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Souter, Harold

  • Person
  • 1911 - 1994

Harold Souter was secretary of the ACTU from 1956 - 1977

South Australian Institute of Teachers

  • Trade union
  • 1951 - 1993

Teachers' unions in South Australia began in 1885 with the formation of the Adelaide Teachers' Association. The Country Teachers' Association formed in 1887 and the two merged in 1887 to become the South Australian Teachers' Association. This association split in 1936 into the South Australian Public Teachers' Union and the South Australian Women Teachers' Guild. These separate organisations remained apart until 1951 when teachers voted to form a single representative body called the South Australian Institute of Teachers [SAIT]. SAIT covered all teachers and school assistants in the State's primary schools, pre-schools and secondary schools, as well as teachers in the fields of further education and non-government schools. SAIT became the South Australian branch of the Australian Education Union in 1993.

South Australian Liquor Trades Employees' Union

  • Trade union
  • 1907 - 1910, 1920 - 1924

The South Australian Liquor Trades Employees' Union was formed on 2 February 1907. It became the South Australian Branch of the Federated Liquor Trade Employees' Union of Australasia on 22 December 1910 but left the Federation on 3 November 1920 and became the Liquor Trade Employees' Union of South Australia. It rejoined the Federation in 1924.

South Australian Locomotive Engine Drivers and Firemen's Association

  • Trade union
  • c. 1885 - 1900

The South Australian Locomotive Engine Drivers and Firemen's Association was formed around 1885. It continued to be known by this name (and later as the South Australian Locomotive Enginemen, Firemen and Cleaners' Association) despite its membership of the Federated Railway Locomotive Enginemen's Association of Australasia in 1900 and only in the 1920s identified itself as the South Australian branch of the Australian Federated Union of Locomotive Enginemen.

South Australian Public Teachers' Union

  • Trade union
  • 1936 - 1951

Teachers' unions in South Australia began in 1885 with the formation of the Adelaide Teachers' Association. The Country Teachers' Association formed in 1887 and the two merged in 1887 to become the South Australian Teachers' Association. This association split in 1936 into the South Australian Public Teachers' Union and the South Australian Women Teachers' Guild. These separate organisations remained apart until 1951 when teachers voted to form a single representative body called the South Australian Institute of Teachers [SAIT]. SAIT covered all teachers and school assistants in the State's primary schools, pre-schools and secondary schools, as well as teachers in the fields of further education and non-government schools. SAIT became the South Australian branch of the Australian Education Union in 1993.

South Australian Teachers' Association

  • Trade union
  • 1887 - 1936

Teachers' unions in South Australia began in 1885 with the formation of the Adelaide Teachers' Association. The Country Teachers' Association formed in 1887 and the two merged in 1887 to become the South Australian Teachers' Association. This association split in 1936 into the South Australian Public Teachers' Union and the South Australian Women Teachers' Guild. These separate organisations remained apart until 1951 when teachers voted to form a single representative body called the South Australian Institute of Teachers [SAIT]. SAIT covered all teachers and school assistants in the State's primary schools, pre-schools and secondary schools, as well as teachers in the fields of further education and non-government schools. SAIT became the South Australian branch of the Australian Education Union in 1993.

South Australian Typographical Society

  • Trade union
  • 1874 - 1916

The union was established in November 1874 as the South Australian Typographical Society. It became known as Branch No. 3 of the Australasian Typographical Society when the federal body was formed in 1880. In December 1916 the union became the South Australian Branch of the Printing Industry Employees' Union of Australia.

South Australian Women Teachers' Guild

  • Trade union
  • 1936 - 1951

Teachers' unions in South Australia began in 1885 with the formation of the Adelaide Teachers' Association. The Country Teachers' Association formed in 1887 and the two merged in 1887 to become the South Australian Teachers' Association. This association split in 1936 into the South Australian Public Teachers' Union and the South Australian Women Teachers' Guild. These separate organisations remained apart until 1951 when teachers voted to form a single representative body called the South Australian Institute of Teachers [SAIT].

South Pacific and Oceanic Council of Trade Unions

  • Peak council
  • 1988 - 1998

The South Pacific and Oceanic Council of Trade Unions (SPOCTU) was formed in 1988 replacing the Pacific Trade Union Forum of the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions, Asian & Pacific Regional Organisation. SPOCTU operated as the peak council of the trade union movement in the Pacific Islands, representing affiliated organisations in Fiji, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, Cook Islands, Samoa, Tonga, New Caledonia, New Zealand and Australia. Conferences were held every two years and an intensive program of training workshops was undertaken, often in conjunction with the Pacific office of the Commonwealth Trade Union Council. SPOCTU closed its office in Brisbane in 1998.

Spate, Oskar Hermann Khristian

  • Person
  • 1911 - 2000

Oskar Hermann Khristian Spate was born in London on March 30 1911. He was educated at St Clement Dane's Grammar School and St Catherine’s College, Cambridge University with an Hons in Geography. He completed his PhD in 1937. In October 1937, Spate began a lectureship at Rangoon University, Burma. He joined the army in 1941 and was involved in topographical work at the Ceylon headquarters of the Inter-Service Topographical Department, Southeast Asian Command. From 1947-1951 Spate took a post as lecturer at the London School of Economics and his writing focussed on the regional geography of India and the sub-continent. He joined the Australian National University in March 1951 as Foundation Professor of Geography at the Research School of Pacific Studies which he held until 1967. In 1953 he was Adviser to the Australian Minister for Territories and in 1958 assisted in a survey of the Fijian economy. He was a member of the Commission on Higher Education in Papua New Guinea, 1963-1965, and the Commission on Education in Fiji in 1969, and became a member of the councils of the University of Papua New Guinea and the University of the South Pacific. He was appointed Director of the Research School of Pacific Studies in 1967-1972. He then joined the Department of Pacific History at the ANU from 1972- 1976. Professor Spate died in Canberra on 29 May 2000.

Specht, James Richard

  • Person
  • 1940 -

James (Jim) Specht was a PhD scholar in the Department of Anthropology, Research School of Pacific Studies at the Australian National University in 1965. He was part of an archaeological group which carried out fieldwork studying Lapita pottery in Watom Island, near Raboul, and in Talasea, on the mid-north coast of New Britain. Specht joined the Australian Museum in June 1971. From 1991, he was Head of the Division of Anthropology and was Chief Scientist from 1997-2000 before retiring in November 2000.

Spinner, Ernest

  • Person
  • 1924 - 2007

Ernest Spinner completed the following degrees from the Victoria University of Manchester: Bachelor of Technical Science, Applied Chemistry Honours in 1945, Master of Technical Science in 1950, Doctor of Philosophy in 1954 and Doctor of Science in 1971. Spinner joined the Department of Medical Chemistry, John Curtin School of Medical Research at the Australian National University as a Senior Research Fellow in September 1957, then as Senior Fellow from March 1961. The Department of Medical Chemistry was later converted to the Medical Chemistry Group from 1973-1985 and Spinner worked as Senior Fellow in this Group. From August 1985, he transferred to the Protein Chemistry Group (established from the Department of Physical Biochemistry). Spinner published regular articles in the Australian Journal of Chemistry. He retired in December 1989 and died on 3 February 2007.

Spriggs, Matthew

  • Person
  • 1954 -

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

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.

Squatting Investment Company Limited

  • Corporate body
  • 1882 - 1973

The Squatting Investment Company Ltd was registered in Victoria on 14 April 1882. They carried on the business of stock and station holders and graziers, purchasing their first stations in 1883. These were Thurulgoona and Bundaleer Stations, located in south-western Queensland. In 1928 the company acquired NSW stations of Quantambone and Bundabulla. Other major stations purchased included Bedford Park and Tondeburine, near Gulargambone NSW, in 1940; Teryawynia Station near Menindie NSW in 1948; Mundana Park in western Victoria in 1950; Mortat Station in the Wimmera District of Victoria in 1952; Burrongong Station in the Eastern Riverina in 1953; Callandoon Station, in Goondiwindi in 1955 and Mount Manara in western NSW in 1964. In 1965 a merger was affected with the Western Queensland Pastoral Company Ltd and the company acquired Burenda, Carandotta, Kynuna, Tarbrax and Westerton stations. From 1966 the company's activities moved into cattle and it acquired a 16% share of the Stanbroke Pastoral Company Pty Ltd who had substantial cattle holdings in Queensland. By 1973 the company had reduced its holdings to two properties in Queensland and one in NSW. In August Goldsbrough Mort & Co Ltd (a subsidiary of Elder Smith Goldsbrough Mort & Co Ltd) made a successful takeover bid for the Squatting Investment Company Ltd.

Staff Amenities and Welfare Association (Australian National University) Incorporated

  • Association
  • 1973 - 1976

The Association was formerly known as the Australian National University General Staff Association and was concerned with improving industrial conditions and the general welfare of staff on the ANU campus. In 1973 it became the Staff Amenities and Welfare Association (Australian National University) Incorporated and became solely concerned with the development of staff amenities including child care facilities and established an amenities store and canteen in 1973. It was liquidated in 1976.

Standing Committee

  • University unit
  • 1951 - 2000

The Standing Committee of the Australian National University Council was provided for by section 24 of the Australian National University Act 1946 and was delegated with the authority for much of the routine management of the University. It was appointed in 1951, first meeting on 13 July that year. The Vice-Chancellor originally chaired the meetings but from 1971 the Act was amended and the Pro-Chancellor took on this role. Its membership of 7-9 Council members was largely of University officers. The Act was further amended in 1991, removing reference to the Standing Committee, although it continued to meet less frequently until June 2000.

States Investments Proprietary Limited

  • Corporate body
  • 1958 - 1988

The company was formed and registered in Canberra on 14 July 1958 to take over the shares owned by States Trust and Investment Co Ltd, a company established in New Zealand by H S Reid. The Managing Director for both companies was M K Reid until her death in 1961. J H Todhunter then served as company director and secretary of States Investments Pty Ltd until 25 October 1988 when the company was deregistered. Todhunter also served as a Director of Buka Plantations and Trading Co Ltd, a company in which the States Investments Pty Ltd held shares.

States Trust and Investment Company Limited

  • Corporate body
  • 1931 - 1970

States Trust and Investments Company Limited was incorporated in New Zealand in 1931 as a private investment company. The company was owned by H S Reid who acted as Managing Director until his death in 1936. Reid established the company to protect his investments during a period of political instability, particularly in NSW. The company held shares in the Belmore Property Co Pty Ltd, Buka Plantations and Trading Co Ltd, and The Hub Limited. From 1936 until her death in 1961, H S Reid's widow, M K Reid, acted as the company's Managing Director. She was also managing director of States Investments Pty Ltd, a company formed and registered in Canberra in 1958 to take over the shares owned by the States Trust and Investments Co Ltd.

Steam Engine Makers' Society

  • Trade union
  • 1824 - 1920

The Steam Engine Makers' Society was founded in Liverpool on 2 November 1824. The original members of the Union included fitters, turners and steam engine erectors but the Union broadened its scope in 1847 to include millwrights, steam-engine patternmakers and the makers of tools used in the manufacture of steam engines. The society finally amalgamated with the Amalgamated Society of Engineers to form the Amalgamated Engineering Union in 1920.

Steel Treatment Research Society (Australia)

  • Professional association
  • 1931 - 1941

The Steel Treatment Research Society (Australia) was formed in 1931 and held its inaugural meeting on 20 August 1931. The word 'Research' was dropped in the Society's title on 1 July 1935. A new title, the Metals Treatment Society of NSW and a new constitution were adopted on 22 September 1936. The Society amalgamated with other metallurgical societies on 26 August 1941 to form the Sydney branch of the Australian Institute of Metals.

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.

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.

Stinear, Bruce H

  • Person
  • 1913-2003

Born in New Zealand in 1913, Bruce Stinear was a geologist most famous for his work in Antarctica. After graduating from Canterbury College in 1936, he spent approximately 15 months prospecting for oil in New Guinea. During World War II, he was a navigator with the Royal New Zealand Air Force. After the war, he served as petroleum technologist with the Australian Bureau of Mineral Resources and Chemist in charge of the chemicals and engineering section of the Department of Defense Production in Melbourne before being appointed as geologist for the Australian Antarctic Expedition in 1953. He was the geologist at Davis and Mawson Station for several seasons in the period 1954–59. Stinear Island and Stinear Lake in Antarctica are named for him.

Stock Exchange of Adelaide

  • Corporate body
  • 1887 - 1987

The Stock Exchange of Adelaide was formed to allow brokers and traders to trade stocks and bonds for companies listed in South Australia. It formed an association with the stock exchanges in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane Perth and Hobart called the Australian Associated Stock Exchanges but remained an independent body. These six stock exchanges amalgamated on 1 April 1987 to form the Australian Stock Exchange Limited (ASX).

Stock Exchange of Hobart

  • Corporate body
  • 1882 - 1987

The Stock Exchange of Hobart was formed to allow brokers and traders to trade stocks and bonds for companies listed in Tasmania. It formed an association with the stock exchanges in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane Perth and Adelaide called the Australian Associated Stock Exchanges but remained an independent body. These six stock exchanges amalgamated on 1 April 1987 to form the Australian Stock Exchange Limited (ASX)

Stock Exchange of Melbourne

  • Corporate body
  • 1884 - 1987

The Stock Exchange of Melbourne was established in 1884 from competing exchanges that began in the 1860s. In 1987, it was absorbed into a new national body, the Australian Stock Exchange (ASX).

Stock Exchange of Perth

  • Corporate body
  • 1889 - 1986

The Stock Exchange of Perth was formed to allow brokers and traders to trade stocks and bonds for companies listed in Western Australia. It formed an association with the stock exchanges in Adelaide, Melbourne, Brisbane, Sydney and Hobart called the Australian Associated Stock Exchanges but remained an independent body. These six stock exchanges amalgamated on 1 April 1987 to form the Australian Stock Exchange Limited (ASX).

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.

Sugar Australia Proprietary Limited

  • Corporate body
  • 1998 -

Sugar Australia Pty Limited was established in 1998 as a joint venture between CSR Limited (50% share), Mackay Sugar Co-operative Association Limited (25% share), and ED&F Mann (25% share). The company was registered on 10 February 1998 with a registered office in Yarraville, Victoria. In 2004, CSR purchased ED&F Mann's share of the joint venture.

Sunday Figaro

  • Corporate body
  • 1904

The Sunday Figaro was a newspaper distributed in Kalgoorlie. It was printed and published by Wallace Nelson, Jr. for 'Figaro' Syndicate.

Superannuated Commonwealth Officers' Association

  • Association
  • 1923 -

The Superannuated Commonwealth Officers Association (SCOA) is an apolitical, not-for-profit national retiree organisation, established in 1923, providing advocacy, assistance and information for current and former federal, state and territory government agency employees and their dependants. It is governed by a Federal Council which has representatives (Federal Councillors) from State Branches.

Sutton, Keith Ashley

  • Person
  • 1944 -

Keith Ashley Sutton worked in the Australian Public Service and is a freelance editor. He completed a BA in Political Science from the Australian National University in 1972 and Associate Diploma in Professional Writing, University of Canberra in 1974. He worked for the Repatriation Department, Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, 1973-1975; as a Senior Research Officer and publications editor with the Department of Foreign Affairs; as editor with the Australian National Audit Office, 1985-1988. He formed KS Consulting Services in Canberra in October 1988. Sutton is author of Blueprint for the casino industry, Federal Hotels and Wrest Point (1992).

Sydney Meat Preserving Company Limited

  • Corporate body
  • 1869 - 1973

In 1869 the Sydney Meat Preserving Company was established to process excess meat and was the major company in Sydney selling a range of canned meat merchandise. Formed by pastoralists, its factory was located in Auburn and stockyards, slaughtering, butchering, preserving and boiling down were all performed on site. The company was taken over by F J Walker Limited in 1919, who also owned Hunter River Meat Packing Co, Metropolitan Meat Co, and Australian Natural Gut Manufacturing Co. Business boomed during both World Wars but canned meats ceased to be productive after the Second World War. The business ceased operations on 31 July 1964 and the works at Auburn were put up for sale. In 1972 it was formerly resolved to dissolve the company and the final meeting of shareholders was held in September 1973.

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.

Sydney Stock Exchange

  • Corporate body
  • 1871 - 1987

The Sydney Stock Exchange was formed to allow brokers and traders to trade stocks and bonds for companies listed in New South Wales. It formed an association with the stock exchanges in Adelaide, Melbourne, Brisbane Perth and Hobart called the Australian Associated Stock Exchanges but remained an independent body. These six stock exchanges amalgamated on 1 April 1987 to form the Australian Stock Exchange Limited (ASX)

Sydney Wharf Labourers’ Union

  • Trade union
  • 1872 – circa 1916

Founded in 1872 and registered under the New South Wales Trade Union Act (1881), 10 January 1883, the Sydney Wharf Labourers’ Union almost ceased to exist in the years following the 1890 Maritime Strike. It was revived by State MLA William Morris Hughes (Prime Minister of Australia, 1915-1923), whose electorate covered the waterfront from Darling Harbour to Balmain. In 1899 Hughes became Sydney Wharf Labourers’ Union Secretary. Following Federation it was believed that the state and port-based unions would have common concerns that could be more adequately addressed by a federal body. The Sydney Wharf Labourers’ Union was eventually absorbed into the Waterside Workers’ Federation of Australia; Hughes remained Secretary until 1916.

T Beaumont and Sons

  • Corporate body
  • c. 1917 - c. 1935

No further information sourced.

T Brunton and Company Proprietary Limited

  • Corporate body
  • c. 1888 - 1960

This company was established by Thomas Brunton (1831 - 1908) who arrived in Victoria in 1853. He started a bakery business then sold out and started a flour milling plant in the city of Melbourne. In 1887 Brunton opened a flour mill in Granville, Sydney. In 1893 he sold his Melbourne city mill and moved the business to North Melbourne where he established the Australian Flour Mills. By 1903 the business was run by his sons. Bruntons Holdings Limited (registered in 1951) which owned shares in T Brunton & Co Ltd were taken over by Geo Fielder & Co Ltd on 16 May 1960.

Tailors' Trade Protection Society

  • Trade union
  • 1870 - 1907

A Tailors' Society was formed in Melbourne in 1866 but eventually collapsed in 1869 due to financial difficulties. It was refounded in 1870 as the Tailors' Trade Protection Society and began meeting with the Tailoresses' Society in 1905. The Pressers' Union, which had formed in 1884, amalgamated with the Cutters' & Joiners' Union in 1902 to form the Victorian Clothing Operatives' Union. In 1907 these groups combined to form the Victorian Branch of the Federated Clothing Trades Union of the Commonwealth of Australia. As elements of the trade incorporated into the union, it changed names to the Federated Clothing & Allied Trades Union in 1922, the Amalgamated Clothing & Allied Trades Union in 1924 and the Clothing & Allied Trades Union of Australia in 1947. In 1992 another change of name was effected, this time to the Textile Clothing & Footwear Union of Australia.

Tanner, Lindsay James

  • Person
  • 1956 -

Lindsay Tanner was born in Orbost, Victoria, on 24 April 1956. Tanner began his career as an articled clerk and solicitor at Holding Redlich Lawyers in Melbourne 1982-1985; he was an electorate assistant to Labor Senator Barney Cooney1985-1987; Assistant State Secretary of the Federated Clerks' Union 1987-1988, then State Secretary 1988-1993. Tanner was the ALP Member for Melbourne from 1993-2010 and Shadow Transport Minister from March 1996 – October 1998.

Tansey, Timothy

  • Person
  • 1861 - 1941

Timothy (Tom) Tansey was born in Mt Gambier, South Australia on 20 October 1861. At age 11 he was sent to work as an assistant to a teamster working bullock teams from Edenhope in Western Victoria to Portland carting wool, salt, grain and hides. He then worked as a roustabout in a team shearing in West Victoria, and which led him to being employed as a carpenter’s mate by Worrock Station proprietor George Robinson. He worked as a seasonal shearer and also at Worrock where he met his wife Louisa Chester who was a school teacher and ladies maid to Mrs Robinson. In 1898 Tansey and his brother Hubert started their farm on a selection of land at Chetwynd on Glenelg River. Tansey and Louisa Chester married in 1900 and had three children, Ellen, John and Hubert. By 1916, after his brother Hubert’s death in 1913 and years of drought, Tansey lost all his stock and savings. In 1919 he worked as a labourer in Melbourne and took on shearing work. By 1926 Tansey was shearing fulltime. In 1930 he changed to blade shearing as he worked on a round of New South Wales, Victoria and Tasmania shearing stud stock. He retired in 1936 aged 75. Tansey died on 4 June 1941.

Tarong Station

  • Corporate body
  • 1846 - c. 1954

Tarong Station was first settled by John James Malcolm Borthwick soon after the area around Nanango was settled in 1846. George Clapperton was superintendent at Tarong for Borthwick, and purchased the property from Borthwick in 1857. At the time of his death in 1875, Clapperton owned Tarong, Barambah and Nanango Stations. His wife sold Barambah in 1876 and Nanango in 1878. She later married William A Wilson and they continued to manage Tarong Staton until George Clapperton's son T A Clapperton took over Tarong Station. T A Clapperton remained the proprietor until his death in the 1950s.

Tasmanian Coal Miners' Association

  • Trade union
  • 1912 - 1913

The Tasmanian Coal Miners' Association was formed in December 1912 with miners from the Cornwall and Mount Nicholas mines. At a meeting on 26 January 1913 at Cullenswood the union met with T Mathieson, president of the Victorian Coal Miners' Association and decided to join with the Victorian union. It became the Tasmanian Branch of the Australasian Coal Miners' Association in 1913 and then the Tasmanian District of the Australasian Coal and Shale Employees' Federation in 1916.

Tasmanian Teachers' Federation

  • Trade union
  • 1905 - 1993

The Tasmanian Teachers' Federation was formed in 1905. In 1993 this union, the Secondary Colleges Staff Association and the Tasmanian TAFE Staff Society merged with the Australian Education Union to form its Tasmanian branch.

Tasmanian Trades and Labor Council

  • Peak council
  • 1883 -

The Trades and Labour Council was first established in 1883 and changed its name to the Hobart Trades Hall Council in 1917. It was federally registered in 1968 as the Tasmanian Trades and Labor Council.

Tchelery Proprietary Limited

  • Corporate body
  • 1925 - 1950

The company was incorporated on 28 November 1925 with a registered office at 471 Bourke Street, Melbourne. The principal office of the company in New South Wales was at Hay. The company operated Tchelery Station for the Maclure family who acquired the station from Windouran Pastoral Co Pty Ltd. The company was purchased by the New Zealand and Australian Land Company Limited in 1950 and its subsidiary The Yanko Pty Ltd then took over the management of the station.

Te Rangi Hiroa Fund

  • University association
  • 1968 - 1984

The Te Rangi Hiroa Fund was established in 1968 during the first Waigani seminar. The Fund was named after Sir Peter Buck, the distinguished Maori ethno-historian, and was administered by Secretary of the Fund Reverend Dr Sione Latukefu, of the University of Papua New Guinea History Department. The Te Rangi Hiroa Essay Competition was an annual prize for:
(a) best essay on any aspect of Pacific history by an undergraduate student in any university in the South Pacific Islands;
(b) best essay on any aspect of Pacific history by an undergraduate student in any university outside the Pacific Islands.

The Paul Morawetz Award was a small scholarship available to assist Pacific Islanders with outstanding aptitude for historical work to pursue post-graduate studies in Pacific history.
The collection includes correspondence relating to the administration of the fund, the submission of essays and awarding of prizes; submitted competition essays; applications for the Paul Morawetz Award.
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Teachers Federation of Victoria

  • Trade union
  • 1984 - 1990

The Victorian Teachers Union (VTU), Victorian Secondary Teachers Association (VSTA) and Technical Teachers Union of Victoria (TTUV) (as the Technical Teachers Association of Victoria (TTAV) became) co-operated on campaigns from 1979 to 1990, particularly around state elections, and in 1984 formed the Teachers Federation of Victoria (TFV), to streamline and co-ordinate industrial representation. It was abolished in 1990 when the VTU and TTUV merged to form the Federated Teachers Union of Victoria (FTUV).

This body represented members in primary and technical schools, TAFE teachers, instructors in disability services and teachers in Adult Multicultural Education Services.

Technical Service Guild of Australia

  • Trade union
  • 1969 - 1991

The Technical Service Guild was formerly the National Service Guild, an in-house state-registered staff organisation within the company NCR. Registration of a union to represent employees in the business equipment, electronics and newly developing computer industry came about in 1970 as a result of the deterioration of conditions in the industry in the late 1960s. In its early years, the Technical Service Guild worked to establish a Federal Award which it gained in 1971, amid the fiercely anti-union sentiment of large employer groups in the industry. Over the next few years the Guild established branches in most states, and despite its scarce resources continued to organise and protect workers in what has now become the information technology field. The union finally merged with the Municipal Officers' Association of Australia and the Australian Transport Officers' Federation to form the Australian Municipal Transport Energy Water Ports Community and Information Services Union in 1991. After further amalgamations in 1992 and 1993, it became the Australian Municipal Administrative Clerical and Services Union, known as the Australian Services Union.

Technical Teachers' Association of Victoria

  • Trade union
  • 1967 - 1990

In 1967, technical teachers of the Victorian Teachers' Union left to form the Technical Teachers' Association of Victoria and later became known as the Technical Teachers' Union of Victoria. Although a breakaway from the VTU, growing dissatisfaction with the Victorian Teachers' Tribunal led, in 1976, to an agreement between the VTU, Technical Teachers' Union of Victoria and the Victorian Secondary Teachers' Association to work together on the basis of joint policy, for improved industrial relations for teachers. In August 1981 the VTU Victorian Federation subcommittee agreed that there should be a Victorian Teachers' Federation modelled on the NSW Teachers' Federation. In July 1984 the Teacher's Federation of Victoria was established as an umbrella organisation for industrial purposes, with the three teacher unions remaining autonomous. In 1990 the Technical Teachers' Union of Victoria and the Victorian Teachers' Union amalgamated as the Federated Teachers' Union of Victoria. By 1995 the Victorian Secondary Teachers' Association had amalgamated with the FTUV to form the Victorian Branch of the Australian Education Union.

Technical Teachers' Union of Victoria

  • Trade union
  • 1967 - 1990

The Technical Teachers' Union of Victoria was formed from the Technical Teachers' Association of Victoria which had operated independently from the Victorian Teachers' Union since 1967. Although a breakaway from the Victorian Teachers' Union, growing dissatisfaction with the Victorian Teachers' Tribunal led, in 1976, to an agreement between the Victorian Teachers' Union, the Technical Teachers' Union of Victoria and the Victorian Secondary Teachers' Association to work together on the basis of joint policy, for improved industrial relations for teachers. In August 1981 the VTU Victorian Federation subcommittee agreed that there should be a Victorian Teachers' Federation modelled on the NSW Teachers' Federation. In July 1984 the Teacher's Federation of Victoria was established as an umbrella organisation for industrial purposes, with the three teacher unions remaining autonomous. In 1990 the Technical Teachers' Union of Victoria and the Victorian Teachers' Union amalgamated as the Federated Teachers' Union of Victoria. By 1995 the Victorian Secondary Teachers' Association had also amalgamated with them to form the Victorian Branch of the Australian Education Union.

Technical and Further Education Teachers' Association of Australia

  • Trade union
  • c. 1974 - 1980

TAFETA was formed in about 1974 from the Technical and Further Education Teachers' Association of Australia and the Technical Teachers' Association of Australia. It amalgamated with the Australian Teachers' Federation in 1980.

Tedder, James L O

  • Person
  • 1926 - 19 April 2014

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

Tedder, Margaret

  • Person
  • 1925

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

Telecommunication Technical Officers' Association

  • Trade union
  • 1934 - 1991

This union was first registered as the Technical Supervisory Officers' Association, Postmaster-General's Department, Commonwealth of Australia in 1934 and underwent several changes of name: Postal Electricians, Supervisors and Foremen's Association in 1935, Supervising Technicians' Association in 1945 and the Telecommunication Technical Officers' Association in 1971. It merged with the External Plant Operators' Association in 1991 to form the Telecommunications Officers' Association which became part of the Communication Workers' Union of Australia in 1993.

Telfer, William

  • Person
  • 1841 – c. 1903

William Telfer, the younger, was born at Calala (West Tamworth) in July 1841. He was the son of William Telfer, the first Australian Agricultural Company employee to be stationed at Warrah in 1833, and who was employed as a shepherd then first manager of "Warrah", under Commissioner Parry. William Telfer, the senior, had arrived from England in 1825 on the “Brothers”. William Telfer, the younger, is attributed to a journal, published in 1980 as The Wallabadah Manuscript, describing life at Tamworth and the surrounding country which relate to the period from the 1840s to the years after Federation.

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.

Tertiary Education Facilities Management Association

  • Association
  • 2003 -

The Tertiary Education Facilities Management Association (TEFMA) was established in October 2003 as an independent association of facilities managers operating in the tertiary education sector of Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong and Singapore. TEFMA was formed from the Australasian chapter the Association of Higher Education Facilities Officers (AAPPA).

Textile, Clothing and Footwear Union of Australia

  • Trade union
  • 1992 -2018

The Textile, Clothing and Footwear Union of Australia was formed in 1992 from the amalgamation of the Amalgamated Footwear & Textile Workers' Union of Australia with the Clothing & Allied Trades Union of Australia.

The Australian Aircraft and Engineering Company Limited

  • Corporate body
  • 1919 - 1923

The Australian Aircraft and Engineering Company Limited was established by aviators Nigel Love, W J Warneford and aircraft designer Harry Broadsmith. Nigel Love was Managing Director. In June 1919, Nigel Love leased the land that became Mascot airfield to establish the manufacture and operation of Avro 504K aircraft. Partly due to failure to gain assistance from the Commonwealth Government, the company was forced into liquidation in 1923.

The Australian Estates Company Limited

  • Corporate body
  • 1894 - 1975

The Australian Estates Company Limited, formerly the Australian Estates & Mortgage Co Ltd, carried on business as wool and produce selling brokers, stock and station agents, pastoralists, raw sugar millers and cane growers. The Australian Estates & Mortgage Co Ltd was formed in 1894 as a subsidiary of The Union Mortgage & Agency Company of Australia Ltd and was registered in London on 5 December 1894. The Australian Estates & Mortgage Co Ltd acquired mortgages, properties and stock from The Union Mortgage & Agency Company of Australia Ltd in 1894 and 1896. In 1899, the company was amalgamated with the parent company, but took until 1902 to complete. In 1924 The Australian Estates & Mortgage Co Ltd's sugar business was expanded when the company amalgamated its mill "The Palms" at Mackay witht the nearby "Pleystowe" mill, and formed the Amalgamated Sugar Mills Ltd. In 1927, the same year that G S Colman became joint General Manager in Australia, the New South Wales Pastoral Co Ltd was formed in London in order to acquire properties in NSW, which included "Burra Burra", "Jemalong" and "Raby".

On 21 July 1936 the name of the company changed to The Australian Estates Company Limited. After the Second World War, the company underwent extensive growth and expansion, acquiring Kamilaroi Pastoral Co (1946), a half share in F A Hill & Co, Edward Trenchard & Co (1947), John McNamara & Co (1950) and other McNamara companies. In 1954 the Australian Estates Co (Agencies) Pty Ltd was set up to acquire new branches in Victoria, and in 1956 the Australian Estates Co (Queensland) Pty Ltd was set up to do the same in Queensland. In the following years a series of subsidiaries were established and the company acquired more businesses and properties. In 1973 the company further diversified purchasing an interest in the Denny Group in the United Kingdom - E M Denny (Holdings) Ltd were meat processors and traders in the UK and Ireland. Much of the post-war growth and expansion of the company had been carried out under D C F (Sir Denys) Lowson as Chairman and Managing Director, who resigned in 1974 after investigations into his involvement in share dealings. After attracting the interest of Rupert Murdoch and B H South, the company was taken over by CSR Limited in March 1975.

The Bodalla Co-operative Cheese Society Limited

  • Corporate body
  • 1925 - 1987

In 1925, the Bodalla Cheese Co-operative Society Ltd was formed being a combination of the farmers working on the Bodalla Estate and the Bodalla Company. The Co-operative purchased two of the Company’s cheese factories and continued the tradition of cheese-making that had been pioneered in the early days. Bodalla village was sold off in 1926 to most of the occupiers of the buildings. The Bodalla Cheese Factory was built in 1954 and closed in 1987 owing to lack of milk supply and production costs.

The Bodalla Company Limited

  • Corporate body
  • 1887 - 1994

The Bodalla Company was formed in 1887 by the Executors and Trustees of the Will of Thomas Sutcliffe Mort, who died in 1878, to run this pastoral estate for the beneficiaries (mainly members of his immediate family) under the terms of his will. It is situated on the South Coast of N.S.W., south of Moruya and originally comprised about 13,000 acres when acquired by T.S. Mort in 1856 from John Hawdon. Mort purchased a further 4,000 acres of the neighbouring property, Comerang, from Philip Jeffrey, which became the home farm and the house Mort’s country home. The estate eventually totalled 56,000 acres. Mort had developed the property as a mixture of dairy cattle and agriculture, draining land, clearing heavy timber and fencing and installing tenant farmers. He increased his herd of dairy Shorthorns and began dairy production in 1861. A three-storey cheese factory was built at Comerang in 1874. Mort originally worked the property on a share-farming system, but in the early 1870s he took back the whole estate and ran it as three farms with hired workers. Mort took interest in several areas, developing methods of getting milk, butter and cheese to market, investing in refrigeration, developing piggeries and promoting the use of maize in bread manufacture leading to the establishment of a corn flour mill at Merimbula.
When the main road crossing of the Tuross River was moved from Widget to Trinketabella, Mort moved the Bodalla village to its present site in 1870.
Mort had 10 children, 8 children from his first marriage to Theresa Shepheard née Laidley and 2 sons from his second marriage to Marianne Elizabeth Macaulay.
In his will Mort appointed as trustees of his estate his wife Marianne Elizabeth Mort, his eldest son James Laidley (Laidley) Mort (who later renounced his trusteeship) and his friends Benjamin Buchanan, Leslie G. Herring and Charles James Manning. The Bodalla Company was incorporated on 23 July 1887, under the ‘Bodalla Estate Act’, to put on a business footing the main asset of the Estate. The capital was £200,000 divided into 2,000 shares of £100 each, although this was later reduced to £85. By the Act, the beneficiaries were given one-tenth shares in the Bodalla Company, the shares for the younger sons being held in trust.

The Gulf Cattle Company Proprietary Limited

  • Corporate body
  • c. 1913 - c. 1996

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

The Institute of Brewing - Asia Pacific Section

  • Industry association
  • 1952 -

The Asia Pacific Section of the Institute of Brewing was originally formed as the Australian Section of the Institute in 1952. The Section changed its name to the Australia and New Zealand Section in 1967 and in 1994 to the Asia Pacific Section. In 2001 the parent company, The Institute of Brewing, amalgamated with the International Brewers' Guild to form The Institute and Guild of Brewing. In the same year the Section was registered as a public company, The Institute and Guild of Brewing - Asia Pacific Company Limited. The IGB was superseded in January 2005 by the new name The Institute of Brewing & Distilling.

The International Bookshop

  • Corporate body
  • 1933 - 1993

The International Bookshop, serving Melbourne’s Left and literary culture, started as a small Communist Party of Australia bookshop in Exhibition Street, Melbourne in 1933. It sold communist papers, books and pamphlets and imported Marxist classics and Soviet literature. After the CPA became defunct the Search Foundation funded the bookshop. The bookshop closed its premises at 17 Elizabeth Street on 31 May 1993.

The Journalists' Club

  • Corporate body
  • 1939 -1997

The club was established in 1939 and owned its own building which served as a social meeting place for journalists, and also as a centre for strikes and union meetings. It closed its doors in 1997, merging with the Sydney Sports Club.

The Leviathan Limited

  • Corporate body
  • c. 1913 - 1972

The company of tailors, clothiers and outfitters was founded by Lewis Sanders, and was registered in Victoria on 7 September 1926. The company was taken over by Walsh's Holdings Limited in 1972.

The Maitland Mercury

  • Corporate body
  • 1843 -

The first edition of the Maitland Mercury was published on Saturday, 7 January 1843 as a weekly paper. From 1 January 1846 the Mercury was published twice weekly on Wednesday and Saturday. After 50 years of steady growth in 1894, the Mercury was published as an afternoon daily for 95 years until 5 June 1989 when the Mercury became a morning daily.

The Merchants Trust Limited

  • Corporate body
  • 1889 -

The Merchants Trust Limited was founded in London in February 1889 to invest capital in world wide enterprises. It operated in Australia, with six main investments in Victoria, through agents Gibbs Bright and Co, and then Goldsbrough Mort & Co from 31 May 1912. Goldsbrough Mort & Co, its agents in Melbourne, administered the Trust's investment in properties in Princes Terrace, Camberwell Estate, North Campbellfield Estate, and its interests in Castlemaine Brewery Company Ltd, McCracken's City Brewery Ltd, and Carlton and United Breweries Ltd. The Trust which currently operates as The Merchants Trust PLC now concentrates primarily upon major UK companies.

The Producers' Co-operative Distributing Society Limited

  • Corporate body
  • 1925 - 1983

The company was registered in New South Wales in September 1925 as The Producers' Co-operative Distributing Society Limited and changed its name to PDS Co-operative Limited in 1975. It was de-registered on 7 May 1983.

The Scottish Australian Investment Company Limited

  • Corporate body
  • 1840 - 1972

The firm was established in Aberdeen, Scotland in 1840 and commenced operations in Australia the following year. It was incorporated in England on 27 October 1856 as The Scottish Australian Investment Company Limited and later changed its name to The Scottish Australian Company Limited on 12 January 1933. The company invested in mortgages and real estate in the colony of New South Wales on behalf of people in Britain in return for a commission. It had offices at 24 Gresham Street, London and at O'Connell Street in Sydney. In 1972 after the tax domicile of the company was transferred to Australia, the company became a subsidiary of Scottish Australian Holdings Limited.

The Union Mortgage and Agency Company of Australia Limited

  • Corporate body
  • 1884 - 1902

In 1884 the business of William Sloane & Co, stock and station agents established in Melbourne around 1861 by William Sloane and R J Jeffray, became The Union Mortgage & Agency Company of Australia Ltd. R J Jeffray became its Chairman and General Manager. During 1885 the company acquired the pastoral business of James Turner & Son and later that year the wool-selling business of M D Synott. The company extended its scope to sugar, and had representatives in Sydney, Brisbane and Rockhampton. The Company's agents for the disposal of wool in the United Kingdom were Young Ehlers & Co. In 1886 the company went into liquidation and a new company of the same name was formed in London, with an Australian Head Office in Melbourne and branches in Sydney, Brisbane, Rockhampton and later Townsville. In 1899 the new company went into liquidation and almagamated with its subsidiary company The Australian Estates & Mortgage Company Limited, which later became The Australian Estates Company Limited. The amalgamation took until 1902 for The Union Mortgage & Agency Company of Australia Ltd to finally wound up.

The Western Assurance Company

  • Corporate body
  • 1907 - 1976

The company carried on business in Australia as a fire, marine and accident insurance company. It was registered on 4 January 1907. The Head Office of the company was in Toronto, Canada and the main office in Australia was in Sydney. The company's branch in Melbourne had transactions with Goldsbrough Mort Co in 1906. The company was deregistered on 22 January 1976.

Thomas, Edward Llewellyn Gordon

  • Person
  • 1890 - 1966

Edward Llewellyn Gordon Thomas, known as Gordon Thomas, was born in Chicago, Illinois in 1890 and died in Sydney in 1966. He enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force in 1917 but was discharged as medically unfit in 1919. After schooling abroad and working in newspapers in Canada, he moved to New Guinea in 1911, taking on a variety of jobs, including editor of the Rabaul Times from 1925-27 and 1933-42. He was living in Rabaul in 1942, the capital of the Australian United Nations Mandated Territory, when it was invaded by the Japanese and all civilians and military personnel were interned as POW's (Prisoners of War). Some soldiers and civilians managed to escape, but 106 Australians were executed in horrific circumstances in the Tol and Waitavalo plantations. Arrangements were made to ship the remaining POW's to Hainan, but Thomas and three others were retained to run Rabaul's commercial freezer and ice plant. Most of the remaining civilians and military personnel imprisoned in the town were doomed when they were put on board the Japanese ship Montevideo Maru, a freighter requisitioned by the Japanese navy. They were on their way to Hainan when the unmarked POW ship was torpedoed by an American submarine off the coast of the Philippines with the loss of 1054 lives. Thomas Gordon and the other men spent the next three years as POW's in Rabaul. Thomas' skills as a journalist became very useful to the Japanese, writing news stories and propaganda to assuage the locals into accepting Japanese rule.

The massacres that took place at the Tol and Waitavalo plantations have been described as the "one of the most callous atrocities of the Pacific War". (Max Uechtritz, asopa.typepad.com, 5 February 2017). The remains of some of the executed Australians were recovered post-war and buried in Rabaul's Bita Paka war cemetery.

Thomas, Harvey Alfred Pete

  • Person
  • 1914 - 1988

Born Harvey Alfred Pete Thomas in Perth on 16 June 1914, Thomas commenced his journalistic career in 1933 as a cadet on the West Australian. After three years he was sub-editor and within a decade a leader writer. He was active in the West Australian Branch of the Australian Journalists’ Association. He joined the Communist Party of Australia in 1939. In 1940 he took a journalist position on Perth’s The Daily News, and from January 1942 served in the armed forces. In July 1946 Thomas left Perth to work on the communist weekly the Queensland Guardian, of which he was Editor in 1948. In 1954 the Queensland Guardian folded under financial pressure, but Thomas remained in Brisbane as the Queensland correspondent of the Tribune. In 1956 he transferred to Sydney as industrial writer on the Tribune. He returned to Brisbane in 1960 to restart the Queensland Guardian which he edited until it folded again in December 1966. He then worked in Sydney with the Tribune until 1972. In 1973 Thomas wrote a history of the green bans, Taming the Concrete Jungle, for the NSW Branch of the Builders Labourers’ Federation (BLF). He was a prolific pamphleteer and wrote a series of pamphlets on aspects of the Australian class struggle. In 1973 Thomas was appointed editor of the Australian Coal and Shale Employees’ Federation’s (Miners’ Federation) weekly, Common Cause, where he remained until his retirement in 1979. During this period he also wrote pamphlets for the Miners’ Federation on the Nymboida Mine. On retirement he was commissioned by the Miners’ Federation to write Miners in the 1970s: a narrative history of the Miners’ Federation (1983) and a history of the Queensland miners, the first volume of which was published in 1986. Pete Thomas died on 11 August 1988.

Thompson, Roger

  • Person

Roger Thompson was a PhD candidate in the Department of Political Science, Research School of Social Sciences at the Australian National University.

Thorne, Alan Gordon

  • Person
  • 1939 - 2012

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

Thorne, Phillip T

  • Person
  • 1908 - 1988

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

Threlfall, Neville A

  • Person
  • 1930 -

Neville Threlfall was born in Subiaco, Western Australia, on 4 October 1930. Following education by correspondence and a one-teacher school, then at Perth Modern School and the University of Western Australia, he entered the ministry of the Methodist Church in 1951. He served at Gosnells, Gnowangerup, Mount Barker, Moora and the North Midlands, before going as a missionary to Papua New Guinea in 1961. He served in the New Guinea Islands Region of the Methodist Church and then with the United Church of Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands, at Nakanai 1961-1964; Raluana 1964-1967; Kavieng 1968-1970; Matupit 1971; as regional secretary 1972-1975; in charge of literature and publications 1976-1977; as regional secretary again 1978-1980; and finally undertook historical work in 1981-1982, much of which was carried out while a visiting fellow at the Australian National University. Threlfall returned to ministry in Western Australia in 1982, becoming minister at Dalwallinu 1982-1989, and at Northam 1990-1993.

Timber Merchants Association

  • Association
  • 1883 - 2017

On 14 September 1883, twenty one merchants attended the inaugural meeting of the Timber Merchants Association of Melbourne. The objects of the association were to represent the firms interested in the timber trade of the Port of Melbourne “with the view of united action in all matters bearing upon the welfare and satisfactory working of such trade, and to obtain an approved and decided opinion upon any points of policy or alteration in trade arrangements that may present themselves”.
The co-founders of the Association were John Sharp of John Sharp & Sons in South Melbourne and James Wright of J Wright & Co, also in South Melbourne. They established offices at 38 Elizabeth Street, Melbourne and invited annual subscriptions at a price of 3 guineas. The Association’s initial activities focused on cartage rates, prices and credit.
December 1888 saw the beginning of the Association’s involvement in union negotiations, with the majority of members opposing the Amalgamated Society of Carpenters & Joiners’ request for a reduction of working hours from 48 to 44 hours per week. Throughout the 1900s, the Association would regularly oppose moves to legislate for a 5 day week and a 40 hour week.
In 1905 the Association changed its name to the Melbourne & Suburban Timber Merchants Association. Shortly after, in 1910, a Bendigo & District Timber Merchants Association was formed.
Throughout the early 1900s the Association moved premises several times before finally finding a more permanent home at 51 William Street, Melbourne in 1925.
In 1940 Fred O’Connell of Junction Joinery was appointed Manager of the Association, holding this position for 18 years. In 1941, he and President Eric Aitken held talks with the Prices Commission in Canberra regarding price control and the difficult position the industry was in, successfully negotiating a set price for timber. Also in 1941, the Association organised a Timber Trade Advisory Committee to oversee petrol rationing.
In 1959 a Geelong Branch of the Melbourne & Suburban Timber Merchants Association was formed, however it wasn’t long before the idea of merging the country and city associations emerged and in 1965 the branches merged to form the Timber Merchants Association (Victoria).
In 1971 the William Street building that housed the Association was sold and the Association built new offices in Whitehorse Road, Blackburn.
In 2017 the TMA was absorbed by the Master Grocers Association of Victoria (MGAV). The TMA is now known as MGA Timber Merchants Australia (MGA TMA).

Tinsmith and Sheet Iron Workers' Trade Society

  • Trade union
  • 1881 - 1919

The Tinsmiths & Sheet Iron Workers' Trade Society formed on 20 December 1881 in Sydney and operated until 1902 before changing its name to the New South Wales Amalgamated Tinsmiths Sheet Iron Workers & Meter Makers Trade Society. In 1910 the Union again changed its name to the New South Wales Amalgamated Sheet Metal Workers' Society and in 1916 became known as the New South Wales Amalgamated Tinsmiths' & Sheet Metal Workers' Society. By 1919 this Union eventually joined the federal body and became the New South Wales Branch of the Sheet Metal Working Industrial Union of Australia.

Tooth and Company Limited

  • Corporate body
  • 1835 - 2010

In 1835 John Tooth, who had arrived in New South Wales in 1828, and Charles Newnham opened the Kent Brewery in Sydney. In June 1888 Tooth & Company became a publicly listed company with capital of 900,000 pounds. In 1905 the Company acquired the New South Wales Malting Company's works at Mittagong. Over the next two decades the company acquired the Maitland Brewery (1913), the Castlemaine Brewery and Wood Brothers, Newcastle (1921); breweries in Wagga Wagga, Narrandera and Goulburn and in 1929 they acquired Resch's Limited. In 1977 the company acquired Wright, Heaton and Company and Penfolds Wines Limited and in 1978 Courage Brewery Limited. Tooth and Company was acquired by Carlton and United Breweries in 1983. The company's extensive collection of hotel properties were sold off from 1990. The company was delisted from the Australian Securities Exchange in 2010 after not having traded for many years.

Tory, Ethel Elizabeth

  • Person
  • 1912 - 2003

Ethel Tory was born on 27 July 1912 in Subiaco, Western Australia. Her parents were Frank Bertram Tory, a legal manager and estate agent, originally from Blandford, Dorset and Ethel Marion Victoria Johnson, born in Guildford, Western Australia. Tory enrolled in a Bachelor of Arts at the University of Western Australia in 1933, after spending two years living with family in Dorset and in Grand Luce, Sarthe in France. She graduated with Honours in French in 1936, added an Honours in Latin in 1938 and completed a Diploma of Education in 1939. During the war, she was employed in the Censor's Office in the Department of Information to scan mail in French and Latin and as a secondary school teacher. In 1941 she won the Hackett Research Scholarship from the University of Western Australia which allowed her to conduct research into French literature.

In 1946 she was appointed Tutor in French at the University of Western Australia and lecturer in Latin in 1947. In 1947, Tory was awarded a French government scholarship and attended the University of Paris (La Sorbonne) where she obtained the Diplôme de littérature française contemporaine (mention honorable) in 1948. She stayed in France for the next ten years teaching and translating, and undertaking research for her doctoral thesis resulting in the award of Docteur de l’université (mention très honorable) from the University of Paris in 1961.

In February 1961 she commenced as a lecturer in French in the School of General Studies at the Australian National University, where she was promoted to Senior Lecturer in July 1965 and served as Acting Head of the Department of Modern Languages in 1969 and again from 1974 to 1975 when it was the Department of Romance Languages. In 1970, she published an edition of Giraudoux’s play Intermezzo for use in schools and universities. Tory retired in 1977 but continued to teach French and to support drama studies at the Australian National University through donations. The EE Tory Endowment was established to support academics and students in drama and language through her bequest to the ANU on her death in 2003.

Tower Software Engineering Proprietary Limited

  • Corporate body
  • 1985 - 2008

TOWER Software Engineering Pty Ltd was established in Canberra and registered on 27 March 1985. Brand Hoff was the company's Managing Director from 1985 to 2001. The company developed and marketed content management software and solutions primarily for regulated and government industries. Its widely used products TRIM and TRIM Context were licensed to national, state and local government departments and authorities in Australia and internationally. In 2008 the company was acquired by Hewlett-Packard Company.

Tracy, Augustine Joseph

  • Person
  • 1903 - 1983

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

Trades Union Congress

  • Association
  • 1868 -

The Trades Union Congress is a voluntary association of trade unions which was formed in Manchester in 1868. It forms the largest pressure group in the United Kingdom and works to improve the rights and conditions of working people. In achieving its aims the TUC has played a role both in many Government organisations and in the political wing of the Labour movement. Such a history has resulted in its archives being a rich source for the study of the political, economic and social history of the United Kingdom in the twentieth century.

The TUC is governed by an annual Congress at which representatives of affiliated trade unions meet to determine policy and to elect the executive body of the organisation. Between 1869 and 1921, the executive work of the Congress was carried out by the Parliamentary Committee. In 1920, the Committee was composed of sixteen members who dealt with a relatively narrow range of labour affairs. Changes in society during the First World War led to a widening of the TUC's functions and consequently the formation of the General Council in 1921, which was composed of a representative sample of trade unionists. The General Council is assisted by a number of committees, including Finance and General Purposes, Disputes, Education, Organisation, Social Insurance, International, Economic and Production. These in turn are served by departments, the number and nature of which varies according to the needs and priorities of the time. The responsibility for the everyday work of the General Council lies with the General Secretary who is assisted by a Deputy General Secretary and one or two Assistant General Secretaries.

In the regions, the TUC is organised into Regional Councils which cover England and Wales. Trade union activity in Scotland and Northern Ireland is co-ordinated by the Scottish TUC and the Northern Ireland Committee of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions, both of which are separate organisations with close working relationships with the TUC. At a local level branches of affiliated trade unions unite to form trades councils.

Trades and Labor Council of Queensland

  • Peak council
  • 1885 -

The first steps toward forming a labour council in Queensland was a meeting of interested union Secretaries held on 18 August with the formation of the new Brisbane Trades and Labor Council occurring on 1 September 1885. Within four years the Labor Council had disbanded to make way for the Australian Labor Federation The Brisbane District Council of Australasian Labor Federation was formed on the eve of a range of industrial disputes, amongst them the printers industry wide strike of 1889, and the shearers and maritime workers strikes of the 1890s. By 1914, it found itself completely devoid of affiliates and was consequently dissolved. By mid-1914 the Brisbane Industrial Council was formed. By March 1917 attempts were being explored to develop a closer unity between the Industrial Council and other bodies such as the Eight Hours Union and the Trades Hall Board. It took over twelve months, but in September 1918 a conference of 42 metropolitan unions adopted the Trades Hall amalgamation scheme. The Trades and Labor Council of Queensland was eventually established on 12 April 1922 with 46 unions at the inaugural meeting. This body continued in name until 1993 when it became the Australian Council of Trade Unions Queensland Branch and then was renamed the Queensland Council of Unions in 1999.

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.

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