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Compilation of literary works brought together by the Aboriginal Treaty Committee for the purpose of fund-raising. These works include the following: Murray Bail’s original draft, typed with holograph corrections of “The drover’s wife”; Nancy Cato’s typed draft with corrections of the poem “Travel”. Alan Marshall’s complete set of drafts with corrections and additions of “Hallucination at departure”; Ivan Southall’s manuscripts of the book “The golden goose”; Kylie Tennant’s playscript “Here of nowhere” and Patrick White’s work on a projected opera based on “A fringe of leaves”. Other literary figures represented are: Patsy Adam-Smith, Dorothy Auchterlone, (Dorothy Green), John Blight, R. F. Brissenden, Manning Clark, H. C. Coombs, Bruce Dawe, Margaret Diesendorf, Rosemary Dobson, Geoffrey Dutton, Ray Ericksen, Sylvana Gardner, Stewart Harris, Gwen Harwood, Roger McDonald, Donald Horne, Mark O’Connor; R. A. Simpson, Geoffrey Page, Judith Rodriguez, Dal Stivens, Judah Waten, Judith Wright and Nancy Keesing. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 17 April 2018 Last modified 17 April 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

1 sound tape reel (ca. 15 min.)??Keesing speaks about her collaboration with Douglas Stewart in editing “Australian bush ballads” and “Old bush songs” ; Keesing reads two poems titled “Lady and Cockatoo” and “Gypsie”. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 10 April 2018 Last modified 10 April 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Dr Hurriyet Babacan was born in Turkey and migrated to Australia at the age of ten. A long and distinguished career has seen her work as an academic, social worker, policy officer, senior public servant, researcher, author and trainer. Born in Turkey, Hurriyet Babacan migrated to Australia with her parents and three siblings in 1971. Her early memories of Australia are of life in an ex-army barracks migrant hostel in NSW. Her father, a middle class academic in Turkey, became a member of the Australian working class when he joined the workforce at the steel mills nearby. Both of Hurriyet’s parents suffered injuries due to unsafe work practices in the factories of Sydney and Melbourne. For the young Hurriyet schooling was a struggle without English language fluency, and the experience of racism added stress. Despite this she did well at school in subjects where English language skills were less crucial such as mathematics and chemistry. Hurriyet went on to complete a Bachelor of Commerce, Bachelor of Social Work, Master of Arts (Social Policy), PhD, Graduate Certificate in Education and interpreting/translation qualifications. Hurriyet’s parents engendered in her an awareness of social issues and social justice from a young age, and this has been reflected in her career choices. Over the last twenty years Hurriyet has worked as an academic, social worker, policy officer, senior public servant, researcher, author and trainer. She was a senior executive in the Queensland Government where she held the position of Executive Director, Multicultural Affairs, Women’s Policy and Community Outcomes Branch in the Department of Premier and Cabinet. She has also held lecturing positions in universities across Australia, and worked as a senior public servant in the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet and the Victorian Government. Dr Babacan currently holds a position at the University of the Sunshine Coast where she is the acting Head of Social and Community Studies and also Associate Director of the Centre for Multicultural and Community Development. She coordinates and lectures in courses in community development, gender, cultural diversity and social and human service practice. She has undertaken extensive research on a range of topics, including immigration and settlement, racism, health, family services, community capacity building, social exclusion/inclusion, child protection, ageing, women, globalisation and human rights. She has published widely and has completed work for UNESCO on gender and development. Her book on death and dying across six non-Christian religions has sold over 10,000 copies. She has also published a well recognised guide for migrant job seekers on addressing selection criteria. Dr Babacan has been involved with numerous community organisations over the past twenty years, co-founding many of them. The most recent include: DV Connect Inc, a state-wide domestic violence telephone counselling service in Queensland; Queensland Program for Survivors of Torture and Trauma, counselling service for survivors of torture and trauma; Women’s Sector Development project, a state-wide program to better connect women’s agencies across different service areas with government; Multicultural Development Association Inc, settlement services and case service delivery to newly arrived migrants and refugees which is now one of the largest service delivery agencies in Queensland; Centre for Multicultural and Community Development, University of the Sunshine Coast; Australians for Multiculturalism and Reconciliation; and Women Connect, a state-wide agency for development and mentoring of women for leadership roles in Queensland. Former Ministerial advisory positions include: Equal Opportunity Advisory Committee to the Premier in Victoria; Member of Legal Aid Commission Review Committee; Adviser to the Australia Council; Member of the National Settlement Advisory Council (to the Minister for Immigration); Member of Child Protection Council, an advisory body to the Minister for Families, Youth and Community Care in Queensland; and Multicultural Women’s Advisory Council to the Premier (Queensland) and Victorian Ethnic Affairs Commission. Dr Hurriyet Babacan is married and lives in Queensland. Her husband is of Indian descent and the pair travel frequently. Published resources Report Investigations into funding of migrant women's re-creation groups: report, Babacan, Hurriyet, 1983 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia, Smart, Judith and Swain, Shurlee (eds.), 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 1 February 2006 Last modified 20 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

6 digital audio tapes (ca. 360 min.).??Hon Justice Elizabeth Evatt talks about the power of common law; the operation of a bill of rights; the review of the “Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Heritage Protection Act”, which had just been completed and her work with the UN Human Rights Committee. She also talks about her career in law reform; her family background and schooling and her father’s influence on her decision to study law. Evatt discusses her work with the Law Reform Commission in London; the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission; heading the Royal Commission into Human Relationships and her work as the first Chief Judge of the Family Court of Australia. Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 2 November 2006 Last modified 21 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

1 hour 20 minutes??Joyce Kitto was born in Gladstone, South Australia. She spent most of her youth in Adelaide where she completed primary schooling, attended business college, and took an appointment in a office. In the early 1950s Joyce became a member of the Citizens’ Military Force Nursing Corps, which led to her decision to train as a nurse. She was a student nurse at Mount Gambier Hospital from 1954 to 1957. After midwifery training in Launceston she worked in Port Pirie and then became a tutor sister at the Port Augusta Hospital. In 1963 she studied at the College of Nursing, Australia in Melbourne for the Sister Tutor Diploma, and returned to Port Augusta for three years. In 1970 she was appointed tutor sister in charge of the newly established training school for enrolled nurses at Gleneden, Maryattville, where she remained until her retirement in 1985. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 7 April 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

25 minutes??Eva McLaren was born in Yorkshire and educated in England and Switzerland. She lived in India and met Ghandi. On a visit to Australia she met and married Captain Edward Smith McLaren. She joined the Lyceum Club and joined every circle except Italian and bridge, was president in 1948-49 and 1959-61,enjoyed many of the speakers such as Noel Coward and during the war years was convenor of the circles. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 7 April 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Suzanne Edgar is a Canberra-based writer of fiction, feature articles, poetry and reviews. (This entry is sponsored by generous donation from Christine Foley.) Suzanne Edgar was born in 1939 in Glenelg, South Australia, and studied at Adelaide Teachers’ College and the University of Adelaide. She moved to Canberra in 1963 with her husband Peter, a writer and historian (To Villers-Bretonneux, Australian Military History Publications, Syd, 2006). She has worked in adult education, and has taught Women’s Studies at the Australian National University. For c.25 years she was the research editor, South Australian desk, at the Australian Dictionary of Biography. She has published Counting Backwards and Other Stories (1991), many of these short stories being set in Adelaide and in Canberra, and the collection was short-listed for the Steele Rudd award in 1992. Edgar’s poetry has been published in The Australian, The Canberra Times, The Adelaide Review, Quadrant, The Australian’s Review of Books, and Eureka Street. She has twice won the C.J. Dennis Memorial Poetry Competition for Night Shift and Uriarra, while Chica and The Ring Maker have been short-listed for Canberra poetry awards. Her poems, ‘The Loneliness of Salt’ and ‘Enid on the Sofa’, were included in Les Murray ed., Best Australian Poems 2004 and 2005 respectively (Black Inc., Melb.). Among her other poems in anthologies, her sonnet ‘The Patriarch’s House by the Sea’ is in R. Walker and L Nicholas eds., Friendly Street Thirty, Wakefield Press, Adel, 2006; this sonnet was short-listed for the SATURA prize for the best poem in the book. Edgar has read at Friendly Street Poets, Adelaide. She often gives readings of her own and others’ poetry in connection with art exhibitions, at the National Gallery of Australia and at the Art Gallery of South Australia. She also writes film and book reviews, criticism and features in literary and scholarly journals. She was a member of Seven Writers – a group of seven Canberra-based writers whose work vividly portrayed life ‘beneath the surface of Canberra’ – and as part of this collective she contributed to Canberra Tales (1988), republished as The Division of Love in 1996, an anthology of short stories about life in Canberra. The work was funded with an ACT Bicentennial grant. Edgar currently belongs to a professional poets’ group [no name] comprised of two men and two women who meet monthly at The Mull and Fiddle, to discuss work in progress. Her first collection of poetry, The Painted Lady, prepared with the help of a $10,000 grant from artsACT, is to be published in 2006 by Indigo Press, Canb. (eds. Alan Gould and Geoff Page). Edgar has contributed fifty-three biographical articles to the Australian Dictionary of Biography and one to The Biographical Dictionary of the Australian Senate. She is also an interviewer for the National Library of Australia’s Oral History Program. Published resources Book Counting Backwards and other stories, Edgar, Suzanne, 1991 The Division of Love: Stories, Barbalet, Margaret et al, 1995 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition From Lady Denman to Katy Gallagher: A Century of Women's Contributions to Canberra, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2013, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/ldkg Archival resources National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Records of the Seven Writers group, between 1986 and approximately 2000 Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 1 June 2006 Last modified 20 November 2018 Digital resources Title: Portrait of Suzanne Edgar taken at Adelaide Festival 1990 Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Deed of gift of land and effects’ of M. F. Crommelin at Warra to University of Sydney for establishment of Crommelin Biological Station, Pearl Beach, Woy Woy, 8 April 1947, with ‘Inventory and valuation of household and library effects, layout of buildings’ and letter from M. F. Crommelin, 9 February 1954 Author Details Ailie Smith Created 21 November 2002 Last modified 31 October 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Rachael Wallbank is an Accredited Specialist (Family Law – LSNSW) and principal of the legal practice Wallbanks Legal. Wallbank represented and appeared on behalf of ‘Kevin’ and ‘Jennifer’ at trial in Re Kevin: Validity of Marriage of Transsexual (2001) 28 Fam LR 158 and on appeal in The Attorney-General for the Commonwealth & “Kevin and Jennifer” & Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission [2003] FamCA 94 whereby Australians who experience diversity or difference in sexual formation, including Transsexualism, gained the right to legally marry in their affirmed sex. Wallbank also acted and appeared for the Applicant Parents in Re Bernadette [2010] FamCA 94; the first case in Australia to authorise Phase 1 Treatment to suspend puberty for an adolescent living with the condition of Transsexualism (as an interim order in 2005) and the first case to challenge the Australian legal regime initiated by Re Alex (2004) FLC 93-175 which requires court authorisation of Phase 1 and 2 Treatments as a precondition to treatment. Wallbank is a member of the Legal Issues Committee of the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) and a founding member of the Australian and New Zealand Professional Association for Transgender Health (ANZPATH). Wallbank has written academically, undertakes lectures and presentations on the subject of the legal and human rights of people who experience diversity or difference in sexual formation and gender expression, especially with regard to Australia, and appears in the media as a public advocate and legal expert on the subject. The following additional information was provided by Rachael Wallbank and is reproduced with permission in its entirety. Born on 4 March 1956, as Richard Wallbank, Rachael attended St Patrick’s College Strathfield in Sydney and the University of New South Wales. Rachael was admitted to practise as a solicitor on 4 July 1980. Rachael has three adult children. After having worked as a junior solicitor and later rising to Associate at Messrs Fred A. and John F. Newnham of Sydney, Rachael established her own legal practice, Wallbanks Legal, on 1 July 1985. Wallbanks Legal is a specialist practice concerned with Family, Wills & Estates and Succession Law. As is typical for those who experience the condition of Transsexualism, Rachael was aware of her female self in childhood. In the circumstances of the times, however, and although she was referred to doctors by her parents for being found dressing in her sister’s clothes and telling them “I’m really a girl” at about 7 years of age, the condition remained an untreated shame to be consciously ignored by all concerned. Rachael’s adolescence and young adulthood were extremely confusing, painful and shame-filled. Rachael publicly affirmed her female sex on 4 July 1994, undertook sex affirmation procedures including genital surgery and had her Legal Sex reassigned to female in New South Wales pursuant to that State’s births, deaths and marriages laws on 17 July 1997. Rachael is grateful that her life and legal career have presented her with the opportunity to achieve significant legal and human rights reform and to advance the understanding of Transsexualism as a naturally occurring form of diversity in human sexual formation and a form of intersexual disorder of sexual development with a clearly therapeutic medical treatment protocol and not a mental disorder or a psychological phenomenon. Re Kevin has been relied upon in several landmark international decisions; including I v The United Kingdom and Christine Goodwin v The United Kingdom, decided by the European Court of Human Rights. These decisions, which quote Justice Chisholm’s decision in Re Kevin at length and with approval, finally determined that there had been violations of articles 8, 12, 13 and 14 of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms in respect of the legal status of people who had experienced Transsexualism in the United Kingdom and, in particular, such people’s treatment in the spheres of employment, social security, pensions and marriage. As a result of these decisions the government of the United Kingdom introduced the Gender Recognition Act 2004. Re Kevin was also relied upon in the landmark decision of the Sixth Judicial Circuit, Pasco County, Florida, in the United States of America in The Marriage of Kantaras. At page 673 of that decision Justice O’Brien said: ‘…it is essential that Kevin not be given a mere “citation” but studied for what it represents in the law. It is one of the most important cases on Transsexualism to come on the scene of foreign jurisprudence.’ Rachael continues to advocate for the abandonment of the requirement imposed by the Family Court of Australia requiring court authorisation of time critical therapeutic hormonal treatment for Australian adolescents who experience Transsexualism; with all the unnecessary suffering from non-treatment and self harm that inevitably results. Rachael deeply appreciates the fact that her children and her former wife were all obliged to share in the social and personal suffering associated with her Difference and her public affirmation of her innate female self and that, without the love and support of many people, and especially her children, this entry would not exist. Rachael’s favourite saying is that of Helen Keller who said “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.” Enjoying her 21st birthday as an affirmed female in 2015, Rachael is grateful to be recognised amongst the wonderful Australian women lawyers in this exhibition and to finally be one of those lucky people who no longer care if the family parrot falls into the hands of the town gossip. Significant presentations by Rachael Wallbank: A Critique of Re Jamie and the Role of the Family Court in Determining the Access to Medical Treatment of Young Australians Living With Transsexualism for the 30th QLD Family Law Residential 2015. The inaugural (2013) Isabelle Lake Memorial Lecture for the Equal Opportunity Commission Western Australia and The University of Western Australia ‘Medico/Legal Issues in the Treatment of Young People With Transsexualism”, XVIII World Congress of the World Association of Sexual Health (WAS) – 1st World Congress For Sexual Health (April 2007) Darling Harbour, Sydney, Australia. ‘Human Rights and Diversity in Sexual Formation and Expression’, XXIII ILGA World Conference (March 2006) Geneva, Switzerland. ‘Children with Transsexualism – From Difference to Disorder’, The Fourth World Congress on Family Law and Children’s Rights (2005), Cape Town, South Africa. ‘The Different Roads to Reform’ presented at the 6th International Congress on Sex and Gender Diversity (2004) The School of Law, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. ‘Difference on Trial’ presentation and paper, 11th National Biennial Conference of the Family Law Section of the Law Council of Australia 2004, Conference Handbook (2004) TEN, GPO Box 61A Melbourne, VIC, 3000, Australia’ Published resources Book Section Australia, Wallbank, Rachael, 2015 Journal Article Re Kevin in Perspective, Wallbank, Rachael, 2004, http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/journals/DeakinLawRw/2004/22.html Newsletter Re Alex - Through a Looking Glass, Wallbank, Rachael, 2004 Book Speaking Secrets: Sex and sexuality as public property, Joseph, Sue, 2013 Site Exhibition Australian Women Lawyers as Active Citizens, Trailblazing Women Lawyers Project Team, 2016, http://www.womenaustralia.info/lawyers Author Details Rachael Wallbank Created 27 April 2016 Last modified 18 November 2016 Digital resources Title: Rachael Wallbank Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Comprises papers of Dr Ursula Hoff, including correspondence and photographs, relating to her study of Charles Conder. Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 13 November 2002 Last modified 29 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Photographs taken in Tasmania in 1866 Author Details Alannah Croom Created 18 October 2004 Last modified 6 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

This collection provides a documentation of the professional and personal life of Dr Ruth Molphy. The material includes personal documentation including passports, photographs, correspondence, receipts, papers, certificates as well as papers and certificates relating to cat breeding and other material relating to the National Seniors Association.??Box 17370 – Material relating to St Hilda’s school, book prizes, speech notes, etc.; Photograph album; Diary.?Box 17371 – Various papers relating to National Seniors Association; Copy of ‘Gould’s medical dictionary’; Bible; Small box containing a collection of medals and badges including some World War One medals, badges relating to cat breeding and showing and others such as ‘Queensland Branch of AMA, 50 years’ and Girl Guide badges.?Box 17372 – Photographs, correspondence, certificates, newspaper clippings and papers relating to breeding, showing and judging of Russian Blue cats and Merlow Cattery. Correspondence relating to M.B.E. award in 1987, correspondence and household papers, photographs.?Box 17373 O/S – MBE, award and ceritficate; Various educational, professional and other certificates and awards, rolled and stored in tubes; framed photograph; Binder containing papers relating to National Seniors Association.?Box 17374 O/S- Papers relating to judging of cats; Personal and family documents and certificates; Five passports; Household receipts, correspondence, Bank passbooks, newspaper clippings, business and personal papers; Soldier’s pay books for James Molphy, personal papers of James and Agnes Molphy. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 26 June 2018 Last modified 26 June 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

A candidate committed to the preservation of public land, Barbie Bates ran as a candidate in the House of Representatives for Chifley in 2001, for Penrith in 2003 as a member of the Save Our Suburbs Party and as a candidate in the House of Representatives for Lindsay (Save the ADI site party) in 2004. Barbie Bates is a long-time resident of Western Sydney. She believes passionately in the importance of local opinion and campaigned to have the land being sold by the Department of Defence acquired and protected as a regional park and nature reserve. Published resources Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 6 December 2005 Last modified 25 February 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Judith Parker has been an activist for human rights over a period of 50 years, with a special interest in the rights of women and children. She has been particularly active in the National Councils of Women, at state, national and international levels, and was only the second Western Australian to hold the national presidency (2000-2003). She was responsible for winning the right to hold the International Council of Women triennial conference in Australia (in Perth) in 2003, the first time Australia had hosted this event. Judith Parker has also been very active in the United Nations Association of Australia. In 2004, she was made a Member of the Order of Australia and, in 2009, she was invested as a Dame Commander in the Sovereign Order of Saint John of Jerusalem Knights Hospitaller, honouring her for her services to women and human rights. Judith Parker was born in in 1941 in Geelong, Victoria, the youngest of 8 daughters of Amelia and Thomas Sinclair. Her parents were both English-born and raised in Australia. Thomas Sinclair managed a series of building companies, and the family followed the building boom. Parker attended primary schools in Mornington, Victoria, and Telopea Park, ACT, followed by a secondary education at the Canberra Church of England Girls Grammar School, from 1953 to 1957. She remembers as formative experiences the training in logical thinking she received at the Grammar School, and the conversations she overheard between neighbours like Heinz Arndt and Manning Clark. In 1958, Parker won a scholarship to study at the Melbourne Kindergarten Training College. She supported herself by working night shifts in the Down’s Syndrome ward of the Kew Mental Hospital. She witnessed the transformation in that institution achieved by the reformer, Dr Eric Cunningham Dax, who did away with constraints like straitjackets for patients. From this experience, Parker took away an enduring interest in disability, especially as it affects children. The thesis component of her degree was a study of the effects of parental alcoholism upon small children. On graduating, Judith Parker worked in a Canberra pre-school, the beginning of 32 years in the ACT education system. When a supervisor refused to endorse her decision to enrol a blind student, she took the issue to the school parents and the press, and eventually won her case. A growing interest in dyslexia led her to take a post-graduate course in special education at Canberra University, and later a second post-graduate degree in community counselling. She put these skills to use during her last 4 years in Canberra by running a special pre-school for elective mutes-children who could not or would not speak. In addition, Parker ran a private counselling service assisting children through grief and loss. Judith’s marriage in 1962 to George Parker, an officer in the Customs Department, and the births of a son and a daughter, did not check her commitment to community engagement. Across this period, she held executive office in the National Council of Women of ACT, the Canberra Preschool Society, the Canberra Mothercraft Society, the ACT Teachers’ Federation, SPELD ACT (the Dyslexia and Specific Learning Difficulties Association), NALAG ACT (the National Association for Loss and Grief), the ACT Women’s Health Centre, and Anglican Women ACT. As president of Anglican Women, she initiated a series of forums about women’s rights within the church, generating much debate. Parker has made an enduring mark in all of these associations, none more so than the National Council of Women. She attended her first meeting of NCWACT in 1961 as a proxy delegate for the Children’s Book Council, and was ‘blown away’ by the ‘thinking’ women she met, like Alexandra Hasluck and Dame Pattie Menzies. She joined as an associate member, later acting as delegate for the Preschool Society, the Mothercraft Society, SPELD ACT and Anglican Women. She was quickly taken onto the executive and filled a number of roles, including as NCWACT spokesperson to Senate committees. She was also a NCWACT delegate to the UN Decade for Women Conference in Canberra, and to the ICW Conference in India. In 1994, George Parker retired, and the family moved to Waikiki in Western Australia. Judith Parker joined the National Council of Women of Western Australia as an associate member, became the state convenor on child and family, and took various positions on the executive including 3 years as vice-president. Most unusually, she did not hold a state presidency before standing for national president; her term as president of NCWA WA would occur a few years later, in 2005-2007. When Judith Parker nominated for the national presidency in 1999, the competition was unusually fierce, with 3 candidates standing for the position; Parker’s victory came despite being the youngest of the candidates and by reputation the most radical. She held the presidency of NCWA from 2000 to 2003. She lists amongst the achievements of her presidency the formation in 2002 of the Australian Women’s Coalition, one of 3 coalitions representing Australian women to government; NCWA, having been funded to provide National Secretariat services, was the designated agency for its establishment. Parker also takes pride in the establishment of the NCWA Young Women’s Consultative Group and, above all, the organisation of the Triennial General Assembly of the International Council of Women in Perth in 2003. To bring the ICW assembly to Australia seemed an impossible dream; the ICW president told Parker that ‘the women from Europe are not going to fly to Australia’. Parker made the dream possible by winning a Western Australian award that financed the preparation of the proposal to hold the assembly, by a passionate presentation of the proposal at the 2000 ICW general assembly in Helsinki, and, finally, by persuading the WA Lotteries Commission to make a very large grant towards the running of the assembly. The conference was a great success, confirming Australia’s high profile within the International Council of Women. During the 2003 General Assembly, Judith Parker was elected to the executive of ICW, with the portfolio of managing ICW projects worldwide. Over the next 6 years she ran 34 projects around the world to better the lives of women and girls. These included building water tanks in villages along the Kokoda Trail in Papua-New Guinea; setting up computer classes for women in Macedonia; establishing a women’s collective in Kenya to buy cows and sell their produce; starting a sewing centre in India for widows forced to become prostitutes; again in India supplying artificial limbs for people damaged by war and leprosy; and in South Africa two projects: one working with girl prostitutes whose parents had died of AIDS, the other teaching women to turn recycled materials into hats and bags and brooches for the tourist trade. In 2005, Parker was an ICW delegate to the ‘Beijing+10’ conference in New York-the special meeting of the UN Commission on the Status of Women, which reviewed the achievements, and more particularly the failures, in the implementation of the Platform for Action set by the Beijing Conference 10 years before. On her return to Perth, Parker accepted the position of convenor of the Human Rights Committee of the United Nations Association of Australia. In 2008, she took on the role of state president of UNAA (WA Division) and, in 2009, she was elected vice-president of the national body. She has been active in pressuring successive governments to further the cause of human rights in Australia, in particular to sign the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW). Parker has continued her commitment to local community organisations, taking leading positions in the Rockingham Historical Society, the Rockingham Family History Society, the WA Genealogy Society, the Rockingham Women’s Health Centre, and the vestry of St Brendan’s Anglican Church, Warnbro. She has also been a member of the Telstra Consumer Consultative Committee, representing women’s interests, and patron of the Partners of Veterans Association (WA). In 2009, she was the chairperson of the committee Honouring Creative Women in Western Australia. Judith Parker is the author of several books and numerous articles dealing with the issues of grief and loss, child development and the value of play. In 2004, she was made a Member of the Order of Australia, ‘for service to the community through the National Council of Women of Australia and a range of other organisations that benefit women and children’. In the same year, she was awarded the City of Perth Active Citizens Premier’s Award. In 2009 she was invested as a Dame in the Sovereign Order of Saint John of Jerusalem, Knights Hospitallers, honouring her for her services to women and human rights. In 2012, she was a recipient of the United Nations Australia Peace Award. On her return from the ‘Beijing +10’ Conference, Parker told the NCWA that: ‘despite these developments all over the world, there continues a reality that women’s fundamental human rights are denied. They lack basic education and training; many are unaware of their human rights; and to others rights are unattainable. The challenge is to implement the agreed goals, strategies and commitments made by governments, including the Australian government. To achieve this, non-government organizations, governments and the U.N. must work together’. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 A Peoples Movement for the United Nations, United Nations Association of Australia, Western Australian Branch, 2009, http://www.unaa-wa.org.au/newsletter/1.03/newsletter.htm Site Exhibition Stirrers with Style! Presidents of the National Council of Women of Australia and its predecessors, National Council of Women of Australia, 2013, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/ncwa Newsletter NCWA Quarterly Bulletin, National Council of Women of Australia, 1999 Winfo, Office for Women's Policy, Western Australia, 2005 Resource Section A National Osteoporosis Prevention and Management Strategy, Casper, Dr Gabrielle, 2002, http://afmw.org.au/projects/40-a-national-osteoporosis-prevention-and-management-strategy Archival resources State Library of Western Australia National Council of Women of Western Australia records, 1911-2001 National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection NCWA Papers 1984 - 2006 Private Hands (These regards may not be readily available) Interview with Judith Parker Author Details Jan Hipgrave, Marian Quartly and Judith Smart Created 3 September 2013 Last modified 7 November 2013 Digital resources Title: Judith Parker Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

1 sound tape reel (ca. 79 min.)???The exhibition is made up of contributions from over 200 writers and others. They include new and unpublished works, specially-written poems, letters, extracts from music scores and illustrations for various works. Blackman intended selling the manuscripts at auction to support Chiron College, an innovative senior secondary school in Sydney, but decided that because of its quality and uniqueness it should not be split up. It was bought by two Jack & Eleanor Bendat and Kerry & Denise Stokes, and loaned by them to the Arts Council of Australia for display Author Details Alannah Croom Created 10 April 2018 Last modified 10 April 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

In 1982, Jenny Ow, of the Australian Council of Churches, organised the first Immigrant Women’s Speakout. Opened by Franca Arena a New South Wales parliamentarian, the speakout attracted 200 women from around the country, with the aim of encouraging them to speak out loud about the problems that migrant women confronted. Similar occasions followed in other capital cities around the country. Two very important organisations grew out of this occasion. One was the New South Wales Immigrant Women’s Speakout Association, the other was the New South Wales Immigrant Women’s Resource Centre, which was established in 1985. The importance of the speakouts was that they offered women from a variety of ethnic and class backgrounds the opportunity to share stories and solidarity. They allowed women the opportunity of breaking the stoic silence and to challenge stereotypes. A good example of this comes from a Japanese woman who ‘spoke out’ in South Australia in 1983: ‘I’m from Japan and I hope to express what my sisters feel. A lot of Asian women are quiet, we look submissive, small and very weak. But we are not so! Quietness doesn’t mean weakness. I would like you all to help erase this stereotypical or mythical image of Asian women. I hope I share this with women of other nationalities too. I’m Japanese, so they all think I’m a Geisha! I’m not a Geisha. I smoke and I drink and I ride a motor bike. So please help and let’s work together at erasing this traditional or I should say stupid image of women.’ And another paints a very gloomy picture: “Today a few of us women who had the courage and freedom to present ourselves came here today. There are many women at home that didn’t have the courage to come here and are slaves under the harsh working conditions and the bonds of their husbands.’ Published resources Conference Proceedings Records and Proceedings of the Speakout for Immigrant and Refugee Women, 1983 Book Section Double Disadvantage: Migrant and Aboriginal Women, Sawer, Marian, 1990 Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 17 June 2006 Last modified 20 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

The MS 9227 collection comprises personal correspondence, financial papers, correspondence concerning the writing and publication of Marian Eldridge’s various works, handwritten drafts, typescripts, copy-edit and page proofs, notes and research material, and book reviews. The personal and literary correspondence documents her relationships with other writers, friends, and members of the Eldridge and Stockfeld families. The principal literary correspondents include Geoffrey Dutton, Judith Wright, Vance Palmer, Gwen Harwood, Ian R. Mathews, John Barnes, Myra Roper, Edith Conley, Irene Summy, Anne Elder and Joan Mas. The personal correspondents include Eldridge’s mother, writer Gwen Stockfeld; her brother David Stockfeld; her children David, James, Elizabeth, and Catherine Eldridge; various Eldridge and Stockfeld relatives, and friends from Australia and overseas (30 boxes).??The Acc01/82 instalment comprises juvenilia, correspondence, drafts, articles, reviews, talks, and files on writing projects and literary organisations, teaching notes, research material on various writers, business and legal papers, publications containing Eldridge’s contributions, and condolences following her death (4 boxes, 10 cartons).??The Acc03/119 instalment includes diaries, 1954-1956 and 1964-1972, correspondence between Ken and Marian Eldridge, 1955-1990s, letters from Ken and Marian to their children, 1978-1979, letters from Brian Stockfeld to his mother and between Brian and Gwen Stockfeld, 1921-1970s, school magazines and other miscellaneous papers (2 cartons).??The Acc09/158 instalment includes five notebooks kept by Marian Eldridge on her writings, and three diaries she kept just before her death (1 packet). Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 1 June 2006 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Dr Hannah McGlade is a Nyungar human rights lawyer and academic who has published widely on many aspects of Aboriginal legal issues, especially those affecting the lives of Aboriginal women and children. Winner of the West Australian NAIDOC Student of the Year Award in 1996 (she followed this up in 2008 with the NAIDOC Outstanding Achievement Award), she was the first Aboriginal person to graduate from Murdoch University; she was also the first Aboriginal woman to graduate from a Western Australian law school when she graduated LLB (Murdoch) in 1995. She was admitted as a Solicitor and Barrister of the Supreme Court of Western Australia in 1996. In July 2016 she was appointed as a Senior Indigenous Research Fellow at Curtin University. In 2016, she has been a Senior Indigenous Fellow at the United Nations Office of the High Commission for Human Rights in Geneva, attending and assisting The Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (EMRIP). As well as publishing prolifically, McGlade has served on many tribunals, boards and committees throughout her career, including the board of the Healing Foundation, a national Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander organisation with a focus on building culturally strong, community led healing solutions to Australian Indigenous people by reconnecting them back to their culture, philosophy and spirit. She played a leading role in the return of historically significant lands, being the former Sister Kate’s Children Home, where she had been a child resident, to the local community and also in the establishment of the Noongar Radio station serving as the Managing Director of Noongar Media Enterprises in 2008. Her tireless advocacy on behalf of Aboriginal women led in 2013 to the establishment of the first ever service in Perth for Aboriginal victims of domestic violence. Named Djinda, a Noongar word meaning stars and in memory of the women whose lives have been lost to violence, the service is delivered in conjunction with the Women’s Law Centre and provides support to victims of family violence in the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities of metropolitan Perth. In 2016 McGlade remain an adviser to the service. Hannah McGlade was interviewed by Nikki Henningham for the Trailblazing Women and the Law Oral History Project. For details of the interview see the National Library of AustraliaCATALOGUE RECORD. An advocate for schemes that enable and prioritise Indigenous people’s access to education, McGlade provides living proof of the transformative power of education. Growing up, she enjoyed learning and wanted to get a good education, but circumstances beyond her control led to McGlade leaving school before turning 16 years. A victim of abuse herself, she experienced family breakdown, homelessness and poverty and discontinued schooling to support herself and a younger brother, finding work in cafes and fast food take out places. At this time, Government initiatives to support Aboriginal access to education were fortunately available. Hannah enrolled at the Curtin University Bridging Course, and then the Bachelor of Communications degree at Curtin. She worked for the West Australia Aboriginal Media Association, reporting on Indigenous affairs and issues. In 1989, now living and working in Canberra, Hannah was admitted to the Australian National University’s inaugural Aboriginal entry program, which provided places and support to study law. She returned to Perth to complete her undergraduate degree in law at Murdoch University, where she also completed a Masters in International Human Rights Law in 2001. In 2011 she graduated with a PhD from Curtin University. McGlade’s research, supervised by Professor Linda Briskman, formed the basis of an award-winning book and was awarded a Vice Chancellor’s commendation. McGlade extended her formal education in 2014 at Harvard University by completing a Certificate in Global Mental Health, Trauma and Recovery. In 2011, McGlade received the Stanner Award for the best academic manuscript written by an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander author, for her book based on her PhD research, Our Greatest Challenge, Aboriginal children and human rights. The strength of her writing and argument comes from her ability to blend personal experience with academic expertise and the benefit of professional practice. Described as ‘not a comfortable read’ the book is fearless in its analysis and assessment of Australian attitudes and responses to the abuse of children in Aboriginal communities. She argues that Aboriginal human rights discourses that focus on treaties and constitutional recognition ignore the plight of indigenous women and children and have been too often been supportive of Aboriginal men’s sense of entitlement. While the impact of colonization, trauma, racism and stigma is profound, ongoing and extensively documented in histories of Aboriginal Australia, the danger of these wide-ranging explanations in the context of violence in Indigenous communities is that the specific issues of child sexual abuse and domestic violence, and the human rights of Aboriginal children are lost, subsumed in the greater ‘pains’ of the dispossessed. It also means that the special needs and voices of abused women and children are ignored. ‘Within Aboriginal rights discourse, few women are prepared to speak about Aboriginal men’s violence’, she says, but this should not be taken to mean that gender is irrelevant, or that women might place more emphasis on racism than on sexism as the core problem. Women who do speak out, she says, often experience intimidation, marginalization and isolation. So-called ‘educated liberal’ responses that violence towards women and children is part of Aboriginal ‘culture’ and one that has to be accommodated by ‘white man’s’ law are seriously misguided and cannot continue. McGlade has used her legal training as an activist in a practical sense. In 1999, she successfully brought a civil case against Senator Ross Lightfoot who was found to have vilified Aboriginal people in 1997 by saying publicly that some aspects of Aboriginal culture were abhorrent, and that they were ‘the most primitive people on earth’. She has supported several Noongar elders and community members to assert their rights under Section 18C of Racial Discrimination Act. Her legal training has also been important to her work in the community legal sector where she was responsible for leading the establishment of the Aboriginal Family Law Services, providing legal, counselling and community education to regional Aboriginal women, families and communities experiencing high levels of family violence and sexual assault. It has also qualified her to work on a variety of tribunals. She was appointed to the State Administrative Tribunal, Human Rights stream in 2010 and later worked for four years (2012-2016) at the Administrative Appeals Tribunal, starting originally at the Migration Refugee Review Tribunal, performing an important role in the review of government decision making. She continues to work as a member of the WA Mental Health Tribunal. Her academic writing, speaking, teaching and journalism are other channels through which she now develops her activism. Speaking on behalf of Aboriginal women is a privilege and a responsibility she takes very seriously, appreciating how the written word has power and leaves a legacy. ‘Writing’s been a great part of my life,’ she said in a 2013 interview. ‘I’m happy to have stood up for Aboriginal women – speaking up for what’s important for us.’ Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Book Our Greatest Challenge: Aboriginal Children and Human Rights, McGlade, Hannah, 2012 Book Section Native Title, 'Tides of History' and Our Continuing Claims for Justice - Sovereignty, Self Determination and Treaty, McGlade, Hannah, 2003 Newspaper Article WA Senator breached Race Act, court finds, 2002, http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2002/11/26/1038274302455.html Article A History of Section 18C and the Racial Discrimination Act, Marlow, Karina, 2016, http://www.sbs.com.au/nitv/article/2016/08/16/history-section-18c-and-racial-discrimination-act Review Review of 'Our Greatest Challenge: Aboriginal Children and Human Rights', Worrall, Anne, 2013 Site Exhibition Australian Women Lawyers as Active Citizens, Trailblazing Women Lawyers Project Team, 2016, http://www.womenaustralia.info/lawyers Archival resources National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Hannah McGlade interviewed by Nikki Henningham in the Trailblazing women and the law oral history project Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 30 May 2016 Last modified 19 September 2016 Digital resources Title: Dr Hannah McGlade Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

MS Acc07/202 includes papers that relate to groups and organisations with which Clarke was associated, or on subjects in which she had an interest, dating mostly from the 1990s to 2008. Contents include cuttings, some personal and business correspondence, newsletters and ephemera. A number of files contain correspondence from family and friends and a few original family photographs.??The bulk of the papers in the Acc09/22 instalment comprise files relating to groups and organisations with which Jessie Clarke is associated, or on subjects in which she has an interest, dating mostly from the 1990s to 2008. The papers contained in the files include cuttings, some correspondence, newsletters and ephemera. There are a small number of files containing correspondence from family and friends, 1963-2008, and a group of files relating to the estate of Herbert and Ivy Brookes, ca. 1964-1977. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 20 February 2018 Last modified 20 February 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Correspondence consisting of one letter from each of the following people – Daisy Bates, Dame Nellie Melba, Sir William Campion, Lord Forster, and Lord Stradbroke; Diary of Lily Kerr-Pearse (nee Drummond), mother of Elizabeth Kerr-Pearse; it concerns her life at Government House, Hobart, from Jan. 27 1905, to September 26 1906. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 6 January 2018 Last modified 6 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

17 hours (approx.)??A series of interviews conducted by curatorial staff and volunteers at the Migration Museum as research towards the 1996 exhibition ‘Chops and Changes’. Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 18 June 2006 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

MS Acc11.044 comprises manuscript scores of songs by Bene Gibson Smyth. The scores include an album titled “Song stories for children”, c1946; a musical play, “The wishing well … adapted from Stories told by Little Miss Kookaburra” (alias Hazel Maude, who broadcast bedtime stories in Australia), c1936; and individual songs. Some of the song lyrics are by Gertrude Hart. In addition, there is a sheet of typewritten poems by Queensland writer Mabel Forrest, with a covering note from the author, and photocopies of four photographic portraits (1 packet). Author Details Alannah Croom Created 20 February 2018 Last modified 20 February 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Margaret Thornton is an acclaimed feminist academic in the field of feminist jurisprudence, discrimination, equal opportunity and gender studies at the Australian National University’s College of Law. She has degrees from the Universities of Sydney and New South Wales and Yale University. A prominent thinker and legal researcher, Thornton was the first female law professor to be appointed at La Trobe University in Victoria, Australia; during her academic career she demonstrated a significant commitment to the development of La Trobe’s law school. Thornton founded the Feminist Legal Action Group and convened the first feminist jurisprudence conference in Australia. She has participated in numerous consultations with agencies such as the International Labour Organisation, and advised parliaments on legislation. She has also published widely. Motivated by social justice and a desire for equality, Thornton has been steadfast in her efforts to improve conditions for women in society, particularly in the workplace and in educational institutions. Margaret Thornton was interviewed by Kim Rubenstein for the Trailblazing Women and the Law Oral History Project. For details of the interview see the National Library of Australia CATALOGUE RECORD. Margaret Thornton was born in Launceston and raised in north western Tasmania [Gender Institute]. After moving to Sydney, she attended East Sydney Technical College in order to matriculate. When the time came for her to enrol in a degree, she was discouraged from enrolling in Arts/Law by the University of Sydney after being told that law was not an appropriate choice for a woman. She then elected to study Arts [Margaret Thornton – Women’s Web]. Interested in the possibility of a career teaching ancient history and Classics, Thornton subsequently began tutoring at Macquarie University and enrolled in a Master of Arts degree. However, influenced by the Women’s Movement, she enrolled in a Bachelor of Laws at the University of New South Wales. She graduated brilliantly in 1978, winning the University Medal. She then embarked upon a PhD in discrimination law. While studying, she founded the Feminist Legal Action Group (FLAG) to run legal test cases for women. With the support of a Fulbright scholarship, Thornton moved to Yale University in the United States in 1979. There, in 1980, Thornton completed a Master of Laws. She returned to Macquarie University, where lecturers were encouraged to be generalists, and taught widely across criminal, tort, constitutional, property, discrimination, migration law and research methods. She became the Foundation Chair of Women in Tertiary Institutions and a member of the Women’s Advisory Council to the Premier, which advised on policy and all legislation before the New South Wales Parliament. Thornton’s dedication to discrimination law and equality in broader society, and in employment and education settings, is reflected in her active membership of the Federation of the Australian University Staff Associations at Macquarie University, the precursor to the National Tertiary Education Union. In the early 1980s, she was also Chair of the New South Wales Committee on Discrimination in Employment and Occupation (a federal body set up under ILO 111), which dealt with discrimination complaints at work. In 1986, Thornton convened the first feminist jurisprudence conference in Australia. In 1989 Thornton was a consultant to the Affirmative Action Agency. She was also a consultant to the International Labour Organization on pay equity in Australia. From 1990 to 2006, Thornton was Professor of Law and Legal Studies at La Trobe University, acting as Chair and Head of School 1991-92. In 2005, she was awarded a prestigious Professorial Fellowship with the Australian Research Council. At the time, Thornton’s research interests included discrimination law, feminist legal theory and the place of women in the legal profession. Her trailblazing books included The Liberal Promise: Anti-discrimination Legislation in Australia (1990) and Dissonance and Distrust: Women in the Legal Profession (1996). While at La Trobe, Thornton was a member of the Committee of Australian Law Deans; Victorian Council of Legal Education; Equal Opportunity Commission Victoria (Women’s Reference Group). She also served for several years on the Australian Research Council (Humanities and Social Sciences Discipline Panel, Appeals Committee and Council), in an endeavour to enhance the profile of law and legal studies in the academic community. In addition, she participated on the Comparative Commercial Law Advisory Committee at Victoria University and the UNESCO Social Sciences Network. Thornton was a Visiting Fellow at the Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University, Canberra (1993-1994); Fellow in Residence, New College, Oxford (1994); Visiting Fellow, Columbia University Law School, New York (1997); and, in 1988, a Visiting Fellow, Faculty of Law, University of British Columbia, Vancouver and Visiting Professor, University of Ottawa Law School, Ottawa. (In 2003 Thornton returned as Visiting Fellow to the Faculty of Law, University of British Columbia, and to Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, Toronto; in 2008 she again returned to the Osgoode Hall Law School as the Barbara Betcherman Distinguished Visitor). From 1993 to 1996 Thornton lent her expertise as Honorary Consultant to the New South Wales Law Reform Commission’s Review of Anti-Discrimination, and from 1994 to 1996 as Chair, Federal Government Advisory Committee for the Gender Issues in the Law Curriculum Project (DEETYA), a project designed to develop gender awareness among law students. Thornton was elected as a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia in 1998. The following year, Macquarie University established the ‘Margaret Thornton Prize in Discrimination and the Law’ in her honour. In 2000, she was appointed as the inaugural Visiting Professor (Program for Women Academics – Mentor & Role Model), Victoria University, under a program which allowed each faculty to invite an experienced woman professor from another university to work for a year ‘as a mentor and role model for female academics, run seminars, develop a research culture and work with VUT’s advisory groups and committees’ [Cook]. In 2001, Thornton was editor of the Australian Feminist Law Journal; she also held the PricewaterhouseCoopers Legal Visiting Chair in Women and the Law, University of Sydney. Over the next two years, Thornton continued to demonstrate her support for matters concerning women and the law, through her role as Convener, Feminist Theory Stream, Critical Legal Conference, and as a Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, University of London. In 2006, Thornton became President of the Association for the Public University, a lobby group designed to draw attention to governmental changes in education and which inspired Thornton’s work on an Australian Research Council-funded project, the ‘Neo-Liberal Legal Academy’. In 2005, Thornton was invited to be a Foundation Fellow of the Australian Academy of Law and was a Director from 2007 to 2011, as well as Chair of the Law Editorial Board of the ANU E Press. She also occupied the role of Director of Research at the ANU College of Law. A long-time critical thinker on the place of universities in Australian society, Thornton’s research has investigated “the neoliberal turn in higher education, in particular the increasing marketisation of the sector and the commodification of knowledge” and the impacts on teaching and research [Markets]. She has noted that: “[universities] are moving away from seeing education as a public good towards seeing it as a commodity for which people pay” [Gender Institute]. In 2012, Thornton’s book, Privatising the Public University: The Case of Law, was published. It contained her observation that: “Despite the general decline in morale arising from the market embrace, the overwhelming preponderance of legal academics interviewed felt privileged to be part of the academy. This is the paradox of academic life. A passion for academic ideas – a belief in the freedom to think, to pursue interesting lines of inquiry, to write, to engage with and influence future lawyers – and to change the world – compelled them to remain…” [Thornton]. At its launch, Chief Justice French of the High Court of Australia reflected that: “[this] is a book which has the capacity to open and widen perspectives to all who are engaged in university governance and teaching and particularly the teaching of law” [French]. The same year, in recognition of her contribution to academia and broader society through her critical commentary, Thornton became an ANU Public Policy Fellow. She was also identified as one of ANU’s Inspiring Women in a publication of the Gender Institute at ANU. Although she acknowledges that there have been advances for women in the law since she herself graduated, Thornton has said that she does not “support a liberal view of progress – that things are always getting better. They are not necessarily.” She notes, for example, that “During the years of the Howard government, we saw a retreat from the idea of equality to a focus on the individual and the market” [Gender Institute]. She considers that unhelpful stereotypes which hark back to the late nineteenth century continue to dog women who practise law today, the result being that they may still be regarded with suspicion [Gender Institute]. Her current research, on work/life balance in the legal profession, has revealed, among other things, that women who juggle work and family responsibilities may be considered ‘disloyal’ because they are not available 24 hours a day and that this failure can result in their being overlooked when it comes to promotion and partnerships [Gender Institute]. She has warned “… the many bright young women who think discrimination stopped with their mothers’ generation” may need to look again [Thornton – ANU]. Published resources Site Exhibition Australian Women Lawyers as Active Citizens, Trailblazing Women Lawyers Project Team, 2016, http://www.womenaustralia.info/lawyers Resource Section Law, Kerwin, Hollie and Rubenstein, Kim, 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders/biogs/WLE0624b.htm Interview with Margaret Thornton, http://www.womensweb.com.au/sources/Later%20Stories/Margaret%20Thornton.htm Book Privatising the Public University: The Case of Law, Thornton, Margaret, 2011 Archival resources National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Margaret Thornton interviewed by Kim Rubenstein in the Trailblazing women and the law oral history project Author Details Larissa Halonkin Created 30 May 2016 Last modified 11 November 2016 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

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Leellen Lewis was a once only candidate who represented the ALP in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly elections for Myall Lakes in 1995. Born in Sydney, Leellen Lewis was educated at St Patrick’s College, Campbelltown. After leaving school she did various courses in welfare work and human resource development. At the time of her campaign, she was employed at Workplace Employment Services, Taree, assisting young people to obtain employment. She was a member of the Taree City Council’s Youth Advisory Committee and the Forster branch of the St. Vincent de Paul Society. Leellen was a member of the Australian Services Union . She is the mother of one son. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 31 January 2006 Last modified 16 September 2013 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

MS 8856 comprises personal and family papers; correspondence; drafts of published works; papers on mastectomy rehabilitation and the Mastectomy Association; papers relating to the small press Nadjuri Australia, 1976-1980; scrapbooks; papers documenting Flannery’s broadcasting career with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and Station 5DN; papers relating to the South Australian State Heritage Branch, 1981-1986; and personal diaries (52 boxes, 2 fol. boxes).??The Acc06.121 instalment includes a typescript of a paper presented in Adelaide by Flannery for the Friends of Mawson, 2006 (1 folder).??The Acc13.100 instalment comprises an anotated script used by Ian Flannery during the 2005 recreation of a lecture by Sir Douglas Mawson on his return from the Australian Antarctic Expedition in 1914. Nancy and Ian Flannery were involved in the production of the live event, which was put on by the Friends of Mawson, Adelaide (1 packet). Author Details Alannah Croom Created 10 April 2018 Last modified 10 April 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

A member of the League of Women Voters, Mascotte Brown stood as a candidate in the Legislative Assembly seat of Malvern at five Victorian state elections which were held in 1947, 1950, 1952, 1955 and 1958. She stood as an Independent Liberal candidate at all elections except 1955 when she represented the Victorian Liberal Party. Educated at St Gabriels’ College and Riviera College, Sydney, Mascotte Brown married at the age of sixteen. By 1955 she was widowed with two grown up children. During her attempt in 1955 she vowed that she would never give up trying: ‘As long as I am physically able, I’ll stand for politics, just to show my fellow women that only by continually struggling will they get anywhere in Parliament’. She was an accomplished musician with musical degrees gained in London. She held memberships of the following organisations: Royal Empire Society, the Business and Professional Women’s Club, the League of Women Voters of Victoria and the International Alliance of Women. Published resources Site Exhibition Carrying on the Fight: Women Candidates in Victorian Parliamentary Elections, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2008, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/cws/home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 26 August 2008 Last modified 5 September 2012 Digital resources Title: Mascotte Brown Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Minute books from closed branches of the QCWA. Box 16904: Bell 1923-1998; Tara 1951-1956; Box 16905: Brigalow 1956-2008; Newtown: 1991-2001; Box 16906: Dalby 1954-2004; Kogan 1963-1973; Bell Younger Set 1953-1960; The Caves Younger Set 1972-1979; Box 16907: Dulacca 1940-1950; 1963-2008; Dulacca Younger Set 1957-1966; Burncluith 1956-1993; Box 16908: Drillham 1948-1996.?Box 16909: Inglewood 1934-1989; Box 16910: Maclagan 1940-2010; Box 16911: Mirani 1939-1987; Kaimkillenbun 2002-2005; Grossmont-Rochedale 1990-1999; Box 16912: Southbrook 1955-2010; Hillview 1940-1998; Box 16913: Taroom 1950-2004; Box 16914: Wandoan 1939-2004; Box 16915: Meandarra 1947-1977; Noonga 1955-1977; Wallan Creek 1930-1936. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 26 June 2018 Last modified 26 June 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Joan Bennett is a trailblazing solicitor who established the first law firm in Brisbane in which one of the founding partners was female. She has established several successful law firms and is prominent in the Council of the Queensland Law Society. Trailblazing solicitor Joan Bennett was born on 26 August 1942 in Home Hill, near Townsville. She had a close relationship with her father, Charles Beames, with whom she shared a brief professional association. Despite the set-back of rheumatic fever, Joan was both socially and academically outstanding at school. She was a prefect who won several scholarship awards and numerous prizes for languages. The general expectation was that Joan would marry and have children. Consequently, she did not feel pre-destined for a career in the law, despite her father and cousin being prominent lawyers. She enrolled in an Arts degree in 1961 at the University College of Townsville (later to become James Cook University). In her first year of university, Joan attended the North Queensland Law Association annual dinner with her father where she met Beryl Donkin, a trailblazer who became a generous mentor to Joan. After her first year, Joan transferred to the University’s Brisbane campus to study law. Joan delayed her degree between 1964 and 1966, when she married medical practitioner Geoffrey Bennett and had two children. In 1966 she commenced Articles of Clerkship with her father in his practice. Joan’s father sadly passed away in a car accident in 1967. Joan’s mother suffered a breakdown following her husband’s death and moved in with Joan and the young boys. After failing subjects, Joan made the difficult decision to leave her children in her mother’s care and move to Brisbane to complete her degree. She was strongly supported by Kerry Copley – a fellow student who went on to become a Queen’s Counsel. As a woman, Joan was discriminated against at university. On occasion Joan, along with trailblazer Quentin Bryce were removed from cases that were “too sensitive” for a woman. Yet when Joan was admitted as a solicitor on 16 December 1969, she was admitted along with several other women including Elizabeth Nosworthy and Elizabeth Gill. Joan tried to seek employment with Crown Law in Brisbane, but was denied amidst comments that women were not welcome in the firm. As a result, Joan decided that her only option was to set up her own practice. In 1970 she went into partnership with a colleague from university, establishing the first law firm in Brisbane in which one of the founding partners was female. The same year as Joan established her practice, her son was diagnosed with leukaemia. He tragically died the following year. Joan’s firm was successful but the partnership came to an end and Joan went into partnership with a former clerk and was joined by other partners in Bennett and Associates. Her firm quickly became one of the largest suburban practices in Brisbane. In 1984, Joan left the firm and established a practice in Mt Gravatt where she practised alone from 1992. Joan’s sister, Anne has been great of support to her throughout the practices, working as Joan’s bookkeeper since 1972. Joan was a foundation member of the Women Lawyers Association of Queensland in 1978 and has remained a member since that time, serving as social secretary in 1987-88, and in other capacities on the executive committee for a number of years. Joan was also an inaugural member of the Zonta Club, an organisation that advances the status of professional women. As women’s issues officer in 1978-79, Joan helped to organise and run the first major women’s forum in Brisbane. In addition, Joan was a member of the Legal Practitioners’ Admissions Board, a director for the Queensland Law Foundation and a member of the LawAsia Conference 2005. Her commitment to continuing legal education has seen her chair and participate in the Queensland Law Society Symposium Committee over a number of years. In 1998, with the encouragement of existing Council member and friend Patricia Conroy, Joan nominated for and was elected as one of few women on the Council of the Queensland Law Society. She is currently Vice-President of the Queensland Law Society’s Southern District Law Association. Published resources Book Section Joan Bennett, Moye, Helen, 2005 Site Exhibition Australian Women Lawyers as Active Citizens, Trailblazing Women Lawyers Project Team, 2016, http://www.womenaustralia.info/lawyers Author Details Nicola Silbert Created 9 May 2016 Last modified 28 October 2016 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Correspondence, minutes, newsletters and subscription lists. Author Details Jane Carey Created 22 October 2004 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Correspondence, 1964-1984, mainly of the Abortion Law Repeal Association (NSW); the bulk of the correspondence is for the period 1971-1975 when Julia Freebury was secretary of ALRA and most of the letters sent were written by her to parliamentarians, doctors, academics, the media, other abortion rights organisations (Australian and international), etc.; correspondents include, Anne Deveson, Beatrice Faust, Gisele Halimi, Diane Munday, George Petersen, Malcolm Potts, Madeline Simms, Bertram Wainer, Jim Woolnough (Locn No.: MLMSS 7012/1)??Papers concerning the campaign to repeal abortion law in NSW, including pamphlets, leaflets, etc., from ALRA (NSW), Women’s Electoral Lobby, Women’s Abortion Action Committee, ca.1970 – ca.1980 (Locn No.: MLMSS 7012/1)??Papers concerning various aspects of the abortion debate and related issues, including: ‘The law and practice relating to abortion: a critique of the law in NSW and England’, paper by Prof. Rupert Cross, 1968; ‘Abortion law and reform in Australia’, paper by J. L. Davies, 1970; transcripts of three episodes of the ABC television program ‘Four Corners’, 30 March 1968, 2 May 1970, 6 April 1977; transcript of the address by Dr Germaine Greer given at the Abortion Debate at Sydney Town Hall, 2 March 1972 (Locn No.: MLMSS 7012/2)??’USA Debate Papers’: leaflets, newsletters, journal articles, etc., from various abortion rights groups in the USA, including Catholics for a Free Choice, National Association for Repeal of Abortion Laws, Religious Coalition for Abortion Rights, Society for Humane Abortion, Inc., 1966-1983 (Locn No.: MLMSS 7012/2)??’UK Data’: papers concerning the campaign for abortion rights in Britain, including material from the Abortion Law Reform Association, leaflets, journal articles, newscuttings, etc., 1964-1984 (Locn No.: MLMSS 7012/2)??’Right to Life Leaflets’: material produced by the Right to Life Association and the Festival of Light, including pamphlets, flyers, newsletters, election ephemera, etc., 1971-1983 (Locn No.: MLMSS 7012/2)??Papers relating to the Royal Commission on Human Relationships, including submission by Julia Freebury, 1974-1977 (Locn No.: MLMSS 7012/2)??Printed items, including: ‘Report of the Committee appointed at the request of the Archbishop of Sydney to consider the adequacy of the laws in NSW relating to abortion’ 1969; NSW Parliamentary Debates, 11-12 August 1971; ‘Abortion: the Bobigny affair, a law on trial: a complete record of the pleadings at the Court of Bobigny, 8 November 1972’ by Michele Chevalier [translation by Beryl Henderson], Sydney: Wild & Woolley, 1975; ‘Proceedings of first Australian conference on adoption, 15-20 February 1976, University of NSW, Sydney’ (Locn No.: MLMSS 7012/3)??Newscuttings concerning the abortion debate and related issues: comprising 1 folder of loose cuttings, 1967-1983, and 28 scrapbooks, 1968-1984, in chronological order, annotated and partially indexed by Julia Freebury?. loose cuttings, 1967-1983 (Locn No.: MLMSS 7012/3)?. scrapbooks, 1968-1969 (Locn No.: MLMSS 7012/3)?. scrapbooks, 1969-1971 (Locn No.: MLMSS 7012/4)?. scrapbooks, 1971-1973 (Locn No.: MLMSS 7012/5)?. scrapbooks, 1973-1976 (Locn No.: MLMSS 7012/6)?. scrapbooks, 1976-1984 (Locn No.: MLMSS 7012/7)??Material used at demonstrations, in Sydney, for abortion on request, including smocks, placards and stickers [1970s] (Locn No.: MLMSS 7012/8X)??Papers concerning adoption, 1974-1980 (Locn No.: MLMSS 7012/3)??Scrapbook, mainly newscuttings including articles by Julia Freebury, concerning her campaign during the 1980 Queensland state election in which she stood, initially as the Australian Democrats candidate and then as an Independent, against Russ Hinze in the seat of South Coast (Locn No.: MLMSS 7012/3) Author Details Alannah Croom Created 8 October 2004 Last modified 24 October 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

2 sound files (ca. 121 min.)??Mitchell talks about her long career in sport as a player, coach and administrator. Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 9 March 2011 Last modified 21 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

During World War II, Joyce Tweddell became a prisoner of war (POW) when she was captured, together with many other nurses, by the Japanese after the fall of Singapore in February 1942. She was interned in Sumatra for three and a half years before her recovery from the camp at the cessation of the war. She refused to accept the honour of an MBE in the early 1970s as she believed all surviving prisoners of war should have been awarded this honour. Joyce went to school at Petrie Terrace State School and Brisbane State High School. After school she worked and completed courses at Nunns & Trivetts Secretarial School before turning 18, and thus became eligible to enter nursing. She loved to go bushwalking and made the three day trip on horseback to O’Reilly’s Guest Lodge many times. Joyce trained as a nurse in Brisbane, graduated from general training on 4 April 1939 and joined the staff of Brisbane General Hospital (now Royal Brisbane Hospital). She also completed a Therapy Radiography course, which was unusual at the time because it was necessary to have studied physics and chemistry at school, and although this was a rare achievement for a female at the time, Joyce had done so. She received her results for this course after she returned from the war. Her mother received her qualifications while Joyce was interned. Joyce Tweddell enlisted in the Australian Army Nursing Service (AANS) on 17 January 1941 and was ordered to active service in the 2/10th Australian General Hospital. She embarked on the Queen Mary for Singapore on 14 February 1941. She was aboard the Vyner Brooke, the last of three ships that left for Australia after the fall of Singapore on 12 February 1942. The Vyner Brooke was bombed in the Bangka Strait on 14 February 1942, and sank in approximately 15 minutes (a direct hit down a funnel exploded the bottom of the ship). The Japanese then returned and began firing machine guns at the survivors in the water. She and the surviving nurses and patients made for shore, and spent at least a day in the water. Many of their number were killed in the blast, shot in the water or drowned. To keep up their spirits, with no land in sight, they sang “We’re Off to see the Wizard” over and over again as they floated and kicked while holding a piece of board. They landed on Bangka Island. Joyce was captured, together with many other nurses, by the Japanese after the fall of Singapore in February 1942 and held as a prisoner of war in Sumatra for three years. She was promoted to Lieutenant in December 1943. During captivity Joyce and the other prisoners lived in a series of prison camps starting at Muntok, then on to Palembang in Sumatra, to a camp in the jungle and finally to Loebok Linggau where they remained until found a month after the Japanese surrender. Of the 32 nurses that were captured, 8 died whilst prisoners of war. Those left suffered from lack of food, fought and recovered from the many diseases such as malaria, beriberi, Bangka fever and scurvy and they survived the way they were treated by the Japanese. Though the Second World War ended on15 August 1945, the prison camps were not informed of this until 24 August. The whereabouts of their final camp was unknown until locals mentioned seeing women working in the jungle, and led them to the camp. Joyce was recovered from the Japanese camp at 5am on 5 September 1945 and evacuated to a Singapore hospital. She returned to Australia on the hospital ship Manunda arriving in Australia on 27 October 1945. She was admitted to the Margate Convalescent Home on her return to Brisbane. From her internment she had contracted Malaria, Beri Beri, Chronic Amoebic Dysentery and Residual Debility. Joyce was discharged from the Army on 27 June 1946. She was employed by the Royal Brisbane Hospital as second in charge of the Radiography Unit and remained in that unit until her retirement as Queensland’s Chief Radiographer. Joyce retired from nursing in 1979 and took to travelling in earnest, usually with Flo Syer (nee Trotter) who had been interned also. Joyce never married. In 1993 Joyce and six of the surviving POW nurses returned to dedicate a memorial on Radji Beach, Bangka Island. Present on 2 March 1993 were Janet P. ‘Pat’ Gunther, Florence ‘Flo’ Syer, Jean ‘Jennie’ Ashton, Mavis Allgrove, Vivian Bullwinkel, Wilma Oram and Joyce Tweddell, as well as a group of Red Cross Nurses, relatives of some of the nurses who perished and supporting personnel. The Royal Brisbane Hospital honoured Joyce by naming one of their new buildings after her. The Joyce Tweddell Building houses the Infectious Diseases Unit, Cancer Care Unit, Radiation Oncology Unit and the Bone Marrow Transplant Unit. Published resources Book Heroic Australian women in war: astonishing tales of bravery from Gallipoli to Kokoda, De Vries, Susanna, 2004 Resource Section Tweddell, Joyce : Service Record, Department of Veterans' Affairs, Australian Government, 2002, http://www.ww2roll.gov.au/script/veteran.asp?ServiceID=A&VeteranID=18321#summary1 Sister Sylvia Muir and Joyce Tweddell (1941), De Vries, Susanna, 2009, http://www.women.qld.gov.au/q150/1940/index.html#item-sylvia-muir-joyce-tweddell Resource The Australian Ex-prisoners of War Memorial, City of Ballarat, 2008, http://www.ballarat.com/memorial.htm Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources National Archives of Australia, Queensland Office TWEDDELL, Joyce - members folder, Second World War Queensland army personnel (QFX) Australian War Memorial, Research Centre Group portrait in the hospital grounds of original Australian Army Nursing Service (AANS) Staff and three physiotherapists who sailed from Sydney in January 1941 to staff the 2/10th Australian General Hospital (AGH) Group portrait of Australian Army Nursing Service (AANS) nurses, who were former prisoners of war (POWs), ob board the hospital ship Manunda on its arrival in Australia National Archives of Australia, National Office, Canberra TWEDDELL JOYCE : Service Number - QX19070 : Date of birth - 03 Jul 1916 : Place of birth - BRISBANE QLD : Place of enlistment - BRISBANE QLD : Next of Kin - TWEDDELL ROSE Author Details Lee Butterworth Created 22 June 2009 Last modified 21 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Daisy Bates sends Prof. Fitzherbert the Yulbari wongga or Coast speech, informants Minbunga and Minjia, from Fowlers Bay and Yuria etc.and discusses sending him further vocabulary from Uleru or Ayers Rock and Eucla areas. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 6 January 2018 Last modified 6 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Built by the Hibernian Australasian Catholic Benefit Society as a meeting hall in 1887, the building now known as Storey Hall, located on the Swanston Street campus of the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) in Melbourne, Victoria, has a long, colourful history that includes its importance as a site for women’s social and political protest. Notably, during World War I, the venue was leased to the Women’s Political Association, who scheduled public meetings and rallies. The organisation’s purple, white and green flag was hoisted on the roof of the building ‘as a symbol of the sisterhood of women.’ Various International Women’s Day Functions have been held at the venue subsequently. In honour of the building’s importance to Victorian feminist activism, The Ashton Raggatt McDougall renovation in the 1990s made a feature of the feminist colours. The green and purple colours of Storey Hall bring to mind the hall’s earlier life as a place for feminist debate and Catholic activism. Built by the Hibernian Australasian Catholic Benefit Society in 1887 ‘Hibernian Hall’, as it was then called, played a significant role in the organisation of St Patrick’s Day processions in Melbourne. By 1903 it was known as Guild Hall and Dureau Memorial Hall. During World War I the building was leased to a feminist pacifist organisation, the Women’s Political Association, and was the venue for many of Melbourne’s largest anti-conscription public meetings and rallies. Before being purchased, in 1957, by the Victorian Education Department, the building was owned at various times by the Eagle and Globe Steel Company of Sheffield, Melbourne Legacy and architect Bernard Evans, who later became Lord Mayor of Melbourne. In 1958 the hall was remodelled and named after Sir John Storey, an industrialist and member of the College Council for 15 years. Following the 1994 refurbishment the Royal Australian Institute of Architects judged RMIT Storey Hall ‘of architectural significance’. The building received several awards and commendations in 1996-1997 including the RAIA National Architecture Award (Interior Award), Victorian Architecture Medal, William Wardell Award (Institutional) and Marion Mahony Award (Interior Category). Published resources Resource Section Storey Hall, Ruwoldt, M L, 2001, http://www.rmit.edu.au/heritage/bldg16.htm Storey Hall, RMIT Building 16, http://www.rmit.edu.au/about/heritage/bld16 Book Radical Melbourne : a secret history, Sparrow, Jeff and Sparrow, Jill, 2001 Author Details Anne Heywood Created 14 October 2003 Last modified 12 January 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Donor Sydney Mail?Black & white – Print silver gelatin?Australia: New South Wales, Sydney Author Details Anne Heywood Created 17 February 2004 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

MS 7904 comprises: 1. Manuscript and typescript drafts of poems, plays and prose. 2. Correspondence, 1978-1989. Correspondents include Dianne Bates, Eric Beach, Bruce Beaver, Jenny Boult, James Burns, Larry Buttrose, Geoffrey Dutton, Susan Hampton, Dennis Haskell, Elizabeth Jolley, Jean Kent, Kate Llewellyn, Cilla McQueen, Jennifer Maiden, Philip Mead, Jenni Mitchell, Rosemary Nissen, Geoff Page, Rosemary Porter, Judith Rodriguez, Tom Shapcott, Michael Sharkey, Cliff Smyth, John Tranter, Cornelius Vleeskens, Lyndon Walker. 3. Subject files. Files relating to the Australian Copyright Council, Compass, Directory of Australian literary magazines, National Word Festival, Poets Union and other organisations. 4. Printed material. Leaflets, posters, handbills, programs concerning poetry readings and workshops and issues of poetry magazines and anthologies. 5. Personal papers. Notebooks, journals, scrapbooks, photographs, personal letters (9 boxes, 1 fol. Item).??The Acc00.031 instalment provides a full record of Mansell’s life and writing for the period from the mid-1980s to 1999. Included in the instalment are correspondence and notebooks; drafts of prose, plays and poetry, including The choice of memory; papers relating to smaller projects, events and residencies; files on other writers that contain manuscripts as well as letters; and, audiotapes and photographs (9 cartons).??The Acc05.015 instalment comprises poetry and other writings by Mansell; works edited by Mansell and projects/joint ventures with others; correspondence, 1991-2004; PressPress publications including drafts, proofs and related correspondence; Shoalhaven Poetry Festival correspondence, publicity (including posters and flyers) and competition postcards; copies of stories and poems of other writers; South Coast Writers’ Centre minutes; miscellaneous publications; Q Theatre working scripts and Q Theatre and New Theatres programs; and, artwork and cloth items (8 cartons, 1 oversize item). Author Details Alannah Croom Created 10 April 2018 Last modified 10 April 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

May Matthews was a prominent figure in the labor movement over a generation. She represented Federal Labor in the 1932 elections for the New South Wales Legislative Assembly seat of Ryde. May Matthews worked as an Inspector in the Child Welfare Department, and as a Migration Officer in the United Kingdom.in which capacity she accompanied 80 girls sent to Australia under the migration scheme. In 1927 May Matthews visited America as an official of the Industrial Mission to investigate conditions in manufacturing industries, especially women’s conditions. She represented New South Wales at many Labour conferences in Australia and went to London to a women’s conference in 1924. She was associated with Dr Arthur in many charitable appeals. She was closely associated with W. A. Holman and opposed to J. T. Lang, and she took a leading role in the Australian Labor movement for more than 30 years May Matthews was awarded a King’s Jubilee Medal 1935. Her obituary in the Sydney Morning Herald reported that her funeral was attended by representatives of many of the organizations of which she had been a member, including the League of Nations Union, the National Council of Women , the Good Film League and the Housewives Association. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 31 January 2006 Last modified 1 March 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Agnes Warren won a Walkley award for her reporting of the conflict in the former Yugoslavia in 1992. She reported from the frontline in Serbia and from a Bosnian refugee centre. She was also sent to report on the treatment of Palestinians after the 1991 Gulf War as well as nationalist demonstrations in Northern Ireland. Prior to taking on her overseas postings, she was the ABCs Industrial Relations reporter. While reporting on the conflict in the former Yugoslavia, Warren worked in very difficult conditions. In Vukovar, for instance, she would go out and collect sound effects and interviews during the day and produce them by night. Her pieces to radio were packaged in blacked-out hotels that were frequently under mortar or sniper fire. She had one candle for a week and edited her pieces on two cassette recorders from its light. Events 1980 - 1992 - 1992 Best Coverage of a Current Story (Print), ‘Report from Vukovar’, Australian Broadcasting Corporation Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Report The Media Report: Women in the Media, Warren, Agnes, 1995, http://www.abc.net.au/rn/talks/8.30/mediarpt/mstories/mr161101.htm 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 Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance (Australia) - records of the W.G. Walkley Awards, 1956 - 1999 Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 14 November 2007 Last modified 5 September 2012 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

The Queensland Women’s Electoral League (QWEL) was co-founded by Christina Corrie (wife of Brisbane mayor Leslie Corrie) in 1903. The Queensland Women’s Electoral League differed from the Women’s Electoral Franchise Association (WEFA) in that it was conservative, anti-socialist and pro private enterprise. Its membership was drawn from women in professions and wives of businessmen. Christina Corrie was one of the most well known women in Brisbane in the early 1900s and she used her notoriety to advance the causes of the many social, cultural and charitable institutions she supported. Christina Corrie was the daughter of James Drummond Macpherson and Georgina Wood Robertson and was one of seven children. She was born during a visit to Scotland by her parents from New Zealand. Following a short time in Christchurch, New Zealand, the family returned to Scotland when Christina reached school age. She completed her education in Wales, however the family later returned to New Zealand. Christina Macpherson married Leslie Gordon Corrie in St Thomas’ Church Enfield, Sydney, on 25 March 1899. They lived in Brisbane at Koronui, Bowen Terrace, New Farm. An architect of some renown, Leslie Corrie worked with two consecutive partners before practicing as an architect in a sole practice in 1911. He was elected alderman for Brisbane East in 1901 and served as Mayor of Brisbane between 1902 and 1904. Both Christina and her husband became significant members of the intellectual, social and cultural scene in Brisbane. Christina Corrie had a noteworthy role in the cause of the political advancement of women in Queensland. Her greatest contribution to women’s causes was her work as first president of the Queensland Women’s Electoral League (QWEL), which she co-founded with Margaret Ogg, who later founded the Brisbane Lyceum Club. The two women, both of whom were anti-socialists, were able to affect a major influence on the political development of women in Queensland. QWEL lobbied to win the vote for women in Queensland at state level, and on 25 January 1905 a bill was passed that gave full voting rights to Queensland women. As Mayoress, Christina Corrie ensured that the League attracted publicity and social acceptance. By 1919 the QWEL had grown to become a significant force, with their activities concerning women’s issues receiving regular press coverage. In 1908 Corrie and Ogg realised an objective of QWEL in founding a new club for women in Brisbane. Initially known as the Women’s Progressive Club, the name changed to the Brisbane Women’s Club (BWC) in 1913. The BWC still exists today as a social club for prominent and professional women. Due to ill health Christina retired from office in QWEL in 1913, and in a fitting tribute to her contribution to the League, was made Honorary President. Christina’s contribution to the Brisbane community extended a great deal further than her achievements through the Queensland Women’s Electoral League. She was actively involved in: Dr Barnardo’s Home National Council of Women Women’s College within the University of Queensland National Council of Women Crèche and Kindergarten Association Bush Book Club (Vice-president) Bush Nursing Association New Settlers’ League Moreton Club (President 1931-32) Lyceum Club Mutual Service Club Queensland Committee of the Australian Exhibition of Women’s Work The Red Cross Lady Lamington and Brisbane General Hospitals Social Service Institute Queensland Ladies’ Amateur Swimming Association Scribblers Leslie Corrie died at their residence on 2 August 1918. Christina still attended various social events following his death, and then on 11 October 1922 she married Andrew J Thynne in the vestry of St Patrick’s Catholic Church, Sydney. Andrew Thynne died on 27 February 1927. Christina kept up her various community interests and having been a foundation member of the Moreton Club in 1924, she became president in 1931-32. She was talented, competent and extremely committed to advancing the well-being of the women and children of Queensland. Published resources Book Scribblers: A Ladies Literary Society in Brisbane, 1911, Stewart, Jean, 2007 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources John Oxley Library, Manuscripts and Business Records Collection 5746 Scribblers Papers 1911-2013 OM71-47 Queensland Women's Electoral League Records 1903-1967 Author Details Lee Butterworth Created 22 June 2009 Last modified 14 August 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

The papers of Dorothy Green include correspondence, notes, research material, manuscript and typescript drafts, notebooks, newspaper cuttings and photographs. The collection documents a wide range of Green’s works including poetry, biographies, criticisms and essays. The collection also includes some material collected and written by H.M. Green. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 6 January 2018 Last modified 6 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

The Housewives Co-operative Association (later the Housewives Association of Victoria) was formed in mid-1915 and soon became one of the largest women’s organisations in the state. The movement, reacting to the spiralling cost of living during World War I, initially aimed mainly at ‘bringing the producer and consumer into direct contact’ and providing discounted goods to members. In 1921, however, it also adopted a clear political objective: ‘To advocate the equal status of women and adequate representation on all boards and tribunals dealing with the home and the cost of living.’ From the 1930s the Association focussed more on the provision of training and information relating to household management and also became more involved in broader activism to improve the civil and political status of women and with other social reform causes. Inspired by the English Women’s Co-operative Guild (founded in 1883), the Association was led at first by broadly left–liberal women—President Ivy Brookes from the women’s section of the Liberal Party, others from the Women’s Political Association and Sisterhood of International Peace and some conservative women. The group struggled in its first few years, and by 1919 its executive was dominated by conservative women from organisations such as the Australian Women’s National League and the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union, particularly Eleanor Glencross and Cecilia Downing. In the 1920s the organisation adopted a more overtly political agenda and they also campaigned for the Victorian Electoral Act to be amended to allow women to stand for parliament. A serous split in the organisation in 1930, over the issue of prohibition (which was supported by most members of the executive but not by the then president Delia Russell) saw the movement decline substantially again, but it recovered by the later in the decade. In the 1930s the Association opposed tariffs and bounties and there was a new emphasis on information and training – with demonstration of domestic aids, lobbying for domestic science in schools and colleges, the establishment of a Resident Aid Home Service for the training of young women in housework (designed at least in part to encourage girls into domestic service) and numerous advice lectures and articles in the Housewife to do with housework, nutrition, mothercraft and other topics. From this point, the association also became more involved in broader activism to improve the civil and political status of women. During World War II the Associations functioned as a branch of the Australian Comforts Fund and formed war savings groups. In the immediate post-years, a breakaway organisation formed the nucleus of the New Housewives Association (founded in 1946 in New South Wales and 1928 in Victoria), a far more left-wing organisation which was later to become the Union of Australian Women. Although its fortunes fluctuated, the Association was certainly a large and influential group with a membership of over 20,000 in the 1920s, rising to 77,000 in 1938 (of a national total of 115,000). National membership peaked at about 175,000 in the late 1960s before an irreversible decline set in in the 1970s as the roles of women and the meanings attached to housework were reinvented or reformulated. Published resources Conference Paper Christian women and changing concepts of citizenship rights and responsibilities in interwar Australia, Smart, Judith, 1999 Journal Article A Mission to the Home: The Housewives Association, the Woman's Christian Temperance Union and Protestant Christianity, 1920-1940, Smart, Judith, 1998 A sacred trust: Cecilia Downing, Baptist faith and feminist citizenship, Smart, Judith, 1995 'For the good that we can do': Cecilia Downing and feminist Christian citizenship, Smart, Judith, 1994 Homefires and Housewives: Women, war and the politics of consumption, Smart, Judith, 2004 Book The Early years of the Housewives Association of Victoria, 1915-1930, Oldfield, Robert, 1989 Winning essays in thrifty meals competition : comprising full menus, recipes, and purchase lists carried out by the Housewives' Association, Temple Court, Collins Street, Melbourne, Housewives' Association Vic. Report Annual report (Housewives' Association Vic.), Housewives' Association Vic., 1915 Newsletter The Housewife: Official organ of the Housewives' Association, Housewives' Association, 1929 -1948 Calling all housewives / Housewives Association, 1965-1978 Calling all Housewives, 1965-1978 Book Section Modernity and mother-heartedness : spirituality and religious meaning in Australian women's suffrage and citizenship movements, 1890s-1920s, Smart, Judith, 2000 Thesis The Women's Movement in the New South Wales and Victoria, 1918-1938, Foley, Meredith, 1986 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Papers of Herbert and Ivy Brookes, 1869-1970 [manuscript State Library of Victoria Records, 1939-1985. [manuscript]. The University of Melbourne Archives Moore, Edith Eliza Harrison Author Details Jane Carey Created 3 October 2003 Last modified 30 April 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Jacoba Brasch was admitted to the Bar in 2000 and has developed a practice in family law, mental health law, and customs and excise. She has appeared in matters in most States and Territories of Australia and often appears in the Full Court of the Family Court of Australia. Jacoba has also appeared a number of times in the High Court of Australia with those appearances concerning customs and excise, as well as Family Law matters and the Hague Convention (child abduction). Prior to coming to the Bar, Jacoba spent the 1990s in law-related government jobs, including Press Secretary to an Attorney-General. In 2000, Jacoba completed an LLM at New York University as a Fulbright Scholar and NYU Graduate Merit Scholar. In 2010, Jacoba graduated with a PhD from the University of New South Wales where her doctoral thesis concerned what constitutes a fair, independent and impartial trial, using Australian courts martial as her subject matter. Jacoba holds a Bachelor of Arts, Masters in Public Administration (UQ), a Bachelor of Laws (Hons) (QUT), LLM (NYU) and PhD (UNSW). She has Chambers in Brisbane, Cairns and Melbourne. Go to ‘Details’ below to read an essay written by Jacoba Brasch for the Trailblazing Women and the Law Project. The following additional information was provided by Jacoba Brasch and is reproduced with permission in its entirety. Dr Jacoba Brasch QC recalls a defining moment from her high school years – she and four other Grade 10 girls had approached the Headmistress to ask if they could continue with both French and German in Grade 11 and 12 in lieu of biology – usually, only one language was permitted and biology was compulsory. “No!” said the Headmistress. “Why?” asked one of the girls. Said the Headmistress, “biology is a prerequisite for nursing, and you meet so many doctors that way.” Without underestimating the vital importance of nursing, the answer was seared in Jacoba’s brain, and from that moment, she determined to chart her own course, not constrained by traditional expectations. Ironically, of the five girls attending on the Headmistress that day, Jacoba later won a Fulbright Scholarship and is now one of Australia’s most highly respected family law barristers and a Queen’s Counsel. Another was awarded the Caltex Woman of the Year Scholarship to an Oxbridge university, ultimately becoming a professor in law, and another is also a leading Queen’s Counsel in criminal law. They were not allowed to drop biology. None of them married doctors. On completing her secondary education, Jacoba embarked upon a long list of university degrees, whilst always working full time and supporting herself, and then her family. Indeed, Jacoba jokes she has more letters after her name, than in it – two Bachelor degrees, two Master degrees and a PhD. Her family roll their collective eyes when she raises doing another BA “because I’d really like to know about Lady Jane Grey, who was Queen of England for 15 days.” Asking the “why” question is something which has long shaped Jacoba’s approach to life, an attribute she hopes she is instilling in her daughters. At university, Jacoba studied politics at UQ, both at undergraduate and Master’s level; her Master’s thesis concerned the Role of Women in Local Government. At the same time, she worked at Channel 7 Brisbane and then for the Fitzgerald Corruption Inquiry inspired Electoral and Administrative Review Commission. Jacoba was then appointed Press Secretary to the Hon Dean Wells, Attorney-General of Queensland. This was pivotal for Jacoba, as it opened her eyes to the power, importance and symbolism of the law. Whilst working as the Attorney’s Press Secretary, Jacoba started a Law Degree, studying part-time and externally at QUT. She graduated with First Class Honors, and was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship. Consequently, she undertook an LLM at New York University. On her return to Australia from New York, Jacoba was admitted to the Bar in 2000 and has developed a practice in family law, mental health law, and customs and excise. She has appeared in matters in most States and Territories of Australia and often appears in the Full Court of the Family Court of Australia. Jacoba has also appeared a number of times in the High Court of Australia with those appearances concerning customs and excise, as well as Family Law matters and the Hague Convention (Child Abduction). Jacoba was Junior Counsel to Tim DOJ North SC in a successful High Court challenge to the standard of proof by which customs prosecutions must now be conducted (Chief Executive Officer of Customs v Labrador Liquor Wholesale Pty Ltd [2003] 216 CLR 161). Jacoba also acted for the mother (without a Silk leader) in a high profile child abduction case which also found its way to the High Court of Australia (RCB as litigation guardian of EKV, CEV, CIV and LRV v The Honourable Justice Colin James Forrest [2012] HCA 47). However, Jacoba would say that she is most proud of some of the quiet pro bono work she has undertaken, including: acting for a woman to have her birth certificate changed from male to intersex; or, acting for the parents of a woman who was killed by her husband in securing for them decision making rights with respect to their grandchildren; or, acting for a young male transgender individual, to obtain an order from the Family Court authorising him to undergo hormone replacement therapy. Notwithstanding a leading family law practice at the Bar, and her own growing family, Jacoba completed a PhD which she started at ANU and then transferred, with her supervisor, to UNSW. Her doctoral thesis concerned what constitutes a fair, independent and impartial trial, using Australian courts martial as the subject matter. Upon the completion of her PhD, and thus with a little free time, Jacoba has been actively involved in the governance and policy leadership of the Bar Association of Queensland and the Law Council of Australia. She has held, or currently holds many leadership positions, some of which include: Law Council of Australia (“LCA”), National Chair, Domestic & Family Violence Taskforce; LCA, elected Member, Family Law Section Executive; LCA’s representative at a roundtable held by the Royal Commission into Institution Responses to Child Sex Abuse; Treasurer, Bar Association of Queensland (“BAQ”); Member, Bar Council, BAQ; Chair, Family Law Committee of BAQ Council; BAQ Nominee to the Law Council’s participation in private roundtables held by the Royal Commission into Institution Responses to Child Sex Abuse; BAQ Nominee to the Premier’s Domestic and Family Violence Task Force Summit; Member, Curriculum Advisory Committee, College of Laws, for the College’s Master of Applied Law (Family Law) and Master of Laws; Delegate, Australian Bar Association’s Advocacy Delegation to Vanuatu; Delegate, Australian Bar Association’s Advocacy Delegation to Bangladesh; State Judge, Fulbright Commission; Board Member, QUT Law Founder’s Scholarship Committee; Member, Quinquennial Curricula Review Committee, Bachelor of Laws, QUT. Jacoba holds a Bachelor of Arts, Masters in Public Administration (UQ), Bachelor of Laws (Hons) (QUT), Masters of Law (NYU) and PhD (UNSW). She took Silk in 2014. Published resources Site Exhibition Australian Women Lawyers as Active Citizens, Trailblazing Women Lawyers Project Team, 2016, http://www.womenaustralia.info/lawyers Author Details Jacoba Brasch (with Nikki Henningham) Created 12 May 2016 Last modified 21 November 2019 Digital resources Title: Jacoba Brasch Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Founded in 1916, the Catholic Women’s Social Guild of Victoria/Wagga Wagga was renamed the Catholic Women’s League in 1970. The League is formed on a plan of parochial, diocesan, and general government. It is part of the Catholic Women’s League (CWL) of Australia, and has an international affiliation with the World Union of Catholic Women’s Organisations. It also has an international affiliation with the World Union of Catholic Women’s Organisations financed by the Diocesan Councils. At a branch level the Catholic Women’s League members • Support parishes • Address social and moral issues • Visit the sick and the lonely • Help the aged and disabled • Assist the homeless and migrants • Promote ecumenism • Support overseas aid and charitable organisations • Encourage education in faith and spirituality • Provide opportunities for social and cultural experiences • Financially support specific projects • Attend and organise CWL meetings and workshops Published resources Book Horizon in retrospect, 1916-1986, 1985 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Anne Heywood Created 19 November 2003 Last modified 16 September 2013 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

1 sound file (ca. 55 min.)??Clare McShane talks about her early life in N.S.W.; the early days in Oatlands, Tas. Bringing up five boys on the farm; the need to value add to wool made on the property at Casavene; buying her first knitting machine, finding a partner, sourcing machine knitting wool; Coates Patons, Launceston; how her hobby changed status after the wool crash of the early 1990s, converting the hobby into a business; farming as a business; teaching aspects of business, training staff; creating a world class product, breaking into the Japanese market; developing the business, purchasing the factory in Oatlands (1995), inclusion of a café (2005); learning how to use CAD (Computer Aided Design); employing locals to be multiskilled in the industry; Italian boutique knitting; having to source Merino extrafine wool from overseas; the decline of the wool industry and the Australian apparel market; taxes and expense involved with using the wool symbol; Australian Wool Board; mentors.??McShane discusses travel to Scotland to study the cottage industry; submissions for funding development; winning Tasmanian Telstra Businesswoman of the year; living in Hobart, selling the property, their reasons for moving to Hobart; the importance of tertiary education for her children; fine tuning the business to move forward and keep it alive; the impact of the ABC Rural Woman of the Year Award; women in a male dominated industry, importance of recognising the validity of women’s opinions; importance of Rural Youth Organisation; Agfest; external boards that she was involved with; working on internet hub projects, working with Brand Tasmania; her confidence in Tasmanian agriculture, the need for people to embrace the change; environmental advantages of living in Tasmania; how the future lies in niche industry; using communications technologies to advance your business eg. eBay; her forty years in Tasmania. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 29 April 2011 Last modified 21 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Folder 1?Newsletter. The Society of Women Writers NSW Inc. October 1987 to August 1994.?NewsWrite, the newsletter of the New South Wales Writer’s Centre. No. 16, May 1993.??Folder 2?Minutes of meetings, May 1988 to December 1991.??Folder 3?Minutes of meetings, January 1992 to June 1994.?Society of Women Writers Australia, members’ book list. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 26 June 2018 Last modified 26 June 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Leanne Castley has been the Liberal Party Member for Yerrabi since October 2020, and is the Deputy Leader of the Liberal Party in the ACT Legislative Assembly. She is the Shadow Minister for Health and Wellbeing, Business, Families, Youth and Community Services, and Prevention of Domestic and Family Violence, and the Assistant Shadow Minister for Women, Environment, Heritage and Water. Leanne is also a country music singer who recorded an album, Perfect Day, in 2007. Describing herself as ‘the chick from Charny’ in her first speech in the ACT Legislative Assembly on 3 December 2020, Leanne Castley prides herself on the values of hard work and preparedness to ‘have a go’ that have characterised her life, both before politics and in the political sphere. Born in 1974, Leanne is a proud single mother-of-two, country music singer and lover of cars, motorbikes and engines. She has lived in Canberra since she was five years old, and was educated at Flynn Primary School, Charnwood High School and Copland College. A keen advocate for small business, Leanne’s first full-time job was as an accounts clerk at Gerald Slaven Holden and, with her former husband, she later operated three car yards, employing five staff. These ventures were successful for a time, but fell victim to the global financial crisis, as did Leanne’s marriage. A long career in IT followed. Leanne also gained a Diploma in Project Management, and took positions at the Australian Federal Police and the Department of Defence, managing teams of up to 10 people. She was encouraged by the ACT Liberal Party to contest the October 2020 election for the electorate of Yerrabi, and was thrilled and humbled to be elected. Leanne set out her goals as the Member for Yerrabi in the ACT Legislative Assembly in her inaugural speech on 3 December 2020: ‘The issues, views and aspirations of my electorate, that’s what matters to me. Yerrabi residents and families do not want politicians telling them what to do. They can do that perfectly well on their own. But they do want politicians to be honest, to listen and to fix problems. I assure the good folk in my electorate that my two feet will stay firmly planted in Gungahlin soil. I am the chick from Charny and I don’t want to lose that. That’s who I am.’ Published resources Castley, Leanne: Legislative Assembly for the Australian Capital Territory website, https://www.parliament.act.gov.au/members/tenth-assembly-members/yerrabi/castley-leanne Leanne Castley: Canberra Liberals website, https://www.canberraliberals.org.au/our-team/leanne-castley Author Details Ros Russell Created 19 July 2024 Last modified Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

A once-only candidate, untraced. She was an Independent candidate for Drummoyne in 1988. Louise Adam promised a fresh approach in Drummoyne and, in particular, stressed the need for adequate childcare for working parents, more preventive health care and encouragement and support for small business. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 6 December 2005 Last modified 16 September 2013 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

A. Novels, mostly unpublished, 190- – 1949?B. Short stories and sketches, 1905-1954?C. Plays, mostly unpublished, 1908-c.1952. Include Call up your ghosts, c.1945, written with Dymphna Cusack, and Tom Collins at Runnymede.?D. Film scenarios, 1920-c.1925?E. Verse, n.d. F. Joseph Furphy, c.1940, written in consultation with Kate Baker?G. Laughter not for a cage. 1951-1954?H. Essays and articles, c.1939-c.1946 Include articles on Joseph Furphy, c.1939-1946.?I. Talks, c.1937-c.1951. Include talks given on Joseph Furphy, 1940-c.1945, and Rose Scott, 1951.?J. Miscellaneous papers, c.1901-c.1954?K. Papers collected, c.1902-1951. Include notes on Tennyson by Joseph Furphy and verse, c.1902-1951, including poems by Mary Fullerton, Ray Mathew, 1951, Rose Scott, 1902, Ian Mudie Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 10 September 2004 Last modified 27 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Gae Pincus completed an LLB at the Australian National University. She went on to work in the Office of Women’s Affairs; as an Associate for High Court Justice Lionel Murphy in 1982. In 1983 she returned to the Public Service to work in a legislative capacity dealing with law reform within various government departments. She went on to establish and chair the National Food Authority before working for the international body Food and Agricultural Organization. The following additional information was provided by Cathie Humphries (formerly Gregor) and is reproduced with permission in its entirety. Gae was the foundation Board Chair and CEO of the then National Food Authority which commenced operations on 19 August 1991 and which was the product of the micro-economic reform agenda in the early 1990s. Gae had the difficult and time-consuming task of guiding, and at some times, pushing the fledgling standard-setting agency to meet the high and differing expectations of government and other stakeholders at that time. In addition, the agency was committed to undertake a major review of the policy underpinning Australian food standards a no small feat considering the tangle of competing priorities. Gae is remembered by staff who worked with her as a woman of high intellect, who gave her all to achieve what she believed in. She demanded the same commitment from everyone else. This inevitably led to tension with the competing challenges the NFA faced. Despite on-going ill-health, but with the support of a very small Board of 4 part-time members, Gae set up systems to meet those challenges which held the agency in good stead in following years. Gae resigned from the NFA on 18 March 1995, but her pioneering vision of a combined Australia NZ food authority with a joint Code was fulfilled on 1 July 1996 with the foundation of the then Australia New Zealand Food Authority and on 20 December 2000 with gazettal of the joint Code. Unfortunately, Gae’s passing in August 2016 meant she missed the 25th anniversary of the NFA’s grandchild, Food Standards Australia New Zealand, which is still a central player in the food regulatory system in Australia and New Zealand, with an international reputation at the highest level. I was Gae’s executive assistant (EA) from January 1992 until I went on maternity leave in December 1993. Both Gae and I had worked as parliamentary staff – which came with different workplace expectations to those in the public service at that time. Because of that shared background, we got on well from the very beginning to the surprise of NFA staff, as we came from different sides of the political spectrum. She wasn’t the easiest person to work for and was extremely demanding, but there was a high level of trust between us and I very much missed not working for her when I returned to work. Gae always loved wearing dark blue and often wore matching patterned stockings. One thing she was particularly annoyed about was that she was born on 29 February – so that she only had a birthday every 4 years. She also told me the story once about how she changed her name at school to ‘Gae’, as she had never really liked her first name. Gae always remembered to buy me something special when she went overseas for work – not necessary, but always appreciated by me. Published resources Newspaper Article Gae Pincus, contributed to advancement of women's affairs and consumer law, Trainor, Gabrielle and Baker, Carole, 2016, http://www.smh.com.au/comment/obituaries/gae-pincus-contributed-to-advancement-of-womens-affairs-and-consumer-law-20161110-gsn0v0.html Resource Section Law, Kerwin, Hollie and Rubenstein, Kim, 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders/biogs/WLE0624b.htm Site Exhibition Australian Women Lawyers as Active Citizens, Trailblazing Women Lawyers Project Team, 2016, http://www.womenaustralia.info/lawyers Archival resources National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Interview with Gae Margaret Pincus, lawyer [sound recording] / interviewer, Sara Dowse Author Details Larissa Halonkin and Cathie Humphries Created 17 August 2016 Last modified 1 November 2016 Digital resources Title: Gae Pincus Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Dawn Lawrie, an Independent, was the second woman elected to the Northern Territory Assembly in 1971 as Member for Nightcliff. She represented her electorate for twelve years, until she was defeated in 1983. Dawn Lawrie grew up in Melbourne, but travelled to Alice Springs in the 1950s and eventually settled in Darwin in December 1960, where she gained employment as a public servant. After her parliamentary career, she established a community newspaper with her husband, Palmerston and Northern Suburbs Herald, which lasted for two years from 1983-85. She became the first Regional Director for the Human Rights and Equal Opportunities Commission, establishing the Darwin office, from 1986-88. She served as Administrator of the Cocos Keeling Islands from 1988-90. She became the first Northern Territory Anti-Discrimination Commissioner. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources National Library of Australia [Biographical cuttings on Dawn Lawrie, politician, containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journals] Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 20 October 2009 Last modified 3 November 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Comprises correspondence and typescripts on various topics. The collection includes a transcription of a memoir by Sophia Smith, written ca 1924; a typescript on the possible fate of Ludwig Leichhardt’s last expedition; a typescript titled The Wills Tragedy, 1861, written by William Thomson; a typescript of Irene Longman’s speech to the Queensland Women’s Electoral League ca 1952; notes on the Bundaberg Brewery Company; numbers 20-25 of the Bundaberg Glass and Stoneware Club newsletter. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 9 January 2018 Last modified 9 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Correspondence, medical reports and articles, case notes, and newspaper cuttings pertaining to Dr. Rae W. Dungan’s clinical work with polio sufferers in the 1930’s and the 1940’s and his collaboration with Sister Elizabeth Kenny.??Related material can be found in UQFL16. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 5 August 2004 Last modified 29 July 2020 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

3 sound files Author Details Helen Morgan Created 4 February 2015 Last modified 22 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

11 cassettes – 11hrs Author Details Alannah Croom Created 26 June 2018 Last modified 26 June 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Two pieces of a china tea set with the Angel of freedom insignia designed by Sylvia Pankhurst and produced by Williamsons in Longton, England. The plate was gifted to Bessie Rischbieth by the Suffrage Fellowship, London, and the saucer was given by suffragette Miss Basil McLellan as a contribution to Rischbieth’s collection on the history of the women’s suffrage. The tea service was commissioned for the Women’s Exhibition of 1909 held in Knightsbridge, London, a fundraising event organised for the Women’s Social and Political Union who campaigned for women’s suffrage in Great Britain. The china was used in the refreshments room during the Exhibition, and pieces were gifted to organisers or could be purchased as mementos after the event. Rischbieth labelled the china with the following statements: “Original cup & saucer belonging to Mrs Pankhursts tea service – Presented to Mrs B.M. Rischbieth by The Suffragette Fellowship London” and “The indefatigable Suffragettes! A plate belonging to that period”. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 26 March 2004 Last modified 12 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

One 2010 Balance & Bounce wall calendar published by the Victorian Department of Health Aged Care Branch. Photograph of Mary Owen for October. Author Details Elle Morrell Created 23 August 2000 Last modified 30 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

There is a long history of contact between Holland and Australia. In early 1606, William Jansz of Amsterdam, captain of the Duyfken (Little Dove) landed on Cape York Peninsula. A number of Dutch ships sank off the Western Australian coast in the 1600s and survivors reportedly established relationships with local Aborigines. By 1644, Abel Tasman had completed a partial circumnavigation of Australia which revealed, for the first time, the size of the continent. The resulting incomplete map of New Holland was not superseded until the arrival of Captain Cook in 1770. During the 1850s gold rushes Dutch merchant ships continued to visit Australia but immigration of the Netherlands-born remained negligible. Until 1947, when the Census recorded 2,174 Netherlands born, the number of people arriving from the Netherlands were offset by a large proportion of departures of Netherlands-born from Australia. This trend has continued to the present day, apart from a period of high migration during the 1950s and 1960s. After the Second World War, many Dutch people suffered severe economic and social dislocation in Holland. With an already high population density, a relatively small land area and the highest birth rate in Europe, the Netherlands faced a severe housing crisis and rising unemployment, due mainly to the mechanisation of agriculture. Dutch authorities actively supported emigration as a partial solution to the problem of overcrowding. Meanwhile, immigration policy change meant that Australia was looking for acceptable migrants from non-British sources. The hard working rural Dutch, with their linguistic and cultural affinities with the Australian population, were seen to be ideal immigrants. Both the Australian and Netherlands Governments contributed to the cost of passage, while the Australian Government accepted the responsibility for assisting settlement. As a result, during the 1950s Australia was the destination of 30 per cent of Dutch emigrants and the Netherlands-born became numerically the second largest non-British group. Their numbers peaked in 1961 at 102,134. The latest Census in 2001 recorded 83,250 Netherlands-born persons in Australia, a decrease of 5 per cent from the 1996 Census. The 2001 distribution by State and Territory showed Victoria had the largest number with 24,280 followed by New South Wales (20,290), Queensland (15,290) and Western Australia (10,470). The median age of the Netherlands-born in 2001 was 57.4 years compared with 46.0 years for all overseas-born and 35.6 years for the total Australian population. The age distribution showed 1.1 per cent were aged 0-14 years, 1.9 per cent were 15-24 years, 13.2 per cent were 25-44 years, 51.8 per cent were 45-64 years and 31.9 per cent were 65 and over. Of the Netherlands-born in Australia, there were 43,190 males (51.9 per cent) and 40,060 females (48.1 per cent). The sex ratio was 107.8 males per 100 females. At the 2001 Census, the rate of Australian Citizenship for the Netherlands-born in Australia was 79.0 per cent. The rate for all overseas-born was 75.1 per cent. Published resources Edited Book The Australian People: An Encyclopaedia of the Nation, Its People and Their Origins, Jupp, James, 2001 Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 18 June 2006 Last modified 20 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Papers of the Wemyss family comprising papers of Thomas Brown Wemyss, his grandfather Thomas Brown, and his daughter Eleanor Evelyn Beatrice Wemyss. Author Details Jane Carey Created 15 June 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Papers of Dr Constance Davey, psychologist and social worker, including typescript of her book ‘Children and their Law-makers’, research notes and letters received. Author Details Clare Land Created 26 November 2002 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

An activist against immigration to Australia, Carolyn O’Callaghan was an Australians Against Further Immigration candidate for Bathurst in 1995 and for the New South Wales Senate in 1996. Carolyn O’Callaghan lived in Homebush when she ran for the seat of Bathurst in 1995. Her policy, as she explained it, was to prevent overcrowding in Australia, and she deplored immigrants who could not speak English and who were taking places in the education system that could otherwise be utilised by Australians. One of her leaflets expressed the belief that public health would be improved if immigration stopped. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 25 August 2005 Last modified 16 September 2013 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

1935-1954, 1966; Papers, being mainly publications of the Eureka Youth League and the World Federation of Democratic Youth, with copies of Declaration of Rights of Australian Youth (1935) by Alec Jolley, Melbourne University Labour Club, and circular concerning the Bush Music Club (Sydney, 1966) (Call No.: ML MSS 5916/1(2))?1946-1956; Issues of Challenge, 1951-1956, and Youth Voice, 1946-1951 (Call No.: ML MSS 5916/2X(2)) Author Details Alannah Created 21 June 2018 Last modified 21 June 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Papers of Mrs Helen Thelka Jericho mainly relating to her family and Bethesda Mission. (Helen Jericho’s father Hermann Heinrich Volgesang was one of the founders of Bethesda Mission on Lake Killapannina.) Papers comprise correspondence; journal of a trip to Kopperamanna; prayers written in the Dijeri dialect; history of the Bethesda Mission; photographs of the Vogelsang family, the Bethesda Mission and Dijeri aborigines; transcripts; and printed items. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 29 January 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Inscription: “At a reception in Sydney on September 9 Her Royal Highness Princess Alexandra of Kent, who is on her first visit to Australia, chats with two famous athletes – Betty Cuthbert (centre) and Marlene Mathews (right).–Caption on reverse. Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 24 January 2007 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Included here is a statement by Garnsey in support of Jessie Street’s candidature for Labor Party selection for the seat of Eden-Monaro (1943); letters to George Waite, delegate of the United Labourers’ Union (1922-24); correspondence and circulars on the League of Nations Union (1942); and material on the Friendship with Russia League (1941-43). Author Details Alannah Croom Created 2 January 2018 Last modified 6 February 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

1 hour 26 minutes??Mavis Cooper, nee Price, was born in Bairnsdale, Victoria and grew up in Melbourne. She trained as a nurse and moved to Jamestown, South Australia after she met her future husband, a farmer, on holiday there. After joining the Country Women’s Association’s choir in 1957, she was soon an office holder in the local branch. Mavis outlines the CWA’s aims and organisation in explaining her progression from Branch President to State President in 1974 and National President in 1977. She describes her efforts in travelling to meet and speaks with women so that she could correctly represent their views, and emphasises that many social issues concerning members are far from conservative and can be closely related to the women’s and environmental movements. She speaks of the growing consciousness amongst members of the CWA as a powerful lobby group. She also speaks of the organisation’s Women’s Suffrage Centenary activities and her hopes for the future. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 30 January 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Includes the papers of the All Australia Women’s Basketball Association and the All Australia Netball Association (previous names). Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 1 January 2007 Last modified 4 January 2007 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Papers of Leslie Henderson including correspondence (1961-1974), photographs, newsletters and ephemera relevant to political, human rights, conservation, migration and library issues. Also includes scrapbook of sketches ‘1909- . Includes a number of photographs c. 1900 of unidentified school sports teams and families (MC 5, DR 6) Author Details Alannah Croom Created 24 April 2018 Last modified 22 May 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Gwen Parry Jones is a dedicated environmentalist who ran for the Australian Greens in the 2003 New South Wales Legislative Assembly election for The Entrance. Gwen Parry-Jones has a lifelong connection with the Central Coast of NSW. Originally a teacher, she then ran a small business and later still, worked for the Child Welfare Department, dealing with children who had to appear before the courts. This made her very aware of the influence lack of education has on youth crime. In 1987 Gwen formed the Wildlife Animal Rescue & Care Society Inc. (ARC) and she has been active in the rescue, care and release of native animals ever since. She lectures at local schools regularly and is known as the Bat Lady. She is the co-director of the Wambina Flying-Fox Education and Research Centre. In 2004 she helped to organise the Wildlife Carers Conference. In 2005 she was a member of the working party set up to form the NSW Wildlife Rehabilitation Council. Along with others, her work contributed to the establishment of the new Popran National Park and the Ourimbah Nature Reserve. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Newspaper Article 'Bat Lady' remembered, 2015 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 24 July 2015 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

An indefatigable worker and a contributor to every community in which she lived, Dorothy Frank stood as an Independent candidate for Temora in 1968 and was elected Alderman of Temora Municipal Council. Dorothy Frank was born in Wingham, NSW, the 2nd daughter of Richard and Mary Jane Wallace, dairy farmers. She was educated to Intermediate examination at the Wingham District School and later at the Taree Technical College, where she studied typing and shorthand. She worked as an office worker in Wingham while studying bookkeeping and accountancy. She married Norman Austral Frank, dairy farmer, on 18 July 1944, and they had four children. Their youngest daughter needed medical treatment, so the family moved to Baulkham Hills. Dorothy became the secretary for the Parramatta Veterinary Hospital and later set up her own business The Hills Secretarial and Duplicating Service. During this time she became involved in the Girl Guide Movement, the local Progress Association and the Baulkham Hills Chamber of Commerce, of which she was the inaugural secretary. After the Baulkham Hills business was sold, the Franks bought a hotel in Temora, and later a farmlet in the area. While living in Temora, Dorothy was elected to the Temora Municipal Council, the first woman alderman. When the council was amalgamated with the Narraburah Shire Council, she was again the only woman member. Following this success, Dorothy decided to run for election to the Legislative Assembly and was disappointed in the result, after travelling the electorate. In Temora she was patron of the Red Cross branch and Vice President of the local RSPCA branch. Later, she and her husband bought a farm in Cobram, Victoria, which they ran until 1991 when they moved back to NSW and settled in Dapto. In both Cobram and Dapto, Dorothy joined community organisations and usually held office in them. Published resources Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 25 August 2005 Last modified 5 February 2013 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

BOX 1?Reader’s Digest article on D’Arcy Niland, notes, roughs, two copies?D’Arcy Niland publicity clippings, 1946-1978?Miscellaneous D’Arcy Niland material: Includes letters and royalty slips relating to competitions/book prizes, 1949-1968; Letters from Will Lawson to D’Arcy Niland, 1948-1955?Cables to D’Arcy Niland re: winning prizes; Early cables about The Shiralee and some biographical material, 1948-1957?Dead Men Running proposal adapted for the screen by Doodie Herman . Includes 1st draft of the filme script; letters from Doodie Herman, Tim Curnow, Carl Schulz and notes on the meeting with Carl Schulz and Tim Curnow, 1994.?Letters concerning the appropriation of songs by Rolf Harris. Includes letters from songwriter and musician Leslie Raphael who set many of D’Arcy Nilands lyrics to music., 1971-1974???BOX 2?D’Arcy Niland notebook with jottings for ‘The Drums Go Bang’?Notebooks kept by Frank Niland. Includes several letters from Frank Niland written from the shearing shed Parewrrina and note written by Ruth Niland, 1992; Letters from Charlie Niland, 1954?Printed music ‘Travelling songs of Australia / D’Arcy Niland and Leslie Raphael’ (3 copies)?Illustrations for Walkabout article ‘Small World of Jamesy Rice’ (from Illustrated London News, 1863)?Film treatment of D’Arcy Niland stories (Staircase, Charter Pilot, The Ginger Giant) which were never produced. Includes correspondence between D’Arcy Niland and Chips Rafferty, Lee Robinson (Southern International) and copy of a letter to Joseph Janni (film producer of Robbery Under Arms), 1956-1957??BOX 3?The Little Fish / Ruth Park and D’Arcy Niland, a television play for ATV London which was never produced. Includes storyline, discussion notes, 1st draft of script and correspondence with Stella Richman of ATV., 1962-1963?Correspondence between Ruth Niland and Cedric Emanuel concerning ‘Norfolk Island’, 1981, 1986?Carbon typescript of ‘Norfolk Island and Lord Howe Island / written by Ruth Park with drawings by Cedric Emanuel’?Stage plays ‘Geraldine by Ruth Park and D’Arcy Niland’ with note written by Ruth Park, 1997 and ‘The Harp in the South by Ruth Park and Leslie Rees’?Thesis ‘Female characters in Ruth Park’s children’s novels by Deborah P. Browne’, with a copy of letter written by Ruth Niland, 1993 and comments on this thesis, 1997??BOX 4?Letters (45) written by Ruth Niland and returned from Nancy Bruce in Wanganui, New Zealand, 1945-1981 (RESTRICTED)?Interesting letters from fans of Ruth Park novels and publishers Curtis Brown, Nelson,1975-1991?Ruth Park short stories (Lost Room, Understanding, Rivers Change Their Course, Two Odd Women, The Son, Mr Carvers Cow, The House to Themselves, The Mended Idol, Horses from Coromandel, The Lost Burja) which were published and in typescript, with a note from Ruth Niland, 25 April 1997. Includes a pieced together 1st draft of The Harp in the South?Ruth Park early poems?Correspondence between Neil Colquhoun, Ruth Niland and APRA concerning copyright infringment for two songs taken from The Frost and the Fire, 1972??BOX 5?D’Arcy Niland odd clippings (notes)?Fishing in the Styx: Correspondence with Penguin Books Australia concerning publication, 1992-1994?Fishing in the Styx: original typescript (in 3 parts)?Fishing in the Styx: research notes, storyline, permission letters, news clippings, 1992-1993??BOX 6?Personal correspondence?Letters (approx 80) from Ruth Park (some are signed with nicknames) to D’Arcy Niland with some replies, 1935-1955?Letters from E.M Park and Maurice Shaw (Ruth Park’s uncle), 1918, 1947-1956?Letters from D’Arcy Niland to Ruth Park, Boronia St Redfern, 8 August 1937-20 February 1942?Letters from Ruth Niland to D’Arcy Niland during his absence in New Zealand, 1945 and his on Walkabout in 1947?Letters from Ruth Park?to D’Arcy Niland?Letters from Alice Cannan to Frank Niland?Letters from Frank Niland and one of the grandmothers, also includes a letter from F. Bayldon, editor of The Messenger to D’Arcy Niland, 1939, 1945, 1962?D’Arcy Niland’s letters to Beres Niland while in New Zealand, 1946??BOX 7?Personal letters to D’Arcy Niland and Ruth Park, 1944-1962 (RESTRICTED)?Personal letters from Ruth Park to D’Arcy Niland, 1938-1944 (RESTRICTED)??BOX 8?General business and personal correspondence (answered mail, folders 1-8), 1981-1989??BOXES 9-10?General business and personal correspondence to publishers, literary societies, fans(answered mail, folders 9-12), 1989-1994??BOX 11?Book reviews for Ruth Park, 1986-1990?Book reviews, letters and prizes for Playing Beatie Bow, 1981-1984?Book reviews (Book Week)?Book reviews for Ruth Park (mostly for Frost and the Fire)?Book reviews for Ruth Park (many for Power of Roses)?Book reviews – Ruth Park?Sydney Morning Herald serialisation (Witch’s Train and other clippings)?National Times (Reviews, letters, directives), 1970-1975??Box 12?Ruth Park personal journal (Part 1 – July 1968-May 1976 (RESTRICTED)?Ruth Park personal journal (Part 2 – July 1968-May 1976 (RESTRICTED)?The Harp in the South controversay (complete file) Author Details Alannah Croom Created 21 June 2018 Last modified 21 June 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

11 hours 20 minutes??A series of interviews with women who have been involved with the Guides movement in South Australia. The project was organised by Sally Hopton, Archivist for Guides SA and has two parts; a series of interviews conducted in 2001 by Sally Hopton and a retrospective collection of recordings featuring interviews related to guiding in South Australia conducted during the 1980s and 90s. Author Details Jane Carey Created 15 June 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Marjorie Tipping’s extensive personal and professional papers are gradually being transferred to the State Library of Victoria. A list of works already transferred is included in the collection. Tipping’s correspondence and collection of materials dates back uninterrupted to the age of eight; her daily diaries to the age of 12.?Correspondence files are extensive, and include some prominent correspondents, and dual wartime correspondence of more than 1000 letters with late husband, journalist E.W. Tipping. Papers cover Tipping’s involvement in numerous left-wing organisations and campaigns, and other community groups; unpublished manuscripts, including notes for Tipping’s unpublished autobiography; lectures given and attended; newspaper clipping; published articles; arts and culture at the University of Melbourne, including writings for Farrago, and editorship of the Melbourne University Magazine. Author Details Clare Land Created 26 November 2002 Last modified 4 May 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Speeches, original documents, typescript transcriptions, photocopies, reports, printed material, press cuttings, albums and awards generated in the development of tertiary and secondary education and arts organisations in the Northern Territory. Author Details Helen Morgan Created 29 July 2014 Last modified 24 January 2024 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

The Country Women’s Association of Victoria was founded in 1928. It is a non-sectarian, non-party-political, non-profit lobby group working predominantly in the interests of women and children in rural areas. It’s first president (1928-1932) was Lady Mitchell. The Association was formed partly in response to the formation of similar groups in other states. A major objective since its foundation was to ‘arrest the [population] drift from rural areas’-a problem which persists today. Its major activities have revolved around the provision of services to its members and the improvement of amenities in rural areas. The formation of the Victorian Association was prompted by a meeting organised by Lady Somers (wife of the then state governor) in March 1928. It was quickly strengthened by proliferation of local branches and the decision of the seven Victorian Women’s Institutes (the first of which had been formed in 1926) to join the new Association. By 1929 it boasted twenty branches with 1700 members. Since its foundation the Association has been involved in an enormous range of activities. The early influence of the Women’s Institutes ensured a strong emphasis on Homecrafts and Home Industries within the Victorian Association-a Committee was formed devoted to arranging classes and demonstrations in these areas. In 1932 the Committee established a scholarship to enable a country student to attend the Emily McPherson College of Domestic Economy. In 1935 over 900 members from 71 branches sent 3000 entries to the its Handicraft Exhibition. During the WWII the Committee coordinated much of the Association’s war work and in the 1950s they organised craft classes for women prisoners. One early initiative was the formation of ‘Younger Sets’ – for girls and young women. By 1932 there were 28 of these groups-increasing to 97 by 1949. They engaged in fund raising and community worked as well as holding crafts classes and lectures on numerous topics including home economics, travel and literature. Other early activities included the provision of ‘rest rooms’ in regional centres (to provide facilities for visiting farm women) and the purchase of a holiday home at Black Rock (which extended over the years into a large complex)-to provide members with affordable holiday accommodation. They also helped establish a bush ‘Dental van’ in the 1930s, ran a ‘Home Help Scheme’ from 1940-70 and established numerous welfare, relief and scholarship funds. During WWII the Association devoted much of its energy to assisting with the war effort. They made over 150,000 camouflage nets, as well as sheepskin vests for flight crews, numerous other woollen garments. They also established a ‘Comforts Fund’ for soldiers and sent clothing and bedding to women and children in London. In 1929, the Country Women’s Association of Victoria was one of the 23 rural women’s organisation which attended a meeting in London, organised by the Marchioness of Aberdeen, to discuss the formation of an international rural women’s association. The meeting led to the formation of the Associated Country Women of the World in 1932. From 1945 it became affiliated with the newly formed Country Women’s Association of Australia. As of 1978, the organisation’s primary aim was ‘By community service to improve conditions in the country more especially as they affect the welfare of women and children.’ Over the years the Association’s branches have produced numerous cookery and handicraft books as well as local histories. In 2004, the Association’s website described its purpose and activities thus: ‘The Country Women’s Association of Victoria Inc. is an organisation based on friendship and self-development opportunities for women of all races, religions or political beliefs. It is an organisation where women from rural and urban areas can meet as one, as the Women of the Country. The CWA of Victoria is unique in that it does not have charitable status, is not totally a service club, nor a philanthropic organisation. It supports numerous charitable causes, particularly as they concern women, children and families. The CWA of Victoria is involved with Government departments in several programs including Wise Women Working and Diversity Victoria, which aim to bring together different cultures for a better understanding across racial borders. It also has input through the Victorian Women’s Summit conferences which reflect women’s opinions. The Social Issues Committee’s role is to research issues which effect women and children in our community, to lobby State and Commonwealth Governments to change things for the betterment of women and to keep members informed through “The Country Woman” magazine.’ (Issues it has considered include: Problem Gambling, Farm safety, Workcare, Aged Care, Medical indemnity crisis, Shortage of obstetric specialists in rural areas, Funding for Breast Care Nurses, Suicide, Domestic violence, Privacy Laws, Child Employment). It makes submissions on behalf of Members to Government, and recently conducted a survey of issues to concern to Branches across the State. ‘The CWA of Victoria is undertaking an adventurous program of establishing an Internet Branch to give women the opportunity to communicate with like-minded persons. Crafts are taught and encouraged at Branch, Group and State levels and choral and drama groups thrive at some Branches. A Statewide public speaking competition culminates with the final at the State Conference each year. A Scholarship Fund has been set up to assist with tertiary education for Member’s children. Scholarships for non-members are also available. The Welfare and Emergency funds are used to help people in with household and personal items in time of disaster. A medical research program is the recipient of the Thanksgiving Fund each year. Many weary Royal Agricultural Show patrons enjoy the CWA hospitality in the cafeteria at the Royal Melbourne Show.’ They continue to hold regular craft schools. Published resources Book Twenty-one Years: A Brief History of the Association Since it was Founded in 1928, Country Women's Association of Victoria, 1949 Handicrafts of the Country Women's Association of Victoria, Hamer, Janet, 1968 The History of C.W.A. in Wedderburn, Curnow, D. M., 1984 Tapestry of Achievement: 60 Years of the South Western District of the Country Womens Association, 1988? Through the Years 1934-1988, Central Wimmera Group, 1989 Murray Valley Group, CWA Victoria, 1934-1984, 1984 Brave days : pioneer tales, Clegg, Mary A., 1962 Constitution, rules and aims, Country Women's Association of Victoria, 1938 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 Years of adventure, 1928-1978 : fifty years of service by the Country Women's Association of Victoria, Country Women's Association of Victoria, 1978 Companionship, Welfare and Achievement of Cowes Branch of the Country Women's Association of Victoria: The First Fifty Years of C.W.A. on Phillip Island, Cutter, June M., 1985 The history of Drysdale C.W.A. (Incorporated) 1948-1988, 1988 60 years of service: Bruthen Country Womens Association, Sievers, Pat, 1994 The Briagolong Branch Country Women's Association Golden Jubilee 1951-2001, Watt, Dorothy B, 2001 Sixty years of Sharing 1931-1991, Terry, Lorraine, 1991 A Touch of Time :Wangaratta C.W.A., 1929-1994, 1994 Thesis The Politics of Influence: The Work of the Country Women's Association of Victoria Incorporated in the Public Sphere, Crook, Karen, 1997 Journal Article Tea, Scones and a Willing Ear: The Country Women's Association of Victoria, 1928-1934, Roberts, Pam, 1984 Report Official Annual of the Country Women's Association of Victoria: Annual Report and Balance Sheet, 1939- Newsletter Victorian Country Woman, Country Women's Association of Victoria, 1989- Country Crafts/New Country Crafts, Country Women's Association of Victoria, 1930-88 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources Australian Historic Records Register Country Women's Association, Merbein Branch Country Women's Association of Victoria Inc. Country Women's Association, Robinvale branch State Library of Victoria [Papers], ca. 1928-ca. 1975. [manuscript]. National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Mildred Mattinson interviewed by Helen O'Shea for the Helen O'Shea collection of Australian folklore in its social context. 1989-1990 [sound recording] Phyllis Oldfield interviewed by Helen O'Shea for the Helen O'Shea collection of Australian folklore in its social context, 1989-1990 [sound recording] Author Details Jane Carey and Anne Heywood Created 19 March 2004 Last modified 27 April 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

1 hour??Veronica Brodie (née Wilson) was born at the Point McLeay Mission in 1946. She recalls her grandmother’s links with the Port Adelaide area where Veronica came to live in 1971. She speaks of her work with the local Aboriginal Community over the years including an Aboriginal Friendship Club for parents and children at the Port Adelaide Central Methodist Mission; the development of the regional Aboriginal Co-ordinating Committee; and Kura Yerlo, the Aboriginal Centre in Largs Bay. She discusses the stigma attached to her colour in the past and her current work with the Nunga Miminis Women’s Shelter.??Interview was recorded on 25 November 1990. Duration: 1 hour (1 tape). Partial transcript available (12 pages). Note that written permission is required – apply to the Mortlock Library for details. The conditions of use agreement is on file.?This interview was recorded as part of the Creating New Traditions: ‘The Port’ Past, Present, Future project for which a series of 24 interviews were conducted as part of a community arts project based at the Port Adelaide Community Arts Centre in the second half of 1990. This resulted in the publication, ‘Of ships, strikes and summer nights: a community arts project’ writer Catherine Murphy; portrait photographer, Josephine Starrs; lino-cut illustrators, Susan Bruce … [et al], Exeter: Port Adelaide Community Arts Centre, ca. 1991. The interviewees are both long term residents of the Port Adelaide region as well as more recent arrivals. The project also involved printmakers whose works illustrate the books. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 2 April 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

One of the oldest women’s clubs in Queensland, the Brisbane Women’s Club was formed in 1908 under the sponsorship of the Queensland Women’s Electoral League. Originally called the Women’s Progressive Club, the name was changed to the Brisbane Women’s Club in May 1912. Ardent feminist and women’s rights campaigner Margaret Ogg was one of the 59 founding members. The objectives of the club were to provide a social centre for women workers in the cause of reform and to encourage free discussion on subjects of public importance, including social, political and municipal matters. The club lobbied the Brisbane City Council and the State Government for the betterment of the community. In an effort to improve the life of rural women, the club was instrumental in the establishment of the Queensland Country Women’s Association in 1922 and the Bush Book Club in 1921. The Brisbane Women’s Club celebrated its centenary in 2008 and continues to provide a social and cultural centre with a philanthropic charter. Margaret Ogg is credited with founding the Brisbane Women’s Club and it was under her guidance members became a driving force to develop Brisbane into a better place for women to live and work. The Brisbane Women’s Club was a place where women were encouraged to take on leadership roles and fulfil their potential. The first club premises were in a building on the corner of Adelaide and Albert Streets. For many years contributions were made to a building fund and eventually the club bought its own building at 107 Albert Street in 1964. The Brisbane Women’s Club met every second and fourth Thursday of each month, with the second Thursday dedicated to social activities while the fourth Thursday was educational. Invited guests would present a paper at these meetings. In 1913 Margaret Ogg suggested holding frequent debates among members to encourage public speaking. The first debate was held on 3 August and the topic for discussion was ‘Should Women Enter Parliament’. During both world wars, the Brisbane Women’s Club ran the War Work Circle. Members would knit and sew for refugees and soldiers and raise funds for the Red Cross. They worked in groups to weave 126 camouflage nets and make over 2500 articles of clothing. Brisbane Women’s Club members served in World War I, World War II and the Vietnam War. Club members met immigrant ships at the docks to welcome and assist young girls arriving in Brisbane. They also established the Traveller’s Aid Society in 1929, which assisted confused and tired travellers arriving in Brisbane to get to their accommodation or connecting plane, bus, tram or train. The club sponsored such reforms as: waiting sheds for tram passengers numbering tram stops name plates on trees in the Botanical Gardens dating milk bottles erecting a shelter shed on North Quay installing traffic lights at busy intersections the supply of milk for school children zebra crossings outside schools better street lighting equal pay for women the removal of the double standard in divorce laws the right of women to sit on juries the establishment of baby clinics changes to laws that would allow women to be elected to local councils and to sit on governing boards the introduction of domestic science for schoolgirls into the Queensland school curriculum The club had a strong connection with the National Council of Women, the Queensland Women’s Electoral League, the Brisbane Lyceum Club, the Queensland Deaf & Dumb Mission, the Queensland Bush Book Club, the Mission to Seamen, the Country Women’s Association and the Crèche and Kindergarten Association. Upon Margaret Ogg’s death in 1953, the club established a scholastic bursary in her memory. It was to be awarded to the girl who gained the highest marks in social studies in the Scholarship examination. In 1970 the Margaret Ogg Memorial Bursary was created for the best short story in the Warana Writer’s Competition for under 18 year olds. The winner received a book prize. In 2009 the Brisbane Women’s Club and Yvonne Haysom Bursary takes the form of a scholarship that is open to students of the Conservatorium of Music, Griffith University. It is valued at $1000 and is awarded annually to a female undergraduate studying in the creative arts. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources John Oxley Library, Manuscripts and Business Records Collection Annual report and financial statements / Brisbane Women's Club 28405 Brisbane Women's Club Records 1908-2013 [Newsletter] / Brisbane Women's Club. 7976 Brisbane Women's Club Records 1908-2008 28386 Dining Room of Brisbane Women's Club [Work of Art] 1930 Fryer Library, The University of Queensland Ephemera relating to women's movement organisations Author Details Lee Butterworth Created 22 June 2009 Last modified 21 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Gabrielle O’Donnell is a well known local government identity who has been a councillor for the City of Ryde from 1995-2008 and Deputy Mayor 1998-1999, 2005. She unsuccessfully attempted to enter the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Lane Cove in 2003 as an ALP candidate. Gabrielle O’Donnell was raised and educated in the Ryde area and completed her tertiary education at Macquarie University. She is a registered psychologist and works as a school counsellor. She is a member of the Australian Guidance and Counselling Association and the NSW Teachers’ Federation. Gabrielle O’Donnell was well known in her electorate when she ran for Parliament. She was first elected to the City of Ryde Council in 1995 and had served on a variety of Council Committees. She was a member of the Sydney North Advisory Committee of the NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service and her campaign leaflet stressed her interest in the environment. In 2005 she was again elected Deputy Mayor of the City of Ryde 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 1 February 2006 Last modified 6 February 2006 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Vanessa Goodwin is the Tasmanian Attorney General and Minister for Justice, Minister for Corrections, Minister for the Arts and Leader of the Government in the Legislative Council. She was elected to the Legislative Council as the Member for Pembroke in August 2009 and was the Shadow Attorney General and Shadow Minister for Corrections from September 2009 until the State Election in March 2014, after which she was appointed to her current roles. Vanessa Goodwin was born in Hobart in 1969, the only child of Edyth and Grant Goodwin. She attended St Michael’s Collegiate School and then completed an Arts/Law degree at the University of Tasmania, followed by the Legal Practice Course. She spent two years as a Judge’s Associate to then Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Tasmania, the Honourable Sir Guy Green AC KBE CVO, before being admitted as a legal practitioner in 1995. After working briefly for the Tasmanian Branch of the Australian Hotels Association, Goodwin worked full-time in the family boarding kennel and cattery business while her mother was undergoing treatment for cancer. In January 1996 she was employed as the research assistant to then Governor, Sir Guy Green and continued in that role until September 1996 when she commenced her Master of Philosophy (Criminology) at the University of Cambridge. After successfully completing her Masters in Criminology, Goodwin returned to Tasmania and commenced working within the Department of Police and Emergency Management (DPEM), where she remained until her election to Parliament in 2009. During this period, Goodwin completed her PhD, Residential Burglary and Repeat Victimisation in Tasmania, through the University of Tasmania. As part of her research, she conducted interviews with 60 imprisoned burglars, with the findings from her interviews attracting national media interest. Goodwin played a key role in the development and implementation of the U-Turn program in Tasmania. This program targeted young people aged 15-20 who were at risk of, or involved in, motor vehicle theft. The core of the program was a 10-week automotive training course, with case management to address risk factors and a focus on literacy and numeracy support. The program was delivered by Mission Australia, under contract to DPEM, and based on a best practice model developed by the National Motor Vehicle Theft Reduction Council. In addition to her work managing crime prevention projects and developing policy advice at DPEM, Goodwin conducted post-doctoral research on intergenerational crime through the Tasmanian Institute of Law Enforcement Studies. The criminal histories of six extended families over at least three generations were examined to determine the extent to which crime was concentrated in these families and to explore the linkages with other problem behaviours, including child abuse and neglect. Goodwin collaborated with the Australian Institute of Criminology to explore the role of gender in the intergenerational transfer of criminality within the families. Goodwin has a strong interest in sentencing and prison reform. She is pursuing legislative reforms in relation to sex offender sentencing, family violence, alternative sentencing options and to update Tasmania’s dangerous criminal provisions. She has also committed to the establishment of a Tasmanian Custodial Inspectorate. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Australian Women Lawyers as Active Citizens, Trailblazing Women Lawyers Project Team, 2016, http://www.womenaustralia.info/lawyers Author Details Vanessa Goodwin (with Rosemary Francis) Created 22 September 2009 Last modified 31 October 2016 Digital resources Title: Vanessa Goodwin Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

MS 10108 comprises a typescript draft of The sweet cool south wind, a novel Gantner wrote under her pseudonym Neilma Sidney; a small selection of correspondence regarding her support for writers’ colonies, 1983-1984, and her contributions to writing projects by others, 1990-1992. Also included is a typescript draft of The return, a novel written under the pseudonym of Neilma Sidney (1 box). Author Details Alannah Croom Created 17 April 2018 Last modified 17 April 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Manuscript poems, including a series entitled ‘Poems of Friendship’, and two volumes of poetry ‘Verses written for Christmas’ (1908) and ‘The Silver Wing and other poems’ published privately in 1939. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 28 January 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Born in Gorton, Lancashire, England, Doris Bardsley came to live in the Brisbane area of Queensland prior to World War 1. Trained at the Diamantina Hospital for Chronic Diseases, she completed her midwifery certificate in Melbourne before returning to Queensland (Qld) to serve as matron at St Denis’s Hospital in Toowoomba. In October of 1923, Bardsley joined the staff of the maternal and Child Welfare Service, devoting the rest of her life to the expansion of child-welfare services, as well as the improved education and training of ante-natal nurses. Doris Bardsley was appointed sister-in-charge of Queensland Government Baby Clinics on 9th April 1925 and oversaw the expansion of baby clinics during her twelve year term. During the 1920s, Bardsley was a delegate to the National Council of Women of QLD, supporting the expansion of child-welfare services and mothercraft education. In addition to this, she was a member of the technical sub-committee of the Mothercraft Association. She was appointed the position of acting-superintendent of infant-welfare in 1937, becoming superintendent in 1939. In this position, Bardsley helped with the development of residential homes for mothers and babies with feeding problems, introduced a correspondence service which offered ante-natal advice, and initiated mothercraft courses in secondary school. In 1942, Bardsley secured an agreement from the registrar-general to notify baby clinic services of all births in country areas. Serving as a councillor of the Qld branch of the Australasian Trained Nurses’ Association (1926-57), she was awarded the position of state president in 1949, and later national president in 1951. In this position, Bardsley represented Australian nurses overseas. She served on the International Council of Nurses from 1951, on the grand council and on the education committee. An advocate for the development of post-graduate education in the field of nursing, Bardsley later went on to become a founding member (1948), vice-president and president (1952-53) of the College of Nursing, Australia. She was elected a fellow in 1962. Between 1953 and 1961 she served as an adviser-in-nursing to Queensland’s Department of Health and Home Affairs. Bardsley was also a member of the Florence Nightingale Memorial Committee of Australia at a state and national level. Published resources Book New Lamps For Old, Bardsley, D., 1957 Resource Section Bardsley, Doris (1895 - 1968), Gregory, H., 2006, http://adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A130133b.htm Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Lee Butterworth Created 22 June 2009 Last modified 19 February 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

1 sound cassette (ca. 48 min.)??Dame Ada Norris talks of her involvement within handicapped groups; the National Council of Women; Councils on the Ageing; her United Nations work; her interest in New Guinea; working with migrant women; old peoples welfare council; equality for women; womens issues; status of women throughout the world; her C.M.G. (1969) Author Details Elizabeth Daniels Created 12 September 2013 Last modified 21 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

21 hours (approx.)??Recordings of a series of evening seminars presented for about two years from September 1979 at the Women’s Studies Resource Centre. The workshops were intended to be a forum at which people involved in women’s studies could meet and discuss their research. Margaret Allen, the donor of these recordings, was a lecturer at the Salisbury College of Advanced Education at the time and one of the organisers of the series. Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 23 July 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Original typescript of Margaret Tucker’s book typed by her friend Miss Jean Hughes. Author Details Clare Land Created 9 September 2002 Last modified 5 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Joanna was the CEO of the International Women’s Development Agency from 2010 until 2017. Joanna’s experience in international development, foreign affairs, human rights, peace building and social justice ranges across four continents and 28 countries. Her former roles include: Country Director for the Burnet Institute in Myanmar; Country Director for Save the Children UK in Vietnam; and Regional Director for Africa with the Overseas Service Bureau. Joanna’s international advisory roles include UNDP, UNOCHA, UNICEF, UNAIDS, UNHCR, governments across Asia, Africa, Australia and the Pacific and multiple international and local NGOs. Joanna has provided policy, evaluation and management services in relation to disease control, humanitarian assistance, national strategic planning, organisation and capacity development and institutional strengthening within government systems and across civil society organisations and networks. She currently sits on the Board of the Australian Council for International Development and the Victorian Ministerial Council on Women’s Equality. In 2013, Joanna was named as one of Australia’s 100 Women of Influence, and in 2016, she was inducted into the Victorian Honour Roll for Women for outstanding service to international development, gender equality and peace building. Joanna was made an Officer in the Order of Australia (AO) in the 2018 Australia Day Honours for ‘distinguished service to women in the areas of gender equality and individual rights through leadership and policy, development roles, and to the promotion of global health, peace and security’. As CEO of the International Women’s Development Agency, Joanna was responsible for strategic and organisational leadership to accelerate systemic change, women’s economic empowerment, safety and security, and women’s civil and political participation. IWDA is Australia’s leading international development organisation entirely focused on diverse women’s rights and gender equality. She led the research, policy and advocacy for women’s rights and gender equality in international settings with a focus on program partnerships with 30 other women’s rights organisations in the Asia Pacific region. As the international spokesperson for the organisation, Joanna provided expert, evidence-based advice relating to women’s rights and gender equality to national and international governments and other international stakeholders including United Nations Commissions, Councils or agencies, the World Bank, ASEAN, APEC, international human rights networks and the global women’s movement and supporting coalitions and alliances. Joanna has been engaged with Myanmar since her first arrival on Tsunami Day 2004 and experienced the Saffron Revolution, Cyclone Nargis, the constitutional referendum, and the 2012 & 2016 elections. Her multiple relationships include: · Country Director for Burnet Institute responsible civil society program partnerships across 10 states and divisions. Program focus was health, education, women, youth and human rights. · Organisational Development Adviser with Myanmar Anti-Narcotics Association over 7 years with this nationwide NGO of 12,000 members with a focus on harm reduction and demand reduction. · Evaluation Team Leader, United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs for the review of the Humanitarian Multi-Stakeholder Fund for Myanmar. · Senior Evaluator, United Nations Development Program to assess the Inter Agency Standing Committee (membership of over 100 organisations) contribution to humanitarian and recovery response to Cyclone Nargis. · Project Director, of the six nation Asia Illicit Drugs Initiative targeting drug treatment programs. · CEO, IWDA with oversight of programs partnerships with Chin, Karen, Shan and Palaung women’s organisations and other national organisations working to advance gender equality. · Founding member of Three Diseases Fund. · INGO representative on Government Committee to prepare Myanmar’s first National HIV Plan. Joanna’s four year residency in Vietnam from 1997-2000 included Country Directorship for Save the Children UK in managing child rights programs for ethnic minority primary education; poverty alleviation; microfinance for women; disability; early childhood care and development; people trafficking and sexual exploitation prevention; and HIV/AIDS. She also held roles as a Communications Strategist to UNAIDS and the Hanoi based representative for University of WA’s Community Health, Research & Training Unit. For close to a decade from 1987, Joanna worked across thirteen countries in Africa. As the Regional Director for Overseas Service Bureau she involved multiple development settings including refugee and exile camps, agricultural settings, industrial zones, small and medium enterprises, remote villages, institutions for health and education and public sector departments. She negotiated five Memoranda of Understanding between national governments and OSB. Joanna was involved directly in historical transitions in anti-apartheid activities with the ANC. Her strategic management included multiple partnerships with civil society, government and UN bodies in addressing human security and human development in South Africa, Mozambique, Malawi, Zambia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Swaziland, Namibia, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Kenya and Tanzania. Joanna has a long history in international peace and security. She is a founding member of the Australian Civil Society Coalition for Women, Peace and Security. Her current work is located in fragile states, conflict and post conflict countries across Asia and the Pacific. This leadership and/or protection programs for women and girls in conflict and post conflict zones, exile settlements and refugees camps; addressing gender based violence and trafficking of women and girls; resourcing women’s increased participation in peace processes and leadership to improve issues pertaining to the socio-economic consequences of violence and conflict; and peace building programs with ethnic women organisations and the broader Myanmar women’s movement in convergence with the reconciliation process. Joanna’s engagement in international disarmament dialogues began in the mid 80’s as the leader for People for Nuclear Disarmament in Western Australia with attention to defence policy and treaties, militarization of the seas, peace treaties, arms limitation talks, non-proliferation of nuclear weapons, nuclear technology, IAEA safeguard systems, nuclear testing, peace education and conflict resolution. She was awarded the ‘Donald Groom Fellowship’ in 1986 to contribute to non-violent social change as a resident in Japan. Subsequently, as the International Coordinator for the Pacific Campaign to Disarm the Seas, Joanna worked in close relations with the International Peace Bureau, the Northern Atlantic Network and the Nuclear Free and Independent Pacific Campaign. Joanna’s national and international policy and advisory work includes advisory committee work for the Individual Deprivation Measure (IWDA/ANU/DFAT) and directing Policy and International Program Development for the Australian International Health Institute from 2002-4 and as a Senior Health Consultant to ACIL Pty Ltd from 2000-2. Events 2013 - Australian Council for International Development 2000 - 2000 Ministry of Social Welfare 2016 - 2016 Inducted into the Victorian Honour Roll of Women 2013 - 2013 Australian 100 Women of Influence 2017 - Individual Deprivation Measure, Advisory Committee 2017 - Ministerial Council for Women’s Equality, Victoria 2014 - 2014 APEC Women and the Economy Forum, Beijing 2014 - 2015 Diaspora Action Australia 2013 - 2014 UN Security Council DFAT/Civil Society Consultations 2013 - 2013 Australian High Level Women’s Delegation to Burma 2014 - Refugee Council of Victoria 1987 - Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom 2013 - Australian Civil Society Coalition for Women, Peace and Security 2012 - International Sexual & Reproductive Health and Rights Consortium Author Details Joanna Hayter (Alannah Croom) Created 5 September 2017 Last modified 23 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Co-founder of the National Council of Aboriginal and Island Women in 1970, Hyllus Noel Maris co-wrote the award-winning Women of the Sun, which was later adapted as a screen production by the ABC. Hyllus Noel Maris, of Yorta Yorta and Wurundjeri (Woiwurrung) descent, was born in 1934 in Echuca, Victoria. She spent her early childhood at Cummeragunja, where her grandmother imparted to her a detailed knowledge of her culture and family relationships in Victoria. Her family took part in the Walk-off from Cummeragunja in 1939 and settled near Shepparton, where Maris attended school. She subsequently moved to Melbourne, where she helped found the National Council of Aboriginal and Island Women in 1970. From this body grew the Aboriginal medical and legal services in Fitzroy, of which Maris was a co-founder. In the mid-1970s, she collaborated with the Austrian-born author, Sonia Borg, in writing Women of the Sun, a history of Australia over the previous 200 years, as seen through the experiences of a number of Aboriginal women. Adapted as an ABC television series in 1982, Women of the Sun won many awards, including the United Nations Media Peace Prize and the AWGIE award of the Australian Writers Guild. Maris was largely responsible for the establishment, in 1982, of Worawa College, Victoria’s first Aboriginal school. She died of cancer in 1986, and was buried at Cummeragunja. Events 2001 - 2001 Inducted into the Victorian Honour Roll of Women Published resources Edited Book The Encyclopaedia of Aboriginal Australia : Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander history, society and culture, Horton, David, 1994 Book Women of the sun, Maris, Hyllus and Sonia Borg, 1985 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Leonarda Kovacic and Barbara Lemon Created 18 May 2005 Last modified 12 February 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

The records include minutes of meetings of the Anzac Fellowship of Women, 1925-1928, 1931-1939, 1958-1962, 1965-1967, Secretary’s reports 1924, correspondence, diaries, photographs, press clippings, publications and other material relating to the work of the Fellowship. The collection includes material from other associations also founded by Dr Mary Booth such as the Soldiers’ Club and the Empire Service Clubs. The records of the Soldiers’ Club, ca. 1918-ca. 1923 include day books, diaries, lists of members, report books and a staff time book. The Empire Service Club records include a minute book 1928-1940, register 1928, sketch book, lists of members, index to letters 1930-1936 and a petty cash book 1944. Author Details Gavan McCarthy Created 15 October 1993 Last modified 5 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Records of the Cheer Up Society Incorporated, comprising miscellaneous printed items, address presented to the CUS, stamps, badges and arm stripes, photographs, a dance program for the Jamestown branch and minutes, welcome home list, correspondence and raffle book for Kalangadoo branch. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 14 May 2004 Last modified 24 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

1 sound tape reel (ca. 25 min.)??Durack speaks about her first drawings; the native people in her drawings; mediums used; her method of working. Author Details Judith Ion Created 9 September 2002 Last modified 21 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Elsie Margaret Traill has been somewhat overshadowed in the historical record by her youngest sister, the artist Jessie Constance Traill, but she was a highly significant figure in the history of the University of Melbourne. Her £5000 donation to Janet Clarke Hall led to the naming of the Traill Wing in her honour and she herself carved both the entrance plaque to the new wing and the wall plaque that hangs which hangs in the Janet Clarke Hall Verdon Library.[1] Elsie Traill was the second daughter of George Hamilton Traill. Two others, Kathleen and Mina, joined the Anglican Community of the Holy Name and Jessie, as well as serving as a VAD in France during the First World War, made a considerable name as a painter and etcher.[2] Their father had been manager of the Oriental Bank situated on the corner of Queen Street and Flinders Lane and demolished after the bank went out of business in 1884. Their mother was an Army Captain’s daughter.[3] Elsie Traill’s career was distinguished by her philanthropy and by the time she gave to serving the organisations she supported. These included the Lyceum Club, as one of the founders and acting honorary secretary of its planning group and a member of its first committee, the Victoria League, Diocesan Mission to the Streets and Lanes of Melbourne, Royal Victorian Institute for the Blind and most especially the Australian Red Cross. The Australian Branch of the Red Cross was set up only nine days after the declaration of war, and Elsie Traill, following her sister’s enlistment in the Voluntary Aid Detachment, established the first Red Cross Shop, in suburban Sandringham. Edwards notes that the shop, which later moved to Regent Place in the City, not only assisted servicemen by providing an outlet for their handcrafts, but also provided one for women to sell theirs.[4] Elsie Traill was assiduous in her services both to Janet Clarke Hall, where she lived from 1895 until she took her BA in 1898, and to Trinity College, from which the women’s college had sprung. She played an active part in establishing the Janet Clarke Hall Committee, which she chaired for some years, and served on the Trinity College Council. She was also the first woman appointed as Honorary Secretary of the Associates of the Royal Melbourne Golf Club. [1] Sarah Edwards and Lisa Sullivan. The Art Collection of Janet Clarke Hall University Gallery, University Museum of Art August 7 to September 26 1997. Melbourne: Janet Clarke Hall, University of Melbourne, 1997. p. 15-18. [2] Mary Alice Lee. ‘Traill, Jessie Constance Alicia (1881-1967)’. Australian Dictionary of Biography. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1990. [3] ‘Mr Traill’s Death’. Australian Town and Country Journal. 17 April 1907: 43. [4] Edwards and Sullivan op. cit. 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)

A middle aged Aboriginal woman nurses her old white mother. During her tending of the old woman we feel her frustrations of duty, her suppressed anger, her own need for warmth and love, her personal loneliness. Her memories and dreams invade her nerve fraying routine until the old woman dies and we share the daughter’s immense sense of loss. Shot entirely in a studio, the power of the film lies in the artificially treated vibrantly coloured landscape and carefully constructed soundscape. The environment contributes another personality…an unbending, unchanging force. Inspired by ‘Jedda’, Moffatt resurrects the two primary characters and propels them 30 years into the future, transforming the relationship between child and mother into carer and invalid. — General note: Summary from http://www.chilifilms.com.au and ‘The Oxford Companion to Australian Films’.??There is documentation associated with the production of the film held in the NFSA collection. Author Details Hollie Aerts Created 20 December 2010 Last modified 1 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Professor Clarke’s papers relating to the Australian Research Council, of which she has been a member from 1988 – 1990. Papers include agenda, background information including record of the inaugural ARC Working Party, 14 March 1988, records of ARC meetings, from the first meeting of the Interim Australian Research Council, 22 April 1988 to 23/24 November 1989. Author Details Clare Land Created 19 December 2001 Last modified 29 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

1 sound tape reel (ca. 15 min.)??O’Connor speaks about the influence of the French Impressionists on her style; her stay in London and Paris; portrait painting; method of painting; reason for returning to Australia. Author Details Lisa MacKinney Created 25 November 2009 Last modified 21 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

This file has a copy of the report on Attitudes of South Australian Women to Tertiary Education by Laurene Dietrich. There is a draft which has comments by Bruce Trucks about his interpretation of the report. The Principal’s speech on Graduation Day Roseworthy Agricultural College 1973 note that while the College was required under the law to admit female students and that this cut straight across a long standing tradition at Roseworthy they (College staff) believed that few girls will want to have the sort of education available at Roseworthy. There is a final report The Needs/Attitudes of Rural South Australian Women to Post-Secondary Education for Themselves and Their Daughters, by Laurence Dietrich Research Associate. There is a copy of Susie O’Brien’s Talk on The Ferals and the Droopers: a discussion of the informal learning environment for female students at Roseworthy College. Author Details Janet Butler Created 18 March 2010 Last modified 29 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Annual Reports, 1992-; Press cuttings Author Details Anne Heywood Created 12 September 2003 Last modified 13 September 2013 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Invergowrie Past Students Association Minutes, Reports and Accounts, Student Registers, 1938-1972. Invergowrie Homecraft Hostel records 1929-1980s: Prospectuses, 1929-70; Principal’s Reports, 1930-73; Visitors’ Books; newscuttings and memorabilia; Register of Students, 1964-1968; Invergowrie Council Minutes, 1968-75; Annual General Meeting Minutes, 1968-74 Invergowrie Past Students’ Association: Photographs of Students and Activities, 1929-1972. Photographs of subsequent functions to 1986; Minutes of committee minutes, 1949-87; Minutes of May Weatherley Memorial Appeal Committee; biographical notes and lists of past students Newsletters and correspondence 1950s-1986. Association of Heads of Independent Girls Schools of Victoria: Minutes Annual General Meetings, 1940-68; Agendas for Annual General Meetings 1961-66. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 6 February 2002 Last modified 29 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Kay Daniels taught and published widely in the fields of women’s, social and colonial history. Until her two-volume work Women in Australia: An Annotated Guide to Records was published in 1977, it had been generally believed that women could not be included in history as they lived within the family and there were no records of their lives in the public sphere. She spent part of her life as a Commonwealth public servant in Canberra, contributing in areas of cultural policy and intellectual property rights. After graduating from the University of Adelaide in 1963, Daniels chose an interdisciplinary studies course offered by University of Sussex. It was here that she completed her doctoral thesis on the publication of novels in England in the 1890s, under labour historian Asa Briggs and literary critic David Daiches. From 1967 to 1988, Daniels taught history, applying the insights she had acquired to the new field of women’s history, at the University of Tasmania. With a grant funded from the International Women’s Year project, Daniels designed and supervised a project that set out to unearth in Australia’s official archives all materials relating to women. Women in Australia: An Annotated Guide to Records was published in 1977. She also attended early women’s movement conferences, as well as leading the fight to save the Cascades Female Factory and publishing the newsletter Liberaction. Daniels took leave in 1985, to head up the committee to review Australian studies in tertiary education in Canberra. The resulting report, Windows into Worlds, led to the establishment of many Australian Studies centres, and to the increased Australian content of much of tertiary education. She was the principal intellectual force behind the 1993 cultural policy statement Distinctly Australian, and also had significant input into its successor Creative Nation, after commencing work for the federal Department of Communications, Information Technology and the Arts, in 1989. Before passing away, Daniels was awarded an adjunct professorship at Macquarie University and an honorary degree from the University of Tasmania. In 2003 The Kay Daniels Award was established to honour her work as a historian and public servant. It is a biennial award, sponsored by members and associates of the Australian Historical Association, the University of Tasmania and the Port Arthur Historic Site. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Newspaper Article Kay Daniels: writer, historian, scholar and bureaucrat, Summers, Anne, 2001 Life of compassion drove gifted feminist, Flanagan, Richard, 2001 Enlightened voice of women's history, Roe, Jill, 2001 Destined for distinction, 2001 Journal Article Obituary, Roe, Jill, 2001 Kay Daniels 1941-2001, Roe, Jill, 2002 Edited Book Women in Australia : an annotated guide to records, Daniels, Kay, Murnane, Mary, Picot, Anne and National Research Program (Australia), 1977 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 Archival resources National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Papers of Marilyn Lake, 1964-1999 [manuscript] Author Details Anne Heywood Created 22 August 2001 Last modified 29 October 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Jan Strom is a community activist, local councillor and outstanding citizen. She has served on the Coffs Harbour City Council from 1999 to 2004, being Deputy Mayor from 2000 to 2004. In 2003 she stood as an Independent in the Coffs Harbour elections of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly. Jan Strom has a strong background in marketing and events management. She says of herself that her work experience includes being a speaker, an actor, a fitness industry leader, a television presenter, a small business operator, a marketer, a university lecturer, a work place trainer, a community activist, a local government Councillor, a wife and mother. She lived in various towns and cities, as well as in Italy and the United Kingdom before moving to Coffs Harbour in 1982. She is married to Peter Strom and they have two sons. In 1983 she established Bootlace Productions and worked as an actor and producer for it until 1995. From 1982 to 1992 she was a television presenter with NRTV, and owned and ran Jazz Fitness. She has organised and coordinated many events including Southern Cross University Open Days, Jetty Festivals, Carols by Candlelight, and public lectures. She worked as Marketing and Community Liaison Officer for Southern Cross University from 1995 to 2001, while obtaining her Assoc. Degree in Management and Professional Studies (1997) and a Masters degree in Professional Management (2004). She also lectured at Southern Cross University in Business, and Tourism and Hotel Management. She is Deputy Chair of the Mid North Coast Regional Development Board, Chair of the Coffs Coast Food & Wine Festival, and an executive member of the Coffs harbour Chamber of Commerce. Although no longer a member of the City Council, Jan Strom continues to participate in a wide range of community activities. Published resources Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 14 December 2005 Last modified 20 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

MS Acc04.254 comprises printed versions of five e-mails from Susan Bambrick to Rosemary Turner, 7 October, 2004, forwarding the text of five speeches given by Bambrick from 1999-2002 (1 folder).??The Acc10.165 instalment comprises a collection of recipes titled “Memories of my mother’s afternoon teas, with recipes”, dated 2 October, 2010 (1 packet). Author Details Alannah Croom Created 13 March 2018 Last modified 13 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)