[ { "Title\/Name": "a'Beckett, Ada Mary", "Entry ID": "AWE0053", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/abeckett-ada-mary\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Norwood, South Australia, Australia", "Death Place": "Melbourne, Victoria, Australia", "Occupations": "Biologist, Educator", "Summary": "Teacher, kindergarten activist, and philanthropist, Ada Mary a'Beckett was born in Adelaide in 1872. Throughout her career she worked as a demonstrator and lecturer in biology at the University of Melbourne as well as teaching at various schools throughout Victoria. She was very closely involved in the kindergarten movement, helping to establish the Kindergarten Training College in Kew. Ada was appointed as a Commander of the Order of the British Empire, 3 June 1935, and had a kindergarten named after her the following year. She died in 1948 in Melbourne.\n", "Details": "Ada Mary a'Beckett was born in Norwood, Adelaide on 18 May 1872. She was educated at the Advanced School for Girls in Adelaide.\nBetween 1893 and 1900 Ada worked as a teacher at several different girls schools in the Melbourne and Geelong area as well as at the Working Men's College. During part of this time she was also a student at the University of Melbourne, where she was awarded the Wyselaskie scholarship in natural science (biology) and the final honours scholarship in biology. She was Annie Grice Scholar in 1892-1893 and a founder of the Victorian Women Graduates' Association. She graduated with a BSc (1895) and a MSc (1897). \nAda maintained strong ties with Melbourne University throughout her life, working there for varying periods as a demonstrator and lecturer in biology - especially during World War I. From 1912 until 1920 she also worked as teacher at the Church of England Girls' Grammar School in Melbourne. In 1921 Ada was appointed head of the biology department at Scotch College, a position she held until 1937. She had a significant impact on her students, many of whom entered medicine or allied professions.\nAda's involvement in the kindergarten movement began in 1908 when she was elected a foundation president of the Free Kindergarten Union of Victoria. In 1916 Ada helped establish the Kindergarten Training College in Kew. Between 1920 and 1923 she helped develop the training course there for kindergarten teachers and lectured in physiology and hygiene. Ada was also the resident of the Free Kindergarten Union of Victoria from 1919 to 1939; and the president of the Kindergarten Training Council from 1926 to 1939. In 1936 she founded the Australian Association for Pre-School Child Development. \nIn 1935 Ada was appointed as a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) for her philanthropic work and in 1942 had a kindergarten at Fisherman's Bend named after her. She died of cancer in Melbourne in 1948.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/obituary-ada-abeckett\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/womens-views-and-news-the-womans-part-mrs-t-abeckett\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/obituary-mrs-a-m-abeckett\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/monash-biographical-dictionary-of-20th-century-australia\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/a-beckett-ada-mary-1872-1948\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/a-historical-sketch-the-growth-and-development-of-the-free-kindergarten-movement-of-victoria\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/abeckett-ada-mary-nee-lambert-1872-1948-biographical-entry\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/where-are-the-women-in-australian-science-2\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/degrees-of-liberation-a-short-history-of-women-in-the-university-of-melbourne\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/faith-hope-and-charity-australian-women-and-imperial-honours-1901-1989\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/the-encyclopedia-of-women-and-leadership-in-twentieth-century-australia\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/university-of-melbourne-office-of-the-registrar-registrars-correspondence\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/mrs-t-a-a-beckett-cbe-msc\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/institute-of-early-childhood-development\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Cato, Nancy", "Entry ID": "AWE0104", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/cato-nancy\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Adelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Death Place": "Noosa, Queensland, Australia", "Occupations": "Author, Environmentalist, Journalist, Poet", "Summary": "Nancy Cato was an acclaimed author. She published several historical novels and biographies and two volumes of poetry. Cato was also a strong campaigner for environmental conservation.\n", "Details": "Schooled at the Presbyterian Ladies College, in Adelaide, South Australia, Nancy Cato began her professional writing career as a cadet journalist on the Adelaide News at age 18. Later an art critic for the same newspaper, she also became a freelance writer. In 1950 she edited the Jindyworobak Anthology.\nActively involved in the Fellowship of Australian Writers and the Australian Society of Authors during the 1950s and 1960s, Cato's books include Green grows the vine, Brown sugar and All the rivers run, which was made into a TV mini-series. She published other prose works in addition to two volumes of poetry, and contributed to Australian literary magazines. A major work was Mister Maloga, the story of Daniel Mathews and his Maloga Mission to Aboriginal people on the Murray River in Victoria.\nCato married Eldred Norman, and travelled extensively overseas with him; the pair had one daughter and two sons.\nNancy Cato strove for ultimate skill as a writer, and for protection of the Australian environment, particularly in the face of developers on the Sunshine Coast in Queensland. She was awarded the Alice Award by the Society of Women Writers in 1988; the Advance Australia award for environmental campaigning; an Honorary Doctor of Letters, University of Queensland; and was a Member of the Order of Australia (AM).\n", "Events": "Career in journalism active (1935 - 1941)", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/prize-winning-author-dies\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/all-the-tributes-flow-for-noosas-literary-icon\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/lifelong-affair-with-the-river\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/author-brought-authentic-voice-to-literature\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/murray-novel-brought-fame-fortune\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/author-shared-pioneer-spirit\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/the-womens-pages-australian-women-and-journalism-since-1850-2\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/collection-of-unpublished-letters-and-poems-also-manuscript-and-signed-published-copy-of-her-novel-northwest-by-south\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/mister-maloga-daniel-matthews-and-his-mission-murray-river-1864-1902-1976\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/nancy-cato-manuscript-collection-1967-1992\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/papers-of-nancy-cato-1939-1995-manuscript\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/nancy-cato-papers\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/florence-james-papers-1890-1993\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/nancy-cato-interviewed-by-hazel-de-berg-in-the-hazel-de-berg-collection-sound-recording\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/dale-spender-papers-1972-1995\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/literary-papers-1969-1981-manuscript\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/gwen-harwood-papers\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Benny, Susan (Grace)", "Entry ID": "AWE0150", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/benny-susan-grace\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Adelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Death Place": "North Adelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Politician", "Summary": "In 1919, Susan Benny was elected a member of South Australia's Brighton Council, thus becoming Australia's first woman politician. She held her seat for two elections and left local government after failing to become mayor in 1922.\n", "Details": "Born: 4 October 1872. Died: 5 November 1944.\nAfter her mother died, Benny went to a girl's boarding school at McLaren Vale, then returned home and taught her younger sisters. She married, solicitor Benjamin Benny in 1896, and they had three daughters and two sons.\nDuring World War I, Benny was honorary secretary of the Seacliff Cheer-up Society and was a member of the local progress association and spinning and croquet clubs.\nBefore becoming the local government member for Seacliff in 1919, she was a member of the Liberal Union Sturt District committee and president of the Brighton Women's Branch of the Liberal Union.\nSuzanne Edgar and Helen Jones in their biography of Benny in 200 Australian Women : A Redress Anthology state that while with the local council, \"Benny claimed credit for several improvements at Brighton: the opening of a cliff to enable free access to the beach; the installation of electric lights; and the allotment of reserves as a children's playground and public garden. She successfully supported the abolition of segregated sea-bathing, so that families could swim together.\" (p. 93) Also she attended night meeting, which legislators had commonly believed women incapable of doing. In 1921, she became a justice of the peace and heard state children's, police and women's cases.\nIn 1926, her husband resigned from the Australian Senate, to which he had been elected in 1919, due to ill-health. He was later convicted of embezzlement, sentenced to three years hard labour and declared insolvent. Relying on inherited money to support her family, Benny moved into her husband's city offices and operated the \"Elite Employment Agency,\" during the depression.\nShe separated from her husband, who died in 1935 and remarried in 1940.\nThe Brighton Council named a crescent and a community centre for women's groups after her.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/australias-first-female-politician\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/200-australian-women-a-redress-anthology\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/benny-susan-grace-1872-1944\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Reid, Margaret Elizabeth", "Entry ID": "AWE0161", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/reid-margaret-elizabeth\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Crystal Brook, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Barrister, Lawyer, Parliamentarian, Solicitor", "Summary": "Margaret Reid is the first woman to have been elected President of the Senate. She held this position for six years, from 20 August 1996 to 18 August 2002. In 2004 she was appointed Officer of the Order of Australia for her service to the Australian Parliament and the community.\n", "Details": "Margaret Reid obtained her Bachelor of Laws from Adelaide University and worked as a barrister and solicitor before entering Federal Parliament. She was Deputy Government Whip in the Senate from 18 November 1982 to 4 February 1983, Deputy Opposition Whip from 21 April 1983 to 14 September 1987 and Opposition Whip from 14 September 1987 to 9 May 1995. On 9 May 1995, Reid became Deputy President of the Senate and Chair of Committees and President of the Senate in August 1996.\nReid was awarded the Queen Elizabeth 11 Silver Jubilee Medal in 1977 and the Order of Polonia Restituta in 1987. She is married with two sons and two daughters.\n", "Events": "Inducted into the Victorian Honour Roll of Women (2001 - 2001)", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/the-hon-margaret-reid-senator-for-the-australian-capital-territory\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/from-lady-denman-to-katy-gallagher-a-century-of-womens-contributions-to-canberra\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/australian-women-lawyers-as-active-citizens\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/papers-of-senator-margaret-reid\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/papers-of-margaret-reid-relating-to-andrew-fisher-2001-manuscript\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/papers-of-margaret-reid-1969-2003-manuscript\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/margaret-reid-interviewed-by-barry-york-in-the-old-parliament-house-political-and-parliamentary-oral-history-project-sound-recording\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/biographical-cuttings-on-margaret-reid-politician-containing-one-or-more-cuttings-from-newspapers-or-journals\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/liberal-party-policy-on-act-self-government\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Gallus, Christine", "Entry ID": "AWE0196", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/gallus-christine\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Adelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Parliamentarian", "Summary": "Chris Gallus was appointed Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Foreign Affairs on 26 November 2001.\nShe was elected to the House of Representatives (Liberal Party) in 1990 for the seat of Hawker, which was later abolished, and for the seat of Hindmarsh in 1993 and subsequent elections. She retired in 2004.\n", "Details": "Chris Gallus completed a Bachelor of Arts (Australian National University), a Graduate Diploma in Applied Psychology (Flinders University), and a Graduate Diploma in Health Education (Sturt College Advanced Education).\nPrior to entering Federal Parliament she worked as a Researcher for the South Australian Health Commission. She has also worked as an advertising executive, a journalist and the director of a small business.\nGallus served as Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Reconciliation and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Affairs until 26 November 2001. She was a Member of the House of Representatives Standing Committee for Community Affairs from 16 May 1990 to 8 February 1993; for Environment, Recreation and the Arts from 16 May 1990 to 8 February 1993; and for Financial Institutions and Public Administration from 29 May 1996. She was a member of the Joint Statutory Committee for Native Title from 29 June 1994 to 29 May 1995; and for Native Title and the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Land Fund from 29 March 1995 to 29 January 1996. She was also a member of Joint Standing Committees for Migration (Chair) from 13 June 1996, and Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade from 18 June 1996.\nWhile in opposition, she was Shadow Minister for Environment from 7 April to 26 May 1994 and Shadow Minister for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Affairs from 25 May 1994 to 11 March 1996.\nChris Gallus is married with three children. She is a self-described movie fanatic and enjoys reading bad novels.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/whos-who-in-australia-2002\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/federal-team\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/chris-gallus-leaves-marginal-seat-of-hindmarsh\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/papers-of-the-hon-chris-gallus\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Vanstone, Amanda Eloise", "Entry ID": "AWE0197", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/vanstone-amanda-eloise\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Adelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Lawyer, Parliamentarian", "Summary": "Elected to the Senate for South Australia in 1984 (Liberal Party), Vanstone was appointed to several Ministries in her long parliamentary career: Minister for Employment, Education, Training and Youth Affairs from 1996 to 1997, Minister for Justice (and Customs ) from 1997 to 2001, Minister for Family and Community Services and Minister Assisting the Prime Minister for the Status of Women from 2001 to 2003 and Minister for Immigration and Multicultural Affairs from 2003 to 2007. On her retirement in 2007, she was appointed Australia's Ambassador to Italy, serving in this position until 2010.\n\u00a0\n", "Details": "Vanstone obtained a Bachelor of Arts and a Bachelor of Laws from the University of Adelaide, as well as a Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice and a Marketing Studies Certificate form the South Australian Institute of Technology. She began her career as a retailer, and worked in wholesaling before becoming a solicitor.\nVanstone served as Minister for Employment, Education, Training and Youth Affairs (11 March 1996 to 9 October 1997), Minister for Justice (9 October 1997 to 21 October 1998), Minister for Justice and Customs (21 October 1998 to 30 January 2001), Minister for Family and Community Services and Minister Assisting the Prime Minister for the Status of Women (30 January 2001 to 7 October 2003), and Minister for Immigration and Multicultural Affairs (7 October 2003 to 30 January 2007).\nShe has been a Member of the Cabinet and the Legal Committee of the Cabinet; Parliamentary Secretary to the Deputy Leader of the Opposition; Shadow Special Minister of State; and spokesperson on the Status of Women. She was involved in the National Campaign Against Drug Abuse.\nAmana Vanstone was honoured with an AO in the Australia Day Honours list in 2020 for distinguished service to the Parliament of Australia, to the people of South Australia, and to the community.\nMarried to Tony, she is a supporter of the RSPCA.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/the-hon-amanda-vanstone-senator-for-south-australia\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/senator-the-hon-amanda-vanstone-minister-for-family-community-services-minister-assisting-the-prime-minister-for-the-status-of-women\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/whos-who-in-australia-2002\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/so-many-firsts-liberal-women-from-enid-lyons-to-the-turnbull-era\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/australian-women-lawyers-as-active-citizens\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/opening-of-a-memorial-to-the-stolen-generations\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/papers-of-senator-amanda-vanstone\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Worth, Patricia Mary", "Entry ID": "AWE0204", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/worth-patricia-mary\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Riverton, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Nurse, Parliamentarian", "Summary": "A member of the Liberal Party of Australia, Trish Worth was elected to the House of Representative of the Australian Parliament as the Member for Adelaide, South Australia in 1993. She was appointed Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Health and Ageing on 26 November 2001 in the Howard Government. She was defeated at the 2004 election.\n", "Details": "A registered nurse and midwife, Worth was a senior manager at a private pathology company before entering Federal Parliament. From 11 July 1997 to 21 October 1998, Worth was Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Health and Family Services. From 21 October 1998 until 2001, she was Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Education, Training and Youth Affairs.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/whos-who-in-australia-2002\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/the-hon-trish-worth-mp-member-for-adelaide-sa\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trish-worth\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Marcus, Julie", "Entry ID": "AWE0255", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/marcus-julie\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Adelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Academic, Anthropologist", "Summary": "Marcus's doctoral research was on the impact of Islam on the lives of Turkish women. She has published articles on racism, gender and sexuality in Australian culture. Also Marcus research interests include the Arrernte opposition to the damming of the Todd River in Alice Springs as well as collecting material on the life of Olive Pink.\n(Source: Australian Garden History.)\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/miss-pinks-garden-the-creation-of-an-arid-zone-botanic-garden\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/first-in-their-field-women-and-australian-anthropology\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/the-beauty-simplicity-and-honour-of-truth-olive-pink-in-the-1940s\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/yours-truly-olive-m-pink\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/the-indomitable-miss-pink-a-life-in-anthropology\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/whos-who-in-australia-2002\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/a-patron-and-a-friend-olive-pink-and-j-b-cleland\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/correspondence-diaries-and-tapes-related-to-julie-marcus\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Preston, Margaret Rose", "Entry ID": "AWE0257", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/preston-margaret-rose\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Port Adelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Death Place": "Mosman Sydney, New South Wales, Australia", "Occupations": "Artist", "Summary": "Margaret Preston was the first woman to be commissioned by the Art Gallery of New South Wales to produce a self-portrait. In 1996 one of her hand-coloured woodcuts of a Western Australian banksia from 1929 was commemorated on an Australia Day postage stamp.\n", "Details": "Margaret Rose Mcpherson studied in Melbourne and Adelaide before travelling overseas. In 1919 she married Bill Preston. As a successful teacher and exhibitor, she developed a reputation for her highly decorative and colourful paintings and woodcuts of Australian fauna and flora at a time when European flowers were still considered the norm for gardens and paintings.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/margaret-prestons-banksia-woodcut-memorialised\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/100-great-australians\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/the-complete-book-of-great-australian-women-thirty-six-women-who-changed-the-course-of-australia\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/200-australian-women-a-redress-anthology\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/the-encyclopedia-of-women-and-leadership-in-twentieth-century-australia\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/birth-certificate-and-manuscript-1875-ca-1924-manuscript\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Fiveash, Rosa Catherine", "Entry ID": "AWE0328", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/fiveash-rosa-catherine\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Adelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Death Place": "Adelaide", "Occupations": "Botanical artist", "Summary": "While studying at the Adelaide School of Design under H P Gill, Principal, and Louis Tannert, Master of the School of Painting, Rosa Fiveash chose to specialise in painting Australian flora. She was commissioned by the conservator of forests, John Ednie Brown, to illustrate his Forest Flora of Australia and orchidologist R S Rogers to illustrate his works on South Australian orchids. The Botanic Gardens of Adelaide and the State Herbarium have a collection of her original flower paintings. It was Fiveash who introduced the art of china painting to Adelaide.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/fiveash-rosa-catherine-1854-1938\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/fiveash-rosa-catherine-1854-1938-biographical-entry\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/rosa-fiveash-1854-1938\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/where-are-the-women-in-australian-science-2\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/200-australian-women-a-redress-anthology\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/australian-orchids-a-collection-of-paintings\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/the-south-australian-naturalist\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/the-forest-flora-of-south-australia\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/an-introduction-to-the-study-of-south-australian-orchids\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/australian-botanists-collectors-and-artists-collection\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Tideman, Ruth", "Entry ID": "AWE0345", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/tideman-ruth\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Adelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Educator, Headmistress", "Summary": "A council member of the Invergowrie Foundation, Ruth Tideman was Headmistress of Lauriston Girls' School, Armadale (Victoria) from 1983 to 2000.\nOn 26 January 2001 Ruth Tideman was made a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) for service to education as the Headmistress of Lauriston Girls' School and for providing advancement opportunities for teachers and pupils through the Invergowrie Foundation.\n", "Events": "Born: daughter of Ac and N E (nee Boakes) Hansen (1932 - 1932) \nChairman of the Grants Committee for The Invergowrie Foundation (1996 - 1996) \nCouncil member of Melbourne Grammar School (2001 - 2001) \nDeputy headmistress of the Wilderness School in South Australia (1978 - 1982) \nFoundation chairman of The Invergowrie Foundation (1992 - 1995) \nHeadmistress of Lauriston Girls' School (Melbourne) (1983 - 2000) \nmarried: A F Tideman, they bore four children (three daughters and a son) (1956 - 1956) \nMember of Secretariat Assist (USA) Scholarship Scheme (1997 - 1997) \nMember of the Association of Australasian International Baccalaureate Schools (1992 - 2000) \nMember of the Association of Heads of Independent Schools of Australia (1983 - 2000) \nMember of the Association of Independent School's Victoria (1983 - 2000) \nMember of The Invergowrie Foundation (1992 - 1992) \nTeacher in Adelaide and the United Kingdom (1966 - 1978)", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/whos-who-in-australia-2002\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/where-are-the-women-in-australian-science-2\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Pike, Bronwyn Jane", "Entry ID": "AWE0360", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/pike-bronwyn-jane\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Tanunda, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Parliamentarian", "Summary": "A member of the Australian Labor Party, Bronwyn Pike entered the Victorian Parliament in 1999 as the Member for Melbourne in the Legislative Assembly. Her ministerial portfolios included Community Services and Housing. After the 2002 election she became Minister for Health. She was re-elected in 2006 at the state election, held on 25 November, and in August 2007 was appointed Minister for Education in the Brumby Government on the retirement of Steve Bracks as Premier. She was re-elected in 2010, but the Labor Government was defeated. She resigned from parliament on 7 May 2012.\nPrior to entering Parliament, she worked as a secondary school teacher, Director of Justice and Social Responsibility, Executive Officer and Union Official.\nBronwyn Pike was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) in 2022 for significant service to social welfare and not-for-profit organisations, and to the Parliament of Victoria.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/whos-who-in-australia-2002\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/carrying-on-the-fight-women-candidates-in-victorian-parliamentary-elections\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Bullwinkel, Vivian", "Entry ID": "AWE0362", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/bullwinkel-vivian\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Kapunda, South Australia, Australia", "Death Place": "Perth, Western Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Health administrator, Nurse, Servicewoman", "Summary": "Vivian Bullwinkel was the sole survivor of the 1942 Banka Island massacre. Post-war, she was Matron of Melbourne's Fairfield Hospital.\n", "Details": "Vivian Bullwinkel grew up in Broken Hill, New South Wales, and Adelaide, South Australia. Her father had migrated to Australia from Essex in 1912 and worked as a jackaroo on a station near Broken Hill before he married and took on a clerical post with Broken Hill South Pty Ltd. Vivian's grandfather was William John Shegog, a member of the South Australian Police Force. At the age of nine, she moved to Adelaide to live with her grandparents but returned to attend Broken Hill High School when she was thirteen. In 1934 she began nursing and midwife training at the Broken Hill and District Hospital. From February 1939 she was working at the Kia-Ora Hospital in Hamilton, Victoria, but moved to Melbourne to enlist at the outbreak of war and worked for a time at the Jessie MacPherson Hospital.\nIn May 1941, Bullwinkel volunteered for the Australian Army Nursing Service (AANS) and sailed for Singapore, assigned to the 2\/13th Australian General Hospital. In February 1942, she boarded the SS Vyner Brooke with 65 other nurses to flee Singapore following an invasion by Japanese troops, but the ship was sunk by Japanese aircraft two days later. A large number of passengers, including 22 nurses, made it ashore to Radji Beach on Banka Island and decided to surrender to the Japanese. They were joined the following day by about 100 British soldiers. Upon being discovered by Japanese soldiers, however, the men were killed and the nurses ordered to wade into the sea where they were machine-gunned from behind. Bullwinkel was struck by a bullet but feigned death until her persecutors had left. The sole survivor of the massacre, she hid for twelve days before surrendering and spent a further three and a half years in captivity.\nBullwinkel served in Japan in 1946 and 1947 before resigning from the Army as Captain, but she rejoined the Citizen Military Forces in 1955 and served until 1970, when she retired as Lieutenant Colonel. Post-war, Bullwinkel spent 16 years as Matron of Melbourne's Fairfield Hospital and continued as Director of Nursing there until 1977. In that year, she married Colonel F.W. Statham and moved to Perth. She was a member of the Council of the Australian War Memorial, and president of the Australian College of Nursing. In 1992, she returned to Banka Island to unveil a shrine to the nurses who died there.\nVivian Bullwinkel was appointed to the Order of Australia (AO) on 26 January 1993, appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) on 1 January 1973 and awarded the Royal Red Cross Medal on 6 March 1947 for service to the veteran and ex-prisoner of war communities, to nursing, to the Red Cross Society and to the community. She was also the winner of the Florence Nightingale Medal.\nPhotographs, newspaper articles and memorabilia relating to Vivian Bullwinkel were exhibited at the RSL in Argent Street, Broken Hill, in 2000 and the foyer of the Broken Hill Health Service has been named in her honour.\n", "Events": "Assistant Matron of the Repatration General Hospital, Victoria (1956 - 1960) \nDeputy Principal of the Commandant Australia Red Cross Society (1964 - 1973) \nHonourary Life Member of the Australia Red Cross Society (1992 - 1992) \nInducted into the Victorian Honour Roll of Women (2001 - 2001) \nMarried Col. F W Statham OBE, ED (1977 - 1977) \nMatron of the Fairfield Hospital, Victoria (1961 - 1977) \nMember of the Council College of Nursing Australia (1973 - 1977) \nMember of the Council of Directors of the Royal Humane Society (1973 - 1978) \nMember of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) (1973 - 1973) \nOrder of Australia (AO) (1993 - 1993) \nPresident of the College of Nursing Australia (1973 - 1974) \nPresident of the Soroptimist Clubs, Victoria (1972 - 1974) \nRoyal Red Cross Medal (1947 - 1947) \nSole survivor of Banka Island, where 21 Australian army nurses were massacred by Japanese soldiers (1942 - 1942) \nStaff member of the 13th Australian General Hospital, Australian Infantry Forces (1941 - 1941) \nStaff member of the Hamilton Private Hospital, Victoria (1939 - 1940) \nStaff member of the Jessie McPherson Hospital, Melbourne (1940 - 1941) \nTrustee of the National War Memorial, Canberra (1963 - 1977) \nWarden of Western Australian State War Memorial (first woman to be appointed) (1988 - 1989)", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/bullwinkel-vivian-4\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/uncommon-australians-towards-an-australian-portrait-gallery\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/whos-who-in-australia-1998\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/twentieth-century-women-of-courage\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/rsl-returned-sisters-sub-branchthanksgiving-service-100-years-of-australian-army-nursing\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/transcript-of-the-eulogy-given-by-the-hon-bruce-scott-the-minister-for-veterans-affairs-and-minister-assisting-the-minister-for-defence-on-behalf-of-the-prime-minister-of-australia-at-the-state-funer\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/vivian-bullwinkel-ao-mbearrc-ed-fnm-frcna-18-12-1915-3-7-2000-survivor-of-the-bangka-island-massacre\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/nurse-survivors-of-the-vyner-brooke\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/australian-nurses-since-nightingale-1860-1990\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/brave-women\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/nurses-revisit-war-hell-bangka-island-singapore\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/just-wanted-to-be-there-australian-service-nurses-1899-1999\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/where-are-the-women-in-australian-science-2\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/tributes-pour-in-for-the-hero-of-paradise-road\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/a-womans-war-the-exceptional-life-of-wilma-oram-young-am\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/service-nurses-honoured-with-long-awaited-memorial\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/wwii-nursing-heroine-dies\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/heroic-wartime-nurse-vivian-bullwinkel-dies-in-hospital-aged-84\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/vivian-statham-nee-bullwinkel-eulogy-for-state-funeral-st-georges-cathedral-perth-monday-10-july-2000\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/portraits-in-australian-health\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/our-war-nurses-the-history-of-the-royal-australian-army-nursing-corps-1902-1988\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/speech-on-the-occasion-of-the-dedication-of-the-site-of-the-australian-service-nurses-national-memorial-canberra\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/butchery-on-bangka\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/lasting-testimony-to-local-war-hero\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/bullwinkel-honored-as-world-war-two-hero\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/exhibition-highlights-wartime-survivor\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/nurses-bravery-example-to-others\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/state-funeral-farewell-for-sister-bullwinkel\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/third-anzac-arrives-home\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/she-looked-for-a-warm-place-to-die\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/nurses-four-years-ordeal\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/faith-hope-and-charity-australian-women-and-imperial-honours-1901-1989\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/some-outstanding-women-of-broken-hill-and-district\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/broken-hill\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/unbroken-spirit-women-in-broken-hill\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/sister-bullwinkel-the-untold-uncensored-story\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/war-crimes-and-trials-affidavits-and-sworn-statements\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/list-of-awards-for-services-rendered-whilst-prisoners-of-war\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/war-crimes-and-trials-affidavits-and-sworn-statements-2\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/campaign-in-malaya-and-singapore-escape-before-and-after-capitulation-and-evacuation-of-civilians\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/bullwinkel-v-sister-international-military-tribunal\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/bullwinkel-vivian-2\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/official-historian-1939-1945-war-biographical-files\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/radio-talk-presented-by-abc-war-correspondent-haydon-lennard-release-of-nurses-box-7\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/group-portrait-of-australian-army-nursing-service-aans-nurses-who-were-former-prisoners-of-war-pows-ob-board-the-hospital-ship-manunda-on-its-arrival-in-australia\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/bullwinkel-vivian-3\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Giles, Patricia Jessie (Pat)", "Entry ID": "AWE0371", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/giles-patricia-jessie-pat\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Minlaton, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Nurse, Political activist, Politician", "Summary": "Pat Giles commenced her working life as a nurse. After completing a Bachelor of Arts as a mature age student, she was an Organiser with the Hospital Employees Union of Western Australia from 1974 until 1981. In that year Giles was elected as an Australian Labor Party (ALP) Senator for Western Australia, and held the position for twelve years. During this time she was directly involved in the United Nations Decade for Women meetings, leading the government delegation to Nairobi in 1985.\nGiles was a founding member and inaugural convenor of the Women's Electoral Lobby (WEL) WA in 1973 and was the first woman on the executive of the West Australian Trades and Labour Council. She was a member, later Chairperson, of the first Australian Council of Trade Unions Women's Committee. In 2004 Giles completed her third and final term as President of the International Alliance of Women. In 2010, she was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia.\n", "Events": "ACTU representative member of the first tripartite committee on women's employment in Australia (sub-committee of the National Labour Consultative Committee on Women's Employment) (1979 - 1981) \nChaired the World Health Organisations's Global Commission on Women's Helath (1995 - 1996) \nExecutive member of the Health Education Council of WA (1971 - 1981) \nFirst woman elected to the executive of the WA Trades & Labour Council (1975 - 1975) \nFirst woman to argue an important general issue before the WA State Industrial Commission (Maternity Leave which was granted to women in private employment, January 1980) (1979 - 1979) \nFirst woman to chair a committee on Discrimination in Employment & Occupation (1974 - 1974) \nGraduated with a BA from the University of Western Australia (1974 - 1974) \nInaugural convenor and member of WEL Perth (1973 - ) \nJunior Vice-President of the ALP (1983 - 1985) \nMarried Keith Giles (FFARCS, FFAARCS) (diss. 1976), they had four daughters (1953 - 1953) \nMember of the Administrative Committee for the ALP (WA) (1976 - 1979) \nMember of the Community Advisory Committee in Industrial Relations for the University of WA (1979 - 1981) \nMember of the first ACTU Women's Committee (1978 - 1978) \nMember of the Homeless Persons Advisory Committee in WA (1975 - 1981) \nMember of the Review Committee for the WA Legal Aid Commission (1978 - 1981) \nObtained Certificate in General Nursing (1950 - 1950) \nObtained Certificate in Infant Welfare (1952 - 1952) \nObtained Certificate in Midwifery (1951 - 1951) \nOrganiser of the Hospital Employees' Union WA (1974 - 1981) \nSentator (ALP) for Western Australia (1981 - 1993) \nService industries representative on the WA Trades & Labour Council (1975 - 1980) \nSpeaker at the 19th Mary Owen Dinner (2004 - 2004) \nTemporary Chairman of Committees (1986 - 1986) \nVice-president of the WA Council of State School Organizations (1971 - 1974) \nWestern Australian delegate to the ALP National Conference (1981 - 1981)", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/giles-pat\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/whos-who-in-australia-1988\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/whos-who-of-australian-women\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/one-thing-led-to-another-a-life-of-activism-in-support-of-womens-rights-an-interview-with-pat-giles\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/interviews-with-famous-feminists\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/interview-with-pat-giles-and-wendy-fatin\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/interview-with-patricia-giles-politician\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/patricia-jessie-giles-awarded-honorary-degree-by-murdoch-university-career-details\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/patricia-jessie-giles-biography-and-key-parliamentary-speech\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/irene-greenwood-1899sic-1992-a-hero-of-the-feminist-movement\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/irene-greenwood-a-hero-of-the-feminist-movement-1899-1992\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/the-encyclopedia-of-women-and-leadership-in-twentieth-century-australia\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/among-the-chosen-the-life-story-of-pat-giles\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/pat-giles-papers-1974-1986-manuscript\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Haines, Janine", "Entry ID": "AWE0372", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/haines-janine\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Tanunda, South Australia, Australia", "Death Place": "Adelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Parliamentarian", "Summary": "In June 2001, Haines was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia 'for service to the Australian Parliament and to politics, particularly as Parliamentary Leader of the Australian Democrats, and to the community.'\nHaines was appointed to the Senate to fill a casual vacancy in South Australia in 1977. In 1986 she became the first woman to lead an Australian political party when she was elected leader of the Australian Democrats.\n", "Details": "Haines spent her early family years growing up in country South Australia, settling in Adelaide by the time she attended Brighton High School. She was elected Deputy leader of the Australian Democrats in 1985; elected to the position of Federal leader in 1986 which she held until 1990. Since 1990 she had taken on a number of roles; as a freelance writer and speaker; involvement in a number of organisations; as a member of Parliamentary delegations to South Africa and Iraq.\n", "Events": "Inducted into the Victorian Honour Roll of Women (2001 - 2001)", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/australian-feminism-a-companion\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/whos-who-in-australia-2002\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/getting-equal-the-history-of-australian-feminism\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/the-encyclopedia-of-women-and-leadership-in-twentieth-century-australia\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/papers-of-senator-janine-haines\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/papers-of-janine-haines-am\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/interview-with-janine-haines-federal-politician-1977-1990-freelance-writer-and-speaker-sound-recording-interviewer-jenny-palmer\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/biographical-cuttings-on-janine-haines-containing-one-or-more-cuttings-from-newspapers-or-journals\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/parliamentarians-questionnaires-1982-1983-manuscript\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/pat-richardson-scrapbooks-relating-to-the-womens-electoral-lobby-and-womens-events-1977-2002\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Goward, Pru", "Entry ID": "AWE0381", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/goward-pru\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Adelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Bureaucrat, Journalist, Parliamentarian", "Summary": "Pru Goward served as Executive Director of the Office of the Status of Women from 1997. In July 2001 she became the Federal Sex Discrimination Commissioner, appointed for a term of five years. In 2004 she was also appointed Commissioner Responsible for Age Discrimination. In 2004 she was nominated by The Australian as one of the forty most influential Australians and by the Australian Financial Review as one of the country's top cultural and industrial relations influencers. Her speeches have been reproduced in published collections and in 2001 she was awarded a Centenary Medal for her services to journalism and women's rights.\nIn 2007 she stood successfully as a candidate for the Liberal Party of Australia in the seat of Goulburn in the Legislative Assembly at the New South Wales state election, which was held on 24 March. She was re-elected in 2011 and again in 2015\u00a0 and 2017 and retired in 2019.\nShe was the New South Wales Minister for Family and Community Services from 2011 to 2014 and again from 2017 to 2019, Minister for Women from 2011 to 2017, Minister for Planning from 2014 to 2015, Minister for Mental Health, Minister for Medical Research, and Assistant Minister for Health from 2015 to 2017, Minister for Prevention of Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault from 2015 to 2019, and Minister for Social Housing, from 2017 to 2019.\nPru Goward was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) in 2023 for distinguished service to the people and Parliament of NSW, and to women's affairs.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/whos-who-in-australia-2002\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/a-business-of-your-own-how-women-succeed-in-business\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/striking-the-balance-women-men-work-and-family\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/john-howard-prime-minister\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/putting-skirts-on-the-sacred-benches-women-candidates-for-the-new-south-wales-parliament-2\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/from-lady-denman-to-katy-gallagher-a-century-of-womens-contributions-to-canberra\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Deakin, Catherine Sarah (Kate)", "Entry ID": "AWE0385", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/deakin-catherine-sarah-kate\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Adelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Death Place": "South Yarra, Victoria, Australia", "Occupations": "Tutor", "Summary": "Kate Deakin (1850-1937) was Alfred Deakin's sister and close companion. She was tutor to his two eldest children and taught music at various times during her life.\n", "Details": "Katie Deakin was the only daughter of William (Bill) and Sarah Deakin and sister of Alfred Deakin. Alfred Deakin became the youngest ever cabinet Minister in 1883. He was Prime Minister of Australia 1903-1904, 1905-1908 and 1909-1910.\nBorn in Adelaide Katie came to live with her parents in Melbourne in 1851. In 1856 her only brother Alfred was born at their parent's home in George Street (Collingwood) now Fitzroy. She was educated at Miss Thomson's School in Kyneton (1858-1862), and was then a pupil, with her brother, at Miss Thompson's School in South Yarra from 1863 to 1865.\nKatie matriculated with honours from Presbyterian Ladies' College (East Melbourne). She had attended the College since its opening day (1875) and studied under Professor Pearson. She taught there when Charles Pearson was headmaster. Katie studied music at the Melbourne School of Music under C. W. Russell, passing after three years with honours in 1882. An accomplished pianist, she taught music theory and practice privately and tutored her three nieces, Ivy, Stella and Vera Deakin.\nKatie never married. She lived at \"The Elms\" in Adams Street, South Yarra, with her parents until their death and it was here that she taught her three nieces. She had many friends in the musical and literary world of Melbourne including the Monash family, and Baron Von Mueller.\nA close companion and confidante of her younger brother, Katie travelled with his family to London in 1900. She accompanied Stella Deakin to Berlin (1909) where she pursued her scientific studies, and Vera Deakin in 1913 when she studied music in Berlin and Budapest.\nKatie Deakin died at \"The Elms\" in 1937 and was buried with her parents at St Kilda cemetery.\nThis entry was researched and written by Katie Deakin's great niece, Judith Harley.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/the-mystic-life-of-alfred-deakin\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/alfred-deakin\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/alfred-deakin-a-biography\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/alfred-deakin-pattie-deakin\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/deakins-confidante\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/a-family-romance-the-deakins-at-home\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/papers-of-catherine-deakin-1844-1958-manuscript\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/papers-of-lady-stella-rivett-1923-1935-manuscript\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Douglas, Mary Stewart (May)", "Entry ID": "AWE0413", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/douglas-mary-stewart-may\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Victor Harbour, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Servicewoman", "Summary": "On 1 June 1953 May Douglas was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire, in recognition for her service as Commissioner of Girl Guides in South Australia. She was also awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia on 26 January 1997 for service to veterans, particularly through the Women's Royal Australian Army Corps Association, and the Australia Remembers 1945-1995 Celebrations.\n", "Events": "Appointed an Officer of the British Empire (OBE) (1953 - 1953) \nAssistant Controller of the Australian Women's Army Service (1941 - 1943) \nAwarded Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) (1997 - 1997) \nCaptain and Commissioner of the Girl Guides Association (1923 - 1941) \nController of the Australian Army Medical Womens' Service (1943 - 1946) \nDeputy South Australian Commissioner of the Girl Guides (1949 - 1952) \nDistrict Commissioner of the Girl Guides (1946 - 1948) \nHonorary Colonel of the Women's Royal Australian Army Corps (1961 - 1966) \nLife member of the South Australian Council of Girl Guides (1958 - 1958) \nState Commissioner of the South Australian Girl Guides (1952 - 1958)", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/douglas-mary-stewart\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/soldiers-of-the-queen-women-in-the-australian-army\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/whos-who-in-australia-1962\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/notable-lives-profiles-of-21-south-australians\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/colonel-best-and-her-soldiers-the-story-of-the-33-years-of-the-womens-royal-australian-army-corps\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/from-blue-to-khaki-the-enlisted-voluntary-aids-and-others-who-became-members-of-the-australian-army-medical-womens-service-and-served-from-1941-1951\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/a-stroll-down-memory-lane\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/women-in-wartime-may-douglas-who-played-a-prominent-part-in-the-australian-womens-army-service-raised-in-august-1941-contributes-some-of-her-memories\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/douglas-mary-stewart-service-number-sfx30364-date-of-birth-20-jan-1904-place-of-birth-victor-harbour-sa-place-of-enlistment-wayville-sa-next-of-kin-douglas-f\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/biographical-cuttings-on-mary-stewart-douglas-o-b-e-containing-one-or-more-cuttings-from-newspapers-or-journals\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/major-mary-douglas-seated-formerly-of-the-australian-womens-army-service-awas\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/end-of-war-awards-submissions-by-quartermaster-general-and-director-general-of-medical-services\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/a-pre-dinner-chat-for-womens-royal-australian-army-corps-wraac-officers\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/officers-at-the-conference-of-assistant-and-deputy-assistant-controllers-australian-army-medical-womens-service\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/officers-at-the-conference-of-assistant-and-deputy-assistant-controllers-australian-army-medical-womens-service-2\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/lieutenant-colonel-may-douglas\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/members-of-the-girl-guides-association-south-australia-working-in-the-depot-during-their-thrift-campaign-to-raise-funds-for-organisations-such-as-the-red-cross\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Davidson, Ethel Sarah", "Entry ID": "AWE0420", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/davidson-ethel-sarah\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Adelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Death Place": "Semaphore, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Nurse, Servicewoman", "Summary": "Orphaned at the age of five, Ethel Davidson grew up with her half-brothers and sisters - children from her father's first marriage. After completing her nursing training at Adelaide Hospital, she worked in district and private nursing.\nIn 1904 Davidson became a reserve member of the Australian Army Nursing Service, enlisting in the Australian Imperial Force in 1914. During World War I she was stationed at Mena, Cairo, where she was mentioned in despatches. She was awarded the Royal Red Cross Medal, 2nd class, for her nursing service in England and France. On 3 June 1919 Davidson was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (Military) for services to army nursing.\nAfter leaving the army, Davidson became matron of the military hospital at Keswick (SA), a post she held until her retirement in 1933. From 1922 to 1926 she was president of the Returned Army Nurses' Association of South Australia. In 1924 the Association became a sub-branch of the Returned Sailors' and Soldiers' Imperial League.\nEthel Davidson never married and died on 21 April 1939. She is buried in the Australian Imperial Force (AIF) cemetery, West Terrace, Adelaide.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/davidson-ethel-sarah-1872-1939\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/the-diggers-makers-of-the-australian-military-tradition\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/davidson-ethel-sarah-sern-matron-pob-payneham-sa-poe-n-a-nok-b-davidson-thomas\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Gibson, Gladys Ruth", "Entry ID": "AWE0513", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/gibson-gladys-ruth\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Goodwood Park, South Australia, Australia", "Death Place": "Belair, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Community worker, Educator, School inspector, Women's rights activist, Women's rights organiser", "Summary": "During her career Ruth Gibson served on the University Public Examinations Board, the Technical Schools Curriculum Board and the Social Studies Committee. As well she was a foundation member and honorary treasurer of the Australian College of Education, a member of the foundation committee of the St Ann's College and a president of the South Australian Women Graduates' Committee. Over many years Gibson was a committee member or office-bearer in the National Council of Women of South Australia; the National Council of Women of Australia; the International Council of Women; the Royal Flying Doctor Service (SA Section); the Adelaide YWCA; The Adelaide College of Education; the Status of Women Commission; the Soroptimists' Clubs; the SA University Women Graduates' Association; the Australian Association United Nations; the Good Neighbour Council; St Ann's Women's University College; the Junior Red Cross; the Australian Broadcasting Commission; the Churchill Scholarships Foundation; and the National Fitness Council.\n", "Details": "Ruth Gibson was the second woman from South Australia to hold the national presidency of the Australian National Council of Women (1953-1956). As president, one of her main actions was to pursue the issue of federal legislation to bring about equal marriage and divorce laws and, with her finely honed negotiation skills, she was successful in persuading the constituent councils of ANCW to adopt a clear and united position on this matter. During her period of office she was honoured to represent Australian women at the coronation of Elizabeth II in 1953, and played a leading role in welcoming the Queen to Australia during the royal tour of 1954. She also served as the South Australian Council president 1951-1954, as a vice-president of the International Council of Women 1953-1956 (before being elevated to its Committee of Honour), and as Australia's delegate to the UN Status of Women Commission (CSW) in Geneva (1956) and New York (1957) when she acted as rapporteur. Both the national and South Australian NCWs marked her contribution to their work with life vice-presidencies.\nGibson's main area of expertise and interest was education. Trained as a teacher, she was mentored by and succeeded Adelaide Miethke as South Australian inspector of schools (girls' departments) in 1941. Aged only 39 at her appointment, she served in this position until 1953 when she was promoted to inspector of secondary schools, the only woman among four men at this level. She continued in this work while also leading the state and national NCWs and serving Australia at the CSW, until her retirement from the Education Department in 1961. Thus, like Miethke, she was unusual in combining her ANCW and other Council work with fulltime paid employment. She took on other leading roles in a number of educational areas and was appointed a Fellow of the Australian College of Education in 1963.\nGladys Ruth Gibson, women's rights activist and educator, was born on 29 December 1901 at Goodwood Park, Adelaide, the eldest of four children of James Ambrose Gibson, a travelling collector for the South Australian Blind, Deaf and Dumb Institution, and his wife Emma, n\u00e9e Keeley. Gibson was educated at Goodwood Public and Unley High schools. Her mother died after three years of illness in 1923, when Ruth was 21. Ruth assumed most of her responsibilities and became a source of strength in a close-knit family for the rest of her life.\nGibson began work in 1919 as a student teacher at Goodwood. She later taught at a number of primary and secondary schools in Adelaide and the country, studying part-time for her diploma from the Teachers' Training College and her degree at the University of Adelaide (BA, 1937, Dip. Ed. 1940), before being appointed an inspector of schools (girls' departments) in 1941 at the unprecedentedly young age of 39. She served in this capacity until 1953 when she was promoted to inspector of secondary schools, the only woman among four men employed at this level. She held this post until her retirement in 1961. Her predecessor and mentor as inspector of girls' departments, Adelaide Miethke, provided a model for much of Gibson's subsequent career, though Gibson reached beyond her in many ways, especially in her international activism. It was as a delegate from the Women Teachers' Progressive League that she first joined the NCW of South Australia in 1936. Then, when a new organisation, the Women Teachers' Guild, was formed as a breakaway group from the Public Sector Union in 1937, Ruth was elected secretary. On her return from a trip overseas in 1939, she addressed its first conference on 'Women in Education Abroad. She became secretary of NCWA from 1939 to 1941 during Miethke's presidency.\nDuring her career in the SA Education Department, Gibson brought energy, dedication and commitment to women's education and to improving conditions and status for women teachers. She was a founder of St Ann's College (for women attending Adelaide University) and also later played a leading role as president (1960-1961) in the South Australian Women Graduates' Association (state branch of the Australian Federation of University Women). Like Adelaide Miethke, she promoted the careers of promising young teachers in the Education Department.\nGibson believed that the ideal teacher showed 'good humour and tolerance for others' and flexibility with regard to syllabuses and timetables. In her annual report of 1942, she wrote of 'the important part that education should play in the shaping of the post-war world'; she believed that 'actual participation in activities calling for tolerance and co-operation' would foster 'knowledge of the privileges and duties of citizenship' from 'the child's earliest years'. A member of the Public Examinations Board (1942-1963) and of the Technical High Schools Curriculum Board, she convened the English and social studies committees of the latter, foregrounding these objectives and a child-centred approach. As a founding member of the Australian College of Education (later Educators) in 1959, she served as honorary treasurer and was appointed a fellow, the highest honour the College could bestow, in 1963.\nThough her educational work was of great importance, Ruth Gibson is chiefly known for her leading roles in the National Council of Women at the state, national and international levels. She did, however, bring her educational expertise into the Australian Councils as state and national convenor of their education standing committees, where she expounded on education as a key factor in national achievement and international understanding.\nAs South Australian Council president from 1951 to 1954, Ruth Gibson's term in office was extended to include the royal visit, during which she arranged and presided over a women's welcome to the Queen. From 1953 to 1956, Gibson was also president of the Australian National Council of Women, and, in recognition of her role as a leader on Australian women's issues, the Commonwealth government selected her as one of Australia's official guests at the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II at Westminster Abbey in June 1953.\nA key issue during Gibson's presidency of ANCW was the pursuit of federal legislation to bring about equal marriage and divorce laws. Experienced in negotiation and in dealing with different sensitivities simultaneously, she was successful in persuading the constituent councils of ANCW to adopt a clear and united position on this matter at the 1954 conference. While reiterating the mantra that 'the home is the very foundation stone of national life', she argued patiently that, with regard to divorce, 'marked inequalities exist in law as between men and women and as between States' and that establishment of 'an Australian domicile and of uniform divorce laws' was not 'only fair and just' but would also institute more effective protection. Some frustration with the slowness of progress on matters of equality is evident in her further comment that, although 'the Council is not an \"anti-men's\" society', 'we must \u2026 begin to prepare more of our menfolk to accept the idea of a partnership between men and women in national and international life \u2026 it is sex rather than ability that determines much if not most or all of the policy of this country'.\nGibson's interest in the International Council movement began early in 1938, when she was one of ten Australian delegates to the Jubilee Conference of the International Council of Women in Edinburgh, Scotland. On her return, she told the members of the Women Teachers' Guild that they were 'in tune with the highest inspirations of the International Council of Women since it [the Guild] aimed \u2026 at the removal of all disabilities of women in the teaching service'. Her ICW activism culminated in her election as vice-president from 1953 to 1956, and, when her term of office expired, her elevation to the Council's Committee of Honour. Gibson's view that her chosen career, education, was also a precondition for the expansion of international awareness and tolerance promoted by organisations like the ICW was reflected in a paper she gave - 'Education's Part in Developing International Understanding' - at a conference of the Australian and New Zealand Association of Institutes of Inspectors of Schools, held in Perth in 1954.\nRuth Gibson's international experience and awareness were recognised by the Australian government in its decision to appoint her its representative at the 10th and 11th sessions of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women held in Geneva in 1956 and New York in 1957. At the latter, she was elected rapporteur to the Commission. The business of these sessions included the access of women to education and economic opportunity, tax and legal questions and the nationality of married women. In later years, Gibson travelled extensively overseas to attend conferences and executive meetings of the ICW and UNESCO, including in Istanbul, Tehran, and Rio de Janiero.\nRuth Gibson's ongoing commitment to the Council movement in her home state was reflected in the key role she played in the decision to purchase NCW House ('a home of our own') in Adelaide in 1957. Her contributions at state and national levels were recognised with life vice-presidencies of both the NCW (SA) and ANCW. But her active involvement in public life continued. Directly after her retirement from the Education Department in 1961, Gibson was appointed to the South Australian Equal Pay Commission, which reported to the premier, Sir Thomas Playford, in 1964 and included an appendix arguing the 'Case for Equal Pay for Men and Women Teachers in South Australia'. Equal pay for equal work for women teachers was conceded by the Industrial Court and implemented between 1966 and 1971.\nMiss Gibson's broad interests also led her to play a leading role in the SA division of the United Nations Association of Australia; the Soroptimist (president) and Lyceum clubs, Adelaide; the Good Neighbour Council of South Australia; the state section of the Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia (senior vice-president); the Adelaide YWCA (president); the Adelaide College of Education; the Junior Red Cross; the Australian Broadcasting Commission and the National Fitness Council. She was also a founding trustee and second chairman of the NCW Memorial Fund and on the state council of the Girl Guides Association for many years. In addition, she served on selection committees for Churchill fellowships and Florence Nightingale Memorial Scholarships. These duties never overshadowed her concern for individuals, shown in her many practical acts of kindness and consideration.\nRuth Gibson, like many women of her generation, found much of the inspiration for her public work in religious faith. She was a devout Anglican and a generous supporter of her church. Although not radical in her views, she was a feminist of her day and a staunch believer in social justice. Her ADB entry describes her as 'tall and strongly built', with impeccable dress sense and a 'considerable presence'. No position she held was a sinecure, it says: she worked at all of them, and was impressive both as a chairwoman and a public speaker. Some found her intimidating, but those who knew her appreciated 'her intelligence, warmth and humour, her generous and unpretentious nature, her skill as a hostess and her attachment to her family'.\nGibson was awarded the OBE in the coronation honours list 1953 and was elevated to CBE in 1970. She died of cancer on 23 August 1972 at Belair. The women of South Australia erected a sundial in her memory at the Adelaide Festival Centre in 1973 and a Ruth Gibson Memorial Fund administered by NCWSA has since 1979 provided assistance to successful applicants for projects of benefit to South Australian women. Ruth Gibson was also honoured in 1986 for her contribution to education and the NCW by a plaque on North Terrace near Kintore Street, Adelaide.\nIn his address at her funeral, the archdeacon of Adelaide, paid this tribute: 'Ruth Gibson \u2026 was no militant suffragette but was ever ready to put all her tremendous energy and efficiency into any cause which she believed would be in the interest of women generally and to raise their status in the world'.\nPrepared by: Jan Hipgrave, Marian Quartly and Judith Smart\n", "Events": "A bronze sundial was erected in her memory at the Adelaide Festival Centre (1974 - 1974) \nAppointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire for services to the advancement of women (1970 - 1970) \nAppointed inspector of girls schools (1941 - 1941) \nAppointed inspector of secondary schools (1952 - 1952) \nAppointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (1953 - 1953) \nArranged and headed a South Australian women's welcome to Queen Elizabeth II (1954 - 1954) \nAustralian representative at the Status of Women Commission, Geneva (1956 - 1956) \nAustralian representative at the Status of Women Commission, New York (1957 - 1957) \nChairman of the Co-ordinating Committee for the Soroptimist Clubs of Australia and New Zealand (1960 - 1961) \nDelegate at the International Council of Women (1938 - 1938) \nDelivered a paper, 'Education's Part in International Understanding' at the Australian and New Zealand Association of Institutes of Inspectors of Schools conference, held in Perth. (1954 - 1954) \nFellow of the Australian College of Education (1963 - 1963) \nHonorary secretary of the National Council of Women of Australia (1939 - 1941) \nInspector of Secondary Schools, South Australia (1952 - 1961) \nMember of the Committee of Honor for the International Council of Women (1970 - 1970) \nMember of the Public Examinations Board (1942 - 1963) \nObtained BA from the University of Adelaide (1937 - 1937) \nObtained DipEd from the University of Adelaide (1940 - 1940) \nPresident of the National Council of Women of Australia (1952 - 1956) \nPresident of the National Council of Women of South Australia (1950 - 1954) \nPresident of the South Australian University Women Graduates' Association (1960 - 1961) \nPresident Soroptimist Club, Adelaide (1958 - 1959) \nRetired from teaching (1961 - 1961) \nSelected by the Federal government as an official guest at the coronation (1953 - 1953) \nSenior vice-president of the Royal Flying Doctor Service, South Australia section (1969 - 1969) \nTeacher with the Department of Education, South Australia (1921 - 1941) \nThe Ruth Gibson memorial award establish to assist women to further their studies and careers (1977 - 1977) \nVice-president of the International Council of Women (1957 - 1970)", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/faith-hope-and-charity-australian-women-and-imperial-honours-1901-1989\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/whos-who-in-australia-1971\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/ruth-gibson\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/gibson-gladys-ruth-1901-1972\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/remembered-by-many\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/s-a-s-greats-the-men-and-women-of-the-north-terrace-plaques\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/200-australian-women-a-redress-anthology\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/stirrers-with-style-presidents-of-the-national-council-of-women-of-australia-and-its-predecessors\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/in-her-own-name-women-in-south-australian-history\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/ruth-gibson-a-mighty-south-australian-educator\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/ncwa-quarterly-bulletin\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/the-encyclopedia-of-women-and-leadership-in-twentieth-century-australia\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/national-council-of-women-of-s-a-summary-record\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/records-of-the-national-council-of-women-of-australia-1924-1990-manuscript\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Tenison Woods, Mary Cecil", "Entry ID": "AWE0568", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/tenison-woods-mary-cecil\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Adelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Death Place": "Ryde, New South Wales, Australia", "Occupations": "Academic, Barrister, Child welfare advocate, Lawyer, Solicitor", "Summary": "Mary Tenison Woods (n\u00e9e Kitson) was the first woman to graduate in law in South Australia. She was admitted to the bar on 20 October 1917. Her application to become a public notary in 1921 led to a change in the law: the existing Act did not include women as 'persons'.\nWhen Mary married in 1924 her partners did not wish to work with a married woman. Mary left the firm and formed a new partnership in 1925, in what may have been the first female practice in Australia. In the mid 1930s, Mary moved to Sydney and worked as a legal editor.\nFollowing the failure of her marriage to Julian Tenison Woods, she moved to Sydney with her son, where she worked as a legal editor. In 1941 she became a member of the Child Welfare Advisory Council (NSW), held many honorary positions and served on a number of boards. Mary lectured at the university on legal aspects of social work and wrote several legal textbooks on a range of subjects.\nIn 1950 Tenison Woods was appointed chief of the office of the status of women in the division of human rights, United Nations Secretariat, New York. During her term two major conventions were adopted: the Convention of the Political Rights of Women (1952), the first international law aimed at the granting and protection of women's full political rights, and the Convention of the Nationality of Married Women (1957) which decreed that marriage should not affect the nationality of a wife.\nOn 13 June 1959 Mary Tenison Woods was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire for public service, especially with the United Nations. Previously she had been appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire on 8 June 1950 for services to child welfare.\n", "Events": "After moving to Sydney with her son, she worked as legal editor with Butterworth's Book Company (1930 - 1950) \nAppointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire for public service, especially with the United Nations Organization (1959 - 1959) \nAppointed appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire for services to child welfare. (1950 - 1950) \nAppointed Chief of the Office of the Status of Women in the Human Rights Division of the United Nations (1950 - 1958) \nBecame a partner in the reconstituted firm of Johnstone, Ronald & Kitson (1919 - 1919) \nFirst woman to be admitted to the Bar in South Australia (1917 - 1917) \nFounder of the New South Wales St Joan's Social and Political Alliance (1946 - 1946) \nGraduated from the University of Adelaide, (LLB) (1916 - 1916) \nHer husband's name was removed from the roll for misuse of trust funds. The couple separated. (1927 - 1927) \nJoined Dorothy Somerville in practice, as her former partners preferred not to work with a married woman (1925 - 1925) \nKitson's application to become a public notary led to a change in the law: the existing Act did not include women as 'persons' (1921 - 1921) \nLectured part time at the University of Sydney on legal aspects of social work (1940 - 1950) \nMary Kitson married barrister and solicitor, Julian Gordon Tenison Woods, they were to have one son (1924 - 1924) \nNominated (unsuccessfully) to be the Australian representative on the United Nations Organization Status of Women Commission (1948 - 1948) \nPublished Juvenile Delinquency (1937 - 1937) \nSat on the board of the Women's Australian National Services (1940 - 1945) \nServed on the New South Wales Board of Social Studies at the University of Sydney (1941 - 1949) \nServed on the New South Wales Board of Social Study and Training (1935 - 1940) \nShe received grants from the Carnegie Corporation to research delinquency (1930 - 1930) \nWrote two articles for the Sydney Morning Herald highlighting problems at Parramatta and at the Gosford Boy's Home (1944 - 1944)", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/law\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/mary-tenison-woods\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/mary-tenison-woods-social-and-political-activist\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/capital-issues-and-economic-organization-regulations-as-amended-to-date-and-continued-in-force-by-the-commonwealth-defence-transitional-provisions-act-1946\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/butterworths-commercial-legislation-service-being-a-complete-digest-of-acts-of-parliament-regulations-and-orders-of-the-commonwealth-and-all-states-of-australia-including-notes-on-decisions-of-the\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/butterworths-digest-of-commercial-legislation-1947-being-a-complete-digest-of-acts-of-parliament-regulations-rules-and-orders-of-the-commonwealth-and-all-states-of-australia-which-relate-to-commerc\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/digest-of-commercial-legislation-being-a-complete-digest-of-acts-of-parliament-regulations-rules-and-orders-of-the-commonwealth-and-all-states-of-australia-which-relate-to-commerce\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/digest-of-war-legislation-in-australia-being-a-complete-digest-of-acts-of-parliament-regulations-rules-and-orders-by-laws-proclamations-and-notices-of-the-commonwealth-and-all-states-of-australi\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/ex-servicemens-legislation-being-the-re-establishment-and-employment-act-1945\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/juvenile-delinquency-with-special-references-to-institutional-treatment\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/landlord-and-tenant-and-land-sales-control-legislation-of-new-south-wales-being-the-landlord-and-tenant-amendment-act-1948-and-war-service-moratorium-regulations\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/landlord-and-tenant-commonwealth-regulations\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/price-regulations-consolidated-and-annotated-being-prices-regulations-as-amended-to-date-and-continued-in-force-by-the-commonwealth-defence-transitional-provisions-act-1946\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/three-women-of-faith-gertrude-abbott-elizabeth-anstice-baker-and-mary-tenison-woods\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/tenison-woods-mary-cecil-1893-1971\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/200-australian-women-a-redress-anthology\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/australian-women-lawyers-as-active-citizens\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/biographical-cuttings-on-mary-cecil-tenison-woods-barrister-legal-author-and-editor-and-child-welfare-reformer-containing-one-or-more-cuttings-from-newspapers-or-journals\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Baker, Edith Clarice", "Entry ID": "AWE0575", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/baker-edith-clarice\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Port Wakefield, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Matron, Nurse", "Summary": "Edith Baker undertook her nursing training at Memorial Hospital, Adelaide and then worked in South Africa and England before being appointed to the Royal Australian Air Force Nursing Service (RAAFNS) in 1941. Baker rose to the position of area matron before being discharged on 8 May 1944.\n", "Events": "Appointed to the Royal Australian Air Force Nursing Service (RAAFNS) (1941 - 1941) \nDischarged from the RAAFNS (1944 - 1944) \nMarried Eric G McGlaughlin (1944 - 1944) \nNursing experience in South Africa and England (1925 - 1941) \nPromoted to Area Matron, RAAFNS (1943 - 1943) \nPromoted to Matron, RAAFNS (1943 - 1943) \nPromoted to Senior Sister, RAAFNS (1942 - ) \nTraining at the Memorial Hospital, Adelaide (1921 - 1925)", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/baker-edith-clarice-2\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/whos-who-in-australia-1950\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/where-are-the-women-in-australian-science-2\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/whos-who-in-australia-1947\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/story-of-the-raaf-nursing-service-1940-1990\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Berry, Margaret Maude", "Entry ID": "AWE0591", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/berry-margaret-maude\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Adelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Death Place": "Adelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Kindergarten Principal, Servicewoman", "Summary": "Margaret Berry's distinguished career in the Australian armed forces began in October 1941. She was one of the original officers of the Australian Women's Army Service (AWAS) and was in charge of the first AWZS training school at Mt Lofty. Other posts included being Assistant Controller with the Tasmanian Line of Command Area, the Second Australian Army and the 4th Military District.\nUpon leaving the AWAS in 1947 with the rank of major, Berry travelled to Britain and joined the Women's Royal Army Corps (WRAC). Commissioned with the rank of captain, she is thought to be the only Australian woman to have achieved this. Her experiences in the WRAC included:\n\ncompany command in Northern Ireland,\ncommanding officer in Kent,\npromotion to lieutenant-colonel with a posting to Egypt where she commanded a WRAC battalion of 400 women,\nservice as adviser to the Commander-in-Chief on matters relating to women,\na tour of duty to Cyprus, including the 1956 transfer of the WRAC to Cyprus.\n\nMargaret Berry returned to Australia in 1958 and devoted much of her time to caring for her mother and then her brother. She died in the same North Adelaide street she was born in, in September 2000.\nHer family remembers her as 'an incredibly worldly woman, always up to date yet timeless.'\n", "Details": "Margaret Berry was educated at Yoothamurra Private school, Adelaide School of Art, Adelaide Kindergarten Training Teaching College and Medway School of Art, Rochester, England. She worked as a Kindergarten Director in Australia, India and England before joining the Australian Women's Army Service (AWAS) during the Second World War.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/whos-who-in-australia-1947\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Bowen, Esther Gwendolyn (Stella)", "Entry ID": "AWE0594", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/bowen-esther-gwendolyn-stella\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "North Adelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Death Place": "London, Middlesex, England", "Occupations": "Artist", "Summary": "Official War Artist during World War II, Stella Bowen received early art training in Adelaide under Margaret Preston. In 1914 she sailed for Europe to study at the Slade School, London, where she was taught by Walter Sickert. Bowen travelled extensively on the Continent and her circle of artistic and literary figures include Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein and Ford Madox Ford. Bowen lived with the novelist Ford for nine years and they had a daughter, Julia. Her chief interests were portraits and she was a regular exhibitor at the Royal Academy. Also Bowen exhibited in America. In 1943 Bowen was offered a commission as an official war artist. Working mainly in Britain she illustrated the actions of the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) as well as the lives of the returned prisoners of war. Following the war she had hoped to return to Australia, for the first time since she left, but died in London of cancer on 30 October 1947.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/bowen-esther-gwendolyn-stella-1893-1947\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/whos-who-in-australia-1947\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/stella-bowen-art-love-war\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Heysen, Nora", "Entry ID": "AWE0596", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/heysen-nora\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Hahndorf, South Australia, Australia", "Death Place": "Sydney, New South Wales, Australia", "Occupations": "Artist", "Summary": "The daughter of South Australian landscape painter Sir Hans Heysen, Nora Heysen was the first woman to win the Archibald portrait prize (1938) and the first women to be appointed as an Australian war artist on 12 October 1943. During her service Heysen completed over 170 works of art. Following the war she travelled to England and in January 1953 married Dr Robert Black, who was to become the Head of Tropical Medicine at the University of Sydney. On 26 January 1998 Nora Heysen was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia for her service to art as a painter of portraits and still life subjects.\n", "Events": "Inducted into the Victorian Honour Roll of Women (2001 - 2001)", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/heysen-nora-2\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/nora-heysen\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/youll-be-sorry\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/in-1938-the-first-woman-to-win-the-archibald-prize\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/conversation-with-nora-heysen\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/hidden-from-view-manuscript-nora-heysen-twentieth-century-australian-artist\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/nora-heysen-2\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/nora-heysen-3\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/a-cautious-gaze\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/a-remarkable-artist\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/visions-of-life-in-belated-focus\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/painting-of-the-week-no-10-portrait-study-1933-nora-heysen-born-1911\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/nora-heysens-back-to-paint-memory-lane\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/noted-artist-nora-heysen-dies-at-92\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/painter-made-her-own-mark\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/her-voyage-was-lit-by-a-fathers-fire\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trailblazer\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/nora-heysen-1911-2003\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/papers-of-nora-heysen-1913-2003-manuscript\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/biographical-cuttings-on-nora-heysen-containing-one-or-more-cuttings-from-newspapers-or-journals\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/nora-heysen-interviewed-by-denise-hickey-in-denise-hickey-collection-sound-recording\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/nora-heysen-interviewed-by-heather-rusden-sound-recording\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Speedie, Alice Beatrice", "Entry ID": "AWE0612", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/speedie-alice-beatrice\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Riverton, South Australia, Australia", "Death Place": "Melbourne, Victoria, Australia", "Occupations": "Community worker", "Summary": "Alice Speedie, the daughter of the Reverend John and Susan (n\u00e9e Long) Burns was treasurer of the Housewives' Association of Victoria for 20 years. Educated at Clarendon College, Ballarat Victoria and Inglemere College, Adelaide, South Australia, she married Charles Speedie on 10 October 1905. They had three children. A member of the executive to the Children's Cinema Council of Victoria, Speedie was President of the Australian Women's National League, Elsternwick branch, between 1939-1943. She later became vice-president of the branch. A delegate to the National Council of Women of Victoria and the Youth Problem of Today committee, Speedie was the President of the Housewives' Association of Victoria, Elsternwick branch. Aged 76, Alice Speedie died in 1955.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/whos-who-in-australia-1947\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Moffatt, Marjorie (Ann)", "Entry ID": "AWE0662", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/moffatt-marjorie-ann\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Adelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Academic", "Summary": "Senior Lecturer and Convener of the Classics Program at the Australian National University (ANU), Dr Ann Moffatt was one of the first women wardens of a mixed hall of residence when acting warden of Bruce Hall at the ANU in 1973.\nMoffatt attended Unley High School in Adelaide and University High School, Melbourne, before graduating with a Bachelor of Arts (Hons) from the University of Melbourne. She obtained her Master of Arts from the Australian National University and her Doctor of Philosophy from the University of London.\n", "Events": "Acting warden of Bruce Hall at the Australian National University (1973 - 1973) \nLecturer in classics at the Australian National University (1970 - 1977) \nSenior lecturer in classics at the Australian National University (1978 - 1978) \nVice-principal of the Women's College at the University of Sydney (1965 - 1966)", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/australian-publications-in-byzantine-and-related-fields-to-1990-a-list\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/byzantine-humanism-the-first-phase-notes-and-remarks-on-education-and-culture-in-byzantium-from-its-origins-to-the-10th-century\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/byzantine-papers-proceedings-of-the-first-australian-byzantine-studies-conference-canberra\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/maistor-classical-byzantine-and-renaissance-studies-for-robert-browning\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/whos-who-of-australian-women\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/from-lady-denman-to-katy-gallagher-a-century-of-womens-contributions-to-canberra\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Thomson, Marlienne", "Entry ID": "AWE0667", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/thomson-marlienne\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Ceduna, South Australia, Australia", "Death Place": "Adelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Missionary, Nurse", "Summary": "Marlienne Thomson was born at Ceduna, South Australia. After two years as a dental nurse she began training at the Royal Adelaide Hospital (RAH) in 1951. When training was completed she had appointments as staff nurse and charge nurse at the RAH. Marlienne attended the College of Nursing, Australia in 1958 and gained a diploma in ward management and teaching. On her return to Adelaide she was active in introducing new procedures at the RAH. She resigned in 1961 to attend the Adelaide Bible Institute and in 1964 went to South India to serve as a missionary at the Christian Medical College and Hospital at Vellore. She was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) in June 1995 for her service there.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/they-became-nurses-a-history-of-nursing-in-south-australia-1836-1980\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/interview-with-marlienne-thomson-sound-recording-interviewer-joan-durdin\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Durdin, Dorothy (Joan)", "Entry ID": "AWE0668", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/durdin-dorothy-joan\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Adelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Death Place": "Adelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Educator, Historian, Nurse", "Summary": "Joan Durdin, author of They Became Nurses: A History of Nursing in South Australia, 1836-1980 (1991) and Eleven Thousand Nurses: A History of Nursing Education at the Royal Adelaide Hospital 1889-1993 (1999), was a nurse educator and historian who contributed much to the advancement of nursing through the development of advanced education in the higher education sector. In addition to her ten years' teaching at Royal Adelaide Hospital she spent six years as a nurse educator in Papua New Guinea. She conducted extensive oral history interviews for the Royal Adelaide Hospital Heritage and History Committee, 1991-1998. Durdin received an Honorary Doctorate from Flinders University in 1994, was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) in 1985 and is commemorated by the Joan Durdin Oration, an annual event initiated and sponsored by the Department of Clinical Nursing at the University of Adelaide.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/where-are-the-women-in-australian-science-2\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/eleven-thousand-nurses-a-history-of-nursing-education-at-royal-adelaide-hospital-1889-1993\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/eleven-thousand-nurses-a-history-of-nursing-education-at-the-royal-adelaide-hospital-1889-1993\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/they-became-nurses-a-history-of-nursing-in-south-australia-1836-1980\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/learning-to-be-a-nurse-1879-1920-early-steps-in-the-professionalisation-of-nursing-in-south-australia\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/interview-with-marlienne-thomson-sound-recording-interviewer-joan-durdin\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Jericho, Helen Thelka", "Entry ID": "AWE0674", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/jericho-helen-thelka\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Kapperamanna, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Missionary", "Summary": "Helen Jericho (n\u00e9e Vogelsang) was born 20 August 1896 at Kapperamanna, an outpost of Bethesda Mission near the Birdsville Track. Her father was a lay missionary, and one of the founders of Bethesda Mission. She left the Mission after her father's death in 1916, and married in 1920\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/down-memory-lane-memoirs-of-helen-jericho\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/memoirs-of-helen-jericho\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/helen-thelka-jericho-summary-record\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Jacob, Maria Elizabeth", "Entry ID": "AWE0676", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/jacob-maria-elizabeth\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Klemzig, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Missionary", "Summary": "Maria Elizabeth Jacob (n\u00e9e Auricht) was born 10 May 1841 in Klemzig, South Australia. She married Wilhelm G. Irrgang on 4 September 1862, who died in 1872. She then married Ernest Jacob on 24 May 1878. She worked with Aboriginal people at Bethesda Mission Station and died on 13 October 1924.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/three-missionary-pioneers\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/persecution-to-freedom-christian-auricht-and-descendants-1806-1980-a-history-and-family-tree\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/bethesda-mission-correspondence-to-the-chairman-of-the-lutheran-mission-board-by-the-missionaries-and-their-wives-including-maria-jacob-and-anna-vogelsang\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Vogelsang, Anna Maria", "Entry ID": "AWE0677", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/vogelsang-anna-maria\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Langmeil (Tanunda), South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Missionary", "Summary": "Anna Maria Vogelsang (n\u00e9e Auricht), was born 3 September 1855 at Langmeil (Tanunda). She wanted to become a missionary and in 1877 met Hermann Heinrich Vogelsang who was a missionary at Bethesda Mission Station. She worked at Bethesda and Kopperamanna Missions. Her husband died in 1913 and she later moved to Lowbank to be with her children. She died on 12 October 1945.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/three-missionary-pioneers\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/persecution-to-freedom-christian-auricht-and-descendants-1806-1980-a-history-and-family-tree\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/bethesda-mission-correspondence-to-the-chairman-of-the-lutheran-mission-board-by-the-missionaries-and-their-wives-including-maria-jacob-and-anna-vogelsang\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Gent, Alison", "Entry ID": "AWE0682", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/gent-alison\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Rose Park, South Australia, Australia", "Death Place": "Adelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Women's rights activist", "Summary": "Alison Gent, n\u00e9e Hogben, was born at Rose Park, Adelaide and brought up by her widowed working mother. She attended Walford School and went on to gain an MA at Adelaide University. She married an Anglican priest in 1947 and they had five children. In 1970, Alison returned to part-time tutoring and saw publicity about the proposed Women's Liberation Movement, and she became heavily involved in its activities. In 1980, the year that Alison and her husband separated, she began a discussion group about the ordination of women, her interest stemming in part from her personal frustration. She became involved in the Movement for the Ordination of Women, which began in Adelaide in 1984. She remains a committed Christian and feminist.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/interview-with-alison-gent-sound-recording-interviewer-helen-chryssides\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Hardy, Barbara Rosemary", "Entry ID": "AWE0683", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/hardy-barbara-rosemary\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Largs Bay, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Environmentalist, Scientist", "Summary": "Barbara Hardy, n\u00e9e 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.\n", "Events": "Appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) 'for service to conservation and the community' (1987 - 1987) \nSA Senior Australian of the Year (2014 - 2014)", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/interview-with-barbara-hardy-sound-recording-interviewer-june-donovan\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/the-river-murray-test-case-for-the-environment-and-the-constitution-a-public-forum-sound-recording\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Bishop, Lenore", "Entry ID": "AWE0686", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/bishop-lenore\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Mount Gambier, South Australia, Australia", "Death Place": "Mount Gambier, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Alderman, Councillor, Mayor", "Summary": "Lenore Bishop, n\u00e9e Wilson, was born in Mount Gambier, South Australia where her father was a butcher. After finishing high school she began working, first as a legal secretary, then as a journalist, and then with her husband in a hardware business. Lenore became heavily involved in community work during her three children's school years. Following the retirement of Mount Gambier's first woman councillor in 1959, Lenore was asked to stand. She was re-elected two years later unopposed. At this time she was one of very few women in local government. In 1964 Lenore nominated for mayor and was unopposed, becoming the first woman mayor in South Australia. Lenore retired from council in 1967 but returned as the region's first woman alderman in 1972.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/interview-with-lenore-bishop-sound-recording-interviewer-adair-dunsford\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Goodes, Jessie", "Entry ID": "AWE0691", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/goodes-jessie\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Salisbury, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Community worker", "Summary": "Jessie Goodes, n\u00e9e Tate, was born in Salisbury, South Australia. She attended St Peters Girls' College and married in 1939. Experience working in her husband's St Morris delicatessen meant that she was able to gain employment in a Salisbury grocery shop when she was widowed with three children. Jessie attended a local meeting arranged by the Apex Club in 1958 to form a South Australian branch of the Civilian Widows Association, and was elected President - first of the local sub-branch, and in 1959 of the state branch. Two weeks later she was in Sydney for the formation of the national body.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/interview-with-jessie-goodes-sound-recording-interviewer-june-donovan\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Oldfield, Christobel", "Entry ID": "AWE0692", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/oldfield-christobel\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Millicent, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Community advocate, Psychologist", "Summary": "Christobel Oldfield, n\u00e9e McInnes, was born at Millicent, South Australia and grew up on a farm west of Lucindale. She began her education by correspondence and then attended local schools before finishing at Scotch College in Adelaide. She married in 1977 and had two daughters. Chris did further studies part-time and in 1985 breached the male bastion of the Greenways branch of the United Farmers and Stockowners to gain insight into issues she was studying in Psychology. She became politically conscious as a child when her parents were involved in a legal dispute over drainage rates, but assisting in her mother's Lucindale shop gave Chris a wider understanding of the impact on families of the rural crisis. In July 1993 Chris and five other women formed Rural Women for Justice to educate outsiders and set up legal aid and mediation services.\nChristobel was a 1994 nominee from South Australia for ABC Rural Woman of the Year\n", "Events": "Nominated for ABC Rural Woman of the Year in S.A. (1994 - 1994)", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/1994-abc-rural-woman-of-the-year-regional-winners\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/brilliant-ideas-and-huge-visions-abc-radio-australian-rural-women-of-the-year-1994-1997\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/interview-with-christobel-oldfield-sound-recording-interviewer-adair-dunsford\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Penniment, Diana Elizabeth", "Entry ID": "AWE0693", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/penniment-diana-elizabeth\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Adelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Rural leader", "Summary": "Diana Penniment, n\u00e9e Thomas, was born in Adelaide, South Australia. She attended Methodist Ladies College for her secondary education. Her family could not support further studies, so she worked in a bank until her marriage in 1956, when she moved with her husband into a two room cottage on his father's property at Wirrega, near Bordertown. They had four children as the children grew up Diana became involved in public affairs, from school activities and craft groups to helping form a local branch of the Women's Agricultural Bureau (WAB). Diana rose to State President of WAB in 1986. Highlights of her term included organising two international conferences. Diana also sat on the South Australian Rural Advisory Council. In 1991 she decided to focus on local issues and stood for the Tatiara District Council.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/interview-with-diana-penniment-sound-recording-interviewer-adair-dunsford\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Russell, Kathleen", "Entry ID": "AWE0694", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/russell-kathleen\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Mount Gambier, South Australia, Australia", "Death Place": "Adelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Women's rights activist", "Summary": "Kathleen Russell was born at Mount Gambier, South Australia. She came to Adelaide to live in 1936. Following the death of her husband in the late 1960s she became active in the Housewives Association and was Vice-President for a time. She died in Adelaide in 2005 at the age of 94.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/interview-with-kathleen-russell-sound-recording-interviewer-june-donovan\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Sebastian, Andi", "Entry ID": "AWE0700", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/sebastian-andi\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Manager", "Summary": "Andi Sebastian has a diverse work background including having established the Women's Information Service, been General Manager of the AIDS Council of South Australia, Manager of the Disability Complaints Service and Equity and Diversity Consultant at the University of Adelaide.\nShe now runs an independent business specialising in the management of diverse workgroups and interpersonal complaints in the workplace. She has two degrees from Flinders University, a Masters degree in Primary Health Care and a Bachelor of Arts (Hons).\nShe can be contacted via her business email address: andi.sebastian@d-q.biz\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/interview-with-andi-sebastian-sound-recording-interviewer-barbara-baird\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Adams, Lorna Esme", "Entry ID": "AWE0793", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/adams-lorna-esme\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Torrensville, South Australia, Australia", "Death Place": "Adelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Community worker", "Summary": "Lorna Esme Adams, n\u00e9e Eames, was born in Torrensville, South Australia. She trained at the Adelaide Teachers' College and met her future husband after taking up her second teaching post at Black Hill in 1942. In 1945 they began dairy farming at Black Hill, moving to Paracombe three years later. After their infant son died of cystic fibrosis and their older boy was also diagnosed, they decided to settle at Ponde for the drier climate. Their second son died in 1955. Lorna has had three enduring interests; the Girl Guides movement and the Country Women's Association, both of which she has represented at State level, and the Holstein-Fresian dairy cattle stud that she and her husband developed. Lorna and her husband Jack's surviving daughter has had nine children.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/interview-with-lorna-adams-sound-recording-interviewer-neil-baron\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Brodie, Veronica Patricia", "Entry ID": "AWE0824", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/brodie-veronica-patricia\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Point McLeay Mission, South Australia, Australia", "Death Place": "Adelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Aboriginal spokesperson", "Summary": "Veronica Brodie (n\u00e9e Wilson) was born at the Point McLeay Mission. She moved to the Port Adelaide area in 1971, an area to which her grandmothers had links. For a time Brodie worked with the local Aboriginal Community including an Aboriginal Friendship Club for parents and children at the Port Adelaide Central Methodist Mission. She was also\u00a0 involved with the development of the regional Aboriginal Co-ordinating Committee; Kura Yerlo, the Aboriginal Centre in Largs Bay and the Nunga Miminis Women's Shelter.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/interview-with-veronica-brodie-sound-recording-interviewer-catherine-murphy\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/interview-with-kathleen-brodie-and-veronica-brodie-sound-recording-interviewer-vivienne-wood\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "March, Jessie Katherine", "Entry ID": "AWE0825", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/march-jessie-katherine\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Point Pass, South Australia, Australia", "Death Place": "Adelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Teacher", "Summary": "Born at Point Pass in 1901, Jessie March was educated at Adelaide High School and Teachers Training College. She joined the New Britain Methodist Mission in 1925, becoming principal of Vunairima Girls School in 1939. In 1940 she was a governess at Brachina Station in the Flinders Ranges. She was also a Croker Island Methodist Mission teacher in 1941 before being evacuated in 1942. After the war she taught in state government schools before returning to New Britain in 1967. She moved to Papua New Guinea's eastern highlands in 1971 to translate bibles. Her life and work have been commemorated by the Jessie March Library at George Brown High School, New Britain.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/jessie-march-summary-record\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Dolling, Alison Mary", "Entry ID": "AWE0828", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/dolling-alison-mary\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "St Peters, South Australia, Australia", "Death Place": "Adelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Teacher, Writer", "Summary": "The daughter of Edward and Amy (n\u00e9e Thiselton) Dolling, Alison Dolling was born in St Peters and grew up in Tranmere, South Australia. She was educated at Ellerslie College, Tranmere, and Methodist Ladies College, Wayville, before studying at the universities of Adelaide, Washington, Seattle, Berkeley and King's College, London. Returning to Australia she taught in both South Australia and New South Wales, including ex-servicemen after World War II. Dolling joined the Chronicle newspaper as the editor of the Women's Pages and was unemployed after the Chronicle closed down. Her publications include Chronicle cameos and a district history of Marion. She completed research on John Harvey and the Spoehr family, as well as being involved with family history and German ancestry. She also worked on the book South Australian Women Artists by Shirley Cameron Wilson. Dolling's special interests included Australian history, especially early architecture, literature and art.\n", "Events": "Awarded an Australia Council grant from the Literature Board (1976 - 1976) \nEditor of Bulletin, the National Council of Women of Australia quarterly (1977 - 1979) \nEditor of Opinion,the journal of the SA English Teachers Association (1962 - 1971) \nMember of the Australian Federation of University Women (1960 - 1960) \nMember of the Australian Society of Authors (1977 - 1977) \nMember of the Historical Society of South Australia (1974 - 1974) \nMember of the Lyceum Club (Adelaide) (1965 - 1965) \nMember of Women in Media (1976 - 1976) \nPart-time lecturer in Australian literature and history of education at the Kindergarten Training College, Adelaide (1958 - 1962) \nSecondary school teacher (1941 - 1965) \nTutor of migrants and Asian students (1950 - 1950)", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/whos-who-of-australian-women\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/chronicle-cameos\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/from-shadow-into-light-south-australian-women-artists-since-colonisation-shirley-cameron-wilson\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/greek-women-in-south-australian-society-1923-1993-compiled-by-georgia-xenophou\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/h-o-hannaford-looks-back\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/the-hand-to-the-plough-die-familie-dolling-in-australien-a-social-history\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/the-history-of-marion-on-the-sturt-the-story-of-a-changing-landscape-and-its-people\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/memoirs-of-land-and-sea\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/papers-1980-congress-on-genealogy-and-heraldry-april-4-7\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/recollections-of-sydney-holmes-hamilton-1898-1987\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/dolling-dorothy-eleanor-ethel-victoria-georgina-barber-1897-1967\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/interview-with-alison-dolling-sound-recording-interviewer-yvonne-abbott\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Murray, Kemeri Anne", "Entry ID": "AWE0830", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/murray-kemeri-anne\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Adelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Judge, Lawyer", "Summary": "Kemeri Murray attended Adelaide University, graduating in 1953 in Law and 1954 in Arts. She studied piano under Raymond O'Connell while doing articles at Vaughan, Porter and English, a well known South Australian Law firm. After being admitted to the Bar of the Supreme Court of South Australia she transferred to Brian Magarey and was offered a partnership, making her the first married woman to be offered a partnership in South Australia. In 1973 she was offered a position on the Bench with the District Court of South Australia, thus becoming the second woman judge in South Australia. A member of the Flinders University Council, in 1978 she was appointed to the Advisory Council for Inter-Government Relations.\n", "Events": "Admitted Barrister and Solictor with the South Australian Supreme Court (1955 - 1955) \nAlternate Chairman of the Helpmann Academy (1996 - 2000) \nAlternate Chairman of the Media Council of Australia for the Alcoholic Beverages Advertising Code Council (1995 - 1996) \nAppointed Dame Commander Order of St Lazarus of Jerusalem (1995 - 1995) \nAwarded Queen's Silver Jubilee Medal (1977 - 1977) \nChairman of the Church of England Commission of Marriage (1975 - 1978) \nChairman of the Church of England Commission of Women's Issues (1986 - 1992) \nChairman of the Commonweath Club (1998 - 1999) \nChairman of the Interim Bread Industry Authority (1975 - 1976) \nChairman of the Sex Discrimination Board, South Australia (1982 - 1985) \nChairman South Australian Community Welfare Advisory Committee of Non-Accidental Injury to Children (1975 - 1975) \nCompanion at Flinders University, South Australia (1997 - 1997) \nCompanion of the Australian Rotary Health Research Fund (1999 - 1999) \nCouncil member of Flinders University, South Australia (1974 - 1996) \nGovernor of the Medical Foundation at the University of Adelaide (1988 - 1988) \nJudge Administrator of the Adelaide Registry (1982 - 1982) \nJudge at the District Court, South Australia (1973 - 1976) \nJudge of the Family Court of Australia, Adelaide Registry (1976 - 1976) \nMarried Eric Murray, they had 2 children (1955 - 1955) \nMember of the Board of Management at Flinders Medical Centre (1980 - 1986) \nMember of the Church of England Commission of Social Responsibilities (1978 - 1992) \nMember of the Commonwealth Advisory Council of Inter-Government Relations (1980 - 1984) \nMember of the Diocesan Committee of Society Questions (1980 - 1980) \nMember of the Diocesan Committee of Society Questions (1982 - 1982) \nMember of the Management committee at the Institute of Study Learning Difficulties (1984 - 1988) \nMember of the Multicultural Forum of the South Australian Government (1994 - 1994) \nPartnership with Giles Magarey & Lloyd, South Australia (1956 - 1973) \nRepresentative Governor of the Flinders Medical Research Foundation (1984 - 1996)", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/children-and-the-courts-ideals-and-reality\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/report-of-the-community-welfare-advisory-committee-enquiry-into-non-accidental-physical-injuries-to-children-in-south-australia\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/i-feel-fulfilled-administering-justice\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/whos-who-in-australia-2003\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/whos-who-of-australian-women\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/greater-than-their-knowing-a-glimpse-of-south-australian-women-1836-1986\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/australian-women-lawyers-as-active-citizens\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/interview-with-kemeri-murray-sound-recording-interviewer-yvonne-abbott\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/biographical-cuttings-on-kemeri-murray-justice-judge-of-the-family-court-of-australia-containing-one-or-more-cuttings-from-newspapers-or-journals\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Angove, Dorothy", "Entry ID": "AWE0832", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/angove-dorothy\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Port Adelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Death Place": "Adelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Teacher", "Summary": "Dorothy Angove spent her childhood in Semaphore, South Australia and Perth, Western Australia. She obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Adelaide. Angove taught at St Peters College and Girton Girls' School (Kensington Park, S. A.). She also helped Jewish graduate refugees as well as teaching at the Adelaide Children's Hospital and Dr Barnado's Homes. In 1939 she became President of the Lyceum Club.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/interview-with-dorothy-angove-sound-recording-interviewer-eva-mclaren\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/biographical-cuttings-on-dorothy-angove-one-of-the-earliest-women-graduates-of-the-university-of-adelaide-containing-one-or-more-cuttings-from-newspapers-or-journals\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Somerville, Dorothy Catherine", "Entry ID": "AWE0838", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/somerville-dorothy-catherine\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Unley, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Lawyer, Solicitor", "Summary": "The daughter of Archibald and Seca (n\u00e9e Lewin) Somerville, Dorothy Somerville was educated at Brownhill Creek School in Mitcham, the Methodists Ladies College (now Annesley College) and the Adelaide Law School. She was the third woman admitted to practice law in South Australia in 1922. Mary Kitson, the first woman admitted to the Bar, joined with Somerville in 1925 to form Australia's first women's legal partnership: Kitson & Somerville. Kitson later went to Sydney to work in publishing, and in 1950 she moved to New York to take charge of the United Nations affairs on the Status of Women. Somerville, who continued with the legal practice, became an honorary solicitor to a number of women's organisations.\n", "Events": "Appointed a Member of the Order of Australia for service to the Legal profession and to the community (1986 - 1986) \nFoundation Member of the Lyceum Club (Adelaide) Incorporated (1921 - 1921) \nGraduated Bachelor of Arts (BA) (Hons) from Adelaide University (1919 - 1919) \nGraduated Bachelor of Laws (LLB) from Adelaide University (1922 - 1922) \nHonorary Life member of the Lyceum Club (Adelaide) Incorporated (1971 - 1971) \nHonorary Life member of the South Australian Women's Hockey Association (1945 - 1945) \nHonorary solicitor to the Australian Croquet Council (1948 - 1975) \nHonorary solicitor to the Country Women's Association (SA) (1925 - 1971) \nHonorary solicitor to the South Australian Women's Croquet Association (1925 - 1925) \nHonorary solicitor to the South Australian Women's Hockey Association (1925 - 1974) \nHonorary solicitor to the Wanslea Inc (Emergency Homes for Children) (1945 - 1945) \nHonorary solicitor to the Women's Memorial Playing Fields (1955 - 1955) \nSolicitor in private practice (1925 - 1925)", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/greater-than-their-knowing-a-glimpse-of-south-australian-women-1836-1986\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/whos-who-of-australian-women\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/law\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/australian-women-lawyers-as-active-citizens\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/interview-with-dorothy-somerville-sound-recording-interviewer-yvonne-abbott\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/biographical-cuttings-on-dorothy-somerville-solicitor-containing-one-or-more-cuttings-from-newspapers-or-journals\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Stanton, Anne", "Entry ID": "AWE0843", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/stanton-anne\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Adelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Social worker", "Summary": "Anne Stanton was born in Adelaide and educated at the St Peter's Girls' School. On leaving school she attended the Conservatorium of Music and then joined the School of Social Studies. Her first job was with the Probation Branch of the Sheriff's Gaols and Prisons Department. Stanton later became a senior social worker for the Crippled Children's Association. As Vice-President of the Muscular Dystrophy Association she completed many country visits and with Adelaide Legacy she helped set up holiday camps for children. Stanton was involved with the National Trust, Friends of the Gallery, opera, theatre and the Lyceum Club. On 6 June 1978 Stanton was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australian for her work with crippled children.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/interview-with-anne-stanton-sound-recording-interviewer-yvonne-abbott\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Byrne, Roxy", "Entry ID": "AWE0844", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/byrne-roxy\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Adelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Death Place": "Adelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Actor, Hockey player", "Summary": "Roxy Byrne was born in South Australia in 1912 and attended school in Adelaide. From 1922 to 1929 she attended the Methodist Ladies College (now Annesley College) where she developed her love of the theatre, as well as her skill in hockey. An excellent student (she was dux of the school in her final year) she went on to complete a Bachelor of Arts at Adelaide University in 1933, majoring in Botany and French. After graduation she joined the Adelaide Repertory Theatre, becoming a leading actress who played a variety of outstanding roles for a period of 40 years. She was active in a number of women's organisations, including the Lyceum Club of Adelaide. She married Dr. Dudley Byrne in 1940 and had three children.\n", "Details": "1912. b. Roxy Sims. (Her father, Dr. Roy Sims, was the first government dentist.)\n1922 - 1929 - attended Methodist Ladies College (now Annesley College) and had a brilliant school career culminating as Head Prefect, Dux of the School and Captain of Hockey.\n1930 - 1933 - attended the University of Adelaide, graduating with a Batchelor of Arts Degree and majoring in Botany and French. Won the Bagot Medal as the Botany Prize. Prominent as Secretary of the Adelaide University Theatre Guild and also Captain of Hockey.\nPlayed hockey for South Australia on multiple occasions and also for the All Australian Universities women's hockey team against the English International side.\n1936 - played a key role in a pageant play in called \"Heritage\" to mark the South Australian Centenary.\n1951 - member of the cast of the Lillian Hellman play \"The Little Foxes\" with which the Adelaide Repertory Theatre won the Australian Commonwealth Championships in Hobart.\nPresident and then Vice President for many years of the South Australian Women's Hockey Association.\nPresident of the MLC Old Scholars Association and served on the School Council.\nSeal Holder and a leading member of the Lyceum Club of Adelaide.\nPresident of the Women Graduates Association University of Adelaide and was a great supporter of St. Anne's college.\nActive member of Subscribers Committee of the South Australian Symphony Orchestra.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/recording-of-reminiscences-at-lyceum-clubs-70th-anniversary-dinner-sound-recording\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/interview-with-roxy-byrne-sound-recording-interviewer-yvonne-abbott\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/interview-with-roxy-byrne-sound-recording-interviewer-kerrie-round\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Bond, Aileen Constance", "Entry ID": "AWE0846", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/bond-aileen-constance\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "South Australia, Australia", "Death Place": "South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Lawyer", "Summary": "Aileen Bond, born Aileen Ingelby in 1898, was educated at St Peter's Girls' School and studied law at Adelaide University and was one of Adelaide's earliest practising female solictors. She joined the Lyceum Club when it formed in 1922. In 1924 she married John Leslie Bond, a minister, and they moved around South Australia. During World War II her husband enlisted and went to New Guinea and she and the four children lived at Brighton, in Adelaide. After the war they lived at Clare and Victor Harbour. Her husband was given an administrative job and became in turn an Archdeacon and then a Canon. Following his death, Levy moved to Toorak Gardens, an eastern suburb of Adelaide.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/interview-with-aileen-bond-sound-recording-interviewer-anne-geddes\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/address-by-aileen-bond-and-constance-mccarthy-sound-recording\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/interview-with-aileen-bond-sound-recording-interviewer-yvonne-abbott\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/interview-with-aileen-bond-sound-recording-interviewer-pamela-runge\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "McCarthy, Gwendolen (Gwen) Helen", "Entry ID": "AWE0847", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/mccarthy-gwendolen-gwen-helen\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Norwood, South Australia, Australia", "Death Place": "South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Lawyer", "Summary": "Gwen McCarthy was born Gwendolen Helen Ure in Norwood in 1901. She was educated at Methodist Ladies College (now Annesley College) and studied law at Adelaide University, where, in 1923, she was awarded the prestigious Stow prize and medal, styled Stow Scholar because she won three prizes in her annual examinations that year. Gwendolen Ure was the first female Stow Scholar.\nShe joined the Lyceum Club in Adelaide in 1923 and was president 1967-1969. She married James McCarthy in 1927 and they set up a law practice in Kadina. Here she was involved in the Girl Guides. On her husband's death McCarthy returned to Adelaide and joined the firm of Thompson, Cleland, Holland and McCarthy.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/australian-women-lawyers-as-active-citizens\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/address-by-aileen-bond-and-constance-mccarthy-sound-recording\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/the-career-of-gwendolen-mccarthy-sound-recording\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Kitto, Joyce", "Entry ID": "AWE0853", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/kitto-joyce\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Gladstone, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Nurse, Nurse educator, Servicewoman", "Summary": "Joyce Kitto was born in Gladstone, South Australia. In the early 1950s Joyce became a member of the Citizens' Military Force Nursing Corps, which led to her decision to train as a nurse. In 1970 she was appointed tutor sister in charge of the newly established training school for enrolled nurses at Gleneden, Maryattville, where she remained until her retirement in 1985.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/interview-with-joyce-kitto-sound-recording-interviewer-joan-durdin\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Spry, Pamela Joy", "Entry ID": "AWE0855", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/spry-pamela-joy\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Adelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Death Place": "Adelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Nurse, Nurse educator, Nursing administrator", "Summary": "Pam Spry was born in Adelaide, South Australia and began training at the Royal Adelaide Hospital (RAH) in 1945. From 1973-1984 she was Director of Nursing at the RAH. Over the years Pam has also been involved with the Florence Nightingale Committee, the South Australian Health Commission, the Education Committee of the Nurses' Board, the Planning Committee for the first basic tertiary nursing course at Sturt College, and the SA Branch of the Australian Nursing Federation.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/interview-with-pamela-joy-spry-sound-recording-interviewer-joan-durdin\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Ainsworth, Eve", "Entry ID": "AWE0856", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/ainsworth-eve\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Adelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Death Place": "Eastlakes, New South Wales, Australia", "Occupations": "Nurse, Servicewoman", "Summary": "Eve Ainsworth was born in Adelaide, South Australia and was adopted in infancy by the couple whose name she was given. In 1941 she was called up for duty with the Australian Army Nursing Service and went to the Middle East later that year. On her return to Australia Eve nursed in Queensland, until her marriage in 1944.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/interview-with-eve-ainsworth-sound-recording-interviewer-joan-durdin\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Brown, Kathleen", "Entry ID": "AWE0859", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/brown-kathleen\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Nurse", "Summary": "Kate Brown was born in South Australia. On leaving school she worked at the Kate Cocks Babies' Home at Brighton until beginning training in 1947, at the Royal Adelaide Hospital. Midwifery training followed, then country hospital nursing in various parts of Australia, and nursing overseas in Britain and South Africa. She retired in 1990.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/interview-with-kathleen-brown-sound-recording-interviewer-joan-durdin\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Garrett, Merla Ruth", "Entry ID": "AWE0860", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/garrett-merla-ruth\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Sedan, South Australia, Australia", "Death Place": "Wayville, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Lecturer, Nurse", "Summary": "Merla Garrett was born at Sedan, near the Barossa Valley. After two years overseas she worked in Sydney and then Mount Pleasant. In 1962 she left South Australia for Papua New Guinea where she served as a missionary nurse for 18 years. Since 1981 Merla has been a lecturer at the School of Nursing, Sturt College (now Flinders University of South Australia). Her extra curricular activities include several assignments with the World Health Organization.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/interview-with-merla-garrett-sound-recording-interviewer-joan-durdin\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Good, Barbara Doris", "Entry ID": "AWE0861", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/good-barbara-doris\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Adelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Death Place": "South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Nurse, Nursing administrator", "Summary": "Barbara Good was born in Adelaide, South Australia. After completion of schooling at The Wilderness School, she spent a short time at Clare with her family and then began training at Mareeba Babies Hospital. In 1975 she moved to Tasmania and was Director of Nursing at the Repatriation Hospital in Hobart until her retirement from nursing in 1982.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/interview-with-barbara-doris-good-sound-recording-interviewer-joan-durdin\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Leak, Jenny Elizabeth", "Entry ID": "AWE0863", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/leak-jenny-elizabeth\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Adelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Nurse, Nurse educator", "Summary": "Jenny Leak was born in Adelaide, South Australia. Following paediatric nursing and midwifery training Jenny's later appointments included six months at the Point McLeay Aboriginal Reserve. In 1966 Jenny was a member of a surgical team working in Bien Hoa, Vietnam, for six months. Subsequently she remained in Vietnam where she administered a community aid program for children. She joined the staff of the South Australian College of Advanced Education (Sturt Campus) in 1987\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/interview-with-jenny-elizabeth-leak-sound-recording-interviewer-joan-durdin\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Parker, Barbara", "Entry ID": "AWE0866", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/parker-barbara\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Adelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Nurse", "Summary": "Barbara Parker, n\u00e9e North, was born in Adelaide. She became a tutor (unqualified) at Ru Rua Hospital in the late 1960s and moved from there to a part-time appointment with the Public Health Department (PHD). In 1970 she became a full time member of the staff of the Occupational Health Branch of the PHD, where she is still employed. Barbara Parker has been actively involved in the professional affairs of nursing including the Occupational Health Nurses' Association.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/interview-with-barbara-parker-sound-recording-interviewer-joan-durdin\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Sturm, Doreen Nellie (Anne)", "Entry ID": "AWE0867", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/sturm-doreen-nellie-anne\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Adelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Nurse", "Summary": "Doreen Nellie Sturm, commonly known as Anne, was born in Adelaide, South Australia. She completed training at the Royal Adelaide Hospital in 1937. Anne spent the early years of the war in private nursing in Melbourne, Victoria. Returning to Adelaide in 1943 she worked at the Truby King Mothercraft League of South Australia Clinic for two years. She was also an active member of various nursing organizations.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/interview-with-anne-sturm-sound-recording-interviewer-joan-durdin\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Schubert, Heather", "Entry ID": "AWE0871", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/schubert-heather\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Stirling, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Nurse, Nurse educator", "Summary": "Heather Schubert, n\u00e9e Duffield, was born in Stirling, South Australia. She began nursing training at the Royal Adelaide Hospital (RAH) in 1961. In 1974 she became a nursing supervisor, and in 1976 she was seconded to the South Australian Health Commission to provide education in high technology nursing for staff in country hospitals. At the time of the interview Heather was a nurse educator at the RAH. She was also actively involved in the Critical Care Nurses' Association.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/interview-with-heather-schubert-sound-recording-interviewer-joan-durdin\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Gerrard, Patricia", "Entry ID": "AWE0874", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/gerrard-patricia\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Cowell, Eyre Peninsula, South Australia, Australia", "Death Place": "Adelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Nurse, Servicewoman", "Summary": "Pat Gerrard, n\u00e9e Klingberg, was born at Cowell, on Eyre Peninsula, and grew up at Riverton. In 1950 Pat worked at the Repatriation General Hospital at Daw Park, Adelaide, and in 1951 she joined the Australian Army Nursing Service. Between 1952 and 1954 she was posted to Japan.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/interview-with-pat-gerrard-sound-recording-interviewer-joan-durdin\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Hughes, Elsie", "Entry ID": "AWE0875", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/hughes-elsie\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Adelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Death Place": "Adelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Nurse, Servicewoman", "Summary": "Elsie Hughes was born in Adelaide, South Australia, and spent her youth in Murray Bridge. When war broke out in 1939 Elsie returned to Britain where she joined the Reserve Queen Alexandria Imperial Military Nursing Service. She served during the war in military hospitals in Palestine and Egypt, and in Britain. On return to Adelaide in 1946 Elsie Hughes became Sister in Charge of the McEwin Theatre suite at the Royal Adelaide Hospital, an appointment which she held until retirement in 1966.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/interview-with-elsie-hughes-sound-recording-interviewer-joan-durdin\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Porter, Judith", "Entry ID": "AWE0876", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/porter-judith\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Port Augusta, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Nurse, Nurse educator, Nursing administrator", "Summary": "Judith Porter was born at Port Augusta, South Australia and began training at the Royal Adelaide Hospital in 1954. In 1958 she applied to the Department of External Affairs for a posting in Papua New Guinea and after her appointment in 1959 spent fifteen years in that country, in hospitals, schools of nursing, and finally as Superintendent of Nursing Education. On returning to South Australia in 1975, Judith was appointed by the Hospitals Department to set up and conduct the first post- registration course in community health nursing. At the end of 1975, she became Principal Nursing Officer in the Hospital Department which in 1977 became the South Australian Health Commission. She was the first nurse to be Chairman of the Nurses Board of South Australia.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/interview-with-judith-porter-sound-recording-interviewer-joan-durdin\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Trudinger, Margaret (Trudie)", "Entry ID": "AWE0877", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trudinger-margaret-trudie\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Adelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Nurse, Servicewoman", "Summary": "Margaret Trudinger was born in Adelaide, South Australia. 'Trudie' was on the staff of the Wallaroo Hospital when called up, in June 1940, to the Australian Army Nursing Service. Her nursing experiences in the army included postings to Woodside, Daws Road (both in South Australia), Palestine, Egypt, Port Moresby and Lae.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trudinger-margaret\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/interview-with-margaret-trudinger-sound-recording-interviewer-joan-durdin\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Ashton, Carrie (Jean)", "Entry ID": "AWE0878", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/ashton-carrie-jean\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Woodside, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Nurse, Servicewoman", "Summary": "Jean Ashton was born at Woodside, South Australia. After appointments at Lameroo and Jamestown in South Australia, Jean did infant welfare training in Hobart, Tasmania, while awaiting call-up for the Australian Army Nursing Service. In 1941 she went with the 13th Australian General Hospital to Malaya and was among those who escaped from Singapore just before its capture by the Japanese in February 1942. When the ship 'Vyner Brooke' was sunk in Bangka Strait, Jean and fellow nurses were interned by the Japanese. She was among 24 nurses (from a total of 65) who survived until their release in September 1945.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/a-womans-war-the-exceptional-life-of-wilma-oram-young-am\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/ashton-carrie-jean-2\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/interview-with-jean-ashton-sound-recording-interviewer-joan-durdin\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Bidstrup, Jean (Eve)", "Entry ID": "AWE0879", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/bidstrup-jean-eve\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Tumby Bay, South Australia, Australia", "Death Place": "South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Nurse, Servicewoman", "Summary": "Eve Bidstrup, n\u00e9e Blacker, grew up at Willunga, South Australia. In 1940 Eve was called up to the Australian Army Nursing Service. She was attached to the 2\/4 Australian General Hospital and went with the unit to the Middle East early in 1941. The nurses in the unit were evacuated from Tobruk just before the siege of that garrison. In March 1942 the unit returned to Australia.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/blacker-jean\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/interview-with-eve-bidstrup-sound-recording-interviewer-joan-durdin\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Bradwell, Elizabeth Merle (Betty)", "Entry ID": "AWE0881", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/bradwell-elizabeth-merle-betty\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Adelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Death Place": "Adelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Nurse, Servicewoman", "Summary": "Betty Bradwell, n\u00e9e Pyman, was born in Adelaide, South Australia. Betty was called up to the Australian Army Nursing Service in 1940. In April 1941 Betty sailed with the 2\/10 Australian General Hospital for Malaysia. After the withdrawal of forces from Singapore in February 1942, Betty and some of her fellow nurses reached Australia unlike many of their companions. Betty's army career continued with postings to New Guinea, and in Australia.\n", "Events": "Awarded a Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) (2000 - 2000)", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/pyman-elizabeth-merle\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/interview-with-betty-bradwell-sound-recording-interviewer-joan-durdin\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/recordings-concerning-the-port-adelaide-casualty-hospital\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Gibbs, Vera Eva", "Entry ID": "AWE0882", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/gibbs-vera-eva\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Glanville, Port Adelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Community worker, Nurse", "Summary": "Vera Gibbs was born at Port Adelaide, South Australia. In 1946 she was nominated by the Australian Nursing Federation for an appointment with the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration, which took her to Germany and Poland in the immediate post-war period. Gibbs was Matron at the Darwin hospital and held a senior post at the Royal Adelaide Hospital. On her retirement she began private palliative care nursing.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/interview-with-vera-gibbs-sound-recording-interviewer-joan-durdin\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Gibson, Jean Agnes", "Entry ID": "AWE0883", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/gibson-jean-agnes\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Kent Town, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Nurse, Servicewoman", "Summary": "Jean Gibson, n\u00e9e Irvine, was born at Kent Town, South Australia. She was called up to the Australian Army Nursing Service (AANS) in 1941. Her first posting was to Darwin where she experienced the Japanese air-raids in February 1942. She next spent a year at Port Moresby and then went with the 2\/5 Australian General Hospital to Borneo (Balik Papan) where she remained until peace was declared in 1945. Jean remained with the AANS and in 1946 went to Japan. She returned to Australia in 1952, shortly before her discharge from the army.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/irvine-jean-agnes\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/interview-with-jean-gibson-sound-recording-interviewer-joan-durdin\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Uren, Elizabeth (Bette) Irene", "Entry ID": "AWE0884", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/uren-elizabeth-bette-irene\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Maylands, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Nurse, Servicewoman", "Summary": "Elizabeth (Bette) Uren was born at Maylands, South Australia. She was called up to the Australian Army Nursing Service (AANS) and embarked for overseas in May 1940. After ten months at the 2\/3 Australian General Hospital (AGH) in Surrey the nurses transferred to the Middle East and staffed the 2\/11 AGH in Alexandria. On return to Australia Bette Uren served in Toowoomba and Warwick. In 1943 she was appointed Sister-in-Charge of a Casualty Clearing Station which in January 1945 was posted to the Solomon Islands. Bette's final experience in the AANS was at the military hospital at Daws Road.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/uren-elizabeth-irene\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/interview-with-elizabeth-uren-sound-recording-interviewer-joan-durdin\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Avery, Kathleen J", "Entry ID": "AWE0885", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/avery-kathleen-j\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Port Augusta, South Australia, Australia", "Death Place": "Adelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Nurse, Servicewoman", "Summary": "Kathleen Avery, n\u00e9e Bryant, was born at Port Augusta, grew up in Broken Hill. In 1914 she began training at Broken Hill Hospital. In 1917 she joined the Australian Army Nursing Service, and was posted mainly in Salonika. On return to Australia Kathleen continued as a member of the Army Nursing Reserve, but resumed civilian nursing. During the Second World War she helped establish the Woodside Camp hospital in South Australia. Throughout her career Kathleen was an active member of the Returned Sisters Sub-branch of the Returned Services League.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/interview-with-kathleen-avery-sound-recording-interviewer-joan-durdin\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Cherry, Enid", "Entry ID": "AWE0886", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/cherry-enid\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Nailsworth, South Australia, Australia", "Death Place": "Adelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Nurse, Servicewoman", "Summary": "Enid Cherry was born in Adelaide in 1891. She served in the Australian Army Nursing Service between 1917 and 1919. In the 1920s she was appointed as an industrial nurse at Myers in Rundle Street, Adelaide. Here she remained for 23 years, as the nurse to provide care for staff and customers.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/interview-with-enid-cherry-sound-recording-interviewer-barbara-parker\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/interview-with-kathleen-turner-and-enid-cherry-sound-recording-interviewer-joan-durdin\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/interview-with-enid-cherry-sound-recording-interviewer-beth-m-robertson\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Jacob, Nora Elizabeth", "Entry ID": "AWE0887", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/jacob-nora-elizabeth\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Adelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Death Place": "South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Nurse", "Summary": "Nora Jacob was born in Adelaide, South Australia and grew up in Medindie. In 1917 the family moved to Geranium, South Australia, where her father managed the family farming property while his brother was in the army. After six years on the farm Nora went to Adelaide to begin training at Mareeba Babies Hospital. She continued her training at the Royal Adelaide Hospital, completing the course in 1927. Nora's subsequent work was in private nursing and district nursing.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/interview-with-nora-elizabeth-jacob-sound-recording-interviewer-joan-durdin\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/interview-with-nora-elizabeth-jacob-sound-recording-interviewer-beth-m-robertson\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Millard, Valda", "Entry ID": "AWE0888", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/millard-valda\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Adelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Nurse", "Summary": "Valda Millard, n\u00e9e Salmon, was born in Adelaide, and spent her childhood at Quorn, South Australia. After nursing in New South Wales and Queensland Val returned to South Australia and in 1951 was Clinic Sister for the Mothers and Babies Health Association (MBHA) in Port Lincoln and at Port Adelaide. This was followed by further appointments in Victoria and on a mission station on the Solomon Islands. Her nursing career resumed in Port Lincoln in the 1960s and she remained in the service of the MBHA until her retirement in 1983.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/interview-with-valda-millard-sound-recording-interviewer-joan-durdin\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Dohnt, Lynley Eva", "Entry ID": "AWE0889", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/dohnt-lynley-eva\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Gumeracha, South Australia, Australia", "Death Place": "Adelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Nurse, Servicewoman", "Summary": "Lynley Dohnt was born at Gumeracha, South Australia. In January 1941, she was called up for service with the Air Force. With the rank of matron, Miss Dohnt served in Australia and overseas, and was discharged from the Air Force Nursing Service in 1946. After a short time as assistant to the almoner at the Royal Adelaide Hospital, she became the House Sister, an appointment which she retained until her retirement in 1958.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/story-of-the-raaf-nursing-service-1940-1990\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/dohnt-lynley-eva-2\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/interview-with-lynley-dohnt-sound-recording-interviewer-joan-durdin\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Rowe, Millie (Min)", "Entry ID": "AWE0890", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/rowe-millie-min\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Kadina, South Australia, Australia", "Death Place": "South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Nurse", "Summary": "Millie Rowe (Min) was born near Kadina in South Australia. She recovered from tuberculous peritonitis in her late teen years, and was accepted for nursing training at the Wakefield Street Private Hospital, Adelaide, in 1917. In 1926 she became Matron of Wakefield Street Private Hospital, a position which she occupied until her retirement in 1946. She was an active member of the Australian Trained Nurses Association.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/interview-with-millie-rowe-sound-recording-interviewer-joan-durdin\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Dutton, Mary Doreen (Mollie)", "Entry ID": "AWE0891", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/dutton-mary-doreen-mollie\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Adelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Death Place": "South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Nurse, Servicewoman", "Summary": "Mollie Dutton was born in Adelaide. Her parents opposed her desire to nurse. At the age of 28 she began training at the Royal Adelaide Hospital (RAH) in 1924. After a short term in charge of the Magill ward of the RAH Mollie Dutton enlisted in the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) Nursing Service and as a matron served at RAAF hospitals in Darwin and Laverton, Victoria. After the war Miss Dutton returned to the RAH and was Sister in Charge of Bice Ward until 1954, when she retired to care for her elderly mother.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/story-of-the-raaf-nursing-service-1940-1990\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/dutton-mary-doreen\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/interview-with-mollie-dutton-sound-recording-interviewer-joan-durdin\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Waterhouse, Kathleen Lucy", "Entry ID": "AWE0892", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/waterhouse-kathleen-lucy\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Clare, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Nurse, Nursing administrator, Servicewoman", "Summary": "Kathleen Waterhouse was born at Clare, South Australia. In 1914 she commenced training at the Adelaide Children's Hospital. In 1917 Kathleen joined the Australian Army Nursing Service, and was posted to India until after the end of the war. In 1930 she was appointed Deputy Matron of the ACH, and in 1945 she became the Matron of that hospital, until her retirement in 1952. Miss Waterhouse was active in nursing affairs, and was a Foundation Fellow of the College of Nursing, Australia. She also served on the Council of the SA branch of the Australian Trained Nurses' Association.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/interview-with-kathleen-lucy-waterhouse-sound-recording-interviewer-joan-durdin\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/interview-with-kathleen-lucy-waterhouse-sound-recording-interviewer-beth-m-robertson\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/interview-with-kathleen-lucy-waterhouse-sound-recording-interviewer-beth-m-robertson-2\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/interview-with-kathleen-lucy-waterhouse-sound-recording-interviewer-beth-m-robertson-3\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Woods, Dora", "Entry ID": "AWE0893", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/woods-dora\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Gilberton, South Australia, Australia", "Death Place": "Victor Harbour, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Nurse, Servicewoman", "Summary": "Dora Woods, n\u00e9e Birks, was born in Adelaide and began training at the Adelaide Children's Hospital in 1909. In 1916 she was called up for nursing duties with the Australian Army Nursing Service. This interview deals with her army nursing experience, mostly in France, and with the period following the end of the war, in London. Dora returned to Australia in 1919.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/interview-with-dora-woods-sound-recording-interviewer-joan-durdin\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/interview-with-dora-woods-sound-recording-interviewer-beth-m-robertson\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/radio-program-about-first-world-war-nurses-sound-recording-presenter-michelle-rayner\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Nicholls, Elizabeth Webb", "Entry ID": "AWE0897", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/nicholls-elizabeth-webb\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Adelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Death Place": "North Adelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Activist, Suffragist", "Summary": "Elizabeth Webb Nicholls was born in Adelaide to Mary and Samuel Bakewell in 1850. She joined the Christian Woman's Temperance Union (WCTU) in 1886, and was elected provisional president in 1888. In 1889 she became Colonial president, a position she held until 1897. From 1894-1903 she was the Union's Australian President, and post-Federation, she served as State President from 1906 to 1927. She joined the South Australian Women's Suffrage League and subsequently became a League Councillor. In 1894 Elizabeth Nicholls assumed the role of Colonial Superintendent of the WCTU's Suffrage Department. She was appointed to the Board of the Adelaide Hospital from 1895-1922 and was a justice of the peace - one of the four first women - from 1915. She died in 1943\n", "Details": "Elizabeth Webb Nicholls was born in Adelaide to Mary and Samuel Bakewell in 1850. She married Alfred Nicholls in 1870, and had five children as well as bringing up two orphaned relatives. She joined the Christian Woman's Temperance Union (WCTU) in 1886, and was elected provisional president in 1888. In 1889 she became Colonial president, a position she held until 1897. From 1894-1903 she was the Union's Australian President, and post-Federation, she served as State President from 1906 to 1927. She probably joined the South Australian Women's Suffrage League in early 1889 and later became a League Councillor. It was under her leadership that the WCTU gained 8,000 of the 11,600 signatures for the League's 1894 petition to Parliament. Following the submission of the petition, Elizabeth Nicholls took on the role of Colonial Superintendent of the WCTU's Suffrage Department. The legislation granting suffrage to women was passed in December 1894, and she then travelled around Adelaide and country South Australia giving talks about how to enrol and vote. Her 'Platform and Principles' is an example of her straightforward approach. From 1895-1922 she served on the Board of the Adelaide Hospital and was a justice of the peace - one of the four first women - from 1915. In addition she was actively involved with the Women's Non-Party Political Association and assisted Bessie Rischbieth to form the Australian Federation of Women's Societies (later known as the Australian Federation of Women Voters) in 1922. She died in 1943\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/torch-bearers-the-womans-christian-temperance-union-of-south-australia-1886-1948\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/nicholls-elizabeth-webb-1851-1943\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/elizabeth-webb-nicholls-nee-bakewell\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/in-her-own-name-women-in-south-australian-history\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/bessie-rischbieth\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/fresh-evidence-new-witnesses-finding-womens-history\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/the-encyclopedia-of-women-and-leadership-in-twentieth-century-australia\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/young-womens-christian-association-of-adelaide-summary-record\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/womans-christian-temperance-union-of-south-australia-summary-record\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Birks, Rosetta Jane (Rose)", "Entry ID": "AWE0898", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/birks-rosetta-jane-rose\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Adelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Death Place": "College Park, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Social reformer, Suffragist", "Summary": "Rosetta Jane Birks (n\u00e9e Thomas) was born in March 1856. She joined the Ladies' Committee of the Social Purity Society which led to her interest in women's suffrage. She joined the South Australian Women's Suffrage League, becoming its treasurer. After suffrage was granted she joined the short-lived Woman's League, working with Catherine Helen Spence, Lucy Morice and others. She was appointed to the board of the Adelaide Hospital in 1896. In 1902 she helped form the National Council of Women as well as becoming president of the Young Women's Christian Association. She died in 1911.\n", "Details": "Rosetta Jane Birks (n\u00e9e Thomas) was born in March 1856, one of nine children to William Kyffin and Mary Thomas. When she was twenty three she married her sister's widower, Charles Birks, and became an affectionate step-mother to her six nieces and nephews. A devout Baptist, she was committed to social reform and joined the Ladies' Committee of the Social Purity Society. Through her work with the Society she became committed to women's suffrage and joined the South Australian Women's Suffrage League, becoming a councillor at her first meeting, and treasurer at her second. When suffrage had been attained she joined the short-lived Woman's League and worked on its committee with Catherine Helen Spence and Lucy Morice. On election day in April 1896 she woke early so that she could be the first woman in Glenelg (South Australia) to vote. She was appointed to the Board of the Adelaide Hospital in 1896 although soon resigned, along with most other members, over a matter of principle. In 1902 she helped organise the formation of the National Council of Women and became its vice-president. In the same year she became president of the Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA) and re-formed its Traveller's Aid Society in 1911. Rosetta Birks was president of the Flinders Street Baptist Mothers' Union. She died in 1911 while presiding over a women's missionary meeting at the College Park Congregational Church, Adelaide.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/in-her-own-name-women-in-south-australian-history\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/rosetta-birks-obituary\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/young-womens-christian-association-of-adelaide-summary-record\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Frost, Mary Millicent", "Entry ID": "AWE0902", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/frost-mary-millicent\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "South Australia, Australia", "Death Place": "South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Teacher", "Summary": "Mary Frost attended Miss Carter's School, East Adelaide School and St Peter's Girls School. She went to Adelaide University to do English. At the outbreak of World War II Frost was in England teaching at a school in South Devon. She returned to Adelaide after the war, returning in a flying boat. Frost became an English teacher at St Peters where she won two Tennyson medals at the school. Later she became head of the English Department. Frost compiled A History of St Peter's Girls' School from 1894-1968, in 1972.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/st-peters-collegiate-girls-school-1894-1968-a-history-of-the-sisters-school-in-adelaide-during-74-years\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/interview-with-mary-frost-sound-recording-interviewer-yvonne-abbott\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Crompton, Phyllis Owen", "Entry ID": "AWE0903", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/crompton-phyllis-owen\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Malvern, South Australia, Australia", "Death Place": "Adelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Red Cross Worker", "Summary": "Phyllis Crompton's grandfather came to South Australia on the ship 'Fatima' and lived at Stonyfell. Her father worked for him in the business which sold skins, wool and olives. Crompton and her sister were born in her parents house at Malvern and after her brothers were born they moved to Parkside. She attended Creveen School at North Adelaide and caught the tram to school. Crompton and her sister went to London and attended the Queensgate boarding school for a term, followed by a year at a school in Paris and then the Sorbonne. Returning to Adelaide Crompton went to Adelaide University and studied history. She became honorary secretary of the Junior Red Cross and joined the Lyceum Club in 1928.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/interview-with-phyllis-crompton-sound-recording-interviewer-necia-gilbert\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Sandford-Morgan, Elma", "Entry ID": "AWE0904", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/sandford-morgan-elma\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "North Adelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Medical practitioner", "Summary": "Dr Elma Sandford-Morgan was brought up in a Baptist household. She attended Miss Martin's school before her family sailed to Europe. Here she went to Cheltenham's Ladies College for a year as a boarder. Returning to Adelaide in 1905, she studied piano at the Adelaide Conservatorium under Herr Reimann. Later she travelled with her family around Australia and in Queensland she met a doctor who suggested she do medicine. In 1910 she commenced medicine at Sydney University. Three years later she went with her family on a trip from China across the Siberian railway to Moscow. She graduated in 1917 and worked in Australia, London and at the Women's Mission Hospital at Bewanee in the Punjab. Then in 1920 she went to a hospital in Bagdad. Here she married Captain Harry Morgan and their daughter Rosemary was born in 1922. Son Gavin was born in 1925. Later the family settled in Sydney and she worked at the Rachel Forster Hospital. 1928 she was appointed Assistant to the Director of Maternal Welfare in the Public Health Department, and in 1929 was the first woman to become Director of Maternal Welfare in the Public Health Service. She was a district commissioner in the Girl Guides and a representative to the Australian Federation of University Women. Moving to South Australia, Sandford-Morgan became Health Officer with the Mothers and Babies Association and helped set up Torrens House, a mothercraft training centre. During World War II joined the RAAN as a medical officer, was working in general practice, and for two years organised the Health Services of South Australia as the only woman member of the Parliamentary Commission. After the war she visited Europe and on return obtained a locum tenens as neoplasm registrar to the Anti-Cancer Foundation. She was appointed by the University of Adelaide to the Radio Therapy Department where she worked for eleven years. Sandford-Morgan retired in 1964 and then worked at the Red Cross Blood Transfusion Service until she was 80 years old. During 1966-1968 she attended the Medical Women's International Association conferences in Rochester and Vienna and became president of the Australian Medical Women's Association to work against bias according to sex and equal treatment of women doctors. Her main interest was preventative medicine and public health.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/a-short-history-of-medical-women-in-australia\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/interview-with-elma-sandford-morgan-sound-recording-interviewer-aileen-bond\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Caw, Harriet Marjorie", "Entry ID": "AWE0908", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/caw-harriet-marjorie\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Knightsbridge, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Community worker", "Summary": "Marjorie Caw was the fourth child of Edith Agnes Hubbe, n\u00e9e Cook, 1859-1942, a South Australian educator. Her father was killed in the Boer War and her mother opened a school at Knightsbridge. Caw trained as a kindergarten teacher and taught at Halifax Street and Bowden. She travelled to Europe with her mother and Miss George of the Advanced School for Girls. They returned home when World War I broke out. On their return Caw set up a kindergarten in their drawing room (at Knightsbridge) following the Montessori methods she had observed on her travels. At the same time she studied economics at the University of Adelaide under Professor Heaton.\nShe married Alfred Caw and they moved to Western Australia to farm at Kojonup. Her son William was born one year later and then her daughter Virginia. They returned to Adelaide by ship each year to visit her family. On one of these visits in 1929 she joined the Lyceum Club. During the depression she formed a branch of the Country Women's Association (CWA) in Kojonup and over the years the branch helped many country people. She taught her children via correspondence school and sent her son to St Peter's in Adelaide to board. She and her daughter went to Denmark for a world conference of the CWA.\nIn 1922 they sold the property to her brother and returned to Adelaide where she became involved in the Lyceum Club. The Club helped her celebrate her 90th birthday in 1983.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/interview-with-harriet-marjorie-caw-sound-recording-interviewer-yvonne-abbott\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/interview-with-harriet-marjorie-caw-and-bill-caw-sound-recording-interviewer-mary-hutchison\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/interview-with-harriet-marjorie-caw-sound-recording-interviewer-beth-m-robertson\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/edith-hubbe-cook-and-marjorie-caw-hubbe-papers-1859-1988\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Wilson, Shirley Cameron", "Entry ID": "AWE0910", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/wilson-shirley-cameron\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Kadina, South Australia, Australia", "Death Place": "Adelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Art historian, Nurse, Servicewoman", "Summary": "Shirley Cameron Wilson was the youngest child of Dr Charles Ernest Wilson who was a GP in Kadina and Nellie the daughter of William Strawbridge, the Surveyor General of South Australia after Goyder. Wilson attended Walford House School when the family returned to Adelaide. They moved to \"Woodfield\" in Fisher St Fullarton. Wilson trained as a nurse at Royal Adelaide Hospital, won the Gold Medal, and then did a year of midwifery training in Melbourne. During World War II she enlisted as an army nurse and before she was called up worked in the Women's Land Army. She went to New Guinea with the 2nd 8th General Hospital and stayed 13 months. After the war she studied at Melbourne University. She came back to nurse her mother, father and aunt until they died. During this time she developed an interest in art and completed her research for the book The Bridge over the Ocean which she wrote with Keith Borrow. She and her sister Honor moved to adjoining units in Hazelwood Park in 1973 and Wilson worked on her book about South Australian Women artists. She was the leader of the Antiques and Collecting Circle at the Lyceum Club for nine years.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/the-bridge-over-the-ocean-thomas-wilson-1787-1863-art-collector-and-mayor-of-adelaide\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/blazing-a-trail-from-a-pioneer-family\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/wilson-shirley-cameron-2\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/interview-with-shirley-cameron-wilson-sound-recording-interviewer-yvonne-abbott\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/biographical-cuttings-on-cameron-wilson-sa-women-artist-researcher-containing-one-or-more-cuttings-from-newspapers-or-journals\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/shirley-cameron-wilson-summary-record\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Johnston, Thelma", "Entry ID": "AWE0913", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/johnston-thelma\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Norton Summit, South Australia, Australia", "Death Place": "South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Community worker", "Summary": "Thelma Johnston was born in 1908 at Norton Summit and attended Norton Summit School until she was 12 years old. The family then moved to Adelaide and she went to the Methodist's Ladies College. Johnston was interested in craft work such as china painting, jewellery, enamelling and spinning and weaving and during World War II did work for the Red Cross shop and afterwards the \"Acorn\" craft shop. She and her husband were members of the Royal Yacht Squadron and Legacy. During the war she set up a kindergarten for children sent down from the islands because of the fear of a Japanese invasion. She was also involved with Flower Day and coordinated the Lyceum Club flower roster for 4 years and worked for many years for Meals on Wheels.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/interview-with-thelma-johnston-sound-recording-interviewer-yvonne-abbott\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Kay, Francie", "Entry ID": "AWE0918", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/kay-francie\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Millicent, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Nurse", "Summary": "Francie Kay completed her nursing training at Balaklava, South Australia. She ran a private hospital before entering the social work field. Kay went to Melbourne to study and returned to work in the TB Service where she travelled around South Australia visiting sanatoria. She worked in the service for 25 years and helped to rehabilitate many patients. She attended various conferences worldwide. She then moved to the Walkerville Nursing home and helped develop an assessment system and a day and craft centre. Following an overseas holiday Kay and returned to work for Burnside to look at their community services. It was discovered there were many problems with elderly people and Pine View was established and community activities were organised to provide companionship.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/interview-with-francie-kay-sound-recording-interviewer-yvonne-abbott\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Wilson, Honor Cameron", "Entry ID": "AWE0919", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/wilson-honor-cameron\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Wallaroo, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Physiotherapist, Servicewoman", "Summary": "Honor Cameron Wilson studied physiotherapy in the 1930s. She joined the Australian Army during World War II serving in the Middle East, Perth and with a plastic surgeon in Heidelberg, Victoria. Wilson returned to the Physiotherapy department at the Royal Adelaide Hospital. She completed post graduate work in London and became a lecturer. Her interests included art, and she was involved with the Lyceum Club art circle.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/wilson-honor-cameron-2\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/interview-with-honor-cameron-wilson-sound-recording-interviewer-yvonne-abbott\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Parker, Marjorie Bryson (Madge)", "Entry ID": "AWE0920", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/parker-marjorie-bryson-madge\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Ardrossan, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Servicewoman", "Summary": "Madge Parker was born on the Yorke Peninsula and lived near Ardrossan. Her father grew wheat, barley and oats. They moved to Adelaide when her father retired and Madge was 16. She went to London in 1939 to completed a course dealing cosmetics and came home via America. She worked in Sydney and was in Melbourne when she joined the Women's Royal Australian Air Force (WRAAFS) where she completed an officers' course.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/parker-marjorie-bryson\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/interview-with-madge-parker-sound-recording-interviewer-yvonne-abbott\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Buttrose, Stroma", "Entry ID": "AWE0924", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/buttrose-stroma\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "North Adelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Death Place": "Myrtle Bank, South Australia", "Occupations": "Geographer, Teacher, Town planner, University tutor", "Summary": "Stroma Buttrose was a pioneering figure for Australian women in architecture. She was the first female Planning Assistant in South Australia, and the first female Commissioner of the Planning Appeal Board. She was the author of numerous architectural publications, most notably City Planning in Australia in 1975.\n", "Details": "Stroma Buttrose went to school at Hopetoun and then Woodlands at Glenelg where her interest in geography and later town planning began. She completed a Diploma in Arts and Education at Adelaide University and at 21 travelled to Europe with her family. After returning to Adelaide she taught Geography while completing a Bachelor of Arts degree majoring in Geography.\nIn April 1957 she was appointed temporary female draftsman's assistant to the government town planner. She organised the Land Use Survey covering Gawler to Willunga and the Development Plan for the Metropolitan Area of Adelaide was published in the Spring of 1963.\n During 1962 Buttrose was one of ten students doing the Master of Town Planning degree at Adelaide University with Professor Rolf Jensen. In February 1973 she was appointed a Commissioner of the Town Planning Appeal Board\/Tribunal, later to become the Environment, Resources and Development Court. She was the first woman to hold that position.\n", "Events": "Attended Woodlands Church of England Girls' Grammar School (1941 - 1947) \nCommissioner of the Planning Appeal Board, South Australia (1973 - 1999) \nCommon law clerk with Thomson, Buttrose, Ross & Lewis, Barristers & Solicitors (1949 - 1949) \nCouncil member at Woodlands CEGGS Inc. (1977 - ) \nCouncil member of the National Trust of Australia (SA) (1967 - 1973) \nCouncil member of the Workers Educational Association of SA Inc. (1980 - ) \nGeography teacher at St Peter's Collegiate School, North Adelaide (1954 - 1956) \nGeography teacher at The Wilderness School, Medindie, South Australia (1956 - ) \nLife Member of the Friends of the State Library of South Australia (1977 - ) \nLife Member of the National Trust of Australia (SA) (1960 - ) \nLife Member of the Royal Zoological Society of SA Inc. (1980 - ) \nLife Member of the RSPCA (1975 - ) \nLife member of the Woodlands Old Scholars Association (1948 - ) \nMember of the Australian Conservation Foundation (1968 - ) \nMember of the Australian Society of Authors (1977 - ) \nMember of the Children's Book Council (1970 - 1970) \nMember of the Commonwealth Counciol of the Fellowship of Australian Writers (1960 - 1962) \nMember of the Graduates Union at the University of Adelaide (1951 - ) \nMember of the National Council of Women (1971 - 1973) \nMember of the Poets Union of SA (1977 - ) \nMember of the Queen Adelaide Club (1969 - ) \nMember of the Royal Australian Planning Institute (1957 - 1973) \nMember of the Royal Geographical Society of Australasia (SA) (1955 - ) \nMember of the Zonta Club of Adelaide (1969 - ) \nMember, later a Fellow, of the Fellowship of Australian Writers (1960 - 1972) \nPlanning officer with the State Planning Office, South Australia (1957 - 1973) \nPresident of the Woodlands Old Scholars Association (1954 - 1956) \nPublishers Rigby commissioned her to write a children's reader, City Planning in Australia (1975 - 1975) \nSecretary with the Department of Architecture at the School of Mines, South Australia (1952 - 1954) \nTutor in geography at the University of Adelaide (1955 - 1956) \nTutor in town planning with the South Australian Institute of Technology (SAIT) (1966 - 1969) \nVice-chair of the Young Contingent with the Victoria League (1957 - 1958) \nVice-president of the Fellowship of Australian Writers (SA) (1966 - 1972) \nVice-president of the Society of Women Writers of Australia (SA) (1977 - 1979) \nWinner of the On Dit 21st birthday litarary competition with three poems (1953 - 1953)", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/whos-who-of-australian-women\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/city-planning-in-australia\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/scholar-devoted-to-family-and-law\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/austlit-the-australian-literature-resource\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/interview-with-stroma-buttrose-sound-recording-interviewer-yvonne-abbott\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/biographical-cuttings-on-stroma-buttrose-master-town-planner-containing-one-or-more-cuttings-from-newspapers-or-journals\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/stroma-buttrose-interviewed-by-hazel-de-berg-in-the-hazel-de-berg-collection-sound-recording\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Hannon, Gwenyth", "Entry ID": "AWE0930", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/hannon-gwenyth\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Medindie, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Dentist", "Summary": "Gwenyth Hannon attended St Peter's Girls' School. Hannon won an Education Department scholarship to dentistry at University. Following her graduation, in 1932, she became an Education Department dentist. In this position she travelled around the state doing dental work at schools. She married a fellow dental student who had a practice on North Terrace. Hannon worked in the dental practice from the war years. Her husband was killed in 1945 and Hannon was one of the initial members and one of the first vice presidents of the War Widows' Guild.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/interview-with-gwenyth-hannon-sound-recording-interviewer-barbara-drake\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Rooney, Jean", "Entry ID": "AWE0932", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/rooney-jean\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Mount Gambier, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Teacher", "Summary": "Jean Rooney, whose father was a teacher, lived in Mt Gambier, Adelaide and Port Lincoln. Rooney attended Adelaide teachers' Training College and worked in Unley and Nailsworth for four years. She married Cliff Rooney, a high school teacher, in 1935 and had two daughters.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/interview-with-jean-rooney-sound-recording-interviewer-lois-mander-jones\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Hodge, Margaret", "Entry ID": "AWE0933", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/hodge-margaret\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Adelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Death Place": "Adelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Teacher", "Summary": "Margaret Hodge was born in Adelaide in 1918. She subsequently moved to a Western Australian jarrah timber camp where her father was a teacher in a two roomed school. After his death, when she was nine, Hodge and her mother returned to Adelaide to live with relatives. She attended Presbyterian Girls' School (now Seymour College) on a scholarship. Here she was particularly influenced by two of her teachers - in English and current affairs. On leaving school she taught at the Wilderness School.\nMargaret married Scott Hodge in 1940 and had five children, including one who was born with spina bifida. She joined the Lyceum Club in 1971 and served in a number of official capacities over the years.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/interview-with-margaret-hodge-sound-recording-interviewer-lois-mander-jones\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Miller, Mary", "Entry ID": "AWE0935", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/miller-mary\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Yorketown, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Child welfare advocate, Labour movement activist, Teacher, Welfare activist", "Summary": "Mary Miller was born in Yorketown, South Australia and spent her childhood on Yorke Peninsula. Her work in munitions factories during World War II led to her involvement as an organiser in the iron workers' union and a life-long commitment to the labour movement. In the mid-1950s she qualified as a primary school teacher and became active in child welfare and Aboriginal education.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/interview-with-mary-miller-sound-recording-interviewer-margaret-allen\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/address-by-mary-miller-sound-recording\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/interviews-concerning-womens-work-and-the-second-world-war-summary-record-sound-recording-interviewer-margaret-allen\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Atkins, Margaret Edith", "Entry ID": "AWE0947", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/atkins-margaret-edith\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Rose Park, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Education reformer, Special needs teacher, Teacher", "Summary": "Margaret Edith Atkins grew up at Kensington Park where she attended kindergarten and small private schools despite the cerebral palsy and received regular physiotherapy and speech pathology. After leaving school she enrolled in a playgroup course at the Kindergarten Training College and commenced voluntary work in kindergartens. She later worked as an equipment maker for the Kindergarten Union and designed and made toys. Atkins decided to return to study social work at university but was initially refused entry to the course at Adelaide University. She completed a Bachelor of Arts with Honours majoring in psychology. Atkins gained a full-time teaching position with the Education Department as a teacher of intellectually handicapped children and was also supervised by the Department's psychologist to allow her to gain membership of the Australian Psychological Society. She was employed at the Woodville Special School where she developed innovative teaching methods and designed equipment. During her career Atkins held positions as Deputy Head at Strathmont Centre for Intellectually Retarded Children, Head of Barton Terrace and Kings Park special schools, and then in 1975 the Ashford Special School. She retired on the grounds of invalidity in 1977 and become a resident at the Julia Farr Centre. Here she was funded by the Centre to undertake research into leisure activities for the residents and was able to travel overseas. After her health improved Atkins felt that she needed to return to a more home-like environment and was able to move to an aged care facility. She then became very active in community activities and events, WEA and University of the Third Age. Margaret Atkins was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia for her service to education in special education on 26 January 1982.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/interview-with-margaret-edith-atkins-oam-sound-recording-interviewer-june-donovan\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/biographical-cuttings-on-margaret-atkins-kindergarten-teacher-containing-one-or-more-cuttings-from-newspapers-or-journals\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Cox, Lesley Mary", "Entry ID": "AWE0949", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/cox-lesley-mary\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Unley, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Educator", "Summary": "For service to child development, in particular as the director of the Lesley Cox School of Music, Movement and Drama, and to the community, Lesley Cox was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia on 26 January 1998.\nCox was introduced to Dalcroze Eurhythmics by Heather Gell. Dalcroze Eurhythmics was established by Emile Jaques-Dalcroze (1865-1950) a Swiss composer and pianist who, in the early years of the twentieth century, researched the effect of human movement on musical perception, and the impact of musical elements on movement technique. He called his approach to music education 'Eurhythmics'. It means, literally, \"good rhythm\". Cox went to Sydney to study with Gell during the 1940s and again in 1957 to complete her Licentiate. She established the Lesley Cox School of Music, Movement and Drama and published books and sound recordings on the subject.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/vale-lesley-cox\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/the-colours-of-christmas\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/the-eurythmics-of-emile-jaques-dalcroze-music-movement-drama-its-origins-and-its-purpose-1865-1996\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/lets-get-moving\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/music-movement-and-drama-through-the-singing-game\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/recollections-a-tribute-to-heather-gell-by-those-who-remember-dalcroze-eurhythmics-broadcasts-in-music-through-movement-for-children-the-great-pageants-and-spectacles-her-early-childrens-t\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/something-new-for-ages-ten-to-two\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/tops-and-toes-for-twos-to-tens\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/one-square-of-material-16-plays-for-children-aged-5-to-12-years\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/two-squares-of-material-12-plays-for-children-aged-6-to-16-years\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/interview-with-lesley-cox-sound-recording-interviewer-catherine-murphy\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/interview-with-lesley-cox-sound-recording-interviewer-helen-pearce\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/launch-of-the-second-stage-of-the-honoured-women-oral-history-project-sound-recording\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Gell, Heather", "Entry ID": "AWE0950", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/gell-heather\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Glenelg, South Australia, Australia", "Death Place": "South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Educator", "Summary": "Heather Gell was a pioneer of eurhythmics and a dance teacher. After obtaining the Diploma of the Kindergarten Training College, Adelaide, in 1918, she studied at the London School of Dalcroze Eurythmics for two years. Gell returned to Adelaide to set up her own studio in 1923. She became a specialist in Eurhythmics and taught at the Kindergarten Training College. In 1930 Gell returned to London to study for the Licentiate degree at the Royal Academy of Music. On her return she was appointed to the Elder Conservatorium.\nIn 1934 Gell directed the Girl Guides' farewell to Lady Zara Hore-Ruthven and in 1936 the 'Heritage' pageant for the State's Centenary celebrations. She returned to London in 1937 before settling in Sydney where she established the School of Music and Movement. From 1938 she began presenting \"Music Through Movement\", a weekly radio broadcast for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, which lasted 27 years. Gell stayed in Sydney until her retirement, establishing the Dalcroze Society of Australia and the Dalcroze Teachers' Union.\nHeather Gell was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire services to music on 31 December 1977. She returned to Adelaide in 1982 and died in 1988. In her Will, she left a bequest to be used to establish, assist, and promote Dalcroze Eurhythmics in Australia. The Heather Gell Dalcroze Foundation is the result.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/the-eurythmics-of-emile-jaques-dalcroze-music-movement-drama-its-origins-and-its-purpose-1865-1996\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/heather-gells-lessons-in-music-through-movement-for-four-to-six-year-olds\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/heather-gells-thoughts-on-dalcroze-eurhythmics-and-music-through-movement\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/recollections-a-tribute-to-heather-gell-by-those-who-remember-dalcroze-eurhythmics-broadcasts-in-music-through-movement-for-children-the-great-pageants-and-spectacles-her-early-childrens-t\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/music-movement-and-the-young-child\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/music-through-movement-broadcasts-to-schools-1941\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/the-blue-bird-an-adaption-of-the-play-by-maurice-maeterlinck-by-the-students-of-miss-heather-gell\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/heather-gell-summary-record\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/interview-with-heather-gell-and-abc-radio-school-broadcast-sound-recording\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/biographical-cuttings-on-heather-gell-containing-one-or-more-cuttings-from-newspapers-or-journals\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Parker, Catherine (Katie) Langloh", "Entry ID": "AWE0959", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/parker-catherine-katie-langloh\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Luilyl', Encounter Bay, South Australia, Australia", "Death Place": "Adelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Author", "Summary": "Katie Langloh Parker grew up on her father's property, Marra Station, northern New South Wales. Married at the age of 18, she led an exciting social life in Australian colonial capitals until 1875, when she moved to her husband's property, Bangate Station, near Angledool, New South Wales. There, she started collecting stories and vocabularies from the local branch of Yularoi people, which she subsequently published in several collections between 1896 and 1930. In 1905, she published her only purely ethnographic work The Euahlayi Tribe, an account of her life at Bangate. Her second marriage to Percy Randolph Stow marked the end of her outback life.\n", "Details": "It is believed that Parker's appreciation of Aboriginal culture partly had its roots in an event of her childhood, when she was saved from drowning in a river by an Aboriginal girl at the age of six.\nParker's collections of Yularoi stories, Australian Legendary Tales (1896) and More Australian Legendary Tales (1898), were re-published in 1897, 1953, 1955, 1959, 1967 and 1978, respectively. The collections were illustrated by Elizabeth Durack, Nora Heysen and Marion Hart. Parker herself made sketches of Aboriginal children, which were published in 1901. She also wrote Walkabouts of Wur-run-nah (1918) and Woggheeguy: Australian Aboriginal Legends (1930).\nAlthough Parker's work remains problematic in terms of Aboriginal research ethics (old Yularoi people did not welcome her making public the information that was to remain confidential), her collections are an invaluable source of information on Yularoi culture.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/cataloguing-culture-in-search-of-the-origins-of-written-records-material-culture-and-oral-histories-of-the-gamaroi-northern-new-south-wales\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/representative-women\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/caring-for-country-yuwalaraay-women-and-attachments-to-land-on-an-australian-colonial-frontier\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/my-bush-book-k-langloh-parkers-1890s-story-of-outback-station-life-with-background-and-biography-by-marcie-muir\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/200-australian-women-a-redress-anthology\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/the-encyclopedia-of-women-and-leadership-in-twentieth-century-australia\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Hanrahan, Barbara Janice", "Entry ID": "AWE0991", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/hanrahan-barbara-janice\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Adelaide, South Australia", "Death Place": "Adelaide, South Australia", "Occupations": "Artist, Printmaker, Writer", "Summary": "Barbara Hanrahan was an artist, printmaker and writer. She was born in Adelaide in 1939 and lived there until her death in December 1991. Hanrahan spent three years at the South Australian School of Art before leaving for London in 1966 to continue her art studies. In England she taught at the Falmouth College of Art, Cornwall, (1966-67) and Portsmouth College of Art (1967-70). From 1964 Hanrahan held a number of exhibitions principally in Adelaide and Sydney, but also in Brisbane, Canberra, Perth, London and Florence. Hanrahan's novels include The Scent of Eucalyptus (1973), The Peach Groves (1980), The Frangipani Gardens (1988) and Flawless Jade (1989).\n", "Details": "Barbara Hanrahan was educated at Thebarton Girls' Technical College before commencing a three year Art Teaching course at Adelaide Teachers' College. At the same time she completed art classes at the South Australian School of Art. Following the completion of her Diploma of Art Teaching, Hanrahan began teaching art in schools as well as enrolling for evening classes with the newly established Printmaking Department at the South Australian School of Art. In 1961 she was appointed assistant lecturer in Art at Western Teachers' College, Adelaide. In the same year she participated in a four-artist exhibition at the Hahndorf Gallery, and was awarded the Cornell Prize for Painting. She taught at the South Australian School of Art from 1963-66.\nHanrahan left for London in 1966 to continue her art studies. She taught at the Falmouth College of Art, Cornwall, (1966-67) and Portsmouth College of Art (1967-70). In the early 1980s Hanrahan, with her partner Jo Steele, returned to live in Adelaide, where she established her own studio. Hanrahan's writing career began in 1973 with the publication of her first, largely autobiographical, novel The Scent of Eucalyptus. Other titles soon followed and her last novel, Good night, Mr Moon, was published posthumously in 1992.\nDuring her life Hanrahan held a number of exhibitions nationally and internationally. Her works are held by the Australian National Gallery, Canberra, and many regional galleries.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/guide-to-the-papers-of-barbara-hanrahan\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/launch-of-the-barbara-hanrahan-memorial-exhibition-sound-recording\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/papers-of-barbara-hanrahan-1958-1992-manuscript\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/papers-of-carmel-bird-1987-2000-manuscript\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/biographical-cuttings-on-barbara-hanrahan-containing-one-or-more-cuttings-from-newspapers-or-journals\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/barbara-hanrahan-tributes-videorecording-barbara-hanrahan-memorial-exhibition\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/introducing-barbara-hanrahan-artist-and-writer-1939-1991-videorecording-barbara-hanrahan-memorial-exhibition\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/interviews-with-barbara-hanrahan-mem-fox-colin-thiele-christobel-mattingley-and-max-fatchen-videorecording\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/interview-with-barbara-hanrahan-sound-recording-interviewer-beate-ursula-josephi\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/radio-program-profiles-in-south-australian-writing-sound-recording-producer-beate-ursula-josephi\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/compilation-of-recordings-relating-to-barbara-hanrahan-sound-recording\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/interview-with-barbara-hanrahan-sound-recording-interviewer-suzanne-hayes\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/radio-interview-with-barbara-hanrahan-sound-recording-interviewer-elaine-lindsay\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/radio-tribute-to-barbara-hanrahan-by-susan-mitchell-sound-recording\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/radio-tribute-to-barbara-hanrahan-by-tony-baker-sound-recording\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/recording-of-a-women-writers-forum-sound-recording\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/addresses-by-barbara-hanrahan-and-max-fatchen-sound-recording\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/barbara-hanrahan-summary-record\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/dale-spender-papers-1972-1995\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Hunter, Dora", "Entry ID": "AWE1064", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/hunter-dora\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Childcare worker, Community worker", "Summary": "Dora Hunter was raised by two missionaries, Miss Ruby Hyde and Miss Delia Rutter, firstly at Quorn and then at Eden Hills, South Australia. She started working as a servant in a private home, and later got a job in a kindergarten. Following that, she worked as a Child Care Worker at the Central Methodist Mission in Adelaide for nine years. She did two years' training in the Aboriginal Task Force at the Institute of Technology in Adelaide, and worked in a government position as an Aboriginal Community Worker. She has been involved with the Aboriginal Evangelical Fellowship and the Young People's Branch of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union. She enjoys playing music, and has often played in old people's homes and children's homes as well as at church meetings.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/angkiku-bultu-womens-paths-compiled-by-port-adelaide-girls-high-school-students\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/some-aboriginal-women-pathfinders-their-difficulties-and-their-achievements\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/survival-in-our-own-land-aboriginal-experiences-in-south-australia-since-1836-told-by-nungas-and-others\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/dora-hunter\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/miss-dora-hunter\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/dora-hunter-2\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/oral-histories-growing-up-in-state-and-private-homes-and-orphanages-in-adelaide-interviewer-jerry-schwab-1984-86\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Tongerie, Maude", "Entry ID": "AWE1067", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/tongerie-maude\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Anna Creek, South Australia, Australia", "Death Place": "Davoren Park, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Welfare worker", "Summary": "Maude Tongerie was born in 1928 at Anna Creek, about 80 miles west of Oodnadatta in South Australia. She lived with her people (Arabunna) until the age of nine, when she was taken to the Finke River Mission for an eye treatment. She then went to live with an aunt in Oodnadatta so that she could learn English, and from there she went to Colebrook Home, a non-Government Aboriginal mission, in Quorn. At the age of 15 she started to work as a domestic with a family near Adelaide. She married George Tongerie, a young Aboriginal man who served in the Air Force during the war. In the early 1970s Maude became involved with the Department for Community Welfare, and worked as a social worker with Aboriginal families, particularly in the juvenile courts. In the 1980s she and her husband instituted successful community housing and training programs in Oodnadatta and were both appointed Members of the Order of Australia in 1988, for 'contributions to the Aboriginal Community'.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/our-heart-is-the-land-aboriginal-reminiscences-from-the-western-lake-eyre-basin\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/unsung-heroes-heroines-of-australia-edited-by-suzy-baldwin\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/some-aboriginal-women-pathfinders-their-difficulties-and-their-achievements\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/aboriginal-aged-persons-homes-trust\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/maude-tongerie-community-worker\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/maude-tongerie-community-worker-2\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Wilhelm, Eileen Vimy", "Entry ID": "AWE1137", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/wilhelm-eileen-vimy\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Crystal Brook, South Australia, Australia", "Death Place": "Sydney, New South Wales, Australia", "Occupations": "Health worker, social activist, Volunteer", "Summary": "Vim Wilhelm was named after the Vickers Vimy, a reconditioned WWI fighter bomber that flew from London to Australia and landed on the day she was born. Her father, Roy Klopper, was an early enthusiast of flying and had built his own aeroplane as a young man. Her mother, Jessie Sullivan, was a midwife and matron of the local hospital at Crystal Brook, north of Adelaide, South Australia. They named their daughter Eileen Vimy but she was nearly always Vim. Jessie died when Vim was ten, and Vim left school at the age of twelve to look after her four siblings. She picked up her formal education again at the age of seventeen when she went to Royal Adelaide Hospital to be a nurse. In 1943 she married a young doctor, Don Wilhelm (with whom she had two children), and graduated top of the state in 1944.\nOnce graduated, Vimy trained as a family planning nurse at the Marie Stopes Centre in London and learned to appreciate the worth of volunteering. Returning to Australia in 1960 and with some encouragement from Ruby Rich of the Racial Hygiene Association, Vimy joined the Family Planning Association of Australia (FPAA), where she eventually served as president and chief executive officer, on a full-time, volunteer basis. \"She ran the organisation as efficiently as she appears to have done everything else in her life,\" notes a friend. \"She turned it from an organisation that had virtually no profile at all, into one that was respected by the medical community and by the community at large.\" She was later appointed Patron of the Australian Federation of Family Planning Associations (AFFPA), and in 1976 was awarded the Order of Australia in recognition of her pioneering work in family planning. Between 1976 and 1997, Vimy held the Presidency of the NSW Committee of UNICEF and was elected a Life Member in 1994.\nAfter leaving UNICEF in 1997, Vim, at the age of 78, immediately offered her services to the University of New South Wales alumni association as a volunteer.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Mack, Maggy Pinkie", "Entry ID": "AWE1167", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/mack-maggy-pinkie\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Lower Murray River, South Australia, Australia", "Death Place": "Eastwood, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Aboriginal storyteller, Linguist", "Summary": "Maggy Pinkie Mack (Katipelvild), of Ngarrindjeri descent, was born on the lower Murray River in South Australia, probably around 1867. At the age of 16, she was given in marriage to an up-river man, John Mack (Telwara). She took part in ceremonies and learnt new songs and stories. After he died, she went back to her own country, and her second husband.\nPinkie Mack was a song-woman, and she recorded some of her songs on an Edison wax cylinder. She was nostalgic about the past and her people. After the death of Albert Karloan, she was the only remaining fluent Yaraldi speaker.\nIn later years, Mack lived in a small cottage near the river and not far from Tailem Bend, where she sometimes sold freshly caught fish to a local shop. Children, grandchildren and various relatives called in to see her on the way to other places.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/the-encyclopaedia-of-aboriginal-australia-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander-history-society-and-culture\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Trew, Judy Thandripilinha", "Entry ID": "AWE1174", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trew-judy-thandripilinha\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Goyder Lagoon?, South Australia, Australia", "Death Place": "Australia", "Occupations": "Aboriginal storyteller", "Summary": "Judy Trew Thandripilinha ('Poisonous Snake'), of Yarluyandi descent, was born in c.1865, probably on Goyder Lagoon in South Australia. She took the name 'Trew' from one of the early station people. Her first husband was Kuranta ('Sticknest Rat'), also called 'Lagoon Charlie', and her second husband was the highly respected old Wangkangurru man, Yarinjili Todd.\nJudy lived and worked on old Clifton Hills and The Bluff, remaining in or close to her own country. She had an excellent knowledge of the bush, and taught her grandchildren about sites and stories, including her own main tradition, the Song Cycle of the Swan. Nearly all the sites recorded on the Diamantina in South Australia are based on her traditions. In c.1936 she organised the last expedition, by camel, to collect pituri from the traditional site west of the Mulligan.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/the-encyclopaedia-of-aboriginal-australia-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander-history-society-and-culture\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Naylon, Maudie Akawiljika", "Entry ID": "AWE1179", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/naylon-maudie-akawiljika\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Marrapardi, Simpson Desert, South Australia, Australia", "Death Place": "Birdsville, Queensland, Australia", "Occupations": "Traditional Aboriginal custodian", "Summary": "Maudie Naylon was the last fluent speaker of the Ngamini and Yarluyandi languages.\n", "Details": "Maudie Naylon Akawiljika, of Wangkangurru and Arrernte descent, was born in the Simpson Desert in c1885 [plaque at Birdsville cemetery states her year of birth to be 1887]. Despite her exceptional traditional knowledge and the fact that among Wangkangurru and related groups women shared in practically all ceremonies, anthropologists never asked her for information - only men were asked to sing or relate traditional matters.\nAlthough her main language was Wangkangurru, she also had a command of Yarluyandi, Lanima, Ngamini and Jauraworka. With her death in Birdsville in 1980, Ngamini became extinct and Yarluyandi lost its last fluent speaker.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/the-encyclopaedia-of-aboriginal-australia-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander-history-society-and-culture\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Oldfield, Alice Warrika", "Entry ID": "AWE1181", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/oldfield-alice-warrika\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Callanna Station, South Australia", "Death Place": "Australia", "Occupations": "Aboriginal traditional dancer, Linguist, Traditional Aboriginal custodian", "Summary": "Alice Warrika Oldfield, of Kuyani descent, was born on Callanna station in South Australia. She grew up on Millers Creek station where her parents worked. As a very small child, she was attacked and nearly killed there by the station geese. Though she was badly injured, it was the geese who were all mysteriously found dead the next morning.\nAlice married Sandy Dinta Oldfield, the famous last Ngamini rainmaker. They lived and worked on stations on the Strzelecki and the Birdsville Track, mainly Etadunna. In the 1950s they retired to Marree, where Sandy died in 1964.\nAlice was devoted to traditions and was a rainmaker in her own right, though this was ignored by people who came to visit Sandy. She kept traditions alive by organising the Wandji-Wandji corroboree at Stuart Creek in the early 1930s; she knew the karlapa, the Arabana women's dance; and she made rain at a ceremony she organised in 1969, when she was almost totally blind. She was a speaker of Arabana, and most of what has been preserved of the Kuyani language is due to her.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/the-encyclopaedia-of-aboriginal-australia-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander-history-society-and-culture\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Rankine, Dorothy Leila", "Entry ID": "AWE1188", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/rankine-dorothy-leila\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Point McLeay?, South Australia", "Death Place": "Australia", "Occupations": "Administrator, Community worker, Educator, Musician", "Summary": "Dorothy Leila Rankine, of Ngarrindjeri and Kaurna descent, grew up at Raukkan (Point McLeay) on Lake Alexandrina in South Australia. Her lifelong involvement with music and singing began with her family and the local Salvation Army church. She later became a soldier of the Salvation Army. After completing only primary education she moved to Adelaide in 1965, where she joined the Aboriginal Women's Council and later the Port Adelaide Aboriginal Friendship Club.\nIn 1972 Rankine became a founding member of the Adelaide Aboriginal Orchestra, which later developed into the Centre for Aboriginal Studies in Music (CASM), of which she was chairperson until her retirement in 1986. She acted as counsellor, liaising with the local Aboriginal community and organising annual camps and concerts. She edited and contributed poems to the journal Tjungaringanyi; was elected chairperson of the urban committee; and was an active singer, trombonist and speaker. She appeared in the films Sister, If You Only Knew (1975) and Wrong Side of the Road (1980).\nDorothy Leila Rankine served on the boards of the Aboriginal Community College, the Aboriginal Community Centre, and the Aboriginal Sobriety Group. She was a member of the Australia Council, the Aboriginal Artists Agency in Sydney, and the Aborigines Advancement League of South Australia, and was a life board member of Warriappendi Alternative School. She contributed to Aboriginal education curriculum materials for South Australian schools, told Ngarrindjeri stories on ABC television, and was one of the founders of Camp Coorong, a Ngarrindjeri cultural centre.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/the-encyclopaedia-of-aboriginal-australia-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander-history-society-and-culture\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/sister-if-you-only-knew\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Coulthard, Annie (Yadandhanha)", "Entry ID": "AWE1259", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/coulthard-annie-yadandhanha\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Wooltana Station, Flinders Ranges, South Australia, Australia", "Death Place": "Nepabunna?, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Traditional Aboriginal custodian", "Summary": "Annie Coulthard (Yadandhanha), of Adnyamathanha descent, grew up at Wertaloona station where her father worked. There she was employed as a housemaid until about 1924, when she married her cousin Samuel Coulthard.\nAnnie and Samuel moved to Balcanoona where they worked for Ray Thomas, carting stones and sand for the new 'Government House', now headquarters of the Gammon Ranges National Park. After the birth of their first child in 1926, the family moved to the Adnyamathanha camp at Ram Paddock Gate on Patsy Springs, where they struggled to survive in a land ravaged by stock and drought. They moved to the Nepabunna run in 1930, when Thomas gave it to the Adnyamathanha. In the early 1940s, the Coulthards drove sheep between Balcanoona and Copley, and lived and worked on Idninha. In the early 1950s they moved to Wooltana and then to Nepabunna where, in 1973, Sam Coulthard died.\nThe last five years of her life Annie Coulthard dedicated to passing on traditional knowledge. She died in 1986 and was buried at Nepabunna beside her husband.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/the-encyclopaedia-of-aboriginal-australia-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander-history-society-and-culture\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/artefacts-of-the-flinders-ranges-an-illustrated-dictionary-of-artefacts-used-by-the-adnyamathanha\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Smith, Wendy Irene", "Entry ID": "AWE1264", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/smith-wendy-irene\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Adelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Local government councillor, Nurse educator, Parliamentarian", "Summary": "A member of the Liberal Party of Australia, Wendy Smith served as the Member for Silvan Province in the Legislative Council of the Parliament of Victoria from 1996-2002.\nHer earlier community service included a period as a Councillor for the City of Kew from 1983-88. She was a candidate in the Legislative Assembly seat of Albert Park at the state election, which was held in 3 October 1992.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/victorian-parliamentary-handbook-the-54th-parliament-no-7\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/whos-who-in-australia-2002\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/carrying-on-the-fight-women-candidates-in-victorian-parliamentary-elections\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Barron, Evelyn", "Entry ID": "AWE1350", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/barron-evelyn\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Wallaroo, South Australia, Australia", "Death Place": "Sydney, New South Wales, Australia", "Occupations": "Legislative councillor, Parliamentarian, Political candidate", "Summary": "A lifelong political and social activist, Evelyn Barron served a full 12-year term in the Legislative Council of New South Wales (1964-76) as a member of the ALP. Prior to this she had unsuccessfully run as an ALP candidate for Collaroy in 1953.\n", "Details": "Evelyn Barron joined the ALP in 1938. She was a member of the Central Executive of the party from 1957 to 1964, and president of the Women's Central Organising Committee in 1964.\nShe was President of the NSW Women Justices Association, 1958-60, President of the League of Women Voters, 1961-62. Evelyn Barron was also active in a number of other organisations including the Civilian Widows' Association, the Good Neighbour Council, the NSW National Council of Women, and the Australian Women's Charter Movement.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/putting-skirts-on-the-sacred-benches-women-candidates-for-the-new-south-wales-parliament-2\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Ward, Jane", "Entry ID": "AWE2037", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/ward-jane\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Unley, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Counsellor, Teacher", "Summary": "Jane Ward is a well known local and conservationist activist with a passion for social justice and community action. As an Independent candidate she contested the following elections:\nLeichhardt Municipal Council, 1987\nNew South Wales Legislative Assembly, Balmain, 1988\nHouse of Representatives, Sydney, 2004\nCity of Sydney council elections, 2004\n", "Details": "Jane Ward was born in Unley, South Australia and grew up in Port Lincoln. She was educated at Adelaide University (BA) and the Adelaide Teachers College (Dip. Teach.) and taught briefly before moving to New Zealand. She later married and moved to the United States for 4 years. The marriage was dissolved and she returned to Australia.\nAt the time of the 1988 election campaign, Jane Ward had lived in the Balmain area for 15 years, with her Australian husband and three children. She was also a teacher in the Corrective Services Department and had a long association with the peace and environment movement. She was also President of the Balmain Association and a member of Networking for Women.\nJane Ward was a founding member of Punch Park People, a local environmental group. She has been a Director on the Board of the Kindergarten Union of New South Wales since 1986. She was President of the Kindergarten Union 1988-89 and is a member of its Finance, Audit and Marketing committees (2005). In 1988 she was on the steering Committee of the Conservation Foundation's Urban Planning and Environment Coalition. In 2005 Jane Ward was Coordinator\/Counsellor of the Lone Parent Family Support Services.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/putting-skirts-on-the-sacred-benches-women-candidates-for-the-new-south-wales-parliament-2\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Roper, Edna Sirius", "Entry ID": "AWE2075", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/roper-edna-sirius\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Alberton, South Australia, Australia", "Death Place": "Leura, New South Wales, Australia", "Occupations": "Homemaker, Jeweller, Parliamentarian", "Summary": "Edna Roper was an ALP member of the New South Wales Legislative Council for over twenty years. She was elected in 1957 and then re-elected in 1970. She served as Deputy Leader of the Opposition between 3\/12\/1973 -13\/5\/1976 (2 years 5 months 11 days) and was Deputy Leader of Government between 14\/5\/1976 - 17\/10\/1978 (2 years 5 months 4 days). She was a delegate to the International Women's Year conference in Mexico in 1975.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/putting-skirts-on-the-sacred-benches-women-candidates-for-the-new-south-wales-parliament-2\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Gardiner, Jennifer (Jenny) Ann", "Entry ID": "AWE2088", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/gardiner-jennifer-jenny-ann\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Penola, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Parliamentarian", "Summary": "Jennifer Gardiner was elected to the NSW Legislative Council on 25 May 1991 representing the Nationals. She served until 2015 and was Deputy Leader of the Nationals in the Legislative Council from 2003..\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/putting-skirts-on-the-sacred-benches-women-candidates-for-the-new-south-wales-parliament-2\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Barbalet, Margaret Evelyn", "Entry ID": "AWE2110", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/barbalet-margaret-evelyn\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Adelaide, South Australia", "Occupations": "Author, Historian, Poet, Public servant", "Summary": "Margaret Barbalet is an award-winning children's author, a novelist, poet and short-story writer, a public servant and a historian\n(This entry is sponsored by generous donation from Christine Foley.)\n", "Details": "Margaret Barbalet was born in Adelaide and raised in Tasmania. She studied history at the University of Adelaide and says she spent much of her youth protesting against the Vietnam war. She taught at Mitchell and Canberra Colleges of Advanced Education, and as a researcher and historian she worked for the Commonwealth Schools Commission, Adelaide City Council and wrote a history of Adelaide Children's Hospital. She has also been an analyst at the Office of National Assessments.\nAs a children's author she wrote the widely acclaimed The Wolf, which won the 1993 Human Rights Award for children's literature, and was shortlisted for the Younger Readers Book of the Year Award. She was honoured in several categories of the Children's Book Council Book of the Year 2004 for Reggie Queen of the Street.\nBarbalet's published non-fiction includes Far from a Low Gutter Girl: the forgotten world of state wards, South Australia, 1887-1940 and a chapter in Canberra Reflects (2001), which accompanied an exhibition at the Canberra Museum and Gallery.\nHer novels include Blood in the Rain and Steel Beach, which was shortlisted for the 1983 Vogel Award. Her other books include Lady, Baby, Gypsy, Queen (1992), The Presence of Angels (2001) and Paradise Hotel. Of varied genres, her work has been described as 'capturing the territory of loss'. She is also a published poet.\nShe was a member of Seven Writers - a group of seven Canberra-based writers whose work often vividly portrayed life 'beneath the surface of Canberra' - and as part of this collective she contributed to Canberra Tales (1988), republished as The Division of Love in 1996, an anthology of short stories about life in Canberra. This work received an ACT Bicentennial Award.\nBarbalet has been awarded an Australia Council Literature Grant; an Australian National University H.C. Coombs Creative Arts Fellowship (1998); an ACT Arts Fellowship (1999); an ACT Literature Fellowship (2001); a National Library of Australia Harold White Fellowship (2001) and an Australia Council Literature Grant for a New Work Fellowship (2002).\nDuring a career at the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (1990 - December 2008) Margaret Barbalet was appointed Second Secretary at the Australian High Commission in Kuala Lumpur in 1996. She was posted to Abu Dhabi from 2005-08.\nIn 2001 she headed the Literature Committee for the ACT Cultural Council. She now lives in Sydney\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/the-division-of-love-stories\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/blood-in-the-rain\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/far-from-a-low-gutter-girl-the-forgotten-world-of-state-wards-south-australia-1887-1940\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/steel-beach\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/lady-baby-gypsy-queen\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/the-presence-of-angels\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/from-lady-denman-to-katy-gallagher-a-century-of-womens-contributions-to-canberra\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/records-of-the-seven-writers-group-between-1986-and-approximately-2000\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/papers-of-margaret-barbalet-1974-1993-manuscript\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Edgar, Suzanne", "Entry ID": "AWE2111", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/edgar-suzanne\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Glenelg, Adelaide, South Australia", "Occupations": "Author, Poet, Writer", "Summary": "Suzanne Edgar is a Canberra-based writer of fiction, feature articles, poetry and reviews.\n(This entry is sponsored by generous donation from Christine Foley.)\n", "Details": "Suzanne Edgar was born in 1939 in Glenelg, South Australia, and studied at Adelaide Teachers' College and the University of Adelaide. She moved to Canberra in 1963 with her husband Peter, a writer and historian (To Villers-Bretonneux, Australian Military History Publications, Syd, 2006). She has worked in adult education, and has taught Women's Studies at the Australian National University. For c.25 years she was the research editor, South Australian desk, at the Australian Dictionary of Biography.\nShe has published Counting Backwards and Other Stories (1991), many of these short stories being set in Adelaide and in Canberra, and the collection was short-listed for the Steele Rudd award in 1992. Edgar's poetry has been published in The Australian, The Canberra Times, The Adelaide Review, Quadrant, The Australian's Review of Books, and Eureka Street. She has twice won the C.J. Dennis Memorial Poetry Competition for Night Shift and Uriarra, while Chica and The Ring Maker have been short-listed for Canberra poetry awards. Her poems, 'The Loneliness of Salt' and 'Enid on the Sofa', were included in Les Murray ed., Best Australian Poems 2004 and 2005 respectively (Black Inc., Melb.). Among her other poems in anthologies, her sonnet 'The Patriarch's House by the Sea' is in R. Walker and L Nicholas eds., Friendly Street Thirty, Wakefield Press, Adel, 2006; this sonnet was short-listed for the SATURA prize for the best poem in the book. Edgar has read at Friendly Street Poets, Adelaide. She often gives readings of her own and others' poetry in connection with art exhibitions, at the National Gallery of Australia and at the Art Gallery of South Australia. She also writes film and book reviews, criticism and features in literary and scholarly journals.\nShe was a member of Seven Writers - a group of seven Canberra-based writers whose work vividly portrayed life 'beneath the surface of Canberra' - and as part of this collective she contributed to Canberra Tales (1988), republished as The Division of Love in 1996, an anthology of short stories about life in Canberra. The work was funded with an ACT Bicentennial grant.\nEdgar currently belongs to a professional poets' group [no name] comprised of two men and two women who meet monthly at The Mull and Fiddle, to discuss work in progress.\nHer first collection of poetry, The Painted Lady, prepared with the help of a $10,000 grant from artsACT, is to be published in 2006 by Indigo Press, Canb. (eds. Alan Gould and Geoff Page).\nEdgar has contributed fifty-three biographical articles to the Australian Dictionary of Biography and one to The Biographical Dictionary of the Australian Senate. She is also an interviewer for the National Library of Australia's Oral History Program.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/counting-backwards-and-other-stories\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/the-division-of-love-stories\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/from-lady-denman-to-katy-gallagher-a-century-of-womens-contributions-to-canberra\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/records-of-the-seven-writers-group-between-1986-and-approximately-2000\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Rymill, Shylie Katharine", "Entry ID": "AWE2178", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/rymill-shylie-katharine\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Strathalbyn, South Australia, Australia", "Death Place": "Adelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Girl Guides' Leader, Golfer", "Summary": "Shylie Katharine Rymill was a prominent member of Adelaide Society, a successful charity worker and a more than competent golfer, winning the South Australian Women's Championship in 1913. She was a state commissioner for the Girl Guides in South Australia between 1938-1950.\n", "Events": "Winner of the South Australian Women's Golf Championship (1913 - 1913) \nAssociate-captain of the (Royal) Adelaide Golf Club (1915 - 1915) \nAssociate-captain of the (Royal) Adelaide Golf Club (1923 - 1923) \nLadies' captain at Kooyonga Golf Club (1924 - 1928) \nFounding president of the South Australian Ladies' Golf Union (1925 - 1930) \nLadies' captain at Kooyonga Golf Club (1932 - 1932) \nAssociate-captain of the (Royal) Adelaide Golf Club (1933 - 1934)", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/rymill-shylie-katharine-1882-1959\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/s-a-guides-wartime-chief-dies\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/shes-game-women-making-australian-sporting-history-2\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/faith-hope-and-charity-australian-women-and-imperial-honours-1901-1989\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Quarrell, Lois Gertrude", "Entry ID": "AWE2205", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/quarrell-lois-gertrude\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Corryton, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Death Place": "Adelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Journalist, Print journalist, Sports administrator, Sports Journalist", "Summary": "Lois Quarrell covered women's sport in Adelaide for The Advertiser for forty years and is credited with doing much to 'educate public opinion in the value of various sports for girls and young women'. (The Advertiser October 1949). She joined the paper in 1932, at the age of seventeen, and four years later became their first woman sportswriter. In order to gather stories, she would ride her bike to venues, collect information and pedal back to the office to write it up.\nQuarrell's half page column, devoted entirely to women's sports and the issues associated with them, commenced in 1936 and ran until her retirement in 1970. She used it to inform readers of the variety of women's sporting achievements and comparing them to women's efforts overseas in an effort to legitimize them. She also used her influence to encourage women to be involved in sport and to manage their own affairs. In particular, she argued for the inclusion of 'games' for girls in the standard school curriculum, against opposition groups who believed that girls playing sport would rob them of their femininity. Quarrell also encouraged debate on issues such as the suitability of rational dress and the early retirement of athletes due to motherhood.\n", "Events": "Career in journalism active (1932 - 1970)", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/feminae-ludens-womens-competitive-sport-in-southaustralia-1936-1956-and-the-influence-of-sports-reporter-loisquarrell\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/the-womens-pages-australian-women-and-journalism-since-1850-2\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/shes-game-women-making-australian-sporting-history-2\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/lois-quarrell-summary-record\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Mansom, Dorothy Mary", "Entry ID": "AWE2218", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/mansom-dorothy-mary\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Adelaide, South Australia", "Death Place": "Adelaide", "Occupations": "Equestrian, Opera singer, Public servant, Sports administrator", "Summary": "Dot Mansom left school at the age of 15 and worked for her father in his capacity as bookmaker at the Supreme Court Hotel. She attended the Hyde Park School of Music, and sang in minor roles for the South Australian Opera Company. She later toured with operas to Melbourne and Western Australia. On weekends she taught riding, and during the Depression years took work at the Port Adelaide Bacon Factory, before becoming a buyer and manageress for Miller Anderson Ltd.'s mantle department. Mansom become an investigating officer with the drapery section of the State branch of the Rationing Commission during World War II, gaining equal status with her male colleagues. She married Clarence Henry Gray in June 1950.\nAfter the war, Mansom was secretary of the South Adelaide Riding Club (which she re-formed) and the Horse Riding Clubs' Association. She bought a former racehorse, Antonym. In an attempt to popularise dressage, she established the Dressage Club of South Australia with Tom Roberts in 1949. The following year she won a blue ribbon in dressage events at the Royal Agricultural and Horticultural Society of South Australia's show. Mansom became a member of the executive of her local Light Horse Association, and helped to organise Australian Olympic Federation horse trials in South Australia. She predeceased her husband, and was buried in West Terrace cemetery, Adelaide.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/shes-game-women-making-australian-sporting-history-2\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/mansom-dorothy-mary-1905-1978\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Thomas, Faith", "Entry ID": "AWE2236", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/thomas-faith\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Nepabunna Aboriginal Mission, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Cricketer, Nurse", "Summary": "Faith Thomas was the first Aboriginal woman to play international cricket for Australia; indeed, she was the first indigenous woman to be selected to play any sport for Australia. In 2004, she was still the only Aboriginal woman to represent Australia in cricket.\nThomas played cricket, along with hockey and squash, while training in Adelaide to be a nurse. (She was one of the first Aboriginal nurses to graduate from the Royal Adelaide Hospital; she went on to be the first to run a hospital.) Thomas was selected into the South Australian cricket team after playing only two grade games and was selected for the Australian team in 1958. She recalls receiving a fair deal of publicity at the time. 'I was a bit of a curiosity,' she said in an interview in 2004. 'It was a \"native nurse\", this. You know, I wasn't a cricketer, I was a native nurse cricketer, You know?'\nThomas also played hockey for the Northern Territory and admits that hockey was always more important to her than cricket. She was a member of the Aboriginal Sports Foundation, patron of the Prime Minister's XI versus the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission (ATSIC) Chairman's XI.\n", "Events": "Member of the Order of Australia (AM): For significant service to cricket, and to the Indigenous community. (2019 - 2019)", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/faith-thomas\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/shes-game-women-making-australian-sporting-history-2\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/interview-with-faith-thomas-sound-recording-interviewer-gordon-briscoe\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/interview-with-faith-thomas-aboriginal-woman-cricketer-and-outback-nurse-sound-recording-interviewer-ray-aitchison\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Burge, Dianne", "Entry ID": "AWE2253", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/burge-dianne\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Adelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Death Place": "Adelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Commonwealth or Empire Games Gold Medalist, Track and Field Athlete", "Summary": "Dianne Burge was the 1966 Commonwealth Games gold medallist in the 100 and 220 yard sprint. She was also a member of the winning 4\u00d7110 yard relay team.\n", "Events": "Athletics - 110y, 220y, 4 x 110y Relay (1966 - 1966)", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/shes-game-women-making-australian-sporting-history-2\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Mills, May", "Entry ID": "AWE2258", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/mills-may\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Millbrae, South Australia, Australia", "Death Place": "South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Cricketer, Educator, Sports administrator", "Summary": "May Mills was played a prominent role in the development of women's sport in South Australia. She was President of the South Australian Women's Cricket Association and the Australian Women's Cricket Council in the 1960s. Prior to that she was President of the South Australian Women's Amateur Sports Council, the body that successfully lobbied the then Premier, Sir Thomas Playford, to secure access to playing fields for the dedicated use of women. Trained as a teacher, she taught at Unley High School for thirty years. She became the first female President of the South Australian Institute of Teachers in 1943.\nApart from her interest in women's sport and teaching, Mills was active in a number of other spheres of public life. She was the first President of the South Australian Film and Television Council, a founding member of the Australian College of Education, a Life Vice-President of the National Council of Women and a Life Member of the Royal Commonwealth Society. She was the first women in South Australia to secure a license to drive a motor car.\nMay Mills contribution to women's cricket was recognised in 1984\/85 by the creation of the May Mills Trophy for the Under 18 national Championship. This competition ran until 1995\/96.\n", "Details": "The extent of Mills' involvement in public life gives proof to the old aphorism which tells us that if you want something done, ask a busy person. May Mills wasn't just busy, however, she was canny. She saved thousands of dollars of development costs by enticing major corporations to test their heavy machinery on the ovals, therefore getting them cleared and levelled at no cost to the sporting clubs. She organised parties of youngsters to plant almond trees around the oval and then, when the trees began to bear fruit, organised other children to harvest the crop, thus creating another source of funds through their sale.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/shes-game-women-making-australian-sporting-history-2\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/south-australian-womens-memorial-playing-fields-trust-summary-record\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/may-mills-summary-record\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/radio-interview-with-may-mills-sound-recording-interviewer-lynne-arnold\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Rolton, Gillian", "Entry ID": "AWE2272", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/rolton-gillian\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Adelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Death Place": "Adelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Equestrian, Olympian", "Summary": "Gillian Rolton was Australia's first female equestrian gold-medallist. She won or was placed at the Olympic Games, the World Championships, the Trans-Tasman's and international competitions in Europe and Australia.\n", "Details": "A schoolteacher from Adelaide, Gillian Rolton was a show and dessage rider from the age of ten until her early twenties. She began Eventing and Showjumping at twenty-one, and competed at an international level from 1984. Rolton was long-listed for the Olympic Games at Los Angeles and Seoul, but missed out on both due to injury (to the horse in the first instance, and to herself in the second). In 1992 she was a late inclusion the Australian equestrian team competing at the Barcelona Olympic Games after she beat all male members of the team in the final selection trial at Savernake, England. Competing alongside Matt Ryan and Andrew Hoy, Rolton rode an excellent round on Peppermint Grove on the final day of competition, and became the first Australian female equestrian to win a gold medal.\nRolton achieved even greater notoriety after the Olympic Games in Atlanta in 1996. Thrown twice from Peppermint Grove in the cross-country section, Rolton remounted and finished the course despite a broken collar-bone and two broken ribs. The Australian team, comprised of Andrew Hoy, Wendy Schaeffer, Phillip Dutton and Rolton, won gold.\nFrom 2003, Rolton coordinated and coaching the EFA National Young Eventing Rider Squad. She was an FEI International Eventing judge and on the Board of Adelaide International Horse Trials.\n", "Events": "Equestrian - Three day Event (Team) (1992 - 1992) \nEquestrian - Three Day Event (Team) (1996 - 1996)", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/free-rein\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/australia-at-the-games\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/shes-game-women-making-australian-sporting-history-2\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/the-oxford-companion-to-australian-sport\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Allen, Katie", "Entry ID": "AWE2294", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/allen-katie\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Hockey player, Olympian", "Events": "Member of the Hockeyroos (2000 - 2000)", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/shes-game-women-making-australian-sporting-history-2\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Boyd, Carla", "Entry ID": "AWE2307", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/boyd-carla\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Wynyard, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Basketball Player, Olympian", "Events": "Member of the Opals, the Australian Women's Basketball Team (1996 - 1996) \nMember of the Opals, the Australian Women's Basketball Team (2000 - 2000)", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/shes-game-women-making-australian-sporting-history-2\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Brogan, Michelle", "Entry ID": "AWE2340", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/brogan-michelle\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Adelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Basketball Player, Olympian", "Events": "Member of the Opals, the Australian Women's Basketball Team (1996 - 1996) \nMember of the Opals, the Australian Women's Basketball Team (2000 - 2000)", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/shes-game-women-making-australian-sporting-history-2\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Haslam, Juliet", "Entry ID": "AWE2355", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/haslam-juliet\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Adelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Hockey player, Olympian", "Events": "Member of the Hockeyroos (1992 - 1992) \nMember of the Hockeyroos (1996 - 1996) \nMember of the Hockeyroos (2000 - 2000)", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/shes-game-women-making-australian-sporting-history-2\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Peek, Alison", "Entry ID": "AWE2365", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/peek-alison\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Adelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Hockey player, Olympian", "Events": "Competed at Barcelona (1992 - 1992) \nMember of the Hockeyroos (2000 - 2000)", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/shes-game-women-making-australian-sporting-history-2\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Hill, Joanne", "Entry ID": "AWE2379", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/hill-joanne\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Murray Bridge, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Basketball Player, Olympian", "Events": "Member of the Opals, the Australian Women's Basketball Team (2000 - 2000)", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/shes-game-women-making-australian-sporting-history-2\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Summerton, Laura", "Entry ID": "AWE2387", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/summerton-laura\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Adelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Basketball Player, Olympian", "Events": "Member of the Opals, the Australian Women's Basketball Team (2004 - 2004)", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/shes-game-women-making-australian-sporting-history-2\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Pottharst, Kerri-Ann", "Entry ID": "AWE2402", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/pottharst-kerri-ann\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Adelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Beach Volleyball Player, Olympian", "Events": "Beach Volleyball - With Natalie Cook (1996 - 1996) \nBeach Volleyball - with Natalie Cook (2000 - 2000) \nCompeted in Athens (2004 - 2004)", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/shes-game-women-making-australian-sporting-history-2\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Follas, Selina", "Entry ID": "AWE2414", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/follas-selina\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Adelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Olympian, Softball Player", "Events": "Member of the Softball Team (2000 - 2000)", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/shes-game-women-making-australian-sporting-history-2\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Schaeffer, Wendy", "Entry ID": "AWE2463", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/schaeffer-wendy\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Adelaide, South Australia, Afghanistan", "Occupations": "Equestrian, Olympian", "Events": "Equestrian - Three Day Event (Team) (1996 - 1996)", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/shes-game-women-making-australian-sporting-history-2\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Molik, Alicia", "Entry ID": "AWE2480", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/molik-alicia\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Adelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Olympian, Tennis player", "Events": "Competed in Sydney (2000 - 2000) \nTennis - Women's Singles (2004 - 2004)", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/shes-game-women-making-australian-sporting-history-2\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Shanley, Ann", "Entry ID": "AWE2526", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/shanley-ann\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Adelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Death Place": "Adelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Commonwealth or Empire Games Gold Medalist, Track and Field Athlete", "Events": "Athletics - 660y Medley Relay (1950 - 1950)", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/shes-game-women-making-australian-sporting-history-2\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Norton, Denise", "Entry ID": "AWE2528", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/norton-denise\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Adelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Commonwealth or Empire Games Gold Medalist, Swimmer", "Summary": "Denise Norton was the first female Olympian from South Australia.\n", "Events": "Swimming - 4 x 110y Freestyle Relay (1950 - 1950)", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/shes-game-women-making-australian-sporting-history-2\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Ryan, Sarah Michelle", "Entry ID": "AWE2629", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/ryan-sarah-michelle\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Commonwealth or Empire Games Gold Medalist, Swimmer", "Events": "Swimming - 4 x 100m Freestyle Relay (1998 - 1998) \nSwimming - 4 x 100m Freestyle Relay (2002 - 2002)", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/shes-game-women-making-australian-sporting-history-2\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Krueger-Billett, Brooke Elizabeth", "Entry ID": "AWE2649", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/krueger-billett-brooke-elizabeth\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Commonwealth or Empire Games Gold Medalist, Track and Field Athlete", "Events": "Athletics - Hammer Throw (2006 - 2006)", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/shes-game-women-making-australian-sporting-history-2\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Autio, Narelle", "Entry ID": "AWE2751", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/autio-narelle\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Adelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Photo Journalist, Photographer", "Summary": "Narelle Autio has received two Walkley Awards for photography: in 2000 for 'The Seventh Wave', and in 2002 for 'School of Dance', both published in The Sydney Morning Herald.\n", "Events": "Daily Life Photography, 'School of Dance', The Sydney Morning Herald, Fairfax (2002 - 2002) \nFeature Photograph, 'The Seventh Wave', The Sydney Morning Herald, Fairfax (2000 - 2000)", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/the-womens-pages-australian-women-and-journalism-since-1850-2\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Maegraith, Donna", "Entry ID": "AWE2862", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/maegraith-donna\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Adelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Journalist, Poet, Print journalist", "Summary": "Donna Maegrith is a poet and writer who has also worked as a journalist. She has also worked as a sub-editor at the Bulletin. She won a Walkley for her work at there.\n", "Events": "Three Headings 'Merchants of Venom. Insufficient Megawattage. Petro Chemistry', The Bulletin (1999 - 1999)", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/the-womens-pages-australian-women-and-journalism-since-1850-2\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Auld, Elizabeth", "Entry ID": "AWE2882", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/auld-elizabeth\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Adelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Death Place": "Marryatville, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Journalist, Print journalist, Writer", "Summary": "Elizabeth Auld was born into a South Australian family that pioneered winegrowing in that state. As a child, she claimed that she wanted to be a spy: she spent her fifty year career working as a journalist for the Murdoch press instead.\nShe left school (St Peter's Collegiate Girls' School) in 1918 and with the encouragement of her godfather, Lionel Gee, she began work on The Register. Within a year, she had joined the reporting staff off that paper. With the help of Sir Trent De Crespigny, a leading physician, she compiled and edited one of the first medical columns in Australian journalism.\nFrom Adelaide, Auld moved to Melbourne, and had a stint on Fleet Street when the Second World War ended. She returned from London to Melbourne, where she worked on the Woman's Day.\nIn 1952 she went to Woomera, the only woman journalist to get to the Rocket Range at this time. The article she wrote on this was published on the front page of the London Daily Mail. She later worked on the Martin Collins column of The Australian, and retired in 1974. At age 94 she published a children's detective novel.\n", "Events": "Career in journalism active (1920 - 1974)", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/the-womens-pages-australian-women-and-journalism-since-1850-2\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/austlit-the-australian-literature-resource\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Benjamin, Sophia (Zoe)", "Entry ID": "AWE3667", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/benjamin-sophia-zoe\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Adelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Death Place": "Hunters Hill Sydney, New South Wales, Australia", "Occupations": "Kindergarten teacher", "Summary": "Zoe Benjamin was a kindergarten teacher who founded and edited Australian Kindergarten Magazine. She was a lecturer at the Kindergarten Training College and gave broadcasts on the ABC's Kindergarten of the Air. Benjamin's publications included Education for Parenthood (1944), Talks to Parents (1947) and The Schoolchild and His Parents (1950).\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/benjamin-sophia-zoe-1882-1962\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/200-australian-women-a-redress-anthology\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Birdseye, Sylvia Jessie Catherine", "Entry ID": "AWE3668", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/birdseye-sylvia-jessie-catherine\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Port Augusta, South Australia", "Occupations": "Bus driver", "Summary": "Sylvia ran a bus service with her husband Sydney Birdseye from the early 1920s. Buses ran from Adelaide to Mannum, and by the 1930s were running to Port Augusta, Port Lincoln, Streaky Bay and Ceduna.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/birdseye-sylvia-jessie-catherine-1912-1962\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/200-australian-women-a-redress-anthology\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Black, Dorothea (Dorrit) Foster", "Entry ID": "AWE3669", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/black-dorothea-dorrit-foster\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Burnside, South Australia, Australia", "Death Place": "Adelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Artist", "Summary": "Dorrit Black held her first solo exhibition in 1930 at the Macquarie Galleries in Sydney. She established the Modern Art Centre to promote and teach modernism, and in 1944 founded Group 9 as a forum for modernist artists.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/black-dorothea-foster-dorrit-1891-1951\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/200-australian-women-a-redress-anthology\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Corbin, Laura Mary Louisa", "Entry ID": "AWE3677", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/corbin-laura-mary-louisa\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Adelaide, South Australia", "Death Place": "Adelaide", "Occupations": "Childcare worker, Creche founder", "Summary": "Laura Corbin founded the non-denominational South Adelaide Creche or Day Nursery in 1887, to care for the children of women who had to work during the day. By the end of her life, Corbin had seen over 37,000 admissions to the creche. She had ten children of her own.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/corbin-laura-mary-louisa-1841-1916\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/200-australian-women-a-redress-anthology\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Davy, Ruby", "Entry ID": "AWE3680", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/davy-ruby\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Salisbury, South Australia", "Death Place": "Melbourne, Victoria, Australia", "Occupations": "Composer", "Summary": "Ruby Davy was the first Australian woman to receive a doctorate in music and to become a fellow of Trinity College of Music, London. Among her many compositions was Australia, Fair and Free, performed in Melbourne and Adelaide in 1934. With Issy Spivakovsky, she established the Davy Conservatorium of Music in her home at South Yarra.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/200-australian-women-a-redress-anthology\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/davy-ruby-claudia-emily-1883-1949\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Octoman, Janette Hannum", "Entry ID": "AWE3738", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/octoman-janette-hannum\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Tumby Bay, South Australia, Australia", "Death Place": "Adelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Farmer's wife, Justice of the Peace, Political candidate", "Summary": "Janette Octoman became a justice of the peace in Adelaide in 1927. She was elected to the state executive of the merged Liberal and Country League in 1932. In 1937 she stood for the seat of Flinders but was defeated by a local farmer. Octoman was a founding member of the Tumby Bay branch of the Country Women's Association. She stood for party endorsement three times at state level after the 1937 defeat, and once for the Senate, but was unable to win selection.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/octoman-janette-hannum-1879-1971\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/200-australian-women-a-redress-anthology\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/the-first-fifty-years-golden-jubilee-history-of-the-south-australian-country-womens-association\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/faith-hope-and-charity-australian-women-and-imperial-honours-1901-1989\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Shelley, Cecilia Moore", "Entry ID": "AWE3751", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/shelley-cecilia-moore\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Adelaide, South Australia", "Death Place": "Perth, Western Australia", "Occupations": "Union activist", "Summary": "After working in the hotel and catering industry, Cecilia Shelley took on an active role in the Hotel, Club, Caterers, Tearooms and Restaurant Employees Union (HCCT&REU). She became secretary in 1920 and under her influence the HCCT&REU became one of the largest predominantly female unions in the country. Shelley was also an active member of the Australian Labor Party.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/200-australian-women-a-redress-anthology\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/nothing-to-spare-recollections-of-australian-pioneering-women\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Cox, Martha Caldwell", "Entry ID": "AWE3766", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/cox-martha-caldwell\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "South Australia", "Death Place": "Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia", "Occupations": "Pastoralist, Pioneer", "Summary": "Martha Cox married selector David Cox, and lived and worked with him on their property in the Condobolin (western) district of New South Wales. Under harsh and isolated conditions, she cooked for workers, carried out household chores and farm work, and made her own butter, cheese, jam and soap. Toward the end of her life, she composed a detailed journal of her days on the land.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/the-complete-book-of-great-australian-women-thirty-six-women-who-changed-the-course-of-australia\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Stewart, Anna", "Entry ID": "AWE3852", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/stewart-anna\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Adelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Death Place": "Melbourne, Victoria, Australia", "Occupations": "Journalist, Political candidate, Trade union official", "Summary": "Anna Stewart, as Industrial Advocate for the Federated Furnishing Trades Society, successfully led the first Australian blue collar union campaign for maternity leave award provisions in 1975. She was a founding member of the Australian Council of Trade Unions Women's Committee from 1977, representing the Vehicle Builders Employees' Federation and then the Municipal Officers' Association from 1982, and contributing to the ACTU's Working Women's Charter and the Maternity Leave Test Case. She also stood as a candidate for the Australian Labor Party in the Legislative Assembly seat of Frankston at the Victorian state election, which was held on 5 May 1979.\n", "Details": "Anna Stewart was born in Adelaide and completed her schooling at St Margaret's Grammar School in Berwick, Victoria. After initially working as a journalist for the Nation Review, The Sun and The Age in Melbourne and in London, she moved into research and advocacy in the trade union movement in the early 1970s.\nAs Industrial Advocate for the Federated Furnishing Trades Society, she successfully led the first Australian blue collar union campaign for maternity leave award provisions in 1975, while pregnant with her third child. She then became the Federal Research Officer for the Vehicle Builders Employees' Federation of Australia and in this capacity contributed to the draft ACTU Working Women's Charter. In a submission to the ACTU Secretary she argued against recognising child care as only a women's issue and warned against simply recognising the status quo rather than effecting real change for working women. She argued that 'a woman's charter is to no avail if it is: drawn up entirely by men, restricted to child care and maternity leave [and] excludes the right of men to a non-sexist education and employment'. At the Vehicle Builders Employees' Federation she also fought for child care facilities in car plants, researched work value cases and initiated a campaign against sexual harassment, adding the right to work free of sexual harassment to the union's log of claims and forcing employers to recognise it as an industrial issue.\nShe was a founding member of the Australian Council of Trade Unions Women's Committee from 1977, representing the Vehicle Builders Employees' Federation and then the Municipal Officers' Association from 1982. She assisted with the ACTU's Maternity Leave Test Case before the Arbitration Commission in 1979 which resulted in working women being granted the right to up to 52 weeks unpaid maternity leave and the right to return to their job after leave. As the Senior Federal Industrial Officer at the Municipal Officers' Association, Stewart set up women's committees in most State branches of the union and developed strong policies in relation to women workers, particularly in the area of sexual harassment. She also developed an affirmative action policy which the MOA adopted in 1983.\nStewart also stood as a candidate for the Australian Labor Party in the Legislative Assembly seat of Frankston at the Victorian state election, which was held in May 1979, achieving 42.8% of the vote and a 5.5% swing in a conservative seat.\nAfter her death in 1983, the Anna Stewart Memorial Project was set up to recognise her achievements and to carry on her work in encouraging and training women in the union movement. In 2024 the project celebrated its 40th anniversary. In 2001 Stewart was posthumously inducted into the Victorian Honour Roll of Women.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/carrying-on-the-fight-women-candidates-in-victorian-parliamentary-elections\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/work-family-and-the-law\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/40th-anniversary-of-the-anna-stewart-memorial-project\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/records-of-the-australian-council-of-trade-unions\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Daley, Jane (Jean)", "Entry ID": "AWE3954", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/daley-jane-jean\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Mount Gambier, South Australia", "Death Place": "Melbourne, Victoria, Australia", "Occupations": "Activist, Political candidate", "Summary": "Jean Daley was the first woman in Victoria to stand for Federal parliament as an endorsed Labor candidate when she stood for the seat of Kooyong in 1922. As woman organiser for the Australian Labor Party, she established the Labor Women's Interstate Executive in 1929.\n", "Details": "The daughter of Robert Dennis Daley, an early member of the Amalgamated Shearers' Union, and Julia Ann (n\u00e9e Scott), Jean Daley was raised as a Catholic and educated at Mount Gambier, Adelaide and Portland. From 1909, she was living in Melbourne, where she became actively involved in Labor politics.\nA member of the Women's Organizing Committee of the Political Labor Council of Victoria until it was disbanded in 1914, Daley became first president of the group when it re-formed in 1918. She held the position for two years, during which time she wrote 'We Women' in the publication Labor Call. Daley was also a delegate to the Trades Hall Council for the Hotel and Caterers' Union, an early member of the Militant Propaganda League, and an executive member of the Victorian Socialist Party and the Women's Socialist League. In 1917 Daley was vice-president of the Labor Women's Campaign Committee which opposed Vida Goldstein as the candidate for the Federal seat of Kooyong.\nIn her political campaigns, Daley was concerned principally with the cost of living, conscription, and the consumption of alcohol. In 1921, the Union Record published a series of articles by her on the fight against conscription. That same year, Daley was elected Victorian delegate to the federal conference of the Australian Labor Party, and, with Mary Rogers and Muriel Heagney, she called a conference of female delegates from all unions with women members. She was subsequently elected to the central executive of the ALP. In 1922, Daley became the first woman in Victoria to stand for Federal parliament as an endorsed Labor candidate when she stood for the seat of Kooyong, though she was defeated. As woman organiser for the ALP in Victoria, Daley established the Labor Women's Interstate Executive in 1929 and served as secretary until 1947. Ill-health forced her retirement and she died of liver disease at the Alfred Hospital.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/daley-jane-jean-1881-1948\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Buckley, Hannah", "Entry ID": "AWE3965", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/buckley-hannah\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Riverton, South Australia, Australia", "Death Place": "South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Social worker", "Summary": "Hannah Buckley was South Australia's first Catholic social worker. She ran the Catholic Social Service Bureau in Adelaide.\n", "Details": "After working at the ACSSB, Buckley made a significant contribution to policy development in the area of medical social work. She joined the Royal Adelaide Hospital in 1948, and later the South Australian Tuberculosis Association. In 1959, Buckley moved to the Queen Victoria Hospital and fought to transform the attitudes of doctors there toward social work and social workers. She held an executive position in the South Australian branch of the Australian Association of Social Workers.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/the-professionalisation-of-australian-catholic-social-welfare-1920-1985\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/the-encyclopedia-of-women-and-leadership-in-twentieth-century-australia\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Croft, Ida Lucy", "Entry ID": "AWE3995", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/croft-ida-lucy\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Wallaroo, South Australia", "Death Place": "Semaphore, South Australia", "Occupations": "Pharmacist", "Summary": "Ida Lucy Croft was the first woman pharmacist in Broken Hill, New South Wales.\n", "Details": "Ida Lucy Croft was the second daughter of John Thomas Davey Croft, pharmacist, and his wife Lucy Nixon Wardle of Terowie, South Australia. Born in London, John Thomas was the son of James Croft, a medical practitioner, and the Hon. Catherine Herrich Wicks Croft (nee Siberry). He migrated to South Australia with his parents in 1857.\nIda had five siblings, two of whom died in infancy: Catherine Emily, born 1877, died at seven weeks, while Edith, born 1866, lived for just 22 hours. Her surviving siblings were John Thomas Davey, born in 1844, Ellen Cordella, born 1881, and Lily, born 1882. In 1891, when Ida was 15 years old, the family moved to Broken Hill where John Croft established a pharmaceutical business. Ida was one of a group of women, all daughters of pharmacists, who were able to gain registration as pharmacists without a university examination under the terms of an Act of Parliament in 1897. She gained her certificate on 12 July 1900 at the age of 24, having worked for her father as an apprentice.\nIn 1911, Ida's father died from injuries after an accident in South Australia. Within just three months her mother and brother had also died, leaving Ida with her two sisters. She remained in Broken Hill working in the family chemist shop until 1915, and later became manager of the Broken Hill United Friendly Society Dispensary Ltd.\nIda Croft left Broken Hill in 1937 and worked at Martindale's Pharmacy in Balaklava. She was re-registered in South Australia in July 1942 and lived at Semaphore. In 1943 she worked for Mr Goldsack at Victor Harbour. By 1946 she had purchased her own pharmacy in Semaphore but was forced to retire from ill health in 1955. She briefly joined the South Australian Women Pharmacists' Association.\nIda Croft was buried at St Jude's Church of England Cemetery in Glenelg, South Australia.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/croft-ida-lucy-1878-1957\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/early-women-pharmacists-of-n-s-w\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/some-outstanding-women-of-broken-hill-and-district\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/unbroken-spirit-women-in-broken-hill\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Southcott, Heather", "Entry ID": "AWE4006", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/southcott-heather\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Adelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Death Place": "Adelaide, South Australia, Adelaide", "Occupations": "Parliamentarian", "Summary": "A member of the Australian Democrats, Heather Southcott was the first female member of that party to be elected to the South Australian Parliament. She was elected as Member for the district of Mitcham in the House of Assembly at the by-election, which was held in early 1982. Unfortunately she was defeated later in the year at the general election, which was held in November.\nHeather Southcott passed away in November, 2014. For more information about her important life, please see her entry in The Encyclopedia Women and Leadership in Twentieth Century Australia that is linked to this page.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/the-encyclopedia-of-women-and-leadership-in-twentieth-century-australia\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/vale-heather-southcott-am-first-woman-to-lead-a-political-party-in-australia\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/women-in-politics-a-forum-in-the-centenary-year-of-womens-suffrage-sound-recording\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Edes, Nydia Ivy", "Entry ID": "AWE4014", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/edes-nydia-ivy\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Kadina, South Australia, Australia", "Death Place": "Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia", "Occupations": "Councillor, Feminist", "Summary": "Nydia Edes was the first female Alderman on the Broken Hill City Council and a recipient of the Queen's Silver Jubilee Medal who worked tirelessly throughout her life for the improvement of women's conditions.\n", "Details": "Nydia, the youngest of 8 children, was born in the mining town of Kadina in South Australia in 1901. Her father, Walter George Thomson, was a mining engineer. After his death in 1907, Nydia's mother Mary Louisa was left to raise her large family on her own.\nAt the age of 16, Nydia became secretary of the Moonta ALP Ladies' Committee, signalling the beginning of her long connection to the Australian Labor Party (ALP). She was also the secretary of the campaign committee for her cousin John Pedler, who became the local member of the South Australian State parliament. As mining in the Copper Triangle district in South Australia began to slow in the 1920s, Nydia's older siblings married and sought work in other towns. With her mother and older sister Sarah, Nydia moved to Broken Hill in 1926, joining other family members who had moved there looking for work.\nNydia was employed at Goodhart's department store and joined the Shop Assistants Union and the local branch of the Labor Party. She eventually became Mr Goodhart's assistant and was one of the principal buyers for the store. In 1931 she married Cecil Edes, a timberman who worked for the Zinc Corporation, and in 1933 gave birth to their daughter Margot.\nThe challenge of bringing up a child and maintaining a household did not prevent Nydia's continued involvement in politics. In May 1939, she helped form the Women's Auxiliary of the ALP in Broken Hill and remained a member for fifty years, serving intermittently as president, secretary and treasurer. Throughout her life, Nydia campaigned for women's rights, specifically equal pay for equal work, equal opportunity and legal equality. She was a regular contributor of letters and articles to the local press on the subject of issues concerning women. She strongly believed that women could and should contribute to local government, and wrote to the local paper that \"it is only a simple matter of commonsense to have a woman actively participating in civic affairs\". Accordingly, in 1962, Nydia ran for the council election as an ALP candidate and became the first female Alderman on the Broken Hill City Council. In 1968, following her disagreement with a caucus decision, Nydia tended her resignation from the Labor party and ran successfully as a Labor Independent in the next election. She held her office as Alderman until 1974.\nIn addition to her political activity, Nydia was a tireless volunteer for numerous and diverse community organisations. In the depression years, Nydia worked for local charities providing food, clothing and healthcare to struggling families, and during World War Two she served for six years with the Broken Hill and District Hospital Red Cross Voluntary Service Division. In 1935, Nydia was made a Justice of the Peace. She was a founder of the first rural branch of the Women Justices' Association in Broken Hill and became its first president. Nydia was a member of the Housing Advisory Commission from 1950 until 1970 and was secretary of the Far West Children's Health Scheme. She was a member of the Board of Directors of the Broken Hill and District Hospital for 30 years, and was awarded Life membership in 1971. In recognition of her services to the community, she was awarded the Queen's Silver Jubilee Medal in 1977.\nIn spite of her time consuming political and voluntary work, Nydia never let her commitments encroach upon family life. A traditional Christmas dinner was the only sacrifice that her daughter Margot White recalls, as Nydia's position on the Hospital Board involved visiting every patient in the hospital on Christmas morning.\nNydia died in Broken Hill on June 26, 1992.\nThis entry was prepared and written by Georgia Moodie.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/some-outstanding-women-of-broken-hill-and-district\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/people-and-politics-in-regional-new-south-wales\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/room-for-us-says-woman-councillor\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/whos-who-of-australian-women\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/unbroken-spirit-women-in-broken-hill\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/biographical-cuttings-on-nydia-edes-politician-containing-one-or-more-cuttings-from-newspapers-or-journals\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/edes-nydia\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/interview-with-margot-white\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/papers-of-nydia-edes\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Schaefer, Caroline Veronica", "Entry ID": "AWE4017", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/schaefer-caroline-veronica\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Kimba, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Farmer, Parliamentarian", "Summary": "A member of the Liberal Party of South Australia, Caroline Schaefer filled a casual vacancy in the Legislative Council of the Parliament of South Australia in August 1993. She was elected in 1993, re-elected in 2002 and 2006. Before her election to Parliament she served on the Kimba Local Council from 1989-1993.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Hurley, Annette Kay", "Entry ID": "AWE4019", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/hurley-annette-kay\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Adelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Parliamentarian", "Summary": "A member of the Australian Labor Party, Annette Hurley was elected to the Parliament of South Australia in the seat of Napier at the election, which was held on 11 December 1993. She was defeated at the 2002 election, but won a seat in the Australian Senate at the 2004 federal election, representing the State of South Australia. She was not a candidate at the 2010 federal election.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/interview-with-annette-hurley-sound-recording-interviewer-allison-murchie\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Stevens, Lea", "Entry ID": "AWE4024", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/stevens-lea\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Adelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Parliamentarian, School principal", "Summary": "A member of the Australian Labor Party, Lea Stevens was elected as the Member for Elizabeth in the House of Assembly of the Parliament of South Australia at a by-election, which was held on 9 April 1994. The name of the seat was changed to Little Para in March 2006 after a redistribution. She held the portfolio of Minister for Health from 2002-05. She was re-elected in 2006.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/interview-with-lea-stevens-sound-recording-interviewer-allison-murchie\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Key, Steph", "Entry ID": "AWE4031", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/key-steph\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Parliamentarian", "Summary": "A member of the Australian Labor Party, Steph Key was elected as the Member for Hanson, from 2002 Ashford, in the House of Assembly of the Parliament of South Australia at the election, which was held on 11 October 1997. She held a range of Ministerial appointments from 2002-06, which included Social Justice, Housing, Youth, Status of Women and Employment, Training and Further Education. She was re-elected in 2002 and 2006.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Chapman, Vickie", "Entry ID": "AWE4036", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/chapman-vickie\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Kangaroo Island, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Barrister, Lawyer, Parliamentarian, Solicitor", "Summary": "A member of the Liberal Party of Australia, Vickie Chapman was elected to the seat of Bragg in the House of Assembly of the Parliament of South Australia at the election which was held on 9 February 2002. She was re-elected in 2006 and in 2010. She was Deputy Leader of the Opposition from 2006-09. Educated at the Parndana Area School, Pembroke School and Adelaide University, Vickie ran her own small legal firm before entering Parliament.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/australian-women-lawyers-as-active-citizens\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/women-in-politics-a-forum-in-the-centenary-year-of-womens-suffrage-sound-recording\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Fox, Chlo\u00eb", "Entry ID": "AWE4044", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/fox-chloe\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Adelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Journalist, Parliamentarian, Teacher", "Summary": "A member of the Australian Labor Party, Chlo\u00eb Fox was elected to the House of Assembly of the Parliament of South Australia to represent the electorate of Bright at the election, which was held on 18 March 2006. She made her first attempt to enter Parliament was in 2004 when she stood in the seat of Boothby at the federal election. She was re-elected in 2010.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Portolesi, Grace", "Entry ID": "AWE4045", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/portolesi-grace\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Adelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Parliamentarian", "Summary": "A member of the Australian Labor Party, Grace Portolesi was elected to the House of Assembly of the Parliament of South Australia to represent the electorate of Hartley at the election, which was held on 18 March 2006. She was re-elected in 2010. She currently holds the ministerial portfolios of Aboriginal Affairs and Reconciliation, Multicultural Affairs, Youth and Volunteers.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Brownbill, Kay Catherine Millin", "Entry ID": "AWE4046", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/brownbill-kay-catherine-millin\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Adelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Broadcaster, Journalist, Parliamentarian, Public relations professional", "Summary": "A member of the Liberal Country League, Kay Brownbill was elected to the seat of Kingston in the House of Representatives of the Australian Parliament at the 1966 federal election. She was the third woman to be elected to the House of Representatives, but was in Parliament for only one term as she was defeated at the 1969 election. She was made an OBE in 1980 for services to the community.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/blow-the-wind-southerly\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/kay-brownbill-summary-record\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/liberal-party-s-a-division-summary-record\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Kernot, Rhoda Joan", "Entry ID": "AWE4053", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/kernot-rhoda-joan\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Magill, South Australia", "Death Place": "Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia", "Occupations": "Nurse", "Summary": "Rhoda Kernot opened the La Balfour hospital in Broken Hill, New South Wales, in 1924.\n", "Details": "Rhoda Kernot was the daughter of Ellis Edwin Kernot and Christina Mary Ann Mackay. Ellis Edwin was the son of Edwin Wight Kernot and Joan Matthews. Joan was the daughter of Thomas Matthews, who sailed from Pitney, Somerset Shire, on the Moffatt and arrived in South Australia in December 1839. Rhoda's siblings were William Charles Kernot and Mary Ruby Smythe Kernot.\nRhoda Kernot attended the Central Public School in Broken Hill and worked at Torpy's Boot Emporium in Argent Street. She was a promising pianist but had to have the first finger of her right hand amputated after an accident during a fierce storm, and she began training as a nurse. She worked at the Broken Hill District Hospital between 1918 and 1921, when she moved to Adelaide, but she returned in 1924 to open her own hospital, La Balfour, on the corner of Williams and Oxide Streets. She moved the hospital to 190 Wills Street in 1926, but fell on hard times during the depression years and began working for doctors in town including Dr. William MacGillivray, Dr. Ian MacGillivray, and Dr. Franziska Schlink.\nRhoda Kernot married Henry Boyd Clark, himself the son of grazier Thomas Clark and his wife Jane Elizabeth Ford. Henry and Rhoda had two children: Patricia Margaret and Edwin Wight Boyd Clark. A family tree is held at the Outback Archives, Broken Hill, and materials belonging to Rhoda including photographs and medical instruments are held by the Broken Hill Railway Museum.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/unbroken-spirit-women-in-broken-hill\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/kernot-rhoda\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Barnes, Ivy Vera", "Entry ID": "AWE4064", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/barnes-ivy-vera\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Frewville, South Australia", "Death Place": "Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia", "Occupations": "Political party organiser, Welfare worker", "Summary": "Ivy Barnes was a foundation member of the women's branch of the Australian Labor Party in Broken Hill, New South Wales. She was the wife of Edwin John Barnes, who was Mayor of Broken Hill from 1934 to 1937.\n", "Details": "Ivy Barnes was one of eight children of William Henry Sandy and Edith Alice Sandy (nee Payne). She married Edwin John Barnes on 21 December 1914 in Kadina, South Australia, and moved with him to Broken Hill in 1923. They had five children: Jean, May, Edna, George and Albert.\nEdwin was elected Mayor of Broken Hill in 1934, and Ivy became involved in raising funds for the sick and needy of the town. She took over the Clothing Fund from former Mayoress Catherine Cleeland, distributing parcels of clothing from a depot at the Protestant Hall in Beryl Street. She was also a foundation member of the women's branch of the Australian Labor Party in Broken Hill, and served as vice-president.\nIvy Barnes suffered a stroke at the age of 47, rendering her unconscious for several days before she passed away. The Town Hall flag was flown at half mast. Edwin was remarried to Ivy's sister, Dorothy Alice Sandy. He passed away in 1964.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/some-outstanding-women-of-broken-hill-and-district\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/unbroken-spirit-women-in-broken-hill\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Birks, Rosetta Jane", "Entry ID": "AWE4073", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/birks-rosetta-jane\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Adelaide, South Australia", "Death Place": "College Park, South Australia", "Occupations": "Welfare worker", "Summary": "Rosetta Birks was a member of the South Australian Women's Suffrage League and the Social Purity Society in Adelaide. She was president of the YWCA.\n", "Details": "Rosetta Jane was the daughter of William Kyffin Thomas, founder of Flinders Street Baptist Church in Adelaide, and his wife Mary. Rose was a dedicated member of the Flinders Church. In 1879 she married her sister's widower, Charles Birks, and became stepmother to his children.\nRose Birks was a member of the Social Purity Society Adelaide ladies' branch committee and, from 1888, was treasurer of the South Australian Women's Suffrage League, working with Mary Lee and Mary Colton. Following the enfranchisement of South Australian women she joined the Woman's League committee. She was appointed to the Adelaide Hospital board in 1896, and later the Queen Victoria Maternity Home board. She was co-founder and vice-president of the National Council of Women in South Australia.\nIn 1902, Rose Birks became president of the YWCA. She attended a meeting of the world committee in London in 1906, and attended international conferences in Paris and Berlin, establishing connections between Australian branches of the YWCA and their European and North American counterparts. In 1911 she launched the local YWCA's Travellers' Aid Society, offering protection to unescorted young female travellers and attempting to direct them toward Christian influences.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/birks-rosetta-jane-1856-1911\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/australian-dictionary-of-evangelical-biography\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Harvey, Elizabeth Robyn", "Entry ID": "AWE4076", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/harvey-elizabeth-robyn\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Adelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Death Place": "Adelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Parliamentarian", "Summary": "A member of the Australian Labor Party, Elizabeth Harvey was elected to seat of Hawker in the House of Representatives of the Parliament of Australia at the federal election, which was held in July 1987. She lost the seat at the 1990 election by the narrow margin of fourteen votes. The electorate was abolished in 1993.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/papers-of-elizabeth-harvey\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Stott Despoja, Natasha Jessica", "Entry ID": "AWE4082", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/stott-despoja-natasha-jessica\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Adelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Parliamentarian", "Summary": "A member of the Australian Democrats Party, Natasha Stott Despoja was the youngest woman to enter the federal Parliament in Australia as Senator for South Australia in 1995. She was elected Deputy leader of the Party in 1997 and in April 2001 she was elected leader of the Democrats, the youngest person ever to hold such a position in the Australian Parliament. She resigned the leadership position in 2002 and retired from Parliament in June 2008.\n", "Events": "Officer of the Order of Australia (AO): For distinguished service to the global community as an advocate for gender equality, and through roles in a range of organisations. (2019 - 2019)", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/the-encyclopedia-of-women-and-leadership-in-twentieth-century-australia\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/women-in-politics-a-forum-in-the-centenary-year-of-womens-suffrage-sound-recording\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Standley-Woodroffe, Bronwen", "Entry ID": "AWE4084", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/standley-woodroffe-bronwen\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Cleve, Eyre Peninsula, South Australia", "Occupations": "Artist, Gallery Owner", "Summary": "Bronwen Standley-Woodroffe is an artist and co-owner of the Horizon Gallery at Silverton and Broken Hill, New South Wales.\n", "Details": "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.\nSeparated 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.\nBronwen 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.\nAlways 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.\nToday, 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.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/unbroken-spirit-women-in-broken-hill\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/interview-with-bronwen-standley-woodroffe\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Lord, Pamela", "Entry ID": "AWE4089", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/lord-pamela\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Rose Park, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Death Place": "Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia", "Occupations": "Grazier, Volunteer", "Summary": "Pam Lord moved to Thackaringa Station in outback New South Wales with her husband John in 1948. Conducting regular hospital visits since 1965, she offered more than fifty years of service to the Royal Flying Doctor Service Women's Auxiliary in Broken Hill.\n", "Details": "Pam Peters was educated at Girton College (now Pembroke) in Adelaide. At sixteen she began to visit the Lords, family friends living at Thackaringa Station in New South Wales, 40km from Broken Hill. She and John Lord became firm friends and were married several years later, in 1948, at St Peter's College Chapel in Adelaide. Pam willingly gave up her university Arts course and moved to Thackaringa to take on the role of station-owner's wife, a world apart from the Adelaide social scene of beach holidays and Friday night dances. Already a competent horse rider, she relished station life and soon turned her hand to cooking for eight men, cranking the engine for electricity and, on the odd occasion, dispatching poisonous snakes. John and Pam had two children, Sally and David. After several years of South Australian school correspondence lessons they attended boarding school in Adelaide.\nPam Lord joined the Royal Flying Doctor Service Women's Auxiliary in 1965, volunteering for hospital visits. In those early years she was delegated to provide patients with cakes and sweets, toiletries and even cigarettes, or to run errands for them and write letters on their behalf. As the number of Auxiliary members dwindled, Pam became the sole hospital visitor for the Auxiliary in Broken Hill, remaining in this role until she was in her eighties. Today the Auxiliary has a stronger focus on fundraising and finds terrific support in this endeavour from Broken Hill residents. In 2008, it was able to raise $65,000 for the Flying Doctor Service. One of the Auxiliary's biggest fundraising campaigns is the Christmas Pudding Drive - 25 women bake for two weeks to produce and sell 2,000 Christmas puddings. She was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia in January 2009 for service to the Broken Hill community, particularly through the Base Hospital and the Royal Flying Doctor Service Women's Auxiliary.\nIn 2018, John and Pam Lord celebrated their platinum wedding anniversary - 70 years.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/unbroken-spirit-women-in-broken-hill\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/interview-with-pam-lord\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "McHugh, Selina", "Entry ID": "AWE4097", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/mchugh-selina\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Mallala, South Australia", "Death Place": "Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia", "Occupations": "Blacksmith", "Summary": "Selina McHugh was the first woman blacksmith in the Broken Hill district.\n", "Details": "Selina was the seventh daughter of John McHugh and Elizabeth Melbourne. With her nine siblings, she grew up in South Australia and was married in Adelaide to John Frederick Hearn. The couple moved to Silverton, but John passed away several years later, in December 1898. As a widow Selina began work as a blacksmith - she was the first woman blacksmith in the Broken Hill district. \nIn September 1903 Selina married Joseph Boundy, an early settler in Broken Hill who had established a dairy and a blacksmithing workshop of his own. Their combined blacksmith business remained open until 1931.\nThis entry was prepared and written by Georgia Moodie.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/some-outstanding-women-of-broken-hill-and-district\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/unbroken-spirit-women-in-broken-hill\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Caskey, Constance Sybil", "Entry ID": "AWE4098", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/caskey-constance-sybil\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Adelaide, South Australia", "Death Place": "Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia", "Occupations": "Nurse", "Summary": "Constance Caskey was a pastoralist who lived with her husband and four children on a remote pastoral property near Menindee, New South Wales.\n", "Details": "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.\nConsie 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.\nOn 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.\nAfter 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.\nThis entry was prepared and written by Georgia Moodie.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/some-outstanding-women-of-broken-hill-and-district\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/unbroken-spirit-women-in-broken-hill\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/constance-caskey-interviewed-by-jenny-salmon-for-the-new-south-wales-western-division-oral-history-project-sound-recording\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Bishop, Julie Isabel", "Entry ID": "AWE4130", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/bishop-julie-isabel\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Lobethal, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Barrister, Lawyer, Parliamentarian, Solicitor", "Summary": "A member of the Liberal Party of Australia, Julie Bishop was elected to the House of Representatives of the Parliament of Australia as the Member for Curtin, Western Australia in 1998. She was re-elected in 2001, 2004, 2007, 2010 and 2013. During the period of the Howard Government her ministerial appointments included Ageing, Education, Science and Training, and Minister Assisting the Prime Minister for Women's Issues. After the defeat of the Howard Government in November 2007, she was elected Deputy Leader of the Opposition and was a member of the Shadow Ministry. After the 2010 election, she retained the Deputy Leadership of the Opposition and was Shadow Minister for Foreign Affairs. On the election of the Coalition Government in September 2013, Bishop remained Deputy Leader of the Liberal Party and became Minister for Foreign Affairs.\n", "Details": "Julie Bishop was educated at St Peter's Collegiate Girls School in Adelaide, South Australia and at the University of Adelaide where she graduated with a Bachelor of Laws in 1978.\nBishop practised as a barrister and solicitor from 1979-1998, initially with the Adelaide firm, Mangan, Ey and Bishop in which she was a Partner. In 1983 she moved to Perth, Western Australia and practised as a commercial litigation solicitor at Robinson Cox, later to become Clayton Utz and became a Partner in 1985. By 1994 she was Managing Partner of the Perth office.\nDuring that time she was a member of the legal team which defended the claims against CSR by asbestos mining workers who had contracted mesothelioma as a result of their work for the company.\nIn 1996 she spent eight weeks at the Harvard Business School completing an Advanced Management Program ( Senior Managers).\nIn 1998 she was appointed delegate to the Constitutional Convention which was convened in Canberra to discuss the idea of Australia becoming a republic.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/the-encyclopedia-of-women-and-leadership-in-twentieth-century-australia\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/bishops-gambit-whats-next-for-the-perpetual-deputy\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/australian-women-lawyers-as-active-citizens\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/biographical-cuttings-on-julie-bishop-lawyer-containing-one-or-more-cuttings-from-newspapers-or-journals\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Rishworth, Amanda Louise", "Entry ID": "AWE4153", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/rishworth-amanda-louise\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Adelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Parliamentarian, Psychologist", "Summary": "A member of the Australian Labor Party, Amanda Rishworth was a candidate for the electoral district of Fisher at the state election, which was held in 2006, but was unsuccessful. She was elected to the House of Representatives of the Australian Parliament as the Member for Kingston, South Australia, in 2007 and was re-elected at each election since then. She served as a Parliamentary Secretary in the Gillard and Rudd Governments, and was appointed to Cabinet positions in the Albanese Government from 2022. A complete record of her parliamentary service, including a link to her first speech, can be found in the Parliamentary Handbook of the Commonwealth of Australia (see below).\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/rishworth-the-hon-amanda-louise\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Robertson, Agnes Robertson", "Entry ID": "AWE4155", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/robertson-agnes-robertson\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Stepney, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Death Place": "Mount Waverley Melbourne, Victoria, Australia", "Occupations": "Parliamentarian, Teacher", "Summary": "Initially a member of the Liberal and Country League of Western Australia, Agnes Robertson was elected to the Senate of the Australian Parliament in December 1949. On being dropped from the Liberal Party's Senate ticket in 1955 because of her age, she joined the Country and Democratic League, was listed first on its ticket and won, becoming the first Country Party's female senator. She retired from parliament in 1962.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/robertson-agnes-robertson-1882-1968\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/a-woman-of-some-importance-senator-agnes-robertson-1882-1968\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/so-many-firsts-liberal-women-from-enid-lyons-to-the-turnbull-era\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Kirk, Linda Jean", "Entry ID": "AWE4178", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/kirk-linda-jean\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Adelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Industrial officer, Lawyer, Parliamentarian, Solicitor, University teacher", "Summary": "A member of the Australian Labor Party, Linda Kirk was elected to the Senate of the Parliament of Australia representing South Australia in 2001. She served for one term only as she lost Party pre-selection for the 2007 federal election. She held the position of Deputy Opposition Leader in the Senate from July 2005 until February 2008. She retired from the Senate in June 2008. Before entering parliament, she served as a councillor on the Adelaide City Council from 1998-2000.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/australian-women-lawyers-as-active-citizens\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Mead, Sister Janet", "Entry ID": "AWE4182", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/mead-sister-janet\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Adelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Death Place": "Adelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Musician, Religious Sister", "Summary": "Sister Janet was a Roman Catholic nun who is best known for recording a rock version of The Lord's Prayer. Made in 1973, the recording became the first single to achieve gold record status in both Australia and the United States at the same time. It earned her a Grammy Award nomination in 1974.\nSister Janet continued to sing regularly at the Adelaide Rock Mass services. She was a part of the Romero Community in Adelaide, working for the relief of the poor and disadvantaged of that city. In 2004 she received the Yamaha Golden Gospel Award in recognition of her services to Australian Christian music at the Australian Gospel Music Awards in Canberra. In 2005 she was named South Australian of the Year in recognition of her deep commitment to social justice.\n", "Details": "Interested in musical performance from a young age, and with a strong Christian faith, Janet Mead combined the two interests with she formed a group when she was just 17. 'The Rock Band' provided music for the weekly mass at her local church. A musical child prodigy, she studied piano at the Adelaide Conservatorium and had a three octave vocal range with perfect pitch, she no doubt could have had commercial success as a musician, but never sought it for herself. Sensing a higher calling, she joined the Sisters of Mercy and became a music teacher at two local Catholic schools.\nShe began to explore the 'rock mass' concept in the early 1970s, wishing to make the Catholic church services more accessible to a younger audience. There was a broader context for this, given the success of rock operas based on Christian stories, such as Jesus Christ, Superstar and Godspell.\n", "Events": "The Lord's Prayer is recorded by Sister Janet Mead (1973 - 1973) \nThe Lord's Prayer peaks at No. 4 on the American Billboard Singles' Charts (1974 - 1974) \nSister Janet Mead is named South Australian of the Year (2005 - 2005) \nSister Janet Mead receives the Yamaha Golden Gospel Award in recognition of her services to Australian Christian music (2004 - 2004)", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/sister-janet-mead\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/30-years-of-the-rock-mass-1972-2002\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/whatever-happened-to-sister-janet-community-life-goes-on-for-ex-hit-maker\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/sister-janet-sings-to-a-new-beat\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/janet-mead-interviewed-by-susan-marsden-in-the-mortlock-library-collection-sound-recording\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "McEwen, Anne", "Entry ID": "AWE4194", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/mcewen-anne\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Adelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Administrator, Clerk, Parliamentarian, Union organiser, Union secretary", "Summary": "A member of the Australian Labor Party, Anne McEwen was elected to the Senate of the Parliament of Australia as a Senator for South Australia in 2004. She currently holds the position of Deputy Government Whip in the Senate. She was re-elected at the 2010 federal election.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Wortley, Dana Johanna", "Entry ID": "AWE4200", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/wortley-dana-johanna\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Adelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Editor, Industrial officer, Journalist, Parliamentarian, Teacher, Union secretary", "Summary": "A member of the Australian Labor Party, Dana Wortley was elected to the Senate of the Parliament of Australia as a Senator for South Australia in 2004. She was defeated at the 2010 federal election.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Struthers, Karen Lee", "Entry ID": "AWE4239", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/struthers-karen-lee\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Adelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Parliamentarian, Public servant, Social worker", "Summary": "A member of the Australian Labor Party, Karen Struthers was elected as Member for Archerfield in the Parliament of Queensland in 1998. After an electoral redistribution before the 2001 election, she became the Member for Algester at that election. In the current parliament she holds the ministerial portfolio of Community Services and Minister for Women.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/competing-agendas-impacting-on-community-services\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Clark, Elizabeth Ann", "Entry ID": "AWE4242", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/clark-elizabeth-ann\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Adelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Industrial officer, Parliamentarian", "Summary": "A member of the Australian Labor Party, Liddy Clark was elected to the Parliament of Queensland as Member for Clayfield in 2001. She held the Ministerial portfolio of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Policy from February 2004 until March 2005. She was defeated at the 2006 election.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/biographical-cuttings-on-liddy-clark-actress-containing-one-or-more-cuttings-from-newspapers-or-journals\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Stuckey, Janet Anne", "Entry ID": "AWE4268", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/stuckey-janet-anne\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Adelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Nurse, Parliamentarian", "Summary": "Originally a member of the Liberal Party of Queensland, now the Liberal National Party since the amalgamation of the two parties in September 2008, Jann Stuckey was elected to the Parliament of Queensland as Member for Currumbin in 2004. She was re-elected in 2006 and 2009.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Seebohm, Emily", "Entry ID": "AWE4394", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/seebohm-emily\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Adelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Commonwealth or Empire Games Gold Medalist, Olympian, Swimmer", "Summary": "Emily Jane Seebohm is an Australian backstroke and individual medley swimmer. She was a member of the gold medal winning Australian women's 4 x 100m medley relay team at the Beijing Olympics in 2008.\nSeebohm had a successful 2012 Olympic Games, winning two silver medals. At the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics, Seebohm represented Australia in both the 100 m and 200 m backstroke and won silver in the 4\u00d7100m medley relay\n", "Events": "Swimming - 100m Backstroke (2012 - 2012) \nSwimming - 100m Backstroke (2014 - 2014) \nSwimming - 4 x 100m Medley Relay (2008 - 2008) \nSwimming - 4 x 100m Medley Relay (2012 - 2012) \nSwimming - 4 x 100m Medley Relay (2014 - 2014) \nSwimming - 4 x 100m Medley Relay (2016 - 2016) \nSwimming - 50m Backstroke and 4 x 100m Medley Relay (2018 - 2018)", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/website-of-swimming-australia\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/shes-game-women-making-australian-sporting-history-2\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Morice, Louise", "Entry ID": "AWE4425", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/morice-louise\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Adelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Death Place": "South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Kindergarten worker, Social reformer", "Summary": "Lucy Morice was committed to issues of social justice throughout her life. She, with her aunt, Catherine Helen Spence, founded the Woman's League in 1895 after women had gained the franchise in South Australia in 1894. It aimed to 'educate women politically and to work for the interests of women and children', but did not receive the support of women. Her major commitment however, was to the Kindergarten Union of South Australia, which she helped to found in 1905. She believed that kindergarten was the hope of the future and she saw it as a means of combating what she considered was the regimentation of the state school system. She has a kindergarten named after her in North Adelaide. In 1936 she was appointed Member of the British Empire (M. B. E.) for services to social welfare.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/australian-feminism-a-companion\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/morice-louise-lucy-1859-1951\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Hope, Laura Margaret", "Entry ID": "AWE4440", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/hope-laura-margaret\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Mitcham, South Australia, Australia", "Death Place": "North Adelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Medical practitioner, Missionary", "Summary": "Laura Hope was the first woman to graduate in medicine at the University of Adelaide in 1891. She and her husband, Dr Charles Henry Standish Hope, whom she married in 1893, spent most of their medical careers, as self-supporting missionaries in Bengal. They worked at the Australian Baptist Mission at Pubna and at the New Zealand Baptist Mission Hospital, Chandpur, India. They also spent time at the Bengal Baptist Mission at Kalimpong. They retired to Adelaide in 1934.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/hope-laura-margaret-1868-1952\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/fowler-family-summary-record\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Gilfillan, Anne", "Entry ID": "AWE4449", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/gilfillan-anne\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "South Australia, Australia", "Death Place": "South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Farmer", "Summary": "After her husband died, Anne Gilfillan took over the management of their farm at Tarlee, South Australia, despite negativity from bank managers and neighbours.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/anne-gilfillan\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/brilliant-ideas-and-huge-visions-abc-radio-australian-rural-women-of-the-year-1994-1997\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/anne-gilfillan-interviewed-by-ros-bowden-in-the-women-of-the-land-oral-history-project-sound-recording\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/women-of-the-land-oral-history-project\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Ebsary, Kaye", "Entry ID": "AWE4453", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/ebsary-kaye\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Clement's Gap, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Farmer", "Summary": "Kay Ebsary runs a farm in partnership with her husband in South Australia.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/kaye-ebsary\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/brilliant-ideas-and-huge-visions-abc-radio-australian-rural-women-of-the-year-1994-1997\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/kaye-ebsary-interviewed-by-ros-bowden-in-the-women-of-the-land-oral-history-project-sound-recording\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/women-of-the-land-oral-history-project\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Thiele, Deborah", "Entry ID": "AWE4457", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/thiele-deborah\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Waikerie, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Businesswoman, Consultant, Farmer, Political candidate, Teacher", "Summary": "Deborah Thiele was the inaugural national winner of the Australian Rural Woman of the Year Award in 1994. A graduate of the prestigious Roseworthy Agricultural College (now a campus of the University of Adelaide) not long after it opened its doors to women, she was the first woman to be appointed as an Agricultural Science Senior in the South Australian Education Department. A teacher with a rapidly advancing career in the Department of Education, she returned to farming when she married her husband, Anton. She is joint owner of their farm at Loxton in eastern South Australia. Since 2000 she has worked as an Agricultural Consultant and Lecturer, specialising in Farm Business Management.\nIn 2007, she stood for the federal electorate of Barker as the National Party Candidate. Prior to that, she stood for election to the South Australian Legislative Council. She stood again at the S.A election in 2010.\nThiele had an impressive record of community engagement at the time she won the award, and continues to maintain that record.\n", "Events": "Winner - ABC Australian Rural Woman of the Year (1994 - 1994)", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/deborah-thiele\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/feminism-flourishes-down-on-the-farm\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/rural-dynamo-lifts-womens-profile\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/1994-radio-rural-woman-of-the-year-national-winner\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/brilliant-ideas-and-huge-visions-abc-radio-australian-rural-women-of-the-year-1994-1997\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/the-encyclopedia-of-women-and-leadership-in-twentieth-century-australia\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/debbie-thiele-interviewed-by-ros-bowden-in-the-women-of-the-land-oral-history-project-sound-recording\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/debbie-thiele-address-to-the-national-press-club-on-1-march-1995-sound-recording\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/women-of-the-land-oral-history-project\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Kearney, Christine", "Entry ID": "AWE4471", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/kearney-christine\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Farmer, Religious Sister, Research officer", "Summary": "Christine Kearney was a Regional winner (Gippsland, Victoria) of the Rural Woman of the Year Award in 1994. She and her husband were dairy farmers in Dollar, Victoria. Christine was important to the establishment of rural counselling networks in her area.\n", "Details": "Christine Kearney did not come from a farming family; she was a city girl brought up about six miles out of Adelaide. She only came to a farm after marrying in 1980. Michael, her husband, bought it from his mother and then added to it.\nUpon leaving school in 1961, seventeen-year-old Christine joined a religious order. She left when she was about thirty-five and returned to Adelaide where she met Michael who had also been in a religious order. After a relatively quick courtship, she and were married. Michael had taken over a small part of the family property - a small venture but big debt. It was not an ideal time to be borrowing for farming land (1982). They survived day by day through a period of drought and rising interest rates. As Christine reflects, 'We didn't have any comforts here; we didn't have any money to spend on entertainment, but, because we hadn't ever had that in our lives, we didn't look for it'\nChristine was one of the first farming women in Victoria to get unemployment benefits. A social worker suggested she should apply. Her husband couldn't because he was a self employed person. But wives, given that their status on farms at the time was that of 'a silent sleeping partner' and that they weren't recognised as wage earners, satisfied the criteria, although most didn't know it. Christine managed to successfully apply for the dole, after proving that the farm would run without her.\nAfter about two months on unemployment benefits she got a job off farm on a research program designed to investigate the possibilities for tourism in the local shire. She began work in May 1985. As well as bringing in a salary that helped to save the farm, Christine going off the farm created possibilities for her to meet new people. It meant that she had new things to bring back to the farm and talk about. It brought life back to their farm.\nChristine was very interested in establishing a Women on Farms group in her region. She also tried to get the rural counsellor program up and running in her district. Federal funding was available, matching funds raised locally were also required, and they proved to be difficult to raise. It was very difficult to convince the conservative rural sector that a counsellor was needed; as Christine later observed, 'It was unheard of that rural people had welfare problems'. In 1987 they employed their first rural counsellor.\n", "Events": "Regional Winner for Gippsland (1994 - 1994)", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/1994-abc-rural-woman-of-the-year-regional-winners\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/brilliant-ideas-and-huge-visions-abc-radio-australian-rural-women-of-the-year-1994-1997\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/christine-kearney-interviewed-by-ros-bowden-in-the-women-of-the-land-oral-history-project-sound-recording\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/women-of-the-land-oral-history-project\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Addison, Marion Lillian", "Entry ID": "AWE4545", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/addison-marion-lillian-lily\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "New Glenelg, South Australia, Australia", "Death Place": "Elsternwick, Victoria, Australia", "Occupations": "Nurse, Sportswoman, Tennis player", "Summary": "Lily Addison competed in the All England Tennis Championships at Wimbledon in 1919. She served with the Australian Army Nursing Service 1917-19 in Greece and England.\n", "Details": "Known as Lily, Marion Lillian Addison had moved from Adelaide to Melbourne by 1910. In 1906 she first won the Victorian Ladies' Tennis Championship.\nAs a tennis player she had significant success in Australia and often played doubles with her brother J. J. Addison. She was the South Australian Ladies Tennis Champion in 1906, 1908, 1909, 1910 and 1911. She was holder of the Victorian Ladies' singles championship and mixed doubles title in 1909. In 1910 she won all three events in the New South Wales Tennis Championships - the ladies' singles, ladies' doubles and challenge pairs. In 1911 she was both Victorian and New South Wales State Ladies Tennis Champion. In late 1913, at the age of twenty seven, she commenced nursing training at the Melbourne Hospital, graduating in early 1917. She enlisted in the Australian Army Nursing Service in August 1917 and was posted to a number of British military hospitals in Salonika, Greece. In 1918 she suffered lung trouble. After the Armistice, in February 1919 she transferred to the 3rd Australian Auxiliary Hospital in Dartford, England.\nIn June 1919 she played in the All England Tennis Championships at Wimbledon. She defeated Mrs Tucker, 6-3, 6-1 in the first round. She was beaten by Mrs McNair in the second round 12-10, 6-2. She also competed in the mixed doubles with Max Decagis and beat Mrs L. Mauser-Doust, 6-3, 11-9.\nShe returned to Australia in July 1919 and by November that year had returned to local tennis, being selected in the Victorian team to play against New South Wales. In 1921 she was again nursing at the Melbourne Hospital but still managed to win the Victorian title for the fifth time. In 1925, Lily Addison held a position as Sister with the Australian Army Nursing Service Reserve.\nIt appears she did not marry. In 1937 she was a Sister at the Adelaide Hospital but in 1940 is recorded as living in Mont Albert, Melbourne. In 1972 she lived in Kew.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/not-just-routine-nursing-the-roles-and-skills-of-the-australian-army-nursing-service-during-world-war-i\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/una\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/n-s-w-tennis-championships-miss-addison-wins-three-events\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trained-nurses-association\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/lawn-tennis\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/lawn-tennis-all-england-championships\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/lawn-tennis-all-england-championships-2\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/victorian-championships\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/letters-to-the-editor-played-the-game\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/using-the-online-community-to-create-history\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/addison-marion-lilian-sern-s-nurse-pob-adelaide-sa-poe-adelaide-sa-nok-m-addison-marion-l\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Bilney, Elizabeth", "Entry ID": "AWE4779", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/bilney-elizabeth\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Yorketown, South Australia, Australia", "Death Place": "Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia", "Occupations": "Feminist, Librarian", "Summary": "Elizabeth Bilney was a founding member of the Women's Electoral Lobby in the Australian Capital Territory during the mid-1970s and took a lead in the campaign for working mothers' access to childcare. She made a significant contribution to the acceptance of the right of children to good care and the responsibility of government to support this in Australia.\nElizabeth also edited and managed the publication of The Heritage of Australia (1981) for Macmillan of Australia in association with the Australian Heritage Commission; she established the journalHeritage Australia for the Australian Council of National Trusts, and was publishing co-ordinator for the National Gallery of Australia, and publications manager for the National Library of Australia.\n", "Details": "Elizabeth Joan Gunton was born in Yorketown, South Australia on 12 August 1943, the second of three daughters to schoolteachers James Donald Gunton and Jessie Helen McLellan. The family lived in Stansbury at the time of the birth and James Gunton's job as a rural school inspector prompted moves to Streaky Bay in 1945, Port Lincoln in 1948, Kadina in 1951 and Adelaide in 1953. The young Elizabeth Gunton and her sisters attended local primary schools. Her younger sister, Barbara, as a toddler learning speech, metamorphosed Elizabeth's four syllables into 'Bibi', a name used by some close friends and family for the rest of her life.\nElizabeth was selected to attend Adelaide Girls' High School (AGHS) and studied there from 1956-1960. Headmistress, Vera Macghey's, commitment to equal rights for women was a formative influence. From AGHS Elizabeth won a Commonwealth Scholarship to Adelaide University where she commenced a Bachelor of Science in 1961 but left early to take up a cadetship with the Institute of Medical and Veterinary Science where she discovered she was allergic to chemicals.\nDuring her time at Adelaide University Elizabeth played a significant part in university revues with her creative design and sewing skills. Gordon Bilney, whom Elizabeth met at Adelaide University and later married, writes, \"In the university revues - she was a major contributor in the costume-making part of the productions, which was actually a big deal since original costumes were a big part of the shows. And very good she was too - a skill she carried on into our early marriage years.\"\nFrom 1963-1965 Elizabeth worked as a reference librarian at the South Australian Public Library during which time she completed a Diploma in Librarianship. She moved to Sydney to take up a position at Sydney University's Fisher Library in 1966 and the following year she married Gordon Bilney in Manila, where he was on a diplomatic posting with the Australian Department of External Affairs.\nElizabeth and Gordon Bilney lived in Manila from 1967 to1969, during which time Elizabeth worked for the Asian Development Bank. While living back in Canberra, she gave birth to Caroline Jane Bilney in 1970 and Sarah Louise Bilney in 1971. Further diplomatic postings took Elizabeth, Gordon, Caroline and Sarah Bilney to Geneva (1971-1972), Paris (1975-1977) and Kingston, Jamaica (1980-1982).\nWhile in Canberra during the middle years of Gough Whitlam's prime ministership (1973-1974), Elizabeth discovered the childcare difficulties she had experienced overseas were as problematic in Australia. She became a founding member of the Women's Electoral Lobby (WEL) in the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) and took a lead in the campaign for working mothers' access to childcare. In 1973 Elizabeth and other ACT WEL activists approached Marie Coleman, Social Welfare Commission Chair, to discuss how best to pursue their ideas about expanding childcare. Later Prime Minister Gough Whitlam requested a policy report from the Social Welfare Commission and this was published in 1974 as Project Care, Parents Children Community. Susan Ryan, a senior minister in the Hawke government (1983-1991) wrote to Elizabeth shortly before she died, \" we all take satisfaction from the reforms for women and children we were able to embed in the agendas of Labor governments, so firmly that even Liberal coalition governments have never dislodged them. You were a heroine of childcare \u2026 the near universal acceptance of the right of children to good care and the responsibility of government to support this, constitutes a real revolution. Your work was crucial in bringing this revolution about.\"\nYet this significant work was something Elizabeth's inherent humility prevented her from talking about so that it was only at her funeral when husband Allen Mawer mentioned these achievements in Elizabeth's eulogy that some younger family members and friends became aware of her earlier activism and significant achievements for women and children in Australia.\nBack in Canberra in the late 1970s, between the Paris and Jamaica postings, Elizabeth edited and managed the publication of The Heritage of Australia (1981) for Macmillan of Australia in association with the Australian Heritage Commission. This became her magnum opus from which she moved on to establishing the journal Heritage Australia for the Australian Council of National Trusts, and later became publishing co-ordinator for the National Gallery of Australia, and publications manager for the National Library of Australia.\nIn 1990 Elizabeth took up freelance editing and for the next fourteen years she worked as a consultant on a wide range of publications including Decorative arts and design from the Powerhouse Museum (1991) and the National Foundation for Australian Women (NFAW) Social Policy Committee Health Futures report.\nElizabeth's marriage to Gordon Bilney ended in 1992. Seven years later - on 31 December 1999 - she married Allen Mawer, author and former senior executive at the Department of Employment, Education and Training.\nElizabeth Bilney and Allen Mawer lived at Wallaroo, New South Wales (NSW) where Elizabeth established a garden in the challenging soil of their home above the Murrumbidgee River. In retirement, from 1998, Elizabeth became involved in the Australian National Botanic Gardens, Canberra, as a member of the Friends' Committee, newsletter editor and volunteer guide. She also engaged with the creativity that had her designing and constructing theatre costumes at Adelaide University in the 1960s and took up jewellery making. She particularly enjoyed setting sea glass from the Walter Hood wreck at Bendalong where she had been part owner with a group of friends in a holiday home since 1979.\nAnother of Elizabeth's significant achievement that compels acknowledgment is the parenting of her daughters, Caroline and Sarah. In his tribute to Elizabeth at her funeral in Canberra on 1 November 2010, her husband Allen Mawer said \"She was immensely proud of Callie and Sarah. With careers as well as partners and children, they had grown into the kind of women she had encouraged them to be; like her, independent, resourceful and self-confident.\"\nElizabeth Bilney died of cancer on 26 September 2010 at Clare Holland House, Canberra's hospice.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/a-champion-of-equal-rights-elizabeth-bibi-bilney\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/whos-who-in-australia-1988\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/from-lady-denman-to-katy-gallagher-a-century-of-womens-contributions-to-canberra\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Edmondson, Annette", "Entry ID": "AWE4835", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/edmondson-annette\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Bedford Park, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Commonwealth or Empire Games Gold Medalist, Cyclist, Olympian", "Summary": "Annette Edmondson won a bronze medal at the Olympic Games in London in 2012. She went on to win gold at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow in 2014.\n", "Events": "(Cycling (Track) - Member of the 4000m Team Pursuit (2018 - 2018) \nCycling - Omnium (2012 - 2012) \nCycling (Track) - Scratch Race (2014 - 2014)", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Woodroofe, Gwendolyn Marion", "Entry ID": "AWE4881", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/woodroofe-gwendolyn-marion\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Adelaide, South Australia", "Death Place": "Canberra, Australian Capital Territory", "Occupations": "Community worker, Virologist", "Summary": "Dr Gwen Woodroofe undertook research at the John Curtin School of Medical Research at the Australian National University, working on myxomatosis and arboviruses. She also organised the sale of UNICEF Christmas cards in Canberra for many years.\n", "Details": "Gwen Woodroofe was born in Adelaide on 7 March 1918 to Florence and William Woodroofe. She graduated with a Bachelor of Science (Honours) in Botany from the University of Adelaide in 1940. She was then awarded a Master of Science degree in Bacteriology from the University of Adelaide and joined the John Curtin School of Medical Research in 1951, working as a research assistant with Professor Frank Fenner on myxomatosis. She co-authored several articles with Fenner and was appointed a Research Fellow in December 1958. She was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1962 by the Australian National University. She was promoted to Fellow in 1963 and then worked with Dr Ian Marshall on arboviruses including the Ross River virus and the Murray Valley encephalitis virus. She retired as a Fellow in 1978.\nFollowing her retirement, she became involved in UNICEF and organised its sales of Christmas cards in Canberra for many years. She was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia in 1997 for service to women through the ACT Association of the Australian Federation of University Women and UNICEF-ACT.\nHer sister Kathleen also pursued an academic career as an historian, becoming an Associate Professor of History at the University of New South Wales. She was the author of From Charity to Social Work in England and the United States (1962). After Kathleen's death, Gwen made an endowment to the University to establish a postgraduate scholarship in her sister's memory and by the University matching her donation, two scholarships were established: the Kathleen Woodroofe Postgraduate Scholarship in the Humanities or Social Sciences and the Gwendolyn Woodroofe Postgraduate Scholarship in the Sciences, both first awarded in 2002.\nGwen died on 11 September 2012 in Canberra.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/annual-report-21\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/death-notice\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/dr-gwen-woodroofe\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/from-lady-denman-to-katy-gallagher-a-century-of-womens-contributions-to-canberra\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Cullen, Ngingali", "Entry ID": "AWE4893", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/cullen-ngingali\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Maralinga, South Australia, Australia", "Death Place": "Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia", "Occupations": "Aboriginal rights activist, Community development worker, Health worker, Nurse", "Summary": "Ngingali Cullen, who was formerly known as Audrey Kinnear, was a co-chair of the National Sorry Day Committee that worked to achieve wide recognition of the wrongs suffered by Aboriginal people across Australia. Although scarred by the policies of forced removal of Aboriginal children from their families, it was healing those wounds that was her constant preoccupation. A proposal initiated by her led to the Journey of Healing campaign launched by the National Sorry Day Committee in 1999.\n", "Details": "Born at Ooldea Soak in Maralinga lands, in the south-east corner of the Nullabor Plain, Ngingali Cullen (formerly Audrey Kinnear) was the youngest of four children born to May Cobby, a Yankunjatjara woman. 'Born into the oldest culture in the world,' she explains, 'I had the honour of a traditional Aboriginal birth; no doctor, no birth certificate.' (Standing Tall and Feeling Proud) When she was four years old, she was wrenched from her family and placed in the Koonibba Lutheran Mission Home near Ceduna on the coast, over 300 km from the lands. Her brother was one of fifty other children in that home, her sister Mabel was in a different home in Ooldea. Loran, her older sister, escaped the attention of the police and native welfare officers by hiding under rugs or hollow trees whenever they came calling. She grew up with her mother on her lands and became a woman of status, who eventually helped Ngingali back to contact with her family in her lands.\nLife at Koonibba, a so-called 'half-castes' home, was dormitory based, disciplined, institutionalised but, on a daily basis, 'reasonably happy'. (Interview), Religion provided the platform for their education, but Ngingali bears the Lutheran missionaries no ill will. 'They were simply carrying out the wishes of the Government,' she says, claiming that the Lutherans were amongst her strongest supporters and best friends as her career developed and her quest for identity progressed. (Standing Tall and Feeling Proud) The Lutheran church did provide her with things that she still appreciates - a love of music, education, social skills and friendship. 'But the loneliness and knowing your were different was inescapable.' (Interview),\nNgingali shone at school and after completing primary school went to boarding school in Adelaide. She was the first Aboriginal girl to attend Concordia, a Lutheran boarding college. She then went on to train as a nurse at the Royal Adelaide Hospital where Lowitja O'Donoghue was a charge nurse, moving on to work in South Australian Hospitals, the Trans-Australian Rail Health Clinic and the Royal Flying Doctor Service (RFDS). She enjoyed her training, liked living in Adelaide and navigated her way through the world of white people, accepting that to be like them would be 'the way to happiness'. (Standing Tall and Feeling Proud)\nWhen she graduated in 1964, she felt drawn to work in the hospital at Port Augusta, one of only two Aboriginal people on staff. It was here that the reality of race relations in Australia hit her. The discrimination against aboriginal people who lived on the mission five miles out of town, the unnecessary deaths of Aboriginal babies who were denied basic health services; the attitudes towards Aboriginal people on Port Augusta were markedly different from what she has experienced in Adelaide. She was married, rearing a family of her own, working in a job she loved but a crisis of identity that she had managed to keep repressed for several years came to the surface. 'I was working in a doctor's surgery at the time, accepted by the white community, a success. But inside I was so fragile. There was a big part of me missing,' she recalled some years later. ((Standing Tall and Feeling Proud)\nNgingali was already suffering when she learned that her mother was alive and living on the reserve outside Port Augusta. 'After all those years without seeing her I was a nervous wreck, I couldn't go to her. It was my [first] husband, Laurie who made the firsy contact.' (Standing Tall and Feeling Proud) Slowly and emotionally, Ngingali reconnected with her mother, extended family and her lands.\nBut a year later, tragedy struck and the outcome proved to be the catalyst for Ngingali's turn to activism on behalf of her people. Her mother disappeared in unexplained circumstances from outside a road house near Port Pirie and Ngingali used her knowledge of the system to force a coronial inquest to highlight the lack of police action in the search for an elderly Aboriginal woman. 'It nearly sent me over the edge to lose Mum so soon after finding her again,' she says. 'This is when I got off the fence and started speaking out for my people.' (Standing Tall and Feeling Proud)\nThis decision has lead to a long list of achievements. Ngingali Cullen brought RFDS to remote communities, managed welfare train cars, and Aboriginal alcohol rehabilitation units. She worked for the Drug and Alcohol Services Council of South Australia and for crisis-counselling services in the Port August jail and as a part-time commissioner in the South Australian Health Commission. She was instrumental in setting up a centre for Aboriginal women in Port Augusta and established regional health programs in northern South Australia. She was the linchpin for the Aboriginal community in Port Augusta.\nWhen she was elected a member of the Nulla Wanga Tjuta Regional Council (a part of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission (ATSIC)) in 1990, her focus began to shift to the national scene. When she was offered a job in Canberra in 1992 as a health policy officer for ATSIC she was ready for the challenge and took the offer, despite the difficulties associated with leaving Port Augusta. She was important to the community, as it was to her. But her children were grown and she felt is was time to do something new, for her sake and for the Aboriginal community at large. Her work with ATSIC now took her all over Australia, evaluating the national Aboriginal health strategy.\nWhen Sir Ron Wilson and Mick Dodson inquired into the separation policies that affected the lives people like Cullen and published the Bringing Them Home report, the media sought stories from the stolen generations, Ngingali was one of those they turned to. She was seconded to the Office of Indigenous affairs, to the National Sorry Day Committee and was at the forefront of Canberra's preparations for the first 'sorry day', on May 26, 1998. The campaign caught national attention, and nearly a million people signed 'sorry books'.\nAfter the first sorry day, many of the stolen generations met in Sydney, and Cullen urged that they seize the moment to heal the wounds caused by the separation policies. She found a warm response, and the Journey of Healing was launched across Australia on May 26, 1999. When the Sorry Day Committee's co-chair, Carol Kendall, became too ill to continue, Cullen was elected to take her place. This campaign brought thousands of Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Australians together in initiatives for healing and provided a mechanism by which the stolen generations' voice was heard throughout the next decade.\nAfter 250,000 people walked for reconciliation across the Sydney Harbour Bridge, the government agreed to remember the stolen generations at Reconciliation Place, Canberra. Cullen was vital to the process of helping indigenous groups and government reaching consensus over the design of the memorial and the text to accompany it. 'This memorial could be healing if it is created properly,' she told the then Minister, Philip Ruddock. (Champion of Healing) She proposed that teams travel the country, seeking the views of the stolen generations on the text of the memorial, and also seeking the views of the non-indigenous people who had staffed the institutions to which Aboriginal children were removed, and those who had fostered the children. The process resulted in text that the government did not prefer but, confronted with consensus, had no option but to accept it. Kevin Rudd's apology offered in 2008, and the generally positive response of the Australia community owes much to her inclusive approach and commitment to healing.\nAlthough she spent most of her life in South Australia, she came to love the city of Canberra and the opportunities it created. She loved coming to work and seeing Parliament House outside her window a building that gave her 'a magical feeling, like Uluru.' (Standing Tall and Feeling Proud). She died in a Canberra nursing home in 2012 survived by her second husband, Derick, her three children, and a legacy of healing. As she said quietly, of herself, in 1996, Ngingali Cullen 'came a long way for a kid who was born in the desert.' (Standing Tall and Feeling Proud)\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/champion-of-healing-and-sorry-day\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/standing-tall-and-feeling-proud\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/from-lady-denman-to-katy-gallagher-a-century-of-womens-contributions-to-canberra\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/the-encyclopedia-of-women-and-leadership-in-twentieth-century-australia\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/audrey-ngingali-kinnear-interviewed-by-francine-george-in-the-bringing-them-home-oral-history-project-sound-recording\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Mocatta, Necia", "Entry ID": "AWE4935", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/mocatta-necia\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Kadina, South Australia, Australia", "Death Place": "Adelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Community worker, International activist, Women's rights organiser", "Summary": "Necia Mocatta devoted much of her life, energy and enthusiasm to the betterment and dignity of the lives of women and children. She believed that the family unit was the foundation on which a caring, prosperous society was built and focused her attention on strengthening it at local, national and international levels, rather then pursuing broad issues of gender equality. An astute and successful businesswoman, she became actively involved with the National Council of Women at a state, national and international level as president of both NCW South Australia (1980-1983, 1996) and the National Council of Women of Australia (1985-1988), and as a Board member (1988-1991) then vice-president (1991) of the International Council of Women.\n", "Details": "Necia Mocatta (n\u00e9e Homan) was born 14 January 1938 in Kadina, South Australia. She was educated in Kadina, followed by Paskeville and Girton Girls' School (now Pembroke School). She married George Somerset Mocatta and had four children.\nWhen Mocatta and her family lived in Tintinara and Keith, her community involvement revolved around mothers and babies, the church, the school and general community activities. To give the children a better education, the family moved from Tintinara to Adelaide, where both Necia and George were involved in the real estate business. Later, Necia Mocatta became a licensed sales person and was the first woman auctioneer in South Australia, building a reputation for ethical practice as well astuteness.\nMocatta's interest in the National Council of Women began when she attended the South Australian branch as a delegate for the Soroptimists. She joined NCWSA in 1970 and, with her passion for organisation, hard work and efficiency, willingly took on executive responsibilities, becoming president from 1980 to 1983. She was made an honorary life member and agreed to be president again in 1996 when circumstances made it difficult to fill the role. She was national president of NCWA from 1985 to 1988. As national president, she looked to adopt business principles and practice; for example, she organised Qantas to supply sponsorship so Board members could attend conferences. Mocatta represented NCWA on various committees, including the National Forum of Non-Government Welfare Co-ordinating Bodies, the National Keep Australia Beautiful Council, the Parliamentary Disarmament Forum and the committee that established the Telecom Consumers' Council.\nAfter her term as president of NCWA, Mocatta was elected a voting member of the International Council of Women Board (1988-1991), becoming an ICW vice-president in 1991. She attended many ICW conferences, including Nairobi in 1979, London in 1986, and Washington in 1988, which was also the centenary of the International Council. She also attended executive meetings in Kiel, Lucerne, Malta and Auckland. Mocatta directed the triennial conferences in Bangkok in 1991 and Paris in 1994. She was also ICW co-ordinator of Development Projects and liaison officer to Project Five O, an international co-operative enterprise of five women's service clubs concerned with vocational and other training for women and girls in developing countries and countries in transition.\nMocatta was a long-time member of the Liberal Party and served on the South Australian State Executive and the State Council and was vice-president of the Women's Council. She became Mayoress of St Peters and a member of the Metropolitan Mayoress's Charity Committee.\nMocatta also held office in a number of other organisations, including the presidency of the Torrens Soroptimists and club representative to the Soroptimists Regional Council. She was a member of the Steering Committee of the Non-English Cultural Background International Women's Conference held in Adelaide in 1994, a member of the Australian Institute of Management, president of the Rostrum Club No. 2, and a foundational member and NCWSA's representative on both the Women's Information Switchboard support group, and the South Australian Jubilee 150 Women's Committee. A committed Christian, Mocatta was also on the board of the St Laurence Home for the Aged (now part of Anglicare) for 10 years. She was an active member of All Souls Anglican Church, St Peters, being a member of the Parish Council and a lay assistant, sidesman and a member of the Sanctuary Guild.\nMocatta responded enthusiastically to the needs of women and families, not just in Australia but throughout the world. This interest was stimulated by attending conferences in Germany, Kenya and Korea, where she could see first hand the work of Five O.\nNecia Mocatta was made a member of the Order of Australia (AM) in 1990 for her services to the community and was awarded a Ruth Gibson Memorial Award by NCWA in 1992. She was awarded the Adrian Stock Award for service to Rostrum in 1993 and 1995. She died in Adelaide on 4 December 2000.\n", "Events": "International Council of Women (1988 - 1994) \nSouth Australian Jubilee 150 Women's Committee (1986 - 1986)", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/stirrers-with-style-presidents-of-the-national-council-of-women-of-australia-and-its-predecessors\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/whats-next-the-continuing-history-of-the-national-council-of-women-of-south-australia-1980-2000\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/records-of-the-national-council-of-women-of-australia-1924-1990-manuscript\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/ncwa-papers-1984-2006\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/national-council-of-women-of-s-a-summary-record\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/necia-mocatta-am-aimm\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Allen, Margaret Ellen", "Entry ID": "AWE4950", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/allen-margaret-ellen\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Adelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Historian", "Summary": "Read more about Margaret Ellen Allen in our sister publication The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/the-encyclopedia-of-women-and-leadership-in-twentieth-century-australia\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Beasley, Mary", "Entry ID": "AWE4973", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/beasley-mary\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Businesswoman, Chief Executive Officer, Public servant", "Summary": "Read more about Mary Beasley in our sister publication The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/the-encyclopedia-of-women-and-leadership-in-twentieth-century-australia\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Bonython, Constance Jean", "Entry ID": "AWE4991", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/bonython-constance-jean\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Adelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Death Place": "Sitrling, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Charity worker", "Summary": "Read more about Constance Jean Bonython in our sister publication The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/the-encyclopedia-of-women-and-leadership-in-twentieth-century-australia\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Brock, Peggy", "Entry ID": "AWE4996", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/brock-peggy\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Adelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Death Place": "Adelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Anthropologist, Historian", "Summary": "Read more about Peggy Brock in our sister publication The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/the-encyclopedia-of-women-and-leadership-in-twentieth-century-australia\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/emeritus-professor-peggy-brock-am-fassa\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Cleggett, Ella", "Entry ID": "AWE5018", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/cleggett-ella\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Mount Barker, South Australia, Australia", "Death Place": "North Adelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Welfare worker", "Summary": "Read more about Ella Cleggett in our sister publication The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/the-encyclopedia-of-women-and-leadership-in-twentieth-century-australia\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Clunies Ross, Margaret Beryl", "Entry ID": "AWE5020", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/clunies-ross-margaret-beryl\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Adelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Scholar", "Summary": "Read more about Margaret Beryl Clunies Ross in our sister publication The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/the-encyclopedia-of-women-and-leadership-in-twentieth-century-australia\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Cooke, Constance Mary Ternent", "Entry ID": "AWE5025", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/cooke-constance-mary-ternent\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Kent Town, South Australia, Australia", "Death Place": " Turramurra, New South Wales, Australia", "Occupations": "Aboriginal rights activist", "Summary": "Read more about Constance Mary Ternent Cooke in our sister publication The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/the-encyclopedia-of-women-and-leadership-in-twentieth-century-australia\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Douglas, Bronwen Phyllis", "Entry ID": "AWE5058", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/douglas-bronwen-phyllis\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Adelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Historian", "Summary": "Read more about Bronwen Phyllis Douglas in our sister publication The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/the-encyclopedia-of-women-and-leadership-in-twentieth-century-australia\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/bronwen-douglas-pacific-research-papers\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Fennescey, Mary Jane", "Entry ID": "AWE5079", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/fennescey-mary-jane\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Maitland, South Australia, Australia", "Death Place": "North Adelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Philanthropist", "Summary": "Read more about Mary Fennescey in our sister publication The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/the-encyclopedia-of-women-and-leadership-in-twentieth-century-australia\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Gale, Gwendoline Fay", "Entry ID": "AWE5089", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/gale-gwendoline-fay\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Balaklava, South Australia, Australia", "Death Place": "Adelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Academic", "Summary": "Read more about Gwendoline Fay Gale in our sister publication The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/the-encyclopedia-of-women-and-leadership-in-twentieth-century-australia\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Guerin, Lucy", "Entry ID": "AWE5110", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/guerin-lucy\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Adelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Artistic director, Choreographer, Dancer", "Summary": "Read more about Lucy Guerin in our sister publication The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/the-encyclopedia-of-women-and-leadership-in-twentieth-century-australia\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Hetherington, Penelope", "Entry ID": "AWE5129", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/hetherington-penelope\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Rose Park, South Australia, Australia", "Death Place": "Perth, Western Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Historian", "Summary": "Read more about Penelope Hetherington in our sister publication The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/the-encyclopedia-of-women-and-leadership-in-twentieth-century-australia\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/penelope-hetherington-papers\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Holmes, Marion Louisa", "Entry ID": "AWE5136", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/holmes-marion-louisa\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Kooringa, South Australia, Australia", "Death Place": "Perth, Western Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Artist, Charity worker", "Summary": "Read more about Marion Louisa Holmes in our sister publication The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/the-encyclopedia-of-women-and-leadership-in-twentieth-century-australia\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/papers-1877-1951-manuscript\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Holmes, Marion Phoebe", "Entry ID": "AWE5137", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/holmes-marion-phoebe\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Adelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Death Place": "West Perth, Western Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Charity worker", "Summary": "Read more about Marion Phoebe Holmes in our sister publication The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/the-encyclopedia-of-women-and-leadership-in-twentieth-century-australia\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Kartinyeri, Doreen", "Entry ID": "AWE5158", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/kartinyeri-doreen\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Point McLeay Aboriginal Reserve, South Australia, Australia", "Death Place": "South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Aboriginal rights activist, Feminist, Historian", "Summary": "Read more about Doreen Kartinyeri in our sister publication The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/the-encyclopedia-of-women-and-leadership-in-twentieth-century-australia\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Landells, Flora Annie Margaret", "Entry ID": "AWE5178", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/landells-flora-annie-margaret\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Adelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Death Place": "Perth, Western Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Art teacher, Artist", "Summary": "Read more about Flora Annie Margaret Landells in our sister publication The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/the-encyclopedia-of-women-and-leadership-in-twentieth-century-australia\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Leal, Charlotte Mary Clarina", "Entry ID": "AWE5186", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/leal-charlotte-mary-clarina\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Clare, South Australia, Australia", "Death Place": "Woodville, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Community worker", "Summary": "Read more about Charlotte Mary Clarina Leal in our sister publication The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/the-encyclopedia-of-women-and-leadership-in-twentieth-century-australia\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Matthews, Jill Julius", "Entry ID": "AWE5213", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/matthews-jill-julius\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Adelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Academic", "Summary": "Read more about Jill Julius Matthews in our sister publication The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/the-encyclopedia-of-women-and-leadership-in-twentieth-century-australia\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/womens-studies-tenth-anniversary-at-anu-dr-dorothy-broom-dr-jill-matthews-dr-susan-magarey-ms-wang-ying-ms-wu-lintao-ms-xu-xuehai-ms-liu-maoshu-ms-lian-lijuan-kathleen-taperell\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/jill-matthews-papers\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "McGuire, Francis Margaret Cheadle", "Entry ID": "AWE5222", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/mcguire-francis-margaret-cheadle\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Glenelg, South Australia, Australia", "Death Place": "North Adelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Author, Catholic lay leader", "Summary": "Read more about Francis Margaret Cheadle McGuire in our sister publication The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/the-encyclopedia-of-women-and-leadership-in-twentieth-century-australia\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/frances-margaret-mcguire-summary-record\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "O'Brien, Anne Philomena", "Entry ID": "AWE5251", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/obrien-anne-philomena\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Glenelg, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Historian", "Summary": "Read more about Anne Philomena O'Brien in our sister publication The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/the-encyclopedia-of-women-and-leadership-in-twentieth-century-australia\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Pavy, Emily Dorothea", "Entry ID": "AWE5263", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/pavy-emily-dorothea\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "North Adelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Death Place": "Adelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Activist, Lawyer, Social theorist, Solicitor", "Summary": "Emily Dorothea Pavy was an advocate for the welfare of factory workers before becoming a lawyer to pursue women's issues. Known for her dedicated and meticulous work, Pavy was a trailblazer both as a sociologist and a lawyer.\nRead more about Emily Dorothea Pavy in our sister publication The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia.\n", "Details": "Dorothea was born on 19 June 1885 at North Adelaide. Her parents were strong advocates for women's rights. Dorothea's mother had been a non-graduating student at the University of Adelaide before women were admitted to degrees and her father advocated higher education for women. She completed a Bachelor of Arts at the University of Adelaide in 1906 and became a teacher. At this time she was active in the Progressive Club for factory girls.\nIn 1912 Dorothea Proud won the first Catherine Helen Spence scholarship for sociology. She left next year for the London School of Economics where she investigated the industrial conditions of female factory workers, graduating from her Doctor of Science in 1916. She believed that welfare measures could enhance the 'recognition of individuality' and the standard of living. Dorothea drew her research from factory visits across Britain and observations in Australia and New Zealand. Proud's thesis contained an enthusiastic preface from Prime Minister Lloyd George, then Minister for Munitions. When Lloyd George asked Seebohm Rowntree to organise the welfare section of the Ministry of Munitions, Dorothea was appointed to assist in 1915-1919. In 1917 the British government appointed her CBE.\nDorothea married Lieutenant Gordon Augustus Pavy from Adelaide on 10 November 1917 in London and had two children. Two years after they married, the Pavys returned to Australia and Dorothea began legal studies at the University of Adelaide. She was articled to her husband, a lawyer, from 1924, and admitted to the Bar in 1928. The Pavys shared a partnership in general legal practice. Dorothea was a member of the Catherine Helen Spence scholarship selection committee until 1962 and convened the law committee of the State branch of the National Council of Women. She lectured social science and worked on a study of divorcees' children. She retired in 1953 and died on 8 September 1967.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/the-encyclopedia-of-women-and-leadership-in-twentieth-century-australia\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/pavy-emily-dorothea-1885-1967\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/australian-women-lawyers-as-active-citizens\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Pippos, Angela", "Entry ID": "AWE5269", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/pippos-angela\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Adelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Author, Broadcaster, Journalist, Public speaker", "Summary": "Read more about Angela Pippos in our sister publication The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/the-encyclopedia-of-women-and-leadership-in-twentieth-century-australia\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Quartly, Marian", "Entry ID": "AWE5274", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/quartly-marian\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Adelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Historian", "Summary": "Read more about Marian Quartly in our sister publication The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/the-encyclopedia-of-women-and-leadership-in-twentieth-century-australia\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Roe, Jillian Isobel (Jill)", "Entry ID": "AWE5284", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/roe-jillian-isobel-jill\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Tumby Bay, South Australia, Australia", "Death Place": "Pearl Beach, New South Wales, Australia", "Occupations": "Historian", "Summary": "Jill Roe was a distinguished Australian historian and academic who wrote an important biography of the Australian writer Miles Franklin. She published her memoir, Our Fathers Cleared the Bush, about her childhood on the Eyre Peninsula in 2016.\nRead more about Jill Roe in our sister publication The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia.\n", "Events": "Appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) (2007 - 2007)", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/our-fathers-cleared-the-bush-remembering-eyre-peninsula\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/jill-roe-miles-franklin-biographer-remembered-as-one-of-australias-greatest-historians\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/the-encyclopedia-of-women-and-leadership-in-twentieth-century-australia\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/papers-of-marilyn-lake-1964-1999-manuscript\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Rossi, Daisy Mary", "Entry ID": "AWE5287", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/rossi-daisy-mary\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Upper Wakefield, South Australia, Australia", "Death Place": "Geelong, Victoria, Australia", "Occupations": "Artist, Designer, Writer", "Summary": "Read more about Daisy Rossi in our sister publication The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/the-encyclopedia-of-women-and-leadership-in-twentieth-century-australia\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Russell, Vicki-Jo", "Entry ID": "AWE5292", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/russell-vicki-jo\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Adelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Environmentalist", "Summary": "Read more about Vicki-Jo Russell in our sister publication The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/the-encyclopedia-of-women-and-leadership-in-twentieth-century-australia\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Standley, Ida", "Entry ID": "AWE5315", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/standley-ida\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Adelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Death Place": "Sydney, New South Wales, Australia", "Occupations": "Child welfare worker, Community worker, Teacher, Welfare worker", "Summary": "Read more about Ida Standley in our sister publication The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/the-encyclopedia-of-women-and-leadership-in-twentieth-century-australia\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Tabberer, Maggie", "Entry ID": "AWE5326", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/tabberer-maggie\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Parkside, South Australia, Australia", "Death Place": "Sydney, New South Wales, Australia", "Occupations": "Entrepreneur, Fashion Designer, Fashion editor, Model, Publisher, Television personality", "Summary": "Read more about Maggie Tabberer in our sister publication The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/the-encyclopedia-of-women-and-leadership-in-twentieth-century-australia\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Warnes, Mary Jane", "Entry ID": "AWE5345", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/warnes-mary-jane\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Fullarton, South Australia, Australia", "Death Place": "Eastwood, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Rural leader", "Summary": "Read more about Mary Jane Warnes in our sister publication The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/the-encyclopedia-of-women-and-leadership-in-twentieth-century-australia\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Wauchope, Mavis Lorelei", "Entry ID": "AWE5347", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/wauchope-mavis-lorelei\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Kensington Park, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Lecturer, Teacher", "Summary": "Read more about Mavis Wauchope in our sister publication The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/the-encyclopedia-of-women-and-leadership-in-twentieth-century-australia\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Williams-Cooper, Mary Edith", "Entry ID": "AWE5357", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/williams-cooper-mary\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Narrunga Mission, Point Pearce, South Australia, Australia", "Death Place": "Australia", "Occupations": "Aboriginal leader, Kindergarten teacher", "Summary": "Read more about Mary Williams-Cooper in our sister publication The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/the-encyclopedia-of-women-and-leadership-in-twentieth-century-australia\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Woollacott, Angela", "Entry ID": "AWE5363", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/woollacott-angela\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Adelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Historian", "Summary": "Read more about Angela Woollacott in our sister publication The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/the-encyclopedia-of-women-and-leadership-in-twentieth-century-australia\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Bolton, Elizabeth Mary", "Entry ID": "AWE5429", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/bolton-elizabeth-mary\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Adelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Judge, Lawyer, Magistrate, Solicitor", "Summary": "When Elizabeth Bolton was appointed South Australian Chief Magistrate in 2007, she became the first woman to head a court jurisdiction in the history of South Australia.\nAfter completing a Bachelor of Arts (Hons) majoring in English Literature and then a Master of Arts degree at the University of Adelaide, Elizabeth Bolton subsequently completed a Law degree at the same university before commencing practice as a lawyer in 1985.\nAfter periods as a prosecutor firstly with the state Department of Public Prosecutions (DPP) and then with the Commonwealth DPP, she was appointed as a magistrate in December 1999. She began with two years sitting in Elizabeth, where she also went on circuit to Tanunda, Clare, Peterborough and Berri. In 2004 she was appointed the regional manager at the Christies Beach Magistrates Court.\nShe became Chief Magistrate in 2007. This role was changed by legislation to be both Chief Magistrate and a Judge of the S.A. District Court in July 2013.\nChief Magistrate Elizabeth Bolton resigned from the position in July 2015 due to ill health.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/ill-health-forces-first-female-south-australia-chief-magistrate-elizabeth-bolton-to-resign-after-eight-years\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/australian-women-lawyers-as-active-citizens\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Makiv, Lydia", "Entry ID": "AWE5441", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/makiv-lydia\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Adelaide, South Australia", "Occupations": "Lawyer, Magistrate, Solicitor", "Summary": "Lydia Makiv is a South Australian Magistrate who developed a reputation for expertise in Child Protection Law and in 2010 was appointed a Magistrate in the Adelaide Youth Court. She graduated with an LLB from Adelaide University, LLB (1972-1975) and was awarded a GDLP from the University of South Australia in 1976.\nGo to 'Details' below to read an essay written by Alan Moss about Lydia Makiv for the Trailblazing Women and the Law Project\n", "Details": "The following additional information was provided by Alan Moss and is reproduced with permission in its entirety.\n\nLydia Makiv is a first generation Ukrainian Australian whose parents migrated to South Australia in 1949. They had fled Western Ukraine in the latter stages of World War 11 and finally ended up in a refugee camp in Germany. Her parents' new life in Australia was not initially easy as they had no English or money upon arrival and were forced to take on long term unskilled work as the father's university studies in Europe were not recognised.\nLydia's parents were determined that Lydia and her older brother, Emilian, would have a good education and made sacrifices to ensure that occurred. Emilian became a dentist and practised in Victoria and Lydia became a lawyer. She believes that her parents' example and opportunities at university motivated her to succeed.\nLydia joined the South Australian Crown Solicitor's Office in 1977 when the Office had a strong reputation for professional excellence. It provided a high standard of ethical and professional training for its practitioners and produced many of the State's judges and magistrates. Lydia valued the strong mentorship within the Office and subsequently, became a generous and committed mentor to junior practitioners. She remained at the Crown for nearly 30 years, steadily rising through the ranks to become a senior solicitor.\nAlthough her experience there was very broad and included administrative law and appellate work, it was in the area of child protection law that Lydia excelled and established a strong professional reputation acting both as solicitor and counsel in her cases. She conducted numerous lengthy, complex and sometimes controversial trials, earning in the process the respect of social workers, doctors and psychologists, the courts and opposing practitioners who knew that her word could be completely relied upon. Lydia also conducted a large number of international child abduction cases and represented South Australia at national conferences on child abduction.\nIn 2007, Lydia was appointed a magistrate and in 2010, a magistrate at the Adelaide Youth Court where she works in both the criminal and child protection jurisdictions of the court. In 2014, Lydia was elected national secretary of the Australian Association of Magistrates. She is also a member of the Adelaide Chorus, the Ukrainian Women's Association in SA and the Australian Women's Judges Association.\n\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/australian-women-lawyers-as-active-citizens\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "McMahon, Karri", "Entry ID": "AWE5462", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/mcmahon-karri\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Berri, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Commonwealth or Empire Games Gold Medalist, Hockey player", "Summary": "Karri McMahon began playing hockey as a child, before studying to be a paramedic at Flinders University. As a member of the women's hockey team, she represented Australia at the Commonwealth Games, the Women's Hockey World Cup and the Champions Trophy.\n", "Events": "Member of the Hockeyroos (2014 - 2014)" }, { "Title\/Name": "Parker, Georgina", "Entry ID": "AWE5465", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/parker-georgina\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Berri, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Commonwealth or Empire Games Gold Medalist, Hockey player", "Summary": "Georgina Parker began playing hockey as a child in country South Australia. She went on to study journalism and public relations and, as a member of the women's hockey team, to represent Australia at the Commonwealth Games, the Oceania Cup and the Champions Trophy.\n", "Events": "Member of the Hockeyroos (2014 - 2014)" }, { "Title\/Name": "Morton, Stephanie", "Entry ID": "AWE5486", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/morton-stephanie\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Bedford Park, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Commonwealth or Empire Games Gold Medalist, Cyclist", "Summary": "Stephanie Mortan has represented Australia in cycling at both World and Oceania championships.\n", "Events": "Cycling (Track) - Sprint (2014 - 2014) \nCycling (Track)- Keirin, Sprint and Team Sprint (with Kaarle McCulloch) (2018 - 2018)" }, { "Title\/Name": "Claxton, Jane", "Entry ID": "AWE5490", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/claxton-jane\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Adelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Commonwealth or Empire Games Gold Medalist, Hockey player", "Summary": "Jane Claxton was a member of the gold medal-winning Australian women's hockey team at the Commonwealth Games in 2014.\n", "Events": "Member of the Hockeyroos (2014 - 2014)" }, { "Title\/Name": "Williams, Leslie Gladys", "Entry ID": "AWE5584", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/williams-leslie-gladys\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Kangaroo Island, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Business owner, Nurse, Parliamentarian, Teacher", "Summary": "Leslie Williams was elected Member for Port Macquarie representing the National Party in the Legislative Assembly of the New South Wales Parliament in 2011. From 2015 she served as Minister for Early Childhood Education, for Aboriginal Affairs and Assistant Minister for Education.\n" }, { "Title\/Name": "Leong, Jenny", "Entry ID": "AWE5592", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/leong-jenny\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Adelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Parliamentarian", "Summary": "Jenny Leong was elected as the Member for Newtown representing the Greens Party in the Legislative Assembly of the New South Wales Parliament in 2015.\nBefore her election to the State Parliament she stood unsuccessfully as a Greens candidate for the seat of Sydney in the 2004 and 2007 federal elections.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/ms-jenny-leong-ba-hons-mp\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Webb, Raelene", "Entry ID": "AWE5612", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/webb-raelene\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Gawler, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Barrister, Chairperson, Lawyer, President, Public speaker, Queen's Counsel, Solicitor, Teacher, Tribunal Member", "Summary": "Raelene Webb QC holds a Bachelor of Science (Honours) in Physics from the University of Adelaide and a Bachelor of Laws from the University of Queensland. She was admitted to the Supreme Court of the Northern Territory and the High Court of Australia in 1992. In 2004, she was appointed Queen's Counsel. Prior to her five year appointment on 1 April 2013 by the Attorney General, as President of the National Native Title Tribunal (NNTT), Raelene was named as one of the leading native title silks in Australia. She has appeared as lead counsel in many native title and Aboriginal land matters and has advised upon and appeared in the High Court in most land-mark cases on the judicial interpretation and development of native title\/Aboriginal land law since the decision of Mabo V Queensland (No 2).\nRaelene became a fellow of the Australia Academy of Law in August 2013 and delivered the Annual Richard Cooper Memorial Lecture at the TC Beirne School of Law, University of Queensland, at the end of September 2013. She was a recipient of the 2014 Law Council of Australia President's Medal, in recognition of her outstanding contribution to the legal profession in Australia.\nOn receipt of the award, Raelene encouraged other women thinking of taking risks with their careers to be brave.\n'I marvel how it is that a shy country girl coming to the law in mid-life, finds herself here receiving this prestigious award and in the company of so many distinguished lawyers who have themselves contributed so much to the legal profession, both personally and through their work with the Law Council of Australia.\nMy advice to all who are contemplating scaling the walls of the legal profession, and particularly to women: be courageous, be bold, and above all, be passionate about the law.'\nGo to 'Details' below to read a reflective essay written by Raelene Webb for the Trailblazing Women and the Law Project.\n", "Details": "The following additional information was provided by Raelene Webb and is reproduced with permission in its entirety.\n\nMs Raelene Webb QC holds a Bachelor of Science (Honours) in Physics from the University of Adelaide and a Bachelor of Laws from the University of Queensland. She was admitted to the Supreme Court of the Northern Territory and the High Court of Australia in 1992. In 2004, she was appointed Queens Counsel.\nRaelene was born at Gawler, South Australia in 1951, the elder of two children of Ray and Joyce Webb. At that time her father was teaching at nearby Reeves Plains. Shortly thereafter Raelene's family moved to Batchelor in the Northern Territory where Ray had been appointed the first headmaster of the Batchelor Area School. Her family returned to South Australia in 1955 where Raelene commenced her education, graduating from Adelaide University in 1971 with a Bachelor of Science (Honours), majoring in physics.\nRaelene then returned to the Northern Territory and taught at Alice Springs High School, transferring to Casuarina High School around 1972. Both of her sons were born in Darwin (in 1974 and 1977) but the advent of Cyclone Tracy led to a temporary relocation back to Adelaide in 1975. After returning to Darwin in 1976, in addition to managing several small businesses, Raelene also lectured part-time at the Darwin Community College in mathematics. She was then appointed Acting Head of Commercial Studies on a full-time basis, establishing an Education Program for Unemployed Youth at the College during that period.\nAfter completing half of the Bachelor of Accounting Course at Darwin Institute of Technology, Raelene commenced law studies in 1986 externally with Queensland University. She continued to lecture part-time at the Darwin Institute of Technology in building science and mathematics, and then worked for 18 months as a management trainer\/consultant with the Northern Territory Centre for Management Training.\nIn August 1989 Raelene commenced her legal career as an associate to his Honour Sir William Kearney, then Justice of the Supreme Court of the Northern Territory, before moving to the Department of Law (now the Department of Justice) where she commenced articles in 1991; also completed her Bachelor of Laws in that year. During 1990-1991 Raelene lectured for several semesters in Taxation Law for the Bachelor of Business course at the Northern Territory University, calling in aid her previous business\/management and accounting experience as well as legal training.\nRaelene was admitted to legal practice in the Northern Territory in 1992. From that time and until joining William Forster Chambers in March 1999, Raelene practiced, in effect, as a member of Counsel in Chambers with Mr Tom Pauling QC, the Solicitor General for the Northern Territory and Mr Graham Nicholson, previously Senior Crown Counsel and Constitutional Advisor to the Northern Territory Government. Her position as Crown Counsel was formalized in 1994 although she had been acting in that capacity since 1992.\nAs Crown Counsel Raelene gave legal advice to the Northern Territory Government on a wide range of complex legal matters, including administrative law, constitutional law, government contracts, torts generally and particularly liability of public authorities, medical negligence, mining law, native title and Aboriginal land matters.\nThe particular demands of Crown Counsel required that Raelene rapidly develop the advocacy skills necessary to research, prepare and present complex cases, many of which were destined to be finally determined by the High Court where Raelene made numerous appearances as junior counsel with the Solicitor General for the Northern Territory, and with other leading senior counsel, particularly in constitutional matters and later in native title\/Aboriginal land matters. During her period as Crown Counsel, Raelene also deputised for the Solicitor General on a number of occasions at meetings of Solicitors General.\nRaelene's move to the private bar in Darwin in 1999 allowed her to expand her practice, and she rapidly developed a national practice, appearing for and advising clients in most States and Territories. Between 1999 and 2011 Raelene practiced from William Forster Chambers. From 2009 she was Head of William Forster Chambers, before she left to establish Magayamirr Chambers in July 2011.\nFrom 2010 to 2012, Raelene was President of the Northern Territory Bar Association, and a Director of the Law Council of Australia. She held the position of Honorary Treasurer of the Australian Bar Association in 2012 and was Vice President of that association in the following year, prior to her appointment. In 2011 Raelene was awarded a Board Diversity Scholarship and undertook governance training with the Australian Institute of Company Directors to assist her in these roles.\nA significant part of Raelene's practice at the private bar was in the Federal Court and the High Court, first addressing a Full Bench of the High Court in 2001. In August 2001 the Honourable Justice Michael Kirby, in a speech to the Victorian Women Lawyers' Association, lamented the few speaking parts of women before the High Court in Australia, naming Raelene as one of only 6 women who had addressed the High Court from the central rostrum during his term of office. Over the next two decades, Raelene continued to argue matters in the High Court, advising upon and appearing in most land-mark cases on the judicial interpretation and development of native title\/Aboriginal land law since the decision of Mabo v Queensland (No 2) in 1992. Just prior to her appointment Raelene was named as one of the leading native title silks in Australia.\nRaelene became a fellow of the Australian Academy of Law in August 2013 and delivered the Annual Richard Cooper Memorial Lecture at the TC Beirne School of Law, University of Queensland, at the end of September 2013. She was a recipient of the 2014 Law Council of Australia President's Medal, in recognition of her outstanding contribution to the legal profession in Australia. Raelene is in great demand as a public speaker on a range of topics, native title matters especially, and has presented or chaired sessions at various conferences throughout Australia and internationally, including at the Annual World Bank Conference on Land and Poverty held in Washington DC in March 2015. In April 2015 Raelene gave a number of public lectures at Canadian universities and was a guest speaker at the University of Northern British Columbia's Global Fridays Speakers Series.\n\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/congratulations-to-president-raelene-webb-qc\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/australian-women-lawyers-as-active-citizens\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Dodd, Moya", "Entry ID": "AWE5632", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/dodd-moya\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Adelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Businesswoman, Lawyer, Soccer player, Solicitor, Sports administrator, Sportswoman", "Summary": "Moya Dodd is a lawyer and former international footballer with the Matildas, now making a contribution to sports governance in Australia and internationally. She was named one of World Soccer magazine's People of the Year in 2013, and listed in the top 100 Women of Influence by the Australian Financial Review in 2012 and 2014.\n", "Details": "Born and raised in Adelaide, South Australia at a time when organised sport for girls was very limited, Moya Dodd discovered football (soccer) when her family bought a television set when she was 10. Within a few years she was playing enthusiastically for her local team, Port Adelaide, later joining the Adelaide University Soccer Club when she enrolled in Law at age 16. She edited the university student newspaper On dit (1986), and gained an Honours degree in Law, before working as the Associate to Justice Michael White at the Supreme Court of SA (1988). It was during this time that she participated in FIFA's first ever World Tournament for women in China 1988, helping Australia to a famous 1-0 victory over Brazil and achieving a quarter-final placing.\nIn 1989 she moved to her mother's home town of Sydney where she completed her admission requirements and worked at Mallesons Stephen Jaques, while continuing to play on the national football team. She later worked as in-house counsel at Telstra, including as General Counsel of Telstra's Multimedia business unit during the rollout of pay TV in Australia and the establishment of the FOXTEL joint venture with News Corporation.\nAfter an ACL knee injury in 1995, she retired from the Matildas and completed an Executive MBA at the Australian Graduate School of Management. Her interest in media and telecommunications converged in the dot-com boom, when she took up a business role at leading publisher Fairfax, including serving as Content Director for masthead websites smh.com.au and theage.com.au.\nAfter a period working as an economics consultant, Moya returned to the law in 2007, joining Gilbert+Tobin as Special Counsel (later Partner) and working extensively on broadband, mobile and NBN issues both in Australia and overseas.\nDuring this period she also joined the board of Football Federation Australia, which was re-establishing the game in Australia under chairman Frank Lowy following the demise of the former national governing body. Australia had moved to the Asian Football Confederation (AFC), which co-incidentally had just created quota positions for women in each region. Moya was co-opted onto the AFC Executive Committee, and later elected as the confederation's first female Vice President, and the first woman in the world to hold such a role. She also joined AFC's Legal Committee and Women's Football Committee, serving through a difficult period of corruption allegations during which the AFC President received a life ban. She also worked with then FIFA Vice-President Prince Ali bin Al Hussein of Jordan, in overturning FIFA's ban on women wearing the hijab (headscarf) in international matches.\nIn 2013, FIFA held its first ever election for a female Executive Committee member. Moya was nominated as Asia's candidate and ran second in the ballot, but was appointed as a co-opted member of the FIFA Executive Committee where she became a vocal advocate for women in football, chairing FIFA's Women's Football Task Force and presenting ten key principles for women's football development to the approval of the 2014 FIFA Congress.\nShe also travelled extensively to developing football regions to advocate for greater women's participation in sport, including to a refugee camp near the Jordan-Syria border; and to Tehran, where she and FIFA President Sepp Blatter spoke out against the bar on women entering football stadiums.\nWhile scandals consumed much of the media airtime about FIFA, she became known as one of only three members of the FIFA Executive Committee who did not accept $25,000 gift watches while in Brazil for the FIFA World Cup in 2014.\nIn 2014 she joined the International Council for the Arbitration of Sport (the governing body of the Court of Arbitration for Sport, chaired by John Coates AC) as an athlete representative.\nMoya was named as one of World Soccer magazine's People of the Year in 2013, and listed in the top 100 Women of Influence by the Australian Financial Review in 2012 and 2014. She was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) in 2023 for distinguished service to football as a player and administrator at the national and international level, as a role model to women, and to the law.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/women-finally-receive-call-up-to-footballs-top-team\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/moya-dodd-is-goal-driven\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/moya-dodd-scores-for-womens-soccer\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/australian-women-lawyers-as-active-citizens\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Sheedy, Joan", "Entry ID": "AWE5639", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/sheedy-joan\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Port Augusta, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Lawyer, Policy adviser, Public servant", "Summary": "During a long career in the Australian Public Service in the Attorney-General's Department and in the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, Joan Sheedy held a number of senior positions responsible for the provision of legal policy advice on, and the development of legislation in the fields of human rights, privacy, copyright and freedom of information. She was involved in the development of many major legislative reforms including the Sex Discrimination Act 1984, the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission Act 1986, the Privacy Act 1988 (and subsequent reforms in the privacy area), the Disability Discrimination Act 1992, the Copyright Amendment (Digital Agenda) Act 2000, the Copyright Amendment (Moral Rights) Act 2000 and the significant Commonwealth FOI reforms of 2009 and 2010. She also represented Australia in negotiations at the United Nations in Geneva and Vienna on human rights, at the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) in Geneva on copyright and at the EU in Brussels on privacy.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/law\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/australian-women-lawyers-as-active-citizens\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Cummins, Alice Mary", "Entry ID": "AWE5790", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/cummins-alice-mary\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Adelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Death Place": "Kalgoorlie , Western Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Brewer, Businesswoman, Lawyer, Solicitor", "Summary": "Alice Cummins studied law at the University of Adelaide (LL.B., 1928). Admitted to the bar in South Australia (1928) and Western Australia (1930) she never practised. She was a businesswoman and brewer in Kalgoorlie. Death notices also stated that she was the first woman in Australia to take out a wireless transmitter's license.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/cummins-alice-mary-1898-1943\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/australian-women-lawyers-as-active-citizens\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Johnston, Elizabeth", "Entry ID": "AWE5833", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/johnston-elizabeth\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Adelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Death Place": "Adelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Lawyer, Partner", "Summary": "Elizabeth Johnston was born in Adelaide on 1 October 1920. She was educated at Woodlands Church of England Girls' Grammar School at Glenelg. During her student days at Adelaide University she was secretary of the Radical Club and on the editorial staff of On Dit. She was the first female secretary of a trade union in South Australia, the partner in the law firm Johnston & Johnston and the chair of South Australia's first Sex Discrimination Board. She was an activist and member of the Australian Communist Party and was married to Justice Elliott Johnston QC. She died in 2002.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/australian-women-lawyers-as-active-citizens\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/elizabeth-johnston-papers\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Baylis, Ester", "Entry ID": "AWE5975", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/baylis-ester\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Largs, South Australia, Australia", "Death Place": "Naracoorte, South Australia, Adelaide", "Occupations": "Photographer", "Summary": "Ester Baylis was a prize-winning Pictorialist photographer and an active member of the Adelaide Camera Club. Baylis' focus was primarily architectural photography, having previously trained in architecture. Baylis initially used a Box Brownie camera, and with prize money purchased a Thornton Pickard enlarger and an Adams Minex camera. Baylis was the first woman photographer to be included in an Australian public collection.\n", "Details": "Esther Baylis was a prize-winning Pictorialist photographer who belonged to the Adelaide Camera Club. She was born in Largs Bay, South Australia. Her family moved to Unley Park, South Australia when she was two years old, and she lived there until 1925 when she moved to England. Baylis was given a Box Brownie camera at the age of 12, the age at which she also started developing and printing her own photographs. She was a student at the Hermitage Girl's Boarding School in Geelong, Victoria which was a Private Grammar School owned and run by the Church of England. She left school at the age of seventeen, wanting to pursue a career in architecture but had to wait until she turned 18, so she returned to Adelaide where for a year she studied watercolour painting with Gwen Barringer.\nBaylis began her training in architecture at the South Australian School of Mines and Industries from 1917 to about 1921. This was a four-year course that included university subjects - she went to physics and maths lectures and architectural history lectures. However, with only two subjects to go, she decided not to complete her studies even though she had been named by the Woods, Bagot, Jory and Laybourne Smith Architects with whom she was an articled pupil, as 'the most successful student in the Architecture department' (Australian Gallery Directors Council 19). Esther was to recollect that, 'I had the distinct feeling that women were not welcome in the architectural society. One prominent architect said I would never be admitted' (Australian Gallery Directors Council 19).\nHer instincts turned out to be correct since she worked for Woods Bagot Jory and Laybourne Smith for four and a half years, completing her articles but without any prospect of the necessary registration to pursue a career as an architect. A draft of a letter written to her father by Laybourne Smith wrote of his concern that,\n[Miss Legoe] must be prepared to meet the various grades of people employed in the Building Trades and face any slight disabilities attendant on inspection of works such as mounting scaffolds.\nDisillusioned, Baylis turned her attention to photography and set up a darkroom and studio in the cellar of the family home. She was generally self-taught, apart from attending a number classes run by a member of the South Australian Photographic Society, of which she was a member.\nShe entered her photographs in Kodak competitions and in competitions organised by the Australian Photography Review, winning prizes for her work. The prize money was used to purchase a Thornton Pickard enlarger, an Adams Minex camera and a voyage by ship to England, which she embarked on in 1922. In London she was offered a position with a photography studio but declined it as she was more interested in travel and in photographing gardens and architecture.\nIn 1923 she returned to Australia and became a member of the Adelaide Camera Club, exhibiting her work at their annual exhibitions. Buildings were the main focus of her photographic work; she loved capturing the shadows and lines of the architectural forms she was photographing. As with the other members of the Adelaide Camera Club her photographs were in the Pictorialist style. Baylis said of photography that 'the important thing is the know-how to \"compose\" a picture and one must see the picture at a glance in one's mind for it to succeed' (Hall 74).\nIn 1925 she exhibited 24 of her photographs in the Exhibition of Pictures and Craftwork at the Society of Art, Adelaide. Fourteen of these were then included in the First Exhibition of Pictorial Photography organised by the Adelaide Photographic Society. Her photographs won her medals at the South Australian Chamber of Manufacturers All Australian Exhibition in 1925 and three of these photographs, Figure Study 1924, Louis XIV Chapel, Versaillesand Pastures, were purchased by the Art Gallery of South Australia. This saw her being the first woman photographer to be included in an Australian public collection. Baylis had travelled to England with her sister in 1925 and it was on this trip that she became engaged to Denis Baylis (the ship's purser). They married a year later in England. The following two years saw her husband continuing in his purser's position, while she gave birth to their first child and continued with her photography. The family was also able to travel around England and Europe.\nThe Baylis family decided to return to Australia, settling in the south-eastern town of Binnum in South Australia, taking up farming and remaining there for the next twenty years. Ester had two children and continued her creative pursuits, attending painting classes in Adelaide, and this rather than photography became her main focus. The family moved to Balmoral, Victoria where Ester joined 'The Gropers,' a women's art group whose motto was 'groping for knowledge,' which met at the Hamilton Art Gallery each month. She began working with oils and had five exhibitions after her children had grown up. From Balmoral she moved to Clifton Springs, Victoria where she continued painting, well into her eighties.\nEster Baylis died in 1990, at the age of ninety-two.\nTechnical\nBox Brownie camera, a Thornton Pickard enlarger and an Adams Minex camera.\nCollections\nNational Gallery of Australia\nThe Art Gallery of South Australia\n", "Events": "Ester Baylis featured in A Century in Focus: South Australian Photography, 1840s-1940s. (2007 - 2008) \nEster Baylis featured in the exhibition Australian Women Photographers 1840-1950 (1981 - 1981) \nEster Baylis featured in the Exhibition of Pictures and Craftwork at the Society of Art. (1925 - 1925) \nEster Baylis featured in the First Exhibition of Pictorial Photography, Adelaide Photographic Society. (1925 - 1925) \nEster Baylis was featured in the Adelaide Camera Club Annual exhibition. (1923 - 1923) \nEster Baylis won medals at the South Australian Chamber of Manufacturers All Australian Exhibition. (1925 - 1925)", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/australian-women-photographers-1840-1950\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/australian-women-photographers-1840-1960\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/dictionary-of-south-australian-photography-1845-1915-electronic-resource\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/a-century-in-focus-south-australian-photography-1840s-1940s\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/florado-art-exhibition-australian-gallery-file\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/council-for-the-encouragement-of-music-and-the-arts-portland-vic-australian-gallery-file\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Waterhouse, Joyce", "Entry ID": "AWE5978", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/waterhouse-joyce\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "North Adelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Death Place": "South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Photographer", "Summary": "Joyce Waterhouse was an amateur Pictorialist landscape photographer. She travelled widely, taking photographs in India, Indonesia, New Zealand and North Africa, as well as of locations throughout Australia. She enlarged and printed her own photographs and was able to support herself financially with the sale of her travel photography. She exhibited her work in South Australia and Victoria.\n", "Details": "Joyce Waterhouse is known for her Pictorialist landscape photography. She exhibited her works mainly in South Australia and Victoria.\nShe was born on 27 April 1887 into a very affluent North Adelaide family. Her parents were Arthur and Laura Waterhouse (n\u00e9e Morgan) and her grandfather on her mother's side was Sir William Morgan, Premier of South Australia. Her father was a prosperous banker who had made his money from the gold rush. Arthur and Laura had three daughters of whom Joyce was the youngest, and a son. Every summer the children were cared for by governesses at their Mount Lofty House in the Adelaide Hills. The remainder of the year was spent at their North Adelaide home where servants saw to their needs.\nWaterhouse showed an early interest in photography and by the age of thirteen she was taking snapshots of animals. This interest was encouraged by her father, who gave her a gold- embossed suede photo album. Unlike Most Australians, her family was not greatly affected by the Depression of the 1890s and around this time they travelled to England regularly in order that her father could pursue his interest in hunting. In 1897 Joyce and her sisters spent two years in England attending a girls' school and on their return were said to have introduced women's hockey to Adelaide. They also attended a finishing school in Dresden in 1903.\nIn 1910 the family travelled to England for another hunting trip. On this occasion they took their own horses and a groom. In 1915, Joyce was once again on her way to England when she was exposed to the plight of wounded soldiers who had fought at Gallipoli. It was an event that caused her to delay her trip for some weeks and assist in the hospitals. Once in England, she completed an intensive course in physiotherapy and worked at the Irish Army hospital during 1916-1917, eventually making her way to Egypt in the final year of the war, before returning to Australia in 1919 on a troop ship.\nDuring the 1920s Waterhouse wore her hair in a bob and smoked cigarettes. Her adventurous spirit is clear from the fact that she also travelled widely in the twenty years that followed. She owned her own car, which she drove throughout Australia, from Central Australia to the Flinders Ranges and onto Mt Kosciusko, where she became a capable skier. She also travelled to India, Indonesia, New Zealand and North Africa, all the time collecting 'fine examples of weaving' (Australian Gallery Directors Council 27).\nWaterhouse took many photographs of the foreign places to which she travelled. Some were snap shots and others more composed landscape studies. She enlarged and printed her own photographs and was able to support herself with the photographs she took on these travels. In 1930 she exhibited some of her works at the South Australian Photographic Society, with her photograph, Winter, being purchased by the Art Gallery of South Australia at the time. In 1930 she travelled to the Scottish Hebrides and began living a simpler life, staying in a crofter's cottage and learning how to spin, dye yarn and weave. On her return to Australia she built a cottage for herself at Mt. Lofty and was said to live a very spartan life, focussing on her textile work. She utilised natural black fleece (a rarity at the time) and experimented with vegetable dyes, and she also wove tapestries. Many of her weavings were passed on to her nieces and nephews.\nPhotographs taken towards the end of her life focussed on her great nephews and nieces as subjects, and documented her trips to Scotland and London during her final trip there in 1953.\nJoyce Waterhouse died on 13 December 1966 in South Australia (just four months prior to her eightieth birthday). Up until the end she was driving her car, spinning, and dying, weaving, and taking photographs of the family.\nCollections\nArt Gallery of South Australia\nWaterhouse (Family), Waterhouse, Joyce, 1887-1966 and Waterhouse, Laura Emily Waterhouse family, 1859. State Library of South Australia archival collection\n", "Events": "Joyce Waterhouse's work featured in A Century in Focus: South Australian Photography: 1840s-1940s (2007 - 2008) \nJoyce Waterhouse's work featured in Australian Women Photographers 1840-1950 (1981 - 1981) \nJoyce Waterhouse's work featured in The Second Exhibition of Pictorial Photography (1930 - 1930) \nJoyce Waterhouse's work featured in Women's Work Exhibition (1907 - 1907)", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/australia-birth-index-ancestry-com\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/australian-women-photographers-1840-1950\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/australian-women-photographers-1840-1960\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/a-century-in-focus-south-australian-photography-1840s-1940s\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/dictionary-of-south-australian-photography-1845-1915-electronic-resource\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/joyce-waterhouse\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/photographic-exhibition-opened-by-lady-mayoress\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Barnes, Doris Constance", "Entry ID": "AWE5994", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/barnes-doris-constance\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Kent Town, South Australia, Australia", "Death Place": "Outer Adelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Photographer", "Summary": "Doris Barnes was an award winning amateur photographer who practised photography throughout her life, active from the 1910s to the 1990s. Her photographs were predominantly created in the Pictorialist style. She was a life member of the Adelaide Camera Club, exhibited in Adelaide and interstate, as well as in London. The Art Gallery of South Australia acquired some of her portraits as early as 1940.\n", "Details": "Doris Barnes was born on 18 January 1894 at Kent Town, Adelaide, South Australia. Her father was John William Barnes and her mother was Annie Eliza May. Doris had two brothers and seven sisters. In 1897 her parents built a house in St. Peters, where she lived for 63 years. It was in this house that she eventually cared for her elderly mother up until her death.\nBarnes came from a creative family, with her brother Gustave Barnes studying art and music in England. Gustave did 'fine oil paintings, watercolours and etchings' (Hall 10-11), eventually becoming Director of the Art Gallery of South Australia. Another brother, Lawrence Barnes, was also a painter. Her father, John William Barnes had been a designer and 'modeller in plaster and cement' (Hall 11). John passed away when Doris was only 13.\nDoris Barnes left school at the age of 15 and began working for the Stump and Co. Photographic Studios. She worked as a receptionist for a couple of years, while at the same time picking up photographic skills by observing the photographer and retoucher as they worked. Her brother Gus gave Barnes her first camera in 1910 when she was 16 years old. This was when her lifelong interest in photography began.\nShe went on to work for the Commonwealth Public Service and remained in this employment until her retirement. However, she was to be a keen amateur photographer throughout her life. Barnes became a life member of the Adelaide Camera Club and took part in many of their exhibitions, winning a bronze medal for her work in 1940, as well as many others over the years, and was mentioned in their catalogues. During the 1920s-1930s she participated in interstate exhibitions and won various medals and certificates. In 1937 she was awarded a bronze plaque for Amateur Photography at The Intercolonial Exhibition of Overseas Photographers, London.\nHer photographs captured the romanticism of the Australian bush, the sea, and rural life; her photographs also included some portrait and landscape work.\nAs early as 1940 the Art Gallery of South Australia had purchased three of her portrait studies for inclusion in their photography collection.\nIn 1960 Barnes, along with her surviving siblings, offered their house to the Resthaven Home for the Aged, and ended up moving to the 'Resthaven' village, situated in outer Adelaide.\nDoris Constance Barnes died on the 18 November 1994, aged 100.\nCollections\nArt Gallery of South Australia photographic collection\nState Library of South Australia\n", "Events": "Doris Barnes' work featured in interstate exhibitions. (1920 - 1930) \nDoris Barnes' work featured in the Australian Women Photographers 1840-1950exhibition (1981 - 1981) \nDoris Barnes' work featured in the Intercolonial Exhibition of Overseas Photographers (1937 - 1937) \nDoris Barnes' work featured in the Adelaide Camera Club exhibition (1935 - 1935) \nDoris Barnes' work featured in the Adelaide Camera Club exhibition. (1940 - 1940)", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/australian-women-photographers-1840-1950\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/australian-women-photographers-1840-1960\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/inscription-for-doris-constance-barnes\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/womens-work-with-the-camera\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/womans-award-for-photography\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Morris, Gwendolyn", "Entry ID": "AWE6005", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/morris-gwendolyn\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "South Australia, Australia", "Death Place": "South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Photographer", "Summary": "Gwendolyn Morris was known for the photographs she created in the Pictorialist style, as well as for her architectural photographs.\n", "Details": "Gwendolyn Morris was born on 17 January 1904, in South Australia, into a wealthy family. Her father was Hugh Allan Morris and her mother May Gwendolyn Russell. The family travelled to England in 1923 where they stayed for six to seven months, travelling and sightseeing, and then returned to Australia.\nAs a young adult Morris would travel to England again, this time staying for a year, attending the London Polytechnic, where she studied photography. She was offered a job with the BBC at the Savoy Hill studios, where her work entailed photographing presenters, printing and enlarging prints for the Radio Times and The Listener.\nDuring her spare time she wandered through London, taking her own photographs of the architecture, Covent Garden, The Strand and Trafalgar Square. Two of her well-known photographs - Cleopatra's Needle and Adelphi Arches - were photographed at night. The architectural forms are engulfed by darkness and are only lit in small places by the dim street lighting, creating a mysterious ambience.\nHer photographs were included in the catalogues of the Adelaide Camera Club. The Art Gallery of South Australia purchased some of her photographs in 1926 (this was the first State Gallery to add photography to its collection).\nShe married James Wilmot Griffiths and moved to Berkshire, where she had three children. They moved back to Adelaide for a number of years after the war, but returned to England until her husband retired in 1966.\nMorris was also a keen flower arranger and studied under Constance Spry in England. She went on to become a leader of the 'Flower Ladies' at the Lyceum Club in Adelaide.\nCollections\nArt Gallery of South Australia\n", "Events": "Gwendolyn Morris's work featured in A Century in Focus: South Australian Photography, 1840s-1940s (2007 - 2008) \nGwendolyn Morris's work featured in Australian Women Photographers 1840-1950 (1981 - 1981)", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/australian-women-photographers-1840-1950\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/australian-women-photographers-1840-1960\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/a-century-in-focus-south-australian-photography-1840s-1940s\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/dictionary-of-south-australian-photography-1845-1915-electronic-resource\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Kingsborough, Lily Ethel", "Entry ID": "AWE6018", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/kingsborough-lily-ethel\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Adelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Photographer", "Summary": "Lily Kingsborough was an amateur photographer who is best known for her studies of flowers.\n", "Details": "Lily Kingsborough was born in Adelaide, South Australia on 3 November 1870. Her father was John Kingsborough and her mother was Sarah Jeffrey.\nKingsborough's original inspiration to become a photographer is not currently known. She was to become an award winning amateur photographer, who was especially well known for her studies of flowers. Kingsborough participated in exhibitions held in South Australia, Victoria and New South Wales, and received many prizes for her work. Her photograph Almond Blossom was described by the press as 'nicely lighted, delightful in its simplicity and altogether charmingly rendered' (The Advertiser, 1902); it also received a medal at the Annual Exhibition of the South Australian Photographic Society in 1902. Kingsborough was award first prize for her photograph Marguerites at the Photographic Society of New South Wales exhibition in 1903.\nKingsborough died on 21 March 1958.\n", "Events": "Lily Kingsborough's work featured in the Public Schools Floral and Industrial Society Exhibition (1882 - 1882) \nLily Kingsborough's work featured in the Photographic Association of Victoria Exhibition. (1905 - 1905) \nLily Kingsborough's work featured in the Photographic Society of New South Wales. (1903 - 1903) \nLily Kingsborough's work featured in the Photographic Society. (1902 - 1902) \nLily Kingsborough's work featured in the Public Schools Floral and Industrial Society Exhibition (1883 - 1883)", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/making-pictures-australian-pictorial-photography-as-art-1897-1957\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/photographic-society-the-annual-exhibition\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/photographic-association-of-victoria\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/the-awards\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Tuck, Marie Anne", "Entry ID": "AWE6024", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/tuck-marie-anne\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Mt Torrens, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Death Place": "Glen Osmond, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Artist, Photographer", "Summary": "Marie Anne Tuck is mainly known for her paintings. Tuck was the first Australian woman to win honours at the Paris Salon. She worked as an artist, teacher and at a photography studio, in Western Australia. She exhibited in Paris, Western Australia, Adelaide, South Australia and New South Wales.\n", "Details": "Marie Anne Tuck was born on 5 September 1866, at Mount Torrens, Adelaide. She was one of seven children. Her parents were Edward Starkey Tuck, who was a teacher, and Amy Harriet (n\u00e9e Taylor), both of whom were born in England. The children were educated at their father's school and received what was considered at the time to be a liberal education.\nAfter completing secondary school Tuck studied art at James Ashton's Norwood Art School, commencing in 1886. She worked at a florist shop during the day and attending classes at night. Tuck became an exhibiting member of the Adelaide Easel Club and began teaching painting classes during the evenings, as she wanted to further her studies in Paris. Moving to Perth in 1896 she taught day and evening classes in painting and drawing at the Perth Art School, which was situated in the Nicholls' Buildings, Wellington Street. These classes were advertised in The West Australian newspaper. At the same time she continued working as a florist and was known to have worked in a photography studio at 345 St. George's Terrace, Perth in 1899.\nTuck eventually saved enough money to realise her dream and travelled to Paris in 1906.\nHer mentor was the artist Rupert Bunny, for whom she worked in exchange for painting sessions. While living in France she spent summers in Brittany, where she painted village life. Tuck exhibited some of these paintings in exhibitions at the 11th Federal Exhibition of the (Royal) South Australian Society of Arts in 1908, as well as the Salon de la Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 des Artistes Fran\u00e7ais, Paris from 1908-1912. She received an honourable mention for one of her paintings, Toilette de la Mari\u00e9e, in 1900, at the Salon de la Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 des Artistes Fran\u00e7ais.\nTuck returned to Australia after the outbreak of WW1 and settled in South Australia, where she taught art at the South Australian School of Arts and Crafts. She also continued her own painting practice. In 1909 she was elected as a member of the Art Society of New South Wales, and exhibited in the 1909 Salons. Tuck also exhibited in Adelaide, and the Broken Hill Art Gallery.\nTuck's themes encompass French village and rural scenes, cityscapes of old Perth and old Fremantle, views of Margaret River and the Swan River, as well as studies of native flora, in particular wildflowers and fruit.\nIn 1915, she gifted one of her paintings to the Broken Hill Branch of the Red Cross Society.\nTuck never married. She suffered a stroke in 1940, but continued to paint until her death on 3 September 1947 at Glen Osmond.\nTuck's paintings are in the collections of the Art Galleries of South Australia, New South Wales and the Northern Territory, and a retrospective exhibition was held of her work in 1971.\nCollections\nArt Gallery of New South Wales\nArt Gallery of the Australian Northern Territory\nArt Gallery of South Australia\n", "Events": "Marie Tuck's work featured in The Edwardians: Secrets and Desires (2004 - 2004) \nMarie Tuck's work featured in the Art Society of New South Wales Salon (1909 - 1909) \nMarie Tuck's work featured in the Society of Arts Rooms (1924 - 1924)", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/out-of-the-sitting-room-western-australian-womens-art-1829-to-1914\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/the-mechanical-eye-in-australia-photography-1841-1900\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/marie-tuck\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/classified-advertising-perth-art-school\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/classified-advertising-perth-art-school-2\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/miss-marie-tucks-pictures\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/colonial-art-miss-tucks-floral-paintings\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/miss-marie-tuck\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/miss-marie-tucks-gift-picture\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/miss-marie-tucks-pictures-2\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/miss-marie-tucks-paintings\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/painting-miss-marie-tucks-exhibition\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/painting-miss-marie-tucks-exhibition-2\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/the-edwardians-secrets-and-desires\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Ferber, Helen Layton", "Entry ID": "AWE6038", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/ferber-helen-layton\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Adelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Death Place": "MelbourneMelbourne, Victoria, Australia", "Occupations": "Historian, Researcher, Social justice advocate, Women's rights activist, Writer", "Summary": "Helen Ferber's lifelong engagement with public affairs and social welfare, both in Australia and Europe, reflected her commitment to the common good. She began her working life in World War II, monitoring and translating enemy radio broadcasts for the Australian Short Wave Listening Post. After the war, her language skills, love of other cultures and strong sense of social justice led her to work with United Nations refugee agencies in Europe.\nIn 1948, Helen married David Ferber, US Vice Consul in Melbourne, and took up the work of a 'diplomatic wife'. In the mid 1950s the family returned to Australia and Helen spent much of her time caring for their disabled son. During this period she undertook volunteer work with women's organisations in Melbourne, and rose rapidly to positions of authority.\nIn 1965 she took a part-time position with the Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research at the University of Melbourne. Initially employed to interview non-English-speaking households, she soon progressed to writing and editing reports, becoming the editor of the institute's publications and a respected writer on social policy. Throughout her life she developed and cherished many deep friendships and was both an inspiration and support to other women as they developed their skills and careers.\n", "Details": "Helen Ferber was born in Adelaide on 15th February 1919, the eldest daughter of Richard Francis Hockey and Kathleen Isabel Hockey (n\u00e9e Butler). Her grandfather, Sir Richard Butler, was a premier of South Australia, as was her uncle of the same name.\nFerber completed a BA at Melbourne University in 1939, majoring in French and German. During a gap year in 1938, she completed a teaching diploma at Munich University and a course in Italian at Perugia University. She described her time in the tense atmosphere of pre-war Munich in a memoir published in Meanjin in 2006.\nDuring World War II she worked as an interpreter for the Department of the Army, censoring foreign language mail, and later for the Australian Department of Information Shortwave Listening Post, monitoring enemy broadcasts in German, French and Italian.\nAfter the war she worked with the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration, firstly in the UNRRA Yugoslav Mission, later with refugees in the UNRRA Displaced Persons Headquarters in Paris and Berlin. She wrote the official history of the Yugoslav Mission. She also worked with the Preparatory Commission of the International Refugee Organization in Geneva. In 1945 she investigated and reported to the International Federation of University Women on the postwar situation of the Yugoslav and Czechoslovak federations.\nIn 1948, Ferber married an American diplomat, David Ferber. Travelling with David, she undertook a series of lectures across Victoria, seeking support for a United Nations appeal to help displaced children in Europe. Further diplomatic postings took the Ferber family to America and the Philippines. They returned to Melbourne in 1953, and Helen spent the next decade raising two daughters, Jenny and Sarah, and a son, Michael. Michael suffered from severe disabilities and died in 1970, aged 19.\nHelen Ferber became actively involved with a number of women's organisations in Melbourne. She joined the Australian Federation of University Women-Victoria, becoming national Convenor of International Relations for AFUW in the late 1950s, and President of AFUW-Vic. in 1962. She was also an active member of the Melbourne Catalysts group and the Lyceum Club, becoming vice-president of the latter organisation. She also served on the Australian Broadcasting Commission's Victorian Talks Committee, and later its State Advisory Committee.\nIn 1965 Ferber took up a part-time position with the Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research at the University of Melbourne. She worked there until 1981, variously filling the positions of research fellow, business manager and editor of the institute's publications, including its journal, the Australian Economic Review. She contributed to ground-breaking study of Australian poverty, the 1975 Henderson Report, and authored a seminal engagement with public policy, Citizens' Advice and Aid Bureaux in Victoria.\nHelen Ferber also undertook autobiography and family history, writing a record of her experiences in America and Europe from letters she had written to family and friends, and publishing Stagecoach to Birdsville, an account of her grandparents' ill-fated 1894 journey to Birdsville. The breadth of her engagement with public life can probably be best gauged from the lengthy biographical interview recorded with her by the National Library in 2006.\nIn 2010 Helen Ferber was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia (AM). The award was 'for service to the community, particularly as a social policy researcher and historian, and through contributions to the advancement of women'. She died in 2013. She was remembered in her obituary as 'a woman of action who was 'clear-eyed' but with a commitment to social justice'.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/40-years-40-women-biographies-of-university-of-melbourne-women-published-to-commemorate-the-40th-anniversary-of-the-international-year-of-women\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/helen-ferber-writer-historian-volunteer-woman-of-action-who-inspired-others\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/citizens-advice-bureau\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/citizens-advice-and-aid-bureaux-in-victoria\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/stagecoach-to-birdsville\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/missives-from-munich\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/foreign-correspondence-2\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/czechoslovak-womens-organizations-at-the-end-of-world-war-ii-and-yugoslav-federation-of-university-women-december-1945\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/public-expenditures-and-social-policy-in-australia-the-whitlam-years-1972-75\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/public-expenditures-and-social-policy-in-australia-the-first-fraser-years-1976-78\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/diary-of-social-legislation-and-policy-1982\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/helen-ferber-interviewed-by-susan-marsden-sound-recording\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Hyde, Miriam Beatrice", "Entry ID": "AWE6184", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/hyde-miriam-beatrice\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Adelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Death Place": "Sydney, New South Wales, Australia", "Occupations": "Composer, Lecturer, Musician, Pianist, Poet, Tutor, Writer", "Summary": "Miriam Hyde was one of the Australia's leading pianists and composers of the twentieth century.\n", "Details": "Miriam Beatrice Hyde undertook initial studies with her mother before winning a scholarship to the Elder Conservatorium at the age of twelve, where she studied under William Silver. She gradated with a Mus. Bac. In 1931 and won the Elder Scholarship to the Royal College of Music., London. During her three years at the College, Miriam won three composition prizes and was soloist in two piano concerti with major London orchestras, including the BBC.\nMiriam returned to Adelaide, South Australia, in 1931 and here she wrote orchestral music for South Australia's Centenary pageant, Heritage, produced in the Tivoli Theatre.\nIn order to seek greater opportunities, Miriam moved to Sydney and taught for several years at Kambala School. During this time, she remained active as a composer, recitalist, teacher, examiner, lecturer and writer. For a period during the Second World War, whilst her husband was a prisoner of war (POW), she returned to Adelaide and taught piano and musical perception and the Elder Conservatorium.\nMiriam was Patron of the Music Teachers' Associations of New South Wales and South Australia, in addition to the Blue Mountains Eisteddfod and the Australian Musicians Academy. She was also Honorary Life Member of the Fellowship of Australian Composers, the Victorian Music Teachers' Association, and the Strathfield Symphony Orchestra.\nIn 1981 Miriam was awarded an OBE and in 1991 an AO. She also received the International Woman of the Year Award (1991-92) and an Honorary Doctorate by Macquarie University. In 2002 Miriam accepted the Award for Long-Term Contribution to the Advancement of Australian Music at the APRA\/Australian Music Centre Classical Awards and in 2004 she received a further APRA\/Australian Music Centre Award.\n", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/papers-of-miriam-hyde-1927-1996-manuscript\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/miriam-hyde-interviewed-by-larry-sitsky-sound-recording\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/miriam-hyde-interviewed-by-hazel-de-berg-in-the-hazel-de-berg-collection-sound-recording\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/letter-of-miriam-hyde-1966\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/letters-of-miriam-hyde-1997-1999\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/correspondence-of-miriam-hyde-1997-2004-manuscript\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/biographical-cuttings-on-miriam-hyde-containing-one-or-more-cuttings-from-newspapers-or-journals\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/works-by-miriam-hyde-from-the-australian-music-centre-archive\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/poem-by-miriam-hyde-1980\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/manuscript-music-of-miriam-hyde-music\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/manuscript-book-of-songs-music-by-miriam-hyde\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/papers-of-malcolm-southwell-1981-1982-manuscript\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/six-letters-from-miriam-hyde-to-carmichael-1997-2001\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/notes-1970-manuscript\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/music-scores-1950-1973-manuscript\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/papers-of-beatrice-tange-1921-1970-manuscript\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/records-of-the-australian-musical-association-1952-1995-manuscript\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/photocopies-of-letters-to-wilcher-from-miriam-hyde-1972-2004\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/letters-from-composers-performers-of-importance-to-fred-blanks-also-some-political-leaders\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/records-1910-1988-manuscript\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Waldsax, Helen", "Entry ID": "AWE6220", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/waldsax-helen\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Kadina, South Australia, Australia", "Death Place": "Watford, Hertfordshire, England", "Occupations": "Feminist, Social worker", "Details": "Helen Waldsax was born in 1915 in Kadina, South Australia, to judge Sir Herbert Kingsley Paine and his wife Amy. Helen completed tertiary studies at the University of Adelaide, graduating with a history degree in 1938, followed by a Diploma of Social Science in 1939. She went on to receive training as an almoner at the Victorian Institute of Hospital Almoners in 1940, and was appointed as a social worker for the Family Welfare Bureau in Adelaide, where she worked for two years.\nHelen later joined the Red Cross and in 1944 she was sent to the United Kingdom as a social health worker. Helen married her husband Reinhard Waldsax in 1945 and the pair settled in Watford. She became a British citizen in August 1945.\nAs an advocate for women and women's issues, Helen Waldsax was president of the National Council of Women of Great Britain for two years, from 1976.\n", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/papers-relating-to-sir-herbert-kingsley-paine-and-helen-waldsax-1895-2002-manuscript\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/naturalisation-certificate-helen-waldsax\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Dutton, Ninette Clarice Florence", "Entry ID": "AWE6221", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/dutton-ninette-clarice-florence\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Adelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Death Place": "Blue Mountains, New South Wales, Australia", "Occupations": "Author, Botanical artist, Broadcaster, Enamellist, Gardener", "Summary": "Ninette Dutton published a number of books on the Australian landscape and gardening which she often illustrated with her own botanical drawings. Ninette also studied art in both Europe and America, establishing herself as an enamellist and often holding exhibitions of her work.\n", "Details": "Ninette Dutton\u202fwas educated at Creveen School, North Adelaide, and later at Woodlands, before studying Social Science at the University of Adelaide. During World War Two Ninette served as a driver with the Women's Australian Auxiliary Air Force.\nIn the 1950s Ninette worked in Oxford and studied at the Ruskin School of Art. She then went on to learn enamelling in Kansas during the 1960s. From the 1970s to the 1990s Ninette published books and delivered radio programs on cooking, flowers, gardening and the seasons. She also wrote a weekly column titled 'The passionate gardener' for Adelaide's Advertiser.\nNinette Dutton was awarded a Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) in 1994 in recognition of service to the community and to the arts as an artist, particularly as an enameller.\n", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/papers-of-ninette-dutton-1890-2007-manuscript\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/ninette-dutton-interviewed-by-hazel-de-berg-in-the-hazel-de-berg-collection-sound-recording\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/biographical-cuttings-on-ninette-dutton-artist-containing-one-or-more-cuttings-from-newspapers-or-journals\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/ninette-dutton-manuscript-collection\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/correspondence-from-geoffrey-and-ninette-dutton-1982\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/records-of-curtis-brown-australia-pty-ltd-1962-2002-manuscript\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/geoffrey-and-ninette-dutton-1980-1984\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/records-of-the-holdsworth-galleries-1969-1996-manuscript\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Wilson, Elizabeth (Betty) Hornabrook", "Entry ID": "AWE6224", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/wilson-elizabeth-betty-hornabrook\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Adelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Philanthropist, Volunteer", "Summary": "Lady Elizabeth Wilson, wife of Sir Keith Cameron Wilson, was very active in the Adelaide community and involved in many local organisations. She was divisional commandant of the South Australian division of the Red Cross during the Second World War and chairman of the branch from 1969 to 1972. In 1946 Elizabeth was approached to become a member of the board of governors of the Burnside War Memorial Hospital and she remained a member for the duration of her life.\nFor seven years Elizabeth was president of the Mothers' and Babies' Health Association (MBHA), in addition to being chairman of the Saint Peter's College Mission and a patron of the Cornish Association of South Australia. Elizabeth was a member of the Pan-Pacific South East Asian Women's Association for a number of decades, and at the time of her oral history interview with Amy McGrath, she was also president of the Association.\nIn 1946 Elizabeth was appointed an MBE for her work with charities, followed by a CBE in 1959 for her work in social welfare.\n", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/papers-of-sir-keith-wilson-and-lady-elizabeth-wilson-1928-2001-manuscript\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/elizabeth-wilson-interviewed-by-amy-mcgrath-sound-recording\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/radio-interview-with-kym-bonython-and-lady-betty-wilson-sound-recording-interviewer-philip-satchell\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/typescript-of-speech\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Mattingley, Christobel Rosemary", "Entry ID": "AWE6229", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/mattingley-christobel-rosemary\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Brighton, South Australia, Australia", "Death Place": "Adelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Author, Children's writer, Lecturer, Librarian, Writer", "Summary": "Christobel Mattingley published 45 children's books, five biographical or history books for adults, as well as short stories, poems, articles and film scripts.\nFor her writing, Christobel received numerous awards, including the Children's Book Council of the Year Award, Younger Readers (1982), and Children's Christian Book of the Year (1986). In 2017 her book Maralinga's Long Shadow: Yvonne's Story, was awarded the Young People's History Prize in the NSW Premier's History Awards. In addition, Christobel received two Honorary Doctorates; one from the University of South Australia in 1995 and the other an Honorary Doctor of Letters from the University of Tasmania in 2015.\nChristobel Mattingley was also awarded an AM for service to literature, particularly children's literature, and for community service through her commitment to social and cultural issues in 1996.\n", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/papers-of-christobel-mattingley-1909-2011-manuscript\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/christobel-mattingley-summary-record\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/papers-2\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/biographical-cuttings-on-christobel-mattingley-writer-containing-one-or-more-cuttings-from-newspapers-or-journals\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/papers-of-kerry-white-1981-2008-manuscript\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/papers-of-mem-fox-1961-2006-manuscript\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Whyte, Jean Primrose", "Entry ID": "AWE6231", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/whyte-jean-primrose\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Adelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Death Place": "Melbourne, Victoria, Australia", "Occupations": "Librarian", "Details": "Jean Primrose Whyte was born in 1923 to parents Ernest Primrose (Prim) Whyte and Kitty Macully. She spent the first ten years of her life at Yadlamalka, a sheep station north of Port Augusta, before attending St Peter's Collegiate Girls' School. Jean was employed at the Public Library of South Australia whilst she undertook studies at the University of Adelaide, from which she graduated in 1946.\nJean became a professional librarian after taking the examinations of the Australian Institute of Librarians and in 1959 she joined the Fisher Library at the University of Sydney.\nJean graduated with a Master of Arts in librarianship from the University of Chicago in 1965. Followed by a moved to Canberra in 1972, she took up the position of Director of Information, Reference and Research at the National Library of Australia.\nIn 1975 Jean became the foundation professor in the Graduate School of Librarianship at Monash University. She retired as an emeritus professor in 1988 and in this same year Jean was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia 'for service to education particularly in the field of librarianship'.\nFrom 1959 to 1971 Jean edited the Australian library journal. Monash University awarded Jean an honorary Doctor of Letters degree in 1996.\n", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/papers-of-jean-whyte-1881-2009-bulk-1951-1995-manuscript\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/biographical-cuttings-on-jean-primrose-whyte-professor-librarianship-containing-one-or-more-cuttings-from-newspapers-or-journals\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/jean-p-whyte-summary-record\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/education-for-librarianship-in-the-united-states-and-in-australia-manuscript-a-comparison-by-jean-p-whyte\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Mitchell, Susan Jean", "Entry ID": "AWE6251", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/mitchell-susan-jean\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Adelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Academic, Author, Broadcaster, Journalist, Public speaker", "Details": "Susan Mitchell holds a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Adelaide, a Master of Arts (Drama and Film) from Flinders University, and a PhD in Creative Arts from the University of Western Sydney.\nShe worked as a high school teacher in Adelaide and London before becoming a lecturer in literary studies at the South Australian College of Advanced Education. Later, Susan took up the position of senior lecturer in communications and creative writing at the University of South Australia. She is also an Emeritus Professor at Flinders University.\nSusan has worked as a screenwriter and editor and was Australia's first television critic on Today at One. As a radio broadcaster, Susan worked in Adelaide, Brisbane and Sydney, and she has hosted her own series of interview programs.\nThroughout her career, Susan has written for numerous major newspapers and magazines in the United States and Australia, including The Australian, The Bulletin, The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald. She is also the author of fourteen best-selling and highly-acclaimed books.\nSusan has been a Director on the Literature Board of The Australia Council, on the Board of Film Australia and the Board of The South Australian Tourism Commission.\n", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/papers-of-susan-mitchell-circa-1987-circa-2002-manuscript\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/radio-tribute-to-barbara-hanrahan-by-susan-mitchell-sound-recording\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/susan-mitchell-collection-sound-recording\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/biographical-cuttings-on-susan-mitchell-author-containing-one-or-more-cuttings-from-newspapers-or-journals\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/general-correspondence-july-december-1993\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Crisp, Leeanne", "Entry ID": "AWE6262", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/crisp-leeanne\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Adelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Artist", "Summary": "Throughout her career artist Leeanne Crisp has held numerous solo exhibitions and been a part of over 60 group exhibitions. She has taught at the Canberra Institute of the Arts, Australian National University, since 1975 and has also been employed at the National Gallery of Australia and the National Portrait Gallery. For her work Leeanne has received the Canberra Institute of Arts Drawing prize (1989), the Tuggeranong Art Prize (2003) and the John Copes Watercolour Prize (2011), in addition to many other awards.\n", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/letters-1986-1989-manuscript\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/leeanne-crisp-artist-file-leeanne-crisp\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/leeanne-crisp-australian-art-and-artists-file\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Flannery, Nancy Elizabeth", "Entry ID": "AWE6264", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/flannery-nancy-elizabeth\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Gawler, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Author, Broadcaster, Consultant, Editor, Journalist", "Summary": "For a short time Nancy Elizabeth Flannery worked as a journalist and broadcaster, before establishing a small publishing company called Nadjuri, where she was the executive editor. In 1971 she published her first book, Change on change: a history of the northern highlands of South Australia.\nNancy also worked as a radio journalist, a tutor in communication skills, as a consultant for the National Film and Sound Archive and as a valuer for the Tax Incentives for the Arts scheme. Nancy developed a particular interest in Antarctica after she was invited to value the Mawson Collection at the University of Adelaide. She became a member of the Friends of Mawson at their inaugural meeting in 2000 and later became their official consultant. Nancy was granted a life membership of in 2006.\n", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/papers-of-nancy-flannery-1929-2006-manuscript\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/nancy-flannery-summary-record\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/interview-with-nancy-robinson-flannery-sound-recording-interviewer-tara-leader\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/nancy-robinson-flannery-interviewed-by-john-farquharson-sound-recording\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/nancy-robinson-interviewed-by-hazel-de-berg-for-the-hazel-de-berg-collection-sound-recording\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/nancy-robinson-whittle-interviewed-by-hazel-de-berg-in-the-hazel-de-berg-collection-sound-recording\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/nancy-robinson-summary-record\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/nancy-robinson-whittle-summary-record\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/whittle-collection-photography-related-ephemera-material-collected-by-the-national-library-of-australia\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Burnell, Mary Taylor (Angel)", "Entry ID": "AWE6471", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/burnell-mary-taylor-angel\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Norwood, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Anaesthetist, Medical practitioner", "Details": "After completing her formal schooling Mary Taylor Burnell (Angel) enrolled in a Bachelor of Science degree at Adelaide University. Two years later she transferred to medicine, graduating MB BS in 1931.\nBurnell began her career as Resident Medical Officer at Adelaide Children's Hospital, becoming Honorary Anaesthetist in 1934. During this period, she became the first woman member of the Australian Society of Anaesthetists (ASA) and secretary for the South Australian section.\nShe resigned from the Children's Hospital in 1937 but maintained private practice with her surgeon husband. During WWII she returned to public work as her anaesthetic expertise was required at both the Children's Hospital and Royal Adelaide Hospital. She continued working at both hospitals after the war.\nBurnell was the first woman elected as ASA President in 1935. She was a Foundation Fellow of the Faculty of Anaesthetists at the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons in 1952 and in 1955 was elected to the Board of the Faculty of Anaesthetists.\nIn 1966 she was elected Dean of the Faculty of Anaesthetists. She was the first woman to hold this position, and possibly the first woman in the world to be elected Dean of a specialty medical college's faculty.\nMary Burnell resigned from public work in 1968, and from private practice in 1969.\n" }, { "Title\/Name": "Lum, Rowena Bernice (Binny)", "Entry ID": "AWE6485", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/lum-rowena-bernice-binny\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Adelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Actor, Musician, Poet, Radio Broadcaster, Television personality", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/interviews-with-nine-women-radio-presenters-1979-manuscript\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Mitchell, Roma Flinders", "Entry ID": "IMP0002", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/mitchell-roma-flinders\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Adelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Governor, Judge, Lawyer, Queen's Counsel", "Summary": "The Honourable Dame Roma Mitchell was appointed Commander of the Royal Victorian Order on 1 January 2000. During her life Dame Roma achieved a number of firsts. She was the first woman Governor of an Australian State (South Australia, 1991-1996), the first woman Chancellor of a university in Australia (University of Adelaide, 1983-1990) and the first Australian woman Queen's Counsel (1962).\n", "Details": "Dame Roma Mitchell's father (Harold Mitchell) was killed in World War I. At the time her mother (Maude, n\u00e9e Wickham) had two children under the age of 10. Like many women of her time she had not been trained in any profession and she struggled to bring up her daughters.\nDame Roma was educated at St Aloysius College, Adelaide. She won the David Murray scholarship which enabled her to study law at the University of Adelaide, receiving her degree in 1934. Dame Roma supported the issues of equal pay for women and for women to sit on juries (legislated in 1966). She was recommended by Don Dunstan (Attorney-General SA) to be appointed a Supreme Court Judge of South Australia in 1965, the first woman to be so appointed. Dame Roma was still the only women judge of the Supreme Court in Australia when she retired after 18 years in the position in 1983, aged 70.\nDame Roma became the first woman Chancellor (1983-1990) in an Australian university when she was appointed to the position at the University of Adelaide. In all Dame Roma was associated with the university for over 60 years; first as a student and then a part-time lecturer in Matrimonial and Family Law for five years during the 1960s. In 1965 she became a member of the University Council. She was Senior Deputy Chancellor for 11 years from 1972. Dame Roma was awarded the degree of Doctor of the University for her distinguished service to the University in 1985. In January 1991 Dame Roma took up her appointment as Governor of South Australia (1991-1996). As well as being a member of the Queen Adelaide Club and Lyceum Club, Dame Roma was a member of the Council for the Order of Australia. Her interests included theatre, music and the visual arts and she was Vice-President of the Australian Decorative and Fine Arts Society (De Vries).\nIn her chapter on Roma Flinders Mitchell in Great Australian Women, author Susanna De Vries wrote: 'In June 1999, [the then] Hon. Governor-General Sir William Deane unveiled a life-size bronze statue of Dame Roma \"as a permanent tribute to her lifetime achievement in South Australia\". The statue stands in Prince Henry Gardens, in front of Government House on North Terrace.'\n", "Events": "Admitted to the Bar (1934 - 1934) \nAppointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) for her services to Law (1971 - 1971) \nAppointed Companion of the Order of Australia (AC) (1991 - 1991) \nAwarded the Institution of Engineers Medal (1994 - 1994) \nChair of the Ministerial Board on Ageing (South Australia) (1996 - 2000) \nChairman of the Commonwealth Human Rights Commission (1981 - 1986) \nChairman of the South Australian Parole Board (1979 - 1981) \nChancellor of the University of Adelaide (1983 - 1990) \nCreated Dames Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) for her service to the community (1982 - 1982) \nFirst Australian woman appointed to the Queen's Counsel (1962 - 1962) \nFirst woman to be appointed a Judge of the Supreme Court of South Australia (1965 - 1983) \nGovernor of South Australia (first woman Governor in Australia) (1991 - 1996) \nInducted into the Victorian Honour Roll of Women (2001 - 2001) \nMember of the Council for the Order of Australia (1981 - 1990) \nNational President of the Australian Association of the Ryder-Cheshire Foundations (1991 - 1991) \nPresident of the Winston Churchill Memerial Trust (1991 - 1991)", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/whos-who-of-australian-women\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/victorian-womens-roll-of-honour-women-shaping-the-nation\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/dame-roma-glimpses-of-a-glorious-life\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/state-funeral-funeral-mass-for-the-honourable-dame-roma-mitchell-ac-dbe-cvo-1912-2000-st-francis-xavier-cathedral-adelaide-friday-10-march-2000\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/conversation-with-her-honour-justice-roma-mitchell-sound-recording-interviewer-hazel-de-berg\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/womens-liberation-and-the-law\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/mitchell-oration-1989-looking-back-looking-forward\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/the-web-of-criminal-law\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/the-external-affairs-power-in-relation-to-united-nations-conventions-its-effect-upon-the-balance-of-power-between-commonwealth-and-states\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/dame-roma-mitchell\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/the-matriarchs-twelve-australian-women-talk-about-their-lives-to-susan-mitchell\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/living-in-south-australia-a-social-history\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/s-a-s-greats-the-men-and-women-of-the-north-terrace-plaques\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/greater-than-their-knowing-a-glimpse-of-south-australian-women-1836-1986\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/the-complete-book-of-great-australian-women-thirty-six-women-who-changed-the-course-of-australia\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/faith-hope-and-charity-australian-women-and-imperial-honours-1901-1989\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/the-encyclopedia-of-women-and-leadership-in-twentieth-century-australia\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/the-life-of-a-distaff-legal-pioneer\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/law\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/australian-women-lawyers-as-active-citizens\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/dame-roma-mitchell-summary-record\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/the-right-to-live-and-the-right-to-die-dame-roma-mitchell\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/interview-with-dame-roma-mitchell-sound-recording-interviewer-yvonne-abbott\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/launch-of-the-second-stage-of-the-honoured-women-oral-history-project-sound-recording\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/launch-of-the-barbara-hanrahan-memorial-exhibition-sound-recording\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Anderson, Frances Margaret (Judith)", "Entry ID": "IMP0006", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/anderson-frances-margaret-judith\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Kent Town, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Death Place": "Santa Barbara, California, United States of America", "Occupations": "Actor", "Summary": "Judith Anderson was the first Australian-born actress to be conferred with the title of Dame. On 01 January 1960 she was awarded the Order of the British Empire - Dames Commander, for services as an actress.\n", "Details": "daughter of James and Jessie (n\u00e9e Saltmarsh) Anderson.\nFrances Margaret Anderson, attended Norwood High School, South Australia. Her acting career commenced at the age of 17. Using the name of Francee Anderson she appeared, with English actor Julius Knight, at the Theatre Royal, Sydney.\nThree years later, she travelled to the United States and worked with the Fourteenth Street Theatre in New York and the Emma Bunting Stock Company, in 1918-1919. In September 1922, using the name Frances Anderson, she made her debut on Broadway, in On the Stairs. After changing her name to Judith Anderson, she appeared in Cobra (1924), Interlude (1928) and Mourning Becomes Electra (1932). As Judith Anderson, she later played female roles in Medea, Hamlet and Macbeth.\nAnderson's film credits include Mrs Danvers in Rebecca, for which she was nominated for an Oscar. Others films in which Anderson acted are Edge of Darkness, The Ten Commandments, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, A Man Called Horse and Star Trek 111.\nFor her two performances of Lady Macbeth, Anderson was the first recipient of two separate Emmys for two separate performances. Also Anderson received the Women's International Centre (WIC) Living Legacy Award in 1986.\nDame Judith Anderson, who was twice married, died at the age of 93 in Santa Barbara, California in 1992.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/whos-who-of-australian-women\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/faith-hope-and-charity-australian-women-and-imperial-honours-1901-1989\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Buttfield, Nancy Eileen", "Entry ID": "IMP0016", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/buttfield-nancy-eileen\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "South Australia, Australia", "Death Place": "South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Politician", "Summary": "In 1955, Nancy Buttfield became the first South Australian woman member of an Australian Parliament. She was appointed the Order of the British Empire (Dames Commander) on 1 January 1972 for political and public services.\n", "Details": "Born into one of South Australia's leading families, Nancy was the second daughter of Edward (later Sir) and Hilda May Holden. Her father is recognised as the primary founder of the Australian car industry. Nancy Holden was educated at Woodlands Church of England Girls' Grammar School, Adelaide, and Camposenea in Paris. She later studied part-time at Adelaide University, as well as working with many charities. On 19th February 1936, Holden married businessman and company director Frank Charles Buttfield and they had two sons.\nHer interest in politics was aroused when she joined a Model Parliament that met in the Christadelphian Hall near Holden's city factory. Robert Menzies (later prime minister of Australia) gave her advice about a possible parliamentary career. In 1954 Nancy stood for and won Liberal Party endorsement to challenge for the safe Labor federal seat of Adelaide. Although defeated, she did achieve a 3% swing against Labor.\nIn 1955 a senate vacancy was created when South Australian Senator George McLeay died suddenly. Buttfield was nominated by State Parliament and became South Australia's first female Member of Parliament, serving as a Senator for 16\u00bd years. As well as serving as a director for the Co-operative Building Society for 30 years, Nancy Buttfield was a Member of the Commonwealth Advisory Council for the Handicapped. She also was vice-president of the Good Neighbour Council, on the Women's Committee of the Queen Victoria Maternity Hospital and co-manager of the Mile End Maternity Hospital.\nIn their retirement, the Buttfield's set-up a Youth Venture Club, established at their property 'Fairfield' at Chain of Ponds in South Australia, where leadership skills are developed through outdoor activities such as bush walking, horse riding, archery and canoeing. Together they established the Dame Nancy Buttfield biennial prize for decorative arts. The $5000 prize and several scholarships are open to all Australians and all age groups.\nDame Nancy Buttfield died on 4 September 2005.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/whos-who-in-australia-2002\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/faith-hope-and-charity-australian-women-and-imperial-honours-1901-1989\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/dame-nancy-the-autobiography-of-dame-nancy-buttfield-assisted-by-june-donovan\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/so-great-a-change-the-story-of-the-holden-family\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/liberal-women-federation-to-1949\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/the-encyclopedia-of-women-and-leadership-in-twentieth-century-australia\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/women-in-politics-a-forum-in-the-centenary-year-of-womens-suffrage-sound-recording\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/papers-of-holden-family-1852-1979-manuscript\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/liberal-party-s-a-division-summary-record\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/dame-nancy-buttfield-summary-record\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/papers-of-dame-nancy-buttfield-dbe\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Durack, Mary", "Entry ID": "IMP0027", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/durack-mary\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Adelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Author, Historian", "Summary": "On the 31 December 1977, Mary Durack was appointed to the Order of the British Empire, Dames Commander, for her services to literature. In acknowledgment of her accomplishments she was also honoured with an AC (1989) and OBE in 1966. Dame Mary Durack is remembered as being the author of publications that includes Kings in Grass Castles, To Ride a Fine Horse, Sons in the Saddle and Swan River Saga: Life of Early Pioneer Eliza Shaw.\n", "Details": "Born in Adelaide South Australia, the daughter of Michael Patrick and Bessie Ida Muriel (n\u00e9e Johnstone) Durack Mary's childhood was spent on the Argyle and Ivanhoe stations in the West Australian East Kimberley area. After being educated at Loreto Convent in Perth she returned to the family properties.\nDuring her lifetime Mary became a prolific writer, with her first known work being Little Poems of Sunshine (1923). Mary and her sister Elizabeth, who also became a noted author, completed their first book together Allabout: The Story of a Black Community on Argyle Station, Kimberley in 1935. Mary also wrote under the name of 'Virgilia' for The West Australian newspaper.\nIn 1987 Dame Mary Durack became a Fellow of Curtin University and was commended by the Childrens' Book Council in 1965 for The Courteous Savage: Yagan of Swan River (1964), illustrations by Elizabeth Durack. The title was changed to Yagan of the Bibbulmun (1976), illustrations by Revel Cooper, a Bibbulmun descendant, as 'savage' was now considered racist.\nDame Mary Durack was a director and patron of the Stockmans' Hall of Fame and Outback Heritage Centre, and a former executive member of the Aboriginal Cultural Foundation. She was a member of the Australian Society of Women Writers, The Royal Western Australian Historical Society, the National Trust and honorary life member of International PEN Australia.\nThe Australian Irish Heritage Association of WA conducts the Mary Durack Memorial Lecture commemorating the distinguished writer and their first patron. In 1979 the Western Australian Shires of Mundaring, Kalamunda and the Cities of Armadale and Swan established the Mary Durack Award.\nOn 2 December 1938 Mary married Capt. Horace Clive Miller OBE (died 1980) and they had six children.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/whos-who-of-australian-women\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/pilgrimage-a-journey-through-the-life-and-writings-of-mary-durack-edited-by\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/conversation-with-mary-durack\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/the-end-of-dreaming\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/the-matriarchs-twelve-australian-women-talk-about-their-lives-to-susan-mitchell\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/reflections-profiles-of-150-women-who-helped-make-western-australias-history-project-of-the-womens-committee-for-the-150th-anniversary-celebrations-of-western-australia\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/australian-women-writers-a-bibliographic-guide\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/travel-hopefully-the-duracks\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/faith-hope-and-charity-australian-women-and-imperial-honours-1901-1989\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/yarn-spinners-sound-recording\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/durack-family-papers-1886-1991-manuscript\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/mary-durack-miller-interviewed-by-stuart-reid-for-the-battye-library-collection-sound-recording\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/papers-of-nancy-cato-1939-1995-manuscript\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/florence-james-papers-1890-1993\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/perth-pen-centre-records\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Zelling, Sesca Ross", "Entry ID": "IMP0062", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/zelling-sesca-ross\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Wayville, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Lawyer", "Summary": "Sesca Zelling was awarded the Order of the British Empire in 1960 in recognition of her service to women and the community of South Australia.\n", "Details": "Daughter of: Donald Robert Ross and Sesca Lewin (n\u00e9e Somerville) Anderson.\nThe eldest of six children, Sesca Zelling attended Methodist Ladies College (now Annesley College) for six years. During her time at the college she was awarded the Old Scholars' Prize for qualities of leadership and contribution to the life of the school; topped the State in Leaving Botany 1934; appointed Prefect 1935; captain of B tennis team 1935; Co-dux 1935; Head Prefect 1936; captain of A netball team 1936 and member of A tennis team in 1936.\nIn 1941 she obtained her LLB from University of Adelaide and Trevor Griffin MLC in his obituary (Adelaide Advertiser 29 Dec. 2001) writes \"After her admission to legal practice in 1941, she retained her interest in university affairs, particularly those that related to young women - she was president of the Australian Federation of University Women, a member of the Council of St Ann's College and was the third woman to be appointed to the Council of the University of Adelaide. She was also involved in an official capacity with the Marriage Guidance Council and the YWCA.\"\nFrom 1942 until 1947 she was a prosecuting officer for the Deputy Commonwealth Crown Solicitor and was appointed a justice of the peace in 1945. At the time of her death she was the longest-serving woman member of the Royal Association of Justices.\nIn 1950 she married fellow lawyer Howard Edgar Zelling and they shared the same offices until 1969 when her husband became a judge of the SA Supreme Court.\nA member of the National Council of Women of SA (NCW), Sesca Zelling was president from 1957 until 1960. She had previously (1954-1957) been vice-president of the NCW of Australia and was a trustee of the NCW War Memorial Fund 1954-1976. In 1970 she was appointed honorary life president of the SA division in recognition for her work with the National Council of Women.\nAt the time of her death she was Chair (1995-2001) of The Pioneer Women's Memorial Garden, having been a trustee since 1962.\n(Source: National Council of Women SA)\n", "Events": "Australian vice-president National Council of Women (1954 - 1957) \nBoard member YWCA (1960 - 1963) \nChair The Pioneer Women's Memorial Garden (1995 - 2001) \nConvener of National Council of Women Standing committee for laws and suffrage (1946 - 1957) \nCouncil member Law Society of SA (1953 - 1956) \nGovernment appointee Women's Reception during visit to South Australia by Queen Mother (1957 - 1957) \nLife vice-president of National Council of Women SA (1970 - 2001) \nMember Lyceum Club (1942 - 2001) \nMember Queen Adelaide Club (1971 - 2001) \nPresident Liberal Women's Educational Association (1961 - 1962) \nPresident MLC Old Scholars' Association (1945 - 1949) \nPresident, National Council of Women (SA) (1957 - 1960) \nPresident, Women Graduates Association, University of Adelaide (1949 - 1951) \nProsecuting officer, Deputy Commonwealth Crown Solicitor (1942 - 1947) \nSecretary Law Society of SA (1947 - 1950) \nTrustee National Council of Women War Memorial Fund (1954 - 1976) \nTrustee The Pioneer Women's Memorial Garden (1962 - 2001) \nVice-president Marriage Guidance Council (SA) (1957 - 1960)", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/greater-than-their-knowing-a-glimpse-of-south-australian-women-1836-1986\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/whos-who-of-australian-women\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/law-and-society-before-self\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/whos-who-in-australia-1962\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/faith-hope-and-charity-australian-women-and-imperial-honours-1901-1989\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/australian-women-lawyers-as-active-citizens\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Davey, Margaret Lurline", "Entry ID": "IMP0075", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/davey-margaret-lurline\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Laura, South Australia, Australia", "Death Place": "Adelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Community worker, Women's rights activist, Women's rights organiser", "Summary": "Margaret Lurline Davey's long standing service and commitment to community work and especially to women's organisations, was first recognised in 1963 when she was appointed as a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE). Almost twenty years later in 1981 her efforts were again recognised when she was appointed as a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE).\n", "Details": "Margaret Davey was born not long after the outbreak of World War I, a fourth generation South Australian with ancestral and cultural links to England and Ireland. She was educated at Girton School, the University of Adelaide and the Adelaide Conservatorium of Music.\nMargaret always immersed herself in community work and in particular became very involved with the Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA). Her fund-raising activities eventually led to her becoming president of the YWCA in Adelaide. Margaret was involved in the establishment of the YWCA in New Guinea and also investigated the possibility of setting up YWCA hostels in America and Canada. It was through her work with the YWCA that Margaret first became involved with the National Council of Women of Australia (NCWA).\nIn the early 1990s Margaret worked to establish a fund that would assist women to participate in the activities of the NCWA, and the International Council of Women (ICW), which operates in ninety-five countries around the world. 'The Margaret Davey Fund' was set up with an original donation of $5000 from Margaret and continues to be augmented by the donations of others. It assists members in attending major conferences, seminars and international symposiums thus lifting the profile of NCWA as an organisation representative of mainstream Australian women. Margaret was President of NCWA from 1976-1979 and was involved in setting up its headquarters in Canberra.\nDuring her life Margaret has given generously of her time to women's organisations like YWCA and NCWA, as well as the Methodist Church, the Good Neighbour Council and the Julia Farr Centre. Her service to women's organisations and community work was recognised in 1963 when she was appointed as a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE), awarded the Queens Silver Jubilee Medal in 1977, and appointed as a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 1981.\n", "Events": "Methodist Women of South Australia (1961 - 1966) \nWomen's United Churches Association (1960 - )", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/greater-than-their-knowing-a-glimpse-of-south-australian-women-1836-1986\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/notable-australians-the-pictorial-whos-who\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/public-moments-private-lives-costume-from-the-davey-family\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/faith-hope-and-charity-australian-women-and-imperial-honours-1901-1989\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/whos-who-of-australian-women\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/stirrers-with-style-presidents-of-the-national-council-of-women-of-australia-and-its-predecessors\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/margaret-davey\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/margaret-davey-interviewed-by-amy-mcgrath-sound-recording\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/miss-margaret-davey-honour\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/records-of-the-national-council-of-women-of-australia-1924-1990-manuscript\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/ncwa-papers-1984-2006\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "O'Donoghue, Lowitja", "Entry ID": "IMP0079", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/odonoghue-lowitja\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Indulkana, South Australia, Australia", "Death Place": "Adelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Community worker, Nurse", "Summary": "A Pitjantjatjara woman, Lowitja O'Donoghue worked for Aboriginal organisations or in Indigenous affairs for over 30 years. She was the Founding Chair of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission, 1990-1996. O'Donoghue was one of the most prominent members of the stolen generation.\nIn 2010 Australia's national institute for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health research, The Lowitja Institute, was named in O'Donoghue's honour.\n", "Details": "Born in 1932, in Indulkana, South Australia, Pitjantjatjara woman Lowita O'Donoghue was separated from her family at the age of two. She was taken by missionaries to the Colebrook Children's home and brought up, with the name of Lois, under the white education system. O'Donoghue attended Unley General Technical High School, then trained as a nurse at the Royal Adelaide Hospital. She worked as a nurse from 1961 to 1972, partly among Aboriginal communities in northern South Australia. She was a member of the Aboriginal Legal Rights Movement (1970-1972), and later regional director of the Adelaide Department of Aboriginal Affairs (1975-1976). O'Donoghue then worked in various capacities in the areas of health, housing, community development, Aboriginal and Islander studies, Native Title and the Sydney Olympics.\nO'Donoghue has received many awards and accolades for her work, including being named Australian of the Year (1984), a National Living Treasure (1998), wining the Advance Australia award in 1982 and being appointed a member of the Order of Australia in 1977, a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 1983, and a Companion of the Order of Australia (AC) in 1999. O'Donoghue was made an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Australian College of Physicians (1998) and the Royal College of Nursing. She was also awarded Honorary Doctorates from the Australian National University, Murdoch University, Notre Dame University, Flinders University, the University of South Australia, Queensland University of Technology, the University of Melbourne, the University of Sydney and the University of Adelaide. She was appointed a Professorial Fellow at Flinders University in 2000.\n", "Events": "Inducted into the Victorian Honour Roll of Women (2001 - 2001)", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/whos-who-in-australia-2002\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/the-encyclopaedia-of-aboriginal-australia-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander-history-society-and-culture\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/living-in-south-australia-a-social-history\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/notable-lives-profiles-of-21-south-australians\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/faith-hope-and-charity-australian-women-and-imperial-honours-1901-1989\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/the-encyclopedia-of-women-and-leadership-in-twentieth-century-australia\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/women-in-politics-voices-from-the-commonwealth\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Mayo, Helen Mary", "Entry ID": "IMP0088", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/mayo-helen-mary\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Adelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Doctor", "Summary": "Dr Helen Mayo was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (Civil) on 3 June 1935 for her maternal and child welfare activities. She worked well past retirement age and established several children's health facilities.\n", "Details": "Helen Mayo was educated privately and at the Advanced School for Girls; she matriculated in 1895. Mayo began a medical degree at the University of Adelaide in 1898, and became the university's second woman medical graduate. She gained her doctorate in medicine (MD) in 1926. She opened a private practice in Adelaide in 1906 specialising in midwifery and the health of women and children. She lectured at the University of Adelaide 1926-1934. Mayo also founded the Mothers and Babies' Health Association (1927) which grew out of the School for Mothers she established with social worker Harriet Stirling in 1909. The organisation still exists today, as Child and Youth Health. Stirling and Mayo also set up an independent hospital in 1913 to address the special needs of infant patients. In 1917 it was taken over by the Government and became the Mareeba Babies' Hospital, with Mayo as honorary responsible medical officer.\nMayo also worked for the Adelaide Children's Hospital, lectured at the University of Adelaide, established a donor service for the Red Cross Transfusion Service and chaired a committee which aimed to establish a women's university college. In 1935 Dr Helen Mayo was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (Civil) for her maternal and child welfare activities. She was also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine, a foundation Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians and President of the Australian Federation of University Women.\n", "Events": "Inducted into the Victorian Honour Roll of Women (2001 - 2001)", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/living-in-south-australia-a-social-history\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/a-goodly-heritage-an-appreciation-of-the-life-and-work-of-the-late-dr-helen-mayo\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/obituary-helen-mayo\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/200-australian-women-a-redress-anthology\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/the-medicals-laura-hope-helen-mayo-rosamund-benham-and-phyllis-cliento\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/mayo-helen-mary-1878-1967\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/s-a-s-greats-the-men-and-women-of-the-north-terrace-plaques\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/a-very-remarkable-woman-dr-helen-mary-mayo-1978-1967\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/private-medicine-and-public-health\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/some-aspects-of-the-history-of-infant-welfare-in-south-australia\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/the-hands-of-a-woman-south-australian-medical-womens-society\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/where-are-the-women-in-australian-science-2\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/helen-mayo\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/the-new-women-adelaides-early-women-graduates\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/faith-hope-and-charity-australian-women-and-imperial-honours-1901-1989\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/mayo-family-summary-record\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/address-delivered-at-the-opening-of-the-dr-helen-mayo-wing-st-anns-college-29th-june-1961\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/some-observations-on-biological-therapy-helen-mary-mayo\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Williams, Fannie Eleanor", "Entry ID": "IMP0117", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/williams-fannie-eleanor\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Adelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Death Place": "Armadale, Victoria, Australia", "Occupations": "Bacteriologist, Nurse, Serologist", "Summary": "Fannie Eleanor Williams (known as Eleanor) was one of the first three staff members of the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research in 1920. She co-authored or authored more than fifty publications in her career and specialised in research on dysentery, influenza, hydatids and snake venom. She played a key role in the development of the first Australian blood bank. Not only a researcher, she was also responsible for the training of staff (including Sir Macfarlane Burnet) and, later in life, general organisation of WEHI. According to Sir Macfarlane Burnet and Dr Ian Wood, 'she was the channel through which serological techniques developed in Melbourne'. Miss Williams was awarded the Associate Royal Red Cross on 1 January 1917 for her bacteriological work in the Australian Imperial Force. She was appointed MBE - The Order of the British Empire - Member (Civil) - 13 June 1957, for her work at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/williams-fanny-eleanor-1890-1963-biographical-entry\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/history-of-microbiology-in-australia\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/fanny-eleanor-williams-obituary\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/work-rewarded-by-the-queen\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/fannie-eleanor-williams-bacteriologist-and-serologist\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/where-are-the-women-in-australian-science-2\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/faith-hope-and-charity-australian-women-and-imperial-honours-1901-1989\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Price, Joyce Ethel", "Entry ID": "IMP0118", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/price-joyce-ethel\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Angaston, South Australia, Australia", "Death Place": "Shoreham, Victoria, Australia", "Occupations": "Community worker", "Summary": "Lady Joyce Ethel Price's outstanding contribution to the Girl Guides both in Australia and worldwide was first recognised at a commonwealth level in 1968 when she was appointed as an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE). In 1977 she also received the Girl Guide Fish Award; and in 1978 her efforts were further recognised when she was appointed to the Order of St Michael and St George - Commanders (CMG).\n", "Details": "Joyce Ethel Price was born in South Australia on 8 August 1915. She attended Goolwa Primary School, Adelaide High School, and completed an MSc at the University of Adelaide in 1938. She married James Robert (Sir Robert) Price in 1940 (died 1999) and had three children: two daughters and one son.\nLady Joyce was appointed as an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 1968 and, a decade later, in 1978, was appointed to the Order of St Michael and St George - Commanders (CMG) for her service to Girl Guides. In 1977 she also received the Girl Guide Silver Fish Award. Her longstanding commitment to the Girl Guides can be seen in a chronological listing of some of her work and committee appointments between 1938 and 1970.\n", "Events": "Addressed the memorial service for the late Lady Baden-Powell, Westminster Abbey, England (1977 - 1977) \nChairperson of World Conferences, World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts, Canada (1972 - 1972) \nChairperson of World Conferences, World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts, Iran (1978 - 1978) \nChairperson, World Committee of the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts (1975 - 1978) \nChief Commissioner, Girl Guides Association of Australia (1968 - 1973) \nEmployee, Plant Physiology Department, Waite Agricultural Research Institute, South Australia (1938 - 1940) \nExecutive Council Member UNAA, Victoria (1960 - 1962) \nInducted into the Victorian Honour Roll of Women (2006 - 2006) \nLabour Officer, Ministry of Supply Explosives Factory, Scotland (1942 - 1944) \nSecretary, Australia Reading Union (1960 - 1970) \nSecretary, Australian Reading Union (1957 - 1960) \nState Commissioner, Girl Guides Association, Victoria (1963 - 1968) \nTreasurer, Pan-Pacific Southeast Asian Women's Association, Victoria (1957 - 1962) \nVice President, Girl Guides Association of Australia (1974 - 1979)", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/whos-who-of-australian-women\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/whos-who-in-australia-2002\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/where-are-the-women-in-australian-science-2\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/faith-hope-and-charity-australian-women-and-imperial-honours-1901-1989\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/lady-joyce-ethel-price\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "McNamara, Natascha Duschene", "Entry ID": "IMP0120", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/mcnamara-natascha-duschene\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Clare, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Businesswoman, Educator, Researcher", "Summary": "Natascha McNamara was co-founder of the Aboriginal Training and Cultural Institute in Balmain, New South Wales, and president of the Aboriginal Children's Advancement Society Ltd. She has also worked to reform the Aboriginal artefacts industry, and held an Adjunct Senior Research Fellowship with the Centre of Indigenous Development Education and Research (CIDEAR) at the University of Wollongong. McNamara was appointed as a Member of the Order of the British Empire (Civil) on 3 June 1978, for her work in Aboriginal education, and as a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) on 8 June 1992.\nMcNamara is Managing Director of Accord Cross Cultural Development. She is also a member of the Australian Press Council and the Council of the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/the-encyclopaedia-of-aboriginal-australia-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander-history-society-and-culture\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/the-aborigines-of-south-australia-their-background-and-future-prospects-proceedings-of-a-conference-held-at-the-university-of-adelaide-june-13-16-1969\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/issues-of-key-importance-to-aboriginal-women-workshop-report\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/enhancing-english-literacy-skills-in-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander-students-a-review-of-the-literature-and-case-studies-in-primary-schools\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/indigenous-public-servants-gather\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/aiatsis-names-three-new-appointments\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/viewing-indigenous-literature-through-aboriginal-islander-eyes\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/point-pearce-takeover-sa-aboriginal-lands-trust-1972\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/the-aboriginal-development-foundation\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/theyre-helping-aborigines-to-help-themselves-aboriginal-training-and-cultural-institute-m-valadian-and-mcnamara-teaching-management-skills-balmain\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/faith-hope-and-charity-australian-women-and-imperial-honours-1901-1989\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Elphick, Gladys", "Entry ID": "IMP0136", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/elphick-gladys\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Adelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Community worker, Welfare worker", "Summary": "A Kaurna woman, Gladys Elphick was born in Adelaide and brought up on the Point Pearce Reserve. Elphick's life long work against discrimination and exploitation of Aboriginal people included her formation of the Aboriginal Women's Council and, with others, a legal aid service, medical service and the Aboriginal Community Centre in Adelaide. Also well known as 'Aunty Glad', Elphick was appointed as a Member of the Order of the British Empire on 1 January 1971 for services to the Aboriginal community. In 1984, during National Aborigines Week, Elphick was named South Australian Aboriginal of the Year.\n Horton (ed) (1994), Encyclopaedia of Aboriginal Australia; Healey (2001), S.A.'s Greats.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/the-encyclopaedia-of-aboriginal-australia-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander-history-society-and-culture\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/living-black-blacks-talk-to-kevin-gilbert\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/aboriginal-people-and-their-communities-today-years-5-7\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/current-problems-of-aborigines\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/the-kaurna-people-aboriginal-people-of-the-adelaide-plains-an-aboriginal-studies-course-for-secondary-students-in-years-8-10\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/survival-in-our-own-land-aboriginal-experiences-in-south-australia-since-1836-told-by-nungas-and-others\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/turning-the-tide-a-personal-history-of-the-federal-council-for-the-advancement-ofaborigines-and-torres-strait-islanders\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/as-weve-known-it-1911-to-the-present\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/living-in-south-australia-a-social-history\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/gladys-battles-for-her-people\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/aboriginal-honour-for-glad\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/race-relations-in-australia-the-aborigines\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/everybody-knows-her-as-auntie-glad\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/sketches-of-outstanding-aborigines-extracts-from-an-australia-day-address-at-maughan-methodist-church-p-s-a-adelaide-on-sunday-january-29th-1956\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/permit-system-keeps-people-on-reserves-changed-attitude-must-come-from-whites\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/reports-and-resolutions\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/the-aborigines-of-south-australia-their-background-and-future-prospects-proceedings-of-a-conference-held-at-the-university-of-adelaide-june-13-16-1969\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/c-a-w-s-a-newsletter-of-the-council-of-aboriginal-women-of-south-australia-inc\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/a-question-of-choice-an-australian-aboriginal-dilemma-a-collection-of-papers-advancement-of-science-congress-adelaide-1969\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/the-role-played-by-aboriginal-women-in-south-australia-particularly-among-urban-aborigines-since-1945\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/nunkuwarrin-yunti-celebrates-30-years-sa\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/high-flyers-at-wilto-yerlo-students-soar-at-wilto-yerlo-koori-mail-education\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/honours-for-aborigines-2\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/details-of-pioneers-in-aboriginal-movement\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/s-a-s-greats-the-men-and-women-of-the-north-terrace-plaques\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/some-aboriginal-women-pathfinders-their-difficulties-and-their-achievements\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/faith-hope-and-charity-australian-women-and-imperial-honours-1901-1989\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/papers-of-the-migrant-and-indigenous-women-action-group\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Young, Jeanne Forster", "Entry ID": "IMP0141", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/young-jeanne-forster\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Unley, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Author, Journalist, Political activist, Welfare worker", "Summary": "A novelist, biographer and political candidate, Jeanne Forster Young passionately advocated proportional representation for women in parliament. She became president of the Democratic Women's Association of South Australia.\n", "Details": "Jeanne Young was born Sarah Jane Forster, one of eight children of John Goodman and Sarah Jane Forster. She became a freelance journalist with the Register and joined Catherine Helen Spence in 1896 in campaigning for proportional representation in parliament. On 23 January 1889, she married the Foreign Editor of the South Australian Advertiser, Alfred Howard Young. They were to have three sons and one daughter.\nJeanne Young was the first and only woman on the Board of Governors of the South Australian Public Library, Museum and Art Gallery (1916-1928). She was appointed to the Magistracy in 1917 and stood for parliament on a non-party ticket in 1918. During the First World War, Young was a member of the Central Red Cross and later became an administrator of the South Australian Soldiers' Fund. She stood for the Senate in 1937 and was elected president of the Democratic Women's Association of South Australia.\nAfter the death of Catherine Helen Spence in 1910, Young completed Spence's autobiography. She founded the C H Spence Scholarship for Women, and in 1937 wrote Catherine Helen Spence: a study and an appreciation.\nYoung produced several pamphlets on proportional representation, and wrote variously under the pen names of Jeanne F. Young, Sarah Jane Forster and Goodman Forster. On 9 June 1938, Jeanne Young was appointed to The Order of the British Empire - Officer (Civil) (OBE) for her services to social welfare. She died at Rose Park, South Australia in 1955.\nIn 1994, as part of celebrations for the South Australian Women's Suffrage Centenary, the centenary committee published Jeanne Forster Young's novel, Jenifer.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/whos-who-in-australia-1944\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/an-autobiography\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/catherine-helen-spence-a-study-and-an-appreciation\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/jenifer-a-novel-by-goodman-forster-jeanne-forster-young-1876-1955\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/proportional-representation-in-a-nutshell\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/proportional-representation-what-it-means-and-how-it-would-work\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/preferential-voting-in-single-electorates-not-a-reform\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/the-senate-as-it-is-and-as-it-should-be-a-plea-for-proportional-representation\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/effective-voting-an-explanation-of-hares-single-transferable-vote\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/effective-voting-how-to-vote-how-to-count-votes-diagrams-showing-inequalities-and-injustice-of-single-electorates-and-block-votes\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/proportional-representation\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/the-womens-pages-australian-women-and-journalism-since-1850-2\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/faith-hope-and-charity-australian-women-and-imperial-honours-1901-1989\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/jenifer-literary-manuscript\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/the-grand-old-woman-of-australia-literary-manuscript\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Rischbieth, Bessie Mabel", "Entry ID": "IMP0142", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/rischbieth-bessie-mabel\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Adelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Death Place": "Bethesda Hospital Claremont, Western Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Feminist, Women's rights activist", "Summary": "Bessie Rischbieth's interest in woman's suffrage was aroused when she attended a suffrage meeting in London in 1908. A co-founder of the Women's Service Guild of Western Australia in 1909, she was also co-founder and President of the Australian Federation of Women Voters (1921-1942). Rischbieth edited The Dawn, a women's paper issued in Perth from 1914 to 1939. A talented craftswoman her art embroidery, beaten copperwork and word carvings were exhibited with the West Australian Society of Arts. In the later years of her life Rischbieth clashed with Jessie Street, whom she labelled a communist. Bessie Rischbieth was appointed as an Officer of the Order of the British Empire for her work with women's movements.\n", "Events": "Appointed as a justice of the peace to the Perth Court (1920 - 1920) \nAppointed Officer to the Order of the British Emipre for her service with the women's movements (1935 - 1935) \nAppointed, in an honorary capacity, to the Children's Court (1915 - 1915) \nCo-founder of the British Commonwealth League of Women, becoming foundation vice-president (1925 - 1925) \nFoundation member of the Women's Service Guilds of Western Australia (1909 - 1909) \nFoundation president of the Australian Federation of Women's Societies (later Voters) (1921 - 1942) \nFounding member of the Children's Protection Society (1906 - 1906) \nInaugural secretary of the Western Australian Women Justices' Association (1925 - 1925) \nInducted into the Victorian Honour Roll of Women (2001 - 2001) \nJoined the board of the International Alliance of Women for Suffrage and Equal Citizenship (1926 - 1926) \nLeader of the Australian delegation to the Pan-Pacific Women's Conference in Honolulu (1928 - 1928) \nLife member of the International Alliance of Women for Suffrage and Equal Citizenship (1955 - 1955) \nMarried wool merchant, Henry Wills Rischbieth (deceased 1925) (1898 - ) \nPresident of the Women's Service Guilds of Western Australia (1911 - 1922) \nPresident of the Women's Service Guilds of Western Australia (1946 - 1950) \nPublished March of Australian women (1964 - 1964) \nWorld for Australian servicemen at the Boomerang Club, Australia House, England (1939 - 1945)", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/reflections-profiles-of-150-women-who-helped-make-western-australias-history-project-of-the-womens-committee-for-the-150th-anniversary-celebrations-of-western-australia\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/whos-who-in-australia-1962\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/womens-service-guilds-members-at-unveiling-of-plaque-on-board-the-m-v-kabbarli\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/guide-to-the-papers-of-ruby-rich\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/uphill-all-the-way-a-documentary-history-of-women-in-australia\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/women-on-the-warpath-feminist-of-the-first-wave\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/march-of-australian-women-a-record-of-fifty-years-struggle-for-equal-citizenship\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/australian-federation-of-women-voters-non-party-silver-jubilee-1921-1948-eighth-triennial-australian-conference-melbourne-october-25-30-1948\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/guide-to-the-papers-of-bessie-rischbieth\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/collar-with-inscription-votes-for-women\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/portrait-of-bessie-rischbieth-picture-2\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/saucer-and-plate-belonging-to-mrs-pankhurst-presented-to-bessie-rischbieth-by-the-suffragette-fellowship-london\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/womens-sphere-a-summary-of-the-movement-for-womens-electoral-reform-and-representation-in-victoria\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/bessie-rischbieth-jessie-street-and-the-end-of-first-wave-feminism-in-australia\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/bessie-rischbieth\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/rischbieth-bessie-mabel-1874-1967\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/200-australian-women-a-redress-anthology\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/faith-hope-and-charity-australian-women-and-imperial-honours-1901-1989\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/the-encyclopedia-of-women-and-leadership-in-twentieth-century-australia\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/papers-of-ruby-rich-1906-1984-manuscript\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/papers-on-various-australian-women-19-manuscript\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/bessie-mabel-rischbieth-papers\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/badges-of-womens-suffrage-groups-worn-by-bessie-rischbieth-circa-1913-realia\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/biographical-cuttings-on-bessie-mabel-rischbieth-benefactor-containing-one-or-more-cuttings-from-newspapers-or-journals\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/sash-with-inscription-votes-for-women-realia\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/order-of-the-british-empire-medal-awarded-to-bessie-rischbieth-realia\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/papers-of-irene-greenwood-1912-1981-manuscript\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/papers-and-objects-of-bessie-rischbieth-1900-1967-manuscript\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/portrait-of-bessie-rischbieth-picture\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/saucer-and-plate-belonging-to-mrs-pankhurst-presented-to-bessie-rischbieth-by-the-suffragette-fellowship-london-realia-manufactured-by-williamsons-longton-eng\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/womens-service-guilds-of-western-australia-records\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/papers-of-ruby-rich-1943-1948-manuscript\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/papers-of-jessie-street-circa-1914-1968-manuscript\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/pethybridge-eva-2\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Creswell, Adelaide Elizabeth", "Entry ID": "IMP0148", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/creswell-adelaide-elizabeth\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Community worker", "Summary": "Adelaide Creswell was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire on 15 March 1918 for services to the Red Cross Society. From 1914 to 1915 she was a member of the provisional committee of the Victorian Division of the Australian branch of the British Red Cross Society.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/creswell-sir-william-rooke-1852-1933\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/faith-hope-and-charity-australian-women-and-imperial-honours-1901-1989\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Gum, Daphne Lorraine", "Entry ID": "IMP0206", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/gum-daphne-lorraine\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Pinnaroo, South Australia, Australia", "Death Place": "Adelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Teacher", "Summary": "Daphne Gum, a trained primary school teacher who developed an interest in working with children with disabilities, became the director of the Spastic Centre established by the Crippled Children's Association of South Australia in 1946 at the Adelaide Children's Hospital. Following a temporary move to prefabricated classrooms at Kintore Avenue, the centre finally found a permanent and more spacious home in 1951 on the Anzac Highway at Ashford, and was known as the Ashford House for Cerebral Palsy Children.\nDaphne Gum was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire in 1960 for her work with children affected by cerebral palsy. She maintained her connection with her old school, the Methodist Ladies College, serving as president of the Old Scholars Association from 1979-1980 and wrote a history entitled A rich tapestry of lives, to celebrate the school's ninetieth birthday.\n", "Events": "Awarded a Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) (1996 - 1996)", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/a-rich-tapestry-of-lives-celebrating-the-90th-birthday-of-the-methodist-ladies-college-annesley-college-old-scholars-association\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/perseverance-the-story-of-spastic-centres-of-south-australia\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/faith-hope-and-charity-australian-women-and-imperial-honours-1901-1989\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Jordan, Deirdre Frances", "Entry ID": "IMP0220", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/jordan-deirdre-frances\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Loxton, South Australia, Australia", "Death Place": "Adelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Academic, Educator", "Summary": "Sister Deirdre Jordan was appointed a Companion of the Order of Australia (AC) on 26 January 1989. She became a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) on 1 January 1969 for services to education. The daughter of Clement and Helana (n\u00e9e Roberts) Jordan, Sister Deirdre Jordan was a member of the Religious Sisters of Mercy. In March 2002 she retired as Chancellor of Flinders University South Australia. Her association with Flinders University commenced in 1981 as Pro-Chancellor. A senior lecturer at Adelaide University from 1968 to 1988, Sister Jordan lectured in the field of sociology of education. She undertook study tours of Tanzania (1975), China (1976 and 1979), South America (1977 and 1980) to investigate bases for decision-making in structure of curriculum and education administration in developing countries.\n", "Events": "Appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire (Civil) (1969 - 1969) \nAppointed Companion of the Order of Australia (AC) (1989 - 1989) \nBoard Member of the South Australian Institute of Catholic Teacher Education (1987 - 1991) \nChair Board of Governors at Merecedes College (1994 - 1994) \nChairman of the Centre for Aboriginal Studies of Music (1970 - 1973) \nChairman of the Department of Education at the University of Adelaide (1982 - 1984) \nChancellor at Flinders University (South Australia) (1988 - 2002) \nCommissioner of the Tertiary Education Authority (South Australia) (1977 - 1980) \nDeputy Chairman of the Department of Education at the University of Adelaide (1973 - 1982) \nFoundation Member of the Flinders University Council (1965 - ) \nHeadmistress at St Aloysius College (South Australia) (1954 - 1968) \nMember of the Board of Trustees at St Francis Xavier Seminary (1993 - 1993) \nMember of the Independent Schools Headmistresses Association (1954 - 1968) \nPatron of the Notre Dame Institute of Education, Karachi Pakistan (1992 - 1992) \nPro-Chancellor at Flinders University (South Australia) (1980 - 1988) \nSenior Lector at the University of Adelaide (South Australia) (1968 - 1988)", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/whos-who-in-australia-2002\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/whos-who-of-australian-women\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/faith-hope-and-charity-australian-women-and-imperial-honours-1901-1989\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/interview-with-deirdre-f-jordan-sound-recording-interviewer-helen-chryssides\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Ludbrook, Nelly Hooper", "Entry ID": "IMP0221", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/ludbrook-nelly-hooper\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Yorketown, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Geologist, Palaeontologist", "Summary": "Nelly Ludbrook, n\u00e9e Woods, was the first South Australian born palaeontologist to demonstrate the importance of palaeontology to the mining industry and founded what is now known as the Biostratigraphy Section of Mines and Energy, South Australia. Interested in geology and palaeontology from her undergraduate years at the University of Adelaide, where she completed Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts degrees, she was able to pursue her interest in Cainozoic molluscs when she married Wallis Verco Ludbrook in 1935 and moved to Canberra. She had written a paper on the subject while working as a high school teacher at Mount Barker for which she was awarded the Tate Medal from the University of Adelaide. Her subsequent career included appointment as assistant geologist with the Commonwealth Government from 1942-1949, a period in London from 1950 at the Imperial College where she gained a PhD in geology and the DIC in palaeontology for a study of Pliocene molluscs from strata underlying the Adelaide Plains. On the death of her husband she returned to South Australia in 1952 where she was employed as technical information officer for the Mines Department, and in 1957 was appointed palaeontologist, a position she held until her retirement in 1967 as senior palaeontologist. She published more than 70 scientific papers and monographs, and at least 17 fossil species and one genus of fossil mollusc have been named in her honour. She was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire in 1981 'for service to science'.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/obituary-nelly-hooper-ludbrook-1907-1995\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/stratigraphy-palaeontology-malacology-papers-in-honour-of-dr-nell-ludbrook\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/rock-me-hardrock-me-soft-a-history-of-the-geological-society-of-australia\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/faith-hope-and-charity-australian-women-and-imperial-honours-1901-1989\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "McPherson, Margaret Heath", "Entry ID": "IMP0227", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/mcpherson-margaret-heath\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "South Australia, Australia", "Death Place": "Glen Iris, Victoria, Australia", "Occupations": "Headmistress", "Summary": "Margaret McPherson, educated in private schools in Adelaide and Melbourne, completed her tertiary education at the University of Melbourne and the Institute of Education London. Her teaching experience, included appointments at Presbyterian Ladies' College, Melbourne as Assistant mistress from 1943-48 and later as Head of the History Department from 1952-55. She spent the years 1950-51 teaching at the Girls' High School Slough, England. She was appointed principal of Clarendon PLC Ballarat, Victoria in 1956 and remained there until her appointment as principal of Korowa Church of England Girls' Grammar School in 1970. In addition to her duties of school administration, she served as president of the Association of Headmistresses of Independent Schools of Australia from 1970-73 and also as president of its Victorian counterpart from 1970-74. She was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire in 1978 for services to education.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/faith-hope-and-charity-australian-women-and-imperial-honours-1901-1989\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/whos-who-in-australia-1980\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Sutherland, Margaret Ada", "Entry ID": "IMP0236", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/sutherland-margaret-ada\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Adelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Composer", "Summary": "Margaret Sutherland's life's work as a composer saw her produce over 90 compositions and attain renown as a pioneer of 'new music' and of women's involvement in music. Her only opera - the Young Kabbarli (1964), based on Daisy Bates - was the first Australian opera recorded in Australia.\nSutherland's work promoting music and the arts included her years (1943-1956) as an initiator, organiser and secretary for the Combined Arts Centre Movement, a group which worked to promote the formation of a cultural centre in Melbourne after World War II, and her membership of many other councils and organising bodies such as the council of the National Gallery Association of Victoria (1950s-1960s).\nRecognition of Sutherland's prolific life as a composer and champion of the Arts in Australia has included an honorary Doctorate of Music from the University of Melbourne (1969), the Queen's Silver Jubilee Medal (1977), and her appointment as an Officer of the Order of the British Empire on 13 June 1970 and an Officer of the Order of Australia on 8 June 1981.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/margaret-sutherland\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/whos-who-of-australian-women\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/a-lifetime-of-music\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/composer-too-long-neglected\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/the-music-of-margaret-sutherland\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/australian-women-composers-videorecording\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/composer-wife-and-mother-margaret-sutherland-as-conflicted-subject\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/women-music-a-history\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/records-of-the-australian-musical-association\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/200-australian-women-a-redress-anthology\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/double-time-women-in-victoria-150-years\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/the-complete-book-of-great-australian-women-thirty-six-women-who-changed-the-course-of-australia\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/faith-hope-and-charity-australian-women-and-imperial-honours-1901-1989\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/music-manuscripts-19-manuscript\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/papers-ca-1897-ca-1984-manuscript\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/records-of-the-australian-musical-association-1952-1995-manuscript\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Marshall, Dorothy May", "Entry ID": "IMP0254", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/marshall-dorothy-may\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Adelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Death Place": "Henley Beach, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Teacher, Welfare worker", "Summary": "During World War II Dorothy Marshall was appointed by the Commonwealth government as South Australian superintendent of the Australian Women's Land Army. Previously a schoolteacher she assisted with the School Patriotic Fund of South Australia and was foundation secretary of the Women's War Service. Following the war Marshall became a camp welfare officer with the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA). Following the dissolution of the UNRRA she joined the International Refugee Organisation (IRO) as a welfare officer in the British zone of Germany. For her services to child welfare, Marshall was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire on 5 June 1952. Following her return to Adelaide she was appointed to the Department of Agriculture and initiated a bi-monthly bulletin WAB News.\n", "Details": "Dorothy May Marshall, the daughter of Charles Henry and Helen Cameron (n\u00e9e Grant) Marshall, attended Adelaide High School and then Adelaide University. She joined the South Australian Education Department and taught at Gawler (1923-1924) and Woodville (1924-1934) primary schools. In 1935 she participated in an exchange position program and taught at Bishop Goodwin Girls' and Margaret Sewell Central schools Carlisle, England. Upon her return to Adelaide she taught at Croydon Central School (girls' department).\nIn 1940 Dorothy Marshall was elected to the advisory council of the South Australian Women Teachers' Guild and the next year she was appointed adviser for vocational training to the Education Department. Later she assisted Adelaide Miethke with the Schools Patriotic Fund of South Australia and then joined the Department of Labour and National Service (on loan) where she became foundation secretary of the Women's War Service Council.\nIn July 1942 the Commonwealth government appointed her state superintendent of the Australian Women's Land Army. In this position she controlled major policy implementation, selected and managed headquarters staff, appointed field staff and supervised women volunteers on the land. \nDorothy Marshall joined the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) as a camp welfare officer helping displaced persons in the British zone in Germany in 1945. By June 1946 she was director-general and took charge of every camp in the zone.\nAfter the UNRRA was dissolved in 1947, she joined the International Refugee Organisation (IRO) becoming child welfare officer and later chief of the child welfare division. On 5 June 1952 Dorothy Marshall was appointed to the Order of the British Empire - Member (Civil) for her services to child welfare. Upon completion of the IRO operations in the British zone she returned to Adelaide and was appointed to the Department of Agriculture as an organiser of the Women's Agricultural Bureau by the South Australia government.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/whos-who-in-australia-1950\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/marshall-dorothy-may-1902-1961\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/faith-hope-and-charity-australian-women-and-imperial-honours-1901-1989\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Anthony, Julie Moncrieff", "Entry ID": "IMP0260", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/anthony-julie-moncrieff\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Lameroo, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Singer", "Summary": "Julie Anthony has gained recognition as one of the most popular entertainers in Australia. She consistently won awards such as Female Variety Performer of the Year, Entertainer of the Year and Most Popular Female Performer during the 1970s and 1980s. She was lead singer in 'The Seekers' from 1989-1991 and performed at the 2000 Olympic Games, which were held in Sydney. A versatile performer, she has played the leading role in musicals such as Irene and the Sound of Music. She is particularly appreciated for her performance of the Australian National Anthem, 'Advance Australia Fair' at national sporting and other occasions. On 31 December 1979, she was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire for her services to entertainment and in 1989 Member of the Order of Australia.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/julie-anthony-sings-advance-australia-fair-with-the-sydney-international-orchestra-and-sydney-philharmonia-choir\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/look-for-a-rainbowmusic\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/faith-hope-and-charity-australian-women-and-imperial-honours-1901-1989\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/whos-who-in-australia-2002\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/biographical-cuttings-on-julie-anthony-singer-entertainer-containing-one-or-more-cuttings-from-newspapers-or-journals\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Wheaton, Amy Grace", "Entry ID": "IMP0265", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/wheaton-amy-grace\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Gawler, South Australia, Australia", "Death Place": "Adelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Educator, Social worker", "Summary": "Amy Grace Wheaton was appointed as a Member of the Order of the British Empire (Civil) on 8 June 1939 for her work as Director of the South Australian Board of Social Studies.\n", "Details": "Amy Grace Wheaton (born in Gawler, South Australia in 1898 as Amy Grace Priest) originally trained as a teacher, and completed BA and MA degrees while teaching in various high schools in South Australia. She married Ralph Wheaton in 1925, and spent the next 10 years in Europe, undertaking post-graduate studies in social sciences at the London School of Economics, as well as travelling extensively. Wheaton became the first Director of the South Australian Board of Social Studies (established in 1935 as the Board of Social Service Study and Training). She held this role, which entailed directing the professional education for social workers in Adelaide, for 23 years. Wheaton was appointed as a Member of the Order of the British Empire (Civil) on 8 June 1939 for this work. She was instrumental in the acceptance, in 1942, and the ongoing development, of the Diploma of Social Science at the University of Adelaide. Wheaton was President of the Social Worker's Association of South Australia, and from 1946 vice-president of the Australian Association of Social Workers. In the same year she was co-founder and vice-president of the South Australian Council of Social Service. Wheaton also taught and worked overseas, including in America and Pakistan, in the late 1950s. She died on 12 February 1988, in her ninetieth year.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/amy-grace-wheaton-mbe-ma-bsc-econ-1898-1988\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/faith-hope-and-charity-australian-women-and-imperial-honours-1901-1989\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/the-encyclopedia-of-women-and-leadership-in-twentieth-century-australia\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/education-for-social-work\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/amy-wheaton-summary-record\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/interview-with-amy-wheaton-sound-recording-interviewer-jean-teasdale\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Davey, Constance Muriel", "Entry ID": "IMP0296", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/davey-constance-muriel\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Nuriootpa, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Educator, Psychologist", "Summary": "Constance Muriel Davey, psychologist, was appointed as an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (Civil) on 1 January 1955 for education. Davey's special interest was 'mental efficiency and deficiency' in children, on which she completed a doctorate at the University of London in 1924. Davey was the first psychologist in the South Australian Education Department, with responsibility for all services for special needs children. Davey also taught at the University of Adelaide and helped establish the social work course at that institution. She was a member of the League of Women Voters, president from 1943-1947, and was elected a Fellow of the British Psychological Society in 1950. Her study, Children and their law-makers, was published in 1956.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/davey-constance-muriel-1882-1963\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/s-a-s-greats-the-men-and-women-of-the-north-terrace-plaques\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/children-and-their-law-makers-a-social-historical-survey-of-the-growth-and-development-from-1836-to-1950-of-south-australian-laws-relating-to-children\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/davey-constance-1882-1963-biographical-entry\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/where-are-the-women-in-australian-science-2\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/200-australian-women-a-redress-anthology\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/faith-hope-and-charity-australian-women-and-imperial-honours-1901-1989\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/papers-of-ruby-rich-1906-1984-manuscript\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/constance-m-davey-summary-record\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/biographical-cuttings-on-dr-constance-muriel-davey-psychologist-containing-one-or-more-cuttings-from-newspapers-or-journals\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/papers-of-ruby-rich-1943-1948-manuscript\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Miethke, Adelaide Laetitia", "Entry ID": "IMP0297", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/miethke-adelaide-laetitia\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Manoora, South Australia, Australia", "Death Place": "Woodville, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Educator, Feminist, Peace activist, School inspector, social activist, Women's rights activist, Women's rights organiser", "Summary": "Adelaide Laetitia Miethke began training as a teacher in 1899, and soon became active in women teachers' and union affairs. She was the first woman vice-president of the South Australian Public School Teacher's Union in 1916, and in 1924 gained both her Arts degree and her position as the first female inspector of high schools. She was South Australian state president of the National Council of Women from 1934, and national president, 1936-1942. Miethke was appointed as an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (Civil) on 1 February 1937 for her role as President of the South Australian Women's Centenary Council, particularly in organising the Pageant of Empire on 27-28 November 1936. Miethke went on to work with the Royal Flying Doctor Service, and establish the School of the Air for outback children.\n", "Details": "Adelaide Miethke was the second president of the National Council of Women of Australia and remained in office from 1936 to 1942, a period extended beyond the normal 5-year term owing to the wartime disruption of meeting and conference schedules. Before the war, Miethke-renowned for her organisational skills and clarity of vision and the first national or federal president from outside the dominant states of NSW and Victoria-worked hard to establish more systematic communication between the state Councils and to provide financial assistance to delegates travelling to NCWA conferences from the most distant states.\nMiethke was a South Australian schoolteacher and inspector, and her role in union affairs resulted in significant gains for the state's women teachers and for girls' domestic science and commercial education. It was her role in the union that led to her association with the NCW. As well as serving as NCWA president from 1936 to 1942, she was NCWSA president from 1934 to 1940. Like her immediate predecessors as federal\/national president (Mildred Muscio and May Moss), Miethke chaired her state's Women's Centenary Council (1936) and was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire on 1 February 1937 for this work. Unlike all of her predecessors and many of her successors at the helm of NCWA, Miethke was in fulltime paid work for most of her period as president.\nOn resigning from the South Australian Education Department in 1941, she assumed direction of the SA Schools Patriotic Fund and from 1941 to 1946 edited the magazine, Children's Hour, distributed monthly to South Australian schoolchildren.\nPart of the funds raised for the centenary in 1937 and for the wartime Schools Patriotic Fund went to establishing the Royal Flying Doctor Service of which Miethke was state president. She also went on to establish the School of the Air for outback children in 1950.\nAdelaide Laetitia Miethke was born on 8 June 1881 at Manoora, South Australia, sixth daughter among 10 children of Rudolph Alexander Miethke, a Prussian-born schoolmaster, and his wife Emma Caroline, n\u00e9e Schultze.\nEducated at country schools and Woodville Public School, in 1899 she became a pupil-teacher and between 1903 and 1904 attended the University Training College; she soon became active in women teachers' and union affairs. In 1915, Miethke was founding president of the Women Teachers' Progressive League. The following year, she became the first woman vice-president of the South Australian Public School Teachers' Union. From her first appointment to the Le Fevre Peninsula Primary School, she rose steadily through the ranks in the Education Department, while also helping to open career opportunities for women and wider educational choices for girls through her leadership in teachers' unions and her speeches and articles.\nIn 1915, Adelaide Miethke addressed SA's Women's Non- Party Political Association, supporting the view that 'technically gifted girls should have a chance of developing their bent' to the same extent as boys. Like many teachers of her generation, she studied part time and, in 1924, she gained both her BA and her position as the first female inspector of high schools (girls' departments). In 1925, Miethke initiated technical schools for girls (central schools), which focused on domestic science and commercial education, training girls for careers in office work, millinery and dressmaking as well as for home life. By the late 1930s, she was on the executive of the New Education Fellowship, which explored progressive methods. She also took up the cause of the Girl Guides Association, becoming commissioner of the schools division from 1925 to 1939.\nIn 1920, Miethke joined the newly re-formed NCWSA as a delegate from the Women Teachers' Progressive League and was elected president of the state Council from 1934 to 1940. In 1936, this led to her being one of 2 women appointed to the State Centenary Executive Committee and president of the Women's Centenary Council of South Australia, which, as a memorial to pioneer women, raised \u00a35000 to establish the Alice Springs base of the Australian Aerial Medical Service (later the Royal Flying Doctor Service). It also built the Pioneer Women's Memorial Garden in Adelaide and produced A Book of South Australia: Women in the First Hundred Years. On 27-28 November 1936, Miethke produced a grand 'Pageant of Empire', her stentorian voice being suited to rallying 14,000 costumed schoolchildren on the Adelaide oval. She was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire on 1 February 1937 for her centenary work.\nAdelaide Miethke became president of the National Council of Women of Australia in 1936 and served in this role until late 1942. The first NCWA or federal president from outside the dominant states of NSW and Victoria, she worked hard in the early years of her office to establish more systematic communication between the state Councils through the launching and distribution of a typescript 'Quarterly Bulletin' and to provide financial assistance to delegates travelling to national conferences from the most distant states. Issues she fostered in addition to the ongoing ones of equal pay and uniform marriage laws included a national policy for Aborigines and equality of provision for married women in the projected national insurance legislation. During the first part of her presidency, it was also anticipated that the International Council of Women conference scheduled for 1942 would be held in Australia (along with the conferences of the Country Women's Associations of the World and the International Federation of University Women) but the outbreak of World War II in 1939 stymied these plans, and the ICW suffered serious disruption in the ensuing years.\nWhen the scheduled national conference took place in January 1941, Miethke was elected for another term of office in the context of the wartime need for stability but subsequent restrictions on travel in Australia, especially to and from the smaller states, limited communication between the Councils and, in July, Miethke and her board suggested they should hand over to a Sydney-based board. It was another 16 months before this occurred. A conference planned for Easter 1942 in Sydney had to be abandoned and the new board was not elected until a meeting could be held in Melbourne in November. The broad prewar concerns had dissipated in these early wartime conferences as the state Councils all turned their attention to local war work and policy issues related to the war effort.\nAfter completing her terms as state and national NCW president, Miethke continued to work for the Australian and SA Councils from 1943 to 1948 as convenor of the national and state education standing committees. In 1944, she was made an honorary life member of NCWA and honorary life vice-president of NCWSA.\nIn 1941, Miethke retired from her position as an inspector in the South Australian Education Department to general praise. She had been both respected and feared by teachers. Some associates found her abrasive and excessively managerial. An ex-pupil recalled: 'You couldn't get away with much with Miss Miethke. They had authority in those days'. Although she was a stickler for formality, her outspoken methods helped to improve teachers' industrial conditions and to raise the status of women in the Education Department. From 1941 to 1946, in the wake of her retirement, she directed the Schools Patriotic Fund, just as she had during the Great War. Part of the \u00a3402,133 raised went to establishing Adelaide Miethke House, a city hostel administered by the YWCA for country girl students, and part to the Royal Flying Doctor Service of which she was state president. She also served on the Women's War Service Council and edited both the magazine, Children's Hour, distributed monthly to South Australian schoolchildren, and the newsletter of the Royal Flying Doctor Service, Air Doctor.\nIn her role as president of the Flying Doctor Service, Miethke observed outback children's shyness, and, in order to 'bridg[e] the lonely distance', she inaugurated the world's first school of the air. It began operating as a branch of the Flying Doctor Service from the Alice Springs Higher Primary School in 1950, using individual pedal-wireless sets on remote homesteads to link the children.\nIn 1942, she was founding president of the Woodville District Child Welfare Association, which established 4 pre-schools. The Adelaide Miethke Kindergarten (opened 1953) still flourishes. 1949 saw her last organising feat-the United Nations Appeal for Children. Miethke once admitted, 'I fear work has become almost a disease with me!' She maintained unabated her appetite for clubs and committee work, and was active in the Royal Commonwealth Society, the Adelaide Women's Club and the Catherine Helen Spence Scholarship Committee. She was also the first honorary life member of the Royal Agricultural & Horticultural Society in 1941. Miethke continued her involvement in most of these organisations until her death on 4 February 1962 at her home in Woodville.\nPrepared by: Jan Hipgrave, Marian Quartly and Judith Smart\n", "Events": "Women Teachers' Progressive Leauge (1915 - 1915) \nWomen's Centenary Council of South Australia (1936 - 1936) \nWoodville District Child Welfare Association (1942 - 1942)", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/miethke-adelaide-laetitia-1881-1962\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/s-a-s-greats-the-men-and-women-of-the-north-terrace-plaques\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/six-years-with-the-spf-story-of-the-schools-patriotic-fund-of-south-australia-jan-1940-jan-1946\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/patriotic-work-in-our-schools-a-report-on-the-south-australian-childrens-patriotic-fund-showing-administration-of-funds-and-some-phases-of-the-work-sept-1915-17\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/nothing-seemed-impossible-womens-education-and-social-change-in-south-australia-1875-1915\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/greater-than-their-knowing-a-glimpse-of-south-australian-women-1836-1986\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/whos-who-in-australia-1950\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/adelaide-miethke\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/the-city-as-a-site-of-women-teachers-post-suffrage-activism-adelaide-south-australia\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/200-australian-women-a-redress-anthology\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/faith-hope-and-charity-australian-women-and-imperial-honours-1901-1989\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/stirrers-with-style-presidents-of-the-national-council-of-women-of-australia-and-its-predecessors\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/notes-and-letter-on-the-characters-in-we-of-the-never-never\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/records-of-the-national-council-of-women-of-australia-1924-1990-manuscript\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/national-council-of-women-of-s-a-summary-record\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Cocks, Fanny Kate Boadicea", "Entry ID": "IMP0298", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/cocks-fanny-kate-boadicea\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Moonta, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Policewoman, Welfare worker", "Summary": "Fanny Kate Boadicea Cocks was appointed as a Member of the Order of the British Empire (Civil) on 3 June 1935 for her role as 'Principal of the Women's Police' in South Australia. According to the Australian Dictionary of Biography, Cocks began her career as a schoolmistress and sub-matron before entering the State Children's Council (South Australia) and being appointed as the State's first probation officer for juvenile first offenders. In 1915 Cocks became South Australia's first woman police constable. She was concerned with issues such as adolescent sexuality and alcoholism, prostitution, domestic violence and self-defence. Her care for homeless girls led to her involvement in the Methodist Women's Welfare Department as a volunteer superintendent for fifteen years after her retirement in 1935. She made a bequest to the Methodist home for babies, which was later re-named the Kate Cocks Babies Home.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/cocks-fanny-kate-boadicea-1875-1954\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/s-a-s-greats-the-men-and-women-of-the-north-terrace-plaques\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/miss-kate-cocks-her-life-and-work\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/everybodys-friend-the-inspiring-career-of-kate-cocks-m-b-e\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/to-walk-a-fair-beat-a-history-of-the-south-australian-women-police-1915-1987\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/200-australian-women-a-redress-anthology\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/faith-hope-and-charity-australian-women-and-imperial-honours-1901-1989\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/biographical-cuttings-on-kate-cocks-former-founder-of-the-sa-women-police-and-also-founder-of-the-kate-cocks-babies-home-at-hove-containing-one-or-more-cuttings-from-newspapers-or-journals\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Moon, Silver", "Entry ID": "PR00039", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/moon-silver\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Adelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Composer, Engineer, Environmentalist, Lecturer, Musician, Political activist", "Summary": "Silver Moon has been a political activist since 1968, and was active during the Anti-Vietnam War Moratoriums and anti-apartheid demonstrations in the 1970s. She became active in the women's movement while still at high school. She has spent her life as a peace and environmental activist and as an anarchist-feminist activist.\n", "Details": "Silver Moon has been a political activist since 1968, when she first became active, as a high school student, in the women's movement. Her political interests extended beyond women's liberation; she participated in the Anti-Vietnam War Moratoriums and anti-apartheid demonstrations of the 1970s. Since those early years, she has maintained a long and active involvement in political matters at a community and organisational level.\nBetween 1980-83 she was a member of the Hindmarsh Women's Community Centre, in Adelaide, South Australia. While there she helped establish the Unemployed Women's Union. She taught women's studies at Department of Education, Technical and Further Education Colleges (DETAFE) in South Australia. Silver has also been a public servant.\nShe was at Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp (UK) from 1983-1988, and travelled on the peace bus to the Soviet Union. She was arrested many times and imprisoned three times during her time at Greenham Common. She was a member of the International Women's Day Collective and the Women's Studies Resource Centre Collective. She is currently a member of the Adelaide Women's Liberation Newsletter Collective (Liberation). She helped establish the Women's Environmental Action Group 1988-1991c and is the public officer for the Women's Support Fund.\nAs a musician she has performed with the Women's Drumming Group and the Bangshees, and she writes and performs her own music. She was an active member of Lesbian over forty (Lofty), Lesbian Line (counselling phone service for lesbians) and the Rural Lesbian Separatist Group. She worked in Women's Radio at Radio 5UV the Adelaide University Radio Station, mainly on the women's magazine program \"No Frills\".\nHer environmentalist activism is now focused on the Native Grasses Group and the Finnis Catchment Group to environmentally protect the Finnis River (SA) and its catchments and wet lands. She is a board member for the Goolwa to Wellington Local Action Planning Association, lobbying for the Murray River lower lakes environs and Trees for Life.\nWith her audio engineering work she has recorded many women poets and musical performers including Standard Deviations. Silver worked at the Elder Conservatorium of Music as a sound technician and recordist doing CD production for students and staff. She works for the State Library of South Australia as a audio engineer in audio preservation. She is a member of the Audio Engineers Society. The State Library of South Australia has recorded 20 hours of her oral history. She lives on a farm at Finniss.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/liberation\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/womens-environmental-action-group-weng\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/sylvia-kinder-summary-record\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/unemployed-womens-union-summary-record\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/international-womens-day-collective-2\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/hindmarsh-womens-community-health-centre-2\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/adelaide-womens-liberation-movement-summary-record\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/interview-with-silver-moon-sound-recording-interviewer-michelle-holden\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/interview-with-silver-moon-sound-recording-interviewer-allison-murchie\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Ambrose, Ethel Murray", "Entry ID": "PR00087", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/ambrose-ethel-murray\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Mitcham, South Australia, Australia", "Death Place": "Pandharpur, Poona, India", "Occupations": "Missionary", "Summary": "Trained in Adelaide, Dr Ethel Ambrose applied to the Poona and Indian Village Mission established by Tasmanian evangelist Charles Reeve. Ambrose worked at the mission hospital in Nasrapur from 1905, moving to Pandharpur in 1909 where she led fundraising efforts for a hospital. By the time of her death in 1934, the mission's medical program had reached over 300 Indian villages.\n", "Details": "Ethel Ambrose was the daughter of William and Helen Ambrose, both of whom died when she was young. Her grandparents, Pastor and Mrs Finlayson, were Scottish Baptists who lived in Adelaide in order to carry out Aboriginal mission work. Ethel was raised by the Finlaysons and educated at Unley Park School and the University of Adelaide, where she completed her medical studies in 1903. She attended the Zion Chapel.\nAn active member of the University Christian Union, Ambrose applied to the Poona and Indian Village Mission along with her sister Lily, a trained nurse. She travelled to Nasrapur in Poona, India, after completing residencies in Perth and Melbourne in 1905. From 1909 Ambrose was concentrating on medical care for women and children in Pandharpur, and conducted fundraising campaigns in Australia to raise money for a hospital there. Ambrose was back in Adelaide in 1919 working as the RMO at the temporary influenza hospital.\nBy the time of her sudden death in 1934, the medical mission program had reached over 300 Indian villages and was employing Indian staff.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/the-australian-dictionary-of-evangelical-biography\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Hodson-Thomas, Katina", "Entry ID": "PR00551", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/hodson-thomas-katina\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Adelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Parliamentarian", "Summary": "Katie Hodson-Thomas\u00a0was elected to the 35th Parliament of Western Australia as the Liberal Party member for the new Legislative Assembly seat of Carine. She was re-elected in 2001, 2005, but did\u00a0not contest the general election of 6 September 2008.\n", "Details": "Katina Broemer was born in Adelaide in 1957 to European immigrants Karl and Elfie Broemer. She attended primary and secondary schools in Adelaide, then Hales Secretarial School and Deakin University, after which she travelled extensively through Europe. She married Kerry Hodson-Thomas, spent seven years in Sydney, then moved to Western Australia in 1987. A member of the Liberal Party of Australia, Hodson-Thomas was elected to the Legislative Assembly of the Parliament of Western Australia for Carine (new seat) on 14 December 1996. She was re-elected in 2001 and 2005, and did not contest the general election of 6 September 2008.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/making-a-difference-women-in-the-west-australian-parliament-1921-1999\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Quirk, Margaret Mary", "Entry ID": "PR00584", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/quirk-margaret-mary\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Adelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Parliamentarian", "Summary": "Margaret Quirk was elected to the Thirty-Sixth Parliament of Western Australia as the Australian Labor Party member for Girrawheen on 10 February 2001 in succession to Edward Joseph Cunningham (retired). She was re-elected in 2005 and 2008. She has been Shadow Minister for Police; Emergency Services; Road Safety from 26 September 2008.\n", "Details": "Margaret Mary Quirk was born in Adelaide, South Australia, in 1957, and arrived in Western Australia in 1961. Quirk is a member of the Australian Labor Party, and was elected to the Legislative Assembly of the Parliament of Western Australia for the electorate of Girrawheen on 10 February 2001. She was re-elected in 2005 and 2008. Margaret Quirk's page on the Parliament of Western Australia website is at: http:\/\/www.parliament.wa.gov.au\/Parliament%5CMemblist.nsf\/WAllMembersFlat\/Quirk,+Margaret+Mary?opendocument\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/margaret-quirk-media-statements-2005-2008\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Rosman, Alice Trevenen", "Entry ID": "PR00847", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/rosman-alice-trevenen\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Kapunda, South Australia, Australia", "Death Place": "Highgate, England", "Occupations": "Editor, Journalist, Novelist, Writer", "Summary": "Alice Rosman was an editor, journalist, novelist and writer. She is best known for her work as a novelist, under the pseudonym Alice Grant Rosman. She achieved success particularly in the United States of America and Canada during the 1920s and 1930s, where she was a best-seller for four consecutive years.\n", "Details": "Alice Trevenen Rosman was born in Kapunda, South Australia on the 18 of July 1882, to parents Trevenen Rosman and Alice Mary Bowyer (n\u00e9e Varley). As a child, Alice showed early signs of creativity and a talent for story-telling, which she used to entertain her younger sister Mary. She and her sister attended Catholic primary and secondary schools, though they were not Catholic themselves. During her schooling years Alice wrote numerous short stories and poems, some of which were published in newspapers. She finished school in 1899. By 1901, she was editing the magazine The Young Queen, published by the Adelaide branch of the Girls' Realm Guild, which she had established.\nBetween 1906 and 1911, Alice worked as a journalist for various publications, including the Gadyfly, the Bulletin (for which she used the pseudonym 'Rosna'), the Daily Herald, Lone Hand, the Australasian, Sydney Mail and Steele Rudd's Magazine.\nIn 1911 Alice and her sister Mary moved to England. While Mary taught piano at a girl's school, Alice continued her work writing for publications. Between 1915 and 1920 she wrote for the British Australasian, and between 1920 and 1927 was the assistant editor of Grand Magazine. During these years, Alice also published her first novels, using the pseudonym Alice Grant Rosman. The novels were Miss Bryde of England (1915) and The Tower Wall (1916), and they went largely unnoticed. Her first successful novel was The Window, published in 1926; twelve editions were printed in five months, and it was translated into several languages.\nIn 1927, Alice retired to focus on her novels, and published seventeen stories between then and 1939. Many of these sold near 100, 000 copies, even during the Depression. Her birthplace Australia featured in The Back Seat Driver (1928) and The Sixth Journey (1931), as well as her first two novels. Her most successful markets - particularly for her romance fiction - were those outside of Britain: Canada and the United States of America. Alice Rosman's work was known for its easy style and humour, and was often called by reviewers as 'light fiction'.\nAlice Rosman died in Highgate, England, on 20 August, 1961.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/a-book-of-south-australia-women-in-the-first-hundred-years\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/the-argus\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/rosman-alice-trevenen-1882-1961\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/correspondence-of-alice-grant-rosman\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/the-young-queen\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Stralia, Elsa", "Entry ID": "PR00875", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/stralia-elsa\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Adelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Death Place": "MelbourneMelbourne, Victoria, Australia", "Occupations": "Soprano", "Summary": "Elsa was a famous soprano and was well-known in Australia, Europe and America. She gave herself the professional name Elsa Stralia in honour of her country of birth, Australia.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/stralia-elsa-1881-1945\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/biographical-files-1985-92-arthur-sketchley-elsa-stralia\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Matters, Muriel Lilah", "Entry ID": "AWE6396", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/matters-muriel-lilah\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Bowden, South Australia, Australia", "Death Place": "Hastings, East Sussex, England", "Occupations": "Actor, Educator, Journalist, Lecturer, Suffragist", "Summary": "Muriel Matters was an Australian born suffragist who is most well-known for her work on behalf of the Women's Freedom League (WFL) in the United Kingdom.\n", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/edith-craig-and-muriel-matters\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Archer, Robyn", "Entry ID": "AWE4388", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/archer-robyn\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Adelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Advocate, Artistic director, Director, Singer, Writer", "Summary": "Robyn Archer has established an international reputation as a cabaret artist and as an artistic director. She became the first woman to head a major Australian Arts festival when she was appointed Artistic Director of the Adelaide Festival in 1998 and 2000. On 12 June 2000 she became an Officer of the Order of Australia ' for service to the development of cultural life within Australia and its resultant international recognition, through her contribution as an artistic director, performer and writer.'\nShe is currently the Creative Director of the Centenary of Canberra celebrations, which begin in March 2013.\n", "Events": "Inducted into the Victorian Honour Roll of Women (2001 - 2001)", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/australian-feminism-a-companion\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/from-lady-denman-to-katy-gallagher-a-century-of-womens-contributions-to-canberra\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/papers-of-robyn-archer-1973-2013-manuscript\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Martiniello, Jenni Kemarre OAM", "Entry ID": "AWE23090823", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/martiniello-jenni-kemarre\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Adelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Advocate, Artist, Educator, Writer", "Summary": "Jenni Kemarre Martiniello OAM is an award-winning glass artist, poet, writer and photographer of Arrente, Chinese and Anglo-Celtic descent. Acclaimed for her glass works, she has been actively involved in professional and community education in Canberra throughout her career. Jenni founded the ACT Indigenous Writers Group in 1999. With fellow artist Lyndy Delian, she was instrumental in the foundation of the Indigenous Textile and Glass Artists (ITAG) group. Her advocacy for Indigenous artists, and her role in connecting them with other art organisations was pivotal in helping mitigate barriers due to discrimination against Indigenous Australians. Her leadership and advocacy continued through Kemarre Arts, a social enterprise she founded in 2006. It was the Australian Capital Territory's first independent Aboriginal-run social enterprise and provided support to fellow Indigenous artists, offering writing and professional development. Through her internationally recognised art practice, creative writing and teaching, Jenni has a been a powerful cultural ambassador, educator, and activist. She was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) for services to the creative and visual arts in 2022.\nJenni Kemarre Martiniello was inscribed on the ACT Women's Honour Roll in 2010.\n", "Details": "\"Jenni Kemarre Martiniello was born Jennifer Avriel Longmore in 1949 in Adelaide, South Australia. Her father Richard was of Aboriginal and Chinese descent and her mother Betty of Anglo-Celtic lineage. Jenni had an early interest in art and took night classes at the Adelaide School of Art while attending high school. However, after graduating at age 18 from high school in 1967, she joined the Navy, ascribing her decision to a desire to do 'something adventurous.' Jenni worked as a radar plotter and weapons assessor as opposed to the traditional female roles of a cook or steward. She particularly enjoyed her work with weapons assessment at Nowra, New South Wales. Her two years in the Navy allowed her to meet women from across Australia, from different backgrounds and life experiences. A posting took her to Navy Office at Russell, Canberra, in 1969, where she met her husband, a first-generation Italian migrant, with whom she had four children. They divorced in 1979 after ten years of marriage. Martiniello later returned to school, studying sculpture at the Canberra School of Art, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1985, and in 1991 a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Philosophy from the Australian National University. She enrolled in post-graduate studies in Professional and Community Education at the University of Canberra (UC) in 1992. Martiniello lectured in community and teacher education at UC, as well as teaching creative writing, cultural studies, and Indigenous art history at the Yurauna Centre, Canberra Institute of Technology.\nIn 1999, she founded the ACT Indigenous Writers Group and in the same year edited Black Lives, Rainbow Visions: Indigenous Sitings in the Creative Arts, a directory of Indigenous peoples working in the visual, performing, and literary arts in Canberra. In 2002, she was awarded an ACT Creative Arts Fellowship to complete her novel Blossoms of the Mulga. She was Contributing Indigenous Arts Editor for Muse Magazine from 2000 to 2001 and coordinating editor for the first issue of New Dreamings: Indigenous Youth Magazine, 2002. She has won numerous literary prizes, including the Grenfell Henry Lawson Short Story Award (1999) and the Banjo Paterson Poetry Prize (2003). She has also been a judge for the New South Wales and Queensland Literary Awards.\nIn 2006, Martiniello founded and became director of Kemarre Arts, an organisation supporting Indigenous artists through professional development programs, grant writing and publishing. It won the ACT NAIDOC Award for Most Outstanding Agency in 2012. She founded the ACT Indigenous Textile and Glass Artists Group (ITAG) with Lyndy Delian in 2003. ITAG advocated for Indigenous artists and connected them with other arts organisations, as well as hosting exhibitions and artist workshops. Martiniello and Delian collaborated in partnership with Canberra Glassworks to create the Honouring Cultures program, which gave regional artists the opportunity to develop their glassmaking skills and international artists the chance to participate in skills exchange and collaborative work programs.\nIn 2011, as Thomas Foundation artist-in-residence at the Canberra Glassworks, Martiniello began experimenting with weaving patterns in glass, with a focus on traditional aboriginal practices. She was awarded the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island Art Award in 2013 for her work Golden Brown Reeds Fish Trap, inspired by woven fish traps from northeast Arnhem Land and Cape York. She used glass to make traditional Indigenous forms, melding a non-traditional medium with traditional woven objects to create her own interpretation of two art forms. Martiniello has won numerous awards and honours for her art practice, including the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Arts Visual Arts Fellowship (2013-15) and the Bay of Fires Art Prize (2016). In 2018 she was a resident artist at the Chrysler Museum of Art Glass Studio in Norfolk Virginia and at Kluge Ruhe Museum of Aboriginal Art at the University of Virginia. Her works are held in major national and international public and private collections, including the Canberra Museum and Gallery, the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, the National Gallery of Australia, the National Museum of Australia, the National Library of Australia, the Australian Parliament House, the Belau National Museum and the British Museum.\nMartiniello previously held a position on the Advisory Board for the Australian Centre for Indigenous History at the ANU. She is a former member and Deputy Chair of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Arts Board of the Australian Council of Arts and has served on Advisory Boards of the Canberra Museum and Gallery, the ACT Writers Centre, CraftACT, AIATSIS Press and the Australia Council Multicultural Arts Advisory Committee. Martiniello was the ACT Senior Australian of the Year Nominee in 2018 and was awarded the Order of Australia (OAM) in the 2022 Queen's Birthday Honours for services to the creative and visual arts. \"\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/jenni-kemarre-martiniello-reinvents-the-ancient-indigenous-tradition-of-weaving-but-with-glass\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/author-profile-jennifer-martiniello\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/jennifer-a-martiniello-austlit-discover-australian-stories\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/award-extract-australian-honours-search-facility\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/australias-blak-history-month-profile\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/death-letter-projects\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/jenni-kemarre-martiniello-interviewed-by-mary-hutchison-in-the-centenary-of-canberra-oral-history-project-2014\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Ekblom, Aileen Christina", "Entry ID": "AWE26022624", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/ekblom-aileen-christina\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Strathalbyn, South Australia, Australia", "Death Place": "Adelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Businesswoman, Mayor", "Summary": "Aileen Ekblom was the first female mayor of Whyalla, serving from 1975 to 1991.\n", "Details": "Aileen Ekblom served the people of Whyalla as a commissioner on the Town Commission from 1967 for three years, then as a councillor on the newly formed City of Whyalla Council for five years, before standing unopposed for the position of Mayor. She was the first female to hold the position and held it from 1975 to 1991.\nShe was also chair of both the Northern and Eyre Peninsula Local Government Associations, the North Flinders Planning Committee, the Whyalla Jubilee 150 Committee, and a member of the Eyre Peninsula Cultural Trust, the South Australian Health Commission, the South Australian Jubilee 150 Board and the Whyalla Hospital Board.\nPrior to her local government positions, Aileen managed a women's fashion store in Whyalla. She was married to Anders Ekblom, a merchant sea captain, in 1961.\nShe was appointed an Officer in the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 1979 for her service to local government. Ekblom Street in Whyalla is named after her in recognition that she was the first woman elected to the Town Commission.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/the-passing-of-whyallas-first-lady-farewell-aileen\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/biographical-cuttings-on-aileen-ekblom-o-b-e-businesswoman-and-whyallas-first-woman-mayor-containing-one-or-more-cuttings-from-newspapers-or-journals\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/interview-with-aileen-christina-ekblom-sound-recording\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Bates, Daisy May", "Entry ID": "AWE0050", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/bates-daisy-may\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Tipperary, Ireland", "Death Place": "Prospect, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Anthropologist, Journalist", "Summary": "A self-taught anthropologist, Daisy Bates conducted fieldwork amongst several Indigenous nations in western and southern Australia. She supported herself largely by writing articles for urban newspapers on such topics as 'native cannibalism' and the 'doomed' fate of Indigenous peoples. Bates also published her work on Indigenous kinship systems, marriage laws, language and religion in books and articles. She was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) for Aboriginal welfare work in 1934.\nBates' birth year was changed from 1863 to 1859 on 16 January 2018 after consulting the references in Bob Reece's work Daisy Bates: Grand dame of the desert and Susanna De Vries' book Desert Queen: The many lives and loves of Daisy Bates.\n", "Details": "Daisy May Bates first arrived in Australia in 1884 and worked as a governess in Berry, New South Wales from 1884-1885. She worked on the Review of Reviews in London, 1894-1899, gaining expertise in journalism.\nFrom 1899-1900 she was at the Trappist mission, Beagle Bay, north of Broome and in 1904 was appointed by the Western Australian government to research the tribes of the State. Bates was a member of an expedition led by A.R. Radcliffe-Brown to study the social anthropology of Aboriginal people of north-west Australia in 1910.\nOver more than twenty years Bates camped at several locations in South Australia and Western Australia; Eucla, 1912-1914; near Yalata, 1915-1918; and near Ooldea, 1918-1934; She was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) for Aboriginal welfare work on January 1, 1934. She was a member of the British Royal Anthropological Institute and the Australasian Anthropological Institute.\nBates wrote her autobiography 'My natives and I' in a tent at Pyap, South Australia, 1935-1940. This was serialised in The Adelaide Advertiser and later edited and published as The Passing of the Aborigines in 1938. Her articles appeared in several newspapers, including The Catholic Record, The Western Mail, The Adelaide Advertiser, and The Children's Newspaper.\nShe lived in Wynbring, east of Ooldea, South Australia from 1941 until old age and failing health led her to return to Adelaide in 1945, where she remained until her death in 1951.\nBates is remembered in an ambivalent light by Indigenous and non-Indigenous folk-lore, and has been represented in children's literature, theatre, film and opera. According to the Australian Dictionary of Biography, Bates was given the affectionate name 'Kabbarli', meaning 'grandmotherly person'; the Encyclopaedia of Aboriginal Australia records that Anangu people living at Yalata have referred to Bates as 'Daiji Bate mamu' ('mamu' meaning ghost or devil) and as 'that poor old lady at Ooldea.'\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/daisy-bates-2\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/first-in-their-field-women-and-australian-anthropology\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/bates-daisy-may-1863-1951\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/100-great-australians\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/kabbarli\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/down-the-hole-up-the-tree-across-the-sandhills-running-from-the-state-and-daisy-bates\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/daisy-bates-keeper-of-totems\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/daisy-bates-in-the-desert\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/aboriginal-perth-and-bibbulmun-biographies-and-legends\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/the-native-tribes-of-western-australia\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/portraits-of-australian-women-sound-recording\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/kabbarli-a-personal-memoir-of-daisy-bates\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/tales-told-to-kabbarli-aboriginal-legends-collected-by-daisy-bates\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/daisy-bates-the-great-white-queen-of-the-never-never\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/the-passing-of-the-aborigines-a-lifetime-spent-among-the-natives-of-australia\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/social-organization-of-some-western-australian-tribes\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/aborigines-of-the-west-coast-of-south-australia-vocabularies-and-ethnographical-notes\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/the-marriage-laws-and-some-customs-of-the-western-australian-aborigines\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/kabbarli-a-film-about-daisy-bates\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/imagined-destinies-aboriginal-australians-and-the-doomed-race-theory-1880-1939\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/the-sphere-the-empires-illustrated-weekly-london\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/guide-to-the-papers-of-daisy-bates\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/daisy-may-bates\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/an-evaluation-of-daisy-bates-passing-of-the-aborigines-london-john-murray-ltd-1972\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/reflections-profiles-of-150-women-who-helped-make-western-australias-history-project-of-the-womens-committee-for-the-150th-anniversary-celebrations-of-western-australia\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/the-encyclopaedia-of-aboriginal-australia-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander-history-society-and-culture\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/australian-women-writers-a-bibliographic-guide\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/where-are-the-women-in-australian-science-2\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/uphill-all-the-way-a-documentary-history-of-women-in-australia\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/efforts-made-by-western-australia-towards-the-betterment-of-her-aborigines\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/200-australian-women-a-redress-anthology\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/faith-hope-and-charity-australian-women-and-imperial-honours-1901-1989\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/the-encyclopedia-of-women-and-leadership-in-twentieth-century-australia\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/papers-of-alexander-gore-gowrie-1835-1987-manuscript\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/letters-1918-1946-manuscript\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/sir-john-burton-cleland-1878-1971-papers-principally-relating-to-anthropology-and-medicine\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/papers-1907-1940-manuscript\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/papers-of-daisy-bates-1833-1990-manuscript\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/bates-daisy-may-aa-23\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/daisy-mary-bates-correspondence-1910-1942\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/daisy-bates-summary-record\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/letters-to-john-mathew-ca-1905-1913-manuscript\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/daisy-may-bates-records\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/letter-to-a-j-vogan-relating-to-mrs-bates\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/alvis-brooks-interviewed-by-marian-hinchcliffe-sound-recording\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/biographical-cuttings-on-daisy-bates-ethnologist-containing-one-or-more-cuttings-from-newspapers-or-journals\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/field-diaries-notebooks-and-other-data-relating-to-fieldwork\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/daisy-bates\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/papers-relating-to-daisy-bates-comments-on-her-manuscript-of-the-native-tribes-of-western-australia\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/white-mother-to-a-black-race-by-mrs-daisy-bates\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/you-would-have-loved-her-for-her-lore-the-letters-of-daisy-bates\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/series-of-ceremonies-eucla-district-natives-daisy-bates\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/papers-of-daisy-bates-1905-1921-manuscript\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/correspondence-of-daisy-bates-1941-1943-manuscript\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/letters-1901-1951-manuscript\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/letters-and-diary-1911-1931-manuscript\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/papers-of-daisy-bates-1905-1913-manuscript\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/correspondence-2\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/papers-1907-manuscript\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/papers-1907-1940-manuscript-2\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/request-that-publicity-in-ireland-be-given-to-work-done-by-mrs-daisy-bates-in-australia\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/bates-mrs-daisy-may\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/papers-of-eleanor-witcombe-1941-1987-manuscript\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/papers-of-elizabeth-salter-1922-1980-manuscript\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/papers-1920-1956-manuscript\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/typescripts-and-photographs-ca-1947-manuscript\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/kathleen-hilfers-summary-record\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/letters-1943-44\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/letter-to-fitzherbert-21-8-31-and-vocabularies\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/georgina-king-papers-1889-1930\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/letter-to-fitzherbert-12-8-31-incl-ibaris-information\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/letter-to-fitzherbert-5-4-32-and-vocabularies\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/correspondence-from-daisy-bates-on-the-treatment-of-aborigines\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/letter-to-fitzherbert-9-11-31-and-vocabularies\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/georgina-king-papers-1888-1921\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/letters-from-daisy-bates-1905-11\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/draft-letter-and-queries-and-remarks-a-w-hewitt-to-daisy-bates-10-september-1905-and-6-november-1905\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/correspondence-with-the-national-library-and-photocopies-of-photographs-relating-to-the-funeral-of-daisy-bates\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/papers-of-nancy-lutton-1918-2007-bulk-1960-2007-manuscript\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/papers-of-ernest-william-pearson-chinnery-1897-1971-manuscript\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/aborigines-friends-association-summary-record\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/darwin-nt-adelaide-sa-daisy-bates\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/collection-of-papers-on-western-australian-history-1829-1966-manuscript\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/letter-1928-nov-10-ooldea-to-phoebe-kirwan\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/susanna-de-vries-papers\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/dorothy-green-manuscript-collection-1918-1990\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/rory-barnes-manuscript-collection\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/papers-of-william-hurst-1918-1956-manuscript\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/nancy-robinson-summary-record\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/ernestine-hill-papers\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Holt, Lillian Rose", "Entry ID": "AWE0113", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/holt-lillian-rose\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Cherbourg Aboriginal Settlement, Queensland, Australia", "Death Place": "Adelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Educator", "Summary": "Lillian Holt was a member of the first generation of Aboriginal high school and university graduates and had an impressive track record of full time work, study and concomitant achievements. She traversed new terrain in order that younger ones might follow.\nLillian worked or studied full time since the age of 17. She worked as an educator in Aboriginal affairs and education \"25 hours a day, eight days a week\"! She was appointed as a University of Melbourne Fellow in 2003 -2005, prior to that she was Director of the Centre for Indigenous Education, University of Melbourne.\nLillian Holt passed away on her birthday in February 2020, at the age of 75.\n", "Details": "In 1960, at a time when Aboriginal students rarely attended secondary school, Lillian was among the first dozen Aboriginal students to go to Murgon High School, Queensland, following her sister's entry to the school the previous year. There she studied for her junior certificate (year 10).\nIn the early 60's Lillian became secretary of the Opal Younger Set, Opal, Brisbane. Opal held monthly dances for the Aboriginal community and Lillian was instrumental in organising family occasions for the Aboriginal community in Brisbane.\nIn 1967 she returned to study for her senior (year 12) matriculation in order to enter university, as there was no special entry nor mature age entry in those days. Hence, she competed openly in the mainstream and gained her matriculation in one year studying at Hubbard Academy in Brisbane.\nIn 1977 Lillian completed a Bachelor of Arts at the University of Queensland, with majors in English and Journalism. She was awarded her Master of Arts by the University of Northern Colorado in 1980, and by 2000 had enrolled as a PhD candidate at the University of Melbourne.\nLillian is the first Aboriginal person to have worked for the Australian Broadcasting Commission (now Corporation) in Queensland. Her four years at Brisbane (1962-1966) were followed by a further four working in administration for Sydney's ABC. She was the first Aboriginal Executive Officer for the National Aboriginal Education Committee, Canberra (a federal advisory body to the Commonwealth government) in 1978; and the first Aboriginal principal at Tauondi, Port Adelaide (an adult Aboriginal community college) from 1990-1996. She worked for sixteen years (1980-1996) at Tauondi, firstly as teacher, then deputy principal, then principal.\nLillian has been a public speaker for the past twenty years; her vast number of speaking engagements include the UN (Millennium Forum) New York (2000), the Sambell Oration for the Brotherhood of St Laurence (1993); and the Anglican National Conference (1995) entitled 'Towards the end of the century: What does it mean to be human?'. Her work has been published in a number of journals, magazines, and anthologies. Her speaking engagements have taken her around the world, to England, Kenya, Tanzania, Sweden, Ireland, New Zealand, Canada, the USA, Brazil, Thailand, the Philippines, Singapore, Papua New Guinea, Spain, Guatemala, India, Egypt, South Africa, Morocco, Hong Kong, Japan, the Czech Republic, France, and Greece.\nLillian's committee membership has included International Council of Adult Education, Asian South Pacific Bureau of Adult Education (Sri Lanka), and the Australian Association of Adult and Community Education, Canberra. She has also served on the Port Adelaide Centre Ministerial Advisory Committee, the Catholic Education Commission - Aboriginal Consultative Group, the South Australian Aboriginal Education Training Advisory Committee - Ministerial Appointment, the Board of Management, Tandanya (National Aboriginal Cultural Institute) - Ministerial Appointment, the Brotherhood of St Laurence - Melbourne - 'Future of Work' Project - Patron, and the Labour and Employment Aboriginal Reference Group - Warren Snowden Committee.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/one-aboriginal-womans-identity-walking-in-both-worlds\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/the-traps-that-come-with-the-trappings-a-conversation-with-lillian-holt-interview-conducted-by-tapping-carmel\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/aboriginal-justice-democracy-and-adult-education\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/work-an-aboriginal-perspective-the-twelfth-sambell-memorial-oration\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/challenging-outcomes\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Spence, Catherine Helen", "Entry ID": "AWE0221", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/spence-catherine-helen\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Near Melrose, Scotland", "Death Place": "Adelaide, South Australia", "Occupations": "Campaigner, Suffragist, Writer", "Summary": "Spence ran as a South Australian delegate to the Federal Constitutional Convention in 1897, the first woman political candidate in Australia. She was also active in the Women's Suffrage League and the South Australian National Council of Women.\n", "Events": "Inducted into the Victorian Honour Roll of Women (2001 - 2001)", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/catherine-helen-spence-her-achievements-and-firsts\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/catherine-spence\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/an-autobiography\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/catherine-helen-spence-a-study-and-an-appreciation\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/tenacious-of-the-past-the-recollections-of-helen-brodie\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/works-of-catherine-helen-spence\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/bibliography-of-catherine-helen-spence-compiled-in-the-research-service-of-the-public-library-of-south-australia-by-elizabeth-gunton\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/spence-catherine-helen-1825-1911\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/unbridling-the-tongues-of-women-a-biography-of-catherine-helen-spence\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/first-of-all\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/catherine-helen-spence-a-bibliography\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/in-her-own-name-a-history-of-women-in-south-australia-from-1836\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/johns-notable-australians-1906\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/the-changemakers-ten-significant-australian-women\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/living-in-south-australia-a-social-history\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/australian-women-writers-a-bibliographic-guide\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/uphill-all-the-way-a-documentary-history-of-women-in-australia\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/200-australian-women-a-redress-anthology\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/the-encyclopedia-of-women-and-leadership-in-twentieth-century-australia\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/catherine-helen-spence-summary-record\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/material-in-archival-and-other-institutions-microform\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/papers-1856-1909-microform-catherine-helen-spence\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/papers-1853-1900-microform\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/catherine-helen-spence-papers-1856-1909\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/speech-re-catherine-helen-spence\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/wemyss-family-summary-record\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/the-grand-old-woman-of-australia-literary-manuscript\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/unitarian-christian-church-adelaide-summary-record\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Blackburn, Jean Edna", "Entry ID": "AWE0332", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/blackburn-jean-edna\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Melbourne, Victoria, Australia", "Death Place": "Adelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Educator, Feminist", "Summary": "Jean Blackburn was a feminist, socialist and staunch advocate of the critical importance of good quality teaching and resources in shaping children's' lives. After completing an economics major at the University of Melbourne in1940 she became a research assistant for the Department of Economics. A mother who experienced the isolation of suburban living, she worked with Winifred Mitchell in organising the New Housewives' Association to help overcome this isolation.\nShe later completed a Diploma in Education and began her teaching career. In 1969 she was seconded as a consultant to the Committee of Enquiry into South Australian Education issuing the Karmel Report in 1973. This was the first of several such appointments. In 1983 she conducted a public enquiry into Victorian senior secondary education, issuing the Blackburn Report in 1985.\n", "Details": "Jean Blackburn took pleasure in the fact that she was born Jean Muir on 14 July, Bastille Day. The great democratic values of freedom, equality and solidarity inspired her ideas and values, and shine through her writings. She was born in 1919 in Melbourne and was educated in the public school system. The fact that, by the age of 21, she had graduated as a BA with Honours in Economics was largely a tribute to her own determination and thirst for knowledge. At the University of Melbourne, Jean joined the Labor Club and then the Communist Party.\nShe worked as a young woman with the War Office of Industry, before marrying Dick Blackburn and moving to Adelaide. Her work there as a secondary school teacher, while raising her family of three children, led her on to a public career in education policy. She left the Communist Party after the invasion of Hungary in 1956.\nAfter working as a consultant to a 1969-70 Committee of Enquiry into Education in South Australia headed by Prof. Peter Karmel, she was appointed Deputy Chair of the Interim Committee for the Australian Schools Commission in the early 70s, and a full-time member of the Commission for 7 years from 1974 to 1980. Her strong commitment to public values, her capacity for intellectual rigour and engagement with a range of views and her ability to express significant ideas in a lucid and inspiring way meant that she had a profound influence on Australian education. She was also one of the most profound feminist thinkers of her time.\nFrom 1983 -85 Jean Blackburn chaired the Ministerial Review of Post-compulsory Schooling in Victoria. She was the inaugural Chancellor of the University of Canberra from 1990-91, chaired the Victorian State Board of Education from 1991-92 and was founding chair of the State Suffrage Centenary Committee in South Australia from 1992-93. She was awarded honorary doctorates from three Australian Universities. She died in Adelaide in December 2001.\nAs well as this record of distinguished service and influence, it is Jean Blackburn's personal qualities and strength of character that explain her place as one of our most loved and revered leaders in education.\n", "Events": "Inaugural Australian College of Educators Jean Blackburn Oration given at Wilson Hall, The University of Melbourne. (2014 - 2014) \nInducted into the Victorian Honour Roll of Women (2002 - 2002)", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/whos-who-in-australia-2002\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/changing-approaches-to-equality-in-education\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/the-study-of-work-in-society-a-curriculum-proposal\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/australian-wives-today\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/changing-approaches-to-equality-in-education-lecture-given-at-the-australian-national-university-on-nov-19-1986\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/title-i-and-the-disadvantaged-schools-program\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/report-volume-1-ministerial-review-of-postcompulsory-schooling\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/passionate-for-schools-equity-jean-blackburn\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/from-lady-denman-to-katy-gallagher-a-century-of-womens-contributions-to-canberra\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/papers-of-jean-blackburn\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/jean-blackburn-interviewed-by-peter-biskup-sound-recording\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/interview-with-jean-blackburn-economist-educationalist-and-chancellor-university-of-canberra-sound-recording-interviewer-peter-read\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/jean-blackburn-interviewed-by-wendy-lowenstein-in-the-communists-and-the-left-in-the-arts-and-community-oral-history-project-sound-recording\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/jean-blackburn-interviewed-by-tony-ryan-for-the-conversations-with-australian-educators-oral-history-project-sound-recording\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/interview-with-jean-blackburn-sound-recording-interviewer-allison-murchie\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/interview-with-jean-blackburn-sound-recording-interviewer-kirstin-marks\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/interview-with-jean-blackburn-sound-recording-interviewer-allison-murchie-2\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/launch-of-the-barbara-hanrahan-memorial-exhibition-sound-recording\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Gehan, Gwenneth Victoria", "Entry ID": "AWE0519", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/gehan-gwenneth-victoria\/", "Type": "Person", "Death Place": "Glen Osmond, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Servicewoman", "Summary": "During World War II Gwenneth Gehan served with the Australian Women's Army Service, having been a member of the Women's Australian National Services previously. Upon completion of the Officers' Training Course she was posted to the Quartermaster's Department, Victoria Barracks, Sydney. Later she transferred to the Recruit Training School, Killara and towards the end of 1942 accompanied a draft of Signalwomen to Queensland. At the time of her discharge on 23 April 1946 Gehan held the rank of Major.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/gehan-gwenneth-victoria-2\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Gu\u00e9rin, Julia Margaret (Bella)", "Entry ID": "AWE0655", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/guerin-julia-margaret-bella\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Williamstown, Victoria, Australia", "Death Place": "Norwood, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Feminist, Political activist, Teacher", "Summary": "Bella Gu\u00e9rin became the first woman to graduate from an Australian university when she was awarded her Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Melbourne (number 255) in December 1883. She taught first at Loreto Convent, Ballarat then as lady principal of Ballarat School of Mines university classes, resigning upon marriage to Henry Halloran. A civil servant and poet, Halloran married Gu\u00e9rin on 28 June 1891 aged 80. Following his death Gu\u00e9rin married George D'Arcie Lavender.\nBella Gu\u00e9rin was politically active and a member of the suffrage movement. She became vice-president of the Women's Political Association in 1912, and later joined the Labor Party.\n", "Events": "Appointed vice-president of the Labor Party's Women's Central Organizing Committee (1918 - 1918) \nAwarded a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Melbourne (number 255) (1883 - ) \nCo-authored Vida Goldstein's Senate election pamphlet (1913 - 1913) \nLed the Labor Women's Anti-Conscription Fellowship campaign during the referendum (1916 - 1916) \nMarried 80 year old Henry Halloran (died 19 May 1893) at St Patrick's Cathedral, Melbourne, she bore him a son, Henry Marco. (1891 - ) \nMarried George D'Arcie Lavender, 30 years her junior (1909 - 1909) \nOffice-bearer with the Bendigo Women's Franchise League (1898 - 1903) \nPassed the University of Melbourne Matriculation Examination, passing in Latin, English, French, Arithmetic, Algebra, Euclid and History (1878 - ) \nTeacher at schools in Camperdown, South Yarra, St Kilda, Parkville and Brunswick (1904 - 1917) \nVice-president of the Women's Political Association (1912 - 1914)", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/bella-guerin-m-a-first-lady-graduate\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/bella-lavender\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/guerin-julia-margaret-1858-1923\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/200-australian-women-a-redress-anthology\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/guerin-bella\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Walker, Ellinor Gertrude", "Entry ID": "AWE0665", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/walker-ellinor-gertrude\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Melbourne, Victoria, Australia", "Death Place": "Adelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Educator, Poet, Women's rights activist", "Summary": "Daughter of Arthur Walker and his wife Frances (n\u00e9e Sinclair), Ellinor Walker was born in Melbourne, Victoria and moved to Adelaide, South Australia when she was nine years old. She attended the Wilderness School, and was awarded the Tennyson Medal for English at the age of fifteen. Walker graduated as a kindergarten teacher, and spent two years as Director of the Halifax St Free Kindergarten. She then opened the Greenways School at her family home in Fullarton, and directed this for 24 years. At the age of eighteen she and a friend formed a Girls' Club to study political matters, and this led to her joining, at the age of 21, the Non-Party Association. She was an active member of this for 65 years, and when (as the League of Women Voters, which it had become) it voluntarily ended in 1979, she gave the valedictory speech. She was a passionate supporter of the League of Nations and the movement to maintain world peace. In 1940, with the help of Roma Mitchell (later Governor of South Australia) she drew up the Bill which became the Guardianship of Infants Act, No. 55 (1940), giving mothers equal rights with fathers over their children. In 1962 and 1963 she organised an Australia-wide campaign which resulted in recognition of the needs of civilian widows with dependent children. She was a member of the Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU). In 1964 she helped form the Local Government Women's Association, and in 1971 was president of the Women's Christian Temperance League, of which she had been a member since 1935. Walker wrote several historical pageants and she also wrote a monologue, 'The Story of the Franchise: How Women Won the Vote in SA' (1944) for the Golden Jubilee of Women's Suffrage. Her poem 'Lullaby' was set to music by Ruby R McCulloch, and is held in the Mortlock Library. Ellinor Walker was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire on 12 June 1971 for her service to the community.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/south-australian-creative-writers-women-writers\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/in-her-own-name-women-in-south-australian-history\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/fresh-evidence-new-witnesses-finding-womens-history\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/ellinor-gertrude-walker-summary-record\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/interview-with-ellinor-walker-sound-recording-interviewer-anne-geddes\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/radio-interview-with-ellinor-walker-sound-recording-interviewer-janet-robertson\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/autobiographical-notes\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/citation-for-life-membership\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/copyright-certificates\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/interview-with-ellinor-gertrude-walker-sound-recording-interviewer-mary-hutchison\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/interview-with-ellinor-gertrude-walker-sound-recording-interviewer-beth-m-robertson\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/juvenile-writings\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/letters-invitation-and-postcards\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/list-of-holidays\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/musical-scores\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/newspaper-cutting\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/obituaries\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/papers-relating-to-pageants\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/photographs\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/play-scripts-for-performance\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/poetry\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/typescripts-of-ellinor-walker\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/girls-social-political-union-summary-record\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Wilson, Octavia", "Entry ID": "AWE0666", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/wilson-octavia\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Wells-next-the-Sea, Norfolk, England", "Death Place": "Adelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Summary": "Octavia Wilson, daughter of Thomas Samson of Berwick upon Tweed, married a congregational minister the Reverend William Wilson (1827-1895) in 1855. They both emigrated to Australia in 1857 and founded Point Pearce Aboriginal mission.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/octavia-wilson-summary-record\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Miller, Beryl", "Entry ID": "AWE0670", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/miller-beryl\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Geelong, Victoria, Australia", "Death Place": "Adelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Women's rights activist", "Summary": "Beryl Miller was born in Geelong, Victoria. The daughter of British migrants she came to Adelaide after her marriage in 1945. She joined the Eureka Youth League at 15 and joined joining the Communist Party of Australia in 1952. She was involved with the Union of Australian Women, the Women's International Democratic Federation and the Australian Peace Committee. She left the Communist Party and became a foundation member of the Socialist Party of Australia. Miller represented South Australia in 1964 when the Communist Party of Australia organised the first women's delegation to Russia.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/interview-with-beryl-miller-sound-recording-interviewer-allison-murchie\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/interview-with-beryl-miller-sound-recording-interviewer-kirstin-marks\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Fritsch, Berthe Mathilde", "Entry ID": "AWE0673", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/fritsch-berthe-mathilde\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Baranduda, Victoria, Australia", "Death Place": "South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Missionary", "Summary": "Berthe Mathilde Fritsch (n\u00e9e Simpfendor) was born in 1896 in the Baranduda - Leneva District in Victoria, Australia. Her father was a Lutheran Pastor. She took over the housekeeping duties after her mother died in 1920. She married Walter Fritsch in 1922, moved to New South Wales then back to Victoria, before settling in Adelaide in 1938 at St Stephen's. There she joined the Lutheran Women's Guild, and the Lutheran Women's Association of South Australia. Fritsch served on the Ladies' Committee of Emmanuel College from 1942-1971 and represented the Lutheran Women's Association at the Women's Jubilee Convention in Canberra in 1951. In 1954 she went to Minneapolis, USA, to the LWF (Lutheran Womens' Federation?) assembly. She had 5 daughters who all graduated from the University of Adelaide.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/memoirs-of-mak-le\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Cooper, Mavis Dawn", "Entry ID": "AWE0684", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/cooper-mavis-dawn\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Bairnsdale, Victoria, Australia", "Death Place": "Jamestown, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Community worker", "Summary": "Mavis Cooper, n\u00e9e Price, was born in Bairnsdale, Victoria and grew up in Melbourne. She trained as a nurse and moved to Jamestown, South Australia after she met her future husband, a farmer, on holiday there. After joining the Country Women's Association's choir in 1957, she was soon an office holder in the local branch. She progressed from Branch President to State President in 1974 and then National President in 1977. Mavis Cooper was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire on 14 June 1980 for service to the Country Women's Association.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/the-many-hats-of-country-women-the-jubilee-history-of-the-country-womens-association-of-australia\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/interview-with-mavis-dawn-cooper-sound-recording-interviewer-june-donovan\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Furner, Elizabeth", "Entry ID": "AWE0690", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/furner-elizabeth\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "London, England", "Death Place": "Adelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Women's rights activist, Writer", "Summary": "Elizabeth Furner (formerly Laurenson and Guy) was born in London, England. Her parents separated when she was a child. Elizabeth married a soldier in 1941 and they emigrated to Australia in 1952 with their four year old son. They came to Adelaide, via Tasmania and Sydney, in 1961. It was at this time that Elizabeth began taking an interest in both writing and local government, stimulated by her disgust with discriminatory franchise laws. She joined the Australian Local Government Women's Association, rising quickly to President of the South Australian Branch, and did much public speaking as well as standing for council in North Brighton. In the early 1970s Elizabeth founded the Brighton Writers' Workshop from which the South Australian Branch of the Society of Women Writers was formed.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/interview-with-elizabeth-furner-sound-recording-interviewer-june-donovan\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Tonkin, Miriam", "Entry ID": "AWE0695", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/tonkin-miriam\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Melbourne, Victoria, Australia", "Death Place": "Adelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Kindergarten teacher, Peace activist, Women's health advocate, Women's rights activist", "Summary": "Miriam Tonkin, n\u00e9e Brunning, was born in Melbourne, Victoria. She left school at 13 years of age to begin work. She was very active in the Eureka Youth League as a teenager and worked on the Communist Party's Guardian newspaper. Married in 1950 she and her husband moved to Adelaide with their five young children in 1958. In the late 1960s Tonkin became involved in the peace movement and Women's Liberation. Her belief in women's right to control their fertility led to her involvement in organisations including the Humanist Society, the Abortion Law Reform Association and the Friends of the Pregnancy Advisory Centre. Tonkin qualified as a kindergarten teacher in the mid 1970s and became active in her union and in education reform as well.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/interview-with-miriam-tonkin-sound-recording-interviewer-barbara-baird\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Jeffreys, Irene Florence", "Entry ID": "AWE0697", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/jeffreys-irene-florence\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "London, England", "Death Place": "Adelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Accountant", "Summary": "Irene Jeffreys was born in London, England. She migrated to Australia in 1922 with her parents. Determined from the age of 12 to be an accountant, Irene attended Adelaide Technical High school. She went to work at the age of 16 but studied for the Federal Institute of Accountants diploma at night at the School of Mines. In 1942 she was the first South Australian woman to qualify by examination for the Institute of Chartered Accountants. Irene's accountancy practice and personal interests included much involvement in the Church of England, particularly the Church Missionary Society and the General Synod, where she pioneered the involvement of South Australian women. Irene supported the movement for the ordination of women and is herself licensed as a lay preacher. For many years she was involved with the National Council of Women. On 3 June 1978 Irene Jeffreys was appointed an Officer to the Order of the British Empire for service to the church, women, children and the aged.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/the-encyclopedia-of-women-and-leadership-in-twentieth-century-australia\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/interview-with-irene-jeffreys-sound-recording-interviewer-helen-chryssides\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Lee, Mary", "Entry ID": "AWE0823", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/lee-mary\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Monaghan, Ireland", "Death Place": "North Adelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Suffragist, Union activist, Welfare worker", "Summary": "Mary Lee became secretary of the Women's Suffrage League of South Australia in 1888. She served with the Female Refuge ladies' committee, the Distressed Women's and Children's Committee and the Adelaide Sick Poor Fund, and was secretary of the Working Women's Trades Union.\n", "Details": "Born in Ireland, Mary Walsh married George Lee in 1844 and they had seven children. By 1879 Lee was widowed. She sailed with her daughter to Adelaide that year to nurse her sick son, who later died. In 1883 she became foundation secretary of the ladies' division of the Social Purity Society, working to improve conditions for women by campaigning to raise the age of consent to sixteen. The Society soon recognised that women's suffrage was essential to their aims. Accordingly the Women's Suffrage League was inaugurated in 1888 with Lee as secretary. It was mainly due to the combined efforts of Lee and close friend Mary Colton, who was President of the League from 1892 onwards, that suffrage was won in South Australia in 1894.\nLee was a vigorous campaigner albeit sometimes abrasive, and she traversed South Australia to speak at meetings while also organising petitions, deputations and corresponding with women in the other colonies on how to organise suffrage leagues. In 1892 she visited Broken Hill in outback New South Wales to report for the Adelaide Sick Poor Fund upon the condition of women and children there after a major industrial strike. Lee took the opportunity to deliver an address on women's suffrage at the Theatre Royal in Broken Hill, though the local paper reported only a moderate attendance. Prior to her visit Lee had written to the Barrier Miner and her letter was published on 1 September 1892:\nI congratulate my working brothers on their respect for law - their avoidance of all which might provoke to fund, or sew the seeds of an after-crop of bitterness - on their patience under misrepresentation and provocation\u2026 But Sir, this strike has one feature which renders it more profoundly interesting than any of its predecessors here, or elsewhere as far as I know, and which must secure it a prominent and distinguished page when the history of these colonies shall come to be written. It is the fact that the women of Broken Hill are the first great body of working women who have raised their voices in united protest against the glaring injustice that \"the present Constitution will not allow them a voice in the framing of the laws under which they are compelled to live.\"\u2026 May the memory of those woes and distresses which have awakened in the women of Broken Hill the spirit of liberty kindle that spirit to such a glow that the hearts of the \"fathers, brothers, husbands and sweethearts\" shall burn with the determination that the liberty which they prize so dearly shall be shared by those most dear to them; that the sons of freed men shall have freed mothers; that they shall bequeath to their daughters that grandest of human heritages -freedom!\nIn 1889 Lee proposed the formation of a trade union for women and became secretary of the Working Women's Trades Union when it was inaugurated the following year. She was a delegate to the Trades and Labor Council and committee member of the Female Refuge ladies' committee as well as the Distressed Women's and Children's Committee. In 1896 she was appointed by the government as first female official visitor to the lunatic asylums, a position that she held for the next twelve years. Despite her work for social reform, she was not financially rewarded and her last years were spent in poverty. She died in her home in North Adelaide in 1909.\n", "Events": "Inducted into the Victorian Honour Roll of Women (2001 - 2001)", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/fresh-evidence-new-witnesses-finding-womens-history\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/mary-lee\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/in-her-own-name-women-in-south-australian-history\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/mary-lee-1821-1909-let-her-name-be-honoured\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/lee-mary-1821-1909\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/s-a-s-greats-the-men-and-women-of-the-north-terrace-plaques\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/200-australian-women-a-redress-anthology\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/unbroken-spirit-women-in-broken-hill\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/the-encyclopedia-of-women-and-leadership-in-twentieth-century-australia\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/letters-from-mary-lee\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/lee-mary-2\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Mocatta, Mildred", "Entry ID": "AWE0834", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/mocatta-mildred\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "St Leonards, New South Wales, Australia", "Death Place": "Hackney, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Anaesthetist, Medical practitioner", "Summary": "Dr Mildred Mocatta, a diagnostician, conducted a practice in Adelaide.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/passion-of-a-lifetime\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/greater-than-their-knowing-a-glimpse-of-south-australian-women-1836-1986\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/interview-with-mildred-mocatta-sound-recording-interviewer-stella-sobels\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/interview-with-mildred-mocatta-sound-recording-interviewer-anne-geddes\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/biographical-cuttings-on-mildred-mocatta-dr-kindergarten-principal-and-artist-containing-one-or-more-cuttings-from-newspapers-or-journals\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Howard, Patience", "Entry ID": "AWE0841", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/howard-patience\/", "Type": "Person", "Death Place": "South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Community worker, Teacher", "Summary": "Patience Howard moved around a lot during her childhood. As a small child, she lived in Central South Australia at Bungaree. She was educated at Miss Dow's boarding school at Glenelg, 1912 at \"The Hermitage\" in Victoria, and from 1914 at Frensham's Girls' school in New South Wales. Later she attended Bedford College in London to study history. During the 1920s she went to an International Students' conference in Prague before returning to Adelaide in 1924. Howard became a teacher at Woodlands and then Girton Girls' School in Adelaide. Here she met Mabel Hardy and together they established the Stawell School at Mt Lofty. In 1928 she married Roy Howard. Following his death she and her children moved to Bungaree and then Kensington Park. A member of the Lyceum Club and the Labor Party she also spent time working with meals on wheels.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/interview-with-patience-howard-sound-recording-interviewer-yvonne-abbott\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Casley-Smith, Marjorie", "Entry ID": "AWE0842", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/casley-smith-marjorie\/", "Type": "Person", "Death Place": "South Australia", "Occupations": "Medical practitioner", "Summary": "Dr Marjorie Casley-Smith was educated at the Methodist Ladies' College (now Annesley College in Adelaide). Upon finishing she spent two years at home learning music and the domestic arts before studying medicine. Following graduation, in 1927, she went to the Royal Adelaide Hospital as House Surgeon under Dr Sleeman. She completed obstetrics at Adelaide's Queen Victoria Hospital. In 1930 she married Roy Frisby Smith, a lawyer. After her husband's death, in 1938, she returned to work at the School Medical Health Service. Casley-Smith became Vice President of the National Council of Women of South Australia. She became convenor of Health for SA and Australian Convenor of Health. Dr Casley-Smith started the Marriage Guidance Council, was active in the Asthma Association, and the Mental Health Association. She was involved with music and was an early member of the Lyceum Club.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/interview-with-marjorie-caseley-smith-sound-recording-interviewer-yvonne-abbott\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Cochrane, June", "Entry ID": "AWE0850", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/cochrane-june\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Casterton, Victoria, Australia", "Death Place": "Adelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Nurse, Nurse educator", "Summary": "June Cochrane began nursing training at the Royal Adelaide Hospital in 1950 and became a nurse educator after a chronic disability prevented her from continuing as a clinical nurse. For nineteen years she was the Principal Nurse Educator at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Adelaide. She was an active member of the Royal Australian Nursing Federation and council member of the Royal College of Nursing Australia, becoming its Executive Director in 1981. She was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) in 1992 for services to nursing.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/interview-with-june-cochrane-sound-recording-interviewer-joan-durdin\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Wotherspoon, Judith", "Entry ID": "AWE0870", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/wotherspoon-judith\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Melbourne, Victoria, Australia", "Death Place": "Adelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Nurse, Nurse educator", "Summary": "Judith Wotherspoon was born in Melbourne and came to Adelaide with her parents at the age of eight. After nursing in Papua New Guinea, Britain and Canada, Judith studied at Flinders University for a Bachelor of Arts degree. Subsequently she worked in the field of community health and as a part-time lecturer at Sturt College of Advanced Education. Between 1982 and 1985 she was senior lecturer in nursing at the Darwin Community College, then went to the University of New South Wales to complete a masters degree in health planning. In 1988 she took up an appointment as lecturer in nursing at the South Australian Institute of Technology (now the University of South Australia).\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/interview-with-judith-wotherspoon-sound-recording-interviewer-joan-durdin\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Cranswick, Isobel (Hilary)", "Entry ID": "AWE0872", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/cranswick-isobel-hilary\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Victoria, Australia", "Death Place": "South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Nurse, Servicewoman", "Summary": "Hilary Cranswick, n\u00e9e Hogarth, was born in Victoria. When her father enlisted in the war Hilary came with her mother and sister to live with relatives in Adelaide. Her father was killed during the war. She went to Britain in 1939 and held many wartime nursing positions including accompanying children of one of her employers to Canada when the blitz necessitated their evacuation. On returning to Australia in 1942 Hilary joined the Australian Army Nursing Service and had postings in Papua New Guinea and in New South Wales. She retired from nursing after her marriage.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/hogarth-isobel-hilary\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/interview-with-hilary-cranswick-sound-recording-interviewer-joan-durdin\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Lake, Serena Thorne", "Entry ID": "AWE0899", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/lake-serena-thorne\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Devon, United Kingdom", "Death Place": "South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Missionary, Preacher, Social reformer, Suffragist", "Summary": "Serena Thorne was born in Devon in October 1842, daughter of Samuel and Mary Thorne. In 1865 the church sent her to Queensland to help establish Bible Christianity and she arrived in South Australia in 1870, preaching throughout the colony from church halls to street corners. In March 1871 she married Octavius Lake whom she had known in Devon and they worked together to further Bible Christianity in South Australia. Serena Lake attended the foundation meeting of the South Australian Women's Suffrage League in 1888 and was appointed to the Council. In 1889 the Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) appointed her to the dual positions of Colonial organizer and Suffrage superintendent. In 1891 she was made a life vice-president of the WCTU. She died in 1902 aged 60.\n", "Details": "Serena Thorne was born in Devon in October 1842, daughter of Samuel and Mary Thorne. Her grandfather, William O'Bryan was founder and co-organizer of the Bible Christian Church which welcomed women preachers. By the age of twenty one Serena Thorne had already become well known throughout Devon, Cornwall and South Wales as a preacher. In 1865 the church sent her to Queensland to help establish Bible Christianity and in 1870 she moved first to Victoria and South Australia soon after. She received a warm welcome in South Australia and preached at churches in Adelaide and country areas. In March 1871 she married Octavius Lake whom she had known in Devon and they worked together to further Bible Christianity in South Australia. They had seven children of whom only one survived. Serena Lake attended the foundation meeting of the South Australian Women's Suffrage League and was appointed to the Council. She was almost certainly a member of the Social Purity Society as she was familiar with the background of the League's foundation. In 1889 the Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) appointed her to the dual positions of Colonial organizer and Suffrage superintendent. In 1891 she was made a life vice-president of the WCTU. At the 1892 annual South Australian Women's Suffrage League meeting she spoke eloquently in support of Mary Lee's report, seconded by Catherine Helen Spence. After this, however, she did not appear again in either the League or WCTU records and when suffrage was won the Lakes were at Moonta in country South Australia carrying on their missionary and pastoral work. She died in 1902 aged 60.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/in-her-own-name-women-in-south-australian-history\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/serena-thorne-lake-1842-1902\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/womans-christian-temperance-union-of-south-australia-summary-record\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "West, Doris", "Entry ID": "AWE0906", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/west-doris\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Horsham, Victoria, Australia", "Death Place": "Adelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Teacher", "Summary": "Dorrie West went to school in Horsham, Victoria, before moving to Adelaide with her family. She completed a Bachelor of Arts at the University of Adelaide in 1921 and her teacher training. A teacher at Adelaide High School she left her position upon marriage in 1934, as was the custom of the time. During World War II she returned to teaching. She was an active member of both the YWCA and the Australian Federation of University Women. Following the death of her husband she joined the Lyceum Club and was President 1957-59. Her bequest to the University of Adelaide supports postgraduate scholarships for women and concerts at the Elder Conservatorium in Adelaide. Relatives remember Dorrie as being very engaging and encouraging.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/interview-with-dorothy-west-sound-recording-interviewer-yvonne-abbott\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/interview-with-mrs-doris-west-nee-hunter-sound-recording-interviewer-pamela-runge\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Hone, Maisie", "Entry ID": "AWE0907", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/hone-maisie\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Mitcham", "Death Place": "South Australia, Australia", "Summary": "Maisie Hone was born in 1897 in Mitcham. Her family moved to London when she was three so her father could study medicine. On their return he bought a motor car which was driven by a chauffeur. She went to school at Mitcham, Miss Thornber's and MLC and studied at Adelaide University. She organised annual concerts for women only. In 1923 she married Ray Hone and they went to England on a cargo ship as Ray was the ship's doctor. They returned in 1924 and their daughter Mary was born. Hone joined the Lyceum Club when it was still on North Terrace and was involved in the luncheons and the circles. Ray was away for three and a half years during the war. She started looking after children on Friday mornings to help mothers on their own and continued this for 20 years.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/interview-with-maisie-hone-sound-recording-interviewer-yvonne-abbott\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/interview-with-maisie-hone-sound-recording-interviewer-pamela-runge\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/interview-with-maisie-hone-sound-recording-interviewer-beth-m-robertson\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Gooden, Margaret (Peg)", "Entry ID": "AWE0912", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/gooden-margaret-peg\/", "Type": "Person", "Death Place": "South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Community worker", "Summary": "Peg Gooden was born in 1900. Her father died when she was young so she and her mother lived with her grandparents in North Adelaide. She went to St Peter's Girls' School. In 1923 she married Harvey Lawton and they lived at Lower Mitcham and joined St Columba's Church in Hawthorn. Harvey Lawton died in 1930 and she married Lance Gooden in 1935. During World War II Peg joined the Comforts Fund committee and worked on the sock table. Music played a large part in Gooden's life and she played at Lyceum Club lunches. She was also an active member of the Bowden Kindergarten Committee which helped underprivileged children.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/interview-with-peg-gooden-sound-recording-interviewer-yvonne-abbott\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Mander-Jones, Lois Jessie", "Entry ID": "AWE0915", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/mander-jones-lois-jessie\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Beeac, Victoria, Australia", "Death Place": "Adelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Counsellor, Researcher, University teacher", "Summary": "Lois Mander-Jones grew up in Victoria and attended Presbyterian Girls College in Geelong. In 1940 she joined the Union Bank in Melbourne and then joined the Army. She was on General Blamey's staff in Queensland. She became the personal assistant to the Director of Intelligence Brigadier John Rogers and also worked for Brigadier Kenneth Wills. On 9 June 1943 she married Evan Mander-Jones. Her husband went to New Guinea and returned to be the head of the Intelligence School. As couples could not work in the same unit she was transferred to Army Education. She became pregnant and was discharged from the army. She lost this baby and another child. Her husband was appointed Director of Education in South Australia. She had three sons and continued to work for the University. They spent a year overseas in 1959. She did a marriage guidance course and counselled for five years. Family commitments were dominant in the 1950s and 1960s. In 1965 she enrolled in a Diploma of Social Work and in 1968 she took a part time job as a research worker with the Institute of Technology. From 1970 to 1978 she worked as a part time supervisor and trainer of counsellors. Her husband died in 1975. In 1978 she started working at Flinders University as a part time social work demonstrator and she retired in 1982. She became involved with the Lyceum Club being Vice President and President and in 1993 Australian President of the Association of Lyceum Clubs. Mander-Jones was awarded honorary life membership in 1993.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/mcdonald-lois-jessie\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/whos-who-in-australia-1944\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/recording-of-reminiscences-at-lyceum-clubs-70th-anniversary-dinner-sound-recording\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/interview-with-lois-mander-jones-sound-recording-interviewer-yvonne-abbott\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Bright, Elizabeth Holden", "Entry ID": "AWE0917", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/bright-elizabeth-holden\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Camberwell, Victoria, Australia", "Death Place": "Adelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Medical practitioner", "Summary": "Lady Elizabeth Bright, the daughter of Herbert Boyd and Annie (n\u00e9e Holden) Flaxman graduated from Melbourne University in medicine in 1937. She became a resident at the Queen Victoria Hospital for women and children. She moved to the Adelaide Children's Hospital in 1939, met Charles Bright and was married in 1940. During the War Bright worked as a locum and did the medical examinations for the Women's Australian National Service (WANS) recruits. She wrote \"The Diary of a woman Doctor\" for the Advertiser. She became the honorary medical officer for the Kindergarten Union of South Australia and was on the Social Welfare Committee of the Red Cross. Bright travelled extensively with her husband, Sir Charles Bright. She became patron of the South Australian branch of the Women Writer's Association from 1982 to 1991 and in 1983 published a book written by her late husband called The confidential clerk about Charles Flaxman and George Fife Angas.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/the-confidential-clerk-a-study-of-charles-flaxman-in-south-australia-and-his-relationship-with-george-fife-angas\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/interview-with-lady-elizabeth-bright-sound-recording-interviewer-yvonne-abbott\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Brookes, Helen May", "Entry ID": "AWE0931", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/brookes-helen-may\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Melbourne, Victoria, Australia", "Death Place": "Adelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Entomologist", "Summary": "Helen Brookes was born in Melbourne and moved several times before settling in Adelaide in 1929. She started her working career at the Waite Institute with Dr Davidson. Later Brookes became a technical assistant and eventually senior lecturer as a systematic entomologist. Following her retirement, in 1982, she presented her insect collection to the Australian National Insect Collection in Canberra. Brookes was a member of the Lyceum and Minerva Clubs. In 1999, Year of the Older Person, Brookes was invited to a symposium in Canberra as an outstanding older woman scientist.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/interview-with-helen-brookes-sound-recording-interviewer-lois-mander-jones\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Van der Linden, Catherina Adriana", "Entry ID": "AWE0939", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/van-der-linden-catherina-adriana\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "The Netherlands", "Death Place": "Adelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Summary": "Catherina van der Linden was born in 1912 and grew up in Nigmegen, Holland where her father was a tailor. She married in 1940 soon after the outbreak of war. Her first child was born in 1943. Following the war her husband, who had been a Company Secretary, was unemployed and three children were born. Van der Linden reluctantly agreed to emigrate in 1955 after her father's death. The family travelled in the luxurious 'Johan Van Oltenbernavalt' and were shocked by the accommodation at both Bonegilla Migrant Reception Centre in Victoria and Woodside in the Adelaide Hills. Their longest stay was at the Glenelg hostel from whence Mrs van der Linden returned to Holland in 1958 with the children, vowing never to return. However she decided to reunite the family 18 months later and worked outside the home in clerical and nurses' aide positions.\nWhen she died at the age of 111 on 26 January 2024 she was believed to be the oldest living person in Australia and the oldest living Dutch person in the world.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/interview-with-catherina-adriana-van-der-linden-sound-recording-interviewer-karobi-mukherjee\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Christian, Margaret Enid", "Entry ID": "AWE0945", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/christian-margaret-enid\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Burwood, New South Wales, Australia", "Death Place": "Parkside, Unley City, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Veterinarian", "Summary": "Peg Christian was the first veterinarian to establish a private small animal practice in the Northern Territory; she practiced part-time in Alice Springs from 1948-1951. Later she helped pioneer the development of Wombaroo, a replacement milk formula for orphaned marsupials.\n", "Details": "Peg Christian grew up on a sheep property near Yass. For her, an only child, the animals, especially horses, were her friends. She became a boarder, first at Frensham and then at Abbotsleigh independent girls schools. She was nineteen and studying Veterinary Science at Sydney University when her father died and the property was sold. Although her mother strongly believed in the education of girls, she did not consider that her nineteen year old daughter could run a sheep property. She was the twelfth woman in Australia to graduate in veterinary science. After graduation and before her marriage, she worked in a small animal practice on the North Shore. When her husband took up an appointment as a government laboratory veterinarian in Alice Springs, Christian opened her own private practice in the family home. In 1952, the family moved to Adelaide and again she started her private practice in the family home. Christian is best known for her work with native animals, especially joeys, wombats and kangaroos. She learnt by trial and error because care of native animals was not included in her studies at Sydney University. She was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia on 26 January 1984. Voluntary work has always been important to Christian, from being a an air raid warden at Sydney University (during World War II), through the Country Women's Association (CWA) in Alice Springs, to the Girl Guides, the RSPCA, and Cleland Reserve in Adelaide. She retired from private practice when arthritis caused her to lose the feeling in her fingers. Peg Christian's philosophy is that humans are responsible for animals. They do not have dominion over them. She also believes strongly that if you want to change something you must become involved with it, without being too aggressive.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/interview-with-peg-christian-sound-recording-interviewer-karen-george\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Reinpuu, Ene-Mai", "Entry ID": "AWE0952", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/reinpuu-ene-mai\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Estonia", "Death Place": "Adelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Community worker", "Summary": "Ene-Mai Reinpuu left Estonia with her parents as refugees fleeing the threat of Soviet invasion, arriving in South Australia in 1949. Ene-Mai married Villi Reinpuu, also from Estonia and they had two children.\nReinpuu had a life long involvement in ethnic community and multicultural organisations. She served as secretary (1967-1986) and president (1987 - ) of the Estonia Society of Adelaide. She was honorary secretary of the Council of Estonian Societies in Australia 1976-1978, 1985-1987 and 1994-1996. Reinpuu was chosen as an Australian representative at the 'Kongress of Estonia' held in Estonia in 1990. She was vice-chairperson of the Estonian Cultural Festival of Australia and a member of the organising committee since 1958. She served as a member of the Council of Baltic Women (affiliated with National Council of Women), was the Estonian community representative on Multicultural Communities Council of South Australia, and a founding member of the Friends of the Estonian Museum.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/interview-with-ene-mai-reinpuu-sound-recording-interviewer-helen-chryssides\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/launch-of-the-second-stage-of-the-honoured-women-oral-history-project-sound-recording\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/storytelling-by-ene-mai-reinpuu-sound-recording-recordist-aliki-tziavrangos\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Knight, Janice", "Entry ID": "AWE1631", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/knight-janice\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Quirindi, New South Wales, Australia", "Death Place": "Adelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Teacher", "Summary": "Janice Knight ran for election only once. That was in 1991 as an ALP candidate for the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Northern Tablelands.\n", "Details": "Raised in Coonamble district of NSW, Janice Knight undertook a Bachelor of Arts degree at the University of New England and started teaching at Wiley Park Girls' High School. Active in her community, she was elected secretary of New England Rugby Union in 1973. She joined the ALP in 1989 and was a delegate to the Country Conference.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/putting-skirts-on-the-sacred-benches-women-candidates-for-the-new-south-wales-parliament-2\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Lawless, Sheila", "Entry ID": "AWE1952", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/lawless-sheila\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England", "Death Place": "Adelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Administrator, Homemaker", "Summary": "Sheila Lawless migrated to Australia with her husband Lawrence and first child in 1955, one family among the hundreds of thousands of \"ten pound poms\" who travelled to Australia after the Second World War under the government assisted passage scheme.\n", "Details": "The Lawless family arrived in Adelaide on 26 July 1955, ready to join Sheila's parents who had already settled in Parkside. Both Sheila and Lawrence found work quickly, and before long had managed to build their own home in the new housing estate of Windsor Gardens. Still in its earliest stages of development, the suburban plot had little to offer in the way of services and entertainment. Sheila befriended Molly McGrath at the local Catholic church, and before long their morning coffees with other local women had transformed into a mother's club. Members of the club supported each other and lobbied successfully for a local parish primary school.\nSheila was to have three more children. She returned to work after seventeen years out of the paid workforce under a new government scheme in 1973, and secured an administrative position at Kildare College in Adelaide.\nIn 1999 Sheila was diagnosed with breast cancer but was fortunate to make a full recovery. On 26 July 2005 she celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of her arrival in Australia; fifty years of dedicated homemaking and community building.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Tazewell, Evelyn Ruth", "Entry ID": "AWE2177", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/tazewell-evelyn-ruth\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Hobart, Tasmania, Australia", "Death Place": "South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Hockey player, Sports administrator", "Summary": "According to her Sport Australia Hall of Fame citation, Evelyn Tazewell was the finest women's hockey player of her time. She enjoyed a career in the sport as player, coach, umpire and administrator that spanned four decades to the 1960s. Among many important contributions to the sport, she was instrumental in the establishment of the Women's Memorial Playing Fields at St Mary's, Adelaide.\n", "Events": "Elected President of the All-Australian Women's Hockey Association (1920 - 1920) \nCaptained the South Australian women's hockey team (1920 - 1936) \nDelegate to the International Federation of Women's Hockey Associations (1953 - 1953) \nDelegate to the International Federation of Women's Hockey Associations (1959 - 1959) \nState Delegate of the All-Australian Women's Hockey Association (1920 - 1965) \nInducted into the Sport Australia Hall of Fame (1985 - 1985)", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/tazewell-evelyn-ruth-1893-1983\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/stalwart-in-womens-hockey-dies-at-89\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/shes-game-women-making-australian-sporting-history-2\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/aroha-hockey-club\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/south-australian-womens-hockey-team\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/adelaide-hockey-club-summary-record\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Fisher, Elizabeth (Betty) Mary", "Entry ID": "AWE2256", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/fisher-elizabeth-m\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Yorkshire, England", "Death Place": "Adelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Activist, Environmentalist, Feminist, Sports administrator", "Summary": "Betty Fisher (nee Dawson) was born 8 September 1925 in Yorkshire, England arriving in South Australia in 1927 on the 'SS Benalla'. A feminist and advocate for Aboriginal rights and conservation, Betty was International Women's Day president for eight years and the first female president of the Conservation Council of South Australia.\nBetty Fisher received a Flinders University medal for services to women, was a 1988 Bicentenary medallist and served on the SA State Schools Organisations State Council. She was a member of the National Fitness Council of Australia. She was also a key witness at the Hindmarsh Island Royal Commission, where she produced notes and tape recordings from the 1960s which confirmed the site was of significant cultural importance to Aboriginal women.\n", "Events": "Life time achievement award (2018 - 2018)", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/shes-game-women-making-australian-sporting-history-2\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/papers-of-the-migrant-and-indigenous-women-action-group\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/papers-relating-to-the-national-fitness-council-of-south-australia\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/betty-fisher-summary-record\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Dolling, Dorothy Eleanor Ethel Victoria Georgina Barber", "Entry ID": "AWE2783", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/dolling-dorothy-eleanor-ethel-victoria-georgina-barber\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Woodhaugh, Dunedin, New Zealand", "Death Place": "Adelaide, South Australia", "Occupations": "Community worker, Journalist, Print journalist", "Summary": "Trained mathematician Dorothy Dolling devoted much of her life to the work of the South Australian Country Women's Association. During wartime she worked with the Allied Forces Information Bureau. Dolling also enjoyed a long career in journalism, writing for the Adelaide Advertiser from 1936.\n", "Details": "Daughter of English-born parents, Edgar Scott Clarke and his wife Alice Jane (n\u00e9e Barber), Dorothy Dolling was educated at Otago Girls' High School and the University of Otago. She completed a Bachelor of Science in 1918 and Master of Science in 1919. After two years teaching mathematics and physics at the University of Leeds, England, she returned to study advanced mathematics in New Zealand and married medical practitioner Charles Edward Dolling.\nIn the years before the Second World War, particularly during the Depression, Dorothy occupied herself with the activities of the South Australian Country Women's Association (C.W.A.), organising handicraft classes, fundraising for bushfire and flood relief, and distributing blankets and necessities. She became a member of the Women's Centenary Council of South Australia and, during wartime, initiated a register of volunteer personnel. She served with the Allied Forces Information Bureau and Women's Air Training Corps, and chaired the central welfare committee of the Women's Land Army. After the war, Dorothy established leadership schools for C.W.A. officers in the interests of developing their education.\nFrom 1936, Dorothy had also begun work as a journalist, editing the women's pages of the Advertiser as 'Marian March', and editing its weekly rural newspaper, the Chronicle, as 'Eleanor Barbour'. She retired from the Chronicle in 1966.\nDorothy Dolling died of hypertensive heart disease in 1967, survived by a daughter and a son. Her son founded the Dorothy Dolling memorial trust, assisting country women and their children to obtain further education.\n", "Events": "Career in journalism active (1936 - 1966)", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/the-womens-pages-australian-women-and-journalism-since-1850-2\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/dolling-dorothy-eleanor-ethel-victoria-georgina-barber-1897-1967\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Evans, Henrietta Matilda Jane", "Entry ID": "AWE3685", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/evans-henrietta-matilda-jane\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Peckham Park, Surrey, United Kingdom", "Death Place": "Adelaide, South Australia", "Occupations": "Novelist, Teacher, Writer", "Summary": "Matilda Evans arrived in Adelaide with her family in 1851. Her first novel, Marian, or the Light of Someone's Home was completed in 1861 while Evans was working as a governess near Mt Barker. After the death of her husband, Ephraim Evans, she opened a school at Angaston and resumed writing novels. Her works, which always had religious and temperance themes, included Vermont Vale: or Home Pictures in Australia (1866), Emily's Choice: An Australian Tale (1867), Minnie's Mission: an Australian Temperance Tale (1869) and Golden Gifts (1869). Evans opened Angaston House in North Adelaide in 1868. A collected edition of her fourteen novels was republished several times.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/200-australian-women-a-redress-anthology\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/all-her-labours-third-women-and-labour-conference-adelaide\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/vermont-vale-or-home-pictures-in-australia\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/beatrice-meltons-discipline\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/emilys-choice-an-australian-tale\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/golden-gifts-an-australian-tale\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/halls-vineyard\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/into-the-light\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/johns-wife\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/little-mercy-or-for-better-for-worse\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/marian-or-the-light-of-someones-home\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/minnies-mission-an-australian-temperance-tale\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/no-longer-a-child\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/silken-cords-and-iron-fetters-an-australian-tale\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/south-australian-christmas-annual-1881-containing-tales\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/evans-matilda-jane-1827-1886\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Halley, Ida Gertrude Margaret", "Entry ID": "AWE3696", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/halley-ida-gertrude-margaret\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Ballarat, Victoria, Australia", "Death Place": "Maylands, South Australia", "Occupations": "Doctor, Founder", "Summary": "Gertrude Halley was a founder and treasurer of the Queen Victoria Hospital for Women. An eye and ear specialist, she was an honorary surgeon at the hospital. In 1913 she established the medical branch of the Education Department in South Australia.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/halley-ida-gertrude-margaret-1867-1939\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/200-australian-women-a-redress-anthology\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/children-and-their-law-makers-a-social-historical-survey-of-the-growth-and-development-from-1836-to-1950-of-south-australian-laws-relating-to-children\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Kiek, Winifred", "Entry ID": "AWE3708", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/kiek-winifred\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Manchester, Lancashire, United Kingdom", "Death Place": "Victor Harbor, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Academic, Minister", "Summary": "Winifred Kiek moved to Adelaide with her family in 1920. She became the first woman to graduate BD from Melbourne College of Divinity in 1923, and began lecturing at Parkin College from 1930. In 1927 she was ordained as a minister of the Congregational Church, making her the first woman to be ordained to the ministry of any church in Australia.\n", "Events": "Inducted into the Victorian Honour Roll of Women (2001 - 2001)", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/kiek-winifred-1884-1975\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/200-australian-women-a-redress-anthology\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/we-of-one-house\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/women-in-the-pulpit-christianity-stands-for-sex-equality\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/child-nature-and-child-nurture\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/cartoon-of-a-woman-preaching\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/the-encyclopedia-of-women-and-leadership-in-twentieth-century-australia\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/rev-winifred-kiek-summary-record\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Milne, Agnes Anderson", "Entry ID": "AWE3731", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/milne-agnes-anderson\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Lambeth, London, United Kingdom", "Death Place": "Adelaide, South Australia", "Occupations": "Factory inspector, Union activist", "Summary": "Agnes Milne was a foundation member of the South Australian branch of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, and president of the Bowden Union for 26 years. She campaigned for improved working conditions for women, and wrote articles on women and work for the Journal of Agriculture and Industry. From 1906, Milne was managing the South Australian Co-operative Clothing Company, owned and run by women.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/milne-agnes-anderson-1851-1919\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/200-australian-women-a-redress-anthology\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Steele, Joyce Wilfred", "Entry ID": "AWE3973", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/steele-joyce-wilfred\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Australia", "Death Place": "South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Parliamentarian", "Summary": "A member of the Liberal and Country League, Joyce Steele was the first woman to be elected to the House of Assembly in the South Australian Parliament in 1959. She stood in the seat of Burnside. She was the first woman in the South Australian Parliament to achieve Cabinet rank as Minister for Education in the Hall Government from 1968-69, then moved to the Social Welfare Ministry in 1969. After major electoral reform in 1968, Steele stood for the new seat of Davenport at the 1970 state election and won convincingly. She retired before the 1973 election.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/no-ordinary-lives-pioneering-women-in-australian-politics\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/liberal-women-federation-to-1949\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/recordings-of-joyce-steele-sound-recording-interviewer-meg-denton\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/interview-with-joyce-steele-sound-recording-interviewer-anne-geddes\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/liberal-party-s-a-division-summary-record\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Cooper, Jessie Mary", "Entry ID": "AWE3984", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/cooper-jessie-mary\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Rockdale, New South Wales, Australia", "Death Place": "Adelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Parliamentarian", "Summary": "A member of the Liberal and Country League, Jessie Cooper was the first woman to be elected to the Parliament of South Australia in the Legislative Council in 1959 and served until her retirement in 1979.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/no-ordinary-lives-pioneering-women-in-australian-politics\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/liberal-women-federation-to-1949\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/liberal-party-s-a-division-summary-record\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/jessie-cooper-interviewed-by-amy-mcgrath-sound-recording\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/biographical-cuttings-on-jessie-cooper-liberal-mlc-in-sa-containing-one-or-more-cuttings-from-newspapers-or-journals\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Rasp, Agnes Maria Louise", "Entry ID": "AWE3987", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/rasp-agnes-maria-louise\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Woldenberg, Friedeberg, Germany", "Death Place": "Adelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Summary": "Agnes Rasp was the wife of Charles Rasp, founder of the global mineral resources company, BHP.\n", "Details": "Agnes Klaversahl migrated to South Australia with her parents in 1882. In 1883, while working at Kindermann's coffee shop in Rundle Street, Adelaide, she met and became engaged to Charles Rasp. Born at Stuttgart, Rasp had migrated to Melbourne in 1869 and found employment on a series of agricultural properties. Later, as a boundary rider on the Mount Gipps station (New South Wales), he became convinced that deposits from the shallow mines at Silverton contained tin oxide. He formed a syndicate of seven station workers who pegged out the area and financed exploratory shafts. By 1884, rich silver chlorides were found by the syndicate at Rasp's Hill and wealthy local pastoralists began buying into the enterprise. The Broken Hill Mining Company, as it was then known, became the Broken Hill Proprietary Company Limited (BHP) in 1885.\nOn 22 July 1886, Charles and Agnes were married by the Reverend J.C. Woods at the home of Mrs Hogan, West Terrace. They travelled to Silverton and Broken Hill, where Agnes became in all likelihood the first woman to go underground, and they completed a tour of Europe, returning to Australia in 1887. Charles purchased a large home, 'Willyama', at 12 The Avenue, Medindie, Adelaide. In that year, BHP's dividends exceeded the incredible sum of \u20a4200,000 - the company was mining into the world's largest-known silver-lead-zinc orebody.\nCharles Rasp died in 1907 at the age of 61. His widow departed for another tour of Europe the following year. Agnes Rasp was, allegedly, armed with a substantial sum of money which gained her entry to the Hapsburg Court. She was linked with the Baron von Eisenstein and, in exchange for the title of Baroness, is said to have agreed to rescue him from financial ruin. In one version of the story, the Baron suffered a heart attack the day before the wedding. A more sinister version suggests that the Baron shot himself before fulfilling his side of the bargain. In 1914, Agnes married Count von Zedtwitz in London. During the First World War, the pair lived in Carlsbad, then Leipzig, and finally Berlin, where the Countess was informed that her assets had been frozen. Count von Zedtwitz died in Graz at the end of the war, and his wife returned home to 'Willyama'. She was able to reclaim her assets in 1920.\nA recluse at the end of her life, the former Agnes Rasp died in May 1936 at the age of 79, and is buried with Charles Rasp in the North Road Cemetery, Adelaide.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/some-outstanding-women-of-broken-hill-and-district\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/united-we-stand-impressions-of-broken-hill-1908-1910\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/anya-countess-of-adelaide\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/broken-hill\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/rasp-charles-1846-1907\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/unbroken-spirit-women-in-broken-hill\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Von Puttkamer, Margarethe Hermine", "Entry ID": "AWE3989", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/von-puttkamer-margarethe-hermine\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Oven Goldfields, near Beechworth, Victoria, Australia", "Death Place": "Adelaide, South Australia", "Occupations": "Nurse", "Summary": "Margarethe Von Puttkamer was the first nurse at Broken Hill, New South Wales.\n", "Details": "Margarethe Von Puttkamer (or Peg, as she was known to friends) was of German descent. Her father, George Christian Hermann (Baron) Von Puttkamer, was born on the 18th December 1820 in Pomerania, Germany. He was a member of Infantry Regiment No. 9 in Stargard, Pomerania, before serving as a lieutenant in the Schleswig-Holstein Army from 1848 to 1850. Georg migrated to South Australia in 1850 and worked as a labourer and shepherd, and as a gold prospector in Victoria. On 22 July 1851 in Adelaide he married Amalie Catarine Hirdes, who hailed from Kassal, Hessen in Germany and who, like Georg, had travelled to South Australia on the barque Sophie.\nMargarethe trained as a nurse in Melbourne before moving to Adelaide, where she was a trainee in 1884. Around 1885, she moved to Broken Hill and became matron of the Broken Hill and District Hospital, working with Emma Burkhill. On 16 May 1889 she married John David Robertson (b.28 May 1854, d.19 April 1926), a compositor for the local paper, the Silver Age. She resigned from the Broken Hill Hospital, but opened her own private hospital in Chloride Street.\nJohn and Margarethe had two children, Amelia Hermine Ethel Robertson (born 15 January 1890) and John 'Jock' David Robertson Junior (born 6 August 1895). Georg Von Puttkamer had died some years earlier - 21 October 1859 - near Blanchetown, South Australia. His wife Amalie lived until 24 October 1910, when she died at Angaston, South Australia.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/the-silver-mirror\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/nursing-in-south-australia-first-hundred-years-1837-1937\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/some-outstanding-women-of-broken-hill-and-district\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/unbroken-spirit-women-in-broken-hill\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/von-puttkamer-margarethe-hermine-peg-baroness\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Harris, Kit", "Entry ID": "AWE3997", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/harris-kit\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia", "Death Place": "North Adelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Dancer, Teacher, Typist", "Summary": "As a small child, Kitty Lund entertained the Broken Hill community with her acting and dancing performances on the local stage. In later life, as Kit Harris, she published two popular books on handcrafts.\n", "Details": "Kitty Lund was the only child of Clara Ellen and George Lund. Her father was a mine worker and Kit was born and raised in Broken Hill, New South Wales. At the age of seven she began dancing lessons with Lena Atkinson, and before long was gracing the stage of the Crystal Theatre in minor roles such as Tootles in Peter Pan. She went on to star in Alice in Fashion Land (1935), Let's Pretend (1936), Motley (1937), Brown Boy (1938), and The Sparklers (1939). She attended the first Juvenile Ball and the Golden Jubilee of the Sisters of Mercy, and hosted the Shirley Temple Look-Alike Competition in 1936. At the regular mining company picnics in Silverton, Kit would dance to the bagpipes in the Irish dancing championships. She was friendly with Dorothy Dickson, who went on to work as an actress in London.\nKit finished her studies at St Joseph's Convent before attending the Convent Business College to learn shorthand, typing and bookkeeping. She found employment with Mr E.R. Hudson, solicitor, and later at the Grand Hotel in Broken Hill. In 1946 she married Fred Harris, a foreman for the Zinc Corporation.\nFred and Kit Harris had three sons, though just one - David - survived infancy. Their twin boys are commemorated with a plaque in the Broken Hill Children's Cemetery.\nKit Harris went on to teach handcraft at the Broken Hill High School and the Adult Education Programme. She published her first book, Handcrafts, in 1972.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/some-outstanding-women-of-broken-hill-and-district\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/handcrafts\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/unbroken-spirit-women-in-broken-hill\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Zaknich, Marija", "Entry ID": "AWE4001", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/zaknich-marija-kolinac\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Blato, Kor\u010dula, Croatia", "Death Place": "North Adelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Summary": "Marija migrated to Broken Hill, New South Wales, from Croatia in 1961.\n", "Details": "Marija Zaknich was the daughter of Franko Kolinac and Kata Tabajin, and sister to Petar and Jakica. Marija's father left Blato in 1928 to find work in Western Australia, and to send money home. For twenty years he worked at Brunswick Junction living in a tent before returning to Croatia in 1948. His son Petar was killed during World War Two.\nOn 22 May 1961, Marija bid farewell to her parents and sailed for Australia on the Orsova with her two daughters, Katica (Katie) and Merica (Maria). Marija would be reunited with her husband, Tony Zaknich, after six years apart. The family settled in Broken Hill, New South Wales, where Tony was working and living with his parents. Within two years, Marija had given birth to twin boys, Anthony and Frankie.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/sharing-the-lode-the-broken-hill-migrant-story\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/unbroken-spirit-women-in-broken-hill\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "MacGillivray, Melva Emily (Tommy)", "Entry ID": "AWE4063", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/macgillivray-melva-emily-tommy\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia", "Death Place": "Leabrook, South Australia", "Occupations": "Musician, Sportswoman, Volunteer", "Summary": "Melva MacGillivray was the first woman to drive a T-Model Ford to Broken Hill, New South Wales.\n", "Details": "Melva Crossing - or Tommy, as she was known - was the fourth of nine children, and grew up to be fiercely independent. The Crossing family left Broken Hill to begin farming near Adelaide, and Melva completed her education at the Methodist Ladies' College in Wayville. At seventeen, Melva drove a T-Model Ford from Adelaide to Broken Hill, a long and arduous trip given that the road was little more than a track with plenty of creek beds and sandy stretches to be negotiated. \nIn 1927 Melva married medical practitioner Ian Hamilton MacGillivray. They spent eighteen months in Edinburgh, Scotland, where Ian studied surgery, and returned to Broken Hill so as he could resume his medical practice. The marriage ended in 1933 and Melva moved to Adelaide.\nMelva MacGillivray was an active member of the Red Cross during the Second World War, and gave up much of her time for the Spastic Centre. She performed in musical concerts around Adelaide and, after her move to the Leabrook Resthaven in later life, she ran handcraft workshops and exercise classes. She became known affectionately as Granny Mac.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/some-outstanding-women-of-broken-hill-and-district\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/unbroken-spirit-women-in-broken-hill\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Bills, Nina", "Entry ID": "AWE4066", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/bills-nina\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia", "Death Place": "Adelaide, South Australia", "Occupations": "Journalist", "Summary": "Nina Bills wrote the social page and the women's page for Broken Hill's Barrier Daily Truth in the 1930s.\n", "Details": "Nina Bills was the daughter of Albert Henry Bills and Hilda L'Estelle (nee Nankiville). She had one sister, Winsome Francis, and two brothers, Gordon Henry and Alan Maynard. Gordon contracted diphtheria at the age of seven and passed away in 1913. Nina had her own brush with serious illness when she contracted polio at the age of two. She continued to use a walking stick most of her life.\nNina was educated at Broken Hill High School before moving to Adelaide to attend the Presbyterian Ladies' College, and finally Adelaide University. On her return to Broken Hill she became a journalist for the Barrier Daily Truth, and wrote the regular social page under the pen name 'L'Estelle'. She reported on many and varied social events including the Movie Star look-a-like competition. Nina also produced the weekly page for women, covering engagements, weddings, births, fashions and art. She broadcast on subjects of local interest at the ABC (2NB) radio station on Friday mornings.\nIn the late 1930s, Nina and her sister Winsome opened a florist shop, Thelma, but closed in 1941 when Winsome was expecting her first child. Nina married James Robert Adam on 12 March 1943 at the Broken Hill Registry Office. They had two children: Jeanette Margaret (born 1947) and James Alexander (born 1949).\n", "Events": "Career in journalism active (1930 - )", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/some-outstanding-women-of-broken-hill-and-district\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/unbroken-spirit-women-in-broken-hill\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Boylan, Columba", "Entry ID": "AWE4204", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/boylan-columba\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Killanaugh, Carbury, Ireland", "Death Place": "Adelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Prioress", "Summary": "Columba Boylan was orphaned as a baby and raised by a cousin until she was old enough to board at St Mary's, Cabra in Dublin. She enter the convent there in January or 1864, made profession in August 1869 and held the office of Mistress of Novices in the convent before emigrating to Australia to take charge of the Dominican order in Adelaide in early 1875. There she held the office of prioress for close to twenty years.\nShe arrived in Adelaide at a time when the Catholic Church in Adelaide was in some degree of disarray and her tenure coincided with a period of stability for that institution. She is credited with the consolidation and expansion of the Dominican Community's membership and its integration into the local church community. She was very important in the establishment of a viable Catholic school system in Adelaide.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/living-the-truth-the-dominican-sisters-in-south-australia-1868-1958\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/archives-of-the-dominican-sisters-of-cabra\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Mander-Jones, Phyllis", "Entry ID": "AWE4350", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/mander-jones-phyllis\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Homebush, New South Wales, Australia", "Death Place": "Prospect, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Archivist, Librarian", "Summary": "Phyllis Mander-Jones was Mitchell Librarian from 1947 to 1957. In 1962 she became the first Australian Joint Copying Project Officer. She was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in 1971 in recognition of her contribution to Australian history.\n", "Details": "Mander-Jones was educated at Abbotsleigh, a private girls' school in Pymble, New South Wales. She went on to university after finishing school and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Sydney in 1917.\nMander-Jones joined the staff of the Public Library of New South Wales in 1925 and worked her way up through the ranks. She was Mitchell Librarian between 1947-1957.\nBased in the Australian High Commission in London, in 1962, she became the first Australian Joint Copying Project Officer. In 1964 she was appointed director of a survey of manuscripts in Britain and Ireland relating to Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific. Manuscripts in the British Isles relating to Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific, popularly known as the 'Mander-Jones guide', was published by the ANU Press in 1972.\nAfter completing the survey of manuscripts in the British Isles, Mander-Jones remained in England for several years. She then returned to Australia and spent her last years in Adelaide compiling Catalogue of manuscripts in the Royal Geographical Society of Australasia (South Australian Branch) (1981).\n", "Events": "Appointed Honorary Member of the Australian Society of Archivists (1976 - 1976) \nAppointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) for her service to Australian history (1971 - 1971) \nReceived the HCL Anderson Award, presented annually by the Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) for outstanding service to the library and information profession in Australia, to ALIA, or to the theory of library and information science or to the practice of library and information services (1981 - 1981) \nThe Australian Society of Archivistsintroduced the Mander Jones Awards for publications in the field of recordkeeping. The award honours Mander-Jones for her contributions to the profession (1996 - 1996)", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/jones-phyllis-mander-1896-1984\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/guide-to-the-papers-of-phyllis-mander-jones\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/hcl-anderson-award\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/faith-hope-and-charity-australian-women-and-imperial-honours-1901-1989\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/papers-of-phyllis-mander-jones-1964-1972-manuscript\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/baiba-berzins-abbreviated-and-edited-transcript-of-interview-with-phyllis-mander-jones-1983\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Smith, Christina", "Entry ID": "AWE4441", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/smith-christina\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Glenlyon, Perthshire, Scotland", "Death Place": "Mount Gambier, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Missionary, Teacher", "Summary": "Christina Smith worked with Aboriginal people, the Booandik (Buandig) in the Rivoli Bay area of South East Australia and in Mount Gambier. She recorded their customs, legends and social relationships for future generations. In 1854 the family moved to Mount Gambier where they established a night school, cared for Aboriginal orphans and taught adults of mixed race until the death of her husband, James Smith in 1860. In 1865, Christina eventually established a school and home for local Aboriginal children with funding she obtained from Lady Burdett-Coutts. The school however closed in 1868 due to loss of support and an epidemic and became a home for Aborigines.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/smith-christina-1819-1893\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/the-booandik-tribe-of-south-australian-aborigines-a-sketch-of-their-habits-customs-legends-and-language-also-an-account-of-the-efforts-made-by-mr-and-mrs-james-smith-to-christianise-and-civilise\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Davies, Natalia", "Entry ID": "AWE4445", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/davies-natalia\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Lampeter, Cardiganshire, Wales, United Kingdom", "Death Place": "Adelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Defence worker, Teacher", "Summary": "Nat Davies began her teaching career in the primary sector in South Australia in 1926, but moved into girls' technical schools in 1939, remaining there until her death in 1951. She was an active unionist, serving as treasurer of the Women's Assistants' Association from 1934-37. On the formation of the Women Teachers' Guild in 1938, Davies served as its liaison officer from 1938-42 and its vice-president from 1945-49. During World War Two she was active in the Defence Society as its president and was the only female civil-defence officer in Adelaide.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/davies-natalia-nat-1917-1951\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/natalia-davies-summary-record\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "James, Maude Wordsworth", "Entry ID": "AWE4807", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/james-maude-wordsworth\/", "Type": "Person", "Death Place": "Adelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Composer, jewellery designer, Poet", "Details": "Maude Wordsworth James was born 'at sea' on 19 December 1855 aboard the ship Morning Star in the Indian Ocean approximately 2,500 kilometres south west of Western Australia. Her parents, Thomas and Alicia Crabbe, had sailed from Bristol in October bound for Melbourne as unassisted immigrants. When the couple boarded the Morning Star they had 3 children. Maude was their fourth. Between 1856 and 1871 Alicia bore another 6 children.\nMaude spent her childhood in Victoria moving from Williamstown near Melbourne, to Portland, Dunnolly and Maryborough. She met her husband, Charles Wordsworth Scantlebury James, in Maryborough and they were married at the All Saints Church in Bendigo on 3 November 1875. Maude was aged 19 and Charles was 25. Their first son, Cyril Haughton, was born in Bendigo, Victoria in 1878. Two years later Maude bore a daughter who died when only sixteen days old. The couple moved to Hobart at some stage between 1878 and 1883 where their third child, Tristram (b. 4\/3\/1883) and another daughter, Yolande (b. 15\/7\/1889) were both born.\nMaude's husband, Charles, was a civil engineer who obtained work in Kalgoorlie in 1896. After working for one of the mining companies in Kalgoorlie for almost a year he telegrammed Maude asking that she and their children join him. As the town of Kalgoorlie expanded the financial position of the James family seemed secure. Maude's husband Charles was now employed by the Kalgoorlie Municipal Council as the town surveyor and, while they had not made a fortune, life was more comfortable than when they first moved to Mullingar. By 1907 the 'tent' they inhabited in 1897 was a weatherboard cottage with a separate dining room and they could afford to pay a woman to help with the household duties. However, Maude felt that they needed more money and she took it upon herself to find a means of earning an income. She conceived an idea for Australian souvenir jewellery and she designed, patented and organised for the manufacture of her 'Coo-ee' jewellery. Incorporating Australian fauna, flora and indigenous motifs she sold brooches, bangles, cuff links, pins and spoons which were made from Australian gold and featured tourmaline from Kangaroo Island, opals from Queensland and pearls from Broome. These designs were registered in England and New Zealand, as well as in Australia. Maude proudly pasted in her journal articles about an exhibition in Perth in December 1907 that displayed her designs and a page from the Australian Jewellery Manufacturing Gazette that advertised her 'Coo-ee' jewellery.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/introduction\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/symbols-of-australia\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/gold-and-silversmithing-in-western-australia\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/karlkurla-gold-a-history-of-the-women-of-kalgoorlie-boulder\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Green, Anne Syrett", "Entry ID": "AWE5104", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/green-anne-syrett\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Brunswick, Victoria, Australia", "Death Place": "KingswoodKingswood, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Philanthropist, Welfare worker", "Summary": "Read more about Anne Syrett Green in our sister publication The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/the-encyclopedia-of-women-and-leadership-in-twentieth-century-australia\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Leworthy, Betty Caroline", "Entry ID": "AWE5190", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/leworthy-betty-caroline\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Riverton, Southland, New Zealand", "Death Place": "Parkside, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Community Leader, Community worker", "Summary": "Read more about Betty Caroline Leworthy in our sister publication The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/the-encyclopedia-of-women-and-leadership-in-twentieth-century-australia\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Whitlock, Marie Florence", "Entry ID": "AWE5404", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/whitlock-marie-florence\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Nymagee, New South Wales, Australia", "Death Place": "Adelaide, South Australia, New South Wales", "Occupations": "Nurse", "Summary": "Marie Florence Whitlock enlisted in 1917 for service overseas in the Australian Army Nursing Service in World War I. She spent the next two years nursing casualties in Egypt. In 1916 she had spent a short time nursing at Duntroon Military College, Canberra.\n", "Details": "Marie Whitlock was born at Nymagee, about 80 km south of Cobar in western New South Wales in 1890. She was the second eldest of five daughters and one son of George and Louisa Whitlock. Her father had moved from Rutherglen in Victoria as a young man to run a business in Nymagee, the site of a prosperous gold and copper mine. By the time she enlisted in 1917, the Whitlocks were living on the family's pastoral property, Baledmund, near Nymagee.\nAll five girls in the Whitlock family trained as nurses; Marie graduated at St Vincent's Hospital Melbourne in 1914. From 13 January to 16 February 1916 she was employed as a nurse at Duntroon Military College, ACT. On 11 May 1917 when she enlisted in Sydney she was aged 27, her religion was Catholic and she lodged her will with her sister Eva Whitlock who was nursing at the Mater Hospital, North Sydney.\nClassified as Staff Nurse in the Australian Army Nursing Service, Marie Whitlock embarked on RMS Mooltan on 9 June 1917. Although she travelled with the group of Australian nurses sent on to Salonika, Marie Whitlock stayed in Egypt until after the war ended. This may have been because nurses were expected to be in great demand to nurse Australian light horse battle casualties following the British offensive culminating in the battles of Beersheba, Gaza and Jerusalem later in 1917.\nAfter landing at Suez on 25 July 1917, Marie Whitlock was taken on the strength of the 14th Australian General Hospital (AGH) at Abbassia, Egypt where she nursed for nearly two years, apart from two spells in hospital as a patient. In October\/November 1918 she was sick for a month with furunculosis (recurrent boils) and in February 1919 she was in hospital for about two weeks with septic tooth abscess. She travelled back to Australia on duty on the Orari from Kantara, an Egyptian port near Suez, and was discharged in Sydney on 3 August 1919. She was awarded the British War Medal and the Victory Medal and is commemorated on the ACT Memorial.\nMajor Alan Koeppen Wendt, AIF, a farmer born at Glenelg, South Australia in 1892, was travelling on the same ship. He had arrived at Gallipoli late in 1915, a Lieutenant in the 3rd Light Horse and served throughout the war as quartermaster in Egypt with the 3rd Light Horse Regiment. He was mentioned in dispatches and promoted to Captain then to temporary Major. Less than three months later, on 27 October 1919, Marie Whitlock and Alan Wendt were married in Adelaide. At the time of her father's death at Nymagee on 10 June 1927, Marie was living in Adelaide and her three younger sisters were still nursing, Eva at Prince of Wales Hospital, Randwick, Edith at Tumut District Hospital and Ally at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney. Marie died in Adelaide in 1964 survived by her husband, two daughters and a son.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/canberra-women-in-world-war-i-community-at-home-nurses-abroad\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/official-history-of-the-australian-army-medical-services-1914-18-vol-iii-problems-and-services\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/more-than-bombs-and-bandages-australian-army-nurses-at-work-in-world-war-i\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/history-of-the-rmc-hospital-5-camp-hospital-and-21-dental-unit\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/a-professions-pathway-nursing-at-st-vincents-since-1893\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/whitlock-marie-florence-service-number-staff-nurse-place-of-birth-nymagee-nsw-place-of-enlistment-sydney-nsw-next-of-kin-father-whitlock-george\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/wendt-alan-koeppen-service-number-major-place-of-birth-glenelg-sa-place-of-enlistment-n-a-next-of-kin-father-wendt-h-koeppen\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Ryan, Ellen", "Entry ID": "AWE6119", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/ryan-ellen\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "London, United Kingdom", "Death Place": "Wayville, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Businesswoman, Publican", "Summary": "Ellen Ryan held licences for hotels in the Northern Territory from 1878, becoming a wealthy and successful business woman in her own right. She had a reputation as one of the Northern Territory's best hostesses, organising a variety of entertainment for her hotel patrons and local residents.\nEllen was one of the 82 Territory women who enrolled to vote after the franchise was granted to South Australian and Territory women in 1894.\n", "Details": "Ellen Ryan travelled with her parents and two siblings to Western Australia in 1853, moving on to Adelaide in 1856.\nIn 1867 Ellen married Irish immigrant labourer William Ryan and six years later they moved to the Northern Territory, seduced by news of gold discoveries. They arrived in Palmerston on 12 July 1873 and soon travelled on to Yam Creek. Within a few weeks Ellen had leased the first hotel in the area, the Miners' Arm Hotel, where she quickly developed a sound reputation.\nIn the late 1870s Ellen returned to Palmerston and after a short stint at a local hotel, Ellen moved on to Southport where she took a lease on the Royal Hotel. In 1877 Ellen left her violent husband, taking out a formal protection order in May 1881 wherein she sited cruelty and drunkenness.\nWith the news of a railway to be built between Palmerston and Pine Creek in 1884, Ellen moved her hotel to Port Darwin Camp. By the following year she had made enough money to expand her business. Ellen purchased more land on the goldfields and in Palmerston, and became involved in mining leases near Pine Creek. By 1885 Ellen and Eliza Tuckwell were the only two territory women listed on land tax statistics as earning more than 300 pounds per year. Ellen was a generous woman and donated money to many worthy causes. She even came to the aid of the Red Cross during the First World War, helping to raise fund and supply equipment to the front.\nIn 1888, after a trip to Adelaide where she had consulted various architects, Ellen returned to the Northern Territory with fresh ideas of expanding her business. She began building hotels at Union Reef and on the Palmerston to Pine Creek railway line, and had plans for a grandiose hotel in Palmerston. After selling her Union Reef hotel in c. 1890, she focused her attention on her new hotel in Darwin. The 4000-pound North Australian hotel was opened in Palmerston in 1890.\nAfter six years of ownership, Ellen sold the North Australian and concentrated on running the Palmerston Club Hotel, which had been built in 1883 by Edward and Margaret Hopewell. However, in 1901, Ellen came to an agreement with the owners of the North Australian (now known as Hotel Victoria) that they would swap leases, with the pair taking over her lease of the Palmerston Club Hotel.\nEllen was practically forced out of her hotels in 1915 when the Gilruth administration took over the wholesale and retail sales of liquor in the northern part of the Territory. Now in her sixties, Ellen moved to Adelaide, where she spent her remaining years in a home she fondly called The Shackle. Ellen passed away in May 1920 and, with no remaining children, her estate was split between her nieces and nephews.\n", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/darwin\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "McCutcheon, Rosalie", "Entry ID": "AWE6166", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/mccutcheon-rosalie\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Chewton, Victoria, Australia", "Death Place": "Leabrook, South Australia, Ausrralia", "Occupations": "Secretary", "Summary": "Rosalie McCutcheon was Head of the Junior School of the Frensham School in New South Wales from 1941 to 1947 and 1953 to 1955. She was also Australian Secretary for the World Students Relief (1949-1953) and the Resident Secretary of the Australian Student Christian Movement, Universities of Sydney and New South Wales (1958-1964).\nRosalie was the first Deputy Director of International House, University of Sydney, from 1966 to 1972. Affectionately known as Mrs Mac, she devoted herself to the well-being of all residents.\nThe International House at the University of Sydney awards the Rosalie McCutcheon Scholarship to assist a resident either with academic or professional development, or to attend a conference, seminar or workshop in their area of study or on international issues.\nThe Scholarship was set up after the International House Alumni Association (SUIHAA) received a bequest from her estate, which subsequently became the Rosalie McCutcheon Scholarship Fund.\n", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/papers-of-rosalie-mccutcheon-1911-1998-manuscript\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/papers-of-june-epstein-1935-1999-manuscript\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Ross, Barbara", "Entry ID": "AWE6222", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/ross-barbara\/", "Type": "Person", "Death Place": "Adelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Archivist, Author, Historian, Researcher, Scholar", "Summary": "Barbara Ross was a historian and a former staff member of the National Library of Australia (NLA). Prior to the NLA Barbara worked as a County Record Office archivist in England and as an archivist with the Commonwealth Archives Office in Canberra. For a time she also worked as a valuer under the Taxation Incentives for the Arts Scheme.\n", "Details": "Barbara Ross grew up in the English countryside near Birmingham. She attended Stourbridge County High School and was head girl during her final year. Barbara won a scholarship to Manchester University, which she attended from 1947 to 1950 and majored in languages. Afterwards she enrolled in the archives course at University College, London, and her first job upon graduating was at the Shropshire Country Record Office. Barbara met her husband, Douglas Ross, on an archaeological dig and the pair married in 1955. Two years later they migrated to Australia, living for a short time in Melbourne, before settling in Canberra.\nFrom 1961 to 1964 Barbara worked at the Australia National University Archives (later the Noel Butlin Archives Centre); she was their first professional archivist. In 1964 she returned to her love of medieval history by joining the new medieval history unit in the ANU History Department. Unfortunately the unit was discontinued four years later.\nInitially working in the Archives Division of the National Library of Australia (now the National Archives of Australia), Barbara went on to spend nearly twenty years working part-time as a medieval specialist in the manuscript department. Here she curated several small exhibitions, compiled guides, and answered enquiries.\nIn addition to her paid work and research, Barbara spent time volunteering at Monica House, a St Vincent de Paul women's refuge in Canberra.\n", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/a-guide-to-the-illuminated-addresses-in-the-national-library-of-australia-1862-1968-manuscript\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/the-accounts-of-the-talbot-household-at-blakemere-in-the-county-of-shropshire-1394-1425-manuscript\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/papers-of-barbara-ross-circa-1960-1996-manuscript\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/records-relating-to-st-benedicts-school-1955-1980-manuscript\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/hmss-0049-barbara-ross-papers\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/biographical-cuttings-on-barbara-ross-author-containing-one-or-more-cuttings-from-newspapers-or-journals\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/audrey-dau-interviewed-by-barbara-ross-on-the-history-of-st-benedicts-school-narrabundah\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/l-f-fitzhardinge-interviewed-by-barbara-ross-sound-recording\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/nora-randall-mrs-gowing-and-mrs-cuppins-interviewed-by-barbara-ross-on-the-history-of-st-benedicts-school-narrabundah\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/father-hilton-roberts-margaret-wilson-judy-agnew-and-mary-odonnell-interviewed-by-barbara-ross-on-the-history-of-st-benedicts-school-narrabundah\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Bidmead, Martha Sarah", "Entry ID": "IMP0069", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/bidmead-martha-sarah\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Guernsey, Channel Islands, England", "Death Place": "Payneham, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Nurse", "Summary": "Martha Sarah Bidmead was the first South Australian and one of three Australian nurses who were awarded the Royal Red Cross (RRC) medal for service during the Boer War. After her war service she continued her nursing career in South Australia and assumed the position of superintendent of the District Trained Nursing Society of South Australia from 1912 until her retirement in 1926.\n", "Details": "Martha Bidmead was the daughter of Thomas Benjamin Bidmead, tobacconist, and Anne, n\u00e9e Mason. She lived in the Channel Islands, until the age of 22, when she and her four sisters migrated to South Australia after the death of both parents. They arrived on 30 April 1885 on the ship the John Elder. She embarked upon her nursing career at the Adelaide Children's Hospital in July 1886 and became a charge nurse there from 1887-1889. After nursing privately for eight years, she took up the position of staff nurse at the Burra Burra District Hospital.\nMartha Bidmead volunteered for war service when the South Australian Government decided to send a detachment of nurses to the Boer War in 1899. She was in charge of six nurses who sailed from Melbourne on the Australasian on 21 February 1900. They worked under the authority of the British Army while in South Africa, but had to report regularly to the South Australian Chief Secretary. The South Australian Government paid their fares and a salary of fifteen shillings a week. Their first attachment was to the Second General Hospital at Winburg, near Cape Town, until June, and then they transferred to the Tenth General Hospital at Bloemfontein, the base of the New South Wales Ambulance Corps. In addition to treating the wounded, they nursed cases of enteric fever and dysentery.\nMartha Bidmead related her war experiences through a series of letters she wrote to members of the Nurses' Fund Committee, which were published in the Adelaide Observer. She succumbed to illness in March 1901 and after her recovery she worked on light duties at Fifth Stationary Hospital, Bloemfontein, then later took charge of Tenth General Hospital. She was Mentioned in Dispatches twice and awarded the Royal Red Cross medal on 10 December 1901. At the end of 1901 she accompanied wounded servicemen on the hospital ship back to London. She received her medal, with her colleague, Elizabeth Nixon, at St James' Palace, London, 12 March 1902.\nAfter her war service, she resumed her private nursing career in South Australia until she was appointed superintendent of the District Trained Nursing Society of South Australia, which provided home nursing care for the poor. She retired in 1926. Her retirement interests included playing bridge and gardening.\nMartha Bidmead died at her home, Guernsey Cottage, which she shared with her sisters, of a neurological disorder on 23 July 1940.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/guns-and-brooches-australian-army-nursing-from-the-boer-war-to-the-gulf-war\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/bidmead-martha-sarah-1862-1940\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/martha-sarah-bidmead\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/the-diggers-makers-of-the-australian-military-tradition\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/faith-hope-and-charity-australian-women-and-imperial-honours-1901-1989\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Barr Smith, Mary (Molly) Isobel", "Entry ID": "IMP0188", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/barr-smith-mary-molly-isobel\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Ayrshire, Scotland", "Death Place": "Glen Osmond, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Philanthropist", "Summary": "On 4 October 1918 Molly Barr Smith was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (Civil) for services to the Red Cross in South Australia during the war.\n", "Details": "On 5 May 1886 Molly Mitchell married Tom Elder Barr Smith (1863-1941). The pair had six children. A company director and pastoralist, Tom Elder Barr Smith followed the philanthropic tradition of his father, Robert Barr Smith, and his uncle, Sir Thomas Elder. From the beginning of World War I Molly Barr Smith was an executive member of the South Australian branch of the British Red Cross Society. She was also chairman of the buying committee and co-ordinated the Red Cross Sock Club. On 4 October 1918, she was appointed C.B.E. (Civil) for services to the Red Cross in South Australia during the war. She died on the 16 June 1941, and is buried in Mitcham cemetery.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/a-family-affair\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/smith-tom-elder-barr-1863-1941\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/faith-hope-and-charity-australian-women-and-imperial-honours-1901-1989\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Good, Agnes Minnie", "Entry ID": "IMP0200", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/good-agnes-minnie\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "England", "Death Place": "South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Community worker", "Summary": "Agnes Good was acknowledged for her work in Adelaide for the Red Cross Society through her appointment as Officer of the Order of the British Empire on 19 October 1920. Born and educated in England, and married there to Dr J E Good, she arrived in Adelaide before World War I and was an early member of the Australian Red Cross Society, South Australian Division, having joined it in August 1914. She became a member of the Division Council in 1917. Good had been a medical student before her marriage. She organised fund raising activities during the war and continued to work for the Red Cross Society afterwards. Her contribution was rewarded with life membership. Her other community interests included chairmanship of the Combined Charitable Organisations and of the Children's Hospital Red Cross Canteen in 1927. She also assumed the role of official visitor to various hospitals in Adelaide.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/good-agnes-minnie-1870-1954-community-worker-adelaide\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/official-record-of-s-a-button-days\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/faith-hope-and-charity-australian-women-and-imperial-honours-1901-1989\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "McCulloch, Deborah Jane", "Entry ID": "PR00042", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/mcculloch-deborah-jane\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Sydney, New South Wales, Australia", "Death Place": "Adelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Lecturer, Poet, Teacher", "Summary": "Deborah McCulloch was an English teacher and later a lecturer at Salisbury College of Advanced Education. She became involved in the women's movement in 1971. She was a member of Women's Electoral Lobby (WEL) when it started in South Australia. She was appointed as the first Women's Adviser to the Premier of South Australia in 1976 by Don Dunstan.\n", "Details": "Deborah McCulloch trained as a teacher and worked in South Australia as an English teacher and lecturer. She was active in the Women's Liberation Movement. She was a member of Women's Electoral Lobby (WEL). She was appointed as the first Women's Adviser to the Premier of South Australia in 1976 by Don Dunstan. With Yve Repin she formed FEM Enterprises. She published poetry including Waltzing with Alice (1983) and Three's Company (1992) with Elizabeth Biff Ward and Donna McKimming.\nShe was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by Flinders University in 1994 and was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) in June 2005 for service to the community as a proponent of equal opportunities for women, Indigenous Australians and people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/womens-movement-south-australia\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/report-on-womens-non-government-organizations-conference-beijing-china-august-31-september-8-1995-deborah-mcculloch-womens-electoral-lobby\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/fresh-evidence-new-witnesses-finding-womens-history\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/sylvia-kinder-summary-record\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/interview-with-deborah-mcculloch-sound-recording-interviewer-deborah-worsley-pine\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/interview-with-deborah-mcculloch-sound-recording-interviewer-catherine-murphy\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Frazer, Connie", "Entry ID": "PR00085", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/frazer-connie\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Coventry, England", "Death Place": "Adelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Feminist, Poet, Revolutionist, Writer", "Summary": "Connie was born in Coventry, England in 1925 to a working class family. She migrated to Whyalla, South Australia with her husband, Bill and their son.\nConnie became active in the Anti-War Movement during the Vietnam War, when her son was a teenager, a newspaper announcement regarding conscription being the trigger.\nThis involvement lead to her joining the Women's Liberation Movement, where she was part of the core group that established the Women's Liberation Centre at Bloor Court, Adelaide and a counselling service as part of the centre. She also helped set up the first Women's Shelter in Adelaide and the Christies Beach Shelter, in suburban Adelaide.\nConnie was a member of the Tuesday Afternoon Group, a group of older women interested in women's issues. She was a poet and writer with the Adelaide based, Friendly Street Poets from its inception and has been published in many of the Friendly Street Poet anthologies, as well as in journals, magazines, and newspapers. She also published two collections with Friendly Street Poets, Other Ways of Looking c1988) and Earthdweller. Ugly as a Boxer's Glove was also published about Connie's life, as a text spoken by Connie and edited by Marg McHugh.\n", "Details": "Connie was born in Coventry in England in 1925 to a working class family she and her husband Bill migrated to Whyalla in South Australia. During the Vietnam War she became active in the Anti-War Movement as she had a teenage son and was concerned about his being conscripted. This involvement lead to her joining the Women's Liberation Movement. She was part of the core group that established the Women's Liberation Centre at Bloor Court and a counselling services as part of the centre. She also helped set up the first Women's Shelter in Adelaide and the Christies Beach Shelter. She was a Member of the Tuesday Afternoon Group. She was a poet and writer with the Friendly Street Poets from its inception and was published in the majority of their anthologies. the poetry books include Other Ways of Looking(c1988) and Earth Dweller and Marg McHugh Ugly as a boxer's Glove on Constance Frazer's life.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/liberation\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/interview-with-connie-frazer-sound-recording-interviewer-deborah-worsley-pine\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/tuesday-afternoon-group\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/adelaide-womens-liberation-movement-summary-record\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/interview-with-connie-frazer-sound-recording-interviewer-helen-oxenham\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Olive Pink Society", "Entry ID": "AWE0188", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/olive-pink-society\/", "Type": "Organisation", "Birth Place": "Adelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Summary": "The Olive Pink Society was formed in 1988 and works to address issues of race and gender in anthropology. It publishes the Bulletin of the Olive Pink Society.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/bulletin-of-the-olive-pink-society\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/rw-boden-work-files-and-reports-relating-to-olive-pink-and-the-olive-pink-society\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Pioneer Women's Memorial Garden", "Entry ID": "AWE0324", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/pioneer-womens-memorial-garden\/", "Type": "Cultural Artefact", "Birth Place": "King William Road, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Commemoration", "Summary": "The Pioneer Women's Memorial Garden was established by the women of South Australia as a tribute to the pioneer women of the state in 1941. The garden was designed by landscape designer Elsie Cornish and the statue created by Ola Cohn was unveiled by Lady Muriel Barclay-Harvey on the 19 April 1941. The Memorial Garden was paid for by the Women's Centenary Council of South Australia.\n" }, { "Title\/Name": "Aboriginal Legal Rights Movement (ALRM) Inc.", "Entry ID": "AWE0707", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/aboriginal-legal-rights-movement-alrm-inc-11\/", "Type": "Organisation", "Birth Place": "Adelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Summary": "The Aboriginal Legal Rights Movement Inc (ALRM) is a not for profit organisation that provides legal service to Aboriginal people and their communities. Established in 1971, and incorporated in 1973, it exists to get social justice for Aboriginal people and their communities.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Catholic Women's League of South Australia Inc.", "Entry ID": "AWE0765", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/catholic-womens-league-of-south-australia-inc\/", "Type": "Organisation", "Birth Place": "Adelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Social support organisation", "Summary": "The inaugural meeting of the Catholic Women's League in Australia took place in Adelaide, South Australia on 25 October 1914. Based on the British model, the aim was to centralise the activities of various Catholic women's societies and give public expression to Catholic thought on vital questions. Its founder, Miss Betty Leworthy became the first secretary, with Mrs Abigail McMahon Glynn president. Whilst in London in 1916 Glynn received permission to use the British Catholic Women's League badge. Australian members devised their motto as 'Charity, Work, Loyalty' and expressed the intention 'to unite Catholic women in a bond of common fellowship for the promotion of religious and intellectual interests and social work'. One of its major projects was to establish the St Mary's Hostel in 1916, which continued until 1972. From 1975 the Catholic Women's League Child Care Centre operated from the Hostel site at 178 East Terrace.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/learning-for-life-st-marys-hostel-1916-1972-and-the-catholic-womens-league-child-care-centre-1975-1999\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/daniel-mannix-the-roman-catholic-archbishop-of-melbourne-said-at-a-sydney-conference-in-1928-what-catholic-women-cannot-do-cannot-be-done-in-south-australia-this-statement-has-been-proven-by-th\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/catholic-womens-league-of-south-australia-inc-records\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/catholic-womens-league-of-south-australia-inc-records-2\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Girls Social and Political Union", "Entry ID": "AWE1018", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/girls-social-and-political-union\/", "Type": "Organisation", "Birth Place": "Adelaide, South Australia", "Summary": "The social activism of quite young women is graphically captured in the activities of the Girls Social and Political Union, which flourished between 1914 and 1917. It was a discussion group formed by Ellinor Walker in 1914, when she was just 18, with a friend, and around 20 other young women. The aims of the group were to promote mutual awareness of matters South Australian, Australian, Imperial and international to make the most effective use of their voting rights. \nThey discussed a wide range of social, political and economic topics, some of which bear currency today\u2014'large pensions being granted to Government servants at the present time of so-called economy'; sweated labour; the wheat scheme, land values taxation.\n", "Details": "The Union's endeavours shows the interests and concerns of a group of high-minded, young middle-class women who were concerned with self-education and self-improvement. Several members of this informal group went on to become involved in the Women's Non-Party Political Association. \nAccording to the State Library'- of South Australian's Reference Archivist Prue McDonald, 'The minute book of the girls union shows issues of concern to the socially and politically aware young women of the day, and are remarkable for the time.'\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/girls-social-political-union-summary-record\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Save Our Sons Movement (South Australian Branch)", "Entry ID": "AWE1030", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/save-our-sons-movement-south-australian-branch\/", "Type": "Organisation", "Birth Place": "Adelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Death Place": "Adelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Social action organisation", "Summary": "The Save Our Sons Movement was formed in 1965 to seek the reappeal of the National Service act and disbanded in 1975. In an effort to bring back servicemen stationed in Vietnam, the Save Our Sons movement made public protests against the conduct of the war in Vietnam, aided those who had been jailed after refusing to be conscripted, spoke on behalf of conscientious objectors at rallies, passed out leaflets, attended vigils and supported in court those who were charged with resisting conscription.\nThe Save Our Sons movement was just one of the many groups opposed to Australia's involvement in the Vietnam war. Although there were male members, women held all office-holder positions.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/save-our-sons-movement-summary-record\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/union-of-australian-women-summary-record\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Women's Electoral Lobby South Australia", "Entry ID": "AWE1031", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/womens-electoral-lobby-south-australia\/", "Type": "Organisation", "Birth Place": "Adelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Social action organisation", "Summary": "The Women's Electoral Lobby (WEL.) first formed in Victoria, 1972. Conducted on a voluntary, non-profit basis, the W.E.L is a political pressure group that seeks to remove the economic and social disadvantages of women in Australia, to end discrimination against women and to promote equal opportunity. The W.E.L was constituted with a double purpose - to carry to the elected representatives of the community the views and requirements of female electors and to inform those female electors about their representatives' standard of consciousness of women's issues.\n", "Details": "Since 1972, W.E.L. activities have diversified around the central lobby theme. Sexual harassment, birth control and abortion, child care, parental benefits and child abuse, family law and women in jail, domestic violence, emergency housing, women's health (including mental health), offensive advertising and pornography, education and employment, environmental concerns, the rights of Indigenous women and religion are some of the areas addressed by W.E.L. As well as a large body of members, monthly newsletters and annual National Conferences, many ad hoc action groups were developed including environmental, law, media, health, women in detention, women in education and the dangers of gambling.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/womens-electoral-lobby-s-a-summary-record\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/papers-of-the-migrant-and-indigenous-women-action-group\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/papers-relating-to-the-womens-information-switchboard-later-the-womens-information-service\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Third Women and Labour Conference", "Entry ID": "AWE1032", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/third-women-and-labour-conference\/", "Type": "Organisation", "Birth Place": "Adelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Death Place": "Adelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Conference, Feminist conference", "Summary": "One of a series, the Third Women and Labour Conference intended to encourage research and experience sharing which furthered women's understanding of their participation in the workforce and Australian society. More than 100 sessions were conducted with papers and workshops covering topics such as women and work, technological change and its impact upon women's employment, women and the family, the programs to assist women to take up \"non-traditional\" employment, migrant women, women's studies, feminist theory and practice, lesbianism, women and ageing, women and the media, women and art, work and unions, feminist literary criticisms and the strategies for women in the 80s (discussed by guest speakers Deborah McCulloch and Bettina Cass). The conference aimed to ensure the participation of a wide range of women and to promote contributions on important topics.\n", "Details": "Approximately 1200 women from all states of Australia, New Zealand, and Canada registered. 57 papers were presented and 54 workshops were conducted covering the disciplines of anthropology, politics, philosophy and fine arts with the role of women in education, social work, science and health also being discussed. A two volume collection entitled \"All Her Labours\" (1984, Women and Labour Publications Collective, Hale & Iremonger Pty. Ltd) was compiled from selected papers from those presented at the conference. Proceeds from the books sales and conference profits enabled a trust fund to be established. Grants were available to any woman or group of women who were undertaking a project of benefit to women. Although surplus funds had been available since the first Women and Labour Conference held in Sydney in 1978, it was no longer limited to literary projects. By 1984, funds from the Third Women and Labour Conference had been dispersed among almost 30 successful applicants. Further funds were obtained by the end of 1984 following the publication of two more volumes of conference papers.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/worth-her-salt-women-at-work-in-australia\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/all-her-labours-working-it-out\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/a-touch-of-nostalgia-at-the-women-and-labour-conference\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/warmth-and-unity-with-all-women-historicizing-racism-in-the-australian-womens-movement\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/women-labour-conference-summary-record\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Women's Studies Resource Centre", "Entry ID": "AWE1033", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/womens-studies-resource-centre\/", "Type": "Organisation", "Birth Place": "Adelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Feminist organisation", "Summary": "In 1973, the first national conference on Sexism in Education was convened by the Women's Liberation Movement, fuelled by concern for the position of women and girls in society and Women's Studies courses were established at Flinders and Adelaide Universities. Teachers and Students quickly became aware of a shortage of materials in this area and a group of women educators began meeting in 1974 to redress this. In July 1975 the Women's Studies Resource Centre was established at Wattle Park Teachers College funded by a grant from the Australian National Advisory Committee for International Women's Year. After moving several times the WSRC relocated to its present address in the suburb of North Adelaide.\n", "Details": "The WSRC's primary function is to provide resources that counter sexist assumptions in society while also providing non-sexist women's studies, gender studies and feminist materials.\nThe collection contains over 18000 items including fiction, non-fiction, videos, DVDs, CDs, cassettes, posters, journals and teaching kits. It also holds extensive records concerning many key women's groups and organizations such as the Women's Art Movement, Women's Liberation Movement, Women's Electoral Lobby, Rape Crisis Centre, and the St Peters and Hindmarsh Women's Community Health Centres. There are also a number of items from specific issue groups such as Women Against Nuclear Energy, Association of Country and City Women Writers, Women's Abortion Action Campaign, and Women's Action Against Global Violence. These records take the form of minutes, financial records, submissions, articles, photographs, posters, pamphlets, constitutions, newsletters and more. Many significant activists are also represented such as Anna Yeatman, Anne Summers, and Jill Matthews. These records are mainly housed in filing cabinets and not all have been itemised. Additionally the collection contains many sensitive papers and so access and publishing permission must be sought.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/womens-studies-conference-to-be-national-event\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/womens-studies-workshop-1979-1981-summary-record-sound-recording\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/s94-womens-studies-conference-committee\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/sylvia-kinder-summary-record\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Women's Art Movement", "Entry ID": "AWE1034", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/womens-art-movement\/", "Type": "Organisation", "Birth Place": "Adelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Feminist organisation", "Summary": "Initiated by women already in the art world, the Women's Art Movement (hereinafter named W.A.M.) was part of an international trend somewhat belated in Australia, which lead women artists to look at their position as women in society and to analyse their position as artists through a feminist frame. The W.A.M offered women artists support within an alternative group structure. The group began with the aim of supporting and promoting women artists, educating members on the problem of discrimination and working with one another to overcome sexism in the arts and society. Fifty women ranging in age from 18 to 65 attended the first meeting. As attendance numbers grew, funding was required. Such monetary resources were obtained from the South Australia Arts Grant Advisory Committee (A.G.A.C), the Community Arts Board (C.A.B), and the Visual Arts Board (V.A.B) for salary and administrative costs, workshops and the publication of the book Women's Art Movement 1978-1979, Adelaide, South Australia, respectively.\n", "Details": "Members produced contemporary and often confronting art pieces that tackled subject matter that is specific to the life experiences of women. Rape, abortion, reproduction and motherhood were some of the themes addressed in a variety of mediums including: hand painting, sculpture, life drawing, lithograph, silk screening, installation art, patchwork and other folk art, film and photography, music, dance, street theatre and poetry. By the mid 1980s, the W.A.M had become a highly respected art movement both nationally and internationally.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/setting-the-pace-the-womens-art-movement-1980-1983\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/womens-art-movement-summary-record\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/sylvia-kinder-summary-record\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Zonta Club of Adelaide", "Entry ID": "AWE1046", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/zonta-club-of-adelaide\/", "Type": "Organisation", "Birth Place": "Adelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Summary": "The Zonta Club of Adelaide was officially chartered on April 17, 1969. Allthea Tebbutt was elected as the first president of the Club, alongside Board Members Irene Jeffries, Dr Catherine Ellis, Geraldine Little, Joyce Cupples, Brenda Coulter and Judith Hay.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/records-of-zonta-club-of-adelaide\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Panhellenic Women's Movement", "Entry ID": "AWE2138", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/panhellenic-womens-movement\/", "Type": "Organisation", "Birth Place": "Adelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Summary": "The Panhellenic Women's Movement was a broad-based, progressive women's organisation established in 1977 in order to assist and represent Australian women of Greek heritage.\n", "Details": "The goals of the Panhellenic Women's Movement were as follows:\n\nTo advance the social and mental development of its members, the cultivation of friendly relations and solidarity amongst the members of the organisation,\nThe accomplishment of women's equality in society; professional, social and political,\nThe cultivation of friendly relations between Greek women and the Australian people, as well as other women's organisations of the other nationalities and with all Greek organisations, clubs and brotherhoods,\nTo make claims for working rights,\nTo support every effort for maintaining world peace\n\nOrganisations such as the Panhellenic Women's Movement were extremely active in their attempts to network with other women's organisations. The fact that we know of their existence is proof of this - they corresponded with the Union of Australian Women (UAW) quite regularly and their letters can be found in the UAW archives.\nEvidence that they (and no doubt other migrant women's organisations) had an impact on the thinking of established women's organisations can also be found in this correspondence. A note in the UAW records, with the Panhellenic Women's Movement correspondence, notes the following:\n'Our work is two-fold - on the one hand to become cognisant of the problems of migrant women and to assist them with regard to language, job opportunities, conditions etc. and by takin up the various issues contained in the Charter for Women Workers Rights, on the other hand, by extending solidarity to women in their homelands - for example, protesting at the closure of the Progressive Women's Organisation's office in Turkey, protesting about the atrocities against women in Chile and Uruguay.'\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/papers-re-panhellenic-womens-movement\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "National Fitness Council of South Australia", "Entry ID": "AWE2254", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/national-fitness-council-of-south-australia\/", "Type": "Organisation", "Birth Place": "South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Sporting Organisation", "Summary": "The National Fitness Council of South Australia was a government advisory body established in 1939 that alerted individuals to the importance of gaining physical fitness, and encouraged community interest in open space and the \"Quality of Environment.\" In 1976 the Council was taken over by the Department of Tourism, Recreation and Sport.\n", "Details": "From its inception the National Fitness Council offered women a decided role in the organization and promotion of recreation in South Australia. As most of its programmes were sex segregated, administrative and practical positions for women within the agency were assured.\nThe Council continued to play a major role in fostering women's sport in the post-war years. It provided coaching assistance in a variety of sports (including tennis, athletics, hockey, netball and was also instrumental in organizing and promoting new team sports. It was responsible for the formation of the South Australian Amateur Gymnastic Association in 1952, and the introduction of softball, cricket and court cricket to girls' schools. In 1941, the Council expanded its activities outside the country areas into rural and regional South Australia.\nThrough the provision of financial and administrative\nassistance, played a major role in the formation of the South Australian Women's Amateur Sports Council which, in turn, was important in providing suitable playing grounds for women's sport. Repeated attempts by the National Fitness Council and the South Australian Women's Amateur Sports Council to get government assistance were partially rewarded in 1952 when the state government donated 19 acres of land for the development of a women's sports field. This was the area that would become known as the South Australian Women's Memorial Playing Fields.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/a-fair-go-women-in-sport-in-south-australia-1945-1965\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/shes-game-women-making-australian-sporting-history-2\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/miscellaneous-records-national-fitness-council%e2%86%b5national-fitness-council-records%e2%86%b5national-fitness-council-records\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/papers-relating-to-the-national-fitness-council-of-south-australia\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "South Australian Women's Amateur Sports Council", "Entry ID": "AWE2255", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/south-australian-womens-amateur-sports-council\/", "Type": "Organisation", "Birth Place": "Adelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Sporting Organisation", "Summary": "The South Australian Women's Amateur Sports Council was established with financial and administrative assistance from the National Fitness Council to promote the interests of sportswomen in South Australia, and to help formulate \"a common policy on planning and development for women's sport\". One of its most important initiatives, in cooperation with the National Fitness Council of South Australia, was the establishment of the Women's Memorial Playing Fields on the corner of Shepherds Hill Road and Ayliffes Road, St. Marys.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/a-fair-go-women-in-sport-in-south-australia-1945-1965\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/shes-game-women-making-australian-sporting-history-2\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/papers-relating-to-the-national-fitness-council-of-south-australia\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/miscellaneous-records-national-fitness-council%e2%86%b5national-fitness-council-records%e2%86%b5national-fitness-council-records\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/south-australian-womens-memorial-playing-fields-trust-summary-record\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Women's Memorial Playing Fields", "Entry ID": "AWE2257", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/womens-memorial-playing-fields\/", "Type": "Place", "Birth Place": "Adelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Sporting Venue", "Summary": "The concept of a Women's Memorial Playing Fields emanated from the concern from South Australia's sporting women over the lack of playing areas available to them. Sports field for women had always been in short supply in Adelaide, but the situation was made worse by the rapid growth of women's participation in sport in the post-war period.\nThis concern led to the formation of the South Australian Women's Amateur Sports Council. With the help of the National Fitness Council they lobbied the government for resources and were eventually successful. In 1953 the Premier, the Hon. Tom Playford, granted the Council 20 acres of reserve land on the corner of Shepherds Hill Road and Ayliffes Road, St. Marys for a centre for women's sport.\nFrom 1953-55 the fields progressed and prospered. In 1956 to honour those who had died during war, a memorial drinking fountain was erected, and the grounds as a whole were dedicated to the South Australia Servicewomen who served in World Wars I and II. A ceremony remembering the nurses and other women in the services is held each February.\nThe work of early Trust members is commemorated in the naming of the Helen Black oval, the Gordon Brown oval and the May Mills Pavilion.\nThe Women's Memorial Playing fields are the only dedicated women's memorial of this type in Australia.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/a-fair-go-women-in-sport-in-south-australia-1945-1965\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/shes-game-women-making-australian-sporting-history-2\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/south-australian-womens-memorial-playing-fields-trust-summary-record\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Catholic Female Refuge", "Entry ID": "AWE4184", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/catholic-female-refuge\/", "Type": "Organisation", "Birth Place": "Mitcham, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Women's refuge", "Summary": "The Catholic Female Refuge in Adelaide was established in Mitcham in in 1856 to shelter girls who were in 'moral danger'. Its 'clients' soon extended beyond girls to women who also needed support. In exchange for care and shelter, women and girls assisted with the sewing and laundry work which helped to provide an income for the refuge. Some women remained at there for years as 'Magdalens' working and praying with the nuns. \nFrom 1868 to 1962 Josephite nuns ran the refuge, which moved to Norwood in 1872, and into new premises at Fullarton in 1901. The institution continues to function today as a women's housing co-operative.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/catholic-female-refuge-2\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Methodist Deaconess Order in South Australia", "Entry ID": "AWE4253", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/methodist-deaconess-order-in-south-australia\/", "Type": "Organisation", "Birth Place": "Adelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Summary": "The Methodist Order of Deaconesses was established in 1942 as a result of the inability of the Methodist Church in Australia to implement the principle affirmed at the General Conference in 1929 that women who believed that they were called by God to a wider (professional) ministry in the Church than was available to them at that time, could offer as candidates for the ministry under the same regulations as men.\nIts establishment led to marked changes in the opportunities available to women in the life of the church. Significantly, it offered structure, support and status for women's ministry by providing a professional pathway. It created opportunities for women's ministry at home, not just in international mission fields. By helping to create a context whereby men and women worked together, it enabled the Methodist Church to come to the view that women had a place in the ordained ministry.\n", "Details": "The idea of establishing a Deaconess Order in South Australia was mooted as early at 1922 by the Reverend John Pearce, superintendent of the Home Mission Department. The 1935 General Conference decisions to establish such as order found a most enthusiastic supporter in Kate Cocks, who was well known in South Australia as an advocate on behalf of women and children's rights and welfare. A study trip to New Zealand to investigate the work of Deaconesses in that country convinced her of the need for a similar organisation in South Australia. Her recommendations were endorsed at the Annual Conference in 1937. Although the outbreak of war delayed further decisions, it also highlighted the need for women's ministry and a training institute to support it, as women rushed to fill the gaps left by men who went off to fight. But in 1942, the order was established.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/a-history-of-the-methodist-deaconess-order-in-south-australia\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Women Lawyers' Association South Australia Inc.", "Entry ID": "AWE5570", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/women-lawyers-association-south-australia-inc\/", "Type": "Organisation", "Birth Place": "South Australia", "Occupations": "Feminist organisation, Professional Association", "Summary": "The Women Lawyers' Association of South Australia was incorporated in July 1998, although the need for a women's association had been discussed well before then and was long in the making.\nOn 21st September 1988 a meeting was held at the Law Society to discuss forming a women lawyers group. Over 95 women attended and 60 more sent their apologies. This represented more than half of the women practising law at that time and clearly indicated that the concept of a women lawyers committee or group had considerable support.\nThe Women Lawyers Committee of the Law Society was formally established in April 1989. A volunteer committee took responsibility for running the section, which has continued to this day. Following the establishment of Australian Women Lawyers in 1997, the Women Lawyers Association of South Australia Inc. has operated as an independently incorporated body, although their activities remain intertwined with those of the Women Lawyers Committee of the Law Society.\n" }, { "Title\/Name": "Supreme Court of South Australia", "Entry ID": "AWE5951", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/supreme-court-of-south-australia\/", "Type": "Organisation", "Birth Place": "Adelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Summary": "The Supreme Court of South Australia is the superior court of the State and is a court of both law and equity. It deals with the most important civil cases and the most serious criminal matters. In its appellate jurisdiction, the Supreme Court reviews and determines errors which may have occurred in other courts of the State and interprets and expounds the law for the guidance of other courts. The court was set up by ordinance of 7 Will. IV c.5 on 2 January 1837, five days after the Colony of South Australia was founded. Its first sitting was held on 13 May 1837.\n" }, { "Title\/Name": "Magistrates' Court of South Australia", "Entry ID": "AWE5955", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/magistrates-court-of-south-australia\/", "Type": "Organisation", "Birth Place": "South Australia, Australia", "Summary": "The Magistrates' Court of South Australia was established by the Magistrates Court Act 1991. The Court handles the greatest proportion of litigation in the State. It has four jurisdictions: Civil (General Claims); Civil (Minor Claims); Civil (Consumer and Business) and Criminal.\n" }, { "Title\/Name": "Composing Women's Festival", "Entry ID": "AWE6342", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/composing-womens-festival\/", "Type": "Event", "Birth Place": "Adelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Death Place": "Adelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Summary": "The inaugural Composing Women's Festival was held in Adelaide in September 1991. The Festival was founded by composer Becky Llewellyn and it brought Australian female composers together for the first time.\n", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/records-of-the-composing-womens-festival-1991-1991-manuscript\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "South Australian Women's Suffrage League", "Entry ID": "AWE6458", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/south-australian-womens-suffrage-league\/", "Type": "Organisation", "Birth Place": "South Australia, Australia", "Summary": "Founded in July 1988, the South Australian Women's Suffrage League was at the forefront of the campaign for womens's right to vote.\n" }, { "Title\/Name": "Queen Victoria Hospital", "Entry ID": "AWE6467", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/queen-victoria-hospital-2\/", "Type": "Organisation", "Birth Place": "South Australia, Australia", "Death Place": "South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Hospital", "Summary": "The Queen Victoria Hospital was the name given to the Queen Victoria Maternity Hospital in 1966. The hospital provided maternity and women's health services, and also operated as an adoption agency. In March 1989 the Queen Victoria Hospital merged with the Adelaide Children's Hospital to form the Adelaide Medical Centre for Women and Children.\n", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/wchn-history-and-heritage-collection\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Adelaide Medical Centre for Women and Children", "Entry ID": "AWE6480", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/adelaide-medical-centre-for-women-and-children\/", "Type": "Organisation", "Birth Place": "South Australia, Australia", "Death Place": "South Australia, Australia", "Summary": "The Queen Victoria Hospital merged with the Adelaide Children's Hospital in 1989 to form the Adelaide Medical Centre for Women and Children. In 1995 the centre was renamed the Women's and Children's Hospital.\n" }, { "Title\/Name": "Women's and Children's Hospital", "Entry ID": "AWE6481", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/womens-and-childrens-hospital\/", "Type": "Organisation", "Birth Place": "North Adelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Summary": "The current Women's and Children's Hospital was given its name in 1995, after previously being called the Adelaide Medical Centre for Women and Children.\nThe centre is located in North Adelaide, South Australia.\n" }, { "Title\/Name": "Queen Victoria Maternity Hospital", "Entry ID": "AWE6482", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/queen-victoria-maternity-hospital\/", "Type": "Organisation", "Birth Place": "South Australia, Australia", "Death Place": "South Australia, Australia", "Summary": "In 1939 The Queen's Home was renamed the Queen Victoria Maternity Hospital. Seven years later, in 1946, it was declared a public hospital under the provisions of the Hospital Benefits Act.\nIn 1966 the hospital was renamed The Queen Victoria Hospital.\n" }, { "Title\/Name": "The Queen's Home", "Entry ID": "AWE6483", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/the-queens-home\/", "Type": "Organisation", "Birth Place": "South Australia, Australia", "Death Place": "South Australia, Australia", "Summary": "The Queen's Home was officially opened on 24 May 1902 - Queen Victoria's 83rd Birthday. The hospital was established as a private maternity hospital and from 1917 unmarried women were admitted for the first time.\nIn 1939, the hospital was renamed the Queen Victoria Maternity Hospital.\n" }, { "Title\/Name": "Advanced School for Girls", "Entry ID": "AWE6504", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/advanced-school-for-girls\/", "Type": "Organisation", "Birth Place": "Adelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Death Place": "Adelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Educational institution", "Summary": "The Advanced School for Girls opened in Adelaide in 1879. It was the first state secondary school for girls in Australia.\nIn early 1908 the Advanced School for Girls amalgamated with the Pupil Teacher School and the Grote Street Model School to form the Adelaide Continuation School. The school was renamed Adelaide High School in July of the same year.\nIn 1951 the school was split into two parts to form the Adelaide Boys' High School and the Adelaide Girls' High School.\n", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/advanced-school-for-girls-summary-record\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Queen Adelaide Club", "Entry ID": "AWE6507", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/queen-adelaide-club\/", "Type": "Organisation", "Birth Place": "Adelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Social organisation", "Summary": "The Queen Adelaide Club was founded in 1909 by Mrs Margaret Annie Box. The Club, which was named after Queen Adelaide, was established as 'an exclusive residential club for social and non-political purposes'.\n", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/records-relating-to-queen-adelaide-club\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/queen-adelaide-club-summary-record\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Mothers' and Babies' Health Association", "Entry ID": "AWE6508", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/mothers-and-babies-health-association\/", "Type": "Organisation", "Birth Place": "South Australia, Australia", "Death Place": "South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Health service", "Summary": "Previously known as the School for Mothers Institute and Baby Health Centre, The Mothers' and Babies' Health Association (MBHA) was officially established in c.1927. The aim of the Association was to reduce infant mortality by providing expert advice to mothers. During the 1930s and 1950s the Association was known for having baby health trains which took clinics to small, isolated communities. In 1980 the MBHA was renamed the Child, Adolescent and Family Health Services and in 1995, it was renamed again to Child and Youth Health.\n", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/mothers-and-babies-health-association-summary-record\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Adelaide School for Mothers", "Entry ID": "AWE6509", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/adelaide-school-for-mothers\/", "Type": "Organisation", "Birth Place": "South Australia, Australia", "Death Place": "South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Health service", "Summary": "The Adelaide School for Mothers was established in 1909 by Dr Helen Mayo and Miss Harriet Stirling. In 1915 the school was incorporated and renamed the School for Mothers' Institute Inc.\n", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/mothers-and-babies-health-association-summary-record\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "School for Mothers Institute and Baby Health Centre", "Entry ID": "AWE6510", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/school-for-mothers-institute-and-baby-health-centre\/", "Type": "Organisation", "Birth Place": "South Australia, Australia", "Death Place": "South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Health service", "Summary": "The School for Mothers Institute Inc. was renamed the School for Mothers Institute and Baby Health Centre in 1921. It was again renamed in 1927 to the Mothers' and Babies' Health Association.\n", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/mothers-and-babies-health-association-summary-record\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "School for Mothers' Institute Inc", "Entry ID": "AWE6511", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/school-for-mothers-institute-inc\/", "Type": "Organisation", "Birth Place": "South Australia, Australia", "Death Place": "South Australia, Australia", "Summary": "Formerly the Adelaide School for Mothers, the School for Mothers' Institute Inc. was established in 1915 after the original organisation became incorporated. In 1921 the School was renamed the School for Mothers' Institute and Baby Health Centre.\n", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/mothers-and-babies-health-association-summary-record\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Adelaide Girls' High School", "Entry ID": "AWE6517", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/adelaide-girls-high-school\/", "Type": "Organisation", "Birth Place": "Adelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Death Place": "Adelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Educational institution", "Summary": "In 1951 the Adelaide High School was split to form the Adelaide Boys' High School and the Adelaide Girls' High School.\nThe schools were amalgamated again in 1976 after a drop in enrolment numbers caused by the re-zoning of high schools in the metropolitan area and changes in the demography of the city. By 1979 all of the students were housed at the West Terrace Campus.\n" }, { "Title\/Name": "Methodist Ladies' College (MLC), Adelaide", "Entry ID": "AWE6520", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/methodist-ladies-college-mlc-adelaide\/", "Type": "Organisation", "Birth Place": "South Australia, Australia", "Death Place": "South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Educational institution", "Summary": "The Methodist Ladies' College in Malvern, South Australia, was opened on Saturday 12 April 1902. The college moved to the Way College building in Wayville for the beginning of the 1904 school year.\nIn 1977 the school was renamed Annesley College after the Congregational Union of Australia, the Methodist Church of Australasia and the Presbyterian Church of Australia merged to form the Uniting Church.\n" }, { "Title\/Name": "Annesley College", "Entry ID": "AWE6521", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/annesley-college\/", "Type": "Organisation", "Birth Place": "South Australia, Australia", "Death Place": "South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Educational institution", "Summary": "In 1977 Methodist Ladies' College Adelaide became Annesley College after the Congregational, Methodist and Presbyterian Churches merged to form the Uniting Church.\n" }, { "Title\/Name": "Wesleyan Ladies' College", "Entry ID": "AWE6522", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/wesleyan-ladies-college\/", "Type": "Organisation", "Birth Place": "Burwood, Sydney, South Australia, Australia", "Death Place": "Burwood Sydney, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Educational institution", "Summary": "The Wesleyan Ladies' College was opened on 27 January 1886.\n", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/mlc-school-archives\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Burwood Ladies' College", "Entry ID": "AWE6523", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/burwood-ladies-college\/", "Type": "Organisation", "Birth Place": "Burwood, Sydney, South Australia, Australia", "Death Place": "Burwood Sydney, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Educational institution", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/mlc-school-archives\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Women Against Rape Adelaide", "Entry ID": "PR00035", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/women-against-rape-adelaide\/", "Type": "Organisation", "Birth Place": "Adelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Death Place": "AdelaideAdelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Protesting, Social awareness organisation", "Summary": "Women Against Rape (WAR) was formed after the 1981 ANZAC Day March in Canberra where three hundred women demonstrated about and for women raped in war. The Adelaide women organised a rally in support of the women who had been arrested in Canberra.\n", "Details": "Women Against Rape (WAR) was formed after the 1981 ANZAC Day March in Canberra where three hundred women demonstrated about and for the women raped in war. The Canberra group had been protesting at ANZAC Day Marches since 1979. The Adelaide women organised a rally in support of the women who had been arrested. With the aid of the International Women's Day Collective, WAR undertook a campaign to raise awareness of this issue in Adelaide. The women wanted to march at the end of the ANZAC Day march but permission was not granted. They were advised they could march only after 12 pm. WAR met in Victoria Square and they laid wreaths at the War Memorial, which where then removed by police and bystanders. WAR's campaign highlighted the fact that when they handed out a newssheet of their actions they were prevented due to the by-law preventing women from selling or distributing news. Women Against Rape was part of a International movement of women, protesting rape in war.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/adelaide-womens-liberation-movement-summary-record\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/papers-of-the-women-against-rape-coalition-war\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Women's Environmental Action Group", "Entry ID": "PR00040", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/womens-environmental-action-group\/", "Type": "Organisation", "Birth Place": "Port Adelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Death Place": "Port AdelaidePort Adelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Social action organisation", "Summary": "In 1988 a small group of Adelaide women formed the Women's Environmental Action Group, to educate people on environmental issues effecting their lives and how they could help change things\n", "Details": "The Women's Environmental Action Group members undertook a schools program in their area teaching children about recycling and paper making. They made a submission on waste management in Australia. They staged protest actions at supermarkets against excessive packaging, and in shopping centres placing stickers on toy guns as a protest against war and the first Gulf War. They protested the Roxby Downs uranium shipments, noting down container numbers to send to protesters in other countries. The undertook Nurrunga and yellow cake actions to increase awareness about uranium. The Port Adelaide local government area became a nuclear free zone and the women put up signs to celebrate this. The banner in the photographs at the International Women's Day was confiscated by the police and longer exists. They wrote articles for 'Liberation', the Adelaide Women's Liberation Newsletter. Members included Silver Moon, Doris Horvath, Kate Lawrence, Seja Sims, and Sally Sims.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/womens-environmental-action-group-weng\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/feminist-anti-nuclear-group-fang-records\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/women-against-nuclear-energy\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/adelaide-womens-liberation-movement-archives-collection\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "The Women's Advisory Office", "Entry ID": "PR00043", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/the-womens-advisory-office\/", "Type": "Organisation", "Birth Place": "Adelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Advisory body, Government department", "Summary": "The Office of the Women's Adviser to the Premier was created in South Australia in 1976. The first Women's Advisor was Deborah McCulloch. The Office had a broad ambit and was able to provide women's services and to liaise with other government department on issues that affected women. The Office could comment upon ways to improve legislation and also undertake its own projects.\n", "Details": "The Women's Advisory Unit was established by Deborah McCulloch in 1976 as a result of a comprehensive report on the Public Service in South Australia. Deborah was appointed on a three year contract and during this time she established the Women's Information Switchboard. They undertook research on women's issues and provided information to the Premier. The office was to co-ordinate activities relating to women in the state for the betterment of women's status and well-being in South Australia. Some of the other women involved include Rosemary Wighton and Mary McLeod.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/womens-movement-south-australia\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/fresh-evidence-new-witnesses-finding-womens-history\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/hindmarsh-womens-community-health-centre-2\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/union-of-australian-women-summary-record\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Women's Information Centre Flinders University", "Entry ID": "PR00047", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/womens-information-centre-flinders-university\/", "Type": "Organisation", "Birth Place": "Flinders University Bedford Park, South Australia, Australia", "Death Place": "Flinders University Bedford ParkFlinders University Bedford Park, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Library", "Summary": "The Women's Information Centre at Flinders University in Adelaide, South Australia, was established to assist female students with their studies and to act as a free library. The Centre was the focus of a campaign to save Women's Studies at Flinders University when it was proposed that the course be withdrawn. This campaign was international with support from other women's studies courses and lecturers. The Centre's Name was changed to the Southern Women's Recourse Centre and they published a newsletter Connections.\n", "Details": "The Women's Information Centre was part of the Flinders University Students Union student services. It was part of the Union building on campus and housed not only a library of feminist books by women but also a collection of articles and students' work. The Information Centre was open not only to students at the University but also the public and students from other educational institutions. Flinders University Women's Studies Course was part of the Philosophy Department from 1973 and available to both enrolled students and women in the community. It had a progressive approach to teaching. The students' work was assessed by fellow students and topics for essay or discussion were student driven. A daybook was kept to record tutorials and could be used for essay topics or further discussions. In 1981 the Women's Studies course was threatened with closure. The students, staff and Union of Students mobilized a campaign to maintain the course. Through this campaign there were petitions and letters in support of the course, from both Australia and overseas. The outcome was that the course was retained and given a higher profile.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/the-politics-of-womens-studies\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/twenty-years-womens-studies-at-flinders-1986-2006\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/womens-information-service-flinders-university\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/tuesday-afternoon-group\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/adelaide-womens-liberation-movement-archives-collection\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/flinders-university-womens-information-centre-summary-record\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Port Adelaide Girls Technical High School", "Entry ID": "PR00050", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/port-adelaide-girls-technical-high-school\/", "Type": "Organisation", "Birth Place": "Port Adelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Educational institution", "Summary": "The Port Adelaide Girls Technical High School was established from the Port Adelaide Primary School and the Central School for Girls in 1940. In 1962 the school was moved to the a new building opened by Lady Bastyan, the wife of the governor.\n", "Details": "The Port Adelaide Girls Department was part of the Port Adelaide Primary School (1925), while the primary school it self was opened in 1862. The School was known as the Central School. The Port Adelaide Girls Technical High School was established in 1940. The School operated on two sites. In 1962 a new building brought the two sites into one. Lady Bastyan opened the Port Adelaide Girls Technical High School, which was the first time the spouse of the Governor had opened a school. Principals included Marg Beagley and Carolyne Ryan.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/port-adelaide-girls-technical-school-magazine\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/adelaide-womens-liberation-movement-archives-collection\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/port-adelaide-girls-technical-school\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Tuesday Afternoon Group of Women's Liberation", "Entry ID": "PR00053", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/tuesday-afternoon-group-of-womens-liberation\/", "Type": "Organisation", "Birth Place": "Adelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Political organisation, Social action organisation", "Summary": "The Tuesday afternoon group was formed in 1972 for older women interested in feminist issues. Over the years the group has included s Molly Brannigan, Eulalie Tapp, Alison Gent, Ruth Sullen, Constance Frazer and Barbara Polkinghorne. They were active in raising the issue of housing for older women. They also supported many women's issues in third world countries fighting against social injustice. They have been active in the International Women's Day Marches.\n", "Details": "The Tuesday Afternoon Group of Women's Liberation (TAG) started in 1972 It was primarily for women living in domestic situations but is open to all women. Its main purpose was for older feminists and the issues they faced. The women lobbied for older women's housing and shelters. The women went away on weekend camps together. The Group has been represented in all the International Women's Day Marches in Adelaide since 1972. In 1988 they sponsored older feminists, Louise Fanos and Lynett Aried to perform at the Fringe Theatre Club, 'Older Women Ready or Not'. TAG meetings are held in the Women's Advisory Service each Tuesday where women can enjoy the company and conversation. The group supports and fights against social injustice. The women have included Molly Brannigan, Eulalie Tapp, Alison Gent, Ruth Sullen and Barbara Polkinghorne.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/liberation\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/tuesday-afternoon-group\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/international-womens-day-committee-research-project-summary-record-sound-recording-interviewers-celia-frank-and-kirstin-marks\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "St Peters Women's Community Centre", "Entry ID": "PR00056", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/st-peters-womens-community-centre\/", "Type": "Organisation", "Birth Place": "St Peters, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Community organisation, Feminist organisation", "Summary": "St Peters Women's Community Centre was established in 1977 and provides a meeting place for the women of the St Peters\/Norwood area of Adelaide. The Centre offers childcare and courses for women including fitness self defence, crafts, yoga, maintenance. It also has a strong volunteer program offering women the opportunity to gain new skills before entering the work force.\n", "Details": "St Peters Women's Community Centre was established to provide a venue for the women in the area as part of the International Women's Year Initiative. A survey of the women were undertaken in the area to demonstrated a need for the Centre. Two and a half years of meeting mostly weekly, saw the women trying to organise the accommodation funding and structure of the centre. The St Peters Council granted the funding and a building and the women worked to renovate the old house in which the Centre was officially opened in 1977. The Centre offered a meeting place, and a series of courses that would run for a term where child care was provided. Grants were given for the Arts Grants Advisory Board for the craft courses and Early Childhood Council for the child care worker. The courses included yoga, self defence, fitness, craft, massage and assertiveness training. A walking group and free film were also part of the Centre. The strong volunteer program offers women's work skills to help with paid employment. In 2007 the Centre was involved in a campaign to preserve the 100 year old cottages they occupy and were successful. \u00a0Some of the women involved in the Centre over its long history are, Chris Beasley, Mary Nettle, Sally and Monica O'Wheel, Suzi Jones, Viv Szekeres, Mary McLeod, Myra Betschild, Trish Fairley, Connie Frazer, Bernice Cohen, Sue Hetzel.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/st-peters-womens-community-centre-3\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/st-peters-womens-community-centre-2\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Young Women's Action Group", "Entry ID": "PR00059", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/young-womens-action-group\/", "Type": "Organisation", "Birth Place": "Adelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Feminist organisation, Social action organisation", "Summary": "The Young Women's Action Group was formed as a independent feminist group to support, encourage promote and take positive action on issues of concern surrounding young women in South Australia.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/young-womens-action-constitution\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Adelaide Women's Prison Support Group", "Entry ID": "PR00061", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/adelaide-womens-prison-support-group\/", "Type": "Organisation", "Birth Place": "Adelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Social activist organisation", "Summary": "The Adelaide Women's Prison Support Group was formed in 1996. A Meeting was called for 14 October 1996, initiated through the Adelaide Women's Prison Project (AWPP).\n", "Details": "The Adelaide Women's Prison Support Group was formed in 1996. A meeting was called for 14 October 1996 on the initiative of the Adelaide Women's Prison Project (AWPP). The AWPP was a strategic alliance of a number of South Australian women's services including the Women's Information Service, Women's Health State Wide, Northern Women's Community Health Service, Dale Street Women's Health, Department of Correctional Services, Greek Women's Society of South Australia, National Council of Women, Western Area Women's Shelter, United Nations Status on Women, Women's Electoral Lobby, Aboriginal Prison Education, Aboriginal Drug and Alcohol Council and the insideout program attached to the women's prisons. The AWPP recognised the lack of information for women in prison and on release, the lack of half way housing support, and the lack of education programs for women in prison. The meeting was held in the Pilgrim Church Hall were a draft of a constitution was discussed.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Rape Crisis Centre", "Entry ID": "PR00063", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/rape-crisis-centre\/", "Type": "Organisation", "Birth Place": "Hindmarsh, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Educator, Feminist support service, Social change", "Summary": "The Adelaide Rape Crisis Centre was formed as an outgrowth of the Hindmarsh Women's Community Centre, a free medical service for women. It became obvious after a short time that a separate service was needed, given the number of women reporting past rapes and the lack of available services. The founders of the Rape Crisis Centre had three main purposes: 1) to support women after the rape, 2) to change attitudes to rape and 3) to teach self defence. They organised the first 'Reclaim the Night March' in Adelaide. The group made a submission to the Mitchell Report on Rape and Other Sexual Offences.\n", "Details": "The Centre was opened on 6 September 1976 with 28 trained women on roster for limited phone counselling. By 1980 they had 40 volunteers and 2 part time coordinators. These workers and volunteers took on roles in counselling services, community education, administration, the Management Committee, Liaison Committee and the sexual assault clinic. They trained other services who helped women and girls who had been raped or sexually assaulted.\nInitially the Rape Crisis Centre operated at Mary St, Hindmarsh. The service then moved to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital and on to North Adelaide where it became Yarrow Place. The centre has produced a newsletter since 1977 which is now online.\nSome of the women involved include Heather Crosby, Myra Williams (Betschild), Silver Moon, Helen Oxenham, Jenny Cooke, Chris Beasley, Stephanie Key, Jill Miller, Jillian and Val Tidswell and Diana Kemp.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/hindmarsh-womens-community-health-centre-2\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/adelaide-womens-liberation-movement-summary-record\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/adelaide-rape-crisis-centre-summary-record\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/sylvia-kinder-summary-record\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Ms Print", "Entry ID": "PR00068", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/ms-print\/", "Type": "Organisation", "Birth Place": "Adelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Death Place": "AdelaideAdelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "printer", "Summary": "Ms Print was established to provide inexpensive quality women's work, to print women's artistic work and to run workshops for sharing experiences. It operated out of the Women's Studies Resource Centre from 1979 to 1983.\n", "Details": "Ms Print was established to provide inexpensive quality women's work, to print women's artistic work\u00a0to run workshops to sharing experiences. It operated out of the Women's Studies Resource Centre from 1979 to 1983. It applied for a Department of Arts Grant but was unsuccessful and thus they\u00a0sold feminist books\u00a0to raise money. The minutes of the meetings shows they had a high turnover in the collective membership and the relations with the Women's Studies Resource Centre were strained. They sold books at conferences, on International Women's Day and from the Women's Studies Resource Centre. Some of the women involved include, Kate Barrett, Jillinda Thompson, Pat Gallasch, Jill Whithead, Suzi Jones, Karen Elliott, Jan Egan and Jan Phadke.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "5 MMM", "Entry ID": "PR00070", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/5-mmm\/", "Type": "Organisation", "Birth Place": "Norwood, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "radio broadcasting", "Summary": "5 MMM was a public radio broadcaster that presented a number of women's programs, including; Women's Weekly, and Sunday Monthly . The programs had female presenters at a time when commercial stations did not. The women produced, wrote, presented and were the audio engineers. A small collective organised the programs' content, time lines and themes. The station became 3D radio in 1988.\n", "Details": "5 MMM was a public radio broadcasting which presented a number of women's programs like Women's Weekly, and Sunday Monthly. It was one of three public radio stations at the time run by Progressive Music Broadcasting Association on 93.7 MHZ. The programmes had female presenters at a time when commercial stations did not. The women produced, wrote, presented and were the audio engineers. Sunday Monthly interviewed women from feminist organisations like Women's Electoral Lobby (WEL), Women's Information Switchboard and Women's Studies Resource Centre. A small collective organised the programs time lines content and themes. On the 8th March 1980 the women took over the station and ran 24 hours of women's programmes. They organised a concert with Margaret Roadknight, Jeannie Lewis, Janine Conway, Jan Cornell and Elizabeth Drake. Some of the women involved included, Barbara Baird, Nikki Page, Collette Snowden, Vicki Wilkinson, Jade McCuthen, Sally Carter, Barbara Farrelly and Gay Walsh. The station became 3D radio in 1988.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/liberation\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/5-mmm-fm-community-radio-ephemera-collection\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Unemployed Women's Union", "Entry ID": "PR00071", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/unemployed-womens-union\/", "Type": "Organisation", "Birth Place": "Adelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Death Place": "AdelaideAdelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Feminist organisation, Social action organisation", "Summary": "The Unemployed Women's Union was a response to the economic downturn of 1980. The members wanted to debunk the myth of married women who were working as the cause of unemployment, to defend the right for all women to work, and to act as a support group for unemployed women. They picketed employers, published a newsletter, spoke at rallies, wrote letters to newspapers and politicians, and applied for jobs en masse.\n", "Details": "The Unemployed Women's Union was a response to the economic downturn of 1980. They wanted to debunk the myth of married women working as the cause of unemployment, defend the right for all women to work, and as a support group for unemployed women. The picketed employers laying off women and published a newsletter called 'Fury'. They provided speakers at rallies, wrote letters to newspapers and politicians, and applied for jobs en masse. They formed the Unemployed Women's Union Support Group. The union liaised with the Working Women's Centre on issues of discrimination, unfair dismal. Unemployed Women's Union produced stickers, badges, pamphlets and made a banner for marches. They participated in the Beef March of 1980. \u00a0This was a reference to a famous march of unemployed in Adelaide during the Great Depression. Some of the women involved included Silver Moon, Betty Fisher, Jillinda Thompson, Anne Farrer, Chris Wijesinha, Lyz Holdsworth, Claire Groves, Evelyn Dent and Dale Bacon.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/liberation\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/adelaide-womens-liberation-movement-archives-collection\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/unemployed-womens-union-summary-record\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "International Women's Day Collective", "Entry ID": "PR00074", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/international-womens-day-collective\/", "Type": "Organisation", "Birth Place": "Adelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Event organiser, Social awareness organisation", "Summary": "The International Women's Day (IWD) Collective is not to be confused with the IWD Committee which was formed in 1938. The IWD Collective was formed by the second wave feminists and was concerned with the IWD March; the festival or picnic after the march and the IWD Dance. They organised themes for the day and speakers. They also produced posters, badges and t-shirts.\n", "Details": "The International Women's Day (IWD) Collective, [not to be confused with the IWD Committee formed in 1938] was form by\u00a0second wave of feminists and is concerned with the IWD march the festival or picnic after the march and the IWD dance. They organised permits to march, hiring of halls, picnic grounds, the speakers and have themes for the day, produce posters badges and t-shirts. The picnic has entertainment, speakers on different issues as well as feminist organisations providing goods and information to people. The first rally organised by the Women's Festival Committee in 1974. By 1977 the IWD Collective was formed. The IWD Collective events are less formalised and enable all women to participate. There have been many women involved in the collective but includes, Silver Moon, Carmel O'Reilly (O'Loughin), Fij Miller, Annie Dugdale, Lotus Cavagino, Marilyn Rolls, Marg McHugh, Dawn Mc Mahon, Francis Phoenix (Budden), Claire Flarety, Janet Giles, Connie Frazer (often spelt Fraser), Joan Russell, Molly Brannigan, Margie Fischer and Polly Summer.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/liberation\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/adelaide-womens-liberation-movement-archives-collection\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/international-womens-day-collective-2\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Feminist Anti-Nuclear Group (FANG)", "Entry ID": "PR00077", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/feminist-anti-nuclear-group-fang\/", "Type": "Organisation", "Birth Place": "Adelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Death Place": "AdelaideAdelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Anti-nuclear group, Feminist organisation, Peace organisation", "Summary": "Feminist Anti-Nuclear Group (FANG) was formed in November 1982, initially as an organisation which enabled women to demonstrate their solidarity with the women of the Greenham Common Peace Camp.\nCentral to FANG's philosophy was a non-hierarchical structure, where women were free to feel empowered and express their desire to work toward the common goals of peace, social justice and a nuclear-free future.\nThe group organised several actions, including a peace camp at the US Base at Smithfield, and a 2-week vigil in support of the Pine Gap Peace Camp. The group also coordinated women's only spaces at Roxby Downs actions, as well as information and film nights to educate women about worldwide peace movements and anti-nuclear actions, to educate its members about non-violent direct action techniques.\n", "Details": "FANG was formed in November 1982, initially as an organisation that enabled women to demonstrate their solidarity with the women of the Greenham Common Peace Camp.\nCentral to FANG's philosophy was a non-hierarchical structure, where women were free to feel empowered and express their desire to work toward the common goals of peace, social justice and a nuclear-free future. Their aims were for all countries to disarm, to end nuclear fuel cycles, a commitment to non-violence, and an end to patriarchal oppression.\nThe group organised several actions, including a peace camp at the US Base at Smithfield, and a 2-week vigil in Adelaide in support of the Pine Gap Peace Camp. The group also coordinated women's only spaces at Roxby Downs actions, as well as information and film nights to educate women about worldwide peace movements and anti-nuclear actions, and educated its members about non-violent direct action techniques.\nThey sent letters of support to the Women's Peace Movement in England, Italy and Sweden, and some members of FANG (including Briony Monahan) travelled to and lived at the Women's Peace Camp at Greenham Common, and later to the Peace Camp in Comiso, Sicily. FANG received much correspondence from international women's peace groups, including a banner from a Swedish women's peace group.\nFANG decided not to support the Women's Peace Camp at Pine Gap in 1983, citing a lack of communication with interstate organisers, and thus exclusion from group processes and decision-making. FANG was concerned about the effect of the Peace Camp's presence on the traditional owners of the site at Pine Gap, as well as women activists of Alice Springs, and a concern regarding violence towards these groups in particular. As an alternative, FANG proposed a National Day of Women's Peace Action on the 11th of November (intended to be the start of the Peace Camp) and held vigils and actions in Adelaide instead. These actions included a daily vigil on the steps of Parliament House, the Pillowcase Protest (where women were encouraged to create an image of their dreams of a nuclear future on a pillowcase- later used as an installation at Rymill Park) and daily peace picnics at Rymill Park for women and children only.\nFANG worked with Women for Survival to organise an action in Victoria Square, Adelaide, in April 1984, as an indication of their support for the trials of the women that were expelled from the Comiso Peace Camp, called the \"Flying Web Action\". The web was a frequently used symbol indicating the interconnectedness of women around the world within their visions of a nuclear-free future, where the web of communication and connection between women demonstrated their unity, diversity and as well as strength and fluidity of structure. It was also a symbol used by the women of Greenham Common, and within other Peace Actions around the world.\nThe group had regular correspondence with other peace organisations, such as Women Against Nuclear Energy (WANE) and Campaign Against Nuclear Energy, Women's Action Against Global Violence (WAAGV) and Women for Survival. FANG also received financial sponsorship from the Seaman's Union of Australia (SA Branch) and the 1984 crew of various ships, as well as the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom and the Waterside Workers' Federation.\nThe group operated out of the Women's Liberation Movement offices at 6 Mary Street Hindmarsh, holding regular meetings where they sought to evenly distribute the balance of power, by rotating the meeting coordinators and facilitators. As a group, FANG initially struggled with numerous issues regarding their \"women only\" status, as well as concern surrounding their appearance to outsiders (whose interest and involvement they sought to attract). Issues rose regarding whether or not the term 'feminist' was 'scary', and whether members felt they should conceal their lesbianism in order not to isolate or offend non-feminist\/non-lesbian women. FANG sought to gain the attention of surrounding people via 'active action'- moderate civil disobedience - in an effort to retain the support of people who came along, without setting themselves apart as being 'too militant'.\nSome of the women involved included, Connie Frazer, Marg Hypatia, Barbara Baird, Marg Madden, Annie Dugdale, Briony Monahan, Deirdre Knox, Nadine Williams, Jan Crawford, Bobbi Willow and many others whose first names have only been recorded.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/liberation\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/women-against-nuclear-energy\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/adelaide-womens-liberation-movement-archives-collection\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Hindmarsh Women's Community Health Centre", "Entry ID": "PR00078", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/hindmarsh-womens-community-health-centre\/", "Type": "Organisation", "Birth Place": "Hindmarsh, South Australia, Australia", "Death Place": "HindmarshHindmarsh, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Health service", "Summary": "Hindmarsh Women's Community Health Centre was the first women's health centre in South Australia. The Women's Liberation Movement recognised the need for a separate women's health centre from the number of health related calls and personal enquiries it received and lobbied the government for assistance. Funding was granted in 1974 and 6 Mary St, Hindmarsh was officially open in 1976. The Health Centre became a teaching centre for women's health in late 1975 and produced pamphlets on both general and gynaecological health. The Rape Crisis Centre evolved from the Health Centre.\nFunding came through the state government and as a result there were some clashes between the bureaucracy and the feminist executive over how the centre should be run. This was further complicated by the clashing politics of the various feminist groups involved in the centre, which was run by a feminist collective. Conflict with the State Health Department eventually lead to the withdrawal of funding.\nAfter the intervention of the Women's Adviser to the Premier, who argued the case for the need for specialised women's health services, the centre was moved to North Adelaide and became Women's Health Statewide. The Centre then became known as the Welling Place, providing alternative health including a vegetable patch for the community. 6 Mary St was demolished in 1989 to make way for the Adelaide Entertainment Centre.\n", "Details": "The work of the Adelaide Women's Liberation Movement of the 1970s called for a separate women's health education centre to inform women about basic gynaecology, reproductive health and psychological health. A group called Body Political put out a newsletter on women's health and presented a program 'Our Body Ourselves' on radio 5UV at Adelaide University. The submission for funding was made in 1974. Funding was granted in 1974 and 6 Mary St Hindmarsh was officially open in 1976. Hindmarsh Women's Community Health Centre was the first women's health centre in South Australia. With the public funding of the Centre there was a struggle between what the feminist wanted to achieve and the\u00a0South Australian Health Commission\u00a0with its limiting rules. The feminists wanted to teach women about their health but because they were not an accredited institution they had to be granted the right to teach. The Centre produced pamphlets on both general and gynaecological health. They did become a teaching centre for women's health for a time. Because funding was through the state the feminist way of running the centre as a collective with members of the centre and the bureaucracy and its requirements often clashed. This was further complicated by the feminist groups involved in the centre. The conflict with the Health Department eventually led to the withdrawal of funding. With the intervention of the Women's Adviser to the Premier the need of Women's Health Centre was argued and the centre was moved to North Adelaide and became Women's Health Statewide. Hindmarsh Women's Health Centre continued with the Medicare payments to support other work of the centre. The Centre then became known as the Welling Place, providing alternative health including a vegetable patch for the community. 6 Mary St was demolished in 1989 for the Adelaide Entertainment Centre. The Rape Crisis Centre evolved from the Health Centre. Some of the women involved include Margaret Mc Donald, Mary Nettle, Vicky Papadopolois, Karen Weir, Maria Radoslovich, Sylvia Kinder, Trish Leigh, Helen Bock and Silver Moon.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/a-piece-of-the-cake-a-celebration-and-herstory-of-metropolitan-womens-health-centres-in-south-australia\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/adelaide-womens-liberation-movement-summary-record\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/hindmarsh-womens-community-health-centre-2\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Women Against Nuclear Energy (WANE)", "Entry ID": "PR00080", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/women-against-nuclear-energy-wane\/", "Type": "Organisation", "Birth Place": "Adelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Anti-nuclear group, Feminist organisation, Peace organisation", "Summary": "Women Against Nuclear Energy (WANE) was formed as a result of a growing feminist concern about, and a desire for action on, uranium and nuclear power issues. WANE's objectives included educating and activating women as citizens rather than as mothers and carers. The exclusion of males was felt to better enable this, providing women with an environment free from the constraints of sexism that were felt to be inherent in the hierarchical structure of other anti-nuclear groups.\nWANE aimed to work with women's groups in unions against uranium. The group also supported investigation into finding alternative energy sources. WANE believed the implications of a solar future were inherent in feminist theory (for example, people before profits). WANE maintained strong links to Campaign Against Nuclear Energy (CANE) and helped organise Women's Action for Nuclear Disarmament (WAND).\n", "Details": "WANE's objectives included the education and activation of women, beyond appealing to them as mothers and carers. The exclusion of males was felt to better enable this, providing women with an environment free from the constraints of sexism that were felt to be inherent in the hierarchical structure of other anti-nuclear groups.\nWANE aimed to work with women's groups in unions and to give support to their actions against uranium mining; work with migrant women to spread information; promote alternative energy sources and provide extensive anti-nuclear resources, such as books, slides, films nights, seminars, and group discussions with guest speakers. WANE sought to offer women an environment and the skills to develop confidence in public speaking, so that women could then promote their anti-nuclear message to other women within the community. The group also sought to develop and promote the feminist perspective within Campaign Against Nuclear Energy (CANE) with which they retained close ties, and sought to overcome the sexism that in part motivated the establishment of WANE.\nWANE was borne from a conflict that arose in 1980, when the trade union movement had organised an anti-uranium march on the same day as International Women's Day. For the members of WANE, this conflict emphasised the need for independent mobilisation against nuclear energy, and to gain the support of the women within the trade union movement for the anti-uranium movement.\nWANE evolved in to an action group that, while sharing many of the same members, were not formally affiliated with CANE. WANE members felt that it was important to retain their relationship with both groups in order to ensure that CANE operated in a non-sexist manner.\nWANE members sought to self educate, in order to better educate others, particularly other women's groups, and women that were otherwise isolated within the community. There was particular emphasis on issues such as low-level radiation, the nuclear fuel cycle, the ethics of nuclear power, direct action and civil disobedience. WANE believed the implications of a solar future were inherent in feminist theory (for example, people before profits).\nThe group publicised themselves via Women's Liberation Newsletters, radio (5MMM), the Women's Art Movement, the Women's Resource Centre, as well as producing a newsletter for its members.\nWANE held dances and film nights to raise money, and supported the Sound Women's Peace Camp in Cockburn Sound in Western Australia, and the Pine Gap Peace Camp. WANE also helped organise Women's Action for Nuclear Disarmament (WAND).\nSome of the women involved include Connie Frazer, Mary Nettle, Liz Bluff, Sue Maywald, Brenda Rayner, Jan Phadke, Jill Chapman, Dee Neagle, Margaret Lee, Stephanie Goss, Vickey Page, Heriette Riis Jorgenson, Doris Horvath, Heather Crosby, Maria Zadoroznyj, Nadine Williams, as well as many others.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/feminist-anti-nuclear-group-fang-records\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/women-against-nuclear-energy\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Women's Theatre Group", "Entry ID": "PR00094", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/womens-theatre-group\/", "Type": "Organisation", "Birth Place": "Adelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Death Place": "Adelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "theatre performance", "Summary": "The Women's Theatre Group was active in Adelaide from 1975 to 1989. The group wrote, produced, directed, scored, performed and built the stage for their productions. They performed cabaret and theatrical works. All-women productions were a first in Adelaide. The women worked through a collective. They won the Adelaide Festival Centre best production award for 'Redheads Revenge' in 1978.\nOther productions included 'Christobel in Paris' 1975, 'Caroline Chisel Show' 1976, International Women's Day Concert and 'Chores 1' in 1977, 'Chores 2' and 'I want I want' 1979, 'Out of the Frying Pan' 1980,' Onward to Glory' 1982, 'Margin to Mainstream' and 'Women and Work Women and Paid Work' 1984, 'Sybils Xmas Concert '1985, and 1989 'Is this Seat Taken?', this last show explored relationships between Indigenous and non-Indigenous women. The group included the Women in Education Theatre Group and the Feminist Theatre Group.\n", "Details": "During International Women's Year (1975) a grant was awarded for a women's cabaret called 'Christobel in Paris'. The women formed a collective to produce, write, perform, manage, and build stages for their own plays and revues. In December 1976 the 'Caroline Chisel Show' written by Jenny Pausacker with musical direction and arrangement by Janet Seidel was performed. The following year they performed at the International Women's Day Concert and produced 'Chores' which later became 'Chores 1'.\nIn 1978 Jenny Pausacker and Janet Seidel teamed up again for 'Redheads Revenge'. This was performed at the Space theatre Adelaide Festival Centre and the play won the best production award from the Centre for 1978. 'Redheads Revenge' was based on the conventions of melodrama and its cast included Fran and Pat Kelly, Helen Bock, Minnie Applemy along with many others. 'Redheads Revenge' turned a profit and the collective created the Feminist Theatre Fund for future productions. In 1979 these productions included 'Chores 2' and 'I want I want'.\nIn November 1980 'Out of the Frying Pan' collectively written by Jacki Cook, Jenny Pausacker, Miranda and Pat Roe, Sue Higgins [Sheridan], Andi Sebastian, Anne Dunn, Lindy Sharne and Judy Szekeres. The 'Lonely Motherhood Show' was produced in 1981. In 1982 Anne Dunn directed 'Into the 30's'. Women's Education Theatre Group mounted a production in 1982 of 'Onward To Glory' at the Royality Theatre. Jenny Pausacker and Anne Dunn wrote 'Margin to Mainstream', performed in 1984. 'Women and Work Women and Paid work' and 'Sybil's Xmas Concert' were performed in 1985.\nThe final production in 1989 was 'Is this seat taken?', written by Jenny Pausacker and other collective members. This last show explored relationships between Indigenous and non-Indigenous women. Many of the performances were videoed and or audio taped including post production meetings.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/womens-theatre-group-2\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/adelaide-womens-liberation-movement-archives-collection\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Adelaide Women's Liberation Movement Archive", "Entry ID": "PR00096", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/adelaide-womens-liberation-movement-archive\/", "Type": "Organisation", "Birth Place": "Adelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Death Place": "Adelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Historical collection, Research", "Summary": "The Adelaide Women's Liberation Movement Archive was established in 1984 by a concerned group of women who wanted to preserve the history of what was called the second wave of feminism. With the aid of the Community Employment Program and the feminist community, memorabilia was collected along with the papers of a variety of groups and individuals. The material was collected from late 1969 through to 2008.\n", "Details": "The Adelaide Women's Liberation Movement Archive gathered the memorabilia of women and groups who had been and were part of the Women's Liberation Movement. The archive includes minutes, agendas, correspondence, films, photographs, video and audio tapes, posters, flyers, pamphlets, banners, badges, newspaper clippings, scrapbooks and financial records. \u00a0A Collective was formed and they set about writing the rules of the archive and for collecting. They created forms for the donors, with reference to copyright and for biographies for the groups and individuals. However over the years a lot of material was just left as donations with little or no detail as to its provenance. As women's organisations folded with the Fraser government's cuts to women's programs in the early eighties the archive was a safe alternative to the loss of these records. The organisations which contributes included the Women's Liberation Movement. This material from the Women's Movement includes daybooks for many women's group, pamphlets, information, booklets, news clippings, posters - both theirs and those of other groups. The papers of Feminists Against Nuclear Energy Group (FANG) and Women Against Nuclear Energy (WANE) were listed as the Women's Peace Movement. Many women donated material on the Women's Theatre Group, including film, video, audio tapes scripts and music along with photographs. The Women's Art Movement (WAM) donated their records which includes, posters, minutes, correspondence, prints, and a newsletter. WAM was also involved with the Women's Art Register so there are many slides of photographs of performance art and exhibitions along with a profile of slides showing the women's artwork. The Women's Advisory Unit donated their news clippings used for women's policy development and in highlighting women's needs. The Hindmarsh Women's Community Centre, Women's Studies Resource Centre pamphlets and information on a wide range of women's services and issues. Individuals including Sue Sheridan, Molly Brannigan, Sylvia Kinder, Frances Phoenix, Suzi Jones, Annie Dugdale and Margaret King and Robin Eagle donated posters, information, and papers. Sandra Grimes donated her collection of audio and video interviews with bar women in Adelaide done for her Ph D thesis. Janet Maughan donated her scrapbooks on many feminist issues. Silver Moon donated the Women's Environmental Action Group and the Unemployed women's Union papers. The St Peters Women's Community Centre now called the Women's Community Centre donated records. The collection was documented until the late 1990s,\u00a0when the collective was reduced to a few dedicated members. While the collection was accessed from time to time by various researchers the collective decided to hand the collection over to the State Library of South Australia in 2009.\nAs part of the process of moving the Archive from the Women's Studies Resource Centre to the State Library, the records of The St Peters Women's Community Centre, now called the Women's Community Centre, were returned upon their request. There is a separate entry to these records in the AWAP register.\nThere were a number of journals and newsletters with the Archive and these have now been donated to various libraries in Australia including to the Women's Studies Resource Centre.\u00a0\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/adelaide-womens-liberation-movement-archives-collection\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/sylvia-kinder-summary-record\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Adelaide Women's Liberation Movement", "Entry ID": "PR00102", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/adelaide-womens-liberation-movement\/", "Type": "Organisation", "Birth Place": "Adelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Death Place": "Hindmarsh, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Feminist organisation, Social action organisation", "Summary": "The Adelaide Women's Liberation Movement began at the University of Adelaide in 1968, inspired by the women who were active in Young Labor, and the anti-Vietnam war campaign. These women questioned their role in these organisations and vented their frustration about these male dominated groups.\nAnna Yeatman, Anne Summers and Julie Ellis are credited with starting the feminist newsletters Sisterhood and Body Political. By late 1969 they produced Liberation, the Adelaide Women's Liberation Newsletter which replaced Sisterhood.\nTheir first protest was against the Miss Fresher competition, which brought media focus to the expression of their feminist ideals for women's liberation. Public meetings where called and the broader community involvement brought about the establishment of the Women's Liberation Movement housed at Bloor House situated in Bloor Court off Currie Street, in Adelaide. They provided an environment where ideas for supporting women's rights were fostered.\nThe Group wrote a Women's manifesto which was published in Liberation newsletter in June 1971. The Adelaide Women's Liberation Group took part in the first Women's Liberation Conference in Melbourne in 1970.\nThe Women's Liberation Movement in Adelaide was the catalyst for the establishment of the Women's Health Centre at Hindmarsh, The Rape Crisis Centre, Women's Studies Resource Centre, Abortion Action Campaign, St Peters Women's Community Centre, Women's Health Centres at Christies Beach and Elizabeth. They lobbied for Women's Studies to be part of tertiary education, women's representation in parliament, a Working Women's Centre to protect women's working rights, the Women's Peace Movement. Bloor House provided a space for women to express their personal political ideas and to get feedback and support. The Women's Liberation Movement moved from Bloor House to Eden St in Adelaide and then to Mary St, Hindmarsh were it was closed in 1989.\n", "Details": "The Adelaide Women's Liberation Movement began at the University of Adelaide in 1968. The early group of women's liberationist had their roots in left politics on campus , although they later joined with socialist women to fight for women's rights.\nInspired by protests overseas against The Miss America Pagent which made the news in Australia, Adelaide feminists protested against the 'Miss fresher' pageant held on campus, as a way of openly questioning their roles and the treatment of women in society.\nThey called public meetings and solicited broader community involvement and in so doing established a movement big enough to need premises. They were first housed at Bloor House in Bloor Court off Currie Street in Adelaide. A priority was to create a safe space where women could share information and create resource that would be useful to other women.\nOnce this safe space of support and solidarity was created, the Women's Liberation Movement in Adelaide was the catalyst for the establishment of the Women's Health Centre at Hindmarsh, The Rape Crisis Centre, the Women's Studies Resource Centre, Women's Abortion Campaign, St Peters Women's Community Centre, Women's Health Centers at Christies Beach and Elizabeth. They lobbied for Women's Studies to be part of tertiary education, for women's representation in parliaments, the Women's Peace Movement and a Working Women's Centre to protect women's right in the workplace. A group of Women's Liberationist established themselves in major country towns as well in the metropolitan centres.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/womens-movement-south-australia\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/herstory-of-adelaide-womens-liberation-1969-1974\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/liberation\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/papers-of-the-women-against-rape-coalition-war\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/hindmarsh-womens-community-health-centre-2\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/adelaide-womens-liberation-movement-summary-record\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/adelaide-womens-liberation-movement-archives-collection\/" } ]