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Emeritus Professor Gillian Triggs held the positions of President of the Australian Human Rights Commission (2012-2017) and, since 2012, Vice-President, Administrative Tribunal of the Asian Development Bank. Prior to taking up these appointments she served as dean and Challis Professor of International Law, Faculty of Law, University of Sydney (2007 to 2012) and as director of the British Institute of International and Comparative Law (2005 to 2007).

Folder containing a collection of transcribed letters to newspapers written by Mary Lee during her visit to Broken Hill in 1892 (compiled by Elizabeth Mansutti in 1994). Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 12 February 2009 Last modified 12 February 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Series 01?N.S.W. Bush Nursing Association records, 1911-1975??Series 02?Photographs, negatives and objects from the N.S.W. Bush Nursing Association Records, ca. 1920-1975??Series 03?Slides from the N.S.W. Bush Nursing Association Records, 1963, 1968-1970 Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 28 May 2004 Last modified 27 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Born in Brisbane, Kate Auty was educated, and has worked, all over Australia. The former Victorian Commissioner for Environmental Sustainability, she is now an academic who continues to work as a barrister. Auty was the inaugural Koori Court magistrate (Victoria) and Aboriginal sentencing court magistrate in the goldfields and western desert (WA). She has been a Mining Warden (WA). She was also a senior solicitor for the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody (Vic, Tas., WA). Other diverse roles have involved developing justice e-technology in remote and regional settings, and chairing the Ministerial Council on Climate Change Adaptation (Victoria). Auty’s board memberships extend to having chaired the National Rural Law and Justice Alliance. She presently chairs the Boards of NeCTAR, the Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute at the University of Melbourne and a La Trobe Research Focus Area. She is a member of the advisory boards of the Murray-Darling Basin Authority Advisory Committee on Social, Economic and Environmental Sciences, the University of Melbourne Community and Industry Board for the Office of Environmental Programs and the Australian Urban Research Infrastructure Network. Go to ‘Details’ below to read a reflective essay written by Kate Auty for the Trailblazing Women and the Law Project. The following additional information was provided by Kate Auty and is reproduced with permission in its entirety. Kate Auty is a Queenslander by birth but has lived and worked all over Australia. Her parents moved around Australia as her father worked in veterinary and agricultural contexts and Kate has continued to explore the country both in employment settings and leisure activities with her partner Charlie Brydon. Kate’s first schooling was received at the Ord River Research Station where she was exposed to Aboriginal culture through other students and the grand and profound Indigenous art and iconography of the region. From the Ord River, schools as diverse as Surfers Paradise (Qld) and Parap (NT) Primary Schools and the Darwin and Balwyn (Vic) High Schools provided a sound public school education, notwithstanding state and territory vagaries. The benefits of a well-travelled education and a family interested in reading and contemporary issues played out in awards of a Commonwealth Secondary Scholarship in Darwin and a Commonwealth Tertiary Scholarship in Victoria. Interest in Australia, as a cultural geography and a landscape, were instilled in Kate (and her three siblings) as a function of the family’s highly mobile lifestyle, travel for pleasure, and working on a cattle station south of Darwin on weekends and during school holidays (1967-1970). When the family left the Northern Territory to relocate to Melbourne, Kate’s older brother Peter (who had just completed his matriculation with distinction) set out to ride the family’s stock horses to Melbourne. He did this, for the most part, by himself, occasionally picking up with droving teams, until Kate joined him at Bourke (NSW) from where together they continued overland to Melbourne (1971-72 Christmas school holidays). Kate’s tertiary education commenced with the study of arts (history) and law as a dual degree at the University of Melbourne. During her time at university Kate was an active member of the Feminist Lawyers group at Melbourne and through this group she formed enduring friendships with women who were studying at Monash. Kate was also a member of the Folk Music Club at the university. It was at Melbourne that Kate renewed her interest in Aboriginal issues, meeting Sandra Bailey (the first Yorta Yorta woman to gain a law degree) and Rochelle Patten (a senior Yorta Yorta woman who has been instrumental in the genesis of the Yorta Yorta Climate Change Group and the Shepparton Koori Court). These two women have remained significant others in Kate’s life since 1980. Both of these great women have been pivotal in informing Kate’s views about Indigenous exposure to the Australian colonial and post-colonial legal systems. Upon graduation Kate worked for a small criminal law firm in the western suburbs of Melbourne and it was there that she became more exposed to the iniquities of the legal system as it played out in the lives of the working poor of a large metropolis. Lessons from that time, about access to justice, continue to provoke Kate in her work. Kate now (2015) holds the following qualifications: 2012 Graduate/Member, Australian Institute of Company Directors. 2006 Graduate Diploma International Environmental Law, UNITAR. 2000 Doctor of Philosophy, La Trobe University, shortlisted Margaret Medcalfe awards for research excellence (WA). 1999 Certificate of Refugee Interview Training. 1994 Masters of Environmental Science, Monash University. 1979 Bachelor of Arts (honours)/Bachelor of Laws, University of Melbourne. Kate’s Masters in Environmental Science has promoted significant career shifts into roles in academia and as the Victorian Commissioner for Environmental Sustainability (2009-2014). Her interest in taking up this study was prompted by a discussion with another important woman in her life – Louise Kyle, who was also a public school scholarship law student and feminist law student at the University of Melbourne. Kate’s doctorate arose out of her Arts (honours) thesis which explored the 1927 Royal Commission into the Killing and Burning of Aboriginal People in the Forrest River District of the Kimberley in 1926. It also built upon some research undertaken when appointed as to advise Commissioner Patrick Dodson in the RCIADIC in WA. Kate was encouraged to undertake this study by another important woman in her life, Professor Sandy Toussaint, anthropologist. In each of these post graduate endeavours Kate had the support of her mother Jean (an interlocutor, typist and proof reader) and of family members who took a keen interest in the research she did. As you might expect Kate’s employment history has been varied. From 1980-1999 she held the following positions: Solicitor Victorian Aboriginal Legal Service (1980-1983) – here she worked as a solicitor-advocate across the whole state and was involved in the early efforts to attain the repatriation of cultural material and skeletal remains and early land rights discussions. She remains a close friend of the first ALS CEO, Jim Berg – himself a pathfinder and mentor. Solicitor VLA (Superior Courts) (1983). Self-employed principal in legal firm Auty and Popovic – Kate and Jelena Popovic established a welfare law practice in inner Melbourne which represented many women’s refuge clients and Aboriginal people. Senior Solicitor RCIADIC Victoria, Tasmania and Western Australia (1988-1991) – this role saw Kate work all over Victoria, Tasmania, into New South Wales and across Western Australia where she was involved in re-examining specific cases, establishing community conferencing models for discussion of justice issues, and liaising with multiple government departments and agencies and organizing commission hearings and witnesses as with any case preparation. Once her role in the eastern states concluded Kate was invited to join the staff of Commissioner Patrick Dodson to develop the Western Australian RCIADIC community conferencing model and draft report content for the Commissioner. Lecturer and cross-cultural course-developer of the Graduate Diploma/Certificate in Environmental Heritage and Interpretation (Deakin University 1992-1994). Barrister (1992-ongoing, currently Academic List) – a practice in criminal law and administrative law. After the death of her mother in 1999 Kate was appointed a magistrate in Victoria. Initially she worked in Melbourne where she was delegated to the role of the magistrate involved in the development of the Aboriginal Justice Agreement (whilst continuing to work in the ordinary jurisdictions of the court). In 2001 Kate assumed the role of senior coordinating magistrate in the north east, based in Shepparton. It was there that the first Koori Court was ultimately established, in collaboration with the Yorta Yorta people with whom Kate had continued long friendships from her time at the University of Melbourne. This work also drew upon her involvement in community consultation and built upon models derived from the RCIADIC work of the previous decade. The north east Magistrates Court region comprises nine courts – Corryong, Wodonga, Cobram, Mansfield, Myrtleford, Wangaratta, Benalla, Shepparton, Seymour – and whilst acting as the regional Co-ordinating Magistrate and building the Koori Court work Kate worked in all the jurisdictions of the region including as: Magistrate – criminal, civil and family matters. Inaugural Koori Court Magistrate. Coroner. Children’s Court Magistrate – criminal and family matters. Member, Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal. In this role Kate contributed to the ordinary and extraneous work of the court in the following manner: Coordinating Magistrate – establishment of significant community consultation processes and the Koori Court (Shepparton) and the Aboriginal Bail Justices program and Aboriginal Liaison Officer position (Melbourne), setting up the protocols and providing guidance about the creation of the position of Aboriginal Justice Worker attached to Koori Courts. Preparing Senate Select Committee oral and written submissions on justice and regional contexts. Contributing to discussions, papers and seminars on law reform initiatives in sentencing diversion, family group conferencing, the adult corrections cautioning program, mental health court trials, and the disability court pilot program. Production of materials for cross cultural awareness and professional development for Magistrates and County Court Judges. Engagement with diverse community projects involving the Royal Children’s Hospital Intellectual Disability Project , Goulburn Valley Community Health Service, Rumbalara Aboriginal Co-operative , Wangaratta Family Violence Integration Project, and the Human Rights Commission. Kate resigned from her Victorian position once the Koori Court was well bedded down and went to work in the Western Australian Magistracy and as a WA Mining Warden where she remained until 2009. Her interest in doing this arose out of the RCIADIC work and her research interests. It also simply looked interesting. Kate and her partner Charlie Brydon both moved to Kalgoorlie, with Charlie taking up positions with the Goldfields Land and Sea Council as a lawyer and the WA WorkCover Directorate as an arbitrator. The region where Kate worked in WA also comprised nine courts – Kalgoorlie, Coolgardie, Norseman, Esperance, Laverton, Leonora, Warburton, Warrakurna, Kiwikurra). Her formal appointments included: Magistrate. Aboriginal Sentencing Court Magistrate. Industrial Magistrate. Coroner. Mining Warden. Children’s Court Magistrate. In this role Kate contributed to the ordinary and extraneous work of the court in the following manner: Community conferencing to establish the Aboriginal Community Courts in Norseman and Kalgoorlie. Development of cross cultural training for court staff. Development of sentencing training materials for and delivery of the information to senior Aboriginal people involved in the Aboriginal Community Courts. Development of WA Aboriginal Bench Book. Commentary on reports by the Auditor General, Equal Opportunity Commission; and the reference on ‘Aboriginal Customary Law ‘ by WA Law Reform Commission. Presentation to the Commonwealth Bail Act Reform Initiative, Steering Committee of Attorneys General. Boards and other memberships in WA during her time as a magistrate/mining warden : Member, Under Secretary of Treasury Policy Round Table. Member, Chief Justice’s Cultural Awareness Committee. Member National Judicial Council Australia, Aboriginal cultural awareness committee. Chair, Kalgoorlie Courts redevelopment committee collaborating with University of Melbourne, Hassells Architects, WA Department of Justice, regional Aboriginal court user organizations. Chair, DotAG Aboriginal Justice Committee – establishment of Aboriginal sentencing courts. Member, DOIR Mining Act (WA) review committee. Member, Australian Institute of Judicial Administration – Aboriginal cultural awareness committee and steering committee Aboriginal Sentencing Courts conference (Mildura 2007) and steering committee Aboriginal Cultural Awareness conference (Qld 2009). Member, Australian Research Council Linkage Projects: Universities Canberra and Melbourne – Information Technology and Remote Western Australian Courts and Designing Safe Courts (architecture, sociology and justice). Member, COAG Tri-state Justice (WA, SA, NT) Project – developing inter jurisdictional legislative and procedural programs in remote courts in collaboration with contiguous jurisdictions and judicial officers. Member, WA Magistrates Courts modernization of courts’ technology committee. Returning from WA and in the period 2008-2009 in Victoria Kate was appointed as: Inaugural Charles La Trobe Fellow, La Trobe University – examining cross cultural community development, courts, and Indigenous women’s participation in processes. Chair, Ministerial Reference Council on Climate Change Adaptation. Member, Premier’s Climate Change Adaptation Advisory Committee. Member, Department of Treasury and Finance Green Procurement Task Force. Currently Kate is appointed to the following positions: 2014-2017 – University of Melbourne Vice Chancellor’s Fellow. 2010-ongoing – Adjunct Professor, Faculty of Law and Business, La Trobe University. 2014 – ongoing – Member of the Victorian Bar, Academic. From the period 2009 Kate has been or continues as a member of the following boards/committees: 2009 – ongoing Member, Murray Darling Basin Authority Advisory Committee on Social, Economic and Environmental Sciences. Chair, National eResearch Collaborative Tools and Research Board (Commonwealth Super Science initiative – University of Melbourne host organisation). Chair, Humanities Research Focus Advisory Board, La Trobe University. Chair, Melbourne Sustainable Societies Institute Advisory Board, University of Melbourne. Member Australian Urban Research Infrastructure Network Board (Commonwealth Super Science initiative – University of Melbourne host organisation). Member University of Melbourne Office of Environmental Programs Community and Industry Advisory Board. Member, Sustainability Research Focus Advisory Board, La Trobe University. Member, Faculty of Law and Business Advisory Council, La Trobe University. Member, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS). Retired positions 2009-2014: Member, Education for Sustainability Advisory Committee, Monash University (retired 2014). Member, La Trobe University Institute for Social and Environmental Sustainability External Industry and Community Advisory Board and Internal Advisory Board (retired 2012 when the Institute ceased due to a university restructure). Member, RMIT-UN Global Compact, Cities Program. Member, Environment Institute of Australia and New Zealand. Inaugural Chairperson, National Rural Law and Justice Alliance (2012-2014). Kate continues to engage in pro bono public speaking on issues of Aboriginal justice and environment. This takes her all over the state and she is fortunate to have the Vice Chancellor’s Fellow appointment as a backstop for this work. On a community level Kate is a member of the group Strathbogie Voices in the north east of Victoria where she currently lives and she also enjoys membership of the Euroa Environment Group and Euroa Arboretum. In her community she is actively working with other volunteers promoting a discussion about environment and climate change (see www.strathbogievoices.com.au). In 2015 this community development work has produced the Euroa Environment Series and, from 2014 into the future her energies (when not being expended in board and other appointments) will be directed to the encouragement of participation in all our democratic processes. Published resources Resource Section Kate Auty, 2015, http://heresheis.org.au/environment-sustainability/2013/02/professor-kate-auty/ 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 Kate Auty Created 12 October 2015 Last modified 21 November 2019 Digital resources Title: Kate Auty Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

A letter dated 29 December by Rosa Praed to Mrs Harris, apologizing for her being unable to accept an invitation Author Details Lee Butterworth Created 22 June 2009 Last modified 27 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

The Unemployed Women’s Union was a response to the economic downturn of 1980. They wanted to debunk the myth of working married women as the cause of unemployment, defend the right for all women to work, and as a support group for unemployed women. The picketed employers, published a newsletter, spoke at rallies, wrote letters to newspapers and politicians, and applied for jobs en masse.??Papers of the South Australian Unemployed Women’s Union comprising minutes of meetings; membership records; contacts; newspaper cuttings; promotional leaflets; and conference information. Author Details Kathleen Bambridge Created 18 December 2009 Last modified 24 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Gillian Rolton is Australia’s first female equestrian gold-medallist. She has won or placed at the Olympic Games, the World Championships, the Trans-Tasman’s and international competitions in Europe and Australia. A schoolteacher from Adelaide, Gillian Rolton was a Show and Dressage rider from the age of ten until her early twenties. She began Eventing and Showjumping at twenty-one, and has been competing at an international level since 1984. Rolton was long-listed for the Olympic Games at Los Angeles and Seoul, but missed out on both due to injury (to the horse in the first instance, and to herself in the second). In 1992 she was a late inclusion the Australian equestrian team competing at the Barcelona Olympic Games after she beat all male members of the team in the final selection trial at Savernake, England. Competing alongside Matt Ryan and Andrew Hoy, Rolton rode an excellent round on Peppermint Grove on the final day of competition, and became the first Australian female equestrian to win a gold medal. Rolton achieved even greater notoriety after the Olympic Games in Atlanta in 1996. Thrown twice from Peppermint Grove in the cross-country section, Rolton remounted and finished the course despite a broken collar-bone and two broken ribs. The Australian team, comprised of Andrew Hoy, Wendy Schaeffer, Phillip Dutton and Rolton, won gold. Since 2003, Rolton has been coordinating and coaching the EFA National Young Eventing Rider Squad. She is an FEI International Eventing judge and is on the Board of Adelaide International Horse Trials. Events 1996 - 1996 Equestrian – Three Day Event (Team) 1992 - 1992 Equestrian – Three day Event (Team) Published resources Book Free Rein, Rolton, Gillian, 2003 Resource Australia at the Games, Australian Olympic Committee, 2006, http://corporate.olympics.com.au/index.cfm?p=25 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 Edited Book The Oxford Companion to Australian Sport, Vamplew, Vray; Moore, Katharine; O'Hara, John; Cashman, Richard; Jobling, Ian, 1997 Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 31 January 2007 Last modified 21 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Mary Coutts Michie was the wife of George McCulloch, who masterminded the syndicate behind the BHP Company in Broken Hill, New South Wales. The daughter of a miner, William Smith, Mary married Frans Mayger (also spelt Meaker) at Burra, South Australia. In 1885 the Maygers were employed by George McCulloch at his Mt Gipps homestead near Broken Hill, with Mary as housekeeper. Frans died in May that year after falling from his horse, and Mary moved to Melbourne. There she met with George McCulloch once again and returned to Broken Hill as his fiancée. The pair were married in the Strand Registrar’s Office in London on 11 May 1893, and travelled for two years in Britain, Egypt and Canada. They had one son, Alexander. George McCulloch died in London in December 1907, leaving his £436,000 estate to his wife along with a collection of art that was subsequently auctioned for a total of £136,859. In 1909, Mary married Scottish artist James Coutts Michie. He too died in London, in 1919. During the First World War, Mary presided over a Red Cross Hospital and was decorated with the Order of the British Empire for her services. Mary Coutts Michie visited Broken Hill once again in 1925. Adding to donations by George McCulloch, she gave a series of paintings to the Broken Hill City Gallery. Published resources Book Some Outstanding Women of Broken Hill and District, Camilleri, Jenny, 2002 Broken Hill, Kearns, Richard Hugh Bell, 1974 Site Exhibition Unbroken Spirit: Women in Broken Hill, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2009, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/bh/bh-home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources Outback Archives, Broken Hill City Library McCulloch, George Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 23 January 2009 Last modified 20 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Beverley Giegerl is a long serving local Councillor who ran for election to parliament only once: as an Independent in the 1988 elections to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Georges River. She has better luck in 1991 when she was elected to the Hurstville City Council. She has been re-elected several times and will serve on the council until 2007. Beverley Giegerl was elected Vice President of the Metropolitan Public Libraries Association of NSW in 2000, and President in 2003. She was Chair of the LGSA Standing Committee for Community Services and Planning and the LGSA Library and Information Services Reference Group. 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 14 February 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Justice Margaret McMurdo AC is the President of the Court of Appeal of the Supreme Court of Queensland. She was the first woman appointed as the presiding judge of an appellate court in Australia. McMurdo was born in 1954 in Brisbane, the youngest of six children born to Gina, a homemaker, and Joe, a commercial law solicitor and ultimately senior partner at Thynne & Macartney. She attended New Farm State School and Brisbane Girls Grammar School (1967 – 1971) before studying law at the University of Queensland. During her university years, she volunteered at the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Legal Service. She graduated with a Bachelor of Laws in 1975. On 16 December 1976, McMurdo was admitted as a barrister of the Supreme Court of Queensland. She worked in the Public Defender’s Office (1976-89), holding the office of assistant public defender (1978-89). McMurdo then practised at the private bar in Brisbane (1989-91), holding a commission to prosecute. She was a part-time member of the Criminal Justice Commission Misconduct Tribunal (1990-91). McMurdo was a founding committee member (1978-82) and then president (1980-81) of the Women Lawyers Association and a founding member of the Department of Children’s Services Serious Offenders Review Panel (1978-83). McMurdo was appointed a judge of the District Court of Queensland on 29 January 1991, being the first woman to be appointed to the court. She also served as a judge of the Children’s Court of Queensland from 1993. On 30 July 1998, McMurdo was appointed a judge of the Supreme Court of Queensland and the second president of the Court of Appeal. She was the first woman appointed as the presiding judge of an appellate court in Australia. McMurdo was appointed a Companion of the Order of Australia in 2007 and awarded the Centenary Medal in 2003. She was awarded the Queensland Law Society’s Agnes McWhinney Award in 2006. She was awarded the degree of Doctor of the University by Griffith University (2000) and by the Queensland University of Technology (2009). McMurdo was awarded an honorary Doctorate of Laws of the University of Queensland (2012). She has also served as a trustee of Brisbane Girls Grammar School (1994-98) and a member of the council of Griffith University (from 2003). On 23 January 1976, McMurdo married Philip Donald McMurdo who later became a judge of the Supreme Court of Queensland. They have four adult children. The following additional information was provided by Anne Crittall, Associate to the Honourable Justice Margaret McMurdo AC, 2014 – 2015, and is reproduced with permission in its entirety. Justice Margaret McMurdo AC is the President of the Court of Appeal of the Supreme Court of Queensland. Margaret Anne Hoare was born in 1954 in Brisbane. Her father (Joseph Harold Hoare) was a commercial law solicitor and ultimately senior partner at Thynne & Macartney. She was the youngest of six children. She attended New Farm State School and Brisbane Girls Grammar School (1967 – 1971) before studying law at the University of Queensland. During her university years, she volunteered at the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Legal Service. She graduated with a Bachelor of Laws in 1975. On 23 January 1976, she married Philip Donald McMurdo who later became a judge of the Supreme Court of Queensland. They have four adult children. From 1975 to 1976 she worked as associate to his Honour Judge Alan Demack, later the Honourable Justice Demack, first in the District Court of Queensland and then in the Family Court of Australia. On 16 December 1976 she was admitted as a barrister. She joined the Public Defender’s Office as its first female paralegal. She was an assistant public defender from 1978 to 1989 appearing regularly in high profile cases in all Queensland courts and on two occasions in the High Court of Australia. She was also a founding member of the Department of Children’s Services Serious Offenders Review Panel (1978 – 1983). In 1989 she commenced practice at the private bar in Brisbane where she practiced primarily in criminal defence work. She also held a commission to prosecute and developed a growing civil practice. In January 1991 she became the first woman appointed a judge of the District Court of Queensland. At 36, she was also the youngest judge ever commissioned to the Queensland District Court. She convened the District Court Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Committee. From 1993 she also served as a judge of the Children’s Court of Queensland, the first woman to be appointed to that role. Justice McMurdo was appointed President of the Court of Appeal, Supreme Court of Queensland in July 1998. She was its second president and the first woman appointed as the presiding judge of an appellate court in Australia. Her Honour has a deep commitment to education, serving as a trustee of the Brisbane Girls Grammar School (1994 – 1998), a member of the Queensland University of Technology Faculty of Law Advisory Council (1991 – 2011) and a member of the Griffith University Council (2003 – 2013). Justice McMurdo has been awarded the Centenary Medal (2003) and the Queensland Law Society’s Agnes McWhinney Award (2006). In 2007 she was appointed a Companion of the Order of Australia for “service to the law and judicial administration in Queensland, particularly in the areas of legal education and women’s issues, to the support of a range of legal organisations, and to the community.” Her contribution to the law has also been recognised by a number of tertiary institutions. She was awarded the degrees of Doctor of the University by Griffith University (2000) and by the Queensland University of Technology (2009), and an honorary Doctorate of Laws by the University of Queensland (2012). She is a founding fellow of the Australian Academy of Law, a member of the American Law Institute, and a Queensland committee member of the Australian Association of Women Judges (2014 – 2015). Justice McMurdo’s passion for social justice has permeated her career. In 1978 she co-founded the Women Lawyers Association of Queensland (WLAQ) and was its president from 1980 to 1981. Her Honour was patron of Southside Education Centre, a school for disadvantaged young women who have not flourished in mainstream education (2001 -2009). She mentors Indigenous law students from Queensland universities through regular work experience placements. Her Honour is currently patron of both the Women’s Legal Service and QPILCH’s Civil Justice Fund. She has been a member of the Zonta Club of Brisbane for over 35 years. Her Honour’s leadership in promoting excellence in judicial administration, legal professional ethics, protection of the rule of law, judicial independence, and the advancement of women and disadvantaged groups are evidenced by her published articles and speeches. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Book Section Margaret McMurdo, Goss, Caitlin and Currie, Susan, 2005 Resource Section Judicial Papers and Judicial Profile of The Honourable Justice Margaret A McMurdo AC, Supreme Court Library Queensland, 2015, http://www.sclqld.org.au/judicial-papers/judicial-profiles/profiles/mamcmurdo Site Exhibition Australian Women Lawyers as Active Citizens, Trailblazing Women Lawyers Project Team, 2016, http://www.womenaustralia.info/lawyers Author Details Anne Crittall (with Nikki Henningham) Created 13 October 2015 Last modified 1 November 2016 Digital resources Title: Margaret McMurdo Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Lynne Kosky was elected Member (ALP) for Altona in 1996. On the election of the Labor Government at the 1999 Victorian state election, she held the portfolios of Finance, and later Post Compulsory Education, Training and Employment. After her re-election at the 2002 state election, she was appointed the Minister for Education and Training. She was re-elected at the 2006 state election and held the portfolios of Public Transport and Minister for the Arts. In January 2010 she resigned from the parliament, citing serious family health problems as the reason for her resignation. She died at Williamstown on 4 December 2014.

Margaret Irene Lang first served in Solonika with the Australian Army Nursing Service in the First World War. During the Second World War, she was Matron-in-Chief of the Royal Australian Air Force Nursing Service. She completed her training at the Wangaratta District Hospital and the Women’s Hospital (later Royal) in Melbourne. Lang was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire on 8 June 1950 for service with the Royal Australian Air Force Nursing Service during the Second World War. [Source: http://www.womenaustralia.info/biogs/AWE0572b.htm]?overall: 54.8 x 40.8 cm; framed: 64 x 50 cm?oil on canvas on board?Australia: Victoria, Melbourne Author Details Anne Heywood Created 1 October 2003 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Folder containing notes, photographs and newspaper clippings. Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 13 February 2009 Last modified 13 February 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

MS Acc10.159 comprises personal and professional correspondence, curriculum vitae, reviews, programs, photographs, flyers, invitations, articles and mementos that document Liedtke’s career as a dancer and choreographer, her time as a student, her accidental death and the instigation of the Tanja Liedtke Foundation. A descriptive listing created by the Tanja Liedtke Foundation, including biographical and contextual information, can be found in Box 1 of the collection. Eight posters transferred to Pictures collection (3 boxes).??The Acc12.052 instalment comprises a poem, programs, flyers and news cuttings relating to Liedtke (1 folder). Author Details Alannah Croom Created 27 February 2018 Last modified 27 February 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Further copies [some being photocopies of originals held here, and supplied to WEL people organizing commemorative celebrations] of early membership lists etc. gathered for the purpose of organizing celebrations in 1992, 1997 etc., and Mary Owen Dinners. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 30 December 2017 Last modified 30 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Fay Lo Po’ retired in 2003 after a distinguished public career in NSW politics. A long time member of the Australian Labor Party, she served in local government (on the Penrith City Council) before winning the seat of Penrith in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly in 1991. Lo Po was re-elected in 1995 and 1999. While an MP, she held a number of portfolios, including Minister for Women, Community Services, Fair Trading and Consumer Affairs. She was Shadow Minister for Housing in 1994-95 while the ALP were in opposition. Fay Lo Po’ was also heavily involved in local politics in the 1970s and 80s, culminating in a term as Mayor of the Penrith City Council in 1990-1991. She was Alderman of Prospect Electricity (1980-1987, 1991-1992) serving as Chair. From 1986-1987. She was Chair of the NSW Women’s Advisory Council, a Member of the Metropolitan Waste Disposal Authority, Chair of the NSW Board of Adult Education and Patron of various groups. She was appointed an AM in 1984. Parliamentary and Local Government Career Local Government Member Penrith City Council 1971-74, 1980-95 Mayor Penrith 1990-91 State Government Elected, New South Wales Legislative Assembly, Penrith 1991, 1995, 1999, Shadow Minister for Housing, 1994-95 Minister for Consumer Affairs, 1995 Minister for Fair Trading, 1995-97 Minister for Women 1995 to 2003 Minister for Community Services, Aging and Disability Services, from 1997 to 2003 Retired 2003. Published resources Resource Women Members of the NSW Parliament, Parliament of New South Wales, http://www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/prod/web/PHWebContent.nsf/PHPages/LibraryCompendiumwomenmp?OpenDocument Women Members of the Parliament of New South Wales, Robert Lawrie, Manager, New South Wales Parliamentary Archives, http://sites.archivenet.gov.au/nswparla/HTM%20pages/GuidePages/Women/members.htm Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Edited Book Who's Who in Australia 2001, Herd, Margaret, 2000 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 Anne Heywood and Nikki Henningham Created 17 October 2001 Last modified 2 February 2016 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Raelene Boyle represented Australia at four Olympic games as a sprinter. She was appointed a Member of the British Empire on 15 June 1974 for services to athletics, and was named ABC Sportsperson of the Year in 1974. Named by the National Trust as one of ‘100 Living Treasures in 1998’, Raelene Boyle was an Olympic torchbearer at the Opening Ceremony of the Sydney Olympic Games in 2000. Raelene Boyle, daughter of Gilbert MacDonald and Irene Joy (née Wilkinson) Boyle was educated at Coburg High School. At 17 years of age she was selected to represent Australia in the 1968 Mexico City Olympics. She won a silver medal in the 200-metre sprint and ran fourth in the 100m. She also won medals at the Munich (1972) and the Montreal (1976) Olympics. She did not complete in the 1980 Moscow Olympics. At the Montreal Games in 1976, Raelene Boyle was the first Australian woman to be given the honour of carrying the Australian flag into the opening ceremony. She finished fourth in the 100 metre final after a slow start and was disqualified for a false start in the 200 metre semi-final. Raelene Boyle had been favourite to win the gold medal in her favourite event. The electronic starting device registered a clean start, but the starter, Jack Fisher, recalled the athletes. He claimed Boyle had jumped the gun. Film of the incident later showed she hadn’t – even though she did move her shoulders. Raelene Boyle completed in the Edinburgh (1970), Christchurch (1974), Edmonton (1978) and at Brisbane (1982) Commonwealth Games. After retiring from competitive athletics, she completed a horticulture course at the Victorian College of Agriculture and Horticulture (Burnley) and worked as a landscape gardener for the then Prahran Council. She has also been involved with coaching and television commentary. Raelene Boyle was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1996 and has since assisted in raising awareness of the disease, becoming a founding member of Sporting Chance Cancer Foundation in 1997. Events 1968 - 1968 Athletics – 200m Sprint Event 1972 - 1972 Athletics – 100m and 200m sprint events 1976 - 1976 2007 - 2007 Appointed a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) 1970 - 1970 Athletics – 100m and 200m, 4 x 100m Relay 1974 - 1974 Athletics – 100m and 200m, 4 x 100m Relay 1982 - 1982 Athletics – 400m 2001 - 2001 Awarded a Centenary Medal ‘for service to Australian society through the sport of athletics’ 2000 - 2000 Awarded an Australian Sports Medal for ‘outstanding contribution as a competitor (Athletics)’ 1974 - 1974 Awarded The Order of the British Empire – Member (Civil) (Imperial) ‘in recognition of service to the sport of athletics’ Published resources Book Encyclopedia of Australia Sport, Shepherd, Jim, 1980 Australia at the Olympics, Andrews, Malcolm, 2000 Resource Section Raelene Boyle, http://www.national.com.au/Community/0||||2173||00.html Edited Book Monash Biographical Dictionary of 20th Century Australia, Arnold, John and Morris, Deirdre, 1994 Who's Who in Australia 2002, Herd, Margaret, 2002 Newspaper Article On the Boyle, Reed, Ron, 2003 Resource Australia at the Games, Australian Olympic Committee, 2006, http://corporate.olympics.com.au/index.cfm?p=25 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 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 Author Details Anne Heywood and Nikki Henningham Created 18 October 2002 Last modified 5 April 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Papers of Daisy May Bates, 1863-1951, welfare worker and anthropologist, comprising correspondence, including letters written by Daisy Bates from Wynbring Siding, Streaky Bay and Pyap, photographs showing Daisy Bates at Streaky Bay with the Thompson family and at Pyap, and a description of marriage customs of Aboriginal people of south west Western Australia. Author Details Elle Morrell Created 9 February 2001 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Anne Heywood Created 28 November 2002 Last modified 5 June 2009 Digital resources Title: First Officer Margaret Curtis-Otter Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

3 digital audio tapes (ca. 241 min.)??Hon. Judith Cohen, solicitor, speaks on her Jewish family background; childhood and schooling; family encouragement; arts/law at Sydney University; difficulties facing women lawyers post-World War II; memorable class members and lecturers; early experience of law; boat cruise to Europe; meeting husband and moving to Melbourne; her husband Sam Cohen; Alf Conlon’s think tank; Sam’s legal and political careers and Jewish activities; 1950s Labor Party split; period off work with small children; her return to work; Diploma of Education and teaching experience; death of her husband; return to her law career; appointment to the Arbitration Commission; the importance of positive discrimination; issues raised during her period as a Commissioner (introduction of maternity leave, parental leave and part-time work, bringing nurses into a uniform federal award, superannuation); working in the Northern Territory; various appointments; the General Insurance Claims Review Panel; her pioneering position; contemporary women lawyers; the problems associated with megafirms; the role of alternative dispute resolution; the differences between being a lawyer and a judge; Doc Evatt; Arthur Calwell; Bill Hayden; meeting Harold Wilson; Anthony Mason and her travels. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 4 February 2015 Last modified 21 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Autobiography:?Folder 1. “Holywood”: birth, life and practice in Ireland. [34 pp.]?Folder 2. {Untitled]: Matriculation 1889, medical course, London studies, Tubingen, Boer War, back to Ireland. Melbourne 1904 -, commenting on the state of the University and on its staff (chiefly the Professors) in his day. [ pp.] Letter, n.d. but written in retirement, on the McClelland Family to which he was related. Publications including his A Primer of Dietetics, 6th ed.1943; German Grammar for Science Students, 1906 (with Ethel); Selected Essays, 1943. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 25 May 2004 Last modified 30 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

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May Mills was played a prominent role in the development of women’s sport in South Australia. She was President of the South Australian Women’s Cricket Association and the Australian Women’s Cricket Council in the 1960s. Prior to that she was President of the South Australian Women’s Amateur Sports Council, the body that successfully lobbied the then Premier, Sir Thomas Playford, to secure access to playing fields for the dedicated use of women. Trained as a teacher, she taught at Unley High School for thirty years. She became the first female President of the South Australian Institute of Teachers in 1943. Apart from her interest in women’s sport and teaching, Mills was active in a number of other spheres of public life. She was the first President of the South Australian Film and Television Council, a founding member of the Australian College of Education, a Life Vice-President of the National Council of Women and a Life Member of the Royal Commonwealth Society. She was the first women in South Australia to secure a license to drive a motor car. May Mills contribution to women’s cricket was recognised in 1984/85 by the creation of the May Mills Trophy for the Under 18 national Championship. This competition ran until 1995/96. The extent of Mills’ involvement in public life gives proof to the old aphorism which tells us that if you want something done, ask a busy person. May Mills wasn’t just busy, however, she was canny. She saved thousands of dollars of development costs by enticing major corporations to test their heavy machinery on the ovals, therefore getting them cleared and levelled at no cost to the sporting clubs. She organised parties of youngsters to plant almond trees around the oval and then, when the trees began to bear fruit, organised other children to harvest the crop, thus creating another source of funds through their sale. 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 Archival resources State Library of South Australia South Australian Women's Memorial Playing Fields Trust : SUMMARY RECORD May Mills : SUMMARY RECORD Radio interview with May Mills [sound recording] Interviewer: Lynne Arnold Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 12 January 2007 Last modified 20 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Office files (phonelog books), correspondence, material for publication; subject files; publications of other organizations; reports etc. from government departments and Quangos; copy of Elspeth Preddey’s “Women’s Electoral Lobby Australia New Zealand 1972-85”, (Wellington 1985) – a potted history. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 30 December 2017 Last modified 30 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Correspondence 1859-1908 including letters from W.B. Clarke, W. Woolls, and F. Mueller, manuscript of part of ‘A Voice in the Country’ published in the “Sydney Morning Herald” 1861-70 and newspaper cuttings on Calvert and Woolls and articles by Mueller [A4496]. Full copy of ‘A Voice in the Country’ with newspaper cuttings of other articles by Calvert 1861-70 [A4497]. Watercolours of ferns, apparently intended as illustrations for a book on Australian ferns [40 items, A4498]. Calvert sketchbook including sketches and watercolours of Oldbury, birds, plants and butterflies, and practice drawings [A4499]. Calvert sketchbook including watercolours and sketches of scenes [A4500]. Sketches by Calvert and others including five specimen plates for book on Australian animals and birds to be published in Germany [A4501]. Notes by Louisa Calvert; copies of presentation books [ML MSS 3849]. See also uncatalogued materials [Pic Acc 4928]. Ambrotype of Calvert [MIN 180]. Author Details Elle Morrell Created 9 February 2001 Last modified 5 August 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

TS notes written up by Marie Olive Reay from original research carried out by Camilla Hildegard Wedgwood on Manus Island, c. 1933-34. the material was transferred from the Department of Anthropology. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 19 November 2003 Last modified 19 November 2003 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Elizabeth Beveridge was a Foundation member and President of the Country Women’s Association (CWA) in Tasmania. Elizabeth Beveridge (née Reader) immigrated to Australia with her family while she was still a child. She married Frank Beveridge of “Alva” Hagley at St Andrews Church Launceston, in 1912. They were to have three children. Prior to marrying, Elizabeth assisted at a small private Progressive School at Trevallyn. She also taught music and singing. After her marriage she continued to conduct award-winning mixed and children’s choirs. She became well known in musical and literary circles, especially for her love of monologues and readings. A keen gardener and embroiderer, Elizabeth contributed to all facets of life in her community. She helped raise money for charity through her “Concert Party” which she organised and toured to country centres. During World War II, she conducted community singing to raise money for the Comforts Fund, and introduced camouflage net making classes. Elizabeth strongly supported the Show Judges Association, Child Health Clinics and the Red Cross Society. She was President of the Wilmot Branch of the Australian Women’s National League. She was organist at the Hagley Presbyterian Church, where she taught Sunday school and organised Fairs and Flower Shows. Elizabeth was honoured by being named Patron of the Hagley Community Club and Hagley Farm School, where she taught music and drama. A memorial to her is located in the Hagley Recreation Ground and trees are planted in her memory. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Anne Heywood Created 7 June 2002 Last modified 5 June 2009 Digital resources Title: Elizabeth Beveridge Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Edith Bonny’s Matriculation Certificate 29 March 1890. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 6 February 2002 Last modified 29 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

4 hours 6 minutes. Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 4 March 2009 Last modified 24 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

1 digital audio tape (ca. 56 min.)??Dr June Factor speaks about the involvement of her parents and her self in the Itzik Wittenberg Study Group since its inception in the 1960s. She speaks about her father’s (Saul Factor) background and active role in the Itzik Wittenberg Study Group (IWSG); the background of other IWSG members who survived the WWII by escaping over the Polish- Soviet Union border; the subsequent influence of years spent in Soviet Union by most of IWSG members; the politically left wing nature of the IWSG; IWSG’s attachment to the Jewish culture, Yiddish language and culture; the Bund Group, ideologies and history of Bundist movement; her schooling at the Peretz school, run by Bundists; the Kadima and its role in Jewish community.??Dr Factor speaks about the IWSG’s beginnings after Six-Day War,1967; broad political views of the Jewish community in Australia from 1941; growing anti-semitism in Poland as a response to Jews being involved in politics after WWII; her father’s role in the IWSG; IWSG’s close ties with the Polish Consulate, Polish seamen and the Soviet Consulate; her father’s involvement with the Jewish Council to Combat Fascism and Anti-Semitism, Communist Party, Socialist Party and his interest in Cuba; Australian Jewish News being a battleground for all major issues; IWSG’s lack of interest in the next generation taking over the Group. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 6 March 2018 Last modified 6 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Mairi Petersen is widely known and respected in the labor movement, particularly in Illawarra. She stood as an ALP candidate in the following elections: New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Bligh in 1976. House of Representatives for Wentworth in 1975. City of Shellharbour Council in 1995. Mairi Petersen was born in Maclean on the north coast of New South Wales and completed her Primary Teacher’s Certificate at Newcastle Teachers’ College. Her first appointment was to Kellyville Primary School in the north west of Sydney. Subsequently she taught at Forest Lodge, Darlinghurst, Fort Street, Clovelly and Glenmore road, Paddington in the inner suburbs. Later she moved to the Illawarra area and taught at Mount Warrigal, Albion Park Rail and Shellharbour primary schools. Mairi Petersen married (1) Robert Gould (marriage dissolved) with whom she had a daughter, Natalie, and (2) George Petersen, MLA for Illawarra 1968-1988 (died 28 March 2000). Together the Petersen’s ran an environmental radio programme on the community radio station 2 VOX-FM for eight years. Mairi Petersen has travelled widely, particularly to third world countries, and was a member of the Cuba Work Brigade. She has been an active member of Amnesty International for many years and has taken part in many other community activities. She and George Petersen were long time members of the Illawarra Folk Club and Mairi has sung with the Trade Union Choir. She is active in the Illawarra section of the Australian Society for the Study of Labor History, and has been a member of the Council for Civil Liberties for many years. 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 20 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Sister Mary Clement 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 Hennessy (Sister Mary Clement) and her sister Elizabeth (Sister Mary Ligouri) were among four Postulants brought to Australia from Ireland by Bishop Murray of Maitland in the early 1880s. They entered the Singleton Convent on 2 February 1882, and left for Broken Hill in 1889 when Sister Mary Clement was in her mid-thirties. She was appointed Assistant to the Reverend Mother and, as a qualified primary school teacher, was placed in charge of St Mary’s School at Railwaytown. Sister Mary Clement was also charged with care of the girls at St Ann’s Orphanage, and served as Superior of the South Broken Hill Convent from 1907 to 1908, and 1910 to 1911. Published resources Book Some Outstanding Women of Broken Hill and District, Camilleri, Jenny, 2002 A guide to the records of the Sisters of Mercy of Australia, Ryan, Mary, 1984 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 16 February 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Established in 1927 by Dr Fanny Reading MBE, the National Council of Jewish Women of Australia (Vic) provides community support to vulnerable people, promotes a harmonious multicultural society, works to advance the status of women and supports projects in Israel. Inspired by Jewish values, the NCJWA (Vic) aims to create a better world for women. Programs the NCJWA (Vic) runs include: Caring Mums, a home-based, non-denominational free service that provides emotional support to mums of newborn babies and women during pregnancy. Empowering Single Jewish Women and Effective Relationship Programs, which aim to support single women to manage the emotional upheaval post separation and promote the development of positive relationship skills. Support for the elderly programs. Support for Women from the former Soviet Union. Interfaith Activities. Status of Women activities, which involves a commitment to promoting human rights through equality, access and equity for women and girls within the Jewish and broader communities. Support for Israel fundraising activities. Opportunity Shop activities. The Melbourne Council of Jewish Women (from 1929 the National Council of Jewish Women, Victoria Section) was established in 1927 at a meeting held at the home Fanny Reading’s parents (Reading had established the first Council of Jewish Women in New South Wales in 1923). Within a week the Council boasted 80 members. The founding president was Marie Patkin. A Junior Section of the Council was established in 1929, which held numerous social events (after WWII this re-established as the Social Set and later Alma). From the outset, the Council raised money for numerous local and international Jewish causes and relief efforts, and concerned itself with migrant welfare work. Since the establishment of Israel, the Council has supported numerous programs for the new Jewish State. During WWII, they contributed to the broader Australian war effort in a similar fashion to most women’s organisations of this time. In the years after the war, much of the Council’s effort was direct towards assisting with the settlement of new migrants. There were also numerous fund raising activities and other social services such as Meals on Wheels, and support for those with disabilities. From the 1970s, issues relating to the status of women generally have also been a focus. Over its long history, the Council has been involved in an enormous array of issues, as well as charitable, educational and social activities. The Council continues today as a non-profit, voluntary, organisation for Jewish women, acting for their advancement and for social justice generally. Published resources Conference Proceedings First Jewish Women's Conference, May 21st to 27th, 1929, 1929 Newsletter The Council bulletin / National Council of Jewish Women, 1926- Book Making a Difference: A History of the National Council of Jewish Women of Australia, Newton, Marlo Leigh, 2000 Forever Eve: An Anthology Celebrating NCJWV 75th Anniversary 2002, 2002 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Jane Carey Created 9 September 2004 Last modified 26 July 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Miles Franklin’s place in Australian literary history was assured when on her death in 1954, she made provision for an award for Australian literature. The Miles Franklin Award is the most prestigious for an Australian author to receive. Although she spent almost twenty-four years away from Australia, working mainly in Chicago and London, she was committed to pursuing the notion of the unique Australian perspective in literature. Despite her early success with the publication of ‘My Brilliant Career’ in 1901, she struggled to gain the recognition she believed she was capable of achieving. Nevertheless on her return to Australia in 1932 she entered the Sydney literary scene enthusiastically and had many of her works published. Miles Franklin, the eldest child of John Maurice Franklin and Margaret Susannah Helena, nee Lampe, was educated at home and after 1889 at Thornford Public School, when the family moved to Stillwater. They later moved to Cranebrook near Penrith in 1902. After working as a governess in 1897, Miles Franklin, completed her first novel ‘My Brilliant Career’ in 1899. It was published in London in 1901 after being rejected for publication in Australia. Writing was her means to independence and she left for the United States of America in 1906. She spent nine years working in Chicago for the National Women’s Trade Union League with fellow Australian Alice Henry. She continued to pursue her writing career. She moved to London in 1915, worked briefly at a creche run by Margaret McMillan in Deptford, as a cook, as a volunteer in Macedonia with the Scottish Women’s Hospitals for Foreign Service, and as a secretary. She remained in London until 1927, but visited Australia in 1923-1924 and again in 1927. She returned to London in 1930 in search of publishers, but settled in Australia permanently in 1932 after her father’s death in 1931. During this period she wrote under the pseudonym ‘Brent of Bin Bin’. Despite the demands of her ageing mother, Miles Franklin became a major personality on the Sydney literary scene, supporting new publications and fellowships for Australian writers. She maintained her commitment to an Australian literature until her death. Her published works include: My Brilliant career (1901) Some everyday folk and Dawn (Edinburgh,1909) The net of circumstance ( London 1915) Prelude to waking Old Blastus of Bandicoot ( London 1931) Bring that monkey All that swagger My career goes bung Events 2001 - 2001 Inducted into the Victorian Honour Roll of Women Published resources Book All that swagger, Franklin, Miles, 1936 Childhood at Brindabella: my first ten years, Franklin, Miles, 1963 My brilliant career, Franklin, Miles, 1902 My brilliant career; My career goes bung, Franklin, Miles, 2004 Old Blastus of Bandicoot: opuscule on a pioneer tufted with ragged rhymes, Franklin, Miles, 1931 Back to Bool Bool: a ramiparous novel with several prominent characters and a hantle of others disposed as the atolls of Oceania's archipelagoes/ by Brent of Bin Bin, Franklin, Miles, 1956 Bring the monkey : a light novel, Franklin, Miles, 1933 Cockatoos/ by Brent of Bin Bin, Franklin, Miles Guide to the papers and books of Miles Franklin in the Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, 1980 The Complete Book of Great Australian Women: Thirty-six women who changed the course of Australia, De Vries, Susanna, 2003 Jean Devanny: Romantic Revolutionary, Ferrier, Carole, 1999 Laughter, not for a cage : notes on Australian writing, with biographical emphasis on the struggles, function, and achievements of the novel in three half-centuries, Franklin, Miles, 1956 Stella Miles Franklin: A Biography, Joe, Jill, 2008 Edited Book The diaries of Miles Franklin, Brunton, Paul, 2004 My congenials: Miles Franklin & friends in letters, Roe, Jill, 1993 Yarn spinners : a story in letters, Dymphna Cusack, Florence James, Miles Franklin, North, Marilla, 2001 200 Australian Women: A Redress Anthology, Radi, Heather, 1988 Resource Section Franklin, Stella Maria Sarah Miles (1879 - 1954), Roe, J.I., 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A080591b.htm Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia, Smart, Judith and Swain, Shurlee (eds.), 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders Archival resources Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection National Council of Women of NSW - program for the launch of the Centenary Stamp Issue and a complete set of the issue, 1996 National Council of Women of New South Wales further papers, 1895-1981 National Council of Women of NSW Inc. - further records, 1926-1927, 1937-1990 Papers relating to National Council of Women of New South Wales, 1895-1897 National Council of Women of New South Wales further records, 1895-1997 Miles Franklin papers collected by Bruce Sutherland, 1903-1956 Miles Franklin papers, mainly literary manuscripts, [1900-1954?] Miles Franklin - The Book of the Waratah Cup, 1902-1908, 1944-1954 Florence James - papers, 1890-1993 National Council of Women of New South Wales records, 1895-1976 Miles Franklin - Papers, 1841-1954 [Collection of pamphlets containing souvenir concert programmes and Australian biographies.] National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Papers of Miles Franklin 1887-[ca. 1931] [manuscript] Papers of Miles Franklin 1877-1933 [manuscript] Correspondence and literary papers 1887-1954 [microform] Papers of Myrtle Rose White, 1940-1961 [manuscript] Records, 1928-1994 [manuscript] Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 3 September 2004 Last modified 13 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Vera Leckie grew up on a series of remote sheep and cattle stations in outback New South Wales in the early twentieth century. Vera Leckie was the daughter of Thomas Halfpenny, who migrated to Australia in the 1850s at the age of 15 and worked for his uncle at Turkey Creek Station near White Cliffs in New South Wales. He regularly drove the punt over the Darling River to Wilcannia. Camped on the riverbank was George Chapman, who worked for the brewery in Wilcannia. In May 1881 Thomas married Chapman’s daughter. The Halfpennys ran several pubs in succession in the remote west and lived on outback stations while they raised a family of seven boys and two girls. In later years Vera recorded her childhood memories and described the strings of camels led by Afghans bringing supplies to the stations, and returning to Broken Hill with bales of wool. Vera was educated at Tibooburra before going to boarding school in Adelaide. When her brothers went to war, she and her sister worked on the family station and lived on goats’ meat, milk and butter. She met her future husband, Jack, in 1922 and married him on 16 March 1926. She and Jack raised their own family of three children in the Moree district before moving to Nowra on the south coast. Vera’s brief memoir is held by the Outback Archives in Broken Hill, New South Wales. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 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 Outback Archives, Broken Hill City Library Leckie, Vera Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 12 February 2009 Last modified 31 January 2013 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

18 minutes. The rights to this recording belong to Radio 5AN. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 6 March 2018 Last modified 6 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Jo McCubbin stood as a candidate for the Australian Democrats in the Legislative Council Province of Gippsland at the Victorian state election, which was held on 18 September 1999. She was a candidate again at the 2002 election, which was held on 30 November 2002. In the 2006 election, which was held on 25 November, she stood as an Independent in the Legislative Assembly seat of South Gippsland. Jo McCubbin, a resident of the town of Sale in Gippsland, is a paediatrician who is committed to working for a healthy planet for all children. She describes herself as an environmental activist. She was a founding member of the Gippsland Women’s Network, is a member of the Project Management Committee of the East Gippsland Arts Network and a member of Doctors for the Environment. She is a descendent of Australian artist Frederick McCubbin. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 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 Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 29 July 2008 Last modified 20 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Minutes, correspondence, financial material Author Details Anne Heywood Created 6 February 2002 Last modified 29 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

5 hours (approx. to date).??Lyn Breuer talks about her happy childhood, father working for BHP in Whyalla, involvement in theatre, attending South School, men landing on the moon in 1969, working class culture, father’s death at 57. Tape 2. Whyalla South Primary School, Whyalla High School, being a prefect, first boyfriend was Graham Jose – later an Olympic cyclist, getting married at 24. Tape 3. Leaving school, job offers, moving to Adelaide, moratorium marches, starting at Flinders University, left in first year, working in the Department of Taxation, married in 1971, having two children, divorced after 18 years. Tape 4. Working at the CES after the birth of her son, job at TAFE to get young women into non-traditional areas and women returning to work after having children, at TAFE from 1989 to 1997, coordinator of the Women’s Studies Programme at TAFE, children were 2 and 10 when her husband left, at 40 years of age nominated for local council, elected to Whyalla Council and was there for 8 to 9 years, satisfying work, became Deputy Mayor after three years, 1994 conference Women, Power and Politics, stood for pre selection when Frank Blevins retired. Tape 5. Campaigning in the two years up to the 1997 election, women in politics, media, stand on refugees, Woomera Camp, Baxter camp, treatment of children, attitude of community towards refugees, 1997 election, gained over 50% of the vote on election night, election to the National Executive of the ALP, factions dominate the Labor Party. ‘More Working Women’ series Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 11 March 2009 Last modified 24 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Papers, correspondence, minutes and other documents being Miss Connor’s copies of records of organisations in which she was involved: RVCN, Florence Nightingale Committee and so on. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 13 February 2002 Last modified 29 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Helen Baillie was an Aboriginal rights activist and a nurse. She was passionate about Aboriginal issues and was involved in various Aboriginals rights organisations. In addition, Baillie opened her house on Punt Road as a hostel to Aboriginal people from the 1930s to the 1950s. Baillie attended the Aldworth Girls’ Grammar School in East Malvern and on completion of her study she travelled to England to undertake midwifery training at the London Maternity Hospital. In her late thirties, Baillie returned to Australia and it was during her sea journey that she became enthralled by the work of Mary Bennett, an internationally renowned activist on behalf of Australian Aboriginal people. In 1932, Baillie formed the Victorian Aboriginal Fellowship Group and became their Honorary Secretary. In 1933 she also became involved with the Victorian Aboriginal Group; a group with similar objectives to the Fellowship. The Victorian Aboriginal Group co-ordinated a meeting to launch their campaign in September 1933, which brought together a considerable number of groups, including the Aboriginal Fellowship Group, The Women’s Citizen’s Movement, the Young Women’s Christian Association, the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union and the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom. Also involved were the Student Christian Movement, the United Aboriginal Mission, the Society of Friends and the Victorian League. Helen Baillie spoke at the meeting, alongside many others. Whenever an opportunity arose to present Aboriginal issues before a public audience, Helen Baillie took it. This was the case when she was made a delegate for Australia at the convention of the British Commonwealth League in 1935. Bailie was a life member of the Australian Aborigines league and she also liaised with the Association for the Protection of Native Races in Sydney and the Anti-Slavery and Aborigines Protection Society in London. After 1951, Baillie became a member of additional activist groups, including the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom and the Council for Aboriginal Rights. In addition, Baillie volunteered as a nurse for the Republican forces during the Spanish Civil War and also worked for the Spanish Relief Committee in Melbourne. Events 1931 - 1932 Formed the Victorian Aboriginal Fellowship Group 1935 - 1935 For Australia at the convention of the British Commonwealth League Archival resources National Archives of Australia, National Office, Canberra BAILLIE, Helen National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Papers of Joan Kingsley-Strack, 1908-1978 [manuscript] Author Details Alannah Croom Created 31 October 2017 Last modified 7 October 2020 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

1 sound cassette (ca. 44 min.)??Plant speaks of what brought her to farming, starting the group Poll-Hers, her husband being a state president of the Poll Hereford Society, funding the recipe book about beef, promoting poll herefords and beef, involvement of her daughter in the breeding area, changes of ownership of farms and its effect on the younger generation, stress experienced by other families in the rural community, means used to encourage people to cheer up in times of hardship, lack of rain main problem, future of the beef industry and positive approach from the Army. Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 3 March 2010 Last modified 22 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Professor Zsuzsoka Kecskes is a newborn intensive specialist and academic with research interests in neonatology, especially the neonatal brain, higher education, and patient-centred care. She has held senior positions at the Australian National University, the University of Wollongong and in hospital settings. In 2014 she was awarded the ACT Australian of the Year. Professor Zsuzsoka Kecskes was inscribed on the ACT Women’s Honour Roll in 2014. “Professor Zsuzsoka Kecskes was born in Hamburg, Germany in 1965. She received her medical degree in medicine and higher degree from the University of Hamburg in 1990–91 and spent time studying medicine in the United States and Switzerland before moving to Sydney, Australia in 1994. She completed her training in neonatology in Brisbane and was awarded a PhD in Medicine by the University of Queensland. From 2001 to 2022 she worked as a neonatologist in Canberra Health Services and was Director of the Department of Neonatology from 2007 to 2015. She contributed to development of quality systems across the health service, chairing the Clinical Ethics Committee, the Policy Committee and the Aged Care Quality Standards Health Care Standard 2 (Partnering for Consumers) committee. Professor Kecskes was a leading figure in the design and development of the neonatal intensive care unit at Canberra’s Centenary Hospital for Women and Children. Professor Kecskes commenced as an honorary lecturer at the Australian National University in 2001. She developed the neonatal curriculum which was taught from the inception of the ANU School of Medicine and held positions of Associate Dean (Teaching and Learning Phase 2) 2015–18, Deputy Dean Medical School 2018–20, and was Interim Director of the ANU Medical School from March 2020 to July 2022. Professor Kecskes developed a quality and safety curriculum and was Chair of the Professionalism and Leadership theme in Phase 2 at the Medical School, for which the team was acknowledged through a Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Teaching Excellence. In 2022 Professor Kecskes was appointed Dean of Graduate Medicine at the University of Wollongong. She holds honorary Professor status at ANU. Her research interests are in neonatology, especially the neonatal brain, higher education, and patient-centred care. In 2014, the Australia Day Council awarded her ACT Australian of the Year for her work with families to design a safe, family-centred Neonatal Intensive Care Unit and for the implementation of the NICUcam, a web-based design for parents and families to view their baby when they are not able to visit.” Author Details Kathryn Dan Created 12 April 2023 Last modified Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

The Zonta Club of Perth, a women’s service club, was founded in 1971. It is part of Zonta International, a world-wide organisation of business and professional women working together to advance the legal, political, economic and professional status of women. Zonta clubs support Zonta International service and award programmes, and also provide support for local community projects by fundraising or active involvement, particularly those dealing with women’s issues such as economic self-sufficiency, legal equality, access to education and health, and eradication of violence. District 23 of Zonta International was created in 1989, covering Western Australia, Northern Territory, South Australia, Victoria and Tasmania, and divided into four areas. The first conference of District 23 was held in Perth in 1991. Western Australia forms Area 3 of District 23 and as of 2004 comprised 6 Zonta clubs: Bunbury Area, Dunsborough Area, Peel Region, Perth, Perth Northern Suburbs Area, and Swan Hills. Published resources Report Annual Report, Zonta Club of Perth, 1973- Book The history of our club [The Northern Suburbs Zonta Club], Bohan, Lucy., 1988 Newsletter Inzert, 1987- Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources State Library of Western Australia Records, 1975-2004 [manuscript] [Collection of material relating to the Zonta Club of Perth] Author Details Jane Carey Created 4 August 2004 Last modified 26 June 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Nina Bassat is a Holocaust survivor and former lawyer who was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) in the 2004 Australia Day Honours List ‘for service to the community as an executive member of a range of peak Jewish organisations and through the promotion of greater community understanding’. The first woman to be president of the Jewish Community Council of Victoria, she also served as president of the Executive Council of Australian Jewry – the first Holocaust survivor and first woman lawyer to attain that position. Janina ‘Nina’ Bassat (née Katz) was born on 8 April 1939 to Izydor and Hadassa Katz (née Wargo?) in Lwów, Poland. Soon afterwards, the country was invaded – first by Germany and then by the Soviet Union – and World War II was declared. On 25 July 1941, Bassat’s father, who had graduated from the University of Lwów law school but, unable to practise law as a Jew, was instead employed at the Lwów brewery while pursuing a doctorate, was taken away and killed. Bassat and her mother would eventually spend more than a year in Lwów’s ghettoes – Bassat once narrowly avoiding being taken to the Be??ec gas chambers – before escaping and going into hiding. After the War, the surviving members of Bassat’s family – her mother, maternal uncle, and maternal aunt and cousin who had been interned at Auschwitz-Birkenau and then at Bergen-Belsen – and she wound up in a displaced persons camp in Bad Wörishofen, Germany. Concerned that her now eight-year-old daughter could neither read nor write, Bassat’s mother arranged for her to have a governess. It proved an unhappy experience for Bassat and led to her attending the town’s local convent school instead – its only Jewish pupil. Following the death of Bassat’s aunt; rejection of their applications to go to what was then Palestine; and fuelled by a desire to get as far away from Europe as possible, the stateless family of four arrived in Australia in February 1949. At first, Bassat attended Hutton Street Primary School (now Thornbury Primary School), later transferring to Wales Street Primary School when her uncle bought a house for the family in Darebin Road, Northcote. After a stint at Fairfield Central, she entered University High School where she completed Years 9 to 12. While a student, she worked in the milk-bar which her mother and step-father (Abraham Teicher, whom her mother had married in 1953) owned in Brighton. At 16, she met her future husband, Robert ‘Bob’ Bassat, who had recently finished school. Born in Egypt, Bob had lived in Belgian Congo, attended boarding school in South Africa and was about to begin studying engineering at the University of Melbourne. The couple married at the Toorak Shule on 23 February 1960, Bob having graduated the previous year. They would have three children: Sally, Andrew and Paul. Having obtained a Commonwealth scholarship, Bassat embarked upon a Bachelor of Laws degree at the University of Melbourne in 1957. In 1962, following the birth of Sally, Bassat deferred her law degree which she had been undertaking part-time and completed the arts degree she had also commenced. In 1965, pregnant with Andrew, she took up the postgraduate study which was then required, along with articles of clerkship, to practise law. In between having her children, Bassat taught English as a Second Language. She also lectured in Australian literature at the Council of Adult Education. Being a woman who was also married and had children, Bassat struggled to find someone willing to offer her articles. Local Brighton firm William Kosky and Associates finally took her on in September 1974. Admitted to practice as a Barrister and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Victoria on 3 May 1976, she remained with the firm for a further 18 months before setting up her own practice in 1980; she specialised in litigation, property, succession and family law. (For approximately 15 years, she was heavily involved with matters concerning gett (Jewish divorce)). She combined the running of her practice with significant involvement as an executive member of a number of peak Jewish organisations, and was active at state, federal and international levels. Bassat was president – the first woman elected to that position – of the Jewish Community Council of Victoria (JCCV) (1996-1998; 2011-2014). Helping those affected by the 1997 Maccabiah bridge collapse was a preoccupation during her first term as JCCV president and during her term as president of the Executive Council of Australian Jewry (ECAJ) (1998-2001). In 2011-12, the issue of child sexual abuse galvanised Bassat and her colleagues to convene a child protection reference group to develop and implement a strategy for the community. Bassat was co-author of a submission to the Victorian government and gave evidence at the parliamentary Inquiry into the Handling of Child Abuse by Religious and Other Organisations in 2013. It was around this time that she also chaired Maccabi Australia’s Committee of Review into Sexual Abuse Allegations. With her appointment as president of the ECAJ, Bassat became the first Holocaust survivor, first woman lawyer and second woman (after Diane Shteinman) to attain that position. During her term, she was occupied with a range of matters, including the inappropriate use of Holocaust imagery, issues relating to Nazi war criminals and the promotion of Aboriginal reconciliation. An initiative during her presidency was the setting up of, with the assistance of the Pratt Foundation, an Australia-wide telephone hotline which enabled thousands of survivors across the country to make claims – particularly of slave labour – for restitution. Beginning in 2000, Bassat served as a board member and honorary secretary to the New York-based Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture. She has been a board and planning committee member to the Claims Conference (also based in New York), that is, the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany Inc, the mission of which ‘has been to provide a measure of justice for Jewish Holocaust victims, and to provide them with the best possible care’. From 1998-2001, while serving on the Claims Conference board, she was also Australian Jewry’s representative to the executive of the World Jewish Congress Inc. Other organisations to which Bassat has contributed her time and expertise over many years include Jewish Care Victoria, the International Council of Jewish Women and the National Council of Jewish Women of Australia Victoria, of which she was vice-president between 1985 and 1996. For over a decade from 1997 she was a trustee of the National Council of Jewish Women of Australia Foundation. Since 2008 she has been a trustee (now director) of the Jewish Holocaust Centre Foundation. Bassat has won praise for the part she has also played in supporting interfaith projects. She was recently active in Kynnections, a program ‘bringing young people from diverse religious, cultural, religious and linguistic backgrounds to participate in project based activities to create social cohesion and harmony in Victoria’. She is a former deputy chair of the Parliament of the World’s Religions’ Melbourne board of management. Bassat’s outstanding communal service has been recognised through a number of awards. In 2000, the National Council of Jewish Women of Australia honoured Bassat with an achievement award. The following year, she was made an honorary Maccabian, ‘in recognition of outstanding contribution in assisting the victims of the bridge tragedy at the 15th Maccabiah – July 1997’. In 2003, Bassat was an early inductee onto the Victorian Honour Roll of Women. She was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia ‘for service to the community as an executive member of a range of peak Jewish organisations and through the promotion of greater community understanding’ in the 2004 Australia Day Honours List. In 2007, she was named Woman of the Year by the Women’s International Zionist Organisation (WIZO) Victoria, and in 2009 she received the General Sir John Monash Award for outstanding service to the Victorian Jewish community. Archival resources National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Nina Bassat interviewed by Kim Rubenstein Author Details Marina Loane Created 10 May 2018 Last modified 10 December 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Meegan Fitzharris was first elected to the ACT Legislative Assembly in 2014 and served until July 2019 in a range of ministerial roles including Minister for Health and Wellbeing, Minister for Medical and Health Research, Minister for Transport, Minister for City Services, and Minister for Higher Education, Research and Training. Meegan Fitzharris was inscribed on the ACT Women’s Honour Roll in 2012. Meegan Fitzharris was born in Wellington, New Zealand in 1972. Her father was a policeman and the family moved around, including living in Singapore for some years. She moved from New Zealand to Australia in 1998 after completing a Bachelor of Commerce at the University of Otago (1993–96) and a Master of Arts in International Relations at the University of Auckland (1996–99). While studying she also worked as a university tutor and undertook internships with Oxfam in Auckland, and at the United Nations in New York, in the Executive Office of the Secretary-General and Division for the Advancement of Women. After arriving in Australia, she worked with the NSW Police, in a role related to security planning for the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games. She then moved to Canberra, initially working in the Australian government National Office for the Information Economy, and later became a senior policy officer with the Australian Federal Police (AFP) developing and coordinating policy advice on significant national law enforcement issues for the AFP Commissioner and Minister. She was described by an AFP colleague as a brilliant policy writer. From 2005 to 2007 she worked for the federal Attorney-General’s Department, again in a senior policy role, addressing national security and counter-terrorism issues across government. Between 2007 and 2012 she became a mother to three children (two daughters and a son) with her husband Pierre Huetter, combining motherhood with work as a consultant, providing training in policy development and effective communication. In 2012 she became a senior advisor to Andrew Barr, who was then Deputy Chief Minister in the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) Legislative Assembly, with portfolio responsibilities including Treasury, Community Services and Housing. She later became his Chief of Staff, and was in this role when he became Chief Minister for the ACT in 2014. In addition to paid employment roles, she has been an active volunteer across various community, education and sporting organisations. Fitzharris was a Labor party candidate in the 2012 ACT election, but did not win a seat. When Katy Gallagher resigned as ACT Chief Minister in 2014 to stand for the Australian Senate, a countback of the 2012 votes resulted in Fitzharris being elected as the member for Molonglo, taking up a seat in the ACT Assembly in January 2015. She was re-elected to the Assembly in October 2016 as the member for Yerrabi. During her relatively short political career she held a number of key ministerial positions, including Assistant Minister for Health, and later Minister for Health and Wellbeing, Minister for Medical and Health Research, Minister for Transport, Minister for City Services, and Minister for Higher Education, Research and Training. Development of the first stage of Canberra light rail was a major initiative within her transport portfolio responsibilities, with construction commencing in 2016 and opening to passengers in 2019. As Health Minister she commissioned a major review into staffing issues, after complaints of bullying and harassment and a poor workplace culture in ACT Health. She also chaired the Council of Australian Governments (COAG) Health Council. In June 2019 Fitzharris announced her intention to resign from her ministerial roles, and step away from politics. She left the Assembly in July 2019, stating that her main reason for leaving politics was for her family and noting that her children would be in high school through the next term of government. In an interview at the time she said, ‘I hope that other working mums and dads — indeed people of all ages and backgrounds — consider running for public office. It is an important role; and it is more than a job. It is deeply important to our community that good people of all political persuasions put their hand up to represent their community, join the contest of ideas and take responsibility for decision making.’ After leaving politics Meegan Fitzharris became a Senior Fellow in Health Policy and Leadership in the College of Health and Medicine at The Australian National University (2019–2021), as well as working again as a consultant. She chaired a planning group established by the Queensland government to investigate opportunities to build on reforms and innovations initiated through the state’s COVID pandemic response. The group’s report Unleashing the Potential: An open and equitable health system was released in August 2020. She became a board member of Dementia Australia in 2021. In early 2020, she was diagnosed with early-stage breast cancer which was successfully treated. She lived in New Zealand from late 2022 until May 2023, undertaking further study. She has since returned to Canberra and is pursuing new career opportunities. Author Details Kylie Scroope Created 11 July 2023 Last modified Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Hodgetts speaks of moving to Western Australia from Scotland, building up a Hereford stud, the death of her husband, coping with the farm and being a single parent, working towards financial security, introducing Gelvies into the herd, recent travels, and hopes for the future.?Recorded in 1995. Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 3 March 2010 Last modified 27 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Papers of David Fowler, James Fowler, George Swan Fowler, James Richard Fowler, Dr Laura Margaret Hope (nee Fowler), and George Swan Murray Fowler, and comprising letters, legal documents, letterbooks, plans and specifications, photographs, biographical notes and other papers. A later donation comprises papers relating to Dr Laura M Hope and her husband Dr Charles H.S. Hope (series 52-72), her brother James Richard Fowler (a letter, book register and private cash book and ledger, series 73-76), and his grandson David Murray Fowler, comprising letters and telegrams sent to his family while he was serving in the R.A.A.F. in World War II, certificates of discharge, R.A.A.F. instruction notebooks, newspaper cuttings and air pilot’s map of south east England (series 77-82). Additional photographs added to series 27, with 11 of these added to the South Australiana Database, and family trees of the Fowler, Millar, Wright, Murray and Rogers families to series 43 Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 2 February 2010 Last modified 27 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Patti Warn was the first female president of the Tasmanian Branch of the Australian Labor Party. Patti Warn attended the University of Tasmania from 1962 to 1965 during which time she became involved in student politics. After graduating with a Bachelor of Arts, Patti worked as a research officer for ABC’s Four Corners program. In 1973, Patti was appointed private secretary to the Federal Minister for External Territories. The following year she was moved to the Prime Minister’s office, where she was employed as Gough Whitlam’s media secretary. In 1975, Patti became the first female state secretary of the Tasmanian branch of the Australian Labor Party. Patti was the assistant private secretary to Senator Don Grimes in 1980. In the same year she stood as the Labor candidate for the Division of Bass in Tasmania and also became the vice-president of the Young Women’s Christian Association in Canberra. Events 1976 - 1980 Australian Labor Party (Tasmanian Branch) Archival resources Archives Office of Tasmania Photograph - Patti Warn - ALP candidate for Bass National Library of Australia [Biographical cuttings on Patti Warn, public servant, containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journals] Author Details Alannah Croom Created 17 November 2017 Last modified 17 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Notebook by Beth Le Page (Cheney’s predecessor); Cheney’s notes on technique; correspondence; laboratory notebooks by White, Cheney and Binns; slide index; copies of photographs of chromosomes; copy of publication entitled “The Life and Publications of Michael James Denham White 1910-1983”; photocopy of the register of cytological numbers; copy of the article by Jenny Cheney and Professor W.R. Atchley entitled “Morphometic Differentiation in the Viatica Group of Morabine Grasshoppers”. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 6 February 2002 Last modified 29 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Gymnast Marina Sulicich represented Australia at the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow. Marina Sulicich was the second child of Croatian-born parents Vera and Dusan Sulicich. Her elder brother Visko was dux of Broken Hill High School and became a mining engineer; her younger sister Duska became a journalist for the Age in Melbourne. Marina showed an aptitude for gymnastics at primary school age and began gymnastics classes at the YMCA. She attended Broken Hill High School, then Willyama High School. Spotted by gymnastics coach Ollie Maywald, she joined the Broken Hill Gymnastics Club and began to compete at state and national level. Travel to championship competitions was often subsidised by the fundraising efforts of Broken Hill residents. In 1976, Marina won the under fourteen State title in Adelaide and went on to win the National title in Launceston. She competed at international level in Hawaii and New Zealand, and was invited by American coach Jim Gault to join his club for training in California, which she did on two occasions in 1977 and 1978. In 1977 she also travelled to China to compete with top gymnasts there. Marina was a member of the Australian team at the Commonwealth Games of 1978, and once again took home the Australian open National title that year. She represented Australia at the World titles in Strasbourg in 1978 and Fort Worth, Texas, in 1979. Marina was profiled by the Australian Women’s Weekly in October 1978: ‘Australia’s highest hopes – certainly at the World Gymnastics Championships, will be with tiny, 14-year-old Marina Sulicich of Broken Hill who has the grace, nerve, skill and charm to emulate Olga Korbut and Nadia Comaneci’. In 1980, at the height of her gymnastic career, Marina represented Australia at the Olympic Games in Moscow. It was the first time an Australian gymnast had made the all-round individual finals. She was ranked 33rd in the top 36 gymnasts at the Games. Marina Sulicich retired from gymnastics after the Moscow Games and completed her secondary school education, followed by two years study in accountancy. She began work with the Broken Hill City Council and married Brett Morris in 1995. Brett and Marina have two daughters, Isabella and Savannah. When the Olympic torch visited Broken Hill in 2000, Marina Sulicich lit the flame. Published resources Book Some Outstanding Women of Broken Hill and District, Camilleri, Jenny, 2002 Newspaper Article History-making performance by three Australian gymnasts, 1980 Hard Road to Top for Young Gymnast, 1980 Magazine article Competing in World Championships in France: Australia's gymnasts are a well-balanced team, 1978 Site Exhibition Unbroken Spirit: Women in Broken Hill, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2009, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/bh/bh-home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources Outback Archives, Broken Hill City Library Sulicich, Marina Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 12 February 2009 Last modified 12 February 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Amy Glenthora Bembrick, born at Grenfell New South Wales, served with the Australian Army Nursing Service in World War I in Salonika. After her marriage to Charles William James Gumbley, an Anglican Minister, she was active in Adelaide during the Second World War as ‘camp mother’ for disadvantaged boys. Amy Glenthora Bembrick was born at Grenfell New South Wales on 26 October 1893 to Alfred Bembrick and Elizabeth (nee Fowler). She was descended through her father from Mary Ann Southwell (1837-74) a daughter of Thomas Southwell, a pioneer settler at Parkwood, a property on Ginninderra Creek then in New South Wales now in the Australian Capital Territory. She was related to Australian Army Nursing Service (AANS) nurse, Gladys Boon, and they shared similar experiences during the First World War. After her family moved to Epping, Amy Bembrick trained at Western Suburbs Cottage Hospital, Croydon, Sydney. She enlisted aged 23 on 10 May 1917 giving her religion as Methodist and naming her father Alfred Bembrick of Epping as her next of kin. She was recruited following a request from the British Government for Australian trained nurses to staff four British military hospitals in Salonika in northern Greece. In response to the request three units, each of 91 nurses, embarked from Australia in June 1917 and a fourth unit in August. The first three units began duty in Salonika in August 1917. The fourth was delayed in Egypt and reached Salonika later. Altogether 42 Australian sisters and 257 staff nurses served in Salonika. British and French forces had arrived in Greece in 1915 to fight Bulgarian forces invading Serbia, to regain control of the Balkans and prevent enemy forces taking areas leading to the Suez Canal and the Middle East but they saw only intermittent action over the next three years. Most patients at the military hospitals were British soldiers and Bulgarian prisoners of war. Many were not battle casualties but suffering from diseases including malaria, dysentery and black water fever. The Australian nurses, who had enlisted for service overseas with the expectation that they would nurse Australian soldiers, were disappointed that this was never the case in Salonika. They also felt they had been relegated to the war’s sidelines with action on the Balkan front little reported at the time. The final battle against the Bulgarians in September 1918 was not reported in the London Times in any detail until 1919. All the nurses in Salonika felt the bitter cold and snow in winter and the intense heat in summer in hospitals set up in tents or primitive huts. In winter there was not enough fuel for the braziers to heat the tents and by morning the blankets on patients were stiff with ice. Most nurses suffered from malaria which was endemic and those with recurrent malaria were repatriated to Australia. By August 1918, 46 nurses had been invalided back to Australia. Nurses wore heavy mosquito nets and clothing that covered every part of their bodies in an effort to ward off mosquitoes but they sometimes discarded extra coverings when they made nursing impossible. The sites of some of the hospitals were near swamps which became quagmires in winter and mosquito breeding grounds in summer. Amy Bembrick sailed on HMT Mooltan on 19 June 1917 for Egypt and arrived in Salonika on the Osmaniah in August 1917. She was posted briefly to 52nd British General Hospital (BGH), then to 50 BGH, a hut hospital at Kalamaria on the outskirts of Salonika where she remained for most of her service. At the beginning of February 1919 she left for England where she obtained three months leave from 25 March to do a course in domestic economy at the Battersea Polytechnic, London. Amy boarded SS Canberra to return to Australia on 23 July 1919 and was discharged on 15 September 1919. She had been promoted from Staff Nurse to Sister in Salonika but this was not ratified until just before she left England. She was awarded the British War Medal and the Victory Medal. In 13 July 1922 at Woodford Bridge, Essex, England Amy Bembrick, 28, married Charles William James Gumbley, 30, whom she had met while nursing in Salonika. He was then Corporal Bill Gumley serving with the British Army and he later became an Anglican minister. From 1939 to 1945, the family lived in Adelaide where Rev. Gumbley was rector of St Luke’s Church of England, Whitmore Square. During this time Amy was ‘camp mother’ to hundreds of children from needy families who attended annual boys’ camps and she also helped in providing free hot lunches for two hundred children during the winter months. Amy Gumbley died on 13 June 1949, aged 56, at All Saints Anglican Rectory, Hunters Hill, Sydney, where her husband had been rector since 1945. She was survived by three daughters, who all trained as nurses, and a son. She is commemorated on the Grenfell World War I Memorial and the Epping World War I Roll of Honour. Published resources Site Exhibition Canberra Women in World War I: Community at Home, Nurses Abroad, Clarke, Patricia and Francis, Niki, 2015, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/cww1 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Mettle and Steel: the AANS in Salonika, Wadman, Ashleigh, 2015, https://www.awm.gov.au/blog/2015/01/13/mettle-and-steel-aans-salonika/ Book Guns and brooches : Australian Army Nursing from the Boer War to the Gulf War, Bassett, Jan, 1992 More than Bombs and Bandages: Australian Army Nurses at work in World War I, Harris, Kirsty, 2011 The Southwell Family: pioneers of the Canberra District 1838-1938, Gillespie, Lyall, 1988 Book Section Official History of the Australian Army Medical Services 1914-18. Vol. III: Problems and Services, Butler, A.G., 1943 Resource Section Bembrick, Amy Glenthora, 2013, http://nurses.ww1anzac.com/be.html Article S.A. church worker dies in Sydney, 1949, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article130193044 Archival resources National Archives of Australia, National Office, Canberra Bembrick Amy Glenthora : SERN S/Nurse : POB Grenfell NSW : POE Sydney NSW : NOK F Bembrick Alfred Author Details Patricia Clarke Created 8 April 2015 Last modified 17 August 2024 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

The Medical Women’s Society of NSW was founded in 1921 to advance the interests of medically qualified women in professional practice. It was active in establishing the Australian Federation of Medical Women and continues to work for medical women in New South Wales. After its foundation, the Society’s first action was the establishment of a hospital staffed entirely by medical women. The New Hospital for Women and Children was opened on 2 January, 1922, at 11 Lansdowne Street Surry Hills. In 1925 it was moved to George Street, Redfern, and became known as the Rachel Forster Hospital for Women and Children. It also became involved in forming the Australian Federation of Medical Women and became affiliated with the Medical Women’s International Association, formed in the USA. in 1919. Currently, it also has representatives on the National Council of Women of New South Wales and on the New South Wales Medical Defence Union. Historically, the Society was involved in achieving significant outcomes for medical women, including, obtaining equal rights on hospital residencies and pay. It has also financially supported medical students and makes recommendations to State Government inquiries on health related matters. As of 2004, the Society was involved in the following activities: Mentorship program for young medical women. Joint seminars with the Women’s Lawyer’s Association and the Women’s Dentist’s Association. Bi-annual weekend seminars for members and their families. Awarding an annual prize for the top female medical graduate at each university. Coordinating two general meetings each year with guest speaker(s). Responding to enquiries from overseas medical women graduates. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources State Library of New South Wales Medical Women's Society of New South Wales records, 1970-2003 Author Details Jane Carey Created 26 August 2004 Last modified 1 March 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

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A.L.G.W.A. minutes of meetings; correspondence; membership files; reports; conference material. Interview tapes with Jean Baker, Gracia Baylor, Pat Brown, Faith Fitzgerald, Dorothy Laver, Kerry Lovering, Jan Plummer – interviewed by Lynne Strahan, December 1984 – January 1985. Cassettes for Annual General Meeting and dinner, speakers – Carolyn Hirsh, Pauline Toner and Steve Crabb. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 6 February 2002 Last modified 29 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

2 sound cassettes (ca. 90 min.)??Lady Wilson talks about her grandparents, parents, husband, working life, children, Red Cross, etc. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 6 March 2018 Last modified 6 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

14 digital audio tapes (ca. 15 hr. 4 min.)??Factor speaks of her Jewish family arriving in Australia from Poland at the age of 2 fleeing Nazi Germany; how her mother arrived on Black Friday, 1939 amidst devastating bushfires; her family background; Max Factor, the cosmetics manufacturer; settling Carlton, Vic. ; Australian culture of the 1930s; her first memories of Australia; Jewish social life in Victoria including the Peretz School, which taught Yiddish; the difficulties of learning Hebrew; her foster sister, Jacqueline; her attendance at a selective university high school from 1951-1954; how she began writing at school; receiving a government scholarship; her increasing political activism and joining the Kadimah Youth Group from which she learnt many folk songs; her studies in English and History. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 6 March 2018 Last modified 6 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

6 albums, comprising photographs, postcards, sets of tourist cards of people, buildings, landscapes, mostly from tours of Europe, United States and Africa. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 6 February 2002 Last modified 7 May 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Sister Mary Josephine 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. Ann Agnes Callen, as she was born, was educated by the Dominican nuns in Newcastle and took up a teaching position at the Denominational School at Scone. She entered the Singleton Convent in 1878, as did her sister Bridget two years later. Professed in 1880, Sister Mary Josephine spent some time at the Morpeth Convent and was thirty years of age when she moved to Broken Hill. There she served as Reverend Mother for sixteen years. From 1902 to 1907 she was at the Mt Barker Convent. She returned as Superior of the South Broken Hill Convent from 1912 to 1919 and again from 1929 to 1932 with a stint at Brighton, South Australia, in the interim. Under the leadership of Sister Mary Josephine, the Sisters of Mercy visited the sick and poor of Broken Hill, provided a home for orphans, and opened five schools in the town by 1896. Later, in the 1930s, Sister Mary Josephine designed a series of correspondence lessons in religion for children living in remote areas. Published resources Book Some Outstanding Women of Broken Hill and District, Camilleri, Jenny, 2002 A guide to the records of the Sisters of Mercy of Australia, Ryan, Mary, 1984 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 16 February 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

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Pixie O’Harris was an artist and author particularly of children’s books. On 1 January 1976 she was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire (Civil) for services to the Arts. In 1953 she was awarded the Queen’s Coronation Medal and in 1977 she received the Queen’s Silver Jubilee Medal. In 1977 she became patron to the Royal Alexandra Hospital for Children in Sydney. Pixie O’Harris was the daughter of George Frederick and Rosetta Elizabeth (née Lucas). Her father was an artist who was chairman of the Royal Art Society Cardiff. The fifth of nine children she was educated at Sully village school and Allensbank Girl’s School Wales. At age 14 she was a member of the South West Art Society. The Harris family migrated to Australia in 1920 and settled in Perth before moving to Sydney the following year. It was while on the ship to Australia that she adopted the name ‘Pixie.’ Being referred to as ‘the Welsh pixie’ and not liking the name Rona, she decided to use Pixie. A change in her surname followed after a printer at the Sydney Morning Herald added an apostrophe to her second initial. During her career she contributed poems, stories and illustrations to many publications as well as illustrating the work of other authors. These included Frank Dalby Davison, Lydia Pender and Kenneth. On 16 July 1928, Pixie O’Harris married Bruce Pratt, editor of the Australian Encyclopaedia. At the time of the births of her three daughters, she found the hospitals cold and clinical and decided to paint fairy-style murals for children. Over 50 children’s hospital wards, schools, day nurseries and baby clinics throughout New South Wales have been decorated with her work. Events 1920 - 1920 Fashion artist, Perth Western Australia 1924 - 1924 Caricaturist for the Triad magazine 1925 - 1928 Artist 1936 - 1939 Editress of Humour 1977 - 1977 Patron of the Royal Alexandra Hospital for Children (Sydney) 1977 - 1977 Recipient of the Queen’s Silver Jubilee Medal 1953 - 1953 Awarded Queen’s Coronation Medal 2028 - 2028 Married: Bruce Pratt and had three children 1976 - 1976 Appointed to the Order of the British Empire – Member (Civil) Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Book Authors & Illustrators of Australian Children's Books, McVitty, Walter, 1989 Australian women writers : a bibliographic guide, Adelaide, Debra, 1988 Edited Book Who's Who of Australian Women, Lofthouse, Andrea, 1982 Site Exhibition Faith, Hope and Charity Australian Women and Imperial Honours: 1901-1989, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2003, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/honours/honours.html Archival resources State Library of New South Wales Pixie O'Harris papers, 1913-1987 Pixie O'Harris - further & associated papers, 1910-1994 Author Details Anne Heywood Created 18 October 2002 Last modified 19 November 2012 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Dr Clare Burton was a strong advocate and activist for social change, particularly in the area of equal pay for women. Her academic research fed into policy and practical change in the workplace. Clare Burton was raised in Canberra, where her Methodist upbringing may have instilled in her the tireless work ethic she displayed in her efforts to bring about social change, promoting greater equity and justice for all. Burton graduated from the University of Sydney with a university medal and first class honours in anthropology in 1963. She married Peter Krinks and the pair had three children: Rachel, Stephen and Kate. She completed her PhD at Macquarie University in 1979, exploring theoretical explanations for women’s subordination, and began her academic career at Kuring-gai College of Advanced Education (later University of Technology, Sydney), where she became an Associate Professor. Burton was awarded the Australasian Political Studies Association Women and Politics Prize in 1984 for her essay ‘Public and Private Concerns in Academic Institutions’. Her monograph Redefining Merit became an essential companion text for practitioners of employment equity. Major publications include The Promise and the Price: the struggle for equal opportunity in women’s employment (1991), Subordination, Feminism and Social Theory (1985) and Women’s Worth : pay equity and job evaluation in Australia (1987). In 1989 Burton became the New South Wales government’s Director of Equal Opportunity in Public Employment, and in 1992 served as the Commissioner for Public Sector Equity in the Queensland Goss government. In 1993, she chose to work independently as a researcher and consultant in employment equity, being much in demand as a consultant, adviser, and speaker. In the 1990s Burton conducted about a dozen university equity reviews as well as reviewing both the Australian and New Zealand Defence Forces. She was a dedicated member of the Women’s Electoral Lobby (WEL) and worked on WEL submissions on the 1997 Federal Public Service Bill and the 1998 review of the Affirmative Action Agency. She also convened WEL policy groups. Burton was a member of the Network of Women in Further Education, the Black Women’s Action in Education Foundation, the National Foundation for Australian Women, the Australian Political Science Association, the Australian Sociological Association and the Institute of Public Administration Australia, and was a founding member of the National Pay Equity Coalition. The Australian Technology Network, with Clare’s friends, colleagues and family has established the Clare Burton Memorial Fund to commemorate her life and continue her work by providing a scholarship in Dr Burton’s specialist field. Published resources Book The Promise and the Price: The Struggle for Equal Opportunity in Women's Employment, Clare Burton, 1991 Subordination, feminism and social theory, Clare Burton, 1985 Women's worth : pay equity and job evaluation in Australia, Clare Burton, Raven Hag, Gay Thompson., 1987 Enterprising nation : renewing Australia's managers to meet the challenges of the Asia-Pacific century : managing for diversity, Clare Burton and Carolyn Ryall, 1995 Report Redesigning women's work : a case study in the community sector, Clare Burton, 1995 Gender equity in Australian university staffing, Clare Burton, 1997 The beauty therapist, the mechanic, the geoscientist and the librarian : addressing undervaluation of women's work, Rosemary Hunter, 2000 Monograph Redefining merit, Clare Burton, 1988 Gender bias in job evaluation, Clare Burton, 1988 Issues paper Equity principles in competency standards : development and implementation, Clare Burton, 1994 Book Section Merit, gender and corporate governance, Clare Burton, 1999 Resource Tributes to Clare Burton, Equal Pay Watch Australia, 1999, http://www.users.bigpond.com/rj_gj/clare/tributes.htm Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Newspaper Article Face to face: the power of sisterhood, Jane Cadzow, 1987? The Burton girls, Marion Frith, 1994 Feminist put equality on agenda, 1998 Resource Section Australian Women's Honour Roll B, CAPOW, http://www.capow.org.au/Honourroll/honourroll-b.htm Site Exhibition From Lady Denman to Katy Gallagher: A Century of Women's Contributions to Canberra, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2013, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/ldkg Archival resources National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Papers of Clare Burton, 1987-1997 [manuscript] National Library of Australia [Biographical cuttings on Clare Burton, public servant, containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journals] Author Details Clare Land Created 11 October 2001 Last modified 16 September 2013 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

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1 audiocassette (approximately 87 min.)??Audrey Dau, former acting principal (1964-1973) talks about her work at the school, changes introduced, activities and prizes, her transition from teacher to principal, appointing a migrant teacher, and building extensions. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 6 March 2018 Last modified 6 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Jennifer Paull is a one time candidate for election and is well known in her area of health sciences. In 1999 she ran as an Independent for the seat of Drummoyne in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly. Jennifer Paull completed a B.Math at Wollongong University, a Dip Ed And a Bec. At the University of New England, and a Dip Osteop. at the Int. Coll.Osteo. She then established her osteopathic clinic in Drummoyne in 1989. She is a member of the Osteopaths Registration Board, appointed personally by the Minister for Health. She is a lecturer in the University of Western Sydney School of Exercise and Health Sciences. 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 20 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

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At the age of 15, Shane Gould won five Olympic medals at the Munich games in 1972. During her short career she was the holder of every freestyle world record from 100 metres to 1500 metres. On 13 June 1981 Shane Gould was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire for services to swimming. Educated at Turramurra High School, Shane Gould was coached in swimming by Forbes Carlile. She broke seven world records (her first at age 14) during her three year career, but did not compete at any Commonwealth Games, and only competed at one Olympic Games (Munich 1972). She was the first woman to break the 17-minute mark for the 1500 metres. Prior to the Munich Games, Shane Gould held every world record from 100 metres to 1500 metres. At the Munich games she won three individual gold, one silver and one bronze. Twelve months after the games, Gould decided to retire. At the age of 19 she married Neil Innes and moved to the Margaret River area in Western Australia. They had four children before their marriage broke up during the 1990s. Shane Gould was the winner of the ABC Sportsman of the Year 1971 and 1972, being the first person to win the award two years running. In 1972 she was named Australian of the Year and in 1974 voted the world’s all-time best woman freestyle swimmer. In 1994 she was awarded the International Olympic Committee’s Olympic Order and was an Olympic Torchbearer for the Opening Ceremony of the 2000 Sydney Games. Her autobiography, Tumble Turns was published in 1999. Olympic Games, Munich, 1972 200 metres freestyle swimming gold medal 400 metres freestyle swimming gold medal 200 metres individual medley swimming gold medal 800 metres freestyle swimming silver medal 100 metres freestyle swimming bronze medal Events 1972 - 1972 Swimming – 200m and 400m freestyle; 200m Individual Medley 1972 - 1972 Swimming – 800m freestyle 1972 - 1972 Swimming – 100m freestyle 2018 - 2018 Appointed a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) 2001 - 2001 Awarded a Centenary Medal ‘for service to the sport of swimming in Australia’ 2000 - 2000 Awarded an Australian Sports Medal 1981 - 1981 Awarded The Order of the British Empire – Member (Civil) (Imperial) ‘in recognition of service to the sport of swimming’ Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Australia at the Games, Australian Olympic Committee, 2006, http://corporate.olympics.com.au/index.cfm?p=25 Book Great Australian Women in Sport, Brasch, Nicolas, 1997 Australia at the Olympics, Andrews, Malcolm, 2000 The Champions: Australia's Sporting Greats, Smith, Terry, 1990 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 Author Details Anne Heywood Created 18 October 2002 Last modified 14 May 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Sandra Nori served as the New South Wales Minister for Small Business and Minister for Tourism. She is the Member (ALP) for Port Jackson. After completing her secondary education Petersham Girl’s High School, Nori attended the University of Sydney and graduated with a Bachelor of Economics. Before entering Parliament, as a Member for McKell in 1988 she was a co-ordinator at the Sydney Women’s Health Centre; a Health Worker at Leichhardt Community Health Centre; Research Officer to Peter Baldwin, former Federal Member of Sydney and a former member of the Social Security Appeals Tribunal. Since entering parliament her service includes being Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasurer and Minister for State Development. Minister for Small Business since 1999 and Minister for Tourism since 1999. Nori has two children and her interests include: women’s issues, education, housing, planning/the environment, consumer affairs and transport. She enjoys music, ballet, ballroom dancing and paragliding. A member of Italian community organisations, Nori is a supporter of several women’s groups including the National Foundation for Australian Women, Women’s Network Collective, Women’s Health in Industry Inc. and the Women’s Electoral Lobby. Published resources Resource Women Members of the NSW Parliament, Parliament of New South Wales, http://www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/prod/web/PHWebContent.nsf/PHPages/LibraryCompendiumwomenmp?OpenDocument Women Members of the Parliament of New South Wales, Robert Lawrie, Manager, New South Wales Parliamentary Archives, http://sites.archivenet.gov.au/nswparla/HTM%20pages/GuidePages/Women/members.htm Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Edited Book Who's Who in Australia 2001, Herd, Margaret, 2000 Archival resources National Library of Australia [Biographical cuttings on Sandra Nori, politician, containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journals] Inner West Council, Balmain Library, Local History Archive Issy Wyner Collection Box 27/2/1-4 Public transport Author Details Anne Heywood Created 17 October 2001 Last modified 24 April 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

WEL Victorian Administration Minutes of Co-ordinating Committee 1987-1996; Minutes of General Meetings, 1988-1999; AGMs 1988-1999; constitutions 1975, 1981; Correspondence 1983-1999; issues files; State Conferences, 1977-1999; WEL and Federal Elections 1989-1990; WEL submissions nationally and interstate. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 30 December 2017 Last modified 30 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

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Lynnette Schiftan was the ninth woman to sign the Victorian Bar Roll (1967) and the second Victorian woman to take silk (1983). In 1985 she was appointed a Judge of the County Court of Victoria – the first woman to be appointed to a Victorian State Court. A Victorian Bar News article published at the time of Schiftan’s appointment to the bench quoted her reflections on the early days of her legal career: ‘I experienced a great deal of prejudice as a female barrister, from the community generally, from solicitors and from the Bench. However, I suffered no such prejudice from other members of the Bar, who formed a protective barrier around me, which I remember with great affection.’ She was also treated well by the majority of her ‘brother judges’, several of whom ‘were accepting and helpful particularly as it was a Court in which I had never practiced. I had three judges come to me separately unbeknownst to the other two and say, “you haven’t done much crime like this, have you. Okay how about you come at 7:30 in the morning and I’ll help you.” All offered a list of things to consider.’ When Schiftan resigned from the bench in 1988, she was still the only female member of the Victorian State Judiciary. In March 1988 she joined Coles Myer as General Manager Legislative Affairs, a role requiring her to monitor the company’s compliance with relevant legislation and to represent the company in an advocacy role as necessary. Go to ‘Details’ below to read a reflective essay written by Lynne Schiftan for the Trailblazing Women and the Law Project. The following additional information was provided by Lynnette Schiftan and is reproduced with permission in its entirety. I was born on 6 March 1942 and grew up in an Australian Jewish house; conservative middle class and if anything with an English slant. It was a close and very sheltered household in all sorts of ways. We observed Shabbat every Friday. It was a small gathering of family members; we lit candles, had a simple meal and talked to each other. We were liberal Jews and that identity informed our values. I attended Methodist Ladies College and the experiences there reinforced the conservatism of our home. The year I was born was also the year my father, Philip Opas, signed the Victorian Bar Roll, thus becoming a barrister. My earliest memories, of the law and the Bar were at the age of five or six. My father babysat often. When he worked on weekends my sister and I would accompany him to Selbourne Chambers. These particular Chambers were built over an old wine cellar. The old wine smell remained combined with musty books it left an indelible memory – decades on I still remember quite clearly. The floors had brown linoleum floors with diamond patterns and highly polished banisters that made for a good slide for two little girls. The chambers became a playground for my sister and me. We tried on wigs, dressed up in gowns and saw grown men, colleagues and friends of my father’s dressed up just like us. I also recall the rushing around, the noise and finally doors shut because serious conversations were taking place. When I returned as an adult and a barrister the building had been demolished and replaced by new chambers opposite the Supreme Court. By the time I was a young teenager, I was a well-seasoned observer of the theatre of Court. When the Courts went on circuit to regional centres such as Bendigo, Ballarat, Horsham and Mildura during School Holidays, the family would accompany him. I sat in the Court and listened. By then I had a real knowledge of the roles and importance of the various individuals necessary for the operation of a Court. I absorbed it all and thought it was exactly what I wanted to do in later life. When the time came my parents were adamantly opposed to my entering a Law Course. In that time the solution was easy – I obtained a Commonwealth Scholarship and entered Melbourne University Law School. My father was concerned that if I did Law I would fail and my mother was certain that a female lawyer would never marry. I graduated with a very average LLB from Melbourne University in 1965. In 1966 at the age of 24 I began my legal career journey. As it happened I returned to a very familiar regional city to do my articles. I was articled to Bruce Garde of Hillard Rice and Garde in Mildura in northwest Victoria – a well-established and regarded firm in the region. I was paid a salary of $70 per week, which covered board and a car much needed for local work and also my trips home to Melbourne every weekend. The firm’s main client was the Council, it also acted for local businesses such as wineries, orchardists, cooperatives and very occasionally took general legal work and some petty crime alleged against family members of major clients. Just as it is today, greater numbers of Indigenous Australians lived in regional rather than metropolitan areas. For the first time I witnessed the challenges facing Aboriginal Australians. There was a community living in humpies on the banks of the Wentworth River at Dareton NSW. I was shocked to my bootstraps at the conditions and began to realise that life for some people was a terrible struggle. There was a disproportionate representation of Aboriginal Australians charged with a range of offences mainly alcohol related including drunkenness in a public place, graduating to theft, crimes of violence and murder. The local Wentworth Magistrate seemed to be constantly fighting authorities trying to keep young Aboriginal Australians, in particular, out of jail. He succeeded if the offence of drunkenness in a public place, drunk and disorderly or similar offence was a first time appearance but for “regulars” there was no alternative. The women and children I saw were listless and lacking any reasonable support. I also became aware that violence against women and children was commonplace. An issue that I came to learn beset both Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Australians. Unbeknownst to me it was also an issue that would define my career in years to come. In 1967 I returned to Melbourne to complete my Articles at Ridgeway Pierce Freedman and Murray. It also happened to be a leading firm in divorce. I didn’t know anyone who was divorced. No one in my parents’ circle was divorced. Handling these cases further unveiled what was until then the closeted world of the marital home and domestic violence. The day after I was admitted to practice, I signed the Bar roll on 12 October 1967. I was 25 years old, I was the ninth woman ever to do so and the first to join the Bar without some years’ experience as a solicitor. I joined the Bar unhampered by legal practice or maturity but there was no plan B – I was going to be a barrister. I was “taken in” by my father’s clerk – Mr Jim Foley (I always called him “Mr Jim”.) I read in the chambers of Mr. Austin Asche (as he then was – later a Family Court Judge and Administrator of the Northern Territory – his practice was solely Matrimonial Causes). “Mr. Jim” accepted me on condition that I took no work other than Magistrates’ Court for two years. He promised that he would then ensure I had a practice. I was sent all over Melbourne doing mainly very minor accident cases but gradually the work changed and I began to appear for what was then known as “deserted wives”, usually seeking or enforcing maintenance orders. I was as ‘green’ as could possibly be and Mr. Jim was incredibly supportive and very generous with advice. One of his offerings was. He told me that no matter what I was never to cry in front of anyone and if overcome I should go quickly to the “ladies”! He didn’t want anyone to see me as being weak. But when it came to the matters of child custody or inter family violence the learning curve was steep. One way of ensuring work in the earliest days as a barrister was to appear in cases pro bono and this I did as often as possible. My clients were mainly “deserted” wives” – a terrible term -as they were mainly women and children fleeing domestic violence. I married Peter Schiftan on 2 November 1968. Peter brought his four years-old son, Daniel, into the marriage. Shortly thereafter the three of us went to the Territory of Papua New Guinea for almost two years. There, in 1969 I was admitted to practice and opened the Law Office of Cyril P McCubbery on Bougainville Island ( in our kitchen in a woven matting house) where we were living. Peter worked for Bougainville Copper as a General Manager and I was approached by the consortium of Bechtel Western Knapp Engineering to become a Contracts Engineer with responsibility for translating contracts from American English to Australian English whilst also retaining the right of private practice. I frequently appeared in the “Kiap Court” (local Court) defending expatriate men accused of various criminal offences. The penalties to be applied were usually fines or expulsion from the mine lease and repatriation back to Australia. There were Australian Maintenance Orders to be enforced – not very successfully as Bougainville was a fairly tough place and the expatriate men were seriously tough individuals. Wage garnishee orders worked for a time but the men simply moved on to defeat the effect. There were serious work related accidents and as the Papuan workforce was drawn from various warring New Guinea Tribes a great deal of inter-tribal violence including murder. We returned to Australia in 1970 and immediately resumed practice at the Bar in my own Chambers. I developed a Matrimonial Causes Act practice – doing undefended divorces. It was a pragmatic decision because the list of cases would be completed in the morning and I could then collect our child, Daniel, from Kindergarten/ School. There was no tax deduction for child minding and in (1972) HCA 49 Lodge v Commissioner of Taxation that situation was reinforced – child minding expenses incurred to enable a woman to derive assessable income were held to be domestic in nature and therefore not a tax deduction. We could not afford any alternative but at least I was at the Bar. In 1972, at 29 years of age and after our daughter, Kate, was born I again returned to the Bar. By this stage we could afford home help and that also allowed me to take on more complex work that involved days of hearing at a time. During the mid-1970s there were a few more women practising at the Bar. I was senior enough to take on readers. There were six readers in all :- Julia Langslow, Elizabeth Curtain (later Justice Elizabeth Curtain Supreme Court of Victoria) Sue Blashki (later a Magistrate in the Magistrates Court of Victoria) Carolyn Douglas (later Judge Carolyn Douglas of the County Court of Victoria) Clare Grey and Mary Slade. The work at the Bar was increasing and becoming more complex. It was a very busy but good time. By this stage my involvement in Law relating to families had spanned 18 years, I was well established and pursued interests outside the bar. I made myself available to the Centre Against Sexual Assault (CASA). There were other ad hoc groups providing emergency accommodation after family violence to women and children. These services were woefully inadequate. I appeared for many of these women seeking Protection Orders and Maintenance whenever possible. By the time I became involved with CASA it was known that I had a particular interest in sexual assault and that led to me chairing the sub-committee at the Bar on sexual assault. I became the patron of Inner East Foster Care. Working extensively in the general area of laws relating to “family”, it became obvious that the provisions of The Matrimonial Causes Act 1959 no longer met the needs of a changing society. Men and women were disadvantaged by the stringency and limitations of the grounds for divorce as provided by the Act and the ‘fault concept” within the Act did not assist parties to have suitable ongoing relationships where children’s custody and access were involved. Simply put, marriage was an institution still seen through the prism of religious requirements. I became actively involved in lobbying for change and was a foundation member of a group ultimately named Family Lawyers Association of Australia. There were many papers presented, articles written and politicians lobbied on the need for change. After a year of intense lobbying, the Family Law Act of the Commonwealth of Australia (FLA) was finally enacted in 1975. The FLA meant couples no longer needed to show grounds for divorce, but instead, just that their relationship had suffered an irreconcilable breakdown and that they had lived separately for a period of one year. Thereafter, I regularly lectured on various aspects of Family Law Act:-Leo Cussen Institute of Continuing Legal Education, Melbourne and Monash Universities as well as presenting papers at conferences in Australia, United States and Canada. In 1976, I was appointed to the Bishop Committee Inquiry into the Maltreatment of Children. At the time there was no suggestion of endemic Institutional sexual abuse. Child sexual abuse was not a focus of the inquiry and it was only mentioned in the context of domestic violence. We had no submissions then or at a later committee on endemic institutional abuse. It is a stark contrast to the current (2015) Royal Commission into sexual abuse. The revelations are deeply distressing .From 1986 I was among those advocating mandatory reporting of sexual and all forms of abuse of children. In Vitro Fertilisation or IVF research and advancement had made great leaps in a decade and by the time I was appointed to the Waller Committee Inquiry in 1982. It took us two years to deliver a report to the Victorian government, permitting IVF to be legalised for the benefit of married couples. Legislation then followed. It is interesting to now note that no comment was made concerning a child’s right to know the identity of a donor and no provision was considered to give families the medical history of the donor. Amendments in recent years now facilitate that option. My extra-curricular interests continued with appointments to the Ethics Committee of the Victorian Bar – Family Law (1983-984), member of the Commonwealth Family Law Council (1984) and convenor of the Sexual Abuse Sub Committee of that Council (1986). By late 1984, I became one of three female QCs in then practising in Australia. Joan Rosanove QC was appointed a QC in 1954 – there were no other women silks in Victoria between Mrs Rosenove and me. South Australia appointed the first female QC, Roma Mitchell, in 1962. It took almost two decades before the second female silk was appointed – that is Mary Gaudron in NSW, and the State of Victoria followed three years later with my appointment as one of her Majesty’s Counsel. It is particularly pleasing to see many women now with most senior roles in the law. There is no Court without a woman. Bar Societies are or have been chaired by women but the proportion of women appointees is far below their proportion of the profession as a whole. There is a dearth of appointees from the migrant population of practising Lawyers and no Aboriginal Australian on any senior Court of record. Almost two decades since I embarked on a legal career, I was appointed a Judge of the County Court of Victoria – the first woman to be appointed to a Victorian State Court. My appointment did not meet with universal approval. At the private swearing in the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court strode into the room and ignoring my husband and our two children, instructed me to take the Bible in my right hand, administered the Oath of Office and left without another word. In the County Court matters were not much better as far as the Chief Judge was concerned. I never had Chambers of my own in 3 ½ years. I was moved from Chambers to Chambers occupying Chambers belonging to a Judge on leave. My personal books and belongings were never unpacked. There were no toilet facilities for any woman on the floors occupied by Judges. There were “Judges” toilets and “Associates” toilets on each floor. I asked for provision of facilities but was told there was no budget for such provision. I went home and did not return until I invited the Chief Judge to a press conference I was about to call on day three. Facilities were provided at my insistence for all women on that floor with a door label that said “Women”. But as I said in the 1984 autumn issue of the ‘Victorian Bar News’, “I experienced a great deal of prejudice as a female barrister, from the community generally, from solicitors and from the Bench. However, I suffered no such prejudice from other members of the Bar, who formed a protective barrier around me, which I remember with great affection.” Similarly, several of my brother Judges were accepting and helpful particularly as it was a Court in which I had never practiced. I had three judges come to me separately unbeknownst to the other two and say, “you haven’t done much crime like this, have you. Okay how about you come at 7:30 in the morning and I’ll help you.” All offered a list of things to consider. I was continuously sent to Circuits in the Latrobe Valley. At that time Latrobe Valley had the highest crime rate in the State and according to police data, this remains today with domestic violence topping the list followed by drugs. The next three years brought more appointments and responsibilities: The Advisory Board to the Standing Committee for the Centre of Human Bioethics Monash University (1985), Deputy President of the Administrative Appeals Tribunal (1985), deputy president of The Accident Compensation Tribunal (1986), Convenor of the Sexual Abuse Sub-Committee of the Family Law Council (1986), of which I was still a member, Board Member of Queen Victoria Hospital Prince Henry’s Hospital and an Inaugural Board member of Monash Medical Centre. I chaired the non – clinical Ethics Committee in each hospital at which I was a board member. At 46 years of age I was a County Court judge, a wife, a mother, a weekend farmer – serious farmer. We were working seven days a week; we had children who had sports activity from one end of Victoria to the other. I had obligations to my family as a whole, I insisted on doing everything so no one could say I was a bad mother but, it was exhausting. Three and a half years after my appointment to the County court I remained the only female member of the State Judiciary and in early 1988 I resigned. My resignation unleashed a tsunami of disapproval. Amongst the criticisms was that I ‘set back the course for advancement for women for generations.’ This came from women lawyers and the members of the press. I didn’t see myself as responsible for all women and I wasn’t prepared to accept that responsibility. At the end of all of this I was absolutely rung out and I no longer held interest in fighting constant battles with the Court. I did not enjoy the work of a judge. At the Bar there was a collegiate environment that was absent from the bench, there was also excitement and competition. I had no idea what I wanted to do or could do. In March 1988 I joined Coles Myer as General Manager Legislative Affairs requiring monitoring the company’s compliance with relevant legislation and to represent the company in an advocacy role as necessary. I appeared at Industry Enquiries and oversaw he legal services of the various businesses. I dealt with Trade Practices issues and the like and was appointed an Associate Director of Coles Myer Ltd and a Member of the 16 person Executive Committee responsible for the running of the businesses and reporting to the Board. There were no other women on the Executive Committee and it appeared to me that that was unlikely to change within a reasonable time. At the time I left in 1998 the aggregate businesses had a turnover of $17 Billion with a workforce of 165,000 people. I have found that the Law provides extraordinary opportunities in many diverse ways. It is my belief that the analytical training which forms an integral part of every Law Course can be massaged into any activity one desires to pursue. Even the Court process of advocacy for one’s client within strict ethical boundaries allows an understanding of issues in dispute which in the best scenario modifies extremes and displays a recognition of outcomes which although may not satisfy the protagonists absolutely, gives rise to a solution which serves the parties well. In the criminal sphere robust advocacy and rejoinder permit the revelation of weaknesses and strengths, which allows juries to deliberate with a clear understanding of facts. That of course is the ideal and activities do not always lead to such results but to my mind the process is sound. It is distressing that more than 40 years after I signed the Victorian Bar Roll, an exercise such as this is deemed necessary. It was always my hope that by now, 2015, there would no longer be a need for discussions concerning equality of opportunity within or outside the Law. There are Judges who happen to be women in all Courts but their number is far less than the community presence would dictate. There is no Aboriginal judge in any senior court of record and we have yet to see representation from migrant groups to the extent that they are represented in the community at large. The State Bars have many women as members and in some States women chair their Bar Council. Solicitors firms have an ongoing underrepresentation of women at senior partnership level. It is all taking too long. There seems to be little political or legal fraternity will in ensuring more rapid change via judicial appointments, senior partnerships and representation of all parts of the Community – being the Community the Law is required to serve. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Women Barristers in Victoria: Then and Now, The Victorian Bar, 2007, https://www.vicbar.com.au/wba/ Magazine article Victorian Bar News, 1985 Lynne joins her father in the ranks of QCs, Waby, Heather, 1985, http://www.vicbar.com.au/vicbar_oral/images/raising_the_bar/LynneOpasQC.jpg Book The Family Law Act in practice., Opas, Lynne, 1976 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 [Biographical cuttings on Lynne Opas, Family Court barrister, containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journals] Author Details Lynne Schiftan (with Nikki Henningham) Created 13 October 2015 Last modified 21 November 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Melbourne, Vic. C. 1942. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 24 March 2003 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Di Gibson ran only once for election to the parliament of New South Wales: in 2003 as an Independent for the New South Wales Legislative Assembly seat of Wallsend. Di Gibson, who lived at Maryville, when she stood for the seat of Wallsend in 2003, said that she was contesting the election to give people a choice. She believed that they had been taken for granted and deserved better representation, particularly in the areas of public education, public health, public transport and public safety. She outpolled both the Australian Democrat and the Christian Democrat candidates. Di worked as a teacher for students with disabilities. 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 16 September 2013 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Nydia Edes was the first female Alderman on the Broken Hill City Council and a recipient of the Queen’s Silver Jubilee Medal who worked tirelessly throughout her life for the improvement of women’s conditions. Nydia, the youngest of 8 children, was born in the mining town of Kadina in South Australia in 1901. Her father, Walter George Thomson, was a mining engineer. After his death in 1907, Nydia’s mother Mary Louisa was left to raise her large family on her own. At the age of 16, Nydia became secretary of the Moonta ALP Ladies’ Committee, signalling the beginning of her long connection to the Australian Labor Party (ALP). She was also the secretary of the campaign committee for her cousin John Pedler, who became the local member of the South Australian State parliament. As mining in the Copper Triangle district in South Australia began to slow in the 1920s, Nydia’s older siblings married and sought work in other towns. With her mother and older sister Sarah, Nydia moved to Broken Hill in 1926, joining other family members who had moved there looking for work. Nydia was employed at Goodhart’s department store and joined the Shop Assistants Union and the local branch of the Labor Party. She eventually became Mr Goodhart’s assistant and was one of the principal buyers for the store. In 1931 she married Cecil Edes, a timberman who worked for the Zinc Corporation, and in 1933 gave birth to their daughter Margot. The challenge of bringing up a child and maintaining a household did not prevent Nydia’s continued involvement in politics. In May 1939, she helped form the Women’s Auxiliary of the ALP in Broken Hill and remained a member for fifty years, serving intermittently as president, secretary and treasurer. Throughout her life, Nydia campaigned for women’s rights, specifically equal pay for equal work, equal opportunity and legal equality. She was a regular contributor of letters and articles to the local press on the subject of issues concerning women. She strongly believed that women could and should contribute to local government, and wrote to the local paper that “it is only a simple matter of commonsense to have a woman actively participating in civic affairs”. Accordingly, in 1962, Nydia ran for the council election as an ALP candidate and became the first female Alderman on the Broken Hill City Council. In 1968, following her disagreement with a caucus decision, Nydia tended her resignation from the Labor party and ran successfully as a Labor Independent in the next election. She held her office as Alderman until 1974. In addition to her political activity, Nydia was a tireless volunteer for numerous and diverse community organisations. In the depression years, Nydia worked for local charities providing food, clothing and healthcare to struggling families, and during World War Two she served for six years with the Broken Hill and District Hospital Red Cross Voluntary Service Division. In 1935, Nydia was made a Justice of the Peace. She was a founder of the first rural branch of the Women Justices’ Association in Broken Hill and became its first president. Nydia was a member of the Housing Advisory Commission from 1950 until 1970 and was secretary of the Far West Children’s Health Scheme. She was a member of the Board of Directors of the Broken Hill and District Hospital for 30 years, and was awarded Life membership in 1971. In recognition of her services to the community, she was awarded the Queen’s Silver Jubilee Medal in 1977. In spite of her time consuming political and voluntary work, Nydia never let her commitments encroach upon family life. A traditional Christmas dinner was the only sacrifice that her daughter Margot White recalls, as Nydia’s position on the Hospital Board involved visiting every patient in the hospital on Christmas morning. Nydia died in Broken Hill on June 26, 1992. This entry was prepared and written by Georgia Moodie. Published resources Book Some Outstanding Women of Broken Hill and District, Camilleri, Jenny, 2002 People and Politics in Regional New South Wales, Hagan, J, 2006 Newspaper Article Room for us, says woman councillor, 1971 Edited Book Who's Who of Australian Women, Lofthouse, Andrea, 1982 Site Exhibition Unbroken Spirit: Women in Broken Hill, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2009, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/bh/bh-home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources National Library of Australia [Biographical cuttings on Nydia Edes, politician, containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journals] Outback Archives, Broken Hill City Library Edes, Nydia Private Hands (These records may not be readily available) Interview with Margot White Private Hands (These regards may not be readily available) Papers of Nydia Edes Author Details Georgia Moodie Created 23 January 2009 Last modified 16 September 2013 Digital resources Title: Maria Petkovich Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Title: 12-ALP-Womens-Branch.jpg Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Glynis Nunn is the only Australian to have won an Olympic multi-discipline athletics event. She won gold in the heptathlon at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games. Glynis Nunn began competing in athletics at the age of nine, when still a student at Toowoomba South State School. At fifteen, she won six events in the State championships and set records in five. She qualified for the Commonwealth Games in 1978 but couldn’t compete due to injury. The heptathlon replaced the pentathlon in 1981, and prior to the 1982 Commonwealth Games, Glynis moved to Adelaide to train with Olympic coach John Daly. It was there that she married her first husband, decathlete Chris Nunn. Glynis won gold at the inaugural Commonwealth Games championship in 1982. Having left her job as a physical education teacher in 1983 to concentrate on training, Glynis Nunn won gold at the Olympic Games in Los Angeles in 1984, beating American favourite Jackie Joyner by just a few points. Nunn also made the finals for the 100m hurdles and the long jump, and was placed fifth and seventh respectively. After the Games, she switched from the heptathlon to hurdling. She won bronze in the high hurdles event in the 1986 Commonwealth Games, but was later plagued by injury. Nunn left competitive sport in 1990, by which time she had remarried. She now has an extensive background in sports coaching, and has worked as a sprint coach for the Brisbane Lions AFL football team. Nunn-Cearns lectures in fitness and is sought after for public speaking engagements. She was awarded the Order of Australia Medal for her contribution to athletics. Events 1984 - 1984 Athletics – Heptathlon 1982 - 1982 Athletics – Heptathlon Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Australia at the Games, Australian Olympic Committee, 2006, http://corporate.olympics.com.au/index.cfm?p=25 Book Official Australian guide to the Seoul Olympic Games, 1988, Nunn, Glynis (Olympic coordinator), 1988 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 Edited Book The Oxford Companion to Australian Sport, Vamplew, Vray; Moore, Katharine; O'Hara, John; Cashman, Richard; Jobling, Ian, 1997 Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 25 January 2007 Last modified 5 September 2012 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

International Women’s Day (IWD) Collective, not to be confused with the IWD Committee formed in 1938. The IWD Collective was form by the second wave of feminism and was concerned with the IWD March the festival or picnic after the march and the IWD Dance. They organised speakers and have themes for the day, produce posters badges and tshirts (this does not happen each year). Author Details Kathleen Bambridge Created 18 December 2009 Last modified 24 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Alison Megarrity was the (ALP) member for Menai in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly. She was first elected to the seat in 1999 and was re-elected in 2003 and 2007. She did not seek re-election at the 2011 state election, but stood as a federal candidate in the seat of Hughes at the 2013 election, but was unsuccessful. Prior to Alison’s time in state politics she was a Councillor with the Liverpool City Council (1994-1999). Alison Megarrity grew up in central western NSW where her father was a railwayman. She was educated at Our Lady of Mercy College, Parramatta and Macquarie University, from which she graduated BA. She worked in public sector organizations dealing with housing, education, and consumer affairs before winning the seat of Menai in 1999 at her first attempt. She was active in the ALP, being a member of the Chipping Norton branch and holding office not only in the branch but also in the Moorebank and Menai State Electorate Councils. She was elected to the Liverpool City Council in 1994 and represented it on the Chipping Norton Lakes Authority and the Georges River Combined Councils. She was a board member of the Whitlam Leisure Centre, deputy convenor of the Georges River Environment Alliance and Chair of the Chipping Norton Community Centre management Committee. She married Robert Megarrity, in 1982 and they have two sons, Liam and Glyn. She served as Assistant Speaker from May 2007-March 2011. She was also Parliamentary Secretary, Assisting the Minister for Infrastructure and Planning and Natural Resources, 2003-2005, as well as Parliamentary Secretary Assisting the Attorney-General, Minister for the Environment and the Art, 2005-2007.. Published resources Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 14 December 2005 Last modified 20 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

The collection consists of recordings relating to the Snowy Mountains Scheme; the Whitsundays; history and influence of Irish in Australia; Broken Hill; Palm and Fantome Islands; migrants; five ABC radio programs: The Snowy, The People behind the Power; The Irish in Australia; Palm Island, A Punishment Place; Broken Hill, the Seventh State; Connections, Muslims; and the book ‘Minefields and miniskirts’, about Australian female veterans involved in the Vietnam War. Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 13 February 2009 Last modified 10 April 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

1 hr 50 min. Oral history??Discussing nursing training; reasons for enlistment in Air Force; nursing duties at Point Cook, Vic; embarkation for New Guinea; description of journey to Kiriwina, Trobrian Islands; pay rate for RAAFNS; contact with American servicemen; leisure; description of Air Evacuation Scheme; categories of injuries that required Air Evacuation Services; nursing duties during air evacuation flights; nursing POWS. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 1 October 2003 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

A member of the Australian Labor Party, Clare Martin gained the distinction of becoming the first Labor and first female Chief Minister of the Northern Territory in 2001. She was elected to the Legislative Assembly of the Northern Territory at a by-election for the seat of Fannie Bay in 1995. This seat was formerly held by the Chief Minister Marshall Perron, member of the Country Liberal Party. She was re-elected in 1997, assumed the leadership of the ALP in 1999 and went on to win the 2001 election. In addition to her role as Chief Minister, she held the ministerial portfolios of Treasurer, Arts and Museums, Young Territorians, Women’s Policy, Senior Territorians, Communications, Science and Advanced Technology. She won the 2005 election with an increased majority, but resigned from Parliament in November 2007. Born: 15 June 1952. Martin obtained a Bachelor of Arts from Sydney University in 1972. From 1978 to 1994 she was a Senior Journalist and broadcaster with ABC Radio and TV. She worked in both Sydney and Canberra before relocating to Darwin in 1985. Martin and her partner David have a son and daughter and her interests include: reading, music, politics and sport. Source: www.nt.alp.org.au/people/fanniebay.html accessed 10/10/01 Events 2019 - 2019 Officer of the Order of Australia (AO): For distinguished service to the people and Legislative Assembly of the Northern Territory, and as a community advocate. Published resources Resource Clare Martin - Member for Fannie Bay, http://www.nt.alp.org.au/people/fanniebay.html Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Edited Book Who's Who in Australia 2001, Herd, Margaret, 2000 Book No ordinary lives: pioneering women in Australian politics, Jenkins, Cathy, 2008 Site Exhibition The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia, Smart, Judith and Swain, Shurlee (eds.), 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders Archival resources National Library of Australia [Biographical cuttings on Clare Martin, politician, containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journals] Author Details Anne Heywood Created 10 October 2001 Last modified 12 June 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Folder containing Vera’s memoirs (typescript) Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 12 February 2009 Last modified 12 February 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

1. Correspondence, 1944-1972. 2. Receipt books, 1964-1972. 3. Tape recordings of conference sessions. 4. Special subject records. Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 2 October 2003 Last modified 29 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

The papers in MS 7401 include 40 letters received by Brenda Niall while researching her book Australia through the looking-glass: children’s fiction 1830-1980; drafts of her book Martin Boyd: a life and correspondence relating to its publication; copies of official documents and papers accumulated while researching Martin Boyd; copies of notes by other researchers, particularly Terry O’Neill; interview transcripts, photographs and copies of Boyd’s novels, short stories and poems. The correspondents include Nance Donkin, Simon French, Eleanor Spence, Colin Thiele, Patricia Wrightson, Ruth Park, Desmond O’Grady, Arthur and Yvonne Boyd, Geoffrey Dutton, Alan Shadwick, Terry O’Neill and Graham Pollard (14 boxes, 1 fol. Box).??The Acc06.113 instalment comprises the typescript of an interview conducted in 1985 by Desmond O’Grady with Luciano Tombini, an Italian boy who was very important to Martin Boyd when he settled in Rome (1 folder). Author Details Alannah Croom Created 27 February 2018 Last modified 27 February 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

A collection of the personal papers and manuscripts of Rosa Caroline Praed, comprising correspondence, press cuttings, royalty statements, notebooks, diaries, and legal documents. The collection also includes the manuscript for the book “Soul of Nyria”. Author Details Lee Butterworth Created 22 June 2009 Last modified 27 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Justice Julie Dick is a judge of the District Court of Queensland, having been appointed to the bench in 2000. She has also served as an acting Judge of the Supreme Court of Queensland. She served as president of the Queensland Children’s Court 2007 – 2011, having been appointed a judge of that court in 2001. Judge Dick was an articled clerk between 1973 and 1975. She was admitted to the bar in December 1975 and appointed Senior Counsel in November 1997. She had an extensive practice in criminal law, appearing in nearly fifty murder trials and many other high profile criminal matters. Judge Dick was a member of the Law Reform Commission (Criminal Law Subdivision), a member of the Committee of the Queensland Bar Association and a member of the committee overseeing the 1997 Review of the Criminal Code. She was the inaugural Parliamentary Criminal Justice Commissioner between 1998 and December 2000 when she was appointed a District Court Judge. She was the President of the Children’s Court of Queensland from 2007 to 2011, Acting Supreme Court Judge in 2011 and a member of the Higher Courts Benchbook Committee since 2000. Go to ‘Details’ below to read an essay written by Helen Moye about Julie Dick for the Trailblazing Women and the Law Project. The following additional information was provided by Julie Dick and is reproduced with permission in its entirety. It was about a quarter to five in the afternoon. People were streaming out of the Brisbane Law Courts complex in George Street. Bridget was heading off to the park with her father, while her mother took the baby, who was due to be breast-fed. This was part of the daily ritual. That day, though, Bridget noticed something interesting in the rush of people going about the business of the law. “Mum, did you know that boys can be barristers too?” Yes, she did know. Julie Dick, barrister-at-law, knew that very well. Since being called to the Queensland Bar in 1975, she had been one of that body of legal professionals of whom, even in 2005, only 15.6 per cent are women. This is despite the fact that in recent years women have comprised at least half of the law graduates from Queensland universities. In 1997, Julie, the then newly appointed Senior Counsel had expressed optimism that the developing institution of women at the Bar would offer encouragement to other women. She was, however, also on record as acknowledging the continuing difficulties experienced by women in being briefed, particularly by larger firms, and particularly in the area of criminal law. Today, with the perspective of over four years on the Bench, her concerns have not abated. “Since I have been a judge, I have seen many, many female prosecutors, in fact sometimes it seems as though they are in the majority, but I still do not see an equal number of women appearing for the defence.” It has been her observation that, for women, hard work and creditable performance are not, in themselves, sufficient to guarantee recognition and further opportunity. A complicating factor has been those female practitioners who, perhaps in response to perceived prejudice, “[do] not really dare to be women lawyers.” In such an environment, it can also be the case that women do not “dare” to recognise or encourage other women. In the end, the career of Judge Julie Dick does not reflect that experience. In the words of Roberta Devereaux, this is a woman and a lawyer “confident and happy in her own skin,” successful on her own terms, and one who has been “a great supporter of other women.” In her turn, Judge Dick acknowledges the example and support of Barbara Newton, who, as Public Defender, ensured that she was briefed regularly and in high profile matters when she returned to practice in 1989 after a break in which she gave birth to four children. The break showed no signs of upsetting the rhythm of a career well on track. After marrying in 1984, Julie had given birth to Michael in 1985 and then daughters Jennifer (1986), Christy (1988) and Bridget (1989). Her return to practice saw her appearing in a number of significant trials (usually funded by the then Public Defender’s Office). In 1992, three days’ after the conclusion of a five-week robbery trial, her youngest daughter Kathleen was born. An hour after the caesarean birth, Julie received a phone call from the Legal Aid office, checking her availability for another trial, set down for three weeks time. She accepted the brief. Her support network at that time consisted of a nanny and her husband, solicitor Terry Mellifont. The nanny stayed until Kathleen commenced primary school, but Terry has remained a constant, ever since Julie started work as his articled clerk in January 1973. Julie acknowledges the enormous contribution he has made to her being able to pursue her career, and to the “wonderful children” and “warm, loving home” they share. TJ Mellifont and Company was a small, busy general practice, with Terry as sole practitioner. Dealing with a wide range of matters, including industrial, criminal, civil, defamation and family law, it offered Julie exposure to a cross-section of the law, as well as considerable in-court experience, from the Magistrates Court to the Federal Court on circuit from Sydney. She recalls days on which there might be 12 or 13 appearances to coordinate in various courts on the one morning. Increasingly, within this spectrum of activity and high energy, the role of solicitor sitting in the office seemed to lack the allure and excitement of what she saw and experienced in court. She became engrossed in the “complete theatre” of court and litigation practice, the tactics and legal argument, and “loved everything about criminal trials, from the picking of the jury through to the verdict.” Professionally, this experience inspired her move to the Bar. Personally, it was an eye-opener for a young woman who had spent most of her childhood in a home where “the pantry was full and everyone was happy.” Working in that practice, Julie Dick first realised that not everyone shared her comfortable circumstances; and it was in this period that she realised there was more she could do to help her clients-such as the young single mother, pregnant, with toddler in tow-than to lend them money, only to find it being spent immediately on cigarettes. Julie Maree Dick was born on 21 June 1952 in Brisbane, the third-born (and first daughter) of the nine children of Frank and Norma Dick. When Julie was young, the family moved to the Gold Coast, where Frank, an electrician by trade, expanded into the building industry and flourished in the first wave of development to hit the area. It was a life that offered freedom and security. The only address needed for a taxi-ride from Coolangatta to home was “Frank Dick’s house.” Sundays meant a trip to the beach with Dad, while Mum had some peace and quiet at home. There was ·sailing, singing around the pianola, and teenage socialising with siblings and their friends. There were two memorable holidays-to South Molle Island and Fiji-and there was school. Julie’s mother and father had both been educated in Brisbane, at Lourdes Hill College and at St Laurence’s College respectively. Her own education began in 1957 at St Augustine’s Catholic Primary School in Coolangatta. From 1965 to 1968 she attended high school at Star of the Sea in Southport, during which time her scholastic ability became evident. She received academic awards and each year there was happy competition with friend Josephine Morton for dux of the class. She remembers in particular the encouragement of her class teacher from Grades Eight to Ten, Sister Xaviera. High achievement in Junior (Grade Ten) meant inevitable streaming into the sciences for the final school years. However, Science and Maths classes had to be undertaken at the local Brothers college because so few girls enrolled in those subjects. This unconventional arrangement was bypassed in favour of Julie’s transfer to St Rita’s College in Brisbane, where she completed her secondary schooling as a boarder-a chronically homesick one. It was quickly obvious to her that this was a far bigger pond than the one in which she had swum to date: there was more competition. It was also only one of many ponds-there was a much larger world out there with people from different backgrounds. She was also finding her science-based subjects difficult. Her father encouraged her educational pursuits and aspirations, but their talk of a career in medicine or pharmacy was pragmatic rather than heartfelt; this was a student who craved the humanities. Nonetheless, Julie excelled at St Rita’s and became a prefect. Norma Dick’s preference for her daughter would have been hairdressing, “a wonderful profession for a young woman;” however, having won a Commonwealth Scholarship, Julie enrolled in Arts Law at the University of Queensland in 1970. For the next three years she enjoyed the safe and sociable environment of Duchesne College, becoming involved in the college committee, including one year as social secretary. In second year, Julie decided to pursue law studies exclusively. There was no identifiable prompt for law either as a course of study or a profession, and no family connection to it. The character of Sir Thomas More in the Robert Bolt play A Man for All Seasons had mesmerised her in high school: his bravery, his scholarship, his ethics and his commitment to the law. She also remembers reading Great Trials of the Twentieth Century as a child, and To Kill a Mockingbird (many times). It was the court scenes which captured her imagination and, again, the private introduction to lives so different from her own. Once at university, Jurisprudence provided a first insight into what the law was really all about. However, it was only after commencing as an articled clerk that Julie’s practical experience of the law and of those seeking its help enlivened her sense of justice. With that came a growing appreciation of human weakness and miscalculation-rather than evil intent -in some of the matters needing resolution. As an articled clerk, living alone for the first time and working long hours, Julie started to feel overwhelmed. She felt she needed to tweak her direction, to refocus and re-energise. On the urging of Terry and Tom Quirk, then a junior counsel and later a District Court judge, Julie relinquished university study in favour of the Bar Board examinations, which she successfully completed in 1975. She was admitted as a barrister on 18 December 1975 (and later, in 1992, as a practitioner of the High Court and Federal Court of Australia). In March 1976, she completed her Articles. It was a bold move, she concedes, going to the Bar so early, and she pays tribute to the friendship, professionalism and high ethical standards of each of her original colleagues in chambers-John Jerrard, Kiernan Dorney and Frank Wilkie-and Basil Martin, her pupil master. Indeed, one of Julie’s particular concerns with the profession today is the frequent apparent ignorance (or avoidance) of the basic ethical rules which characterised the behaviour and practices of colleagues such as these. Notwithstanding the support of her colleagues, Julie suffered “the usual difficulties” -such as developing sufficient self-confidence, engendering the confidence of briefing solicitors and managing a business. Then there were the slightly less usual difficulties-those attached to being a woman at the Bar. With few other women in active practice at the time, there were even fewer with long experience who could serve as role models. There was also discrimination, and Julie notes that, even after establishing an extensive criminal practice, she was “very rarely briefed by firms in crime with private clients. Most of my work came from the Public Defender’s Office.” Still, her advice today to women coming to the Bar is to cultivate the habits of persistence and hard work and to avoid thinking that “to have a practice like a man, you have to act like a man.” Her personal style reflects a certain self-sufficiency, directness and honesty. Her professional style is characterised by intelligence and wit, “a good forensic mind,” commonsense and an ability to empathise with clients and yet maintain an appropriate professional distance. Not surprisingly, as her confidence and experience developed, so did her practice. It also shifted from a general practice to a criminal practice, partly the result perhaps of the amount of work she was undertaking with legally aided clients through regular briefing by the Public Defender and, later, the Legal Aid Office. At a time when other colleagues made the decision that to accept such matters would inhibit their career and their income, her readiness to do so was not entirely self-serving, although the high volume of work in itself did provide a valuable basis for developing her skills and expertise. Julie Dick soon came to believe that it is the responsibility of practitioners and governments to ensure that those who come before the courts, charged by the State, receive the defence to which all are entitled. Significantly, her own workload reflected that commitment to the rights of legal aid clients. This philosophy of fairness, compassion and contribution is evident in the record of her dealings with clients, colleagues, the broader profession and the community over the years. She served as a member of the Bar Association Committee from 1995 to 1998; a member of the Litigation Reform Commission (Criminal Law Subdivision) until it was disbanded in 1997; and has served as a member of the International Law Reform Commission since being introduced by former High Court Justice Mary Gaudron in 1998. She was the Bar representative on the Criminal Case Management Committee chaired by Justice Margaret White, which resulted in the successful Committals Project. In 1997 she contributed as a member of the Advisory Working Group for the Criminal Code Review which passed into legislation; and she was the government-appointed legal representative on the Podiatrists Board of Queensland from 1995 to 1998. Since her elevation to the Bench, she has served as a member and convenor of both the District Court Criminal Law and Conference Committees, and as a member of the District Court Strategic Planning and Benchbook Committees. She particularly counts her participation in the Benchbook Committee among her positive achievements. The Benchbook, a manual for guidance in Court proceedings, assists judges in ensuring, for example, that appropriate matters are taken into account in summing up at trial. It is equally relevant (and available) to others, such as legal practitioners and juries, who can be assisted in their understanding of procedures and protocols and, by extension, the execution of their responsibilities. In addition, she has made an active contribution to continuing legal education for both solicitors and barristers, including presenting papers, conducting seminars, and acting as facilitator and judge in moot and advocacy programs for several Queensland university law schools and the Bar Practice Course. She has strong views on the importance of continuing education for all, including judges, and is vocal in her response to criticisms directed at judicial travel to conferences, many of which are held overseas. She stresses the importance of promoting and utilising opportunities to network with peers and colleagues from other jurisdictions as a means of learning from and contributing to the international judicial community and, by extension, the administration of justice. Julie actively endeavours to broaden her knowledge, in order to minimise the risk of developing an insular or insulated perspective. She points out that conferences also provide exposure to broader areas of concern than strictly “black letter law” issues-recent examples being genetics and ethical investments-which are likely at some stage to be directly or indirectly relevant to the range of issues and people coming before the courts. From her early years, Julie was a practitioner who went the extra mile, for example, when those working with her needed flexible employment arrangements to care for children; or when she managed to appear for a client, having split her lip in an accident en route to court on the North Coast and having had 12 stitches. That memorable day continued with her driving back to Brisbane, calling home for the cutting of her child’s birthday cake, and then dropping her instructing solicitor back at the office. Such stories add a telling dimension to a career which began auspiciously as a barrister with 13 not-guilty verdicts in her first 13 trials and went on to include over 40 murder trials (many of them “leading cases in this jurisdiction”) and other high profile and complex matters across the range of rape, robbery, arson, drug trafficking, fraud, corruption and perjury. In 1980 Julie had received a commission to prosecute on behalf of the Crown and in that capacity had appeared frequently before the District and Supreme Courts. By the mid-1990s her practice had begun to diversify and she was also appearing regularly in the Medical Assessment Tribunal, the Industrial Court of Australia and Administrative Appeals Tribunal, as well as in disciplinary tribunals such as the Queensland Nursing Council and Psychologists Board of Queensland. In 1998 Julie was approached by the Parliamentary Criminal Justice Committee (PCJC) to take the newly created role of Parliamentary Criminal Justice Commissioner for Queensland the first such role in Australia. Broadly, the function of the Commissioner was, “Upon request, [to assist] the PCJC to discharge its role in monitoring and reviewing the activities of the CJC [Criminal Justice Commission],” as well as functions in relation to the Queensland Crime Commission and the Queensland Police Service. The concept and practice of civilian oversight of law enforcement authorities was innovative and relatively untried at the time, and the role of Commissioner was an important and powerful one. It was not the time for a token gesture in the direction of political correctness. So it was particularly significant that the first incumbent was a woman, and one whose appointment had the enthusiastic support of a bipartisan committee. This was an appointment based clearly on merit. At the time, Julie expressed the view that wherever there is great power vested in an organisation, there is a need for commensurate accountability. She saw her role as charged with managing that accountability. Initially, however, she was faced with the practicalities of establishing an office, engaging staff and developing documentation and procedures. She recalls the first three months as being an isolated, lonely time, as she and her sole staff member confronted the challenge of making it all happen. Later, her team consisted of two solicitors/investigators, a document controller and a personal assistant. Meanwhile, she was learning about managing staff, adapting to a working environment which involved strict reporting responsibilities and an unfamiliar administrative framework, and coming to grips with the finer points of administrative law. In her two years in the role, she conducted 27 investigations during a time which was highly politically charged and fraught with controversy. The Queensland Criminal Justice Commission was still reeling from the investigation into it, known as the Connolly-Ryan Inquiry. Having inherited that inquisitorial responsibility, Commissioner Dick found herself reviewing the extensive records of the Inquiry, as well as interviewing the approximately one hundred and fifty complainants. Her investigations, and the confidentiality requirements attaching to them, were strictly circumscribed by the legislation. This did not prevent complaints (which might have been better directed towards the legislation) assuming the force of projectiles targeting the role of the Commissioner. Most notably, the investigation into alleged leaks from the CJC to the Courier-Mail-and the parties’ responses to that investigation contributed to the difficult situation. The death of both of Julie’s parents during the period of her appointment further challenged her resilience. She describes herself as “pretty robust,” but was conscious that she could not always protect others from the consequences of her position. She later learnt that her appointment to the Bench of the District Court of Queensland on 14 December 2000 had brought private tears of relief, as much as of congratulation, from her oldest daughter. It had started as an attraction to the excitement of criminal law, to “the discipline. . . And the predictability of the Criminal Code,” and the rules of evidence which support it. This fascination continues to underpin Julie’s work. “I am there to act within the law,” she says; policy matters are outside the jurisdiction of judges, whose responsibility it is to administer justice. This is not to suggest that the law-or judges- should be static, or ignore the changing world, with its advances in technology and evolving social imperatives. Judge Dick has been involved in the most recent review of the Queensland Criminal Code; daily, she sees ways in which technology can be deployed in the operations of the court (for example, the pre-recording of evidence by children); and progressively, she sees trends in the types of offences that come before her. As a judge of the Children’s Court since 2001 (and with the perspective and experience that comes from being the mother of teenagers), Julie Dick worries that children are growing up too fast. She believes that the nature of material available on television, music video and film is creating in child viewers a false perception of reality, mortality and accountability: the beaten victim gets up to fight on, or reappears in the sequel; the perpetrator is defiant and proud; but the consequences appear in soft focus, if at all. What she is now seeing is a flow-on effect of that distorted perception, an increase in sexual offences in the Children’s Court. The “new problem,” she says, is crimes “by kids against kids.” Her experience also suggests that, more broadly, crimes involving street violence and amphetamine addiction are on the increase, and “getting uglier.” In the face of these trends, her particular concern is for the education of children, suggesting a front-end program of education and information, since “penalties aren’t going to solve the problem.” She suggests that such programs might involve not just medical and legal professionals going into schools, but children actually attending court to see the consequences of violence and drug use first-hand. At the other end of the spectrum are jurors, who have no choice but to confront the horrors which often unfold during the course of a trial. Judge Dick is sensitive to the impact this can have on individuals; she has adopted the practice of forewarning jurors that they can expect to be challenged and affected by what they see and hear, and that no front of bravado is necessary. Counselling has recently become available for jurors at the conclusion of trials. Judge Dick says that nothing much surprises or unsettles her in the courtroom. Her early training, during which she learnt to approach each matter with special attention to detail, and the years of experience which taught her how to read and manage people, are serving their purpose. She also brings a certain style and attitude to the role, reflected in her wry comment that “there’s always fun in the law.” Perhaps this refers to the sharp minds and quick wits of those who, daily, need to consider weighty matters with compassion; detachment and efficiency. And perhaps it can also partly be attributed to “the happy and loving family life . . . [which] puts everything into perspective.” Judge Julie Dick does not see a career in law through rose-coloured glasses. She advises young women wanting to combine a legal career and a family to consider the sacrifices that both they, and their families, will need to make. Young men might benefit from that same advice. She keenly anticipates the benefits to society of a judiciary which is representative of the women and men who are prepared to make the necessary sacrifices and who exhibit the necessary merit. Published resources Book Section Julie Dick, Moye, Helen, 2005 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 Moye (with Nikki Henningham) Created 12 October 2015 Last modified 21 November 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

The records include:?1. Council minutes, 1899-1965?2. Membership records, 1914-1942, 1969-1971?3. Files relating to: the formation of the New South Wales Nurses’ Association, 1929-1937; Edith Cavell House, 1916-1975; and the College of Nursing, 1934-1972?4. Sister Tutor Section minutes, 1848-1960?5. General business files, 1961-1977 Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 27 May 2004 Last modified 27 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

15 minutes??Winnie Levy grew up in Western Australia. Her father was a sea captain. She attended the White Gum Valley School and won a scholarship to the Perth Modern School. Completed a degree in French and Mathematics at the University of Western Australia and then went to the Sorbonne for two years. Returned and taught French and became a French tutor at the University. When she married she had to resign. Had a baby and then returned to study Law. Moved to Adelaide and in 1945 was admitted to the Bar and practiced for 23 years. Overseas holidays. Leader of the International Circle in the Lyceum Club. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 6 April 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Marion Halligan was an acclaimed author of novels, short stories, reviews, essays and gastronomic writing. (This entry is sponsored by generous donation from Christine Foley.) Marion Halligan was born and educated in Newcastle, New South Wales, and worked as a school teacher and freelance journalist before becoming a prolific writer in her forties. She moved to Canberra in the 1960s and her first published short story appeared in the Australian Women’s Weekly in 1969. She married Graham Halligan and they had two children, Lucy and James. Her fiction books include: Self Possession (1987), The Living Hothouse (1988), The Hanged Man in the Garden (1989), Spider Cup (1990), Lovers’ Knots: A Hundred-Year Novel (1992), The Worry Box (1993), Wishbone (1994), The Midwife’s Daughters (1997), The Golden Dress (1998), The Fog Garden: A Novel (2001), The Point (2003), The Apricot Colonel (2006), Murder on the Apricot Coast (2008), Valley of Grace (2009), and Goodbye Sweetheart (2015). Halligan has published numerous short stories, including those in her Collected Stories (1997) and Shooting the Fox (2011), in Best Australian Stories 2003, and those in Out of the Picture (1995), commissioned by the National Library of Australia and structured around works in the library’s Pictorial Collection. Her food and travel writing includes Eat My Words (1990), Cockles of the Heart (1996) and Taste of Memory (2004). She co-authored Those Women Who Go to Hotels with Lucy Frost in 1997. Her work is inspired by personal experiences and the places in which she has lived. Her novel The Fog Garden draws on the experience of losing her husband to cancer and Words for Lucy (2022) is about her daughter’s death in 2004. She contributed writing on life in the 1970s for a Canberra Museum and Gallery exhibition, and also developed a play, Elastics (performed in 1987). She has curated a permanent exhibition for Newcastle Regional Museum, How shall we live?, and has written a series of restaurant performances entitled Gastronomica for the Melbourne Festival. She was a member of Seven Writers – a group of seven Canberra-based writers whose work vividly portrayed life ‘beneath the surface of Canberra’ – and as part of this collective she contributed to Canberra Tales (1988), later reissued as The Division of Love (1996), an anthology of short stories about life in Canberra. The work received an ACT Bicentennial Award. A chronology of Halligan’s other awards includes: Patricia Hackett Prize (1985) H.M. Butterley-F. Earle Hooper Memorial Award (1986) ABC Bicentennial Literary Awards (finalist 1988) Steele Rudd Award (1989) Geraldine Pascall Prize for Critical Writing (1990) NBC Banjo Award for Fiction (shortlisted 1990) Prize for Gastronomic Writing (1991) Age Book of the Year Award (1992) & Age Book of the Year Award, Imaginative Writing Prize (1992) ACT Book of the Year Award (1993) NBC Banjo Award for Fiction (shortlisted 1993) Nita Kibble Literary Award (1994, shortlisted 2002) Newcastle University Newton John Award, for creative and innovative work (1994) ACT Book Reviewer of the Year (1997 joint with Sara Dowse) Age Book of the Year Award, Fiction Prize (shortlisted 1998) Miles Franklin Award (shortlisted 1999) The IMPAC Dublin Award (shortlisted 1999) Queensland Premier’s Literary Award (shortlisted 2002) Commonwealth Writers Prize, Best Book Sth East Asia and South Pacific (shortlisted 2004) ACT Book of the Year Award (2004) for The Point ACT Book of the Year Award (2010) for Valley of Grace ACT Book of the Year (shortlisted 2023) for Words for Lucy Halligan was Writer-in-Residence at Charles Sturt University in 1990 and a prolific writer of literature reviews and essays published in numerous major Australian newspapers and journals. She was chairperson of the Literature Board of the Australia Council (1992-1995) and has been chairperson of the Australian Word Festival. In June 2006, Halligan was awarded with an AM – General Division, ‘for service to literature as an author, to the promotion of Australian writers and to support for literary events and professional organisations.’ The ACT Writers Centre was renamed Marion in 2022 in joint honour of Halligan and Marion Mahony Griffin. Published resources Book The Fog Garden: A Novel, Halligan, Marion, 2001 The Division of Love: Stories, Barbalet, Margaret et al, 1995 The Apricot Colonel, Halligan, Marion, 2006 Cockles of the Heart, Halligan, Marion, 1996 Collected Stories, Halligan, Marion, 1997 Eat My Words, Halligan, Marion, 1990 The Golden Dress, Halligan, Marion, 1998 The Hanged Man in the Garden, Halligan, Marion, 1989 The Living Hothouse, Halligan, Marion, 1988 Lovers' Knots: a hundred-year novel, Halligan, Marion, 1993 Out of the Picture, Halligan, Marion, 1996 Self Possession, Halligan, Marion, 1987 Spidercup, Halligan, Marion, 1990 The Taste of Memory, Halligan, Marion, 2004 Wishbone, Halligan, Marion, 1995 The Worry Box, Halligan, Marion, 1993 Site Exhibition From Lady Denman to Katy Gallagher: A Century of Women's Contributions to Canberra, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2013, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/ldkg Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Records of the Seven Writers group, between 1986 and approximately 2000 Records of Curtis Brown (Australia) Pty Ltd., 1962-2002 [manuscript] Papers of Marion Halligan, circa 1970-circa 2003 [manuscript] State Library of New South Wales Dale Spender - papers, 1972-1995 National Library of Australia, Oral History Collection Oral history interview with Marion Halligan, 1995 Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 1 June 2006 Last modified 4 July 2024 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

On the slopes of Capitol Hill, overlooking a vast plain and the wandering Molonglo, Lady Denman pronounced in a clear voice, ‘I name the capital of Australia – Canberra’. It was Wednesday, 12 March 1913. While Lady Denman performed the naming rites her husband, the Governor-General, Lord Denman, laid a commemorative foundation stone. The site for the city was selected in accordance with Section 125 of the Constitution which stipulated that the federal seat of government would be located within the state of New South Wales, but not within a 100-mile radius of Sydney. While playing her role in the creation of Canberra with aplomb, Lady Denman was destined for a higher realm of public duties, later becoming famous as ‘chairman’ of both the National Federation of Women’s Institutes and the National Birth Control Association in Britain. Lady Denman was born Gertrude Mary Pearson in 1884 as the only daughter of Sir Weetman Pearson, an engineer, oil industrialist and newspaper baron who was the Liberal Member of Parliament for Colchester between 1895 and 1910; was created a baronet in 1894 and later became 1st Viscount Cowdray. Miss Gertrude Pearson was called Trudie by her family and learnt much from their lead. She became a sound businesswoman in the mould of her father, and a keen philanthropist and political worker in the tradition of her mother (both mother and daughter served on the executive committee of the Women’s Liberal Federation). Her mother, Lady Cowdray, an ardent supporter of the suffragette cause, was as proficient in the world of politics as she was in the ways of a society hostess. In 1903 Trudie married Thomas, the third Baron Denman. In 1911 Lord Denman was appointed Governor-General of Australia and thus Trudie became first lady. As a young woman with two small children, Lady Denman embarked on a challenging posting in a distant country. It seemed Lady Denman’s acceptance in Australian society was a ‘foregone conclusion’. As the Sydney Mail reported, among her well known attributes an enthusiasm for all forms of sport would strongly appeal to the people of the Commonwealth. [1] Indeed, Lady Denman proved to be exceedingly adept in all spheres of public life during her time in Australia. As observed by Punch, the Lord and Lady Denman are ‘helping the social whirl spin always a little faster. They are in everything – not merely placid, critical spectators, but cheerful, enthusiastic gaiety-makers. They enjoy themselves thoroughly, and help everybody else too. It is the proper spirit to have in Vice-regal personages. It helps them, and it helps us.'[2] This boundless enthusiasm was particularly evident at a Melbourne tennis tournament hosted by the Lawn Tennis Association at which Lady Denman and the Private Secretary, Mr. Vernon, played in the mixed doubles handicap: Lady Denman has gained a whole army of friends by her action in coming down into the arena in this way. She was undoubtedly nervous on Saturday, when a huge crowd gathered around the court on which she was playing, but everybody in that crowd had a real honest feeling of good-fellowship for the lady who was so much of a sport that she had climbed down from the high horse of Vice-royalty and entered fully and whole-heartedly into the games and amusements of ordinary people like ourselves. It makes a whole heap of difference, you know. There is a much warmer feeling of regard for a Vice-regal lady who, hot and perspiring, is to be seen skipping and hounding about a tennis court than for a stately person who merely bows to folk out of a State carriage.[3] Lady Denman’s name was commemorated in the launching of a ferry boat, the Lady Denman at Jervis Bay on 5 December 1911. The ferry was built on the shores of Currambene Creek, Huskisson, by Joseph Dent for the Balmain Ferry Co, and remained in service on Sydney Harbour until 1979. Now housed and preserved at the Lady Denman Heritage Complex, the Lady Denman holds memories for many Australians. Lady Denman’s relentless public displays however were very much a dutiful chore and, while she conducted herself with diligent decorum, it was not one to which she was temperamentally suited or relished. She found officialdom monotonous and the pedestal on which she was placed by a well meaning public alienating, leading to an exhausting and lonely life. Her relationship with Lord Denman was also strained as the marriage had failed to develop into one of intimate companionship.[4] Homesickness, private strain and the burden of public duties combined to adversely affect Lady Denman’s health, and in May 1913 she returned to Britain to rest and recuperate. Lord Denman remained as Governor-General until 18 May 1914. Lady Denman’s departure was felt keenly. She had identified herself with many movements, of which her involvement in the National Council of Women was central. In a letter to the Editor a member of the National Council of Women described the ‘real feeling’ demonstrated at a farewell party held in her honour: ‘There is no doubt that Lady Denman’s vivid personality, sound business head and untiring energy have combined with her broad sympathies to make her the last woman Australia would willingly part with and it was with quite undisguised regret that the members of the National Council finally said goodbye to her.'[5] On her return to Britain Lady Denman became a Director of Westminster Press Limited, and was invited to become the Chairwoman of the Women’s Institute Subcommittee which had recently been established by the Agricultural Organisations Society. When the National Federation of Women’s Institutes was formed in 1917, Lady Denman became the first National Chairwoman. Believing strongly in the right and ability of women to conduct their own affairs, Lady Denman was a remarkable leader, setting an exhausting example: 1930-1954: Chairman, Family Planning Association 1932-1938: President of Ladies’ Golf Union 1932-1953: Chairman, Cowdray Club for Nurses and Professional Women 1934-1939: Member of Executive Committee of Land Settlement Association 1938-1954: Life Trustee, Carnegie United Kingdom Trust At the outbreak of the Second World War, Lady Denman was invited by the Minister of Agriculture to become the Honorary Director of the Women’s Land Army, and for this she earned the Grand Cross of the British Empire in 1951. Lady Denman died in 1954. 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 Archival resources Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives DENMAN, Lady Gertrude Mary (1884-1954) Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 4 May 2006 Last modified 17 March 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

1 hour 50 minutes??Pam Spry was born in Adelaide, South Australia and grew up in Woodville. She began training at the Royal Adelaide Hospital in 1945, followed by appointments as Staff Nurse and Charge Nurse. She did midwifery training in Sydney and also nursed at the Royal Melbourne Hospital. On returning to Adelaide Pam worked at the Red Cross Blood Centre until 1959, then became Charge Nurse at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital. In 1970 she returned to the RAH as a Supervisory Sister. She was Director of Nursing there from 1973 -1984. Over the years Pam also contributed to the Florence Nightingale Committee, the South Australian Health Commission, the Education Committee of the Nurses’ Board, the Planning Committee for the first basic tertiary nursing course at Sturt College, and the SA Branch of the Australian Nursing Federation. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 8 April 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

An indefatigable and very successful campaigner, whose support in her community continues to grow. Clover Moore was Alderman of the South Sydney City Council from 1980-81 and Alderman of the Council of the City of Sydney 1981-87. She was elected Lord Mayor of Sydney 2003. Clover was also elected as an Independent to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly seat of Bligh in 1988, 1991, 1995, 1999 and 2003. In 2007 she was elected to the new seat of Sydney and relinquished it in 2012. In the 1990s Clover Moore held the balance of power in the Legislative Assembly, with two other independents. She is renowned for her hard work and her community attachments. She continues to hold the position of Lord Mayor of Sydney. Clover Moore was born in Sydney, one of three daughters of Kathleen and Francis Collins. She was educated at Loreto College, Kirribilli and Elm Court Dominican Convent, Moss Vale. She matriculated to Sydney University, where she studies arts (B.A. Dip.Ed.) and lived at Sancta Sophia College. After graduation she began work as English/History teacher at Fort Street High School. And then lived and taught in London and Europe for several years. She married Peter Moore, an architect, in 1972 and they have two children, Sophie and Tom. The Moores returned to Australia in 1975, and in 1980 she ran and won a seat on South Sydney Council. She has been in public office ever since, serving on the City of Sydney Council and in the Legislative Assembly, to which she was elected from Bligh in 1988. From 2003 she was both Lord Mayor of Sydney and the MLA for Bligh, and from 2007 Sydney until 2012. She continues to hold the position of Lord Mayor of Sydney in 2016. 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 Archival resources State Library of New South Wales Clover Moore - further papers, 1976-1994 Clover Moore - papers, 1982-1989 Clover Moore further papers, 1980-2009, being Bligh-Sydney Electorate Office Archives Clover Moore further papers, 1988-2012, being Bligh-Sydney Electorate Office Archives Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 1 February 2006 Last modified 20 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

MS Acc07/14 comprises correspondence from and to Romola Templeman. The correspondence is arranged in broad categories including early days, personal, art school, and by subject and correspondents. Also included are papers relating to Templeman’s painting career including catalogues, exhibitions, painting sales and prices, cuttings, reviews, notebooks recording expenses and commission/sales, and scrapbooks created by Templeman at various times in her life (10 boxes, 1 fol. Box). Author Details Alannah Croom Created 13 February 2018 Last modified 13 February 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Records of the Adelaide Hockey Club, formerly Aroha Hockey Club, comprising minutes, membership lists, match results, rules, programmes, correspondence, historical notes, photographs and newspaper cuttings.?Series list available at the Mortlock Library Reference Desk Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 18 September 2006 Last modified 24 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

The proceedings of the first National Congress published with Sixth National Conference and Annual General Meeting of the Federation of Ethnic Communities’ Councils of Australia Inc.??Some issues also available online at: http://ariel.ucs.unimelb.edu.au/atmhn/www/members/fecca-ar9495.html Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 11 September 2006 Last modified 1 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

45 minutes??Elsie Haselgrove talks about her childhood in Glenelg, her family, Kangaroo Island, Proclamation Day and the Glenelg jetty, schooling at Hadleigh College and St Peter’s Girls School, studying at Adelaide University, father’s death, the Depression, joining the Lyceum Club, inter-varsity hockey team, studying Geology under Douglas Mawson, English with Professor Strang and Anatomy with Professor Wood Jones, gained her diploma in 1926, married and moved to Renmark, five children, became president of the Guides’ Association, Renmark community, husband’s move from Angove Winery to Mildara Wines, moving to Adelaide for children’s schooling, became Divisional Commissioner in the Guides, buying the Guides own property in Gawler Place, involvement in the South Australian Hockey Association, and the Lyceum Club Author Details Anne Heywood Created 6 April 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

ABC radio programme “Flying out of the West” Author Details Alannah Croom Created 9 January 2018 Last modified 9 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Correspondence 1951-1956 re material for anthologies Australian Bush Ballads Vol. I and Old Bush Songs Vol. II edited by Douglas Stewart and Nancy Keesing – also miscellaneous articles and cuttings. Collected material – a draft copy of Old Bush Songs; duplicates and variant versions of material, with book lists and notes on sources; rejected material. Also notebooks containing comment on verses in the Bulletin, 1881-1931, and in libraries, including the Mitchell Library Author Details Alannah Croom Created 10 April 2018 Last modified 10 April 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

A tireless worker for the rights of women, children and ‘the little people’, Gertrude Melville became known as the ‘grand old lady of the Labor Party’. She was their candidate in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly Elections for the Eastern Suburbs in 1925 and for Hurstville in 1932 (Federal Labor party). Gertrude Melville was finally elected to parliament as a Member Legislative Council in 1952 to 1958. Prior to her attempts to enter parliament, she was Alderman in the Cabramatta-Canley Vale Municipal Council from 1944 to 1948, including a period as Mayor (1945-48). Gertrude Melville was educated at St Peter’s Convent Surry Hills, Sydney. She married Arthur Melville, in Sydney on 2 December 1903 and they had five sons. She died in 1959. Her portrait by Miriam MacRae is held by the NSW Legislative Council. Gertrude joined the Labor Party in 1904 and was a member of Central Executive 1922-26, and 1950-52. She was president of ALP Central Women’s Organising Committee 1947-52. Child endowment in NSW is said to have originated from a motion she moved at her local branch, Randwick, in 1918. She ran unsuccessfully against Millicent Preston Stanley [please link] in 1925. Gertrude Melville joined Federal Labor after the Lang split and campaigned against Lang in 1932 election. She said that Lang’s withholding of the payment of child endowment and widows’ pensions made her decide to contest the seat of Hurstville in 1932. Later she opposed the industrial groups in the Labor upheavals of the 1950s. She was elected by both houses to fill a casual vacancy in the Legislative Council in 1952, under the reconstructed constitution (1934-78). She served one term. In 1958 she was involved in a public controversy about police corruption. Published resources Book Section HERstory: Australian Labor Women in Federal, State and Territory Parliaments 1925-1994, 1994 Book Women in Australian Parliaments and Local Governments, Past and Present : A Survey, Smith, A. Viola, 1975 Resource Section Melville, Gertrude Mary (1884 - 1959), Ritter, Leonora, 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A150411b.htm Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 1 February 2006 Last modified 5 April 2016 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)