Showing 1664 results

authority records

White, John William

  • Person
  • 1937 - 2023

Emeritus Professor John White, AO CMG FRS FAA FAIP FRACI, studied chemistry at the University of Sydney before earning a doctorate at the University of Oxford. He returned to Australia in 1985 to take up the position of Professor of Physical & Theoretical Chemistry at the Australian National University.

Thorne, Alan Gordon

  • Person
  • 1939 - 2012

Alan Gordon Thorne was born in Neutral Bay, Sydney, on 1 March 1939, and was educated at North Sydney Boys High. He started his working life as a cadet journalist for the Sydney Morning Herald in 1957. He graduated from the University of Sydney in 1960 after majoring in zoology and anthropology. While studying for his PhD at the University of Sydney, (awarded 1975), he was a research fellow in the Archaeology Department in the Institute of Advanced Studies (now the Department of Archaeology and Natural History, in the College of Asia and the Pacific) at The Australian National University. He held the position of Senior Fellow there until his retirement.

Elliott, Kondelea (Della)

  • 1917-2011

Kondelea (Della) Xenodohos (later known as Della Elliott) was born in Melbourne in 1917. After leaving school at the age of 14, she graduated from business college as a typist but found it difficult to gain regular paid work. She worked for a while with the International Labour Defence before gaining paid work with the Friends of the Soviet Union and the Militant Minority Movement.

In the 1940s Della was a delegate to the Labour Council of NSW and the Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) and passionately pursued the issue of equal pay for women. This included working as a member of the Australian Women's Charter Committee alongside feminist activist Jessie Street.

Della and Laurie divorced in 1945 and she began working for the Waterside Workers Federation (WWF). Here she met Seaman's Union of Australia (SUA) leader Eliot V. Elliott. They were partners for the rest of their lives, eventually marrying in 1982.

Della began work at the SUA in 1955 as an administrator in the federal office, keeping meticulous records and facilitating a number of industrial campaigns, as well as editing the Seamen's Journal. Della eventually retired from the SUA in 1988, four years after Eliot's death.

Della was a strong supporter of the League for Democracy in Greece and the Union of Australian Women. She was also passionate about Indigenous issues and founded a scholarship at the University of Sydney for female Indigenous students.

Della Elliott died in Sydney on 2 October 2011 at the age of 94.

Elliott, Eliot Valens

  • Person
  • 1902 - 1984

Eliot Valens Elliott was born Victor Emmanuel Elliott in New Zealand in 1902. He joined the Federated Seamen’s Union of Australasia (FSUA), later the Seamen’s Union of Australia (SUA) at the age of 17 and worked stoking boilers. He quickly earned a reputation as a tough delegate focused on campaigning for better working conditions. Elliott came to prominence during the 1935 seamen’s dispute as Assistant-Secretary of the Sydney strike committee and was elected Queensland Branch Secretary of the FSUA. By late 1924 his sailing records showed a change of name to Eliot V Elliott.

He became General Secretary of the FSUA in 1941 and in 1942 served as the seamen’s representative to the Maritime Industry Commission. He was also active in the international labour movement, sponsoring union recruitment and organisation among Australian and visiting seamen and promoting collective action by Chinese, Greek and Indonesian seamen. Although he led the SUA in their opposition to the Korean and Vietnam Wars, he generally relied on negotiation skills rather than engaging in costly strike action. He was a fierce opponent and defended the rights of SUA members in bitter battles with BHP and the Utah Development Co.

In 1949 Elliott joined the CPA’s central committee and was appointed vice-president of the maritime section of the World Federation of Trade Unions (WFTU), which had strong backing from the USSR. Although the Australian Council of Trade Unions withdrew from the WFTU that same year, the SUA didn’t disaffiliate until September 1952. Elliott maintained a long-term pro-Moscow view, which contributed to his removal from the central committee of the CPA in 1969, and him joining the new Socialist Party of Australia in 1971.

Elliott's long-time partner was prominent trade unionist and activist Kondelea Xenedohos (more commonly known as Della Elliott), whom he met while both were working for the WWF.

After 37 years as General Secretary, he retired from the SUA in 1978. He died in Sydney on 26 November 1984, survived by Della and his son.

Australian Hospital Association

  • Association
  • 1946 -

The Australian Healthcare and Hospitals Association (AHHA) was established in 1946 by Dr. Herbert Schlink (later Sir Herbert) as the Australian Hospital Association (AHA). The AHA joined the International Hospital Federation in 1949, and changed their name to the Australian Healthcare and Hospitals Association in 2006.

Pillig, Hans

Hans Pillig worked in the ANU Design Unit.

Tedder, Margaret

  • Person
  • 1925

Margaret and James Tedder lived in the Solomon Islands from 1952 until 1974. During the last years of her residence there, after the children went to Australian schools, Margaret did a lot of bush touring carrying out research on plants used by the Islanders for medicines, cures and other purposes. Most of Margaret Tedder's plant identifications were checked in the now defunct Forest Herbarium where she lodged duplicates of the plants.

McGrath, William Adrian

  • Person
  • 1933 - 2019

William (Bill) Adrian McGrath completed an Engineering, Surveying Cadetship in the Public Works Department of Western Australia from 1950-1953, and joined the Administration of the Territory of Papua New Guinea as a Cadet Patrol Officer in April 1953. In 1955 he was promoted to Patrol Officer at Erave Patrol Post in the Southern Highland Province. In 1958 McGrath attended a Long Course at ASOPA and in 1959 was appointed as Patrol Officer [Lands] at Konedobu Headquarters. He undertook land buying assignments for the PNG Administration in the Central, New Britain and Northern Districts. From 1961-1965 McGrath worked in the Lands Department before becoming Director of Lands and Surveys of the US Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands at Saipan. From 1971-1975 McGrath was the Land Department Manager in C Brewer and Co. Ltd in Hawaii. From 1975 to 1979 he was appointed the founding General Manager of the Native Land Development Corporation. From 1980 to 1984 McGrath worked as a Land Consultant to the then New Hebrides Condominium Government, continuing in the position after Vanuatu gained its independence. From 1984 to 1997 he was Land Supervisor with Chevron Niugini as the operator of the PNG Kutubu Petroleum Development Project. In 1984 Bill McGrath set up the Pacific Book House as a mail-order bookshop, which he ran intermittently until being able to devote more time to the business in 2010.

Coxsedge, Joan Marjorie

  • Person
  • 1931-2024

Joan Marjorie Rochester was born in Victoria in 1931. She married Cedric Coxsedge in 1953 and had two sons and a daughter.
She became a professional artist in the 1960s and held four exhibitions of pen and wash drawings of historic buildings as well as undertaking a commission for the Builders' Labourers' Federation drawing Green Bans buildings around Australia in 1975.
As well as being an accomplished artist, Joan was a committed activist and politician. As a member of the Save Our Sons Movement which opposed conscription for the Vietnam War, she went to jail in 1971 for anti-conscription activities. She campaigned against the Croatian terrorist movement Ustashi in the early 1970s, opposed secret service organisations and was founding Chairman of the Committee for the Abolition of Political Police in 1973.
A member of the Australian Labor Party from 1967, Coxsedge contested unsuccessfully the Legislative Assembly seat of Balwyn in 1973 and stood for pre-selection in Richmond in 1976 against the Leader of the Opposition, Clyde Holding. She eventually became the first Labor woman to be elected to the Victorian Legislative Council as the Member for Melbourne West Province in July 1979 and served until 1992. While in office she wrote and produced the newsletter Hard Facts for Hard Times from her Footscray office, in which she offered a left view of current local, national and international events.
Coxsedge was involved with a large number of community groups and projects. She served as a Board Member of the Footscray Community Arts Centre (1980-98) and Chair of Board (1990-93); Board Member of West Theatre (1989-90) and Chair of End Child Prostitution in Asian Tourism (1993-98).

Sinclair, James Patrick

  • Person
  • 28 April 1928 - 9 October 2017

James Patrick Sinclair was born in Dubbo NSW on 18 April 1928. He attended Dubbo High School, Sydney Grammar School and the Australian School of Pacific Administration (ASOPA) in Sydney. In November 1947, he Joined the Department of District Services and Native Affairs, Administration of Papua New Guinea. After attending an orientation course at the Australian School of Pacific Administration he proceeded to Papua New Guinea in August 1948 as a cadet patrol officer. He also attended the No 4 Long Course at ASOPA in 1953 - 1954. From 1948 to 1975 he served successively on many stations as a patrol officer, assistant district officer, deputy district commissioner and district commissioner. He was the last Australian District Commissioner of the Eastern Highlands District, 1969-1974.

During his service James Sinclair conducted extensive exploratory and pacification patrols in Morobe and Southern Highlands Districts. He opened the station of Koroba in 1955, Lake Kopiago base camp in 1956 and explored the then Uncontrolled area to the Strickland River until late 1958. He married Janece Marie McGrath in January 1959 and had three children. He subsequently served in charge of the Wau, Finschhafen and Lae Sub-Districts before moving to the Eastern Highlands in 1968.

James Sinclair retired in August 1975 following Independence in Papua New Guinea. He returned to his previous hobby of writing on Papua New Guinea history, which became a full-time occupation and he has since published more than 30 books. His first book, ‘Behind the Ranges’¸ was published in 1966 and told of his exploratory work in Morobe and the Southern Highlands. In 2013, several publications edited by James Sinclair were ready for publication, including publications about Peter Fox, A Lloyd Hurrell and John Middleton. Jim died on 9 October 2017.

Honours: James Sinclair has been awarded an Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 1992; the Honorary Degree of Doctor of Letters from the Australian National University in 1999; and a Companion, Order of the Star of Melanesia (PNG) in 2008.

Peel River Land and Mineral Company

  • Corporate body
  • 1853 – 1959

The Peel River Land and Mineral Company (Peel Company) was formed in 1853 after gold was discovered on the banks of the Peel River. It was established by Act of Parliament in London to purchase the Peel River Estate (Goonoo Goonoo) from the Australian Agricultural Company (AACo). The gold mining activity was short lived. The Peel Company then concentrated on working sheep and cattle on the property. It also made early ventures into Queensland: Cashmere (near St George 1861-1873); Corona and Nile (near Winton 1875-1881) and Currawhillingi (NSW/Qld border 1881-1918) as well as Eagle Grange (NSW 1898-1918); Moorlands station (Tamworth); Avon Downs (NT); Mt Alfred and Mt Margaret stations (Qld). From 1849 the Peel Company laid out town lots in (south) Tamworth. From the 1870s farm lots were laid out in several subdivisions around the town. In 1909, 88,518 acres were resumed by the NSW Government for closer settlement; a further 17,500 acres in 1938 and 18,150 acres in 1952. The Goonoo Goonoo homestead block was sold in 1985.

The first General Superintendent of the Peel Company was Philip Gidley King (1854-1904) who was succeeded by his son, G B G King (1904-1910) and grandson, G M G King (1910-1930). They were followed by J F Holloway (1930-1932). From 1932 the AACo and the Peel River Land & Mineral Company were jointly managed in Australia. The companies together purchased a number of properties including Caldervale (near Tambo, Qld) in 1934 and the Coonamble Properties (Sandcycamp, Pillicawarrina and Narraway, NSW) in 1948.

In 1959 the AACo acquired the whole share issue of the Peel River Land & Mineral Company and the company was delisted from the London stock exchange.

Australian Agricultural Company

  • Corporate body
  • 1824 -

The Australian Agricultural Company (AACo or The Company) was formed in London in April 1824. Its purpose was to raise fine woolled sheep and sell wool on the London market. The formation of the Company was supported by an Act of Parliament and a Royal Charter. Its directors and major shareholders included directors of the Bank of England, the East India Company and Members of Parliament; with assigned convicts given the roles of shepherding and general labour. The Company’s initial land grant was one million acres in New South Wales plus two thousand acres in Newcastle. After some uncertainty the land, in the colony, was in three blocks: 464,640 acres between Port Stephens and the Manning River (Port Stephens Estate), 249,600 acres on the Liverpool Plains west of Willow Tree (Warrah) and 313,298 acres at the Peel River south of Tamworth (Goonoo Goonoo). The AACo operated in four major NSW locations during the nineteenth century – Port Stephens, Tamworth, Quirindi, and Newcastle – and from the last quarter of the century also in Queensland and eventually in Northern Australia. Its interests expanded to include wool, wheat, cattle, coal and land sales.

Within a year of its formation the AACo also became involved in coal mining at Newcastle, taking over the government’s operations there. After protracted negotiations the Company’s first pit was opened in 1831.The discovery of gold in New South Wales on the Company’s Peel Estate led to the formation of the Peel River Land and Mineral Company in 1854. Between 1825 and 1862 the AACo, with the Peel River Land and Mineral Company, brought from Europe to New South Wales over 700 men to work either at the colliery in Newcastle or on the extensive pastoral estates at Port Stephens, Tamworth and the Liverpool Plains. The new arrivals were managers, skilled mechanics, shepherds, miners and labourers. The first group of employees was managed by the Company’s first Agent, Robert Dawson (Agent, 1824-1828). Dawson’s successors included Sir Edward Parry (Commissioner, 1830-1834); Henry Dumaresq (Commissioner, 1834-1838); Phillip Parker King (Commissioner, 1839-1849); followed by several General Superintendents with Jesse Gregson, the Company’s longest serving General Superintendent from 1875-1905.

In 1864 the AACo began the development of the Warrah Estate for sheep breeding, investing extensively in wells, bores and fencing. The AACo purchased Corona (near Longreach) in 1912; Bladensburg (near Winton) and Highfields (between Corona and Bladensburg) in 1915; Headingly (Urandangie) in 1916; before moving into the Northern Territory with the purchased of Avon Downs (Barkly Tablelands) in 1921. From the 1930s gradually phasing out sheep the AACo became increasingly involved in beef cattle, developing the Santa Gertrudis stud at Goonoo Goonoo and purchasing Rockhampton Downs (Barkley Tablelands NT) in 1948, Wrotham Park (near Chillagoe, Q) in 1963, Brunette Downs (north of Tennant Creek) in 1979.

In 1975 the London-based directors resigned and the Company’s tax domicile was transferred from London to Tamworth, NSW and then to Brisbane in 1985 following the sale of Goonoo Goonoo. From 1976 the Company’s name was listed on the Australian Stock Exchange as the Australian Agricultural Company Limited. In 1995 Elders Ltd acquired the AACo and it was delisted from the Australian Stock Exchange. The Company became a wholly owned subsidiary of Futuris Corporation Limited after Futuris took over Elders in 1997. The Company was re-listed in 2001.

Forestry Australia

  • Association

Forestry Australia was previously known as The Institute of Foresters of Australia and Australian Forest Growers. The Institute of Foresters of Australia was created in 1935 as the professional membership body for people trained in forest science. Australian Forest Growers was previously known as the Australian Forest Development Institute when it was founded in 1969.

Golson, Jack

  • Person
  • 1926-2023

Jack Golson AO was an archaeologist who did extensive fieldwork in the Pacific region. He studied history and archaeology at Cambridge University. From 1954 until he joined the ANU in 1961, he was a lecturer of archaeology at Auckland University. In 1969, Golson was appointed as the inaugural Professor of Prehistory at the ANU. He led the department until his retirement in 1991.

Owen, Edward Adley

  • Person
  • 1888-1929

Edward Adley Owen was employed by CSR at the Labasa Mill in Fiji circa 1909-1910. He died in Sydney on 17 May 1929, aged 41 years.

Gardner, Rhys Owen

  • Person
  • 1949 -

Rhys Gardner is a New Zealand botanist. He completed his BSc (Hons) in botany at the University of Auckland in 1971, followed by a PhD in 1977. He has served as a botanical ecologist and taxonomist for the former DSIR Botany Division at Mt Albert, Auckland, and a consulting botanist for Bioresearchers Ltd. He also served as a volunteer at the Auckland Museum Herbarium for many years, becoming a Research Associate in 1990. He has worked widely in the field, collecting specimens from Rarotonga, Fiji, Norfolk Islands, the Solomon and Chatham Islands, New Caledonia and Papua New Guinea. He has described, new to science, three species, one subspecies and one forma. He has contributed botanical specimens to herbaria around the world. Most of his publications since the 1980s are to be found in the Auckland Botanical Society Journal and the New Zealand Botanical Society Newsletter.

Hyndman, David Charles

  • Person
  • 1947 - 2021

Born in Arkansas, USA, David Hyndman studied at the University of Colorado, and completed his MA at the University of Idaho. In 1972, he moved to Australia to pursue his PhD at the Department of Anthropology and Sociology at the University of Queensland. His doctoral thesis on the Wopkaimin people of the Ok Tedi area of Papua New Guinea was completed in 1979.
He studied subsistence, ethnotaxonomy, ethnobotany, mining and Indigenous peoples, and biodiversity conservation. He completed several periods of fieldwork in the region from 1973 through the 1980s. He spent a good deal of research on the effects of the Ok Tedi mine on the surrounding area, both socially and environmentally.
From 1989-1992, Hyndman worked with the T'boli people of Mindanao in the southern Phillippines. Hyndman was a lecturer and later a reader at the Department of Anthropology and Sociology at the University of Queensland, from which he retired in 2001, moving to the Canberra region.

Troy, Patrick (Pat) Nicol

  • Person
  • 1936 - 2018

Patrick Nicol Troy was born in Geraldton, Western Australia on 22 January 1936. Son of trade unionist Paddy Troy, he worked in the private sector and in State and local government, as a planner in New South Wales and as a senior administrator in the Commonwealth, including as Deputy Secretary in the Federal Department of Urban and Regional Development in the Whitlam Government.
He held various positions at the Australian National University from 1966-2000 including professor and head of the Urban Research Unit, Research School of Social Sciences 1984-1991.
He served on State and Federal government agencies and as Deputy Secretary of the Department of Urban and Regional Development (1973-1975) he was involved in the establishment and operations of the South Australian Land Commission, Western Australian Land Council, New South Wales Land Council, Victorian Land Council and the Australian Housing Corporation. Troy held numerous appointments as a member of the South Australia Urban Land Council 1975-1977; Deputy Chairman Australian Housing Corporation 1975-1976; member of the Australian Housing Council 1984-1992; member Building Research and Development Advisory Committee 1984-1987; member of the board National Building & Technology Centre 1985-1988; member Ministerial Advisory Committee on Housing Access 1989-1990; member Urban Regional Development Advisory Committee 1992-1993; member ACT Planning and Land Council 2003-2006.
He published 15 books on cities and many papers on housing, infrastructure, transport, urban planning and development, and energy and water consumption.
Troy died in Canberra on 24 July 2018. The Patrick Troy Memorial Prize has been established at the Australian National University as a tribute to his work.

Driessen, Hendrick Anton Herbert

  • Person
  • 1941 - 2021

Hendrick Anton Herbert ("Hank") Driessen was a PhD student of the Research School of Pacific Studies. He began his enrollment at the Australian National University in 1978, and submitted his PhD thesis, From Ta'aroa to 'oro : an exploration of themes in the traditional culture and history of the Leeward Society Islands, in 1991. His PhD was conferred on 14 August 1992. He conducted fieldwork in the Society Islands over a number of years, and collected an archive of his research. He worked for many years at the National Archives of New Zealand, beginning as an archivist, and advancing to the head of Outreach Services and Exhibitions. He was a founding Council member of the New Zealand Society of Archivists from its inception in 1989 and served on the Council until 2000. Towards the end of his life, he returned to Australia, where he died in 2021.

Doutch, Frederick William

  • Person

Frederick William Doutch worked in a Burns Philp store on Banaba (Ocean Island) c. 1913 - 1915. He was an avid amateur photographer, and took photographs of his time in the Pacific, including his journey to Banaba and his time there. He often recorded the weather, light, time of exposure, and chemicals used to develop his photographic plates.

Scragg, Roy

  • Person
  • 1924-2022

Dr Roy Scragg was the Director of Public Health for the Australian Administration of the (then) Territory of Papua New Guinea from 1957 to 1970. He also served in the PNG Parliament as a member of the Legislative Council and Executive Council PNG and as Member, House of Assembly and Constitutional Committee from 1957 to 1968. Dr Scragg had a large impact on the development of the public health program in Papua New Guinea, and undertook pioneering research into infertility.
Roy Scragg was born in Feilding, New Zealand, later moving to South Australia where he obtained his medical degree from Adelaide University in 1946. He then joined the Department of Public Health for the Australian Administration of the (then) Territory of Papua New Guinea. Dr Scragg obtained a Diploma in Tropical Medicine and Hygiene from the Sydney School of Public Health in 1950, shortly before he began his ground-breaking research into infertility in New Ireland. He discovered the role of gonorrhoea in infertility in New Ireland, which had led to a decline in population. Twenty years later, in 1975, the WHO commented that the “most complete epidemiological study on the prevalence of infertility, pregnancy wastage, and child loss is that by Scragg on New Ireland in the West Pacific.” He received a Doctorate in Medicine from Adelaide University in 1955 for his thesis on the depopulation of New Ireland.
In 1957, Dr Roy Scragg was appointed the Director of Public Health for the Australian Administration of the (then) Territory of Papua New Guinea from 1957. He succeeded Sir John Gunther in the post. He ensured that the country was covered with a network of aid posts and health services, even in remote regions, to control the major diseases and causes of death. During his time as Director of Public Health, the crude death rate (per UN estimates) in PNG declined from 27.4/1000 to 16.5/1000.
Dr Scragg promoted the training of PNG nationals as doctors, nurses, and medical personnel, paving the way for independence. Although he had to send PNG nationals to Fiji for medical training, Dr Scragg was an active participant in the establishment of health science education in PNG and the establishment of the Medical School within the University of PNG.
On his return to Australia, Dr Scragg continued contributing to scholarship and public life. He served as a fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Medical Administrators, president of the Public Health Association of Australia and life member of the Australasian Epidemiological Association, among other positions. In 1971 Scragg was recognised as an officer of the Order of the British Empire and in 2021 he was appointed a member of the Order of Australia (AM) to mark his significant contributions to medicine, epidemiology and medical associations. He earned a master of public health in 1982 from the Sydney School of Public Health and was made an honorary doctor of Adelaide University in 2014. Dr Roy Scragg died in 2022.

Crawford, Robert

  • Person

Robert Crawford is Professor of Advertising in the School of Media and Communication at RMIT University.
His research focuses on the growth and development of the advertising, marketing, and public relations industries nationally and internationally.

Brunette Downs Station

  • Corporate body
  • c. 1904 -

In 1904, J C White and F C White became owners of the property of Brunette Downs. The Whites went into partnership with Alfred J Cotton in 1912 and bought out Cotton in 1928. The property was purchased by King Ranch's Australian subsidiary, King Ranch Pastoral Co Pty Ltd, in December 1958 and was later purchased by the Australian Agricultural Company (AACo) for $5 million in 1979. As a subsidiary of the AACo, its managers included K J Warriner (1979 - 81), B Gough (1981 - 86), C I Paige (1986 - 87) and G F Wagstaff (1987 - ).

Groube, Leslie Montague

  • Person
  • 1937 - 2018

Leslie (Les) Montague Groube was born in Hawkes Bay, New Zealand, on 12 December 1937. He completed his undergraduate and graduate degrees at Auckland University, under Jack Golson. His early focus and fieldwork was on Maori settlement patterns. He later held positions in the Anthropology Departments of the University of Otago and the University of Auckland. The New Zealand Archaeological Association’s Groube Fieldwork Award (also known as the Groube Gumboot Award) was named in his honour. After 1969, Groube left New Zealand, and spent varying amounts of time in Canberra at the Australian National University, Port Moresby, Dorset, and Cambridge where he pursued fieldwork and lecture positions. He retired to Brittany, France, and died in 2018.

Buchanan, David

  • Person

David Buchanan SC was admitted to practice as a solicitor in Sydney in 1975. He was called to the NSW Bar in 1977 and appointed Senior Counsel in 1997. His area of practice is criminal law. He has been involved for many years in the gay community response to HIV/AIDS in Australia and generally in the Indo-Pacific region. He has a particular interest in the role of the criminal law and of public health interventions in the HIV/AIDS epidemic.

Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies

  • University unit
  • 1948 -

The Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies was established in 1948 as the Research School of Pacific Studies, changing its name in 1994. It is Australia’s pre-eminent centre for research and postgraduate training in the Asia-Pacific region, with one of the largest concentrations of expertise in the world. Priority areas for research are Northeast Asia, Southeast Asia, South Asia and the Southwest Pacific. Research is multidisciplinary and is focused on anthropology, archaeology, economics, history, human geography, international relations, linguistics, political science, resource management and strategic defence studies. In 1947 New Zealander Raymond Firth, an anthropologist who had published widely on the Pacific and Southeast Asian region, was invited by the Interim University Council to act as the Academic Advisor for Pacific Studies with the hope that he would take on the job as Foundation Professor. Firth’s initial plans for the School of Pacific Studies were that it would have an emphasis on human studies and be concerned mainly with the Pacific Island territories for which Australia was responsible. In contrast to this, proposals put forward by Sir Frederick Eggleston to the Academic Advisory Committee, before Firth’s appointment, called for a school that was to also have an Asian focus and concentrate on political problems in the Pacific. In 1949 Firth resigned from the Academic Advisory Committee, deciding not to make the move permanently to Australia from England, giving Eggleston the opportunity to substitute a broader scope for the School including India, Southeast Asia, China and Japan. In mid-1949 Firth was persuaded to resume his role as Academic Advisor and made the initial appointments of chairs to Siegfried Frederick Nadel (Anthropology and Sociology), Walter Russell Crocker (International Relations), James Davidson (Pacific History), and Oskar Spate (Geography) and the appointments of Readers W.E.H. Stanner (Comparative Social Institutions) and C.P. Fitzgerald (Far Eastern History). Further departments were added: Economics (1960), Linguistics (1968), Prehistory (1969), and the New Guinea Research Unit (1961). The Geography Department reformed as two departments in 1968: Biogeography and Geomorphology, and Human Geography. Its name was changed to the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies in 1994, to reflect the balance of research activity in the School which had shifted significantly from the Pacific towards Asia.

Galligan, Brian John

  • Person
  • 1945 - 2019

Brian Galligan was born in Dalby, QLD in 1945. He graduated in Economics and Commerce from the University of Queensland, and has a Masters and PhD in Political Science from the University of Toronto. In the early 1980s he was Senior Research Fellow, Department of Political Science at the Australian National University and Deputy Director, Centre for Research on Federal Financial Relations. From 1984-1992 he lectured at La Trobe University. Galligan was Professor and Director of the Federalism Research Centre at the Research School of Social Sciences, ANU from 1992-94. Since 1995 he has been a Professor of Political Science at the University of Melbourne and later became a director of the university's Centre for Public Policy. Galligan is author of a number of books on Australian citizenship, politics and political economy, and has co-authored publications including Beyond the Protective State (1992) with Ann Capling.

Reddy, Jai Ram

  • Person
  • 1937 - 2022

Jai Ram Reddy was born on 12 May 1937 in Lautoka, Fiji. He completed a Bar-at-Law from the University of New Zealand, Wellington 1956-1960. Reddy entered politics in the 1970s as leader of the National Federation Party (NFP) and leader of the Opposition. His political appointments included Leader of the Opposition’s nominee in the Senate 1972-1976; Member of the House of Representatives April 1977; Leader of the Opposition 1977-1984; Attorney General and Minister of Justice April-May 1987; Member, Falvey Constitution Review Committee July 1987; NFP-FLP nominee to the Deuba Accord Committee September 1987; Member of the House of Representatives 1992; Leader of NFP and Leader of the Opposition 1992–1999; Member, Joint Parl. Select Committee on Constitution Review (1995-1997). He was a co-principal architect of the 1997 Constitution of Fiji, and a supporter of reconciliation in post-1987 Fiji. Reddy was defeated in the 1999 general elections and departed from politics in the same year. He then took up the position of President, Fiji Court of Appeal (March-August 2000; January 2002-April 2003) and Permanent Judge, International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda 2003-2008.

Mount Wood Pastoral Company Proprietary Limited

  • Corporate body
  • 1908 - 1987

The company was registered on 30 October 1908. The company owned Mount Wood Station, near Tibooburra in New South Wales. Mount Wood Station was first taken up in 1883 by George Dorward and later the homestead and woolscour were built in 1897. Proprietors of the station were Moore, Dorward & Co (1893 - 1897); Moore, Dorward and Palmer (1905 - 1907) and later Mount Wood Pastoral Co Pty Ltd (1908 - 1973). Its Managing Director included Ian McLachlan (1950s - 1973). Mount Wood Station was incorporated into Sturt National Park after 1972. The company was deregistered on 16 January 1987.

Della Torre, Peter

  • Person
  • 1917-2017

Peter Della Torre was an engineer who lived and worked in Papua New Guinea, mostly in Rabaul and Port Moresby. He was involved in the building of the Rabaul hospital and war memorial.

Shutler, Richard Jr

  • Person
  • 1921-2007

Richard (“Dick”) Shutler Jr. was an archaeologist who worked extensively in North America and the Pacific during his career.
World War II interrupted Shutler’s higher education. After enlisting in the US Army, Shutler spent the majority of his service (1942-1946) in the Aleutian Islands. After the war, Shutler earned his AB and MA at the University of California (Berkeley), and later his PhD at the University of Arizona in 1961. Shutler’s fieldwork focused primarily on North America until the late 1960s, although his first fieldwork in the Pacific took place in New Caledonia in 1951/2 with Edward Gifford and his first wife, Mary Elizabeth Shutler.
Dick Shutler excavated widely across the Pacific, including fieldwork in Vanuatu in 1963/4 and 1966/7, in Gilbert Islands in 1969, in Vanuatu in 1971, in the Philippines in 1976 and 1978, in Fefan Island in 1977, in Rotuma in 1981, in Hong Kong in 1990, and in Tubuai in 1994. Shutler was involved in fieldwork in Tonga throughout the 1990s.
Among his many academic appointments included serving as department chair at the University of Iowa and at Simon Fraser University. After resigning the chair at Simon Fraser University, he remained at the university with emeritus status to continue his research. He died in 2007, at age 86.

Parke, Aubrey Laurence

  • Person
  • 1925-2007

Parke was born in Moreton, Dorset in 1925. In 1951 Parke was posted to the Western District of Fiji. He would continue to work in the country, in various locations and posts, over the next 20 years. He was also a Trustee of the Fiji Museum and advised the museum on archaeological matters. After Fijian independence, Parke relocated to Canberra, where he pursued his MA and later PhD at the Australian National University based on his many years experience in Fiji.

Spriggs, Matthew

  • Person
  • 1954 -

Professor Spriggs is the Professor of Archaeology in the School of Archaeology and Anthropology, College of Arts and Social Sciences at the ANU. Prior to this he was a Senior Research Fellow in Archaeology and Natural History, in what is now the College of Asia Pacific. Before joining the ANU in 1987, he was an Associate Professor in the Anthropology Department of University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu. His research interests are the archaeology of Island Southeast Asia and the Pacific Islands, and Cornish Studies.

McGowan, Barry

  • Person
  • 1945 - 2018

Dr Barry McGowan was an historian specialising in mining towns and Chinese communities in Australia. Born to Mac and Olga McGowan in Oakleigh, Victoria, Barry McGowan grew up in Mount Gambier, South Australia. He completed an economics degree at the University of Adelaide in 1967, then volunteered as an economist for the South Pacific Commission in Noumea for two years. After returning to Australia, McGowan became a public servant for the Australian Government. He worked in various departments including the Department of Industrial Relations until 1995, while privately pursuing his interests in mining, history and archaeology. McGowan’s first book on mining, Lost mines revisited: historic mining communities of the Monaro, Southern Tablelands, and south-west slopes districts of NSW, was published in 1994. In 1995 he graduated from the ANU with a Bachelor of Arts, and left the public service to work as a heritage consultant, and to commence doctoral studies at the ANU. McGowan gained his PhD in 2002, and his thesis, Dust and dreams: mining communities in south-east NSW, was published in 2010. He published many other papers, heritage reports and books relating to mining and Chinese–Australian history. McGowan was awarded a Medal in the Order of Australia for services to community history in 2018.

Ward, Ralph Gerard

  • Person
  • 1933 - 2023

Ralph Gerard Ward was born on 20 May 1933 in Taupo, New Zealand. He received a BA (1954) and MA in Geography (1956) from Auckland University College, and PhD from the University of London (1963). He worked as a Junior Lecturer in Geography 1956-1959; Lecturer in Geography 1960-1961, University of Auckland. From 1961 to August 1967 he was Lecturer in Geography at the University College London. Ward was foundation Professor of Geography at the University of Papua New Guinea 1967-1971. He joined the Australian National University as its foundation Professor of Human Geography, Research School of Pacific Studies from December 1971 to 1998. During his tenure he was Head of Department 1971-1980 and 1995-1998. Ward was appointed to Director, Research School of Pacific Studies November 1980-May 1993. After retiring in 1998, Ward became a Visiting Fellow of The Pacific Centre, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, ANU. He contributed to the governance of three Pacific universities, serving on Council for University of Papua New Guinea, National University of Samoa and Universite Francaise du Pacifique. He has also served on the Pacific Science Association and the Australian National Commission for UNESCO. He died on 16 January 2023 in Adelaide.

Burns, Arthur Lee

  • Person
  • 1922 - 1995

Professor Arthur Burns was a Professor of Political Science, specialising in superpower rivalry, nuclear weapons and game theory. Born in Summer Hill, Sydney on 24 March 1922 to Crayton and Denise Burns, Arthur Burns was educated at Scotch College, before studying history, theology and philosophy at the University of Melbourne. In 1946 he was awarded a Masters in Philosophy and History for his thesis on Historical Explanation. In the same year Burns married Netta Cox, and was ordained as a Presbyterian minister. In 1947 to 1948 he attended the London School of Economics under a British Council Scholarship. On returning to Melbourne, Burns tutored and lectured in Church History at Ormond College Theological Hall, and in History at the University of Melbourne. He was appointed Research Fellow in International Relations within the Research School of Pacific Studies at the Australian National University in 1955. In 1961 Burns transferred to the Department of Political Science, Research School of Social Sciences, where he oversaw a Defence Studies Project 1963 – 1966, which was managed by the department on behalf of the Australian Institute of International Affairs. Burns was appointed to second Chair in the Department in 1966. He undertook international posts at a variety of institutions including the Universities of Princeton and Chicago, and the Royal Institute of Strategic Studies. Burns published prolifically in the 1950s and 1960s, with his major works being From Balance to Deterrence (1956), and Of powers and their politics: a critique of theoretical approaches (1968). Burns was involved in litigation with the ANU 1981 to 1994 after his employment was terminated. He was an independent candidate for the Australian Capital Territory Assembly in 1995 as part of the Abolish Self Government Coalition, but died five days before the election.

Brennan, Geoffrey

  • Person
  • 15 Sep 1944 - 29 Jul 2022

Emeritus Professor Geoffrey Brennan was an Australian philosopher who held professorial positions at ANU, University of North Carolina, Duke University and Virginia Tech. Originally trained as an economist, he worked at the intersection of economics, politics and philosophy and played a major role in the development of interdisciplinary 'PPE' research. He was Director of the Research School of Social Sciences at ANU from 1991 to 1996. He was made a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Social Sciences in 1987 and was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by the University of St. Gallen in 2002.

ANU Emeritus Faculty

  • University unit
  • 1999 -

The ANU Emeritus Faculty was established as a collegiate organisation within the University to provide opportunities for retired academic and professional staff to continue to contribute to the academic and cultural life of the university.

Mount Stromlo Observatory

  • ANUA 744
  • University unit
  • 1915 - 2012

The Mount Stromlo Observatory was established in 1924 as the Commonwealth Solar Observatory. The site had been used for observations since an observatory was established there by Pietro Baracchi using the Oddie telescope in 1911. The dome built to house the Oddie telescope was the first Commonwealth building constructed in the newly established Australian Capital Territory. Until World War II, the observatory specialised in solar and atmospheric observations. During the war the workshops contributed to the war effort by producing gun sights, and other optical equipment. After the war, the observatory shifted direction to stellar and galactic astronomy and was renamed The Commonwealth Observatory. Following the establishment of the Australian NAtional University in 1946 a formal amalgamation took place in 1957, with Mount Stromlo Observatory becoming part of the Department of Astronomy in the Research School of Physical Sciences at ANU. The Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics was formed in 1986 and continues.

On 18 January 2003 a firestorm hit Mount Stromlo destroying telescopes, workshops, homes, and the administration building. The only telescope to escape the fires was the 1886 15-centimetre Farnham telescope.

Drill Hall Gallery

  • University unit

The Drill Hall was built in 1940 to train soldiers for the Second World War. The 3rd Battalion, Werriwa Regiment was based in this building in 1941-2. In 1984 the interior was superbly remodelled to create an art gallery which is considered one of the most beautiful of its kind. In 2004 a Heritage order was placed on the building.
While the National Gallery of Australia waited for the completion of its building, temporary exhibitions of the national collection were held here. In 1992 the Australian National University took over the Drill Hall Gallery as a showcase for its own art collection and as a venue for temporary exhibitions. There are 4 discrete exhibition spaces.

The Gallery is a venue of choice for many of Australia’s leading contemporary artists, curators and collectors. We have developed a proud tradition of impeccably presented landmark exhibitions accompanied by scholarly publications. Sidney Nolan’s 9-panel panorama, Riverbend (recently nominated among the ten must-see art treasures of Canberra) is on permanent display in the Riverbend Room.

The Drill Hall Gallery provides the Canberra community and ANU with a selective program of high quality exhibitions of Australian and international art. The Gallery supports the arts in the Canberra region by presenting exhibitions developed in conjunction with the University’s wide-ranging academic interests and/or to coincide with major conferences and public events. National and international exhibitions – and works from the University’s own extensive collection – are features of the Gallery’s program. Surce: Quoted from https://dhg.anu.edu.au/about/ on 9 January 2023

Jolliffe, Jill

  • Person
  • 7 Feb 1945 - 2 Dec 2022

Jill Jolliffe was an Australian journalist who reported on East Timor since 1975. She is the author of 'Cover-up : the inside story of the Balibo Five' (Scribe, 2001).

Baker, John R

  • Person
  • 1946-

Dr John Baker holds a BA degree with First Class Honours from Hull University, an MA from London University and a PhD from the Australian National University. His academic and business interests include public management and the economic development of countries in South East Asia and the South Pacific. In his early career (1964 - 1965) he worked in the Solomon Islands under the Voluntary Service Overseas (VSO) scheme.

John Baker was an economist to the Government of Tonga from August 1969 to May 1970, the first economist employed by the Tonga Government to work on development planning. He was engaged to undertake the preparation and drafting of the Tonga Development Plan 1970-75, Tonga's second development plan. Following his work in Tonga, Dr Baker studied at the ANU where he completed a PhD on shipping in Tonga and Fiji.

In 1975 he joined AIDAB, Australian Agency for International Development (the predecessor of AusAID) where he was Head of the South Pacific Section. He occupied a number of other senior government positions in Canberra including positions in the Corporate Services Division of the Department of Primary Industry, the Departments of Prime Minister and Cabinet and Foreign Affairs. He was the Australian Ambassador to Madagascar and the Comoros from 1982 to 1984.

During the late 1980s he was First Assistant Commissioner of the newly-created Public Service Commission (PSC) and played a leading role in the development of various APS management reforms, which produced APS 2000, a major report on the future development of the Australian Public Service (APS). In his subsequent career, Dr Baker was Australian High Commissioner to Tanzania.

In 1991, John Baker established his own Canberra based consultancy company, the Centre for Public Management Pty Ltd (CPM) and the Executive Director. John Baker is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Management.

Curthoys, Ann

  • Person
  • 1945 -

Ann Curthoys was born in Sydney in 1945 to Geoffrey Carlton Curthoys and Barbara Lindsay McCallum, both of whom were members of the Communist Party of Australia until 1970. Curthoys graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) degree in 1967 and also holds a Diploma in Education from Sydney Teachers' College. While still an undergraduate she took part in the 1965 Student Action for Aborigines Survey and Demonstration Bus Tour (Freedom Ride) to examine racial discrimination in some New South Wales towns. She then undertook a PhD at Macquarie University on the history of race relations in New South Wales in the mid nineteenth century, comparing British colonists' attitudes to Chinese immigration with attitudes to Aboriginal people, graduating in 1973.

After graduation Curthoys worked overseas then began teaching and researching at Canberra College of Advanced Education, New South Wales Institute of Technology (Later UTS). In 1995 She took up the Chair of History at the Australian National Unversity where she taught on Aboriginal History, Australian History and Historiography. he was elected to the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia in 1997 and the Australian Academy of the Humanities in 2003.

Robertson, Mavis

  • Person
  • 1 Jun 1930 - 17 Feb 2015

Born Mavis Moten in Melbourne, to John and Claire (nee Tilley) Moten. Member of the Eureka Youth League in the 1940s. Married journalist Alec Robertson in 1953. Campaigned on numerous causes including against apartheid, in support of Chilean refugees following the 1973 coup, in the peace and anti-nuclear movement, and for women’s liberation. Became a joint secretary of the Communist Party of Australia in 1976 and left the party in 1984. First chair of Jessie Street Trust. Became involved in the superannuation industry in the 1980s and held leadership roles in several organisations, including the Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees (AIST), Cbus, and Women in Super. In 1998 co-founded the Mother’s Day Classic fun run for breast cancer research.

Tully, Bill

  • Person
  • 1937 - 2021

Bill Tully was an employee of the National Library of Australia from 1968 to 2002. He was involved as an editor and writer in the Australian Independence Movement from 1975-1985. In this period he was active in running the ACT Branch of the Australian East Timor Association and the Campaign for an Independent East Timor. Tully covered these areas of political and social interests as a volunteer on the Canberra public radio 2XX, presenting Asia Pacific News program from 1982-1984, and Writers Workshop (later Sound Print) from 1983. He was a former editor of Blast magazine and editor of Voice magazine.

Bulmer, Ralph

  • Person
  • 1928 - 1988

Ralph Bulmer was a social anthropologist, naturalist, and ethnobiologist noted for his work in Papua New Guinea, particularly with the Kalam. He born in Hereford, UK, and received his BA om anthropology from the University of Cambridge in 1953. He studied Sami culture in Sweden and Norway before pursuing his Ph.D. at Australian National University. His fieldwork for his Ph.D. was based in the Western Highlands of Papua New Guinea, in particular among the Kyaka-Enga people in the Baiyer Valley. He was awarded his Ph.D. in 1962. He then became a Lecturer, and later Senior Lecturer at the University of Auckland.
In 1964, Bulmer began his work among the Kalam in Papua New Guinea. He took the unprecedented step of changing the role of his Kalam informants to that of collaborators and co-authors, involving them in the documentation of their culture. Ian Saem Majnep, a Kalam naturalist, was his primary collaborator and co-authored a number of publications with Bulmer. The Kalam project set out by Bulmer eventually included two anthropologists, two linguists,and more than twenty zoologists, botanists, and other scientific colleagues. He became the Foundation Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Papua New Guinea in 1968, serving until 1973. He then returned to the University of Auckland as Chair in Social Anthropology until 1988.

Brookfield, Harold Chillingworth

  • Person
  • 1926 - 2022

Professor Harold Brookfield was a British and Australian geographer with interests in rural development, family farming, land use and society in developing countries. He completed a BA and PhD at the London School of Economics. He was briefly a lecturer in Geography and Birkbeck College, London and Lecturer in Charge at the Department of Geography, University of Natal where he began engaging with development and social justice issues in South Africa and Mauritius. After three years, he moved to Australia to join the University of New England and in 1957 joined the Research School of Pacific Studies at the Australian National University where he spent most of his academic career. He spent two periods at the Geography (later Human Geography) Department in RSPAS – the first from 1957 to 1969, and then again from 1982 until his retirement in 1991, at one point becoming the Head of the Human Geography Department and Acting Director of the School.
Brookfield conducted field work in Papua New Guinea, the New Hebrides, New Caledonia, the Solomon Islands, Bougainville and the Philippines. His interests focussed on Papua New Guinea where he conducted fieldwork in the highlands and collaborated with anthropologists from the Research School. In the 1970s his work extended to smaller islands of the Caribbean and the smaller eastern islands of Fiji. His work largely focused on the relationship between humans and their landscapes, particularly as this was understood through the lens of agricultural production. His work on agricultural intensification, land use and land degradation, and the impact of El Nino events was ground-breaking and innovative.

Foresters Financial

  • Corporate body
  • 1999 -

Founded in Victoria as the Ancient Order of Foresters in 1849 to provide mutual support during illness and after death for members.
The company is member-owned and currently has over 80,000 members, for whom it provides investment and insurance services.

Australian Mutual Provident Society

  • Corporate body
  • 1849 - continuing

The Australian Mutual Provident Society was formed in 1849 as a non-profit, life-insurance company, and mutual society, with its first office located in Sydney.
George King was chairman for fifteen years from the 1850s. Richard Teece was general manager and actuary from 1890 and a director from 1917 to 1927.
As the company grew, offices were opened across Australia including in Melbourne, Brisbane, Hobart, Adelaide, Perth, Canberra and Darwin as well as regional centres such as Newcastle, Goulburn, Bendigo, Warrnambool, Maryborough, Townsville and Rockhampton.
In 1876, the company expanded to New Zealand and opened its first office in Wellington. An Auckland office was opened in 1960.
In 1998, AMP was demutualised into an Australian public company, AMP Limited, and listed on the Australian Securities Exchange and New Zealand Stock Exchange.
In 1999, AMP launched AMP Banking, an online bank.
In 2003, the company demerged its UK operations, creating the Henderson Group.
On 15 November 2010, AMP announced a bid to merge its business with AXA Asia Pacific Holdings, with AXA acquiring AXA Asia Pacific Holdings' Asian business and AMP acquiring AXA's Australian and New Zealand business. The Australasian holdings included the former National Mutual business (established in 1869) which was demutualised in 1996. As part of this merger, the AXA brand was phased out of the Australian and New Zealand market by 2013.
In 2020, AMP completed the sale of its life insurance business AMP Life to Resolution Life.
In February 2022, AMP delisted from the NZX, consolidating its listing on the Australian Securities Exchange.
An additional arm of the AMP business is the global investment management company AMP Capital. AMP Capital manages real estate and infrastructure assets including shopping centres, airports and trains on behalf of funds and clients, while in public markets, it manages investments in equities, fixed income, multi-asset and diversified capabilities on behalf of clients around the world.

Robertson, Alec

  • Person
  • 25 Aug 1918 - 15 Mar 1974

Born in Brisbane. Cadet at Courier-Mail. Joined Communist Party of Australia in 1939. Enlisted in Australian Army in 1941 and served as lieutenant in New Guinea then as a pilot in the Australian Air Force. Returning to Courier-Mail after the war, he was awarded the Kemsley Empire Journalism Scholarship, reporting from London and Europe. Fired by Keith Murdoch for not obeying editorial instructions. Robertson then become sub-editor of the Melbourne Argus, before joining the Victorian Peace Council. He became secretary of the NSW Peace Council in 1951. Robertson married Mavis Moten in 1953. In the 1950s Robertson was elected to the CPA's Central Committee and later the National Committee. Became Chief Editor of the Tribune in 1964. Campaigned for Papua New Guinea's independence and the anti-Vietnam war movement, and other left wing causes.

Robertson, Alec (Senior)

  • Person
  • 1892 - 1965

Foundation member of the Australian Journalists' Association in Queensland. School teacher and headmaster, and early member of the Queensland Teachers' Union. Journalist at Queensland Daily Mail. Journalist, then later the Chief Editor of the Labor Party's Queensland newspaper (the Daily Standard). Prominent in anti-conscription during WWI. Editor of the Courier-Mail from 1932. First station manager of the Courier-Mail radio station (4BK-AK). Chief of public relations for the Southern Electrical Authority 1951 - 1960.

Luck, Geoffrey

  • Person
  • 1931 - 2021

Geoffrey Luck was a radio journalist for the Australian Broadcasting Commission (ABC). He was based in Longreach, Queensland, 1953-1955; becoming a foreign correspondent in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, 1957-1967; Northern Ireland and London. On his return to Sydney Luck was appointed Economics and Finance Correspondent with the News Division in early 1972. His duties included presenting the radio program, The Week in Business, until 1976. He completed an MBA at Macquarie University in 1975.

United Ancient Order of Druids (Victoria)

  • Corporate body
  • c. 1862 - 2011

The United Ancient Order of Druids (UAOD) was founded in Victoria around 1862. By 1867 the Society had 11 Lodges in Victoria. The Order of Druids was originally a male society until a Juvenile Lodge was opened in Prahran in 1886 by the Loyal Canterbury Lodge. Other lodges were formed in South Melbourne, Footscray, and others in New Zealand. The first female Lodge was established in Launceston, Tasmania in October 1899. The Victorian Grand Lodge held the title of Grand Lodge of Australia and was responsible for the establishment of Druid’s House in Melbourne on 4 April 1927. The UAOD Friendly Society of NSW was demutualised in 2011.

Ancient Order of Foresters

  • Corporate body
  • 1849 - 1999

The Ancient Order of Foresters, which originated in England in the mid 1700s, established its first branch (Court) in Victoria in 1849. Foresters was set up as a non-profit organisation, the founding principles of the Society being to provide financial and social benefits as well as support to members and their families in times of unemployment, sickness, death, disability and old age. The Society is now known as the Foresters Friendly Society and in July 1999 was incorporated as a public company limited by shares and guarantee.

Australian Natives Association

  • Corporate body
  • 1871 -

The Friendly Society of Victorian Natives, was a mutual society formed in Melbourne in 1871. The Society changed its name to the Australian Natives Association (ANA) in 1872 following a vote to include white men born in the other Australian colonies. The Association's objectives were to "raise funds by subscription, donations ... for the purpose of relieving sick members, and defraying expenses of funeral of members and their wives, relieving distressed widows and orphans and for the necessary expenses of the general management of the Society."[Menadue, J A Centenary History of the Australian Natives' Association 1871 - 1971, Page 9]. The ANA provided strong support for the Federation of Australia, sport, afforestation, social well-being and the Federal Government's restricted immigration policy, later referred to as the White Australia policy. The ANA and Manchester Unity agreed to merge to form Australian Unity in 1990.

Victoria River Downs

  • Corporate body
  • 1879 -

In 1879 the South Australian Government granted Charles Brown Fisher and J Maurice Lyons a lease over 15,890 square miles of land to form the cattle station, Victoria River Downs. Financial difficulties led them to take out a mortgage with R Goldsbrough and Company in 1886. After an attempt by the Northern Australian Territory Company Ltd to buy the land fell through Goldsbrough Mort and Company became the property's owners in 1887. In 1900 Goldsbrough Mort sold the station to a syndicate comprising Forrest Emmanuel and Company, Kidman Brothers, GS Yull and R and BJH Richards. The station was then bought in 1909 by Bovril Australian Estates Pty Ltd which sold the station to William Lionel Buckland in 1955. In 1960 it was sold to the Hooker Investment Corporation Ltd who in 1984 sold it to Peter Sherwin. Since 1989 the station has been owned by the Haytesbury Pastoral Company and is now managed by Janet Holmes a' Court.

Carnie, Liston

  • Person
  • 28 Nov 1874 - 27 Dec 1958

Liston Carnie was born in Newhaven, Scotland and died in North Sydney. He was a master plumber. He arrived in Australia in 1929. In the 1930s and early 1940s he ran a family plumbing business in North Sydney. In the mid 1940s he became the plumber at the Mater Hospital, Pacific Highway, North Sydney and remained there until his retirement.

Munro, Paul Robert

  • Person
  • 1939 -

Paul Munro was born in Condobolin, New South Wales on 13 July 1939. He graduated from Sydney University Law School and was admitted to the NSW Bar in 1961. From July 1961 he worked as a Legal Officer at the Public Solicitor’s Office in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea. From 1966 to 1968 Munro was an Industrial Advocate for the PNG Public Service Association, which led to his work in industrial relations. Munro was National Secretary, Council of Australian Government Employee Associations 1969-1977; he worked with Dr H C Coombs on the Royal Commission on Australian Government Administration 1974-1976; and was Federal Secretary of the Administrative & Clerical Officers' Association (ACOA) 1979-1986. His service as a union official included five years as a member of the Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) Executive and he was later a part-time member of the Administrative Review Council. Munro served from 1986 to 2004 as Justice Munro, a Senior Presidential Member of the Australian Industrial Relations Commission (AIRC) and its predecessors. He has been on the Australian Institute of Employment Rights Executive Committee since its establishment in 2005.

Reay, Marie Olive

  • Person
  • 1 Jul 1922 - 16 Sep 2004

Marie Olive Reay was born in Maitland, New South Wales and began her career in anthropology at Sydney University, where she studied for an MA and undertook fieldwork in Indigenous communities in western New South Wales (Walgett, Bourke, Moree, Coonabarabran and others) in the 1940s. She later extended her fieldwork with Indigenous communities to Borroloola in the Northern Territory. From 1953, as a doctoral student supervised by WE Stanner in the Department of Anthropology and Sociology in the Research School of Pacific Studies at Australian National University, she began field research in the Wahgi Valley in the Western Highlands of Papua New Guinea, with the Kuma. Reay's PhD thesis was published as The Kuma: Freedom and Conformity in the New Guinea Highlands in 1959, the same year she was appointed to a research fellowship in the Department of Anthropology, ANU. Working at ANU for the next 30 years and retiring in 1988, Reay died in Booragul, New South Wales on 16 September 2004.

Evans, Gareth John

  • Person
  • 1944 -

Gareth John Evans was born in Melbourne, Victoria on 5 September 1944. After graduating from the University of Melbourne BA, LLB (Hons) he studied at Oxford University and earned an MA in Politics, Philosophy and Economics.

Gareth Evans is currently Distinguished Honorary Professor at the Australian National University, where he was Chancellor from 2010-19 and President Emeritus of the International Crisis Group, the Brussels-based independent global conflict prevention and resolution organisation which he led from 2000 to 2009.

Gareth Evans was a member of the Australian Parliament for 21 years. He was Senator for Victoria from 1978 to 1996, serving as Deputy Leader (1987-93) and then Leader (1993-96) of the Government in the Senate, and was a member of the House of Representatives from 1996 until September 1999, serving as Deputy Leader of the Opposition (1996-98). As one of Australia's longest serving Foreign Ministers, he was best known internationally for his roles in developing the UN peace plan for Cambodia, bringing to a conclusion the international Chemical Weapons Convention, founding the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum and ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF), and initiating the Canberra Commission on the Elimination of Nuclear Weapons.

Jupp, James

  • Person
  • 23 August 1932 - 11 April 2022

James Jupp was born in Croydon, England in 1932. He studied at the London School of Economics 1951-1956, and the University of London where he earned his PhD in 1975. He was General Editor of the Bicentennial Encyclopaedia of the Australian People 1984-1988 and of the second edition in 2001. Jupp was a member of the Advisory Council on Multicultural Affairs and chairman of the Review of Migrant and Multicultural Programs and Services (ROMAMPAS), which presented its report Don't Settle for Less, to the Minister for Immigration in August 1986. He was formerly chairman of the ACT Multicultural Advisory Council and of the ACT Reference Group of the Bureau of Immigration, Multicultural and Population Research. Jupp was Director of the Centre for Immigration and Multicultural Studies in the Research School of Social Sciences at the Australian National University 1988 - 2012 and an Adjunct Professor of the RMIT University in Melbourne. He was awarded the Order of Australia in 2004.

Manchester Unity Independent Order of Oddfellows

  • Corporate body
  • 1840 - 1993

Manchester Unity Independent Order of Oddfellows (MUIOOF) had its origins in Manchester, England. It was established in Melbourne on 7 December 1840 when Augustus Greeves, a member of the MUIOOF in England, migrated to Australia and formed the first lodge, Australia Felix Lodge, with journalist Thomas Strode. By the late nineteenth century, Manchester Unity had an extensive network of lodges in metropolitan and country Victoria. The Society was governed by its Annual Moveable Conference (AMC) which, as its name implies, was held in a different Victorian country centre each year. Lodges sent delegates to the AMC, where they voted on policies and rules, and elected the new Board of Directors for the coming year. In 1993 Manchester Unity (Victoria) merged with the Australian Natives Association to form Australian Unity Friendly Society Limited, now known as Australian Unity Limited.

Hope, Geoffrey Scotford

  • Person
  • 27 May 1944 - 2021

Geoffrey Hope was an environmental historian. His research interests included vegetation history and the historical biogeography of Australian, Asian and Pacific biota. He held a BSc (Hons), a MSc and a DSc from Melbourne University, and a PhD from ANU. He was an Emeritus Professor in the Department of Archaeology and Natural History and a Visiting Fellow in the Fenner School of Environment and Society.

Geoffrey Hope has been based at Australian National University since 1978, lecturing in Geography before moving to a research position in RSPAS (now College of Asia Pacific) in 1990. As an environmental historian he works with a mix of methodologies and related fields of study including archaeology, biogeography, palaeontology, soil sciences and geoscience. His research interests include the impact of people on landscapes, including the impact of erosion, surface processes and silting, climate change and fire on human habitation. He is also interested in the roles of climate change and fire on human responses and adaptability. This work aims to contribute practical help for control of greenhouse emissions and solutions to problems of land management and biodiversity conservation.

Hamilton, Kirsty

  • Person
  • c1950 - 2011

Kirsty Hamilton was a radio, television and on-line journalist. She was born in Melbourne in approximately 1950 and died in 2011. She earned degrees from Monash University in Melbourne and Columbia University in New York.

Friends of the Noel Butlin Archives Centre

  • Association
  • 1997 -

The Friends of the Noel Butlin Archives Centre is an association incorporated in the Australian Capital Territory. It was established in October 1997 and operates independently from the Noel Butlin Archives Centre at the Australian National University. Its objectives are to help preserve and extend the Noel Butlin Archives Centre, to foster among members and other interested parties a sense of involvement with and understanding of the collections, objectives and operations of the Noel Butlin Archives Centre, and to publicise the resources and facilities of the Noel Butlin Archives Centre to stimulate greater awareness within the community of its role. The Friends support an annual lecture and a conservation fund to repair and make more accessible material in the collection of high research value.

Dutton, Thomas Edward

  • Person
  • 1935 - 2021

Dr Thomas (Tom) Dutton was a Senior Fellow, Department of Linguistics, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University. He began as a Research Fellow in Linguistics from 29 April 1969, and was promoted to Fellow and Senior Fellow before retiring from the ANU in 1997. Prior to taking up linguistics Dutton was an Education Officer in the Administration of Papua and New Guinea. His many books include studies on Papuan languages.

Lal, Brij Vilash

  • Person
  • 1952 - 2021

Brij Vilash Lal was born in the village of Tabia, on the island of Vanua Levu. He received his tertiary education at the University of the South Pacific, the University of British Columbia and the Australian National University. He joined the Australian National University in 1990 working in the Department of Pacific History, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies. His prior teaching posts in World and Pacific History were held at the universities of the South Pacific, Hawaii in Manoa, and Papua New Guinea. Lal was a member of the Fiji Constitution Review Commission whose report forms the basis of Fiji's constitution; Founding Editor of 'The Contemporary Pacific: A Journal of Island Affairs,' (Honolulu) and of 'Conversations,' (Canberra); Editor, The Journal of Pacific History; Chairman, Pacific Manuscript Bureau; Founding Director of The Centre for the Contemporary Pacific, ANU; Convenor, Division of Pacific and Asian History and former Chair of Faculty, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, ANU. He was elected Fellow of the Australian Humanities Academy in 1996. He is currently Professor of Pacific and Asian History at the ANU College of Asia and the Pacific.

Moran, Patrick Alfred Pierce (P. A. P.)

  • Person
  • 14 July 1917 - 19 September 1988

Patrick Moran was appointed foundation Professor of Statistics in the Research School of Social Sciences on 1 January 1951. He had studied chemistry, mathematics and physics at the University of Sydney, Cambridge University and Oxford University, and worked on rocketry and applied physics projects during World War II. He retired in 1982 but remained at ANU as Emeritus Professor working on the application of statistical methods and epidemiological methods to psychiatry. He was a Fellow of the Royal Society, a Fellow of the Academy of Science and was awarded the Lyle Medal for outstanding research accomplishments in mathematics.

Manfred Pastoral Holding

  • Corporate body
  • 1884 -

William Taylor (1818-1903) purchased nine runs, over around a decade from 1867, to form ‘Manfred’ Station. In 1867, he purchased the runs of Miparo of Manfred East and Miparo of Manfred West from Izett Stewart. In 1869, it was recorded that he had purchased Kilfera Block A from Charles Ryan. In 1876, Kilfera Block B, Kilfera Block E and Kilfera Block G runs were transferred to Taylor from James Graham. In the same year, Taylor obtained Darnick run, forfeited by Thomas Tenner for non-payment of rent; Kasserhill forfeited by Matthew Palmer and; Eildon run forfeited by J. H. Wheelwright.

‘Manfred’ Station’s ‘Kilfera blocks’ were four of 17 (blocks A-Q), which were originally taken up by Charles Ryan (1818-1898), of the Melbourne stock and station agents’ firm of Ryan and Hammond, as part of his ‘Kilfera’ Station. The Ballarat Star of 16 November 1864 reported:

A number of drays laden with stores, tools, and necessaries for the establishment of a back country station, belonging to Mr Ryan, of Ryan and Hammond, crossed the river [Murray] this week for the Kilfera (new) blocks, between the Lachlan and Darling.

‘Kilfera’ was named after Ryan’s birth place in County Kilkenny, Ireland and it was his second ‘Kilfera’ Station. His first was on the Broken River near Benalla in Victoria, which he took up in the early 1840s in partnership with John Atkins, and sold in 1846. Charles Ryan’s daughter was artist Ellis Rowan (1848-1922) - Christened Marian Ellis Ryan - famous for her paintings of Australian and New Guinean flowers and birds.

The establishment of ‘Manfred’ Station is sometimes incorrectly attributed to George Peter Desailly (1823-1876). George took up ‘Ticehurst’ Station in the Lachlan District that included Miparo of Manfred run, which appears to be the source of the confusion. ‘Manfred’ Station is in the Darling District and many kilometres to the west of ‘Ticehurst’. Further adding to the confusion; ‘Kajuligah’ Station, immediately north of ‘Ticehurst’, includes Miparo of Manfred East run and ‘Manfred’ Station also includes Miparo of Manfred East run.

William Taylor (1818-1903) was born in Glasgow, Scotland and arrived at Port Phillip in 1840. Soon after his arrival, he purchased a sheep-run on the Moorabool River, around 32 kilometres from Geelong. In 1844, Taylor and Dugald Macpherson took up 206 000 acres (83 366 hectares) of land in the Wimmera, near the present Victorian towns of Horsham and Nhill. The holding was subdivided in 1848 with Taylor naming his portion ‘Longerenong’. Dugald Macpherson worked with his younger brother Peter, who in 1873 bought ‘Paika’ Station north of Balranald, in partnership with Robert Bruce Ronald (1831-1907).

In 1861, Taylor bought Euston Station (Pastoral Holding No. 221, consisting of Boomiaricool and Nowung runs) and [Back] Boomiaricool Station (Pastoral Holding No. 60), in the Lower Darling Squatting District, from Edmund Morey (1826-1913). In 1846, pioneer squatter Morey took up land called ‘Boomiaricool’ around the current village of Euston, on the River Murray opposite today’s Victorian town of Robinvale. Morey moved to the Darling Downs in Queensland following the sale. Morey recorded his life experiences in a series of 14 articles titled ‘Reminiscences of a pioneer in NSW’ that were published in the Sydney Mail between 30 October 1907 and 29 January 1908.

In addition to ‘Euston’, [Back] ‘Boomiaricool’ and ‘Manfred’ stations; Taylor also owned ‘Marma’ Station (Pastoral Holding No. 61, consisting of Marma and Mundonai runs) and had a half-share with John Bertram in ‘Garnpung’ Station (Pastoral Holding No. 157, consisting of Garnpung, East Tarcoola and East Tarcoola Block A runs). All of those properties are in the semi-arid area between the lower Lachlan – lower Murrumbidgee rivers and the Darling River; north of the River Murray, in SW NSW. At various times, Taylor also had interests in ‘Police Point’ (1848) now ‘Illilawa’, near Hay, ‘Moonbria’, ‘North Abbotsford’, ‘Salisbury Downs’, and ‘Bootra’ stations in NSW, and became a partner in ‘Darr River Downs’ in Queensland, in 1888.

Alexander Thomson Creswick (1853-1939) purchased ‘Manfred’ Station from the estate of William Taylor, in 1909. Alexander was born in Melbourne, Victoria, the son of Henry Creswick and his wife Jane. His father was a partner in the wine and spirits business of D. S. Campbell & Co. and made a fortune from liquor sales during the gold rush; between 1851 and 1858. Alexander commenced studies at Melbourne University in 1872 but reluctantly left after a year to manage Liewa Station, between the Edward and Wakool rivers, which his father bought from G. A. and P. Mein, in 1873.

In 1900, Following the death of James Tyson in 1898, Creswick purchased his Tupra-Juanbung complex (650 000 acres), near the Lachlan-Murrumbidgee ‘junction’, and soon after bought adjoining ‘Tarwong’ Station from the estate of Peter Tyson. In 1906, he bought Thomas E. ‘Old Tom’ Patterson’s huge ‘Ulonga’ Station (that included One Tree Plain) with a large frontage to the Lachlan River, below Booligal. In 1911, he purchased ‘Moolpa’ Station that joined his original Liewa Station, north of the Edward River. He also owned ‘Trida’ and ‘Conoble’ stations, east of ‘Manfred’ that he worked as one property. He appears to have purchased ‘Kilfera’ Station from Ben Chaffey, or became a partner with him in 1919.

Creswick became one of the largest individual sheep owners in the history of Australia. By 1924, with the backing of Goldsbrough Mort & Co. Ltd., he had bought and sold over 30 pastoral properties and was shearing over 400 000 sheep. His requirements for retaining properties were that they had river frontages, and access to railways so that he could move stock to some of his widely scattered relief stations whenever drought threatened. In addition to the properties mentioned, at various times, Chreswick also owned ‘Mooloomoon’, ‘Keri Keri’, ‘Gunbar’, ‘Chilichil’, ‘Fairview’, ‘Yarrara’, ‘Coppabella’, ‘Merribindinyah’, ‘Arthursleigh’, ‘Bedford Park’, ‘Combogolong’, ‘Barham’, ‘Bullagreen’ and ‘Collaroy’, in NSW. In Victoria, he had ‘Bumbang’, near Robinvale, ‘Strathvean’, ‘Fernside’, ‘Bolinda Park’ and ‘The Nook’ Stud. In Queensland, he held at one time ‘Coongoola’, near Cunnamulla, ‘Keeroongooloo’, ‘Cooluliah’, ‘Tomoo’ and ‘St Helens’. He was also a director of the Bank of Victoria and Carlton Brewery, and from around 1900, bred hundreds of race horses.

Benjamin ‘Ben’ Chaffey (1876-1937) purchased ‘Manfred’ Station from A. T. Creswick in 1923. ‘Manfred’ was worked in conjunction with adjacent ‘Kilfera’ Station (purchased from Ralph Sadlier Falkiner in 1918) as Chaffey & Co. After ‘Kilfera’ was sold in 1925, the business became Manfred Pastoral Company – Goldsbrough Mort & Co. Ltd. appeared to be a major shareholder in both companies. Chaffey had previously (1906) purchased ‘Garnpang’ station, which like ‘Manfred’, had once belonged to William Taylor.

Benjamin Chaffey was the son of George Chaffey, who with his uncle William Benjamin Chaffey, came to Australia at the end of the nineteenth century to established a major irrigation settlement on the River Murray near today’s Mildura, Victoria. Benjamin was born at Kingston, Ontario, Canada and came to Australia with his parents as a 10-year-old, in 1886.

Ben Chaffey was a pastoralist and held a number of sheep properties during his life. He was also a successful ‘colourful racing identity’. Two of his best-known race horses were Whittier and Manfred. In 1922, Whittier ran second in the Caulfield Guineas and won the Caulfield Cup a week later. Whittier repeated his victory in the Caulfield Cup in 1925 and Manfred won in 1926. Whittier and Manfred were also Victoria Derby winners in 1922 and 1925, respectively. Chaffey was a member of the Australian Club and many racing clubs, and in 1930 he was elected chairman of the Victoria Amateur Turf Club. He was also chairman of directors of United Distillers Pty. Ltd., a director of Goldsbrough, Mort & Co. Ltd., and managing director of Manfred Pastoral Company.

On death of Chaffey in 1937, ‘Manfred’ Station was taken over by Goldsbrough Mort and Co. Ltd. and run by that company - and its successor formed in 1962 - Elder Smith Goldsbrough Mort & Co. Ltd., until 1968.

‘Manfred’ was purchased by John ‘Jock’ and Kerry Harris in 1968.

Alroy Downs Station

  • Corporate body
  • c. 1913 -

The property of Alroy Downs Station was established in 1878 by W Lamb. It was subsequently bought in 1914 by J C H Schmidt of Goolburra, Queensland. Its first manager was F Story who commenced duties in 1914. From 1934 to 1936, Schmidt's son Rudolf managed the property. The station remained owned by the family company and was later run by Trevor Schmidt, who was also managing director of The Australian Agricultural Company from 1974 to 1988. It was bought in early 2004 by Peter Sherwin and later sold to Sterling Buntine in March 2008.

Capell, Arthur

  • Person
  • 1902 - 1986

Arthur Capell was born in Sydney on 28 March 1902 and attended North Sydney Boys High School before entering the University of Sydney in 1919 and graduating in 1922. He subsequently taught at several boys' school in the Sydney area and helped prepare some Latin and Greek primers. He was ordained in the Anglican Church in 1925 and remained for much of his life a devout parish priest while finding time for teaching and linguistic scholarship. He was a prolific publisher in both the clerical and linguistic fields.

In 1935 Capell began PhD studies at SOAS, University of London, under R. O. Winstedt, which he was awarded in 1937 for his linguistic history of south-eastern Papua. Noted fieldwork included time in the Kimberleys in 1938 with Howard Coate (a local medical worker) to study Australian Aboriginal languages. In 1945, Capell was appointed as a lecturer at the University of Sydney, where he remained until his retirement in 1962, although he continued to publish prolifically on Pacific and Australian Aboriginal languages until shortly before his death in 1986.

Capell's linguistic influences came from a number of sources. One of earliest being the English schoolmaster and linguist Sydney Ray, with whom he worked in the 1920s. He was also influenced by the work on Melanesian languages of R.H. Codrington and the work on Oceania of Renward Brandsetter and Otto Dempwolf. As Peter Newton has noted: 'Their pioneering works inspired Capell to formulate his own theories on the genetic relationships between regional languages, the affinity between language and population movements, and suitable methods of modelling earlier language forms.'

Burton, John

  • Person
  • 1953 -

As a Principal Research Fellow at the Centre for Social Responsibility in Mining at the University of Queensland, Dr John Burton collected many documents relating to mining and areas of Papua New Guinea affected by mining. His primary research interests include social mapping and land ownership in Melanesia; development in the Pacific; social impacts of mining; governance and traditional politics in Papua New Guinea; Native Title research in Torres Strait and among rainforest Aboriginal groups in North Queensland; genealogy in Australia and Melanesia.

Elder Smith and Company

  • Corporate body
  • 1840 - 1962

Alexander Elder founded a firm of trading and commission agents in Adelaide, South Australia, in 1840. In 1853 it became the partnership of Elder and Company and in 1855 Elder Stirling and Company. After 1863 the firm became Elder Smith and company. In 1882 Eldera Wool and Produce Company Ltd was established to acquire the auctioneering business of the firm but this was merged with the rest of the company to form Elder Smith and Company in 1888. In 1903 Elder Shenton and Company Ltd was formed in Perth, Western Australia, and this was merged with the main company in 1918. In 1910 Elders Trustee and Executor Co Ltd was formed as a subsidiary and remained a separate company until 1963 when it was merged with the parent company. In 1913 Elders Metal and Mercantile Pty Ltd was formed in conjunction with a number of associated companies to take over the metal section of the business and to carry on operations as general merchants. The parent company took it over in 1914.

In 1962 Goldsbrough Mort and Company merged with Elder Smith and Company Limited to become Elder Smith Goldsbrough Mort Limited. This company continued until December 1981 when it merged with Henry Jones (IXL). The name of the new company changed to Elders IXL on 4 February 1982.

Marginson, Raymond David

  • Person
  • 1923 - 2019

Dr Ray Marginson AM was born in Melbourne on 13 December 1923 and graduated with a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Melbourne in 1946. While at university he was involved with the Socialist Study Group and later became a member and treasurer of the Victorian Fabian Society 1951-1953. He joined the Commonwealth Public Service on 20 July 1948 as a Research Clerk in the Central Administration Section of the Department of Transport. He was promoted to Executive Officer of the Australian Transport Advisory Council, and Personal Assistant to the Permanent Head of the Department in 1949. In 1950 Marginson joined the Postmaster General's Department as Research Officer then Senior Research Officer in the Director General's Office; Senior Finance Officer 1955-1959; Executive Officer in the Director General's Office 1959-1960; controller of the Finance Branch, Finance and General Services Division 1960-1964; Deputy Assistant Director General in the Finance and Accounting Branch of the Management Services Divisioin 1964-1966. In 1965 he was appointed Vice-Principal of the University of Melbourne, until his retirement in 1988. His many other roles have included Chairman of the Melbourne and Metropolitan Board of Works (MelbourneWater), President of the Museum of Victoria, a director of Geotrack International, Vice-Chairman of the Melbourne Theatre Company, member of the Howard Florey Institute and founding President of the Victorian Jazz Archive.

Paterson, Mervyn Silas

  • Person
  • 1925 - 2020

Professor Paterson joined the new Department of Geophysics in the Research School of Physical Sciences as a Senior Research Fellow under Professor JC Jaeger in June 1953, having been awarded a Bachelor of Engineering degree from the University of Adelaide in 1945 and a Doctor of Philosophy degree from Cambridge University in 1949. He had worked in the Division of Aeronautics at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation from 1945 to 1953. In 1956 he was appointed as a Reader in Crystal Physics and in 1987 as a Professor in the Research School of Earth Sciences, which had been separately established from the Research School of Physical Sciences in 1973. Paterson started the design and construction of the first High Pressure, High Temperature (HPT) rock deformation apparatus in 1960 but it was not until 1988 that Paterson Instruments Pty Ltd (jointly owned by Paterson, his wife Katalin and ANUTECH) was formed to manufacture the apparatus as a commercial activity. Over the next twenty years, 13 were manufactured and sold to universities and research institutions in the United Kingdom, France, the United States, Germany, Switzerland and China. Paterson retired in 1990 and worked as a consultant to Australian Scientific Instruments which took over Paterson Scientific Instruments Pty Ltd in the mid-1990s.

Hughes, Philip

  • Person

Philip Hughes worked full time as the Kuk project’s geoarchaeologist from 1974 to 1977 while at ANU. From 1985–1991, while at University of Papua New Guinea (UPNG), working with colleagues and students, he undertook research into soil erosion and catchment and swamp hydrology at Kuk aimed at further understanding the site’s geoarchaeology and human impact on soil erosion in the catchment from the late Pleistocene to the present.

Christensen, Ole A.

  • Person
  • - 1974

Ole Christensen completed his BA in 1970 and his MA in 1972, at the Department of Archaeology at the University of Calgary. After field work in South America, he came to the ANU as a PhD scholar in 1972, and worked for the Department of Prehistory's project at Kuk in the upper Wahgi valley, led by Dr Jack Golson. Christensen was involved in the study of the agricultural history of the area, especially scrutinizing resource utilization near the site of the Department's excavations at Kuk. Ole Christensen died, aged 29, in a car accident on 16 December 1974.

Weiner, James F

  • Person
  • -2020

James F Weiner received his PhD in Anthropology from the Australian National University in 1984. He has conducted field work among the Foi of Papua New Guinea and has written several books on their myth and social structure, their poetry and geography, and their myth in relation to psychoanalytic theory. He taught at the ANU, University of Manchester and was Professor at the University of Adelaide 1994-1998. In 1998 he became a full-time consultant anthropologist.

Results 1 to 100 of 1664