The Committee was formed to supervise research on the calculation of tertiary entrance scores for students wishing to enroll in a university. An earlier committee established jointly by the Australian National University, the ACT Schools Authority and the Canberra College of Advanced Education had reported in June 1986 on its investigation into whether there was any systematic bias in the calculation of scores for students in the Australian Capital Territory, arising from factors such as gender, subject choice and choice of school. One of its recommendations was for further research to be undertaken and this later Committee was formed to supervise this work.

The United Bank Officers' Association was formed in Sydney in 1919; the same year E.C. Peverill from the National Bank of Australasia in Victoria was instrumental in establishing the Bank Officials' Association which also covered Tasmania, South Australia and Western Australia. By 1921 the separate state unions known as the Bank Officials' Association of South Australia and the Bank Officials' Association of Western Australia had also been formed. In 1919 K.H. Laidlaw formed the United Bank Officers' Association of Queensland. While the Bank Officials' Association in Victoria was registered federally the other unions were registered in various state courts. In 1921 the Bank Officials' Association in Victoria proposed an amalgamation of all banking unions, to be organised with a federal council and state branches. However, the UBOA of New South Wales and Queensland both rejected this proposal, partly due to Sydney Smith's (the UBOA of New South Wales Secretary) fears that amalgamation would mean the loss of state autonomy. Smith planned to register federally a union of bank officers from the fast growing Commonwealth Bank and to expedite this he formed the Commonwealth Bank Branch of the UBOA of NSW. This was registered in 1921 as the United Bank Officers' Association, Commonwealth Branch. In 1924 this branch changed its name to become the United Bank Officers' Association, Commonwealth Bank Branch. In 1930 the Commonwealth Bank Branch of the UBOA became a separate association altogether and was renamed the Commonwealth Bank Officers' Association. In March 1994 the Commonwealth Bank Officers' Association was reunited with its old parent union, the United Bank Officers' Association now in the form of the much stronger Finance Sector Union.

The Commonwealth Council of Federated Unions was founded as an advisory body at a Melbourne Conference of Commonwealth registered unions held in February 1923. Its functions were limited to dealing with issues that arose from the administration of the Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Act and other federal legislation involving wages, hours of labour and employment conditions for members of federal organisations. It was not to interfere with the affairs of the States Trades and Labor Councils and individual unions. It was based largely in Victoria with C A Crofts (Federated Gas Employees' Industrial Union) as Secretary and H G Gibson (Federated Engine Drivers and Firemen's Association of Australia) as the first President. The main issues of concern to organise opposition to attempts by employer organisations to have the Basic Wage reduced, to conduct a campaign for the restoration of the 44-hour week where it had been withdrawn, and to establish the principle as a standard in all industries. By 1926 it had about 60 affiliates that represented 300 000 unionists. However, as a result of its inefficient handling of the Basic Wage review case, and due to its rejection of the State Labor Councils' proposals to be agents of the Federal structure, it was superseded by a new Australasian body the Council of Trade Unions in 1927.

The first federal tribunal to have jurisdiction over industrial matters was the Commonwealth Court of Conciliation and Arbitration. Established under the Conciliation and Arbitration Act 1904, the Court had both arbitral and judicial powers. This meant that it could make an award specifying wages and conditions of employment in settlement of an interstate dispute and it could interpret and enforce the award, if necessary imposing penalties on any party to the award who did not comply with its provisions. The Act also provided for the registration of organisations of employers and employees.

In 1956 substantial amendments were made to the Conciliation and Arbitration Act which affected a separation of the judicial and arbitrative functions of the Court. In effect, it was deemed unconstitutional for the Arbitration Court to be vested with both arbitral and judicial powers because of the acceptance in the Constitution of the separation of legislative and judicial powers. Hence amendments were made providing for the establishment of a Commonwealth Industrial Court and a Conciliation and Arbitration Commission to overtake the dual role of the Court of Conciliation & Arbitration.

Between 1942 and 1982 the industrial interests of the Commonwealth law enforcement were represented by the Defence Establishments Guard Association (1942-1943), the Peace Officer Guard Association (1943-1958), and the Commonwealth Police Officers' Association (1958-1982). In August 1982 the CPOA and Federal Police Association (1979-1982) officially merged, and the Industrial Registrar gave the CPOA consent to alter its name to the Australian Federal Police Association (AFPA).

Registered in 1980, the CSIRO Officers' Association had its origins in the Association of Officers of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (the CSIR Officers' Association) which was formed in 1945 but was renamed in 1949 as the Association of Officers of the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization. By 1992 this Association had amalgamated with the CSIRO Technical Association to form the CSIRO Staff Association, but was soon after merged into the Public Sector Union then the Community and Public Sector Union in 1994.

The CSIRO Staff Association was formed in 1992 when the CSIRO Officers' Association (which had first formed in 1945) and the CSIRO Technical Association (formed in 1952) amalgamated. It was soon after merged into the Public Sector Union then into the Community and Public Sector Union in 1994.

Formed as the CSIRO Technical Association in 1988, the union was originally known as the Association of Assistants of the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization which was itself formed in 1952. In 1992 the CSIRO Technical Association merged with the CSIRO Officers' Association to form the CSIRO Staff Association which then shortly after merged into the Public Sector Union then the Community and Public Sector Union in 1994.

The Commonwealth Solar Observatory was established in January 1924, one of its purposes being the study of solar phenomena. By 1950 the Observatory's name had changed, becoming the Commonwealth Observatory. In 1957 the observatory located at Mount Stromlo became part of the Australian National University as the Department of Astronomy in the Research School of Physical Sciences.

On 11 July 1905 the Commonwealth Steamship Owners' Association was formed and registered under the Conciliation and Arbitration Act to assume the industrial responsibilities of the Australasian Steamship Owners' Federation. The two bodies were identical in composition but differed in function, the ASOF dealing with matters pertaining to the Navigation Act and the CSOA handling industrial disputes, awards, and representing shipping companies in matters before the Arbitration Court.

The Commonwealth Trade Union Council (CTUC) was first proposed at the Commonwealth Trade Union Conference in June 1979. A special working party was set up and their proposals were agreed by the Commonwealth Unions in November 1979 with the CTUC formally established in March 1980. The CTUC aimed to strengthen links between trade unions in the Commonwealth and to provide practical assistance to trade unions in developing countries. Dennis McDermott, President of the Canadian Labour Congress was elected President and Carl Wright was appointed Director. Patrick Quinn took over as Director of the CTUC, August 1988 and Arthur Johnstone became Director in 1994. The executive body of the CTUC was its Steering Subcommittee, which included trade union leaders from the United Kingdom and Mediterranean, Canada, Africa, Asia, the Caribbean and Australasia and the Pacific. On 31 December 2004 the CTUC wound up and a new association, the Commonwealth Trade Union Group (CTUG) was formed.

The CPSU was formed in 1994 after the Public Sector Professional Scientific Research Technical Communications Aviation & Broadcasting Union changed its name. The CPSU currently represents telecommunications, broadcasting and public sector workers.

The Confectionery Workers and Food Preservers Union of Australia was formed in 1992 through an amalgamation of the Confectionery Workers' Union of Australia and the Food Preservers' Union of Australia. In 1994 the CW&FPU amalgamated with the Automotive Metals and Engineering Union to form the Automotive Food Metals and Engineering Union.

The Confederation of Australian Industry was formed on 1 December 1977 following an amalgamation of the Associated Chambers of Manufactures of Australia and the Australian Council of Employers' Federations. On 31 August 1992 the Confederation merged with the Australian Chamber of Commerce to create the Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry.

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

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

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

James Conner is a graduate of the University of Sydney and the University of Edinburgh where he worked with the Planning Research Unit while writing his PhD. His major field of research interest has been urban design and planning, and he extended these studies with the appointment in 1968 to the National Capital Development Commission in Canberra. In 1978 he joined the University of Sydney in the Planning Department and later as the Director of the Planning Research Centre. James Conner has travelled widely through Asia and the Pacific and worked with Jennifer Taylor on the 2003 publication, 'The Architecture of Fumihiko Maki'.

The firm was incorporated in Australia as Connor, Doherty and Durack Limited on 14 May 1897. The company was closely associated with Ivanhoe Grazing Co Pty Ltd and owned cattle properties at Auvergne and Newry (Northern Territory) and Argyle Downs (Western Australia). It was acquired by Union Pastoral Investments Limited in March 1950, a company formed by the Australian Agricultural Company and the Peel River Land & Mineral Company Ltd.

The Constuction Forestry Mining and Energy Union is the result of a series of amalgamations during the early 1990s. Prior to amalgamation there were numerous unions spread across construction, forestry, mining and energy industries. Those unions amalgamated along industry lines to form each of the divisions of the CFMEU. Each division operates autonomously, with its own membership, executive, resources, industry policies and campaigns. These divisions date as far back as the mid-nineteenth century and include such notable unions as the Australasian Coal and Shale Employees' Federation (the Miners' Federation), the Building Workers' Industrial Union of Australia, the Australian Timber Workers' Union, the Federated Furnishing Trade Society of Australasia, the Operative Plasterers' Federation of Australia, the Operative Painters' and Decorators' Union of Australia, and the Federated Engine Drivers' and Firemen's Association of Australasia.

The Construction, Forestry, Maritime, Mining and Energy Union (CFMMEU) was formed in 2018 throught he amalgamation of the Construction Forestry, Mining and Energy Union (CFMEU), the Textile Clothing and Footwear Union of Australia and the Maritime Union of Australia (MUA).

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

Dr Herbert Cole (Nugget) Coombs was Chancellor of the Australian National University from 1968 to 1976 but his active interest in the University spans nearly four decades. As Director-General of Post-War Reconstruction, he was a member of the ANU Interim Council and then of Council, serving as Deputy Chair from 1952 and Pro-Chancellor from 1959 to 1968. Dr Coombs instigated many new initiatives in the University, including the Creative Arts Fellowship for Australian artists and the establishment of the North Australian Research Unit. In January 1949 Dr Coombs became governor of the Commonwealth Bank. In 1972, he was appointed to Economic Advisor to the Commonwealth Government. He also served as a Governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia, Chair of the Australian Council for Aboriginal Affairs and Chair of the Australian Council for the Arts. Coombs died in 1997 at Kalamunda, Western Australia.

The company was registered in Queensland on 20 April 1937 and was the proprietor of South Galway Station in Windorah, Queensland. Its original shareholders included Gilbert Schmidt, Rudolf Schmidt, Henry Schmidt and William Henry Young. Gibert Schmidt and William Henry Young also held interests in Rockhampton Downs Pastoral Company Pty Ltd and the Northern Territory Pastoral Company Pty Ltd which were proprietors of Rockhampton Downs Station. South Galway Station was acquired by the Australian Agricultural Company through AA&P Joint Holdings Ltd in 1948. The Cooper River Pastoral Company Pty Ltd was deregistered on 13 December 1996.

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

Douglas Berry Copland was born on 24 February 1894 in Otago, New Zealand. Copland was a founding member and first President of the Economic Society of Australia and New Zealand 1925-28, and editor-in-chief of the society's journal 'Economic Record' 1925-1945. From 1924-1939 he was Dean of the Faculty of Commerce at the University of Melbourne but later accepted a secondment to Canberra as Commonwealth Prices Commissioner 1939-1945 and as economic consultant to the Prime Minister 1941-1945. He was appointed Australian Minister to China in 1946. Copland returned to Canberra and on 11 May 1948 became founding Vice-Chancellor of the Australian National University (1948-1953). He retained his role as an economist and began a long involvement with the Commonwealth Immigration Planning Council (1949-68) in which he gave advice concerning the Snowy Mountains Hydro-electric Authority and urged closer economic ties with the USA. In 1953 he was appointed High Commissioner to Canada. Copland died on 27 September 1971 at Kyneton, Victoria.

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

Joan Corbett was born in Montreal, Canada on 3 August 1952. She was educated at Turner Primary School and Canberra High School in the Australian Capital Territory, and Marion High School in South Australia. She graduated with a Bachelor of Economics from the Australian National University in 1974, and awarded a Graduate Diploma in Education from the University of Canberra in 1975. From 1976 to 1981 Corbett worked as a high school mathematics teacher. She became the Schools Liaison Officer for the ACT Teachers' Federation 1981-83, and then General Secretary, ACT Teachers' Federation 1983-86. Corbett was the first Women's Officer appointed to the Australian Teachers' Federation 1986-89. From 1989 to 1992 she worked for the Economic Policy and Analysis Section, Youth Bureau of the Department of Employment, Education and Training. In 1992 she took up a postgraduate scholarship offered by the Department to complete a Master of Public Policy degree at the Australian National University, and was a member of the university's Board of Studies, Graduate Program in Public Policy. In 1993 she worked as an Adviser to the Minister for Employment, Education and Training and in September 1993 as Director of the Women's Policy Section of the Department of Employment, Education and Training. In 2009 Corbett held the position of Assistant Secretary for the Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing. She joined the University of Canberra in 2011 and is Associate Professor in Public Health.

Corona was a large property situated north of Broken Hill. In 1903 it consisted of 1,657,600 acres, of which 2,860 were freehold, 828,740 were leasehold and 826,000 were under occupation licence. Managed under the direction of Goldsbrough, Mort & Company Limited, the station was divided into three portions - Corona Head Station where the manager resided, and Teilta and Fowler's Gap which were under the charge of the overseer.

Corona Station is situated north-west of Longreach, Queensland. The station was purchased by the Australian Agricultural Company in 1912. From 1917 to 1941 the manager was Thomas L Armstrong. In 1979 the leasehold areas of Corona were sold. The AA Co transferred operation of the Corona freehold land to its Maneroo station in March 1980.

The Australian National University Act 1946 establishes the Council as the governing authority of the University. The Interim Council dates from 1 August 1946 to 30 June 1951. From 1 July 1951 the term Council was used. Its membership was provided for by section 11 of the Act including members elected by the Senate, the House of Representatives, the Governor-General, Convocation, students and staff and co-opted members. It is chaired by the Chancellor and the Vice-Chancellor is also a member. Amendments to the Act in 1960 increased its members to include the Pro-Chancellor, the Deputy Vice-Chancellor, the Principal of the School of General Studies, and the Deputy Chairman of the Board of the Institute of Advanced Studies.

An informal council of Commonwealth staff associations was formed in Melbourne in 1915, adopting a constitution in 1919. On 26 October 1921 a revised constitution was adopted forming the High Council of Commonwealth Public Service Organisations. It dropped the High from its name in 1969 and amended its name to the Council of Australian Government Employee Organisations at its 1975 Biennial Conference. The 1981 Congress of the Australian Council of Trade Unions endorsed the proposal that CAGEO merge with the ACTU as one of its industry groups and it formally merged on 23 September 1981 becoming the Australian Government Employment Section of the ACTU.

The Council of Australian Law Deans (CALD) is the peak body of Australian Law Schools. Members of the Council are Deans, Heads or Directors, of Australian law schools.

The Council of Australian Postgraduate Associations (CAPA), is the peak body representing the interests of Australia’s 320,000+ postgraduate students. Founded in 1979, CAPA is a membership based non-profit organisation. CAPA’s member organisations include 33 postgraduate associations, and the National Indigenous Postgraduate Association Aboriginal Corporation (NIPAAC).

The Council of Professional and Commercial Employees' Associations was in operation from 1948. In 1953 several meetings of kindred organisations were held to try and establish a permanent advisory council of non-manual worker organisations, and in 1954 a draft constitution of a new association was drawn up and the title was changed to the Council of White Collar Associations.

The Council of Small Business Organisations of Australia Limited (COSBOA) was established in 1979 and incorporated in the Australian Capital Territory on 10 October 1984. It is the Australian peak body representing the interests of small business.

In 1953 several meetings of kindred organisations, including the Council of Professional and Commercial Employees' Associations which had been in operation since 1948, were held to try and establish a permanent advisory council of non-manual worker organisations. In 1954 a draft constitution of a new association was drawn up with the title: the Council of White Collar Associations. It amalgamated with the Salaried Employees' Consultative Council of New South Wales to become the Australian Council of Salaried and Professional Associations on 17 October 1956.

The loan, mortgage and investment society was registered in Victoria in 1875. In 1959 the company merged with Investment Society and Federal Building Society, to form a holding company, County and Federal Holdings Ltd.

By 1914 John Charles Coupe was the Assistant Secretary, of the Victorian Branch of the Australasian Meat Industry Employees' Union (AMIEU). He was at one point Acting Secretary and then Secretary of the Victorian Branch of the AMIEU.

The company was incorporated in Victoria on 3 July 1964 as Kejam Pty Ltd and changed its name to Courage Breweries Limited on 30 November 1966. The company changed its name to Courage Australia Pty Ltd in November 1974 and then to Tooth (Victoria) Limited on 13 December 1979. The company, trading as Tooth (Victoria) Limited was deregistered on 22 October 2006.

Annie Rose Scott Cowen was born on 24 April 1879 and spent the years 1879 to 1900 on Tambo Station, Queensland. She was the eldest daughter of Terrick Alfred Hamilton and Alice Scott Hamilton (sister of Rose Scott, the feminist) of Tambo Station. On 5 May 1900 she married William Leonard Cowen at Tambo Station and then lived on Longford Station, south of Jundah, Queensland from 1907 to 1919. She published 'Crossing Dry Creeks' about her life on Tambo and Longford Stations. She died in July 1971.

Joan Marjorie Rochester was born in Victoria in 1931. She married Cedric Coxsedge in 1953 and had two sons and a daughter.
She became a professional artist in the 1960s and held four exhibitions of pen and wash drawings of historic buildings as well as undertaking a commission for the Builders' Labourers' Federation drawing Green Bans buildings around Australia in 1975.
As well as being an accomplished artist, Joan was a committed activist and politician. As a member of the Save Our Sons Movement which opposed conscription for the Vietnam War, she went to jail in 1971 for anti-conscription activities. She campaigned against the Croatian terrorist movement Ustashi in the early 1970s, opposed secret service organisations and was founding Chairman of the Committee for the Abolition of Political Police in 1973.
A member of the Australian Labor Party from 1967, Coxsedge contested unsuccessfully the Legislative Assembly seat of Balwyn in 1973 and stood for pre-selection in Richmond in 1976 against the Leader of the Opposition, Clyde Holding. She eventually became the first Labor woman to be elected to the Victorian Legislative Council as the Member for Melbourne West Province in July 1979 and served until 1992. While in office she wrote and produced the newsletter Hard Facts for Hard Times from her Footscray office, in which she offered a left view of current local, national and international events.
Coxsedge was involved with a large number of community groups and projects. She served as a Board Member of the Footscray Community Arts Centre (1980-98) and Chair of Board (1990-93); Board Member of West Theatre (1989-90) and Chair of End Child Prostitution in Asian Tourism (1993-98).

George Robert Crawford was born in Prahran, Melbourne on 13 January 1926. His primary school education was at Hawkesburn State School and secondary education at Prahran Technical College. At 15, he commenced work as an apprentice plumber studying at Richmond Technical School and The Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. He joined the Plumbers' Union on 23 May 1944. In 1955 he was elected Organiser of the Plumbers and Gasfitters Employees Union of Australia. He was Branch Secretary of the Union from 1962 to 1985, and General Secretary between 1965 to 1989. Crawford joined the Australian Labor Party in 1944. He was Member Victorian State Executive (and its successor, the Administrative Committee) 1960-75, and 1979; Vice-President Victoria, ALP 1965-69; State President, Victoria, ALP 1969-71, 1971-73, 1983-85; Member for Jika Jika, Victorian Legislative Council 1985-1992; Victoria Branch ALP delegate to National Conference from 1965-1989. He retired in October 1992.

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

Sir John Grenfell (Jack) Crawford was born on 4 April 1910 at Hurstville, Sydney. From 1933 to 1935 he held a Walter and Eliza Hall research fellowship at the University of Sydney and was a part-time lecturer in rural economics 1934-1942. In 1942 he was appointed as rural adviser to the Commonwealth Department of War Organization of Industry, and the following year Director of research in the Department of Post-War Reconstruction. In 1945 he was founding Director of the Bureau of Agricultural Economics before becoming Secretary of the Commonwealth Department of Commerce and Agriculture 1950-1956; Secretary of the Department of Trade 1956-1960. In 1960 he became Professor of Economics and Director of the Research School of Pacific Studies at the Australian National University (ANU) 1960-1967. He was appointed as Vice-Chancellor 1968-1973, then Chancellor 1976-1984 of the ANU. Alongside his academic appointments he continued working as an economic adviser: he was chairman of the Australian Wool Industry Conference (1962-64) and had a long association with World Bank and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Sir John Crawford died in Canberra on 28 October 1984.

Robert Crawford is Professor of Advertising in the School of Media and Communication at RMIT University.
His research focuses on the growth and development of the advertising, marketing, and public relations industries nationally and internationally.

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

Professor Walter Crocker was born on 25 March 1902 at Broken Hill, New South Wales. In 1946 he was offered the post of first head of the African section in the United Nations secretariat. He remained with the UN in New York until 1949 when he took up an appointment as Professor in the Department of International Relations, Research School of Pacific Studies at the Australian National University. During his term at the ANU he acted as vice-chancellor in 1951. From 1952 he began an 18 year career with the Department of External Affairs as a senior diplomat, with his first posting as Australia’s High Commissioner to India 1952-1954. Sir Walter Crocker died in Adelaide on 14 November 2002.

Robert Crompton was born on 9 June 1926 in Adelaide, South Australia. In 1949 he completed a Bachelor of Science at University of Adelaide and graduated with honours and in 1954 he completed his PhD at the University of Adelaide. He was a Lecturer in Physics from 1950 to 1958 then Senior Lecturer from 1959 to 1960 at the University of Adelaide where he formed a small research group, which was invited to join the newly formed Research School of Physical Sciences at the Australian National University in Canberra. He commenced with the Australian National University as a Senior Fellow on 1 March 1961, and was responsible for setting up and running of the Electron and Ion Diffusion Unit. In 1977 he became a Professorial Fellow. On 10 July 1981 the Atomic and Molecular Physics Laboratories were formed within the Research School of Physical Sciences, comprising the Diffusion Research Unit, the Electron and Ion Diffusion Unit and the Ultraviolet Physics Unit, and he accepted appointment as the Head of Laboratories on 4 August 1981. On 31 October 1991 he retired from the Australian National University.

Professor Harold Crouch is a scholar of Indonesian politics and founding director of the International Crisis Group office in Jakarta. Born in Melbourne, 1940, read political science at the University Melbourne before studying at the University of Bombay for Masters on Indian trade unions in the early 1960s. He was one of first Australians at an Asian university for higher degrees.

His PhD, written under Herbert Feith at Monash University and completed in 1975, was published in 1978 as The Army and Politics in Indonesia. It is regarded as a 'milestone' in the study of Indonesia’s New Order. While undertaking his PhD, he taught political science at the University of Indonesia 1968-1971.

After marrying Malaysian historian Khasnoor Johan in 1973, Crouch became Senior Lecturer at the National University of Malaysia, 1976–1985 and 1988-1990. He taught at the University of the Philippines 1983-1984.

In 1991, he joined the Australian National University as a Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Political and Social Change in the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies. He was appointed Professor in 2002 and retired in 2005.

Crouch founded the Jakarta office of the International Crisis Group in 2000-2001. Professor Crouch is an Emeritus Professor at the Australian National University.

His career has included a number of significant monographs in the study of Indonesia and Southeast Asia, including The Army and Politics in Indonesia (1978), Domestic Political Structures and Regional Economic Cooperation in Southeast Asia (1984), Government and Society in Malaysia (1996), and Political Reform in Indonesia after Soeharto (2010).

Dorothy Crozier studied history at Melbourne University in the late 1930s and worked as a cataloguer and bibliographer, and taught history at Melbourne University. She took up an ANU scholarship in 1948 to study colonial administration in the London School of Economics, and attended a course by Raymond Firth and Ian Hogbin on Anthropology in the Pacific. Crozier began fieldwork in Tonga, May 1950-July 1951 on a survey of social services in Tonga. Crozier joined the Department of Pacific History in the Research School of Pacific Studies at the ANU as a Research Assistant surveying and listing Western Pacific High Commission (WPHC) records left behind in Suva following the WPHC's move to Honiara. She then worked as an Archivist with the WPHC until October 1958, later returning to London in 1961 to attend the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London. Crozier lectured in History at Victoria University, Wellington in the mid-1960s, and took up a Visiting Fellowship in the Department of Pacific History at the ANU from September 1971-September 1973 to complete her work on Mariner's Tonga. She lectured on European History at Melbourne University 1976-77 before retiring.

Maureen Cummuskey was a member of the Women’s Bureau from 1983?-1990s.

Ann Curthoys was born in Sydney in 1945 to Geoffrey Carlton Curthoys and Barbara Lindsay McCallum, both of whom were members of the Communist Party of Australia until 1970. Curthoys graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) degree in 1967 and also holds a Diploma in Education from Sydney Teachers' College. While still an undergraduate she took part in the 1965 Student Action for Aborigines Survey and Demonstration Bus Tour (Freedom Ride) to examine racial discrimination in some New South Wales towns. She then undertook a PhD at Macquarie University on the history of race relations in New South Wales in the mid nineteenth century, comparing British colonists' attitudes to Chinese immigration with attitudes to Aboriginal people, graduating in 1973.

After graduation Curthoys worked overseas then began teaching and researching at Canberra College of Advanced Education, New South Wales Institute of Technology (Later UTS). In 1995 She took up the Chair of History at the Australian National Unversity where she taught on Aboriginal History, Australian History and Historiography. he was elected to the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia in 1997 and the Australian Academy of the Humanities in 2003.

The association representing barrier clearance and cargo transport service providers in New South Wales was formed from the Customs Agents and Transport Association of New South Wales in 1904. Representation of the industry extended to the National level in 1954 with the formation of the Customs Agents' Federation of Australia and the Customs Agents Institute of Australia in 1960. In 1991 the Customs Agents' Federation of Australia and the Customs Agents Institute of Australia merged to form the then Customs Brokers Council of Australia Inc.

In 1970 Dalgety & New Zealand Loan Ltd was reorganized as Dalgety Ltd (UK) and major branch operations were transferred to locally incorporated companies in Australia and New Zealand. The Australian operations of Dalgety Limited were transferred to Dalgety Australia Limited on 30 June 1970. The company's name was changed to Dalgety Farmers Limited on 8 December 1983.

Dalgety Blackwood and Company was established around 1857 when Frederick Gonnerman Dalgety entered into a partnership with James Blackwood. In 1884 the firms in which Dalgety had an interest were incorporated into a joint-stock company, Dalgety and Company Limited.

Dalgety Farmers Limited was formed after Dalgety Australia Limited adopted the new company name on 8 December 1983. The company operated branches and agencies in Queensland, New South Wales, Tasmania, South Australia and Tasmania; and wool selling centres in Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria and South Australia. The company was delisted from the Australian Stock Exchange on 16 June 1993.

Dalgety and Company Limited was registered in London on 29 April 1884. The company was a joint-stock company incorporating firms which were actively managed by Frederick Gonnerman Dalgety in partnership with other trading individuals. Dalgety became the company's first chairman of directors and remained the largest shareholder until his death. Australian branches were opened in Perth (1889), Albany (1890), Rockhampton (1891), Brisbane (1894), Townsville (1896), Adelaide (1897), Albury (1908), Wagga (1923) and sub-branches in smaller centres. A Superintendent was appointed for New Zealand in 1908 and for Australia in 1914. From 1884 to the Second World War, the company operated as merchants in rural areas, wool brokers, stock and station and shipping agents in Australia and New Zealand. In 1927 Dalgety and Co Ltd acquired the business of W C Hunter in Kenya. On 22 November 1961 the company merged with the New Zealand Loan & Mercantile Agency Company Limited to form Dalgety & New Zealand Loan Limited.

In September 1961, Dalgety and Company Limited announced it proposed to merge with the New Zealand Loan & Mercantile Agency Company Limited. Dalgety and New Zealand Loan Limited was formed on 22 November 1961 after the name change was approved by the company's shareholders. The company's interests in its Kenyan and East African venture was sold in 1969. A new company name, Dalgety Limited, was adopted on 30 June 1970 and branch operations in Australia and New Zealand were transferred locally incorporated subsidiaries Dalgety Australia Limited and Dalgety New Zealand Limited.

The firm was founded in 1851 when Frederick Gonnerman Dalgety entered into a partnership with A R Cruickshank. After the death of Cruickshank in 1857 Dalgety entered into a new partnership and the firm changed its name to Dalgety Blackwood & Co.

In 1846 Frederick Gonnerman Dalgety established himself as a partner in Dalgety Borrodaile & Gore. When Borrodaile retired in 1847, Dalgety gave his name to the reorganised firm, Dalgety Gore & Co.

The refrigeration machinery and storage company was originally founded in 1912 by Newcastle merchant Samuel Dark. Dark’s Ice Works & Cold Storage Ltd was located on Australian Agricultural Company land at Wharf Road, Honeysuckle Point. The company was registered in New South Wales on 25 June 1920.

Datascape Information Pty Ltd is a media/information service company located in Torrens, Australian Capital Territory. This private company was founded in 1984.

The company was established in 1895 by David and Edward David as a small iron foundry in Denison Street, Wollongong. It became a public company in 1935. In October 1973 a liquidator was appointed and the company ceased operations on 19 October 1973.

The firm of accountants, David Fell and Co was established in 1898 by David Fell and W Horner Fletcher. Branches were opened in Melbourne in 1907, Brisbane in 1914 and Adelaide in 1920.

James (Jim) Davidson is a former editor of Meanjin 1974-1982 and author of a biography of Sir William Keith Hancock, A Three-cornered Life: The Historian WK Hancock (UNSW Press, 2010).

James Wightman (Jim) Davidson was born in Wellington, New Zealand, in 1915. Davidson completed his PhD at Cambridge on trade and settlement in the South Pacific 1788–1840. In 1947 he was sent as an emissary of the New Zealand government to Western Samoa. On 1 December 1950 he became founding Professor of the Department of Pacific History at the Australian National University and Dean of the Research School of Pacific Studies. His work and publications on Samoa included Samoa mo Samoa: The Emergence of the Independent State of Western Samoa (Oxford University Press, 1967). He was a Constitutional Advisor to Samoa 1959-1961, the Cook Islands 1963, the Nauru Local Government Council 1967-1968, a Consultant to the Congress of Micronesia 1969-1973 and Constitutional Planning Committee of Papua New Guinea 1972-1973. It was during this last assignment that he died in Port Moresby on 8 April 1973.

Davies Coop & Company began to produce shirts and pyjamas in 1925. The company branched out into knitting in 1928, cotton spinning in 1930 and cotton weaving in 1932. Further expansion took place in 1938 when the company established a mill to manufacture condenser yarn and tyre yarn for motor-tyre fabric. In 1938 they formed Davies Coop (Flax Industries) Pty Ltd to weave flax for tarpaulins, fire hoses and canvas. In 1969 Davies Coop & Company was taken over by Bradmill Industries Limited.

The firm was founded in 1883 by John Davies and David Baird and produced iron and steel products. In 1884 the firm was listed as Davies, Baird & Co; in 1886 as Davies & Baird; in 1925 as Davies, Baird & Robertson and in 1935 as Davies & Baird Pty Ltd. In December 1962 Thompsons (Castlemaine) Ltd acquired Davies & Baird Pty Ltd and its subsidiary Davies & Baird (Engineering) Pty Ltd. In 1975 the company became a subsidiary of Borg-Warner (Australia) Ltd and changed its name to Davies and Baird.

Judy Davis, postgraduate student, Pacific History, Research School of Pacific Studies, Australian National University

John (Jack) Davison, born on 4 October 1899, joined the Amalgated Society of Engineers (UK) as an apprentice member on 19 June 1920, and became a full member on 8 Ocotober 1921. On 29 May 1928 he left England for Australia arriving in Sydney on 10 July 1928. On 19 July 1928 he joined the Amalgamated Engineering Union (Sydney 4th District Branch). In 1933 and 1934 he was Honorary Secretary of the Lidcombe Emergency Relief Workers (Sydney) and from October 1935 to November 1944 was Secretary of the AEU (Sydney 4th District Branch). From May 1941 to July 1945 Davison was referee to the Commonwealth Council of the AEU. On 20 March 1963 he retired and became Secretary of the AEU Retired Members' Association (Sydney District) from 1965 to 1974. Davison died on 27 May 1975.

Ruth Davison (nee Emery) was born in 1902 at Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK. She was one of five children and her parents supported the Labour Party. Ruth's then intended husband, John William (Jack) Davison after 4.5 years of unemployment had sailed to Australia in 1928. She sailed soon after he found a job in Sydney, arriving in July 1929, and married Jack Davison soon after. In the 1930s Ruth Davison joined the 'Women against War' movement in Wollongong and was almost jailed for illegally addressing meetings on the dangers of fascism. She also joined the Union of Australia Women after it was formed in 1950. When World War II was over Ruth Davison became an active member of the Australian peace movement and a volunteer for the Peace Committee. She died in 1994.

Alan Gavan Daws was Head of the Department of Pacific and South-east Asian History, Research School of Pacific Studies at the Australian National University from 1974 to 1989. He is the author of numerous books on Hawai’i and the Pacific Islands including Niihau: Shoal of Time (1963) and A dream of islands: voyages of self-discovery in the South Seas (Jacaranda Press, 1980).

Archie Dawson joined the Electrical Trades Union in 1922. From 1944 to 1963, Dawson was Secretary of the Electrical Trades Union of Australia, Queensland Branch. Dawson is the author of "Points of Politics: A History of the Electrical Trades Union of Queensland" (Brisbane: Colonial Press, 1977).

Peter Della Torre was an engineer who lived and worked in Papua New Guinea, mostly in Rabaul and Port Moresby. He was involved in the building of the Rabaul hospital and war memorial.

The Democratic Labor Party emerged from the split in the Australian Labor Party (ALP) in the 1950s. The DLP was created because of opposition to the perceived extent of communist influence in the union movement and on the defence and foreign policies of the ALP in the 1950s.

At Australian Labor Party (ALP) conferences in New South Wales (1945), Victoria (1946), South Australia (1946) and Queensland (1947) Industrial Groups were established to support ALP candidates running against Communists in union elections. The Industrial Groups worked closely with Catholic trade unionists through their organisation, the Catholic Social Studies Movement (the Movement), led by B A Santamaria, to fight communism.

In 1954 Dr H V Evatt, leader of the federal parliamentary Labor Party accused certain Labor members, particularly those based in Victoria, of being disloyal to the Labor movement and the Labor leadership, and also accused the Movement of being behind the group of dissidents. When divisions in the party culminated in the expulsion of the Industrial Groups at the Hobart ALP conference in 1955, supporters of the Industrial Groups formed the breakaway ALP (Anti-Communist)—an event known as ‘the Split’. The breakaway party was renamed the Democratic Labor Party in 1957.

The principal objective of the DLP was to keep the ALP out of office until the ALP faced up to the Communist threats that the DLP perceived existed in domestic and foreign affairs. The party also pursued Catholic social policies and opposed ‘permissiveness’. It has been asserted that under the intellectual guidance of B A Santamaria, the party strove to fight communist influence in trade unions and with the support of some sections of the Catholic Church, it battled against communism and the ALP.

Born in Scotland, Donald Denoon received a BA (Natal), South Africa and a PhD from Cambridge University. He lectured in history at Makerere University, Uganda and at Ibadan University, Nigeria. He was Professor of History at the University of Papua New Guinea 1972 - 1981 and Professor of Pacific History at the Australian National University 1990-2010. He is Emeritus Professor and Visiting Fellow, Division of Pacific and Asian History, Research School of Pacific Studies.Professor Denoon was general editor of the Cambridge History of the Pacific Islanders (Cambridge University Press, 1997).

He has written extensively on Australia’s relations with Pacific countries as well as on Papua New Guinea. His publications include Getting Under the Skin: The Bougainville Copper Agreement and the Creation of the Panguna Mine (with Philippa Mein-Smith and Marivic Wyndham; Melbourne University Press, 2000), A History of Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific (Blackwell, 2000), and Public Health in Papua New Guinea: Medical Possibility and Social Constraint, 1884–1984 (with Kathleen Dugan and Leslie Marshall; Cambridge University Press, 1989).

The Department of Community Services and Health was an Australian government department that existed between July 1987 and June 1991. The department was an amalgamation of the Department of Community Services and the Department of Health. According to the Administrative Arrangements Order (AAO) made on 24 July 1987, the Department dealt with:
• Services for the aged, people with disabilities and families with children
• Community support services
• Housing assistance
• Public health, research and preventative medicine
• Community health projects
• Health promotion
• Pharmaceutical benefits
• Health benefits schemes
• Human quarantine
• National drug abuse strategy

The Department of Education and Science was created on 13 December 1966 taking over functions previously the responsibility of the Prime Minister's Department, the Department of the Interior and the Department of Territories. Its functions included education policy and research, administration of the Australian National University, CSIRO, and the Australian Universities Commission. In 1971 it also became responsible for the Anglo Australian Telescope Agreement Act 1970. Following the formation of a new government by the Australian Labor Party after the Federal election of December 1972, the department was abolished on 19 December 1972; its place being taken by a new Department of Education and a Department of Science.

The Department of Home Affairs was established on 1 January 1901 and was one of the first seven Departments of State to be established when Australia became a Commonwealth. The functions of the Department included the Federal Capital.

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

On 24 Sep 1926 the first Labour and Industry Department was established but from 1 Oct 1942 the name was changed to Labour and Employment Department. Under the "Labour and Industry Act 1946" from 1 Mar 1947 the name was changed back to Labour and Industry Department. From 1966 to 1972 it was named Department of Labour and Tourism.

In 1954 the Department of Labour and Industry was established and superseded the Department of Labour.

In 1974 a Ministry of Consumer Affairs was established and was subordinate to the Department of Labour and Industry until 1981 when it became a separate Department of State. In 1985 the Department was amalgamated with the Ministry of Employment and Training and the Ministry of Industrial Affairs to form the Department of Employment and Industrial Affairs.

The Department of Prehistory was established on 9 May 1969, in what was then known as Research School of Pacific Studies. Jack Golson was the Foundation Professor. The first graduate of the discipline was Jim Allen, who graduated in the department’s founding year, having started prior to its formation.

The Department of Zoology was established in the Canberra University College with the appointment of James Desmond (Des) Smyth as Professor of Zoology on 11 March 1959. In 1960 it became part of the Faculty of Science in the School of General Studies at the Australian National University. From 1 January 1991 it amalgamated with the Department of Botany to become the Botany and Zoology Division (known as BoZo) of the School of Life Sciences in the Faculty of Science.

David Dexter was a former World War II army officer, diplomat, military historian, and Secretary of the Australian Universities Commission in the 1960s. He was the Registrar, Property and Plans, at the Australian National University 1968-1979. After retiring, Dexter wrote a book about the development of the University, The ANU Campus, published in 1991.

Born in Nashville, Tennessee in 1931, William (‘Bill’) Dickinson was an internationally renowned and decorated geoscientist from the University of Arizona and a prolific author. Prior to joining the University of Arizona, he was a professor at Stanford University where he had received a bachelor’s degree in petroleum engineering (1952), a master’s degree (1956) and a doctorate in geology (1958). He made significant contributions to both geoscience and archaeology of the South Pacific and worked collaboratively with archaeologists in tracing the migration path of people from island to island through the pottery they carried with them. The pots were made with clay combined with sand from where the pots were made. His research on the fragments of historic and prehistoric pottery, plate tectonics, sea-level changes and island geomorphologies contributed significantly to understanding the process of human migration in the Pacific. In a symposium honouring Bill Dickinson's five decades of interdisciplinary collaboration with Pacific archaeologists, it was said that "No other geologist has contributed more to Pacific Islands archaeology than William ‘Bill’ Dickinson" (An archaeologists geologist: A symposium in Honour of William R Dickinson, part of the Society for American Archaeology 2015 Conference).

William Dickinson’s contributions to geology were well recognised by the profession in terms of honours and awards; he received the Penrose medal and the L L Sloss Award from the Geological Society of America and the Twenhofel Medal from the Society of Economics Palaeontologists and Mineralogists. He was also a Guggenheim Fellow and a member of the US National Academy of Sciences. He died on 21 July 2015 while on a field expedition to Nuku’alofa, Tonga.