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Airline Hostesses' Association

  • Trade union
  • 1956 - 1984

The Airline Hostesses' Association was registered in 1956 and existed in parallel to the Flight Stewards' Association for male staff. In 1984 the Airline Hostesses' Association which included an Overseas Branch for international cabin crew became the Australian Flight Attendants' Association, while the Flight Stewards' Association became the Australian International Cabin Crew Association. These changes happened when Qantas, the only international airline operating in Australia at the time, replaced 'Hostesses' with 'Female Flight Service Attendants'. In 1992 the two unions amalgamated to become the Flight Attendants' Association of Australia.

Alaric Holdings Proprietary Limited

  • Corporate body
  • 1973 - 1990

Small family company specialising in motel ownership and operation. Shareholders include James Ian West, Annette Faye West and Cara West. It was liquidated mid 1990.

Albert, Adrien

  • Person
  • 1907-1989

Adrien Albert was Professor of Medicinal Chemistry at the John Curtin School of Medical Research, Australian National University from 1949 to 1972. Prior to this, Albert was Acting Head of Pharmacy (1938) and lecturer in Organic Chemistry (1939 -1947) at the University of Sydney. During World War II the supply of pharmaceuticals from abroad dwindled so Adrien Albert, in conjunction with the Australian Army Medical Directorship, set up the production of these essential drugs in Australia. He was awarded a Commonwealth Research Scholarship to help fund this work. Almost immediately after the war ended, Albert moved to England to take up the position of Director of Research at the Wellcome Foundation in London. Two years later, Sir Howard Florey lured Adrien Albert back to Australia to work at the newly created John Curtin School of Medical Research.

Allan, Colin Hamilton

  • Person
  • 1921 - 1993

Sir Colin Hamilton Allan was born on 23rd October 1921 in Wellington, New Zealand. He was educated at Canterbury University, New Zealand and Magdalene College Cambridge. Allan served with New Zealand troops during World War II. In 1945 Allan joined the colonial service as administrative cadet in British Solomon Islands. He served on Malaita as District Officer (1949); District Commissioner (1952); Land Commissioner in Solomon Islands, 1956-1959. He was Assistant Resident Commissioner in the Anglo-French Condominium of the New Hebrides, 1959 and Resident Commissioner, 1966. He served as Governor of the Seychelles from 1973 to 1 October 1975, then as High Commissioner from 1 October 1975 to 28 June 1976. He was Governor of the Solomon Islands from 1976 to 1978. In 1978 Governor Allan was elected visiting fellow at the Australian National University. He is the author of the 1957 publication Customary Land Tenure in the British Solomon Islands Protectorate. Allan died on 5 March 1993 at Howick, Auckland.

Allen Taylor and Company Limited

  • Corporate body
  • 1893 - 1970

Sir Allen Arthur Taylor founded the firm of timber growers, merchants and sawmill proprietors in 1893. In February 1905 the firm was incorporated as a public company with Taylor as managing director. The company was taken over by Blue Metal Industries Limited from 22 April 1970. Boral acquired BMI in 1982 and Allen Taylor and Co. Limited became a subsidiary of Boral Timber.

Allen, Bryant

  • Person
  • 1944 -

Bryant Allen was born in New Zealand in 1944 and holds a BA and MA from Massey University (1963 – 1970). From 1971 - 1974 he studied for a PhD in the Department of Human Geography, Research School of Pacific Studies, at the Australian National University. He carried out fieldwork in villages around Dreikikir, East Sepik Province in 1971 and 1972 and has returned to this area many times time since.
In 1974 Bryant took up a position as Lecturer in Geography at the University of Papua New Guinea and with Andrew Wood, studied Huli agriculture in the Tari Basin, Hela Province. During 1979 he was a visitor for 4 months at the School of Development Studies, University of East Anglia, England. In 1981-82 he was consultant to the PNG Office of Environment on population growth and land use.
Bryant returned to ANU in 1982 as a Research Fellow in the Department of Human Geography, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, College of Asia and the Pacific. In 1987 he participated in a review of the AIDAB funded Magarini Resettlement Project in Coast Province, Kenya for AusAID and co-authored an analysis of this project with Doug Porter and Gaye Thompson Development in Practice, published in 1991 and republished in 2013.
From 1990 – 2009 Bryant was a Senior Fellow at ANU. With colleagues Harold Brookfield, Mike Bourke, Robin Hide and the late Geoff Humphreys he formed the Land Management Group. LMG identified, mapped and documented agriculture systems over the whole of PNG in collaboration with the GoPNG. This project had many spin-offs, including collaboration in a World Bank poverty survey of PNG and two ACIAR projects. In 1997 Bryant was co-leader with Mike Bourke of an AusAID supported a national assessment of food and water shortages in Papua New Guinea which guided Australia’s food delivery program by the ADF. When he retired in December 2009 he had been the Head of the Department of Human Geography a number of times and was the Convenor of the Division of Society and Environment. Bryant has consulted for AusAID, the World Bank, ADB and FAO. After retirement from ANU he was contracted by Esso Highlands as a Community Affairs Field Manager and Senior Advisor to the PNG LNG Project (2009-2013).
Bryant is currently a Visiting Fellow, State, Society and Governance in Melanesia Program, College of Asia and the Pacific at the ANU, and conducts his own social and economic consulting business in Canberra.

Allen, Harold Wesley

  • Person
  • 1917 - 1983

Harold Allen was born on 30 March 1917 at Grenfell, New South Wales, and was educated in Sydney, taking a degree in Economics from the University of Sydney. He served in the army in the Second World War and had a distinguished career as a public servant. He lived in England from 1962 and was a pupil in composition of Peter Racine Fricker and then from 1966-1972 of Elisabeth Lutyens. His over 40 compositions range from choral works, music for instrumental ensembles to instrumental solos. Ten of his works were performed in London during the 1970s. The Harold Allen Memorial Prize was established by his family to be awarded annually to the leading composition student in the School of Music at the Australian National University.

Allen, Leslie Holdsworth

  • Person
  • 1879 - 1964

Leslie Holdsworth Allen was born on 21 June 1879 in Maryborough, Victoria, and studied English and Classical literature at Sydney University (BA 1904 and MA 1920). He completed his doctoral thesis at Leipzig University in 1907. After his return to Sydney he lectured part time at the university until an appointment in 1911 as Senior Lecturer in Classics and English at the Teachers' College. He was appointed Lecturer in English and Latin at Canberra University College in 1931 and in different periods lectured in English, Latin, Ancient History (1936) and Classics (1949-1960) at CUC; he was part-time Lecturer, Department of Classics, School of General Studies in 1961. Allen died on 5 January 1964 at Moruya, New South Wales.

Allt's Brewery and Wine and Spirit Company Limited

  • Corporate body
  • 1888 - 1895

In 1888 Henry Burrows and Hampton Carroll Gleeson entered into partnership with Allt & Co, wine and spirit merchants, and the Surrey Brewery in Waterloo to form Allt’s Brewery & Wine & Spirit Co Ltd. The business then continued to operate as Allt's Brewing Co Limited. The brewing operations of the Surrey Brewery were closed and brewing was concentrated at the Waverley Brewery (which opened in 1874 as the Adelaide Brewery). With the onset of the depression of the 1890s the holding company Allt’s Brewery & Wine & Spirit Co Ltd went into liquidation in 1895, and Edmund Resch was brought in as manager. The company was purchased by Edmund Resch in 1897 when he formed Resch's Ltd.

Alroy Downs Station

  • Corporate body
  • c. 1913 -

The property of Alroy Downs Station was established in 1878 by W Lamb. It was subsequently bought in 1914 by J C H Schmidt of Goolburra, Queensland. Its first manager was F Story who commenced duties in 1914. From 1934 to 1936, Schmidt's son Rudolf managed the property. The station remained owned by the family company and was later run by Trevor Schmidt, who was also managing director of The Australian Agricultural Company from 1974 to 1988. It was bought in early 2004 by Peter Sherwin and later sold to Sterling Buntine in March 2008.

Amalgamated Engineering Union

  • Trade union
  • 1851 - 1973

Established in 1851, the original Amalgamated Engineering Union was a branch of the British union. It was registered with the Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Court in 1905 and became known as the Amalgamated Society of Engineers. In 1920 it amalgamated with ten other engineering and allied trade unions and changed its name to the Amalgamated Engineering Union, Australian Section in 1921. In 1968 the union became autonomous from its parent body in Britain, shortening its name to the Amalgamated Engineering Union to reflect this. In mid-June 1972 the AEU began a series of amalgamations with the Sheet Metal Workers, Blacksmiths & Boilermakers and Federated Jewellers to form the Amalgamated Metal Workers' Union by 1973.

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.

Amalgamated Foodstuffs Union of Queensland

  • Trade union
  • c. 1915 - c. 1967

Incorporating the Milling, Baking, Cooking and Allied Trades Employees' Union of Queensland (registered under the Trade Union Act of 1915).

Needs research to confirm dates and history.

Amalgamated Footwear and Textile Workers' Union of Australia

  • Trade union
  • 1987 - 1992

The Amalgamated Footwear & Textile Workers' Union of Australia was formed in 1987, following an amalgamation between the Australian Boot Trade Employees' Federation and the Australian Textile Workers' Union. The Union can be traced to about 1886 with the formation of the Victorian Silk Hatters' Society, which evolved in 1912, as the Federated Felt Hatting Employees' Union of Australasia. Shortly before this, in 1908, the Australian Boot Trade Employees' Federation was formed. In 1919, the third branch of the Amalgamated Footwear & Textile Workers' Union of Australia family tree was established with the formation and federal registration of the Australian Textile Workers' Union.

In 1984, The Australian Textile Workers' Union (i) and the Federated Felt Hatting & Allied Trade Employees' Union of Australia (the successor of the Federated Felt Hatting Employees' Union of Australasia) merged to form the Australian Textile Workers' Union (ii).

Operating until 1992 the Amalgamated Footwear & Textile Workers' Union of Australia eventually merged with the Clothing & Allied Trades Union of Australia to become the Textile Clothing & Footwear Union of Australia.

Amalgamated Ironworkers' Assistants of New South Wales

  • Trade union
  • 1890 - 1913

The Amalgamated Ironworkers' Assistants of New South Wales was registered in June 1890 and then as the Ironworkers' Assistants Union of New South Wales on 25 July 1900. It joined the Federated Ironworkers' Association as the New South Wales Branch and on 13 March 1913 registered as the NSW Division, Sydney Branch of that union. It was also known as the Sydney 'A' branch or No.1 Branch and later as the Sydney Metropolitan Branch which incorporated the Sydney No.1, No. 2 and Balmain Branches.

Amalgamated Metal Workers and Shipwrights Union

  • Trade union
  • 1976 - 1983

The union was formed by the amalgamation of the Amalgamated Metal Workers' Union and the Federated Shipwrights' & Ship Constructors' Association of Australia in 1976, and functioned until 1983 when it joined the Federated Moulders' (Metals) Union of Australia to become the Amalgamated Metals Foundry and Shipwrights' Union.

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.

Amalgamated Metals Foundry and Shipwrights Union

  • Trade union
  • 1983 - 1985

The union was formed by the amalgamation of the Federated Moulders' (Metals) Union of Australia and the Amalgamated Metal Workers' & Shipwrights' Union in 1983. In 1985 the union changed its name to the Amalgamated Metal Workers' Union.

Amalgamated Miners' Association of Australasia

  • Trade union
  • c. 1884 - 1916

The Amalgamated Miners' Association of Australasia was formed through a merger of the Amalgamated Miners' Association of Victoria and several other miners' associations including New South Wales unions. The Hunter River District Coalminers' Mutual Protective Association (1860), the Illawarra Miners' Mutual Protective Association (1885), and Lithgow unions became branches of the union. The Barrier Miners' Association (formed in Broken Hill in 1884) became the Barrier Branch of the union in 1886. The union was succeeded by the Australasian Coal and Shale Employees' Federation in 1916.

Amalgamated Postal Workers' Union of Australia

  • Trade union
  • 1925 - 1974

The Amalgamated Postal Workers' Union had its origins in the Australian Letter Carriers' Association which was registered federally in 1912. In 1924 it changed its name to the Commonwealth Public Service Fourth Division Employees' Union of Australia only to amalgamate a year later with the Postal Sorters' Union of Australia to form the Amalgamated Postal Linesmen Sorters' and Letter Carriers' Union of Australia. From 1926 it was known as the Amalgamated Postal Workers' Union and it survived until 1974 when it changed its name to the Australian Postal and Telecommunications Union.

Amalgamated Printing Trades Employees Union of Australia

  • Trade union
  • 1920 - 1966

The union was formed in December 1920 under the name of Amalgamated Printing Trade Employees Union of New South Wales by an amalgamation of the Australian Bookbinders' and Paper Rulers' Federated Association, New South Wales Lithographic Association, Letterpress Printers' Machinists' Industrial Union of Employees of NSW, and the Process Engravers' Union of NSW. In the late 1940s it amalgamated with the Victorian Lithographic Printers' Employees' Union to form the Amalgamated Printing Trade Employees' Union of Australia. The union amalgamated with the Printing Industry Employees Union of Australia in 1966 to form the Printing and Kindred Industries Union of Australia.

Amalgamated Railway and Tramway Service Association

  • Trade union
  • 1886 - 1920

The Amalgamated Railway & Tramway Service Association was formed on 15 March 1886 as an all-grades union for New South Wales railway and tramway workers. The Association became the NSW Branch of the the Australian Railways Union following formation of the federal organisation in August 1920.

Amalgamated Shearers' Union of Australasia

  • Trade union
  • 1887 - 1894

The Amalgamated Shearers' Union of Australia was formed in 1887 by the amalgamation of the Australian Shearers' Union, the Bourke Shearers' Union and the Wagga Shearers' Union. It quickly grew to represent shearers across New South Wales, Victoria and South Australia. By the early 1890s, the Amalgamated Shearers' Union was fighting a battle of survival in strikes that spread across the colonies. Economic depression and severe drought savaged the wool industry and further impeded the effectiveness of the ASU. By 1894 the ASU, in order to maintain a strong union front in the rural sector, was forced to merge with other rural-based unions to form the Australian Workers' Union.

Amalgamated Society of Carpenters and Joiners of Australia

  • Trade union
  • 1850 - 1945, 1950 - 1992

Reflecting its status as a branch of its English parent union, this society was originally registered as the Australian District of Amalgamated Society of Carpenters and Joiners in 1911 though it had existed as an affiliate of the British union since the 1850s. By the end of 1922 the name had been amended to become the Amalgamated Society of Carpenters and Joiners of Australia. It operated until the end of the Second World War when its name was changed to the Building Workers' Industrial Union of Australia in 1945. The Building Workers' Industrial Union of Australia functioned for just three more years until it was deregistered in 1948. The name Amalgamated Society of Carpenters and Joiners was taken over by a rival, anti-Communist breakaway group and federally registered in 1950, then was itself deregistered in 1951. Reforming in 1952, it eventually amalgamated with a number of unions in 1992 to form the Federation of Industrial Manufacturing and Engineering Employees.

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.

Amalgamated Timber Workers' Union of Australia

  • Trade union
  • 1913 - 1918

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

Amalgamated Workers' Union of Queensland

  • Trade union
  • 1892 - 1904

The Amalgamated Workers' Union of Queensland was formed through the merging of the powerful Queensland Shearers' Union and the Queensland Workers' Union in April 1892. The three branches of the Amalgamated Workers' Union of Queensland, at Longreach, Hughenden and Charleville, amalgamated with the Australian Workers' Union in 1904 and became the Queensland branches of that Union. By 1908, however, the Hughenden Branch had closed down, leaving just the two other branches to represent Queensland in the AWU.

American Council for Judaism

  • Non Government Organisation
  • 1942 -

Jewish group initially created to represent a religious opposition to political Zionism. The American Council for Judaism continues with the goal of seeking 'to advance the universal principles of a Judaism free of nationalism, and the national, civic, cultural, and social integration into American institutions of Americans of Jewish faith.'

Analite Proprietary Limited

  • Corporate body
  • 1946 - 1984

Analite Pty Ltd, a laboratory equipment manufacturing business established in 1946 by Esmond Selby, Managing Director of the Sydney office of H B Selby & Company Pty Ltd, became a subsidiary of H B Selby Australia Limited in May 1951. Among Analite’s the more notable achievements was the development of sets of one-piece non-magnetic stainless steel analytical masses, accurate enough to be certified by the National Standards Laboratory. In 1982-83 H B Selby Australia Ltd succumbed to a triple takeover, firstly by Warburton O’Donnell, then by Comeng Holdings Ltd and, lastly, by Australian National Industries (ANI). Analite continued as a subsidiary of Australian National Industries until September 1984 when, due to declining profits and competition from overseas markets, it was wound up altogether.

Ancient Order of Foresters

  • Corporate body
  • 1849 - 1999

The Ancient Order of Foresters, which originated in England in the mid 1700s, established its first branch (Court) in Victoria in 1849. Foresters was set up as a non-profit organisation, the founding principles of the Society being to provide financial and social benefits as well as support to members and their families in times of unemployment, sickness, death, disability and old age. The Society is now known as the Foresters Friendly Society and in July 1999 was incorporated as a public company limited by shares and guarantee.

Andersen, Le Clerc

  • Person

Miss Le Clerc Andersen was an employee of Godfrey Hirst & Co Pty Ltd, of Geelong, Victoria. She took notes from the Geelong Advertiser which was later used in Ivan Southall's book , The Weaver from Meltham.

Andrew, David

  • Person

David Andrew was Field Industrial Officer, Snowy Mountain Authority from 1955-1964. From 1964-1980 he held the position of Executive Director, Master Builders' Association of the ACT and became Executive Director, Master Builders' Federation of Australia from 1980-1987. Andrew collaborated with historian Alan Foskett, and Phil Johnstone, to publish the book "On solid foundations : the building and construction of the Nation's Capital 1920 to 1950 : a history of the pioneering efforts of those who built Canberra" in 2001.

Andronicus, Emmanuel

  • Person
  • 1888 - c. 1970

Emmanuel Andronicus was born in Mylopatamo, Greece and belonged to the Sydney firm of coffee merchants, Andronicus Bros Pty Ltd. In 1907 Andronicus and his brother Charles opened a small shop selling chocolate and coffee at 127 York Street in Sydney, later moving to George Street with brothers Mick and John. Emmanuel Andronicus was active in Labor Party politics promoting Greek immigration and naturalisation. He became Greek consul in Sydney in 1924-30. He was President of ALP Greek Auxiliary and of the NSW School for Blind Children equipment committee.

Appleyard, Reginald Thomas

  • Person
  • 1927 -

Reginald Appleyard is Emeritus Professor of Economic History and Honorary Senior Research Fellow, UWA Business School, the University of Western Australia. Born and educated in Western Australia, he did graduate studies in economics (M.A., PhD) at Duke University, North Carolina. From 1957 to 1967 he held academic appointments at the Australian National University, Canberra, before appointment to the Foundation Chair of Economic History at UWA, a position he held until his retirement in 1992.

Author/Editor of many books and over 100 articles and reports, his main field of study is economic demography, and his specialty is international migration. He coordinated a UNFPA-funded project on Emigration Dynamics in Developing Countries (4 volumes), and from 1992 to 2002 was editor of International Migration (Geneva).

Argyle Downs Station

  • Corporate body
  • 1886 -

The station was established in 1886 when Patrick Durack sent his two elder sons to set up the station. From around 1919 the station owners were listed as Connor, Doherty and Durack Ltd. The Australian Agricultural Company acquired the station from 1950 to 1973. It is currently managed by Consolidated Pastoral Company Pty Ltd.

Argyle, Anthony Arthur

  • Person
  • 1930 - 2018

Tony Argyle was employed as a technician in the John Curtin School of Medical Research in 1953 before his appointment as a Technical Officer in the Department of Zoology at the Canberra University College in 1959. The department became part of the Faculty of Science at the Australian National University in 1960. He retired in 1988 as the Technical Services Manager in the department.

Armed Forces Federation of Australia

  • Professional association
  • c. 1984 - 2006

The Armed Forces Federation of Australia was established in order to represent the interests of members of the Australian Defence Force and their families. It was registered in the Australian Capitial Territory and published the journal Viewpoint, also known as ArFFA's viewpoint. The organisation wound up in 2006.

Arms, Explosives and Munition Workers' Federation of Australia

  • Trade union
  • 1917 - 1946

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

Armstrong, Thomas Scott Lorraine

  • Person
  • 1878 - 1944

Thomas Scott Lorraine Armstrong was born in 1878 at Gunbar Station, Hay, New South Wales (NSW). He was educated at the Church of England Grammar School, North Shore, Sydney. He worked as an overseer at Lissington Station, Bourke, NSW and as Manager at Urie Point Station, Brewarrina, NSW. In 1899 he worked Moolbong Station, Hillston, NSW and in 1901-02 was farming at Darling Downs, Queensland (Qld). From 1902?-1912 Armstrong was Manager, Euroka Station, Walgett, NSW. In 1917 he was appointed Manager of Corona Station, Longreach district and was an Inspector for the Australian Agricultural Company for Queensland. He also held local positions as Member, Longreach Shire Council; Deputy Chairman, Longreach Hospital Board; Vice-President of the Executive Council, United Graziers' Association of Qld; Member, North Gregory Rabbit Board; Chairman, Mitchell West Dingo Board; Chairman, Mitchell West Marsupial Board. Armstrong retired in 1941 and died in Toowoomba on 26 September 1944.

Arndt, Heinz Wolfgang

  • Person
  • 1915 - 2002

Professor Heinz Wolfgang Arndt was born in 1915 in Breslau, Germany. His family left in 1933 and Heinz moved to Oxford where he entered Lincoln College until 1938 after which he studied at the London School of Economics. He took up an appointment at the University of Sydney in 1946. In 1950 Arndt moved to Canberra where he took up the chair in economics at Canberra University College and from 1960 the Australian National University (ANU). In 1960-61 he took leave from ANU to work on economic development at the United Nations Commission for Europe in Geneva. On 1 December 1963, Arndt was appointed Head of the Department of Economics at the Research School of Pacific Studies. From 1964 he established the Indonesian Project at the ANU and was a founding editor of the Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies (BIES). He established another journal, Asian-Pacific Economic Literature (APEL) in 1986. Arndt was also a prolific writer and contributor to Quadrant. Professor Arndt died on 6 May 2002 on the day he was to give a eulogy at the funeral of close friend, Sir Leslie Melville.

Arnold, Ronald

  • Person
  • Unknown - 1981

Ronald Arnold was New South Wales Assistant Secretary of the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union, c. 1941-1981. As an AMWU or ALP representative Arnold was involved in international peace and disarmament conferences. Arnold died in November 1981.

Ashton, Adrian Olsson

  • Person
  • 1906 - 1981

Adrian Ashton was one of the founders of the Steel Treatment Research Society (Australia) and elected Honorary Secretary in 1931, a position he held continuously until his retirement in 1971. A qualified architect, Ashton worked as a journalist at the Building Publishing Company, editing The Australian/asian Engineer from 1946 and later Metals Australia/asia. His father was Australian artist, Sir William Ashton (1881 - 1963), and his grandfather was marine artist James Ashton.

Ashton, George

  • Person
  • 1890 - 1969

George Ashton was an Australian citizen born in Stuttgart, Germany, in 1890. In 1946 he was a Public Relations Officer for the Department of Post War Reconstruction. At the time of his death in 1969, he had retired from the Commonwealth Public Service and was living in Whangerai, Northland, New Zealand.

Assembly of Captive European Nations

  • Association
  • 1954 - 1972

The Assembly of Captive European Nations was founded on 20 September 1954 as a coalition of representatives from nine nations (Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland and Romania) in Central and Eastern Europe under Soviet domination after World War II. Its main office was in New York and its goals were 'to provide liberation from communist dictatorship by peaceful means, to educate public opinion on the actual situation behind the Iron Curtain, and to enlist the cooperation and assistance of governmental and non-governmental institutions'. Funding was provided by the Free Europe Committee and when that organisation suspended financial assistance in January 1972 because of its own budget reductions, the Assembly offices were closed and publication activities ceased.

Associated Chambers of Commerce of Australia

  • Peak council
  • 1901 - 1992

The Associated Chambers of Commerce of the Commonwealth of Australia formed in 1901 bringing together the Chambers of Commerce which had earlier been established in Adelaide (1839), Sydney, Melbourne and Hobart (1851), Brisbane (1869), and Perth (1890). The name was changed to the Associated Chambers of Commerce of Australia in 1939 and a federal office established in Canberra in 1941 (previously the location had alternated between the Sydney and Melbourne Chambers). In 1972 the name changed to the Australian Chamber of Commerce and then in 1992 it merged with the Confederation of Australian Industry to form the Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry.

Associated Chambers of Manufactures of Australia

  • Peak council
  • 1903 - 1977

The Federal Council of the Chambers of Manufactures of the Commonwealth of Australia was formed in August 1903 to promote protection for infant local industries, and was renamed the Associated Chambers of Manufactures of Australia in 1908. It amalgamated with the Australian Industries Protection League in 1920 retaining the same name until a further amalgamation on 1 December 1977, with the Australian Council of Employers' Federations created the Confederation of Australian Industry. In 1992 the Confederation of Australian Industry merged with the Australian Chamber of Commerce to form the Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry.

Associated Foods Limited

  • Corporate body
  • 1962 - 1973

The company was registered in Sydney on 22 June 1962 and acquired Associated Health Foods Pty Ltd. It was acquired by Mauri Brothers and Thomson Limited in November 1973 and continued to operate as a subsidiary company.

Associated Pulp and Paper Mills

  • Corporate body
  • 1936 - 1993

Associated Pulp And Paper Mills Limited (APPM) formed in 1936 under the auspices of the Collins House group with the amalgamation of Paper Makers Limited and Tasmanian Paper Company, becoming a large scale paper manufacturing operation at Burnie, Tasmania. A series of takeovers together with the commencement of manufacturing in Victoria and New South Wales made APPM a prominent force within the Australian paper and timber industry. The major shareholders included North Broken Hill Ltd, Broken Hill South Ltd, Australian Glass Manufacturers, Amalgamated Zinc and WH Smith and Company. Later becoming a subsidiary of North Broken Hill, the company was sold to AMCOR in 1993.

Association for Tertiary Education Management Incorporated

  • Professional association
  • 1976 -

The Association for Tertiary Education Management Inc (ATEM) was founded as the Australian Institute of College Administrators in 1975 originally under the direction of the Caulfield Institute of Technology Administrative Officers Association. Due to considerable interest from other states their focus shifted to the formation of a national organisation. At the first Annual General Meeting of the AICA held on 30 April 1976, the organisation's name was revised to the Australian Institute of Tertiary Education Administrators. In 1996 the organisation's name was changed to the Association for Tertiary Education Management Inc.

Association of Architects, Engineers, Surveyors and Draughtsmen of Australia

  • Trade union
  • 1944 - 1986

The Association of Architects Engineers Surveyors and Draughtsmen of Australia was formed in Brisbane in 1915 and was registered in the Industrial Court of Queensland in 1917. By 1944 there were branches in New South Wales and Victoria and the AAESDA was able to gain federal registration. It included within its scope members of the deregistered Australian Association of Draughtsmen (1948) and the Federation of Scientific and Technical Workers (1971). In 1981 a new title, Association of Draughting Supervisory and Technical Employees was adopted. The Association amalgamated with the Australian Public Service Artisans' Association in 1986.

Association of Draughting Supervisory and Technical Employees

  • Trade union
  • 1986 - 1991

The Association of Draughting Supervisory and Technical Employees was reformed after an amalgamation with the Australian Public Service Artisans' Association in 1986. ADSTE amalgamated again in 1991 with the Amalgamated Metal Workers' Union to form the Metals and Engineering Workers' Union.

Association of Employers of Waterside Labour

  • Industry association
  • 1963 - 1995

The Association of Employers of Waterside Labour was an organisation of waterfront employers, comprising Australian shipping owners and the various stevedoring companies around Australia. They were responsible for supplying labour to ports and terminals and acted as the representative of employers in discussions with the Waterside Workers Federation. The AEWL became inactive as a registered organisation from 1995 when it underwent liquidation, being deregistered on 23 January 2006.

Association of Professional Engineers, Australia

  • Trade union
  • 1946 - 1991

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

Association of Professional Engineers, Scientists and Managers Australia

  • Professional association
  • 1946 -

The Association of Professional Engineers, Scientists and Managers Australia (APESMA) is the result of the merger between the Association of Professional Engineers Australia (founded 1946, registered 1948), the Association of Professional Scientists Australia (registered 1962) and the Local Government Engineers Association of New South Wales in 1991. The following organisations merged subsequently: Senior Managers (Telstra & Australia Post) Association (1994), ABC Senior Executives Association (1994), Association of Architects of Australia (1995), Salaried Pharmacists Association (1997), Association of Railway Professional Officers of Australia (1997), Australian Collieries' Staff Association (2001), Managers and Professionals Association (2004), Professional Officers' Association (Victoria) (2006) and the Ambulance Managers and Professionals (Victoria) (2010). The organisation was renamed in 2013 as Professionals Australia.

Association of Railway Professional Officers of Australia

  • Trade union
  • 1919 - 1997

The Association of Railway Professional Officers of Australia was formed in 1919 but not registered until 18 July 1921 in Victoria. It merged with the Association of Professional Engineers, Scientists and Managers Australia in 1997.

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.

Atkinson, Alan

  • Person

Alan Atkinson completed his PhD at the Australian National University and was a student representative in the Department of History, Research School of Social Sciences at the ANU around 1974 to 1976. He is Emeritus Professor of History, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, School of Humanities at the University of New England and Honorary Professor, University of Sydney.

Austcattle Holdings Proprietary Limited

  • Corporate body
  • 1978 -

The company was registered in Queensland on 5 October 1978 and is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Australian Agricultural Company Limited (AACo). In 1979 the AACo, with P L Baillieu, acquired Austcattle Holdings Pty Ltd and its wholly owned subsidiary The Gulf Cattle Company Pty Ltd.

Australasian Airline Flight Engineers' Association

  • Trade union
  • 1961 -

The Australasian Airline Flight Engineers' Association was registered under the Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Act on 4 December 1961. It had members from New South Wales, Victoria and Queensland. By 1982, the Association changed names slightly to become the Australian Airline Flight Engineers' Association.

Australasian Coal Miners' Association

  • Trade union
  • 1913 - 1916

Registered federally in 1913 as the Australasian Coal Miners' Association this union was buoyed significantly in 1914 by the inclusion of members from the defunct Victorian Coal Miners' Association. In 1916 the Australasian Coal Miners' Association changed its name to the Australasian Coal & Shale Employees' Federation.

Australasian Coal and Shale Employees' Federation

  • Trade union
  • 1916 - 1990

In 1916 the Australasian Coal Miners' Association changed its name to the Australasian Coal & Shale Employees' Federation. It operated until 1990 when it amalgamated with the Federated Mining Mechanics' Association of Australasia to form the United Mineworkers' Federation of Australia. Further amalgamations resulted in the Construction Forestry Mining & Energy Union in 1993.

Australasian Meat Industry Employees Union

  • Trade union
  • 1906 -

The union was registered in 1906 as the Australasian Federated Butchers Union and the name was changed in 1912 to the Australasian Meat Industry Employees Union. Officially known as the AMIEU, in 2002 it became commonly known as the Meatworkers Union.

Australasian Society of Engineers

  • Trade union
  • 1890 - 1991

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

Australasian Steamship Owners' Federation

  • Industry association
  • 1899 - c. 1986

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

Australasian Sugar Company

  • Corporate body
  • 1842 - 1854

On 13 March 1842 the Australasian Sugar Company was formed in Sydney to take over the assets of the Australian Sugar Company (1839 - 1842). The company operated the Canterbury Refinery from September 1842 processing raw sugar imported from Manila and producing the first locally refined sugar in Australia. Three directors of the company, Edward Knox, Clarke Irving and Ralph Mayer Robey purchased Bowden’s sugar works (the Sydney House) at the corner of Pitt and Liverpool Streets in 1849, and in 1852, Cooper’s refinery in Parramatta Street (the Brisbane House). Knox was the company’s manager and director from August 1843 to 1854 when the company went into liquidation.

Australasian Typographical Union

  • Trade union
  • 1880 -1915

The Australasian Typographical Union was established in 1880 as a federation of the typographical association in South Australia, Victoria, Queensland, Western Australia, Tasmania and New South Wales. It was dissolved in 1915 and was succeeded by the Printing Industry Employees' Union of Australia.

Australia-Netherlands Research Collaboration

  • University unit

The Australia-Netherlands Research Collaboration (ANRC) commenced operations in late July 2007. The project supports Australia-Netherlands academic relations and brings together researchers from both countries to focus on Southeast Asia.

Australia. Department of Post-war Reconstruction

  • Commonwealth department
  • 22 Dec 1942 - 16 Mar 1950

The Department of Post-War Reconstruction was established on 22 December 1942 (Executive Council No. 167, (P.M.'s Minute No. 46) Commonwealth of Australia Gazette, No. 334 of 24 December 1942). In January 1943, a Director-General was appointed and a nucleus staff was taken over from the Reconstruction Division of the Department of Labour and National Service.

The Department's functions were, in general terms to prepare plans for the transition from a wartime to a peace time economy both for individuals in the Services and in War production and for the economy itself. It was to be essentially a planning and co-ordinating department, working in collaboration with other Commonwealth Departments and with State Governments and local and semi-governmental Authorities in the formulation of plans for post-war reconstruction.

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.

Australian Agricultural Company

  • Corporate body
  • 1824 -

The Australian Agricultural Company (AACo or The Company) was formed in London in April 1824. Its purpose was to raise fine woolled sheep and sell wool on the London market. The formation of the Company was supported by an Act of Parliament and a Royal Charter. Its directors and major shareholders included directors of the Bank of England, the East India Company and Members of Parliament; with assigned convicts given the roles of shepherding and general labour. The Company’s initial land grant was one million acres in New South Wales plus two thousand acres in Newcastle. After some uncertainty the land, in the colony, was in three blocks: 464,640 acres between Port Stephens and the Manning River (Port Stephens Estate), 249,600 acres on the Liverpool Plains west of Willow Tree (Warrah) and 313,298 acres at the Peel River south of Tamworth (Goonoo Goonoo). The AACo operated in four major NSW locations during the nineteenth century – Port Stephens, Tamworth, Quirindi, and Newcastle – and from the last quarter of the century also in Queensland and eventually in Northern Australia. Its interests expanded to include wool, wheat, cattle, coal and land sales.

Within a year of its formation the AACo also became involved in coal mining at Newcastle, taking over the government’s operations there. After protracted negotiations the Company’s first pit was opened in 1831.The discovery of gold in New South Wales on the Company’s Peel Estate led to the formation of the Peel River Land and Mineral Company in 1854. Between 1825 and 1862 the AACo, with the Peel River Land and Mineral Company, brought from Europe to New South Wales over 700 men to work either at the colliery in Newcastle or on the extensive pastoral estates at Port Stephens, Tamworth and the Liverpool Plains. The new arrivals were managers, skilled mechanics, shepherds, miners and labourers. The first group of employees was managed by the Company’s first Agent, Robert Dawson (Agent, 1824-1828). Dawson’s successors included Sir Edward Parry (Commissioner, 1830-1834); Henry Dumaresq (Commissioner, 1834-1838); Phillip Parker King (Commissioner, 1839-1849); followed by several General Superintendents with Jesse Gregson, the Company’s longest serving General Superintendent from 1875-1905.

In 1864 the AACo began the development of the Warrah Estate for sheep breeding, investing extensively in wells, bores and fencing. The AACo purchased Corona (near Longreach) in 1912; Bladensburg (near Winton) and Highfields (between Corona and Bladensburg) in 1915; Headingly (Urandangie) in 1916; before moving into the Northern Territory with the purchased of Avon Downs (Barkly Tablelands) in 1921. From the 1930s gradually phasing out sheep the AACo became increasingly involved in beef cattle, developing the Santa Gertrudis stud at Goonoo Goonoo and purchasing Rockhampton Downs (Barkley Tablelands NT) in 1948, Wrotham Park (near Chillagoe, Q) in 1963, Brunette Downs (north of Tennant Creek) in 1979.

In 1975 the London-based directors resigned and the Company’s tax domicile was transferred from London to Tamworth, NSW and then to Brisbane in 1985 following the sale of Goonoo Goonoo. From 1976 the Company’s name was listed on the Australian Stock Exchange as the Australian Agricultural Company Limited. In 1995 Elders Ltd acquired the AACo and it was delisted from the Australian Stock Exchange. The Company became a wholly owned subsidiary of Futuris Corporation Limited after Futuris took over Elders in 1997. The Company was re-listed in 2001.

Australian Associated Stock Exchanges

  • Corporate body
  • 1937 - 1987

The Australian Associated Stock Exchanges (AASE) was established in 1937. Since 1903 the state stock exchanges had met on an informal basis, but in 1936 Sydney took the lead in formalising the association. Initially this involved the Exchanges in Adelaide, Brisbane, Hobart and Sydney. Melbourne and Perth joined soon after. Through the AASE the Exchanges gradually brought in common listing requirements for companies and uniform brokerage and other rules for stockbroking firms. They also set the ground rules for commissions and the flotation of government and semi-government loan raisings.

Australian Association for Cultural Freedom

  • Association
  • 1954 - c. 1982

Founded 6 June 1954 and until 1957 known as the Australian Committee for Cultural Freedom. An affiliated member of the International Association for Cultural Freedom (Founded 1950 and until 1967 known as the Congress for Cultural Freedom), an American anti-communist organisation established in 1950. Founding secretary of the Australian Association for Cultural Freedom was Richard Krygier, who founded Quadrant magazine.

Australian Association for Research in Education Incorporated

  • Professional association
  • 1970 -

The Australian Association for Research in Education was founded at the Meeting to Consider the Formation of an Association of Researchers in Education held on 13-14 March 1970 at the office of the Australian Council for Educational Research. Its membership consists of educational researchers in universities, Technical and Further Education (TAFE), schools, educational systems, private consultants and non-profit organisations. The AARE publishes the journal, The Australian Educational Researcher.

Australian Association of National Advertisers

  • Industry association
  • 1928 -

The Australian Association of National Advertisers was formed in 1928 when 12 advertisers met to discuss common problems and resolved to develop a voluntary code of ethics and improved media research.

Australian Association of Scientific Workers

  • Association
  • 1939 - 1949

The Association was formed in Sydney in July 1939. Divisions were formed in South Australia and Victoria in 1940, Western Australia in 1941 and Queensland in 1942. The New South Wales Division had a branch in St Mary's and a student branch at the University of Sydney. The first meeting of the Federal Council was in Melbourne in February 1941. In September 1943 a joint committee of the Australian Association of Scientific Workers and the Federated Scientific Employees' Association proposed a new body, the Federation of Scientific and Technical Workers, and this was registered federally as a union in September 1946. The Australian Association of Scientific Workers continued as a separate organisation until a final meeting in Sydney in July 1949 dissolved the Association.

Australian Bank Employees' Union

  • Trade union
  • 1978 - 1991

The Australian Bank Officials' Association changed its name to the Australian Bank Employees' Union in 1978. In July 1991 it amalgamated with the other major player in the banking and insurance industries, the Australian Insurance Employees' Union to create the Finance Sector Union of Australia. Three smaller unions also amalgamated: the AMP Society Staff Association, Trustee Companies Officers' Association and Wool Brokers' Staff Association. In March 1994 the FSU was further strengthened with the amalgamation of the Commonwealth Bank Officers' Association.

Australian Bookbinders' and Paper Rulers' Federated Association

  • Trade union
  • c. 1907 - 1920

In 1920 the union amalgamated with the New South Wales Lithographic Association, Letterpress Printers' Machinists' Industrial Union of NSW, and the Process Engravers' Union of NSW to form the Amalgamated Printing Trade Employees Union of NSW, a predecessor of the Amalgamated Printing Trades Employees Union of Australia.

Australian Boot Trade Employees' Federation

  • Trade union
  • 1908 - 1987

The Australian Boot Trade Employees' Federation was registered federally in 1908 following the earlier registration of the Adelaide, New South Wales, Queensland and Victorian state-based unions. The Union existed independently until the 1980s when imports began to affect the footwear and clothing industries. In 1987 it amalgamated with the Australian Textile Workers' Union to become the Amalgamated Footwear and Textile Workers' Union of Australia, and in 1992, a further amalgamation with the Federated Clothing and Allied Trades Union created the Textile Clothing and Footwear Union of Australia.

Australian Broadcasting Corporation Staff Union

  • Trade union
  • 1938 - 1989

The Australian Broadcasting Commission Staff Association was registered under the Conciliation and Arbitration Act on 31 October 1938. On 28 February 1985 the name was changed to the Australian Broadcasting Corporation Staff Union. In 1989 the union amalgamated with the Administrative & Clerical Officers' Association and the Australian Public Service Association to form the Australian Public Sector and Broadcasting Union, Australian Government Employment (generally known as the Public Sector Union). The ABC Sub-branch of the Public Sector Union handled the ABC issues.

Australian Building Construction Employees' and Builders' Labourers' Federation

  • Trade union
  • 1911 - 1986

Formed in 1911, the Australian Builders' Labourers' Federation's predecessors include the United Labourers' Friendly Society (1850s), the Melbourne United Labourers' Protection Society (1882), the Builders' Labourers' Union of Victoria (1898), the United Labourers' Protective Society of New South Wales (1883), the Builders' Labourers' Union of New South Wales (1901), the Adelaide Builders' Labourers' Society, and the Brisbane Builders' Labourers' Union. The Western Australian union joined the Federation in 1966. In 1972 it became the Australian Building Construction Employees' and Builders' Labourers' Federation until it was deregistered in 1974. It was registered again in 1976, but following a joint Federal and Victorian government Royal Commission was deregistered in 1986. Many members transferred to the Building Workers' Industrial Union and the Western Australian, Queensland, South Australian and Tasmanian branches merged with the BWIU. Branches in New South Wales and Victoria continued to operate into the 1990s and in the Australian Capital Territory till 1989.

Australian Capital Territory Teachers' Federation

  • Trade union
  • 1976 - 1991

This union started as the Commonwealth teachers' Federation (ACT) in 1972 and brought together the ACT Preschool Teachers Association, the ACT Secondary Teachers' Association and the ACT Primary Teachers' Association. On 25 November 1972 the name of the organisation changed to the ACT Commonwealth Teachers' Federation and on 14 April 1976 to the ACT Teachers' Federation.

The ACT Teachers' Federation, The Northern Territory Teachers' Federation and the Australian Teachers' Union merged in 1991.

Australian Centre for the Arts and Technology

  • University unit
  • 1992 - 2001

The Australian Centre for the Arts and Technology was a centre within the ANU Institute of the Arts and later the National Institute of the Arts dedicated to creative applications of new technology. Its primary activities included teaching, researching, recording and publishing of electro-acoustic music, computer animation, digital video and interactive multimedia.

Australian Century Farm and Station Awards National Co-ordinator

  • Association
  • 2014 -

The Australian Century Farm and Station Awards National Co-ordinator operates this program of the Collector and Districts Historical Society which recognises rural properties that have been managed by the one family for more than 100 years. Applicants submit an application and are encouraged to include family histories and copies of photographs and maps to support their application.

Australian Chamber of Shipping

  • Industry association
  • 1964 -

The Australian Chamber of Shipping was formed in Sydney on 3 September 1964 to represent ship owners and operators engaged in overseas, interstate and intrastate trade. Its first President was Mr S V Jones, General Manager of Blue Star Line (Australia) Pty Ltd. It is now known as Shipping Australia Limited, registered in 2001.

Australian Coal Association

  • Association
  • c. 1955 - 2013

Coal mining industry lobby group. Subsumed into the Minerals Council of Australia in 2013.

Australian Coking and By-Products Company Limited

  • Corporate body
  • 1909 - 1934

The company was a subsidiary of the Australian Agricultural Company, incorporated in England on 23 July 1909. The company manufactured coke and other by-products of coal at its Hexham Works, near Newcastle. It was placed in liquidation in 1924.

Australian Confederation of Operating Room Nurses Limited

  • Professional association
  • 1977 -

This organisation was originally formed as the Australian Confederation of Operating Room Nurses at the first Australasian National Conference for Operating Room Nurses in 1977. In 1978 the inaugural meeting of ACORN was held with each of the six Australian states as member bodies of this national body. In 2000 ACORN became a college and established a Secretariat based in Adelaide. The Australian College of Operating Room Nurses is the peak national perioperative nursing organisation in Australia.

Australian Council for Civil Liberties

  • Non Government Organisation
  • 1936 - c. 1965

A small group which included Brian Fitzpatrick met in Melbourne in December 1935 and decided to establish an organisation dedicated to the preservation of civil liberties. Most of the group had been members of the Book Censorship Abolition League set up in 1934 by W. Macmahon Ball "to protect the rights of readers and booksellers" after the extensive censorship of political literature during the previous two years. In May 1936 the Council for Civil Liberties was formed at a public meeting. At the annual meeting in 1939 the Council became the Australian Council for Civil Liberties and Brian Fitzpatrick was elected general secretary, a position he held until his death.

The aim of the Council as set out in its 1936 constitution was to assist in the maintenance of the rights of citizens, " against infringement by executive or judicial authority contrary to due process of law, or by tendency of governmental or other agencies to use their powers at the expense of the liberties which citizens in this country have enjoyed." The Council defended individuals and groups irrespective of their political affiliations when it considered "they had been treated unjustly or stood in peril of injustice" and "applied itself to informing the public of facts and implications of 'undemocratic' legislation."

In April 1965 Fitzpatrick wrote of the Council, "before, during and for a few years after the War it operated chiefly from Melbourne but with advisory committees in various States. It remains in existence, but – a voluntary organisation now as at all times – of late years has not functioned as a continuing body conducting regular meetings, etc. Our latest national campaign was conducted towards the end of 1960, when clauses of the amending Crime Act (Commonwealth) of that year were vigorously contested. Nowadays we handle individual cases referred to us, and continue as a loose organisation of (chiefly) lawyers and parliamentarians".

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