[ { "Title\/Name": "Kibble Awards for Women Writers", "Entry ID": "AWE0137", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/kibble-awards-for-women-writers\/", "Type": "Award", "Birth Place": "New South Wales, Australia", "Summary": "The Kibble Awards for Women Writers were established by Nita May Dobbie in memory of her aunt Nita Bernice Kibble. They recognise female writers who have published fiction or nonfiction classified as 'life writing'.\nThere are two Kibble awards; the major Kibble Award, worth $20,000 and the Dobbie encouragement award, valued at $2500.\nIn 2008 Adelaide-based Carol Lefevre, who left school at 16 to sing in a rock band, won the Kibble Award for her first novel, Nights in the Asylum. Karen Foxlee, a nurse-turned-author from Gympie in Queensland, snared the Dobbie encouragement award for her debut work, The Anatomy of Wings.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/nita-bernice-kibble\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/women-sic-nurse-takes-out-prize\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Nita May Dobbie Literary Award", "Entry ID": "AWE0139", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/nita-may-dobbie-literary-award\/", "Type": "Award", "Birth Place": "New South Wales, Australia", "Summary": "This award was established in 1992 in memory of Nita May Dobbie, a librarian and research officer.\n" }, { "Title\/Name": "Clare Burton Award", "Entry ID": "AWE0142", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/clare-burton-award\/", "Type": "Award", "Summary": "Named in memory and celebration of the life and work of Dr Clare Burton, The Clare Burton Award is directed to a particular work area within the Australian National University that has made the most outstanding contribution towards progress in equal opportunity, or has achieved significant success in the promotion of an environment for staff where human diversity is valued.\n" }, { "Title\/Name": "Pauline Toner Award", "Entry ID": "AWE0292", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/pauline-toner-award\/", "Type": "Award", "Summary": "La Trobe University, Melbourne established the Pauline Toner Award to honour the late Pauline Toner MP, a former student and notable citizen.\n", "Details": "The Award, in the form of a cash prize is awarded annually to a student who has made a significant contribution to the University and\/or the wider community in the fields related to Pauline Toner's work and service. The award also serves to remind us of the spirit in which Pauline Toner served her community and Victoria.\nToner is best remembered for her remarkable achievements and contributions to community: her concern in areas such as social issues, education and environmental conservation, her dedication to the task at hand and her sense of fairness. Her achievements included breaking new ground for women in becoming the first female councillor and Shire president in Diamond Valley. She became the first woman to hold the Community Services portfolio; she was involved in reforming the prison system, initiated the first review of Children's Welfare legislation, backed women's neighbourhood houses and put Victoria in the forefront of adoption reform with the 1984 Adoption Act. The Adoption Network named their building in her honour. Details for submitting applications are available from the website.\n" }, { "Title\/Name": "The Dame Elisabeth Murdoch Scholarship", "Entry ID": "AWE0370", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/the-dame-elisabeth-murdoch-scholarship-5\/", "Type": "Award", "Summary": "The Dame Elisabeth Murdoch Trust was established in 1985 to offer support for students in the field of deafness education.\nThis scholarship is administered by \"Taralye\", an oral language centre for deaf children (Blackburn, Victoria), and is open to educational and health professionals wishing to undertake postgraduate studies in the field of deafness at Graduate Diploma, Masters or PhD level in the State of Victoria.\n" }, { "Title\/Name": "Eldridge Award", "Entry ID": "AWE2109", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/eldridge-award\/", "Type": "Award", "Birth Place": "Australian Capital Territory", "Summary": "The Marian Eldridge Award is a national award to encourage an aspiring female writer to undertake a literary activity such as a short course of study, or to complete a project, or attend a writers' week or a conference. There is no age limit.\nThe award was established in 1998 under the auspices of the National Foundation for Australian Women, as a legacy of Marian Eldridge (1 February 1936 - 14 February 1997), an acclaimed short story writer, a novelist, poet and teacher who spent most of her creative writing years in Canberra, where inter alia she was instrumental in establishing the ACT Writers' Centre.\nIn the last months of her life she planned a gift to establish a professional development award to nurture writers. She said that the recipient should not be established but someone whose writing showed promise, and that the writing need not be fiction. Marian said that \"when trying to assist aspiring writers 'every little bit helps' and that such recognition would be an important milestone in a developing literary career.\nAn Advisory Group selected by Marian Eldridge's family decides each year on guidelines for applicants, assesses applications and selects the recipient of the award.\nThe first four competitions ($1000 cash prize) were confined to residents of the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) and New South Wales (NSW), and brought in a total of 78 applications. The winners of those competitions of were:\n\u2022Sarah St Vincent Welch (1998)\n\u2022Julie Simpson (1999)\n\u2022Rose de Angelis (2000)\n\u2022Elanna Herbert (2001)\nA wider Advisory Group has since been established, which now includes representatives from the National Library of Australia, the School of Creative Communication at the University of Canberra and the ACT Cultural Council. From its fifth year, the award was open to applicants throughout Australia. National competition winners have been:\n\u2022Annah Faulkner (2002\/2003)\n\u2022Caroline Lee (2005).\nThe award amount is currently $1500.\n(This entry is sponsored by generous donation from Christine Foley.)\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/collection-of-marian-eldridge-photographs\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/marian-eldridge-interviewed-by-heather-rusden-sound-recording\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Kitty McEwan Victorian Sportswoman of the Year", "Entry ID": "AWE2707", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/kitty-mcewan-victorian-sportswoman-of-the-year\/", "Type": "Award", "Birth Place": "Victoria, Australia", "Summary": "The Kitty McEwan Sportswoman of the Year award was established in 1974 and named in honour of Kitty McEwan, a journalist and women's right activist who did much to promote women's sport in Australia\n", "Events": "Alisa Camplin - Aerial Skiing (2004 - 2004)", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/shes-game-women-making-australian-sporting-history-2\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Walkley Awards", "Entry ID": "AWE3114", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/walkley-awards\/", "Type": "Award", "Summary": "Established in 1956, the annual Walkley Awards recognize excellence in Australian journalism across all mediums including print, television, radio, photographic and online media. The prestigious Gold Walkley is considered the pinnacle of journalistic achievement.\n", "Details": "The Walkleys were established in 1956, with five categories, by Ampol Petroleum founder Sir William Gaston Walkley. William Walkley appreciated the media's support for his oil exploration efforts. He envisaged awards that recognised emerging talent in the Australian media. Since then, winning stories have chronicled Australia's history, people and events.\nUpon his death, the awards were bequeathed to the-then Australian Journalists' Association (now the Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance). The Association and, from 1990, the Alliance remained proud custodian of the awards for many years. In 2000, the Alliance voted to formally establish the awards as the Walkley Foundation for Journalism.\nThe Walkley Foundation's aims and objectives are to organise, administer and promote the Walkley Awards as well as continuing to advance the interests of professional and ethical journalism in Australia.\nToday, the Walkleys has grown to more than 30 award categories with an estimated 1000 entries pouring in each year as journalists around the country aspire for the pinnacle of Australian journalistic achievement.\nJan Mayman, Janey Hawley, Monica Attard, Mary Delahunty, Jill Singer, Jennie Brockie, Sue Spencer, Catherine Martin, Mary-Louise O'Callaghan, Pamela Williams, Deborah Richards, Anne Connolly, Anne Davie and Kate McClymont have all won Gold Awards.\n", "Events": "Inaugural Walkley Awards (1956 - )", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/profession-journalist-a-history-of-the-australian-journalists-association\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/the-womens-pages-australian-women-and-journalism-since-1850-2\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/media-entertainment-and-arts-alliance-australia-records-of-the-w-g-walkley-awards-1956-1999\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/abc-radio-news-2001-woomera-detention-centre-riots\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/abc-radio-2001-woomera-detention-centre\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "ABC Radio Rural Woman of the Year Awards", "Entry ID": "AWE4747", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/abc-radio-rural-woman-of-the-year-awards\/", "Type": "Award", "Birth Place": "Australia", "Summary": "The ABC Radio Rural Woman of the Year Awards were established in 1994 as an initiative to recognise the achievements and valuable contribution that women make to rural communities and primary industry. Journalist Lisa Palu organised an event in Queensland that went national for four years.\nIn 2000 the awards were relaunched with government support. The Rural Industries Research and Development Corporation (RIRDC) supports the award.\n", "Details": "I heard for years the stories of my Italian grandmother having to cook three hot meals a day for gangs of cane cutters - maybe twenty men working on our farm at one time. Yet she never appeared on the legal paperwork, her name wasn't on the title and her contribution was never recognised. I hope that doesn't happen to my generation of females.\n - Lisa Palu, ABC Rural Reporter, 1995.\nThe process of writing women out of Australian agricultural history is not only a case of faulty memory; it was official policy. After 1891, the Victorian census no longer registered farm wives as 'engaged in agricultural pursuits,' because to do so created an unwanted impression 'that women were in the habit of working in the fields', as they did in so-called 'old world', but 'certainly not in Australia'. [1] Needless to say, the mere act of refusing to count women's 'agricultural pursuits' did not stop them from following them. It just meant that official records of them doing so weren't kept. Despite volumes of anecdotal evidence to the contrary, the official story was that Australian women did not work in agriculture.\nA century and two waves of feminism later, Margaret Alston found the official story to be no more revealing. In the 1991 Australian census, almost twice as many men as women were recorded as engaged in the agricultural industry, despite Alston's extensive research in New South Wales suggesting, nay screaming, otherwise. Women's work on farms, according to Alston, continued to be 'discounted, devalued, and certainly not recorded'. [2]\nEnter ABC radio rural reporter for the Wide Bay\/Burnett River region, Lisa Palu. Travelling around rural Queensland in the early 1990s chasing stories, it was impossible for her to ignore the importance of women's contributions to agriculture in that state. It was also impossible for her to ignore the reluctance of most women, at town or industry forums, to speak up and offer an opinion. She asked one group of women why this was so; why they 'didn't get up and have their say'. Their responses were variations on a theme. 'They felt that they weren't valued,' she said, 'and that their opinions weren't worthwhile, that the men would ridicule them if they stood up and gave their point of view.' [3] As far as Lisa could see, it wasn't their opinions that were the problem, it was the level of their self esteem. Women were important contributors in rural economies, but the value of their contributions was under appreciated and ignored. Something needed to be done to encourage them to speak up and support was required to amplify their voices.\nAt the same time that Lisa Palu was developing an understanding of the problem in Queensland, rumblings of protest at the lack of acknowledgement accorded to rural women were being felt around the nation. A landmark conference was held in Melbourne in 1994 when the International Women in Agriculture Conference was held in Melbourne. 800 rural and regional women from around the world congregated to discuss issues of common concern in a global context. Two new national rural women's organisations were growing in strength: Australian Women in Agriculture and the Foundation for Australian Agricultural Women. State based rural women's networks were taking shape, with Victoria the first cab off the rank in 1987.\nQueensland's Rural Women's Network was established in 1993, around the same time that Lisa Palu began to promote the idea of an award to recognise the role and contributions of women in rural and regional communities. With the support of the Queensland network, she approached her supervisor at ABC Radio's Country Hour in Queensland, Edwina Clowse, who offered unqualified endorsement of the idea. The ABC Rural Department, with strong support from the National Editor, Lucy Broad, expanded the state based Queensland award to a national audience.\nThe ABC Radio Australian Rural Woman of the Year Award was inaugurated in 1994 with the multiple aims of:\n\nrecognising the role and contribution of rural women,\nraising awareness of these roles and contributions in the wider community,\nproviding opportunities to raise issues of concern to rural women,\nempowering women to develop the skills and confidence to further contribute to their communities and industries.\n\nA feature of the award was the ABC Radio Leadership Seminar for all regional winners. Participants came together for two and a half days to attend workshops on leadership, team work, presentation and media skills. For the women, whether they went on to be the national winner was immaterial; the value of the seminar and the opportunities for networking that it presented ensured that they all came away winners.[4]\nThe first ABC Radio Australian Rural Woman of the Year Award was announced on July 1st 1994 as a highlight of the International Women in Agriculture Conference in Melbourne. South Australian cereal and sheep farmer, Deborah Theile was the inaugural winner. She was followed in 1995 by Robyn Treadwell from Birdwood Downs in the Kimberley region of Western Australia, then Barbara Scott of Coonabarabran in New South Wales in 1996 and Jane Bennett of Elizabeth Town in Tasmania in 1997. All of them, in different ways, have had their lives transformed by the award. All have felt a responsibility to ensure that they use whatever benefit they gained as winners to transform the lives of other rural women. As the inaugural winner, Deb Theile, said, 'One can take opportunities and one can create opportunities, I believe in doing both, but I feel very strongly that the greatest part of creating opportunities is to create it for others.'[5]\nJane Bennett was the last woman to receive the 'ABC' version of the award. ABC radio decided it needed to direct its attention towards rural youth and the Australian government decided to bring the award under its administrative arm. After a short hiatus, the Rural Woman of the Year Award returned in 2000 in a new format, funded by the Rural Industries Research and Development Corporation, with a view to focusing on the future, while acknowledging past achievements. Nominees are now required to propose a project, for which they will receive a significant bursary. Selection is based on a strong record of achievement as well as an impressive project proposal. [6]\nBetween 1994 and 1997, one hundred and sixty-eight women across the country were given the title 'Rural Woman of the Year' at a regional, state or national level. To be recognised this way was an important acknowledgement, not only for them as individuals, but for all women in rural communities. Without the commitment and initiative of women such as Lisa Palu, Edwina Clowse and Lucy Broad at the ABC, the award would never have been celebrated, and that important step of being written back into history might not have been taken.\nBut, as always, it's up to the actors to see what happens next. As Lynne Johnstone, the 1994 state winner from Western Australia observed when launching the 1995 award:\nThe ABC has taken the first step in highlighting the role of women in agriculture - the next is up to us. Nothing will change unless we make it change and women will no longer accept that change will happen of its own accord. We need the three Rs of agriculture: Recognition, Representation and Resources. [7]\nThis exhibition celebrates those women in agriculture who took the challenge of taking the next step; the ABC Radio Rural Women of the Year of 1994 - 1997.\n\nCensus 1891, Victorian Parliamentary Papers, 1893, vol. 3, no. 9, p. 192. Return to text\nMargaret Alston, Women on the Land: The Hidden Heart of Rural Australia, UNSW Press, Sydney, 1995, pp 3-4. Return to text\nLisa Palu interviewed by Ros Bowden in the Women of the Land Oral History Project, 1995, National Library of Australian Oral History and Folklore Section, http:\/\/nla.gov.au\/nla.cat-vn1335934 Return to text\nLucy Broad, 'The Untapped Resource', Margaret Alston (ed.) Australian Rural Women Towards 2000, Centre for Rural Social Research, Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga, 1998, pp. 61-65. Return to text\nWebpage of the ABC Radio Australian Rural Woman of the Year Award, http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/rural\/rwoty\/default.htm, [accessed 2010-12-06] Return to text\nWebpage of the RIRDC Rural Women's Award, http:\/\/www.ruralwomensaward.gov.au\/TheAward.htm [accessed 2010-12-06] Return to text\nLynne Johnstone, quoted in Ros Bowden, Women of the Land: Stories of Australia's Rural Women as told to Ros Bowden, ABC Books, Sydney, 1995, p. 6. Return to text\n\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/brilliant-ideas-and-huge-visions-abc-radio-australian-rural-women-of-the-year-1994-1997\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Clare Burton Memorial Scholarship", "Entry ID": "AWE4837", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/clare-burton-memorial-scholarship\/", "Type": "Award", "Summary": "The Clare Burton Memorial Scholarship commemorates Dr Clare Burton, a leading researcher, public sector administrator, academic, consultant and writer on employment equity, who died suddenly in August 1998. The $10,000 scholarship provides funds to support post-graduate research into gender equity. The scholarship was established by the five universities of the Australian Technology Network, which includes Curtin University, Queensland University of Technology, RMIT University, University of South Australia and University of Technology, Sydney.\n" }, { "Title\/Name": "Australian Laureate Fellowships", "Entry ID": "AWE5372", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/australian-laureate-fellowships\/", "Type": "Award", "Summary": "The Australian Laureate Fellowships scheme is administered by the Australian Research Council, and is part of the ARC National Competitive Grants Program.\nThe Australian Laureate Fellowships scheme 'reflects the Commonwealth's commitment to support excellence in research by attracting world-class researchers and research leaders to key positions, and creating new rewards and incentives for the application of their talents in Australia.'\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/australian-laureate-fellowships-funding-outcomes\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Kathleen Fitzpatrick Australian Laureate Fellowship", "Entry ID": "AWE5373", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/kathleen-fitzpatrick-australian-laureate-fellowship\/", "Type": "Award", "Summary": "On 18 November 2010 the Prime Minister of Australia announced that the Australian Research Council (ARC) would award two additional research fellowships in the ARC Australian Laureate Fellowships scheme. ARC Chief Executive Officer, Professor Margaret Sheil, said 'the new fellowships are specifically designed to address the current low proportion of applications to the scheme by female researchers'.\nThe two fellowships are the Kathleen Fitzpatrick Australian Laureate Fellowship for the humanities, arts and social sciences, and Georgina Sweet Australian Laureate Fellowship for science and technology. The fellowships are awarded to 'outstanding female researchers to enable them to undertake activities to support and mentor women in these disciplines'.\n", "Events": "Professor Glenda Sluga (The University of Sydney) awarded Kathleen Fitzpatrick Australian Laureate Fellowship (2013 - 2013) \nProfessor Joy Damousi (The University of Melbourne) awarded Kathleen Fitzpatrick Australian Laureate Fellowship (2014 - 2014) \nProfessor Pippa Norris (The University of Sydney), awarded Kathleen Fitzpatrick Australian Laureate Fellowship (2011 - 2011) \nProfessor Susan O'Connor (The Australian National University) awarded Kathleen Fitzpatrick Australian Laureate Fellowship (2012 - 2012)", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/media-release-australian-research-council-new-fellowships-to-advance-women-in-research\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/australian-laureate-fellowships-funding-outcomes\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Georgina Sweet Australian Laureate Fellowship", "Entry ID": "AWE5374", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/georgina-sweet-australian-laureate-fellowship\/", "Type": "Award", "Summary": "On 18 November 2010 the Prime Minister of Australia announced that the Australian Research Council (ARC) would award two additional research fellowships in the ARC Australian Laureate Fellowships scheme. ARC Chief Executive Officer, Professor Margaret Sheil, said 'the new fellowships are specifically designed to address the current low proportion of applications to the scheme by female researchers'.\nThe two fellowships are the Kathleen Fitzpatrick Australian Laureate Fellowship for the humanities, arts and social sciences, and Georgina Sweet Australian Laureate Fellowship for science and technology. The fellowships are awarded to 'outstanding female researchers to enable them to undertake activities to support and mentor women in these disciplines'.\n", "Events": "Professor Kate Smith-Miles (Monash University ) awarded Georgina Sweet Australian Laureate Fellowship (2014 - 2014) \nProfessor Mahananda Dasgupta (Australian National University) awarded Georgina Sweet Australian Laureate Fellowship (2011 - 2011) \nProfessor Nalini Joshi (The University of Sydney) awarded Georgina Sweet Australian Laureate Fellowship (2012 - 2012) \nProfessor Tanya Monro (The University of Adelaide) awarded Georgina Sweet Australian Laureate Fellowship (2013 - 2013) \nProfessor Veena Sahajwalla (The University of New South Wales) awarded Georgina Sweet Australian Laureate Fellowship (2014 - 2014)", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/australian-laureate-fellowships-funding-outcomes\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/media-release-australian-research-council-new-fellowships-to-advance-women-in-research\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Victorian Honour Roll of Women", "Entry ID": "AWE5577", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/victorian-honour-roll-of-women\/", "Type": "Award", "Birth Place": "Melbourne, Victoria, Australia", "Summary": "The Victorian Honour Roll of Women was established in 2001 to acknowledge inspirational Victorian women for their contributions, leadership and achievements.\n" }, { "Title\/Name": "The Gladys Elphick Awards", "Entry ID": "AWE6436", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/the-gladys-elphick-awards\/", "Type": "Award", "Summary": "The Gladys Elphick Awards celebrate the life achievements of the late Aunty Gladys Elphick and her fellow members of the Council of Aboriginal Women of South Australia. The awards acknowledge the contemporary achievements of Aboriginal women who work tirelessly to advance the status of Aboriginal people through a wide range of mediums.\n" }, { "Title\/Name": "Mary Gilmore Award", "Entry ID": "AWE6479", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/mary-gilmore-award\/", "Type": "Award", "Summary": "The Mary Gilmore Award was created in 1956 by trade unions 'to encourage literature \"significant to the life and aspirations of the Australian people.\"\nSince its inception, awards have been presented in several categories, including: novels, poetry, a three-act play and a short story.\nCurrently, as of 2019, the Association for the Study of Australian Literature (ASAL) administers the award, which is now awarded for poetry only.\n" }, { "Title\/Name": "Pixie O'Harris Award", "Entry ID": "AWE6541", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/pixie-oharris-award\/", "Type": "Award", "Summary": "The Pixie O'Harris Award is named in honour of children's book author and illustrator Pixie O'Harris and was first awarded in 1994 to Myra Lee.\nThe award 'recognises publishers, editors, creators, booksellers, publicists and other industry representatives who have worked consistently in the field of children's literature, demonstrated commitment beyond the call of duty, and who have developed a reputation for their contribution.'\n" }, { "Title\/Name": "The Stella Prize", "Entry ID": "AWE6559", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/the-stella-prize\/", "Type": "Award", "Summary": "The Stella Prize is a major literary award that celebrates Australian women's writing. The prize is named after iconic author Stella Maria Sarah 'Miles' Franklin and was first awarded in 2013.\n" }, { "Title\/Name": "Nita B Kibble Literary Awards for Women Writers", "Entry ID": "AWE6590", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/nita-b-kibble-literary-awards-for-women-writers\/", "Type": "Award", "Summary": "The aim of the pretigious Nita B Kibble Literary Awards (also known as the Kibble Awards) is 'to encourage Australian women writers to improve and advance literature for the benefit of our community.'\nThe Kibble Awards are presented to established authors, for both fiction and non-fiction works which fall in the genre of 'life writing'.\n" }, { "Title\/Name": "Dame Marjorie Parker Memorial Awards", "Entry ID": "IMP0058", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/dame-marjorie-parker-memorial-awards\/", "Type": "Award", "Summary": "The scholarship Dame Marjorie Parker Memorial Awards are open to all students who have completed at least one year of post-secondary study or training and who are continuing their studies in Tasmania. The scholarship is for $1,000. The Awards are conducted by the Soroptimist International of Launceston. For further information contact the President, Soroptimist International of Launceston, PO Box 381, Launceston Tas. 7250.\n" }, { "Title\/Name": "Edna Ryan Awards", "Entry ID": "AWE6464", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/edna-ryan-awards\/", "Type": "Award", "Birth Place": "New South Wales, Australia", "Summary": "The Edna Ryan Awards were established in 1998 by the Women's Electoral Lobby NSW. The Awards honour Edna Ryan's life and work and are awarded to women who have made a feminist difference.\n" } ]