- Entry type: Person
- Entry ID: AWE1376
Boundy, Olive
- Birth name Boundy, Olive Barbara
- Born 2 November 1934, Parkes, New South Wales, Australia
- Died 27 February 2009, , , Australia
- Occupation Activist, Nurse, Teacher
Summary
Olive Boundy was an activist in local government and politics. She was a member of the ALP and was a candidate in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly (Clarence seat) in 1991. She later was elected to the Ulmarra Shire Council from 1987 and later served on the Pristine Waters Council until 2004.
Details
Olive Boundy trained as a nurse and later lectured at TAFE on women’s issues and local government. She was been active in community organisations, including the Surf Life Saving movement and remedial reading programs. She also took on the role of an arbitrator in the Local Environmental Court.
She had one son.
Published resources
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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
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Resource
- Trove: Boundy, Olive (1934-), http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-729074
- Newspaper Article