan’s life and work see Juliet Flesch and Peter McPhee. 160 Years 160 Stories. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2013. p.4. [2] J.B.F. Field, F.E. Speed, T.P. Speed & J.M. Williams. ‘Biometrics in the CSIR: 1930-1940’. Australian Journal of Statistics . v. 30(B) (1988): 54-76. [3] Mildred M. Barnard and Nell Ditchburne. Elementary Statistics for Use in Timber Research. Melbourne: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization, Australia, 1956. 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/ Resource Section Barnard, Mildred Macfarlan (1908 - 2000), McCarthy, Gavan, 2004, http://www.eoas.info/biogs/P001596b.htm Author Details Juliet Flesch Created 31 July 2017 Last modified 1 August 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

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The papers of Jocelyn Newman in MS Acc04/204 comprise condolences, papers as Shadow Minister for Defence, files on overseas visits, airports, teleservices, women, the 1998 election, Grammar Board, as well as photos, speeches, newspaper cuttings, appointment diaries and press releases. The papers of Kevin Newman include photographs, papers relating to the Bass by-election in 1975, airports, retirement, overseas visits, Australian dictionary of biography article on Burford Sampson, the Stockman’s Hall of Fame, National Trust, elections in 1980 and 1983, and roads and transport (20 boxes, 1 fol. Box). Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 26 May 2009 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Margaret Preston was the first woman to be commissioned by the Art Gallery of New South Wales to produce a self-portrait. In 1996 one of her hand-coloured woodcuts of a Western Australian banksia from 1929 was commemorated on an Australia Day postage stamp. Margaret Rose Mcpherson studied in Melbourne and Adelaide before travelling overseas. In 1919 she married Bill Preston. As a successful teacher and exhibitor, she developed a reputation for her highly decorative and colourful paintings and woodcuts of Australian fauna and flora at a time when European flowers were still considered the norm for gardens and paintings. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Journal Article Margaret Preston's Banksia Woodcut Memorialised, Butler, Roger, 1996 Book 100 great Australians, Macklin, Robert, 1983 The Complete Book of Great Australian Women: Thirty-six women who changed the course of Australia, De Vries, Susanna, 2003 Edited Book 200 Australian Women: A Redress Anthology, Radi, Heather, 1988 Site Exhibition The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia, Smart, Judith and Swain, Shurlee (eds.), 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders Archival resources National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Birth certificate and manuscript, 1875-[ca. 1924] [manuscript] Author Details Anne Heywood Created 30 January 2002 Last modified 14 March 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Karla Sperling is a committed Green activist whose academic study makes her an expert on environmental law and sustainability. She stood for the Greens in the following elections: New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Kiama in 1995; Senate for NSW in 1996; House of Representatives for Throsby in 1993 and 1998. Karla Sperling tutored and lectured at the University of Wollongong. She was for some time Deputy Chairperson of the Illawarra Catchment management Committee. Karla Sperling gained the world’s first Ph.D. in Sustainable Futures when she graduated from the Institute for Sustainable Futures, University of Technology, Sydney in May 2002, writing her thesis on “Overcoming legal impediments to urban planning for sustainability in the Sydney greater metropolitan region.” She was the convenor of the Friends of the Regent Theatre, Wollongong which campaigned to retain, protect and conserve the theatre and ensure its continuing public. 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 Australian Women Lawyers as Active Citizens, Trailblazing Women Lawyers Project Team, 2016, http://www.womenaustralia.info/lawyers Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 14 December 2005 Last modified 2 August 2016 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

The files were maintained in alphabetical order by Dr Susan Bambrick as Master of University House. While some are subject files most are organised by the person, position or body that she corresponded with, and include original correspondence and copies of her correspondence to others. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 13 March 2018 Last modified 13 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Recorded on 13 November 1981 Author Details Helen Morgan Created 7 August 2019 Last modified 7 August 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Savina Patroni migrated to Australia from Italy in 1951. She lived in the Somerville garden district of Kalgoorlie and raised a family while also working on the family market garden. Savina Patroni migrated to Australia in 1951 with her husband and two children, Laura and Bert, on the Australia. Prior to her marriage, Savina had worked as a tailor in one of Milan’s top fashion houses. She moved with her husband and children into a house, which had been transported from the Gwalia mine. The corrugated iron dwelling was lined with hessian bags, and there was no electricity or running water. Savina had three more children – Nellie, Alfie and Vilma – in Australia, and cared for the family while also doing hard physical labour in the garden. She picked, packed, and loaded vegetables for sale to markets in Kalgoorlie. The family also had a cow and raised goats and pigs for milk and meat. Savina continued to work on the garden well into her 60s. She still lives in the same house – albeit with modifications and renovations. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Karlkurla Gold: A History of the Women of Kalgoorlie-Boulder, Criena Fitzgerald and National Foundation for Australian Women, 2012, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/wikb/wikb-home.html Archival resources National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Savina Patroni interviewed by Criena Fitzgerald [sound recording] Author Details Criena Fitzgerald Created 15 August 2012 Last modified 7 August 2015 Digital resources Title: Savina Patroni's vegetable garden, Sommerville Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Title: Savina Patroni, taken on arrival in Australia Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Title: Savina-Patroni-photograph-taken-on-arrival-in-Australia-ca-1950s.-Courtesy-Savina-Patroni.jpg Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Miscellaneous records relating to John Pollard McLarty, Ernest McLarty, Sir Ross and Lady McLarty and others, including diaries, correspondence, notebooks, invitations, cards etc. dealing with political, station, farming and local Pinjara matters, Country Women’s Association (1941-1954), Pinjara Infants Health Centre (1944-1959). Lady McLarty was an active member of the Country Women’s Association and became state president in 1953. Author Details Jane Carey Created 7 May 2004 Last modified 7 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

1 hr 41 min. Oral history. Audio cassette; TDK AD60; two track mono Author Details Anne Heywood Created 3 April 2003 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

A member of the Australian Labor Party from 1966, Caroline Hogg served as the Member for Melbourne North in the Legislative Council of the Parliament of Victoria from 1982-1999. During that period she held a range of ministerial appointments in Community Services, Education, Ethnic Affairs, Health and finally Ethnic, Municipal and Community Affairs. In Opposition after 1992 she held various Shadow Ministerial positions and was the Australian Labor Party Whip in the Legislative Council before her retirement in 1999. Daughter of A. G. F. Kluht a clerk and E. C. Kluht, Caroline Hogg moved to Australia from England with her Australian born mother in 1950. She completed her education in Adelaide at Woodville High School and at Adelaide University, where she gained a Bachelor of Arts. She moved to Melbourne and taught at Fitzroy High School for fifteen years. Her teaching career spanned the years 1963-81. She married Robert ( Bob ) Hogg in 1967 and was divorced in 1996. They had a son and a daughter. She honed her political skills as a Collingwood City Councillor from 1970-79 and as its first woman mayor in 1978. She was elected to the Victorian Legislative Council seat of Melbourne North in 1982 and remained its member for seventeen years. Her ministerial portfolios included: Minister for Community Services 1985-87; Minister for Education 1987-88; Minister for Ethnic Affairs 1988-89; Minister for Health 1989-91; Minister for Ethnic, Municipal and Community Affairs 1991-92. In addition to her ministerial duties she was Deputy Leader of the Labor Party in the Legislative Council from 1990-96. Events 2003 - 2003 Inducted into the Victorian Honour Roll of Women Published resources Book Biographical register of the Victorian Parliament, Browne, Geoff, 1985 Edited Book Who's Who in Australia 2002, Herd, Margaret, 2002 Resource Section The Hon. Caroline Hogg, 2003, http://www.women.vic.gov.au/web12/rwpgslib.nsf/Graphic+Files/2003_Honour_Roll/$file/2003_Honour_Roll.pdf Site Exhibition Carrying on the Fight: Women Candidates in Victorian Parliamentary Elections, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2008, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/cws/home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 10 June 2005 Last modified 8 April 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Contains the Following Items:??A short history of the Society of the Sacred Advent 1892 – 1942?The fellowship of the Sacred Advent n.d.?’When I consider’ by Sister Una Mary 1936.?Diamond Jubilee Handbook 1892 – 1952.?100 years of Ministry – A History of the Society of the Sacred Advent 1892 – 1992 (Book was from Evelyn Heath, Principal of St. Margaret’s School 1982 – 1993).??Orders of Service – Annual Schools’ Service at St. John’s Cathedral n.d.?- Service for Laying of the Foundation Stone – Society of the Sacred Advent Sisters’ House 10/06/1984.??Society of the Sacred Advent Newsletter December 1992. Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 14 May 2009 Last modified 14 May 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Includes correspondence, minutes, annual reports, financial records, press releases and copies of the MCSMC newsletter, The Scarlet Letter; also material relating to associated bodies such as the Australian Council of Social Services and the National Women’s Advisory Council. Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 27 August 2003 Last modified 29 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

3 digital audio tapes (ca. 179 min.) Author Details Alannah Croom Created 23 March 2018 Last modified 23 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Edith Morgan, interviewed by Andrew Lindsay. Andrew Lindsay interviewed members of the Collingwood Over 60s Group and this interview forms part of his book ‘Dancing in the kitchen: portraits of Collingwood’s older women’. Exact date of interview unknown. Created 10 December 2019 Last modified 10 December 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Sister Philippa, as she preferred to be known, took the religious name of Sister Mary Philippa at her Religious Profession to the Congregation of the Sisters of Mercy on 10th January 1918. After graduating from the Teachers’ Training College at Ascot Vale, she became a teacher in several Victorian Schools. In 1928 she transferred from teaching to nursing, completing her training at Mater Misericordiae Hospital, Brisbane. In 1935 she became foundation matron at the Mercy Private Hospital, where she introduced general nurse training. From 1954 to 1959 she was appointed Provincial of the Sisters of Mercy in Victoria and Tasmania, after which she returned to the Mercy Private Hospital. In 1979 Sister Philippa was appointed Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire for outstanding service to the people of Victoria and beyond, especially in the Health Care Field. Two years later, on the 1 August, the University of Melbourne awarded Sister the Honorary Degree of Doctor of Laws in recognition of her services to women and family life. She was the first nun to receive the award from the University. Born: 25 December 1896. Died: 1 January 1988. Birth name: Joanna Brazill. Religious name: Sister Mary Philipa. Preferred to be called: Sister Philippa Following her father’s reluctant approval, Brazil sailed from Ireland to Melbourne to join the Religious Sisters of Mercy (RSM). In 1912, aged fourteen and a half, she had heard a talk by Mother Genevieve Buckley appealing for missionaries on behalf of the Victorian Mercy communities. Deciding upon a religious vocation, and with her mother’s blessing, Brazil became one of the Irish girls recruited to join the Mercy Congregation in Australian. [1] Before commencing her religious training, in 1915, Brazill completed her secondary educated at Sacred Heart College, Geelong. Joanna Brazill made her first Religious Profession on 10 January 1918, taking the religious name of Sister Mary Philippa. Citation read by Professor Colin Howard, chairman of the Melbourne University’s academic board: Mr Chancellor – Sister Philippa Brazill was born in 1896 in Country Limerick, Ireland. She has given a lifetime of public service in Victoria, particularly in her long association with health care. In 1915 she entered the congregation of the Sisters of Mercy in Melbourne for teacher training at Ascot Vale, and then was a teacher in several Victorian schools. In 1928, Sister Philippa transferred from teaching to the nursing staff of St Benedict’s Hospital, Malvern, which had been acquired by the Sisters of Mercy to begin their work of caring for the sick. She did her nursing training at Mater Misericordiae Hospital, Brisbane, and then returned to St Benedict’s. She made a six months tour of American hospitals to gather ideas for incorporation into the plans of the St Benedict’s Sisters for the establishment of a Hospital for Women. When the Mercy Private Hospital was opened in 1935, Sister Philippa became the first matron and was primarily responsible for setting its high stand of patient care, and for introducing general nurse training. From 1954 to 1959, Sister Philippa’s involvement in hospital work temporarily ceased when she was appointed Provincial of the Sisters of Mercy in Victoria and Tasmania, then numbering approximately six hundred members. In this capacity, she gave strong and wise leadership within her religious Congregation in the administration of the various works associated with it, namely: primary, secondary and tertiary education, the care of orphaned and neglected children, and the care of the sick. At the conclusion of this period of office Sister Philippa returned to the Mercy Private Hospital, and again assumed the responsibilities of Superior and Matron. The establishment of the Mercy Private Hospital in 1971 saw the fulfillment of one of her life’s ambitions, as she had a particular interest in the welfare of women and family life. In June 1979, Sister Philippa was created a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire by Her Majesty, the Queen, for outstanding service to the people of Victoria and beyond, especially in the health care field, over the previous 50 years. In her semi-retirement, she is still actively involved in a pastoral role with the patients at the hospital and with the many people who have learned to value her wise counsel and insight. Mr Chancellor, I present to you, Mary Philippa Brazill of the Sisters of Mercy, Dame Commander of the British Empire for admission to the degree of Doctor of Laws, honoris causa. Published resources Site Exhibition Faith, Hope and Charity Australian Women and Imperial Honours: 1901-1989, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2003, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/honours/honours.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Anne Heywood Created 24 April 2002 Last modified 21 August 2015 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

45 minutes.??A recording of the function in the West Wing of the Art Gallery of South Australia on 29 July 1997 to farewell Fran Awcock, the Director of the State Library of South Australia, 1991-1997. Peter Wylie, Chairman of the Libraries Board of South Australia speaks on behalf of the Board; Elizabeth Ho, Associate Director, on behalf of staff; Alan Brissenden, President of the Friends of the State Library, on behalf of the Friends; and Rosemary Craddock, Mayor of Walkerville, on behalf of the Local Government Association. After Fran Awcock’s response, the Minister for the Arts, Diana Laidlaw, proposes a toast. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 3 May 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

2 sound files (ca. 122 min.)??Mabel Ryan is a property owner and sheep farmer in the Quandialla area of N.S.W. She talks about her early life; the financial depression in the 1930s; rural life, dust storms, drought, home remedies and play; running the farm on her own while raising 2 young children following the death of her husband; sheep raising; rural diversification; the success of her sheep stud run in conjunction with her son; her family. Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 2 August 2017 Last modified 22 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

End of War Awards – submissions by [Quartermaster-General and Director-General of Medical Services] QMG & DGMS [Brig R T A McDonald, Col N M Loutit, Col R H Norman, Lt-Col C C Easterbrook, Lt-Col H L Maude, Lt-Col P A Parsons, Lt-Col L J Fitzpatrick, Lt-Col W B Leonard, Maj J E McKimm, Lt-Col G G Hack, Lt-Col C S Johnston, Capt. J A Egan, Maj N A Dalton, Maj C S Waugh, Maj C W Gray, Sgt Vera Kiddell, Lt-Col H H Turnbull, Lt-Col E V Keogh, Lt-Col A Christie, Lt-Col C R B Blackburn, Maj K B Brown, Maj Lady Winifred I E MacKenzie, Maj M J Mackerras, Col (Matron-in-Chief) Annie M Sage, Capt. (Matron) Beatrice J Paige, Capt. Jean E Headberry, Capt. Patricia D Chomley, Lt-Col Mary S Douglas, Maj Alice R Appleford, Capt. Marjorie C Roche, Maj Joyce M Snelling] Author Details Anne Heywood Created 3 April 2003 Last modified 27 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Autograph album (1886-1963); cards; certificates; diaries (including diary of voyage from England to Australia in 1882); invitations and letters (1919-1959); programmes; scrapbook, etc. relating to her private life as well as her involvement with various organisations such as Country Women’s Association, Australian Red Cross Society, Silver Chain Nursing Association, Young Women’s Christian Association, West Australian Symphony Orchestra, National Council of Women Business and Professional Women’s Club of Perth. Author Details Jane Carey Created 7 May 2004 Last modified 7 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Michelle Bleicher is a staunch member of the Australian Democrats and their candidate in the House of Representatives for Sydney in 2004 and in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly Marrickville by-election in 2005. Michelle Bleicher has had a varied career. She managed an entertainer, producing an APRA award winning record before studying psychology and politics. Following the birth of her son, she moved into community cultural planning. She has developed educational and indigenous projects through local government and in 2002 she was the co-ordinator for the Woollahra Sculpture Prize. She4 is involved with community radio. 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 8 December 2005 Last modified 14 February 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Recorded on 7 May 2004 at Canberra, Australian Capital Territory. Author Details Helen Morgan Created 6 August 2019 Last modified 6 August 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

1 sound cassette (ca. 44 min.)??Susan Bambrick is introduced by the chairman of the luncheon Mr Harry Butler. She talks on: Australia’s resources; the energy crisis; nuclear power; she outlines various possible energy alternatives, their advantages and disadvantages. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 23 March 2018 Last modified 23 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

The Women’s Caucus of the then Australasian Political Studies Association (APSA) was established in 1979. It was set up to improve the standing of women in the political science profession and to promote the study of women and politics. The annual general meeting of the Women’s Caucus is held during the annual conference of APSA. A representative serves on the APSA Executive. The caucus conducts regular reviews of the status of women in the profession and of the extent of the successful implementation of APSA’s policy that the study of women should be integrated into all politics courses. The Australasian Political Studies Association’s (APSA) Women’s Caucus was established on the initiative of Marian Sawer and Carole Pateman at APSA’s 1979 conference in Hobart. Its purpose is to improve the status of women in the profession of political science and to make women visible in the political system particularly as it is studied through the discipline of Political Science. An immediate success was the inclusion of Carole Pateman on the Executive of APSA as Vice-President. Marian Sawer lists a number of activities of the Women’s Caucus including: increasing the representation of women on the APSA Executive including as President, inspiring a more gender-inclusive journal, making the Annual Conferences more woman-friendly, instigating regular audits of the status of women in the profession, monitoring the gender inclusiveness of curriculum and textbooks, recording the completion of thesis research with a gender focus. The Women’s Caucus has also initiated and sustained prizes for research and study in the field of political science. In 2018 the winner of the first Thelma Hunter PhD Prize for the best thesis on women and/or gender and politics will be announced. This will replace the Women and Politics Prize which was awarded from 1982 to 2016. The Carole Pateman Prize is given for the best book on the topic of gender and politics. The Academic Leadership in Political Science Award was established by the Executive Committee of APSA in response to recommendations made by the Women’s Advancement in Australian Political Science report (2012). It recognises inclusive and collaborative leadership, of particular importance to women and members of non-dominant groups, but also of benefit to all emerging scholars. The Women’s Caucus published an electronic newsletter WAPSA News from 1994 to 1995 and then created the moderated email discussion list Ausfem-Polnet in 1996. By 2003 this list had some 900 subscribers including many women working within government. Madeline Grey’s 2014 assessment of women’s leadership in the field of Political Science makes three points. The APSA Women’s Caucus has allowed women political scientists to work collectively to exert influence and implement initiatives, Their contributions to a feminist body of scholarship through the Australian Journal of Political Science and other national and international publications has laid the groundwork for transforming the discipline, The creation of the Women’s Caucus, a specific structure with a clear mandate to focus on gender issues, has played an important role in supporting women to challenge the status quo and promote change. In these ways, the APSA Women’s Caucus has been a significant influence on both the profession and the discipline of Political Science. This entry was sponsored by a generous donation from the late Dr Thelma Hunter. Published resources Resource Section Political Science, Grey, Madeline, 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders/biogs/WLE0178b.htm Journal Article The Impact of Feminist Scholarship on Australian Political Science, Sawer, Marian, 2004 Resource Australian Political Studies Association Website, Australian Political Studies Association, 2017, http://www.auspsa.org.au/about/womens-caucus Journal Politics: The Journal of the Australasian Political Studies Association, Australasian Political Studies Association, 1966-90 Australian Journal of Political Science, Australasian Political Studies Association, 1990 - Conference Proceedings Papers- Australasian Political Studies Association, Australasian Political Studies Association, 1960 c Site Exhibition Women Who Caucus: Feminist Political Scientists, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2017, http://womenaustralia.info/exhib/caucus/ Book Section A History of the Australasian Political Studies Association, Jaensch, Dean, 2009 Archival resources National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Records of the Australasian Political Studies Association, 1956-1996 [manuscript] Author Details Jill Caldwell Created 3 May 2017 Last modified 21 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Mrs Helen Crisp, a feminist, talks about her interests after becoming a mother; women’s movement; dealing with legislation for women in the Public Service, which led to married women getting equal rights with the unmarried sisters and also with males, being President of the Women’s Union at the University of Adelaide; trying to get the marriage bar removed; sending a motion to the then Prime Minister Mr Menzies on equal pay for women but he was not interested in anything to do with working women; joining the Public Service in Public Administration; writing a letter to Billy McMahon congratulating him on all the things he was saying about working women. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 26 August 2003 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Six song books published or used by the EYL, c. 1950s-1962, photocopies. Three original song books, n.d. Author Details Clare Land Created 19 December 2001 Last modified 30 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Correspondence with Arthur Balfour, Joseph Chamberlain and Lord Elgin while Lord Northcote was Governor-General of Australia. Subjects covered include Australian politics, defence, immigration, tariff, honours and the New Hebrides. Author Details Clare Land Created 23 September 2002 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

On June 24, 2010, Julia Gillard became the first woman Prime Minister of the Commonwealth of Australia and retained her position after the federal election, which was held on 21 August 2010. She led a minority Labor Government, supported by a member of the Greens party and three Independents. She lost the prime ministership on 27 June 2013, when Kevin Rudd challenged her for the position and won. She retired from parliament in August 2013. Her career in parliamentary politics began when she was elected Member of the House of Representatives for Lalor (Victoria) in 1998 and re-elected in 2001, 2004, 2007 and 2010. She became Deputy Leader of the Opposition (ALP) in December 2006. On the election of the Labor Government in November 2007, she assumed the position of Deputy Prime Minister and took on the portfolios of Employment and Workplace Relations, Education and Social Inclusion. In 2017, Julia Gillard was made a Companion in the General Division of the Order of Australia ‘for eminent service to the Parliament of Australia, particularly as Prime Minister, through seminal contributions to economic and social development, particularly policy reform in the areas of education, disability care, workplace relations, health, foreign affairs and the environment, and as a role model to women.’ Educated at Unley High School (SA) and the Universities of Adelaide and Melbourne, Julia Gillard worked as a solicitor with Slater and Gordon from 1987 to 1990, when she became a partner with the firm. In 1996, Gillard became Chief-of-Staff to John Brumby (then Leader of the Victorian Opposition) and retained her position until her election to federal parliament in 1998. Gillard has served as Shadow Minister for Population and Immigration (November 2001 to July 2003); Shadow Minister for Reconciliation and Indigenous Affairs (February 2003 to July 2003); Shadow Minister for Health (July 2003 to December 2006); and Manager of Opposition Business (December 2003 to December 2006). She became Deputy Leader of the Opposition in December 2006. In 2010 she became Prime Minister of Australia. Events 1990 - 1996 Partner, Slater & Gordon Solictors 1987 - 1990 Solictor, Slater & Gordon Solictors 1993 - 1997 Member, Administrative Committee, Victorian Branch of the Australian Labor Party 1982 - 1983 Member, National Let’s Develop Education Committee, Victorian Branch of the Australian Labor Party 1983 - 1983 President, Australian Union of Students 1982 - 1982 Vice-President, National Education Australian Union of Studies 2001 - 2003 Shadow Minister for Population and Immigration 1981 - 1981 President, Adelaide University Union 1980 - 1980 Member, Adelaide University Union 2003 - 2003 Shadow Minister for Reconciliation and Indigenous Affairs 2003 - 2006 Shadow Minister for Health 2006 - 2007 Deputy Leader of the Opposition 2061 - 2061 Born: daughter of John Oliver and Moira Gillard 1996 - 1998 Chief of Staff to Leader of the Opposition John Brumby 1998 - 1998 Elected Member House of Representatives (MHR) for the Australian Labor Party (ALP) for the Victorian electorate of Lalor 2010 - 2013 Prime Minister of Australia 2007 - 2010 Deputy Prime Minister 2013 - 2013 Honorary Visiting Professor of Politics at the University of Adelaide 2014 - 2014 Appointed chairwoman of the Global Partnership for Education focussed on the education of children in the world’s poorest countries 2014 - 2014 Appointed to the Board of the mental health institution beyondblue 2017 - 2017 Appointed Chair of Beyond Blue 2017 - 2017 Appointed a Companion of the Order of Australia (AC) Published resources Edited Book Who's Who in Australia 2002, Herd, Margaret, 2002 Resource Section Ms Julia Gillard MP, Parliament House, House of Representatives, http://www.aph.gov.au/house/members/member.asp?id=83L Law, Kerwin, Hollie and Rubenstein, Kim, 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders/biogs/WLE0624b.htm Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Article Gillard becomes Australia's first female PM after Rudd goes down without fight, Staff reporters, 2010, http://www.theage.com.au/national/gillard-becomes-australias-first-female-pm-after-rudd-goes-down-without-fight-20100624-z02g.html Book The Making of Julia Gillard, Kent, Jacqueline, 2009 Site Exhibition From Lady Denman to Katy Gallagher: A Century of Women's Contributions to Canberra, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2013, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/ldkg The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia, Smart, Judith and Swain, Shurlee (eds.), 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders Australian Women Lawyers as Active Citizens, Trailblazing Women Lawyers Project Team, 2016, http://www.womenaustralia.info/lawyers Author Details Anne Heywood Created 21 December 2001 Last modified 12 March 2019 Digital resources Title: Photo Montage Julia Gillard Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

1 sound file??Christine Phillips speaks about her early life and schooling; her medical studies; her experience on a African medical mission; working in Alice Springs on diabetes research; doctor-patient relationships in indigenous health; refugees in Darwin; psychiatric problems; her visit to East Timor (1990); moving to general practice in Canberra early 1990s; working at Gambia Research Institute, Sierra Leone, Uganda; moving to Companion House, Canberra 2001; funding arrangements, services provided; refugees early settlement priorities; Asylum seekers; ACT dental, mental, pharmaceutical services, health promotion; Sudanese problems; services for Bridging Visa holders and asylum seekers on Temporary Protection Visas; lack of medical information on people released from detention centres.??Phillips talks about refugees’ use of mainstream GPs; problems with emergency department of hospitals and specialists; role of GPs; aged refugees in nursing homes; pharmaceutical services for refugees; Interpreting services for GPs and hospitals; Telephone Interpreter Service (TIS); her crusade; after hours services for refugees; The Kiani case; detention centres; ethnic community based support groups; negotiations with ACT government; psychiatric and medical services in detention centres; children and adolescents in detention; the impact of detention on family relationships; Einfield Inquiry, 2006; vulnerable groups in Canberra; medical education; community attitudes. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 1 May 2009 Last modified 21 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

The National Council of Women of Australia was founded in 1931, with Ivy Moss as President, to act as an umbrella organisation for the existing National Councils of Women in each state. The first of these, the National Council of Women of New South Wales, had been formed in 1896. Like all National Councils of Women, it functions as a political lobby group, attempting to influence local, state and federal governments as well as participating in international activities through its affiliation with the International Council of Women (established in 1888 at Seneca Falls in the United States of America) which has consultative status with the United Nations. The national Council grew out of the Federal Council of the National Council of Women, which had been established in 1924 ‘with the object of enhancing the power of the [state] Councils in dealing with matters of Australian concern.’ Later, Councils established in the Australian Capital Territory and the Northern Territory also affiliated with this national body. Until the 1940s at least, the Council was a major focal point for middle-class women’s activism. The current aims of NCWA are: To work for the removal of all discrimination against women and to promote the equal status of women and men in law and in fact. To act as a link for networking and a co-ordinator between State and Territory Councils of Women. To act as a voice or Agent of communication at national and international levels on issues and concerns of women. To develop national policies and responsibilities on behalf of women on an Australia wide basis. To maintain the affiliation with the International Council of Women and monitor the implementation of its plans of action and policies at national level. Each State and Territory has its own branch of the National Council of Women, and these in turn have affiliated with them a number of women’s organisations with a wide diversity of aims and goals. But the common linkage is to improve the status of and conditions for women and their families in Australia. To ensure that Australia was accorded a National presence on the International scene, the National Council of Women of Australia was established by the State and Territory Councils in 1931 to deal with issues affecting women and their families at a National and International level. This body was preceded by the Federal Council of the National Council of Women, 1924-31 – records of which are contained in MS 7583, NLA, (http://www.nla.gov.au/ms/findaids/7583.html). Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Edited Book Australian Feminism: A Companion, Caine, Barbara, Gatens, Moira et al., 1998 Book Getting Equal: the History of Australian Feminism, Lake, Marilyn, 1999 Left-wing Ladies : The Union of Australian women in Victoria 1950-1998, Fabian, Suzane and Loh, Morag, 2000 Champions of the impossible: a history of the National Council of Women of Victoria, 1902-1977, Norris, Ada, 1978 Australian nurses since Nightingale 1860-1990, Burchill, Elizabeth, 1992 Jessie Webb, a memoir, Ridley, Ronald T, 1994 Book Section A view of the Australian consumer movement from the middle of the Web, Brown, Robin and Panetta, Jane, 2000 Making the National Councils of Women National: The Formation of a Nation-wide Organisation in Australia 1896-1931, Smart, Judith and Quartly, Marian, 2009 Journal Article Homefires and Housewives: Women, war and the politics of consumption, Smart, Judith, 2004 Mainstream Women's Organisations in Australia: The Challenges of National and International Co-operation after the Great War, Smart, Judith and Quartly, Marian, 2012 Archival resources National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Papers of Joyce McConnell, 1960-1989 [manuscript] Records of the National Council of Women of Australia, 1924-1990 [manuscript] Records of the National Council of Women of Australia, 1936-1972 [manuscript] Papers of Herbert and Ivy Brookes, 1869-1970 [manuscript Papers of Margaret Reynolds, 1973-2005 [manuscript] Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection State Library of New South Wales - Jean Arnot interviewed by Rosemary Block, 1994 Jean Fleming Arnot - personal and professional papers, 1890-1995 The University of Melbourne Archives Norris, Dame Ada May National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Ada Norris interviewed by Amy McGrath [sound recording] Jean Arnot interviewed by Amy McGrath [sound recording] Margaret Davey interviewed by Amy McGrath [sound recording] State Library of South Australia Kathleen Hilfers : SUMMARY RECORD Author Details Jane Carey Created 9 February 2001 Last modified 29 October 2018 Digital resources Title: Delegates to the 1928 Annual Meeting of the NCWA Federal Council Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Title: NCW WA invites Tengku Ampuan of Selangor to afternoon tea, 1962 Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Title: NCWA conference, Brisbane 1964 - delegates in hats Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Title: NCWA Board Tasmanian Conference 1999 Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Title: Getting to Know You! ICW Conference Helsinki 2000 Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Title: NCWA President Necia Mocatta with conference delgates 1988 - Key Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Title: board1999.jpg Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Title: gelmanetal.jpg Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Title: ICW2000.jpg Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Title: ICW-Auckland.jpg Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Title: 1988-conference-annotated-rotated-1.jpg Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Title: 1988-conference-annotated-rotated-3.jpg Type: Image Date: 22 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

COLLECTION 01?Nancy Bird Walton papers and photographs, 1933-1963?Presented by Nancy Bird Walton in 1963??COLLECTION 02?Nancy Bird Walton, aged 23, ca. 1939-1942 / Harold Cazneaux?Presented by Nancy Bird Walton in 1972??COLLECTION 03?Nancy Bird Walton interviews, mainly for radio, discussing her own life, aviation, air services and aviators, 1979-1982?Presented by Nancy Bird Walton in 1984??COLLECTION 04?Nancy Bird Walton further papers and photographs, ca. 1930-1995?Presented by Nancy Bird Walton in March 1995??COLLECTION 05?Nancy Bird Walton scrapbooks, 1938, ca. 1997-2001?Presented by Nancy Bird Walton in November 2001??COLLECTION 06?Nancy Bird Walton further papers, pictorial material and objects?Presented by Nancy Bird Walton in 1996 and 2008??COLLECTION 07?Nancy Bird Walton further papers, pictorial material and objects, ca. 1930-2009?Bequeathed by Nancy Bird Walton in 2009??COLLECTION 08?North Shore Times 50 years medal presented to Nancy Bird Walton?Presented by Christine Robertson (personal assistant to Nancy Bird-Walton), September 2011??See card catalogues for further collections presented by Nancy Bird Walton. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 31 October 2017 Last modified 31 October 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Red Cross Archives series reference: V09 Agendas and Minutes from the governance committee of the Victorian Red Cross Divisional Council. This series can be divided into two record sets. The first set comprises minutes for years 1914-1939 (2016.0066.00001 – 2016.0066.00006) which are numbered loose leaf sheets that include financial reports. An alphabetical index covering minutes of council, executive, general, annual meetings, as well as convalescent homes and home hospitals committees controls this set. (2016.0066.00016) The second set comprises minutes for 1938-1981 (2016.0066.00007 – 2016.0066.00012) which are numbered and pasted into volumes. Minutes for 1981-1991 (2016.0066.00013 – 2016.0066.00014) are numbered and on loose leaf sheets. Minutes for 1992-1999 (2016.0066.00015) are bound in individual year volumes. Of these items only (2016.0066.00007) has an alphabetical index, and (2016.0066.00011) has a summary index organised by date. See also EXECUTIVE OFFICE CORRESPONDENCE (2015.0026) Council Correspondence, Minutes and Reports Researchers should note that under the Geneva Conventions Act 1957 protections govern the use of the Red Cross emblem. For further information see Archives staff. Author Details Stella Marr Created 9 August 2017 Last modified 9 August 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Pat Lahy trained in physical education and established the first formal training course in counselling for people with disabilities in Australia. She was the first woman to hold the position of Dean of Arts at the University of Sydney. Born in Cremorne, the eldest of the three children of Vincent Power Lahy and his wife Valerie Roberta Wilson, Pat Lahy was educated at North Sydney Girls’ High and after her father died in 1942 she trained as a physical education teacher at Sydney Teachers College, obtaining a diploma in 1947 and a teacher’s certificate in 1950. Her commitment to physical education underlay many things she did later – some of her publications, her role in the university women’s sports association and her interest in vocational rehabilitation for the physically disabled. Later she was appointed to Wagga Wagga Teachers’ College to lecture in Physical Education and lived in residence there. In order to undertake part time evening studies at the University of Sydney she transferred to Balmain Teachers’ College. Eventually in 1963 at thirty-five she graduated as a BA with honours in psychology. Professor William O’Neil immediately appointed her a senior tutor in the department to organise the practical and tutorial program. In 1965 she became a lecturer and from 1967 she ran the first year. She was also general secretary of the new Australian Psychological Society and a member of the Staff Club committee. In 1968 she established the first formal training course in counselling for the disabled in Australia. On sabbatical leave in 1970 she began a doctorate at Queens University Belfast which focussed on pattern recognition. This she completed in 1975. Back in Sydney she resumed her teaching and publishing, was promoted senior lecturer in 1977 and was increasingly seen as an efficient and reliable administrator and organiser who was well liked by her colleagues. In 1978 she became a sub-dean of arts and in 1979 pro-dean. Later that year the faculty of arts elected her dean – the first woman to hold the position at the University of Sydney. The University of Sydney News then put to her a question about her attitude to the women’s liberation movement, of which she was not a member, and she replied that she was all for it, having changed her mind about the outrageous things they had done because ‘they needed to shock people to make them think’. She hoped that at the end of her two years as dean she would not be seen as a token woman or a ‘woman dean’ and asserted that in the business of faculty there could be no difference of attitude between a man and a woman. She was re-elected twice before giving the position up. As the role of dean did not free the holder from teaching duties she also managed a heavy teaching load and in 1983 the running of an international conference for the Psychological Science society. In 1982 she was elected as one of the academic representatives on the university senate – and was re-elected in 1984. The vice-chancellor, John M Ward, in 1986 appointed her his Executive Assistant and in 1987 she was appointed pro-vice-chancellor with responsibility for organising Chifley college. This involved persuading all the faculty deans and other key personnel meeting with the heads of the three colleges in the West of Sydney, which were to be amalgamated into the new university. As there was virtually no financing and much disagreement about priorities and structures it required considerable patience to draw up an acceptable scheme. After several weekend conferences the state government eventually abandoned the proposal after the 1988 Dawkins white paper, leaving it to the three colleges to develop their existing courses into a university. As Pat’s good sense had been much appreciated in all three institutions she was appointed a member of the new university’s board of governors in 1989 and remained a governor, making several important contributions to the structure, until 1997. In 1991 she ceased to be pro vice-chancellor at Sydney and retired from her long-term position. Acknowledging all she had done in thirty years of employment in the following year the university made her a D Litt and the government appointed her a member of the Order of Australia. She was too useful to be allowed to retire in peace however, and in 1993 she was given the responsibility of managing the merger of the College of the Arts with Sydney University. In 1994 she returned to the university part-time to a new role – that of student ombudsman. In 1999 she finally retired – and was given another honorary D Litt by the Western Sydney University. She moved to her Blue Mountains weekender, where she lived in failing health until her sudden death in 2004. Events 1992 - 1992 Appointed Member of the Order of Australia for service to education Author Details Sybil Jack Created 15 August 2019 Last modified 16 August 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Ethel Tory was a teacher of French and Latin and an advocate for drama and language studies, particularly French. She taught French and Latin in Western Australian schools and at the University of Western Australia before undertaking further study in French literature in Paris. She was appointed a lecturer in French at the Australian National University in 1961 and promoted to Senior Lecturer in 1965. In 1970, she published an edition of Giraudoux’s play Intermezzo for use in schools and universities. She retired in 1977 but continued to teach French and to support drama studies at the Australian National University through donations and a bequest on her death in 2003. Ethel Tory was born on 27 July 1912 in Subiaco, Western Australia. Her parents were Frank Bertram Tory, a legal manager and estate agent, originally from Blandford, Dorset and Ethel Marion Victoria Johnson, born in Guildford, Western Australia. The daughter Ethel was known as ‘Two-ee’ to distinguish her from her mother. Ethel attended the St Mary’s Church of England Girls’ School in West Perth and completed her Leaving Certificate in 1930. She enrolled in a Bachelor of Arts at University of Western Australia in 1933, after spending two years living with family in Dorset and in Grand Luce, Sarthe in France. She graduated with 1st class honours in French in 1936 and added Honours in Latin in 1938. She then enrolled in a Diploma of Education at the University of Western Australia which was awarded in 1940. During the war, she taught in Western Australian private schools and was also employed by the Censor’s Office in the Department of Information to scan mail written in French or Latin. In 1941 she won the Hackett Research Scholarship from the University of Western Australia which allowed her to conduct research into French literature. In 1946 she was appointed a tutor in French at the University of Western Australia and then in 1947 as a lecturer in Latin. In October 1947 she attended the University of Paris (La Sorbonne) on a French government scholarship and was awarded a Diplôme de littérature française contemporaine (mention honorable) in 1948. She remained in France teaching, translating and undertaking research which resulted in the award of Docteur de l’université (mention très honorable) in 1961 from the University of Paris. Her doctoral thesis was entitled ‘Giraudoux et l’ideal’. In 16 February 1961, Ethel took up an appointment as Lecturer in French, School of General Studies, Australian National University (ANU), joining the Department of Modern Languages under Professor Derek Scales. 1961 was the first year in which the ANU had undergraduate enrolments as undergraduate students had previously been enrolled in the Canberra University College. She was promoted in 1965 to Senior Lecturer in French and was acting head of the department in 1969 and again in 1974-1975 when it was the Department of Romance Languages. Apart from her university teaching, she was passionate about the theatre and a long-term supporter of Alliance Française in Canberra. She published an edition of Giraudoux’s play Intermezzo in 1970 for use by secondary and university students. She retired in 1977 and moved to Malua Bay on the South Coast where she continued to teach for the Eurobodalla branch of Alliance Française. Ethel Tory was appointed a Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Palmes Académiques by the French government in 1992 for services to French culture. In 1995 the Ethel Tory Drama Endowment was established by the Australian National University from donations she made. She made a large bequest to the University on her death in 2003 to support academics and students in drama and languages. The Ethel Tory Languages Scholarship assists a number of students each year to study languages overseas. In 2011, a state-of-the-art languages centre was opened in the Baldessin Building at the Australian National University and named the Ethel Tory Centre in her honour. Published resources Resource Section Ethel Tory profile, 2011, http://cass.anu.edu.au/scholarships/ethel-tory-languages-scholarship/ethel-tory 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 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources Australian National University Archives Ethel Tory papers ANU calendar master set Annual Report 1977 Author Details Maggie Shapley Created 22 June 2012 Last modified 20 September 2012 Digital resources Title: Ethel Tory Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

The Australian Girls Choir (AGC) was established in 1984 in Melbourne by music teacher Judith Curphey. Whilst there were several boys’ choirs in Australia, there was no opportunity available for girls (outside of school choirs). The accepted convention at the time was that boys sing ‘better’ than girls (hence cathedral choirs are made up only of male voices). Judith wanted to challenge this belief and create a choir that appropriately trained and developed girls’ voices, particularly as their voices matured (as opposed to ‘breaking’ like boys voices) and conduct a choir that sang in Soprano and Alto registers only. Her goal was to create a choir with a uniquely Australian sound and high artistic standards, a group which could dance as well as sing, and was renowned for its quality of presentation. The Australian Girls Choir now has over 3,500 girls in training in Adelaide, Brisbane, Melbourne, Perth and Sydney. The Australian Girls Choir celebrates 27 years of providing high quality education and wonderful performance opportunities to many thousands of girls from across the country. Girls aged five to eighteen years are trained in singing, dancing and performing on a weekly basis in Adelaide, Brisbane, Melbourne, Perth and Sydney. Best recognised for its involvement in the Qantas ‘I Still Call Australia Home’ advertising campaign, the Choir has sung at almost every major concert venue in the country. The girls have performed with a long list of outstanding artists and personalities from the entertainment world, and have been acclaimed in some hundreds of performances undertaken in numerous international and national tours. Events 2010 - 2010 Chasing Rainbows CD is released; debut album under the ABC Classics label. 2011 - 2011 Choir opened in Perth, Western Australia. 1984 - 1984 150 girls attend the first rehearsal of the Australian Girls Choir at Burwood State College, Melbourne, Victoria. 1984 - 1984 Choir opened in Adelaide, South Australia. 1988 - 1988 Choir opened in Sydney, New South Wales. 1989 - 1989 Inaugural international tour to Canada. 1993 - 1993 Sydney chapter goes into recess. 1998 - 1998 AGC selected, along with National Boys Choir, to participate in landmark Qantas advertising campaign featuring I Still Call Australia Home. 1999 - 1999 Sydney chapter re-opened. 2002 - 2002 Choir opened in Brisbane, Queensland. 2004 - 2004 Founder and Artistic Director Judith Curphey awarded an Order of Australia Medal (OAM) for service to music, particularly through the Australian Girls Choir. 2008 - 2008 Parent company Australian School of Performing Arts is incorporated. AGC now sits under this umbrella brand, along with Aus Girls Dance a3 – Australian Arts Alive. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 18 November 2011 Last modified 18 November 2011 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Miscellaneous collection of source material compiled by Nancy Basterfield.,Includes: Macartney lineage, the Macartney, Hardman, De Burgh, McClintock and Woodville (Wydevill) families — much of the material relates to Dean Hussey Burgh Macartney, Jane Macartney and their children, John Arthur, Rev. Hussey Burgh, Flora and Edward Hardman Macartney, details of Melbourne life in the second half of the nineteenth century, especially ministerial work in Melbourne, Geelong and rural circuits, involvement in several hospitals and benevolent societies and various pastoral interests in Victoria and Queensland (details of Glenmore, Mount Battery, Wondilligong, Woodlands and Delatite homestead, and Rockhampton, Waverley and Moreton Bay in the north),material includes photocopies of letters and photographs, newspaper cuttings (especially obituaries of Dean and Jane Macartney) of family members and several poems and hymns by Lady Catherine and Dean Macartney, copies of published material includes autobiographical reminiscences of John Arthur Macartney and Rev. Hussey Burgh Macartney (Jnr.) entitled “Rockhampton fifty years ago – reminiscences of a pioneer” and “England home and beauty, sketch of Christian life and work in England” (1878 and 1893 respectively),also includes biographical material on Anne and Walter Hussey Burgh, Lady Catherine Macartney, Charles James Griffith, Charles Perry, Catherine Anna Mona Brougham (nee Macartney), James Moore, Edward Graves Mayne, the Macartney daughters, Henrietta, Anna, Jane, Caroline, Frances and Charlotte; Edward Hardman Macartney, Flora Macartney and incidental references to prominent early settlers and later Macartney descendants., Overall this material provides quite an interesting insight into the family life of the ‘upper classes’ in nineteenth century Victoria and the importance of religion and morality in everyday life and the general attitudes adopted by women and men in this privileged milieu. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 29 August 2017 Last modified 27 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Elizabeth Govan was recognised by her peers as having ‘played a big part in the expansion of the social studies courses and social welfare work in Australia’ from her time in Australia (1939-1946) at the New South Wales Board of Social Study and Training in Sydney and later Sydney University. (Sydney Morning Herald, 15 March 1945) Some short-term women residents of Australia made a significant contribution to its history. One such was Elizabeth Steel Livingston Govan. Born in Hamilton, Scotland, to William Arthur Winsleigh Govan and Elizabeth Livingston, who were committed Scottish Presbyterians. The family soon migrated to Canada, where in 1930 Elizabeth obtained a BA from Toronto University, which was followed in 1932 with a BA from Oxford and then a Masters degree in public welfare administration and a diploma in social work from Toronto. In 1939 she came to Australia to be a tutor in Social Work for the existing independent New South Wales Board of Social Study and Training in Sydney, responsible for the problems of unmarried mothers and their children, which she did for a year. The training of social workers, however, was undergoing significant changes in that year and was being put for the first time under the control of the university. In February 1940, the Senate of Sydney University agreed that a Board of Studies in Social Work be established and Govan was appointed acting director of the newly formed department. She supervised students’ field work and taught social case work. In the next few years as a member of the Delinquency Committee of the Child Welfare Advisory Council, she and Norma Parker also played a leading role in upgrading the NSW Child Welfare Department. She became director of the university department three years later when a male economics lecturer who was the successful applicant could not leave England. By this time her unqualified capacity to manage a department and her devotion to the subject had been recognised. Her work made the subject completely accepted both academically and in the community. In 1944 she was elected to the senate of the University of Sydney and in the same year she became a member of the earliest committee of the newly formed Sydney Association of University Teachers. Nevertheless, at the end of the war she returned to Canada to take up a junior position as an assistant professor at Toronto, having obtained a letter from the president of the University of Toronto, Sydney Smith, regarding salaries of faculty members, which ensured her the same salary as a male in the position. After finishing her thesis in 1951 from Chicago (which was on an Australian topic – Public and Private Responsibility in Child Welfare in NSW 1788-1887) she left academic work for a time to work on special projects for the Canadian Welfare Council, but in 1958 she became a full professor in social work. She remained an executive director and from 1962-4 Director of the Canadian Association of social work. In Canada she was a major contributor to the development of the area of social work. Archival resources University of Toronto Archives Elisabeth Steel Livingston Govan fonds Author Details Sybil Jack Created 9 December 2019 Last modified 11 December 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Lisa Roberts is an exhibiting artist, community artist and interactive publisher. She has created films and animations, produced exhibitions, and been involved in several performances over a long career beginning in the early 1970s. Lisa Roberts completed her Dip. Art, Dip. Ed, Grad. Dip. Film & TV, M.A, Animation and Interactive Media, PhD, New Media Arts. Most of her studies were undertaken in Melbourne. Over the course of her career Roberts has received several grants, prizes and scholarships, including the National Gallery Drawing Prize (1971); three Australian Film Commission grants (1981, 1991, 1994); the Melbourne Fringe Festival Special Commendation Award for New Short Works (1995); Australian Postgraduate Award (2007-2010); Climate Change Cluster Creative Fellowship (2014). Roberts has received funding from the Australia Council to produce art work for exhibition. She has also worked as a lecturer, animator, illustrator, judge in film awards, assessor, curator and artist in residence (Manangatang, 1992, Wesley College, 1994, Scotch Oakburn College, 1997, Launceston College, 1998, on the Aurora Australis, V7, to Davis and Mawson, Antarctica, 2002), at University of Technology Sydney Faculty of Science (2012-2016). As a result of her residency in Antarctica, as part of the Australian Antarctic Division Humanities Programme, she developed an interactive CDROM and other art works for exhibition at New Parliament House, Canberra (Aust.) Much of this work is held at the Australian Antarctic Division headquarters in Kingston, Tasmania, and at the Tasmanian State Library in Hobart. Her PhD thesis ‘Antarctic Animation: Expanding Perceptions with Gesture and Line’ was awarded by the University of New South Wales in April 2010. In 2011 Roberts built on this research to develop and to lead the Living Data program, which makes known interactions that happen between scientists and artists and changes in understanding that evolve through this process. The Living Data program is based in Sydney and has initiated and contributed to local, national and international conferences and festivals: Antarctica: Music, Sounds, Cultural Connections conference, Australian National University, Canberra (2011); Eora Centre for Aboriginal Studies, Abercrombie, Sydney (2012); Art & About Sydney Customs House Foyer, Circular Quay, Sydney (2012); IV Antarctica Art and Culture International Conference & Festival Oceanic Living Data installation, Universidad Nacional de Tres Febrero, Buenos Aires (2012); Animating Change exhibition and forum for the Ultimo Science Festival at The Muse, Ultimo TAFE, Sydney (2012); Wilderness alive: Reconnecting through a collaborative research practice at the University of Tasmania Imaging Nature II Conference; Oceanic Living Data installation, Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting, CCAMLR, Hobart (2012); Living Data and Dance installation, Sentinel meeting, CCAMLR, Hobart (2012); Living Data and Dance performance, Rozelle School of Visual Arts (2012), Sydney; Dreams and Imagination conference presentation, Sydney (2012); Living Data: Art From Climate Science, Data for Action at the Muse gallery for the Ultimo Science Festival, Sydney (2013); Data for Action forum for the Ultimo Science Festival, Sydney (2013); AAD CCAMLR reception Hobart, Tasmania (2013); Art & Science Co-creations for the Australasian Society for Phytology and Aquatic Botany conference at the Sydney Institute of Marine Science (SIMS)(2013); Presentations & Workshops for the Beijing City International School, China (2014); Evolving Conversations: Interactive Exhibition and Forum for University of Technology, Sydney (UTS) and Ultimo Science Festival (2014); Living Data: Align Installation for Hothouse Waterways exhibition, Central Park, Sydney (2014); Installation for Climate: Art of the Anthropocene: Cabinet of Curiosities Australian Galleries, Melbourne (2014); Living Data: Responses of Living things (including us) to change, Final talk for TIERS (Trends In Environmental Research Series) at University of Technology Sydney (2014); Walk Through Living Data tour of UTS for the inaugural Sydney Science Festival (2015); Living Data: Cultural perspectives on Ocean systems, Talk for Saltwater Forum, Manly Art Gallery & Museum, Sydney (2015); Living Data installation for the Sydney Institute of Marine Science (2015); Oceanic Bliss installation for Sur Polar exhibition at Complutense University, Madrid (2016); Street Art & Science, Newtown, Sydney (2016); Oceanic Bliss presentations and installation for Ku-ring-gai Ph Art & Science project, Eramboo Artist Environment and Manly Art Gallery & Museum, Sydney (2016). Roberts’ work is held in a variety of places, including the University of Melbourne, what was the State bank of Victoria, the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Wesley College (Melbourne), Queensland University of Technology, the Victorian College of the Arts, University of Technology Sydney, and Launceston General Hospital, where she was a member of the Launceston General Hospital Visual Arts Committee in 2004. In 2005, Roberts worked as a full time teacher of Art and English at the Conservatorium High School, Sydney. Since then she has participated in exhibitions and conferences on Antarctic art and science, in Sydney (Aust.) 2006, Buenos Aires (BA) 2008, Christchurch (NZ) 2008, and Hobart (Aust.) 2010. Her current work is with scientists at the Australian Antarctic Division and the University of Technology Sydney, developing animations and other art works that contribute to accurate communication of our changing natural systems. Published resources Book Dance therapy redefined : a body approach to therapeutic dance, Johanna Exiner and Denis Kelynack with Naomi Aitchison and Jenny Czulak ; illustrations by Lisa Roberts, c1994 Joey's egg-shell people, Tony Scanlon ; illustrated by Lisa Roberts Drawing in Australia : contemporary images and ideas, Janet McKenzie, 1986 Australian art and artists, Julie Rollinson, Sue Melville, 1996 A dictionary of women artists of Australia, Germaine, Max, c.1991 Art Is, S. Jane and M. Darby, 1996 Journal Article 'Portrait of Carmel Bird (1990)', Lisa Roberts, 1994 Catalogue Australian Contemporary Art Fair Catalogue, Lisa Roberts, 1994 1994 Next Wave Art and Technology Catalogue, Lisa Roberts, 1994 Beware of Pedestrians, Lisa Roberts, 1995 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Antarctic Animation: Expanding perceptions with gesture and line. A thesis submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, College of Fine Arts, The University of New South Wales. April 2010, Roberts, Lisa, 2010, http://antarcticanimation.com/ Author Details Lisa Roberts (with Clare Land) Created 15 December 2001 Last modified 29 October 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

June Howqua was awarded her MD in 1947 from the University of Melbourne. Her most significant appointment as a physician was as at the Queen Victoria Hospital, where she devoted three decades of her life. She took the position of the Vice-President of the Board of Management from 1979 to 1983 and membership of the Standing Committee of Ethics in Human Experimentation and IVF. She was twice President of the Honorary Medical Staff. The great-grandfather of June Louise Howqua immigrated to Australia in 1854, being appointed Government interpreter in 1855. Ah Kin How Qua was naturalised in 1861 and gave his name to the Victorian valley in which he settled.[1] The family moved to Melbourne and June Howqua took her MBBS in 1944 with Honours in all subjects. She was awarded her MD in 1947. She worked at the Royal Melbourne and the Royal Children’s Hospitals before paying her passage to England as a ship’s doctor and spending time at the Central Middlesex Hospital and the Brompton Hospital in London. Her most significant appointment as physician, however, was at the Queen Victoria Hospital to which she devoted three decades, taking the position of Vice-President of the Board of Management from 1979 to 1983 and membership of the Standing Committee of Ethics in Human Experimentation and IVF. She was twice President of the Honorary Medical Staff. June Howqua specialised in cardiology and pulmonary medicine, publishing several papers on the subject.[2] She also had a special interest assisting women doctors in resuming their careers after marriage and ran several courses for them.[3] In an interview in 2006 she recalled being refused a position at a well-known hospital because it already had one female doctor on the staff.[4] When the Queen Victoria Hospital amalgamated with Monash Medical Centre at Clayton, she became an Associate in the Monash University Faculty of Medicine and oversaw the expansion of the obstetric unit. When the Queen Victoria Hospital moved to Clayton in 1989, June Howqua, living in the East Melbourne house she had refurbished, continued in private practice until 1996 when she retired and was able to spend more time on her grazing property in Flowerdale. She also volunteered with the Brotherhood of St Laurence and studied a number of subjects in Classics at the University. She was a member of the Lyceum Club and listed her recreations as literature, theatre and gardening as well as farming and classical studies. In her will she endowed prizes at both Monash and her alma mater; both are available to a final year student. [1] National Archives of Australia, NAA: A712, 1861/U7248 Howqua, Ah Kin – Naturalisation https://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/SearchNRetrieve/Interface/ViewImage.aspx?B=1815331 [2] John Hayward, June Howqua. ‘Pulmonary Embolism a Case Successfully Treated by Embolectomy’. Lancet. v. 284 no. 7363 (10 October 1964): 771-776; June Howqua, John Leeton. ‘A Case of Idiopathic Thrombocytopenic Purpura Requiring Splenectomy and Trial of Labour’. Australian & New Zealand Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology. v. 9 no. 2 (May1969): 122-124. [3] June L. Howqua. ‘Refresher Course at Queen Victoria Hospital, Melbourne, for Married Women Wishing to Return to Medical Practice. ‘British Medical Journal’. v. 1 no. 5542(25 March 1967): 752-753. [4] Helen Razer. ‘A Tower of Strength’. Age. 19 June 2006: Published resources Book 40 Years 40 Women: Biographies of University of Melbourne Women, Published to Commemorate the 40th Anniversary of the International Year of Women, Flesch, Juliet, 2015, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/4040/ Author Details Juliet Flesch Created 31 July 2017 Last modified 8 August 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Annual reports; minutes; newsletters; correspondence files; newspaper cuttings; newsletters from other Australian and international associations. Author Details Clare Land Created 8 December 2001 Last modified 30 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Item 1?Louisa Lawson – Poems, corrected typescript, mounted on paper??Item 2?Louisa Lawson – Bank book, showing state of current account with the Union Bank of Australia Limited, Sydney, 9 January 1901-2 November 1903??Item 3?Louisa Lawson – Bank book, showing state of current account with the Union Bank of Australia Limited, Sydney, 2 November 1903-20 December 1911; with loose pages for period 29 February-29 July 1912??Item 4?Letter, dated Norfolk Island, 6 July 1805, from D’Arcy Wentworth to Major Johnston, about the death of Dr. William Balmain Author Details Alannah Croom Created 7 November 2017 Last modified 7 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Accompanied by 2 boxes containing extracts from “The West Australian” dated April 2nd 1938; original field note and sketch books; 39 original drawings and 2 duplicate photocopy sets “[in lock clip file]; original working Ms. with notes” (Box 1) — Assortment of leaflets, papers, maps, Indonesian Year Books, commercial brochures…etc. (Box 2) Author Details Clare Land Created 9 September 2002 Last modified 31 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Jessie Noel Shaw nee Henderson was someone who never forgot her alma mater. After taking her BA in 1937 from the University of Western Australia, she moved to Melbourne, taking her Graduate Diploma in Social Studies in 1943 and undertaking further studies in Psychology. Her sister, Margaret Henderson, began her distinguished medical career at the University of Melbourne slightly earlier. She took her MBBS in 1938, MD in 1941 and DMedSc in 2012. Noel Henderson had been an active student at UWA, twice organising the Graduation Ball and attending the 1937 Adelaide Undergraduates Conference, at which the National Union of Australian University Students was established. The Australian Women’s Weekly noted that she was the only female delegate. The Advertiser, in an article headed ‘University Men to Confer’, took a different slant, noting that as well as their President, UWA had sent ‘one other student’.[1] At UWA Noel Henderson studied modern literature and edited the University’s Guild of Undergraduates’ magazine The Black Swan. In 1941 she married a fellow UWA student, (Frederick) Stanley Shaw who became, after a distinguished career at the Aeronautical Research Laboratories, professor of Engineering at the University of New South Wales in 1960. Noel Shaw worked as a social worker assisting disadvantaged children. On her death, a local newsletter reported that: Noel was an intrepid traveller, particularly interested in remote cultures. Her last adventure was to Afghanistan where a week later her hotel was bombed. She served as secretary and president of the Artarmon Bowling Club, belonged to Probus and was interested in music, drama and literature. She was a generous and independent person and will be missed by her many friends and neighbours in Castlecrag.[2] Her generosity was certainly apparent towards the University. Following a succession of significant gifts from 2008 to 2011, in October 2012 the University of Melbourne received Noel Shaw’s bequest of $2.3 million. The Noel Shaw Gallery on the first floor of the Baillieu Library recognises this extraordinary benefaction. The first exhibition, from March to August 2014, ‘Radicals, Slayers and Villains: Prints from the Baillieu Library, University of Melbourne’ travelled to the Art Gallery of Ballarat in 2014 and subsequently to the Hamilton Art Gallery and the Latrobe Regional Gallery.[3] [1] ‘Upheld Prestige of Her Sex’. Australian Women’s Weekly. 13 March 1937: 23; ‘University Men to Confer: Delegates from All States’. Advertiser. 30 January 1937: 14. [2] ‘Jessie Noel Shaw (1916-2012)’. The Crag: Newsletter of the Castlecrag Progress Association Inc. May 2012: 4. [3] Radicals Slayers and Villains: prints from the Baillieu Library, University of Melbourne. Curated by Kerrianne Stone. Melbourne: University of Melbourne Library, 2014. Published resources Book 40 Years 40 Women: Biographies of University of Melbourne Women, Published to Commemorate the 40th Anniversary of the International Year of Women, Flesch, Juliet, 2015, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/4040/ Author Details Juliet Flesch Created 31 July 2017 Last modified 8 August 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Records of the League of Women Voters of South Australia (formerly Women’s Non-Party Political Association) comprising minutes, membership and subscription lists, correspondence, annual reports, newsletters, miscellaneous printed items. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 14 May 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Cherry O’Keefe was an excellent horsewoman with a leading knowledge of the Ngawun language. Cherry O’Keefe (Tjapun) was a Ngawun woman probably born on Cambridge Downs station, near Richmond in north Queensland. In her early days she was well known as a fine horsewoman, and, at one time, as ‘the Queen of the Forest’. Later she became an expert in saddlery and leatherwork. She never married. She lived a secluded and busy life on Poseidon Downs station, west of Hughenden, where she worked hard around the homestead for the privilege of living there in a galvanised iron humpy. After surviving flood, snakebite and burns (when her humpy was burnt down after a domestic accident), she died of pneumonia in Hughenden in 1977. Cherry O’Keefe’s knowledge of the Ngawun language, though limited, was much better than anyone else’s. It was owing to her that a partial grammar and vocabulary of the language was eventually produced. 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 12 February 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

1 sound tape reel (ca. 60 min.)??Isbister speaks of her childhood environment ; the outside influences on her study path ; her medical studies ; her interest in child health ; her radio show on child health ; she speaks of her views on life generally. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 2 October 2002 Last modified 22 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Polly Chan is a concerned and active citizen. She ran as an Independent in the 1999 elections to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Kogarah, then as a Unity Party candidate in the 2003 New South Wales Legislative Assembly elections for Port Jackson. Polly Chan has worked in the fields of radio and public relations. She has been involved in fund raising for bushfires and drought victims, and has organised many cultural activities for the City of Sydney Council. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 12 December 2005 Last modified 12 June 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Health and Home Affairs correspondence c1900-34. Author Details Gavan McCarthy Created 15 October 1993 Last modified 16 September 2002 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Merran Cooper is a once only candidate whose campaign stressed dialogue between electors and candidates. She ran for the Australian Democrats in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for the Northern Tablelands in 1999. Merran Cooper joined the Australian Democrats because she believed in a system based on consensus. She believed it was important to get away from personal attacks and back to policy. She was an advocate for drug law reform, stressing the importance of keeping people out of prison. Her campaign in Northern Tablelands was marked by many occasions when she spoke to groups of electors and debated other candidates. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Created 12 December 2005 Last modified 14 February 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

1 videocassette (55 min.) Author Details Anne Heywood Created 20 May 2004 Last modified 6 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

This series contains papers associated with the opening of the Chase-N.B.A. Group office in Melbourne in August 1982. The papers include a copy of the opening speech given by Dame Margaret Guilfoyle, background information for the speech (especially regarding the history of the building – the former Goldsborough Mort Wool Store), the guest list and the letter of invitation to Dame Margaret. The series also contains papers relating to the Victorian Liberal Party and a manila folder of correspondence, agendas and reports related to the Victorian State Opera Board. All of the papers are contained in a yellow Unifile document wallet which has the misleading label “Recoupment Tax Legislation – National Speakers Notes”. The papers are dated from August to October 1982. Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 5 September 2002 Last modified 23 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Ruth Fincher is a distinguished geographer who has worked in Canada, the United States of America and Australia. As a feminist, she was a member of the Committee for Gender Studies at the University of Melbourne from 1986. In 2002 she was elected Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia and created Member of the Order of Australia (AM) in 2014. Ruth Fincher was born on 27 March 1951 in Boort, Victoria, the older of two sisters. Named Beatrice Ruth she has always been known by her second name. Her parents, Beatrice Margaret and Roy Fincher, whose families were located in rural Victoria, were secondary school teachers, who held Bachelor of Arts degrees from the University of Melbourne. During Ruth’s childhood the family moved around Victoria as her father took up ever more senior positions in state secondary schools, while her mother found teaching positions in the same locations; her mother later became a senior lecturer in Librarianship at Melbourne State College. Ruth attended primary schools in Terang, Coleraine, Moonee Ponds and Mildura, and then the secondary schools, Mildura High School and University High School. In 1969 she started a BA degree at the University of Melbourne, majoring in Geography and History and graduating in 1972 with a BA Honours degree in Geography. During the last two of her undergraduate years at the University of Melbourne she lived at Janet Clarke Hall, then a residential college for women. In her honours year in 1972 a member of the academic staff in the Geography Department encouraged Ruth to apply to undertake postgraduate study in North America, supported as was possible by a teaching assistant to tutor while pursuing a postgraduate degree. After a year working in the Commonwealth Public Service in Canberra, for which she had been selected into the Administrative Trainee Scheme run by the Commonwealth’s Public Service Board, she moved in 1974 to McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, where she undertook an MA in Geography. During her Arts degree at Melbourne, much of the geography Ruth had studied was physical geography. But once in Canada, she shifted her focus within the discipline of geography to human geography, the social scientific side of this broad field that looks at relationships between people and their environments, and began her research in urban and social geography and its connections to urban planning which she has been studying ever since. In mid 1975, after completing her MA, she commenced a PhD in Geography at Boston University, Boston Massachusetts, that she completed at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts. Her PhD dissertation examined the role of local institutions in shaping urban renewal in Boston. The network of critical geographers, especially feminist geographers, in which she was embedded in those days of PhD study at Clark University, remained with her for the rest of her career and their perspectives influenced her research and teaching practice. Her first academic job ( a tenure-track position), was in the Department of Geography at McGill University in Montreal as an Assistant Professor, where she worked for two years. This was followed by a four year period in which she worked as an Assistant Professor (tenured) in the Department of Geography at McMaster University. Ruth moved back to Melbourne in late 1985, where her husband the economic geographer Michael Webber, took up the position of Professor and Chair of the Department of Geography at the University of Melbourne. Starting as a Research Fellow in Urban Planning at Melbourne in 1986, Ruth Fincher became a Lecturer and later Senior Lecturer in the Department of Geography. In the 1980s she gave birth to three children: Kate (1983, died 1984), Sophie (1985) and Tom (1988). Ruth worked at the University of Melbourne for 30 years from 1986 to 2015, apart from a brief period in the 1990s when she was seconded to the Commonwealth Government’s Bureau of Immigration Research. She took up a variety of roles that her research and teaching interests equipped her for in both the Geography Department and the Urban Planning program of the Architecture, Building and Planning Faculty. In her last 13 years at the University, she held numerous leadership roles, including Dean of the Faculty of Architecture Building and Planning, President of the University’s Academic Board and Pro Vice Chancellor, Chair of the Council of Janet Clarke Hall, and Head of the School of Geography. Her scholarship about the development of social difference and locational disadvantage in the city, and her explorations into the ways that urban policy might be more just, continued throughout this time. Support for the discipline of geography has been an important focus of Ruth’s career. Following early work to assist in the establishment of specialty groups on gender and geography within the Canadian Association of Geographers and the Institute of Australian Geographers, she undertook numerous leadership roles. She has served as President of the Institute of Australian Geographers; Chair of the Gender and Geography Commission of the International Geographical Union; Vice President of the International Geographical Union; and as a board member for international geography on the International Social Science Council. In 2002 she was elected Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia and created Member of the Order of Australia (AM) in 2014. 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Nancy Cato was an acclaimed author. She published several historical novels and biographies and two volumes of poetry. Cato was also a strong campaigner for environmental conservation. Schooled at the Presbyterian Ladies College, in Adelaide, South Australia, Nancy Cato began her professional writing career as a cadet journalist on the Adelaide News at age 18. Later an art critic for the same newspaper, she also became a freelance writer. In 1950 she edited the Jindyworobak Anthology. Actively involved in the Fellowship of Australian Writers and the Australian Society of Authors during the 1950s and 1960s, Cato’s books include Green grows the vine, Brown sugar and All the rivers run, which was made into a TV mini-series. She published other prose works in addition to two volumes of poetry, and contributed to Australian literary magazines. A major work was Mister Maloga, the story of Daniel Mathews and his Maloga Mission to Aboriginal people on the Murray River in Victoria. Cato married Eldred Norman, and travelled extensively overseas with him; the pair had one daughter and two sons. Nancy Cato strove for ultimate skill as a writer, and for protection of the Australian environment, particularly in the face of developers on the Sunshine Coast in Queensland. She was awarded the Alice Award by the Society of Women Writers in 1988; the Advance Australia award for environmental campaigning; an Honorary Doctor of Letters, University of Queensland; and was a Member of the Order of Australia (AM). Events 1935 - 1941 Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Newspaper Article Prize-winning author dies, 2000 All the tributes flow for Noosa's literary icon, 2000 Lifelong affair with the river, 2000 Author brought authentic voice to literature, 2000 Murray novel brought fame, fortune, 2000 Author shared pioneer spirit ......, 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 The University of Adelaide, Barr Smith Library Rare Books & Special Collections [Collection of unpublished letters and poems] : [also manuscript and signed] : published copy of her novel] / [Northwest by south] Mister Maloga Daniel Matthews and his mission, Murray River, 1864-1902 [1976?]. Special Collections, Academy Library, UNSW@ADFA Nancy Cato manuscript collection 1967-1992 National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Papers of Nancy Cato, 1939-1995 [manuscript] Literary papers 1969-1981 [manuscript] Fryer Library, The University of Queensland Nancy Cato Papers Gwen Harwood Papers Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection Florence James - papers, 1890-1993 National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Nancy Cato interviewed by Hazel de Berg in the Hazel de Berg collection [sound recording] State Library of New South Wales Dale Spender - papers, 1972-1995 Author Details Clare Land Created 22 June 2001 Last modified 29 October 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

With her husband Rod, mosaic artist Julie Horsburgh owns Jarrah Mosaics at Broken Hill, New South Wales. Julie grew up in the Frankston-Pearcedale region of Victoria, and married Rod Horsburgh at the age of sixteen. They raised two children and made a home at Creswick, where Julie worked in community care and retired to the studio after hours. In 2002, Julie and Rod undertook a ‘desert change’ and moved to Broken Hill, New South Wales. Their spectacular mosaic and sculptural works are displayed at their studio home on Chapple Street and are compiled from fragments of glass, porcelain or metal from larger pieces found on forages in the desert or in regional op shops and garage sales. Julie is a member of the Broken Hill Women Artists’ Group. Her work has been exhibited at the Broken Hill Regional Art Gallery (Women’s Exhibition, 2003, 2005, 2007), Darling Park in Sydney (The Big Back Yard Fine Art Exhibition, June 2004), the Waste 2 Art Regional Exhibition (2005), and the Wentworth Memorial Rooms Gallery (Wentworth Exhibition, November 2008). 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 Julie Horsburgh Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 3 March 2009 Last modified 16 September 2013 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Dow’s Pharmacy is preserved as it was when Hilda and Roy Dow closed its doors for the last time in 1968. The second pharmacy on the same site, the building dates from 1868, and many artefacts date back to this time. There are also letters, photographs and documents, including prescription books and reference texts, which record the Dows’ professional and personal lives, and their involvement in their local community. Author Details Janet Butler Created 18 December 2009 Last modified 20 January 2010 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Jane Barker established St Catherine’s Anglican boarding school for girls at Waverley, New South Wales. Jane Barker was the wife of Bishop Frederic Barker. Growing up, she was greatly influenced by her father, Irishman John Harden, her mother, and her pious aunt Agnes Ranken. Jane ran the family home after her mother’s death, and married Frederic Barker – then vicar of the Liverpool parish of Edge Hill – when she was in her mid-thirties. They arrived in Australia in 1855 following Barker’s invitation to be second bishop for the See of Sydney. Jane travelled widely with her husband and established an Anglican boarding school for girls, St Catherine’s, at Waverley. She served on various ladies’ committees and taught at the Randwick Sunday School. Published resources 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)

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Director, writer and photographer Tracey Moffatt talks about how and why she became a filmmaker and her views about the craft of directing. — General note: Kari Hanet interviews a number of film directors for the IMAGEMAKERS project, the exhibition of which is on permanent display at The Chauvel Cinema. Author Details Hollie Aerts Created 20 December 2010 Last modified 1 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Woman’s Christian Temperance Union of Victoria Inc. (WCTUV), Executive Council: minutes, 1887-1976 (16 vols). ??WCTUV: photographs of Union activities, members, office bearers, buildings, kindergarten and children’s camps, competitions and centenary celebrations, 1887-1987 (6 albums, c100 loose photographs). ??WCTUV: annual reports and conferences, 1888-1987, and minutes of annual conference, 1890-1972 (17 vols and loose issues). ??WCTUV: Local and District Union records, chiefly minute books, but also some financial records and roll books, c1892-1980s (475 vols). ??White Ribbon Signal, a bi-monthly journal of the Union, vol. 1, no. 1, 1892-1911, 1926-1988 (23 bound vols and loose issues). ??WCTUV: superintendents’ record and cradle roll, listing babies and children enrolled as Little White Ribboners, 1919-1933 (1 vol.). ??WCTUV: convention rolls, listing delegates, 1941-1978 (8 vols). ??WCTUV: ledgers, cash books, and salary and wage books, relating to Melbourne city buildings owned by the Union, 1946-1961 (8 vols). ??WCTUV: scrapbook containing Little White Ribboners’ enrolment and birthday cards and Loyal Temperance Legion enrolment cards, poems and songs, 1940s (1 vol.). ??WCTUV: reports of temperance aid to missionaries, 1945-1968 (1 vol.). ??WCTUV: minutes of Officers’ meetings, 1947-1971 (2 vols). ??WCTUV: minutes of half-yearly conferences and special meetings, 1948-1970 (1 vol.). ??WCTUV: press cuttings, 1952-1988 (5 vols and loose cuttings). ??WCTUV: budget books, showing financial allocations to Local Unions, 1952-1970 (3 vols). ??WCTUV House Committee: minutes, 1898-1907, 1911-1928 (3 vols). ??Maria Kirk Free Kindergarten Committee: minutes, 1909-1959 (8 vols), and directors’ reports, 1940-1953 (2 vols). ??WCTUV Finance Committee: minutes, 1913-1919, 1928-1975 (9 vols). WCTUV Publications Committee: minutes, 1913-1918 (1 vol.); and ledger relating to the sale of publications, 1939-1941 (1 vol.). ??WCTUV School for Mothers: minutes, 1915 (1 vol.). ??WCTUV Mothers’ Prayer Meeting: minutes, 1922-1944 (1 vol.). ??WCTUV, Camperdown Union Children’s League of Hope: minutes, 1925-1928 (1 vol.). ??WCTUV, Brighton Union Band of Hope: minutes, 1926-1933 (1 vol.). ??WCTUV, Murrumbeena Union Loyal Temperance Legion: minutes, 1927-1954 (6 vols), and scrapbooks kept by members aged ten to fifteen, containing cartoons and advertisements promoting temperance, and other ephemera, 1940s (2 vols). ??WCTUV Education Committee: minutes, 1928-1972 (7 vols). ??WCTUV Young Woman’s Group: minutes, 1932-1946 (1 vol.). ??WCTUV State Council: minutes, 1932-1946 (1 vol.). ??WCTUV Pledged Women’s Groups: roll books, 1933-1949 (19 vols). ??WCTUV Strand Cafe Finance Committee: minutes, 1943-1946 (1 vol.). Author Details Anne Heywood Created 18 September 2003 Last modified 19 March 2004 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Address from the Melbourne Ladies Benevolent Society, November 1891, on the occasion of her resignation from the position of Honorary Treasurer. Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 22 June 2004 Last modified 27 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Part 1 of the archives is comprised of all background material, letters to and from and about Darcy, interview transcripts and notes, correspondence, pictorial material and memorabilia.??Part 2 consists of the manuscripts of Ruth Park and Rafe Champion’s book ‘Home Before Dark / Ruth Park & Rafe Champion’ her account of D’Arcy Niland’s lifelong fascination with his namesake, his original research and interviews together with her annotations of Niland’s material and her personal thoughts on the process.??BOX 1?Fritz Hollands’ scrapbooks 1 & 2 (photographic prints and negatives), 1908-1922??Bosker Bill Squire’s scrapbook (includes photographs), 1906-1912 (note by Ruth Park indicating that this scrapbook does not relate to the Les D’Arcy story. Provenance of the scrapbook is unknown)??BOX 2?Maurice O’Sullivan’s scrapbook of American news cuttings, 1916-1917??Bill Delaney scrapbook (with note from Ruth Niland, 1995)??George Pilgrim scrapbook (lent for 2 days) – Transcript by Darcy & Ruth Niland??Australasian boxing and wrestling scrapbook (historical interest only)??BOX 3?Nat Bannister’s newcuttings (79)??Paddy Cunningham news cuttings??Angus Brammall’s news cuttings (The Priest and the boxer)??Les Darcy news cuttings (copies)??Printed publications: The Les Darcy American Venture / Bob Power; Jack Read’s Complete Australian Boxing annual, 1934-1935; Read’s Boxing Records; Life Story of Les Darcy 3rd ed. / F.J. Ferry (3 copies); Darcy Stories / F.J. Ferry (2 copies); Uppercuts / Fritz Holland; Solar Plexus??Printed publications given to Darcy Niland by ex-boxers Bob Whitelaw, Jim Sharman:?Boxing and How to Train, The Text Book of Boxing, Boxing: a Complete Record of Australasian Contests, T.S Andrews World’s Sporting Annual 1933, Everlast Boxing Record, 1928, Northern Boxing Association Tournament and Rules, Sporting Life Boxing Records, 1910??BOX 4?Boyle family memorabilia – Negatives of photographs taken from a photo album, autograph book and loose pictures (original items returned to family); Negatives of Les Darcy from an unknown photo album??Tom Moran’s account of the Life of Les Darcy (original carbon)??D’Arcy Niland original interviews (80), some with typed transcriptions in preparation for the book he proposed to write on Les Darcy. Includes phone interview with Mick Tobin and a ‘Note to Researcher ‘about the content by Ruth Niland, 1960-1962, 1997??D’Arcy Niland additional interviews. Some transcribed material extracted by Ruth Niland, 1961??BOX 5?Home Before Dark, portion of 1st Draft??Home Before Dark, Final draft and discards (typescript)??Home Before Dark, Edited manuscript??Home Before Dark, Original manuscript??Early drafts, notes??BOX 6?Les Darcy newspaper articles??Conscription and class??H. D. McIntosh, Premier Will Holman and Ada Holman??Father Joe Coady (includes 1 photograph)??Mick Hawkins??E.T (Tim) O’Sullivan??BOX 7?Notes, clippings, interview reports, photographs on important boxers and others mentioned in the Les Darcy story: Bobby Whitelaw, Griffo, Harold Hardwick, Billy Hannan, Fritz Holland (includes 2 photographs), Jack (Young) Hanley, George Balzer, Chiddy Hayes, Governor Balzer, Jimmy Sharman (includes 3 photographs), Eddie McGoorty, Robert Fitzsimmons (with film transcript)??BOX 8?Jeff Smith v Stadiums Ltd??Wonderful Pearce family??Minor characters, Lilly Molloy, Ada Holman, Dr Hollywood, Frank O’Rourke, Doc Kearns, Bat Masterson??Winnie Hannan (O’Sullivan)??Frosty (Frank) Darcy??Nat Fleischer visits Maitland??Maitland notes – Ruth and D’Arcy Niland??Dave Smith memorabilia??BOX 9??Snowy Baker (includes 6 examples of syndicated U.S sports newsletter??Universal Training (Cadets)??James Vance Marshall??Les Darcy departure from Australia??Miscellaneous file of articles, programmes, photographs (2) on boxers and boxing??Emerald Street House (includes letter re: origin of plan, original and reply from Ruth Niland)??Edgar Arentz??Jack Dunleavy??Billy McNab/Regio Delaney??BOX 10?Irreplaceable Material File, No. 6??Original Les Darcy letters, postcards, notes (some copies). Includes letters to Mick Tobin, Father J.J. Coady, 1914, 1917-1961, 1968, 1994?Cables (4) sent by Mrs Darcy to Mick Hawkins at Memphis (given to Darcy Niland by Harry Hawkins; Mick Hawkins souvenir American postcards; Original (5) postcards from Les Darcy to Mick Tobin; Postcard from Les Darcy to J O’Sullivan of the Lord Dudley; Letters (3) from Father J.J. Coady to to Mick Tobin; Letter from Tom Moran to Darcy Niland; Typed copy of a letter from Les Darcy to Father J.J. Coady from the National Archives Canberra; Copies (8) of Les Darcy letters held by the Australian Gallery of Sport, Melbourne; Letter from Les Darcy to Father J.J. Coady, 1914; Copy of letter from Father Coady to P.J. Hassell with transcript from Hassell of the last meeting; Newspaper cutting of a letter from E.T. O’Sullivan to sportswriter W. Corbett; Newspaper cutting of last letter sent by Les Darcy to Mick Stapleton; Copy of Les Darcy letter to Will Lawless (Solar Plexus)??Direct personal material of Les Darcy (interviews with Elli O’Brien, Mrs G.W. Johnson, Frank O’Rourke, Mr & Mrs Cheal, neighbours and friends of Darcy), 1961, 1994??General notes on the Les Darcy collection (methods of cataloguing, early struggles to get the collection into order) and Biography; Part catalogue; Fragments of early interviews with transcriptions from tape by Ruth Niland, 1960s, 1988-1994??Birth and marriage certificates Elwin Darcy (copy)?Death certificates, Edward and Margaret Darcy (copy)?Marriage certificate (1st) of Edward Darcy to Sarah Healey (copy)??Sydney Conspiracy with notes from Ruth Niland?Later chapters of the Biography (fragments)??Important newscuttings??Darcy family genealogy??BOX 11?The Collection, The Biography, File No. 7??Letters to D’Arcy Niland from old boxers and holders of Darcyana, together with replies, 1953-1979, 1995??Correspondence with Kay Ronai (Editor) of Penguin Books Australia, concerning ‘Home Before Dark’, 1994-1995??Correspondence mainly with Penguin Books concerning Home Before Dark, 1993-1994??Correspondence after publication of Home Before Dark, 1995??Chronologies??Collection research notes by Ruth Niland, 1994??Darcy Niland visits Maitland??Ruth Niland notes on scrapbooks (Bill Delany, Anonymous A, Puglistic celebrities, Australian Boxing and wrestling, Fritz Holland’s scrapbooks 1 & 2??Notes by D’Arcy Niland on proposed book??The Times??BOX 12?America/Research for the National Times article, File No. 8??Les Darcy in America, original typescript for two part article written for the National Times??Pamphlets about U.S towns (Memphis) visited by Les Darcy in 1917??Les Darcy in America, newscuttings, notes??Letters to Ruth Niland received after publication of Les Darcy in America??Les Darcy in America, File No. 9?American notes on Les Darcy used by Ruth Niland during the writing of Les Darcy in America, 1917-1995??Les Darcy’s illness and death, 1917-1991??BOX 13?Photographs: Approximately 200 photographs many unpublished and unknown??Les Darcy with other people (not American)??Photographs of men Les Darcy fought (some unfamiliar pictures of major apponents??Two original glass whole plate negatives (6 1/2 x 8 1/2 in.).?1. Note written by D’Arcy Niland ‘1st McGoorty fight 1915 (Photographic copy of plate glass negative in Harry Cameron and Pilgrim’s collections)?2. Les Darcy with family and friends at the home of J.P. Fletcher, c. 1916 (Cameron Studios). A photographic copy of this is included in the folder of photographs of boxers, referees and writers important to the Les Darcy story.?Prior to Les Darcy leaving for America, he and a group of his friends gathered at the home of JP Fletcher. This photograph was taken to commemorate the occasion. It features, in the top corner, Les Darcy’s brothers Cecil and Frank and, next to Les, Father Cody. Here are the names of the gentlemen present: Back row, C. Darcy, F. Darcy, F. O’Brien, C. Erwin, L. McGlinn, P. Mayo; 3rd row, G. Clarke, L. Drew, W. Gilligan, G. Bowcock, unknown, M. Tobin, …Donnelly, G. Fletcher, F. Mayo; 2nd row, I. McLeod, W. McLaughlin, Les Darcy, Father Coady, …Stapleton, …Stapleton; front row, G.McDonald, H. Fletcher, H. Cameron.??Photographs numbered Pic. 1-35 (includes pg. numbers) included in the book ‘Home Before Dark’??Penguin illustrations (note by Ruth Niland, These were 2nd choices, 51 sent to George Dale)??Photographs of boxers, referees and writers important to the Les Darcy story??Boxers well known before, during and after Les Darcy’s professional life??Unidentified photographs and negatives (some later identified)??BOX 14?Photographs:??Sam Langford photographs??Les Darcy in America??Original reproductions from old photographs??Les Darcy – Funeral/Memorial/Death cerifiticate??Major characters in Home Before Dark (important portraits: Fred Gilmore, Tom Andrews, Mick Hawkins, Father J.J. Coady, Dave Smith, Fritz Holland, Margaret Darcy, Lily Pearce, Hugh McIntosh, Frosty Darcy, Winnie, Harold Hardwick, Jim Sharman, Miss Scobie (early teacher)??Rushcutters Bay Stadium photographic material??Important photographs (includes inscribed photo of Jack Dempsey)??General photographs??BOX 15?Photographs:?Les Darcy photographs, mainly portraits (includes 2 photo badges)??BOX 16?File No. 10?Police Gazette (10 copies), 24 March 1917-13 April 1918?Features articles about Les Darcy, O’Sullivan, Rex Rickard and Governor Whitman and other characters in the story of Darcy’s few months in the U.S. Annotated with reference of the Les Darcy story by Ruth Niland. Includes interesting references to the U.S. view of WW1 before the nations involvement and during its brief service; References to important figures in U.S. sports and political world; to Australian boxers in the States at the time as well as other Australian athletes such as Fanny Durack the swimmer.??BOX 17?Large scrapbook about old sports figures in Australia and overseas??BOX 18?Large scrapbook about old sports figures in Australia and overseas Author Details Alannah Croom Created 21 June 2018 Last modified 21 June 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

A lifelong campaigner and activist, Freda Brown is a highly respected figure in the history of Australian women’s organizations. She was a Communist Party of Australia candidate for Newtown in 1947 and a Senate candidate in 1949 and 1961. Daughter of Florence Mary (Munroe) and Benjamin Lewis, Freda was educated at Newtown Public School and Sydney Girls’ High School. She joined the Communist Party of Australia in 1936, aged 17, and later worked in her father’s signwriting business. She married Wilton John Brown (later editor of The Modern Unionist ) in 1943. Their daughter (Lee Rhiannon, MLC Greens) was born in 1951. The Browns lived in Melbourne during World War Two, where Freda trained as a journalist on the Radio Times and afterwards worked on trade union papers. After the war, Freda joined the New Housewives Association, ultimately becoming president of what became the Union of Australian Women. She was instrumental in successfully proposing to the United Nations that it hold International Women’s Year in 1975 and she attended the Indian International Women’s Year Committee meeting in February 1976 at the invitation of Indira Gandhi. She worked with the Women’s International Democratic Federation, and was elected President at its Congress in Berlin in 1975, a position she held to 1989. Freda Brown was a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Australia from 1968-72, after which she resigned from the party, having decided that the party was no longer advancing the interests of the working class. She has travelled widely, visiting many countries, including Vietnam, Cambodia and Algeria. Freda has continued her activism into her eighties, and was reported to be lobbying the United Nations to establish an International Day of the Elderly. Published resources Edited Book Who's Who of Australian Women, Lofthouse, Andrea, 1982 Australian Feminism: A Companion, Caine, Barbara, Gatens, Moira et al., 1998 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 Article Rebel With Plenty of Causes, Stephens, Tony, 2009, http://www.smh.com.au/national/obituaries/rebel-with-plenty-of-causes-20090526-bm0i.html Book Swimming Against the Tide: A Biography of Freda Brown, Milner, Lisa, 2017 Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 25 August 2005 Last modified 20 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Janne Peterson is a dedicated Christian Democratic Party member and multiple candidate: New South Wales Legislative Assembly, Strathfield by election 1996, 1999 New South Wales Legislative Assembly, Bankstown, 2003 House of Representatives, Sydney, 1996 Senate, NSW, 1998 House of Representatives, Blaxland, 2001, House of Representatives, Banks, 2004 Canterbury Municipal Council, 1999 Janne Peterson migrated with her family from Denmark in 1969. She became a naturalised Australian in 1985. That same year she married Murray Peterson, an engineer, and also a candidate for the Christian Democratic Party in 1988 for the state seat of Lakemba and in 1998 for the Federal seat of Watson. She is the Managing Director and editor of a Good Report Pty Ltd, a Christian ethics magazine, established 1999. She is also involved with voluntary work in the media, being a weekly TV presenter on Television Gladesville, an amateur television station, and co-hosting with her husband Murray, a weekly community radio program. In 2004 she was working for the Christian Democratic Party, of which she had been a member for 20 years, as a Political Education Officer. Her duties included presenting education seminars and workshops on the electoral process. Janne and Murray Peterson are actively involved with the Wiley Park Baptist Church, where Janne is youth leader teaching Sunday school, and visiting nursing homes as part of a singing ministry. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 1 February 2006 Last modified 1 February 2006 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Originating in a workshop held at Chiangrai, Thailand during International Literacy Year (1990), “International Literacy materials for women” is a kit containing reading materials and sketches for newly literate women, and is designed to raise issues about the status and position of women in various societies and cultures. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 24 April 2018 Last modified 24 April 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Lady Street at conference, as Australia’s representative. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 2 January 2018 Last modified 27 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

1 hour 50 minutes??Anne-Marie Grisogono was born in Yugoslavia and migrated to Australia with her mother, a chemical engineer who fostered her interest in science. Anne-Marie ‘discovered’ physics at Adelaide University and went on to attain a PhD in mathematical physics, as well as marrying, working part-time, and bringing up two children. Anne-Marie describes how she helped form the South Australian Branch of Scientists Against Nuclear Arms in 1984 in response to the escalation of the arms race. Within days, SANA’s first project arose; assessing scientific reports about residual plutonium contamination at Maralinga. Anne-Marie describes this intensive process, and later projects. She explains SANA’s decline in the late 1980s and its brief resurgence in 1991. She describes her growing understanding of the complexities of the arms issue but also her belief in the possibility of change. Anne-Marie also discusses sexist attitudes encountered in her academic career. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 30 January 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

This series contains records of the National Fitness Council that, strictly speaking, belong in separate series, including minutes, subject files, financial records, printers blocks, press cuttings, photographs and examples of publications.??For preliminary box listing for units 1 to 94, see the Series List for GRG95 in Research Centres. For some item descriptions for units 99 to 114 click Consignment ID in the catalogue record.??For notes by A.E. Simpson concerning the history of the National Fitness Council see Box 94 Numbers 1008-1010. Additional papers created by the Council are held within PRG 1366/38 at the State Library of South Australia. See also records of Outward Bound S.A. Inc. SRG 305 in the State Library of South Australia. Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 12 January 2007 Last modified 29 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

The Association began in 1946 and was founded by Miss Gwen Stark (later Caldwell). The ex-WAAAF joined the RAAFA (New South Wales Division) as associate members and in 1947 were accepted with full membership. At Air Force House in Goulburn Street, Sydney, 1946, 400 ladies attended a meeting to discuss the aims of their group and make plans for its social activities. This group was named The WAAAF General Committee with Miss Gwen Stark elected as first President and Miss Jeanne Simpson as first Secretary. The Branch went through a few name changes until in 1971 it was resolved that the WAAAF Wing would become a branch of the RAAFA, to be known as the WAAAF Branch. It remains the WAAAF Branch today. The aim of the Branch when formed was to maintain friendships developed during the war years and to come together to undertake social activities as well as to raise funds for welfare activities such as equipping a creche and nursery in the city where WAAAF and airmen’s wives could leave their children for a few hours. That basic aim is still in place over 50 years later with the Branch maintaining support for its members and offering assistance where needed. A quarterly newsletter, WAAAF Chat, is produced by the Branch and provides members with news of upcoming social and official events and reunions along with general interest items. Originally, the Branch held Housie nights and donated all moneys raised to the Headquarters of the RAAFA, where some members are engaged in voluntary work. They attend memorial services, special church services, Anzac Day and Ex-Servicewomen’s marches and annual conferences. Members also visit hospitals and institutions of care, keeping in touch with each other through home visits and Department of Veterans’ Affairs meetings. During its early years, the Branch sponsored young underprivileged women to make their debuts at the RAAFA Balls by providing them with clothes and assistance. Members have participated, with other ex-servicewomen’s associations, in helping to raise money for the building of 12 self-contained units in Friendship Court at the RSL Veterans Retirement Village, Narrabeen. Also they have contributed to and attended the dedications for the memorial in the Jessie Street Gardens in Loftus Street, Sydney, and the Ex-Servicewomen’s memorial in Canberra. The Branch took part in the ‘Entombment of the Unknown Soldier’ (1993), the march and luncheon held in Canberra for ‘Australia Remembers’ in 1995 and the Federation Parade in 2001. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources Private Hands (These regards may not be readily available) RAAF Association (NSW Division) - WAAAF Branch Author Details Anne Heywood Created 24 March 2003 Last modified 29 October 2018 Digital resources Title: WAAAF Branch Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Material in the Australian performing arts programs and ephemera (PROMPT) collection consists of programs and related items for Australian performing arts organisations, Australian artists performing overseas, professional productions performed in Australia (including those featuring overseas performers) and overseas performances of Australian plays, music, etc. Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 18 January 2007 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Since migrating to Australia in 1974 with her husband David and first child, Deborah has established a successful career in teaching in the New South Wales Technical and Further Education (TAFE) system and has become a powerful voice in public advocacy, especially on the behalf of Filipina women and Indigenous Australians. Born in Manila in 1949, Deborah is the middle child in a family of four daughters, one of whom died in infancy. Having graduated from the University of the Philippines with a degree in Journalism and Communications in 1971, Deborah quickly found a position in the Philippines Broadcasting Service, before moving to Papua New Guinea in 1973, where she was appointed to the position of Press Secretary for the Opposition Leader. In 1974, in response to an Australian Broadcasting Commission story reporting on teacher shortages in Australia, Deborah and her husband David decided to move to Australia. In April 1974 they made the long journey to Sydney on Arcadia. Once in Sydney Deborah rejected the social pressure to be a ‘stay at home’ mother and made the decision to work. Her considerable skills in the media and communications area were highly marketable in the expanding TAFE system. With a portfolio of speeches written in PNG but no formal qualifications, she managed to convince an interview panel that she was a good prospect. She started work in 1975 and established herself as an innovator in the teaching of media, communications and public relations Before long, Deborah had joined the Philippine Action Support Group, but by the late 1970s and early 1980s, her attention had turned to more local issues. She helped to establish the Filipino Women’s Working Party, which produced a training kit in 1992, Dealing with the Media, to assist community workers in dealing with journalists who seldom looked beyond ‘mail order bride’ stereotypes when representing Filipina women. Two years later, in collaboration with SBS radio, the working group developed a series of programs aimed at educating Filipino migrants about government services available to them, including information on how to deal with racism. Beyond this, Deborah works hard to promote reconciliation in this country between indigenous and non-indigenous Australians. She holds the position of non-indigenous Regional Representative for Sydney, New South Wales Reconciliation Council and she is a Member of the Board. She is the convenor of the Redfern Residents for Reconciliation, contributing significantly to the establishment of the Redfern Community Centre that was opened in 2004. She is also a member of the Women’s Reconciliation Network that produced an educational video resource, Around the Kitchen Table, featuring work on reconciliation by women from diverse ethnic and religious backgrounds from the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander, English, Irish, Filipino, Greek, Jewish and Muslim communities. In 2004, Deborah Ruiz Wall received the Order of Australia Medal (OAM) from the Australian Commonwealth Government for service to the community in the areas of social justice, reconciliation and multiculturalism. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 1 February 2006 Last modified 15 October 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Typescript of Part I, Chapter 2 of, I’m dying laughing by Christina Stead ; 12 letters from Christina Stead to Rosemary Hibbert written between 7 April 1969 and 26 January 1970. Hibbert was employed to type Stead’s literary manuscripts. Though the subject matter of the correspondence is primarily business-related, it also ranges to other aspects of Stead’s work. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 24 April 2018 Last modified 24 April 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Letters of support for Phyllis E. Duguid who formed The League for the Protection and the Advancement of Aboriginal Half-Caste Women in 1938 Author Details Alannah Croom Created 5 June 2018 Last modified 5 June 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Elizabeth Robinson was a remarkable woman and an Independent candidate for Newcastle in 1932. “That before marriage, contracting parties should obtain compulsory certificates of health, that the school age be extended to sixteen years, that sex education be taught in the schools, that maternity hospitals should be staffed with specially-trained medical men exclusively for this branch of medicine and that there be an immediate and drastic reduction of parliamentary salaries – is part of the policy of Mrs. E.E. Robinson, who is seeking parliamentary honors in the Newcastle district.” (Parliamentary scrapbook 1932) Elizabeth Robinson was the daughter of John and Harriett Quintal, her father being originally from Pitcairn Island, and she was born and raised in Tasmania. Before her marriage in 1913 to Henry Charles Robinson, she worked in the Tasmanian Post and Telegraph Department. She was a first class telegraphist at the age of 13. From her earliest years, Elizabeth Robinson was involved in temperance and humanitarian work. She began preaching at the age of 18 in the Congregational Church and before she was 22 had twice been presented with a purse of sovereigns in recognition of her work for the spiritual and social welfare of young people. She held a strong belief in the benefit of social clubs for young people. At the time of her campaign, she had been resident in Newcastle for five years, and had founded the Women’s Citizens Association to engage in the relief of distress. She was a well-known public speaker, both in Tasmania and in Newcastle. 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 29 August 2005 Last modified 16 September 2013 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Annual reports of state bodies; New South Wales, 1941-1987; Victoria, 1957-1987; Queensland, 1947-1987; South Australia, 1982-1987; Western Australia, 1967-1987; Tasmania, 1924-1987 (incomplete). ?Photographs, 1924-1987 (1 filing cabinet drawer). ?Operational records, 1924-1987. ?Publications including histories, handbooks, diaries, rules, magazines, 1924-1987. ?Awards file, 1924-1987. ?Australian appointments file, 1926-1987. ?Minutes of federal council meetings, 1926-1965. ?Profiles of persons associated with the guiding movement, c1930-1987. ?Newspaper cuttings, 1934-1987 (4 vols). ?Policy files, c1950-1987. ?Annual reports of the federal body, 1961-1987. ?Minutes of the Australian executive meetings, 1962-1987. ?Publications, circulars, 1964-1987. ?Minutes of Australian council meetings, 1966-1972. ?Minutes of the Australian training committee, 1969-1987. ?Minutes of the Australian sections committee, 1970-1987. ?Minutes of the Australian scout/guides consultative committee, 1973-1985. ?Deed of incorporation and of the constitution, 1980. ?Minutes of the annual general meetings, 1980-1987. ?Publication, Guiding in Australia, 1980-1987. ?Minutes of the Australian planning and development committee, 1981-1982. ?Minutes of the procedures committee, 1984-1987. ?Minutes of the executive of the Australian council for guiding, 1986-1987 Author Details Jane Carey Created 15 June 2004 Last modified 15 June 2004 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Interview with Maureen Giddings, OBE, Sydney, 22 February 2010, transcript in possession of Leonie Christopherson, Marian Quartly and Judith Smart Created 11 September 2013 Last modified 13 September 2013 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

The Adelaide Women’s Liberation Movement began at the University of Adelaide in 1968, inspired by the women who were active in Young Labor, and the anti-Vietnam war campaign. These women questioned their role in these organisations and vented their frustration about these male dominated groups. Anna Yeatman, Anne Summers and Julie Ellis are credited with starting the feminist newsletters Sisterhood and Body Political. By late 1969 they produced Liberation, the Adelaide Women’s Liberation Newsletter which replaced Sisterhood. Their first protest was against the Miss Fresher competition, which brought media focus to the expression of their feminist ideals for women’s liberation. Public meetings where called and the broader community involvement brought about the establishment of the Women’s Liberation Movement housed at Bloor House situated in Bloor Court off Currie Street, in Adelaide. They provided an environment where ideas for supporting women’s rights were fostered. The Group wrote a Women’s manifesto which was published in Liberation newsletter in June 1971. The Adelaide Women’s Liberation Group took part in the first Women’s Liberation Conference in Melbourne in 1970. The Women’s Liberation Movement in Adelaide was the catalyst for the establishment of the Women’s Health Centre at Hindmarsh, The Rape Crisis Centre, Women’s Studies Resource Centre, Abortion Action Campaign, St Peters Women’s Community Centre, Women’s Health Centres at Christies Beach and Elizabeth. They lobbied for Women’s Studies to be part of tertiary education, women’s representation in parliament, a Working Women’s Centre to protect women’s working rights, the Women’s Peace Movement. Bloor House provided a space for women to express their personal political ideas and to get feedback and support. The Women’s Liberation Movement moved from Bloor House to Eden St in Adelaide and then to Mary St, Hindmarsh were it was closed in 1989. The Adelaide Women’s Liberation Movement began at the University of Adelaide in 1968. The early group of women’s liberationist had their roots in left politics on campus , although they later joined with socialist women to fight for women’s rights. Inspired by protests overseas against The Miss America Pagent which made the news in Australia, Adelaide feminists protested against the ‘Miss fresher’ pageant held on campus, as a way of openly questioning their roles and the treatment of women in society. They called public meetings and solicited broader community involvement and in so doing established a movement big enough to need premises. They were first housed at Bloor House in Bloor Court off Currie Street in Adelaide. A priority was to create a safe space where women could share information and create resource that would be useful to other women. Once this safe space of support and solidarity was created, the Women’s Liberation Movement in Adelaide was the catalyst for the establishment of the Women’s Health Centre at Hindmarsh, The Rape Crisis Centre, the Women’s Studies Resource Centre, Women’s Abortion Campaign, St Peters Women’s Community Centre, Women’s Health Centers at Christies Beach and Elizabeth. They lobbied for Women’s Studies to be part of tertiary education, for women’s representation in parliaments, the Women’s Peace Movement and a Working Women’s Centre to protect women’s right in the workplace. A group of Women’s Liberationist established themselves in major country towns as well in the metropolitan centres. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Book Women's Movement South Australia, Barber, Jenny, 1980 Herstory of Adelaide Women's Liberation 1969-1974, Kinder, Sylvia, 1980 Newsletter Liberation, 1970 Archival resources State Library of South Australia Papers of the Women Against Rape Coalition (WAR) Hindmarsh Women's Community Health Centre Adelaide Women's Liberation Movement : SUMMARY RECORD Adelaide Women's Liberation Movement Archives Collection Author Details Kathleen Bambridge Created 18 December 2009 Last modified 21 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Karyn Paluzzano was a successful woman ALP candidate in the seat of Penrith. She was first elected to that seat in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly in 2003. She was re-elected in 2007, but resigned from the Parliament on 7 May 2010 as a result of allegations against her of falsely claiming parliamentary allowances and of giving false and misleading evidence to an anti-corruption inquiry. Prior to this she was a member of the Penrith City Council (1999-2004). Karyn Paluzzano was educated at Glenbrook Primary School, Nepean High School, and the University of Western Sydney. She has taught at local schools in Emu Plains, Mt. Druitt and Werrington, and worked as a Senior Education Officer with the Department of School Education. She has also lectured at the Australian Catholic University; the University of Western Sydney, Penrith; and the University of Technology, Sydney. Elected to the Penrith City Council in 1999, she helped establish and provide funding for the Kingswood Neighbourhood Centre, and to secure sponsorship for the Penrith Regional Gallery. She also strongly supported the Railway Street Q Theatre and the Joan Sutherland Performing Arts Centre. Karyn has been a delegate to the Local Government Association and is a member of the ALGWA. She has been an active member of her community for many years, supporting the Kingswood Lions Club and various local sporting clubs. Karyn is married to Robert Paluzzano, and they have three children: Edward, Victoria and Elizabeth. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 1 February 2006 Last modified 20 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Phyllis Mander-Jones was Mitchell Librarian from 1947 to 1957. In 1962 she became the first Australian Joint Copying Project Officer. She was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in 1971 in recognition of her contribution to Australian history. Mander-Jones was educated at Abbotsleigh, a private girls’ school in Pymble, New South Wales. She went on to university after finishing school and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Sydney in 1917. Mander-Jones joined the staff of the Public Library of New South Wales in 1925 and worked her way up through the ranks. She was Mitchell Librarian between 1947-1957. Based in the Australian High Commission in London, in 1962, she became the first Australian Joint Copying Project Officer. In 1964 she was appointed director of a survey of manuscripts in Britain and Ireland relating to Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific. Manuscripts in the British Isles relating to Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific, popularly known as the ‘Mander-Jones guide’, was published by the ANU Press in 1972. After completing the survey of manuscripts in the British Isles, Mander-Jones remained in England for several years. She then returned to Australia and spent her last years in Adelaide compiling Catalogue of manuscripts in the Royal Geographical Society of Australasia (South Australian Branch) (1981). Events 1971 - 1971 Appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) for her service to Australian history 1976 - 1976 Appointed Honorary Member of the Australian Society of Archivists 1981 - 1981 Received the HCL Anderson Award, presented annually by the Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) for outstanding service to the library and information profession in Australia, to ALIA, or to the theory of library and information science or to the practice of library and information services 1996 - 1996 The Australian Society of Archivists introduced the Mander Jones Awards for publications in the field of recordkeeping. The award honours Mander-Jones for her contributions to the profession Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 HCL Anderson Award, Australian Library and Information Association, 2009, http://www.alia.org.au/awards/hcl.anderson/ Resource Section Jones, Phyllis Mander (1896 - 1984), Berzins, Baiba, 2006, http://adbonline.anu.edu.au/biogs/A170603b.htm Finding Aid Guide to the Papers of Phyllis Mander-Jones, National Library of Australia, 2002, http://nla.gov.au/nla.ms-ms5652 Site Exhibition Faith, Hope and Charity Australian Women and Imperial Honours: 1901-1989, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2003, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/honours/honours.html Archival resources National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Papers of Phyllis Mander-Jones 1964-1972 [manuscript] State Library of New South Wales Baiba Berzins - abbreviated and edited transcript of interview with Phyllis Mander-Jones, 1983 Author Details Isobelle Barrett Meyering Created 24 September 2009 Last modified 20 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

MS 8512 comprises: 1. Personal and literary correspondence, 1973-1988. Correspondents include Richard Hopkinson, Paula Keogh, Dorothy Hewett, Pip Proud, Peter Ride and Merv Lilley. 2. Reviews and newscuttings, 1984-1988. 3. Typescripts of 13 published and unpublished poems attributed to Michael Dransfield. 4. Drafts of plays: The Magnificent Millie McGoochie, 1983, Rubina, 1983; The rule of Zip/No chance, 1984; We’re not ratbags, 1985; The wish palace, 1985; The secret room, 1988; Darkness in the dream factory, 1988; and, Year of the dog, 1989.??The Acc03/74 instalment includes diaries, letters, drafts of plays and poems, cuttings and printed ephemera.??The Acc03/79 instalment comprises 11 folders relating to Year of the dog, Aktion surreal (2 folders), Johno Johnson, The infinite gays, Chris Barnett, The wish palace, International Conference of Women Playwrights, Francis Webb, Persephone, and early poems by McNamara.??The Acc04/140 instalment consists of manuscripts and papers.??The Acc04/156 instalment comprises further manuscripts and papers. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 24 April 2018 Last modified 24 April 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Records of the Pan Pacific and South East Asian Women’s Association, comprising general minutes March 1952 – October 1975, executive committee minutes 1962-1966, programme study paper, annual report 1980-1981, President’s reports 1968-1979, Secretary’s annual report 1969-1970, a history of the association and other related material. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 2 April 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Tania Major first came to prominence in 2004 as the youngest person elected to the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission. In 2007 she was named Young Australian of the Year. She spoke to opinion makers, the public and government about sexual violence and rape in the Aboriginal community, asking Prime Minister John Howard to help lift the “blanket of shame” that was preventing such assaults being reported. The Cairns-based indigenous youth advocate, Tania Major, used her profile to draw attention to domestic violence in Aboriginal communities. Her forthright way of addressing the problems focused national attention on them. She broke the ice of public discussion about a number of issues concerning the welfare of young Indigenous people when she was featured on national television programs such as Four Corners and 60 Minutes. She made some people feel very uncomfortable, and was happy to do so. She spoke directly and very publicly to the prime minister and other opinion leaders about the appalling secrets of domestic violence in her community in the belief that the best way to represent her people was to tell the truth. “I’m proud to be an Aboriginal Australian and to have been recognised and acknowledged for the work I’m involved in,” Ms Major said. In 2009, Tania Major is the only person within her particular community to complete a university degree; indeed, she is the only one to have successfully completed Year 12. Tania has become a role model not only for Indigenous youth, but also for all young Australian’s. Published resources Resource Australian of the Year Awards, National Australia Day Council, 2007, http://www.australianoftheyear.org.au/pages/page310.asp Interview with Tania Major, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, 2009, http://www.abc.net.au/4corners/content/2003/20030728_positions_vacant/int_major.htm Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Resource Section Young Australian, Tania Major, Hill-Douglas, Olivia, 2007, http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/young-australian-tania-major/2007/01/25/1169594432321.html Author Details Lee Butterworth Created 22 June 2009 Last modified 12 February 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Memoirs detail missionary life, life as a minister’s wife, and her work with the women’s committees. The collection consists of 5 pamphlets privately printed (no publishing details). ‘Early Years’ (1980): ‘Later Years’ (1981): ‘This, That and the Other’ (1982): ‘Loose Ends and Knots’ (1983): ‘Just Memories’ (written by her husband, W.W. Fritsch, in 1984) Author Details Anne Heywood Created 29 January 2004 Last modified 3 February 2004 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Major Joyce Whitworth was Assistant Commander, Eastern Command New South Wales (NSW), Australian Women’s Army Service. She was discharged from the Army Service on 27 June 1946. From 1959 until 1972 she was President of the Australian Women’s Army Service Association (NSW). On the 21st Anniversary of the Australian Women’s Army Service, Joyce Whitworth planted an Australian Gum (Lemon Eucalyptus) in Hyde Park on the western side of the War Memorial, in the presence of Lt-General Sir John Northcott. For services to the community, Joyce Whitworth was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire on 8 June 1968. In 1989 Joyce Whitworth became Patron of the Council of Ex-Servicewomen’s Associations (NSW), a position she held until her death on 19 September 1998.

Records of the Association of Civilian Widows, Blackwood Branch, consisting of minutes of meetings, 1964-1995, rules and constitution and constitution of the National Executive 1976. Author Details Jane Carey Created 22 July 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

The Country Women’s Association of the Northern Territory is a non-sectarian, non-party-political, non-profit lobby group and service association working in the interests of women and children in rural areas. Although ostensibly non-party-political, in practice the group has tended to bolster conservative politics. The Association was officially formed in 1961, although the first branch had been formed in Alice Springs in 1933, with branches in Tennant Creek, Darwin and Katherine following soon after. The southern branches were originally affiliated with the South Australian CWA, while those in Darwin and Katherine were connected with the Queensland CWA. Archival Note: Since, prior to 1960, the Tennant Creek and Alice Springs Branches were managed by the South Australian CWA and the Darwin, and the Katherine and Darwin Branches were managed by the Queensland CWA, some records relating to these branches will be contained in the archives of those state organisations. The first branch of the CWA in the Northern Territory formed in Alice Springs in 1933. The branch was initiated by a meeting organised by Mrs J. A. Perkins, a member of the CWA of New South Wales. Mrs V. Carrington was elected as first president. Its early activities focussed on building up a library – with books and periodicals being sent out to members on distant stations. By 1936 they had also began handicraft instruction, leading to a weekly craft market by 1960. During WWII, like most other branches, energies were redirected towards supporting the war effort, through fund raising and supporting groups such as the Red Cross, the Australian Comforts Fund and Food for Britain. In 1947 they purchased a hall, which was also used for a range of community activities and briefly as a pre-school. The main early activities of the Tennant Creek branch revolved around organising social activities – Christmas parties, dances, bridge evening and the annual children’s fancy dress ball. During WWII they regularly organised entertainment and served refreshments to troops stationed in the area and raised fund to improve their accommodation. During the 1950s virtually every woman in town was a member of the group. The Darwin Branch was formed in 1937 – although various individuals had been suggesting such a move for the previous decade. Its early activities included cooking and craft classes as well as fund raising stalls and raffles. Since almost all women and children were evacuated from Darwin soon after Japan entered the war, the branch ceased operations for the duration. In the postwar years the branch concentrated on philanthropic endeavours – supporting the leprosarium, visiting patients at the hospital, providing giving gifts of Aboriginal children. They also took an interest in issues relating to the lack of facilities in Darwin, particularly in the areas of health, education, housing and food supplies, as well as the need for welfare officers. In the 1950s the group concentrated more projects for its own members – particularly the building of rest rooms and organising social events and fundraisers. They also established the Outback Mothers Hostel in 1953 – for expectant mothers from remote areas to stay in town in close proximity to the hospital and to provide accommodation for rural women and children visiting or convalescing in Darwin. The Katherine branched also formed in 1937. Despite the multiculturalism of the local popular, almost all members were white. The major early achievements of the branch were the establishment of a free lending library and the organisation of an annual Christmas tree for children. They also organised numerous social events. Women and children were also evacuated from Katherine in 1942 and the CWA did not reform until 1948. Their first efforts then were directed at fund raising to build a rest room and hostel – which was not realised until 1956. Racial issues were of acute concern to the group in the 1950s – with letters being written asking that ‘natives’ be separated from ‘whites’ on trains and in hospitals and schools. They also opposed the employment of married women in government service. The initiative to form a separate Northern Territory organisation came from the Darwin branch. This had been mooted since 1947, with periodic discussions among the existing CWA branches in the territory continuing throughout the 1950s, which were eventually successful in 1951. Territory-wide, from 1960-1990, much of the Association’s energy was taken up by property management. However, handicrafts were also promoted, and organisations concerned with children’s welfare and education were particularly assisted – including schools, pre-schools and crèches as well as clubs such as the Girl Guides and Boy Scouts. In the 1960s, considering energy was devoted towards trying to recruit Aboriginal women, or to teach them domestic skills, with little success. Aboriginal women largely resisted these attempts at assimilation. The expansion of health services was also an issue of concern. Charitable activities too increased in the1970s. Committees were also formed to investigate current issues – including child abuse, affirmative action, euthanasia, the environment and taxation. The writing of local histories has also featured prominently in the activities of members. By 1970 membership was 450 in 11 branches. This however, declined to 250 by 1980 and 120 by 1990. Published resources Book The Many Hats of Country Women: The Jubilee History of the Country Women's Association of Australia, Stevens-Chambers, Brenda, 1997 Getting things done : the Country Women's Association of Australia, Country Women's Association of Australia, 1986 Our First Forty Years: The South Australian Country Women's Association, Inc. Willunga Branch, 1947-1987, Young, Bertha, 1987 Country women : [history of the first seventy five years : the Queensland Country Women's Association], Pagliano, Muriel, 1998 Women in Isolation: A History of the Country Women's Association in the Northern Territory, 1933-1990, Doran, Christine, 1992 Fifty years: 1922-1972, 1972 The Country Women's Association of the Northern Territory: What it is, its purpose, membership, activities, history, Country Women's Association of the Northern Territory, [1985?] Country Women's Association of the Northern Territory: Information and history, Country Women's Association of the Northern Territory, [1994] Constitution and rules of the Country Women's Association of the Northern Territory (Incorporated), Country Women's Association of the Northern Territory, [1960?] Journal Article More than scones and tea: the CWA in the Northern Territory, Doran, Christine, 1996 The CWA -Country Women's Association- in Darwin after World War II, Doran, Christine, 1991 Report Annual Report/Country Womens' Association of the Northern Territory, Country Women's Association of the Northern Territory, 1959- Newsletter C.W.A. Calling, 1962?- Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources NULL Country Women's Association of Alice Springs Country Women's Association of South Australia The Country Women's Association of the Northern Territory John Oxley Library, Manuscripts and Business Records Collection 3282 Queensland Country Women's Association Records 1923-2002 Northern Territory Archives Service NTRS 2323 Letter books NTRS 2321 Administration and correspondence files NTRS 2322 Building and Building Finance Committee files Author Details Jane Carey and Anne Heywood Created 19 March 2004 Last modified 29 October 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

5 sound files (approximately 371 min.) Author Details Alannah Croom Created 12 September 2014 Last modified 22 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

2 sound cassettes (ca. 103 min.)??Jean Arnot, librarian and activist for equal pay for women, speaks of her family background; Fort Street School; joining Public (later State) Library of New South Wales; transfer from Bent Street building; design of present Library building; library exams; fight for equal pay; Council of Action for Equal Pay; membership of Public Service Association; family influences; looking after aged parents; Kooroora Club; Business and Professional Women’s Club; United Nations Committee; Sydney Club, Trades and Professions Committee; National Council of Women; Royal Australian Historical Society; Freedom From Hunger, New South Wales Executive; Australian Institute of Librarians; her MBE; knowledge gained through library work; Miles Franklin papers; Havelock Ellis diaries; associated institutions of the SLNSW; book theft; slashing of section on Archbishop Laud from the Dictionary of National Biography; study tours; institutional libraries; attending international cataloguing conference, Paris; library automation; Sir William Dixson coin collection; theft from H.L. White stamp collection; Berkelouw antiquarian booksellers; Riverina CAE Library; Northern Rivers CAE Library; cataloguing private collections; donations of family papers; overseas acquisition of material; Sir William Dixson; David Scott Mitchell; pirated ed. Of The Pickwick Papers; Aboriginal, PNG collecting; cataloguer training; preservation; relocation of SLNSW material during WW2; London Library bomb damage; changes in type of staff; contemporary collectors; retirement activities. Author Details Jane Carey Created 4 August 2004 Last modified 21 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)