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Correspondence, Jan. 1984 – Nov. 1989 (Call No.: MLMSS 7630)?Correspondence, Nov. 1989 – Aug. 1992 (Call No.: MLMSS 7630)?Correspondence, May 1995 – Oct. 1996 (transferred from MLMSS 7362/29) (Call No.: MLMSS 7630) Author Details Alannah Croom Created 26 June 2018 Last modified 26 June 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Historical notes relating to Anzac Fellowship of Women, 1914-1970. the Australian Women’s Flying Club (incorporating the New South Wales Branch of the Women’s Air Training Corps.), 1938-1946, and the Women’s Emergency Signalling Corps, 1939-1941 Author Details Alannah Croom Created 26 June 2018 Last modified 26 June 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Certificates of service (1985-1990); correspondence (1987-1997); minute books (1986-1988) and minutes (1986-1997); subscription lists (1975-1996); records of various committees and awards, and those dealing with the setting up of other Zonta Clubs in W.A. Author Details Jane Carey Created 4 August 2004 Last modified 7 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Olga Miller was a direct descendant and Elder of the Butchulla people of Fraser Island. She was an Aboriginal historian who wrote about and taught Aboriginal culture for over 40 years. The entry was written in consultation with family members. Olga was the youngest of seven children. Her father was a full blood Aborigine of the Butchulla people of Fraser Island and her grandfather, Willie Wondunna, was head of the Butchulla people. She spent her early life on Fraser Island but the family eventually moved to Maryborough for their children’s education. The Legends of Moonie Jarl (1964) was written by Olga’s brother, Wilfred Reeves, while Olga was responsible for the illustrations in the book. Olga’s other works include , Fraser Island Legends (1993), How the Water Got to the Plains (1997), Strings and Things from Long Ago and The Legend of Mount Bauple (2000). She published articles for school text books, wrote stories for animated films (Tree Duck, Butterfly, How the Water Got to the Plains, Why the Kookaburra Laughs) and wrote newspaper columns for the Maryborough Chronicle. Her work also included the Wide Bay Television presentations Legends of Our Land and Spotlight and presentations on Radio Maryborough (Legends of Our Land and This was our Town ). “Aunty” Olga effectively established herself as a one woman lobby group for the well-being of Fraser Island. Politicians, developers, tourism operators and the National Parks and Wildlife Service all consulted her before doing anything which affected the Island’s environment. She sat on boards and committees and kept a sharp eye on everything that happened there. She interpreted her protective role not in terms of possession but as a duty of care, a promise she had to keep to her grandfather and her people. Olga’s chief concern was to establish more protection for Fraser Island by enforcing the rules about access to vulnerable or forbidden places, speed limits and environmental damage. She saw the need to preserve the middens and other significant relics from the destructive consequences of mass tourism. Her wish and her challenge were to share the extraordinary beauty of the island with the world without changing its fragile face. The University of Southern Queensland (Fraser Coast Campus) established the Olga Miller Memorial book bursary in memory of Auntie Olga Miller. At least three bursaries are awarded annually and are available to Indigenous undergraduate students from the Fraser Coast Campus. Two bursaries are awarded to undergraduate students and one bursary is awarded to a Tertiary Preparation Program (TPP) or Indigenous Higher Education Pathways Program (IHEPP) student. At the end of 2008, the Olga Miller memorial garden was developed in the immediate surrounds of the newly constructed C block, at the Fraser Coast campus of the University of Southern Queensland. The entry was written in consultation with family members. Published resources Newsletter Author elder awarded honorary degree, Snow-McLean, Gus, 2003, http://www.usq.edu.au/resources/04jun.pdf Leaflet Recognition for Maryborough's Achievers, Maryborough City Council, 2000 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources National Archives of Australia, National Office, Canberra [Descendants of the Butchulla tribe (Mrs Olga Miller)] Olga Miller Author Details Lee Butterworth Created 22 June 2009 Last modified 12 February 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Glenda Hiroko Gauci was the first Asian Australian woman appointed as an ambassador in the Australian diplomatic service. Glenda Gauci (pronounced Gaw-see) and her brother Michael were born in Footscray, Melbourne. Their parents, John and Hiroko, met in Japan when John was posted there with the British Commonwealth Occupation Force after WWII. They married and settled in Australia in 1957. Glenda attended Templestowe High School before graduating in arts and law from the University of Melbourne. Drawn by adventure and the opportunity to use her education, she had dreamt of being a foreign correspondent before deciding, at fifteen, that she would be a diplomat. She won prizes in politics, international relations and public administration and was the University’s inaugural exchange student with Tokyo’s Keio University. Later, she completed a Masters degree in international law at the Australian National University before joining the Department of Foreign Affairs in 1984. Gauci’s first posting was to Tokyo, where she moved with her husband, David Love. It was here that she gave birth to her two children, Dominic and Imogen. In 1994, she was seconded to the Canberra office of the then foreign minister, Senator Gareth Evans, as an adviser on northern Asia, before becoming trade counsellor in Tokyo in 1995. She worked with Alexander Downer when he attended a World Trade Organisation ministerial meeting, and the following year she was involved with the Kyoto Protocol on climate change. In 1998 she returned to Australia as an assistant secretary in the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, heading the South-East and, later, North-East Asia branches. In mid-2000 Gauci was named ambassador to Cambodia, one of only 12 women to have achieved that level of seniority in Australia’s diplomatic service at the time. A year later, she accepted the ambassadorial-level role of political counsellor at the Washington embassy. Following the events of September 11, she went to Guantanamo Bay, accompanied Prime Minister John Howard, and to George Bush’s ranch in Texas. In 2004, Glenda Gauci was diagnosed with lung cancer, though she had never been a smoker. Later that year a surgical biopsy confirmed she had mesothelioma, for which there is no cure. The cancer is caused by asbestos fibres, and develops between 20 and 50 years after exposure. Gauci’s father was a waterside worker who regularly handled asbestos material without being warned of its dangers, and could easily have carried the fibres home on his clothing. She is likely to have inhaled the fibres as a child. Glenda Gauci retired in 2006 and passed away the same year, aged just 47 years. Published resources Conference Paper Australia's Role for Peace and Security in Northeast Asia: North Korea's Missiles, Nukes and WMD, Gauci, Glenda, 2003, http://www.icasinc.org/2003/2003s/2003sghg.html Report Diplomatic Appointment: Ambassador to Cambodia, Downer, Alexander, 2000, http://www.dfat.gov.au/media/releases/foreign/2000/fa026_2000.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition From Lady Denman to Katy Gallagher: A Century of Women's Contributions to Canberra, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2013, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/ldkg Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 28 September 2006 Last modified 14 May 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Admitted to practice in NSW in the early 1980s and having developed a strong reputation in personal injury law, Sally Gearin was recruited specifically to Darwin by the Northern Territory Attorney General’s Department in 1986. Rising through the ranks to become a senior litigation solicitor, she was called to the Bar in late 1989 by the then Head of William Forster Chambers, Trevor Riley QC, later to become Chief Justice Trevor Riley. Relishing the opportunity to back herself, and openly lesbian since 1978, Sally became the first woman to go to the Bar in the Northern Territory. She developed a vibrant practice and remained there for 20 years until her retirement in 2010. Having won more than 90% of her cases at trial, she was satisfied she had justified the faith of those colleagues who supported her early in her career. Always active in pro bono, she worked with others to establish the first women’s refuge in Darwin in 1988 and helped establish community legal services and refugee advocacy in the 1990s. In 1992 she was awarded a fellowship to travel to the USA with Judy Harrison, another woman lawyer, to research responses to domestic violence. Their subsequent book and recommendations were a blueprint for policy responses in the mid 1990s both in the Territory and nationwide. Sally currently (in 2016) sits as a part time legal member of a number of Tribunals in the Northern Territory. Sally Gearin was interviewed by Nikki Henningham in the Trailblazing Women and the Law Oral History Project. For details of the interview see the National Library of Australia CATALOGUE RECORD. Born in Sydney to Ellen (nee) Dempsey and Alan Louvain Tait, Sally attended St Kevin’s Primary School at Eastwood and then at Our Lady Of Mercy College Parramatta. Going to boarding school at age 14, she relished the nurturing of some of the nuns, who created a community of stability, intellectual pursuit in an environment where ‘daring to be different’ was celebrated, not vilified. Awarded a Commonwealth Scholarship to attend ANU to study law in 1967, she embraced the student politics of the late 1960s together with the drug and drop out culture of the time. Returning to Sydney, Sally left her legal studies and went bush, got married and at 23 had a baby while pursuing the hippy lifestyle. Realizing eventually that this was not sustainable, and wanting to give her son the opportunities that had been given to her, she returned to Sydney to complete her legal studies. She became open about her sexuality in 1978 when she was 27 years old. It was perhaps the hardest thing to do, Sally says, to have the disapproval of many, including her mother, required a depth of courage in those days that steeled her for the difficult path ahead. Fortunately, she had a few wonderful male mentors in Sydney, who guided her through the often stormy waters of the male dominated profession she had chosen. At the Attorney-General’s Department in Darwin, she was involved in some major commercial and administrative law cases that broadened and deepened her legal experience. When Trevor Riley asked her to join the Bar at William Forster Chambers in 1989, she was well supported by the senior legal ranks of the Attorney-General’s department, Peter Conran and Meredith Harrison. They made it known that if she wanted to come back to Government, she would be always welcome. Once at the Bar she was initially briefed mostly by local women solicitors in the Northern Territory. Her practice at the bar soon expanded to not only personal injury work, but also administrative law, family law and human rights law. In commenting on this, Sally said … ‘It was difficult to know if the male solicitors did not brief you because you were a woman, because you were a lesbian, because they didn’t like you or because they didn’t think you were any good.’ This male exclusion attitude changed after a few years as Sally started winning cases at trial. As well as developing her practice, Sally was involved in important community and advocacy organisations. She was a founder of Dawn House, Darwin’s first Women’s Refuge, a founder of the NT Women Lawyers Association and a founder of the Australian Women Lawyers Association. She was also a founding editor of the Northern Territory Law Reports and President of the Northern Territory Chapter of the International Commission of Jurists. In this latter role she assisted with the establishment of the first Legal Aid office in Dili, Timor Leste, and was an observer at the International War Crimes Tribunals held there in during the United Nations administered transition to that country’s independence in May 2002. As mentioned previously, pro bono work has always been an important part of her practice, in both Sydney and Darwin. The motivation has always been quite simple, Sally says; …’I developed my passion for justice mostly by seeing injustice and powerlessness and wanting to do something about it’. In a 2010 reflection on how the arrival of women improved the culture of the NT Bar, Colin McDonald QC described Sally as a ‘pioneer’ whose arrival at chambers ‘brought a maturity, a depth and a democratic legitimacy to the contemporary life of Chambers…[as well as] a quality of life on a daily basis.’ Motivated by a desire and passion for the role of women in her profession, Sally represents the strength and determination necessary to be successful as a woman barrister and trailblazer. 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 Archival resources National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Sally Gearin interviewed by Nikki Henningham in the Trailblazing women and the law oral history project Author Details Nikki Henningham (with Sally Gearin) Created 30 May 2016 Last modified 27 February 2017 Digital resources Title: Sally Gearin Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Muriel Heagney worked tirelessly for the labour movement in various capacities during her long life. Her major commitment, however, was to achieve equal pay for women workers. Born into a labour family, she joined the Richmond branch of the Political Labour Council (later the Australian Labor Party – ALP) in 1906, and was a delegate to the Women’s Central Organising Committee in 1909. Other positions she held included: membership of the Victorian central executive of the Australian Labor Party from 1926-1927; secretary of the Women’s Central Organising Committee; and ex officio member of the party’s central executive in 1955. She was a founding member of the Council of Action for Equal Pay which was established in Sydney in 1937 under the auspices of the New South Wales branch of the Federated Clerks’ Union and was secretary for most of its existence. It disbanded in 1948. She returned to Victoria in 1950 and continued to maintain her union and political interests into the 1960s. Her publications include Are women taking men’s jobs?, (1935), Equal pay for the sexes, (1948), Arbitration at the crossroads, (1954). She died in poverty in St Kilda in May 1974. Heagney made two attempts to enter an Australian parliament. She made her first attempt in 1933 when she stood as an ALP candidate in the by-election for the state Legislative Assembly seat of Boroondara, which was held on 29 April. This was and remains a conservative seat. She was placed second in a field of seven on the primary vote, with 20.54 per cent of the vote, but on the two-party preferred count she was placed third, with 24.36 per cent of the vote, after the winner Trevor Oldham (United Australia Party) and James Nettleton, another United Australia Party candidate. This was a creditable performance as the ALP had not fielded a candidate for that seat in the 1932 state election. She made her second attempt in 1956 at the age of 70, when she stood unsuccessfully for ALP pre-selection to the Australian Senate. Events 2001 - 2001 Inducted into the Victorian Honour Roll of Women Published resources Book Are women taking men's jobs?: a survey of women's work in Victoria, with special regard to equal status, equal pay, and equality of opportunity, Heagney, Muriel, 1935 Arbitration at the crossroads, Heagney, Muriel, 1954 Resource Section Heagney, Muriel Agnes (1885-1975), Smith, Bruce A., 2001, http://www.atua.org.au/biogs/ALE0922b.htm Heagney, Muriel Agnes (1885 - 1974), Bremner, J., 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A090251b.htm Heagney, Patrick Reginald (1858-1922), 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A090698b.htm Thesis Muriel Heagney and the Council of Action for Equal Pay 1937-1948, Francis, Rosemary, 1989 Book Section In the cause of equality: Muriel Heagney and the position of women in the Depression, Bremner, Jennie, c1982 Brazen hussies and God's police fighting back in the depression years. [Revised version of article published in Hecate, v.8, no.1, 1982], Stone, Janey, 1998 Famine relief on the Volga : Muriel Heagney's winter sojourn., Francis, Rosemary, 2008 Edited Book 200 Australian Women: A Redress Anthology, Radi, Heather, 1988 Journal Article Exercising political citizenship : Muriel Heagney and the Australian Labor Party 1906-1914., Francis, Rosemary, 2008 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 The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia, Smart, Judith and Swain, Shurlee (eds.), 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources State Library of Victoria Papers, 1936-1968 [manuscript]. Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection Jean Fleming Arnot - personal and professional papers, 1890-1995 Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 15 October 2003 Last modified 29 October 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Daisy Bates sends Prof. Fitzherbert various vocabularies: Wirongu wongga informed by Binilya (9 p.) from Tarcoola area, Waldhadur or Mula wongga from Ibari (10 p.), Badu wongga from Bunjerin from Boundary Dam or Wardagana (1 p.) and Yulbari wongga from informants Ngindilya, Minbunga and Manjunya (3 p.)from the coast near Fowlers Bay. (25 p.) Author Details Alannah Croom Created 6 January 2018 Last modified 6 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

In 1931, Ellen O’Donnell, along with Zara Dare, became Queensland’s first female police officer, serving with the service for nearly 31 years. As Ellen was never officially sworn in as an officer, she did not wear a uniform or receive officer’s wages. She also was never part of the superannuation scheme. Her duties were restricted to assisting lost children, escorting female prisoners, and working with victims of domestic and sexual violence. Queensland’s decision to allow female officers into the police service was extremely controversial, with opinions divided across the state. The National Council of Women of Queensland (NCWQ) in 1911 drew attention to the need for women and girls in Queensland to be better served in matters of crime. There were no female police officers in Australia at the time and the NCWQ called for women, experienced and educated in social work, to be given the status of police officers. The appointment of two female police in New South Wales in 1915 was not enough to encourage the Queensland Commissioner of Police William Cahill to follow suit. By 1917 Queensland was the only state without female police. Newspapers and community groups began asking why. The Queensland Country Women’s Association (QCWA), the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Brisbane, James Duhig, the NCWQ and the Queensland Women’s Electoral League (QWEL) all called for the appointment of women in policing. It was not until Irene Longman was elected to State Parliament in 1929 that the opposition to female police began to be broken down. As past president of the NCWQ and a member of the QWEL, Irene made a submission to cabinet in 1930, outlining the necessity for women to handle sensitive cases such as children, girls and women who have been involved in sexual assault cases. Although the decision was not unanimous, Cabinet consented to the appointment of women in the police force. Ellen O’Donnell, along with Zara Dare, accepted the offer of positions and the women were based at the Roma Street police station. When the time came to review their appointments and make them permanent, the Police commissioner William Ryan stated that they were well paid for the job they were doing, and although there was nothing under the Police Act 1898 to stop them from being sworn in, he considered that their swearing in would reduce the number of male police constables by two. Ellen kept her job by agreeing not to be sworn in. She never received the pay allowances and privileges of her fellow police, nor superannuation. The NCWQ continued to lobby to have Ellen and Zara made permanent, but Police Commissioner Ryan made it clear that if they were not satisfied, they were free to resign at any time. Ellen remained in the force until her retirement in 1962, working the entire time at Roma Street police station. Queensland police women were eventually sworn in three years after Ellen retired – in 1965. Published resources Resource 50 Firsts: Queensland Policewomen at Work, Queensland State Archives, 2009, http://queenslandfirsts.org/01_cms/details.asp?ID=39 Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Book Section Ellen O'Donnell and Zara Dare: Queensland's first policewomen, Grant, Heather, 2005 Resource Section O'Donnell, Ellen, Grant, Heather, 2009, http://www.women.qld.gov.au/q150/1930/index.html#item-ellen-odonnell Book Journey to equality: an illustrated history of women in the Queensland Police, Prenzler, Tim, Jones, Lisa, Ronken, Carol, 2001 Archival resources Queensland State Archives Administration File, police Police Service File Author Details Lee Butterworth Created 22 June 2009 Last modified 11 June 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

A Canadian (Eleanor Huntley) who married Spencer Cozens (Charles Cozens Spencer.)In 1906 was the first lady ‘projectioniste’ Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 10 January 2011 Last modified 1 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Jan Barham has shown her passionate concern for the environment throughout her public career. She ran as a member of the Australian Greens for Ballina in 2003 and in the House of Representatives for Richmond in 2001. She was elected to the Legislative Council of the New South Wales Parliament, representing the Greens in 2011. Jan was also Deputy Mayor (2003) then Mayor (2004-2012) of the Byron Shire Council. She was a member of the council from 1999-2012. Jan Barham was educated at Figtree High School, Wollongong TAFE and East Sydney Technical College. Trained as a fashion designer, Jan Barham worked in fashion and clothing fields from 1987 to 1995. In 1995 she was appointed Parliamentary adviser and researcher to Ian Cohen, MLC, a job she held until 1999. She was secretary of the Tweed Byron Greens in 1993-4 and in 1994 was assistant secretary to the NSW Greens. She was closely involved in Native Title campaigns in the North Coast area that resulted in the first Indigenous Land Use Agreement in NSW and the establishment of the joint Aboriginal/National Parks and Wildlife Service management of the Arakwal National Park. Elected to the Byron Shire Council in 1999, she became the first popularly elected Green mayor in Australia. She has been a member of Cape Byron Headland Trust Committee from 1997 and on the Management Committee of the Arakwal National Park from 2001. 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 25 February 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

3 sound files (ca. 250 min.)??O’Brien speaks about growing up in a sugar growing region; her schooling; being a governess on a property in Mt Garnet (1967-68); Brisbane; meeting her husband; working as a sugar chemist; young people in remote communities; life on sugar cane farms; current land use and the environmental impact in sugar growing areas; her marriage; living on her husband’s family property Craig’s Pocket; the challenges of childbirth and raising children in a remote community; the radio as a lifeline; distance education; School of the Air; moving to the Northern Territory (1993); selling Craig’s Pocket; Carmor Plains; Community involvement in the NT; involvement with Landcare; move to Roper Valley District (2001); good relationships with local indigenous people; her children; winning the State award for the ABC Rural Woman of the Year Award (1996).??O’Brien talks about her concern for environmental issues; Ramsar Wetlands; volunteering; the need to make rural communities attractive to families and young people; the impact of locking up land in national parks; holistic land management theories; using Willing Workers on Organic Farms (WWOOFers) as labour; pastoralism with a conservation focus; Kakadu National Park; the lack of support for rural women; her leadership experience with ICPA, CWA, Royal Flying Doctor, Australian Women in Agriculture; building networks; participating in the Australian Rural Leadership Program (2002-3); leadership; serving as deputy mayor of the Roper Gulf Shire; writing a weekly column for Rural Press; being nominated for the national award; Australian Women in Agriculture Conference in Darwin; differences between Country Women’s Association and Australian Women in Agriculture; her daughter’s experience of life on the land compared with hers; her concerns about domestic violence, youth suicide, support for men and aged care in remote rural communities. Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 27 April 2011 Last modified 21 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Anne Heywood Created 3 October 2003 Last modified 30 January 2013 Digital resources Title: Members of the Australian Army Nursing Service (AANS) in Manila, after release from internment at Yokohama, at a prisoner of war (POW) processing unit on their way home. Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

1 hour??’Mara’ was born in Daugavpils, Latvia. Her parents lost contact with one another during the Second World War and her mother brought the family to South Australia in 1949. Mara and her sister were placed at the Goodwood Orphanage and their brother at the Brooklyn Park Orphanage for three and a half years while their mother worked as a nurse’s aid and established a new home. Mara learnt to speak English at the orphanage. She recalls finding many of the routines and regulations incomprehensible at first and her perspective as an ‘outsider’ provides different insights into the institution. Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 2 July 2006 Last modified 27 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

MS 9993 includes two volumes: Management Committee papers, 2001-2005, and Imperial Honours (Office of the Status of Women), 2001-2003.??The Acc08.194 instalment comprises records of the Convenor of the Australian Women’s Archives Project, Anne Buttsworth. They include agendas and minutes of meetings for the period February 2001-March 2008, correspondence, news cuttings and printed material about grants, conferences and government policy (2 boxes).??The Acc13.150 instalment comprises material relating to the development and launch of the online exhibition to celebrate the Centenary of Canberra “From Lady Denman to Katy Gallagher: A Century of Women’s Contributions to Canberra”- http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/ldkg/. Papers include folders on each of the thematic categories developed for the exhibition, including research notes, newspaper cuttings and the final exhibition text; and a folder dealing with the exhibition launch, including the speech delivered by Roslyn Russell at the opening at Canberra Museum and Gallery on 21 February 2013, and congratulatory messages (1 box). Created 9 January 2018 Last modified 9 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Nellie Robinson was elected as Alderman to the Toowoomba Council in 1961. In 1967 she was elected mayor of Toowoomba, thus becoming Queensland’s first female mayor. Nellie served the state for 14 years. The Queen’s New Year Honours list in 1979 made her an officer of the Order of the British Empire for “distinguished service to local government”. Nellie Robinson was educated at North State School, Glennie Memorial School and St. Hilda’s at Southport. In the 1930s she commenced a 3 year course at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London. Without completing the course Nellie returned to Toowoomba at the outbreak of World War II. She taught briefly at Fairholme, and then became a driver with the Women’s Voluntary Auxiliary for the remainder of the war. Next she joined radio station 4GR for a short time, before moving to 2LM Lismore where she established her own women’s session on air. Nellie then joined her father’s grocery business which she carried on after his death in 1949, only selling it in 1967 when she was elected mayor of Toowoomba. She was President of the committee which raised funds to build the Senior Citizens’ clubrooms in Victoria Street & was dedicated to the development of East Creek Park. A Park on the southern side of Toowoomba is named in her honour. Miss Robinson had a particular interest in dramatic art and cultural activities and was a trustee of the Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery and was actively involved in the Toowoomba Repertory Company. Nell Robinson retired in 1981 because of ill-health. She passed away on 19th September 1992 & is buried at the Drayton and Toowoomba Cemetery. The Robinson Collection within the Toowoomba City Library is so named because of a generous twenty thousand dollar bequest from Miss Robinson. Published resources Resource Nellie E. Robinson - Queensland's First Lady Mayor, Toowoomba Regional Council, 2003, http://www.toowoomba.qld.gov.au/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=416&Itemid=691 Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Resource Section Nellie Robinson, Toowoomba Regional Council, 2009, http://www.women.qld.gov.au/q150/1960/index.html#item-nellie-robinson Author Details Lee Butterworth Created 22 June 2009 Last modified 11 June 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

MS Acc08/2 comprises the choreographic score by Page (1988) for “Canon for four dancers” by Shirley McKechnie, which is understood to have been commissioned by St Paul’s Cathedral, Melbourne; choreographic score by Page (1988) for “Voyageur” by Laurel Martyn; photocopy of original unpublished orchestral score (1951-1952) by Dorian Le Gallienne and recordings (CD, DVD and LP record) for “Voyageur”, a ballet by Laurel Martyn for the Ballet Guild, Melbourne, and other papers relating to “Voyageur” (1 fol. box). Author Details Alannah Croom Created 20 February 2018 Last modified 20 February 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Koula Kossiavelos is a magistrate of the Magistrates Court of South Australia. She has made a significant contribution to the Greek community, including as member of a long-standing steering committee which succeeded after ten years in establishing a Chair of modern Greek studies at Flinders University. She was a legal advisor and National President of the Pan-Arcadian Federation of Australia and an Australian delegate at the International Conference of Council of Hellenes Abroad. A former barrister and solicitor, she served articles with the firm Johnston, Withers, McCusker & Co before joining Martirovs, Kadis & Metanomski where she became a partner. Later establishing herself as a sole practitioner, she practised in a wide range of civil cases, including personal injury claims, family law, criminal-injuries compensation claims, civil litigation, industrial law and defamation. She continues to support community legal organisations and to promote a multicultural society. Koula Kossiavelos 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. Koula Kossiavelos graduated with a Bachelor of Laws degree from the University of Adelaide in 1980, followed by a Graduate Diploma in Community Languages from the University of South Australia in 1981. In 1982, she was a participating student at the University of Athens summer school organised by Temple University of Philadelphia law school. During her university studies, Kossiavelos was a founding member of a Greek youth and music radio program. In recognition of her commitment to fostering the Greek community and the development of a broader multicultural society, Kossiavelos was granted a Commonwealth Government Australian-Greek Presidential Award in 1982 [PM]. This scholarship enabled Kossiavelos to study the legal system of Greece as it related to the Australian community. Kossiavelos served articles with the firm Johnston, Withers, McCusker and Co. In 1984 she joined Martirovs, Kadis & Metanomski as a solicitor; in 1986 she became a partner at the firm. It was here that she developed expertise in trial work and the conduct of civil law matters. In 1987 she represented Greek-Australian graduate students in raising money to support a Chair of Modern Greek at Flinders University [Flinders]. Between 1984 and 1989 she acted as honorary legal advisor to the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Australia and performed the voluntary role of duty solicitor at the Adelaide Magistrates’ Court. She was a member of the Citizens’ Advice Bureau and the Women’s Legal Service. In addition, Kossiavelos volunteered as a legal adviser at Thebarton, Norwood and Parks Legal Service. She has been an Australian delegate to the International Conference of Greek Youth Abroad and President of the Greek Australian Graduates Association. She also contributed as an Executive Board member of the Alumni Association of the University of Adelaide. Kossiavelos established herself as a sole practitioner in 1991; she practised in a wide range of civil cases, including personal injury claims, family law, criminal-injuries compensation claims, civil litigation, industrial law and defamation. During this time she was Legal Advisor and National President of the Pan-Arcadian Federation of Australia, and Australian delegate at the International Conference of Council of Hellenes Abroad in 2001 and 2003. From 2005 to 2006 Kossiavelos was the National Coordinator of the Australian Hellenic Council. In 2007 Kossiavelos was appointed a Stipendiary Magistrate. The Attorney-General Michael Atkinson noted upon her appointment that Kossiavelos had “thrown [herself] into serving others” and that she had “also been a stalwart of Greek organisations and migrant women’s groups” [Media Release]. Koula Kossiavelos has made a considerable contribution to the legal system in South Australia. She continues to support community and legal organisations, which provide services to migrant women in need, and to promote a multicultural society. Published resources Site Exhibition Australian Women Lawyers as Active Citizens, Trailblazing Women Lawyers Project Team, 2016, http://www.womenaustralia.info/lawyers Archival resources National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Koula Kossiavelos interviewed by Kim Rubenstein in the Trailblazing women and the law oral history project Author Details Larissa Halonkin Created 30 May 2016 Last modified 1 November 2016 Digital resources Title: Koula Kossiavelis Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Copies of correspondence and papers relating to the Women’s Land Army, 1939-1946, covering clothes rationing and uniform, housing and billeting, conferences, wages, and related printed memoranda, circular letters and leaflets.??Copies made by the Centre from originals loaned by the family in 1982. Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 4 May 2006 Last modified 18 October 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

7 digital audio tapes (ca. 404 min.)??Carmel Bird talks about the beginnings of her writing; childhood reading; extracurricular activities; her parents and family background; schooldays; attending University of Tasmania, Hobart; gaining an Arts degree, teaching diploma; her teaching career; her first commercial publication; her marriages; her first experiences outside Australia; the birth of daughter (1975); how her second book came about (published 1983); Sybilla Press; self-publishing and promoting, ‘Cherry Ripe’; McPhee Gribble; her writing career; developments in her personal life; Penguin Books; Random House; the impact of ‘The Stolen Children: their Stories’; using a pseudonym; her idea for anthology to be published in 2000; next titles; her crime novels; her books for children; grants; changes in government support and publishing; her future prospects; formative literary influences and attractions; Tasmania and its influence, Heaven’s Gate and the northwest of Tasmania; characters, features and themes of her fiction; her view of life; ‘The white garden’, its symbolic meaning; her creative process.??Bird discusses fact and fiction; the effect of the dark side on the author; social versus private life; what she admires in other writers; the ABC book show; her love of teaching; tertiary creative writing courses; teaching in a private secondary school; her experience of casual university teaching; the place of sports and other celebrities in the book world; teaching and writing, allocating priorities; her enthusiasm for new technology and her website; writing essays; the practice of writing; necessary elements of fiction; film rights and films made her material; popular mystery writing, early 2000s; the financial reasons for writing psychological murder mysteries; satisfactions of writing popular fiction; critical reception of ‘Crisis’ and murder mysteries; Como Literary Festival; life at present; her happiness in solitary living, ability to find joy or entertainment anywhere; her creativity, quilt-making, wall hangings; editing work; her early editing experience; reflects on past, things she most treasures and things yet to do. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 10 April 2018 Last modified 10 April 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Maureen Lane is an outstanding health worker and an active local politician. As a member of the ALP since 1976, she was their candidate in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly elections for Ballina in 1991. That same year she was elected a Councillor of the Ballina Shire Council (1991-1992). Maureen was educated at Narrabeen Girls High School and completed her nursing training at the Royal North Shore Hospital in 1973. She was appointed the first community nurse in the North Coast Health Region in 1974. She also practised as a registered midwife and is a registered Diagnostic Audiometrist. In 1988 she received a Bicentennial award for her contribution to health care. She is married and has two children. Published resources Book Women in Australian Parliament and Local Government: An updated history 1975-1992, Decker, Dianne, 1992 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 31 January 2006 Last modified 16 September 2013 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

A socially and politically active health professional, Penny Bartholomew ran as an Australian Democrats candidate for Illawarra in 1999. A highly qualified nurse with midwifery, sick children and community health nursing qualifications, Penny has also worked in adult education and charity organisations. She migrated to Australia in 1986 and became a naturalised Australian citizen in 1996. She is interested in sport, alternative health care, the environment and community matters. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 6 December 2005 Last modified 1 September 2008 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

This collection consists of minutes from 1982-2011, financial records, correspondence, by-laws, reports, postcards, Christmas cards, invitations, news clippings, grant applications, register of women artists, gallery exhibition details etc. of the Zonta Club of Brisbane. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 26 June 2018 Last modified 26 June 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Records of the Society of Women Writers (Australia), South Australian Branch, comprising minutes, correspondence, papers relating to events conducted by the Society, statements of Income & Expenditure, newspaper cuttings and audiotapes. Author Details Jane Carey Created 22 October 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Heidi Yates is Head of General Practice at Legal Aid ACT, a position she has held since 2015. A well-known solicitor and human-rights advocate, Heidi has been appointed to roles including Executive Director of the ACT Women’s Legal Centre, advisor to the ACT Human Rights and Discrimination Commissioner and a Clinical Education Convenor at the ANU College of Law. Heidi’s professional reputation is well-established at a national level as an advocate for the development and funding of free legal services across Australia (particularly for victims of family violence) and as a trailblazer in gender-related law reform. Heidi has also been a spokesperson and advocate at a local and federal level for the removal of legislative discrimination on the basis of gender identity and sexual orientation. She has undertaken this work through roles including spokesperson for the community law reform group ‘Good Process’ and as the inaugural chair of the ACT LGBTIQ Ministerial Advisory Council. After just two years of practice, her work was recognised when she won the ACT Law Society’s Young Lawyer Award in 2008. In 2011, Heidi was also a state finalist in the Young Australian of the Year Awards. Go to ‘Details’ below to read a reflective essay written by Heidi Yates for the Trailblazing Women and the Law Project. The following additional information was provided by Heidi Yates and is reproduced with permission in its entirety. The principles of social justice have been a constant in my life, taking root early and ultimately informing my decision to pursue a career as a legal practitioner and law reform advocate. Born in Canberra, the second of four children, I grew up in a supportive family and community where the big questions were asked and debate was encouraged. I was a curious small person, and I asked a lot of questions. School should have been a good fit for me and although I did well academically, the experience was not without its challenges. In third grade we were asked to count how many corners there were in different geometric shapes. When we got to circles, a classmate quickly volunteered that a circle did not contain any corners. I put my hand up and alternatively suggested that circles have infinite corners, but that they are too hard to count because they are so close together. I was hauled in front of the class and told that ‘nobody likes little girls who are too smart for their own good.’ Looking back, I recognise I was only one of an infinite number of girls and young women who were ‘put in their place’ for providing an insightful response. Although it was an upsetting experience as a 9 year old, it ultimately revealed to me a more complex world, and marked the beginning of my aspirations to ‘level the playing field’ for those who may otherwise go unheard. I completed my education in the ACT and, like many of my peers, took a gap year after Year 12. I worked as an administrator, a piano teacher, an academic tutor, a netball coach and a boarding house ‘mum’ at a small boarding school in Suffolk before returning to Australia in 2000 to study Arts/Law at the Australian National University (including an exchange year at McGill University, Montreal in 2002-03). Legal Practice I had tossed up between doing social work or law at University. I settled on Arts/Law with a Women’s Studies Major, but never intended to practise as a lawyer. Instead of applying for a corporate clerkship at the end of my fourth year of law studies, I obtained an internship at the ACT Office of the Community Advocate. I had heard about the Office through my mother’s work and it sparked my interest as a place where ‘non-lawyers’ undertook community-based advocacy for vulnerable clients. In 2005, I was accepted into a graduate program in the Australian Public Service. I had applied to the department in which my father, a career public servant, had spent the bulk of his working life, keen to understand that world and the workings of government. It was the era of WorkChoices and when I found myself tasked with contributing to the creation of industrial relations policy aimed at stripping rights and entitlements from vulnerable workers, something had to give. I began seeking other options. In mid-2005 I joined the Legal Aid Office (ACT) as the Primary Dispute Resolution Program Manager. The interview panel noted that I had limited experience for the role but, in part due to my raw enthusiasm, offered to let me ‘give it a crack’. I began my Graduate Diploma of Legal Practice whilst managing the program and subsequently took on my first solicitor’s role in the Legal Aid Domestic Violence and Protection Orders Unit. Working on the ‘treadmill’ of cases churning in and out of the Magistrates Court, I became keenly aware of the systemic issues impacting the operation of the Domestic Violence Order system. In 2007, I joined the Women’s Legal Centre (ACT & Region) as a solicitor, welcoming an environment where my client work could be complemented by law reform and community education roles. The holistic approach of Community Legal Centres has always appealed to my sense of efficiency. It makes good sense when doing casework to identify recurring legal problems and then develop community education and law reform proposals to prevent and mitigate them. The efficacy of grassroots organisations pushing to improve systems, rather than tackling cases one at a time, has consistently driven my interest in law reform. In 2013, I spent an inspiring year working as an Advisor to ACT Human Rights and Discrimination Commissioner, Dr Helen Watchirs, before being appointed as the Women’s Legal Centre (ACT & Region) Executive Director. In this role, I fought hard (and successfully) to safeguard the Centre when the Federal Government brought the axe down on funding for the legal assistance sector. My work was part of a national campaign, highlighting the appalling social and economic consequences of cutting legal support for vulnerable Australians. In particular, I advocated the essential role of specialist, front-line legal services for women subjected to Domestic and Sexual Violence. In 2015, I returned to Legal Aid ACT as Head of the Commission’s General Law Practice. The position offered the opportunity to increase delivery and coordination of education, outreach and duty legal services to vulnerable clients across the region, particularly those isolated due to experiences of domestic violence, trauma and/or cultural marginalisation. Law Reform I have had an enduring interest in the intersections between gender, sexuality and the law that has driven my systemic law reform work. I work from the premise that Australia’s federal system provides unique opportunities for lawyers to work together, either as a unified voice for federal change, or as colleagues exchanging expertise to inform incremental state reform. Such reform is often ‘organically’ improved as individual jurisdictions observe the operation of new law or policy and seek to address any weaknesses or inconsistencies in their subsequent implementation. In this context, I have worked with colleagues across Australia to improve law relating to issues including relationship recognition, domestic violence and gender identity. I have been appointed to a range of national law reform roles including as convenor of the National Association of Community Legal Centres (NACLC) Human Rights Network; convenor of the NACLC Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Intersex( LGBTI) Network; and convener of Women’s Legal Services Australia, the peak national body for women’s legal services in Australia. I have also been appointed to various government advisory bodies including the ACT Victims Advisory Board, the ACT Law Reform Advisory Council and as the inaugural Chair of the ACT LGBTIQ Ministerial Advisory Council. My professional engagement with law reform has been complemented and augmented by my involvement in community-based advocacy. In 2002 when I was undertaking my Arts/Law degree, the ACT Assembly passed a motion to remove legislative discrimination against LGBTI people. I joined a group of local community members intent on making this motion a reality. As a media spokesperson, community facilitator and legal consultant for the ‘Good Process’ lobby group, I was one of many Canberrans who rode the wave of political controversy surrounding parenting laws, discrimination legislation and Federal overturn of the 2006 Civil Unions Act. In 2014, the ACT became the first Australian jurisdiction to remove the requirement for sexual reassignment surgery as a prerequisite for change of legal sex, and to introduce a third legal sex category. My involvement in the 10 year push for this reform included representing transgender discrimination complainants; sitting as a member of the Law Reform Advisory Council tasked by the ACT Government to consider these issues; volunteering as a legal consultant to community-based intersex and transgender organisation ‘A Gender Agenda’; and chairing the ACT LGBTIQ Ministerial Advisory Council whose advice was sought on the details of the amending legislation. The passing of amendments to the Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration Act 2013 with bipartisan support in March 2013 was monumental, setting a new bar for recognition of sex and gender in Australian law. Legal Education and Good Governance Since 2008, I have been regularly involved in the teaching work of the ANU College of Law. As a course convenor, guest lecturer, tutor and assessor I have welcomed the opportunity to engage future colleagues in various aspects of social justice, in particular, about how experiences of intersectional disadvantage can impact an individual’s experience of the law. Reflecting the ‘hands-on’ focus of other client-focused degrees such as medicine and allied health, I believe that clinical law programs provide a crucial opportunity for students to ‘practise’ legal practice and better understand how the law is experienced by different parts of the community. Clinical courses are also a great opportunity to promote pro bono work with community legal centres as part of a well-rounded legal education and indeed, a well-rounded legal career. I have also made significant contributions to the broader community through volunteer board and committee work. Although a strong interest in corporations law may not generally be considered a ‘natural fit’ for a social justice lawyer, I have become a strong advocate of good governance. In 2012, I was fortunate to receive a scholarship from the ACT Office for Women to undertake the Australian Institute of Company Directors ‘Company Directors Course’ and have since worked as a consultant and facilitator with a range of organisations to streamline their risk-management and strategic frameworks. My board roles have included the National LGBTI Health Alliance Ltd, the Welfare Rights and Legal Centre Ltd and more than a decade on the ACT Domestic Violence Crisis Service Board including three years as Chair during a time of significant organisational change. The future Today, I commute to work in Canberra from the home I share with my partner, child, dog (on loan) and a growing number of chickens in Gundaroo Village, NSW. My work spans casework; community education and engagement; working with community and government on law reform; education of future lawyers; upskilling of community organisations to achieve their goals through good governance; and experimenting with our unruly vegetable patch. I haven’t stopped asking questions. What are the limitations of an adversarial system where one party can’t access legal representation? How can the law recognise the diversity and lived experience of sex and gender? How can the law protect survivors of domestic violence, and how can legal services best empower survivors to stay safe and move forward? These are questions that are unlikely to be answered in my lifetime, but I value the chance to be an active part of the dialogue. Events 2008 - 2008 2011 - 2011 2014 - 2014 Published resources Site Exhibition Australian Women Lawyers as Active Citizens, Trailblazing Women Lawyers Project Team, 2016, http://www.womenaustralia.info/lawyers Author Details Heidi Yates Created 27 April 2016 Last modified 21 November 2019 Digital resources Title: Heidi Yates Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

1 sound tape reel (ca. 44 min.)??Guy speaks of her involvement with the Society of Women Writers ; the Society’s seminars ; immigrating to Australia in 1952 to begin a new life ; writing for A.B.C. radio. She provides biographical details. Author Details Jane Carey Created 22 October 2004 Last modified 21 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Duration – 6:16 Author Details Anne Heywood Created 8 November 2002 Last modified 1 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

A once-only candidate in an unwinnable seat of Redfern in 1959 for the Liberal Party. Mary Jane Beckett was Executive Secretary of Montefiore Home in Hunters Hill. Mary Beckett migrated to Australia c. 1952 with her parents and two siblings. She joined the Young Liberals in 1952, having previously been a member of the British Young Conservatives, and showed her loyalty to the party by standing for election in a very safe ALP seat. 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)

Collection of minute books from the Queensland Country Women’s Association.??Box 15070: Chermside 1961-1996, Chermside 1966-1971, Chermside 1971-1977, Chermside 1977-1982, Chermside 1982-1988, Chermside 1988-1996, Chermside 1996-2001.?Box 15071: Chermside 2002-2004, Surat 1946-1954, Surat 1954-1960, Surat 1961-1968, Surat 1968-1979, Surat 1979-1988, Millmerran 1933-1939, Millmerran 2002-2004.?Box 15072: Innisfail Younger Set 1952-1957, Innisfail Younger Set 1957-1962, Cooyar 1999-2001, Pittsworth 1996-2000, Cambooya 2002-2003, Minbun 1928-1939, Weir River 1957-1961, Moonie River 1964-1976, Moonie River 1976-1984, Moonie River 1995-1999.?Box 15073: Lawgi 1996-2003, Injune 1953-1955, Injune 1985-1995, Injune 1996-2001, Prospect Creek 1959-1967, Prospect Creek 1967-1978, Prospect Creek 1978-1989, Rockmount-Stockyard 1969-1974, Yarwun-Targinnie 1946-1948, Childers Younger Set 1993-1995.?Box 15074: Talwood 1993-1996, Burnett Heads 1974-1984, Tamborine Mountain 1958-1960, Kalkie 1965-1966, Machine Creek 1931-1937, Haden 1990-1996, Haden 1991-1993, Haden 1993-1995, Haden 1995-1996, Haden 1996-1998, Finch Hatton 1989-2001, Taroom Younger Set 1959-1965.?Box 15075: Yelarbon 1940-1947, Yelarbon 1963-1964, Yelarbon 1964-1971, Yelarbon 1971-1975, Yelarbon 1975-1978, Yelarbon 1978-1982, Yelarbon 1982-1986, Yelarbon 1986-1992.?Box 15076: Yelarbon 1992-2000, Yelarbon 2000-2003, Wynnum North 1951-1955, Wynnum North 1955-1960, Wynnum North 1960-1965, Wynnum North 1965-1969, Wynnum North 1969-1974, Wynnum North 1975-1982.?Box 15077: Wynnum North 1982-1987, Wynnum North 1987-1991, Wynnum North 1991-1997, Glenarbon Beebo 1949, Glenarbon Beebo 1950-1953, Glenarbon Beebo 1951-1956, Glenarbon Beebo 1953-1960, Glenarbon Beebo 1960-1977, Glenarbon Beebo 1977-1979.?Box 15078: Wandoon Younger Set 1960-1962, Toobeah 1952-1959, Toobeah 1959-1967, Toobeah 1966-1975, Toobeah 1975-1985, Toobeah 1985-1990, Harrami 1952-1958, Harrami 1958-1967, Harrami 1968-1976.?Box 15079: Harrami 1977-1985, Harrami 1985-1996, Harrami 1996-1999, Sandgate 1926-1935, Sandgate 1935-1939, Sandgate 1940-1948, Sandgate 1948-1954, Sandgate 1960-1966.?Box 15080: Sandgate 1966-1974, Sandgate 1981-1988, Sandgate 1988-1994, Sandgate 1994-2008, Clayfield 1948-1950, Clayfield 1950-1958, Clayfield 1965-1970.?Box 15081: Clayfield 1972-1976, Clayfield 1976-1982, Clayfield 1982-1988, Clayfield 1987-1995, Howard Younger Set 1992-1994, Gurgeena 1956-1958, Gurgeena 1957-1959.?Box 15082: Gurgeena 1960-1967, Gurgeena 1967-1972, Acland 1936-1942, Acland 1942-1948, Acland 1948-1953, Acland 1953-1959, Acland 1959-1968, Acland 1968-1977, Acland 1977-1986, Acland 1986-1996.?Box 15083: Goomboorian 1947-1952, Goomboorian 1952-1954, Goomboorian 1954-1958, Goomboorian 1958-1963, Goomboorian 1963-1968, Goomboorian 1968-1972, Goomboorian 1972-1977, Goomboorian 1977-1983, Goomboorian 1983-1988, Goomboorian 1988-1994, Goomboorian 1994-1999.?Box 15084: Goondiwindi 1932-1938, Goondiwindi 1938-1945, Goondiwindi 1945-1949, Goondiwindi 1949-1954, Goondiwindi 1954-1958, Goondiwindi 1958-1962, Goondiwindi 1962-1968, Goondiwindi 1968-1973.?Box 15085: Goondiwindi 1973-1977, Goondiwindi 1977-1983, Goondiwindi 1983-1987, Goondiwindi 1987-1992, Goondiwindi Younger Set 1968-1974. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 26 June 2018 Last modified 26 June 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

1 hour 30 minutes??An interview with Nancy Flannery about her knowledge of Thelma Thomas Afford’s life and work. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 10 April 2018 Last modified 10 April 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

The Hon. Justice Janine Pritchard was appointed to the Supreme Court of Western Australia on 11 June 2010. She was elevated to this position after a year as a Judge of the District Court of Western Australia, during which period she served as Deputy President of the State Administrative Tribunal. Prior to her appointment to the District Court, Justice Pritchard had worked in the WA Crown (now State) Solicitor’s Office (since 1991). Known for her powerful intellect and work ethic, Justice Pritchard has been an important role model for women planning to combine a career in law, and in the judiciary in particular, with family responsibilities. Her first child was present at her swearing in ceremony; her second was born after her appointment. While she acknowledges the challenges of maintaining a demanding career with a ‘hands on’ approach to family life, Justice Pritchard has demonstrated that working arrangements for the judiciary are capable of accommodating family friendly policies, such as maternity leave. Janine Pritchard was interviewed by Nikki Henningham in the Trailblazing Women and the Law Oral History Project. For details of the interview see the National Library of Australia CATALOGUE RECORD. Born in Gunnedah in New South Wales, Janine Pritchard lived in regional NSW for the first fifteen years of her life. The oldest of three sisters educated by the Catholic Sisters of Mercy, Pritchard finished her secondary education at Merici College in Canberra, after her parents made the decision to move to that city to advance their daughters’ education. Pritchard went on to complete a combined Arts/Law degree at the Australian National University, graduating with a BA in 1990 and with a Law degree with honours in 1993. Her last two years of her law studies were completed while working full time, because in 1991 she moved to Perth to take up a position as a professional assistant to the then WA Solicitor-General, Kevin Parker AC, QC. She was admitted as a Barrister and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Western Australia in 1993. She undertook more formal education in the late 1990s, completing a Graduate Diploma in Women’s Studies at Murdoch University in 1997 and a Master of Laws with distinction from the University of London in 1999. Having completed her articles with the then Crown Solicitor’s Office, Pritchard remained in that office as a lawyer and in 2002 was appointed a Senior Assistant State Counsel. She had a very busy practice throughout this period but still found time to lecture and tutor in law at various universities in Perth. Her commitment to mentoring and supporting young lawyers is renowned, as is her active participation in organisations focussed on the advancement of women in the legal profession, including service as a board member of Australian Women Lawyers, the peak body for women lawyers’ associations around Australia, and as a Committee member for Women Lawyers Western Australia (WLWA). From 2012 – 2014, she was Chair of the Steering Committee for WLWA’s 20th Anniversary Review of the 1994 Chief Justice’s Gender Bias Taskforce Report. At her swearing in ceremony on 14 June 2010, the then Parliamentary Secretary to the WA Attorney General, Michael Mischin, listed Pritchard’s many achievements, commitments and responsibilities, observing that ‘ [f]rankly, I don’t know where you find the time!’ There have been occasions when Her Honour has wondered this herself. Her motivation for pushing through her gruelling schedule stems partly from a desire to create better structures that promote gender equity throughout the legal system, allowing young boys and girls to imagine women and men in leadership roles, in equal numbers. The following extract of her own address at her swearing in, quoted at length, reflects her concerns. I am also conscious that regrettably it remains the case that there is something slightly out of the ordinary about the appointment of a woman Judge, and in my case the appointment of a comparatively young woman. While I think that the appointment of women to Courts and Tribunals is generally well received within the profession itself, in the broader community it is interesting that it remains something unusual or worthy of comment. Three things have brought this home to me in the past year. The first is that when I was appointed, one of my friends who is a lawyer and who is married to a lawyer recounted that her son who was about six years of age at the time had told her that I couldn’t possibly have been appointed as a Judge “because girls can’t be Judges”. [M]y son, came home very confused because the tennis coach who goes to his day-care centre to teach tennis had asked the kids what their parents do. He dutifully responded that “Mummy is a Judge and Daddy is a lawyer”, only to be told, “No, darling. I think you must be wrong. Daddy’s the Judge and Mummy’s the lawyer.” More recently I was bemused to see that my appointment to this Court warranted media attention, not because it increased the number of women represented on the Court or for anything to do with my individual merits but because I have a husband with a senior position in the legal profession and [that was seen to raise the question of] how I would be able to manage my new position in view of my ‘hubby’s’ role – that was the term used. My ‘hubby’s’ role was apparently a matter of some concern. Published resources Site Exhibition Australian Women Lawyers as Active Citizens, Trailblazing Women Lawyers Project Team, 2016, http://www.womenaustralia.info/lawyers Archival resources National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Janine Pritchard interviewed by Nikki Henningham in the Trailblazing women and the law oral history project Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 30 May 2016 Last modified 1 November 2016 Digital resources Title: Janine Pritchard Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Newspaper cuttings & various articles.??Notes by RGW & his wife Eileen Watt.??Some League of Nations Union Victorian Branch circulars. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 20 February 2018 Last modified 20 February 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

[Red Cross Archives series reference: NO9]??Comprises documents relating to the history of the Australian Red Cross including manuscripts, reports, volunteer survey results, publications, pamphlets, posters newsletters and manuals on Australian and Britain Red Cross activities in WW2, and unpublished manuscripts by E.M. Webb “Australian Red Cross in War” and Stanley Addison “History of Service in World War Two” both of which aim to contextualise the Australian Red Cross s involvement in humanitarian activities during WW1 and WW2.??Also includes governance documents such as organisational charts, strategic plans, divisional organisation review, survey and marketing strategies, floor plans and administration. This series has been artificially constructed by ARC Archives in 2015.??Researchers should note that under the Geneva Conventions Act 1957 protections govern the use of the Red Cross emblem. For further information see Archives staff. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 10 February 2004 Last modified 30 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

4 hours 52 minutes??A series of six interviews conducted by members of the Thebarton Community Arts Network with local women of non-English speaking backgrounds. The interviews were the first stage of a community arts project in which interviewees collaborated with interviewers to produce lino prints which represented aspects of their migration and settlement experiences. The project culminated in an exhibition at the Fig Gallery, Thebarton during November and December 1994. A catalogue of the interviews and prints was launched at another exhibition of the prints during the 1996 Adelaide Festival of Arts. Not all of the project’s interviews are represented in the J. D. Somerville Oral History Collection. Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 18 June 2006 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

1 hour 30 minutes??Patricia Deal was born in Sydney and was a dressmaker before beginning training at the Rachel Forster Hospital at Redfern. She completed the course in 1957, and did midwifery in Perth the following year. In 1959 she joined the staff of the Repatriation General Hospital at Concord, New South Wales and has continued to serve in repatriation hospitals apart from a short term in Vietnam in 1969. In 1968 Pat studied at the NSW College of Nursing for the Diploma in Nursing Administration, and in 1971 she enrolled at the University of NSW to do a social work course. She transferred to the Arts Faculty and completed an arts degree in 1974. In 1977 she took leave from her post as Director of Nursing at the Repatriation General Hospital, Daw Park (which she still held at the time of the interview) and studied for the Masters Degree in Health Planning, also at the University of NSW. Pat was actively associated with the Australian Army Nursing Corps for twenty five years, retiring with the rank of Major in 1986. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 7 April 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Canberra’s initial depiction as a civic utopia was captured and communicated by the hand of Marion Mahony Griffin. A remarkably talented draftswoman, Mahony Griffin was responsible for the plan and perspective renderings which accompanied her husband Walter Burley Griffin’s entry for the 1912 design competition for the new Australian capital. Lithographed onto cambric, the exquisite panels fanned out over twelve metres, shining with the golden, burnished splendour of the Australian bush. Conceived and created in less than ten weeks during a bitterly cold Chicago winter, Mahony Griffin enshrined a distinctively Australian landscape on the winning design, without ever having been to the southern site. Her grand vision was finished only when ‘toward midnight of a bitterly cold winter night, the box of drawings, too long to go in a taxi, was rushed with doors open … to the last train that could meet the last boat for Australia’. Marion Mahony Griffin’s creative force has hesitantly received richer recognition as her prowess as an architect and an artist have continued to be seen in a more independent light. Born Marion Lucy Mahony in Chicago, Illinois in 1871, Marion Mahony was the second woman ever to graduate from the architectural program at the prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 1898 Marion Mahony became the first woman in Illinois to be licensed to practice as an architect, pioneering women’s participation in architecture in the US. After beginning her career working with her cousin, architect Dwight Perkins in Chicago, she went on to spend fourteen years with Frank Lloyd Wright, becoming his chief draftsman and architectural renderer. As a principal of the Prairie School, Frank Lloyd Wright became an architect of world renown. Marion Mahony his ‘capable assistant’, as he acknowledged her, escaped any recognition for decades to come. Although her thesis, ‘The House and Studio of a Painter’, articulated design elements that would become hallmarks of the Prairie style – rooms freely communicating with each other, lit by large groups of windows, with a workspace attached to the same axis as the house and courtyard – the credit extended to her during her time with Wright was limited to her decorative talents. Even handicapped by these slights of perception, Marion Mahony’s gifts shone regardless. The iconic, Japanese-style presentation drawings and watercolours which helped create Wright’s international reputation were Marion Mahony’s delicately defined incarnations: ‘She did the drawings people think of when they think of Frank Lloyd Wright’.[1] Indeed, later in life, she would claim that Wright had taken credit for her contributions to his Dana-Thomas House (1904) in Springfield, Illinois, and for some of the drawings in the Wasmuth Portfolio (1910) that helped make Lloyd Wright’s aesthetic accessible around the world. While dispute over the nature and extent Marion Mahony Griffin’s architectural influence continues to seesaw, it is clear that she was no mere draftswoman. As a fellow architect in Lloyd Wright’s studio recalled, on at least one occasion, her work was declared superior to the master’s: ‘I can well remember welcoming her advent because it promised an interesting day. Her dialogues with FLW who as we all know is no indifferent opponent in repartee, made such days particularly notable’.[2] Marion first met Walter Burley Griffin in Wright’s studio. Their relationship grew from canoe trips on Lake Illinois, ‘to escape the filth and eyesore of human habitation’. In her unpublished biography, ‘The Magic of America’, she wrote: ‘I was first swept off my feet by my delight in his achievements in my profession, then through a common bond of interests in nature and intellectual pursuits, and then with the man himself. It was by no means a case of love at first sight, but it was a madness when it struck.'[3] Marion and Walter married on 23 June 1911 and immediately launched into the preparation of a proposal for the international competition detailing the planning of Australia’s projected new capital city – Canberra. While won under Walter Burley Griffin’s name, it was through the auspices of his wife’s drive and delicate delineations that the Griffin plan was assured of success. Senior lecturer in architecture at the University of Western Australia, Christopher Vernon, believes the beauty of Marion’s drawings, ‘works of art in themselves’, gave the plan a compelling allure. ‘I think if you had taken the same design and didn’t render it in the same way, I don’t know whether it wouldn’t have won but it certainly would not have put them way above everyone else.'[4] After Griffin was appointed Federal Capital Director of Design and Construction in 1913, Marion moved with him to Australia on 12 May 1914. They set up house in Melbourne, with Marion managing a private architectural practice while Walter focused on the planning of the new national capital. The political winds blew ill from the beginning. The Griffins’ vision of democratic civic perfection was not shared by a fiscally focused bureaucracy. Their desire to create a work of art on a continent untainted by Old World complexities was not reflected in the realities of life in Australia, or embraced in the manner the couple envisaged. As Marion sadly maintained, ‘in the early days practically no-one wanted Canberra … [But Griffin] knew the people of Australia needed it and would awaken to the need’. [5] They had arrived during a turbulent period in Australia’s social and political history, but their poor timing coincided with the advent of the First World War which brought the construction of Canberra to an abrupt halt. Building began again, but Griffin found himself unable to work with the federal bureaucrats responsible for the capital’s construction. In 1920 a dispirited Griffin retreated to his and Marion’s Melbourne office. His general arterial axes were implemented in the 1920s, and in the 1960s the Molonglo valley was eventually flooded to form ‘Lake Burley Griffin’, but few of the details of the original plan were implemented. Whilst in Melbourne the Griffins’ practice produced designs for some remarkable houses, as well as Newman College at Melbourne University, and the Capitol Theatre. In 1921 they secured an option on 650 acres in Castlecrag, and founded the Greater Sydney Development Association (GSDA). After the disappointments of their Canberra foray, this utopian community finally allowed them to explore their democratic ideals in an affirming landscape. Marion was able to indulge her passion for drama here, and developed a community theatre (which is still in use today), acted in and costumed plays, taught local children, and generally functioned as the hub and hearth of Castlecrag. During their Castlecrag years the Griffins were increasingly committed to anthroposophy, a religious system seeking to heighten spiritual reality through cognitive awareness. The Anthroposophical Society in America relates their beliefs in relation to architecture as: ‘beyond blending beauty and function, buildings should be ecologically sound and reflect the character of the region or culture. They should provide an environment enhancing the physical, psychological and spiritual well-being of the people who work in them.’ [6] This avant-garde approach to ecology manifestly placed the Griffins ahead of their time. Through their anthroposophy connections (his friendship with a former Theosophist, Ula Maddocks), Burley Griffin obtained a commission to design a University for Lucknow in India and, after creating exhibition buildings and maharajah’s palaces; he reached a new zenith in his career. Marion stayed in Australia to run their practice, but left it in the control of their partner, Eric Nicholls, after determining that her husband needed her assistance. ‘Mrs. Griffin follows her man’, she wrote to him. Only months later, Griffin fell from a scaffold while working on site. He died of peritonitis a week later, in February 1937. A devastated Marion finalised their Indian affairs, turned down further job offers, returned to Australia to tidy up pressing commissions and then flew home to Chicago in 1938. On the eve of the Second World War Marion focused her attention on producing her autobiographical epic, ‘The Magic of America’. A thousand pages of script, photos, anecdotes, renderings and even silk swatches, ‘The Magic of America’, was what she called ‘my sort of biography of Walt’. No publisher ever came forward. As she neared eighty, Mahony finally arranged to deposit copies with the New York Historical Society and the Art Institute of Chicago. In addition to this manuscript, Marion also donated a series of ‘Forest Portraits’ which she had painted at a number of locales in Tasmania and New South Wales during 1917. These passionate depictions of local flora, painstakingly crafted with watercolour and ink on silk, are unmistakably works of art. Marion’s dream of Australia had been diseased by their disappointments, but her real love dwelled in nature and the colours of the Australian bush which she seemed to have grasped from the beginning. She once remarked, ‘The archangels who painted this continent did so with the softest of brushes – beautiful, pathetic Australia.'[7] Marion Mahony Griffin died a pauper’s death in Cook County Hospital in 1961. While the world may not have been ready to accept such an innovative artist and architect during her own lifetime, recognition has gradually been on the increase in the years since her death. John Notz, a Prairie School historian and trustee of Graceland Cemetery, arranged to have Mahony’s cremated remains moved from an unmarked grave to a columbarium that now bears a plaque with her name and one of her flower renderings; and the Royal Australian Institute of Architects presents an inaugural Marion Mahony Griffin Architectural Award. A recent exhibition at the Block Museum at North-western University in Evanston, Illinois, ‘Marion Mahony Griffin: Drawing the Form of Nature’, is the first devoted entirely to her graphic work. The ACT Assembly intends to honour her at Canberra’s centenary in 2013. As Christopher Vernon recently observed, Marion would have been much better off had she been born fifty years later: ‘If you look at her interests, things like conservation of the natural world, trying to design houses and cities in harmony with their environment, all of her interests have equal if not greater currency.'[8] An insight into her own dedication and her fight for equality is evidenced in her own words: ‘It was necessary for women to take up work in the same spirit as men did. If we wanted anything in the world we must pay the price for it, and to succeed in the more interesting lines meant the greater effort. As a man did so a woman must – work day times, night times. It must form the basis of her dreams. She must give it her Saturdays and her Sundays and go without holidays… any real accomplishment would always mean a life’s devotion.’ [9] This entry was prepared in 2006 by Roslyn Russell and Barbara Lemon, Museum Services, and funded by the ACT Heritage Unit. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition From Lady Denman to Katy Gallagher: A Century of Women's Contributions to Canberra, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2013, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/ldkg Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 11 May 2006 Last modified 20 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

45 minutes??Aileen Bond was born in 1898, was educated at St Peter’s Girls’ School and did law at Adelaide University. Joined the Lyceum Club when it formed in 1922. In 1924 she married John Leslie Bond who was a minister and they moved around South Australia starting at Berri. Here her first child died at only a few months. Became involved with the Guides. World War II her husband enlisted and went to New Guinea and she and the four children lived at Brighton. After the war they lived at Clare and Victory Harbour then her husband was given an administrative job and became in turn an Archdeacon and then a Canon. After his death Aileen moved to Toorak Gardens, was involved with the Lyceum Club and at 84 was studying Italian at Flinders University. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 6 April 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Gumbaingerri born of Bundjalung/Thungutti descent, Robyne Bancroft’s people come from the northeast coast of New South Wales. For many generations since colonisation, her family (matrilineally) have passed on their genealogies and oral traditions. Robyne Bancroft is a Goori Australian woman who has done much to bolster and broaden the identity of Aborigines, Archaeology and women in the ACT area and beyond. Gumbaingerri born of Bundjalung/Thungutti descent, Bancroft’s people come from the northeast coast of New South Wales. Proudly stemming from a strong matrilineal line, she is part of her family’s many generations of women on the matrilineal side since colonisation who continue their genealogies and oral traditions. While early white male anthropologists sought to learn about the lives of Aborigines by consulting solely with men, a whole female tradition was neglected. In the 1960s Bancroft’s grandmother, born in 1905 and fluent in three dialects, encouraged her to tell the tales to keep their traditions alive: Now, they come to ask us our stories – now, when most of us have forgotten so much. We have been so caught up in living day to day, and now there are very few of us left. Look who’s here – only three or four of us left. It’s time for you to come home my girl, keep our stories going, and take over doing what I do – talking to everyone about Goori people and our heritage. Perhaps tackling the field of archaeology and anthropology was a further way Bancroft could follow her grandmother’s wishes and spread the ways of her people. Even if this meant undertaking studies at the Australian National University as a mature age, single mother with a family, she was not to be deterred. Through her academic pursuits and as an Indigenous heritage consultant, Robyne Bancroft has striven to improve the understanding of Indigenous Australians by facilitating communication and consultation. Becoming a founding member of the Indigenous Archaeological Association (IAA), an independent archaeological body that represents the interests of indigenous archaeologists and provides a voice for Aboriginal people on archaeological issues is one such example. Her role as an Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Officer with Forests NSW is another. Creating active consultation between State Forests and Aboriginal communities has aimed to develop systems that better consider the landscape context of sites, thereby offering more efficient protection with the concurrent benefit of Aboriginal communities becoming more fundamentally involved in decision making. Bancroft strongly believes including Aboriginal people in consultative processes is the most effective way to develop policy which is most beneficial to Aboriginal Australians. Her positions on several cultural heritage committees, as the Aboriginal Representative on the International Council of Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS) and her involvement in repatriation of ancestral human remains are some of the ways Bancroft contributes to a more holistic approach to Aboriginal Indigenous cultural heritage. As a founding member of the ACT Heritage Council and of the Multifunctional Aboriginal Children’s Services (MACS), Australians for Reconciliation Coordinator for the ACT and region and as an adviser on indigenous issues to the ACT Chief Minister, Robyne Bancroft has contributed greatly to dialogue within the Canberra region and beyond. As the cultural editor of The Oxford Companion to Aboriginal Art and Culture, Robyne Bancroft has helped define Aboriginal heritage and identity for a worldwide audience and is widely sowing the stories of her people. This entry was prepared in 2006 by Roslyn Russell and Barbara Lemon, Museum Services, and funded by the ACT Heritage Unit. Published resources Edited Book The Oxford Companion to Aboriginal Art and Culture, Sylvia Kleinert, Margo Neale and Robyne Bancroft, 2000 Archaeologists and Aborigines Working Together, Iain Davidson, Christine Lovell-Jones and Robyne Bancroft, 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 Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 4 May 2006 Last modified 30 September 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Letters from : James Devaney (1945 Sept.14, 1951 Jan.29, 1970 June 3, undated) ; Ian Mudie (1944 Apr.15) ; Nancy Keesing ([1951]) ; Enid Bell (1968 Oct.1) ; L.H. Luscombe (1970 Aug.27, 1970 Nov.22) ; Ada England (1946 Mar.22) Author Details Alannah Croom Created 17 April 2018 Last modified 29 July 2020 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

The Estonian Archives in Australia (EAA) was established by the Council of Estonian Societies in Australia on 5 January 1952. The EAA is one of the four Estonian Archives existing outside Estonia and holds an important collection of material relating to the lives and achievements of Estonians living outside Estonia.??Since 1994 the Archive has been housed in Estonian House, not far from the centre of Sydney. EAA are funded for their day to day expenses by the Council of Estonian Societies, the parent body for all Estonian Organisations in Australia.??The archive comprise mainly published material, personal papers and memoirs, records of the activities of organisations, photographs, sound recordings, films, artefacts, ephemera and textiles. A major part of the collection consists of more than 10,000 reprints of scholarly works by researchers of Estonian origin living all over the world. This represents the largest collection of such material anywhere in the world. Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 4 September 2006 Last modified 4 September 2006 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

May Moore was a successful photographer who worked initially in New Zealand and then in Sydney. She specialised in portraits of prominent people and artists, including society/celebrity portraits, with some wedding and children’s portraits. Moore is known to have introduced bromide paper and mounting boards to New Zealand. May Moore was born on 4 January 1881 in Wainui, New Zealand, one of seven children (the eldest daughter and Mina the second eldest). Their father, Robert Walter Moore, was an English immigrant who worked at timber cutting and farming, and their mother was Sarah Jane, née Hellyer. Her parents were not wealthy but were able to save enough money to purchase a small property in the small rural town of Wainui twenty miles north of Auckland where they brought up a family. Prior to this they had lived in various forestry camps. May’s hobby as a child was drawing and in 1900 she was admitted into the Elam School of Art and Design in Auckland, where she studied painting. Following graduation she was able to support herself financially through her sketches. In 1907 she participated in the New Zealand International Exhibition held in Christchurch, setting up a stall and selling her pencil sketches for 2/6 as well as pen and ink portrait sketches for 5/-. May moved to Wellington in 1908 and rented a space in a photographic studio where she painted portraits of prominent people, such as Sir Joseph Ward and his family, using oil paint. Her sister Mina, who was a teacher, travelled to Australia and on her return to New Zealand gave up teaching to pursue her new found interest of photography. At this time the Alexander Orr studio next door to May’s was placed on sale and the two sisters purchased it for £170, which was quite a large sum of money at the time. Prior to Orr closing his studio, May was able to learn camera handling skills from the existing staff and Mina the printing process, all of this in the space of six weeks. The Moore sisters were keen theatre-goers and were exposed to the impact of theatrical lighting and dramatic poses; this was to feature in the iconic style they developed. At the time, their clientele included many actors and in fact their earliest work was photographing the entire cast of an American theatre company. They were pioneers in the use of bromide papers and mounting boards in New Zealand and became very popular for their work, establishing a reputation for producing quality portraiture. Their characteristic style saw photographs taken close up, often head and shoulder shots, strong side lighting of half of the face, set against a dark background, a technique that allowed the sitter’s face to stand out, but which also created a sense of intrigue itself further intensified with the use of sepia tones. Jack Cato noted in his book The Story of the Camera in Australia that when they were starting out, they had to make do with the ‘meagre light from an ordinary room …’ However, he also wrote that this made their work so distinctive, that there was no need for either of them to sign their portraits (which they both did) because they were so obviously and exclusively their own. All their photographs used this low key approach, with a strong light on one side of the face and shadow on the other. ‘It was the light Rembrandt used for his paintings and was particularly suitable for men’ (Cato 136) During 1909-1910 May became unwell and took time off work. She travelled to Sydney for a holiday, and while there she got in touch with her creative friends and began her photography work again. She was encouraged by Alfred Hill to move her studio to Australia and Arthur Hill, the amateur art photographer, helped her find a studio and gain commissions. May rented a studio in the Bulletin building where she photographed cartoonists such as L. Hopkins ‘Hop’ and Low. She decided to stay on in Sydney and set up a permanent studio, which may have been at 139 King Street, furnishing the reception area with Persian rugs and employing a number of staff. In 1911 Mina visited May and they worked together until Mina moved to Melbourne where she set up her own studio. In 1914, with the outbreak of World War 1, both May and Mina were kept busy photographing hundreds of young soldiers before they set off for the battlefields in North Africa and Europe. The majority of their sitters however were people associated with the Arts, artists, actors, musicians, cartoonists and fashion designers. They would take the time to familiarise themselves with their sitters, so that they could capture their personalities. .On the 13 July 1915 May married Harry Wilkes, a dentist who closed his own practice to manage her studio as it was doing very well. The couple shared a love of literature and the Arts. May was described as a tall, striking and confident woman who dressed in loose Bohemian clothing. She retired in the late 1920s due to ill health but continued her creative endeavours through her miniature landscape painting which she did on commission. Up until 1928 her photographs were published in a number of magazines including The Home, Triad, Theatre and The Lone Hand. In fact, her portrait of the actress Lily Brayton as Cleopatra appeared on the cover of the Christmas issue of The Lone Hand. May reflecting on her career was to say ‘When I commenced work … some of the cut and dried photographers held up their hands in horror. It was necessary, they said, to stick to the beaten track, stodgy backgrounds and stiff accessorised. I had my own ideas, and determined, sink or swim to put them into practice.’ (Ebury) She died on the 10 June 1931 as a result of a spinal disease associated with the cancer that she had been suffering. Six months following her death a tribute exhibition of her work was held at the Lyceum Club, Sydney. Collections Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia Art Gallery of South Australia, Australia Castlemaine Art Gallery and Historical Museum La Trobe Collection, State Library of Victoria, Melbourne, Vic., Australia Macleay Photograph Collection, Macleay Museum Collection, NSW, Australia National Gallery of Victoria. The Shaw Research Library, Vic., Australia National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia Events 1904 - 1928 1907 - 1907 May Moore exhibited her painted miniatures on ivory at the NSW Society of Women Painters 1907 - 1907 May Moore exhibited at the New Zealand International Exhibition 1996 - 1996 May Moore featured in National Portrait Gallery travelling exhibition The Reflecting Eye: Portraits of Australian Visual Artists. 2000 - 2000 May Moore featured in National Portrait Gallery exhibition Mirror with a Memory: Portraiture in Australia 1981 - 1981 May Moore featured in the George Paton Gallery exhibtion Australian Women Photographers 1840-1950 Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Beyond the Picket Fence: Australian Women's Art in the National Library's Collection, Carr, Sylvia and National Library of Australia, 1995, http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/36337/20030703-0000/www.nla.gov.au/exhibitions/fence/picket.html Photograph Portrait of an Actress, Moore, May and Moore, Mina, 2000 Edited Book Heritage : the national women's art book, 500 works by 500 Australian women artists from colonial times to 1955, Kerr, Joan, 1995 Exhibition Catalogue Australian Women Photographers 1840-1950, 1981 Mirror with a memory: photographic portraiture in Australia, Batchen, Geoffrey and Ennis, Helen, 2000 Book The Story of the Camera in Australia, Cato, Jack, 1979 Australians Behind the Camera: Directory of Early Australian Photographers 1841 to 1945, Barrie, Sandy, c1992 'I was only a maid': The life of a remarkable woman: May Moore: Reminiscences of May Moore as related to members of her family and to her friends., Burkett, M. E., 2003? The reflecting eye: portraits of Australian visual artists, Ennis, Helen, National Library of Australia and National Portrait Gallery (Australia), 1996, http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/125722/20110309-0156/www.nla.gov.au/pub/ebooks/pdf/the+reflecting+eye.pdf Australian Women Photographers 1840 - 1960, Hall, Barbara and Mather, Jenni, 1986 Thesis Making Pictures: Australian Pictorial Photography as Art 1897-1957, Ebury, Francis, 2001 Resource Section Annie May and Mina Moore, https://www.daao.org.au/bio/group/references/annie-may-and-mina-moore-1/ Moore, Annie May (1881-1931), Hall, Barbara, 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A100546b.htm Magazine article Versatile May Moore- Photographs, Miniatures, and Domesticity, Hutton, Bruce R., 1925 A First For Women Photographers in Australia: Quick Thinking and Ladders Got the Top Shots, Bowen, Jill, 1981, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article55457051 Newspaper Article May Moore, 1921, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article125391061 Book Section May Moore and Mina Moore, Newton, Gael,, 1995 Archival resources National Gallery of Australia, Research Library Archive [May Moore : Australian and New Zealand Art Files]. National Library of Australia, Ephemera Collection [Moore, May : photography related ephemera material collected by the National Library of Australia] Author Details Anne Maxwell (with Morfia Grondas and Lucy Van) Created 24 May 2016 Last modified 4 October 2016 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Sarah (Fanny) Durack battled local swimming authorities to become the first Australian woman to compete at the Olympic Games. In 1912, at Stockholm, she won the gold medal in the 100 meters freestyle event, beating her compatriot and training partner, Wilhelmina (Mina) Wylie. She went on to break numerous world records until she retired from competitive swimming in 1921.

45 minutes??Roxy Byrne was born in 1913. Her father Roy Sims was the first government dentist. In 1920 the family moved to the house on the corner of Hutt Street and South Terrace. She attended Gillies Street Primary School and St John’s Church day school. From 1922 to 1929 she attended the Methodist Ladies College and acted in various plays. Dame Nellie Melba sang in 1927. 1930-1933 she attended Adelaide University and after graduation she joined the Adelaide Repertory Theatre. In 1950 the Repertory Theatre participated in a competition to celebrate fifty years of Federation. She met various celebrities including Robert Helpmann, Katherine Hepburn and Margaret Rutherford. She married Dr Dudley Byrne in 1940. He joined the AIF and was invalided out of Tobruk in 1944. Son John born in 1945. Various overseas visits. Cricket was a family passion and Bradman a hero. Participation in the Lyceum Club. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 6 April 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

MS Acc03/127 comprises various items relating to artist Eirene Mort (1 box).??The Acc06/17 instalment includes manuscripts written by Mort on Mort family history (3 v.); albums of drawings and verse, 1870-1875; loose letters, cuttings and photographs; an album of exhibition catalogues and cuttings; correspondence, 1904-1980 (4 binders); and, a manuscript on French coinage, 1856 (1 box, 2 cartons). Author Details Alannah Croom Created 13 February 2018 Last modified 13 February 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

This series consists of personal working papers of Justice Elizabeth Evatt whilst working as a Commissioner of the Australian Law Reform Commission from April 1989 to September 1991. Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 2 November 2006 Last modified 23 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

1 sound tape reel (ca. 4 min.)??Keesing reads the following poems: “From Circular Quay” and “Gypsies”. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 10 April 2018 Last modified 10 April 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Layne Beachely is a professional surfer from Manly in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. In 2007 she is regarded as the best female professional surfer in history, having won the World Championship an unprecedented seven times. As a girl, Layne Beachley loved competitive sport, which no doubt assisted her to make a remarkable rise through the surfing rank. At the age of 16 she became professional, by the age of 20 she already ranked sixth in the world. Then in 1993 and 1996 she suffered from two episodes of chronic fatigue, which threatened to end her surfing career altogether. All but wiped out by this mental, physical and emotional challenge, Layne beat depression to stay focused on her ultimate goal – to be World Champion. She achieved this goal in 1998 when she won the first of six consecutive World Surfing Titles, going on to rewrite history with the greatest number of consecutive World Championship victories recorded by anyone, male or female. In 2003 Layne created the Aim for the Stars Foundation to support and promote the academic, sporting, community and cultural dreams of young women. She has also served on the board of international surfing’s governing body, The Association of Surfing Professionals, in an effort to promote women’s interests as the sport develops and grows. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition She's Game: Women Making Australian Sporting History, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2007, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/sg/sport-home.html Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 2 January 2007 Last modified 16 April 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

The papers of MS 6201 are arranged in the following series: 1. Family papers and photographs, 1851-1970, including papers of Thomas Henry Prichard and Hugo Throssell and photographs of Ric Throssell. 2. Notebooks, literary fragments and jottings, 1914-ca. 1940. 3. Literary drafts of novels, ca. 1925-1950; short stories, 1903-1959; poetry, ca. 1894-1960; drama, 1909-1959; articles, lectures and broadcasts, 1908-1960; and autobiography, ca. 1962-1963. 4. Political writings and papers, 1917-1969. 5. Correspondence, 1908-1969. 6. Reviews and clippings by and about K.S. Prichard, 1908-1969. 7. Non-family photographs, ca. 1900-1960s. 8. Miscellaneous papers, 1905-1961. 9. Printed materials, 1926-1969 (24 boxes). Author Details Anne Heywood Created 26 May 2004 Last modified 5 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Margaret Court was one of Australia’s greatest sportswomen. She won 62 grand slam titles and, in 1970, was the second woman in history to win the Australian, French, U.S. and Wimbledon titles in a calendar year. Winner of the ABC Sportsman of the Year Award in 1963 and 1970, Margaret Court was appointed to the Order of the British Empire – Member (Civil) on 1 January 1967 for services to sport and international relations. In 1970 she also won the Walter Lindrum Award. In January 2003, Tennis Australia renamed Melbourne Park’s Show Court One to the Margaret Court Arena. She was the recipient of the 2003 Australia Post Australian Legends Award, and featured on a special 50c stamp. In 2006 she was awarded the International Tennis Federation’s (ITF) highest accolade, the Philippe Chatrier Award. In 2017, in the context of Australian debates about marriage equality, Margaret Court became a controversial figure, as many prominent people in tennis condemned her views on same sex marriage and the rights of transgender people. In January 2021, Court was awarded an AC in the Australian Day Honours Awards list, for eminent service to tennis as an internationally acclaimed player and record-holding grand slam champion, and as a mentor of young sportspersons. In response to criticisms that it was not appropriate to honout her this way, based upon her controversial views on the rights of LGBTQI+ people, an anonymous member of the Council for the Order of Australia said the award to address a gender disparity created five years ago when Rod Laver became the first tennis player to be made a Companion of the Order of Australia (AC). When Margaret Court (née Smith) was thirteen years old Frank Sedgeman, the Australian tennis champion, told her that she was so talented, she could be the first Australian women to win Wimbledon. Eight years later she achieved that goal, and then spent the next decade or so creating tennis records. In 2007, she remains the most prolific winner, male or female, of major championships, having notched up 62 titles in singles, doubles and mixed doubles between 1960 and 1975, including seven straight Australian Championships between 1960-1966. She took the Australian, French, Wimbledon and U.S. singles titles all within 1970 to become the second female Calendar Year Grand Slam winner at after Maureen Connolly, who achieved the feat in 1953. She is the only player to achieve a Calendar Year Grand Slam in doubles as well as in singles. In purely statistical terms, her nearest all time ‘rivals’, Martina Navratilova, with 56 majors, and Roy Emerson, heading the men with 28, are a long way behind. Court has 24 titles in singles alone, three ahead of Steffi Graf when she left the game. Putting this into some contemporary perspective, Roger Federer, with ten grand slam titles and Serena Williams, with eight, still have some work to do if they are going to catch her. As the citation to accompany her 1979 induction in to the International Tennis Hall of Fame reads, ‘For sheer strength of performance and accomplishment there has never been a tennis player to match Margaret Smith Court.’ Not bad for an ordinary girl from regional Australia. Born in July, 1942, Margaret Smith was, quite literally, a fighter from the moment she drew breath. Her mother nearly died giving birth to her and Margaret was very ill upon arrival. Fortunately, she lived to grow up and go to school in Albury, New South Wales, a regional centre in the state’s southeast situated on the Murray River. Her circumstances were not affluent. Her parents owned neither the house they lived in, a very modest, two bedroom, thin-walled, asbestos dwelling with a tin roof that stretched to fit a family of six, nor a car. Margaret was lucky, therefore, that she lived across the road from twenty-four grass tennis courts. She was also lucky that the coach there, Wally Rutter, spotted her and took the time to nurture her talent. It was Rutter who brought her to the attention of Sedgeman and it was Sedgeman who encouraged her to come to Melbourne so that she could make the most of her potential. At 16 she moved to Melbourne to widen her experience and to receive specialist coaching. In retrospect, she also thinks she was lucky to grow up a tomboy in a neighbourhood full of sports mad boys, with whom she regularly competed. She suggests, however, that it was ‘determination to succeed and to be the best’ rather than competitiveness that later drove her to succeed. Whatever the motivation, there is no doubt that she became the best, although she never really sat down to measure how good she was until she’d finished playing. She didn’t know exactly how many titles she had won until she retired and even then that was only because someone else (English commentator John Barrett) had counted them for her. This is not to say that Margaret was blasé about her success; rather it is an indication of her modesty and source of motivation. She did not do things for the glory and attention but because she always had personal goals. There were three in particular, throughout the course of her career, that drove her to ‘be the best’. The first of them, to be the first Australian woman to win Wimbledon, she met in 1963. The second, to win the Calendar Year Grand Slam (the Wimbledon and the Australian, United States, French Opens all in the one year) eventuated in 1970 and the third, to be the first mum to be number one in the world, she achieved in 1973. She tried coming back after having her second child but says that, at that point, she didn’t have a goal, so she knew it was time to give the game up, which she did in 1975. Margaret had natural talent, athleticism and strength; her court coverage was amazing and the power of her serve-volley game set her apart in the women’s game. She and one of her early physical instructors, Stan Nicholls, did things differently in order to capitalise upon and enhance her physical strength. She spent a lot of time in the gym lifting weights in an era when very few women did this as a matter of course. But she also attributes the power of her game to her early upbringing. ‘As a young girl, I used to train with the men. I practiced with the men all the time and I thought I had to serve-volley, because they wouldn’t invite me to play with them if I didn’t…I was brought up playing with the men.’ Consequently, she developed a style of game that saw her constantly serve-charging the net and, in so doing, introduced change into the women’s game. The British, who were unused to their female tennis players being so physically imposing and aggressive on the court, called her the ‘Aussie Amazon’. Apart from being strong, her physique gave her other natural advantages. People used to think she was taller than she was (5’9?) because she was all arms and legs. (Indeed her International Tennis Hall of Fame still describes her as ‘nearly six feet tall’.) In particular, her reach was ‘telescopic’; one of her regular opponents, Billie Jean King, called her ‘the Arm’, because of it. It was like it added extra inches to the length of her racquet. One can only speculate on how much better she might have been if, as a natural left-hander, she hadn’t been trained not to be at school, as was the policy at the time she was growing up. ‘Sometimes I wished I had’ve stayed lefty,’ she says. ‘I would have had probably a better serve.’ At times, it seemed that the only person capable of beating Margaret was Margaret herself. Sometimes she suffered from nerves and was accused, in modern day parlance, of choking, most famously against crowd favourite, Evonne Goolagong (Cawley) in the 1971 Wimbledon final. (Perhaps they might have bit there tongues if they had known she was pregnant with her first child at the time!) Seeded 1 in her first attempt at Wimbledon in 1962, and after having a bye in the first round, she got bundled out in the second round by an unseeded player named Billie Jean Moffitt (later King). It wasn’t one of her greatest days and she remembers phoning home talking to her Mum, who said “I suppose you’ll give up tennis now and come home.’ On the contrary, she replied, ‘No, I’m going to go on to America and I’m going to win everything,’ True to her word, she won the U.S. Championship that year, beating Darlene Hard in straight sets. Margaret was consistently excellent in both singles and doubles over the next four-five years, winning 29 grand slam titles in the period 1962-66. Towards the end of 1965, however, she began to get tired of life on the road and, having won all the grand slam events and thinking she had achieved all that she could achieve in tennis, she decided to retire the next year. She moved to Perth, Western Australia and tried something entirely different; she opened a boutique. Travelling had given her a taste for once clothes and she decided to turn her hobby into a business venture. Perth is also where she met her husband, Barry Court, son of then Premier of Western Australia, Sir Charles Court and brother to the future premier, Richard Court. This was a family that was very far removed from the tennis world – Barry didn’t even know how to score the game and his mother, when introduced to her said ‘Oh, that’s interesting, you have the same name as the tennis player’. In Perth, for a year or so, Margaret escaped from the world of tennis and refreshed. No struggles with administrators about the quality of accommodation she had to stay in when on tour; no dealing with media outlets curious about her personal life, Margaret enjoyed living life outside the tennis world. She married Barry in 1967 (the same year she was awarded an M.B.E.) and suggested they go overseas – Barry had never left the country and she was keen to share the life she had lead with him. ‘Maybe I’ll go back and play tennis and you will see where I’ve come from’. She returned to the game in 1968 and had the best two-season run in history in 1969-70, with seven majors, missing out only at Wimbledon in1969, where she lost in the semis to champion Ann Haydon Jones, 10-12, 6-3, 6-2. Her new goal, to win the Calendar Year Grand Slam was achieved in 1970. The Wimbledon final she won to achieve that goal, against Billie Jean King, is she says the game ‘means more to me than most probably means the most to her.’ With an injured ankle, she played two marathon sets (there were no tie-breakers then) to win 11-9, 14-12. She played again in 1971 until she discovered she was pregnant with her first child, Daniel. After he was born, everyone assumed she would give the game away for good. Instead, she decided she had something else to prove; she was going to be the first mother to be number one in the world. Not only did she go on to do this in 1973, she did it in extraordinary style, playing some of the best tennis of her career and winning 24 of 25 tournaments she played. In 1974, her second child, Marika, was born. Court started playing again but her heart wasn’t in it and so she retired permanently in 1977 around the same time she learned she was expecting the third of her four children. When she retired from tennis for good, life took a big turn, initially, not for the best. Brought up a Catholic, she regularly attended church but one day when she was attending a service in France given in French and Latin, she released how disconnected she was from her spiritual self, and how she needed more than the traditional church could offer her. During this period, she suffered from depression and was physically unwell; the world’s once fittest woman was weak, fearful and afraid to go to sleep. She experienced a crisis of confidence and a crisis of faith. It wasn’t until she began to attend Bible school in the early 1980s that the disparate threads of her life began to mesh again, and Margaret committed herself fully to the Pentecostal Church. In 1991 she was officially ordained to the ministry and a year later she established her own outreach ministry, Margaret Court Ministries Inc. In 1995 she entered into formerly unchartered waters by founding and establishing Victory Life Centre, of which she is the Senior Pastor. With an average Sunday attendance of 1300+ this makes it one of the Perth’s largest and dynamic churches. Recognised as an inspirational speaker as her new career developed, Margaret’s tennis achievements were also recognised in a variety of was at this time. In 1993, together with Rod Laver, she was inducted into the Australian Tennis Hall of Fame, the first players to be granted this honour. In 2002 Tennis Australia named the Number 1 Court at Melbourne Park, the home of the Australian Open, ‘Margaret Court Arena’ , in 2007 she received an Order of Australia. Margaret still plays tennis. ‘I know the spiritual side,’ she says, ‘I need to keep the outer man fit as well. And she still plays hard – she is still very determined. ‘I don’t think that ever leaves you,’ she says. ‘I’m a very focused person.’ Only now, instead of changing the game of tennis, she’s working at ‘changing nations’. Margaret Court’s Grand Slam Wins: Wimbledon Singles: 1963, 1965, 1970 Doubles: 1964, 1969 Australian Singles: 1960-1966, 1969-1971, 1973 Doubles: 1961-1963, 1965, 1969-1971, 1973 United States of America Singles: 1962, 1965, 1968-1970, 1973 Doubles: 1963, 1968-1970, 1973, 1975 French Singles: 1962, 1964, 1969, 1970, 1973 Doubles: 1964-1966, 1973 Events 2001 - 2001 Inducted into the Victorian Honour Roll of Women Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Talking Heads, ABC Television, 2006, http://www.abc.net.au/talkingheads/txt/s1774139.htm Book Reflections : profiles of 150 women who helped make Western Australia's history; Project of the Womens Committee for the 150th Anniversary Celebrations of Western Australia, Popham, Daphne; Stokes, K.A.; Lewis, Julie, 1979 Great Australian Women in Sport, Brasch, Nicolas, 1997 Encyclopedia of Australia Sport, Shepherd, Jim, 1980 Court on Court : a life in tennis, Court, Margaret Smith, 1942-, 1976 A winning faith : the Margaret Court story, Oldfield, Barbara, c1993 Winning words : the creative power of what you say, Court, Margaret, 1999 Newspaper Article The Court of Champions, Henderson, Jon, 2000 Court's crusade, Pennells, Steve, 2001 Court honour bestowed on Australian great Court, 2003 Journal Article All-time Australian tennis great Margaret Court found her true from serving Jesus, Williams, Sue, 2003 Edited Book Who's Who in Australia 2002, Herd, Margaret, 2002 Site Exhibition She's Game: Women Making Australian Sporting History, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2007, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/sg/sport-home.html Faith, Hope and Charity Australian Women and Imperial Honours: 1901-1989, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2003, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/honours/honours.html The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia, Smart, Judith and Swain, Shurlee (eds.), 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders Archival resources National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Margaret Court interviewed by Gail O'Hanlon for the Battye Library collection [sound recording] Author Details Anne Heywood and Nikki Henningham Created 18 October 2002 Last modified 11 August 2021 Digital resources Title: Mrs Court serving in Women's singles against Miss L. 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[OM67-02/1-3] Includes manuscript for Squid. A tale of adventure of the wild days among the islands; manuscript of Memories of a Nature Lover. Author Details Elle Morrell Created 9 February 2001 Last modified 27 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

4-part mosaic of pages bearing inscription: “Feminists of Australia Honour Mary Owen on the occasion of her retirement from the paid workforce on 7 February 1986. We thank her for her contribution to the Women’s Movement and look forward to the progress of women during the next decade,” and signatures of many, if not all, of the people attending the 1986 Mary Owen Dinner. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 30 December 2017 Last modified 30 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

In 1919, Susan Benny was elected a member of South Australia’s Brighton Council, thus becoming Australia’s first woman politician. She held her seat for two elections and left local government after failing to become mayor in 1922. Born: 4 October 1872. Died: 5 November 1944. After her mother died, Benny went to a girl’s boarding school at McLaren Vale, then returned home and taught her younger sisters. She married, solicitor Benjamin Benny in 1896, and they had three daughters and two sons. During World War I, Benny was honorary secretary of the Seacliff Cheer-up Society and was a member of the local progress association and spinning and croquet clubs. Before becoming the local government member for Seacliff in 1919, she was a member of the Liberal Union Sturt District committee and president of the Brighton Women’s Branch of the Liberal Union. Suzanne Edgar and Helen Jones in their biography of Benny in 200 Australian Women : A Redress Anthology state that while with the local council, “Benny claimed credit for several improvements at Brighton: the opening of a cliff to enable free access to the beach; the installation of electric lights; and the allotment of reserves as a children’s playground and public garden. She successfully supported the abolition of segregated sea-bathing, so that families could swim together.” (p. 93) Also she attended night meeting, which legislators had commonly believed women incapable of doing. In 1921, she became a justice of the peace and heard state children’s, police and women’s cases. In 1926, her husband resigned from the Australian Senate, to which he had been elected in 1919, due to ill-health. He was later convicted of embezzlement, sentenced to three years hard labour and declared insolvent. Relying on inherited money to support her family, Benny moved into her husband’s city offices and operated the “Elite Employment Agency,” during the depression. She separated from her husband, who died in 1935 and remarried in 1940. The Brighton Council named a crescent and a community centre for women’s groups after her. Published resources Resource Australia's First Female Politician, Local Government Association of South Australia, http://www.lga.sa.gov.au/education/benny.htm Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Edited Book 200 Australian Women: A Redress Anthology, Radi, Heather, 1988 Resource Section Benny, Susan Grace (1872-1944), Edgar, Suzanne, 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A070272b.htm Author Details Anne Heywood Created 17 October 2001 Last modified 7 May 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Photocopy of a typed transcript of a talk titled ‘Variety is the Spice of Life’, delivered circa 1974 and relating experiences as an immigration officer aboard the Cunard liner, “Georgic”, used as a troopship and migrant transport in the 1950’s. Talk describes voyage of 1st Royal Australian Regiment to Malaya and embarkation of French troops in Saigon after withdrawal from Vietnam. The author comments on cultural differences, particularly the chaos and “jungle hygiene” of the French troops compared with the routines and organisation of the Australian troops. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 24 October 2003 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Lillian Lever was nominated for the ABC Rural Woman of the Year Award in 1995, for the Queensland district of Capricornia. She and her husband, John, established the first privately run crocodile farm in Australia, in Rockhampton, in 1980. Given that, at the time, Lillian was a C.S.I.R.O. librarian, one might say that it was an interesting career move for her! But John had become fascinated by crocodiles in Papua New Guinea when he ran wildlife research stations there in the 1970s. He offered Lillian what she describes as a package deal; marriage and the chance to move from Melbourne to start a new business in Rockhampton. Koorana Crocodile farm opened in November 1981 stocked with captured crocodiles from the wild that were proving to be a danger to people. The fact that Koorana still exists and thrives is testament to the perseverance of Lillian and John. When they first started up, there were no guidelines for them to refer to on how to start up a crocodile farm. As crocodiles are an endangered species in Australia, there was no precedent for establishing a business and, according to Lillian, the people in the Department of Primary Industry believed them both to be mad! A chance meeting with the then Premier of Queensland, Joh Bjelke-Petersen at a function opened doors for them. They got the necessary permits which enabled them to begin the back-breaking work of building the farm. This job was no picnic. Says Lillian, ‘It was horrific at times. We couldn’t afford a tractor so we had to clear manually. We lived in a caravan with two of John’s sons from his first marriage and the heat in summer was unbelievable. We had to keep everything shut up because of the mozzies and often I’d get heatstroke while cooking – the only air conditioning we had was in the car, so John and the boys would bundle me up and take me for a drive so I could cool down enough to keep cooking! It was the shared vision of what we could create together that kept us going through that really tough start-up phase.’ Fortunately, that vision has born significant fruit, and Koorana is not only a personal success story for the Lever family, but an important local employer. Events 1995 - 1995 Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Resource Section Women's Business, Women's Wealth, Ellis, Amanda, 2002, http://www.wbww.com.au/womenarch.htm 1995 ABC Rural Woman of the Year Regional Winners, ABC Radio, 1995, http://www.abc.net.au/rural/rwoty/previous95.htm#95reg Site Exhibition Brilliant Ideas and Huge Visions: ABC Radio Australian Rural Women of the Year - 1994-1997, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2011, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/rwya/rwya-home.html Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 29 September 2010 Last modified 12 February 2019 Digital resources Title: Photograph of Lillian Lever Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Includes undated series of black and white and colour photographs of White and Lascaris with Dutton Family at Kangaroo Island, South Australia . Author Details Alannah Croom Created 6 March 2018 Last modified 6 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Kathy Newman has devoted herself to politics and to the Socialist Alliance Party. She was their candidate in the following elections: Brisbane City Council, 1997. Senate, South Australia, 2001. New South Wales Legislative Assembly, Charlestown, 2003. Senate, Northern Territory, 2004. Kathy Newman is a dedicated member of the Democratic Socialist party and has been involved in politics in at least three states and the Northern Territory. She ran for the Brisbane City Council at the age of 19, winning more than 5% of the vote. At the time she was the Brisbane Organiser of Resistance, the socialist youth group. She later moved to the Northern Territory and in 2004, was the Socialist Alliance’s second candidate for the Senate. Over the previous ten years, Kathy Newnam had campaigned against mandatory detention for refugees, racism, wood-chipping of old growth forests and nuclear testing in the Pacific. She had campaigned for free education, environmental justice, independence for East Timor, and women’s rights. Kathy Newnam was listed as a student when she ran for the seat of Charlestown in 2003. She and her party opposed the pro-business and privatisation policies of the Labor Government and were critical of the law and order campaigns of both major parties. She won only 0.6% of the votes cast. 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 14 December 2005 Last modified 16 September 2013 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Describes her journey from Sydney in the ship Corea with calls at Queensland ports, reaching Thursday Island 9 Jan. 1883, arrival at Flinders telegraph station 14 Jan. 1883, and the journey from Normanton to Port Darwin, sailing from Port Darwin for Sydney 22 Aug. 1883 on the steamer Feilung. Gives details of i.a., meetings with Aborigines, hardships of the exploring party and the movements of its several members, the countryside and the towns and stations visited. The account ends 5 Sept. 1883 before the Feilung reached Brisbane, and includes lists of baby clothes, recipes, etc. The collection also includes part of a letter from the author at Katherine telegraph station to her father, Major G. C. Robinson, 12 July 1883, and a processed transcript of most of the diary, with excerpts from newspaper articles and maps of the exploring party’s route Author Details Elle Morrell Created 8 February 2001 Last modified 27 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Speaker’s diary 1973 (shows date, location, group to be addressed and name of speaker/s); membership and other form blanks; newsletters; car sticker; correspondence; Photographs by Julie Millowick, press photo of Germain Greer Author Details Alannah Croom Created 30 December 2017 Last modified 30 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Nita Kibble was the first woman appointed as a librarian with the New South Wales State Library. Her career began by accident in 1899 when the signature on her application form was misread, and thought to be that of a man. Kibble joined the State Library of NSW in 1899 and established the Library’s first research department in 1918. In 1919 she was appointed Principal Research Officer, and retained the position until her retirement in 1943. Kibble raised her niece, Nita May Dobbie, from birth. Dobbie later established the Kibble Awards for Women Writers in memory of her aunt. Published resources Resource The Gentle Arts: Australia's women pioneers in the fields of literature, music and fine art., http://www.pioneerwomen.com.au/gentlearts.htm Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Resource Section Kibble, Nita Bernice (1879-1962), Arnot, Jean F., 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A090585b.htm Archival resources Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection Jean Fleming Arnot - personal and professional papers, 1890-1995 State Library of New South Wales - Jean Arnot interviewed by Rosemary Block about her life after she retired from the State Library. She also speaks in some detail of her colleagues Miss Nita Kibble and Miss Nita Dobbie, 1994. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 10 October 2001 Last modified 29 October 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

[Red Cross Archives series reference: V61]??Inwards and outwards correspondence of the Red Cross Victorian Divisional Secretary (later Executive Director).??This series reflects the wide range of operational activities of the Victorian Division of the Australian Red Cross during World War II and subsequently (only a very small number of files pre-date World War II). These activities include fundraising, domestic and international relief, prisoner of war tracing, hospitals and rehabilitation services, a wide range of other social services, blood transfusion services, coordination and recognition of Red Cross volunteers and the governance, financial and other administrative operations of the Division.??File titles created by the Red Cross have been retained by the University of Melbourne Archives (refer to the Records Description List), although initialisations and acronyms which are not widely used have been expressed in full.?Several filing sequences are evident within the series. Four separate sequences of alphabetically arranged files cover the period 1942-1950 (see units 1-6, 6-8, 8-9 and 20-24). From the early 1950’s onwards many file titles are prefixed by an operational activity term (for example ‘Appeals’, ‘Blood Transfusion Service’ etc.).?There has been some amalgamation of files, for instance many 1947 have been amalgamated into a corresponding1948 file. Where this has been identified it has been documented. Researchers are advised to check the subsequent year’s file to locate records which have been carried forward into the next year’s filing system. Note that the National Executive Minutes (including Finance) are within Unit 127 see also (2015.0033).??Researchers should note that under the Geneva Conventions Act 1957 protections govern the use of the Red Cross emblem. For further information see Archives staff. Author Details Helen Morgan Created 17 August 2015 Last modified 30 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Nadia Tass is an internationally successful director, bringing a unique style of film to audiences worldwide. Tass has extensive experience in dramatic and musical theatre in Australia, which has translated into a distinguished style of film production. She has directed acclaimed films and top rating television movies in both Australia and America, and has received numerous Australian Film Institute (AFI) award nominations and multiple international awards. Nadia Tass was born in Lofi, a Macedonian village in the northern region of Greece. She moved to Australia in 1966 and her family settled in Melbourne. While in school, Tass had her first experience in the Australian television industry when she starred in an episode of Homicide. Whilst studying psychology at the University of Melbourne, Tass became involved in the Melbourne (particularly Carlton) theatre scene, including theatre at the Victorian College of the Arts. She has directed both classical and contemporary theatre at La Mama, the Pram Factory, Playbox, the Open Stage and the Melbourne Theatre Company; her pieces have received critical acclaim and box office success. After she visited her husband while he was involved in the filming of The Coolangatta Gold (Auzins, 1984), Tass decided to enter the film industry. Together with Parker, she established Cascade Film Productions in 1983. In 1986, Tass made her directing debut with the feature film Malcolm. Malcolm tells the story of a socially awkward man who uses his mechanical knowledge to rob banks. Malcolm won twenty one international awards and eight Australian Film Institute Awards, including Best Director and the Byron Kennedy Award for the pursuit of excellence. In 1988, backed by United Artists (USA), Tass directed and co-produced the internationally successful Rikky and Pete. The comedy traced the journey of a brother and sister into the Australian outback. In 1989, Tass directed and produced The Big Steal. Released in Australia in September 1990, the comedy about a teenage boy, his car and a girl, was an Australian success. The film received nine AFI Award nominations. In 1990, she directed her first film in the United States. Pure Luck was produced for Universal Studios and opened in August 1991. In 1993, Tass directed the television miniseries Stark, based on the best-selling novel by Ben Elton. The considerable interest in the miniseries resulted in a shortened movie length version also being released. In 1996, Tass directed Mr Reliable which was nominated for three AFI awards. In 1998, Tass directed Rachel Griffiths, Ben Mendelsohn and Alana de Roma in Amy. Amy won twenty three international awards including the 1998 People’s Choice Award and Best Film, Grand Prix Cannes Junior and the Le Prix Education Nationale at the Cannes Film Festival in 1999, the Le Prix du Public at the Festival du Film de Paris in 2000, Grand Jury Award for Best Film for Outstanding Contribution to Humanity at the Asia Pacific Film Festival Hong Kong 1999, Best Feature Film, Grand Public, Best Actress (Alana de Roma), and Best Actor (Ben Mendelsohn) at Carrousel International du Film de Rimouski, Quebec, Canada 2000. Since 2000, Tass has directed four television movies in the United States: The Miracle Worker (2000), Child Star: The Shirley Temple Story (2001), Undercover Christmas, Samantha: An American Girl Holiday (2004), Felicity: An American Girl Adventure (2005). In 2002, Tass’ musical production of The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe premiered to rave reviews throughout Australia. The piece was adapted from the C.S. Lewis novel by her husband. In 2010 it was reported that for two years Tass had been seeking support from the Greek Ministry of Culture for her new film The Journey. The film is an international production with filming and production in Greece, France and America. The historical epic is set in both modern Greece and Greece during the Second World War. The Journey follows the true story of a Greek cabaret dancer who aided the Resistance whilst entertaining German troops. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Edited Book The Oxford Companion to Australian Film, McFarlane, Brian, Mayer Geoff and Bertrand, Ina, 1999 Resource Section Nadia Tass (Director/Producer), 2010, http://www.cascadefilms.com.au/html/nadia_tass.htm Article Nadia Tass visits Athens for the film "The Journey", Papapostolou, Anastasios, 2010, http://au.greekreporter.com/2010/01/02/nadia-tass-visits-athens-for-the-film-%E2%80%9Cthe-journey%E2%80%9D/ Motion picture Malcolm, Parker, David, 1986 The Big Steal, Parker, David and Dann, Max, 1990 Rikky and Pete, Parker, David, 1988 Mr Reliable, Catchlove, Don and Hayes, Terry, 1996 Amy, Parker, David, 1997 Television Program Stark, Elton, Ben, 1993 Archival resources National Film and Sound Archive [Parker, David and Tass, Nadia : Interviewed by Paul Harris] Crisis at Hanging Rock : A Documentary on the Australian Cinema [Lewin, Ben ; Colosimo, Rosa ; Tass, Nadia ; Parker, David : Interviewed by David Stratton] Film Buffs' Forecast. [Source Material : Nadia Tass Interviewed About 'Amy'] ; Film Buffs' Forecast. [Source Material : Mario Andreacchio Interviewed about 'The Real Macaw'] Film Buffs' Forecast. [Source Material : Bruce Beresford Interview] ; Film Buffs' Forecast. [Source Material : David Parker and Nadia Tass Interview] Malcolm: Publicity Material Rikky and Pete : Script [Stark : Documentation] Mr Reliable : [Production notes listing the credits for the film] Amy : Alana De Roma (Amy Enker) (L) Sitting on the couch with Frank Gallacher (Dr Urquhaet) ® National Library of Australia [Biographical cuttings on Nadia Tass, film producer and director, containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journals] Author Details Hollie Aerts Created 10 January 2011 Last modified 18 January 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Dr Helen Durham is a leading international lawyer, focusing on international humanitarian law (IHL or the laws of war). With a passion for the protections afforded to civilians during times of armed conflict (in particular women) Helen has had a long term career with the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement. In 2014 she was appointed as the Director of International Law and Policy for the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) headquarters in Geneva Switzerland and is the first woman to occupy this role in the institution’s 150 year history. In 2017, Helen Durham was made an Officer in the General Division of the Order of Australia ‘for distinguished service to international relations in the area of humanitarian and criminal law, to the protection of women during times of armed conflict, and to legal education’. Studying Arts/Law at Melbourne University in the late 1980s Helen was always active in matters of local and global justice, doing voluntary work with a number of Non-Government Organisations (NGOs), an internship in Bangkok and becoming interested in the need to create legal clarity around rape and sexual violence as war crimes. Starting her career as an articled clerk with the Labor law firm Holding Redlich and then moving to work for Asialink, she established a leadership program and explored the different ways human rights are understood by business and culture. Concurrently she commenced a doctorate in international law at Melbourne Law School examining the role of community groups and NGOs in international criminal prosecutions with the emphasis on cases dealing with sexual violence. After obtaining a Queens Trust Scholarship she was able to complete her studies at New York University and engage directly with the discussions being held at the United Nations on the creation of an International Criminal Court. In 1997 she commenced with Australian Red Cross as National Manager of the International Humanitarian Law (IHL) program, working closely with Professor Tim McCormack and her team to build a stronger understanding and respect for IHL within the Australian academic sector, government, militaries and the general public. She was part of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) delegation to the negotiations for the Statute of the International Criminal Court in Rome in 1998 and did a number of short missions for ICRC in the field to places such as Burma, Aceh, the Philippines and the Pacific. In 2002 Helen became Head of Office for ICRC in Australia based in Sydney and regional legal adviser for the Mission of the ICRC in the Pacific. For the next three years she travelled extensively in the Pacific, assisting governments ratify IHL treaties, implement these laws domestically as well as training military officers and non-state armed groups on matters such as the conduct of hostilities. Due to family commitments (son Alexander born in 2001 and daughter Hannah in 2004) Helen returned to Melbourne and took up the part time position as Director of Research for the Asia Pacific Centre for Military Law at Melbourne Law School, teaching in the Masters of Law program (Women, War and Peacebuilding) and also supervising a number of PhDs in international law. After a few years in academia Helen went back to Australian Red Cross as Director of International Law and Strategy, whilst continuing to teach and publish in the area of IHL as a Senior Fellow of Melbourne Law School. Combining her practical field experience and the ‘grass root’ work of the Red Cross during conflict and her research allowed Helen to focus upon bridging the gap between legal practitioners in the humanitarian sector and the academic community. In 2014 she was appointed to the Directorate of the ICRC in Geneva, with a portfolio which includes the legal division, armed forces delegates, academic outreach and policy/multilateral engagement. Presenting to the Security Council of the United Nations on the needs of women during war, visiting detainees in Iraq, lecturing at military institutes in Europe and Americas and providing training to diplomats in New York – her current position builds upon her experiences and the support gained from many over the years. In 2014 Helen was inducted into the Victorian Honour Roll of Women and in 2015 she was honoured with a Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) Centenary PeaceWomen Award. Events 2014 - 2014 Inducted into the Victorian Honour Roll of Women 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 Helen Durham Created 6 October 2015 Last modified 21 November 2018 Digital resources Title: Helen Durham Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

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Patricia Forsythe was a member of the New South Wales Legislative Council from 1991 until 2006. A member of the Liberal Party, she first ran for parliament in 1984 in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Newcastle. She didn’t run again until 1991 and was elected to the Legislative Council of New South Wales. She was re-elected in 1999. She resigned from parliament on 22 September 2006 to take up the position of Executive Director of the New South Wales Business Chamber. Patricia Forsythe was born in Newcastle in 1952, the daughter of jack and Peg Wingrove. She was educated at the Hunter Girls High School and the University of Newcastle, from which she graduated with BA, DipEd She taught in secondary schools from 1974 to 1978 and from 1983 to 1986. She worked as Executive officer for the Australian Soft Drink Association 1987-1988 and for the minister for Local Government and Planning 1988-1991. She was elected to the Legislative Council of New South Wales in 1991 and again in 1999. Patricia Forsythe joined the Liberal Party as a schoolgirl in 1968, and held many positions in the organization. She is married to David Forsythe and they have two children. Published resources Book Contemporary Australian Women 1996/97, 1996 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 12 December 2005 Last modified 30 January 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Laura Jones is an Australian film and television scriptwriter. She has a particular talent for literary adaptations, An Angel At My Table and Oscar and Lucinda being two of her well known efforts. Ms Jones has been the recipient of three Australian Writers’ Guild Awards and twice won the New South Wales Premier’s Prize for Screen Writing. She won the Australian Film Institute’s Byron Kennedy Award in 1997. She has served as a commissioner on the Australian Film Commission. Laura Jones was born in 1951, daughter of Australian novelist Jessica Anderson. She began her career writing plays for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, these included Cold Comfort (1985) and Everyman for Herself (1986). Her move into the film industry began in 1986 with her original screenplay High Tide. High Tide was produced by Sandra Levy and directed by Gillian Armstrong. Judy Davis won an Australian Film Industry Award for her performance as the lead character, Lili. Lili is a back up singer for an Elvis impersonator who gets stranded in a small coastal town. While stuck in the town, Lili befriends a teenager girl who is in fact the daughter she left as an infant. In 1990, she wrote the film script for An Angel At My Table, adapted from the autobiography of Janet Frame. The film, directed by Jane Campion, narrated the tumultuous life of New Zealander author Janet Frame. In 1996, The Portrait of a Lady was released. Written by Jones, the film was an adaptation from Henry James’ novel of the same title. Set in Europe, The Portrait of a Lady is the tale of a young American woman who challenged old-world sensibilities in order to find true love. In 1997, she wrote the psychological thriller, The Well. The film is about two very different women who form a tender, yet manipulative, relationship. When one of the women runs over a stranger on the road near their house, a battle of wits between the two women in triggered. Also in 1997, her third screenplay adaptation A Thousand Acres was filmed. The film was based on the novel by Jane Smiley of the same name, which itself was an adaptation of Shakespeare’s King Lear. In 1998, Oscar and Lucinda was released. Written by Jones, the film was an adaptation of Peter Carey’s award winning novel. In 1999, Angela’s Ashes was released. The film was her adaptation of Frank McCourt’s memoir of the same name. In 2007, Jones wrote the British drama, Brick Lane. The film tells of a young Bangladeshi woman who moves to London for an arranged marriage. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Edited Book The Oxford Companion to Australian Film, McFarlane, Brian, Mayer Geoff and Bertrand, Ina, 1999 Motion picture The Portrait of a Lady, Jones, Laura, 1996 An Angel At My Table, Jones, Laura, 1990 Archival resources National Film and Sound Archive Brick Lane : Original Release High Tide : Original Release Certain Women Oscar and Lucinda, script, sixth draft, 19.7.1996 The Well : Original Release National Library of Australia [Biographical cuttings on Laura Jones, film and television writer, containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journals] Author Details Hollie Aerts Created 4 January 2011 Last modified 4 January 2011 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Pamela Curr stood as a candidate for the Australian Greens Party in the Legislative Assembly seat of Brunswick at the Victorian state election, which was held on 30 November 2002. Pamela Curr has worked at the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre which is Located in North Melbourne as Campaign Co-ordinator. She is active in securing the human rights of people who arrive in Australia seeking asylum. She is active also in the Victorian Peace Network. She was involved in the Fairwear campaign for more than five years, working to ensure decent working conditions for workers in the clothing and textile industry. Events 2009 - 2009 Inducted into the Victorian Honour Roll 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 30 July 2008 Last modified 12 September 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

MS 9216 comprises candidate electoral matter, e-mail and correspondence issued during the Constitutional Convention (1 folder). Author Details Alannah Croom Created 27 February 2018 Last modified 27 February 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Mary Delahunty won the seat of Northcote (Legislative Assembly) for the Australian Labor Party, in a by-election in August 1998. She held the ministerial portfolios of Education, the Centenary of Federation, Planning, Arts and Women’s Affairs. Before entering politics, she was Managing Director of her own media consultancy company, also a former ABC journalist and long time member of the Journalist’s Union. She retired from politics at the state election in November 2006. Born: 7 June 1951. Delahunty received a BA (Hons) in Political Science from La Trobe University, before commencing a career in television news, current affairs and the arts. She reported nationally and internationally for the ABC and commercial television stations, producing numerous documentaries and anchoring live broadcasts. Delahunty is known for presenting ABC TV news (Melb.) and current affairs programs, the 7.30 Report and Four Corners. She also hosted the ABC’s national arts program, Sunday Afternoon. In 1983, Delahunty was awarded the Gold Walkley for journalism, for the story ‘Aiding and Abetting’ an investigation of the use and misuse of Australian aid moneys. She has been a four times recipient of the Deafness Society Clear Speaking Award. She was one of the early Foundation members of Emily’s List and the first Labor woman candidate to be supported by Emily’s List in Victoria and then win. Also she was the Victorian convenor and foundation member of the Australian Republic Movement and elected delegate to the People’s Convention on the Republic (held Canberra 2000), as well as being a former Director and long time supporter of the Victorian Women’s Trust. Delahunty is a Governor of the Dromkeen Children’s Literature Collection and Patron of P.A.L.S. (partnership and linking for the seriously mentally ill). Married to Jock Rankin (passed away 2002) with two children, she enjoys reading, theatre, dance and riding. Events 1983 - 1983 Gold Award (with Alan Hall) – Best Piece of Journalism – Australian Broadcasting Corporation 1983 - 1983 Best Television Current Affairs Report – with Alan Hall Published resources Resource Mary Delahunty. Member for Northcote, http://www.emilyslist.org.au/candidates/cand_mdelahunty.html Mary Delahunty, Member for Northcote. Minister for Education, Arts and The Centenary of Federation, http://www.vic.alp.org.au/people/northcote.html Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Edited Book Who's Who in Australia 2002, Herd, Margaret, 2002 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 Carrying on the Fight: Women Candidates in Victorian Parliamentary Elections, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2008, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/cws/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 Anne Heywood Created 3 October 2001 Last modified 29 October 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

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Consists of photographs documenting Enid Derham s grand tour of Egypt, the Mediterranean, Europe, and England in 1927.??Series includes photographs of ancient monuments in Egypt, Greece and Italy, trekking through the Alps, along with photographs of buildings, landscapes and local people, Christmas in Switzerland, and the return trip to Australia by ship. Photographs are annotated on the back with descriptions and numbers, presumed to be by Derham. Photographs are divided into the following groupings based on the original numbering: 1-58 On Ship and in Egypt; 60-118 Athens & Greece; 119-175 Crete; 176-306 Greece (1927); 307-421 Italy; 422-527 France; 528-[599] England (1927); 600-706 England; 707-802 Europe; 803-[899] Europe; 900-985 Europe (cont’d); 986-1095 England; 1100-1173 England & Return to Australia. Series also includes photographs that are unnumbered, but are probably part of the same trip, along with copies of family photographs, and a large studio portrait of Enid Derham. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 29 December 2017 Last modified 29 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Interview conducted in Broken Hill as part of the AWAP Broken Hill exhibition. To be lodged with the Outback Archives, Broken Hill City Library. Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 17 February 2009 Last modified 17 February 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

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Jenni Kemarre Martiniello OAM is an award-winning glass artist, poet, writer and photographer of Arrente, Chinese and Anglo-Celtic descent. Acclaimed for her glass works, she has been actively involved in professional and community education in Canberra throughout her career. Jenni founded the ACT Indigenous Writers Group in 1999. With fellow artist Lyndy Delian, she was instrumental in the foundation of the Indigenous Textile and Glass Artists (ITAG) group. Her advocacy for Indigenous artists, and her role in connecting them with other art organisations was pivotal in helping mitigate barriers due to discrimination against Indigenous Australians. Her leadership and advocacy continued through Kemarre Arts, a social enterprise she founded in 2006. It was the Australian Capital Territory’s first independent Aboriginal-run social enterprise and provided support to fellow Indigenous artists, offering writing and professional development. Through her internationally recognised art practice, creative writing and teaching, Jenni has a been a powerful cultural ambassador, educator, and activist. She was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) for services to the creative and visual arts in 2022. Jenni Kemarre Martiniello was inscribed on the ACT Women’s Honour Roll in 2010. “Jenni Kemarre Martiniello was born Jennifer Avriel Longmore in 1949 in Adelaide, South Australia. Her father Richard was of Aboriginal and Chinese descent and her mother Betty of Anglo-Celtic lineage. Jenni had an early interest in art and took night classes at the Adelaide School of Art while attending high school. However, after graduating at age 18 from high school in 1967, she joined the Navy, ascribing her decision to a desire to do ‘something adventurous.’ Jenni worked as a radar plotter and weapons assessor as opposed to the traditional female roles of a cook or steward. She particularly enjoyed her work with weapons assessment at Nowra, New South Wales. Her two years in the Navy allowed her to meet women from across Australia, from different backgrounds and life experiences. A posting took her to Navy Office at Russell, Canberra, in 1969, where she met her husband, a first-generation Italian migrant, with whom she had four children. They divorced in 1979 after ten years of marriage. Martiniello later returned to school, studying sculpture at the Canberra School of Art, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1985, and in 1991 a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Philosophy from the Australian National University. She enrolled in post-graduate studies in Professional and Community Education at the University of Canberra (UC) in 1992. Martiniello lectured in community and teacher education at UC, as well as teaching creative writing, cultural studies, and Indigenous art history at the Yurauna Centre, Canberra Institute of Technology. In 1999, she founded the ACT Indigenous Writers Group and in the same year edited Black Lives, Rainbow Visions: Indigenous Sitings in the Creative Arts, a directory of Indigenous peoples working in the visual, performing, and literary arts in Canberra. In 2002, she was awarded an ACT Creative Arts Fellowship to complete her novel Blossoms of the Mulga. She was Contributing Indigenous Arts Editor for Muse Magazine from 2000 to 2001 and coordinating editor for the first issue of New Dreamings: Indigenous Youth Magazine, 2002. She has won numerous literary prizes, including the Grenfell Henry Lawson Short Story Award (1999) and the Banjo Paterson Poetry Prize (2003). She has also been a judge for the New South Wales and Queensland Literary Awards. In 2006, Martiniello founded and became director of Kemarre Arts, an organisation supporting Indigenous artists through professional development programs, grant writing and publishing. It won the ACT NAIDOC Award for Most Outstanding Agency in 2012. She founded the ACT Indigenous Textile and Glass Artists Group (ITAG) with Lyndy Delian in 2003. ITAG advocated for Indigenous artists and connected them with other arts organisations, as well as hosting exhibitions and artist workshops. Martiniello and Delian collaborated in partnership with Canberra Glassworks to create the Honouring Cultures program, which gave regional artists the opportunity to develop their glassmaking skills and international artists the chance to participate in skills exchange and collaborative work programs. In 2011, as Thomas Foundation artist-in-residence at the Canberra Glassworks, Martiniello began experimenting with weaving patterns in glass, with a focus on traditional aboriginal practices. She was awarded the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island Art Award in 2013 for her work Golden Brown Reeds Fish Trap, inspired by woven fish traps from northeast Arnhem Land and Cape York. She used glass to make traditional Indigenous forms, melding a non-traditional medium with traditional woven objects to create her own interpretation of two art forms. Martiniello has won numerous awards and honours for her art practice, including the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Arts Visual Arts Fellowship (2013–15) and the Bay of Fires Art Prize (2016). In 2018 she was a resident artist at the Chrysler Museum of Art Glass Studio in Norfolk Virginia and at Kluge Ruhe Museum of Aboriginal Art at the University of Virginia. Her works are held in major national and international public and private collections, including the Canberra Museum and Gallery, the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, the National Gallery of Australia, the National Museum of Australia, the National Library of Australia, the Australian Parliament House, the Belau National Museum and the British Museum. Martiniello previously held a position on the Advisory Board for the Australian Centre for Indigenous History at the ANU. She is a former member and Deputy Chair of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Arts Board of the Australian Council of Arts and has served on Advisory Boards of the Canberra Museum and Gallery, the ACT Writers Centre, CraftACT, AIATSIS Press and the Australia Council Multicultural Arts Advisory Committee. Martiniello was the ACT Senior Australian of the Year Nominee in 2018 and was awarded the Order of Australia (OAM) in the 2022 Queen’s Birthday Honours for services to the creative and visual arts. “ Published resources Jenni Kemarre Martiniello reinvents the ancient Indigenous tradition of weaving, but with glass, Pryor, Sally, 2018, https://www.canberratimes.com.au/story/6069128/jenni-kemarre-martiniello-reinvents-the-ancient-indigenous-tradition-of-weaving-but-with-glass/ Author profile: Jennifer Martiniello, http://macquariepenanthology.com.au/JMartiniello.html Jennifer A. Martiniello | AustLit: Discover Australian Stories, https://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/A12927 Award Extract - Australian Honours Search Facility, https://honours.pmc.gov.au/honours/awards/2010963 Australia’s Blak History Month Profile, 2021, https://www.blakhistorymonth.com/15-july-2021-jennikemarremartiniello Death Letter Projects, https://www.deathletterprojects.com/jennifer-kemarre-martiniello Archival resources Jenni Kemarre Martiniello interviewed by Mary Hutchison in the Centenary of Canberra oral history project, 2014 Author Details Jen Coombs Created 11 July 2023 Last modified Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

The Women’s Theatre Group was active in Adelaide from 1975 to 1989. They wrote, produced, directed, scored, performed and built the stage for their productions. They performed cabaret and theatrical works. All women productions were a first in Adelaide. The women worked through a collective. They won the Adelaide Festival Centre best production award for ‘Redheads Revenge’ in 1978. The other plays and cabaret include ‘Christobel in Paris’ 1975, ‘Caroline Chisel Show’ 1976, ‘International Women’s Day Concert’ and ‘Chores 1’ in 1977, ‘Chores 2’ and ‘I want I want’ 1979, ‘Out of the Frying Pan’ 1980, ‘Onward to Glory’ 1982, ‘Margin to Mainstream’ and ‘Women and Work, Women and Paid Work’ 1984, ‘Sybil’s Xmas Concert’ 1985, and 1989 ‘Is this Seat Taken’. The group includes the Women in Education Theatre Group and the Feminist Theatre Group. Author Details Kathleen Bambridge Created 18 December 2009 Last modified 18 December 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Anne Gardiner is a courageous fighter for principle who stood for the Australian Greens at the 2004 Randwick City Council elections and in the 2005 New South Wales Legislative Assembly Maroubra by-election. Anne Gardiner trained as a nurse at Prince Henry Hospital. She came to prominence in 2003 when she challenged a decision by her employer, NSW Workcover, to move her work base from Sydney to Gosford, on the grounds that it would affect her role as the carer of her youngest children. The case, in which she succeeded, set an important precedent as it was the first time the NSW Administrative Decisions Tribunal had dealt with carer’s responsibility under the Anti Discrimination Act. In 2004, with 41 fellow public servants she headed a ticket to challenge the leadership of the NSW Public Service Association and she and 12 others were elected, changing the balance of power in the union, previously dominated by ALP members. In the Maroubra by-election she got 19.5% of the primary vote, an increase of 11.1% Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 12 December 2005 Last modified 7 February 2006 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Born and raised in the eastern suburbs of Sydney, Gabrielle Upton is a Liberal party Member of the House of Assembly, for the seat of Vaucluse, in the Parliament of New South Wales. On 2 April 2015, she was appointed as Attorney General for New South Wales, having previously held the position of Minister for Family and Community Services between 23 April 2014 until 2 April 2015. Prior to that she served as Minister for Sport and Recreation from August 2013 until April 2014 and Parliamentary Secretary for Tertiary Education and Skills, from May 2011 until August 2013. She was first elected to parliament in 2011. Gabrielle Upton was born and raised in the eastern suburbs of Sydney where she attended Brigidine College in Randwick and the University of New South Wales, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Laws. Her legal career began as a banking and finance lawyer with legal firms Freehill, Hollingdale & Page and Phillips Fox, after being admitted as a Solicitor to the Supreme Court of New South Wales and the High Court of Australia in 1988. Gabrielle and Alex Sundich married in 1990 and in 1993 they moved to New York where Gabrielle completed a Masters of Business Administration (Finance Management) at New York University’s Leonard Stern School of Business. Upon completing her MBA, Gabrielle worked as a banker with Deutsche Bank and Toronto Dominion Bank in New York financing the energy sector. Returning to Sydney in 1999 with her family, Gabrielle began the role of Legal Counsel at the Australian Institute of Company Directors. Gabrielle served as Deputy Chancellor at the University of New South Wales from 2006 until 2009, and on the University’s Council from 2002 to 2010. From 2005 to 2011 Gabrielle was the Deputy Chair of the Duke of Edinburgh’s Awards in Australia. She was also a board member of Neuroscience Research Australia, one of Australia’s largest research centres on the brain and nervous system, from 2007 to 2011. Gabrielle gained a Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Laws from the University of New South Wales, and is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors. Gabrielle and Alex live in Darling Point with their two children. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Webpage of the Honourable Gabrielle Upton MP: Member for Vaucluse., Upton, Gabrielle, 2015 Site Exhibition Australian Women Lawyers as Active Citizens, Trailblazing Women Lawyers Project Team, 2016, http://www.womenaustralia.info/lawyers Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 10 November 2015 Last modified 1 November 2016 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

See author’s report held in AIATSIS Library: ‘Cootamundra : The Aboriginal Girls Home’ MS 3321.?A collection of photographs taken at Cootamundra Girls Home. Collection includes historical images of group portraits, education and recreation activities along with more contemporary scenes showing demolition work on the old home as well as photo portraits of former residents and staff. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 28 May 2004 Last modified 6 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Initiated by women already in the art world, the Women’s Art Movement (hereinafter named W.A.M.) was part of an international trend somewhat belated in Australia, which lead women artists to look at their position as women in society and to analyse their position as artists through a feminist frame. The W.A.M offered women artists support within an alternative group structure. The group began with the aim of supporting and promoting women artists, educating members on the problem of discrimination and working with one another to overcome sexism in the arts and society. Fifty women ranging in age from 18 to 65 attended the first meeting. As attendance numbers grew, funding was required. Such monetary resources were obtained from the South Australia Arts Grant Advisory Committee (A.G.A.C), the Community Arts Board (C.A.B), and the Visual Arts Board (V.A.B) for salary and administrative costs, workshops and the publication of the book Women’s Art Movement 1978-1979, Adelaide, South Australia, respectively. Members produced contemporary and often confronting art pieces that tackled subject matter that is specific to the life experiences of women. Rape, abortion, reproduction and motherhood were some of the themes addressed in a variety of mediums including: hand painting, sculpture, life drawing, lithograph, silk screening, installation art, patchwork and other folk art, film and photography, music, dance, street theatre and poetry. By the mid 1980s, the W.A.M had become a highly respected art movement both nationally and internationally. Published resources Edited Book Setting the pace: the Women's Art Movement, 1980-1983, Kent, Jane, 1984 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources State Library of South Australia Women's Art Movement: Summary Record Sylvia Kinder : SUMMARY RECORD Author Details Robin Secomb and Rosemary Francis Created 23 July 2004 Last modified 1 May 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

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Papers of Natalia Davies, civil defence organiser, comprising Civil Defence Society and Women’s Air Training Corps papers, lecture notes, service record, badges photographs of civil defence exercises, press cuttings, scripts of short stories and plays, papers relating to Kampeter, lecture notes, certificates and correspondence of Amylis Laffer together with stretcher and trunk containing bandages, blackout papers, ground sheet, inert gas samples, gas mask and helmets Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 23 February 2010 Last modified 24 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Ailsa Thomson Zainuddin is a writer and academic who taught at the Faculty of Education at Monash University, specialising in the history of education. Her undergraduate courses at Monash on the history of education in Southeast Asia and the history of education for girls and women, were among the first of their kind in Australia. Her published writing in these fields includes the text-book, A Short History of Indonesia. Ailsa has maintained a close and enduring association with Indonesia, the country where her husband Zainu’ddin was born and raised, and where she herself lived and worked during the 1950s. Ailsa was awarded a PhD for They Dreamt Of A School, the centenary history of Methodist Ladies’ College, Kew; the school she herself attended. Ailsa was born to Boyd and Thelma Thomson on 8 April 1927 at Fairbank Private Hospital in Box Hill. Both Boyd and Thelma were teachers and the Thomson family was Methodist. Ailsa attended Methodist Ladies’ College (MLC), Kew from 1933 to 1944. Ailsa graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in history and english from the University of Melbourne in 1947. After graduating, Ailsa was a tutor in the history department, having been invited by Professor Max Crawford to join the teaching staff as part of the Postwar Reconstruction Training Scheme. During this time, Ailsa was active in the Australian Student Christian Movement. In 1953, Ailsa graduated from Melbourne University with a Masters on The Bulletin and Australian nationalism, supervised by Kathleen Fitzpatrick and Manning Clark. Ailsa was research assistant to Manning Clark at Canberra University College from 1952 to 1954. At Havelock House in Canberra, Ailsa met Indonesian diplomat and former freedom fighter, Zainu’ddin. Ailsa and Zainu’ddins’ friendship was decisively platonic at first: both of them felt that romantic involvement was out of the question on account of the religious difference between them, and, in Zainu’ddin’s case, for reasons to do with his career as a diplomat. However, the two friends fell in love, and decided to marry. Zainu’ddin was adamant that before Ailsa made any final commitment, she must first experience for herself life in Indonesia, where the couple planned to live. Ailsa – her mind already more or less made up – departed for Jakarta in 1954, in a move she envisaged at the time as a permanent one. Ailsa and Zainu’ddin married in Jakarta on 10 December 1954. For eighteen months from August 1954, Ailsa worked in Jakarta at the English Language Inspectorate, part of the Ministry of Education. The Inspectorate was set up to establish english as Indonesia’s first foreign language, and Ailsa’s role included contributing to syllabus and assessment development, and delivering lectures on english literature to Indonesian teachers of english. Ailsa’s employment for the Indonesian Government was undertaken through the newly established Volunteer Graduate Scheme for Indonesia. In March 1956, the Zainu’ddins left Jakarta and returned to Australia, as Zainu’ddin had been appointed first Indonesian language teacher in the newly established Department of Indonesian Studies at the University of Melbourne. Upon entering Australia, the couple were obliged to apply for exemption under the Immigration Restriction Act for their infant daughter, Nila. A second daughter, Lisa, was born two years later. In 1964, Ailsa graduated with a Bachelor of Education from the University of Melbourne. In 1965, Ailsa joined the Faculty of Education at the newly established Monash University. As the Faculty’s first appointment in the history of education, Ailsa developed and taught undergraduate courses in the history of education in Southeast Asia, with special emphasis on the Netherlands East Indies and Indonesia in the 19th and 20th centuries. In her courses on the history of educational thought and practice, Ailsa added to the Western thinkers included in the course, figures such as Rabindranath Tagore, Shinichi Suzuki, and also Raden Ajeng Kartini, an Indonesian national heroine celebrated for her advanced ideas about national independence as well as equality for girls and women. Additionally, from 1975, Ailsa pioneered a separate course on the history of education for women. This course had its origins in a suggestion made by Ailsa for a female counterpart to an ‘Images of Man’ course then offered in the history and philosophy of education. Ailsa was the Education Faculty representative at the Centre for Southeast Asian Studies (CSEAS) at Monash University’s Clayton campus. Among many other events at the Centre, Ailsa organised, and delivered a paper at, a CSEAS lecture series in 1979 commemorating the centenary of Kartini’s birth. She also edited the publication that resulted from the lectures, entitled Kartini Centenary: Indonesian Women Then and Now. From 1976 to 1994, Ailsa and her friend and colleague Marjorie Theobald ran a monthly discussion group for those undertaking or interested in research into the history of education for girls. The aim of the History of Education for Girls Group (HEGG) was to provide a supportive environment for women, including those returning to study later in life. Ailsa maintained an association with Methodist Ladies’ College, Kew for over fifty years. She was awarded a PhD from Monash University in 1983 for her centenary history of MLC, entitled They Dreamt of a School. Ailsa retired as a Senior Lecturer from the Education Faculty at Monash University in 1992. As a writer, teacher and scholar, and also through her involvement in the Indonesian community in Melbourne, Ailsa has influenced many people. This includes historian Janet McCalman, who has acknowledged the importance of Ailsa’s centenary history of Methodist Ladies’ College, Kew, for her own work, Journeyings: the biography of a middle-class generation 1920-1990. Ailsa’s love of history reflects the influence of her mother, Thelma, among other people. Thelma was a member of the 16 Club, a monthly reading group of women graduates of Melbourne University which ran for sixty years. In her published essay documenting the Club’s history and members, Ailsa describes the Club as having been present in the background of her own childhood. This is one example of an autobiographical element which is present in Ailsa’s writing as a whole. A prolific letter writer, Ailsa has maintained correspondence with a wide circle of friends, including many former colleagues and students. Among her correspondents was Kurnianingrat Ali Sastroamijoyo, a teacher and academic who was widely involved in the field of english language teaching and training in post-independence Indonesia, and with whom Ailsa worked in Jakarta during the 1950s. Kurnianingrat’s memoir, entitled ‘Other Worlds in the Past’, was published in 2017 in a work co-edited by Ailsa called Bridges of Friendship. Ailsa’s correspondents also included Manning and Dymphna Clark. In 1957, Manning dedicated his book, Sources of Australian History, to Ailsa and Zainu’ddin. Additionally, the publication Ever, Manning: Selected Letters of Manning Clark 1938-1991, includes excerpts from Ailsa’s correspondence with Manning Clark. Ailsa stopped using the apostrophe in her surname in 2015. Events 1985 - 1986 Australian and New Zealand History of Education Society (ANZHES) Australian and New Zealand History of Education Society (ANZHES) 1957 - 1963 ‘Djembatan’ – Quarterly newsletter of the Volunteer Graduate Association 1948 - 1951 The History Department of The University of Melbourne 1961 - 1964 The Law School (British constitutional history) at The University of Melbourne 1963 - 1963 The Indonesian Studies Department at The University of Melbourne 1954 - 1956 Ailsa lived and worked in Jakarta under the Volunteer Graduate Scheme for Indonesia Archival resources The University of Melbourne Archives Zainuddin, Ailsa Remembering the Immigration Reform Group: Witness Seminar Monash University Archives Personal archives of Zainu'ddin, Ailsa Gwennyth Thomson (1927-) Private Hands (These regards may not be readily available) Papers of Ailsa Thomson Zainuddin National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Ailsa Zainu'ddin interviewed by David Walker in the Australia-Asia studies oral history project [sound recording] Author Details Ann McCarthy & Ailsa Zainuddin Created 26 October 2017 Last modified 28 March 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Three historical pamphlets on North Melbourne: Discovering our district; When Errol Street Boomed; When Railways Boomed; When Bull- dozing boomed. The photocopies c1966 are a cartoon and newsletter of the Progressive Clerks’ Union, an anti DLP organisation. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 20 February 2002 Last modified 30 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

1 sound cassette (ca. 20 min.)??Male, dairy farmer, speaks of her dairy farm background, her involvement in dairy cattle breeding after leaving school, how she and her husband developed a computerised feeding system for their dairy, her financial management of the farm, the need for farmers to keep up with the latest developments as agricultural professionals, hopes for their farm, and the features of their computerised dairy farm which is unique in Australia. Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 3 March 2010 Last modified 21 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Eliza Tuckwell was a very successful business woman and landowner in the Northern Territory. She was one of the few Territory women to pay taxes on her income in 1884 when the South Australian parliament imposed taxes on income. Also, at the age of 59, Eliza was on of 82 women who enrolled to vote after the franchise was granted to South Australian and Territory women in 1894. Eliza Sarah Hemmings worked as a domestic servant in London however, to improve her employment and marriage prospects, she applied for a berth on a ship headed to Australia. Alongside fifty-five other single women, Eliza arrived in Port Adelaide in March 1855. After an initial appointment at St Peters College, Eliza soon found a job at a coach builder’s, followed by some flour mills in Hindmarsh. In February 1857 Eliza married Edward (Ned) Tuckwell and she gave birth to their first child, Mary Ann, in November that same year. She had four more children before 1868. The family left Adelaide in December 1869 and met Ned in Port Darwin in January 1870 (Ned had travelled north with Surveyor General George Goyder’s expedition party in December 1868). Together they had two more children; Charles Palmerston in 1871 and Eleanor in 1873. Ned also turned one of Darwin’s very first hotels, the Commercial, into a house for his family. With Ned’s death in April 1882, and in need of an income to support her family, Eliza opened a boarding house which she named Resolution Villa. She supplemented her income by acting as a midwife and nurse to the local community. The family property had been transferred to Eliza’s name after Ned’s death, and she became one of the first resident female taxpayers in Palmerston. In 1895, at the age of 59, Eliza was one of the 82 women who enrolled to vote after the franchise was granted to South Australian and Territory women in 1894. He daughter Eleanor had also enrolled to vote at this time. Eliza ‘Granny’ Tuckwell passed away in August 1921 at the age of 85. Archival resources Northern Territory Library, Northern Territory Collection Victor and Eliza Author Details Alannah Croom Created 4 January 2018 Last modified 12 February 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Linda Lavarch was the first female lawyer elected to the Parliament of Queensland, Australia. In July 2005 she was appointed Minister for Justice and Attorney-General – the first woman to be Attorney-General in Queensland. As Attorney-General she oversaw the introduction of permanent drug courts in Queensland and the creation of the offence of identity theft. Retiring from state politics in 2009, Lavarch became involved in medical research and the not-for-profit sector, chairing the Not-For-Profit Sector Reform Council. Lavarch stood as the Labor candidate for the Queensland seat of Dickson in the 2016 Australian federal election. Linda Lavarch 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. Linda Lavarch was born in 1958 in Brisbane, Queensland. After completing her secondary schooling at Miami High School on the Gold Coast, she attended Queensland University of Technology where she obtained a Bachelor of Laws. She has credited the Whitlam Government reforms which abolished up-front university fees and introduced a living allowance for students with giving her the opportunity to receive a tertiary education [JSchool]. Lavarch’s political awareness developed early; she joined the Australian Labor Party in 1982 and while at university was involved in protests against the Bjelke-Petersen government [JSchool]. In 1984 she married her (now former) husband Michael Lavarch, who become Federal Attorney-General in the Keating Government (1993-1996). Together they have two children. After graduating, Lavarch practised as a solicitor in Strathpine, Caboolture and Redcliffe; she also volunteered at the Petrie Community Legal Centre (now the Pine Rivers Community Legal Service) [Linda Lavarch]. In the early 1990s she worked with Legal Aid, chairing family conferences and working to resolve family disputes. In 1993, Lavarch became advisor to State Attorney-General Dean Wells on Legal Aid and Community Legal Centres [Proctor]. She entered state politics in 1997 as the successful Labor candidate for the seat of Kurwongbah. In doing so, she became the first female lawyer elected to the Queensland Parliament. From 2001 to 2004 Lavarch was chair of the Fishing Industry Development Council and deputy chair of the Small Business Advisory Council. Lavarch was Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for State Development and Innovation in 2004; in 2005 she served as Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Energy and Minister for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Policy. In July 2005 Lavarch was also appointed Minister for Justice and Attorney-General – the first woman to be Attorney-General in Queensland. She would also assume responsibility for the portfolio of Minister for Women. Coincidentally, Lavarch became Attorney-General in the year marking the centenary of the Legal Practitioners Act 1905, which allowed women to practise as barristers and solicitors in Queensland for the first time [Proctor]. Upon her appointment as Attorney-General, Lavarch noted about herself that she possessed “a strong interest in ensuring public confidence in our legal system, and also in enhancing access to justice” [Cole]. As Attorney-General, Lavarch concentrated on community justice initiatives and the treatment of vulnerable people in the criminal justice system. She was responsible for the establishment of permanent drug courts in Queensland and for creating the specific offence of identity theft [FindLaw; Innisfail Advocate]. Suffering ill-health, Lavarch resigned as Attorney-General in 2006. Remaining a backbencher in the Queensland Parliament, Lavarch turned her attentions to medical research and sporting initiatives. From 2007 to 2009 she was Director of the Princess Alexandra Foundation, assisting in raising funds and awarding research grants to support scientists whose budding work has directly led to break-throughs in the areas of transplantation, cancer, diabetes, melanoma and Parkinson’s disease. In 2007 Lavarch was the Director of Hockey Queensland, chaired the Legal, Planning and Facilities Committee, and also headed the Hockey Judiciary [Company Directors]. Lavarch retired from state politics in 2009 and returned to private practice as a solicitor at Michael Hefford Solicitors. In 2010 Lavarch was appointed a Research Fellow with the Australian Centre for Philanthropy and Non-profit Studies at Queensland University of Technology; here she was involved in developing model laws for the legal structures of, and activities undertaken by, charities and non-profit organisations. In 2014 she was appointed a Member of the Advisory Board [Pro Bono]. Lavarch’s involvement in the not-for-profit sector continued between 2010 and 2013, and included a role as chair of the Coast2Bay Housing Company, which provides affordable housing on the Sunshine Coast and in the Moreton Bay region of Queensland. She was Chair of the Not-For-Profit (NFP) Sector Reform Council, established by the Federal Government in 2010 to provide high-level sector advice on proposed reforms to improve the regulatory environment for the NFP sector in Australia. In 2012 Lavarch chaired and delivered a final report for the Not-For-Profit Tax Concessions Working Group, established to consider ideas for better delivery of the support provided through tax concessions to the NFP sector [Sydney Morning Herald]. Lavarch is currently the Director of Member & Specialist Services for the Queensland Nurses Union, a position she has held since January 2015. She is also Deputy Chair and a Director of the Australian Cervical Cancer Foundation. She stood as the Labor candidate for the Queensland seat of Dickson in the Australian federal election held on 2 July 2016 [Linda Lavarch]. Across legal, parliamentary and board roles, Lavarch has promoted and contributed to access to justice, medical research and reforms to maximise the impact of the philanthropic sector in Australia. Published resources Book Section Elizabeth Hamilton Hart, Doherty, Siobhan and Whitton, Laura, 2005 Book Matter of privilege referred by the Speaker on 9 October 2008 relating to an alleged deliberate misleading of the house by a member, Queensland. Legislative Assembly. Members' Ethics and Parliamentary Privileges Committee, 2008 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 Archival resources National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Linda Lavarch interviewed by Kim Rubenstein in the Trailblazing women and the law oral history project Author Details Rosemary Francis and Larissa Halonkin Created 4 August 2009 Last modified 20 November 2018 Digital resources Title: Linda Lavarch Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Sylvia Gelman was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in 1981 ‘in recognition of service to education, youth and the Jewish community’. She was also appointed Member of the Order of Australia (AM) in 2003 ‘in recognition of service to the community, particularly through a range of organisations concerned with issues affecting women’. These organisations included The National Council of Jewish Women of Victoria and Australia, the Young Women’s Christian Association of Victoria, and both the national and Victorian branches of the National Council of Women. Sylvia Gelman (nee Benn) was born on the 17th April 1919 in Fitzroy, Melbourne, the daughter of Maurice Benn and Elizabeth Jacobs, who had arrived in Australia from the UK in 1910. They had travelled to Australia for their honeymoon, and Maurice was so seasick on the way out he swore he would never travel anywhere again by sea. Their honeymoon lasted the fifty years that they were together in Australia. Sylvia was educated at University High School and the Melbourne Teachers’ College, University of Melbourne. She was a dynamic and memorable teacher of a wide range of subjects. After graduation she taught in several rural schools. Eventually Sylvia was appointed Senior Mistress at Mount Scopus College in 1953 and she was constantly greeted in such places as Hospital Emergency rooms by doctors and former pupils at social Maccabi Sports functions with enormous affection, saying ‘Mrs Gelman, you taught me and I wouldn’t be where I am today without you.’ Her passion was always education and she said, ‘There is a saying that if you educate a man, you are educating an individual, but if you educate a woman, you are educating a family. Women’s roles have changed a lot over the years.’ In 1938 Sylvia met her match in more ways than one. They met through their mutual interest in sport when Manuel Gelman, as the President of Associated Judean Athletics Clubs (AJAX), asked her to become Secretary of what is now known as Victoria Maccabi. They married in 1950. In those days female teachers had to resign from the Education Department schools on marriage. Sylvia did so but immediately started teaching at Mount Scopus. Sylvia and Mannie were a perfect team. Of equal intellect, they also shared a love of travel. They were partners both at work and play. In an anniversary tribute to Mannie in January 1993 Sylvia wrote ‘It was with you that I thrilled to the exciting sounds of Antonio and his dancers at the Zarzuella in Madrid, and, it was with you that I stood in awe before the paintings in the Caves of Lascaux touched by the spirit of their Cro-Magnon creators. They were married for forty-three eventful years until sadly, Mannie died later that year on 25 August 1993. In his memory, Sylvia established an Award for Teaching Excellence in the Faculty of Education at Melbourne University. His nephew Graham Solomon said ‘he had an insatiable appetite for the arts. If it had not been for him I would never have been able to envelope myself in the delights of the English language. I must give special thanks to Auntie Sylvia, for without her, the world would have seen only half the man that is Mannie Gelman.’ In 1992, in Melbourne, the French Ambassador Philippe Baud presented Mannie with the Order of the Legion d’Honneur for his contribution to his 60 years of promoting France’s language, civilisation and culture. Fluent in French, he inspired his students by his love of all language, so much so that the students at Coburg High School demanded that he teach them both French and Latin, when their choice was limited to just one language – and they won. In the 1970s, on retiring from teaching, Sylvia became a member of the National Council of Jewish Women in Victoria (NCJW) and editor of their newsletter. After three years in that role, the retiring President Mina Fink asked her to take on the presidency. As a relative newcomer to the organisation, Sylvia refused. She pointed out that Mina had two Vice Presidents who should be considered. For several months, Mina kept insisting she accept the role, even pursuing her target at their vacation retreat at Ocean Grove until she persuaded her. ‘What Mina wants, Mina gets’, was a catch phrase in the Fink and NCJW families at the time and proved to be correct once again. Fink, before she retired, had invited the global organisation of the International Council of Jewish Women to hold their next convention in Australia in 1975, the UN International Women’s Year, and Sylvia accepted the presidency with the proviso that it came attached with a suitable committee of skilled organisers elected to stage this conference. It did and they did stage a memorable and successful global conference. This would be the first International Council of Jewish Women Convention to be held in the Southern Hemisphere, and was also the first International Jewish Conference to be held in Australia. Sylvia persuaded the current Governor General, Sir John Kerr, to open the conference and when he arrived his aide explained sternly that he would have to leave as soon as he had finished speaking. He stayed and didn’t leave until the end. When the next national conference was held in Perth, Sylvia secured Governor-General Sir Zelman Cowan as that keynote speaker. Sylvia was appointed a Life Governor and Trustee of the National Council of Jewish Women of Australia in 1988. In 2018 they formed a Sylvia Gelman Foundation in her honour to fundraise for educational bursaries for disadvantaged students, to support the smaller sections of the organisation and also to foster overseas speakers as scholars in residence. She did much to enhance and enrich the understanding of non-Jews in multi-cultural Australia, in the uniqueness of Jewish history and made a significant improvement in the understanding and tolerance between peoples of diverse religions and ethnic backgrounds. Through NCJW, Sylvia became their delegate on the Victorian National Council of Women (NCWV), eventually serving as Honorary Advisor to the Executive and was honoured to be named one of their Honorary Life Members, to be listed on the Victorian Honour Roll of Women (2012) and be a recipient of the Sir John Monash Award from the Jewish Community Council of Victoria in 2011 for her outstanding contribution to the state. Gracia Baylor, a former President of NCW, once said of Sylvia, ‘She is a woman for all times, all seasons – ageless, blessed with a wonderful sense of humour, her intellect and her humanitarian view of life and an influence to all who come in contact with her.’ From 1987 to 1990 Sylvia was the President of the National Council of Women of Victoria and her stewardship marked a great period of productivity for the organisation. At the end of her term she became the Convenor of the Arts & Letters & Music Committee and organised the publication of a book of poetry by women The Whirling Spindle, which was a great success both as a record of the writing of women poets, and for the National Council of Women as an auspicing body. Other publications followed: From a Camel to the Moon: An Anthology for the International Year of Older Persons, 1999; Valuing the Volunteers: An Anthology for the International Year of Volunteers, 2001; Forever Eve: An Anthology Celebrating NCJWV 75th Anniversary, 2002. These books delighted many of the writers, many of whom had never been published before. An impressive public speaker, she said, ‘I urge people to undertake public speaking courses and get access to education in order for them to advance in all directions.’ Sylvia herself has initiated public speaking workshops to achieve this end. The Liberal Party of Australia Victoria Division invited her to speak at a one-day seminar. Sylvia explained that both the National Council of Women of Victoria and the National Council of Jewish Women of Victoria were strictly non-party political organisations, so any discussion of politics was not permitted. ‘No’ was the reply ‘We want you to speak on the role of your organisation to explain the work that you do.’ At one stage during her address she stated ‘that men, have always considered women as a side issue.’ One of the Melbourne dailies printed it as ‘Quote of the week’ and at the end of that year it was voted ‘Quote of the Year.’ Author Details Leonie Christopherson with Sylvia Gelman Created 17 August 2024 Last modified 17 August 2024 Digital resources Title: Sylvia Gelman Type: Image Date: 22 May, 2023 Title: Sylvia Gelman Type: Image Date: 22 May, 2023 Title: Gelman_img103.jpg Type: Image Date: 22 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Berlin, Germany. June 1946. Pictured, left to right: Squadron Officer Doris Carter, Women’s Auxiliary Australian Air Force; Squadron Leader P. Swan DFC; Flight Lieutenant J. Hooke DFC, RAAF, and Major Joan L. Christie of the Australian Army Medical Women’s Service, light up their cigarettes in front of ‘Sans Souci’ Palace, Potsdam, during their visit to Berlin as members of the Australian Victory Contingent.?Black & white – Film original negative 35mm nitrate Author Details Anne Heywood Created 1 April 2003 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Sister Mary Ita was one of the first six nuns to form the Sisters of Mercy at Broken Hill, New South Wales. The first six nuns to arrive in Broken Hill came from Singleton in the Diocese of Maitland, and founded the St Joseph’s Convent in February 1889. They were: Ann Agnes Callen (Sister Mary Josephine), Margaret Hennessy (Sister Mary Clement), Sarah Gallagher (Sister Mary Gertrude), Ellen Dwan (Sister Mary Patrick), Margaret Morris (Sister Mary Ita) and Mary Griffin (Sister Mary Evangelist). Sister Mary Josephine was appointed Reverend Mother of the Sisters of Mercy by Bishop Dunne. Under her leadership, they visited the sick and poor of Broken Hill, provided a home for orphans, and opened five schools in the town by 1896. Margaret Morris was educated at St Brigid’s Missionary School in Callen, Ireland, before making the journey to Australia to enter the Singleton Convent in November 1885. With Sister Mary Gertrude (Ellen Dwan) she volunteered to join the Broken Hill Community and went on to teach at the high school there for many years. She was Superior at Broken Hill from 1929 to 1941, Superior at Mt Barker in 1911, and Superior at Condobolin from 1942 to 1946. Published resources Book Some Outstanding Women of Broken Hill and District, Camilleri, Jenny, 2002 Site Exhibition Unbroken Spirit: Women in Broken Hill, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2009, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/bh/bh-home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 16 February 2009 Last modified 20 February 2013 Digital resources Title: Margaret Morris Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Working documents and copies of minutes and committee papers of bodies on which Ms Berger served.?Organisations: Royal College of Nursing Australia, Victorian Chapter?Australian Nursing Federation, Victorian Branch Author Details Anne Heywood Created 6 February 2002 Last modified 29 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Subject files created while President and executive member of Liberty Victoria 1981-1996; c.178 audio tapes of programs broadcast for Liberty Victoria on 3CR, 1981-1988. Civil Liberty: Review of the Victorian Council for Civil Liberties, Vol 1, No 1 (New Series) December 1984 – Vol 11, No 3, December 1995. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 6 March 2018 Last modified 6 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Barbara Perry was a successful candidate, who was elected the first time she ran for Parliament as an ALP candidate in the 2001 by-election for the New South Wales Legislative Assembly seat of Auburn. Barbara was re-elected in 2003, 2007 and 2011. She left Parliament in March 2015 after serving as a minister in previous Labor Governments. Prior to entering state politics she was a Councillor with the Auburn Council (1995-2003). Barbara Perry is the daughter of Ralph and Susan Abood, migrants from Lebanon. She is married to Michael Perry, and they have two sons. She was educated by the Sisters of Charity and the Marist Brothers. She graduated in law from the University of Sydney and worked at the Legal Aid Commission from 1990 – mostly in Family Law. Barbara Perry was the first woman of Lebanese origin to be elected to Legislative Assembly. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Australian Women Lawyers as Active Citizens, Trailblazing Women Lawyers Project Team, 2016, http://www.womenaustralia.info/lawyers Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 14 December 2005 Last modified 2 August 2016 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

1 audiocassette (approximately 90 min.)??Father Hilton Roberts talks about migrant families, ties with the church, ethnic groups in the area, English as a second language, the nuns who started Marymead. Margaret Wilson, Judy Agnew and Mary O’Donnell (all former teachers) describe the grounds and classrooms of the mid 1950s and 1960s, working conditions, lessons, concerts and school uniforms. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 6 March 2018 Last modified 6 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Copies of various reports, publications, submissions, articles on the status of women, child care, religion, equality and equal opportunity. Also letter to Jean Baker from the Secretary of Housing regarding home ownership and tenancy problems confronting women, 14 May 1975. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 6 February 2002 Last modified 29 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Haines speaks of her early involvement in Australian politics at the state level; the emergence of the Democrats in South Australia; her election to Federal Parliament in 1977 as a Senator from South Australia; the difficulties confronting a new member of Parliament; her relationship with the media as the female head of a political party; her relationships on a party level with the other major political parties; her election to the position of Deputy leader of the Australian Democrats in 1985 and then in 1986 to the position of Federal leader which she held till the 1990 Federal election; her activities since leaving Parliament in 1990. Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 17 March 2009 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Australian Local Government Womens’ Association constitution and Federal Convention and Annual Conference minutes and reports 1966-1974; ALGWA Victorian Branch Conference Proceedings 1967-1974 (1971 and 1972 Proceedings are missing). Author Details Anne Heywood Created 6 February 2002 Last modified 29 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Emily Renshaw was well known throughout the central west of New South Wales. She was Alderman of the Parkes Municipal Council from 1956-59, 1962-65 and 1971-74. She was also an ALP candidate in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly elections for Dubbo in 1973 and for the NSW Senate in 1975. Emily Renshaw was a long term member of the ALP and widely known in country New South Wales. In 1975, when she was sixth on the party’s ticket, she polled better than the three male candidates at 3, 4, and 5. She had a long career in local government in Parkes, and was active in many local organizations. With Molly Edwards, she founded the Meals on Wheels scheme in Parkes. Published resources Book Women in Australian Parliaments and Local Governments, Past and Present : A Survey, Smith, A. Viola, 1975 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 Newspaper Article 31 years a council stalwart [obituary], Anderson, Ken, 1998 Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 14 December 2005 Last modified 25 September 2015 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

MS Acc11.041 comprises research notes on Harry G. Horsford Sandeman (1856-1919) collated by a National Library of Australia staff member. The notes relate to Sandeman’s autobiography Gone out to Australia, 1882 (MS 3628a) (1 packet). Author Details Alannah Croom Created 6 March 2018 Last modified 6 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Clara Harrod and her sister Emma were among the first white women to settle in the Barrier Ranges district of New South Wales. Clara and Emma Harrod, along with their brothers William and Charles Stayte Junior, were the children of Charles Harrod and Elizabeth Stayte. Charles Senior was the eldest son of Sir William Harrod of Gloucestershire and Lady Ambage. The family migrated from England to Australia in 1852, arriving in Melbourne on the Marco Polo in September of that year. By 1859, the Harrods were living in Swan Hill. Despite his aristocratic heritage, Charles was consistently in financial strife. According to Clara’s personal memoir, Charles offered Emma’s hand in marriage to local publican Henry Raines in exchange for land. Raines, a partner in Cobb & Co. who owned several tracts of land around the colony of Port Phillip, adopted Clara and paid for her education at Kyneton. In 1867, Clara and Emma set out on a 400 mile journey by horse to the Barrier Ranges in New South Wales, where Raines had settled on land at Mt Gipps Station. The inhospitable climate was made worse by an even less hospitable welcome from Raines when they did finally arrive, parched and exhausted. Already a heavy drinker, he became violent and abusive. Nonetheless, it was Clara Harrod who laid the foundation stone that year for Raines’ hotel, the Small Thorns Hotel (later the Mt Gipps Hotel). Henry Raines died in 1873. In 1877, Emma fell pregnant to Duncan McIntyre. She gave birth to a son, Montaglie Stewart McIntyre, in April 1878, but the child lived less than a year. Emma was later remarried to T.G. Alcock and moved to Mitchell, Queensland, in 1884. Clara Harrod married James Stewart Campbell at the Small Thorns Hotel, Mt Gipps, on 11 May 1871 and lived with him at Langawirra Station. Her first daughter, Clara Victoria Elizabeth Campbell, was born in March 1873. A son, Eion, followed some years later. The family lived at several different stations before settling at their property, Claravale, in Queensland. James Campbell died in 1908. As widows, Clara and Emma lived together at Mitchell. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Book Some Outstanding Women of Broken Hill and District, Camilleri, Jenny, 2002 The Memoirs of Clara Ellen Campbell, Campbell, Clara Ellen, 1919 Site Exhibition Unbroken Spirit: Women in Broken Hill, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2009, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/bh/bh-home.html Archival resources State Library of Victoria Family history and papers, 1871-1975. [manuscript]. Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 9 February 2009 Last modified 12 June 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Sister Mary Evangelist was one of the first six nuns to form the Sisters of Mercy at Broken Hill, New South Wales. The first six nuns to arrive in Broken Hill came from Singleton in the Diocese of Maitland, and founded the St Joseph’s Convent in February 1889. They were: Ann Agnes Callen (Sister Mary Josephine), Margaret Hennessy (Sister Mary Clement), Sarah Gallagher (Sister Mary Gertrude), Ellen Dwan (Sister Mary Patrick), Margaret Morris (Sister Mary Ita) and Mary Griffin (Sister Mary Evangelist). Sister Mary Josephine was appointed Reverend Mother of the Sisters of Mercy by Bishop Dunne. Under her leadership, they visited the sick and poor of Broken Hill, provided a home for orphans, and opened five schools in the town by 1896. Mary Griffin grew up at Balranald, New South Wales, and was possibly working as a pupil-teacher at the Loreto Convent School in Melbourne when she met the Sisters from Singleton who were on their way to Broken Hill. She joined the group and taught at Broken Hill high schools until she was appointed Superior of the Mt Barker Convent in 1924. Sister Mary Evangelist spent several years as Superior of the Sisters’ Rest Home at Sans Souci, and as leader of the Deniliquin Community. Published resources Book Some Outstanding Women of Broken Hill and District, Camilleri, Jenny, 2002 Site Exhibition Unbroken Spirit: Women in Broken Hill, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2009, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/bh/bh-home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 16 February 2009 Last modified 20 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Elizabeth Macquarie was born in 1778 in Scotland. She married Colonel Lachlan Macquarie in Devon on 3 November 1807. In 1809 Macquarie was appointed governor of New South Wales, Elizabeth Macquarie accompanied her husband to the colony and kept a vivacious account of the seven month voyage to New South Wales.??The journal describes the voyage from England to Sydney on board the Dromedary and describes several ports of call including Madeira, Rio de Janeiro and Cape Town. Elizabeth Macquarie comments on the events on the ship and daily activities whilst in port, such as places visited, church services attended and visits to and from friends. Mrs Macquarie also mentions that the frequent topic of conversation on board the ship was the state of the colony including Captain Bligh and the events surrounding the Rum Rebellion. Mrs Macquarie mentions people on the voyage including Judge Advocate Ellis Bent and his wife, General and Mrs Mead and Captain John Pascoe of the Hindostan?Rather than recording her experiences on a daily basis, it appears that Mrs Macquarie wrote up her impressions at specific times on the voyage or during port stopovers in Rio or Cape Town. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 21 January 2010 Last modified 27 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)