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Janet Cosh was the only child of Dr John and Louise Cosh (née Calvert). Janet attended the University of Sydney, where she studied English, History and the Classics. She moved to the Southern Highlands in 1934, where she took a keen interest in local history and the natural environment. In her late sixties, Janet devot... |
Red Cross Archives series reference: V99 Comprises meeting minutes from a range of Victorian Division sub-committees including those administering rehabilitation, and convalescent homes including: ANZAC Farm (Janefield) and ANZAC House (Brighton), Home Hospital, Central Depot, Caulfield Rest House, Rockingham House, Ph... |
Gwen Pinner was a significant figure in the medical profession in Canberra. In addition to her work as a radiologist, she conducted a tuberculosis survey of the Australian Capital Territories and Queanbeyan and was involved in the establishment of the John James Memorial Hospital. As a child, however, it was her role o... |
Jacqueline (Jackie) Canessa is an activist in her profession and a one time candidate for election: Liberal Party candidate in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Heffron in 1999. After graduating in Medicine (MB from Newcastle University, 1996), Jackie undertook further training in psychiatry at St Vincent’s ... |
Thelma Jessie Norris took her BSc in 1943 at the University of Melbourne and joined the Commonwealth Department of Health, then under the direction of Arthur John Metcalfe, who was succeeded in 1960 by William Refshauge, himself a notable University of Melbourne graduate. In 1936 she had won a Junior Scholarship, award... |
Model Jo Bailey co-hosted the television game show Sale of the Century from 1991 to 1993. She married Carlton football player Stephen ‘SOS’ Silvagni in 1996, and has two sons – Jack and Ben. The daughter of Barrie and Fran Bailey, Jo completed her secondary education at Tintern Church of England Girls Grammar School an... |
A selection of the entries based on second generation Italo-Australian women’s experiences was published as Growing up Italian in Australia: eleven young Australian women talk about their childhood. Sydney: State Library of New South Wales Press, 1993 Author Details Alannah Croom Created 31 October 2017 Last modified 2... |
Biographical notes by her niece. Two copies both signed, one dated 19 Jan. 1966, the other 27 Jan. 1966. Author Details Clare Land Created 9 December 2001 Last modified 12 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org) |
Collection comprises – 2 cassettes – 2hrs?Margaret Watts reads two chapters of her unpublished autobiography, ‘Faith is My Shield’. Chapter 5 ‘American Friends’ and chapter 8 ‘Hunger and Epidemic’. Author Details Clare Land Created 24 September 2002 Last modified 31 October 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org) |
Vida Goldstein ran for the Australian Senate in 1903. Though she was not elected, she was the first woman to be nominated for the Australian Parliament. One of five children, Vida Goldstein was educated at Presbyterian Ladies’ College in Melbourne. As a young woman, she worked with her mother in the anti-sweating movem... |
Index of membership cards. System closed 1 February 1980. Author Details Clare Land Created 8 December 2001 Last modified 30 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org) |
Grace Elizabeth Brebner (QPM) achieved many ‘firsts’ during her policing career, which began in 1942. She was the first police woman to pass her police driving test, the first female detective in Australia, and, in 1973, the first police woman in Victoria to be awarded the Queen’s Police Medal (QPM). Brebner was Office... |
[Red Cross Archives series reference: Not Applicable]??Comprises 98 gramophone records used by the Australian Red Cross to support a wide variety of activities including funding appeals, endorsements, interviews, speeches and music therapy for rehabilitation contexts.??These gramophone disks were from a variety of sour... |
Sarah Powell was State President of the Soldiers, Sailors and Airmen’s Mothers’ Association for 25 years and was made Life President. She was decorated with the OBE in June 1943 for her services in this organisation. She founded the Croydon Branch and attended their annual meeting on her 92nd birthday five days before ... |
2 min 28 sec. 16mm/b&w/silent. Actuality footage, Television news footage.??The Minister for the Army, Mr Bob Katter, was on the move in NSW yesterday (July 12) visiting two of the Army’s officer training establishments. During the morning, at the Officer Training Unit, Scheyville (pronounced Sky-ville) near Windsor, N... |
[Red Cross Archives series reference: V05]??Comprises Rockingham Echo newsletters produced by residents of Rockingham for circulation amongst residents. Each booklet has an original screen printed cover on coloured paper, followed by a title page with the Editorial Group, Cover Design and Printer named. Each publicatio... |
Records of Catherine Helen Spence, author, humanitarian and reformer, comprising her 1894 diary, letters, manuscripts of sermons, articles written for publication, lectures, scrapbooks, newspaper clippings, the text of the novel ‘Handfasted’, also reminiscences of and by Miss Spence. Includes literary manuscripts. Also... |
Liz Jackson was a multi-award winning journalist who came relatively late to the profession. After working as a lawyer, and then as a ‘femocrat’ in the New South Wales Public Service, at the age of thirty-three she turned her hand to journalism. In 2005 she became the first female host of ABC Television’s Media Watch p... |
Minute books, 8 June, 1850-19 July, 1960, 4 August 1970-5 August 1975, 28 September 1981-29 August 1983. The collection includes also the minute book of the Industrial Home, 7 January 1861-19 August 1862. Author Details Rosemary Francis Created 21 August 2003 Last modified 29 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.o... |
Dame Nellie Melba (née Helen Porter Mitchell) was an internationally renowned opera singer, celebrated for her magnificent coloratura (soprano) voice. Melba’s musical training began in Melbourne at Presbyterian Ladies’ College, and continued in France under Mathilde Marchesi. Her operatic debut was in Brussels, in 1887... |
48 hours 40 minutes??A series of interviews with 25 South Australian women involved in a broad range of political activities. The interviewing program was developed as part of the State Library of South Australia’s celebration of the centenary of women’s suffrage in 1994, and supervised by the Oral History Officer, J.D... |
Atherton, Qld. 1945-02-27. NFX76505 Corporal Alice Penman, with Private H. E. (Emily) Lewis, examining stocks of bottles of medical supplies in a cupboard at the regimental aid post, 65 AWAS Barrack. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 3 April 2003 Last modified 4 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org) |
Committee meeting minutes, Annual General Meeting minutes, Annual Conference Proceedings Author Details Janet Butler Created 18 March 2010 Last modified 26 April 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org) |
Local historian Christine Adams was born and raised in Broken Hill, New South Wales. After living in South Australia and Queensland, she returned to Broken Hill with her husband Paul in 2003. Christine Adams was the third child and only daughter of Vincent James Leonard and Beryl Helene (Helen) Leonard, nee Matthewson.... |
In the late 1950s Oldmeadow, with her husband Courtney, founded Oldmeadow Booksellers. In 1974, they opened Dromkeen, which has become an internationally recognised children’s literature museum. Born: 22 August 1921. Died: 4 August 2001. Oldmeadow trained as a kindergarten teacher before founding Oldmeadows Booksellers... |
Minutes of the Invergowrie Homecraft Hostel Council 1967-1975; Minutes of Annual General Meetings of Invergowrie Homecraft Hostel Council 1968-1975; Financial statements and correspondence 1973-1975; Membership 1973. These are the records created by the Invergowrie Past Students Association after taking control of the ... |
Various items. Formerly PR2771/1-. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 12 September 2003 Last modified 7 November 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org) |
Personal correspondence files, 1958-1993. Includes Student File 1958-1971, correspondence on Margaret Manion’s appointment to the Chair of Fine Arts and her award of the Order of Australia in 1989. Newspaper and magazine articles about Margaret Manion, 1979-1989. Copy of an address “Vasari and the Renaissance”, on the ... |
Experimental documentary film contrasting the relationship between Aboriginal women and white men in the past and in the 1980s. The film juxtaposes contemporary images of black women with a voice-over of extracts from early journals of white settlers and sailors, in order to question the validity of conventional white ... |
1 digital audio tape (ca. 42 min.)??Sir Ernest Lee-Steere, pastoralist, speaks about his aunt, Kate O’Connor, who became an artist, how his whole family went overseas in 1924 and visited Kate in Paris who showed them the Louvre; how she won an All-Australian Art prize at age 86; how her father was believed to have shot... |
Doris Pilkington is the author of Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence; the story on which Phillip Noyce’s celebrated feature film is based. Doris Pilkington was born on Balfour Downs station, 60 kilometres northwest of Jigalong in the Pilbara district, Western Australia. Aged four she was forcibly removed with her mother to ... |
Information in the Senate minutes and Faculty of Medicine minutes, University of Sydney c1908-46. Author Details Gavan McCarthy Created 15 October 1993 Last modified 16 September 2002 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org) |
Erica Underwood was the first woman Deputy Chairman of Council at the Western Australian Institute of Technology, the first psychologist trained in Western Australia, an ABC broadcaster and a founder of the University radio station 6 NR. [1] She was appointed to The Order of the British Empire – Member (Civil) on 31 De... |
Jacqueline Denise Templeton spent almost fifty years in the Department of History at the University of Melbourne, although it was only towards the end of her career that she was able to devote as much time to research as many of her colleagues. She came to the University in 1952, taking her BA in 1956. Her initial focu... |
Microfilm copy of sketch-books redrafted by the author, from the original sketch and note-books, for the Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies, Canberra. Made in 1965 by A.N.U. Library. Negative?1. The Moolaboola sketch-book — 2. The Cundarlee sketch-book — 3. The Avergne sketch-book Author Details Judith Ion Crea... |
This 18 page text is an offprint of Missionary review, July 1966. Sydney : Board of Missions of the Methodist Church of Australasia. Author Details Clare Land Created 9 September 2002 Last modified 30 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org) |
Reports 1911-39 and central council minutes 1914-37. Author Details Gavan McCarthy Created 15 October 1993 Last modified 1 October 2002 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org) |
3 volumes of textual material.??A 7018?1. ‘Ladies Committee book’, 7 June 1863-5 December 1911?(Request Microfilm: CY 1180, frames 1-201)??A 7019?2. Journal 30 September 1864-22 October 1870?(Request Microfilm: CY 1180, frames 202-450)??A 7020?3. Journal 1 May 1891-26 January 1899?(Request Microfilm: CY 1180, frames 45... |
Maroochy Barambah is a distinguished indigenous musician whose career since the 1970s has spanned the genres of jazz, rock, musical theatre and classical opera. Maroochy Barambah, formerly Yvette Isaacs, of Gubbi Gubbi descent, was born in c.1950s at Cherbourg reserve in Queensland. Her early years were spent in the do... |
The Australian Women’s Army Service Association (NSW) was established in Sydney, New South Wales, in 1948 for the purpose of organising an Australian Women’s Army Service reunion. This became an annual event held at various venues and organised by a number of committees over the years. The Association was born of an in... |
Correspondence, minutes, newsletters, reports, membership details, files on committees and functions relating to the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) Australia Inc. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 17 April 2018 Last modified 17 April 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org) |
MS 9592 comprises administrative records of the Australian Federation of University Women. The collection includes minutes of Council and committee meetings, committee papers, correspondence, membership lists, conference reports, financial papers and publications of the Australian Federation of University Women, Intern... |
Joan Williams was a prominent member of the Western Australian branch of the Communist Party of Australia. She was politically active from the 1920s, but began her career in journalism as a young woman already imbued with a strong political consciousness. The networks fostered through her membership in an elite group o... |
Interview with Judith Parker AM, Perth, 24 February 2012, transcript in possession of Leonie Christopherson, Marian Quartly and Judith Smart Created 12 September 2013 Last modified 13 September 2013 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org) |
The Country Women’s Association of Tasmania is a non-sectarian, non-party-political, non-profit lobby group and voluntary organisation working in the interests of women and children in both urban and rural areas. It was founded in 1936 in Launceston, with Mrs C. W. Peart as President, and grew quickly across the state.... |
Letters from Professor L.F. Giblin to his wife, to his sisters Edith and Ella, and his brother Allan; to Professor A.G B. Fisher et al. Letters from Melbourne University, the ANU, the Commonwealth Bureau of Census and Statistics, to Mrs. Giblin. Correspondence between J.M. Garland and Dr. Rupert Scheider. Canberra diar... |
Born in a small town on the Upper Nile, Ajak Kwai migrated to Australia in 1999. Founder of the band “Wahida”, she enjoys a reputation as a fine musician with an original sound. Ajak Kwai grew up in a musical family in the small town of Bor on the Upper Nile. She sang at all the village ceremonies and celebrations, lat... |
After marrying John Hubert Fraser Fairfax in 1899, Ruth Fairfax and her husband moved to Longreach, and then later Marinya, in Queensland. She was heavily involved in her local community teaching at the Sunday school, whilst also supporting the Bush Brotherhood and other Anglican organisations. She was awarded the Belg... |
Records comprising three original letters written by Mary Lee, three proofs of letters published by Mary Lee in the S.A. Register, a photograph of Mary Lee in front of the Davies House at North Adelaide and a newspaper clipping re sale of the house. Author Details Anne Heywood Created 2 April 2004 Last modified 28 Dece... |
Monthly title changed after 1998 to ‘Netballer Contact’. Author Details Nikki Henningham Created 1 January 2007 Last modified 1 January 2007 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org) |
1 hour 38 minutes??A recording of a public forum presented by the Constitutional Centenary Foundation in association with the State Library of South Australia entitled ‘The River Murray – Test Case for the Environment and the Constitution’ and held in the Institute Building of the State Library of South Australia. The ... |
May Darlington Lahey was the first female Queenslander to practice law. Although her legal career took place overseas, Lahey can lay claim to being Australia’s first female judge. Lahey was born in Queensland and attended Brisbane Grammar School, followed by Sydney University. She was said to be a feisty young woman wi... |
1 hour 30 minutes??The Adelaide Trefoil Guild began in February 1945 and was the first registered in Australia. The Guild is affiliated with the Girl Guides Association of Australia and its main objectives are fellowship and the continued support of guiding. The recording features three of the longest serving members o... |
Bec Cody was elected to the Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly in the seat of Murrumbidgee in 2016 and served until the 2020 election when she lost her seat to fellow Labor candidate Marisa Paterson. She was active in Assembly committees, chairing the Select Committee on End of Life Choices in the ACT 20... |
1. The Echo – a radio play by Ruth Park and D’Arcy Niland, undated?2. Hunting the Gowk – a short story by D’Arcy Niland, undated?3. Diary of a Spieler – a radio play by D’Arcy Niland, undated?4. Returned soldier – a short story by Ruth Park for ABC Weekly, undated?5. The Bunyip Kid – a short story by D’Arcy Niland, und... |
A long term local government councillor and a seasoned campaigner for her party, Maria Heggie was the Liberal party candidate for Cabramatta in 1984, 1988 and 1991. She was Alderman for Fairfield City Council in 1980-2004 and Mayor from 1987-1988. A lifelong resident of Cabramatta, Maria Heggie was elected to Fairfield... |
1968, 1997, Date unknown; ‘Unpublished articles…articles rejected by journals’ (Call No.: MLMSS 5916 ADD-ON 2133/1)?1968-1969, 1987; ‘Copies of journals with articles by A. Blake & other such material’ (Call No.: MLMSS 5916 ADD-ON 2133/1)?1954-1989; ‘Biographical material & Celebratory messages – Birthdays & so on…’, i... |
Correspondence inward and outward and duplicate letterbooks, 1956-1974 (18 files, 5 vols). ?Annual reports, 1957-1974 (1 file). ?Proficiency Badge booklets and receipt books, 1957-1974 (15 items). ?Company and Pack Register, 1956-1970 (2 vols). ?Miscellaneous records, certificates, cards, pamphlets, camping booklets, p... |
The papers in MS 10043 reflect the personal and professional life of Australian writer, Kylie Tennant. They include correspondence, personal documents, notes and notebooks, literary manuscripts, press cuttings, photographs and graphic material. The bulk of the collection comprises correspondence and research material, ... |
She talks about daily mission life, school and includes excerpt from family letters. She also includes information about and interactions with various Dieri people. The collection comprises 2 copies of a privately printed memoir: ‘Down Memory Lane: Memoirs of Helen Jericho (nee Vogelsang)’ [no publishing details]. The ... |
The first contact between Poland-born people and Australia occurred in 1696, when several citizens of the Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth were included in the crew of Captain Willem Vlamingh’s Dutch expedition which explored the Western Australian coast. The first Polish settler in Australia was a convict who arrived in... |
Political and personal papers, correspondence (including with Edna Ryan), diaries, note books, minutes, press cuttings, and printed material. Author Details Elle Morrell Created 29 August 2000 Last modified 29 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org) |
This expansive archive was created throughout Irene Greenwood’s lifetime as a broadcaster, activist and participant in the peace and women’s movements. Greenwood kept meticulous and detailed notes and records, and the collection attests to the broad reach of her intellectual and activist endeavour. It includes 2,500 ca... |
The Votes for Women sash worn by Louisa C. Cullen (Louie) ca. 1908. Cullen was a suffragette who participated in the militant demonstrations of the Women’s Social and Political Union (W.S.P.U.) in the United Kingdom. The sash was an important part of the suffragette uniform, and women were encouraged to visibly identif... |
The formation of the Greek Young Matrons’ Association was an overt attempt by second generation parents of Greek heritage to ensure that their children married Australian born Greeks like themselves. By providing them with an organisation which would offer social activities and cultural events in which young Greek peop... |
This cutting book consists of election material and some newspaper clippings from the Brisbane Courier.?The election material emanates from the Country and Progressive National Party and consists of pamphlets, “How-to-vote” cards, election fliers and broad sheets relating to both State and Federal elections between 192... |
5 sound files (approximately 255 min.) Author Details Helen Morgan Created 4 February 2015 Last modified 21 December 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org) |
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. Born in Ireland, Mary Walsh married George Lee... |
I. Correspondence, 1949-1956: A. Correspondence of Miles Franklin, 1949-1954, with various literary people in America. B. Correspondence of Bruce Sutherland, 1954-1956, re Miles Franklin. II. Papers re National Women’s Trade Union League of America, 1903-1950: A. History and proceedings of the League, 1903-1950. B. Lif... |
Michele Adair is a local and political activist who has achieved much success in her local area. She was an Australian Democrats candidate for Barton in the House of Representatives in 2001, an Independent candidate associated with the Save Our Suburbs Party for Georges River in 2003 and a candidate for the Kogarah Mun... |
Box 1?Scrapbook, 1984-1985?Minute book, August 1982-November 1985?Minute book, February 1986-July 1987?Membership lists, 1985, 1988?Correspondence relating to workshops, 1980-1987??Box 2?Correspondence, 1981-1990?Celia Starfield literary papers, 1944-1959, no date?Scrapbooks (2) relating to Celia Starfield including ne... |
1 cassette (ca. 30 min)??Crosio, local member for Fairfield and Minister for Local Government, speaks of her political background; her history in the area; involvement with local inhabitants; needs of the Indo-Chinese in the area; media treatment of the Indo-Chinese; resentment of immigrants in the community; the “Sieg... |
The collection comprises correspondence, drafts, reviews and other writings. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 6 January 2018 Last modified 6 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org) |
Helen Ester is a media scholar and media professional who teachers Journalism and Communication at Central Queensland University. She has enjoyed a long and varied career as a teacher and journalist that has spanned more than thirty years. As a media professional Helen Ester’s experience includes: Membership of the Fed... |
Collected during life of Pat Wardle 1910 – 1992. Includes diaries, correspondence, photographs, newspaper cuttings, talks, manuscripts, maps, certificates and plans. Includes papers of her mother (Patricia Tillyard), father (Dr Robin Tillyard), husband (Robert Wardle) and some correspondence with her sisters (Faith, Ho... |
The Hon. Margaret Joan Beazley AO, AC was an Australian judge. She was both the first woman to sit as a Judge of Appeal on the New South Wales Court of Appeal in 1996, and the first woman to occupy the position of President of that Court in 2013. She retired from that court in 2019. She has been described as a “fierce ... |
2 sound files (ca. 135 min.)??Jane Bennett talks about her family background; growing up on the family farm; her decision to have a career in farming; her early understanding of gender roles on farms; dairy farming and the low status of the dairy industry in Australia in the 1980s; agricultural class system or hierarch... |
Collection comprises – 9 cassettes – 9hours Author Details Alannah Croom Created 8 October 2004 Last modified 31 October 2017 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org) |
On 29 November 1924 a ceremony of the Perpetual Profession of Dr Mary Glowrey, now Sister Mary of the Sacred Heart took place in the Church of St Agnes at Guntur (India). Mary Glowrey, who completed her medical training at the University of Melbourne, (MBBS 1910, MD 1919), was the first president of the Catholic Women’... |
MS 10058 comprises a typescript notebook of approximately 280 pages in a small black ring binder, prefaced “Emily Evans, or, the Humourist. Begun Feb 11 1949”, and the typescript letter from Christina Stead in Lausanne to Edith Anderson, dated 20 February 1951 (1 binder, 1 folder). Author Details Alannah Croom Created ... |
A small collection of letters and photographs relating to Miss Pharo’s services to Lady Munro-Ferguson: Letters from Lady Munro Ferguson, Captain the Hon Bede Clifford later Earl of Chudleigh and others to Miss Pharo for the period 1900 to 1921. Most of these acknowledgements for Miss Pharo’s services and farewell note... |
Anne Heywood Created 13 October 2003 Last modified 12 September 2017 Digital resources Title: Lieutenant Colonel Kathleen Best Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Title: Group Officer Clare Stevenson Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Title: Lieutenant-Colonel May Douglas Type: Image Date: 3 May, 2023 Title: IMP0063ga.jpg Type: I... |
Vols. ML MSS. 273/1-2 a. Correspondence, 1889-1930 Deals i.a., with the publication of her writings, recognition of her discoveries in geology, the design of the Sydney Harbour Bridge, and her friendship with Daisy Bates. Vols. ML MSS. 273/3-5 b. Autobiography 1846-1930 including correspondence dealing with her life an... |
MS 7362 comprises handwritten letters by Nettie Palmer to Lucille Quinlan, 1928-1937, and manuscript articles and talks by Nettie Palmer. Subjects include the Maori poet Eileen Duggan, Katharine Susannah Prichard, literature in Australia, Henry Handel Richardson and M. Barnard-Eldershaw (Marjorie Barnard and Flora Elde... |
MS 8914 comprises journals kept from 1975 to 1981, in which Eileen Watt writes about political events in Australia and overseas, social, economic and environmental issues, women’s affairs and cultural events, and aspects of personal and family life. There are also seven photographs, including some relative to the annua... |
Emeritus Professor Sally Walker AM was the first female vice-chancellor and president of Australia’s Deakin University. Prior to holding these appointments, she was senior deputy vice-chancellor at the University of Melbourne, where she was also president of the University’s Academic Board, member of the senior executi... |
Records of the Union of Australian Women (UAW) compiled mainly by secretary Beryl Miller, comprising minutes of executive, management and annual general meetings, photographs, papers about various action groups and campaigns like ‘Fair go’ Adelaide, UAW group against hospital privatisation, SACOSS, UTLC community and u... |
Letter from Daisy Bates to Allen McKinnon, dated 11.11.1940, which includes reminiscences about the past and Aboriginal Australians and sends him one of her own books, perhaps to pass on to his own son. Author Details Alannah Croom Created 6 January 2018 Last modified 6 January 2018 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org) |
1 sound tape reel (ca. 58 min.)??Conley, author of children’s novels speaks of her work as a writer and the discipline required ; she recalls her childhood and family life ; working in the WRANs and naval life ; the beginnings of her career as a full time writer; Betty Roland and the Society of Women Writers ; she expl... |
Admitted as a Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Queensland in 1965, Patricia Conroy (nee Herlihy), established two partnerships with Martin Conroy in 1966 that have remained steadfast – marriage in July and then a business partnership in December. In the intervening period, the couple travelled to the remote north Quee... |
A committed Christian Democratic Party member, Ursula Bennett ran as a candidate for Bega in 2003 and then again in the House of Representatives for Eden Monaro in 2004. Ursula Bennett migrated to Australia in 1982, after a childhood in Germany, where, as a teenager, she was active in human rights and advocacy groups f... |
Minute books of the Queensland Country Women’s Association. These minute books cover both closed branches and younger sets including: Burleigh Heads, Edmonton, Cairns,Garradunga, Weipa, Dysart, Richmond, Tugun Bilinga, Tully, Mirriwinni, Smithfield, Innisfail, Flying Fish, East Palmerston, Earlville, South Johnstone, K... |
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, ... |
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The Australian Women's Register (AWR)
Overview
Keywords: Australia; Women; Archive
The AWR is a product of the Australian Women’s Archives Program (AWAP) established in 1999, has long-standing collaboration between the University of Melbourne and the National Foundation for Australian Women (NFAW).
AWR is created to build knowledge and recognition of the social, cultural, historical and economic contribution made by Australian women to public and private life.
Data Source
The original data is from AWR Database and licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 AU.
Noticed that the original database is constantly updating. The dataset collected in this repo was last updated on 17 Aug 2024.
The dataset under AWR_clean is a cleaned version of the original dataset created by Xinyu Mao. You can download it from Hugging Face - SouthernCrossAI/AWR_Australian_Womens_Register.
The current data is cleaned by Xinyu Mao. You can find more details on GitHub.
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