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Mildura Trades Hall Council

  • Trade union

The Mildura Trades Hall Council was a regional Trades and Labour Council coordinating campaigns and providing advice for unionists in Victoria's northern regions.

Left Book Club Co-Operative Limited

  • Corporate body
  • 1988 - c. 1994

The Left Book Club Co-operative Ltd was formed on 19 July 1988 in New South Wales. The clubs main object was to challenge the New Right ideas and to promote socialist ideas, principles and values. The first directors of the Club were Jennifer Wilkinson, Ted Wheelwright, David McKnight, Robin Gollan, Vera Deacon, Abe David, Christine Brunt (Secretrary), Allan Ashbolt, and Laurie Aarons (Chairperson).

Sudlow, Richard

  • Person
  • 1918 - 2001

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

Sydney Stevedores Association

  • Association
  • 1900 - c. 1912

In August 1900 “the stevedores of [port Sydney] finding that they were working at different hours and paying different wages formed an Association with the object of framing regulations to which all the members agreed to adhere and which were simply designed for the purpose of fixing the hours of labour of their workmen and their rates of pay – objects beneficial alike to the labourers themselves, the shipowners and the stevedores”. (Letter of C L Cowper, Chairman of the S.S. Ass. to the editor Fair Play, 30 April 1901, attached to the minutes of the meeting on 30 April 1901). Some time during 1902 the name was changed to Sydney Stevedores’ Wool-dumping and Lighterage Association, Industrial Union of Employers.

Farrell, Edward F

  • Person

Edward F Farrell, BA Dip Ed, worked for the Catholic Church in Adelaide for about 15 years from 1945 to 1960. He also served as Secretary of the Newman Institute of Christian Studies, and was a senior lay officer of the Catholic Social Studies Movement in Adelaide. The Catholic Social Studies Movement (CSSM) or 'The Movement' was established in Melbourne in 1942 to co-ordinate Catholic resistance to Communism, especially in the trade unions. An executive committee was established consisting of B A Santamaria (Assistant Director of National Secretariat of Catholic Action in Melbourne), H M Cremean (Deputy Leader Victorian ALP) and N E Lauritz. In Sydney the main organiser was Dr P J Ryan (Sacred Heart priest, Catholic Social Science Bureau, Adult Education Institute). The Movement caused a split within the ALP during 1954-55, with Dr Evatt, on the left, and the Movement-influenced section of the ALP, on the right. The latter split away and formed the Democratic Labor Party (DLP). In 1956 the CSSM became a more lay organisation, the Catholic Social Movement. After the Vatican response in 1957, that the Movement had to be reformed, the Paulian Association, an educative body, was established to replace the old Movement. In 1960 Farrell received a Papal Honour. Farrell worked continuously for The Movement and the Newman Institute ­until he returned to teaching in late 1964.

Business and Professional Women’s Club of Canberra

  • Professional association
  • 1954 - c. 1987

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

Australian Academy of Law

  • Professional association
  • 2007-

The Australian Academy of Law (sometimes called the AAL) is a broadly based body, comprising individuals of exceptional distinction in the discipline of law who are committed to the advancement of that discipline and to justice according to law in Australia.

Wood, William Arnold Whitfeld

  • Person
  • 1911 - 1976

William Arnold Whitfeld (Bill) Wood was born on 3 December 1911 in Sydney and was the son of historian George Arnold Wood (1865-1928) and Eleanor Wood. Wood was educated at Sydney Grammar School; Sydney University; and was Rhodes Scholar at Balliol, Oxford from 1932-1935. He graduated with a BA in 1936 and an MA in 1946. He worked on the Western Morning News, Plymouth in 1935; Sydney Daily Telegraph 1936; Labour Daily, Sydney in 1938. He ran unsuccessfully as a Labor candidate for the seat of Parramatta in the September 1949 Federal election; as State Labor candidate for Drummoyne in 1941 and for Willoughby in 1943; Communist Party candidate for North Sydney in 1947 and 1956; and Communist Party candidate for Mosman in 1959. He was Editor of Progress 1942-1945 before joining the Royal Australian Artillery as a gunner in 1945. Wood was a member of the Communist Party of Australia and in 1947 he became Foreign Editor of the Tribune, a newspaper published by the CPA. From 1969-1976, Wood worked as a Librarian at the Fisher Library, Sydney University.

Federated Pastrycooks Employees, Biscuit Makers Employees and Flour and Sugar Goods Workers Union of Ausralia

  • Trade union
  • 1911 - 1993

The Pastrycooks were the first established industrial organisation in Victoria around the turn of the century, created in the hope of achieving State intervention to set minimum wages through the Wages Board system. The pastrycooks subsequently joined up with the industrial unions of biscuit factory employees and allied trades to form the Pastrycooks Employees' Biscuit Makers Employees' and Flour and Sugar Workers' Union of Victoria. The Union was registered federally in 1911 as the Federated Pastrycooks Biscuit Makers Ornamenters and Flour and Sugar Goods Union of Australia, this union operated for six years before changing name in 1917 to the Federated Pastrycooks Employees' Biscuitmakers Employees' and Flour & Sugar Goods Workers' Union of Australia. In 1975 the union became the Pastrycooks Bakers Biscuitmakers and Allied Trades Union. This union was amalgamated into the Australian Liquor Hospitality and Miscellaneous Workers' Union in 1993.

Australian Data Archive

  • University unit
  • 1981 -

The Australian Data Archive (ADA) was established at the Australian National University in 1981 and provides a national service for the collection and preservation of computer readable data relating to social, political and economic affairs. The ADA is a consortium managed by the ANU and includes partner nodes at the University of Melbourne, University of Queensland, University of Technology Sydney and University of Western Australia.

ANU Labor Club

  • University association
  • c. 1963 -

The ANU Labor Club is a social and political student club made up of supporters of the Australian Labor Party.

Crawford, Janet Elspeth

  • Person
  • 1943 - 1978

Janet Elspeth Crawford was born on 6 January 1943 in Roseville, New South Wales. She was the daughter of Sir John Grenfell Crawford and his wife, Jessie. She studied at the Canberra Church of England Girl's Grammar School, c. 1953-1954; Presbyterian Ladies College, Pymble, NSW c. 1955-1957 and achieved her leaving certificate, Canberra High School, 1960. She graduated with a Bachelor of Science from Sydney University in 1965. She died on November 1978 in Canberra.

Boot, HM (Mac)

  • Person

Dr H.M. (Mac) Boot joined the staff of the Economic History Department at the Australian National as a lecturer in 1970. He retired as Head of Department in 2002 to join the School of Demography in the ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences (then called Demography and Sociology Program in the Research School of Arts and Social Sciences) where his research interests moved to British historical demography. During the last ten years or so Dr Boot’s time in the department of Economic History his interests focussed mainly on the history of wages and human capital formation between the mid-18th century and the late 19th century. This interest yielded four articles published in the Economic History Review between 1991 and 2006 on the relationship of relative growth earnings to the timing and relative improvement in human capital. An important sub-theme was the timing of the onset of sustained increases of the earnings between middle class and working class occupations, particular between the late 1780s and the 1850’s and , where possible, between men and women. These differences have long been the basis of significant differences in the interpretation of the Industrial Revolution and relative distribution of its benefits to different social classes in Britain.

Boot’s comparisons of middle class and working class earnings show how middle class earnings began to rise significantly earlier and faster that average working class earnings, and that male earnings in the cotton textile industry were significantly higher than female earnings even in similar occupations, though the male/female wage gap closed sharply between the late 1860s to the 1890s as the growing productivity of key male occupations in the industry increased the demand for adult female workers, whilst reducing the level of male skill required to maintain a give quality of their output. (EHR, ‘New Estimates…’, 2006). His belief was that the interpretation of increasing differences between earnings growth are easily distorted, partly because working class earnings are expressed as an average of many different occupations with a wide range of required skill levels and wage earnings. The great need was to identify the earnings of specific occupation groups. For example, the required levels of skill for men working, and their earnings, in the Boulton and Watt factories in Birmingham, increased rapidly in the late 18th century, whilst those of common labourers remain almost unchanged until well into the 19th century. Boot spent the last two years or so of his time in the Economic History Department collecting data from company archives and other sources of wage earnings between 1780 and 1850. His collection forms the greater part of this archive.

Connell, John H

  • Person
  • 1946 -

John Connell completed his PhD (Arts) at the University College, London (UCL), in 1973. Following a research project in Bougainville, Papua New Guinea, he took up a lecturing position at the University of Sydney, where he has been a human geographer for over 20 years. His research interests are concerned with geographic, political, economic and social development in villages in developing countries, especially in the South Pacific region and other small island states – New Caledonia, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Fiji and Tuvalu, as well as Iran, Africa and Asia. His interests include rural development, rural migration, poverty and inequality, urbanisation, decolonisation and nationalism, the cultural geography of music, literature, food, sport, festivals and tourism, and more recently, medical tourism.

John Connell was elected Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences of Australia in 2000 and in 2007 won the New South Wales Geographical Societies McDonald Holmes Medal. He is ‘well known internationally as a key thinker in tourism studies, a scholar of popular music, a historian of the Pacific, and a consultant to the highest levels of the United Nations on international migration’. This quote is taken from his Citation for the Australia-International Medal, which he received in 2009. John Connell has been a consultant to the WHO (World Health Organisation), the South Pacific Commission, the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank, United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization, and the International Labour Organization.

A prodigious scholar, an inspirational teacher and ‘grass-roots ’ thinker, John Connell, has authored no fewer than 74 books and mentored a large number of students who have become leading academics, journalists, politicians and policy makers in Australia.

Clarke, William Carey

  • Person
  • 1929 - 2013

William Clarke graduated with a BA degree in anthropology, MA and PhD in geography from the University of California, Berkeley. Clarke began research in the Pacific Islands in 1964 as a member of a National Science Foundation research project ‘Human ecology of the New Guinea rainforest’. On the basis of his year’s research among the Maring people of the remote Simbai Valley, he wrote a PhD thesis in geography, which was later published as Place and People: An Ecology of a New Guinean Community (University of California Press, 1971). He taught for a year at the University of Hawai’i and then took up a Research Fellowship in the Department of Human Geography in the Research School of Pacific Studies at the Australian National University. He was then appointed geography professorships at the University of the South Pacific in Fiji, Monash University in Melbourne, and the University of Papua New Guinea.

Crittenden, Robert

  • Person
  • c. 1940 -

Dr Robert Crittenden first went to Papua New Guinea in 1978 to conduct research for his PhD at the Australian National University, which he received in 1982. The title of his PhD was 'Sustenance, seasonality and social cycles on the Nembi Plateau, Papua New Guinea'. He lived in the Nembi Plateau area in the Southern Highlands and worked as a public servant with the Southern Highlands Provincial Government in the Department of Agriculture. After several years he returned to Australia but went back to Papua New Guinea regularly as a agricultural consultant and then as an AusAid consultant. Spending over 30 years in Papua New Guinea, his research interests were in agriculture, land use and food supply, malnutrition and diet.

Lawrence, David Russell

  • Person

Dr David Lawrence is an environmental anthropologist who has worked in Papua New Guinea, Indonesia, the Solomon Islands and Finland. He has academic qualifications in Asian history, political science, languages and in museum curatorial practice and librarianship.

David’s doctoral research examined the traditional and contemporary aspects of economic ties between Torres Strait Islanders and coastal Papuans.

In Australia he was Coordinator of the Torres Strait Baseline Study for the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority and later was commissioned to write on the nature and development of Aboriginal joint management in Kakadu National Park.

Among his publications are: Customary Exchange across Torres Strait (Queensland Museum 1994) Kakadu: the making of a national park (Miegunyah Press 2000); The Great Barrier Reef: finding the right balance (Melbourne University Press 2002) and most recently, Gunnar Landtman in Papua, 1910 to 1912 (ANU Press 2010).

Between 2005 and 2007 David was Research Coordinator on the Community Sector Program Community Snapshot: a national survey of 300 rural communities across the Solomon Islands. The final reports, Hem nao, Solomon Islands, tis team, were presented to AusAID in 2007. In 2005 he was a Frederick Watson Fellow at the National Archives of Australia and in 2010 he was Scholar-in-Residence at the National Film and Sound Archive.

He is currently a Resident Visiting Fellow at the Resource Management in Asia Pacific program at ANU and a consulting anthropologist on the 2010 and 2011 RAMSI People’s Surveys in the Solomon Islands.

E Whiteaway and Company

  • Corporate body
  • c. 1917 - c. 1944

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

Gruen, Fred Henry George

  • Person
  • 1921 - 1997

Fritz Heinz Georg Grün was born in Vienna, Austria on the 14 June 1921 and, in 1936, left Vienna, on the £200 legacy of an uncle, to receive an English education at Herne Bay College. In 1940, during the second world war Gruen, along with a large number of other German Jewish interns from the UK, arrived in Australia on board the Dunera. They were sent to an internment camp at Hay in country New South Wales. After he was released, in 1942, Gruen studied economics part time at the University of Melbourne. He started as a research officer in the New South Wales government Department of Agriculture and worked as an agricultural economist from 1947 until 1959. From 1959 to 1963 he was Senior Research Fellow, Department of Economics at the Australian National University (ANU), later, Professor and Head, Department of Economics, ANU. From 1964 to 1972 Gruen was Professor of Agricultural Economics at Monash University and in 1972 took up the Chair in the Economics Department of the Research School of Social Sciences of the ANU and founded the Centre for Economic Policy Research at the ANU. From 1973 Gruen was a part-time Consultant in the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. Gruen retired from his position as ANU Chair in 1986 and died in Canberra on 29 October 1997.

Braisby, Arthur L

  • Person

Arthur L Braisby was a police inspector and Civil Police Commander in colonial Western Samoa from the 1920s to 1940s.

Templeman, Ian

  • Person
  • 1938 - 2015

Ian Templeman was born in 1938 in Western Australia. Templeman was Assistant Director-General at the National Library of Australia from 1990-1997. In 1997 Templeman founded Molonglo Press and in 1999 he took up a new appointment at the Australian National University to set up and head Pandanus Books, the publishing, marketing and promotion unit in the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies. Templeman died in Canberra on 3 November 2015.

McDonald, Arthur Leopold Gladstone

  • Person
  • 1898 – 1981

Arthur Leopold Gladstone McDonald was the first University Librarian of the Australian National University. McDonald took up the position in May 1948, after having served as Deputy Librarian at the University of Melbourne for some years. Developing the library from scratch, he presided over the transfer of some 40,000 volumes to Canberra in early 1951, and by the time of his retirement from the University in 1960, the collections totaled over 200,000 volumes. McDonald died in Canberra on 14 January 1981

Trades and Labour Council of the Australian Capital Territory

  • Peak council
  • 1931 -

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

UnionsACT

  • Peak council
  • 2002 -

Formerly the Trades and Labour Council of the Federal Capital Territory

Amalgamated Engineering Union (UK)

  • Trade union
  • 1920 - 1967

The history of the union can be traced back to the formation of the "Old Mechanics" of 1826, which grew into the Amalgamated Society of Engineers (ASE) in 1851. The ASE was one of the 'New Model Unions' of the 1850s-1870s. These unions, which also included the Ironfounders, Builders, and Carpenters' societies, rejected Chartism and the ideas of Robert Owen in favour of a more moderate policy based on 'prudence', 'respectability' and steady growth. Great importance was attached to the question of finance, as substantial funds would not only provide maintenance for members involved in strike action, but also help to deter the employers from attacking the organisation. Since its members were skilled and relatively highly paid, it was possible for the ASE to charge contributions of one shilling a week and to build up a fund of unprecedented proportions. In 1852 and 1896, the ASE was involved in extended national lockouts which greatly weakened the organisation. Many local and regional unions joined the ASE in subsequent years and in 1920, after the acquisition of nine fresh member unions, the name of the organisation was changed to the Amalgamated Engineering Union. The AEU continued to grow and absorb smaller unions. Its largest membership growth came during the Second World War when its all-male membership voted to admit women for the first time and 100,000 joined almost immediately. However, the AEU also lost its overseas branches in Australia, New Zealand and South Africa, who became independent unions. The AEU merged with the National Union of Foundry Workers (NUFW) in 1967 and the Draughtsmen and Allied Technicians' Association (DATA) in 1971 to form the Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers.

Kennett, Brian Leslie Norman

  • Person
  • 1948 -

Brian Kennett BSc BA PhD is Professor of Seismology, ANU College of Physical and Mathematical Sciences. He was Director from September 2006 to January 2010. He received his Ph.D. in Theoretical Seismology from the University of Cambridge in 1973. He was a Lindemann Fellow at IGPP, University of California, San Diego and then a University Lecturer at the University of Cambridge. He moved to Australia in 1984, and was President of IASPEI from 1999-2003.

Bammer, Gabriele

  • Person

Gabriele Bammer BSc BA PhD is Professor, National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, Research School of Population Health, ANU College of Medicine, Biology and Environment. Between 2011-13 she was Director of the ANU's Research School of Population Health, Director of the National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health and co-Director and then Director of the Australian Primary Health Care Research Institute.

Amalgamated Society of Engineers, Machinists, Millwrights, Smiths, and Pattern Makers

  • Trade union
  • 1851 - 1920

The Amalgamated Society of Engineers was formed in 1851 through proposals drawn up by three unions, the Old Mechanics, the Steam Engine Makers' Society and the General Smiths. However, because some branches of the unions involved failed to ratify the amalgamation the union formed with only 5000 members (less than the membership of the Old Mechanics). Over the following year many of the societies gradually decided on formal amalgamation including the New Society of Millwrights; the Old Society of Engineers and Machinists of London; the London Smiths; the Steam Engine Makers' Society; the United Machine Workers' Asssociation; the United Kingdom Society of Amalgamated Smiths and Strikers; the Associated Brassfounders', Turners', Fitters' and Finishers' Society; the North of England Brassfounders' Society; the Amalgamated Instrument Makers' Society and the Amalgamated Society of General Toolmakers, Engineers and Machinists. By the end of 1851 the number of members had increased to 10481 and the birth of one of the most influential unions in the United Kingdom was complete. However, almost immediately the union was nearly bankrupted through the engineering lock-out of 1852 where employers demanded that workers sign a declaration stating they would not join a trade union movement. After three months the union relented and the men returned to work but from this setback the union recovered quickly (so much so that by 1861 it consisted of 236 branches). The union continued to grow in the following years until in 1920 when the Amalgamated Society of Engineers along with seventeen other Unions joined together to form the Amalgamated Engineering Union.

Woodford, Charles Morris

  • Person
  • 1852 - 1927

Charles Morris Woodford C.M.G (Companion of the Order of Saint Michael and Saint George), British naturalist, was born in Milton, near Gravesend, Kent on 30 October 1852. In 1881 he travelled to Fiji to collect natural history specimens for the British Museum and later travelled and explored the Western Pacific region, particularly the Solomon Islands. He led three expeditions to the Solomon Islands in1886, 1887 and 1888 and collected over twenty thousand specimens on the first two trips. He became the first Resident Commissioner of the British Solomon Islands protectorate from 1896 - 1914. In 1899, he married Florence Palmer, the daughter of John Palmer of Bathurst, New South Wales. Following his retirement in 1914, he returned to England and died at Steyning, Sussex, on 4 October 1927. Woodford was a Fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute, a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, member of the British Ornithologists’ Union and the Hakluyt Society. His experiences are described in his book, A naturalist among the head-hunters (1890).

Amalgamated Metal Workers' Union

  • Trade union
  • 1973 - 1976, 1985 - 1991

The Amalgamated Metal Workers Union originally formed in 1973 from the amalgamation of the Amalgamated Engineering Union, the Sheet Metal Working, Agricultural Implement and Stovemaking Industrial Union of Australia, the Boilermakers' and Blacksmiths' Society of Australia, and the Federated Jewellers. In 1976 the union amalgamated with the Federated Shipwrights' & Ship Constructors' Association of Australia to become the Amalgamated Metal Workers & Shipwrights Union. In 1983 it joined the Federated Moulders (Metals) Union of Australia to become the Amalgamated Metals Foundry and Shipwrights' Union. It reverted to the name Amalgamated Metal Workers' Union in 1985 and operated until 1991 when it amalgamated with the Association of Draughting Supervisory & Technical Employees to become the Metals & Engineering Workers' Union.

Brown, Archibald

  • Person
  • 1917 - 2002

Professor Archibald Brown was born at Greenock, Scotland, on 8 November 1917. He completed his MA in 1939 with first class honours in Mathematics and Astronomy at the University of Glasgow and his PhD in 1946 from the University of Cambridge. During the second world war he worked in the statistical research section for the Ministry of Supply in London, then took up academic posts at the University of Cambridge Observatory as Assistant Observer 1946-1948; Commonwealth Fund Fellow at the Yerkes Observatory, University of Chicago 1948-1959; Senior Lecturer in Mathematics, University of Melbourne 1950-1959 and Reader in Mathematics 1960. Professor Brown was a foundation member of the Australian Mathematics Society in 1956, a fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society and a member of the Edinburgh Mathematical Society. He was appointed Professor and Head of the Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Arts at the Australian National University in February 1961. From February 1964 he was the inaugural Head of Applied Mathematics (later under the Faculty of Science) remaining until he retired in 1982. He was a Visiting Fellow in the Department of Theoretical Physics at the ANU from 1983-2001. Professor Brown died in Canberra on 20 August 2002.

Bellamy, Jennifer A

  • Person

Jennifer Bellamy is a Principal Research Fellow in the School of Natural and Rural Systems Management, University of Queensland, St. Lucia. Formerly a Principal Research Scientist (Resource Governance) CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems, she has over 30 years experience in research on regional resource use management and planning, both in Australia and overseas. In particular, she has lead a number of major interdisciplinary research projects on the social and institutional aspects of regional natural resource management and planning including the evaluation of natural resource management governance within the framework of regional sustainable development (source: ANU Press).

Spurway, John T

John T. Spurway completed his thesis Ma'afu : the making of the Tui Lau at the Australian National University, and is author of Maàfu, prince of Tonga, chief of Fiji : the life and times of Fiji's first Tui Lau.

Granger, Ken

  • Person

Ken Granger studied at the University of Papua New Guinea circa 1968 undertaking his honours thesis.

Coppel, William Andrew

  • Person

William Andrew Coppel was Fellow, Senior Fellow and Professorial Fellow in the Department of Mathematics, Research School of Physical Sciences, from 30 December 1961. Coppel was Professor in the Research School of Physical Sciences and Engineering to 1995.

New South Wales Teachers' Federation

  • Trade union
  • 1919 -

In 1918 various New South Wales teachers' associations such as the NSW Public School Teachers' Association, the NSW Public School Assistant Teachers' Association, the Women Teachers' Association, the Headmasters' Association, the Manual Training Teachers' Association and the Sewing Mistresses' Association, met to discuss the likelihood of an amalgamation. The result was the founding of the New South Wales Teachers' Federation in 1919. Without rivals it gained and held the loyalty of most teachers throughout the 1920s. Despite a lull in membership during the Great Depression years, the NSW Teachers' Federation formally linked itself to the state and national trade union movement during World War Two by affiliating with the NSW Labour Council and the Australian Council of Trade Unions. After the war large salary gains were achieved and about 90% of teachers became members of the union. The New South Wales Teachers' Federation was instrumental in lobbying the government of the day to introduce equal pay for women in 1958 and 1963. The NSW Teachers' Federation is affiliated with the Australian Education Union, constituting its NSW Branch whilst retaining its separate identity.

In October 2015 the union changed its name from The New South Wales Teachers Federation to the Australian Education Union New South Wales Teachers Federation Branch.

Eureka Youth League

  • Association
  • 1941 -

The Eureka Youth League was formed in 1941 with the aim of supporting the war effort while protecting the rights and conditions of women, youth and juveniles in industry.
By October 1942 the State Council of the League had announced its intention to 'draw into its ranks the clearest thinking youth of our generation. We aim to help the labour movement win the youth for the advance to the new socialist order and to train our members to be honest, clear thinking and energetic builders of the new socialist order.'
Post-war the League acted as an educational, social and political organisation, one highlight being the organisation of the Youth Carnival for Peace in 1952.

Pan-Pacific Trade Union Secretariat

  • Trade union
  • 1926 -

The Pan-Pacific Trade Union Secretariat (PPTUS) was established as a result of a Pan-Pacific Trade Union Conference organised by the Labor Council of New South Wales held in September 1926 (see 'In the Case of Oppression: the Life and Times of the Labor Council of New South Wales p. 200), although a conference held the following year, 1927, in China has also been suggested as the time of the PPTUS's establishment.

University Preschool and Child Care Centre Incorporated

  • Association
  • 1969 -

The proposal to establish a child care centre on campus began in 1967 when ANU staff requested the ANU General Staff Association to investigate child care services. As a result of the University agreeing to provide space, the University Preschool and Child Care Centre was opened in March 1969. The Centre is an association incorporated under the ACT Associations Incorporation Ordinance 1953 and parents whose children are currently enrolled in the Centre are members of the Association with voting rights.

Gilson, Richard

  • Person
  • 1925 - 1963

Richard Gilson was born in Eugene, Oregon in 1925. He was awarded a Fullbright Scholarship to New Zealand in 1949 and was enrolled at the Victoria University College in Wellington where he began his studies of New Zealand, the Cook islands and Western Samoa. Gilson left Wellington in August 1950 and completed his Masters thesis on the Cook Islands at the London School of Economics. He was appointed Research Fellow, Department of Pacific History, Research School of Pacific Studies 1952-1957. Gilson died on 29 April 1963, as a result of a heart attack. His research on Samoa culminated in the book, Samoa 1830-1900, published posthumously in 1970. Gilson’s thesis on the Cook Islands was also prepared for publication as The Cook Islands 1820-1950 (1980).

Cambridge Australia Trust

  • Association
  • 1983 - 2010

The Australian Committee of the Cambridge Commonwealth Trust was inaugurated at a meeting at Yarralumla convened by HRH the Prince of Wales in March 1983. Sir Mark Oliphant was appointed the first Chairman but resigned after a few months and was followed by Hon. Peter Howson who remained in the position until 1996. The Cambridge Australia Trust, as it became known, encouraged donations particularly from Cambridge graduates to fund scholarships for Australian students who wished to study at Cambridge University in England. Early donors to the trust included Kerry Packer of Australian Consolidated Press and Coles Myer Limited. Its funds are managed through the Australian National University. The association was incorporated in 2010 as Cambridge Australia Scholarships Limited, a not-for-profit company limited by guarantee.

Australian Partnership for Advanced Computing

  • University unit
  • 1999 - 2007

Early in 1999, the Board of the Australian Partnership for Advanced Computing (APAC) was established under the chairmanship of Professor David Beanland, followed with the appointment of the foundation Executive Director, Professor John O’Callaghan. APAC was formally launched late in 1999 through a partnership of organisations, and consortia of organisations to fund a National Facility and building of expertise and education programs in the use of advanced computing in research. APAC operated in two phases. Its first phase, funded largely from the Australian Research Council comprised the establishment of the National Facility— hosted through the ANU Supercomputing Facility. The second phase of APAC operations (2004–07) were funded through the System Infrastructure Initiatives of the Commonwealth Government. In 2007 APAC was replaced with the National Computational Infrastructure.

ANU Centre for the Mind

  • University unit
  • 1997 - 2006

The Centre for the Mind was launched on August 1997 by neurologist and author Oliver Sacks, and was a joint venture of the Australian National University and the University of Sydney. The Centre headed by Professor Allan Snyder, with Nelson Mandela as the Millennium Fellow and Dr Oliver Sacks the Foundation Fellow focused on research into creativity, the brain and mind. The ANU Centre closed when Professor Snyder relocated to the University of Sydney at the end of 2006.

Paterson, Laing and Bruce Limited

  • Corporate body
  • 1879-1966

In 1876 John Paterson bought out partners Henry C Palmer and Briscoe Ray in the company Paterson, Ray, Palmer and Company and with James Robert Laing (previously with Laing and Webster) as partner, formed Paterson, Laing and Company. A London office was established in 1878 in Australian Avenue, St Giles without Cripplegate. In 1879, John Monro Bruce (resident partner of George Webster and Company) became a partner with the firm assuming the name Paterson, Laing and Bruce. In 1893 the partnership included Paterson, John Robert Laing (son of James), JM Bruce, George Williamson Bruce, John Glaister Paterson, and Thomas James Amour Clark. In 1897, JM Bruce acquired the other interests and converted the business to a limited liability company, Paterson, Laing and Bruce Limited. The company was registered in London in January 1898 with two branch houses in Melbourne and London. In 1899 the businesses Lark, Sons and Company Limited (Sydney) and R Lewis and Sons (Hobart) were acquired and a Sydney office established. In July 1901 the newly formed company Paterson, Laing and Bruce (1901) Limited took over the old company, registered in England, but in November 1903 the name reverted to Paterson, Laing and Bruce Limited. In February 1966, the company merged with Robert Reid and Company Limited to form Paterson, Reid and Bruce Limited, a direct subsidiary of Ralli Australia Proprietry Limited.

Hegarty, David

  • Person

David Hegarty is a Visiting Fellow in the State, Society and Governance in Melanesia (SSGM) Program at ANU, having been Convenor of SSGM from 1998 – 2008.
David was Senior Lecturer and Chairman of the Political and Administrative Studies Department at the University of Papua New Guinea from 1970 – 1982, during a period of significant change as Papua New Guinea transitioned from colonial status to Independence. His wife, Susan Hegarty, taught English and History at the Port Moresby High School in the 1970s and early 1980s, and tutored in the Department of Extension Studies at the University of Papua New Guinea.

He has had considerable experience in the Australian government having held positions working on PNG and Pacific affairs in the Office of National Assessments, the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet, in Foreign Affairs and Trade, and as the Australian High Commissioner to Samoa in the late 1990s. He was appointed to lead the international peace monitoring team in the Solomon Islands during that country’s inter-ethnic turbulence and disorder in the early 2000s.

Research and lecturing interests focussed on political change, the development of governing institutions and structures, and of popular participation in the processes of building a new state and nation. He has had a long standing academic interest in the politics of small island states having spent a year earlier in his career as a graduate scholar at the University of the West Indies in Jamaica.

Publications during his career have included an edited book on electoral politics in Papua New Guinea covering the first national elections following Independence; a long running political chronicle of Papua New Guinea through the 1970s to the mid-1980s; scholarly articles on political parties, local governance and development issues in Papua New Guinea and the Pacific Islands.

Atchison, John Francis

  • Person

Dr John Atchison graduated in 1968 from the University of New England, NSW. In 1973 he submitted his PhD thesis at ANU on 'Port Stephens and Goonoo Goonoo - A review of the early period of the Australian Agricultural Company, 1824-1849'. He was Lecturer at the Armidale College of Advanced Education, then became Professor in Australian History at the University of New England, a position he held until 2011. He was Chairman, Committee for Geographical Names in Australia and was on the Board of the International Council of Onomastic Sciences. He was also on the Editorial Advisory Board for the Cambridge University Press journal, Rural History: Economy, Society, Culture.

University Co-op Credit Society Limited

  • Corporate body
  • 1965 - 1996

The University Co-operative Credit Society Ltd, was established by staff members of the Australian National University in 1965. The union, which was formed after almost two years of preparation by a special committee, was registered under the ACT Co-operative Credit Societies Ordinance, and was controlled by a board of honorary directors. In 1996 the University Co-operative Credit Society and Credit Union Canberra merged to form the Credit Union of Canberra.

Australian Vice-Chancellors’ Committee

  • Peak council
  • 1920 - 2007

The Australian Vice-Chancellors’ Committee (AVCC) dates back to May 1920, when Vice-Chancellors at Australia's then six universities met in Sydney and established a committee and secretariat. On 22 May 2007 the AVCC was replaced by Universities Australia as the peak body representing the university sector.

Royal Astronomical Society

  • Professional association
  • 1820 -

The Royal Astronomical Societ (RAS) was established on 10 March 1820 with the first meeting of the Council and the Society in London. The Society assumed its name on 7 March 1831 after a Royal Charter was signed by William IV. The original objectives of the Society was the promotion of astronomy and geophysics. The Society's three main functions of maintaining a Library, organizing scientific meetings, and publishing journals continues.

Jabal Indigenous Australian Centre

  • University unit
  • 1989 - c. 2001

The Jabal Indigenous Australian Centre provided a meeting place for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students studying at the Australian National University in Canberra, as well as student support services, recruitment and exhibitions. The Centre opened in May 1989 as the Aboriginal Liaison office and Students Support Centre. Bob Randall was the Centre's first Aboriginal Liaison Officer. By 1993, it became known as the Jabal Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Centre with Ms P Kemp-Elliott appointed as Director. After 2001, the Centre became known as the Tjabal Indigenous Higher Education Centre.

Hutton, Mary Anne

  • Person
  • 1862 – 1953

Mary Anne Hutton was awarded an honorary doctorate degree in Literature in 1933 from the National University of Ireland. Hutton's translated manuscript of the Tain was published as The Tain: An Irish Epic Told in English Verse (Dublin: Maunsel, 1907).

Gillion, Kenneth L

  • Person
  • 1929 - 1992

Kenneth Gillion was born in Palmerston North, New Zealand on 8 February 1929. In 1949 he graduated with a BA in History from Victoria University College of Wellington and two years later with an MA First Class Honours. In 1952 he was a Fulbright and Smith-Mundt Scholar and earned his second MA in International Relations from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. Gillion joined the New Zealand Department of External Affairs and New Zealand diplomatic service until moving to Canberra in 1955 as a graduate researcher at the Australian National University. His PhD, completed in 1958 formed the basis of Gillion's first book, Fiji's Indian migrants: a history to the end of indenture in 1920, published in 1962. After his doctorate he went on to work in the History Department at the University of Western Australia, 1958-1962; then at the University of Adelaide, 1963-1973; and as Senior Research Fellow, Research School of Pacific Studies, ANU from 1973 until his retirement in 1978.

Stewart, Christine

  • Person

Christine Stewart was awarded a BA Hons degree from Sydney University, majoring in Anthropology and Indonesian & Malayan Studies, which was followed by a year's study in Jakarta before moving to Papua New Guinea, where she received a law degree at the University of Papua New Guinea. She then worked as a legal officer with the Papua New Guinea Law Reform Commission. Stewart was a PhD scholar in the Gender Relations Centre, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies and was awarded her PhD from ANU in July 2012 for her thesis ‘Pamuk na Poofta: criminalising consensual sex in Papua New Guinea’. Stewart co-edited the volume Engendering Violence in Papua New Guinea, with Margaret Jolly.

Wurm, Stephen Adolphe

  • Person
  • 1922 - 2001

Stephen Adolphe Wurm was born in Budapest, Hungary on 19 August 1922. Wurm completed his PhD in 1944 at the Oriental Institute of the University of Vienna in Turkic Languages and Anthropology. He was a lecturer in Altaic linguistics at the University of Vienna until 1951 then accepted a position in London to help set up the Central Asian Research Institute. In 1954 Wurm accepted a research fellowship in Oceanic Linguistics in the Anthropology Department of Sydney University and in 1957 accepted an appointment as Senior Fellow in Linguistics at the Australian National University. In 1961 he was a foundation member of the Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies and became Chairman of the Linguistics Committee. In 1967 he was the first elected president of the Linguistic Society of Australia and the Australian representative on the UNESCO Comite International Permanent de Linguistes. When the new Department of Linguistics was established at the Research School of Pacific Studies, Wurm was appointed its first Professor and Head of Department. He retired in 1987 but remained actively involved in the field of linguistics right up until his death on 24 October 2001 in Canberra.

Steele, Edward John

  • Person
  • 1948 -

Ted Steele received his PhD in Immunology in 1976 (University of Adelaide) for research on immunological mechanisms against diseases of microsal surfaces such as cholera. He then began a post-doctoral fellowship at the John Curtin School of Medical Research at the Australian National University, studying mechanisms of antibody diversity and anti-immune reactions. In 1977 this post-doctoral work continued at the Ontario Cancer Institute in Toronto, Canada (through to 1980) and during these years his interests in immunology became intimately involved with general evolutionary mechanisms as well as with the growth of knowledge and the philosophy of science. Steele’s work on the theory of evolution aroused considerable interest, criticism and controversy and, in 1980-1981 he spent a post-doctoral year in London (Clinical Research Centre, Harrow) where the controversy surrounding his studies reached a peak. In 1981 Steele returned to Australia to continue post-doctoral studies at the John Curtin School of Medical Research. In 1985 Steele took a lectureship at the University of Wollongong, where he was able to continue his work and to rise to the position of associate professor. From the late 1900s Steele began to publicly voice his concerns over the marking standards and academic management at the University and, on 26 February 2001, he was summarily dismissed from his tenured post of associate professor in the Department of Biological Sciences for 'breaking an employment relationship'. This ‘unfair dismissal’ issue was resolved on 6 July 2002 when Steele and the University of Wollongong came to a confidential agreement. Although little is known in regard to the settlement, Steele did not return to the University. Ted Steele was Honorary Visiting Fellow John Curtin School of Medical Research, 1986-2003 and Research School of Biological Sciences, 2003-2009 and, in 2010, Research Director of CY O'Connnor ERADE Village Foundation, Canning Vale, Western Australia.

Unemployed People's Union, Sydney

  • Trade union
  • c. 1978 - 1981

The Unemployed People's Union organisation in Sydney first formed in Parramatta in 1978 to represent unemployed workers. The name was chosen because of the "Up You" acronym and its membership was drawn mostly from unemployed young people. An Inner City group of UPU formed soon after the Parramatta group.

Burns Philp and Company Limited

  • Corporate body
  • 1876 - 2006

The origins of Burns, Philp and Company Limited can be traced to the partnership between James Burns and Robert Philp formed in 1876. The company was incorporated in Sydney on 21 April 1883 with Burns and Philp as joint Managing Directors until Philp resigned from the Board in 1892. By the end of the 1880s the company had branches in Townsville, Normanton, Burketown, Thursday Island, Cairns, Charters Towers, Sydney, Brisbane and London. By this date the interests of the company included merchandising, shipping with its own vessels, and as an agent for the Australasian United Steam Navigation Company (AUSN), and insurance, with the establishment of the North Queensland Insurance Company as a subsidiary in 1886. In 1886 Burns and Philp agreed to run a mail steamer from Thursday Island to Port Moresby where a branch was established in 1890. In 1889 the company diversified into plantation ownership with the formation of the Australasian New Hebrides Company which purchased about 80,000 acres of land in the New Hebrides. In the late 19th century and early 20th century the company extended its area of interest from Melanesia to the Central Pacific, Fiji, Tonga and Samoa. In 1908 a branch was established in Java at Samarang and in 1915 a branch in Wellington. Burns Philp Company of San Francisco Inc was set up in June 1917. To consolidate its interests in acquiring plantations, the company formed subsidiary companies to run and manage plantations. Hall Sound Co was formed in 1900, the Solomon Island Development Co in 1908, Shortland Island Plantations Ltd in 1910, Choiseul Plantations Ltd in 1911, New Britain Plantations Ltd and New Ireland Plantations Ltd were established in 1930, and Kulon Plantations Ltd and New Hanover Plantations Ltd in 1931. The company set up subsidiaries to control geographic areas of operations, the largest being Burns Philp (South Sea) Company Limited which was incorporated in March 1920. In 1946 two other major subsidiaries were established, Burns Philp (New Hebrides) Ltd, and Burns Philp (New Guinea) Ltd. Burns Philp (Norfolk Island) Ltd was set up in 1973. In the 1930s the company moved into urban retailing and established the company Penneys Ltd which was sold to Coles in 1956. From the 1960s the company's shipping activities declined following the Commonwealth Government's decision to withdraw the shipping subsidy. The company moved into the manufacture of food and beverages, photographic and electrical goods, vehicle sales and rental, distribution of home building materials, hardware, liquor wholesaling and provision of financial investment and trustee services. Takeovers have included A J Chown Holdings Limited (1973); Yencken Glass Industries Limited (1973); Ira Berk Limited (1976); Sun Electric Consolidated Limited (1976); Mauri Bros & Thomson Limited (1982); and Nock & Kirby Holdings Ltd (1983). The company was delisted from the Australian Stock Exchange in December 2006 having been acquired by Rank Group Australia Pty Limited.

Inglis, Amirah

  • Person
  • 1926 - 2015

Amirah Inglis was born on 7 December 1926 in Brussels and migrated to Melbourne in 1929. She was educated at MacRobertson Girls' High School and graduated from the University of Melbourne with a BA Hons in history, later studying at Canberra University College. Inglis was a member of the Communist Party of Australia from 1945-1962. From 1948 to 1950 she worked on the Communist weekly, The Guardian. She has worked as a Librarian, research assistant and as a teacher in Australia and Papua New Guinea. Inglis has written essays, articles and reviews including two books on Papua New Guinea, and Australians in the Spanish Civil War (Allen & Unwin, 1987) which she researched while at the Australian National University in 1986.

A B Pursell and Sons Proprietary Limited

  • Corporate body
  • 1886 - 1974

This firm of insurance brokers was established in 1886 by Archibald Benjamin Pursell and registered in 1903 as AB Pursell and Company. In 1920, by then operating in both Sydney and Brisbane, it reconstituted as AB Pursell and Sons Ltd. In 1974 the company was acquired by Manor Holdings Limited, Australia and in 1975 by Alexander Howden Insurance Brokers (Australia) Limited.

Smith, Francis Barrymore (Barry)

  • Person
  • 1932 - 2015

Francis Barrymore (Barry) Smith completed an MA from University of Melbourne and PhD from Cambridge University. He joined the Department of History, Research School of Social Sciences at the Australian National University as Senior Fellow from August 1966 and was promoted to Professorial Fellow in 1975. After retiring in 1997, he continued as a visiting fellow. Smith has published books concerned with British and Australian social and medical history.

Parker, Charles Ernest (Don)

  • Person
  • 1885 - 1968

Don Parker was New South Wales President of the Postal Linemen's Union, and on amalgamation in 1925, became a member of the Federal Executive of the Amalgamated Postal Linesmen, Sorters and Letter Carriers Union, which became the Amalgamated Postal Workers' Union in 1926. He held this position until 1928 and was also New South Wales President 1926 - 1929. He was elected as Assistant General Secretary of the Union 1931 - 1934 and then General President, a post that he held from 1934 to 1947.

Cooperative Research Centre for Greenhouse Accounting

  • University unit
  • 1999 - 2006

The Cooperative Research Centre (CRC) for Greenhouse Accounting was established in July 1999 with a seven year grant, and was located at the Australian National University. The centre carried out research in soil science, ecosystem ecology, remote sensing, ecophysiology, ecological modelling, forestry, agroecosystem ecology, education and science-policy interface.

Cooke, Robin John Seymour

  • Person
  • c.1939 - 8 March 1979

Robin Cooke was an Australian volcanologist, employed by the Australian Bureau of Mineral Resources (BMR), and seconded to Papua New Guinea at the Rabaul Observatory from 1971 to 1979 as a Senior Government Volcanologist . Cooke and a colleague, Elias Ravian, were were killed on 8 March 1979 by gas eminating from the Karkar volcano, which had been producing low level eruptions from January 1979. Camped at an observation post near the Volcano and

Australian National University

  • Educational institution
  • 1946 -

The Australian National University was established by an Act of the Federal Parliament in 1946 and is governed by a Council. Its founding mission was to be of enduring significance in the post-war life of the nation, to support the development of national unity and identity, to improve Australia's understanding of itself and its neighbours, and to contribute to economic development and social cohesion. Its mandate was to undertake 'postgraduate research and study both generally and in relation to subjects of national importance'. This national mission gives the University a distinctive relationship with the Australian Federal Government. It was Australia's only full-time research university with four initial Research Schools (Physical Sciences, Medical Research, Social Sciences and Pacific Studies). Undergraduate courses have been taught since 1960, when it amalgamated with Canberra University College.

Registrar General's Office of New South Wales

  • State government department
  • 1844 - 1975

The Registrar General's Office of New South Wales was responsible for the registration of wills, deeds, land transactions and births, deaths and marriages between 1844 and 1975, and for the registration of companies from 1874 to 1962. In 1975 with the establishment of a separate agency for the registration of births, deaths and marriages, the office ceased to exist though the Lands Titles Office continued to use the name until 1985.

Pacific Islands Liaison Centre, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies

  • University unit
  • March/April 1994 - c.1996

The PIGS Newsletter was published by the Pacific Islands Liaison Centre, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University. The Pacific Islands Liaison Centre was set up in March/April 1994 (previously named the Pacific Islands Group), with Convenor, Stephen Henningham. and Administered (edited) by Allison Ley. Newsletter holdings: No 9, May 1994 - No 13 May 1996 (in one Type 2 box).

Office of the Registrar-General and Office of Titles (Victoria)

  • State government department
  • 1853 - 1958

In 1853 the Registrar-General's Department was established under the provisions of the Births, Deaths and Marriages Act 16 Victoria, No. 2 (1853). The department carried out a range of functions including the collection of census and statistics; registering of livestock, licence liens on agricultural land, naturalizations, hospitals, banks, companies, patents, copyright, printing presses and types, powers of attorney, Parliamentory electors and land titles. By 1873 a new agency, the Office of the Registrar-General and Office of Titles, had assumed responsibility for the functions previously undertaken separately by the Registrar-General's Department and the Office of Titles. In 1958 the registration of companies was subsequently transferred to the Registrar of Companies and the Companies Office.

Industrial Registry New South Wales

  • State government department
  • 1926 -

A Registrar was appointed to the Court of Industrial Arbitration and given the power to appoint such officers as may be required under the Industrial Arbitration Act, No. 59 of 1901. This Act was placed under the administration of the Department of Attorney General and Justice from 12 December 1901.(1) The Registry was known as the Industrial Arbitration Office and was responsible for determining applications for permits to work less than award rates, receipt of applications for determination by the Court and carrying out the orders of the Court.(2)

The Industrial Disputes 1908 (Act, No. 3, 1908) provided for the constitution of boards to determine the conditions of employment in industries. In addition to the duties previously mentioned, the Registrar became responsible for the executive work connected with the constitution and control of the boards. There were 213 of these boards by 1912.(3)

The Industrial Arbitration Act,1912 (Act No. 17, 1912) provided for the constitution of a Court of Arbitration as well as that of the boards. This Act was placed under the administration of the then Department of Labour and Industry on 17 April 1912 and the Industrial Registrar classed as Permanent Head of the Department(4). This Act also allowed for the constitution of Conciliation Committees by the Minister. These Committees applied to colliery districts only and had the power to look into any industrial matter regarding coal or metalliferous mining within its district. The Industrial Registrar became responsible for some of the administrative work connected with the Conciliation Committees.

The Industrial Commission was appointed under the Industrial Arbitration (Amendment) Act, 1926 (Act No. 14, 1926), assuming the powers and duties of the Court of Arbitration and the NSW Board of Trade. The Industrial Registrar continued to provide administrative support to this body. The boundaries of Conciliation Committees were extended under this legislation, no longer being restricted to the colliery industry. A Conciliation Commissioner was appointed under the Industrial Arbitration Amendment Act, 1932 (Act No. 39, 1932). This position assumed the powers and duties of the Deputy Commissioner as well as those of any chairman of a Conciliation Committee.

On 1 July 1936 the Industrial Registrar became responsible for registering trade unions as well as industrial unions, a duty which had previously been performed by the Registrar of Friendly Societies under the Trade Union Act, 1881. This change was directed by the Trade Union (Amendment) Act, 1926 (Act No.23, 1936).

The Industrial Arbitration Act, 1991 (Act No.34, 1991) changed the way in which unions were registered. Instead of being registered as a "Trade Union" under the Trade Union Act, 1881 or as an "industrial union" under the Industrial Arbitration Act, 1940 they were registered as "organisations". There are three types of organisations, industrial organisations of employers, industrial organisations of employees and non-industrial organisations. The Industrial Register was responsible for administering this and was required to submit an annual report(5).

In 1997 the Registry was situated under the administration of the Department of Industrial Relations (the former Department of Labour and Industry), as of 6 April 1995. It served the Industrial Relations Commission of New South Wales as well as industrial organisations, employers and employees, members of the legal profession and lay industrial advocates. The duties of the Registry included providing support to the Industrial Relations Commission of New South Wales, registering enterprise agreements, registering industrial unions, publishing awards and administering the Employment Protection Act 1982.(6)

Howden, Patrick ffyske

  • Person
  • 1934 -

Pat Howden graduated with a BSc from the the University of Sydney. He spent many years travelling and working in America and England.

Gosson, Francis John

  • Person
  • 28 June 1919 - c.2012

Francis (Frank) John Gosson was born at Macksville, New South Wales, on 28 June 1919. During World War II, he served with the 53rd Battalion from 19 February 1940 through to 7 June 1943. In 1942 he was involved in action against the Japanese near Port Moresby and salvaged a series of photographs, which predated the war, from an abandoned house near Rouna Falls. Frank Gosson gave the photographs to an ex Papua New Guinea Patrol Officer (KIAP), Robert Cruikshank, who referred them to the National Archives of Australia. The National Archives of Australia transferred the collection to the Pacific Research Archives in 2012.

Gadbois, George Harold Jr

  • Person
  • 1936 -

George H Gadbois (Jr) was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1936. He received his BA from Marietta College, Ohio, USA and his PhD from Duke University at Durham, North Carolina, USA. He is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of Kentucky, Lexington USA where he was a member of the Political Science Department from 1966 until his retirement in 1991.

For over half a century his research interest was comparative politics and judicial behaviour in South Asia and under a Fulbright research fellowships he conducted research in Papua New Guinea and India. His research findings on the Supreme Court of India appeared in various journals and publications since the 1960s. He is the author of the book ‘Judges of the Supreme Court of India: 1950-1989’, which essays the background and life of the first ninety three judges who served the Supreme Court from 1950 to 1989. He has also authored many other articles and book chapters dealing with Indian courts, judges, judicial behaviour and judicial policy-making, dating back to 1963.

In late 1974 he studied the political situation in Papua New Guinea in the years leading up to Independence in 1975. He wrote two papers, ‘Elections in Papua New Guinea: a search for a framework of analysis’ (1977), and ‘The representative roles and accountability of legislators in Papua New Guinea’ (1978) in which he drew on the research he conducted in Papua New Guinea during the second half of 1974. The subject of his research involved 73 backbenchers of the Papua New Guinea House of Assembly. They were interviewed using questions contained in the Interview Schedule for Legislators.

Duffield, John

  • Person
  • 1 March 1944 -

John Duffield went to Papua New Guinea as a cadet Patrol Officer in 1962 when he was 18 years old. His first posting was to the Central District where he was posted to Tapini, Woitape and Port Moresby. In 1964 he went to Manus District and spent his time at Tulu Base Camp and Lorengau. He became a Patrol Officer and a Magistrate for Native Matters. After Manus, he was posted in 1966 to Ioma Patrol Post in the Northern District and after leave in mid 1968, John was posted to Lorengau and Kokoda and became an Assistant District Officer. He was then posted to Tufi where he was made acting Assistant District Commissioner. After leaving Tufi in January 1970, John became a Political Education Officer and his work in Papua New Guinea from then on involved preparing the country for Self Government and Independence. In 1971 he married his wife Rowena, who was a teacher in Lorengau, and the two were transferred to the Southern Highlands District in 1972 where he became a District Government Liaison Officer. In the Southern Highlands he worked with groups of people conducting seminars and courses about Self Government and the work of the Constitutional Planning Committee, and he was away from his family for at least half of his time. In 1974 he and Rowena were posted to the Gulf District and John's major programs were Independence, The Purari Project and Provincial Government. John was the Executive Officer for the Gulf Independence Day Committee.

John and Rowena Duffield left an Independent Papua New Guinea in June 1976.

John Duffield became the acting Assistant District Commissioner for the Tufi Sub-District from 1969 to early 1970. By this time his role was broadening to include community development, community education and training. In January 1970 he took up duties as a District Political Education Officer for the Northern District, which involved carrying out political education courses for councillors, village leaders, high school students, Christian missions, social workers and public servants. He was transferred to the Southern Highlands District in February 1972 as the District Government Liaison Officer, a role responsible for setting up a consultative network for advising the Constitutional Planning Committee. Before leaving Papua New Guinea in 1976 he was the Executive Officer for the Districts Independence celebrations.

Rowena Duffield, John’s wife, trained as a teacher at ASOPA in 1968/69 and conducted adult education classes in Mendi Town.

Barr, Joseph

  • Person
  • 29 April 1941 -

Joe Barr was born on 29 April 1941 in Preston, England. The family moved to Tanganyika (now Tanzania) in 1948 and then to Kampala, Uganda, in 1951. He went to school in in Dar-es-Salaam and Nairobi but left at the age of 15 to join the Royal Navy as a boy seaman. He left the Royal Navy in 1971 having served 12 years as aircrew (Observer/Navigator) in Fleet Air Arm helicopters in a variety of roles. He emigrated to Australia in 1971 and worked for 2 years as an Air Traffic Controller. In 1973 - 1974 he was an assistant office manager in Melbourne before moving to Canberra in 1974 to join the then Marine Operations Centre (later Australian Coastal Surveillance Centre) as a marine search and rescue coordinator. When he left the position in 1981, he was the Controller (Operational Manager) and he then joined the National Disasters Organisation (later Emergency Management Australia) as a planning officer.
Transferred to the Refugees and Disasters Section of what is now AusAID in the early 1980s, he worked as an overseas disasters liaison officer with special interests in the development of disaster management assistance to Pacific countries. He was involved in Australian aid support programs following regional disasters in Vanuatu, Solomon Islands, Fiji, Papua New Guinea and Samoa as well as Cambodia. In 1994 he returned to Emergency Management Australia (EMA) as the Director of Policy, Planning and Operations and spent periods acting as Director General. Set up in 1974 to coordinate national disaster management, EMA was an independent, low-profile organisation of about 70 personnel in Canberra and the Australian Department of Defence, answering directly to the Minister for Defence, Robert Ray.

In 1995, Joe Barr was nominated by Australia to become the first Australian member of the international UNDAC (United Nations Disaster Assistance and Coordination) Team. In 1996, he retired from the Public Service to set up 'Pacific Emergency Management Associates', based in Canberra (ACT) as a consultancy agency, which he ran until his retirement in 2007. During this period he participated in UNDAC post-disaster missions to the Seychelles (flood), Papua New Guinea (tsunami and drought), Turkey, Afghanistan, Indonesia, India (earthquake) and East Timor (post Indonesian departure).

Other consultancies were to the European Union, AusAID, the United Nations Development Program and other UN Agencies, USAID, Emergency Management Australia, various Pacific regional organisations, mostly involved in training and development activities, including developing manuals, project design and workshop planning. He developed the first Australian disaster management assistance programs for Pacific countries and worked in Vanuatu, Solomon Islands, Papua New Guinea, Fiji, Tonga, Samoa, Cook Islands, Wallis and Futuna, New Caledonia, French Polynesia, Marshall Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Palau, Philippines, East Timor, Kenya, Uganda, Eritrea and Ethiopia.

Australian School of Pacific Administration

  • Educational institution
  • 1945 - 1973

The Australian School of Pacific Administration was a tertiary institution established by the Australian Government to train administrators and school teachers to work in Papua New Guinea. It was formerly established by the Australian Army as the School of Civil Affairs in 1945. In March 1946, the School became a civil institution and renamed the Australian School of Pacific Administration which was located at Georges Heights, Mosman, NSW, and later to Middle Head. ASOPA operated under the Papua New Guinea Act in 1949 and continued to function as a responsibility of the Minister for External Territories till 1 December 1973 when it became the International Training Institute.

Registrar of Friendly Societies of New South Wales

  • State government department
  • c. 1873 - 1936

The Registrar of Friendly Societies was established in 1873 by the Friendly Societies Act. 1873 (37 Vic. No.4). Previously the registration and regulation of Friendly Societies was governed by English law and then by the Friendly Societies Act 1843. The new Act required that all copies of rules, certificates and documents for all types of Mutual Benefit Societies previously filed in the custody of the Clerk of the Peace were to be transferred to the Registrar of Friendly Societies. The Registrar was responsible for all mutual societies which included Friendly Societies, Benefit Building Loan and Investment Societies, and Co-operative Trading and Industrial Societies. The Friendly Societies Act, 1899 (Act No.31, 1899) repealed the Act of 1873, except the provisions relating to Benefit-Building Loan and Investment Societies, and Co-operative Trading and Industrial Societies. The Act provided for the appointment by the Governor of a Registrar of Friendly Societies. The functions of the Registrar were to prepare and circulate model account, balance-sheet, and valuation forms to societies; and to collect, collate, and publish financial statistics on each society. In 1902, the Registry of Co-operative Societies was established under the Building and Co-operative Societies Act, 1901 (Act No.17, 1902). Under the Act, the Registrar of Friendly Societies became the Registrar of Co-operative Societies. On 8 July 1936 the responsibility for registering trade unions was transferred from the Registrar of Friendly Societies to the Industrial Registrar under the Trade Union Amendment Act, 1936 (Act No. 23, 1936).

J S Battye Library of West Australian History

  • State government department
  • 1956 -

The J S Battye Library of West Australian History came into being on 14 December 1956 (as the J S Battye Library of West Australian History and State Archives) and collects Western Australian documentary heritage material.

Industrial Commission of New South Wales

  • State government department
  • 1926 - 1992

The Industrial Commission of New South Wales was established under the Industrial Arbitration (Amendment) Act on 15 April, 1926. The Commission assumed the duties and responsibilities of the Court of Industrial Arbitration and the Board of Trade. The Industrial Commission of New South Wales was abolished on 31 March, 1992 by the Industrial Relations Act, 1991 which established the Industrial Commission of New South Wales to carry out conciliation and duties and the Industrial Court took the judicial role.

Department of Labour and Industry and Social Services, New South Wales

  • State government department
  • 1896 - 1991

New South Wales industrial relations legislation was administered by the Attorney General until 1911, when the Minister for Labour and Industry took up this responsibility. The Department of Labour and Industry played a pivotal role in employment relations in NSW, including the regulation of working conditions and wages, and ensuring occupational health and safety in the workplace, under the Factory and Shop Act 1912. One of the key roles of the Department under the Act was to provide information and advice about working conditions, and it focused on accident prevention in the workplace, particularly industrial accidents. In 1940, the Department became the Department of Labour and Industry and Social Welfare until the mid-1950s, when the Department of Child Welfare and Social Welfare was established.

Balint, Andras

  • Person

Dr. Andras Balint was a linguist based at the University of Papua New Guinea from 1965-1973, with an ongoing interest in ‘the emerging New Guinean dialect of English’, or Tok Pisin. He promoted the use of Tok Pisin in the Territory of Papua and New Guinea and amassed an extensive collection of Tok Pisin publications, mainly published by the Territory of Papua and New Guinea government and various missionary presses.

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