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Reply to Phoebe Kirwan’s suggestion that Daisy Bates write about Aboriginal people for the Brisbane Telegraph. Includes references to cannibalism. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 6 January 2018 Last modified 29 July 2020 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Jessie Clarke, daughter of Ivy Brookes and grand daughter of Alfred Deakin, trained in social work and was professionally active in the Port Melbourne, Victoria, area. She studied in New York in the 1930s, was a junior delegate to the League of Nations Union in Geneva and an activist on behalf of refugees. She founded the Nappy Wash delivery service in the period after the Second World War. Jessie Clarke, the granddaughter of Alfred Deakin (Australian Prime Minister 1903-1910) and the daughter of Ivy (née Deakin) and Herbert Brookes, enrolled at the University of Melbourne in 1931. She graduated with an Arts/Social Work degree and continued her studies in New York before the Australian government offered her a position as junior delegate to the League of Nations Union in Geneva. Later, with the war imminent, she returned to Australia and became president of the Victorian International Refugee Emergency Council. A few days after the outbreak of World War II she married William Anthony Francis Clarke, the son of Sir Frank Clarke, MLC, whom she had earlier taken to task for his reported remarks in the Legislative Council about ‘rat-faced refugees’. Clarke worked with the Lord Mayor’s Patriotic and Welfare Fund as a voluntary social worker dealing with the problems of army wives and relatives at first in Sydney, where her husband was stationed, and later in Melbourne. In 1946 the Clarkes decided to start a napkin wash service in response to the post war baby boom. Nappie Wash, which grew to become the second largest such service in the world, was largely a family affair, with 13 relatives and friends providing the initial capital. At various stages of its history members of the family have been directors of the company which was sold in 1975. Clarke, whose husband died in 1953, was a foundation member of the Australian Assistance Plan set up by Prime Minister Whitlam. She was involved also with community health groups such as the Abbeyfield Society, Melbourne-South Yarra Group, Broadmeadows Community Health Centre and the Melbourne District Health Council. Published resources Book Section Jessie Clarke: Founder of Nappie Wash, Tipping, Marjorie, 1985 Journal Article The Jessie Clarke Collection, Gladwin, Frances, 1998 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Jessie Clarke interviewed by various interviewers [sound recording] National Library of Australia [Biographical cuttings on Jessie Clarke, managing director of Nappie Wash Ltd, containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journals] State Library of Victoria Papers of Jessie Clarke, [ca. 1900-1990] [manuscript] National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Papers of Jessie Clarke, 1954-2008 (bulk 1990-2008) [manuscript] Author Details Anne Heywood Created 4 November 2003 Last modified 15 July 2020 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

This series includes original source material dating from 1949 as well as photocopies of published and unpublished material, photographs, and notes made by Waterhouse in researching and writing University House As They Experienced It: A History 1954-2004. Author Details Louise Moran Created 21 June 2012 Last modified 3 October 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Cecilia John, who sang ‘I Didn’t Raise My Son to Be a Soldier’ until banned by the government under the War Precautions Act of 1915, founded the Women’s Peace Army with Vida Goldstein. Interested in social questions, John was a member of the Collins Street Independent Church, the Women’s Political Association and wrote for the Woman Voter. She established the Children’s Peace Army and ran a women’s co-operative farm, the Women’s Rural Industries Co. Ltd, at Mordialloc, providing employment to women in financial need. The daughter of Daniel and Rosetta (née Kelly) John, Cecilia John came to Melbourne during her early teens to study music and singing. To pay for her training she established a poultry farm at Deepdene. By 1911 John was a successful teacher of singing and voice production as well as a poultry expert. She also joined the Collins Street Independent Church, distributed anti-conscription literature for the Australian Freedom League and supported Vida Goldstein in her campaign for election to Federal parliament in 1913. A member of the Women’s Political Association she wrote for the Woman Voter and with Goldstein established the Women’s Peace Army and became its financial secretary. At anti-conscription meetings she sang ‘I Didn’t Raise My Son to Be a Soldier’ until banned by the government under the War Precautions Act of 1915. She also formed the Children’s Peace Army and the People’s Conservatorium. Along with Ina Higgins, John ran a women’s co-operative farm, the Women’s Rural Industries Co. Ltd, at Mordialloc, providing employment to women in financial need. Following World War I John attended the Women’s International Peace Conference at Zurich with Goldstein. She also worked for the International Red Cross in Geneva and the Save-the-Children Fund in London where she became involved with the Dalcroze Eurhythmic system of dancing. In 1932 John became principal of the London School of Dalcroze Eurhythmics, a position she held until her death on 28 May 1955. Published resources Resource Section John, Cecilia Annie (1877 - 1955), Gowland, Patricia, 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A090484b.htm Edited Book Australian Feminism: A Companion, Caine, Barbara, Gatens, Moira et al., 1998 Monash Biographical Dictionary of 20th Century Australia, Arnold, John and Morris, Deirdre, 1994 Book That dangerous and persuasive woman: Vida Goldstein, Bomford, Janette M., 1993 Radical Melbourne : a secret history, Sparrow, Jeff and Sparrow, Jill, 2001 Put up the sword, Pankhurst, Adela, 1917 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 National Library of Australia Miss Cecilia John on "why I am a Bolshevik" Scheme of proposed Women's Rural Industries Co National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Unemployment / W.P.A. Women's Labour Bureau Correspondence 1897-1919 [manuscript] Author Details Anne Heywood Created 3 December 2003 Last modified 4 May 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Mack discusses her career as a nurse from 1920 onwards; Parkerville Children’s Home 1930-1932; Sister Kate’s Home 1935-1944; Mount Margaret Mission 1945-1948; Warburton Mission 1949-1955; her family and family life; mission work. Author Details Clare Land Created 22 October 2002 Last modified 7 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

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

Vols. ML MSS. 2117/1-2 a. Correspondence, 1888 -1921. Deals i.a., with the publication of her writings, recognition of her discoveries in geology and an attempt to gain an official appointment for Mrs Daisy Bates. Box ML MSS. 2117/3 b. Writings, 1903 -1920. MS., printed with MS. Notes. C. Material re G. King’s publications and scientific activities, 1894 -1906. MS., printed. D. Miscellaneous personal papers, including King family biography, 1907 – 1910. MS., duplicated typescript, printed. E. Miscellaneous papers re correspondence, with annual reports of various societies and souvenirs in German of World War I. MS., newscuttings, duplicated typescript, printed. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 6 January 2018 Last modified 6 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Joan Innes Reid influenced many lives as a pioneering social worker and the first woman councillor (and deputy mayor) in Townsville, North Queensland. In 1953 she was the only practicing medical social worker in Queensland outside of Brisbane. Joan also actively involved herself in community work, helping to establish medical, humanitarian and cultural institutions in Townsville. In 1976 she joined the staff of the James Cook University and became the first woman to be awarded an honorary degree by the University in 1995. In 1984 Dr Innes Reid was made a Member of the Order of Australia in recognition of her community work and in 1989 she received life membership to the Australian Association of Social Work. The Joan Innes Reid prize in social work awarded by James Cook University is named in her honour Joan Reid spent her early life in country Victoria, raised by her mother and a large extended family. She graduated from the University of Melbourne in 1936 with a Bachelor of Arts before moving to Canada where she studied social work and completed her Masters thesis. Upon returning to Australia in 1953, Joan assumed the role of medical social worker at Townsville General Hospital. She was the only medical social worker practicing north of Brisbane, where she serviced a population of over 250,000. Joan worked with the Queensland Country Women’s Association, helping to fill the needs of homeless women – particularly those who were pregnant and unmarried. She also made fortnightly trips to Cairns to visit thoracic patients, running art and craft lessons as a form of occupational therapy. When hospital authorities observed the success of her methods, an official occupational therapy unit was established. Joan was also a major player in the 1957 creation of the North Queensland Subnormal Children’s Welfare Association (later known as Endeavour). She was also a foundation member of North Queensland Prisoners Aid Society (PAS), which promoted rehabilitation while on the inside and supported families left behind. Frustrated by not being able to meet community needs quickly, Joan decided to run for Council, becoming Townsville’s first female councillor in 1967; a part-time position so she could continue her hospital work. In 1973 she became Deputy Mayor, and a year later was appointed Townsville Council’s first Social Worker. The arts remained her greatest passion, and as chair of the council’s cultural committee, she was behind the establishment of the civic theatre and art gallery’s, and helped set up the Townsville Museum. Dr Innes Reid joined the James Cook University, Townsville in 1976 as a senior tutor in Behavioural Sciences. She was renowned for her life-long commitment to community development in the region and her efforts were instrumental in the introduction of the Bachelor of Social Work degree at the university, where she was employed as the first field coordinator in the social work program. Dr Innes Reid was a foundation member of the Townsville University Society in 1961. She served on a number of committees including the Council of the College of Advanced Education, the Halls of Residence Committee, and the University Ethics Committee before retiring in 1981. A commemorative plaque honouring Joan Innes Reid’s contribution to Social Work and Politics in Townsville was unveiled by Mayor Tony Mooneyat at a ceremony on Thursday 28 August 2003. Published resources Resource Tribute to Joan Innes Reid, Thorpe, Rosamund, 2009, http://www.jcu.edu.au/sass/swcw/JCUPRD_021264.html Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Resource Section Dr Joan Innes Reid, Bernard Moulden, 2001, http://www.jcu.edu.au/div1/registry/council/reports/vcreports/VC-Report-March-2-01-web.pdf Dr Joan Innes Reid (1915 -2001), Grant, Heather, 2009, http://www.women.qld.gov.au/q150/1960/index.html#item-joan-reid Book Section Joan Innes Reid (1915 – 2001), Grant, Heather, 2005 Book Tropical odyssey : of a pioneer social worker in North Queensland / Joan Innes Reid with Ros Thorpe, Reid, Joan Innes and Thorpe, Rosamund, 1996 Site Exhibition The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia, Smart, Judith and Swain, Shurlee (eds.), 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders Author Details Lee Butterworth Created 22 June 2009 Last modified 9 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

1871; A History of John Fairfax (1804-1877) & Family, 24 Oct. 1805-28 October 1871?23 May 1882-3 Feb. 1883; Diary of a trip from England to Paris and Florence and return to England Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 24 August 2006 Last modified 27 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Jan Mayman is an independent journalist based in Perth, Western Australia. She has worked as an investigative reporter in Australia and the United Kingdom for over 20 years, writing for The Sunday Times Insight team as well as The Age in Melbourne, The Canberra Times, and The Guardian and The Independent in London. In 1984, Mayman won the Gold Walkley, the highest honour in Australian journalism, and the Bronze Walkley for best newspaper report for her investigation into the deaths of several Aborigines who were in the custody of West Australian police. Human rights groups supported her investigation’s claims of human rights abuses, and her reports helped prompt a two-year Royal Commission inquiry into the deaths, leading to reforms within the Australian police and prison systems. Mayman also co-produced and wrote a documentary film about the neo-Nazi movement in Perth, Western Australia, which was a finalist for a 1993 Walkley Award for best television journalism. Throughout her career, Jan Mayman has taken a special interest in Aboriginal affairs. In the late 1980s she was writing frequently for the political journal, Australian Society, and produced a number of feature articles that tackled highly controversial subject matter including Aboriginal deaths in custody, and government corruption. An article by Mayman in January 1988 – ‘Why Joan Winch Needs $650,000’ – profiled Winch, then chair of Curtin University’s Centre for Aboriginal Studies, Aborigine of the Year and winner of the Sasakawa Prize from the World Health Organisation for her work in Aboriginal health. According to Winch, Western medical systems weren’t working in Aboriginal communities. Aboriginal people responded best to health care administered by other Aboriginal people. Winch, who had previously operated a mobile medical unit which she drove around the Swan Valley fringe-dweller’s camps, hoped to set up an Aboriginal health college offering education in trachoma, diabetes, pneumonia, ear and eye infections, alcoholism, and gastroenteritis. In April 1988 Mayman reported on the upcoming Royal Commission into Aboriginal deaths in custody under the leadership of Justice Muirhead. The Commission was set up partly in response to the Vincent report, produced by a committee of representatives from Aboriginal affairs, police and corrective services departments. It was ‘packed with disturbing statistics and vivid graphs’, said Mayman, but was largely shelved by the government, with 26 of its 32 recommendations set aside indefinitely. The report noted that 35.6% of all sentenced prisoners in Western Australia were Aboriginal, as were 91.7% of sentenced and default prisoners held in police lockups. Mayman noted carefully: ‘With a WA state election due early next year, cynics suggest the WA government has decided the risk of a few more black deaths is less electorally dangerous in a deeply conservative state than a full-blooded attack on the social, economic and cultural factors behind the West’s extraordinary black incarceration rate’. By December 1988, Mayman was noting with frustration that the West Australian Premier, Police Minister, and Police Union Society, were all united in their criticism of the Muirhead inquiry. Mayman didn’t shy from criticism of the government, and in October 1988 wrote a damning report – again in Australian Society – on the corruption inherent in government deals with big corporations. West Australian entrepreneurs were making fortunes from gold, nickel, iron ore, bauxite and diamonds, but the billion dollar Petrochemical Deal, driven by the infamous Alan Bond and Bond Corp, was Mayman’s particular focus. As part of the ‘Petro Deal’, the WA government would support and invest in the building of a new petroleum plant, while Bond Corp would take over responsibility for a government pledge to rescue Rothwells merchant bank to the tune of $150 million. Environmental problems including the potential leakage of cancer-causing chemicals were not being considered, and Mayman observed that many former conservation leaders were now working in government jobs or as part of lucrative consultancies. She reminded readers of the sale of Robert Holmes a Court’s Bell Group, when the Bond Corporation and WA government each bought an equal number of shares for a total of $340 million, and when the National Companies and Securities Commission was prevented from making a full investigation by ‘the shield of the Crown’, disallowing inquiry into government decisions. A second article, ‘You take the profit, we’ll keep the waste’, examined the environmental cost of the lucrative sand-mining industry in response to a proposal by French company Rhone-Pouenc Chimie Australia to build a plant producing the rare earths phosphate, monazite. The mineral resource would bring $300 million per year to the state in exports but projects like these, warned Mayman, were threatening some of the state’s most spectacular wilderness areas, and environmentalists were being oppressed by politically powerful mining companies. Mayman worked at Channel Seven for a time, but was dismayed by the network’s racist approach to news, and found that it was generally uninterested in reporting on Aboriginal affairs. On one occasion, she notified the newsroom of a violent police raid on an Aboriginal community in the Swan Valley. Rather than visiting the camp to interview residents who were willing and ready to tell their story, reporters went to a nearby park where they found a group of Aboriginal mourners who had been to a funeral, and conducted interviews there instead. The mourners had been drinking, and reporters came away with inflammatory material threatening violence to the police that only served to exacerbate the situation. Mayman left the network in disgust. In 1984, Jan Mayman won the Gold Walkley award for her news reporting on Aboriginal deaths in custody. Nearly a decade later, in 1993, her documentary film Nazi Supergrass was a finalist for the Walkley award for best television journalism. The documentary traced the development of the Australian Nationalist Movement, which conducted a violent campaign of racial hatred in Perth from 1986 to 1989, targeting Asians, Jews and Blacks. The group was arrested and convicted based on the evidence of one of its members, Russell Willey, who talked in exchange for immunity. Willey was interviewed for the film in secret locations and disguised his appearance. Nazi Supergrass was narrated by Mayman and Steve Bisley, directed by David Bradbury, and produced by Anthony Buckley (copy held at the National Film and Sound Archive). Events 1984 - 1984 Best Piece of Journalism Newspaper, Television or Radio, Aboriginal Deaths in Custody, Freelance 1984 - 1984 Best Piece of News Reporting, Aboriginal Deaths in Custody, Freelance 1980 - 2010 Published resources Journal Article Why Joan Winch Needs $650,000, Mayman, Jan, 1988 The Issues WA Still Won't Face, Mayman, Jan, 1988 Behind Closed Doors, Mayman, Jan, 1988 WA Resists Reform, Mayman, Jan, 1988 You take the profit, we'll keep the waste, Mayman, Jan, 1989 If only we are prepared to listen: Aboriginal deaths in custody in Western Australia and proposals by the Perth City Coroner, David McCann, for reform of the colonial inquests system, Mayman, Jan, 1989 Videorecording Nazi Supergrass, Mayman, Jan, 1993 Book The Indigenous Public Sphere: The Reporting and Reception of Indigenous Issues in the Australian Media, 1994-1997, Hartley, John and Alan McKee, 2000 Site Exhibition The Women's Pages: Australian Women and Journalism since 1850, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2008, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/cal/cal-home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Barbara Lemon and Nikki Henningham Created 6 November 2007 Last modified 5 September 2012 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

The papers of Rose Scott (1869-1925), which form the bulk of the collection, consist of personal papers, and the records of organizations of which she was an office-bearer – Womanhood Suffrage League, 1891-1902, Women’s Political Educational League, 1902-1909, National Council of Women of N.S.W., 1896-1925, Peace Society of N.S.W., 1907-1924 and others, together with many leaflets and newspaper cuttings. (Call No.: MLMSS 38/20X-76X)??For ‘Woman Suffrage, Leaflets and Press Cuttings on Australian and Overseas Movements’ see CY 1295 (MLMSS 38/39) Author Details Jane Carey Created 11 February 2004 Last modified 27 February 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Typescript book of poems entitled “Gifts and remembrances” by Marjorie Pizer. Pinchgut Press, Sydney, 1979. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 20 February 2018 Last modified 20 February 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

A proud Tanganekald and Meintangk woman from the Coorong region and the south east of South Australia, Irene Watson was the first Aboriginal person to graduate from the University of Adelaide with a law degree, in 1985. She was also the first Aboriginal PhD graduate (2000) at the university, winning the Bonython Law Prize for best thesis. Her research motivation has been clear from the outset: to gain a better understanding of the Australian legal system that is underpinned by the unlawful foundation of Terra Nullius. Watson’s work has made a significant impression on everyday legal practice in respect of centring an Indigenous perspective in the long processes of law reform. In 2015 she published Aboriginal Peoples, Colonialism and International Law: Raw Law the first work to assess the legality and impact of colonisation from the viewpoint of Aboriginal law, rather than from that of the dominant Western legal tradition. Watson has been involved in the Aboriginal Legal Rights Movement in South Australia since its inception in 1973, working as a member, solicitor and director. She has taught in all three South Australian universities and was a research fellow with the University of Sydney Law School. She is currently a research Professor of Law at the University of South Australia and she continues to work as an advocate for First Nations Peoples in international law. Watson was involved with the drafting of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples between 1990 and 1994 and has more recently, in 2009 and 2012, made interventions before the UN Human Rights Council Expert Advisory Committee of the current position of Indigenous peoples. In 2016, Watson was appointed The University of South Australia’s inaugural Indigenous pro-Vice Chancellor. Irene Watson was interviewed by Nikki Henningham for the Trailblazing Women and the Law Oral History Project. For details of the interview see the National Library of AustraliaCATALOGUE RECORD. A longer essay detailing Irene Watson’s career is in development. Published resources Resource Irene Watson: SA's first Aboriginal lawyer welcomes young graduates, Thorpe, Nakari, 2016, http://www.sbs.com.au/nitv/article/2016/05/11/irene-watson-sas-first-aboriginal-lawyer-welcomes-young-graduates Site Exhibition Australian Women Lawyers as Active Citizens, Trailblazing Women Lawyers Project Team, 2016, http://www.womenaustralia.info/lawyers Book Aboriginal peoples, colonialism and international law : raw law, Watson, Irene, 2015 Looking at you looking at me : an Aboriginal history of the South-east, Watson, Irene, 2002 Archival resources National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Irene Watson interviewed by Nikki Henningham in the Trailblazing women and the law oral history project Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 30 May 2016 Last modified 21 November 2018 Digital resources Title: Professor Irene Watson Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Records consisting of papers relating to various publications, research notes on Daisy Bates, school broadcasts, wool promotion, Harry Butler and the C.J. Dennis centenary, correspondence with various people and photographs. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 10 April 2018 Last modified 10 April 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Gladys Berejiklian is the first Armenian descendant to be elected to the NSW Parliament. As a member of the Liberal Party she was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly (Willoughby seat) in 2003. She was re-elected in 2007, 2011 and 2015. Her positions in 2016 included Treasurer and Minister for Industrial Relations. Gladys Berejiklian was born and raised in Sydney, where her parents had immigrated to in 1960. She attended local schools and studied the Armenian language at Saturday School held in the Willoughby Primary School. Gladys joined the Liberal Party in 1993 and was President of NSW Young Liberals in 1995-6. She was an unsuccessful candidate for the Constitutional Convention of 1997 for the Australian Republican Movement. She has been active in Armenian community organizations in the Willoughby-Chatswood area and served a term on the Armenian National Committee of Australia. In 2000 she visited the USA as a delegate from the Australian Political Exchange Council. She worked on the staff of the Liberal Senator Marise Payne. In 2003 Gladys Berejiklian was elected in a close race for Willoughby after the retirement of former Liberal leader Peter Collins, and in her maiden speech, thanked those who had voted for her even though they could not pronounce her surname. She was a member of the Parliamentary Public Accounts Committee in 2003 and in 2005 held the shadow portfolios of Mental Health, Youth Affairs, Cancer and Medical Research and was Shadow Minister assisting the Leader on Ethnic Affairs. She has graduated with a BA (1992) and Grad Dip International Studies (1996) from the University of Sydney and a M.Comm (2001) from the University of New South Wales. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 6 December 2005 Last modified 16 February 2016 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Records of WAAC including the campaign highlighting risks of Depo Provera as an injected contraceptive for women. Also includes material of Women’s Liberation House. Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 29 October 2004 Last modified 31 October 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Gningala Yarran-Mark has a law degree from the University of Western Australia and has established a successful career working in Western Australian resources companies working in management positions. In 2016 she holds the position of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Co-ordinator at UGL Limited, having also worked for Jacobs, Sinclair Knight Merz and BHP in similar roles. She earlier worked as Associate to Justice French at the Federal Court, the first Aboriginal law graduate in Western Australia to attain such a position, and as a Public Prosecutor for the Western Australian Department of Public Prosecutions. Go to ‘Details’ below to read a reflective essay written by Gningala Yarran-Mark for the Trailblazing Women and the Law Project. The following additional information was provided by Gningala Yarran-Mark and is reproduced with permission in its entirety. I often get asked about role models and how important they are to the journeys we make. The greatest role models in my early life consisted of a mother and father who strived to make the most of their circumstances and built the family home on strong values such as hard work, ethics, discipline, commitment and determination. My mother would often quote simple life messages that I live by, one of those quotes, “Education is the golden key that unlocks many doors”, was a motivator for the attainment of higher education. My father had the most significant influence in my decision to become a legal practitioner. Before the establishment of the Aboriginal Legal Service as we know it today my father, David Yarran and his cousin-brother Ivan Yarran were the very first Aboriginal court officers for the Aboriginal Legal Service in Perth, Western Australia. My father was quick witted and highly intelligent, in fact my mother would often refer to his stunning intellect. Sadly my father did not get the chance to go to University. My father grew up in an era where Aboriginal children were barely allowed a primary school education let alone advancement to a University qualification, in fact the primary school Principal needed to provide written permission in order that an Aboriginal young person gain entry to high school. My father’s advocacy functions started in my early years on the Mt Magnet Reserve in the 1960’s, he was often called upon by the local police to act as mediatory between the police and many of the Aboriginal persons coming into contact with the criminal justice system to ensure our community where given an opportunity to be heard and for the police to extract information that was not forthcoming in many instances because of the mistrust of the police compounded by language barriers. Our household would be “shattered” by the untimely death of my father’s dad who unfortunately died in police lock-up after having been removed from the streets for vagrancy, despite the fact that he had a fixed address and resided with my mother and father. My grandfather’s death fuelled my father’s determination that no other family should have to suffer the indignity of the loss of a family member in “questionable” circumstances. My father was a part of a delegation to the steps of old parliament house in Canberra to fight for the rights of Aboriginal Australians to have adequate legal representation at a time of heightened hostilities toward Aboriginal people who were forced to live on the periphery of society. I grew up witness to endless phone calls in the middle of the night from distressed Aboriginal persons in lock-up concerned for their physical well-being and a steady stream of peoples seeking advice and information from my father once the Aboriginal Legal Service was established. I remember through all of this my father maintained a brutal regime to ensure others were represented, educated, comforted and consoled. I recall as a 10yr old girl I declared that as my father was the very first Aboriginal court officer I would go on and become the first lawyer in the family. Reflecting back I can recall responding to my grade 5 teacher when quizzed on what I was going to be when I grow up, I emphatically answered that I was going to be a lawyer. My household had undergone some considerable changes as a young child, my mother and father divorced, my father was deceased at age 42, mother deceased at age 49. As a result of the volatility of the household I did not go to University as originally planned, I left home early as a result of a falling out with my mother. I was married at age 19 and a mother of 5 children at age 26. Finally at the tender age of 31 I was ready for the rigours of University after having worked in a number of areas including health, education, employment and training both in government and Aboriginal community controlled organisations. I was accepted to the Aboriginal Pre-Law program in the summer of 1996. In that same year I bumped into my grade 5 Teacher who asked me whether I was a lawyer yet and I was able to state that I was embarking on my journey, sadly neither my mother or my father were alive to see me take this enormous leap of faith. I made it through the Pre-Law program and was offered a place at the University of Western Australia, I was ecstatic. There is really no description for the enormity of the task of completing a University degree, particularly with a household full of children. Whilst I was an exceptional student at school, particularly in English, thanks to my mother and her passion for reading. I recount the story to my children about how my mother had me reading “Bury my Heart at Wounded Knee” as a 13 year old, not because I had to, but because she had described the horrors of a history I wanted to better understand as it was similar to the atrocities committed on my ancestors. My learning journey was one hell of a ride. In my first year I failed dismally, only able to successfully complete one compulsory unit. From that day on I vowed and declared that I would apply the same commitment, dedication and attention to detail that I applied to all of the other challenges that I had faced prior to commencement. If anyone ever states that they achieved single handedly I would suggest that they may in fact be embellishing the facts, in my experience no one ever makes it on their own. Coming from a large extended Aboriginal family I had many hands to make my learning journey that much more bearable. I had brothers that would extend themselves financially to support my household, sister-cousins that would step in as ‘mothers’ to my children and wonderful friends that encouraged me and were gracious enough with their time to spare me a listening ear. One friend in particularly I referred to as ‘my wise one’, who coaxed me, consoled me, counselled me and cheered for me when I finally finished. Finishing was not without its ups and downs. My ups included the following; 2000 Gloria Brennan Scholarship recipient 2000- 2002 Vincent Fairfax Fellowship – inclusive of a research project in Fiji and attendance to an ASEAN Conference in Bangkok, Thailand 2001 Aboriginal Student of the Year – UWA Aboriginal Student Corporation 2001 University funding to attend the World Anti-Racism Conference in Durban, South Africa 2004 Aboriginal Scholar of the Year Award for NAIDOC Perth Some of the more trying times included the commencement of divorce proceedings in 2000 and the subsequent sale of the family home meant I found myself homeless as a single mother with 5 children to care for. Fortunately for me my extended family came to my aid and I was housed for a time whilst I completed my studies in order to secure full time employment and re-entry into the labour market. Upon my 2002 graduation I was successful at obtaining a post as an Associate to Justice Robert French at the Federal Court, the first time an Aboriginal law graduate in Western Australia had ever attained such a position. It was particularly refreshing to receive a message from Justice French when he was appointed Chief Judge to the High Court of Australia that history had been made in that moment I was appointed. After completion of a 12 month term at the Federal Court I made application to do Articles at the office of the Director of Public Prosecutions and was successful. It was the first time that an Aboriginal law graduate had successfully applied to complete articles with the Director of Public Prosecutions in Western Australia. I was admitted in 2004 and completed my restricted practice whilst at the Director of Public Prosecutions in Western Australia and was the first Aboriginal State Prosecutor in Western Australia. Upon graduation I was aware of the need to give back to my Aboriginal community and I did this by being a Mentor with the Law Society of Western Australia. Another of my mother’s pearls of wisdom was a quote that stated, “once you have reached your goal it is incumbent on you to give back to others who may follow”. My parents had grown up in a world where our Aboriginality meant ‘exclusion’ and my mother was of the view that for those of our community that were resilient enough to climb to the top of their chosen profession we needed to provide support and encouragement for others to aspire to great things. My mother lived by her philosophies and I am still reminded today of how many people’s lives she transformed by being a positive, outspoken, resilient remarkable women. I exited the legal fraternity in 2007 to embark on a new journey into the world of mining and business. My learning journey is not yet complete I will graduate with Master in Business Leadership in 2016 with the view to attain a PhD shortly thereafter. My passion for learning has inspired my 5 children to go on and complete University education. Of my 5 children I have the twins in the performing arts, one a graduate of WAAPA (WA Academy of Performing Arts) the other a final year student at NIDA (National Institute of Dramatic Art), my eldest daughter is a Sports and Exercise Scientist who is going on to do Medicine in 2016, my second youngest daughter will finalise her Political Science and History Arts degree in 2016 and my youngest daughter will finalise her Environmental and Sustainability degree from Murdoch University in 2016. I continue to give back to the community by involving myself in committees and reference groups across such areas as Law and Justice, Health, Native title and business development. Legal training and experience as a legal practitioner gives you a greater understanding of technical frameworks that then allows you to create opportunities for training others across a range of disciplines. I work with a number of student support services and donate my time talking to young Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people about the importance of education and the importance of making a difference in your family and your community, raising the awareness about how to positively impact your own life and that of others. I will continue to seek out new adventures and new experiences to add to my arsenal before I exit this life. Part of my new pathway is in the presence of an amazingly supportive and inspiring husband who challenges me to challenge myself and my community. I look forward to the next part of my journey as a newly married women with a powerhouse for a husband and an empty nest now that my children have all left home. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Australian Women Lawyers as Active Citizens, Trailblazing Women Lawyers Project Team, 2016, http://www.womenaustralia.info/lawyers Author Details Gningala Yarran-Mark (with Nikki Henningham) Created 4 May 2016 Last modified 21 November 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Nee McKenna. Lawyer 1936-1991. Law practice in Kalgoorlie and Perth, women in the legal professional, career of Eric Heenan MLC. Author Details Criena Fitzgerald Created 6 August 2012 Last modified 29 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

The Catholic Welfare Organisation (CWO), an initiative of the Catholic Archbishop of Melbourne, Daniel Mannix on the outbreak of World War Two in September 1939, foresaw the need to establish service canteens, hostels and rest rooms, in addition to catering for the spiritual needs of servicemen and women. Its objectives were to promote the spiritual welfare of the Catholic members of the fighting forces and to cater for the material welfare of all the fighting forces, regardless of creed. On the retirement of the inaugural president, Dr A L Kenny, Mary Daly was appointed to the position in 1941. She held that office until the completion of the work of the Catholic Welfare Organisation in 1948. The Catholic Welfare Organisation’s role was two fold. The Catholic Chaplains who were allocated to the various military units met the spiritual needs of the service men and women. The Executive of the CWO aimed to provide a substantially built appropriately equipped and dignified Catholic Chapel in every military camp. Catholic women assumed responsibility for the day to day running of the amenities hut in Elizabeth St Melbourne. The canteen, which was open for thirteen hours a day, was staffed by members of the Catholic Old Collegians’ Associations of the Girls’ Schools, the Ladies’ Committees of the Catholic Boys’ Schools and the Catholic Women’s Social Guild. Women also formed Catholic Welfare Organisation auxiliaries in many Victorian Catholic parishes. They helped to raise funds, knitted, sewed and collected comforts for the benefit of men and women of the services. Women were responsible also, for the Catholic Welfare Organisation’s Hospitality Bureau, which placed troops in hostels, guest houses and private homes. Although the Reverend Dr Stewart was the Director, the major credit for the success of the CWO was attributed to ‘the untiring energy and great organising ability of its president’, Mrs Mary Daly. Published resources Book Catholic Welfare Organisation: its work for the men and women of the Services during World War II, September, 1939-June,1948., 1948 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources Catholic Church Archdiocese of Melbourne Catholic Welfare Organisation records Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 19 December 2003 Last modified 29 October 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Selections from collections of Australian and New Zealand interest. Contains papers of: 1. Sir Thomas Lewis, 1919-21 re cardiological matters; 2. Marie Charlotte Carmichael Stopes, 1919-55 re “Married love”, family planning in Australia and N.Z.; 3. Sir Edward Mellanby, 1946-55 re medical research, visits, etc. 4. Prof. Percy Cyril Claude Garnham, 1939-84 re malaria, parasites etc.; 5. Sir Ronald Bodley Scott, 1966, 1979 re tour of Hawaii, Australia, Hong Kong and Brunei; 6. Sir Leonard Rogers, 1915-35 re leprosy; 7. Abortion Law Reform Association, 1937-74 re abortion law in N.Z. and Australia; 8. Lister Institute, 1902-33 re anti-plague serum etc.; 9. Multiple Sclerosis Society of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, [ca. 1957]-74 re societies in N.Z. and Australia; 10. Medical Women’s Federation, 1913-16 re women doctors; and 11. National Birthday Trust Fund, 1936 re nursing and maternity services in New Zealand Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 15 October 2004 Last modified 27 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Biographical documents, 1900s-2007; correspondence, c1905-2005; correspondence regarding Ursula Hoff, 2003-2008; diary (in German), 1939 + English translation, 2004; research notes, 1929-2003; photographs. Also, details of Ursula Hoff’s funeral and published tributes and obituaries, 2005- 2007. Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 13 November 2002 Last modified 30 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

The collection is arranged in folders, chronologically by date of tours and include background research, planning, correspondence with community hosts, photographs, publicity, feedback from participants and illustrated reports by Daphne and Dom Gonzalvez.??BOXES 1-2?Three overview albums of Changing Sydney tours and Reclaiming the Past [prototype of Travel at Home, across communities]?Files for all tours and events, including programs, introductions, correspondence with hosts, pictures, and feedback:?A day at the Khmer Buddhist Temple [Bonnyrigg], 8 September 2001?Polish Club [Ashfield], 6 October 2001?Chinatown, Old and New, February 2002?A Taste of Italy [Leichhardt], 6 March 2002?Islamic Sydney [Lakemba and Auburn], 29 June 2002?Uruguayan Club [Hinchinbrook], 21 July 2002?Changing Sydney Day, Museum of Sydney, 28 September 2002?China North [Cherrybrook], 15 February 2003?Estonian House and beyond [Surry Hills], 12 April 2003?Indonesian Sydney [Randwick], 10 May 2003?Greek Heritage, 28 June 2003?Ancient India, Modern Sydney, 19 July 2003?A Common Future [Jewish and Muslim Communities], 17 August 2003?Local Heroes: Father Patrick Colbourne, Leichhardt, 18 Oct 2003?Chinese-Muslim Friendship tour [Auburn Gallipoli Mosque], 29 November 2003?Pad with notes and correspondence on organisation??BOXES 3-4?Two overview albums of Travel at Home tours?Files for all tours:?Traditions of Power [Chinese and Indian communities], 14 March 2004?Gum Trees and Curry Leaves [Seven Hills area], 15 May 2004?Teamwork for the Good Life [Cabramatta and Bonnyrigg], 19 June 2004?Japanese Sydney [Eastwood], 23 October 2004?Russian Sydney [Strathfield], 30 October 2004?Nordic Sydney [CBD], 19 February 2005?Nordfest [Frenchs Forest], 23 April 2005?A Day in Africa: the Tanzanians [Granville], 30 July 2005?A Day in Polynesia: the Samoans [Bankstown], 27 August 2005?With the Indian Community [Mays Hill], 24 September 2005?A Day in Laos at the Temple [Bonnyrigg], 8 October 2005?With Turkish Australians [Auburn], 5 November 2005?French Heritage [Hunter’s Hill], 3 December 2005?Coptic Community: Egyptian Australians [Rhodes], 18 March 2006?Burmese Community [Granville Community Centre], 15 May 2006?Portuguese Community [Marrickville area], 16 September 2006, and 17 February 2007?Illustrated reports 2004-2009: Russian Sydney, 30 October 2004 and Japanese Sydney, 23 October 2004; Illustrated reports for Coptic Community [Egyptian], 18 March 2006, Sikh Community, 29 April 2007, Burmese Community, 20 May 2006, Sierra Leone Community, 28 July 2007, Portuguese Community, 16 September 2006, repeated 17 February 2007, Iranian Community, 23 February 2008, Baha’i Community, 17 May 2008, Serbian Community, 23 May 2009??BOXES 5-6?Overview album of Travel at Home tours?Files for all tours:?Sikh Community at the Gurdwara [Parklea], 29 April 2007?Sierra Leone Community [Granville Community Centre], 28 July 2007?Around the Cooks River [Wolli Creek], 27 October 2007?A day with the Iranian Community [Harris Park], 23 February 2008?Sydney Murugan Temple festival [Mays Hill], 20 March 2008?Baha’i Community [Ingleside], 17 May 2008?Harbour Heritage, 26 July 2008?Along the Parramatta River, 15 November 2008?Botany Bay and Beyond, 21 March 2009?A day with the Serbian Community [Blacktown and Newtown], 23 May 2009?Explore the Outer West [Parklea], 1 August 2009?Spring Gardens [Glenorie], 3 October 2009?A day with the Filipino Community [Blacktown], 16 March 2010?Weddings [Parramatta], 10 May 2010?Wildflowers and Native Plants [Berowra Ridge], 21 August 2010?Around the Inner Harbour, 6 November 2010?Two overview albums??BOXES 7-8?Communities in Action: Ashfield, 26 February 2011?Industry to Leisure: Waverton, 28 May 2011?A Sustainable Day [markets and community gardens], 27 August 2011?A day exploring Smart Buildings and Sites [inner city], 5 November 2011?History Trail and Local Produce [farms in the northwest], 25 February 2012?Riverside History and a Taste of Old Europe [Five Dock area], 19 May 2012?Coastal Gardens and Reserves [Northern Beaches],18 August 2012?Churches and their Communities [Concord and Annandale], 27 October 2012?Cruising peaceful waters beside the ocean [Royal National Park], 2 February 2013?After the Olympics [Olympic Park], 25 May 2013?Exploring Sydney’s Past and Future [Rouse Hill area], 31 August 2013?Red Cow Farm [Sutton Forest], 26 October 2013?Cruise back in time [Hawkesbury River], 1 February 2014?Old and New on the CBD Fringes: Glebe, 24 May 2014?Stained Glass in Sydney [CBD and Kings Cross], 30 August 2014?A Garden in the Mountains: Wildwood [Bilpin], 4 October 2014?On and around the Harbour, 31 January 2015?Portrait of the Artist: Shen Jiawei and Wang Lan [Bundeena and Gymea], 12 May?Hidden History: Sydney University, 22 August 2015?An Australian Oasis: Mt Annan Botanic Garden, 31 October 2015?Studio and Gallery Tour [Glebe and Blacktown], 12 February 2016?Gardens and Pots [Southern Highlands], 29 October 2016?Illustrated reports for Filipino Community, 16 March 2010, Communities in Action [Ashfield area, historical and new communities] 26 February 2011, Churches and their Communities [historical and environmental; Concord and Annandale], 27 October 2012, Portrait of the Artist: Shen Jiawei and Wang Lan, 12 May 2015, An Australian Oasis [Mt Annan Botanic Garden and Campbelltown history and art], 31 October 2015; Studios and Gallery [Blacktown and Glebe], 10 February 2016. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 31 July 2018 Last modified 31 July 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

A political activist who ran for the Communist Party of Australia in Newcastle in 1932. Catherine Barratt was also a candidate for the Newcastle Municipal Council in that same year. Catherine Barratt was reported to have got a good vote in the Municipal elections in Newcastle in 1932. She was, for many years, a prominent and militant member of the ALP, and became a member of the State Executive of the party. She resigned “because of the anti-working class actions of the Lang Administration” and then joined the Communist Party. Catherine was well known in the Newcastle district as a fighter for unemployed women and for children. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 6 December 2005 Last modified 16 September 2013 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Ann Lawler was an active party member and candidate for the Citizens Electoral Council during the election for the New South Wales Legislative Assembly, representing Maitland, in 1999. She was the Candidate for Hunter in the House of Representatives in 1998, 2001, 2004. In 2003 Lawler re-contested the seat of Maitland as an Independent candidate. The Citizens Electoral Council of Australia was deregistered by the Australian Electoral Commission on 27 December 2006 by the application of Schedule 3 of the Electoral and Referendum Amendment (Electoral Integrity and Other Measures) Act 2006. Ann Lawler was born and bred in Maitland, where she and her husband, Tom, run a transport business. They have three children. Ann ran as an independent candidate in 2003, though her campaign literature stated she was “backed by the Citizens Electoral Council”. Her campaign opening was reported as being the largest and most enthusiastic ever held in Australia by the CEC, of which she was the NSW Secretary. In previous campaigns, her leaflets had openly declared her to be the Citizens Electoral Council candidate. Following Lyndon LaRouche’s theories, she predicted a great financial crash. She was in favour of Australia becoming a republic based on the United States model. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 31 January 2006 Last modified 11 April 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

15 sound files (ca. 1116 min.) Author Details Alannah Croom Created 10 April 2018 Last modified 10 April 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

[Red Cross Archives series reference: NO6]??Comprises periodicals, pamphlets, books and small posters produced by the Youth Department of the Australian Red Cross for the purpose of promotion and education. There are long but incomplete sets of periodicals, such as, Australian Red Cross Junior (1945-1975) and NSW Junior Red Cross Record (1943-1949); as well as singular purpose publications relating to topics such as civics, community involvement, food, health, home nursing, refugees, managing libraries, preparing financial budgets, music and song, debating, as well as personal safety on the road, in the home and on the farm. Also includes teachers resource kit on International Humanitarian Law and tracing patterns for five different sizes of ARC Cape.??This series has been aggregated from the National Office as well as the divisions of New South Wales, Victoria, Northern Territory, Western Australia, Queensland, Tasmania and Papua New Guinea. There are also International Friendship Books with Thailand, Japan, New Zealand, West Germany, India, Greece, Philippines and Canada.??The Australian Junior Red Cross was founded in New South Wales in August 1914 by Mrs Eleanor MacKinnon, originally aimed at involving children in supporting recuperating soldiers, as well as assisting soldier’s children. Subsequently the movement evolved to focus on the development of a humanitarian ethos amongst young people through education programs, participation and activities that encourage active citizenship and community participation. In the 1970s the Australian Junior Red Cross changed its name to Red Cross Youth and became part of the Youth and Education Service Department, focusing on people under 30 years. (Australian Women’s register: Youth and Education Services, Australian Red Cross. (1914- ) http://www.womenaustralia.info/biogs/AWE0717b.htm)??Researchers should also refer to: ‘Junior Red Cross (VIC) Index Cards (2016.0072) pertaining to Junior Red Cross activities in schools; Junior Red Cross and Australian Red Cross Youth Records (2016.0058) and the Poster series (2016.0076).??Researchers should note that under the Geneva Conventions Act 1957 protections govern the use of the Red Cross emblem. For further information see Archives staff. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 13 February 2004 Last modified 30 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Emeritus Professor Mary Hiscock was the first full-time female academic appointed to the Faculty of Law at the University of Melbourne. In 1972 Hiscock again made history when she became the Faculty’s first female reader. She was a pioneer of the study of comparative Asian Law, introducing Asian legal systems to students at the University of Melbourne for the very first time. Hiscock was later Chair of Law at Queensland’s Bond University, where she taught Contract and International Trade Law and was also Associate Dean (Research and Graduate Studies) from 1994 to 1997. She has been an expert adviser to the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development and a consultant to the Asian Development Bank; in addition, she has been a delegate to the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL). A member of the Australian Academy of Law, Hiscock is currently Emeritus Professor of Law at Bond University. Mary Hiscock was interviewed by Kim Rubenstein for the Trailblazing Women and the Law Oral History Project. For details of the interview see the National Library of Australia CATALOGUE RECORD. Emeritus Professor Mary Hiscock’s early years were spent in Melbourne, where she attended Genazzano FCJ College in Kew before graduating from the University of Melbourne with a Bachelor of Laws (Honours) degree in 1961. At university, Hiscock was involved with the ‘Melbourne University Law Review’. She was awarded the Julia Flynn Memorial Prize in 1956. After graduating, Hiscock tutored briefly at Melbourne’s Faculty of Law before embarking on a Doctor of Laws at the University of Chicago, supported by Ford and Fulbright fellowships. Hiscock was one of the first women at the University of Melbourne to undertake post-graduate study at a university in the United States. After declining an offer to practise law with a New York Wall Street firm, Hiscock returned to Melbourne and in 1963 accepted a position as a full-time academic in the University of Melbourne’s Faculty of Law, thus becoming the first woman to be appointed to such a position there. Although contentious, and condemned by some male colleagues, the appointment had the support of such highly regarded scholars as Sir Zelman Cowen and Frank Maher [Farrar]. In the mid-1960s Hiscock joined forces with David Allan (later Professor David Allan AM) to conduct research into Asian contract and securities law. Hiscock and Allan went on to marry in 1980; in 1987 the couple were co-authors of Law of Contract in Australia. By now an authority on Asian law, Hiscock pioneered comparative law courses; for the first time the Melbourne Faculty of Law’s curriculum gave students the opportunity to study the laws of Asia as well as traditional European legal systems. In 1969, Hiscock was elected chair of the Women Lawyers’ Association in Victoria. In this capacity, she was involved in the preparation of the National Council of Women Case in the historic first national Equal Pay Case with the Australian Trades Council Union [Farrar]. In 1972, at the young age of 33, Hiscock again made history when she became the first woman reader at the Faculty of Law, University of Melbourne [Campbell]. There were no professorial appointments at the time and it would not be until 1989 that Cheryl Saunders became the first female professor at the Law School [Timeline]. Hiscock left academia in the late 1980s to practise commercial law. She undertook articles of clerkship at Mallesons Stephen Jaques, an experience she found “challenging and invigorating” [Farrar]. Returning to academia, in 1993 Hiscock was appointed Chair of Law at Queensland’s Bond University, where she taught Contract and International Trade Law. She also served on various committees at the University including as chair of the Research Committee. She was Associate Dean (Research and Graduate Studies) from 1994 to 1997 [Farrar]. In 1994 Hiscock was a Fellow of the University of Melbourne residential college Janet Clarke Hall. Between 1995 and 2002, Hiscock was chair of the International Law Section, Law Council Australia and chair of the International Academy Commercial and Consumer Law [Pearce]. Hiscock was also an expert adviser to the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development; consultant to the Asian Development Bank; and a delegate to the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL). Hiscock is currently Emeritus Professor of Law at Bond University [Farrar]. She is also a member of the editorial boards of the Australian Journal of Asian Law, Melbourne Journal of International Law, and the Asia-Pacific Law Review. In addition, she is a member of the Australian Academy of Law. Hiscock has inspired with the senior academic positions she has held, and as one of the first women to obtain post-graduate legal qualifications from a university in the United States. Her pioneering of the study of comparative Asian law saw a generation of law students benefit from the opportunity to consider legal systems other than their own. Hiscock’s expertise in international trade and investment, with an emphasis on international contracts and comparative law, has been influential within academic institutions and significant international institutions such as the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the Asian Development Bank and the United Nations. Published resources Site Exhibition Australian Women Lawyers as Active Citizens, Trailblazing Women Lawyers Project Team, 2016, http://www.womenaustralia.info/lawyers Archival resources National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Mary Hiscock interviewed by Kim Rubenstein in the Trailblazing women and the law pilot oral history project [sound recording] Author Details Larissa Halonkin Created 30 May 2016 Last modified 1 November 2016 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

3 digital audio tapes (ca. 143 min.)??Judy Horacek, an artist and cartoonist, speaks of her family background and his childhood in Victorian country towns and Melbourne, family encouraged her to draw and write from an early age, education in a Catholic primary school and Siena College, Camberwell though her family was not practising Catholics, type of curriculum followed in college, drawing techniques she acquired, influences on style drawn from cartoon books, Punch, Nation Review and Leunig, Age and Herald dailies, Weg’s Weekend cartoons, undertook Arts at University of Melbourne majoring in fine arts and English literature, undertook part-time jobs to earn money to travel overseas in Italy, Germany, France, Czechoslovakia and England, returned to university to complete an honours degree then a Diploma of Museum Studies, started cartooning.??Horacek discusses joining a Melbourne writing group but decided she wanted to combine words with drawings, her developing interest in political and social issues, began cartooning for community group publications while undertaking temporary work as a typist and secretary for Community Services Victoria, after failing to get a job as a museum curator she decided to become a cartoonist, undertook book illustrations for Fitzroy Legal Services, Fringe Network, Fringe Festival and the National Cartooning Exhibition, illustrating for the Legal Services Bulletin, Health Issues Journal, Australian Society, Australian Left Review, Meanjin, eventually she published some of her own work in Life on the Edge, cartooning for the Age and then the Australian, the influence of Kaz Cooke and overseas women cartoonists, her techniques and themes usually drawing women, her strong commitment to political issues, her production of her own postcards and greeting cards, further publications of her own work include Unrequited Love, Woman with Altitude, Lost in Space, If the Fruit Fits, when working with ideas get the words first, her exhibitions. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 20 February 2018 Last modified 20 February 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Clean typescript of the novel “Maralinga cycle,” later published as “Maralinga, my love” by McPhee Gribble/Penguin. Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 1 June 2006 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

This collection includes papers, newsletters, bulletins and the like relating to the many activities Mary Owen has been involved with. These include women’s issues and social welfare issues such as pensioners, the homeless, and the unemployed. Also included are diaries and miscellaneous files (including the Order of Service for the celebration of Mary Owen’s life held on 27 April, 2017 at the Melbourne Town Hall). Author Details Anne Heywood Created 4 May 2000 Last modified 29 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Irene Greenwood tells about her 85th birthday party at Cockburn Sound Women’s Peace Camp and reads a letter to the women there.?1 cassette (ca. 45 min.) : mono. Recorded December 1984 Author Details Anne Heywood Created 31 March 2004 Last modified 7 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Although there was some Latvian migration to Australia in the aftermath of the abortive 1905 revolution against Tsarist Russia, the most significant wave of Latvian emigrants arrived after the second world war. During the war Latvia was under Soviet occupation and the Latvian people were subjected to oppression and mass deportations. By 1945, 156,000 Latvians had escaped to western Europe. They were among the 12 million war refugees awaiting resettlement in Displaced Persons camps. Approximately 20,000 Latvians arrived in Australia between November 27, 1947, and the end of 1952. The latest Census in 2001 recorded 6,620 Latvia-born persons in Australia, a decrease of 18 per cent from the 1996 Census. The 2001 distribution by State and Territory showed Victoria had the largest number with 2,120 followed by New South Wales (1,940), South Australia (1,040) and Queensland (710). The median age of the Latvia-born in 2001 was 72.8 years compared with 46.0 years for all overseas-born and 35.6 years for the total Australian population. The age distribution showed 0.8 per cent were aged 0-14 years, 1.8 per cent were 15-24 years, 2.3 per cent were 25-44 years, 26.6 per cent were 45-64 years and 68.6 per cent were 65 and over. Of the Latvia-born in Australia, there were 3,070 males (46.4 per cent) and 3,550 females (53.6 per cent). The sex ratio was 86.4 males per 100 females. The age and gender distribution of the population, along with the significant decrease of numbers over time is of concern to members of the Latvia born community in Australia. Without a critical mass of new arrivals, community heritage organisations very often struggle to survive. Those who still need them and rely upon them find it difficult to keep up services as the population ages. Published resources Edited Book The Australian People: An Encyclopaedia of the Nation, Its People and Their Origins, Jupp, James, 2001 Book Latvians in Australia, Putnins, A., 1981 Archival resources State Library of South Australia Latvian Community Museum Oral History Project: SUMMARY RECORD [sound recording] Interviewer: Mara Kolomitsev Interview with Dzidra Knochs [sound recording] Interviewer: Bronwyn Mewett State Library of Victoria Reminiscences of a woman migrant from Latvia, 1944-1948 ca. 1970-ca. 1979. [manuscript]. Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 18 June 2006 Last modified 20 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

In July 2002, the Australian Workers Heritage Centre celebrated the opening of Stage One of its national $8 million project, Women in Australia’s Working History. The first stage is an exhibition, A Lot On Her Hands, featuring the working experiences of a diverse range of Australian women. The Australian Workers Heritage Centre is a museum style complex opened in 1991 in the grounds of the old Barcaldine State School in southwestern Queensland. Many of the original structures have been reinvented into exhibition space, telling the stories of Australia’s working history through objects, art and multi-media presentations. Historic workplaces of yesteryear, including a one-teacher school, police watch-house and railway station, have been relocated to the centre from throughout Queensland. The exhibition A Lot on Her Hands is a major component of the Working Women project at the centre. It looks at the experience of Australian women in paid and unpaid work, from both the perspective of the individual and in the context of the broader issues in our nation’s history. The exhibition features a diverse range of Australian women, some known to us, others less well known but equally inspirational. The title reflects the understated resilience of the women represented in the exhibition. Some of the individuals featured include: Ruth Hegarty, a child of the stolen generation and indigenous advocate; Louisa Lawson, newspaper proprietor, suffragist and mother; Mary Barry, business woman and goat farmer; Joan Kirner, Australia’s first woman Premier. Published resources Book Songs of the Unsung Heroes: Stories and Verse Celebrating Australian Women and their Work, 2002 Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 26 June 2006 Last modified 16 September 2013 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

The papers consist mainly of secondary source material relating to women’s issues. They include journal articles, newscuttings, notes, papers, reports, information circulars and women’s journals. A substantial amount of the research material (6 folders) has been collected on the campaigns for equal pay for women both in Australia and overseas. Other subject files include women and the media, women in the Australian Public Service and women’s organisations. There are also papers from women’s conferences and miscellaneous copies of various women’s journals and newsletters.??The papers were received by the Library in 1991. They were once part of the collection of the Womens Studies Unit at the Australian National University. Author Details Patricia ni Ivor Created 3 May 2000 Last modified 29 September 2020 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Articles; biographical notes on prominent Western Australian women; broadcast talks; calendar; cards; constitutions of Women’s Service Guilds (1916, 1924); newspaper cuttings; files; invitations; minutes; shopping lists; programs; reports; scrapbooks; services sheets; issues of “The dawn”; stationery. The material relates mainly to women’s issues, and the Women’s Service Guilds in particular. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 25 March 2004 Last modified 7 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

NS3724 Business papers??NS3716 Annual reports??NS3717 Strategic business plan??NS3720 Statistical data??NS3722 Newsletters??NS3718 Minutes of meetings of management committee??NS3721 Working Women’s Centre survey 2004??NS3723 Fact sheets and booklets??NS3719 Minutes of meetings of annual general meetings Author Details Alannah Croom Created 9 January 2018 Last modified 6 April 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

The records consist of papers relating to the formation and early minutes of the Women’s Information Switchboard. Also included is a booklet ‘Domestic Violence Phone-In Report’ based on a phone survey conducted in 1980. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 5 February 2004 Last modified 29 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Greenwood’s views on feminism and International Women’s Year. Copied from Australian Broadcasting Commission’s National Radio programme. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 31 March 2004 Last modified 7 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

The records include annual reports, membership records, newsletters, conference papers, photographs of early women graduates and papers relating to other State and Territory branches of the AFUW, and its international umbrella body, the International Federation of University Women [IFUW]. There is also a collection of oral histories with notable women graduates undertaken by the AFUW from 1981 onwards – see inventory for detailed listing. Author Details Jane Carey Created 28 July 2004 Last modified 29 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Box 1?Documents on women’s wage rates and equal pay campaigns, Spanish civil war relief committee, housing problems ca. 1937-1983??Box 2?Union of Australian Women, child endowment, child care, living standards, ca. 1946-1988??Box 3?Personal papers, International Women’s Year 1975, International Women’s Day ca. 1954-1999??Box 4?Union of Australian Women, Bankstown, 1982-1990; International Women’s Day Committee, 1965-1971; various publications on working women??Box 5?Women’s issues, Save our sons campaign, Vietnam peace material, various journals relating to women and union issues.???Box 6?Documents concerning Australian Union of Women and International Women’s Day: women and unions, UAW national state, unemployment, price control, consumer protection, inflation, the Dismissal ca. 1936-1975 Author Details Alannah Croom Created 26 June 2018 Last modified 26 June 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

20.47 metres of textual material (90 boxes, 13 outsize boxes)?51 sound recordings?289 posters??BOX 1?Women’s Liberation – Occasional Papers and newsletters c. 1970-1976?Includes folders:?Africa?Asia?Britain?The Left Britain?Enough?Shrew?Canada?Kinesis newsletter?Body politics?Take 1?The other woman?Pedestal??BOX 2?Women’s Liberation – Occasional Papers and newsletters c. 1970-1976 cont.?Includes folders:?Europe?International?Xilonen?New Zealand?The Women’s Page?Spectre?Do it now?Every woman?Farrago?USA?Spokeswoman?Centres for Women’s Studies and Services?Tricks Comics?The common woman?Battle Acts?It ain’t me babe??BOX 3?Women’s Liberation – Occasional Papers and newsletters, USA c. 1970-1976?Includes folders:?Female Liberation Newsletter?Herself?The Feminist Press?Velvet Glove??BOX 4?Women’s Liberation – Occasional Papers and newsletters, USA c. 1970-1976 cont.?Includes folders:?Majority report?Prime time?Real women?Up from under?Pandora?Marin Women’s News Journal?Lavender woman??BOX 5?Women’s Electoral Lobby – Submissions, Conferences and Newsletters, ca. 1970-1978?Includes folders:?WEL Exploitation of Persons Seminar 1978 Adelaide??BOX 6?Women’s Electoral Lobby – Submissions, Conferences and Newsletters, ca. 1970-1978?cont.?Includes folders:?WEL Broadsheet?WEL Conference 1973, Canberra?WEL National Conference 1981, Sydney – papers?WEL National Conference 1982, Canberra – paper presented by Eva Cox??BOX 7?Women’s Electoral Lobby (WEL) Newsletters, ca. 1973-ca. 1980?Including: WEL NSW Newsletters, 1973-1980 (incomplete), WEL New England Newsletter, 1973-1974??BOX 8?Women’s Liberation Sydney group papers, ca. 1970-ca. 1980?Including folders:?Lesbians – General?Camp Women’s Association newsheet, ca. 1972-1973?Sydney University Women’s Group?Macquarie Women’s Liberation Group?University of New South Wales Women’s Liberation Group?North Shore Women’s Liberation group?OWL Older Women’s Liberation?Sydney University sexism strike, 1973?Queensland Solidarity Group?Women’s Liberation House, Chippendale, papers, 1970-1974?Theory and Action Group?Women’s House Spartacist Debate, 1977?W.A.N.E. Women Against Nuclear Energy?Women and Psychology Group?Women in Solidarity for Peace?Rozelle Women’s Liberation Group?South Sydney Women’s Centre?Women’s Warehouse??BOX 9?Women’s Liberation – Interstate – various papers, ca. 1970-ca. 1975?Includes folders:?Conferences – Melbourne?Leaflets and others – Women’s Liberation Victoria?Miscellaneous publications Women’s Liberation Victoria, ca. 1970s?Position papers and bun fights?Melbourne Women’s Theatre Group and others?Melbourne Fin journal, issues 2-4, ca.1975?ASIF journal, various issues, ca. 1973??BOX 10?Women’s Liberation – Interstate – various papers, ca. 1970-ca. 1975 cont.?Includes folders:?Leaflets and others?ACT position and theory papers?Canberra Women’s Liberation Newsletter, 1971-1973?Out from Under journal, Canberra, 1976?ACT Women Against Rape – Anzac Day March, Collective Newsletter 1981?ACT Wimmin Ews 1979-1981?Tasmania Women’s Liberation – papers, ca. 1970s?Liberaction, Hobart Women’s Action Groups, 1970s?Brisbane Women’s Liberation Newsletter, 1970s?Leaflets, Submissions – Queensland, 1970s??BOX 11?Interstate Women’s Liberation publications, ca. 1970-ca. 1980?Includes folders:?Alice Springs leaflets and others?Aprons Sting newsletter?Western Australia leaflets and others?Grapevine newsletter?South Australia?Empire Times?Our bodies our selves?Women’s Liberation newsletter, Adelaide?Women’s Liberation News, Adelaide??BOX 12?Occasional papers, ca. 1970-ca. 1979, cont.?Including folders:?Working Women’s Group?What every woman should know – papers related to a publication?Working Women’s Charter Campaign, ca. 1976-ca. 1980?Janet Oakdew campaign to work as a train driver, ca. 1974-ca. 1976?Right to Work Campaign?WERK Women’s Employment Rights Campaign?Wages for Housework?Equal Pay submission, ca. 1972??BOX 13?Occasional papers, ca. 1970-ca. 1979?Includes folders:?Abortion?Anarchy?Art?Birth control?Black, migrant women?Child care??BOX 14?Occasional papers, ca. 1970-ca. 1979, cont.?Includes folders:?Class and women?Cultural feminism?Economy?Education?Family politics general?Health?Herstorical?International?Law?Woman and the left??BOX 15?Occasional papers, ca. 1970-ca. 1979, cont.?Includes folders:?Lesbianism?Organisation?Peace and ecology?Philosophy?Power?Prostitution?Psychoanalysis?Radical feminism?Rape?Sexuality?Sexual politics?Sexism?Sociology?Student politics?Work??BOX 16?Women’s Liberation Sydney papers, ca. 1970-ca. 1980?Include folders:?Control Abortion Referral Service, 1973-1979?Women’s Health and Resources Foundation?Bankstown Women’s Health Centre?Child care??BOX 17?Student papers on women’s issues, mainly newspaper cuttings, ca. 1970s?Direct Action?National Women?Nation newsletter??BOX 18?International Women’s Liberation Publications, 1970s?The Second Wave?International Bulletin?The Circle, lesbian feminist publication??BOX 19?Liverpool Women’s Health Centre papers, ca.1970-ca. 1979?Includes: Minutes, handouts, budgets and reports, general and personal correspondence, funding submissions, conferences, press releases, newsletters, campaigns??BOX 20?Women’s Abortion Action Campaign (W.A.A.C.) papers, ca. 1970-ca. 1977?Includes folders:?Infant Life Preservation Bill, 1977?Lusher Motion and Hunt Inquiry – Medical benefits for abortion, 1977-1978??BOX 21?Papers and correspondence related to the abortion debate, ca. 1973?Includes folders:?Abortion Bill, 1973?Abortion letters – personal correspondence addressed to Hon C.R. Cameron MP?Lamb – McKenzie, Abortion, 1973?Member for Griffith?Newspaper clippings on the Abortion Bill, 1973??BOX 22?Broadsheet: New Zealand’s feminist magazine, various issues including special editions, ca.1972-ca. 1979??BOX 23?Women in media, papers, ca. 1972- ca 1977?Includes folders:?Australian Women’s Broadcasting Co-op (A.W.B.C.) papers, Job Selection, ca. 1976?Women in radio?Women’s media groups??BOX 24?Government – IWY (International Women’s Year) 1975?Includes folders:?Government Advertising and Media?U.A.W. – Unions – Others; General?Others?United Nations Material?Government General?National Research Program?Grants?Australian National Advisory Committee??BOX 25?Interstate Women’s Liberation – Victoria?Includes folders:?Melbourne Women’s Liberation Newsletter, ca. 1972-ca. 1981?Lesbian Newsletter (Melbourne), ca. 1976-ca.ca 1980?Working Women’s Centre and others, ca. 1975??BOX 26?Women’s Advisory Council and other Government letters, ca. 1978-ca. 1984?Includes folders:?Government letters and journals??BOX 27?Women’s Liberation papers, ca. 1972-ca. 1979 – Local Groups, Campus Groups, Interest Groups?Includes folders:?Glebe Group?Sydney Bread and Roses?The Cauldron Hall Collective (notebook)?Burwood Group?Christian Women Concerned?Feminist Legal Action Group?High School Group?Hurstville Group?Leichhardt Locality Group?Lesbian Teachers Group?Lesbian Mothers Group?Lesbian Feminist Collective and Radicalesbians newsletter?Lesbians – Gay Liberation, Camp C.A.M.P., 1972-1974, 1975-1976, 1977-1979?Lesbian group minutes – Radicalesbians??BOX 28?Sydney Women’s Liberation newsletter, ca. 1970-ca. 1979?Subscription book, 1971??BOX 29?Women’s Liberation Conferences, ca. 1974-ca. 1976?Includes folders:?Women’s changing roles, 1974?Women and psychology, 1974?Women’s Studies conference, Adelaide, 1975?Women and madness conference, Melbourne University, 1975?Women’s health in a changing society, 1975, notes, proceedings etc.?Australian Women’s Trade Union conference, Sydney University, 1976??BOX 30?Women’s Liberation Conferences, ca. 1976-ca. 1979?Feminism and sexuality, Melbourne, 1976?Women’s studies conference, 1978?Rape laws and sexual offences, 1978?Women and law seminar, Sydney, 1978?Australian Women’s Education Coalition (AWEC) National conference, 1978?NSW Mid decade convention, 1979??BOX 31?Women’s Liberation Conferences, ca. 1970-ca. 1974?Women’s Liberations conferences 1970-1971?Mount Beauty conference 1973?Women’s commission 1973?Sorento National Lesbians conference 1973?Alternative Trade Unions Women’s conference Sydney 1973?Women and Violence forum 1974?Women and Girls : our experiences in the schools, Sydney 1974?National Conference on Feminism and Socialism 1974?National Consultation 1972??BOX 32?Women’s Liberation Conferences, ca. 1975-ca. 1978?Alternative Women’s Health conferences?Alternative Trade Union and Working Women’s Action Sydney 1975?Anarchist Feminist conference 1975?Beyond the Radical Belt Sydney Uni 1975?National Conference on Abortion and Contraception Sydney 1975?Women’s Commissions -General correspondence and financial statements 1975?-Bankstown, Campbelltown, Liverpool, North Shore, Parramatta, Penrith, St. George?Sydney?Sydney Women’s Liberation Conference 1976?Marxist Feminist Conference 1977?Working Women’s Charter Campaign 1977?Socialist Feminist Forums Sydney 1978?Lesbian Feminist conference Sydney 1978??BOX 33?Women’s Liberation Conferences, ca. 1970-ca. 1980?Women’s Lesbian Feminist Conference Minto 1979?Sydney Women’s Liberation Conference 1979?Collectives Conference 1979?Women and Violence conference 1980?Women in Education conference 1970-1979 (including minutes)??BOX 34?Sydney Women’s refuges, ca. 1971-ca. 1978?Elsie Women’s Refuge?Liverpool Abortion Defence Campaign, 1975-1977 – Liverpool Women’s Health Centre?Marrickville Refuge, ca. 1975-ca. 1978?Louisa Lawson House?Bonnie Refuge, ca. 1977?Betsy Women’s Refuge and Crisis Centre, 1977??BOX 35?Women’s Liberation Conferences, ca. 1978-ca. 1982?2nd Women and Labour conference Melbourne 1980?1st Women and Labour conference Sydney 1978?3rd Women and Labour conference Adelaide 1982??BOX 36?Women’s Liberation Publications, ca. 1972-ca. 1980?Refractory Girl, Issue 1-19 : 1972-1980?Womenspeak Vol 1 No. 1-Vol 5 No 5 : 1975-1980?Scarlet Women No. 1-No. 11 : 1975-1980??BOX 37?Women’s Liberation Publications, ca. 1972-ca. 1980 cont.?Magdeline 1973-1979?Women’s Magazines various incl. Sister and Join Hands ca. 1970-1980??BOX 38?Women’s Liberation Publications, ca. 1972-ca. 1980 cont.?Various Socialist Feminist journals ca. 1970-1980?Women’s Electoral Lobby journals ca. 1970-1980?Women’s Outside??BOX 39?Women’s Liberation Publications, ca. 1972-ca. 1980 cont.?Various Australian and International Women’s Liberation journals related to film and media, including Ramparts, Women and Film. Includes also various reports and working papers ca. 1970’s??BOX 40?Women’s Liberation Publications, ca. 1972-ca. 1980 cont.?Various leaflets, booklets and reports, ca. 1970s??BOX 41?Women’s Liberation Publications, ca. 1972-ca. 1980 cont.?Including Vashti’s Voice, Melbourne, ca 1972-ca. 1979?Lesbian Newsletter, Melbourne, ca. 1978-ca. 1980?Sibyl, Perth, ca. 1975- ca. 1982?Hecate, St Lucia, ca 1976-ca. 1978??BOX 42?Women’s Liberation Publications – International, ca. 1970-ca. 1980?USA?Women journal various issues 1970-1978?Notes from 2nd and 3rd year of Women’s Liberation, 1970 and 1971?Our bodies ourselves a course by and for Women?UK?Red rag 1972-1975??BOX 43?Women’s Liberation Publications – International, ca. 1970-ca. 1980 cont.?Spare rib 1972-1979 various issues??BOX 44?Women’s Liberation miscellaneous files, ca. 1972-ca. 1978?Includes folders:?Aboriginal Women, Angela Davis, Canberra booklet,?Anti-War MOUT, Budget protests 1978, Child Welfare, Elections 1977, 1975 Election Crisis, Festival of Light and Right to Life, International Solidarity, Men, Migrant Women, Womens Advisor?Women’s Resources directory, Women’s Trade Union commission, Amidale Womens group, Newcastle and South Coast, Older Women’s Liberation, Steel Works campaign, Interviews and transcripts 1972, Germaine Greer et. al.??BOX 45?Women’s Liberation miscellaneous files, ca. 1972-ca. 1978 cont.?Includes folders:?Health Action group?Health-General Abortion Campaigns?Bessie Smyth?Pre Term Abortion Law Reform?Family Planning??BOX 46?Women’s Liberation journals and newsletters, ca. 1972-ca. 1974?Women’s Domestic Needlework group, Women’s Art Movement, Women and Film, Sydney Women’s Film Group- correspondence and minutes, 1972 Women’s March Action campaign, International Women’s Day 1973 and 1974, Three Marias 1974,??BOX 47?The First Ten Years of Sydney Women’s Liberation Collection 1969-ca. 1980 – Women Behind Bars papers??BOX 48?International Women’s Day 1975-1979 and International Women’s Year 1975??BOX 49?Leichhardt Women’s Health Centre papers, ca. 1973-ca. 1975?Includes folders:?Summary sheets, 1974-1975,?General correspondence and campaigns, 1973-1974,?Official opening 8th March 1974,?Newsclippings 1974,?Requests for information and AMAX??BOX 50?Women’s Liberation journals and newsletters, ca. 1972-ca. 1974?Includes folders:?Me Jane, Feminist Bookshop, Awful Truth Show, Rouge, Refractory Girl, Womens Speak, Songs chants etc, Spring Festival of Women’s Creativity, 1973, Words for Women, Women Action Theatre??BOX 51?The First Ten Years of Sydney Women’s Liberation Collection 1969-ca. 1980 – Women Behind Bars papers??BOX 52?International Women’s Year 1975 news cuttings?Includes folders:?1976 cuttings, job appointments during International Women’s Year, sexism, incidents, anti lib, Germaine Greer, conferences 1975, Arts Media, Elizabeth Reid, Ads, cartoons, trivial, crap, Media attitudes, Jan – June 1975??BOX 53?International Women’s Year 1975 news cuttings cont.?Includes folders:?July to December 1975, Mexico conference 1975, loose cuttings??BOX 54?Political parties and groups, ca. 1970s?Includes folders:?Women and ALP, Anarchist Feminist material, Communist Party Australia Sydney Women’s Collective, Communist League, International Socialists, Socialist Party of Australia, Spartacist League, Socialist Workers Party, Union of Australian Women??BOX 55?Women’s Liberation Publications, ca. 1972-ca. 1980 and other papers?Includes:?Mabel Collective papers ca. 1976-1978 including minutes, accounts?Scarlet Woman papers ca. 1975-1983 including minutes??Box 56?Misc. Publishers lists, Distribution, Reviews, United Associations – some newsletters?Includes:?Germaine Greer, Misc. 1974-1977??BOX 57?Misc. Publishers lists, Distribution, Reviews, United Associations – some newsletters cont.?Includes folders:?Misc. undated, Booklists from publishers and bibliographies, books printing distribution and reviews, United Association of Women – newssheet 1972-1976?Pre Womens Liberation ca. 1964-1971??BOX 58?Everywoman Press Publications ca. 1970-ca. 1978, including journals?Includes:?Sydney Women’s Liberation newsletter, August 1978 – February 1978?Magdalene ca. 1976-1978?Refractory Girl, ca. 1970’s?Camp Ink ca. 1970’s?Scarlet Woman ca. 1970’s??BOX 59?Everywoman Press Publications ca. 1970-ca. 1978 cont.?Includes folders:?Misc. Women’s Liberation booklets ca. 1970’s?New Pages (Everywoman additional material)?Printed ephemera, Everywoman files??BOX 60?Everywoman Press Publications ca. 1970-ca. 1978 cont.?Includes:?Health leaflets, Sales tax forms, Letterheads and stickers, correspondence out??BOXES 61-63?International Women’s Liberation publications, printed material, ca. 1970-ca. 1975??BOXES 64-65?Sydney Rape Crisis Centre papers, ca. 1974-ca. 1979, including leaflets, reports, bibliographies, statistics and minutes?Includes folders:?H. Correspondence regarding speaking engagements?I. Australian Union of Students, Bibliography, Child Care Conference?J. Collective Herstory, Crime and Women, Doctors and Hospitals?K. Domestic violence, Government statement?L. Housing, Institutional criminology, media?M. Migrant, NSW Labor Women, Sexual Offences Referral Centres complaints file, Women and health, Odds and Sods?Rape Crisis – Handbooks, leaflets and stickers, Anzac Day?Rape Crisis – Aims, funding, reports and statistics?Minutes, 20/4/1975-18/12/1979??BOX 66?International Women’s Liberation publications, printed material, ca. 1970-ca. 1975 includes Spare Rib magazine??BOXES 67-73?Leichhardt Women’s Community Health Centre papers, ca. 1976-ca. 1984?Including folders:?Minutes 1974-1979?Control and Management?Women’s Health Survival Kit?Monthly Cycle?Budget and Letters to Government?Insurance policies?Press clippings?Women’s Health and Resources Foundation – Articles of Association?Healing Woman: History of Leichhardt Women’s Community Health Centre, by Joyce Stevens?Correspondence and Campaigns, 1976-1979?Newsletter, Speculum Speaks ca. 1980-1984?Handouts – original artwork?Handouts – Self help, Breast care, Sexuality, Stress, Vaginal infections?Handouts – Activities at the Centre?Handouts – Health, Contraception, Pregnancy, Abortion, Gynecology, Hysterectomy, Menopause, Menstruation?Interagency Meetings, 1975-1979?Intercentre Correspondence ca. 1975?LWCHC Reports, 1974-1979?LWCHC Collectives?LWCHC Abortion Film – ‘As a matter of fact’?LWCHC Abortion Kit?Control 1973-1976?Louisa Lawson House Application 1981?’Blue Stocking’ newsletter, ca. 1976-ca. 1980, a publication of the Australian Women’s Education Coalition?LWCHC ledgers and accounts books including: Chris’s Book, 1977; Appointments Books – 1974, 1977; Donations account 1975; Film Night Journal, 1979; Health Education Diary 1977; Film and Cassette Diary 1977; Visitors Comment Book, ca. 1977, Communications Book, ca. 1978?A File Folk Story – subject thesaurus??BOXES 74-75?Australian Student Publications ca. 1970’s?including Honi Soit, On Dip, Farrago, Tharunka, Togatus, Lot’s Wife, Woroni and Cold Comfort, National U, Rabelais, Union Recorder, Nucleus, Medusa, Inquest, Arena, Misc. Alternative Papers, Women’s Department News, Women’s reports and newsletters, Australian Conferences, Alternative News Service??BOX 76?Off Our Backs, Washington DC, various issues 1970-1979??BOX 77?Australian feminist publications ca. 1971-ca. 1975?Including:?Women’s Sociological Bulletin, ca. 1973-ca. 1979?Women’s Day, July 1973?Women in Employment ca. 1972?We Women ca. 1975?Unions are for women too, 1976?Pandoras Box Women’s Writings, ca. 1976?Women in Sport by Pam Waugh, ca. 1977?Women Unions 1976?Women’s Survival, ca. 1976?Sex, booklets published by Sydney University and University of NSW, 1973-1976?Papers and proceedings First National Homosexual Conference, Melbourne 1975??BOX 78?News clippings and scrapbooks, ca. 1970-1975?Greer scrapbook or the greery road to liberation; articles, interviews, reviews of Germaine Greer?Women’s Liberation House publicity and pamphlets?Sydney Morning Herald clippings, 1970’s?Northshore Times?Digger??BOXES 79-82?News clippings and scrapbooks ca. 1975-ca. 1985 cont.?Including miscellaneous newspaper cuttings, and folders containing cuttings labelled:?Women’s rights, achievements, status and related issues – Bankstown Women’s Health Centre?Political parties and unions – publications?Abortion and contraception?Government statements including Child Care?Women and Education – Bankstown Women’s Health Centre??BOX 83?Mejane journal papers, ca. 1970-ca. 1975, including correspondence, subscription lists, invoice books and bank books??BOX 84?International Women’s Year (IWY) 1975 papers, including;?National Advisory Committee newsletter?IWY Film Fund?Media and Arts Conference?Women and Politics Conference papers and leaflets including New Dawn?United Nations Conference Mexico 1975??BOX 85?Scrapbook related the Abortion clinics, ca. 1974?Correspondence to and from the Words for Women publishing collective Glebe, N.S.W., ca. 1971-ca. 1973??BOX 86?Sydney Morning Herald, Sun, Sun Herald, National Review and National Times newspaper clippings related to Women’s Liberation, including indexes to articles, ca. 1970-ca. 1974. Articles are tipped onto plain sheets, indexed, and annotated.??BOX 87?The Australian and various other newspaper clippings related to Women’s Liberation, including indexes to articles, ca. 1969-ca. 1974. Articles are tipped onto plain sheets, indexed, and annotated.??BOX 88?Badges and stickers, mainly related to women’s and gay liberation, ca. 1970- ca. 1980??BOX 89?Large format scrapbooks including newspaper cuttings, New Dawn newsletter, various issues, ca. 1975, The New Woman’s Survival Catalog, Berkley Publishing, New York 1973??BOX 90?Every Woman Press large format publications, ca. 1970-ca. 1975, including Women Write catalogue, Koori Bina, Women and Work, and Everything. Also includes miscellaneous small format posters, printed ephemera and large format calendars.?Women’s Health Centre Visitors book, ca. 1974.??BOX 91X?Large format scrapbook, ca. 1973, containing newspaper cuttings related to rape. Two large scrapbooks containing newspaper cuttings related to International Women’s Year 1975.??BOX 92X?Mabel Australian Feminist Newspaper various issues, ca. 1975, Right to Choose various issues, ca. 1973-ca. 1980, Mejane various issues, ca. 1971-ca. 1975. Oversize womens stickers, ca. 1975??BOX 93X?Handmade doll, stitched linen with Women’s Liberation logo, 50h x 25w cm??BOX 94X?Women’s Commission (unfinished) protest banner handpainted on linen, 3m x 3m folded. Purple on white??BOX 95X?Protest banners (2) painted on linen, 2m x2m. Peace dove logo, purple on white.?Women who care remember Nov. 11, blue on white??BOX 96X?Women’s Liberation T-shirts ca. 1970-ca. 1980, printed on cotton in various colours, approximately 60 x 40 cm each.?Includes:?Double headed axe (logo) on back of long sleeve shirt?Women against nuclear energy?Eve was framed?Smash sexism?Women voter power?Women hold up half the sky?Rape crisis centre??BOX 97X?Women’s Liberation T-shirts cont., printed on cotton, 60 x 40 cm.?Includes:?Repeal all abortion laws?The future is female?Sappo Gertrude…?Call me MS.?I am a humourless feminist (green)?Its great to be a woman??BOX 98X?Women’s Liberation T-shirts cont., colour printed on cotton, 60 x 40 cm.?Includes:?Woman (brown – in various languages)?Womans Liberation logo (purple on lilac)?Womans Liberation logo (purple on beige)?Women on the airwaves ABC?Women Write on?I support Leichhardt Women’s Community Health Centre?Man in shadow with gun (image – black on yellow)??BOX 99X?Women’s Liberation T-shirts cont., colour printed on cotton, 60 x 40 cm.?Includes:?Women are rising – smash rape – Canberra Rape Crisis Centre?On guard – a girls own adventure?WEL (Womens Electoral Lobby) logo?Its great to be a woman?Women’s Liberation logo (pink on maroon)?Miss Piggy says make cops into chops (red)?Justice is a woman??BOX 100X?Women’s Liberation T-shirts cont., colour printed on cotton, 60 x 40 cm.?Includes:?Superwoman?Women’s Liberation logo (purple on lavender)?Woman (in various languages – olive)?Call me MS. (green)?Free Sandra Wilson?Dead men don’t rape (white)?Doiley power??BOX 101X?Women’s Liberation T-shirts cont., colour printed on cotton, 60 x 40 cm.?Includes:?Gay Lib?40 if she’s a day?If the unemployed are dole bludgers what are the idle rich?I am a humourless feminist (royal blue)?I joined a women’s group feminists are everywhere?Women’s Liberation logo (black on red)?Women reclaim the night (blue)??BOX 102X?Women’s Liberation T-shirts cont., colour printed on cotton, 60 x 40 cm.?Includes:?Revolutionary cricket player (image – black on green)?Miss Piggy says: make cops into chops (red)?Women’s Liberation logo (green on blue)?Wonderwoman (on white)?Women are half the worlds people…??BOX 103X?Women’s Liberation sweatshirts cont., colour printed on cotton, 60 x 40 cm.?Includes:?Every mother is a working mother?Make the ruling class tremble?Dead men don’t rape (pale blue)??SOUND RECORDINGS?23 sound recordings being sound cassettes relating to WEL including recordings of interviews, meetings, radio broadcasts, ca. 1977-1979.?Call No. MLOH 812?Sound recordings not to be issued – master tape only. For access please contact the Curator of Oral History.??POSTERS?289 First Ten Years Women’s Liberation posters, ca. 1969-ca. 1979 (Call No. POSTERS/2015/237-526) Author Details Alannah Croom Created 26 June 2018 Last modified 26 June 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

An active and life long member of the ALP, Irene Anderson was interested in social justice, particularly for women. She was an ALP candidate for Kirribilli in 1973. Irene Aspinall married Joe Anderson, long-time General Secretary, Painters & D, Meg. Irene joined the Australian Labor Party in Marrickville and subsequently held branch office positions in the Dulwich Hill, North Sydney and Ben Boyd-Cammeray branches. She was a delegate to the Labor Women’s Organising Committee for more than 20 years, and was Treasurer of it in 1964. She was also a delegate to State and Federal Electorate Councils over many years. She was one of the Australian Delegation to the International Alliance of Women Conference in India in 1973. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 6 December 2005 Last modified 20 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Volumes of records (4) 1980-1981, 1984-1988, including correspondence, minutes and newscuttings, and literary papers 1986-89. Papers of Forza e Coraggio (1989) including authors’ manuscripts submitted to ANDIA [Associazione Nazionale Donne Italo-Australiane] Alitalia Literary Competition.??SOUND CASSETTES?MLOH 61/1-5 (formerly at TR 1197-TR 2201)?’The Role of Women Today in Australia and Italy’, Proceedings of the Second International Conference, Sydney, 24 Sept. 1988??MLOH 61/6 (formerly at TR 2202)?Radio 2EA broadcast, 15 March 1990, of N.I.A.W.A. (NSW Branch) meeting on International Women’s Day, 10 April 1990, at the APIA Club, Leichhardt??Pictorial material (located at Pic. Acc. 6945): Video of highlights of ‘Noi Do Italiane’, First Conference on the Contribution of Italia Australian Women to Australia, Sydney, 26 Oct. 1985, located at VT 83. Audio tapes (located at TR1197-TR22) of proceedings of ‘The Role of Women Today in Australia and Italy’, being the Second International Conference, Sydney, 24 Sept. 1988. Author Details Jane Carey Created 15 September 2004 Last modified 27 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Leontine Cooper was Queensland’s most significant writer addressing the rights of white women during the movement for woman suffrage in that state. By the late 1880s she had emerged as one of the key activists who contributed to progressive movements in Australian political life and Australian feminism. Cooper wrote short stories for the Boomerang and in the mid 1890s edited Queensland’s only women’s suffrage newspaper, the Star. For a short time she edited Flashes, a society newspaper, and for a while wrote ‘Queensland Notes’ for Louisa Lawson’s feminist journal, the Dawn. In 1889 Leontine Cooper led a breakaway group from the Woman’s Equal Franchise Association, which became known as the Queensland Woman’s Suffrage League. Cooper was concerned that the women’s suffrage movement should not be ‘captured’ by the Labor Party, and become subject to party politics. Leontine founded and served as inaugural president of the Brisbane Pioneer Club in 1899 which, like its London namesake, was a progressive women’s club. Leontine Cooper was the eldest child born to Frenchman Jean Francois Buisson and his English wife Dorothea (nee Smithers). She spent her early life living in the inner-London precinct of Battersea, and then at seaside Brighton, and married her husband, Edward Cooper (a surveyor), in London in 1866. She arrived in Brisbane on the ‘Royal Dane’ in November 1871, and during the 1870s worked briefly as a school teacher at Chinaman’s Creek (now Albany Creek), and subsequently Brisbane Girls’ Grammar School, where she taught French. During the 1880s and 1890s Cooper became a prominent Brisbane literary figure, serving on the influential Brisbane School of Arts committee, and playing an active role within the Brisbane Literary Circle, where she mixed with a number of leading social and political figures within colonial society. It was also during this period that Cooper emerged as a social justice and women’s suffrage advocate. She was, for many years, a member of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty, and in 1891 served as Queensland Government appointee to the Shops and Factories Royal Commission. Leontine Cooper does not appear to have been related to pioneering medical practitioner Lilian Cooper who arrived in Brisbane in 1891, and who was also a significant 19th and early 20th century Queensland feminist figure. Published resources Journal Article 'There is no question more perplexing at the present time and more frequently discussed than women's place in society', Jordan, Deborah, 2004, http://www.emsah.uq.edu.au/awsr/Act_Centenary/articles/09_Jordan.doc Only a Woman, Cooper, Leontine, 2004 Emma Miller and the campaign for women's suffrage in Queensland, 1894-1905, Young, Pam, 2002 Resource Section Cooper, Leontine, 2008, http://www.austlit.edu.au/run?ex=ShowAgent&agentId=A$IQ Leontine Cooper, Ferrier, Carole, 2005, http://www.emsah.uq.edu.au/awsr/Act_Centenary/whoiswho.htm Book Section Women's Suffrage Struggles, Ferrier, Carole and Jordan, Deborah, 2004 Book Woman suffrage in Australia : a gift or a struggle?, Oldfield, Audrey, 1992 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Lee Butterworth Created 22 June 2009 Last modified 19 February 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Gyzele Osmani fled Kosovo in 1999 with her husband and five small children. Accepting temporary refuge in Australia she was housed in the Bandiana Safe Haven where her youngest daughter received medical treatment for a dislocated hip. Refusing repatriation in March 2000 because the situation in the Presevo Valley was unsafe and her daughter needed further medical treatment, the family was interned for seven months in the Port Hedland Detention Centre before being released to settle in Canberra. Now an Australian citizen, Gyzele is studying Business Administration and her story is the subject of a prize-winning essay and radio program. Gyzele Osmani was born on 15 May 1970 in East Kosovo, Serbia, in the village of Ternovc , Bujanovc community , in the Presevo Valley, to Albanian Muslim parents. Her father was a farmer and she had three sisters and two brothers. She left school in Year 8 when she was 14, as the local high school was converted into a military barracks. She was helped by a tutor who lent her books and taught her Serbian and a little English. She then trained as a dressmaker. In 1991, when she was 21, she married Qenan Osmani a local carpenter and upholsterer, and by 1997 had five children, the last of whom were twins born in July 1997. In May 1999 the Serbian soldiers blockaded the village, conducted a house-to house search and ordered the people to leave. Gyzele and her family walked for eight hours to Macedonia. When she finally reached a UN camp she discovered the hip of her baby daughter, Albinota, had been dislocated from being carried so long. She wanted medical help for her as soon as possible so accepted Australia’s offer of asylum, not realising it was only intended to be temporary. She arrived in Australia on 15 July 1999 and after five days in a camp in East Hills, Sydney, was taken to the Bandiana Safe Haven in the Albury-Wodonga area. Albinota had three unsuccessful operations on her hip over the next ten months. On 3 March 2000 the Albanian refugees in Bandiana were told they would be repatriated as the United Nations had restored order in Kosovo. The thirty Albanians who, like Gyzele were from the Presevo region in Serbia where the UN had not intervened, knew it was not safe to return and refused to return. On 15 April 2000 twenty-one Albanians were sent from Bandiana to the Port Hedland Detention Centre. After seven months there, she and her family were released on the decision the Minister for Immigration, Philip Ruddock, following intervention from Canberra migration agent Marion Le and other Canberra-based refugee supporters, who also helped her family rebuild their lives in Canberra. She and her family were granted permanent residence in Australia on 15 May 2001 and are now Australian citizens. Gyzele is studying Business Administration at the Canberra Institute of Technology and takes every opportunity to tell her story of life in detention in the hope of helping other detainees, particularly children. Her story has the subject of a prize- winning essay by Melanie Poole, and an Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s Radio Eye program, which won the 2003 Human Rights Radio Award. Published resources Article The Place Where God Died. Gyzele's story., Poole, Melanie, 2002c, http://www.refugeeaction.org/stories/gyzele.htm Resource The Place You Cannot Imagine, Redfern, Lea, 2004, http://soundprint.org/radio/display_show/ID/216/name/The+Place+You+Cannot+Imagine Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Gyzele Osmani interviewed by Ann-Mari Jordens [sound recording] Author Details Ann-Mari Jordens Created 25 August 2006 Last modified 1 September 2006 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

1 tape reel??Miss Thomas talks of her return to Nepabunna for a week after being taken away from them as a baby; her first impression of tribal aborigines; her experiences staying at Nepabunna mission and visiting her family’s camp; her relationship with her family; her family’s reaction to her and hers to them; the relations between the missionaries and the aborigines; her memories of camp life. Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 31 December 2006 Last modified 21 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

The career of Australian tennis player Thelma Coyne Long spanned more than 20 years. The winner of the Australian Women’s Singles title in 1952 and 1954 (aged 35 years) she was also runner-up in 1951, 1955 and 1956. From 1936 until 1940, Thelma Coyne and Nancye Wynne (later Bolton) were Australian Women’s Doubles Champions. During the war years of 1941 to 1945, no competition was held for major Australian tournaments and Long enlisted in the Australian Women’s Army Service (AWAS). Following her discharge from the AWAS Long and Nancye Wynne Bolton continued their tennis careers. They won the Australian Doubles 1947-1949 and 1951-1952. Long then joined with Mary Hawton to win the doubles championship in 1956 and 1958 – 20 years after she won the National Junior Singles Championship aged 16. The pair were also runners-up for the Wimbledon Women’s Doubles title in 1957. Long was winner of the Australian Mixed Doubles 1951, 1952, 1954, 1955 and the French Mixed Doubles in 1956. On 30 August 2000 Long was awarded the Australian Sports Medal and inducted into the Australian Tennis Hall of Fame in 2002. A life member of the Australian Women’s Army Association (New South Wales) Long was actively involved in the archiving of the association records. In October 2002 she became a participant of the Australian Women in War Project working group. Thelma Long was inducted to the Australian Tennis Hall of Fame at Melbourne Park during the Australian Open on Australia Day 2002. Long’s tennis career was remarkable not only for the span of time it covered (1935-1958) but more so for what was accomplished due to the limited opportunities available to Australian women players at that time. The records show Long won 19 Grand Slam titles – 2 Australian Singles, 12 National Doubles, 4 National Mixed and 1 French Mixed. Long’s overseas record was just as brilliant with singles, doubles and mixed championship wins in 16 countries. This was achieved after an absence from international competition for the decade 1939-1949 due to World War II and four years in the Australian Women’s Army Service (AWAS). For her service during World War II Long was awarded the War Medal 1939/45 and Australian Service Medal 1939/45. On 30 January 1941 Thelma Coyne married Maurice Newton Long of Melbourne. The marriage did not continue after the war. Following her discharge from the AWAS Long resumed amateur competition tennis both in Australia and overseas – Open tennis was not established until 1968. An Australian representative over the years 1938-1958 Long became a teaching professional in 1960 and devoted years of service to coaching promising NSW juniors. In 1985 her achievements were recognized by Tennis NSW when she was awarded Life Membership of the State Association. In 1993 Thelma (Coyne) Long was inducted to the inaugural Randwick Sporting Hall of Fame and then in 1999 as an Honouree of the Hall of Champions at the State Sports Centre, Homebush Olympic area. Long also was a volunteer at the State Library of NSW and she received the Volunteer Service Award in 1999, The Year of the Volunteer. In 2000, Australia’s Olympic year, Thelma Long was awarded the Australian Sports Medal in recognition of her services to tennis. Events 2042 - 2042 Posted north as OC AWAS Advanced LHQ, Brisbane. General Sir Thomas Blamey’s HQ Commander Allied Land Forces SW Pacific Area. 2043 - 2043 Attended No. 5 Army Women’s Services Officers Training School, Melbourne 2043 - 2043 Posted as Administration Officer, 2 Australian Signals Training Battalion AWAS, Ivanhoe, Melbourne. 2043 - 2043 Adjutant to 4 Australian Training Battalion Army Womens Services, Darley, Victoria. 2044 - 2044 Promoted to Captain 2044 - 2044 Transferred to HQ Vic. L of C Area, Melbourne as Deputy to Assistant Controller, AWAS 2045 - 2045 Appointment terminated – demobilization of married personnel. 2043 - 2043 Detached as Staff Officer to Her Excellency The Lady Gowrie for a three week tour of Allied Defence Forces & Women’s Services throughout Northern NSW and Queensland. 2043 - 2043 Detachment to attend War Course VII, First Australian Army Junior Staff School, Ashgrove, Brisbane. Two female officers, one AWAS, one AAMWS included in the ten week course for the first time. 2044 - 2044 Posted as Instructor (Directing Staff) LHQ Army Women’s Services Officers School (AWSOS) Toorak, Melbourne. 2041 - 2041 Joined the Australian Red Cross, Victorian Division and became a fully trained transport driver 2042 - 2042 Enlisted Australian Women’s Army Service 2042 - 2042 Attended second AWAS Recruit Training School at “Glamorgan” Toorak, Victoria. Trade grouped and trained as transport driver at Land Headquarters (LHQ) Car Company 2042 - 2042 Promoted Corporal, then Sergeant and posted in charge of a group of AWAS & WAAAF drivers detached to USA Forces in Australia (USAFIA) – General Douglas MacArthur’s HQ, Melbourne 2042 - 2042 Attended first NCO School for AWAS in Victoria, then posted AWAS HQ at LHQ, Victoria Barracks, Melbourne, with the Controller AWAS, Lt. Col. (later Col.) Sybil Irving’s Staff HQ. 2042 - 2042 Commissioned and from this point Colonel Irving directed her varied and numerous postings. Published resources Resource Section LONG, THELMA DOROTHY, Department of Veterans' Affairs, 2002, http://www.ww2roll.gov.au/script/veteran.asp?ServiceID=A&VeteranID=605431 Book Encyclopedia of Australia Sport, Shepherd, Jim, 1980 Edited Book Who's Who in Australia, 1947, Chisholm, Alec H, 1947 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 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Newspaper Article Great service - in army, tennis Archival resources Australian War Memorial, Research Centre Interview with Thelma Long (When the war came to Australia) Long, Thelma D (Captain, AWAS AIF b: 1918) Long, Thelma Dorothy (Captain, AWAS AIF b: 1918) Long, Thelma (Captain, AWAS, AIF) Author Details Anne Heywood Created 20 January 2003 Last modified 7 August 2017 Digital resources Title: Ready for Tennis Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Title: Servicewoman Thelma Long Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Title: AWE0432gc.jpg Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Title: AWE0432gd.jpg Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Robin Eagle has been active in the South Australian Women’s Movement since 1976 and a lesbian feminist activist in Victoria before then. Born in Hopetoun, Victoria, she joined the Women’s Liberation Movement in Victoria in 1975. A dedicated community worker, she helped establish and run many community groups. She is on the Board of Management for the Women’s Studies Resource Centre in Adelaide, South Australia 1999-2013. Robin has published a book of poetry. Robin Eagle has been a lesbian feminist activist since 1975. In Melbourne she was involved in the founding of Women’s Liberation Halfway House Collective Inc ( Women’s refuge) Then in 1975 she co-founded the Vesuvia Women’s Book and Craft Association in Collingwood. She tutored in Commerce at the University of Adelaide 1978-82. She lectured at the Light, Spencer Institutes of Technical and Further Education, South Australia, and in Alice Springs TAFE. She is a contributor to the Yulara Times when working as co-ordinator and counsellor at the Yulara Community Resource Centre in 1973-4. She was also a collective member of the Women’s Spiritual Movement, South Australia and co-founder of Plum Farm Women’s Land in 1980. Other activities she has been involved in include: co-ordinator of the Elizabeth West Community Food Co-op; co-ordinator of the Bowden-Brompton Community Centre (SA) ; board membership of the Women’s Studies Resource Centre. And member of the YWCA Bush walking group. Robin was on organizing collectives for feminist conferences including the Melbourne Women’s Liberation conference in 1976, the series of National Lesbian Feminist Conferences between1989-2000 and the Adelaide Women’s Liberation Conference 1996. Robin has published a book of poetry, Distilled Essence of Eagle (1985). She has contributed to anthologies published by SA Country and City Women Writers and taught womens assertiveness, communication, creative writing at varied community centres. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources State Library of South Australia Adelaide Women's Liberation Movement : SUMMARY RECORD Robin Eagle: Summary Record Author Details Kathleen Bambridge Created 18 December 2009 Last modified 21 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

45 minutes??Kemeri Murray talks about her home life during the depression, doing law at Adelaide University, graduating in 1953 in Law and 1954 in Arts, living at Magill, studing piano under Raymond O’Connell while doing articles at Vaughan, Porter and English, trip to England, marriage to Eric Murray in 1955, admitted to the Bar of the Supreme Court of SA, transferred to Brian Magarey and offered a partnership, first married woman to be offered a partnership in SA, 1973 offered a position on the Bench with the District Court of SA, second woman judge in SA, son Phillip and daughter Belinda born in 1963 and 1966, support from her husband, Children’s Court and State Family Court, joining the Lyceum Club, member of the Flinders University Council, 1978 appointed to the Advisory Council for Inter-Government Relations, member of the Social Responsibilities Commission of the Anglican Church, board appointments, bettering the community, education, progress for women and the law. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 5 April 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

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BOX 1?Printed proclamation of His Royal Highness Alexander Tsar of Russia, the diploma of Royal Order of Saint Sava Third to Mr. Kelso King, 17 March 1921??Letters from Kelso King to his wife Alicia during his trip to Europe, 1913-1928??Papers and records including letters, news cuttings and obituaries relating to death and funeral service of Kelso King, 1943??Letters and excerpts from periodicals and newspapers relating to Kelso King’s career in insurance mainly Mercantile Mutual, 1885-1940, 1954??Photograph Kelso King including photo with Col. J. M. Maughan and Lord Baden Powell arrival in Australia and two mounted copies of portraits, ca. 1931??Passport of Lady Alicia Kelso King, 1939??Letters from Kelso King to his mother 1898 and to his family while travelling, 1922??Records and carte de visite relating to King family history and life of Walter and Eliza Hall, including family tree and draft articles for the Australian Dictionary of Biography by Hazel King, ca. 1903-1922??Letters from Kelso King to his first wife Irene Rand second wife Alice, 1878, 1907, 1922-1923??BOX 2?Letters from Irene Rand and Alicia Kirk to Kelso King, 1878-1879, 1907??Letters from Kelso King to his family, 1865-1880??Greeting cards and newspaper clippings enclosed in letters from Kelso King to Irene Rand, 1877-1879??Carte de visites, ca. 1863-1919??Two family photographs in St Petersburg and souvenir postcards from travels in Europe, ca. 1910-1913??Diary of Kelso King, 1898??Research papers and notes compiled by Georgina King, relating to early history of Western Australia, mineral wealth of New South Wales, ca. 1852, including souvenir program of 90th anniversary service of the Parish of St Thomas Enfield, 1938, and printed newsletters of University of Sydney Archives, 1982??Published version of articles by Georgina King relating Aborigines in Australia and Tasmania and the discovery of gold in Australia published in the Sunday Times 16 December 1923 and printed by William Brooks & Co. 1924??Typed transcripts of letters from Kelso King to Irene Rand, 1877??Manuscript letter book containing proofs of business letters sent by Kelso King, 1876-1882??BOX 3?Scrapbook of Olive Kelso King of news cuttings ca. 1898-1937??Papers of Rev. George King including letters to Alice and extracts of notes and diaries in connection with his work in Western Australian 1841-1849, 1899, and souvenir program of foundation stone centenary celebrations at St peter’s Church Cooks River, 1938??Letter from Professor of Department of History to Hazel King with typescript of ‘Reminiscences’ by her grandfather Reverend George King at Sydney University, 1988??Letters from Kelso King to his fiancé Irene Rand, 1879, and after they were married 1879-1882??Souvenir programs, notes from sermons and addresses, newsletters and news cuttings relating to funeral of Sir Kelso King, 1943??Receipts Walpole Bros Limited and Hotel Washington, 1913??Letter from Chief Secretary of New South Wales to Premier of NSW relating to Miss Kelso King and Miss Hey’s trip to England, 1905??Copy of family tree of John Wallace of Rovergh, no date??Ephemera mainly copies and reproduction of artworks and sites visited in Europe, no date??Badges, pendants and ribbon medals awarded to Kelso King from the Boys Scouts, gold plated and bronze, 1922-1925 including medal ribbon dates 1882??Commemorative medallion with Captain Arthur Philip for Australia’s 150th Anniversary, 1938??Silver coin medallion commemorating London International Exhibition opened 1st May 1862??Paperweight bronze, no date??Parcel 4?Certificate of offices held in order of the hospital of St John of Jerusalem to Sir Kelso King, 17 May 1929, 20 November 1936 Author Details Alannah Croom Created 21 June 2018 Last modified 21 June 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

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Dur-e Dara was awarded the Medal of The Order of Australia (OAM) in 1997 for services to the community and promotional and fundraising activities for women’s groups. Born in Malaysia and of Indian descent, Dur-e Dara settled in Australia in 1962. She attended Presbyterian Ladies’ College before completing a Social Welfare Degree at the University of Melbourne. Dur-e Dara worked in youth welfare at Winlaton and Turana for the Youth Welfare Division of the Victorian Social Welfare Department for three years. In 1976 she joined Stephanie’s Restaurant as a casual waiter and later became manager and co-proprietor. She was to spend over 20 years at Stephanie’s, in which time she also helped to establish the Pavilion (later Donovan’s) in St Kilda and the Nudel Bar in the Melbourne business district. With Barbara Harper in 1997, she entered a partnership in the Tea Corporation, a high quality tea import, wholesale and retail business. In 2000 she established a consortium/partnership for Lip café bar as well setting up a consortium of small investors for EQ Cafebar (Southbank). Dur-e Dara is President of the Restaurant and Catering Association of Victoria; Convenor of the Victorian Women’s Trust; Vice-President of Philanthropy Australia; and board member of the Victorian Wineries Tourism Council and Business Matrix Victoria. She is Director of the Melbourne International Chamber Music Competition, and serves on the advisory boards of the Women’s Reference Group of the Victorian Equal Opportunity Commission; William Angliss College; RMIT School of Tourism and Hospitality; and the Swinburne School of Hospitality and Tourism. She is also Patron of the Victorian Foundation for the Survivors of Torture; elder, Women’s Circus Victoria; and a member of the Victorian Immigrant and Refugee Women’s Coalition, the Tamil Elam Women’s Organisation, the Melbourne Chapter of the Australian Symposium of Gastronomy, Asia Link, Habitat for Humanity and Asia Society. In addition to her OAM, Dur-e Dara received The Vida Goldstein Award for excellence in her trade, and was selected as one of 150 on the Inaugural Women’s Honour Roll, a Victorian Government initiative as part of the Centenary of Federation celebrations in 2001. Events 2001 - 2001 Inducted into the Victorian Honour Roll of Women 2001 - 2001 Awarded the Centenary Medal ‘for service to the restaurant industry’ 1997 - 1997 Awarded a Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) ‘in recognition of service to the community and to promotional and fundraising activities for women’s groups’ Published resources Edited Book Who's Who in Australia 2002, Herd, Margaret, 2002 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Anne Heywood Created 16 January 2003 Last modified 9 May 2019 Digital resources Title: Dure Dara Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Ruby Hutchison was the first woman elected to the Legislative Council in Western Australia, and the first to take her place in any Australian Council. She was the only female member of the Chamber during this period. Her work enabled the introduction of the first law to enable women to serve on juries, and she founded the West Australian Epilepsy Association to fight discrimination against people with intellectual disabilities. Ruby Florence Herbert was born in Melbourne in February 1892, and came to the Murchison goldfields in Western Australia with her parents in 1896. While still in her teens she married Daniel Buckley, a miner. When the marriage later broke up, she was left to rear seven children alone, and supported her family by taking in boarders and dressmaking. She married Alex Hutchison in 1941, and attended business college and summer schools at the University of Western Australia. She contested her first election in 1950 at the age of 58, having joined the Australian Labor Party (ALP) decades earlier. In 1954 Hutchison became the first female member of Western Australia’s Legislative Council, and throughout her seventeen-year parliamentary career campaigned tirelessly for the Council to be substantially reformed, or abolished. She successfully fought for the right of women to sit on juries, and consistently attempted to secure compulsory voting and adult suffrage for Legislative Council elections. Hutchison received international recognition for her work on behalf of epilepsy sufferers, and was a founder of the West Australian Epilepsy Association. She also fought to ensure that those afflicted with intellectual disabilities did not suffer discrimination. Hutchison retired from politics in 1971 at the age of 79. She died at the Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital in 1974, and is buried in the Karrakatta Cemetery. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Edited Book Biographical Register of Members of the Parliament of Western Australia, Vol. 2, 1930-1990, Black, David and Bolton, Geoffrey, 1990 Book We Hold Up Half the Sky: The Voices of Western Australian ALP Women in Parliament, Watson, Judyth [ed.], 1994 Book Section Making a Difference: Women in the West Australian Parliament 1921-1999, Black, David and Phillips, Harry, 2000 Resource Section Hutchison, Ruby Florence (1892-1974), Black, David, 2006, http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A140600b.htm Site Exhibition The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia, Smart, Judith and Swain, Shurlee (eds.), 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders Author Details Lisa MacKinney Created 21 September 2009 Last modified 21 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Records of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom comprising minutes, annual reports, subject files, financial records and correspondence. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 2 April 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

2 hours 56 minutes??Barbara Hardy, nee Begg, was born at Largs Bay, Adelaide. She attended Woodlands Girls School and began a science degree at Adelaide University aged 16. She married Tom Hardy in 1948. During the 1950s and 60s family and sport were Barbara’s chief interests, however camping holidays also awakened her concern for the environment. In 1972 she began voluntary work with the Conservation Council and in 1974 started a degree in earth sciences at Flinders University. With growing expertise as a lobbyist, Barbara assisted David Wotton, Shadow and then Minister for the Environment in the late 70s and early 80s. Her husband died in 1980. Barbara resigned from the Liberal Party so that her activism could be non-party based, and since then has applied her ‘patience, persistence and perspiration’ to many organisations and issues, including the Australian Heritage Commission, Landcare, the National Parks Foundation and the Science and Technology Centre. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 30 January 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

The records consist of papers relating to the Women’s Union Committee’s intervention in the Australian Council of Trade Union’s maternity test case and include submissions and background material relating to this issue. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 24 April 2018 Last modified 24 April 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Nonja Peters is an historian, anthropologist, museum curator and social researcher whose expertise is transnational migration (forced and voluntary) and resettlement in Australia: ethnicity, sense of place, identity and belonging; immigrant entrepreneurship, racism and the sustainable digital preservation of immigrants’ cultural heritage. She also has a special interest in Dutch maritime, military, migration and mercantile connections with Australia and the South East Asian Region since 1606. She is currently involved in academic, community-based, visual and bilateral research, publications and events in all these areas in Australia and internationally. Nonja is initiator/innovator, researcher and curator of numerous permanent and travelling museums that have been displayed variously in Australia, South Africa, Indonesia and the Netherlands. Nonja Peters was born in the Netherlands 27 February 1944, following her parents’ frantic escape from a munitions factory in Alsace Lorraine, where they were forced to work for the Nazi war machine. Her mother was then nearly seven months pregnant of her. The months after her birth were also fraught with her mother’s fear of the Nazi VI and V2 bombs launched in the Netherlands on their way to bomb UK cities. In December 1948, her father Jan (John) set sail for Australia on the SS Volendam (Holland America Line) as part of the mass post-war migration movement out of Europe across the globe. It would take a few more years before the economy of the Netherlands picked up, which also slowed down exit to a trickle. Nonja’s mother Jo (Johanna Peters nee Verhoeven) and her children (then Nonja and Eddie) made the voyage to join Jan (John) on the Italian part freighter, part passenger ship Ugolino Vivaldi from Genoa in July 1949. Nonja was then 5 and her brother 9 months. They had travelled by train from Tilburg, a city in the Dutch province of North Brabant to Milan, accompanied by Jo’s Aunt Cor (Corinne Berens nee Hutten) and her three children, Jan (John 9), Tony (5) and Jenny (Sjannie 6). They were going to join Corinne’s husband Toon Berens who had migrated together with Jan, Nonja’s father. Mistakes made by the Dutch bank meant their ship had already left and so with the Dutch Consul’s help they travelled onto Genoa to catch the ship he had managed to organise. The Peters family settled, first in Subiaco a suburb of Perth the main, and then only, city of Western Australia, followed by Toodyay, a wheat-belt town two hours drive from Perth, where the family opened a café with another couple – she a Displaced Person (DP) from Belarus and he a Dutchman who had met in a forced labour camp in Germany. Eighteen months later the Peters family moved to Northam, another town in the rural Avon Valley, 30 kilometres from Toodyay where non-English speaking migrants were accommodated in military camps. Here Nonja befriended other migrant children. Non-English speaking migrants were then accommodated in the migrant camps in Northam until allocated employment and found alternative accommodation. This was the time when assisted passage entailed signing a two-year contract to work where it suited the government. Many DP’s were set to work on road and rail projects in these towns. Northam became a multicultural environment with shops employing German speakers to deal with the incoming migrants. It would take some years before English, as a second language, programs were the norm in schools and the workplace. At that time there was little help provided to migrants of any age to deal with settlement issues. Moreover, the government, which fostered an assimilation policy, believed the children would automatically become Australians without assistance. In 1955, Nonja’s mother gave birth to twins, Nancy and Eric. Nonja, then eleven, became the live-in baby-sitter to the twins and Eddie and often the children of her parent’s migrant friends. In this her experience replicated that of so many eldest migrant children, as few migrant families had extended kin in Australia and could not afford to pay for babysitting. Nonja’s mother liked to join her musician father, who apart from his day job in insurance, had a jazz band that played music for weddings, country dances and balls and in hotels. Apart from kindergarten, Nonja’s education has been exclusively in Western Australia. At the age of seven she spoke English well enough to staff the counter of the family’s fish and chip shop. Although she speaks and reads Dutch, she does not write or spell it very well. She is in any case also a latecomer to academia. Like so many women at that time, it was expected that she leave school at 15 to help with family finances and her brothers’ education. At thirteen she had won the school prize for public speaking and at 15 the first prize in an essay competition that afforded her a five-pound win. This she used to pay for a year of upper high school schooling. However, lack of parental enthusiasm for this choice had her give it away and look for work a few weeks later. Just before turning 17 she accompanied her maternal grandmother, who was visiting Australia back to Tilburg, her hometown in the Netherlands. She was the token person used to fulfil her grandmother’s dream to bring back the whole family. While in Tilburg she was employed in ‘Admissions’ at the St. Elisabeth teaching hospital. At the behest of her father, she also completed a diploma in chiropody. However, on her return to Australia in 1962, her chiropody diploma was rejected. Knowing this her, father had organised for her to be employed as a ledger (accounts) machinist for a private Firm in the country town of Northam, from a few days after her arrival back to Australia, to enable her to pay back the bank loan he had procured to pay her fare home. A year later she went to the city of Perth, where she was employed as Ledger Machinist by the Public Works Department, a State Government Utility and later the Main Roads Department and Crown Law Department. Having to earn her living and pay back the bank saw her in this job (which she loathed) until she married Robert Francis Peters, a migrant from Wales and the UK in January 1968. State and Federal governments did not yet employ married women. September that year she gave birth to Bradley Alexander and in October 1970, Richard Gerald John. In 1978, she entered the upper secondary education sector as a mature-age student, which gained her entry to the University of Western Australia. By then she was mother to two primary school aged children and an increasingly severely disabled husband with Multiple Sclerosis (MS). She combined education/career/carer responsibilities for the next 32 years 1977-2009. She began research first on Anorexia Nervosa for her Honour’s thesis, passed in 1987 and then into migration. In 1992, produced her first museum exhibition, on post-war migration to Western Australia (WA). It was on display for a year at the WA Maritime Museum in Finnerty Street, Fremantle and in the WA Museum Perth. Its opening attracted the largest visitation numbers the museum had ever seen to date. It was awarded a ‘special commendation by the inaugural WA Premier’s History Award committee. It had hit a ‘nerve’ as migrants wanted their experiences and contribution to Australia acknowledged. In 1994, she was invited to research and produce the exhibition: Working it Out: Cultural diversity and the WA Economy for the State Library and Office of Multicultural Interests (OMI). It was on display in the State Library for six months. In 1995, she was employed as curator by the WA Museum to produce the exhibition A New Australia: Postwar Migration to Western Australia. The success of her earlier exhibitions had enabled the WA Museum to secure $100,000 in funds for it. It was on display for 16 years. In 1997, she left the museum and returned to the University of Western Australia (UWA), to concentrate on finishing her PhD. In 1998, she produced the exhibition A Sense of Place: Postwar Migration to Northam. Based on archival material, artefacts, photographs, and over 100 oral histories, it is still on display in the Northam Visitor Centre. She enticed, Tourism WA (Northam) to work with her to hold three multicultural festivals (1999, 2000, 2006) that brought and estimated 8,000-10,000 people from Perth to Northam – for the day – each year. Nonja was a co-founding member of the Dutch Australian Community Services (DACS) WA Inc. – now Dutchcare. Vice President of the Northam Army Camp Heritage Association, and Chairperson for the Associated Netherlands Societies of WA Culture and Heritage working group. She was also a member of the Ethnic Communities Council Women’s Sub-Committee; the Golden Pipeline Interpretation Committee; the LISWA Migrant Archives Advisory Committee; and continues on the advisory committee to the National Archives of Australia (WA). In 2000, the University of Western Australia awarded her a PhD cum laude on Dutch, Greek, Italian and Vietnamese immigrant entrepreneurs. In July 2000, she entered Curtin University as a Visiting Fellow. Her first book Milk and Honey But No Gold: Postwar Migration to WA 1945-1964, based on the research that had produced the museum exhibitions, was launched in November 2001. Published by the University of Western Australia (UWA) Press, it was launched in the Passenger Terminal Fremantle by the Premier, Geoff Gallop to an audience of over 500 people. It was short-listed in 2001 for Premier’s Literary Awards in NSW, QLD and WA. The QLD awards had attracted 809 entries. She is a contributor to two other books that were shortlisted for Premier’s Literary Awards. Her book the Dutch Down Under, 1606-2006, UWA Press 2006, is lauded in The Hansard, which reports the proceedings of the Australian parliament and its committees. In 2016, the Geography Year 8 Curriculum book she contributed to won the Geography Teacher’s NSW Middle School book prize. In 2002, she was made inaugural Director of the Migration, Ethnicity, Refugees and Citizenship Research Unit. This attracted keynote and leadership speeches at conferences and in panels from other universities and women groups. She has also given numerous invited and conference addresses. The following years, 2003, she conceptualised a 2/3rd year BA course on forced and voluntary migration, and a Masters course on Refugees. The same year she was awarded a Centenary Medal, for her leadership in preserving the cultural heritage of all post-war European migrant groups. In 2011, the MERC changed its name to The History of Migration Experiences (HOME) Research Unit. In 2004, she was shortlisted as a Living National Treasure – along with famous Australians: Fiona Stanley, Harry Butler, Haydn Bunton, Fiona Wood, Tony Cooke, Graham Edwards and Raymond Omodei. December 2004, Nonja also won a five year Curtin University Research Fellowship from a highly competitive field, to research: ‘Footsteps of the Dutch in Australia: Maritime, Military, Migration and Mercantile connections with Australia 1606-2006?. A year later, 2006, she produced the book: The Dutch Down Under 1606-2006: Its first edition was published by Wolters Kluwer, its second edition by UWA Press. The same year she was awarded a knighthood (Ridder in de Orde van Oranje Nassau by Dutch Queen Beatrix, for the preservation of Dutch Australians’ cultural heritage and for fostering bilateral relations between Australia/Netherlands. 2006 was a busy year for Nonja re events related to the 400-year celebration of mutual heritage between Australia the Netherlands via the landing of the Duyfken in 1606. She was Western Australian Chair of the prestigious Australia on the Map 1606-2006 committee made up of big business, former Premier and educationists from 2004-2007. It organised numerous educational and festive, events in Australia and the Netherlands. The same year Ambassador of Australia to the Netherlands Stephen Brady asked Nonja to mediate the panel discussion ‘Embracing Diversity’ for International Women’s Day Panel. Panellists included: Dr Fiona Wood ‘2005 Australian of the Year’, Maria van der Hoeve Dutch Minister for Education NL, Fatima Eletak, a Muslim Woman who was also Alderman of the City of Amsterdam. The event was held in the Schouwberg (Concert Hall) The Hague with invited Guests only. Hosted by the Australian Embassy. Diane Lemieux reviewer of the event for TheHagueOnLine.com noted: ‘Inspirational’ the word bounced through the crowd as we filed out of the stately Theatrezaal of the Koninklijke Schouwberg. The positive energy exuded by the panel speakers made the crowd jubilant as they lined up for the buffet lunch. Introducing the speakers and leading the discussion was Nonja Peters, Director of MERC Research Unit, Curtin University of Technology in Perth Western Australia. “Who was just right for the job.” 2006: Nonja was invited, by the Dutch Embassy Canberra, to escort the Dutch Prime Minister Professor Jan Balkenende, the Dutch Ambassador, his entourage and the Dutch press around the Melbourne Immigration Museum. 2006: Facilitator of a panel discussion of migrants relating their experiences of war, internment and the Indonesian Revolution in the Netherlands East Indies 1942-1946, and their subsequent migration to the Netherlands and then onto Australia to the Dutch Prime Minister Professor Balkenende and his entourage on 29 March 2006. She was adviser to the National Archief and States General (Dutch Staten-General), the bicameral legislature of the Netherlands consisting of the Senate (Eerste Kamer) and the House of Representatives (Tweede Kamer) for their Dutch migration to Australia exhibit Inpakken and Wegwezen (pack up and go), which went on display in Parliament, The Hague, March 2006. She was invited to open the exhibit with the Speaker of the House Frans Weisglas. Earlier the same day she gave a keynote address on Dutch migration to Australia in the Oude Zaal – Old Hall of Parliament, in a conference organised by the Tweede Kamer (House of representatives) in collaboration with the National Archief, The Hague on Dutch connections to Australia 1606-2006. She has also sat on many selection committees for public arts works related to migration issues. Nonja continues as advisor to the Australian Ambassador in The Hague and Dutch Ambassador in Canberra since 2004. She has organised for a number of Official visits to Curtin by Dutch Royalty, Dutch and Australian Ambassadors and Consul Generals and Consuls – to discuss ‘mutual heritage projects, student and academic exchanges, scholarships, trade and hockey exchanges. Some of her keynote speeches have initiated changes to the Dutch Australian ‘mutual heritage’ policy. Nonja’s vision is to strive to produce ‘high quality’ research, grounded in best practice theoretical and methodological perspectives, to produce outcomes that also fuel her mission: ‘To transform high quality research into ‘high impact’ publications – books, book chapters, exhibitions, documentary films, one-on-one public interviews with prominent migrants, discussion panels and festivals – that are readily accessible by the people whose lives they narrate. She works in collaboration with community groups, universities, galleries, (National and State) libraries, archives and museums in Australia, the Netherlands, around Europe, the UK and USA to achieve this aim. She has organised a number of workshops and conferences including the international conference at Curtin: ‘Mediating Human Rights and Democracy: Indonesia, Australia and the Netherlands that attracted 600 delegates. She has been a CI on two successful ARC grants. She is the recipient of many other competitive granting bodies that include: Lotterywest, Healthway, the Office of Multicultural Interests (OMI), National Trust Estate Grants, Department of Immigration and Ethic Affairs (DIMEA), Dutch Embassy Canberra, South Africa and Indonesia, Australian Embassy The Hague, Dutch Consul General’s Office Sydney; Department of the Arts, Dutch and Australian Embassies, Department Culture and the Arts, Dutch and Australian Academy of Humanities visiting academics grants, Rabo and ING Banks, Wolters Kluwer publishers, Museums in WA, The Netherlands, South Africa and Indonesia, the WA State Library, Dutch East India Company Foundation, Dutch Migration Foundation, Erasmus Foundation, WA History Foundation and the Wheatbelt Development Commission, Liveable Communities Grants, Curtin Humanities Visiting academics grants and many more small granting bodies. In 2007, she published Netherlands Youth Blooms Again at Fairbridge, 1945-1946, via the Centre for Advanced Studies in Australia, Asia and the Pacific, Curtin University, Perth, WA. In December, 2008, she published From Tyranny to Freedom Dutch Children from the Netherlands East Indies to Fairbridge Farm School 1945-1946, Black Swan Press, Curtin University. In 2009, after the death of her husband, she spent 5 months in the Netherlands on study leave. Two and half months at KITLV (Institute South East Asian and Caribbean Studies, researching the Indonesian revolution for Independence and Australia’s role in it. The other two and half months were spent at the University of Amsterdam, in the archival studies centre to acquire a greater understanding of digitisation as it pertains to preserving cultural heritage. She is curator of the Welcome Walls, at Maritime Museum in Fremantle that were launched in December 2010, attended by an audience of 8,000. The book We Came By Sea, WA Museum Press (2010), which she wrote to accompany the launch, sold over 7000 copies then, and continues to sell. In 2011, it won the Curtin University Humanities book of the year award. In 2016, she published A Touch of Dutch: Maritime, Military, Migration and Mercantile connections with the Western Third, 1616-2016, Carina Hoang Communications, Perth, Western Australia 2016. 2018, she will launch The Graylands Migrant Camps, Nedlands Library, Perth, Western Australia. In 2011, the Stichting International Cultureel Erfgoed (SICA now DutchCulture, Amsterdam) invited her to visit the Netherlands under their International Visiting Academics Program to meet with cultural heritage agencies and give papers on ‘Dutch Culture Days’ in The Hague, Canberra and Fremantle. Her contribution – along with others – resulted in Australia becoming a ‘priority country’ under the Dutch Department of Foreign Affairs and Ministry of Culture, Science and the Arts ‘mutual heritage’ program. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs in NL adopted her 4 M’s – maritime, military, migration and mercantile – as the themes most germane to Dutch-Australian connections since 1606. In 2012, she produced the exhibition The Bombing of Broome, one with John Curtin Prime Ministerial Library (JCPML), another with Dutch Embassy (Canberra) funds. It was on display in both embassies, an international press conference in Broome and the National Library of Australia. She is working collaboratively to conceptualise a sustainable model for the digital preservation of Dutch Australians cultural heritage with Dutch GLAMS and cultural heritage agencies; academics at the University of Amsterdam, Free University Amsterdam, Leiden, Delft, Erasmus (Rotterdam) universities, the Institute of Migration and Ethnic Studies (IMES); the International Institute for Social History (IISH), the Huygens and Meertens Institutes in Amsterdam; Centre for Global Heritage and Development; and KITLV (S.E. Asian and Caribbean Studies at Leiden University. Nonja was an Adjunct attached to the Digital Humanities Group at the University of Sydney and a Visiting Fellow at the ANU Centre European Studies 2014-2017. She supervises PhD and MAs, has examined both for various universities, has completed numerous consultancies for local, state, national and international government departments; has appeared on numerous radio shows in Australia and the Netherlands, and has also launched books and exhibitions in both countries. The Governor General appointed her to sit on the National Library of Australia (NLA) Council for two terms (6 years) 2010-2016. She was a member of the Board, Royal Western Australian Historical Society (RWAHS), 2015-2017, on the Dutch Ambassador’s advisory Board for the Dirk Hartog anniversary (Canberra). She continues as Vice-Chair of both the WA Maritime Museum Advisory committee and the Associated Netherlands Societies of WA (ANSWA). Nonja’s research activities have generated over one million from ARC, Lotterywest, Healthways, Dutch Embassy, Cultural heritage funds, Estate Grants, DCA, OMI, State Library, WA Museum, overseas organisations often she was unable to bring this into Curtin as it required her to utilise not for profit organisations. Nonja works extensively on her areas of expertise outlined above forging collaborative relationships with academics in NL, UK, EU, Canada and USA. This is not only for herself but also to forge international relationships with other Curtin academics and to fund the publication of books. Currently (2017-2020) she is Visiting Professor at the Institute Migration and Ethnic Studies (IMES) University of Amsterdam where she will produce a book on immigrant entrepreneurs. She continues her work on digital humanities following the team’s success at obtaining a prestigious NIAS Lorenz workshop (Leiden University) on this topic in August 2016 and is working on a project on enslavement – The Dream of Cornelis Chastelein, which is funded by DutchCulture (Amsterdam) with the team that produced Verlander: Forgotten Children of the VOC 2016 (see vimeo.com/202206059), which will open at the West Frisian Museum, Hoorn the Netherlands on 9 February 2019, and Grachtenhuis Museum in 2020. Published resources Book Milk and Honey but no Gold: Postwar Migration to WA 1945-1964, Peters, Nonja, 2001 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Barbara Lemon and Nonja Peters Created 1 February 2006 Last modified 20 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Mollie Barry’s varied career as an activist, ALP member and mentor for young people exemplifies the commitment to social involvement so common among her generation. She was an ALP candidate for Coogee in 1971. Mollie Barry married Michael Oliver Barry in 1947. They had four children. She worked as a bank officer and interviewer for the Australian Bureau of Statistics Workforce Survey, Sydney, in the 1960s, after the births of her four children. She gained a real estate qualification and was the only female real estate sales representative for LJ Hooker in Sydney’s eastern suburbs, 1971-73. She enrolled in an Arts degree as a mature age student, but did not complete the course. An active member of the ALP with a lifetime interest in politics, she joined the South Pacific Toastmistress Club and became an accomplished public speaker. Mrs Barry noted that women gained confidence and a stronger sense of themselves as their ability to speak in public improved. She adjudicated youth debates and was a member of the Youth of the Year committee. On a tour of parliament she was appalled at the low level of language and debate on the floor of parliament, and decided to stand for the ALP, against the speaker Sir Kevin Ellis, when she was approached by branch members. Her preselection for Coogee was opposed by Labor’s Head Office, but she won convincingly. She was described in the Sydney Morning Herald as a “vigorous candidate”. She lost the election but received the biggest swing to Labor in the metropolitan area. Mrs Barry was a member of Christian Women Concerned, a multidenominational group of women working for social justice, and Labor Women’s Organising Committee. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 25 August 2005 Last modified 22 October 2020 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

BOX 1?Personal journals, 1982-1998??Personal journal, Part 3, 2 Apr. 1982-18 Jan. 1986?Personal journal, Part 4, 19 Jan. 1982-17 Aug. 1990?Personal journal, Part 5, 20 Aug. 1990-30 Sept. 1994?Personal journal, Part 6, 4 Oct. 1994-2 May 1998??BOX 2?Correspondence, 1994-1998??Correspondence concerning copyright breach of action against Joy Thwaites for unauthorised use of biographical material on Eve Langley, 1989-1990??Correspondence and notes concerning Jill Greaves writing her thesis for James Cook University, ‘Writing to understand : a critical study of the major works of Ruth Park, 1995-1998??Correspondence with Brother Gerald P. Williams M.A concerning his thesis ‘The Harp in the South : novel and mini-series (a study in literary adaptation)’ and a typescript copy, 1988-1989??General correspondence concerning readers, publishers, book awards, judging panels, 1993-1995??General correspondence concerning readers, publishers, book awards, judging panels, 1995-1996??General correspondence concerning readers, publishers, book awards, judging panels, 1996-1997??BOX 3?Publications/Film scripts, 1982-1999??Typescript with MS. annotations and corrections of Ruth Park’s Sydney (1999); Correspondence with Micheal Duffy and Curtis Brown and research notes, 1996-1999??Correspondence between Ruth Park, Tim Curnow (Curtis Brown), Barbara Mobbs (Curtis Brown) concerning discussion of first film drafts for ‘Playing Beatie Bow’ with Jock Blair (South Australian Film Corp.), 1982-1984??Film screenplay (preliminary treatment) of Dead Men Running by Tony Morphett (Brendan Lunney Film) based on the novel by D’Arcy Niland that failed to get sufficient funding. Transcribed interview film director Anthony Buckley??BOX 4?Unfinished novel ‘Flights of Angels’, First draft, working notes, location notes, character development and storyline??Reviews, additional notes and readers/publishers letters concerning’A Fence Around the Cuckoo (1992), 1992-1993??Reviews, additonal notes and readers/publishers letters concerning ‘Fishing in the Styx (1993), 1992-1995??Story of the great Huntly Mine (New Zealand) disaster in 1890, by Joseph O’Brien recorded 1948 (cassette tape). Ruth Park’s grandfather A. J. Park was an engineer at the time of the mine collapse. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 21 June 2018 Last modified 21 June 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Ann Dalgarno was the only female member of the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) Advisory Council, serving from 1959 to 1967 as a Liberal Member and from 1970 to 1974 as an Independent. She also ran the Nursing Service Agency. She was a major advocate for Canberra’s women, youth, the physically handicapped, and the disadvantaged. She was an active member or leader of around twenty-two community organisations. During her thirty-two years in Canberra Ann Dalgarno was a major advocate for women, youth, the physically handicapped, the disadvantaged and the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) in general. Dalgarno moved to Canberra in 1948 with her husband Kenneth. A triple-certificated nurse, from 1954 she administered the Nursing Service Agency twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week from her Red Hill home. The service placed nurses in homes of private patients. Loneliness upon moving to Canberra led her to attend a meeting of a women’s branch of the Liberal Party which launched her interest in politics. She was the successful Liberal Party candidate for the Canberra Community Hospital Board, a position she held from 1955 to 1959, and she became the only female member of the ACT Advisory Council, from 1959 to 1967 as a Liberal Member and from 1970 to 1974 as an Independent. By 1965 Dalgarno was a Justice of the Peace, president of the Red Hill-Griffith-Narrabundah-Kingston-Manuka Progress Association, president of the ACT Branch of the Royal Australian Nursing Federation, convenor of the South Canberra women’s debating team, and a member of the Australian Local Government Women’s Association. This dedication to community saw the Canberra Times describe her as ‘the most active woman in public life in Canberra’, and in 1966 Dalgarno stated ‘I’m a member of 22 different organisations in Canberra, and not just in name either; I work for all of them’. She became president of the Wives and Widows of Public Servants and Servicemen’s Association and a member of Zonta. She also became a life member of the Canberra Debating Union as well as its vice-president. In 1965 Dalgarno received a letter from Prince Philip, after she publicly responded to his description of Canberra as ‘a city without a soul’. As an Independent, Ann Dalgarno ran her 1970 political campaign on a platform of community facilities for teenagers, welfare and accommodation for the elderly, transport and a teacher training college for the ACT, and strong action against communism. Some of these included ideas she brought back from her overseas visits, such a monorail system on Northbourne Avenue. She also proposed legislation to redress exorbitant or unfair rent or service charges. Her commitment to these issues led her to become the first chairman of the Emergency Housing Committee, formed in 1973 and to convene the Foundation for Youth in the early 1970s. She lectured first-year Australian National University students on ‘Sex and responsibility’ in 1969, and in 1972 was the author of the self-published children’s book The bored duck. Nearing her retirement from ACT Advisory Council Dalgarno took a stand about the under-representation of women in politics and declared in 1972 that there were no women in the House of Representatives and that it was time this changed. She was concerned at the reluctance of women to take an active political role and advocated the establishment of a League of Women Voters in the ACT. Despite her commitment to Canberra she wrote a submission to the 1974 Inquiry into Self-Government for the ACT. stating there had been ‘NO community demand for a form of local government …’ and there was ‘NO evidence that residents … would be any better of under local government’. In 1977 she was made a Member of the Order of the British Empire for valuable community service, and was awarded a Silver Jubilee Medal. Dalgarno and her husband had two children. Events 1959 - 1967 Liberal member of the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) Advisory Council 1970 - 1974 Independent member of the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) Advisory Council 1955 - 1959 Liberal member of the Canberra Community Hospital Board 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 National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Papers of Ann P. Dalgarno, 1955-1980 [manuscript] Author Details Ros Russell Created 1 March 2004 Last modified 12 August 2024 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Mathews, Marjorie McChesney. Melbourne Society of Women Painters and Sculptors: a brief history from 1901 – 1959.?Records include: The Melbourne Society of Women Painters and Sculptors: a brief history from 1901 – 1959, compiled by Marjorie McChesney Mathews, 1959; minutes 1904-1971; correspondence 1961-1978; catalogues, press cuttings. Also manuscripts, artworks and autobiographical materials of the sculptor Ola Cohn (1892-1864). The collection also includes records of the Woomballano Art Club (1904-1926) and the Women’s Art Club (1918-1948). Also news sheets of the Art Teachers’ Association of Victoria. Also papers relating to the Williamstown Grammar School. Includes an album of press cuttings ; Ola Cohn’s family tree ; parcel of drawings, mostly portrait studies ; parcel of photos of works by Ola Cohn ; portrait photo of Ola and drawings of Ola (MC 8, DR 1) Author Details Jane Carey Created 23 June 2004 Last modified 29 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

MS Acc09.203 comprises publicity posters for Rosalie Gascoigne’s exhibitions and posters featuring her work. Also included is a collection of local maps of the Canberra-Lake George-Goulburn area used by Gascoigne to identify material for her artwork (1 roll).??The Acc10.045 instalment comprises catalogues, correspondence and reviews of all of Gascoigne’s solo and some of her group exhibitions; correspondence between Gascoigne and dealers including Macquarie Galleries (Canberra), Gallery A (Sydney), Ray Hughes (Brisbane), Pinacotheca (Melbourne), Roslyn Oxley (Sydney) and Greenaway Gallery (Adelaide); financial diaries, engagement diaries and calendars, address book, notebook; correspondence with artists and art experts including Peter Booth, Robert Owen, John Armstrong, Robert Klippel, Vicki Varvaressos, Carl Plate, Sue Norrie, Ewan McDonald, Gay Hawkes, Ken Whisson, Lorna Chick, John Brock, Peter Fay, Tony Twigg, Ann Lewis, James Mollison, Ian North, John McPhee, Louise Pether, Ron Radford, Peter Townsend and Lucy Lippard; files of miscellaneous papers, cuttings and publications (organised chronologically); correspondence with friends, including congratulatory notes on AM award; and, collections of images of animals and art books used as sources for collage materials (24 boxes).??The Acc10.126 instalment comprises personal correspondence, writings on poetry and Gascoigne’s early creative life, publications which have used or refer to Gascoigne’s work, her Order of Australia insignia and citation and other official documents, material relating to her overseas travels and exhibitions and a list of books held in her art library. This addition also includes a small number of letters and poems sent by Rosemary Dobson to Rosalie Gascoigne (4 boxes, 1 map fol.) Author Details Alannah Croom Created 19 February 2013 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Recipient(s): Balhorn, Vaino Asmas; BOCK, Walter Alfred; CORRIGAN, William Edward; HOLDEN, Edwin; MCCARTER, Francis Irvine; MCLEAN-CAMPBELL, Harold Vernon; OLIPHANT, John William; POTTER, Miss Florence May; SWINDELLS, Miss Gertrude Rosina; THOMPSON, Rowland; TURNBULL, Irving Thomas Gardner; WARREN, Robert Francis. Author Details Ailie Smith Created 21 November 2002 Last modified 21 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

The Honourable Diana Bryant is an Australian jurist. She was appointed Chief Justice of the Family Court of Australia on 5 July 2004. Before this, she was the inaugural Chief Federal Magistrate of the Federal Magistrates Court of Australia (now the Federal Circuit Court of Australia) from 2000-2004. Her Honour’s appointment to the bench followed many years practising in family law in both Perth and Victoria. In Perth, she was a partner with the firm Phillips Fox; in Melbourne she was a founding member of Chancery Chambers. Known to be ‘a brilliant lawyer’, with an ‘innate sense of justice and fairness,’ her time as a barrister was marked by her preparedness to pursue both on behalf of her clients even at her own cost. Her Honour has long been committed to advocating on behalf of women in the legal profession, having been a founding member of the Women Lawyers Association of Western Australia. She is currently Patron of Australian Women Lawyers and a committee member of The Australian Association of Women Judges. Born into a family of legal professionals (her mother was a lawyer, as was her grandfather), Her Honour has witnessed considerable change across the course of her professional life, with regards to the status of women in the legal profession. In a 2016 address at the Australian Women Lawyers conference, she noted, ‘[a]although there are further mountains to climb for women lawyers, the progress is encouraging, ‘suggesting that one of the most ‘encouraging signs’ was greater acceptance of the need for ‘different work policies and practices which do not impede the path to success.’ Diana Bryant was interviewed by Nikki Henningham for the Trailblazing Women and the Law Oral History Project. For details of the interview see the National Library of AustraliaCATALOGUE RECORD. A more detailed essay about Her Honour’s career is in development. Published resources Newspaper Article Cool head leaps into legal hot seat, Shiel, Fergus and Munro, Ian, 2004, http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/06/25/1088144974550.html Conference Paper A View from the top of the hill: A retrospective by an activist woman lawyer, Bryant, Diana, 2016, http://www.australianwomenlawyers.com.au/uploads/publications/Diana_Bryant_-_AWL2016_Keynote_Speech.pdf Resource Section Law, Kerwin, Hollie and Rubenstein, Kim, 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders/biogs/WLE0624b.htm Site Exhibition Australian Women Lawyers as Active Citizens, Trailblazing Women Lawyers Project Team, 2016, http://www.womenaustralia.info/lawyers Archival resources National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Diana Bryant interviewed by Nikki Henningham in the Trailblazing women and the law oral history project Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 27 January 2016 Last modified 21 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Records of the Girls Social and Political Union, South Australia, comprising minutes, annual report and card. Author Details Jane Carey Created 21 June 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

A once-only candidate who was an Independent candidate for Canterbury in 1988 and for the Canterbury City Council Mayoral Election in 1987. Victoria Papadakis was born and bred in the inner western suburbs of Sydney. She was educated at Fort Street Girls’ High School and the University of Sydney, from which she graduated MB, BS. She has worked in local hospitals and as a general practitioner in the electorate, but at the time of her campaign she was employed at State Rail, in charge of the health and safety of employees. In 1987, Victoria Papadakis contested the Canterbury Mayoral election and was well known as a result. In her 1988 campaign, she spoke critically of the law that allowed street prostitution in commercial areas, which had led to parts of Canterbury Road becoming areas for prostitution. Her campaign slogan was “Send for the Doctor”, and she condemned the long waiting times that casualty patients at Canterbury Hospital had to suffer. She is married to Dr Peter Papadakis, who practises in the electorate. Victoria Papadakis was supported in her campaign by Kevin Ryan, a former Labor MLA, then running as an independent in the adjoining seat of Bankstown. Published resources Site Exhibition Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Annette Alafaci Created 29 August 2005 Last modified 16 September 2013 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Record Repository State Library of South Australia Reference SRG 512 Date Range 1927 - 1994 Quantity 0 0.28 m Access No restrictions on access Records of the South Australian Medical Women’s Society comprising minutes, correspondence, submissions, reports, membership lists, booklet and photographs. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 5 June 2018 Last modified 5 June 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

MS Acc07.018 comprises research material, drafts and correspondence relating to Jaivin’s writing projects, and some published editions of books (4 archive cartons, 1 small box).??The Acc12.072 instalment comprises papers relating to works including: A most immoral woman; The infernal optimist; Pan Jinian; Seeking Dijra; The empress lover; Dangerous obsession of golden lotus and the education of proofreader; shorter pieces including essays, lectures, radio talks; and professional and personal correspondence (13 boxes). Author Details Alannah Croom Created 24 April 2018 Last modified 24 April 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Private papers of Miss May Mills, high school teacher and President of S.A. Teachers Union, comprising papers relating to the S.A. Teachers’ Union, autobiographical notes, personal papers, printed material, photographs, teaching notes and other miscellaneous papers. Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 12 January 2007 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

1 hour 56 minutes??Catherine Picone was born in Moree, New South Wales. Cathy was brought up as a Catholic, her Italian/Irish father’s faith, and her parents’ different religious practices were a source of tension in her youth. Cathy’s father was a successful bookmaker and Cathy did her secondary schooling at a Catholic college in Armidale. After false starts in Medicine and Science courses, she studied Arts at Sydney University and graduated with a DipEd. With her husband, Cathy moved to South Australia in 1973 and worked in suburban high schools. In the early 1980s she became determined to do community service that was ‘change-oriented’. She became involved in People for Nuclear Disarmament. Through this she was invited to join the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom. Cathy explains the origins of WILPF, her perceptions of the ageing local branch, and her aims and tactics ‘to bring in new populations’. Cathy also discusses her positive philosophy of life. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 30 January 2004 Last modified 28 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Register of Apprentices for Indenture, Miscellaneous Subject Files, Minute Books, Correspondence, Letter Books, Legal Opinions, Financial Statements, Examination Results, Annual Reports, Register of Apprentices, Ledger, Index to Minutes, 10/- Licence District Register (poison), Lists of Chemists in Business, Signature Book. Author Details Janet Butler Created 18 December 2009 Last modified 17 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Bronwen Standley-Woodroffe is an artist and co-owner of the Horizon Gallery at Silverton and Broken Hill, New South Wales. Bronwen Standley-Woodroffe was born into a farming family and raised at Cleve and Keith in South Australia. Aged 16 she left school and worked at the Cleve hospital before moving to Adelaide, where she married. With two young children, she began three years of study, starting at the O’Halloran Hill Technical College and finishing at the Stanley Street School of Art, learning drawing and design, print-making, photography, painting and fabric printing. Separated from her husband, Bronwen travelled north with her children and worked in fruit-picking at Young before going on to Alice Springs and Darwin, Clare, and finally Silverton, New South Wales. By Easter 1984, living out of her caravan, she had rented a block of land near the creek at Silverton and established an organic garden. In time she was able to buy a house and was joined by both of her children. The town was at that time home to several young families, and community events included gymkhanas and race days. The children travelled to school at Broken Hill. Bronwen became involved in community activity and lobbied against proposals by the Western Lands Commission to resume crown land around Silverton. A committed environmentalist, she stirred controversy by opposing the agistment of large numbers of cattle on the drought-affected 12,000-acre Silverton Common. She established a Landcare group at Silverton in the 1990s, and helped to plant a self-sustaining decorative native garden in the Common. Always an artist, Bronwen began painting in earnest in the 1980s. Her depictions of local flora adorned bookmarks sold by the RSPCA. Her intricately patterned and carved calabash gourds were sold through a gallery in South Australia. In the late 1980s, Bronwen met and married fellow artist Albert Woodroffe. Their business, the Horizon Gallery, was established in 1989 with outlets at Broken Hill and Silverton. Bronwen’s partnership with Albert gave her the material and moral support necessary to devote herself to her art and she began painting landscapes – first with pastels, then acrylic paints. In the 1990s, the Woodroffes held three exhibitions at a corporate gallery space in Bourke Street, Melbourne and at Darling Park in Sydney, with the support of the Flying Doctors service. The Horizon Gallery enjoyed enormous success. As well as producing original paintings, Albert and Bronwen began making prints of their work to keep up with demand. Today, Bronwen Standley-Woodroffe has two children and five grandchildren living in Broken Hill. A member of the Broken Hill Women Artists’ Group, her work has been displayed at the Broken Hill Regional Art Gallery on several occasions, with a feature exhibition in September 2008. Bronwen was a finalist in the 2006 and 2008 Country Energy Art Prize for Landscape Painting, Countryscapes. In recent years her artistic direction has shifted to focus upon her personal development and spiritual life. Published resources Site Exhibition Unbroken Spirit: Women in Broken Hill, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2009, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/bh/bh-home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources Private Hands (These regards may not be readily available) Interview with Bronwen Standley-Woodroffe Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 3 March 2009 Last modified 20 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

MS 4887 comprises correspondence, notes, drafts and research material relating to Hardy’s published works; diaries; notebooks; press cuttings; tape recordings; photographs; cartoons and sketches by Hardy, Ambrose Dyson, Bruce Petty, Counihan and Vane; autobiographical notes; radio and television scripts; papers connected with political and literary organizations; material relating to the Power without glory trial; biographical and critical material on Henry Lawson, Russian poet Evgenii Yevtushenko, and writings by others.??There is correspondence with publishers and fellow writers in Australia and overseas, 1946-1973; and letters from Martin Boyd, Eric Lambert, the Palmers, Neville Shute, Jack Lindsay, Howard Fast, Owen Webster, family, friends and Communist Party comrades. Photographs include Hardy in Russia, Europe, the United States and Australia, historical material of revolutionary Russia and postwar Poland (242 boxes, 11 fol. Boxes, 1 elephant folio). Author Details Clare Land Created 2 September 2002 Last modified 5 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Established in 1950, the Union of Australian Women is a left-wing social change organisation. Its aim is to work for the status and wellbeing of women across the world The Union of Australian Women (UAW) was established at a conference in Sydney in August 1950. The New South Wales branch was the first to be formed, with other state branches forming in quick succession. The state branches came together in 1956 to establish a national organisation. Foundation members included communists, Labor Party supporters, Christian activists, and members of the New Housewives’ Association. Early goals included improving the status of women and children, disarmament and a halt to nuclear testing and mining, equal distribution of wealth, increased welfare services, equal pay for women, equality for Indigenous Australians, abortion law reform, and opposition to the White Australia Policy. Current campaigns concern child care, woman and family friendly workplaces, health and housing, outworkers, reconciliation and Indigenous rights. Published resources Book Left-wing Ladies : The Union of Australian women in Victoria 1950-1998, Fabian, Suzane and Loh, Morag, 2000 More Than a Hat and Glove Brigade: The Story of the Union of Australian Women, Curthoys, B. (Barbara) and McDonald, Audrey, 1996 Uphill all the way: a documentary history of women in Australia, Daniels, Kay and Murnane, Mary, 1980 Women and wages in the war years 1940-1945 : Sheetmetal Workers' Union, 1982 Daring to take a stand : the story of the Union of Australian Women in Queensland, Young, Pam, 1998 Videorecording Apron strings and atom bombs, Shona Stephen and Judith Womersley, 1996 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Worth Fighting For!, Fryer Library with research by Yorick Smaal, 2005, https://webarchive.nla.gov.au/awa/20050708180233/http://www.library.uq.edu.au/fryer/worth_fighting/ Newsletter UAW News, 1954-1999 The Journal of the Union of Australian Women, 1949-1953 Archival resources State Library of South Australia Papers re: Panhellenic Women's Movement International Women's Day Committee Research Project : Summary Record [sound recording] Interviewers: Celia Frank and Kirstin Marks Union of Australian Women : SUMMARY RECORD Betty Fisher : SUMMARY RECORD Victoria University of Technology Archives of the Union of Australian Women Noel Butlin Archives Centre, Australian National University Union of Australian Women New South Wales branch deposit 1 Tom and Mary Wright collection deposit 1 Tom and Mary Wright Collection deposit 2 Union of Australian Women Federal Office deposit Union of Australian Women New South Wales branch deposit 2 The University of Melbourne Archives Oke, Marjorie (1911-2003) The University of Newcastle Archives, Rare Books and Special Collections Unit: Communist Party of Australia Archival Material Barbara Curthoys Collection Fryer Library and Department of Special Collections Union of Australian Women Records Fryer Library, The University of Queensland Ted and Eva Bacon Papers National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Mary Wright interviewed by Richard Raxworthy in the Labor Council of New South Wales oral history project [sound recording] National Library of Australia U.A.W. news / Union of Australian Women State Library of Victoria Collection of papers relating to the employment of women in Australia, ca. 1942-1982. [manuscript]. State Library of New South Wales Barbara Curthoys - interviews with members of the Union of Australian Women, 1995 Mary Wright papers, 1937-1990 Author Details Clare Land and Nikki Henningham Created 9 August 2001 Last modified 26 February 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

3 Notebooks listing crossings in maize, done by Margaret Blackwood and continued by Dr Olive Lawson. They are labelled: 1 Maize Field Book I 1951 to 1967 Dr M Blackwood, Botany School, University of Melbourne. Maize Crosses. Made and Ears Collected… 2 Field Book Maize II 1968 to 1974 & continued by O.B. Lawson… 3 Maize Pedigree Book. Dr Blackwood’s Maize Planting Book. 1949 [f] …”Record of Maize kernels (seeds planted each year & the parents they came from.” Pasted in 15 July 1959 memo GJCuming to MB soil samp Author Details Anne Heywood Created 23 January 2002 Last modified 30 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Personal correspondence, arranged in two series: one alphabetical within 6-month or one year periods; the other ‘master’ files with correspondence filed chronologically Letters of reference, 1989-91, A-Z (one box). Author Details Clare Land Created 19 December 2001 Last modified 30 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

A television series which critically examines the depiction of Australian identity in films, television drama and advertising. It includes clips from a variety of films and television programs and features interviews with academics, film producers, directors, scriptwriters, casting agents and actors as well as students from Marrickville High School.??There is documentation associated with the production of the television series held in the NFSA collection. Author Details Hollie Aerts Created 20 December 2010 Last modified 1 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

60 minutes (approx.)??Michelle Hill interviews Silver Moon about rural lesbian feminism on 17th November 1994 at Goodwood. Author Details Margaret Allen Created 18 December 2009 Last modified 24 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Beryl Carmichael was an elder of the Ngiyaempaa people and served on the National Parks and Wildlife Advisory Council, the Western Lands Advisory Council, and the New South Wales Reconciliation Council. She lived in Menindee in far western New South Wales. Daughter of Jack Kelly and Louisa Kelly (nee Briggs), Beryl was born at the old Menindee Mission in New South Wales. She was educated with Western lesson plans at the mission school but from an early age sought an education in the traditions of her people, the Ngiyaempaa. Beryl’s father was ‘one of the main men who went through the [traditional] law in 1913 and 1914’ and there was old Ellen Burke, a singer of songs, who still had the knowledge of her people. Thirsty for knowledge, Beryl would be taken out over the desert sand dunes with the other children to hunt for goannas and echidnas, or to collect grubs from the trees to use on their fishing lines back at the river. Her mother was often called upon in the mission community as a midwife and an interpreter between mission managers and older Aboriginal folk and Beryl learnt from her the various healing ointments and songs. From her parents she also learnt tracking skills, and would habitually be sent out with her brother to fetch a rabbit for breakfast before school. When Beryl asked an uncle, a singer of songs, ‘Who are we? Where do we come from?’, he replied, ‘We come from emu country, the butt end of the emu, this is our country’. Beryl explains: ‘That stuck with me, all the time I’m growing up. [Later I was given] a map of the emu country. The butt end goes around Mungo and the backbone is along the Barrier Ranges, his rib along the border to Queensland and cross over near Brewarrina where the fish traps are. This old lady gave me this book and said “Beryl, I’d like you to have this because it’s about your people”, and I found that map. I’ve been carrying it with me ever since because it just confirmed what that old singer of songs told me’. The Menindee Mission was closed in 1949 when Beryl was about 14 years old, and she went to work on a series of properties around Menindee. She was married in 1953 and had ten children. All were born at the Broken Hill hospital, but the family continued to move from property to property in the Menindee area. Beryl was careful to pass on her knowledge of bush food and bush medicine to all of her children. She began teaching her eldest four by correspondence, but when the load became too much and drought was effecting surrounding properties, the family bought a brick house in town and the children were educated at the Menindee public school. In 1967, Beryl became involved in the public school system herself: ‘Our kids were experiencing racism in the schools, coming from the mission’, she says, ‘and they needed someone in there, a role model. So I went and asked the principal if I could go in and talk to these kids about racism and being different and all this type of thing. He said “Beryl, if you’ve got anything to pass onto the kids, you go and do it”.’ Beryl’s lessons in Aboriginal culture and respect were extremely effective and she continued her work in schools for forty years. In 1975, in the wake of increased government funding for Aboriginal committees, she travelled to Sydney with $15 in her pocket to register the Ngiyaempaa Housing Company on behalf of her community. From 1983, Beryl was running Aboriginal Culture Camps for teachers and students to continue her program of education and consciousness-raising. She remembers, ‘I was very shy in the beginning, but I knew that Dad’s spirit was behind me, and Mum’s’. Having erected a borrowed tent at the old Menindee Mission and taken donations of onions and potatoes to help feed camp attendees, Beryl was surprised to welcome 200 people from surrounding communities. Recreational games, Aboriginal dance and traditional cooking bonded the group: ‘I thought, gee this is good, they’re hungry for their culture’. The camps continue to this day with school groups, university classes and, more recently, public servants from the Department of Education and Training. Beryl’s first husband passed away in the early 1980s and she remarried in 1984. At nearly seventy years of age she was asked to join the National Parks and Wildlife Advisory Council and the Western Lands Advisory Council, and she had a strong involvement with the New South Wales Reconciliation Council. For decades of service, Beryl received a swathe of awards including the New South Wales Heritage Award, a meritorious award from the Minister of Education, and a Centenary of Federation award for community service. She recited two traditional stories – about the wagtail and the echidna (Thikapilla) – for Aboriginal Nations’ animated production, The Dreaming. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Videorecording The Dreaming, Aboriginal Nations Australia, 2004 Book Bush Foods of New South Wales, Stewart, Kathy and Bob Percival, 1997, http://www.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/education/Resources/bush_foods 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 Private Hands (these records may not be readily available) Interview with Beryl Carmichael Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 17 February 2009 Last modified 16 August 2024 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

A member of the Liberal Party of Australia, Jeannette Patrick served as the member for Brighton in the Legislative Assembly of the Victorian Parliament from 1976-85. She held the position of secretary of the Parliamentary Liberal Party from 1979-82. Daughter of Robert Tweeddale Breen, solicitor and Marie Freda Chamberlin, who served as a Victorian Liberal Senator in the Australian Parliament from 1962-68, she completed her secondary education at Firbank Church of England Girls’ Grammar School, Brighton and her tertiary education at the University of Melbourne with a Bachelor of Laws in 1967. She worked as a solicitor in the family firm, R. T. Breen & Co. from 1967 and served as a Brighton City Councillor from 1973-76 before being elected to the Victorian Parliament in the same year. On 25 October 1949 she married Vernon Ronald Patrick, law clerk. They had a son and a daughter. Her community commitments included : member of the Consumer Affairs Council 1974-75, member of Brighton Technical School Council 1976-83, member of Firbank Council and Brighton Community Hospital committee of management 1976-80; member of the University of Melbourne Council 1979-83, Gardenvale Central School Council 1982-83; honorary solicitor to local organisations and a member of St Peter’s Anglican Church, Brighton. Published resources Book Biographical register of the Victorian Parliament, Browne, Geoff, 1985 Edited Book Who's Who in Australia 1983, Draper, W. J., 1983 Site Exhibition Carrying on the Fight: Women Candidates in Victorian Parliamentary Elections, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2008, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/cws/home.html Australian Women Lawyers as Active Citizens, Trailblazing Women Lawyers Project Team, 2016, http://www.womenaustralia.info/lawyers Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Newspaper Article Leader in push for equal opportunity, Fitzherbert, Margaret, 2011 Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 3 June 2005 Last modified 28 October 2016 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Constance Caskey was a pastoralist who lived with her husband and four children on a remote pastoral property near Menindee, New South Wales. The eldest child of Amelia Maria and Norman Salisbury Laffer, Constance was known to family and friends as Consie, and grew up in Adelaide with her younger sister Lorna and brother Peter. She attended St Peters’ Girls College until she gained her Leaving Certificate, when she moved to the Presbyterian Girls’ College and became one of the foundation scholars there. Consie undertook an 18-month nurse training course at the Mareeba Babies Hospital at Woodville, which she completed in October 1926. In February of the following year, she transferred to the Royal Adelaide Hospital, where she completed her General Nursing Training and became Head Nurse in 1929. She left South Australia in 1930 to do a midwifery course at the Royal Hospital for Women in Sydney, and from 1937 was working at the Broken Hill and District Hospital in the Isolation and Medical wards. On 7 May 1938, Consie married Ronald Leslie Caskey and moved to Byrnedale Station, near Menindee, New South Wales. The couple had four children, and in 1945 Consie began teaching them through the New South Wales Correspondence School. She became a member of the Women’s Auxiliary of the Royal Flying Doctor’s Service, and was voted Treasurer of the Menindee branch. In the early 1950s she also held the position of Treasurer of the Menindee Gun Club. After her husband’s death in 1974, Consie left Byrnedale Station and moved to Broken Hill. She became president of the Penguin club, a public speaking group, and became a member of the Broken Hill Historical Society in 1985. This entry was prepared and written by Georgia Moodie. Published resources Book Some Outstanding Women of Broken Hill and District, Camilleri, Jenny, 2002 Site Exhibition Unbroken Spirit: Women in Broken Hill, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2009, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/bh/bh-home.html Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Archival resources National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection Constance Caskey interviewed by Jenny Salmon for the New South Wales Western Division oral history project [sound recording] Author Details Barbara Lemon Created 3 March 2009 Last modified 20 November 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Browne speaks of her family background; her studies in medicine after World War I; her goals as a new doctor; taking up a general practice in the country and later on in the city; her keen interest in ante-natal care; her work as director of maternal and baby welfare in the Dept. of Public Health; baby health centres and their importance in the community; maternal and baby deaths in Australia over the years; she speaks about her interest in the medical women of Australia; her various activities in the community. Author Details Gavan McCarthy Created 15 October 1993 Last modified 5 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

The Women’s Equal Franchise Association (WEFA) of Queensland was formed in February 1894, marking a timely revitalisation of the woman suffrage movement in that state. Its first president was Mrs Eleanor Trundle, and it represented women who were Labor in their politics. From the outset, the association linked its struggle for votes for women with the campaign against plural voting in Queensland. Once both these aims were achieved, in January 1905, the association held a ‘celebration social’ and disbanded itself. Almost immediately upon being formed in 1894, the Queensland Women’s Equal Franchise Association splintered. The women of the Queensland Woman’s Suffrage League (WSL), headed by Leontine Cooper, were concerned that the WEFA’s links to Labor politics, and the campaign against plural voting, would hinder progress towards achieving woman suffrage in Queensland. Attempts to reconcile the two factions in the month that followed the split were unsuccessful. Therefore, less than two months after its formation, the WEFA held new elections for office bearers. On this occasion, Eleanor Trundle was defeated and Emma Miller, a remarkable Queensland Labor woman, took her place, remaining President of the association for the eleven years of the campaign. Eleanor Trundle moved her energies across to the Queensland Women’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU). Despite the political wrangling that broke out on various occasions between the WEFA and the WSL (with the WCTU remaining firmly apolitical) these three organisations enjoyed fragile moments of cooperation for most of the campaign. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Book Woman suffrage in Australia : a gift or a struggle?, Oldfield, Audrey, 1992 Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 21 June 2004 Last modified 29 April 2009 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Myra Roper was Principal of the University of Melbourne’s Women’s College for 14 years. She led a varied life as both an educator and public intellectual. Myra served on the ABC Advisory Committee, the Elizabethan Theatre Trust and the Melbourne State College boards. She was also President of the Committee for Australia-China Relations and in 1958 was a member of the first Australian women’s delegation to China. Myra received an AM in 1985 for her service to international relations. Myra Ellen Roper was Principal of University Women’s College for 14 years and led a varied life as an educator and public intellectual both before and afterwards. Born in Yorkshire, she took her BA from Cambridge in 1933, her DipT from the Institute of Education at London University the following year and MA from the University of Melbourne in 1949. Before coming to Australia in 1947 she taught in England and Canada and worked as Assistant Education Officer in Wiltshire and Cambridgeshire. In her time as Principal of Women’s College, she worked to increase the accommodation offered to students, especially for women from outside Melbourne. Three new wings were opened between 1953 and 1953 with the Roper Wing opened after she left. Myra Roper was a public figure from her arrival, serving on the ABC Advisory Committee, the Elizabethan Theatre Trust and the Melbourne State College boards. She was President of the Committee for Australia-China Relations and in 1958 was a member of the first Australian women’s delegation to China. In 1964, she moved to Canberra but continued a career of public speaking and broadcasting Australia-wide. Her principal fields of interest were China and the place of women in society and her speeches were widely reported. In Canberra in 1965, she addressed the local YWCA on the fact that women are ‘needed and used in many essential services, particularly in education and commerce… yet they were penalised and hampered by unequal pay and through the marriage bar’.[1] Her visits to China resulted in several books and a television documentary as well as radio broadcasts, television appearances and newspaper articles.[2] In 1980 a journalist reported: The re-education of senior Chinese war-criminals convicted after the 1949 revolution has been ‘one of the biggest and most successful experiments in practical psychology’ recently in the estimation of lecturer and author Miss Myra Roper. In Canberra at the invitation of the Australia-China Society, Miss Roper has just returned from six weeks in China interviewing these man and their families. She is the first Westerner to have been allowed to do this.[3] Myra Roper won many awards, including an AM in 1985 for service to international relations and the first annual award of the Rostrum Club of Victoria for contributions to public speaking. [1] ‘100 Volunteers to Sell Buttons’. Canberra Times. 1 April 1965: 21. [2] Myra Roper. China – the Surprising Country. London: Heinemann, 1966; China in Revolution, 1911-1949, London: Edward Arnold, 1971; Emperor’s China, People’s China. Melbourne: Heinemann Educational, 1981 and C.P. Fitzgerald and Myra Roper. China : a World So Changed. Melbourne: Thomas Nelson (Australia), 1972. [3] ‘Practical Psychology’. Canberra Times. 6 August 1980: 1. Published resources Book 40 Years 40 Women: Biographies of University of Melbourne Women, Published to Commemorate the 40th Anniversary of the International Year of Women, Flesch, Juliet, 2015, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/4040/ Archival resources National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Papers of Myra Roper, 1958-1981 [manuscript] Author Details Juliet Flesch Created 31 July 2017 Last modified 5 November 2020 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

4 digital audio tapes (ca. 260 min.)??Elizabeth Durack, artist and illustrator, talks about the Durack family and their stations in the Kimberley region of Western Australia; her family background; childhood and education. She then discusses the Eddie Burrup paintings, her reasons for producing them and the central theme of this art. Durack also talks about her art and her future projects. Author Details Judith Ion Created 9 September 2002 Last modified 21 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

This series consists of about 380 photographs, one 45 rpm record and six films relating to Prime Minister Harold Edward Holt and his wife, Mrs Zara Holt (later Dame Zara). The material mainly covers the period when Holt was Prime Minister (1966-1967), although many of the photographs relate to his earlier career, particularly as Minister for Immigration (1949-1956) and later, Treasurer (1958-1966).??The photographs include official portraits, family photographs, Australian News and Information Bureau and other official photographs covering a wide range of Holt’s official engagements both in Australia and overseas. A smaller number of photographs relate to Mrs Zara Holt, including her childhood, early fashion business in Melbourne, as wife of a senior political figure and after Holt’s death. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 5 September 2002 Last modified 21 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Text on front of image reads: ‘Agnes Gavin, Writer’. Author Details Hollie Aerts Created 21 December 2010 Last modified 1 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

A committed advocate for Aboriginal health and welfare, Naomi Ruth Mayers was awarded a Medal of the Order of Australia in 1984 in recognition of her services to the community – much of her work was centred in the Aboriginal community of Redfern, Sydney. Naomi Ruth Mayers was born in 1941. A niece of Doug Nicholls, she comes from a family with a long record of service to Aboriginal causes. Mayers was a founder of the Aboriginal Medical Service in Redfern in 1972. As its Administrator, Company Secretary and Chief Executive Officer over a period of more than thirty years, she has superintended its growth from a small shop-front into a nationwide network of kindred services. Mayers has been one of the principal figures behind Redfern’s community development projects, including those which established the Murawina preschool program in 1973 and the Aboriginal Housing Company in 1976. She also served as a delegate to the Federal Council for the Advancement of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders. As an authority on Aboriginal health issues, she proved an influential witness during the inquiries of the 1977 House of Representatives Standing Committee on Aboriginal Health. In 1981 she was appointed as consultant by the Royal Australian College of Ophthalmologists. She was founding president of the Federation for Aboriginal Women in 1983. Subsequently, Mayers was Chair of the National Aboriginal Health Strategy Working Party, set up in 1988 to develop a draft national Aboriginal health policy. She has served on numerous government committees, boards and international reference groups. She was a founding member and chair of the National Aboriginal and Islander Health Organisation and served as Deputy Chair of that body’s successor, the National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation, after its formation in 1993. Mayers’ contributions to Aboriginal welfare were officially recognised with a Medal of the Order of Australia in 1984. She holds a doctorate in Aboriginal Affairs from Tranby Aboriginal College in Sydney. Published resources Edited Book The Encyclopaedia of Aboriginal Australia : Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander history, society and culture, Horton, David, 1994 Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Author Details Leonarda Kovacic and Barbara Lemon Created 20 May 2005 Last modified 12 February 2019 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Article on the late Rose Inagaki, wife of the late Mowsey Inagaki formerly the Instructor in Japanese, University of Melbourne. Photocopy. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 26 October 2017 Last modified 30 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

W.A. politician. She was employed by the ALP from 1952-1965 and 1967-1971, spending 1966-1967 in a secretarial position with the British Labour Party. In 1972, she became a member of the Legislative Council representing the North-East Metropolitan Province. In 1978 she was the first woman elected as chair to the W.A. Parliamentary Labor Party. In November 1985 she made her final parliamentary speech, resigning from her position in the Legislative Council. Author Details Lisa MacKinney Created 7 October 2009 Last modified 7 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Anne Margaret Cohen, a Liberal Party candidate, was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Minchinbury in 1988 and to the Badgerys Creek Assembly seat in 1991. She failed to gain re-election to the latter in 1995. Anne Cohen had been a teacher, public servant, editor and the owner/operator of a small business before she ran for parliament. She was first elected to the New South Wales Legislative Council for the seat of Minchinbury in March 1988 and had a remarkably swift rise to the Ministries of Nick Greiner, and later John Fahey. She was Chief Secretary, Minister for Administrative Services 1991-95, and Minister assisting the Premier on Status of Women 1992-3. When the redistribution abolished her seat, she ran for and won the seat of Badgerys Creek 1991-95. She was Chairman of the Parliamentary Road Safety Committee Staysafe in 1989. She is married to Richard and they have two children. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Created 12 December 2005 Last modified 16 September 2013 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

A few letters from Sweet are held in the Georgina Sweet papers. Letters to Sweet from J. Kershaw [Letter Books R-731, U-58 and U-62]. Correspondence with C.C. Brittlebank, June – November 1897 while George Sweet was on Funafuti and information in the correspondence between George Sweet, Brittlebank and others, in the George Sweet papers. Author Details Gavan McCarthy Created 15 October 1993 Last modified 16 September 2002 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

From the time she arrived in Canberra in 1943 as a young wife and mother, Loma Rudduck became actively involved in several community organisations particularly those supporting women and children in the young and growing city. She was one of the founders and later president of the Canberra Pre-School Society and represented it on the National Council of Women. Later she was federal executive officer of the Australian Pre-School Association. For 14 years she recorded a weekly talk on women’s issues, ‘Canberra Roundup’, broadcast on ABC National radio. After the death of her husband in 1964 she worked at information centres, established by the National Capital Development Commission (NCDC) in the new towns of Woden, Weston Creek and Belconnen, and as a liaison officer between the NCDC and the National Council of Women. She was a president of the Canberra Embroiderers’ Guild and took a prominent part in an Australia-wide project to produce an embroidery for the opening of the new Parliament House in 1988. Loma recorded the history of several organisations with which she was associated. She was a founder of the Canberra and District Historical Society and was honoured with life membership. Loma Amos was born on 8 August 1914 in Hay, New South Wales, but travelled with her mother to Fiji, where both her parents were working as missionaries, soon after her birth. She was educated by correspondence and, when it was time for her to start high school, the family left Fiji and Loma was enrolled at the Methodist Ladies College, Melbourne. Afterwards, Loma trained as a pre-school teacher. On 2 September 1939 she married architect and town planner, Grenfell Rudduck, at Queen’s College Chapel, University of Melbourne, in a ceremony conducted by her father, a Methodist minister. Moving to Canberra in 1943 with her husband and the first of her four children, Loma joined other women in forming the Canberra Nursery Kindergarten Society (later the Canberra Pre-School Society). She was on the Society’s Council from its inception and served as president in 1946-1947 and 1948-1949. She represented the Society on the National Council of Women and from 1945 to 1950 was a member of the Department of the Interior’s Pre-School Advisory Committee. In 1954 Loma was invited to contribute a weekly ‘Canberra Roundup’ to be broadcast on ABC National radio as part of the women’s session. She continued presenting this weekly segment for the next fourteen years, even while the family was living in Pakistan where her husband was a United Nations adviser. Encouraged by a Reid neighbour, Lu Rees, founder of the Children’s Book Council in the ACT, Loma Rudduck became honorary secretary of the Council and was president 1960-1961. She was a member of the Canberra Public Library Advisory Committee in 1961-1962. In 1964 after the sudden death of her husband, an Associate Commissioner of the National Capital Development Commission (NCDC), the NCDC Commissioner, (Sir) John Overall offered her the role of liaison officer between the NCDC and the National Council of Women. Employed in the NCDC’s public relations section she ran an information centre, set up in a temporary structure in the bare paddocks rapidly being transformed into the new towns of Woden, Weston Creek and Belconnen, advising and helping new residents. After five years in this position, Loma was asked to become Executive Officer of the recently formed Australian Pre-School Association. She held this position in pre-school administration, a satisfying return to her pre-school profession, from 1970 to 1975. The inaugural meeting at which the Embroiderers’ Guild of the ACT was formed was held in Loma Rudduck’s Reid home. She was the Guild’s newsletter editor in 1979-1981, president in 1982-1983 and was prominent in moves by the Guild in an Australia-wide project to make and present a major piece of embroidery to the new Parliament House in 1988. She wrote the Guild’s history in 1992. Loma was instrumental in Canberra acquiring a floral emblem. After complaining to the then Minister for the Interior, Michael Hodgman, about the Territory’s lack of a floral emblem, she was appointed to a committee to recommend one. The committee unanimously chose the Royal Bluebell (Wahlenbergia gloriosa). Loma Rudduck was also a significant historian. In 1953 she and her husband helped W.P. Bluett establish the Canberra and District Historical Society; she remained an active member of the Society and was made a life member in 1992. She campaigned to save Glebe House (demolished in 1954) and Blundell’s Cottage, which remains as a historical link with Canberra’s past. She documented the history of several projects in which she was involved. These histories included: The Mothering Years (with Helen Crisp), a history of the Canberra Mothercraft Society, the forerunner of the Canberra Pre-School Society; a history of the Embroiderers’ Guild of the ACT, And So to Sew; and a manuscript history of the Canberra Pre-School Society 1943-60, held in the ACT Heritage Library. She also completed several books of family history and books of advice for families of pre-school children. In the 1980s Loma Rudduck moved to the family’s holiday home at Long Beach on the South Coast of New South Wales. She died in Bendigo in 2005 aged 91 while visiting family. A street in the Canberra suburb of Forde is named in her honour. Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Book And So to Sew: A History of Embroidery in the Australian Capital Territory, Rudduck, Loma, 1992 Newsletter Canberra & District Historical Society, 2005 Federation of Australian Historical Societies Inc. Newsletter, 2006 Book Section The Society begins..., Clarke, Patricia, 2003 Resource Section Rudduck, Grenfell (1914-1964), Morison, Ian W, 2002, http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/rudduck-grenfell-11583/text20677 Journal Article A short story about a long time ago, Rudduck, Loma, 1989 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 ACT Heritage Library Rudduck, Loma, 'Canberra Pre-School Society; A Record - 1943-60', Canberra, 1960, 23 p. National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Papers of Loma Rudduck, 1944-1968 [manuscript] Author Details Patricia Clarke Created 21 June 2012 Last modified 24 April 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Judy Hall (nee Baillie) was born into a musical family in West Gippsland in 1922. Although she did not begin formal piano training until she was twelve, she has been an inspiring and influential piano teacher for over seventy years. Her focus and expertise has been on the foundations of good technique and she has been an authoritative voice in music education across Australia. Her teaching and commitment to music education has been recognised through a number of awards and honours including an OAM in 1996. Evelyn Margaret Mary ‘Judy’ Hall (nee Baillie) was born in Trafalgar in 2 July 1922, one of four children to Irish born blacksmith Daniel Baillie and his wife Mary Larsen. Judy Hall grew up in a family where music was important and she credits her early musical influences to her father, who was a band master and played in the Melbourne Codes Brass Band and the State Theatre. Her musical education was further expanded with the family’s purchase of a radio in the 1930s, which provided entrée to broadcast concerts, affording an introduction and education in classical music. Judy Hall was educated at the Trafalgar State School and Warragul High School. As a child, Judy had access to her father’s piano, teaching herself the rudiments through playing by ear and supplemented by informal lessons provided by her father, who taught her the basics of music, although it was not until she was twelve that she started formal music lessons. At the age of fifteen, she left the Warragul High School and continued her education at St Joseph’s Convent in Trafalgar, where her studies included bookkeeping, typing and music. Whilst still in primary school her skills as a pianist were recognised, and she was awarded a scholarship by a local piano teacher, Miss Truebridge, which granted her six months tuition. Her piano lessons with several local teachers were of a variable nature, most of whom she did not consider accomplished in music or education. As a pianist, with only two years of formal tuition, she started accompanying her classmates in concerts, whilst also winning a number of local eisteddfods. At one such eisteddfod her musical mind was opened by another competitor’s renditions of Bach’s instrumental Arioso. Suddenly she comprehended that music could be interpreted, rather than just played as a series of notes. This was an insight which provided her with the awareness that her technique was lacking and required improvement. So, she set out to find a teacher who could assist her in improving this. A previous teacher Margaret Smallacombe, had been taught by Edward Goll (1884-1949) a Czech born concert pianist and music teacher who was appointed to the Albert Street Conservatorium in 1914, the following year accepting a position at the Melbourne Conservatorium as piano soloist and chief study teacher of pianoforte, shortly after being appointed as musical director at the Presbyterian Ladies’ College. So from c.1938 utilising whatever means she could to journey to Melbourne, Judy Hall began the arduous trip of travelling to weekly half day private classes with Goll. In recalling her childhood musical training prior to Edward Goll, she believes she learned how to play without any musical understanding, commenting ‘no one could have had a worse start’. As a twelve-year-old girl guide, Judy Baillie had met a ‘good looking’ boy scout, Cedric James Hall, and in 1944 after ten years of friendship, they were married. At the end of World War Two, as a young mother with a new baby, Judy Hall embarked on her career as a music teacher, eventually having another two children whilst developing a reputation for the excellence of her teaching. She has noted that without their support she would not have been able to achieve all she subsequently did. Understanding the deficiencies in her own musical education, she wanted to ensure that her pupils had a better start. Actively involved in the Victorian Music Teachers Association (VMTA), which provided both support and professional networks, she participated in many of the training sessions the Association delivered for music teachers across the state, as well as attending the Summer Schools they offered. Here she was exposed to a number of international music teaching theorists. She also undertook three overseas trips with the Association, whose itineraries included visits to music schools, universities, concerts and talks, inspiring the participants in their teaching and practice. In the late 1970s, Warren Thompson, music teacher and founder of the Federation of Australian Music Teachers’ Association, brought to Australia the Italian music educator Lidia Baldecchi-Arcui, who was to become Judy Hall’s mentor. At their first meeting in Sydney, Baldecchi-Arcui lectured for five days on the importance of the foundations of music education. This was a moment of clarity for Judy Hall, whose own introduction to piano had been so mediocre. It led to a dozen further visits to Australia by Baldecchi-Arcui and several reciprocal trips to Genova by Judy Hall, both accompanying her gifted students and independently. Baldecchi-Arcui’s influence saw Judy Hall develop her own teaching notes, stressing the importance of hand technique for beginner pianists. Entitled The First Three Years, these covered the basic techniques required-relaxation exercises, hand position, anchoring of thumbs, finger position, and the strength required in every element of fingers, wrists and hands for effortless piano playing. This became the foundation of Judy Hall’s focus on the formative development of pianists, an expertise she has shared as a guest lecturer at the Sydney, Adelaide and Perth Conservatoria, training music teachers across the nation. Within her local area of West Gippsland, Judy Hall used her networks and connections to facilitate and organise touring musicians, as well as local concerts for the Country Women’s Association, football clubs, fire brigades, and with a group called ‘Judy and Friends’ she gave concerts for community organisations including nursing homes, and for private recitals. Her students competed regularly in eisteddfods, winning seventy-six major prizes and scholarships. In expanding their musical repertoire, she championed the inclusion of the concerto in these competitions accompanying most of them herself on 2nd piano. The scores of students she has taught have included over thirty-two A.Mus.A Diplomas, and 4 Licentiate Diplomas; thirty are now music teachers scattered all over Victoria. Amongst her former students are a number who established medical and science careers, while continuing to maintain their musical practice. While her high-profile students have included Dr Pamela Burnard, Professor of Arts, Creativities and Educations at the University of Cambridge, the pianist Tim Young the Head of Piano and Chamber Music at the Australian National Academy of Music (ANAM) and a founding member of chamber group Ensemble Liaison, and a pianist with leading Australian and international musicians and ensembles. Dr Paul Rickard-Ford a Senior Lecturer in Music at the Sydney Conservatorium, musician and Federal Examiner for the AMEB. The conductors Vanessa Scammell and Paul Fitzsimon, and the rising star pianist Alex Waite. At the age of sixty, Judy Hall decided to augment her musical repertoire, undertaking cello lessons in order to play in Chamber Music groups. As a cellist she has accompanied the La Trobe Valley Operatic Society, and played with local orchestras. At the same time, she also commenced painting classes, first in oils and later in watercolour. From her late seventies, Judy Hall has starred in a number of concerts. The first in 1996 was at the La Trobe Regional Gallery, where she played Beethoven’s Piano Concerto no 3 accompanied by the Latrobe Orchestra. Her ninetieth birthday was celebrated with a four-and-a-half-hour concert, with musicians including former students, friends and family. The highlights of her concert career began in 2018 at the age of ninety-six, with Judy Hall as soloist with the Gippsland Symphony Orchestra playing Chopin at a series of concerts in Warragul and Sale. Prior to the first event, Judy Hall spoke to the Secretary of the VMTA asking if the concert could be recorded. Hearing this, the ABC offered to do so, and when interviewed by the broadcaster, she mentioned that her ambition had always been to play at the Melbourne Town Hall. This was followed up by the Melbourne City Council, and later the same year with the Latrobe Orchestra she fulfilled her dream, playing in the Melbourne Town Hall, to a packed audience of former students and their families. In February 2019, for the Gala Concert to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the Melbourne Recital Hall, Judy Hall, now in her ninety-seventh year was asked to play a duet with Tim Young, also accompanied by Alex Waite, playing Liszt’s Hungarian Rhapsody no 2 in G Minor. Judy Hall’s contribution to music education has been recognised through a number of awards and honours: An OAM received in 1996, for her contribution of fifty years to music education, the Distinguished Teachers Award from the Victorian Music Teachers Association in 2011, Life Membership of the Victorian Music Teachers Association 2019, Life Membership of the Latrobe Valley Orchestra, Life Membership of the Latrobe Valley Eisteddfod. Author Details Sue Silberberg Created 24 October 2019 Last modified 3 December 2019 Digital resources Title: Judy Hall OAM Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Red Cross Archives series reference: V92 Comprises minutes of the Red Cross Victorian Divisional Council Executive, typed loose sheets pasted into bound volumes which includes finance committee. On 8th November 1920 the Australian Red Cross Council unanimously resolved that the then current Advisory Committee cease to exist and be subsumed by the Victorian Division Executive Committee – so as to contain representatives of the various activities (See: Annual Report for 1920-21 page 5 item B. Item: 2015.0027.00002) See series 2016.0067 for VICTORIAN DIVISIONAL COUNCIL ADVISORY COMMITTEE MEETING MINUTES. [Red Cross Archives series reference: V91]. Researchers should note that under the Geneva Conventions Act 1957 protections govern the use of the Red Cross emblem. For further information see Archives staff. Author Details Stella Marr Created 9 August 2017 Last modified 9 August 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Clarke, a scientist with the Plant Cell Biology Research Centre at the University of Melbourne from 1982, received a Personal Chair in Botany at the University of Melbourne in 1985 and became Lieutenant Governor of Victoria in 1997. Clarke was the first female Chairperson of the CSIRO, a position which she held from 1991 until 1996. Adrienne Clarke was educated at the University of Melbourne, where she completed her Bachelor of Science in 1958, and PhD in 1963. In 1991 she was awarded an AO. Clarke’s prolific career began in the 1960s when she worked as a Research Fellow with the Institute of Dental Research, United Dental Hospital of Sydney, 1964; Visiting Instructor, Department of Endocrine Physiology, Baylor University, Houston, Texas, Jan-Jun 1967; Research Fellow, Department of Biochemistry, University of Michigan, July-Dec 1967; and Lecturer in Biochemistry, University of Auckland, 1968-69. The following decade and a half saw her work with the University of Melbourne as follows: Research Fellow, Asthma Foundation, Department of Medicine, 1969-73; Research Fellow, School of Botany, 1974; ARGC Research Fellow, School of Botany, 1975-77; Lecturer in Botany, 1978; Senior Lecturer in Botany, 1979; Reader in Botany, 1981; Director, Plant Cell Biology Research Centre, 1982 onward; and Professor, School of Botany, 1985 onward. She was appointed Chairman of CSIRO from 1991-96; and Lieutenant-Governor of Victoria from 1997. Adrienne Clarke is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (1988), Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science (1991), Mueller Medal winner (1992), and Foreign Associate, US National Academy of Sciences (1994). Events 2001 - 2001 Inducted into the Victorian Honour Roll of Women Published resources Resource Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009 Site Exhibition The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia, Smart, Judith and Swain, Shurlee (eds.), 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders Archival resources The University of Melbourne Archives Clarke, Adrienne Elizabeth (1938 -) National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection Papers of Ragbir Singh Bhathal, 1949-2006 (bulk 1996-1999) [manuscript] Author Details Elle Morrell Created 9 February 2001 Last modified 12 September 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

This collection documents Julia Trubridge-Freebury’s role as a prominent activist for women’s rights, particularly with regard to abortion but also other causes including her work with the Women’s Electoral Lobby and Dying with Dignity. The collection comprises printed material (newscuttings, newsletters, journal articles, leaflets and flyers) and correspondence.??BOX 1?Papers relating to debate on abortion at Sydney Town Hall featuring Germaine Greer, 2 March 1972, including transcripts of Greer’s speech, and fellow debaters Dr Clark, Mr Smith, Mr Webb, and questioners?Vol.4 No.5 Pol magazine, edited by Germain Greer?Various correspondence between Julia Freebury and American doctors Leo F Kenneally, and J F Griggs relating to methods for terminating pregnancies, and possibility of acquiring property on Oxford Street for set up of small hospital nursing home?Correspondence with the Therapeutic Goods Administration, Minister for Aged, Family and Health Services, Children by Choice Association, Rousel Uclaf, The Worcester Centre for Experimental Biology, Australian Drug Evaluation Committee, relating to the drug RU486?Invitation to Senators and MPs to a breakfast meeting with Professor Etienne-Emile Baulieu at Parliament house, 15 November 1990; invitation to lecture ‘The international politics of RU486 at Monash University, 16 November 1990?Character references from Judge Elizabeth Evatt (Chief Judge, Family Court of Australia), J F Staples (Deputy President, Australian Conciliation and Arbitration Commission), Paul Stein QC?Correspondence from W G Keighley?Thank you letter from Louis Wald?Letters from Trubridge-Freebury to Professor R P Ralston, T J Connolly (The Catholic Institute of Sydney); Justice H T Gibbs; Justice E A McTiernan; Justice A F Mason; Sir Garfield Barwick?Various typescript letters relating to the Abortion Law Repeal Association?Various letters to Trubridge-Freebury from people responding to her letter to the editor in The Australian, 30 March 1983, disagreeing with her views?Various newspaper cuttings relating to abortion?Copies of articles relating to abortion from POL, and Cosmopolitan magazines?Letters written by Trubridge-Freebury attempting to get in contact with Cosmopolitan magazine journalist?Correspondence between Trubridge-Freebury and Beatrice Faust (Co-founder of Women’s Electoral Lobby) relating to laws on abortion in Australia, various medical procedures for termination of pregnancies, the Women’s Abortion Action Campaign (WAAC), various private clinics and practitioners in Sydney?Notes and correspondence relating to Dr Ackerman?Registration of trademark ‘Children by Choice’?Letters to and responses from MPs, conference organisers, and public figures relating to abortion and euthanasia laws in Australia??BOX 2?Copies of article ‘The Death of Compassion’ from The VE Bulletin, July 1997?Copies of articles relating to euthanasia from The Australian 28-19 March 1997?Wel-Informed newsletter, issues 135-136, 142?The Australian Humanist No.23, Spring 1972?Various published articles and letters to the editor relating to euthanasia, suicide, and The Women’s Electoral Lobby?Various cuttings and copies of articles on suicide, and AIDS 1978-1995?Various writings on euthanasia, ca 1994?Various correspondence and papers relating to abortion, vasectomies, and contraception?Issues of Breaking chains : the newspaper of ALRA, the Abortion Law Reform Association?Lists of MPs and other people Trubridge-Freebury considered seeking to influence and lobby?Letters thanking Trubridge-Freebury for assistance?How to vote card for Julia Freebury Independent Candidate for South Coast??BOX 3?Various newspaper cuttings relating to the Abortion Law Reform Association (ALRA) and abortion laws; Opus Dei; Phyllis Schlafly?Mejane : a womens liberation newspaper, May 1971?Newsletter Jessie Street National Women’s Library Vol.15 No.2, July 2004?Various newspaper cuttings relating to euthanasia?Typescript manuscript titled ‘Reflections on the women involved in lobbying for abortion repeal’?Pamphlets and flyers relating to abortion laws in NSW?Manuscript letter to the editor of The Australian, 1979?Certificate of registration for ‘Woollahra Abortion Advice Care Centre & Referral’, 15 February 1979?Letters proposing new line of condoms ‘Children by Choice’?Exercise book containing appointments and records of meetings, 1991-1999?Cutting of newspaper article relating to Freebury’s defection from the Australian Democrats?Letters written by Trubridge-Freebury advocating change to abortion laws?Various hand written notes by Trubridge-Freebury?’I had one too: an oral history of abortion in South Australia before 1970? by Barbara Baird, 1990?Correspondence with George Petersen, former Labor MP, 1992?’The inadequacies of Australian Abortion Law’ by Natasha Cica, September 1990?Issue of The Australian Women’s Weekly, 7 May 1990, containing article concerning abortion?Correspondence and papers relating to The Preterm Foundation?Children by Choice interview sheet containing questions for clients??BOX 4?Memo book containing names and telephone numbers?Various newspaper cuttings and copies of articles related to abortion?’Right to choose womens health action magazine’?Poster and pamphlet for electoral candidate for Bligh, Bridget Gilling, 1971?Copy of leaflet ‘Hitler was anti abortion, Stalin was anti abortion’, 1969?Papers relating to Abortion Law Repeal Association, 1991?Correspondence with Australian Medical Association, Doctor’s Reform Society of NSW, Royal Commission of Human Relationships, Legislative Council NSW, Registrar’s Office District Court?Correspondence relating to RU486?Papers from Fourth International Conference on Medical Abortion, 17-18 November 1990?Copies of submission from Peter J Huntingford to the ‘Royal Commission in New Zealand on Contraception, Sterilization, and Abortion’, 1976??BOX 5?Two scrapbooks titled ‘ALRA [Abortion Law Reform Association]’ containing cuttings of articles relating to abortion, 1984-1992 Author Details Alannah Croom Created 31 October 2017 Last modified 31 October 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

History of the Goldstein family, comprising twelve chapters: A very rising settlement; The young man goes west; The Hawkins family; J. R. Y. Goldstein; The Leongatha Labour Colony; Vida Goldstein and the women’s suffrage movement; Vida’s electoral campaigns and social work; H. H. Champion’s “unconventional autobiography”; H. H. Champion in Australia: the maritime strike; H. H. Champion: adventures in journalism; H. H. Champion and Bernard Shaw; Elsie Champion and the Book Lovers’ Library. Author Details Clare Land Created 9 December 2001 Last modified 29 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

MS Acc10.207 comprises papers collected by Gareth Thomas relating to the Mawson family. The majority of the papers in this collection comprise personal correspondence of Paquita Mawson (ne?e Delprat), principally with her daughter Patricia, but also with her daughter Jessica, and with other members of her extended family. There is a small group of letters of Douglas Mawson to Patricia, 1925-1931. Other papers include a small number of undated black and white photographs depicting Antarctic exploration; a typescript draft of Paquita Mawson’s biography of her father, Guillaume Daniel Delprat, published in 1958; a Deed of Agreement between the Broken Hill Proprietary Company and G.D. Delprat (1898); and architectural plans of a house for G.D. Delprat at Brighton, South Australia (1909) (6 boxes, 1 map folio).??The Acc10.216 instalment comprises a telegram from Douglas Mawson to his fiancee, Paquita Delprat, advising her that he was alive after having been missing in the Antarctic for some months (1 folder). Author Details Alannah Croom Created 13 March 2018 Last modified 13 March 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)