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Martin, Ross Murdoch

  • Person
  • 1929 -

Professor Ross Martin was a student and teacher of trade unions. He has taught at La Trobe University, Melbourne for forty years and is Emeritus Professor, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, School of Social Sciences at La Trobe University. He is author of Trade Unions in Australia (Penguin Books, 1975).

O'Dea, Raymond John

  • Person
  • 1927 - 1973

Raymond O'Dea was an industrial relations officer who enrolled as a PhD scholar at the Australian National University in June 1965. The title of his thesis was 'The negotiation and adjudication of secondary wages in Commonwealth Arbitration with case studies in non-manual groups'. One of the case studies was the Metropolitan Daily Newspapers Award case of 1966. O'Dea authored a number of books on arbitration and industrial relations including Industrial Relations in Australia (Sydney: West Publishing Corporation, 1965).

Origlass, Nicholas

  • Person
  • 1908 - 1996

Nicholas (Nick) Origlass, trade unionist and politician, was born in 1908 at Woodstock, North Queensland. In 1942 he became a delegate for the Federated Ironworkers' Association (FIA) at Mort's Dock, Balmain, Sydney. He was a central figure, along with Issy Wyner and others, in the Balmain ironworker's strike of 1945. He joined the Australian Labor Party and was elected to Leichhardt Council in 1958. He was expelled from the ALP ten years later but was successful in being elected Mayor of Leichhardt in 1971 as an Independent Labor candidate. As mayor, Origlass championed public participation or "Open Council" in the Leichhardt Council. Origlass retired in 1995 and died in Sydney on 17 May 1996.

Metal Manufactures Limited

  • Corporate body
  • 1916 - 1989

Metal Manufactures Limited was incorporated in Victoria and established in 1916 by the Mt Morgan Company, the Mt Lyell Company, the Hampden-Cloncurry Company and British Insulated & Helsby Cables Ltd. The company's principal shareholder was BICC Ltd, a British company. Metal Manufactures Ltd and its subsidiary companies Cable Makers Australia Pty Ltd and Austral Bronze Crane Copper Ltd were manufacturers of insulated and non-insulated electric cables for energy and communications; copper and brass tubes for plumbing and engineering; plastic pipe for water supply, drainage and irrigation; polyurethane products; and distribution of electrical products for electrical contractors. The company was deregistered in 1989.

Pickering, Anne

  • Person

Anne Pickering was active in the Australian East Timor Association (ACT) and other similar organisations.

Graziers Limited

  • Corporate body
  • c. 1949 - c. 1966

Graziers Limited was a pastoral company in Kingston, Australian Capital Territory.

Warrah Station

  • Corporate body
  • 1833 – 1972

Warrah was acquired by the Australian Agricultural Company in 1833 and was originally managed by W Telfer 1832-1836. In 1864 under the new General Superintendent, E C Merewether, and the Warrah Manager, Samuel Craik, the Australian Agricultural Company began development of the Warrah Estate for sheep breeding and invested heavily in wells, bores and fencing. The Warrah Estate was divided into two sections: East Warrah (122,600 acres) and West Warrah/Windy (127,000 acres). In 1912, 1923 and after World War II areas of land on the Warrah Estate were sold and resumed by the New South Wales Government due to closer settlement movements. The Warrah homestead and adjoining areas in The Highlands and south east corner were sold in 1972.

Union Pastoral Investments Limited

  • Corporate body
  • 1950 – 1976

The company was incorporated in the United Kingdom and formed by the Australian Agricultural Company (AACo)and the Peel River Land & Mineral Company Ltd in March 1950 to acquire the whole issued share capital in Connor, Doherty & Durack Pty Ltd. This included the acquisition of Auvergne Station (Northern Territory); Newry Station (Northern Territory); Argyle Downs (Western Australia). After the control of the AACo was transferred to Australia in 1975, Union Pastoral Investments Ltd became a wholly owned subsidiary of the AACo and was registered as an Australian proprietary company in 1976.

The Gulf Cattle Company Proprietary Limited

  • Corporate body
  • c. 1913 - c. 1996

The company was registered in New South Wales on 27 April 1928. The Gulf Cattle Company owned Brunette Downs station (Northern Territory, 1932-1958), Mount House and Glenroy (Western Australia). Several well known cattlemen were involved with this firm including Sir Rupert Clarke, Peter Baillieu and P J Kleberg from King Ranch, Texas. In 1951 the company pioneered the introduction of the Santa Gertrudis stud from Texas. In 1979 the Australian Agricultural Company acquired Auscattle Holdings Pty Ltd and The Gulf Cattle Co Pty Ltd as a subsidiary.

Plowman, David Henry

  • Person
  • c. 1914 -

David Henry Plowman was born in the old Mtarfa Military Hospital in Malta during wartime. He completed his doctorate on the role of employer associations in Australian wage determination at Flinders University of South Australia. From 1978 he lectured in the School of Economics, University of New South Wales. He was appointed Professor of Industrial Relations and Organisational Behaviour at the University of New South Wales from 1990-1992. He is a Winthrop Professor in the University of Western Australia (UWA) Business School. He was the Foundation Director of the Graduate School of Management at UWA from 1993 to 1999.

ANU Department of Demography

  • University unit
  • 1952 - 1990

The Department of Demography, Research School of Social Sciences was established in 1952, with WD Borrie as its head and later Chair in Demography in 1957. From the 1960s the Department broadened its focus on the demography of Australia to also focus on the demography of developing countries and in the sociology of international migration. From 1970 to 1988, the Department was headed by Jack Caldwell, who focussed the Department on South and Southeast Asia, and West Africa. In 1990 the Research School of Social Sciences moved from a departmental to a divisional arrangement. The Department was replaced by the Demography Program in the Division of Demography and Sociology, and was headed by Gavin Jones.

Charles L Griffith and Company

  • Corporate body
  • c. 1878 - 1908

The company was established by Charles L Griffith who arrived in Albury in 1878 and set up his firm of stock and station agents at Dean Street, Albury. Charles L Griffith & Co held live stock sales regularly in Albury, Wagga Wagga, Wodonga, Corowa, Tallangatta and Corryong. The company was purchased by Dalgety and Co Ltd and its Albury sub-branch was opened on 1 April 1908. Following the purchase of the company in 1908, two sons of Charles L Griffith, Charles H and L C Griffith worked in Dalgety and Co Ltd's Albury branch.

Dalgety, Gore and Company

  • Corporate body
  • 1847 - 1851

In 1846 Frederick Gonnerman Dalgety established himself as a partner in Dalgety Borrodaile & Gore. When Borrodaile retired in 1847, Dalgety gave his name to the reorganised firm, Dalgety Gore & Co.

E Whiteaway and Company

  • Corporate body
  • c. 1917 - c. 1944

The firm of export merchants, E WHITEAWAY & CO, began as a partnership between Edward George Lang Whiteaway, Edward Dudley Carpenter, George Stanley Proud, and Edward John Whiteaway. On 18 August 1944 George Stanley Proud retired and the firm was reorganised as E Whiteaway & Co.

Reilly, Betty Mary

  • Person
  • 1910 – c. 2003

Betty Reilly was born on 15 November 1910. She married Frederick John Reilly in 1936 and was later divorced in 1948. Reilly joined the St Kilda Branch of the Communist Party of Australia in 1937. She volunteered to assist the Newtown strike committee during the 1941 textile strike. She then worked at Bonds mill in Camperdown but was subsequently sacked; and found work as a doffer at Australian Woollen Mills, when she began organising workers into the Textile Workers’ Union. Reilly was appointed shop steward and was active in the 1943 Sydney textile strike but (reluctantly) supported the CPA’s call to end strike action. She became secretary of the CPA Women’s Committee. Active in Union of Australian Women; employed by Women’s International Democratic Federation, Berlin, 1952-55; and remained active in the women’s movement and peace movement in Australia. Her published articles include “A Stitch in time: experiences in the rag trade” (Australian Left Review, no. 82 September 1982) and “Knowing we were right” (Australian Left Review, no. 85 Spring 1983).

Ridgway, Bronwyn

  • Person

Bronwyn Ridgway is the National Coordinator, Communications and Strategies with the Liquor, Hospitality and Miscellaneous Union. She was Assistant Secretary of the New South Wales Nurses’s Association, 1982-1987; and Secretary of the Combined Unions Against Racism (CUAR) from 1983-1987.

Roach, Edward Charles

  • Person
  • 1909 -1997

Edward Charles (Ted) Roach was born in Coledale in 1909 and spent his youth on the Newcastle coalfields. From 1928 to 1931 Roach travelled throughout northern New South Wales and Queensland searching for work and was active in organising the unemployed. He joined the Communist Party of Australia in Mackay in 1931 and became secretary of the local branch of the Unemployed Workers’ Movement (UWM). Roach returned to Newcastle and the coalfields area at the end of 1931 and became district secretary of the UWM and the Militant Minority Movement; and secretary of the May Day Committee from 1931-1934. In April 1934 he was admitted into the Newcastle Branch of the Waterside Workers Federation (WWF) and transferred to the South Coast Branch in 1936. In November 1938, Roach organised Port Kembla wharfies in the Dalfram dispute when wharfies refused to load a ship with cargo of pig iron destined for Japan. Roach became Assistant General Secretary of the WWF from 1942-1967. At the end of WWII Roach was involved in the WWF black ban on Dutch ships in support of Indonesian independence. In 1949 at the time of the miners’ strike Roach spent six weeks in prison along with Jim Healy, after he was found to be in contempt of the Commonwealth Court of Conciliation and Arbitration when he withdrew union funds to pay strike pay. In 1951, during the Basic Wage Case, he was found to be in contempt again and spent 9 months and 18 days in Long Bay prison.

Ryan, Edna Minna

  • Person
  • 1904 - 1997

Edna Ryan was born in Pyrmont, New South Wales on 15 December 1904. Edna was a feminist and labour activist credited with campaigns for equal pay for women, maternity leave and work-based childcare, and campaigned around the negative impacts of enterprise bargaining and compulsory superannuation on low paid women workers. Ryan served as a Labor Alderman on Fairfield Municipal Council from 1956-1965, becoming the first female Deputy Mayor in NSW in 1957. In the 1960s she became the first woman president of the Sydney branch of the Municipal Employees’ Union. She was a founding member of the Women’s Electoral Lobby (WEL) in 1972 and in 1974 presented a breakthrough submission to the Arbitration Commission to grant women the same minimum wage as men. In 1984 she published Two Thirds of a Man: Women and Arbitration in New South Wales 1902-08. The following year she was awarded an honorary Doctorate of Letters by the University of Sydney, and awarded again by Macquarie University in 1995. In the 1990s Ryan focussed on the implications of enterprise bargaining for women including writing articles, leading delegations to Ministers’ offices and briefing a barrister, Sylvia Winters, to represent WEL at the National Wage Case. Edna Ryan died in Canberra on 10 February 1997.

Winters, Sylvia

  • Person

Sylvia Winters was a barrister at the New South Wales Bar. Winters worked as a barrister for the Women’s Electoral Lobby (WEL) in 1992-1993 in the National Wage Case engaged on their campaign over the implications of enterprise bargaining on women.

Saffin, Norman William

  • Person
  • 1916 - 2002

Norman William Saffin started as a teacher in Cobden after growing up in the Western plains in the Mortlake area, and radicalised by the Spanish Civil War. He completed his MA from the University of Melbourne, 1954. He wrote on the labour movement and contributed to Labour History, journal of the Australian Society for the Study of Labour History (ASSLH).

Scott, James B

  • Person
  • ? - 1970

James B Scott was born in Scotland and became a political activist involved in the communist, socialist and Australian labour movement from the early 20th century. Scott joined the Workers International Industrial Union on his return to Australian from the USA in 1916, and later the Communist Party of Australia. He became an organiser in the Workers International Industrial Union. Scott died on September 1970.

Simakoff, Alan

  • Person
  • 1946 -

Alan Simakoff was president of the ACT Branch of the Administrative and Clerical Officers’ Association (ACOA) in the 1970s until 1980. He was also a member of the Federal Executive Committee of the union and of the Council of Commonwealth Public Service Organisations (CCPSO), from 1975, known as the Council of Australian Government Employees Organisations (CAGEO). In the 1980s he was a member of the Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) Migrant Workers Committee. Simakoff was Director of the Commonwealth Public Service (CPS) Credit Union Co-operative Limited and the Chief Executive Officer of the Federation of Ethnic Communities’ Council of Australia (FECCA) until March 1997.

Sudlow, Richard

  • Person
  • 1918 - 2001

Richard Sudlow joined the Orient Line in 1934 as a junior clerk in the Perth WA Branch. He was transferred to the Australian Head Office in Sydney in 1953. After periods in the Passenger Superintendent and Freight Departments Sudlow was appointed Personal Assistant to John Bates, Assistant Manager , Sydney. Bates was later appointed General Manager in Australia of Orient Line. In 1960, Orient Line and P & O merged and Sudlow was made Sydney Manager, a position he held until retiring in 1972.

Thorne, Phillip T

  • Person
  • 1908 - 1988

Phil Thorne was born in Melbourne in 1908 and was employed as a solicitor’s clerk until 1927. Following a period of farming in Queensland, he became a clerk in the offices of Jack Wishart, a Sydney solicitor interested in social causes. In late 1930 he joined the Friends of the Soviet Union and was a member of International Class-War Prisoners Aid. Thorne was editor of Labour Defender, the journal of the International Labour Defence, and in 1936 was elected Secretary of the Spanish Relief Committee, an organisation formed in Sydney on 26 August 1936 by the Movement Against War and Fascism and the International Labour Defence. Thorne was active in the SRC until it disbanded at the outbreak of World War II.

Tracy, Augustine Joseph

  • Person
  • 1903 - 1983

Augustine Joseph Tracy was a member of the Australian Postal Electricians Union. He was involved in the Tracy v. Bradley case heard in the Supreme Court of New South Wales in 1936 covering a defamation case arising over a secret report on him. Tracy was the Plaintiff in this case and Frank Randell Bradley, the Defendant.

Tsokhas, Kosmas

  • Person
  • 1952 -

Dr Kosmas Tsokhas was a Senior Research Fellow in Economic History in the Research School of Social Sciences at the Australian National University. In 1975, he graduated Bachelor of Arts with first class honours at the University of Melbourne, where he was awarded a Master of Arts degree in 1979 and a Doctorate of Philosophy in 1983. While he undertook postgraduate research at the University of Melbourne, he was appointed Tutor, Senior Tutor and Temporary Lecturer. Dr Tsokhas first joined the Australian National University in 1983 as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Political Science in the Research School of Social Sciences and in 1986 he was appointed a Research Fellow in Economic History and then a Senior Research Fellow in 1990. He is an author of numerous books, articles, reviews and papers on political economy, economic history and cultural studies, including A Class Apart? Businessmen and Australian Politics 1960-1980 (Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1984); Beyond Dependence: Companies, Labour Processes and Australian Mining (Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1986); and Markets, Money and Empire: The Political Economy of the Australian Wool Industry (Melbourne University Press, Carlton, 1990).

Wilson, Mackenzie James

  • Person
  • 1915 – c. 2000

Mackenzie James Wilson joined the New Zealand & Australian Land Co in June 1934 as a jackeroo at the Weilmoringle Station. In 1939 he became an overseer and in 1945 manager of the station. In 1951 Wilson was transferred to the Sydney Office to become the Assistant Pastoral Inspector and then Pastoral Inspector in 1953. Sometime later he was appointed Assistant General Manager and General Manager in Australia in 1964. He became a Director in 1967. In 1969 the New Zealand & Australian Land Co was taken over by Dalgety and New Zealand Loan Ltd. Following the merger, Wilson was appointed Assistant General Manager of Dalgety’s Pastoral Division, but restructuring of the Division he was offered to leave. After his resignation on 4 October 1970, Wilson worked as a private pastoral consultant to the Northern Cattle Co Ltd, M L C Ltd and Australian Mutual Provident Society (AMP) and other companies. In October 1973 Wilson joined AMP as Assistant to their Pastoral Investment Manager and participated in the Tea Gardens Land Project in 1974-1975. He stayed with AMP until 25 July 1975 when he joined the Australian Pastoral Company Ltd, and appointed as General Manager in October 1975. Australian Pastoral Company Ltd was a fully owned subsidiary of the Australian Continental Resources Ltd.

Wisdom, Evan Alexander

  • Person
  • 1869 - 1945

Evan Alexander Wisdom was born on 29 September 1869 at Inverness, Scotland. At the age of 22 he migrated to Western Australia and went as a prospector to Southern Cross on the Yilgarn goldfield. In 1892 he joined the goldfield at Coolgardie and opened a store. He then joined the goldfield at Kalgoorlie acquiring extensive mining interests and establishing the Exchange Hotel. In October 1901 Wisdom was appointed lieutenant in the Western Australian Mounted Infantry and in 1908 was brigade major of the Western Australian Infantry Brigade. He was mayor of Cottesloe in 1908-13 and member for Claremont in the Legislative Assembly in 1911-1917. On the onset of war in 1914 Wisdom was in charge of the Karrakatta training camp. He transferred to the Australian Imperial Forces in March 1915 and served in the Gallipoli campaign and the Western Front commanding the 18th Infantry Battalion, 7th Infantry Brigade and the “Liaison Force”. Wisdom returned to Australia in December 1919 and on 21 March 1921 he succeeded Brigadier General Thomas Griffiths as military administrator of the Mandated Territory of New Guinea. His first task was to convert the administration to a civil one and on 9 May 1921 a civil government was established and Wisdom became a civil administrator. In 1930, at the onset of the depression, the fall in copra prices and gold production led to reduced government activities. In March 1932 Wisdom opened the Bulolo Gold Dredging Co. After eleven years as administrator, Wisdom left Rabaul in June 1932 and retired in June 1933. He returned to his gold mining ventures and travelled between Melbourne and Perth. Wisdom died in Melbourne on 7 December 1945.

Zaglas, Con

  • Person

Con Zaglas was an organiser with the Victorian Branch of the Vehicle Builders Employee Federation with particular involvement and responsibility for Australian Motor Industries Ltd.

Australian Sheep Farms Company Limited

  • Corporate body
  • 1924 - 1937

The Australian Sheep Farms Company Limited was promoted at the end of 1924 by R H Caird, of the Australian Mercantile Land & Finance (AML&F) Company, to purchase three New South Wales properties: Dunlop, Toorale and Nocoleche, to which Ringorah was later added. The new company was floated in London and backed by the same Directors as the AML&F Company. The drought in 1927, along with further collapse in wool prices and dry seasons, reduced the company's profits and it went into voluntary liquidation in December 1937.

Bagot, Shakes and Lewis Limited

  • Corporate body
  • 1888 - 1924

The firm was established on 6 November 1888 and its members included John Lewis, William Lister, James Shakes, and George Wallwall Bagot. It became a large pastoral firm with company premises in King William Street, Adelaide, and branches in many towns. The company was purchased by Goldsbrough, Mort and Company in June 1924 and went into liquidation in December that year.

University Education Committee

  • University unit
  • 2001 -

The University Education Committee was formed in 2001, along with the Research Committee and Information Strategy Committee to work directly with the new peak academic body, the Academic Board. The role of the Education Committee is to advise on and implement the education policies of the University relating to all award and non-award programs of study.

United Furniture Trade Society of New South Wales

  • Trade union
  • 1886 - 1909

The United Furniture Trade Society of New South Wales was registered under the New South Wales Trade Union Act 1881 on 28 June 1886. The Society joined other state societies to form the Federated Furnishing Trade Societies of Australasia in 1909, though the NSW Society did not lodge an application for cancellation of its registration until 1916.

Australasian Steamship Owners' Federation

  • Industry association
  • 1899 - c. 1986

The Australasian Steamship Owners Federation was established in September 1899 after its predecessor, the Victorian Steamship Owners' Association, was formally wound up. The federation modelled itself on the Shipping Federation, London, and its founding members were Huddart Parker & Co, McIlwraith McEachern & Co, the Union Steamship Company of New Zealand, the Australasian Steam Navigation Company, and the Adelaide Steamship Company. By 1922 branches were established in Sydney, Brisbane, Adelaide and Fremantle. The Newcastle branch was established in 1928. In 1986 the Australian National Maritime Association was formed out of the ASOF.

Australian Population Assocation

  • Association
  • 1980 -

The Australian Population Association was formed in 1980 and is located at the Australian National University. It is governed by a National Council which plans national activities and co-ordinates Regional Groups. The APA sponsors the WD Borrie Prize to promote the study of population-related issues.

Australian Council of Professions

  • Professional association
  • 1970 -

The Australian Council of Professions was formed on 23 October 1970 at a meeting convened by the New South Wales Council of Professions with representatives of similar councils formed in Victoria, Queensland and South Australia (plus representation by individuals from Western Australia). A constitution for the Council was approved on 12 November 1971. On 16 November 1994 the Council was incorporated as a public company limited by guarantee. At the time of incorporation the then existing Councils of Professions in Victoria, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania and the ACT became Branches of the Council with the NSW Council of Professions opting to retain its autonomy. In 2002 the Council registered the business name Professions Australia in every State and Territory to become officially the Australian Council of Professions Limited trading as Professions Australia. For most purposes the organisation now goes by the name of Professions Australia.

Australian Hotels Association

  • Industry association
  • 1839 -

The Australian Hotels Association was founded in 1839 with branches established in each state and territory: Tasmanian branch in 1839, Victorian branch in 1843, South Australian branch in 1871, New South Wales branch in 1873, Queensland branch in 1885, Western Australian branch in 1897, Northern Territory in 1979 and an Australian Capital Territory branch of the AHA in 1994. The New South Wales Branch traces its origins back to 1873 with the formation of the Licensed Victuallers' Association of New South Wales. A second association, the City and Provincial Victuallers' Association was formed in May 1880, but wound up in May 1882. A third association, the Amalgamated Licensed Victuallers' Association was formed in 1885. In 1889 the United Licensed Victuallers Association (ULVA) of New South Wales was formed to consolidate the interests of hotelkeepers. In 1959 the ULVA became known as the NSW Branch of the Australian Hotels Association. In 1960, AHA (NSW) obtained registration as an industrial union of employers and in 1961 established its own trading company.

Lever & Kitchen Pty Ltd

  • Corporate body

In 1962 Unilever amalgamated its two major soap marketing companies, J Kitchen & Sons Pty Ltd of Melbourne and Lever Brothers Pty Ltd of Sydney, to form Lever & Kitchen Pty Ltd. Lever & Kitchen became Unilever Australia’s major marketing company for branded soaps, synthetic detergents and allied products. Prior to 1962 Unilever’s production of detergents in Australia had taken place at Balmain (Lever Brothers) and Port Melbourne (J Kitchen & Sons). After 1965 Balmain became the sole manufacturing centre for all detergents, toilet preparations, edible oils and cooking fats - each having its own separate factory. Consumer demand for Lever & Kitchen’s products increased steadily and, as there was no space for further expansion at the Balmain site, a decision was made to buy land at Minto and to erect a new factory there. Initially this was for the manufacture and packaging of washing powders and, in 1979, Lever & Kitchen began production of its powder products, including Omo, Omomatic, Surf, Drive, Softly and Rinso from the new factory at Minto. As new or additional plant was needed for other products in the company’s range, in 1987, another factory was opened at Minto to manufacture liquid detergents (washing up liquids such as Sunlight Liquid, Lux Liquid and Kit), fabric softener (Comfort), floor cleaner (Handy Andy) and scourers (Jif and Vim). Also manufactured at Minto were toilet soaps (Lux Toilet Soap, Sunlight Toilet Soap), laundry soap (Sunlight) and flakes (Lux Flakes). The Balmain site was sold in 1988 and many of the production lines were transferred directly to Port Melbourne. By 1989, after renovations at the old John Kitchen detergent building at Port Melbourne, the factory was responsible for the production of all Lever & Kitchen soaps.In 1989 the home and personal care business of Lever and Kitchen Pty Ltd merged with Rexona Pty Ltd to form L&K:Rexona with its Head Office located at North Rocks, Sydney.The company changed name in 1993 to Lever Rexona and, in 2000, merged with Unilever Foods to form what was to become known as Unilever Australasia.

Business and Professional Women’s Club of Canberra

  • Professional association
  • 1954 - c. 1987

The inaugural meeting of the Business and Professional Women’s Club of Canberra was held at the Hotel Civic on 9 April 1954. Office bearers elected at the Annual General Meeting on 12 July were President Betty Jackson, Vice-Presidents Mrs Chandler and Kitty Peisley, Secretary Dr M Granger. Other women prominent in the early years were Jean and Isabel Sheaffe, Sister Sylvia Curley, Joan Binns, Heather Shakespeare, and Margaret Timpson (President 1970-1971, 1985). The objectives of the Club were to promote the interests of business and professional women, to raise and maintain standards of education and training of women, and to work for the removal of sex discrimination in remuneration, opportunities for women in employment and selection for office. Representations were made to the government regarding equal pay, equal employment and training opportunities, superannuation, and family law reform. Among speakers to monthly meetings were politicians, diplomats, and academics on current political and international affairs. Meetings also provided opportunities for networking and social activities. The Canberra club also sponsored prizes for nurses, stenographers and book-keepers, and scholarships for young women completing year 10 in secondary school. The Canberra club was initially under the NSW-ACT Division of the Australian Federation of Business and Professional Women, which is affiliated with the International Federation of Business Women, which is associated with the United Nations. A separate ACT Division was formed in 1987 with the original Canberra club and two new clubs in Woden and Belconnen which first met in 1985.

Adelaide Chamber of Commerce Incorporated

  • Industry association
  • 1839 - 1972

Three years after the foundation of the Colony of South Australia in 1836, the Adelaide Chamber of Commerce was formed. Its first two presidents were Jack Barton Hack and John Morphett. In 1907 the Chamber had 133 members and its management was entrusted to a General Committee of 18 members. In 1972 the Chamber merged with the South Australian Chamber of Manufactures Incorporated to form the Chamber of Commerce & Industry South Australia Inc (1972 - 1993).

Association of Professional Engineers, Australia

  • Trade union
  • 1946 - 1991

The Association of Professional Engineers, Australia was founded in 1946 and registered in Victoria on 10 November 1948. The organisation covered all employed professional engineers or persons who had qualifications satisfying the Institute of Engineers of Australia. In 1991 the Association amalgamated with the Association of Professional Scientists of Australia to form the Association of Professional Engineers & Scientists, Australia.

Australian Council of Furniture Manufacturers

  • Industry association
  • c. 1947 - 1989

Australian Council of Furniture Manufacturers was established prior to being formerly registered in Queensland in 1986. The Association represented the Furniture Manufacturers of Australia comprising the Queensland Guild of Furniture Manufacturers, the New South Wales Guild of Furniture Manufacturers, the South Australia Guild of Furniture Manufacturers, the Western Australia Guild of Manufacturers, the Tasmanian Guild of Manufacturers and the Victorian Guild of Manufacturers Ltd. It was restructured in 1989 as the Furniture Manufacturers Association of Australia Ltd which registered in the Australian Capital Territory on 13 September 1989.

Australian Economic Association

  • Association
  • 1887 - c. 1898

The Australian Economic Association was founded in 1887 and held its inaugural meeting on 15 April 1887. Arthur Duckworth was the Association's first secretary and editor of its journal, The Australian Economist.

Australian Federal Police Association

  • Trade union
  • 1982 -

The Australian Federal Police Association (AFPA) was established on 29 July 1982 after a merger of the Commonwealth Police Officers' Association and the Federal Police Association, the body representing the industrial interests of the Australian Capital Territory police force. The AFPA is a registered organisation under the Conciliation and Arbitration Act 1904 (as amended) and is affiliated with the Police Federation of Australia and New Zealand. The Association consists of state and territory branches.

Australian Federation of Medical Women

  • Professional association
  • 1927 -

The Australian Federation of Medical Women was formed in 1927, from existing associations of medical women in Victoria, New South Wales and South Australia, to promote and develop the formal practice of medicine among women. Internationally AFMW is affiliated with the Medical Women's International Association (MWIA).

Hairdressers and Wigmakers Employees' Union

  • Trade union
  • 1902 - c. 1982

The union was established in 1902 and registered under the Trades Union Act, 1881. It was affiliated to the New South Wales Branch of the Australian Labor Party from 1981-1982.

Australian Institute of Petroleum Limited

  • Industry association
  • 1976 -

The Australian Institute of Petroleum (AIP) was established in 1976 as an industry association and originally registered in Victoria. Its members comprise of companies involved in refining and/or marketing of petroleum.

Australian Theatrical and Amusement Employees Association

  • Trade union
  • 1910 - 1992

The Association represented theatrical and cinematic employees, outdoor sports ground staff and many in the television industry. It was originally known as the Australian Federated Stage Employees' Association in 1910, and underwent name changes to become the Australian Federated Theatrical Employees' Association in 1912, the Federated Theatrical & Amusement Employees' Association in 1914, and finally the Australian Theatrical & Amusement Employees' Association in 1915. In 1992 it amalgamated with the Australian Journalists' Association and the Actors' and Announcers' Equity Association to form the Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance.

Executors of the Estate of Thomas Sutcliffe Mort

  • Corporate body
  • 1878 - 1887

Thomas Sutcliffe Mort died in May 1878 at his home on the South Coast of New South Wales, Comerang House, Bodalla. By his will, dated 28 February 1878, he left his property to his wife and children, in trust for those under the age of 24. The Will appointed as Trustees his wife, Marianne Elizabeth Mort, his eldest son, James Laidley Mort and T. S. Mort's friends Benjamin Buchanan, Lesley G. Herring and Charles James Manning. Laidley Mort later renounced his Trusteeship. Marianne Elizabeth Mort continued to take an active interest in the affairs of the Estate for many years. She died on 7 October 1909.

Amalgamated Timber Workers' Union of Australia

  • Trade union
  • 1913 - 1918

In 1913 the federal division of the Federated Saw Mill, Timber Yard and General Wood Workers Employees' Association changed its name to the Amalgamated Timber Workers' Union of Australia. The earlier union had been registered federally in 1907 and had registered branches in Victoria from 1905, Adelaide 1906, New South Wales, Western Australia and Tasmania 1908. Although this union was deregistered in 1918 its members formed a new union, the Australian Timber Workers' Union, in the same year.

National Farmers' Federation

  • Peak council
  • 1979 -

The National Farmers' Federation (NFF) is the peak national body representing farmers and, more broadly, agriculture across Australia. It was formed in 1979 from the amalgamation of the Australian National Cattlemen's Council, the Australian Farmers' Federation, the Cattlemen's Union of Australia, the Australian Woolgrowers' and Graziers' Council, the Australian Wheatgrowers' Federation, the Australian Wool and Meat Producers' Federation, the Australian Vegetable Growers' Association and the Australian Seed Producers' Federation. Its first conference took place on Friday 20 July 1979, where Sir Donald Eckersley was elected inaugural President. Its current membership includes both State-based farmers' associations and national commodity councils, with agricultural companies as associate members.

Illawarra Coal Miners' Mutual Protective Association

  • Trade union
  • 1885 - c. 1901

The Illawarra Coal Miners' Mutual Protective Association was registered under the New South Wales Trade Union Act in December 1885. It was succeeded by the Illawarra Colliery Employees' Association formed in 1901.

Illawarra Colliery Employees' Association

  • Trade union
  • 1901 -1921

The Illawarra Colliery Employees' Association succeeded the Illawarra Coal Miners' Mutual Protective Association in 1901 and had lodges in Bellambi, Mount Pleasant, Mount Kembla, South Bulli, Woonoona, Corrimal, South Clifton, and Coledale. The Balmain Sinkers' Association (1901) was also identified as its Balmain Branch.

Administrative and Clerical Officers' Association, Commonwealth Public Service

  • Trade union
  • 1913 - 1989

The association was first registered in Victoria in 1913 under the name the Australian Commonwealth Public Service Clerical Association. The name was changed in 1919 to the Commonwealth Public Service Clerical Association and in 1956 to the Administrative & Clerical Officers' Association, Commonwealth Public Service. After a further change of name in 1982, this time to the Administrative & Clerical Officers' Association, Australian Government Employment, the union merged with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation Staff Union and the Australian Public Service Association so that, in 1989, it eventually became known as the Australian Public Sector & Broadcasting Union, Australian Government Employment.

West Moreton District Miners' Union

  • Trade union
  • 1902 - 1908

The union was officially registered on 17 July 1906 as the West Moreton District Miners' Union though it operated from at least 1902. It was succeeded by the Queensland Colliery Employees' Union which was registered on 5 November 1908.

Australian Public Sector and Broadcasting Union, Australian Government Employment

  • Trade union
  • 1989 - 1991

Created through an amalgamation of the Australian Public Service Association, the Administrative & Clerical Officers' Association, Australian Government Employment and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation Staff Union in 1989, the Australian Public Sector & Broadcasting Union, Australian Government Employment was reregistered in 1991 following a further amalgamation with the Meat Inspectors' Association.

Bread Carters' Industrial Federation of Australia

  • Trade union
  • 1905 - 1979

This union had its origins in the Bread Carters' Industrial Federal Union of Australia which was established in 1905. In 1916 the bread carters changed the name of their union to the Bread Carters' Industrial Federation of Australia when a federation of Victorian and South Australian Branches was formed. By 1934 there was a New South Wales Branch. In 1979 following an influx of members from the soon-to-be deregistered Baking Trade Employees' Federation of Australia, the union registered as the Bakery Employees' and Salesmen's Federation of Australia.

Building Trades Federation of Victoria

  • Peak council
  • 1914 - c. 1965

The Building Trades' Federation of Victoria was formed from the United Building Trades Council in 1914. It was a peak body which represented various unions connected with the building trade including: boiler makers (building section), bricklayers, builders' laborers, carpenters, masons, painters, plumbers, slaters and tilers, timber workers, tile layers, ironworkers and brick, tile and pottery workers.

Building Trades Guild of Victoria

  • Trade union
  • 1923 - 1925

The Guild was registered in 1923 and was dissolved in October 1925. It belonged to the Building Trades Federation of Victoria.

Federated Engine Drivers' and Firemen's Association of Australasia

  • Trade union
  • 1908 - 1992

The Federated Engine Drivers' and Firemen's Association of Australasia dates back to local engine drivers' unions on Australian goldfields but was not registered federally until 1908. Predecessors include the Newcastle Colliery Engine Drivers' Union (1889-1921), the Newcastle Crane Employees' Union (1893-1915), the Shore Engine Drivers' and Firemen's Union of New South Wales (1901-1908), the Steam Crane Engine Drivers' Society of New South Wales (1901-1910), the New England Engine Drivers' Association (amalgamated in 1908), the Amalgamated Engine Drivers' Association of Tasmania and the United Certificated Engine Drivers' Association of Victoria. It was deregistered in 1949 but formed again in 1950 under the same name. It was amalgamated with the Construction Forestry and Mining Employees' Union and the Operative Plasterers' and Plaster Workers' Federation of Australia in 1992 to form the Construction Forestry Mining and Energy Union. The union represented engine drivers and firemen, crane drivers, dynamo and boiler attendants, forklift drivers and plant operators in hospitals, abattoirs, dockyards, brickworks, mines, power stations and factories.

Meat Inspectors' Association, Australian Public Service

  • Trade union
  • 1918 - 1991

Formed originally in 1918 as the Meat Inspectors' Association, Commonwealth Public Service and renamed the Meat Inspectors' Association, Australian Public Service in 1974, the Union operated until 1991 when it became part of the Australian Public Sector and Broadcasting Union, Australian Government Employment.

Kong Chew Society

  • Association
  • c. 1850 -

Kong Chew Society was founded in Melbourne in the 1850s when Chinese first arrived in significant numbers during the 1850s gold rushes. It was founded as a welfare and mutual aid organisation for people mosts from Guangdong province. The Society was based in Little Bourke Street, Melbourne and still exists as a registered organisation.

Finance Sector Union

  • Trade union
  • 1991 -

The FSU was founded in July 1991 when the two main trade union players in the banking and insurance industries - the Australian Bank Employees' Union [ABEU] and the Australian Insurance Employee's Union [AIEU] voted to amalgamate. Three smaller unions also linked up: the AMP Society Staff Association, Trustee Companies Officers' Association and Wool Brokers' Staff Association. In March 1994, the FSU was further strengthened when the Commonwealth Bank Officers' Association [CBOA] joined with the FSU.

Operative Painters and Paperhangers' Society of South Australia

  • Trade union
  • c. 1890 - 1910

The society was in existence from at least 1890 and in 1892 led moves to form the Federated Building Trades Union with carpenters, plasterers and plumbers. In 1906 this union formally changed its name to the Painters and Decorators' Society of South Australia, and then became the South Australian branch of the Federated House and Ship Painters, Paperhangers and Decorators Association of Australasia in 1910.

Building Workers' Industrial Union of Australia

  • Trade union
  • 1945 - 1991

The Building Workers' Industrial Union of Australia formed from the Amalgamated Society of Carpenters and Joiners of Australia in 1945 but was deregistered in 1948. An anti-communist faction of the union established a new Amalgamated Society of Carpenters and Joiners in 1950 which eventually became part of the Australian Workers' Union. The Building Workers' Industrial Union formally reconstituted in 1962. Members of the Federated Bricklayers' Association of Australia (deregistered 1950) and the Slaters Tilers Shinglers and Roof Fixers Union of Australia (deregistered 1976) also joined. In 1991 the BWIU amalgamated with the timber unions to become the Australian Timber and Allied Industries Union and Building Workers' Industrial Union (ATAIU & BWIU) Amalgamated Union and to eventually be part of the Construction Forestry Mining and Energy Union in 1993.

Australian Society of Progressive Carpenters and Joiners

  • Trade union
  • 1912 - 1923

The Australian Society of Progressive Carpenters and Joiners formed as a separate union to the Amalgamated Society of Carpenters and Joiners of Australia in opposition to that union's affiliation with the British society. When the Amalgamated Society of Carpenters and Joiners became independent in 1917, the two Australian unions then amalgamated.

Australian Workers' Union

  • Trade union
  • 1905 -

The Australian Workers' Union, registered federally in 1905, initially sought to serve unskilled rural workers such as shearers and general labourers and eventually grew to be politically influential within the Australian Labor Party. Increasing in size as members from deregistered unions such as the South Australian United Laborers' Union and the Australian Carriers' Union were absorbed into the fold, the AWU postured itself as the 'One Big Union' of Australian trade unionism. In 1976 the union was reregistered following an amalgamation with the Wool and Basil Workers' Federation of Australia. The Union was again reregistered in 1988 when it merged with the Undertakers' Assistants and Cemetery Employees' Union. A final amalgamation in 1993 with Federation of Industrial Manufacturing and Engineering Employees brought about the AWU-FIME Amalgamated Union but it continues to be known as the Australian Workers' Union.

General Labourers' Union of Australasia

  • Trade union
  • 1891 - 1894

The impetus to form the General Labourers' Union of Australasia arose out of difficulties the Amalgamated Shearers' Union of Australasia faced in overcoming the effect non-unionised, unskilled labourers had in negating any strike action the shearers were resolved to undertake. This was particularly evident in the 1891 shearers' strike in Queensland. At the inaugural annual conference held in Adelaide on 9 February 1891 it was overwhelmingly voted by the ASU delegates present that this new General Labourers' Union be formed to provide union coverage for shedhands, so as 'to unite to a man and so present an unbreakable square in time of need'. The administrative and governmental structures of the GLU virtually mirrored those of the ASU. Shortlived, the GLU ultimately merged with the ASU again in 1894 to create the Australian Workers' Union.

Australasian Society of Engineers

  • Trade union
  • 1890 - 1991

The Australasian Society of Engineers was established in 1890, by members of the Amalgamated Society of Engineers dissatisfied with the British dominance of that union. The Australasian Society of Engineers was first federally registered as a trade union in 1910 at which time there were branches in New South Wales, Adelaide (1904), Western Australia and Broken Hill (1909). By January 1914 the union branches included Collie, Melbourne, Adelaide, SA State, Wallaroo, Newcastle, South Sydney, Bathurst, Sydney, Perth, Petersburg, Port Adelaide, Quorn, Granville, Broken Hill, and Prospect. The union became defunct in February 1938 but was re-registered in August 1938. In 1991 it amalgamated with the Federated Ironworkers' Association of Australia to form the Federation of Industrial Manufacturing and Engineering Employees. This union later amalgamated with the Australian Workers' Union to form the AWU-FIME Amalgamated Union in 1993, later known simply as the AWU.

Federation of Industrial Manufacturing and Engineering Employees

  • Trade union
  • 1991 - 1993

The Federation of Industrial Manufacturing and Engineering Employees was formed in 1991 as an amalgamation of the Australasian Society of Engineers and the Federated Ironworkers' Association of Australia. In September 1992 the Australian Glass Workers' Union also amalgamated and in November 1992 the Amalgamated Society of Carpenters and Joiners of Australia, the Australian Rope and Cordage Workers' Union and the Australian Brushmakers' Union. In 1993 the union then amalgamated with the Australian Workers' Union with the official title the AWU-FIME Amalgamated Union, commonly referred to as the Australian Workers' Union.

Woolclassers' Association of Australia

  • Trade union
  • 1933 -

The Woolclassers' Association of Australia was formed originally from the Woolclassers' Association of New South Wales which covered woolclassers in country sheds, as shearers and most other shed hands were covered by the Australian Workers' Union, and classers working in woolstores by the Federated Storemen & Packers' Union. The Association applied for federal registration, which it obtained in 1933, and changed its name to the Woolclassers' Association of Australia. A Victorian Branch (from 1945 the Victorian/Tasmanian Branch) affiliated late in 1934 and a South Australian Branch affiliated in 1949. The Woolclassers' and Experts' Association of Western Australia which had existed since 1919 affiliated in 1950. A Queensland Branch was formed in 1962, and the Riverina sub-branch in 1963.

Federated Coopers of Australia

  • Trade union
  • 1910 - 1977

The Federated Coopers of Australia was formed in 1910 and registered in 1913 as an amalgamation of state unions such as the Journeymen Coopers' Society of New South Wales and the Victorian Society of Coopers. It was deregistered in 1977.

Queensland Journeymen Coopers' Society

  • Trade union
  • c. 1889 - c. 1910

The Queensland Journeymen Coopers' Society was a forerunner to the Queensland Branch of the Federated Coopers of Australia.

Wireworkers' Union of New South Wales

  • Trade union
  • 1901 - 1944

The Wireworkers' Union of New South Wales was formed on 2 November 1901 and on registration in 1902 changed its name to the Wire Netting Workers' Union of New South Wales. In 1928 it was registered again as the Wireworkers' Union of New South Wales, a branch of the Wireworkers, Wire Fence and Tubular Gate Workers' Union of Australia. The NSW Union amalgamated with the NSW Branch of the Federation Ironworkers' Association of Australia in November 1944, though the federal union did not amalgamate until 1966.

Chullora Workshop Shop Committees

  • Trade union
  • c. 1926 - c. 1991

The Chullora Railway Workshops was the site for construction and maintenance of locomotives and rolling stock of the New South Wales rail system from the late 1920s, and was the major electric car workshop in NSW. Employees of the Chullora Railway Workshops were represented by trade union committes including the Electric Car Workshops Shop Committee, Boiler Shop Committee, Combined Union Stewards Committee (Erecting and Tender Shops), Area Union Stewards and Rolling Stock Shop Committee.

Arms, Explosives and Munition Workers' Federation of Australia

  • Trade union
  • 1917 - 1946

The Arms, Explosives and Munition Workers' Federation of Australia first met in October 1917, initially being an amalgamation of the New South Wales and Victorian Branches of the Small Arms Factory Employees' and Munition Workers' Association (1912-1917). It was federally registered in 1919, and attracted members from the Ammunition, Cordite and Explosives Employees' Industrial Organisation of Australia (1914-1926) and formed branches in Tasmania, Queensland, South Australia and Western Australia. It was deregistered following the end of Second World War in 1946 after an amalgamation with the Federated Ironworkers' Association to form the proposed Metal and Munition Workers' Union did not eventuate.

Australian Leather and Allied Trades Employees' Federation

  • Trade union
  • 1945 - 1972

The Australian Leather and Allied Trades Employees' Federation began as the federally-registered union, the Australian Saddlery Trades Employees' Federation in 1908. The original union changed its name several times to incorporate tanners, curriers, sailmakers and tentmakers. The union amalgamated with the Federated Miscellaneous Workers' Union in 1967 and was deregistered in 1972.

North Australian Workers' Union

  • Trade union
  • 1927 - 1972

The North Australian Workers' Union was formed in 1927 when two previous unions were deregistered: the Northern Territory Workers' Union which had formed c. 1913 and the North Australian Industrial Union which dated from 1923. The union amalgamated with the Federated Miscellaneous Workers' Union of Australia in 1971 and was deregistered in 1972.

Ergonomics Society of Australia

  • Professional association
  • 1964 -

The society was formed in 1964 as the Ergonomics Society of Australia and New Zealand. On 22 February 1986 at a meeting at Palmerston North, New Zealand, the New Zealand Ergonomics Society was formed. In the same year, the Australian section of the society reformed and changed its name to the Ergonomics Society of Australia. The society changed its name again in December 2003 and is now called Human Factors and Ergonomics Society of Australia Inc.

Factory Employees' Union of Australasia

  • Trade union
  • c. 1908 - 1922

The Factory Employees' Union of Australasia was formed in Sydney in about 1908. It covered employees in laundries, fat extraction and bone mills, and factories manufacturing jam, soap, candles, paper, card board boxes, biscuits, cakes, glue and paint. In 1922 the Union became the Factory Branch of the Australian Workers Union, New South Wales Branch (AWU).

Carter, Alfred Walter

  • Person
  • 1865 - 1935

Alfred Walter Carter was Union Secretary of the Factory Employees' Association of Australasia from 1909 until his death on 27 September 1935. He came to Australia in the early 1890s and was involved in the formation of the Meat Employees Union in north Queensland before moving to New South Wales where he was involved with the Ferry and Tug Board Employees Union and the Newcastle Branch of the Seamen's Union and then the Factory Employees' Association.

Federated Municipal and Shire Council Employees' Union of Australia

  • Trade union
  • 1910 - 1993

The Federated Municipal and Shire Council Employees' Union of Australia traces its history to the Municipal Employees' Association formed in 1910. In 1914, after attempting to form a federation with Tasmanian and New South Wales municipal unions and with the aim of achieving an industry wide award, the Federated Municipal Employees' Association of Australia was registered in the Arbitration Commission. The union changed its name to the Federal Municipal and Shire Council Employees' Union of Australia in 1917. It merged with the Australian Municipal Transport Energy Water Ports Community & Information Services Union in 1993 to form the Australian Municipal Administrative Clerical & Services Union.

Health Inspectors' Association of Australia

  • Trade union
  • 1920 - 1972

The formation of the Health Inspectors' Association of Australia was resolved at a conference in Sydney on 12 July 1920 by representatives of the South Australia, Victoria, New South Wales, Western Australia and Queensland Health Officers' Associations. It was registered under the Commonwealth Court of Arbitration on 20 September 1920 and operated until 1972.

Health Services Union of Australia

  • Trade union
  • 1991 -

The Health Services Union of Australia was formed in January 1991 by the amalgamation of the Health and Research Employees Association and the Hospital Employees Federation of Australia. On 1 October 2003 the union changed its name to the Health Services Union.

New South Wales Farmers' Association

  • Industry association
  • 1987 -

The NSW Farmers' Association dates from 1 January 1987 when the Livestock and Grain Producers' Association of New South Wales changed its name. It is a constituent member of the National Farmers' Federation.

Livestock and Grain Producers' Association of New South Wales

  • Industry association
  • 1978 - 1987

The Livestock and Grain Producers' Association of New South Wales was formed on 1 January 1978 when the Graziers' Association of New South Wales and the United Farmers' and Woolgrowers' Association of New South Wales merged. It was renamed the NSW Farmers' Association on 1 January 1987.

United Farmers' and Woolgrowers' Association of New South Wales

  • Industry association
  • 1962 - 1978

The United Farmers' and Woolgrowers' Association of New South Wales was formed in 1962 from a merger of the Farmers' and Settlers' Association (c. 1893) and the Wool and Wheat Growers' Association which had split from the Farmers' and Settlers' Association in 1930. In 1968 it amalgamated with the Australian Primary Producers' Union (NSW Division) and the Apple and Pear Growers' Association, and with the Vegetable Growers' Association in 1969. It was registered as the United Farmers' and Woolgrowers' Industrial Association of New South Wales in 1969. On 1 January 1978 the United Farmers' and Woolgrowers' Association of New South Wales merged with the Graziers' Association of New South Wales to form the Livestock and Grain Producers Association of New South Wales. The Dairy Section then split off to merge with the NSW Milk Producers' Association and the Primary Producers' Union to form the NSW Dairy Farmers' Association.

New South Wales Nurses and Midwives' Association

  • Trade union
  • 1931 - 2012

The New South Wales Nurses’ Association (NSWNA) was formed in 1931 and was registered as a trade union in New South Wales on 20 November 1945. By this time it had amalgamated with the Trained Mental Nurses' Association (May, 1945). It was the registered union for all nurses in New South Wales in both public and private sectors. The membership of the Association comprised all those who perform nursing work, including Assistants in Nursing, Enrolled Nurses and Registered Nurses at all levels, including management and education. With the exception of Assistants in Nursing, the members of the NSWNA were also members of the Australian Nursing Federation (ANF), a federally registered industrial organisation, and formed the NSW Branch of the ANF. At the Association's 2012 Annual Conference the name of the organisation was changed to the New South Wales Nurses and Midwives' Association.

Australian Nursing Federation

  • Trade union
  • 1953 -

The Australian Nursing Federation is the union for registered nurses, enrolled nurses, midwives, and assistants in nursing doing nursing work throughout Australia. In 1953 the Australian Nursing Federation/Employees Section was formed from the amalgamation of the Australian United Nurses' Assocation and the Royal Victorian College of Nurses Employees' Association. Around 1971 the organisation began to go by the name of the Royal Australian Nursing Federation and by the name of the Australian Nursing Federation from 1988. Nurses join the ANF branch in the state or territory where they work: ANF Australian Capital Territory Branch; NSW Nurses' Association (ANF NSW Branch); ANF Northern Territory Branch; Queensland Nurses' Union (ANF QLD Branch); ANMF South Australian Branch; ANF Tasmanian Branch; ANF Victorian Branch; ANF Western Australian Branch.

Illawarra Deputies and Shotfirers' Protective Association

  • Trade union
  • 1908 - 1988

The Illawarra Deputies and Shotfirers' Protective Association was formed in 1908 and represented colliery deputies and under-officials in the coal industry in the Illawarra region. On 3 November 1988, the association joined with others to form the Colliery Officials' Association of New South Wales, Northern District.

Indian Seamen's Union in Australia

  • Trade union
  • 1945 - 1949

Indian seamen in Australia formed a union in October 1945 during a strike and boycott of Dutch shipping in support of the Indonesian declaration of independence in August 1945. The strike was a result of Dutch shipowners threatening to transfer Indian seamen in Dutch registered ships to other Dutch ships boycotted by Indonesian crew. The Indian seamen supported the boycott which held for nine months from 1945-1946 and intermittently over four years. They received support for some weeks from the New South Wales Trades and Labour Council in the form of rations and strike pay. Due to his work in the Indian Seamen's Club in Sydney and close relationship with the strikers, CH (Clarrie) Campbell was elected Treasurer and was the sole European office bearer. After 1947, many of the Union's functions were taken over by the Indian Seamen's Union.

Tedder, James L O

  • Person
  • 1926 - 19 April 2014

James L O Tedder was an administrator in the Solomon Islands. In February 1952 Tedder was appointed as an Administrative Officer cadet in the British Colonial Service and was posted to the Solomon Islands. In August 1954 he was sent to the Devonshire Course in Cambridge. Confirmed in his appointment in March 1955 he was posted to Kira Kira in June as District Commissioner Eastern. In June 1960 he was appointed District Commissioner Malaita while Michael M. Townsend was on leave. A posting for six months as Assistant Secretary Social Affairs followed the six months in Malaita. Then he was posted to Western District as District Commissioner for a year. He was then posted to Honiara as District Officer Guadalcanal in October then District Commissioner Central as from January 1963. In 1967 he was promoted to Administrative Officer Grade A and awarded the MBE which was conferred by the Queen in May while on a Local Government attachment to three Councils in the UK. On 1 January 1972 Tedder was appointed to the new post of Director of Information and Broadcasting from which he retired in November 1974. While serving in Honiara he was Chair of the Tourism Authority, and at times Chair of the Copra Board. He belonged to the Broadcast Advisory, the University of South Pacific, Museum, and Library Committees. While Director of Information and Broadcasting he was responsible for helping to establish the Solomon Island Museum, the Library, and facilities to ensure that researchers placed copies of their work, whether print or film, in the archives. Mr Tedder has written several books and articles on the Solomon Islands.

United Trades and Labor Council of South Australia

  • Peak council
  • 1884 -

The forerunner of the United Trades and Labor Council of South Australia was the Labour League which was established in 1874, following the 8 hour day campaign. The Council was formed in Adelaide in January 1884 and began by representing 13 unions. In 1891, it helped sponsor the creation of the Labor Party, the beginning of a long affiliation in the form of organisational and financial support for the Australian Labor Party. After the First World War, it focused on the drastic manufacturing expansion as a source of support but, more recently the Council's emphasis has moved beyond blue collar trades to embrace broader community issues. In its centenary year in 1984, it had 86 affiliated unions and over 170,000 members.

Trades and Labour Council of the Australian Capital Territory

  • Peak council
  • 1931 -

The Trades and Labour Council of the Federal Capital Territory was formed at a meeting on 16 April 1931 in the Parks and Gardens Cottage in Acton with representatives from the Australian Workers' Union, the Federated Clerks' Union, the Operative Plasterers' Federation, the Amalgamated Society of Carpenters and Joiners, the Operative Painters' and Decorators' Union, the Electrical Trades Union, the Plumbers' and Gasfitters' Employees' Union, the Federated Liquor and Allied Trades Employees' Union, the Slaters', Tilers' and Shinglers' Union, and the Australasian Society of Engineers. It changed its name to the Trades and Labour Council of the Australian Capital Territory in 1938. Programs associated with the Trades and Labour Council have included Art in Working Life, the Canberra Union Voices Choir, and the Workwatch Occupational Health and Safety Training Centre. It changed its name to UnionsACT in 2002.

Bicentennial History Project, Research School of Social Sciences

  • University unit
  • c. 1979 - 1988

The Bicentennial History Project was proposed in 1977 by Ken Inglis of the Australian National University, bringing together historians to write and edit a series of publications for the 1988 Australian Bicentenary. The volumes were coordinated from the Research School of Social Sciences at the Australian National University and the School of History, University of New South Wales. The direction and content of each of the historical works published under the auspices of the Bicentennial History Project were the subject of a conference entitled 'Australia 1788-1988 A Bicentennial History', held at Burgmann College at Australian National University on 9-13 February 1981. The Bicentennial History Project activities were organised around a number of committees, as follows: Australia to 1788; Australia in 1838; Australia in 1888; Australia in 1938; Australia 1939-88. The Bicentennial History Project published a series made up of eleven volumes. These included historical narratives, a historical atlas, and a historical dictionary. The series as a whole was entitled Australians: A Historical Library. The series was edited by Ken Inglis, Peter Spearritt, Frank K Crowley and Alan D Gilbert and a number of authors including Bill Gammage, Jack Charles Robert Camm, Graeme Davison, Wray Vamplew, Dereck John Mulvaney, Allan William Martin, John McQuilton, John Peter White, Michael McKernan, Tim Rowse, Alan Atkinson, Ailsa McLeary, Marian Aveling, Graeme Aplin, J W McCarty, Ann Curthoys and Stephen Glynn Foster.

Bishop, Peter Orlebar

  • Person
  • 1917 - 2012

Peter Orlebar Bishop was born on 14 June 1917 at Tamworth, New South Wales. Bishop was Senior Lecturer, Department of Physiology, University of Sydney 1951-54; Reader in Physiology 1954-55, Professor of Physiology and Head of Department of Physiology 1955-67. From 1967-82 Bishop was Professor and Head of Department of Physiology, at the John Curtin School of Medical Research, Australian National University. Bishop retired at the end of 1982, though for two years after his retirement he worked as a visiting fellow in the Australian National University's Research School of Biological Sciences.

ANU Public Relations

  • University unit
  • 1987 - 1993

University Public Relations office replaced the University Information section in 1987. The office continued to promote the University with local, national and international public relations activities including arranging tours for visitors, publishing the campus newsletter ANU Reporter, media liaison activities, and Open Day events. During 1993, the University Public Relations office was combined with the Official Publications Unit, the Drill Hall Gallery, the ANU Art Collection and Graduate Affairs to form the Public Affairs Division.

Federated Furnishing Trade Society of Australasia

  • Trade union
  • 1909 - 1993

Known originally as the Federated Furnishing Trade Societies of Australasia from 1909, when it was formed, by 1914 the name had been changed slightly to the Federated Furnishing Trade Society of Australasia. The Society's Federal Office was based in Melbourne with branches in Victoria, New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, and the ACT. The union covered cabinet makers, French polishers, upholsterers, mattress makers, piano makers, carpet layers, furnishing drapery, wicker workers, and in Victoria, South Australia and Tasmania wood machinists and workers in the flat glass trade as well as automotive glass, baby carriages, coffins, musical instrument makers and organ makers. Operating until 1993, the Society eventually amalgamated with the Federated Brick Tile & Pottery Industrial Union of Australia and the Operative Painters' & Decorators' Union of Australia into the Construction Forestry Mining & Energy Union.

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