Events

1951 - 1961

With the News and Information Bureau, Melbourne, Journalist Grade D, Canberra, Journalist Grade C

1963 - 1968

Casual Journalist Grade B with ABC in Canberra

1968 - 1974

Journalist (Grade A) /Editor of weekly business newsletters with M Newton publications

1974 - 1979

Editor of publications (Journalist Grade A1) with the National Capital Development Commission

1985

New South Wales Premier's Department Social History grant

1987 -

Councillor with the Canberra & District Historical Society

1987

Australia Council, Literature Board Project Grant

1989 -

Member of the Commonwealth Working Party for the Australian Dictionary of Biography

1989

Australia Council, Literature Broad Project Grant

1993 -

Committee Member of the Centre for Australian Cultural Studies (ACT)

1993

Harold White Fellow at the National Library of Australia

1995

One-year Fellowship from the Literature Board at the Australia Council

1995

Joint winner of the Society of Women Writers non-fiction award (for Tasma

1995 - 1997

Vice-president of the Canberra & District Historical Society

1995 - 2001

Founding Honorary Secretary of the Independent Scholars Association of Australia (ISAA)

1997 - 1999

Member of the National Library of Australia's Friends Committee

1997 - 1999

President of the Canberra & District Historical Society

1998

Member of the National Scholarly Communications Forum (representing Australian Society of Authors)

1999

Vice-president of the National Library of Australia's Friends Committee

2000 - 2002

Committee Member at Manning Clark House

2001 - 2002

Two-year Fellowship from the Literature Board at the Australia Council

11 June 2001

Awarded a Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) For service to the promotion of Australian history through research and writing, to the study of Australian women writers of the 19th Century, and to the Canberra and District Historical Society

2002

Awarded a Fellow from the Federation of Australian Historical Societies