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).

Jean Isobel Martin was born in Melbourne in 1923 and studied in Sydney graduating with an MA in Anthropology from the University of Sydney in 1945. In 1943-1947, 1949-1950 and 1956 she was employed as a lecturer at the university. She took her PhD in Anthropology and Sociology at the Australian National University in 1955. She was appointed as lecturer in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Sydney in 1956; Professor of Sociology at La Trobe University, Melbourne from 1966-1974; and in 1974 held position of Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Sociology, Research School of Social Sciences, ANU. Her major publications were Refugee Settlers (1965), Community and Identity (1972), The Migrant Presence (1978). The results of her research into the first Vietnamese refugee immigrants were published as The First Wave: The settlement of Australia's first Vietnamese (1985). She was president of the Sociological Association of Australia and New Zealand (1969-71) and elected a fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia in 1971. Martin died in Sydney on 25 September 1979.

John S Marsden is an economist who submitted his PhD thesis on the Australian Plastics Industry, at the Australian National University in 1973. In 1979 Marsden, of the Industries Assistance Commission, co-authored a paper for the Reserve Bank of Australia Conference in Applied Economic Research. He also co-authored Returns on Australian Agricultural Research (Joint Industries Assistance Commission - CSIRO benefit-cost study of the CSIRO Division of Entomology , 1980).

The drapery and general merchandise business was founded by Henry Marcus Clark in 1883, and was incoporated as a company in New South Wales on 16 October 1902. A head office was built in Central Square, Sydney in 1906 and later sold when a new building was established on the Western side of Central Square in 1928. Other country branches were established in New South Wales. In 1926 the company took over the retail business of Craig Williamson Pty Ltd in Melbourne, and in 1927 the Adelaide business of Miller Anderson Ltd. On 1 December 1966 the company was taken over by Waltons Ltd.

Geoffrey Arthur Manning was born at Harston, Victoria on 29 July 1901. He joined Goldsbrough Mort & Co Ltd in 1917 and was appointed Chief Accountant in 1938. From around 1945 he was Secretary of Goldsbrough Mort and in 1960-1962 he was Assistant General Manager of Goldsbrough Mort Ltd in Melbourne. He was one of the three representatives of the firm during the negotiations for the merger with Elder Smith & Co in 1962 and was appointed Assistant General Manager of the new company, Elder Smith Goldsbrough Mort in Adelaide. He retired in 1966 and took up a Visiting Fellowship at the Australian National University, during the tenure of which he wrote The Elder Smith Goldsbrough Mort Merger (ANU Press, 1970).

The company was formed in December 1901 to acquire the business of silk merchants carried on in Australia and New Zealand by M Makower and Company. On 17 February 1902 the company was registered in Victoria as M Makower and Company Proprietary Limited. In August 1904 the name was changed to Makower McBeath and Co Pty Ltd. In 1920 a limited company was formed to conduct the business in New Zealand and was incorporated there as Makower McBeath and Company Limited on 12 July 1920. The company ceased trading operations on 31 October 1972 when it was taken over by Charles Parsons Pty Ltd.

Colin Macpherson worked as a curriculum and assessment specialist in the Curriculum Development Unit of the Western Samoan Department of Education in 1989. He edited the monthly magazine Our World Too, an educational resource for secondary students. The magazine was distributed to every government secondary school in Samoa from 1989-1991. Macpherson was also a cartoonist, his illustrations appeared in the Our World Too magazine and the Samoa Observer.

George Bellamy Mackaness was born in Sydney, Australia. He obtained his MD and BS from the University of Sydney in 1945 and DPhil (University of Oxford, 1952) working under the mentorship of Sir Howard Florey with whom he worked as Senior Fellow. He joined the Department of Experimental Pathology, John Curtin School of Medical Research at the Australian National University as a scholar on 1 July 1948; Research Fellow, 1 July 1951; Senior Fellow, 1 July 1953; Reader, 8 August 1958. He later accepted the position Professor of Microbiology at the University of Adelaide. In 1965 he was appointed Director of The Trudeau Institute, Saranac Lake, New York and held this position until 1976 when he became President of the Squibb Institute for Medical Research in Princeton, New Jersey. Mackaness was awarded the Paul Ehrlich-Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize for Medicine in 1975 and the Novartis Prize for Clinical Immunology in 1998. Mackaness died on 4 March 2007, in Charleston, South Carolina.

Martha Macintyre received a BA (University of Melbourne) and PhD from the Australian National University (1983) where she made her first visits to Tubetube, Papua New Guinea, before accepting a position at Monash as a Post-doctoral Research Fellow in Anthropology in 1984. Macintyre has held positions at the Australian National University, Monash University, La Trobe University and the University of Melbourne. She has undertaken research in Papua New Guinea since 1979. She was Senior Lecturer, Medical Anthropology, Centre for Health and Society at the University of Melbourne. From 1995 she undertook a social impact study of the Misima gold mine in the Milne Bay province of Papua New Guinea as well as an ongoing study of the social impact of gold mining in Lihir, Papua New Guinea. She is currently Honorary Senior Fellow in the School of Social and Political Science at the University of Melbourne and editor of The Australian Journal of Anthropology.

Merv MacFarlane was born on 22 June 1924 at West Gosford, New South Wales. On 11 December 1941, at the age 17 he joined the army and served in the Middle East, New Guinea and Borneo until 18 June 1946. From 9 February 1948 he commenced work on the Sydney waterfront and joined the Sydney Branch of the Waterside Workers' Federation (WWF). MacFarlane was the Federation's job delegate in 1956, then elected vice-president of the Branch in 1960, and again in 1976-1984, he was vigilance officer 1970-1973, and in 1977-1984 was appointed to the position of the port transfer officer. He was a member of the Australian Labor Party until he left to join the Communist Party of Australia (CPA) in 1963 and was editor of the CPA newsletter Wharfie. He became an editor for the Revesby Workers Club News in 1964. MacFarlane left the CPA in 1971 and became a founding member of the Socialist Party of Australia (SPA) in 1972. He was vice-chariman, Maritime Branch of the SPA and editor of the newsletter, Maritime Bulletin. In 1982 he was a founding member of the Maritime Unionists Socialist Activities Association (MUSAA) and the editor of MUSAA News. He became the first secretary of the Sydney Branch, MUSAA and later its first national secretary. Merv MacFarlane died in late February 2000.

Alexander James Macdonald was born in Fitzroy, Victoria on 21 February 1864. Macdonald received his architectural training in Edinburgh, Scotland. He returned to Australia around 1888 to work in private practice before joining the Victorian Public Works Department as an Assistant Architect on 10 August 1889. At 32 years of age, he became Examiner of Patents for Victoria and later Chief Examiner of Patents for the Commonwealth. He returned temporarily to public architecture in 1912 and in the following two years worked intermittently as Walter Burley Griffin's chief assistant.

John Maroney owned Coolegong Station from 1895. In 1927, the station owner is listed as Maroney Bros, and from 1937 to 1963 as J Maroney Ltd.

Joy London was born in Croydon, England and first came to Australia in 1922 when she was 10 years old. Her mother and family, the Moore family, purchased the Kioloa property from William Walker in 1929. On 1 March 1975 she bequeathed her 349 hectare property to the Australian National University. The Edith and Joy London Foundation, named in honour of London and her mother, is located on the south coast of New South Wales adjacent to the village of Kioloa. Joy London died in July 1995.

Dr Henry John Lindeman began growing vines and producing wines from 1843. Business progressed and in 1879 Dr Lindeman took into partnership three of his five sons, Charles, Arthur and Herbert, as H J Lindeman. Lindeman died in 1881 and the business was carried on by his three sons.

A private company, Lindeman Ltd, was incorporated in New South Wales in November 1906. In 1953 the company was converted to a public company. A new holding company Lindeman (Holdings) Limited was established in November 1959 to acquire the existing capital on the basis of two one pound shares for each one pound share held. In 1961 the holdings company made a successful offer for Leo Buring (Holdings) Ltd. Lindeman (Holdings) Limited was acquired by Philip Morris Australia Limited in 1971. In early 1990 Philip Morris and Lindemans Wine, including its subsidiaries, were acquired by the Penfolds Wine Group. Southcorp Limited acquired the Penfolds Wine Group, which included Lindemans, in 1990.

This company which carried on business as wool combers and spinners, woollen and hosiery manufacturers, general knitters and silk throwers, was formed in 1922 to acquire the assets of Lincoln Knitting Mills Pty Ltd and Lincoln Spinning Mills Pty Ltd, two companies established in July 1920. After a fire in the Knitting Mills in July 1925 the company wound up voluntarily and was reconstructed, and a new company of the same name was registered in Victoria on 11 March 1926. In 1939 the two subsidiary companies of Lincoln Mills Knitting Pty Ltd and Lincoln Mills Spinning Pty Ltd were wound up and the assets acquired by Lincoln Mills (Australia) Ltd which then carried out both distribution and manufacturing. In March 1962, the entire knitting mill plant and garment and hosiery stocks were sold to Kayser Pty Ltd. The company was taken over by Cleckheaton (Yorkshire) Ltd on 10 September 1962.

Milton James Lewis worked as a tutor and research scholar at the School of History, Australian National University. In 1972 he completed a Master of Arts thesis on the origins and early history the Australian National University . In 1977 he was awarded a PhD in history at ANU for his research into infant and maternal health in Sydney from 1870-1939. He was a Senior Research Fellow in the School of Public Health, University of Sydney, 1989 to 2006 and since 2006 has held the position of Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the Menzies Centre for Health Policy, University of Sydney.

Brian Bannatyne Lewis was Professor of Architecture at the University of Melbourne. In 1947 he was appointed Consulting Architect to design the major buildings at the Australian National University.

Laycock, Son & Nettleton was founded by Federick Laycock, his son Burdett and Samuel Nettleton around 1884. The partnership of Laycock, Son & Nettleton dissolved in 1911, with the separate firm of Laycock, Son & Co Ltd being formed and continuing in Melbourne. The Nettletons founded a separate firm in Sydney, Nettleton & Co. In 1926 the Melbourne company re-organised the Sydney firm of Nettleton & Co and it was later renamed Laycock Son & Nettleton with E B Laycock as Director. The company changed it's name when a new company, Laconia (NSW) Proprietary Limited was registered on 4 December 1950.

This wool, textile and bedding merchant and manufacturing company was the successor to the original firm of Laycock, Son & Nettleton founded by Federick Laycock, his son Burdett and Samuel Nettleton around 1884. The partnership of Laycock, Son & Nettleton dissolved in 1911, with the separate firm of Laycock, Son & Co Ltd being formed and continuing in Melbourne. The Nettletons founded a separate firm in Sydney, Nettleton & Co. In 1915 the Melbourne firm was re-organised by Burdett Laycock to include his sons Frederick Cornelius and Edwin, and became Laycock, Son & Co Pty Ltd. In 1926 the Melbourne company re-organised the Sydney firm of Nettleton & Co and it was later renamed Laycock Son & Nettleton with E B Laycock as Director. The company was deregistered on 1 August 1997.

Donald Clarence Laycock was born in Newcastle, New South Wales. He received a BA (Newcastle), and was the first PhD scholar in linguistics at the Australian National University 1959-1962. Laycock’s PhD thesis on a language group in the Sepik district of Papua New Guinea was published in 1965 as the first book-length publication in the Department's Pacific Linguistics series, of which he later became one of the editors. He was appointed as Research Fellow in the Department of Linguistics, Research School of Pacific Studies from 8 May 1964; Fellow in Anthropology and Sociology on 13 May 1966; Fellow in Linguistics on 8 March 1968 and was appointed to Senior Fellow on 1 July 1969. Laycock held this position until he died in 1989.

Ralph Lawton left South Australia for Papua New Guinea in 1957 where he lived as a Methodist missionary in Oyabia village on the island of Kiriwina, the biggest of the Trobriand Islands, between 1961 and 1973. Lawton translated the Old and New Testaments into Kiriwina. The translation, Ka, Matauwena Yesu: Yesu livalela deli la vituloki was published by the Bible Society in Papua New Guinea, 1974. He returned to Canberra in 1992 and is currently a postgraduate student at the Australian National University working on linguistics and languages.

Albert Langer (also known as Arthur Dent) was a student activist at Monash University in the 1960s and 1970s during the Vietnam War years. He was involved with the Maoist faction at the university and a supporter of the Communist Party of Australia (Maoist-Leninist). His interest in politics included the arms race and telecommunications of which he was an advocate of free software. He was an active opponent of Zionism, and was associated with a group called Jews Against Zionism and Anti-Semitism (JAZA). In February 1996 Langer was convicted of urging voters to vote for neither the Australian Labor Party or the Liberal-National coalition by assigning them equal last preferences. He served three weeks in prison for breach of the Electoral Act.

David John Lake was born on 26 March 1929 in Bangalore, India. In 1967 he took up a lectureship in English at the University of Queensland. Lake retired in 1994.

The operations of Lake George Mines Pty Ltd were centred on a lead-zinc, copper and gold mine situated at Captain's Flat, located south east of Canberra. In the 1920s the British company, National Mining Corporation, examined the area and decided that the mine could be worked profitably again using modern extraction methods. Lake George Mines was incorporated as a limited liability company on 3 September 1930, becoming a proprietary company on 5 May 1943. The company conducted mining operations at Captain's Flat, New South Wales. In 1962 the company ceased operations and was placed in voluntary liquidation. In March 1962 the mine was closed following the exhaustion of further stopes and the increasingly unsafe condition of the mine. The London based holding company, Lake George Mining Corporation Limited, was placed into voluntary liquidation on March 31 1964.

Roderic John Lacey was Associate Professor at the Australian Catholic University. From around 1972 to 1975 he was active in field research in the New Guinea highlands and completed a PhD Thesis (1975, University of Wisconsin) titled ‘Oral traditions as history: an exploration of oral sources among the Enga of the New Guinea highlands'.

For the period 1941 to 1946, the station proprietor was Mrs J M Rogerson, the widow of a son of G T Rogerson who was a proprietor of Glenrock Station (Gundaroo, New South Wales).

Dr Rick Kuhn was born on 18 September 1955 and graduated with a B Ec from University of Sydney (1977), BA with Honours in politics from Macquarie University (1979) and PhD from Sydney University (1985). In 1978 he was a part-time Assistant Lecturer, School of Politics, History and Philosophy, Macquarie University. From 1979 to 1986 Kuhn held Research Officer and senior Project Officer positions at the Bureau of Industry Economics. He joined the Political Science Department, Faculty of Arts, at the Australian National University in 1987 as Lecturer then becoming Senior Lecturer in 1995. Kuhn was for some years a member of the Canberra and Sydney rank and file organisations of the Administrative and Clerical Officers' Association (ACOA) and edited their small national newspaper. Since 2006 Kuhn has been a Reader, School of Politics and International Relations, Research School of Social Sciences, College of Arts and Social Sciences, ANU. He is an editor of the online journal Marxist Interventions.

John Langford (Jack) Knight was born on 25 August 1912 at Cressy, Victoria. Knight completed a Masters Degree in Chemistry at the University of Melbourne in 1933. In August 1933 he became a chemist with Nobel (Australasia) Pty Ltd at Deer Park, Victoria. In October 1936 he joined the Department of Defence at the Explosives Factory, Maribyrnong, where he was placed in charge of propellant production. In October 1941 Knight was transferred to the directorate of explosives supply, Department of Munitions. He travelled to North America as part of an explosives mission from November 1941 to May 1942. He was Assistant Manager of a new explosives factory in Mulwala, New South Wales from 1942 to 1945. After the war he returned to Central Administration as assistant to the Consultant on Explosives, Arthur E Leighton. In 1947 he also served as secretary and executive officer of the Explosives Committee. In 1949-1951 he was explosives and chemical engineering representative for the Department of Supply and Development in Britain. Knight was an assistant-manager of the Maribyrnong factory in 1952-1954; manager of the Explosives Factory, Albion, in 1954-1956; and chief chemical engineer in the explosives branch in 1957-1958. Joining the Department of Supply in 1958 he was controller, explosives supply (later explosives and ammunition supply) until 1967, and deputy-controller of munitions supply, in Canberra, in 1967-1976. He was chairman of the Operational Safety Committee in 1958-1976. After his retirement in 1976 Knight became a consultant and undertook research on the history of explosives in Australia. He died at Blackburn, Victoria on 22 January 1988.

Roger Martin Keesing taught in the Department of Anthropology, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies at the Australian National University. He received his MA (1963) and PhD (1965) at Harvard University before teaching at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He was offered Chair of Anthropology, Institute of Advanced Studies at the ANU from1974, holding this position until 1990 when he took up a Professorship of Anthropology at McGill University, Montreal, Canada. Keesing conducted fieldwork among the Kwaio people of the Solomon Islands over some thirty years. He died on 7 May 1993 in Toronto.

John Patrick Marcus Kavanagh, political activist, was born on 12 July 1879 in Ireland and later moved to Liverpool, England. In 1898 he enlisted in the King's Royal Rifle Corps, served in Ireland, fought in South Africa in 1900-02, was invalided home and was discharged as a corporal in 1906. He emigrated to Canada in 1907, and settled in Vancouver where he worked in tile-laying and from 1917 on the wharves. In 1921 he helped to found the underground Communist Party of Canada. In 1925 he and his companion Mrs Edna Louise Hungerford (née Hay), sailed for Australia arriving in Sydney in May. In the same year he became chairman of the Communist Party of Australia (CPA) and editor of the Workers' Weekly (1925-1929). He founded the Militant Minority Movement, and in 1928 was elected to the Labor Council of New South Wales. He was unsuccessful as a candidate for Newtown in the Legislative Assembly elections of 1930 and 1932. He was first expelled from the CPA in 1931 and finally in 1934. Kavanagh helped to form an anti-war committee in 1935 and remained involved in left-wing activity during World War II. He joined the Old Age & Invalid Pensioners' Association of NSW in 1953 and was its Sutherland Branch president from 1954-1964. Kavanagh died in Loftus, NSW on 6 July 1964.

Kallara Station is a large pastoral property located between the townships of Tilpa and Louth, New South Wales. Past managers and owners included David Brown (1870s - 1880s); Charles and Suetonius Officer (1880s - c. 1923); Horton Maclure Pty Ltd (from 1925 onwards) and later Berawinnia Pastoral Co. A subsidiary of this station was Goorimpa Station.

Bruce Juddery was born in Tauranga, New Zealand in 1941 and migrated to Australia around 1964. He was a graduate of the Australian National University, and worked for the Canberra Times from 1966 to 1980 as a journalist covering government, economics, public administration and the Australian Public Service. He also worked in Public Relations for the ANU, as Secretary of the ACT Branch of the Australian Journalist's Association, and as a freelance journalist including Canberra correspondent for the Australian Business Magazine. He is author of two books, At the Centre: the Australian Bureaucracy in the 1970's (1974) and White Collar Power: a History of the ACOA (1980). The Administrative and Clerical Officers' Association (ACOA) was the union representing white collar workers of the Commonwealth Public Service, and is now referred to as the Public Sector Union. Juddery died in Canberra on 15 January 2003.

Audrey Johnson researched and wrote on left-wing and communist issues in Australia. She was research assistant to Ken Buckley for his book on the history of the Amalgamated Engineering Union. From the late 1950s, she was one of a group, which included Helen Palmer and Grace Bardsley, who produced the independent socialist magazine, Outlook. She wrote the biography of Australian Labor Party Senator and trade union leftist Bill Morrow, published by Penguin as Fly a Rebel Flag (1985), and Bread and Roses (1990), a history of left and trade union women activists, published by the Left Book Club. Johnson had almost completed a biography of Tom Wright, a trade union official, when she died in 2002.

The original firm of Peter Johns, engineer and businessman, was known as Johns' Hydraulic & General Engineering Co Ltd until 1892. In 1892 his company became known as Johns and Waygood Limited, after taking over the Australian business of the English elevator manufacturer, Richard Waygood & Co. Johns and Waygood Limited was delisted from 11 April 1957 following conversion of the company's shares into shares of the Holding Company.

John McIlwraith founded his business, The Melbourne Lead Works, in 1854. This business was the precursor of John McIlwraith & Co Pty Ltd, suppliers of building and plumbing products. In the 1870s McIlwraith was connected with a small coastal steamship company, which later merged with the larger shipping firm of McIlwraith, McEacharn & Co Ltd. For some time he took part in the administration of this company in partnership with his brothers, Andrew and Sir Thomas McIlwraith (who became Queensland Premier in 1879), but in the 1890s he withdrew from the shipping business and devoted his attention to lead manufacturing and his business. After McIlwraith's death in 1902, his sons John, Thomas and David McIlwraith managed the business registering the business as John McIlwraith & Co Pty Ltd on 20 August 1910. By 30 October 1950 a new company had formed and was registered in Victoria as John McIlwraith Industries Limited.

The company was registered in Victoria on 25 January 1889 to continue the hardware manufacturing and supply business founded by brothers John and Samuel Danks in 1859. The head office was based in Bourke Street, Melbourne while another branch was established in Sydney in the 1880s. The company had factories in Melbourne and Sydney. In 1951 Danks Holdings Limited was incorporated and the company became a wholly owned subsidiary of Danks Holdings Limited. John Danks and Son Pty Ltd is still registered as a proprietary company.

Harald Ingemann Jensen was born in 1879 in Denmark and migrated to Queensland at the age of 6. In 1898 he was employed at Clement Wragge's Mt Kosciusko observatory and entered the University of Sydney. He taught in Sydney and North Queensland in 1900-1901, then returned to the University of Sydney and graduated in 1904 with BSc with honours in geology. Jensen was assistant demonstrator, geology and chemistry, under Edgworth David in 1904-1905; appointed first Macleay Fellow, Linnean Society of New South Wales in 1905; awarded D Sc & university medal in 1908; and from 1908-1911 worked as a soil scientist with the New South Wales Department of Agriculture. Jensen was an active member of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) and wrote regularly for Labor and union journals. In August 1912 he was appointed director of mines in the Northern Territory, holding the position until 1915 when he was demoted to Chief Geologist. From 1917-1922 he was a government geologist in Queensland. Jensen was defeated as ALP candidate for Lilley (1917) and the Queensland Senate (1922 and 1925). He was later expelled by the ALP Queensland central executive for his critique of the party's neglect of socialism. From 1923-1938 he worked as a consultant geologist, seeking oil in the Roma basin, Queensland, and the Mandated Territory of New Guinea. In 1938-1940 he led the Queensland section, Aerial Geological & Geophysical Survey of North Australia. From 1943-1956, he worked on weather prediction with Inigo Jones at his Crohamhurst laboratory. Jensen died after sustaining burns on 13 July 1966.

Margaret Jean Jennings was born on 15 September 1943. She studied at the University of Melbourne (BA) and from 1965-1970 held research positions and was an author for the Hill of Content Publishing Company's archives series. From 1970-1978 Jennings held the position of Archivist at the Australian Archives. She was Victorian branch secretary of the Australian Society of Archivists from 1976 and in 1978 became a Records Management Officer at the University of Melbourne where she also conducted courses for the Australian Society of Archivists. Jennings was national president of the the Society from 1979-1981; lectured in Information Management (Archives & Records) at the Melbourne College of Advanced Education, 1979-1988; Victorian branch editor and council member, Records Management Association of Australia; member of the Pacific Regional Branch of the International Council on Archives (PARBICA); University Archivist & Records Manager at the University of Adelaide, 1990-1992; Records Manager at Griffith University in 1992. Margaret Jennings died in Queensland on 25 December 1993.

Jaques Brothers, manufacturers of road making machinery, stone crushers and excavators, was established in Melbourne in 1888 after the original partnership between Edward Jaques and Edwin Phillips of Phillips and Jaques was dissolved. The new partnership between Edward Jaques and his brother, Wallace, was registered in Melbourne in 1917 as Jaques Brothers Proprietary Limited. It became a public company in 1949. On 22 March 1973, Jaques Brothers Limited changed its name to Jaques Limited, which was taken over by Clyde Industries Ltd on 19 September 1979.

James Robertson and Co Pty Ltd owned Jandra and Wapweelah stations, near Bourke, New South Wales, in the 1880s until 1938. From 1939, F J Robertson took over Jandra Station, and M K Robertson took over Wapweelah Station. The stations are now owned by descendents of different branches of the Robertson family.

The firm was established in Melbourne in 1872 by James Paterson with Edward Newbigin as ship owners and coal importers, and later bought tugs into the business. After Paterson's death in 1906, his nephew Henry Masterton became Managing Director of the business.

The company was registered in New South Wales on 6 July 1916 as James McLeish Estates Limited until 18 May 1937 when it became a proprietary company. It was acquired in July 1946 as a subsidiary of AA&P Joint Holdings Ltd, a company jointly formed by the Australian Agricultural Company and the Peel River Land & Mineral Co Ltd.

Sir Gordon (Ronald) Jackson was born on 5 May 1924 and studied at Brisbane Grammer School and the University of Queensland. Jackson was a board member of various companies and organisations. he was Chairman, Australian Industry Development Corporation; Board member, Reserve Bank of Australia (1975-1990), Police Board of NSW; Director, Rothams Holdings Ltd; Director, Rockwell International Pty Ltd; and Vice President, Australia-Japan Business Co-operation Committee. In 1941 Jackson joined CSR Ltd. He was appointed Head Sugar Marketing Division, 1958; Senior Executive Officer, 1964; General Manager, 1972-1982; Director 1972-1985; and Deputy Chairman, 1983-1985. On 11 June 1983 he was awarded Knight of the Order of Australia (AK). From 1984-1988, Jackson was a member of the Advisory Committee, Centre for Resource and Environmental Studies at the Australian National University. He was Chancellor, ANU from 1987-1990 (formerly Pro Chancellor). Jackson died on 1 June 1991.

J S McClelland Pty Ltd was founded in 1908 in Melbourne, Victoria. The company performed printing work for small businesses and the general public. Thomas J McClelland was a Director of the company until 1977. The company was deregistered on 21 February 1981.

The company was founded by James Swan Kidd, hardware merchant and ironmonger, and was operating from around 1893. The company was incorporated in Victoria on 18 February 1914. In July 1970 all the issued capital of J S Kidd & Co Pty Ltd was acquired by Danks Holdings Limited.

The firm was founded by in 1850 by JC Young who set up a small warehouse in Geelong. In 1852 a branch was opened in Ballarat with John Paterson as manager. In 1856 the business moved to Melbourne and Paterson was admitted into partnership with the firm then known as JC Young and Company. In 1858, Henry C Palmer became a partner and on Young's retirement in 1860, Paterson and Palmer purchased the business, renamed Paterson, Palmer and Company.

The station lease was taken up by Patrick Durack and his family in 1893. From around 1923 the station owner was listed as Ivanhoe Grazing Co Ltd. The Australian Agricultural Company acquired the property from 1950 to 1960. In 1992 the station was acquired by Consolidated Pastoral Company Pty Ltd.

The company formed in 1885 to deal in real estate and to operate as banker and financial agents in the Australian colonies. In 1887, it absorbed the Joint Stock Building, Land and Investment Company Limited. The company became a subsidiary of the Mercantile Mutual Insurance Company Ltd in January 1960.

The company was incorporated on 10 January 1920 and owned Ivanhoe Station (Western Australia). It was closely associated with Connor, Doherty & Durack Ltd. In March 1950 the company was acquired as a subsidiary of AA&P Joint Holdings Pty Ltd.

Ian George Hudson is a member of the family of timber merchants descending from William Hudson who established a timber business first in New Zealand and later in Australia. The family carried on timber businesses in Redfern and Glebe known as Hudson Bros, and later, George Hudson Pty Ltd. Ian Hudson's father, Alfred, established a timber merchants and building suppliers in Ashfield in 1927 known as A Hudson & Sons. Ian Hudson himself set up a timber company in Parramatta Road Leichhardt, in 1936, which operated as A Hudson Pty Ltd with a chain of nine retails stores and two wholesale businesses. In 1982 Hudson retired and his son, Roger, became Director of the A Hudson group of companies. In 1986 Hudson produced a history of the timber industry, Gift of God - friend of man: a story of the timber industry in NSW, 1788-1986, written with Paul Henningham.

The company of corn, seed and agricultural merchants was established in London in 1927. In 1961 the company was bought by Dalgety Franklin Ltd.

Henry Edmund (Harry) Holland was born at Ginninderra, NSW on 10 June 1868 and was apprenticed as a compositor to the 'Queanbeyan Times', 1882-1878. Joined the Australian Socialist League, 1892. Split from the Labor Party in New South Wales, 1898. Stood as a Socialist Labor Party candidate, federal Senate and the state seat of Lang, 1901. Stood as a socialist candidate in the New South Wales state elections, 1907. He was convicted of sedition following his involvement in the Broken Hill Miners Strike of 1909. With Tom Batho he launched the 'Sydney Socialist' paper in October 1894. He was sent to jail for three months in 1896 for libel. The paper was renamed 'the Northern People' and then the 'People'. 1902-1906 he edited labour papers in Grenfell and Queanbeyan. He launched the 'International Socialist Review for Australasia' in February 1907. In May 1912 he moved to New Zealand and became involved in the Waihi miners' strike. In April 1913 he became editor of the 'Maoriland Worker'. Holland was jailed in November 1913 for sedition following his role in the waterfront dispute. He stood as the Social Democratic Party candidate, Wellington North 1914 and 1918. In May 1918 he was elected for Grey (later Buller). From 1919-1931 Holland was chairman of the New Zealand Labour Party. In he 1920 visited Samoa as a member of a parliamentary party investigating New Zealand's colonial mandate. Holland died in Huntly, New Zealand on 8 Ocotober 1933.

Nancy Eva Hitchcock worked as a dietitian in Papua New Guinea 1962-1963, and in Nauru and Banaba (Ocean Island). She has published material on her work in the region including Rabia Camp: a Port Moresby migrant settlement (with Nigel D. Oram, published by New Guinea Research Unit, Australian National University, 1967).

John David Hill was born on 19 September 1915 and attended Parkes Primary School and Parkes Intermediate High School. He inherited properties in the Parkes District from his father, Harold John Hill and his grandmother, Mrs E Arthur (nee Newbigging): 'Fedora' was drawn in a ballot c. 1906 by J D Hill's father and sold in 1949; 'Islay', which was a nearby property inherited by J D Hill, was drawn in a ballot c. 1906 by Mrs E Arthur and was sold in 1949; 'Locarno' was built in 1926 and purchased by H J Hill to be the family's town residence from 1927-1932, and was sold in the early 1950s; 'Tatura' was built in 1937 in J D Hill's name by his grandmother Mrs E Arthur who lived on the property. Mercadool, west of Parkes, was purchased from the Estate of A P Hunter in June 1950 and occupied by H J Hill & Son. Upon H J Hill's death in 1956, J D Hill bought out his sister, Doris G Nash's, half interest in Mercadool. J D Hill farmed Mercadool from 1950 to 1991. Hill died on 7 March 1991.

Michael Hess began his research career in the field of industrial relations with a focus on 'developing' economies. He has held appointments at the University of New South Wales and the University of Western Australia. He was Reader in the Asia Pacific School of Economics and Director of the Graduate Studies in Developmental Administration at the Australian University. As a Fellow at ANU, Hess' research included the history of the Aboriginal pastoral workers' strike, 1946-1949. In 2004 he held the position of Professor of Management at the University of Tasmania and where he was a founding member of the Australian Innovation Research Centre. He then joined the University of New South Wales at the Australian Defence Force Academy as Head of School, Business School. He is editor of the e-journal, Labour & Management in Development.

The company was founded by Henry Franklin, a coal merchant who later became a miller at Ivel Mill, Biggleswade, in 1883. Henry Franklin Ltd, flour miller and agricultural merchant was bought by Dalgety in 1959 to form Dalgety Franklin Ltd (1959 - 1965).

Hebburn Limited was formed in 1914 to take over the Australian Agricultural Company’s (AACo) interests in the Hebburn Colliery and the Aberdare-Cessnock Railway. The Australian Agricultural Company became a shareholder in Hebburn Limited. The whole of the AACo shareholdings in this company was sold as of 31 December 1948.

Ronald (Les) Heathcote graduated from the University College London in 1955, completing his Master degree in Nebraska as a Fulbright Scholar in 1959 and then subsequently his PhD at the Australian National University in 1963. From this research he published a book concerning historical settlement and environmental management, Back of Bourke (1965). Heathcote was a reader and lecturer in geography at the University College London (1962-66); from 1966 he was senior lecturer then Reader in Geography at Flinders University, South Australia and was the Flinders University representative on the SA Public Examinations Board (1968-79). He was a member of Council for the Institute of Australian Geographers and a member of the Australian Academy of Science’s National Committee for the Environment and its National Committee for Geography. Elected a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia in 1981, Dr Heathcote was President of the Institute of Australian Geographers in 1985-6, and in 1989 received an Honours Award of the Association of American Geographers. From 1991 to 1997 he was a representative then chairman of the National Committee for Geography of the Australian Academy of Science. In 1997 Heathcote was awarded the Griffith Taylor Medal from the Institute of Australian Geographers.

Cameron Hazlehurst was Foundation Teaching Fellow in History, Monash University 1964-5; Junior Research Fellow, Nuffield College 1968-70 and The Queen’s College, Oxford 1970-72; Lecturer in Politics, University College, Oxford 1969-72; Fellow and Senior Fellow, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University 1972-92; Professor and Head, School of Humanities, Queensland University of Technology 1992-7. Hazlehurst worked in policy consulting roles and served in government posts as Assistant Secretary, Information, Department of Urban and Regional Development 1973-5; First Assistant Secretary, Communications Strategy, Department of Communications 1984-6; National Campaign Director, AIDS Information and Education, Department of Community Services and Health 1988-9; Chairman, Community Consultative Committee, National Registration Authority for Agricultural and Veterinary Chemicals 1996-2002; Chairman, NSW Pesticides Implementation Committee 1999-2004; and member, NSW Radiation Advisory Council from 2005. He is currently Adjunct Professor, Research School of Humanities and the Arts at the Australian National University.

The company was registered in New South Wales in 1880 as the Haymarket Permanent Land, Building and Investment Company Limited. The company changed its name in 1928 to Haymarket Land and Building Company Ltd and was in liquidation in 1957.

Len Hawkins was a Master of Arts student (c. 1979) in the Department of Demography, Research School of Social Sciences at the Australian National University. His Masters thesis, Immigration Policy and Practice, 1942-1949 focussed on Australian post-war immigration. Hawkins was employed in the Department of Immigration as a research officer.

W J H (Joe) Harris was a carpenter and member of Queensland branch of the Building Workers' Industrial Union of Australia. He became a freelance journalist writing on the history of the labour movement. His publications include First steps : Queensland workers' moves towards political expression, 1857-1893 (Canberra : Australian Society for the Study of Labour History, 1966); and The Bitter Fight : a pictorial history of the Australian labor movement (University of Queensland Press, 1970). He was a Brisbane member of the ASSLH.

Percy George Hannett, was an active member of the NSW Branch of the Electrical Trades Union until his retirement in 1962. In 1927 he was a Labor Party candidate for the district of Hornsby during the NSW elections. He travelled to Russia in June 1929 as a delegate of the Labor Council of NSW and the NSW Branch of the ALP. Hannett and other Australian delegates arrived in Vladivostok too late for the August conference of the Pan Pacific Trade Union Secretariat, but attended a plenary session of the Secretariat. Hannett attended a meeting of the Executive of the Red International of Labour Unions in Moscow on 11 September 1929.

Adrian Hahn, a student activist, was an editor in 1969 and 1973 of On Dit, the Adelaide University SRC magazine. He studied a Bachelor of Arts at the Australian National University.

Jim Hagan was born at Bondi Junction on 23 October 1929 and educated at Bondi Public School and Sydney Boys' High. He graduated with an arts degree with honours at the University of Sydney (1949) and while studying a Diploma of Education founded the Trainee Teachers' Association. As a teacher he was active in the NSW Teachers' Federation. In 1956 he joined the Caringbah branch of the Australian Labor Party, later serving as vice-president of the Thirroul branch of the ALP. Hagan moved to Canberra in 1963 where he studied at the Australian National University for a PhD on printing unions. His research produced the book Printers and Politics(1966). From 1966 he lectured in history at Wollongong College and was active in the Wollongong University Staff Association. He became head of the department of history and eventually dean of arts, University of Wollongong. In 1976, he became chairman of the board of governors, Riverina College of Advanced Education, which was a precursor to the Riverina campus of Charles Sturt University. Hagan was an executive member of the Evatt Foundation between 1982-1997. From 1990 to June 2001 he was deputy chancellor of Charles Sturt University. Hagan died in November 2009.

From 1889 Henry Saltau's son Marcus used the Warrnambool tramway offices as the base for his own produce and shipping business. With his associate James Jukes, Marcus Saltau incorporated his father's produce business and opened a Melbourne office. H Saltau & Sons were established in Melbourne as produce merchants around 1905. The firm chartered vessels to haul coal to Warrnambool and backload potatoes and general merchandise to Sydney and Newcastle, and an export trade in onions was set up with Canada and the United States of America. Marcus Saltau later became managing director of Saltau & Sons Pty Ltd from 1915 to 1945.

James Francis Guthrie was a stock-breeder, woolbroker and senator. He was born on 13 September 1872. Guthrie joined the Geelong branch of Dalgety & Co. Ltd in October 1891 as a junior clerk. Six years of branch experience were followed by about two years working in textile mills in England, at Bradford and elsewhere. He rejoined Dalgety's in 1900 as wool expert and traveller at Geelong, valuing for the company's New Zealand sales as well. In the 1904-05 season he became head valuer for Australia, based in Melbourne. He was a director of the family company, Thomas Guthrie & Sons Pastoral Co Ltd, formed in 1906 to operate his father's stations and in 1910-21 was managing director of Avon Downs Pastoral Co Ltd which bought one of them, Avon Downs station, in the Northern Territory. In 1912 he established a Corriedale stud on portions of Borambola and Book Book stations (renamed Corriedale Park and Colongolong) near Wagga, New South Wales. Guthrie founded the Australian Corriedale Sheep Breeders' Association in 1914. In 1915 he was Geelong manager for Dalgety & Co, a member of the Victorian State Wool Committee and Chairman of the Wool Export Advisory Committee. He had an interest in numerous properties until the 1950s but concentrated his Corriedale and thoroughbred horse studs at Bulgandra near Albury, New South Wales (1923-50), and Elcho and Coolangatta near Geelong (1926-52). In 1927 he sketched the history of Australian sheep and wool to the (Royal) Historical Society of Victoria and again in the official publication commemorating the Victorian centenary in 1934. The culmination of his research was "A World History of Sheep and Wool" published privately in 1957. Guthrie was elected to the Senate in 1919 and served from 1july 1920 to 30 June 1938. He became the first Federal Government representative on the Australian Wool Board. He was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 1946. Guthrie died on 18 August 1958.

Sir John Thomson Gunther was born on 2 October 1910 in Sydney. Gunther studied medicine at the University of Sydney (MB, 1935). From 1935-1938 he worked as a medical officer with Lever’s Pacific Plantations Ltd in the Solomon Islands and Papua New Guinea. On 30 June 1941 Gunther was commissioned as a flight lieutenant in the Royal Australian Air Force’s Medical Branch. He obtained diplomas of tropical medicine and public health from the University of Sydney and in December 1944 he took command of the Tropical Research Field Unit in New Guinea. In 1946 Gunther became Director of Public Health in the Territory of Papua New Guinea, and organised the medical services after the disastrous Mount Lamington eruption of 1951. In 1957 he was appointed to Assistant-Administrator in Papua and New Guinea. From 1964, he was senior government member in the new House of Assembly, and was a special representative at the United Nations in 1965. Gunther was a member of the Currie commission on higher education in Papua and New Guinea that led to the establishment of the University of Papua and New Guinea (UPNG). He was appointed foundation Vice-Chancellor of UPNG in 1966, retiring in 1972. He then became a Director of Bougainville Copper Pty Ltd. Gunther died on 27 April 1984 at West Heidelberg, Victoria.

John Alexander Gunn, station manager, vaccine inventor and politician, was born on 11 January 1860 in Buninyong, Victoria. He moved to New South Wales around 1878 and from 1880 was employed by Goldsbrough Mort and Company managing Yalgogrin and other stations. Gunn started investigations into the control of anthrax in sheep in 1880 after seeing a demonstration of inoculation against anthrax in sheep conducted by representatives of the Pasteur Institute, France. In 1895 Gunn collaborated with McGarvie Smith of Sydney on an anthrax vaccination, and formed a partnership in which Gunn's vaccine became McGarvie Smith and Gunn's anthrax vaccine. In 1897 he was moved to Borambola station as manager and in 1905 resigned from Goldsbrough Mort and moved to his own property Braehour near Wagga Wagga. Gunn was chairman of the Rabbit Destruction Fund committee; chairman of Narranderra Pastures Protection Board until 1897, afterwards of Wagga Wagga Board; chairman of the Pastures Protection Boards Advisory Council ( 1908-1910); a member of the Stockowners and Farmers and Settlers Associations; president of the Murrumbidgee Pastoral and Agricultural Society (1908). Gunn was a Councillor of Kyeamba Shire from 1906 to 1910 . In 21 July 1908 he was appointed to the NSW Legislative Council, serving his membership until his death on 21 September 1910.

The company was incorporated on 11 January 1947. Its registered office was at 4 Bridge Street, Sydney. Shareholders were members of the Vickery family and the associated family companies Freehold and Leasehold Lands Pty Ltd and Woorooma West Pastoral Co Pty Ltd. The company operated Gunbar station, south west of Hillston, New South Wales. It was purchased by the New Zealand and Australian Land Company in 1959. Gunbar station was then managed by the subsidiary Gunbar Pty Ltd.

The company was established by brickmaker Francis Gulson in July 1913. It opened the brickworks in Goulburn on 2 February 1914. The company known originally as Gulson's Brick & Pottery Company Pty Ltd manufactured other clay products including tiles, stoneware pipes, fittings and terracotta wares.

Murray Charles Groves was born on 24 August 1926 in Melbourne. Groves spent two years in Port Moresby, where he worked as a judge's assistant in the Supreme Court of Papua New Guinea and taught English classes in Hanuabada, in the Western Motu villages on Port Moresby Harbour. He returned to Melbourne in 1949 to complete a degree in History and Literature with first class honours. From 1950-1952 he taught in History at the University of Melbourne. In 1956 Groves completed his PhD thesis titled “The Motu and the modern world” from the University of Oxford. He then joined the Australian National University, where he was a research fellow in the Department of Pacific History 1956-1959. In 1959 he was appointed senior lecturer in Social Anthropology (becoming an associate professor in 1964) at the University of Auckland. From 1960 to 1965 he was editor of the Journal of the Polynesian Society. He left Auckland in 1965 to take up the foundation Chair of Sociology at the University of Singapore. From mid-1969 until his retirement in 1988, Groves was Chair of the Department of Sociology, University of Hong Kong. In mid-1992, he spent four months working on Motu research at the ANU and moved permanently to Canberra in 1994 as a Visiting Fellow in the Department of Anthropology, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies. He died on 5 May 2011 in Canberra.

Helen Groger-Wurm was born in Vienna, Austria on 21 February 1921. She gained a PhD in Anthropology and Linguistics from the University of Vienna 1946. She met Stephen Wurm at the Department of Anthropology in Vienna and they married in 1946. From June 1946 to June 1948 she worked for the Department of African Linguistics of Vienna University and compiled a textbook of the Dongolawi Nubian language. From June 1948 to January 1952 she worked as Departmental Assistant in the Department of Anthropology of Vienna University. Moving to London in September 1953 she took part in the postgraduate course in Social Anthropology at the London School of Economics until their move to Australia in 1954. During 1955 and 1956 Groger-Wurm undertook fieldwork to record many Indigenous Australian languages, particularly in New South Wales and Southern Queensland. In 1957 she was appointed the Curator of the Anthropological Section of the Institute of Anatomy in Canberra. In 1958 she accompanied Stephen Wurm on a nine-month survey of the Highlands of Australian New Guinea. Throughout the 1960s and 1970s she undertook further trips throughout northern Australia collecting artefacts. She subsequently catalogued these objects for the Institute of Anatomy. In 1973 Groger-Wurm published a significant study of the sacred art of Eastern Arnhem Land titled Australian Aboriginal Bark Paintings and their Mythological Interpretation: Volume 1, Eastern Arnhem Land. She died on 19 September 2005.

The firm was established in 1879 by James Griffiths, who entered upon a partnership with his brother, John, in 1882. The company was registered in Victoria in 1898 as a proprietary company and re-registered in 29 October 1913. It became a public company on 2 December 1920 trading as Griffiths Brothers Ltd. Its main activities were the manufacture, distribution and sale of tea, coffee and cocoa.

The Griffith Producers' Co-operative Company Ltd was begun in 1916 with 27 members. After 1920 it began selling members' produce and in 1923 registered as a Rural Co-operative Society.

The Griffith Co-operative Building Society Ltd was registered in July 1937 as a 'Co-operative Terminating Building Society'.

Jesse Gregson, company superintendent to the Australian Agricultural Company (AACo) was born in 1837 in Kent, England. In 1955 he migrated to Sydney and then worked for Dr Traill at Collaroy Station where he learnt stock management. In 1958 he was head overseer of Llangollen station near Cassilis. In May 1860 as Alexander Busby's partner, he overlanded 5000 ewes to a new station, Rainworth, near Springsure, QLD. Busby who had been elected to the board of the AACo recommended Gregson as superintendent of the company to replace Edward Merewether. Invited to England, Gregson was appointed to the position which he held from 1875 to1905. He applied himself to the care of the company's pastoral and mining properties, becoming a spokesperson of the colliery proprietors in dealings with the miners' union. In 1890-91 he served on the royal commission on strikes and was appointed to the royal commission which prepared the case for the Coal Mines Regulation Act 1896. Gregson died on 3 August 1919 at Katoomba.

This syndicate of twenty-four people was formed to acquire the Greenmount property of approximately fifty acres near Portland, East Victoria. H A Rudd was Secretary until his death in 1934. After that date the letters were written by A F Hooper (1934 - 1935) and by W V Amess, who became Secretary about 1935.

Francis Clifton Green was born on 26 June 1890 at Mole Creek, Tasmania. He joined the Crown Law Department in 1909 and two years later was appointed clerk-assistant in the House of Assembly. On 2 September 1915 Green enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force; resumed work at parliament in October 1919; and transferred to the Federal parliament on 1 April 1921 as clerk of papers. In 1937 he became Clerk of the House of Representatives, Commonwealth Parliament. He retired in June 1955 and returned to Hobart. Green died on 12 September 1974 at New Town, Hobart.

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

The co-operative was registered in 1919 as the Graziers Co-op Shearing Company Limited. It changed its name in September 1948 to Grazcos Co-operative Ltd. In 1981 the co-operative merged with Farmers & Graziers Co-op Ltd to form Farmers Grazcos Co-op Ltd.

Jacob Jack (J J) Graneek was born in Liverpool, a son of Russian refugees. He completed his BA, Dip Ed from the University of Liverpool and MA University of Birmingham. Graneek was University Librarian at the Australian National University from 7 March 1961-1972. Prior to his appointment at the ANU, he was Librarian at Queen’s University Library, Belfast 1945-1960. Graneek was a Visiting Fellow of the Humanities Research Centre during March-September 1976 for his project on Jewish Proselytes and Apostates.

The Grand United Order of Oddfellows (GUOOF), which was originally established in England in the late 1700s, began in Australia around 1844. The first Sydney lodge—Travellers' Home No 731—was operating in 1845 and by 1848 there were three additional lodges. In 1854, the Port Phillip District of Grand United separated from the New South Wales branch to establish Grand United in Victoria. In 1877, the Queensland lodges also separated and established their own management committee. Eventually the Queensland and NSW branches merged to form Grand United Friendly Society (NSW), and in 1986, Grand United (Vic) merged with Manchester Unity Independent Order of Oddfellows (Vic). In March 2005, the Grand United Friendly Society (NSW) merged with Australian Unity.

Allan Flinders Gow was born in Perth in 1915. He joined the Government Secretary's Office of the Mandated Territory in 1936 and in 1937 had postings in Rabaul, Kokopo and eventually the district office at Wau, Papua New Guinea. From 1940-1944 he was enlisted in the Australian Imperial Forces (AIF) and joined the 2/25 Infantry Battalion of the 7th Division. In 1944 Gow was transferred to the Australian New Guinea Administrative Unit (ANGAU) as a lieutenant serving as a Patrol Officer and Assistant District Officer in areas such as Goilala and West Papua. He was awarded a Military Cross in 1945 and in 1946 rejoined the civil administration of Papua New Guinea with major contributions in South-West Bougainville, Madang, the Rai Coast and Manus. In 1954 he was appointed District Officer and District Commissioner in Sohano and Buka Island, Bougainville; New Ireland. He was Chief Executive Officer of the Department of Native Affairs in Port Moresby and from 1960s held posts in Southern Highlands at Mendi and Eastern Highlands at Goroka. From 1960s-1972 he was posted to Manus District and retired in 1972. Gow died in 1997.

Ken Gott was born on 22 February 1923 and worked as a journalist on the Melbourne bureau of the Daily News. He was also the Tasmanian District delegate on the Federal Executive of the Australian Journalists' Association. He was a committee member of the Victorian Branch of the Australia-China Society from 1953 and its secretary from 1956 to around 1959. Gott held interests in a few business enterprises. He was the manager of Wallaby Recordings, a non profit organisation set up to issue records of people's songs and music from Australia and overseas. He was managing director, shareholder and secretary of the Pacific Merchandising Agency from 1953-1954. Gott was also joint proprietor with Bruce Millis in the Australian Trade Research Service, which was registered in April 1954. From 1964 to 1965 he was features editor of the Australian.

This firm of merchants and importers opened an office in Melbourne in 1889 and was incorporated in Melbourne, Victoria on 2 September 1901. It later opened an office in London in 1902. From 1902 the firm occupied the building at 561-563 Bourke Street, Melbourne. The principal owners and directors of the company were five members of the Gollin family. Gollin and Company had a diverse business, handling kerosene and oil distribution and shipment of fruit from Mildura to England. The company became a subsidiary of Holdings company, Gollin Holdings Limited, which was incorporated in Victoria on 30 August 1957. The company went into liquidation on 30 June 1976.

Richard Goldsbrough formed a wool broking firm in Melbourne in 1848. In 1881 it merged with the Australian Agency and Banking Corporation Ltd to become R Goldsbrough and Company Limited. The purchase in 1888 of the Sydney firm Mort and Company Limited, established in 1843 by Thomas Mort, led to a change of name to Goldsbrough Mort and Company Limited. It kept this name until the merger with Elder Smith and Company Limited in 1962 which formed Elder Smith Goldsbrough Mort.

Golden Cob was founded in 1895 and operated in lower George Street, Sydney for the purposes of selling bulk grains and bird seeds. In 1933 David Richard Denne Jr purchased Golden Cob when the store was located at 12 Jarrett Street, Leichhardt. Denne registered his company as Golden Cob Products Limited on 29 September 1933. Denne's company carried on the business of birdseed and grain merchants specialising in produce for the feeding of cage birds, pigeons and fish. In 1937 the company name was changed to Golden Cob Products Pty Ltd, expanded its operations and moved to 213 Darling Street, Balmain in 1939. In 1971 Denne sold the business to a subsidiary of Kimpton, Minifie and McLennon.

Godfrey Hirst migrated to Geelong from England in 1885 and worked for the Victorian Woollen and Cloth Company as a weaver until he set up his own business making flannel in 1888. Hirst, in partnership with Charles Shannon, a wool broker, and Charles Smith, purchased the Barwon Woollen Mill in 1890 which was renamed the Excelsior Number One mill. In 1899 the partnership purchased the Victorian Woollen and Cloth Company, which became Excelsior Number Two mill. Godfrey Hirst & Co Pty Ltd was incorporated in Victoria on 14 October 1909. In 1966, the company was taken over by McKendrick Bros (Canberra) Pty Ltd but still operates under its original name as a manufacturer of carpets.

For the period 1913 to 1920, the station proprietor was George T Rogerson.

Malcolm Gillies was born on 23 December 1954. He was appointed Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Education) at The Australian National University in 2001. Prior to this appointment he was Pro Vice-Chancellor at The University of Adelaide, and Dean of Music at The University of Queensland. After serving for five years as Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Education), Gillies became Vice-President (Development) of the ANU until June 2007.

Judy Gillett-Ferguson (nee Goss) was born at Petts Wood, Kent, south of London, on 7 November 1939. Her father Joseph (Joe) Goss was State Secretary of the Amalgamated Metal Workers & Shipwright's Union, then the Amalgamated Engineering Union before becoming a founding member of the Socialist Party of Australia. She was a member of the Communist Party of Australia, where she met Pete Thomas at a CPA National Congress in Sydney in the early 1970s. In 1979 her comments were taped for papers on 'Women in the Labor Movement and CPA', and in 1987 produced 'Women and Socialist Renewal' which dealt with women in the CPA and trade unions. Judy worked as a teacher and became principal at the Reading Centre until it closed in 1980. From 1981 to 1983 she was deputy principal at Elizabeth West Primary School and in 1984 she started as principal at Brahma Lodge Primary School with Glyn Turner as deputy principal. Brahma Lodge was one of the first South Australian Primary Schools to have both a female principal and deputy principal. She wrote a number of textbooks and teacher's guides, and during the 1980s she was involved in the campaign to save a Reading Development Centre, a survey on stress factors for teachers and an Education Department review of primary education.

Formed by Graham Gillespie, senior industrial relations advisor, Queensland Mining Council, in October 1998 after the Queensland Mining Council discontinued the provision of industrial relations services. Gillespie Consulting Services purchased the extensive Queensland Mining Council library for reference and prosperity purposes and continued to provide industrial relations consultancy services to coal mining industry operators, employers and employees.

Geo H Penney & Co Ltd floated in London in 1948 when New Zealand Loan & Mercantile Agency Co Ltd took up the majority shareholding. New Zealand Loan's export department was transferred to it in 1951. The company operated as exporters and traders in India, South Africa, USA, Australia and New Zealand. It was sold to Dalgety's in 1963.

Eric Fry was born on 21 August 1921 in Broken Hill, New South Wales. From 1938 to 1941 he worked in the Commonwealth Public Service and studied at the University of Sydney (B Econ). He was on military service from 1941-1946. Fry obtained an Honours Degree in Arts 1950; Diploma of Education 1951; and a PhD from the Australian National University 1956. Fry's first academic appointment was Lecturer in History at the University of Western Australia in 1956. He was Lecturer in History at the University of New England 1957-1959; Senior Lecturer in History at Canberra University College in 1959; Senior Lecturer in the new History Department, Faculty of Arts, Australian National University 1960- 1967; Reader in History 1967-1986; Dean of the Faculty of Arts 1973-1975. He is a founding member, along with Robin (Bob) Gollan, of the Australian Society for the Study of Labour History which was established in 1961. Fry was the society's first secretary and later President, 1984-1986. He died on 3 October 2007.

Walter Frank Harcourt Freeman was born on the Bau Levu Estate, Rewa River, Fiji on 9 March 1900. He was the son of Isabella Freeman (born in Fiji where her father was an apothecary who joined CSR at the Nausori Mill in 1885) and Richard Freeman (who joined CSR as a laboratory clerk in 1884, moved to Fiji as a sugar chemist in 1889 and in 1900 took up the lease of the Bau Levu Estate where he grew sugar cane and managed the Estate for CSR until 1928). Walter Freeman was educated at Chatswood Preparatory School, Sydney and Sydney Church of England Grammar School. He began work with CSR on 1 March 1918 at the Nausori Mill, initially in agriculture on several estates before being promoted to Assistant Cane Inspector in 1921, where he oversaw the work of Indian cane growers and was responsible for the supply of cane to the mill by river. He was promoted to Cane Inspector in 1942 and in January 1948 became Field Superintendent at Sigatoka District, Lautoka Mill. He was later promoted to Field Supervisor, then Acting Manager of Lautoka Mill. In December 1955 he transferred to Nausori Mill, as Acting Manager then Manager. In September 1960 he retired to Sydney and was awarded the MBE. By 1985, Walter Freeman's eldest son and grandson were working at CSR.

The Directors of the Australian Mercantile Land & Finance (AML&F) Company Limited promoted the Freehold Trust Company of Australia in London in 1887 to lend money on mortgages of freehold land. The new company acted as a finance subsidiary of the AML&F Co Ltd with shares held by the British public. Its directors were the same as the AML&F Co Ltd. The Freehold Trust Company of Australia served to release part of the funds of the AML&F Co Ltd until this position became untenable when profits declined and in September 1898 the company was liquidated.

The company was incorporated on 16 June 1932 under the name Freehold and Leasehold Lands Limited with a registered office at 4 Bridge Street, Sydney. Shareholders were members of the Vickery family. It became a proprietary company on 1 March 1937. The company operated Willandra (1932-60), Glenrock (1932-60), Munderoo West (1932-38), Homeboin (1932-35), Borgara (1938-50), and Mitchell Downs (1932-35) Stations. Mitchell Downs was sold to Woorooma West Pastoral Co Pty Ltd in 1935. The New Zealand and Australian Land Co acquired the company in 1960.

In 1920, F B S Falkiner Snr purchased the property from George Osborne. His son, F B S Falkiner Jnr inherited the station in 1929 and the property is still owned by his descendents.