The company was established to takeover the business of Schute Bell & Co Ltd and Keith, Badgery and Lumby Ltd as of January 1937. It was registered in New South Wales on 1 April 1937. In the amalgamation all the shares of Schute Bell & Co Ltd were acquired by the new company. The company was acquired by the New Zealand Loan & Mercantile Agency Co Ltd in 1948.

Geoffrey Sawer was born at Maymo, Myanmar (then Burma) on 21 December 1910. He was educated at Scotch College and the University of Melbourne and was admitted as a solicitor in 1934 and a barrister in 1938. Sawer lectured in Law at the University of Melbourne. He was appointed Dean of the Research School of Social Sciences at the Australian National University in 1949. In January 1950 he was appointed Professor of Law, Research School of Social Sciences and held this position to 1974. Sawer died on 8 August 1996.

Malcolm Sandon was born at Chelsea, Victoria on 16 September 1945 and was educated at Chelsea, Simon Fraser University, British Columbia, Canada where he graduated with a BA (Hons) in sociology and political science in 1975. Sandon returned to Australia to undertake PhD studies and work as a tutor with the Sociology department at La Trobe University 1973-1976; and lectured in the department of Liberal Studies, Swinburne Institute of Technology 1974-1975. He then went on holding the position of Federal Industrial Officer with the Municipal Officers Association in 1976-1982. Sandon joined the Australian Labor Party in 1972 and was president of the Aspendale Branch. In June 1982 he was elected to the Victorian State Parliament as a Labour MP representing Chelsea until 1988; and then represented Carrum from 1988-1996.

Samuel Page & Son Ltd was a London-based provisions trader, especially with East Africa and New Zealand. The firm was bought by Dalgety in 1957.

The company of barley merchants of Royston, Hertfordshire was bought by Henry Franklin Limited in 1963.

Salmond and Spraggon (Australia) Limited was registered as a company on 10 June 1927 following the liquidation of Salmond and Spraggon (Australia) Limited known as the Old Company. The company distributed household cleaning and other goods throughout Australia on behalf of manufacturers. In 1990 the company was taken over by Alberto Culver, a manufacturer of hair and skin products.

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).

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.

Lloyd Maxwell Ross worked as a teacher, writer, trade unionist, journalist, public servant and historian. He was born in Brisbane on 28 February 1901. He was a student at Melbourne University in 1920-1925 and in 1925 joined the staff of the new student newspaper Farrago and in the same year was an inaugural member of the Melbourne University Labor Club. From 1931-1932 Ross was a tutor-organiser in adult education with the Worker’s Educational Association (WEA) and lecturer in Economic History in Dunedin, New Zealand. Returning to Australia he became district tutor in Newcastle for Sydney University in 1933; acting assistant director of tutorial classes in 1934 and in the same year he was elected New South Wales Secretary of the Australian Railways Union (ARU). Ross was State Secretary of the ARU New South Wales Branch from 1935-1943. In the period 1943-1949 he was Director of Public Relations in the Department of Post War Reconstruction and followed this with three years as the industrial writer for the Herald, Melbourne. In 1952 Ross returned to the ARU to begin a second term as Secretary of the New South Wales Branch and retired from this position in 1969. His biography of John Curtin which he had commenced almost thirty years earlier was published in 1977 by Macmillan. Lloyd Ross died on 7 September 1987.

Elizabeth (Liz) Ross is a socialist activist based in Melbourne, Victoria. She was a union delegate in the Department of Social Security for ten years during the Hawke government and a campaigner for women and gay rights since 1972. Ross is author of Dare to struggle, dare to win! Builders Labourers fight deregistration, 1981-94 published by Vulgar Press in 2004.

Douglas Ross was a mature age student in the Faculty of Asian Studies at the Australian National University studying Hindi and Urdu in 1985-1986. The teachers in the introductory Hindi and Urdu course were Senior Tutor in Hindi, Yogendra Yadav, and Senior Lecturer in Hindi, Professor Richard Barz.

The company was registered in Brisbane on 13 May 1923. Its original shareholders included William Henry Young, Horace Walter Herbert, Gilbert Schmidt, Henry William Byram, John Ambrose Walsh, James Francis Fitzgerald and Daniel James Kiley. The company was the proprietor of Rockhampton Downs Station located in the Barkly Tableland District, Northern Territory, from around 1931 to 1941. The station was purchased in August 1941 by the Northern Territory Pastoral Company Pty Ltd, of which William Henry Young, Gilbert Schmidt and Horace Walter Herbert were original shareholders. By November 1945 Rockhampton Downs Pastoral Company Pty Ltd was in voluntary liquidation.

Alexander Roby was Managing Director of the metal smelter and alloy manufacturer, OT Lempriere and Company Limited, from November 1976 until October 1982, having previously held the position of Marketing Manager of the company. He was awarded a Diploma in Engineering at the University of Queensland and served in the Australian Imperial Force until 1946. He founded Rocklea Lead Products Pty Ltd which was taken over by OT Lempriere in 1959 and became Queensland Manager of Lempriere, continuing as General Manager of Rocklea Lead Products Pty Ltd.

Robey and Co was formed by the three directors of the Australasian Sugar Company: Edward Knox, Clarke Irving and Ralph Mayer Robey. The company operated the Brisbane House Refinery (Cooper’s refinery in Parramatta Street) and distillery works from 1853-55. The company was acquired by the Colonial Sugar Refining (CSR) Company in 1855.

Malcolm Robertson, labourer and trade union official, was born at Moyston, Victoria on 25 November 1881 and worked with bullock teams clearing the way in the Grampians for power lines. He enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force on 12 January 1915 serving in England and France. Robertson returned to Australia on 1 April 1919 and moved to Mildura as a linesman for the State Electricity Commission of Victoria, as well as undertaking blacksmithing work. He was a member of the Electrical Trades Union; an organiser with the Mildura branch of the Australian Workers’ Union from 1920; vice-president of the Mildura branch of the AWU in 1938; and vice-president of the Mildura Trades Hall Council. Robertson died on 22 November 1971.

In 1898 an English liability company Robert Reid and Company Limited was formed with Hon. Robert Reid as Chairman (till his death in 1904) and co-Director James Wright both based in Melbourne. Robert Mackenzie Reid, Robert's son, an original director, succeeded him as Chairman and remained in London, with James Wright becoming Managing Director in Australia. In 1909, William Edward Bates, a Melbourne solicitor joined the Board, and it appears that he and Robert Reid were primarily responsible for the formation of the new Australian company, registered in Melbourne in March 1919. The company had warehouses in Melbourne, Sydney, Adelaide and Brisbane. The Adelaide house closed in 1928 with Melbourne then responsible for South Australian trade, along with Perth and Tasmania. In 1940 the Brisbane house became a branch of the Sydney house. In 1936 the business of Joseph Pickles and Son (Sydney) was acquired. Restrictions on wholesale importing during World War II forced the company to expand its retail trade, through Hustlers Proprietry Limited. Chairman Robert Mackenzie Reid died in 1942. His son, Robert Wolstenholme Reid, a member of the Board since 1927, became Chairman in 1953. In 1957 the company was merged with David Murray Holdings Limited to form Reid Murray Holdings Limited, with Robert Reid as Chairman. In 1963 it went into liquidation and in 1966 Robert Reid and Company Limited, 'a trading subsidiary' of Reid Murray Holdings Limited was bought by Ralli Brothers and merged with their old established rivals, Paterson, Laing and Bruce Limited to form Paterson, Reid and Bruce Limited.

Kenneth Rivett was a Senior Lecturer and Associate Professor in Economics at the University of New South Wales from 1960 to 1984, and continued his retirement as an Honorary Visiting Fellow in the Economics School. He was President of the NSW Association of Immigration Reform and the Indo-China Refugee Association (NSW), Chairman of the Australian Institute of Multicultural Affairs 1984-1985, a member of the National Population Council and a Trustee of the Australian Refugee Foundation. His publications include Immigration: Control or Colour Bar? (1962) and Australia and the Non-white Immigrant (1975), books which he edited for the Immigration Reform Group.

Alfred Edward (Ted) Ringwood was born in Kew, Melbourne on 19 April 1930. He attended Hawthorn West State School, then Geelong Grammar School and Trinity College, and the University of Melbourne receiving the degrees of BSc (1st class Honours in Geology) in 1950, MSc with Honours in 1953, and PhD in 1956 . He then took up a Research Fellowship at Harvard University from 1957-1958. In November 1958 he was appointed to the Australian National University as Senior Research Fellow, Department of Geophysics, Research School of Physical Sciences; Professor, Department of Geophysics, Research School of Physical Sciences 1963; Professor of Geochemistry, Department of Geophysics and Geochemistry, Research School of Physical Sciences 1967-1972; Principal Investigator for Lunar Samples, NASA 1968-1985; Professor of Geochemistry, Research School of Earth Sciences 1972-1993; Andrew D. White Professor-at-large, Cornell University 1974-1980; Director, Research School of Earth Sciences 1978-1983. Ringwood died on 12 November 1993.

Malcolm Rimmer is an academic, researcher and writer in the fields of management, industrial relations and human resources. He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts from Oxford University, and an MA from Warwick University, UK. He was a member of the Department of Industrial Relations at Sydney University before working at the Australian Graduate School of Management, University of New South Wales in 1983. Between 1989 and 1994 he was Professor and Director of the National Key Centre in Industrial Relations at Monash University. Between 1995 and 2005 he was Professor of Human Resource Management at Deakin University. Rimmer was appointed Head of the School of Business at La Trobe University in April 2005.

Thomas Henry (Harry) Rigby lectured in Soviet and related studies at the Australian National University and was the founding member and former President of the Australasian Association for Communist and Post-Communist Studies. Rigby joined the ANU Department of Political Science, Research School of Social Sciences in 1954. He held appointments as Senior Lecturer, 15 November 1954; Associate Professor (Russian), Department of Modern Languages, School of General Studies, 1 January 1961; and Professorial Fellow, Political Science, RSSS from 13 December 1963 until his retirement in 1990. Rigby died in Canberra on 21 March 2011.

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.

Professor Roger Wolcott Richardson was born on 30 May 1930 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. He graduated with the degree of BSc, majoring in physics, from Louisiana State University in 1951 and was then conscripted into the US Air Force. In 1958 he completed his PhD studies in geometry and topology from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and accepted an Instructorship at Princeton University, 1958-1960. He was Assistant Professor, University of Washington, Seattle 1960-1963, Associate Professor 1963-1967, Professor 1967-1972, Professor of Mathematics, University of Durham, UK 1972-1977. In 1977 he was appointed a Professorial Fellow in Mathematics at the Australian National University and in 1992, Chair in Mathematics. Richardson died on 17 June 1993.

In 1957 Robert Reid and Company Limited merged with David Murray Holdings Limited to form Reid Murray Holdings Limited, with Robert Reid as Chairman. In 1963 it went into liquidation and in 1966 'a trading subsidiary' of the Company, Robert Reid and Company Limited was bought by Ralli Brothers and merged with Paterson, Laing and Bruce Limited to become Paterson, Reid and Bruce Limited.

James Normington Rawling, political activist and writer, was born on 27 July 1898 at Plattsburg, New South Wales. Rawling served with the Australian Imperial Force from 1916-1919. In 1920 he trained as a teacher and worked in the NSW Education Department. He worked in the steel industry in Newcastle for a number of years. He was involved in reorganising a Rationalist Association in Sydney in 1923 and in 1925 joined the Communist Party of Australia (CPA). In 1928 Rawling returned to a teaching position in Sydney and completed his BA. In 1932 he became a full-time functionary of the CPA. In the same year he became editor of the journal, World Survey, of the League Against Imperialism (LAI). In 1933 Rawling became editor of War! What For?, the journal of the Movement Against War and Fascism (MAWF) and continued to edit the journal and its successor, World Peace, until the end of 1939. He was appointed National Secretary of MAWF in November 1936. From 1934 he worked as a research officer to the Central Committe of the CPA. In this capacity he prepared speakers' notes, wrote articles for The Communist Review, Workers' Weekly, other publications and pamphlets. He gave lectures and talks on European and Australian history and anti-war matters. In December 1939 Rawling was expelled from the CPA. For the next five years Rawling worked as a temporary clerk with the Metropolitan Water, Sewerage and Drainage Board, and was Secretary of the Salaried Division of the Metropolitan Water and Sewerage Employees' Union. In 1945 he resumed teaching, mostly in private schools until 1960 when he rejoined the Education Department. During the 1940s and 1950s he studied early Australian literary history which culminated in the publication of his biography, Charles Harpur: An Australian in 1962. In 1962-63, as a visiting fellow at the Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University, Canberra, he worked on his history of the CPA entitled Communism Comes to Australia. Rawling died on 7 March 1966 in Sydney.

The firm of R A McKillop & Co Ltd, stock and station agents, estate agents and auctioneers was established in Canberra at Civic Centre in the 1930s by Robert Alexander McKillop after he had moved from Cooma where he had been established in a similar business since 1910. McKillop was also partner in the firm of Hain & McKillop, stock and station agents in Cooma. He also operated in Canberra the National Finance and Investment Co Ltd, a money lending and hire-purchasing finance company. The business remained under the control of R A McKillop until it was sold around 1954 to G A and D E Hohnen.

Bob Pringle was born in Queensland in 1922. He moved to New South Wales working as a scaffolder and rigger when he joined the Builders' Labourers' Federation (BLF). Pringle was the president of the New South Wales Branch of the BLF in the late 1960s. As one of the leadership of the NSW Branch of the BLF, along with Jack Mundey and Joe Owens, Pringle was an active supporter of the 1971 green ban in Kelly’s Bush, Sydney. He was expelled from the BLF in 1975 and in 1996.

Charles Archibald Price was born on 20 July 1920. From 1952-1985 he held Fellowships in the Department of Demography, Research School of Social Sciences, at the Australian National University. His appointments in the Department of Demography began from Research Fellow, 13 February 1952; Fellow, 1 August 1954; Senior Fellow, 8 April 1960; and Professorial Fellow from 10 July 1964. Price served effectively on many committees related to immigration and settlement, as an advisor to government. He died on 2 August 2009.

The firm was established by Price Maurice, a pastoralist, who arrived in South Australia aboard the 'Calab Angas' in 1840. He was associated with sheep runs at Pekina, Oladdie, Warrow, Lake Hamilton, and Bramfield on the Port Lincoln Peninsula. In 1870, Price Maurice (1818 - 1894) introduced the Angora goat into Australia and bought Castambul Station in the Mount Lofty ranges for the purpose. In 1874 he took up Mount Eba Station. Later he returned to England for health reasons, leaving Clement Sabine as manager of Price Maurice Estate.

Laurence Raymond Potter was born on 28 June 1914. Potter served in the RAAF during World War II and after the war joined Metal Manufactures Limited. He became Managing Director, Head Office, in 1972 and retired on 30 June 1976 after working over thirty years with Metal Manufactures Ltd.

Val Plumwood was born on 11 August 1939 in Terry Hills, Sydney. She started her first year of Philosophy at Sydney University in 1956 which she resumed in the 1960s. She then held intermittent teaching posts at Macquarie University, Sydney; Murdoch University, Perth; the University of Tasmania; North Carolina State University and the University of Montana. During the seventies Plumwood and philosopher Richard Routley (later Sylvan) published numerous papers in logic and in environmental ethics. She was author of four books: The Fight for the Forests (1973) with Richard Routley, Relevant Logics and Their Rivals (1982) with R Routley, R K Meyer & Ross T Brady, Feminism and the Mastery of Nature (1993) and Environmental Culture: the Ecological Crisis of Reason (2002). At her death she was working on two further manuscripts, The Eye of the Crocodile and Nature in the Active Voice. She completed her PhD thesis from the Australian National University in 1990 and was a member of the Social and Political Theory Program, Research School of Social Sciences at the ANU. She held visiting professorships at the University of California-Berkeley in the US, McMaster University in Ontario, Canada, the University of Lancaster in the UK and the University of Frankfurt in Germany. Val was a Fellow at the Australian National University, first as an Australian Research Council fellow and later as a Visiting Fellow of the Fenner School of Environment & Society. Plumwood died in late February 2008 at her Plumwood Mountain property, near Braidwood, east of Canberra.

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.

John Drysdale Playford was born on 28 March 1935 in the Norton Summit district and was a member of the South Australian political family of Sir Thomas Playford, In 1963 Playford completed his PhD thesis at the Australian National University on the doctrinal and strategic problems of the Communist Party of Australia, after which he lectured in the Faculty of Economics and Politics at Monash University from 1964 and the Politics Department, University of Adelaide from 1972. He was engaged in the Vietnam Moratorium Movement and for many years Playford contributed to Marxist publications. He editor of the Journal of the Historical Society of South Australia, established in 1974, for sixteen years. His publications on Australian politics include Apolitical Politics: a critique of behaviouralism (co-edited with Charles McCoy, 1967), Neo-capitalism in Australia (1969) and Australian Capitalism: towards a socialist critique (with Douglas Kirsner, 1972). Playford died on 23 April 2003.

This firm of wool and produce Brokers and Stock and Property Agents was registered in New South Wales on 8 June 1888. In 1972 it became a wholly owned subsidiary of Scottish Australian Holdings Limited, which was later acquired by Marra Developments Limited in 1974. In 1976 the company became a wholly owned subsidiary of Elder Smith Goldsbrough Mort Limited, operating under its original name.

Pioneer Concrete Services Limited was incorporated in New South Wales on 10 October 1956, and later listed on the Sydney Stock Exchange as a public company in 1959. The Australian based multinational company had operations in 16 countries around the world producing high quality pre-mixed concrete and quarry products, and was one of the largest suppliers of building materials worldwide. In 1961 the company made its first move overseas commencing operations in Hong Kong. In 1962 it began operations in the United Kingdom followed by growth in other parts of Asia and Europe, and into the United States in 1978. In 1980 the company acquired AMPOL Limited as a subsidiary, later moving to ownership in 1988. From 5 January 1989, the company changed its name to Pioneer International Limited to reflect the company's operations in Australia and overseas. The company was taken over by Hanson Australia Proprietary Limited on 24 May 2000.

The company of Peters Bros Wade and Allison (PWA) Pty Ltd was formed by the merger of Peters Bryden and Peters Pty Ltd and A M Mainwaring Pty Ltd. The company which manufactured electrical, truck and farm equipment was registered on 27 September 1945. The company headquarters was in Phillip Street, Redfern, where they remained until 1979. William Henry Peters was appointed the first Managing Director. After Peters' death in 1948, William Wade became Managing Director. New memoranda and articles were signed on 2 February 1948 increasing the share capital. On 2 June 1956 a holding company, PWA Industries Pty Ltd, was established to co-ordinate the operations of new subsidiary companies that undertook the production and marketing of the company's products. In 1969 the manufacture of truck and farm equipment ceased and the company's activities were concentrated on electrical transformer manufacture. On 27 July 1973 Peters Bros Wade and Allison Pty Ltd changed its name to Australian Power and Distribution Industries Pty Ltd. In 1975, the company sold the rights to produce Power King transformers to Tyree Industries Pty Ltd, who also bought the assets of the transformer division in August 1979. PWA Investments Pty Ltd was established to administer the sale and any remaining assets. In 1990 the company's trade-mark and logo was transferred to Australian Power Products Pty Ltd. The remaining manufacturing operation of its General Products division, Australian Power Inc Pty Ltd, was sold to Morlynn Ceramics.

Henry Frederick Penny was born in Bristol, England but later moved to Manchester with his parents. After leaving school at age eleven he was apprenticed to an experimental bicycle maker. Penny studied at several technical and literary subjects at Manchester Polytechnic, and during his 20s he was appointed Chief Electrician at the Belsize Motor factory in Manchester. Penny emigrated to Adelaide in February 1912 with his wife Florence Elizabeth (nee Featherstone), daughter and son. There he became involved in the South Australian single tax movement lead by E J Craigie and based on the writings of Henry George. Penny was president of the Henry George League and also secretary of the New Church Society of South Australia for some time. Many of his colleagues in the Henry George League were also members of this society.

The company was registered in Canberra on 7 June 1961 and acquired the Penfolds group of wine companies, a business founded in 1844 by Dr Christopher Rawson Penfold. Its subsidiaries included Penfolds Wines Pty Ltd, Penfold Wines (Victoria) Pry Ltd, Dalwood Vineyards Pty Ltd, Warrington's Wine Cafe Ltd, Auldana Ltd, Barossa Vineyards Ltd, Modbury Vineyards Ltd, Australian Motel Industries Ltd. The company and its subsidiaries were acquired by Tooth and Company in November 1976 and the company was delisted on 23 March 1977.

The business had its roots in the old Victorian stock and station agents firm of Dal Campbell and Company. From 1884 it went under various managements including Alexander Pearson and H E Rowe, who carried on the business after the death of Pearson. The name of the firm then changed to Pearson, Rowe and Company. When Alexander Smith became a partner the firm's name changed to Pearson, Rowe, Smith and Company. At a later stage Wilson Cameron was admitted to the partnership. After the death of Smith, the firm became a proprietary company in 1914, chiefly from members of the staff of the firm, including C S Wood (Managing Director), P F Rowe (son of H E Rowe), H Boyd (Secretary), J A Burrell (accountant), R A Bear and R McKee. On 18 December 1937 the company was acquired by Goldsbrough, Mort and Co Ltd.

Dennis Charles Pearce is a barrister and solicitor in South Australia and the Australian Capital Territory. His past appointments at the Australian National University include Lecturer, Faculty of Law, School of General Studies, from 17 June 1968; Senior Lecturer from 1 January 1970; Reader, Faculty of Law from 1975; and at various times Dean of the Law School. Pearce was a convenor of the Assessment Committee in conducting the review for the Commonwealth Tertiary Education Commission. He is author of “Australian law schools: a discipline assessment for the Commonwealth Tertiary Education Commission” with Enid Campbell and Don Harding (1987) also known as the “Pearce Report”. He was a member of the Faculty of Law until 1996.

The company was formed by a merger of Paterson, Laing and Bruce Limited and Robert Reid and Company Limited. It operated as a direct subsidiary of Ralli Australia Proprietry Limited from 1966 to July 1970 when it was purchased by Grimley Limited. The parent company changed name to Eastralian Securities Limited in September 1970 and then to ESCOR Limited in January 1974. Paterson, Reid and Bruce Limited ceased trading in December 1979. An ongoing division of the company continued trading as ESCOR Textiles Limited, a subsidiary of ESCOR Limited.

In 1860, John Paterson and Henry C Palmer, both partners of JC Young and Company, purchased the business on JC Young's retirement, and renamed it Paterson, Palmer and Company. The business of Ray, Glaister and Company was then purchased and Briscoe Ray became a partner shortly afterwards and the business was then known as Paterson, Ray, Palmer and Company. In 1876 Paterson bought out the other interests and with James Robert Laing (previously with Laing and Webster) as partner, the firm became Paterson, Laing and Company.

Dr John Pryde Paterson was involved in public administration, particularly water policy reform, and the development and provision of social welfare services. Paterson was born on 23 April 1942 and received a Commerce degree from Melbourne University and a PhD from the Australian National University. From 1963 to 1966 he worked as a research officer and advocate with the Australian Council of Salaried and Professional Associations. He joined the Research School of Social Sciences, Urban Research Unit at ANU in 1967-1970. From 1970-1978 he was Chief Executive of John Paterson Urban Systems then becoming Deputy Direcctor, NSW Department of Environment and Planning 1979-1982; President of the Hunter District Water Board 1982-1984; Director-General, Department of Water Resources in Victoria; Director-General, Department of Community Services Victoria from 1989-1992; Secretary of the Department of Health and Community Services, Victoria.

Frederick Woolnough (Fred) Paterson, barrister and politician, was born on 13 June 1897 at Gladstone, Queensland. He studied at the University of Queensland (BA, 1920) and also enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force from 1918-19. From 1920-22 he took up a Rhodes Scholarship (awarded in 1918) at Merton College, Oxford. Back in Brisbane, in 1923 Paterson joined the Australian Labor Party and Communist Party of Australia. From 1923-1925 he was Teacher and Vice Warden, St Johns School; 1925 worked as a pig farmer in Gladstone. By 1925 Paterson had resigned from the Communist Party of Australia. He contested two State elections (Port Curtis in 1926 and Paddington in 1929 - both unsuccessful) as an Independent. A member (April 1927-November 1928) of the Gladstone Town Council, he was deputy-mayor and chairman of the finance committee; he supported striking railwaymen and waterside workers. In 1928 he moved to Brisbane to study for the Barrister's bar exam. Paterson rejoined the CPA in January 1930 and was arrested for making an allegedly seditious speech in the Brisbane Domain. He was admitted to the Bar on 18 March 1931. In 1932 he started a criminal law practice in Townsville; 1937 was Editor, Communist newspaper, North Queensland Guardian; 1939-44 became Alderman (Councillor), Townsville City Council; 1944-50 won state seat of Bowen and became the first Communist in Australia elected to parliament; 1951 stood for Senate (unsuccessful); 1952 moved to Sydney and started an Industrial Law practice. Paterson retired in 1961 and died in Concord, Sydney on 17 October 1977.

Robert Gumley Osborne, BA and LL B (University of Tasmania), was the first Registrar of the Australian National University appointed by the university’s Interim Council on 30 July 1947. Osborne was University Registrar to 16 March 1949.

The company was incorporated in Brisbane in 1924 to purchase and manage Caiwarro and Currawinya Stations near Hungerford and Eulo, Queensland. In 1950 the company was taken over by the Australian Mercantile, Land & Finance Company Ltd and in 1959 it was put into voluntary liquidation.

Robert Stewart Parker was born on 19 February 1915 in Artarmon, New South Wales. He received his Masters in Economics from the University of Sydney. In 1938 he was appointed Lecturer in Public Administration and Secretary to the Council of the Canberra University College. From 1939 to 1945 he was Lecturer in Public Administration at Victoria University College, Wellington, before returning to Canberra University College as Lecturer in Political Science. From 1949-1954 Parker was Head of the School of Public Administration at Victoria University, New Zealand. Parker began his association with the Australian National University as a Research Fellow in the Social Sciences, Department of Political Science, Research School of Social Sciences from 19 October 1947 to 24 February 1949, then Reader (Public Administration) from 1 March 1954. He was Professor and Head of ANU's Political Science program in the Research School of Social Sciences from 1962 until his retirement in 1978. He was a member of the 1957 Committee of Inquiry into Commonwealth Public Service Recruitment (Boyer Committee), the Interim Council of the Administrative College of Papua New Guinea (1962-69) and the Papua New Guinea Public Services Arbitration Tribunal (1972-73). Parker died on 31 July 2002.

The company was formed to take over businesses that were founded in 1829, and were initially merchants, indentors, importers and agents, becoming a major supplier of local and imported timbers for the building and furnishing industries. The company established merchant houses in Australia, the United Kingdom and Papua New Guinea. Formerly known as James Henty & Co, the company was incorporated in Melbourne on 5 February 1932. By 1977, the company was acquired by Parbury Henty Holdings Limited and operated as a subsidiary to the Holdings company until it was delisted from the Australian Stock Exchange in 1991.

This company was incorporated in Victoria in 1928 to take over the interests of a family business of shoe manufacturers known as Paddle Brothers which operated in Victoria. Its activities included exporting and importing, and were largely confined to childrens' footwear manufacturing. In 1974 the company was acquired by Paddle Shoes (Holdings) Pty Ltd.

Thomas Miles Owen completed his degree in commerce from the University of Melbourne and began lecturing in accounting at Canberra University College in March 1939. Owen was Registrar of Canberra University College from 27 March 1939 to 1960 when the college amalgamated with the Australian National University. On 9 March 1962 Owen was appointed Associate Registrar, School of General Studies at the ANU. He was also secretary for the Building and Grounds Committee. He retired in January 1968. He was a Fellow of the Australian Society of Accountants. Owen died in Canberra on 22 March 2005.

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.

John Henry O'Neill was born on 30 August 1888 at Sandy Bay, Tasmania. He was apprenticed in the printing trade and also worked on riverboats, in sawmills and as a fruitpicker. In 1907 he joined the Carters and Drivers' Union. O'Neill became state secretary of numerous unions including the Carters and Drivers' (1916-1942); the Electrical Trades (1917-1953); Storemen and Packers' (1917-1951), Gas Employees' (1918-1951), Meat Industry Employees' and Miscellaneous Workers' unions, and the Federated Confectioner's Union (1944-69). O'Neill joined the Hobart Trades Hall Council in 1917 and was its secretary from 1927-1967. He was secretary of the Eight Hours Day Committee from 1921-1967. O'Neill died on 23 January 1971 at Howrah, Hobart.

Peter O'Dea was a former Australian Building and Construction Employees and Builders Labourers Federation (ABCE&BLF) ACT Branch Secretary and President of the the ACT Trades and Labour Council during the 1980s. He was a member of the Federal Management Committee of the BLF through the 1970s and 1980s. In the late 1980s he was a member of the Disputes Committee, ACT Trades and Labour Council. As ACT Branch Secretary of the BLF, O'Dea was actively involved in the dispute over the 1986 deregistration of the BLF.

Dr Robert Norton is Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Anthropology, Faculty of Arts, at Macquarie University, Sydney. He was appointed as one of the foundation members of staff in anthropology at Macquarie in 1969. Since 1966 Norton’s major area of research has been ethnicity and politics in Fiji. He has made numerous field studies in Fiji, most recently between 1993 and 1998, including one year while teaching at the University of the South Pacific.

The company was incorporated as a Limited Company in Darwin on 23 July 1941. Its original shareholders were Henry Schmidt, Gilbert Schmidt, William Henry Young, Horace Walter Herbert and Henry Herbert Antcliff. On 9 August 1941 the company purchased the pastoral lease of Rockhampton Downs Station from Rockhampton Downs Pastoral Company Pty Ltd. The station was later acquired by the Australian Agricultural Company through AA&P Joint Holdings Ltd in 1948. The Northern Territory Pastoral Company Pty Ltd was deregistered on 13 December 1996.

The company was incoporated in South Australia on 15 March 1882. The company came into existence to acquire land at Byno Harbour and the land immediately behind this area during the expansion of the Northern Territory by South Australia in the 1880s. The land was never farmed or grazed, a large area was sold in 1963 and the remaining areas of land were disposed of in 1973. The company was deregistered on 30 November 1988.

Alexander Stewart Norquay was born in Chatswood, New South Wales, on 26 June 1932. Norquay received a BA from University of Sydney and a B Ec from the Australian National University. From 1950-1959 he worked for the Commonwealth Bank and then worked with the National Farmers' Union from 1959-1969. He was on the NSW Advisory Committee on Safety in Rural Industries, 1961-1967; Secretary of the Australian Farmers' Union, 1969-1971; Director of Research & Finance, National Farmers' Federation, 1979-1983; Manager of Financial Services, Chamber of Manufacturers of NSW, 1983-1990. Since 1991 Norquay has worked as an accountant and business consultant.

Originally owned by H B Hughes, the station was owned by the Hughes family for 120 years until it was purchased in 1990 by Consolidated Pastoral Company. This company still operates the station.

The company was formed in April 1912 to acquire the assets of Blair Athol Northern Coal Mines Ltd. Blair Athol is a coalfield and town northwest of Clermont in Central Queensland, which held one of the largest deposits of black coal. The original shareholders were mainly Brisbane business people, accountants, auctioneers, architects and sharebrokers. John Fisher, who was employed by the previous company, was the mine manager. Sometime after his dismissal, J F Hall was appointed supervising manager, with T D Jones as working manager.

The mining company was registered in New South Wales on 19 April 1877. The company owned Whitburn Colliery, and collieries at Merewether, Victoria Tunnels and Maitland District, Greta Seam. The company wound up voluntarily on 23 March 1949.

This company acquired the Newcastle Permanent Investment and Building Society which was originally registered in 1870. It was registered as the Newcastle Building and Investment Company Ltd on 24 June 1896. The company was acquired by Sorby's Limited in November 1957.

The Newcastle and County Mutual Building, Land and Investment Company was registered in 1886 for the purpose of acquiring lands in New South Wales, and building or renovating houses and buildings for lease or for sale. It also received money on deposit, and loaned money on the mortgage of freehold and leasehold securities. The company changed its name in 1957 to County Building & Investment Co Ltd. In early 1959 all the shares of County Building & Investment Co Ltd were purchased by Finance & Guarantee Co Ltd.

The New Zealand Sugar Company Limited was formed on 23 June 1883 and operated Chelsea Refinery in Auckland from September 1884. Equal shares were held by the Colonial Sugar Refining (CSR) Company, Victoria Sugar Co, and New Zealand business interests. The first manager was J E Brewster until 1887. His successor W W Philson continued as Auckland Manager for CSR Co Limited after the company was amalgamated with CSR Co Limited in 1888.

The company was registered in England in April 1865. In July 1893 the company suspended business and was again, after reconstruction, incorporated on 10 May 1894. The company's share registers were in London, Melbourne and Wellington. The Australian Head Office and a branch was established in Melbourne in 1875 and in 1880 commenced wool selling activities. Australian branches and agencies were also set up in Sydney (1876), Brisbane and Rockhampton (1884), Adelaide (1886), Townsville (1898), Albury, Longreach, Geelong (1956). In 1889 the Australian operations were separated from those of New Zealand, with David Elder becoming the first general manager for Australia. On the retirement of Elder in 1903 a Local Board of Advice was established to advise and support senior management in Australia. At the same time the Australian Branch was formed. The number of sub-branches and agencies grew after 1945. The company also had extensive interests in New Zealand and in South Africa (1930-1960). The company acquired a number of smaller firms and also formed new subsidiaries; New Zealand Loan Properties (Australia) Pty Ltd (1952); New Zealand Land Nominees Pty Ltd (1957); New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency (Produce) Ltd (1957). In 1961 the company merged with Dalgety and Company Ltd to form Dalgety and New Zealand Loan Ltd.

The company was formed on 15 June 1916 and was owned by both Tooth & Co Limited and Tooheys Limited. On 20 June 1916 Tooth & Co Ltd and Tooheys Limited entered into an agreement to sell to the company the business of the Brewers Bottle Association. The company supplied bottles to the two brewery companies and also ran a bottle recovery system in New South Wales, with operations in Tamworth, Taree, Dubbo, Queanbeyan and Wagga Wagga. Secondhand bottles were recovered from Butler & Norman Pty Ltd, J McCarthy & Co Ltd and other independent merchants. New bottles were purchased from the Australian Glass Manufacturers Co and Glass Containers Ltd. The company was deregistered on 9 July 1990.

Hyland Neil (Hank) Nelson was born on 21 Oct 1937 in Boort, Victoria. He undertook his BA (1958), DipEd (1959), BEd (1962) and MEd (1966) at Melbourne University. He then worked as a teacher and lecturer in Victoria 1960-1965. Nelson worked as a tutor at the Administrative College of Papua New Guinea 1966-1967, and a Lecturer in History at the University of Papua New Guinea 1968-1972. He completed his PhD (1976) on gold mining in Papua New Guinea at the University of PNG. Nelson's association with the Australian National University included positions as Research Fellow in History, Research School of Social Sciences 1973-1974; Senior Research Fellow in Pacific and Southeast Asian History, Research School of Pacific Studies 1975-1976; Fellow 1976-1981; Senior Fellow1981-1993; Professor in Pacific and Asian History 1993; Professor, History Program, Research School of Social Science 1994-1997. Nelson retired in 2002 and was appointed Professor Emeritus, Visiting Fellow, Division of Pacific and Asian History, and Chair, State Society and Governance in Melanesia Program at the Australian National University. His research focused mainly on the history of Papua New Guinea, looking at a wide range of themes including education, independence, mining, health, missionaries, World War Two and Australian POWs. Nelson died in Canberra on 17 February 2012.

This company (NPA ITAB) was established to service the vocational education and training outcomes of the public administration industry. The National Competency Standards for Public Administration was developed under the company. It was registered as a public company on 28 August 1995 and deregistered on 21 September 1999.

The National Finance & Investment Co Ltd, a money lending and hire purchase financing company was registered as a public company on 16 March 1936. Robert Alexander McKillop, of R A McKillop and Co Ltd, held interests in the company and was Director of the company. The company was deregistered on 21 May 1956.

Anjeli Catherine Nathan was born in Mallorca on 18 March 1975 before moving to Canberra with her family. Nathan began her undergraduate years as a Science/Arts student at the Australian National University in 1993. In 1995 she took a semester off to work for Dr Rob Magrath as a field assistant on his project on white-browed scrub wrens. In June 1997 Anjeli began her honours course under the supervision of Professor Andrew Cockburn and his PhD student Sarah Legge. Her Honours research led to her thesis "Sibling Rivalry in the Laughing Kookaburra (Dacelo novaeguineae)”. She graduated with First Class Honours and the University Medal in 1998. Nathan died on 3 November 1999 while on a field research project in South Africa. The Anjeli Nathan Memorial Scholarship was established to promote the study of field-based biology in Botany and Zoology at The Australian National University.

S H H Naqavi is a geographer from the Department of Geography, University of Dacca, Pakistan. Naqavi completed a Masters thesis from the University of North Carolina in 1954.

Maurice (Maurie) Mulheron was a signalman with the New South Wales Railways. On 1 April 1938 he joined the Australian Railways Union (ARU) becoming secretary of the NSW Signalmen's Section of the ARU. From 1964-1981 he was the ARU's NSW State Branch Councillor; 1967-1969 NSW State vice president; 1971-1981 Metropolitan Traffic Councillor; Australian Councillor; National Rules Committee; ARU representative on the Signal Box Reclassification Committee. Mulheron was a delegate at State Branch Conferences of the ARU and at the first National Convention held in Albury-Wodonga in 1978. He was president of the Public Transport Union's Retired Members Organisation from about 1994-1995. He is author of Fifty Years of Signalling: History of the Signalmen's Section 1936-1986, printed by the Australian Railways Union. Mulheron died in April 2001.

The company, a subsidiary of BHP Co Ltd, acted as Manager on behalf of members of the Mt Newman iron ore project in Western Australia 1964-1985, a joint venture of Amax Iron Ore Corp; Pilbara Iron Ltd; Dampier Mining Co Ltd; Seltrust Iron Ore Ltd; and Mitsui-C Itoh Iron Pty Ltd.

In 1883 the Mount Kembla Coal and Oil Company opened the Mount Kembla Colliery. Its Chairman was Ebenezer Vickery of E Vickery & Sons Ltd, who owned the Mount Keira Colliery in Wollongong, NSW. In 1913 the mine was taken over by Mount Kembla Collieries Ltd who operated the mine until 1946 when BHP became the owners. In 1955, the Mount Keira and Mount Kembla mines were joined by an underground tunnel, and Kemira Colliery was established incorporating both mines.

Mining operations commenced at Mount Keira in 1848 operating as the Albert mine but this mine was abandoned in 1858. A new mine known as the Osborne Wallsend Colliery was opened in 1857 by Henry Osborne. From 8 November 1899 to 1937 the colliery was owned by E Vickery & Sons Ltd. BHP took over the colliery in March 1937. In 1955 Mount Keira and Mount Kembla mines were joined by an underground tunnel, and Kemira Colliery was established incorporating both mines.

A partnership consisting of the grandchildren of William Gauld Davies and Marjorie Grant Davies, who were partners in W G Davies & Co, purchased an aggregation of three pastoral leases known as Mt Edinburgh in October 1960. They traded as Mt Edinburgh Grazing Co until Mt Edinburgh was sold in 1973.

The wine, liquor and general merchant company was established by Moses Moss with an office and store in Wynyard Lane, Sydney by 1858. After Moses' death in 1883, Louis Phillips became the principal of the firm. The company advertised throughout Australia focussing on the Dutch product Wolfe's Aromatic Schnapps. In 1946 its office was in Reiby Place, Sydney. Moses Moss & Co was later owned by Walter Cavel and Crawford & Co. Cavel's holdings were purchased by Universal Groceries who were bought out by G J Coles around 1955.

The company was first established in 1843 when Thomas Sutcliffe Mort established Mort & Co as an auctioneering and brokering business specifically focusing on selling wool. In 1888 Mort and Company Limited amalgamated with R Goldsbrough & Co to form the firm Goldsbrough Mort & Co Ltd. The history of the firm falls into three periods: Mort & Co (Old Firm), 1862 - 1870; Mort & Co (New Firm), 1867 - 1883; Mort & Co Ltd, 1883 - 1888.

G S Mol was a member of the Engineering Workshops at the Engineering School, Bruce College of TAFE. He is a locomotive and railway enthusiast and was a member of the Australian Railway Historical Society, ACT Division.

James William Hunt founded the society in 1871 and was the company's manager for over 30 years. The company was one of the largest building societies in Melbourne. From 1888, its new offices were located on Collins Street, Melbourne.

Charles Louis Mobbs was born on 23 August 1902 at Middlesex, England. He attended St Olave's Grammar School in London and in 1924 graduated from the University of London with a Bachelor of Commerce. He commenced working for the Commonwealth Bank of Australia's London Office before migrating to Australia in 1938. He worked for the Commonwealth Bank in Sydney and in 1946 wrote Commonwealth Bank of Australia in the Second World War which was published in 1947. Mobbs held several offices in the Commonwealth Bank Officers' Association (CBOA) and edited the association's journal. At the CBA he became head of Exchange Control and in 1957 relocated to Melbourne for two years to take up the position of Central Banking Officer. Mobbs was in the CBA's London Office in 1959 during the split of the CBA from the Reserve Bank of Australia, after which he returned to the Reserve Bank in Sydney. Later in his career he spent two years in Nigeria, one year in Sierra Leone and six months in Ghana assisting with exchange control legislation. Charles Mobbs retired around 1967 and subsequently wrote Conciliation Can Work: A History of the Commonwealth Bank Officers' Association, published in late 1968. He died on 20 January 1994 at Mona Vale, New South Wales.

The Mittagong Maltings Works was originally established by the Maltings Company of NSW (Ltd) and operated from August 1899. Tooth and Company Limited purchased the Mittagong Works in 1905 and produced the malt used in Tooth & Co breweries in Sydney. The early 1940's was an active period, with output of malt being approx 200,000 bushells annually. This output was severely restricted following a large fire in August 1942, which completely gutted No.2 Malthouse and damaged No.1. The No.1 Malthouse was returned to service early in 1943. The No.2 Malthouse was completely rebuilt during the early 1950's and recommenced active operation in 1953. Operation continued normally until another fire gutted the No.3 Malthouse in 1969. Tooths & Co continued to operate at the site until 1980, when the works were closed and the site sold to a group of local business people.

Dr Bruce Mitchell was born in Newcastle on 3 October 1935 and graduated with a BA from the University of Sydney in 1957. He taught history at Richmond and Blacktown Boys' high schools and lectured at Sydney Teachers College in the 1960s before completing his PhD at the Australian National University Research School of Social Sciences in 1969. He was a member of the NSW Teachers' Federation and NSW History Teachers Association, and was on the NSW Committee for History in Schools in the 1960s-1970s. In 1970 Mitchell was appointed as a Lecturer (later Senior Lecturer) in the Department of History, University of New England (UNE). In 1975 Mitchell published a major study on the history of education: Teachers, Education and Politics: A History of Organizations of Public School Teachers in New South Wales. He was Dean of Arts at UNE from 1976-1978, and retired from the university in 1994. He died on 12 October 2009.

Mitchell & Co Pty Ltd, manufacturers of farm equipment, was founded in 1891 by John Mitchell. In 1958 the company was acquired by Horwood Bagshaw Limited which operated until 1989.

In 1937 the Mirrool Wineries Co-operative entered into an agreement with Hanwood Wine Exports Limited, whose Directors were Jack McWilliam and Doug L McWilliam, to lease its winery premises.
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Ken Miller joined the Communist Party at the age of 20 attending his first Young Communist League branch meeting in 1934. Miller became secretary of the Young Communist League and secretary of the League of Young Democrats, and was a full-time organiser. He campaigned against fascism and was twice prosecuted by the Menzies government for his political activities. During World War II he served in the 14th Infantry Battalion reaching the rank of corporal. In 1943 and again in 1945 he stood as a Communist candidate for the Melbourne seat of Clifton Hill at the Victorian state elections, but was unsuccessful. After the war, Miller moved to Richmond where he was district organiser, and first stood for the election to Richmond Council in 1946 but was never elected. Miller stood as the Communist Party candidate for the federal seat of Yarra in 1951, 1954, 1955, 1958 and 1961. By the late 1940s Miller was a member of the State Committee of the Party and in 1949 he was appointed editor of the Communist Party newsletter, The Guardian. He later became a member of the Central Committee of the Party. Miller was editor of The Guardian until 1962 when he was purged from the Central Committee of the Party during the 'revisionism' debates. He then went to work for barrister Ted Hill as an articled clerk. Ken Miller died in 1963, aged 50.

Merryville Pty Ltd, a family company, was founded in 1937 by Sir Walter Thomas Merriman. Merriman, who was managing director of the company, bred a type of Merino known today as the Merryville type. After Sir Walter Merriman's death in 1972 his son Bruce became managing director until his death in 1988.

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.

Dr Sam Merrifield, labour historian, was born in Moonee Ponds, Victoria on 6 February 1904. He joined the Australian Labor Party(ALP) in 1922 and was an active member. He worked as a surveyor for several Victorian government departments and was Commissioner of Public Works and President of the Board of Land and Works, 1952-1955. He entered the Victorian Parliament in 1943 as ALP MLA for Essendon, then to the seat of Moonee Ponds in 1945, lost his seat in 1955, and served as an ALP MLC for Doutta Galla, 1958-1970. He was involved in many community organisations and was awarded an honorary Doctorate of Letters by Monash University in 1973. Merrifield was a founding member of the Melbourne branch of the Australian Society for the Study of Labour History. He died in August 1982.

The company was a nominee company of the New Zealand and Australian Land Co Ltd.

A pastoral property in the Parkes district of New South Wales later owned by John David Hill and his family. Previous stock and station owners for Mercadool station include Firebrace & Co and the executors of R E Firebrace (c. 1893 - c. 1907); Field and Moses Brothers (c. 1915 - c. 1923); A P Hunter and A P Hunter & Sons (c. 1925 - c. 1950). In June 1950 the property was purchased by Harold John Hill who ran the property with his son John David Hill, as J H Hill & Son, until his death in 1956. J D Hill managed Mercadool until he died in 1991.

Leslie Galfreid Melville was born on 26 March 1902, studied economics at Sydney University (while also studying as an actuary), and obtained his first job in 1924 as Public Actuary for South Australia. In 1929, he was appointed Inaugural Professor of Economics at Adelaide University. In March 1931, Melville was appointed as the Economist to the Commonwealth Bank, a position he held until 1950 when he became Australia’s Executive Director at the International Monetary Fund and World Bank. In 1953, he left the Commonwealth Bank to take up an appointment as Vice-Chancellor of the Australian National University, a position he held until 1960. From 1960-1963, he was appointed Chairman of the Tariff Board. He subsequently served as a member of the Development Advisory Service of the International Bank and, from 1966 to 1974, Chairman of the Commonwealth Grants Commission. Melville died on 30 April 2002.

The McKillop family operated as graziers and later horticulturalists at Buddah Station, Narromine NSW from 1863 to 1974. In 1906 the family partnership of McKillop & Sons was established and originally consisted of George McKillop and his sons Royden and Norman. Under the management of Royden McKillop, orange and apple orchards were established in 1911 and 1918 respectively. In 1955 McKillop & Sons was incorporated, with McKillop & Sons Pty Ltd owned by various shareholder companies which were in turn owned by members of the McKillop family. In late 1974, Buddah Station was sold to Amatil Ltd's pastoral subsidiary, the Naroo Pastoral Company Pty Ltd, and later to new companies operating as Glen Buddah Pty Ltd (in 1979) and Buddah Pty Ltd (in 1995). McKillop & Sons Pty Ltd was formally liquidated on 10 September 1982.

Don McHugh was ACT Organiser for the NSW Branch of the Australian Builders Labourers Federation (BLF) from 1964-1969. He was the first Secretary of the ACT Branch of the Australian Building Construction Employees and Builders Labourers Federation (ABCE&BLF) when it was established in 1973. McHugh was President of the Trades and Labour Council of the ACT from 1966-1969. In January and February 1976 McHugh and the ACT Branch executive of the ABCE&BLF decided to amalgamate with the ACT Branch of the Building Workers' Industrial Union of Australia (BWIU). The Federal Council of the ABCE&BLF opposed the amalgamation, intervened in the ACT Branch and appointed Peter O'Dea as Branch Secretary. By the end of the year the amalgamation had broken down and McHugh remained with the ACT Branch of the BWIU as an organiser.

John McGuire interviewed Edgar Ross and Claude Jones, both were members of the Communist Party of Australia, in 1991. McGuire also wrote the entry for Max Nordau Julius for the Australian Dictionary of Biography.

Ron McGann was employed by the Sydney County Council and the Electricty Commission of New South Wales from 5 March 1945 to 7 October 1988. He was compulsorily transferred to the Electricity Commission of NSW on 1 January 1952, under the Electricity Commission Act 1950. He worked as a Senior Drafting Officer, Power Projects in Sydney and was member of the NSW Public Service Professional Officers' Association. McGann was actively involved in the dispute over unpaid sick leave and long service leave entitlements to ex-employees of the Sydney County Council on retirement. In 17 March 1987 the Industrial Commission of NSW upheld an appeal on behalf of ex-Sydney County Council employees confirming their entitlement to increased long service leave in accordance with an August 1981 award.

In 1912 the partnership of McDowell & Hughes Limited, drapers and costumiers of George Street in Sydney, was registered as a limited company which was reconstructed as McDowells Ltd in 1920. The company was originally established by John McDowell and Robert W Hughes. Frank McDowell, son of John McDowell, joined McDowell & Hughes and became manager of the shop. In 1925 the drapers W T Waters & Co Ltd was acquired by McDowells Limited. In 1971, the company was taken over by McDowells Holdings Limited.

Norma Ruth McArthur received a degree in mathematics from the University of Melbourne (1941) before spending a few years of statistical work in wartime administration and industry. In 1945 she joined the Department of Experimental Medicine at Melbourne University. In 1949 she took up a position as Assistant Lecturer in Demography, University College, London. McArthur came to the Australian National University in 1952 as a member of the Department of Demography, Research School of Social Sciences, 1952-1970. During her time in the Department of Demography she led a round of censuses taken in 1956 in Fiji, Tonga, Samoa and the Cook Islands and later became consultant to other island territories including the Solomons in 1959, the Gilbert and Ellice in 1963 and the New Hebrides in 1967. She was Research Fellow, Fellow, Senior Fellow and Professorial Fellow in Prehistory, Research School of Pacific Studies (RSPacS) 1970-1974; PhD Student in Pacific and Southeast Asian History, RSPacS 1975-1980; and appointed Senior Research Fellow. At the time of her death she was Visiting Fellow in the Department of Pacific and Southeast Asian History. McArthur died on 17 January 1984.

Dr Thomas Mautner joined the Australian National University as Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Arts on 10 January 1965. He was appointed to Senior Lecturer on 1 July 1972. His teaching and research interests have include history of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century philosophy, moral and political thought, natural law, and natural rights. He is editor of the Dictionary of Philosophy (1996) and the Penguin Dictionary of Philosophy (1998). Since 1999 Mautner has been Visiting Fellow of the Department of Philosophy at the ANU.

The business was established in 1872 by Mauri brothers, Joaquim and Jose, for growing and manufacturing cork, and importing goods and equipment for the cordial and aerated water trade. In 1895 the firm was sold to Ninian Miller Thomson and in 1898 the London Office of Mauri Brothers was sold to Butler Bros. In 1899 Antonio San Miguel, of cork importers A San Miguel & Co, acquired an interest in Mauri Brothers & Thomson (Sydney) while Thomson and Edwin Charles Gutteridge became co-partners in the Melbourne firm of Mauri Brothers & Thomson. In December 1904, Gutteridge’s interest in Mauri Brothers & Thomson and the Melbourne company of spice and essence manufacturers, Harrison San Miguel & Co, was bought out by Thomson, Antonio San Miguel and Harold Furley Harvey. The company was registered as Mauri Brothers & Thomson Ltd in New South Wales on 28 February 1905. Thomson was appointed Managing Director and John William Pickworth appointed Secretary. The company’s registered office was transferred to 46/48 York St, Sydney on 20 March 1905 and in 1906 the Mauri Bros & Thomson Engineering Works was transferred from 36 York St to Bourke St, Waterloo. The Engineering Works manufactured filters and crowners, soda fountains, ice cream making machines, egg whisks, dough and cake mixers, complete baking plants, chilling and carbonating cylinders for beer, and automatic bottle washing machinery. In September 1907 the company purchased the goodwill and process of manufacturing malt extract from Samuel, Ernest and Percy John Cornwell of Cornwell’s. In 1913 the company began the production of crown seals under the brand Pinnacle Crowns.

In 1924 the company purchased the Australian and New Zealand patent rights for manufacturing compressed yeast and spirits from Danish firm, Dansk Gaerings Industri. In December 1929, an agreement was made between the company, F A Henriques Ltd (Vic) and the Atlas Seal Company to form the Australian Seal Co Pty Ltd. F A Henriques Ltd was later acquired by the company in October 1930. From July 1931 the company’s bottled vinegar section was amalgamated with Champions Vinegar Co (Australia) Ltd. During 1937-38 negotiations were completed with Stevenson & Howell Ltd for an association between the two companies for the manufacture under English patents and trademarks of ‘Pinnacle’ and ‘Red Ball’ essences. The company purchased rights to use the trademarks Pinnacle, Champion’s and Cornwell’s.

In June 1952 new subsidiary companies were registered for each state using the name Mauri Brothers & Thomson. The company acquired shares in Dominion Compressed Yeast Co Ltd in September 1954, Daniel Scott Industries Ltd (1958), Barrett’s Yeast Holdings Ltd (1959), Raleigh Preserving Co Ltd (1959), Pick-Me-Up Food Products Ltd (1961), Progressive Engineering Co Ltd (1961), Colbro Holdings Ltd (1967) and Associated Foods Ltd (1974). Mauri Bros & Thomson Ltd were acquired by Burns, Philp and Company Limited on 24 February 1982.

Professor Matthews completed a BA with Honours in 1970, and a PhD in 1979 at Adelaide University. Matthews taught history at Flinders, Adelaide, Sydney and Wollongong universities before being appointed Lecturer in the Women's Studies Program at ANU in 1984. Jill Matthews was the Foundation Director of the ANU Centre for Women’s Studies from 1995 to 1997, and was Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Arts from 1998 to 1999. In 2004 Matthews became Head of the History Program, ANU School of Social Sciences, and was Head of the School from 2008 to 2010. In 2011, she was appointed Head of the School of Cultural Inquiry, Research School of Humanities and the Arts, ANU.