The Research School of Biological Sciences was established at the Australian National University in 1967. The School’s founding Director, Professor David Guthrie Catcheside, moved from the John Curtin School of Medical Research to his new appointment on 1 October 1967. The three foundation chairs in Biology were filled by Professor Denis John Carr (Developmental and cellular biology) on 1 January 1968, Dr Ralph Owen Slatyer (environmental and population biology) on 4 December 1967, Professor George Adrian Horridge (Behavioral biology) on 6 July 1969. By 1969 four departments existed within the School: Genetics, Developmental Biology, Environmental Biology and Behavioural Biology. Further expansion of the School took place with the creation of the Molecular Biology and Taxonomy Groups and two new departments were added, in Neurobiology and Population Biology. In 2010 the School became known as the Research School of Biology, within the ANU College of Medicine, Biology and Environment.

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

The Graduate School began with the appointment of Dr Ray Spear as Dean in May 1990 to develop graduate education at ANU, including chairing the Graduate Degrees Committee. The Graduate School provided coordination and support services for graduate students and academic staff including the Graduate Teaching Program, the Statistical Consulting Unit and induction and supervision workshops. In February 1998 Dr John Hooper became Dean and was succeeded by Professor Gail Huon in August 2005. The School was located at 26 Balmain Cresent in 2006.

The National Institute for Asian Pacific Studies was one of the twelve virtual 'national institutes', bringing together Research Schools, Faculties and Centres by subject discipline, created by a restructure of the University in 2001. The national institutes organised events and communicated with research and teaching staff and students through email groups and websites. A later restructure formalised these groupings into Colleges and in this case the National Institute was absorbed into the College of Asia and the Pacific.

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

Dr Simon Foale, BSc (Hons) (University of Queensland); PhD (University of Melbourne) is a marine ecologist, semi-professional photographer, and member of the Australian Anthropological Society. Foale was a Research Fellow in Resource Management in Asia-Pacific Program, Department of Anthropology, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies at the Australian National University. He was a consultant on the Environmental Education Plan for Lihir (2004 – 2007) through Lihir Gold Ltd and The University of Melbourne.

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

Dr Wace was the leading authority on the plant life of the Tristan da Cunha-Gough Islands which he visited to undertake fieldwork in 1955-56, 1968, 1976, 1984 and 1994. He was awarded a PhD by Queen's University, Belfast and joined the Department of Geography at the University of Adelaide in 1961. He was a Senior Fellow in the Department of Biogeography and Geomorphology in the Research School of Pacific Studies at the Australian National University from 1971 to 1989, and was head of the department from 1981 to 1983.

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 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.

Wendy Brazil was a teacher of Latin and Greek, and a research officer in Parliament House. She completed her Bachelor of Arts degree at the University of Sydney, Master of Arts degrees in Classics and Linguistics at the Australian National University and a Master of Education degree at the University of Canberra. From 1980 to 1990 she was Research Officer to Senator David Hamer, and to Senator John Tierney from 1990 to around 1992. Brazil was also a convenor of the Latin Reading Symposium at University House, and in March 2011, was elected to the Board of Fellows by members of University House. She died on 10 September 2011.

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.

Dr Alan Barnard joined the Australian National University as a PhD scholar from 21 May 1952 to 13 August 1955, then became a Research Fellow in the Department of Economic History, Research School of Social Sciences at the ANU from 1 October 1957; promoted to Fellow on 30 September 1960; and Senior Fellow on 1 July 1963. During the 1950s and 1960s his research focus was on the Australian wool industry, particularly the career of Thomas Sutcliffe Mort. His books include The Australian wool market, 1840-1900 (1958) and Visions and profits: studies in the business career of Thomas Sutcliffe Mort (1961).

The Research School of Humanities was formed in 2006 as part of the College of Arts and Social Sciences. In 2010, the school became the Research School of Humanities & the Arts (RSHA). Professor Howard Morphy was Director from October 2007.

The Department of Human Geography was formed on 13 July 1968 by the division of the Department of Geography in the Research School of Pacific Studies into the Department of Human Geography and the Department of Biogeography and Geomorphology. The Department of Human Geography took over the work in economic and cultural geography. From July 1968 to December 1971 Dr H.C. Brookfield and Dr G.J.R Linge served successively as Acting Head of Department. In December 1971 Professor R.G. Ward took up his appointment as Professor and Head of the Department, and was Chair of the Department until 1980 when he took up the Directorship of the Research School of Pacific Studies. He continued his Directorship until May 1993 when he returned to the Department of Human Geography and headed the department between 1995-1998. Bryant Allen took up positions of Acting and Head of the Department before and after the appointment of Professor Katherine Gibson, who was Professor and Head of the Department from 1999-2008. In 2009 Gibson took up a position at the University of Western Sydney and Allen retired on 31 December 2009. Rather than appoint a replacement, and to help solve a critical budgetary crisis, the Department of Human Geography ceased to exist on 31 December 2009.

Christopher Heyde was born in Sydney on 20 April 1939. In 1961 began his PhD work in the Department of Statistics at the Australian National University and awarded his PhD in statistics in 1965. Heyde then worked as a lecturer in the Department of Statistics at Michigan State University and later the University of Manchester in 1967. He returned to Australia in 1968 to take up a Readership in the Department of Statistics, School of General Studies at the ANU. In January 1975, he joined the CSIRO Division of Mathematics and Statistics, and was appointed professor and chair of the Department of Statistics at the University of Melbourne. Heyde was Professor and Head of the Department of Statistics, Institute of Advanced Studies at the ANU from July 1986-December 1988; Foundation Dean of the ANU School of Mathematical Sciences 1989-1992; Professor, Department of Statistics at Columbia University 1993-2007. Heyde died on 6 March 2008 in Canberra.

The Department of Political Science (DPS) was established within the Research School of Social Sciences in 1949. However, the first appointment to the Department occurred in 1951, when Mr L.C. Webb (later Professor) took up the position of Reader and Head of the Department. For two years, 1958-1959, the DPS combined with the Department of International Relations (DIR) as a temporary arrangement and was known as the Department of Political Science & of International Relations. In 1960, the DPS returned to its original name after the members whose work was in the DIR were transferred to The Research School of Pacific Studies. In 1988, a review of activities of the Research School were carried out and as a result all former departments, centres and units within the RSSS were de-established in 1989. From 1990, the RSSS was organised into four divisions and the DPS subsequently became a part of the Division of Politics and Economics.

Peter Herbst was Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the Australian National University. Herbst was born in Heidelberg of Jewish parents, and had been sent to school in England. In 1940, he shipped out aboard the Dunera, to be interned in Australia. He found a way out of the internment camp in 1942 by enlisting in the Australian army. At the same time he studied philosophy at the University of Melbourne. After spending 1956–61 at the University College of the Gold Coast (now Ghana), where he had been promoted to professor, Herbst joined the ANU in 1962 as professor in philosophy. Herbst retired in 1984.

Maude Joan Woolcock joined the Australian National University on 22 November 1948 as a Library Assistant. She was promoted to Assistant Librarian (Principal Cataloguer) from 1 April 1961 and later promoted to Senior Librarian (Cataloguing). Woolcock retired from the ANU in 1981.

Two foundation history professors, Jim Davidson for the Pacific and CP Fitzgerald for the Far East, became the heads respectively of the Department of Pacific History and the Department of Far Eastern History in the Research School of Pacific Studies. The Department of Pacific History was expanded in 1973 to become the Department of Pacific and Southeast Asian History. In 1990 the two History departments were merged into the Division of Pacific and Asian History.

The Faculty of Arts was inherited from Canberra University College when CUC amalgamated with the Australian National University in 1960 and offered undergraduate courses in the School of General Studies, which was renamed The Faculties from 1980. In July 2000, the Departments of Archaeology and Anthropology, Art History and Visual Studies, Classical and Modern European Languages, English and Theatre Studies, History, Linguistics, Philosophy, Political Science and Sociology, and the Centre for Women’s Studies were abolished and four schools created: the School of Archaeology and Anthropology, the School of Humanities, the School of Language Studies, and the School of Social Sciences. In 2006, the Faculty of Arts was grouped with Research Schools, Faculties and Centres into the College of Arts and Social Sciences.

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.

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.

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

Ken Bishop was a heating, ventilation and air conditioning engineer who ran a business in Canberra from 1957 to 1973. In 1973 his firm went into liquidation and was taken over by Bonaire.

The station was owned by R H Roberts from 1895 to 1903. The station manager between 1911 to 1914 was R R Mackellar. From 1915 to 1925, it was owned by J Maroney of Coolegong. Later owners include A J Taylor from c. 1927 to c. 1931, and Lincoln's Ltd from c. 1935.

The Adelaide steamship Company was incorporated in Adelaide, South Australia, on 8 October 1875. The company began by chartering the steamer Flinders and commissioning new ships from British builders. The company joined the Steamship Owners' Association during the 1880s and was liquidated and reconstructed in 1900 and 1920 for more efficiency and profitability. During the 1940s the company experienced a decline in trade and began to acquire interests in other companies and projects. On 1 January 1964 the company's interstate fleet was merged with that of McIlwraith McEarcharn Ltd in a new company, Associated Steamships Limited in which Adelaide Steamship had a 40% share. These shares were bought by Bulkships Limited in 1965. In 1968 Adelaide Steamship Industries Pty Ltd was formed to concentrate the main trading activities of the company within one subsidiary. By 1977 the company had finished its involvement with shipowning and operating. At this time it had diversified into investment and property ownership, vineyard and wine production and optical goods manufacture, distribution and engineering. The company became known as Residual Assco on 30 April 1997 and is currently delisted from the Australian Securities Exchange.

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 company was established by Peter Cullen, a Canberra-based political lobbyist.

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 company was formed in 1967 by Jim Maple-Brown, Don G F Mackay and Richard Boyer. The company was set up as a commercial organisation to introduce new structures to the wool industry and its objective was to create a more effective wool fibre marketing organisation. J Maple-Brown was Chairman of the company, and its first Secretary was Ian MacIntosh.

Golden Cob was founded in 1895 and operated in lower George Street, Sydney for the purposes of selling bulk grains and bird seeds. In 1933 David Richard Denne Jr purchased Golden Cob when the store was located at 12 Jarrett Street, Leichhardt. Denne registered his company as Golden Cob Products Limited on 29 September 1933. Denne's company carried on the business of birdseed and grain merchants specialising in produce for the feeding of cage birds, pigeons and fish. In 1937 the company name was changed to Golden Cob Products Pty Ltd, expanded its operations and moved to 213 Darling Street, Balmain in 1939. In 1971 Denne sold the business to a subsidiary of Kimpton, Minifie and McLennon.

This syndicate of twenty-four people was formed to acquire the Greenmount property of approximately fifty acres near Portland, East Victoria. H A Rudd was Secretary until his death in 1934. After that date the letters were written by A F Hooper (1934 - 1935) and by W V Amess, who became Secretary about 1935.

The co-operative was registered in 16 July 1917 as Farmers & Settlers' Co-op Grain Company Ltd, and changed its name in 1919 to Farmers & Graziers Co-op Ltd. In 1981 the co-operative merged with Grazcos Co-op Ltd to form Farmers Grazcos Co-op Ltd.

Ularunda Station was taken up by the Fletcher Brothers partnership in 1907. The partnership also owned Elmina Station near Charleville, Queensland. When the partnership split in 1922, E C Fletcher & Co took over Ularunda. This company consisted of Ernest Charles Fletcher, Ida Constance Wilkinson (nee Fletcher) and Eliza Lavinia Fletcher. The Australian Pastoral Directory lists the company as the station owner in 1957. By 1963 the station was owned by the Scottish Australian Co Ltd.

The company formed in 1885 to deal in real estate and to operate as banker and financial agents in the Australian colonies. In 1887, it absorbed the Joint Stock Building, Land and Investment Company Limited. The company became a subsidiary of the Mercantile Mutual Insurance Company Ltd in January 1960.

James Robertson and Co Pty Ltd owned Jandra and Wapweelah stations, near Bourke, New South Wales, in the 1880s until 1938. From 1939, F J Robertson took over Jandra Station, and M K Robertson took over Wapweelah Station. The stations are now owned by descendents of different branches of the Robertson family.

The operations of Lake George Mines Pty Ltd were centred on a lead-zinc, copper and gold mine situated at Captain's Flat, located south east of Canberra. In the 1920s the British company, National Mining Corporation, examined the area and decided that the mine could be worked profitably again using modern extraction methods. Lake George Mines was incorporated as a limited liability company on 3 September 1930, becoming a proprietary company on 5 May 1943. The company conducted mining operations at Captain's Flat, New South Wales. In 1962 the company ceased operations and was placed in voluntary liquidation. In March 1962 the mine was closed following the exhaustion of further stopes and the increasingly unsafe condition of the mine. The London based holding company, Lake George Mining Corporation Limited, was placed into voluntary liquidation on March 31 1964.

The land at Lake Victoria Station was first taken up in 1847 by George Melrose and the homestead constructed in 1880. From around 1884 to 1895 the station was owned by Robert Tully and Co, and managed by J Armstrong. During the 1890s its proprietors commenced moving the activity centre of the station to the outstation Nulla Nulla, and by early 1920s most activity had been relocated to Nulla Nulla Station where stock was held. Later proprietors of the station included A M L & F Co Ltd (1897); A Armstrong (1903 - 1917); Armstrong Pty Ltd (1919 - 1925); Armstrong Pastoral Co Ltd (1927 - 1931); A Armstrong Pty Ltd (1933 - 1946); Lake Victoria Proprietors (1949 - ).

This wool, textile and bedding merchant and manufacturing company was the successor to the original firm of Laycock, Son & Nettleton founded by Federick Laycock, his son Burdett and Samuel Nettleton around 1884. The partnership of Laycock, Son & Nettleton dissolved in 1911, with the separate firm of Laycock, Son & Co Ltd being formed and continuing in Melbourne. The Nettletons founded a separate firm in Sydney, Nettleton & Co. In 1915 the Melbourne firm was re-organised by Burdett Laycock to include his sons Frederick Cornelius and Edwin, and became Laycock, Son & Co Pty Ltd. In 1926 the Melbourne company re-organised the Sydney firm of Nettleton & Co and it was later renamed Laycock Son & Nettleton with E B Laycock as Director. The company was deregistered on 1 August 1997.

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

The company was formed in December 1901 to acquire the business of silk merchants carried on in Australia and New Zealand by M Makower and Company. On 17 February 1902 the company was registered in Victoria as M Makower and Company Proprietary Limited. In August 1904 the name was changed to Makower McBeath and Co Pty Ltd. In 1920 a limited company was formed to conduct the business in New Zealand and was incorporated there as Makower McBeath and Company Limited on 12 July 1920. The company ceased trading operations on 31 October 1972 when it was taken over by Charles Parsons Pty Ltd.

The drapery and general merchandise business was founded by Henry Marcus Clark in 1883, and was incoporated as a company in New South Wales on 16 October 1902. A head office was built in Central Square, Sydney in 1906 and later sold when a new building was established on the Western side of Central Square in 1928. Other country branches were established in New South Wales. In 1926 the company took over the retail business of Craig Williamson Pty Ltd in Melbourne, and in 1927 the Adelaide business of Miller Anderson Ltd. On 1 December 1966 the company was taken over by Waltons Ltd.

The Faculty of Economics was inherited from Canberra University College when CUC amalgamated with the Australian National University in 1960 and became the School of General Studies, then The Faculties from 1980. The Faculty of Economics initially consisted of four
departments - Economic History, Economics, Political Science and Statistics. Upon the introduction of the Commerce degree in 1983, the Faculty of Economics was renamed the Faculty of Economics and Commerce.

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

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

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

The National Deposit Insurance Corporation Ltd (NDIC) was set up by the building society industry with the support of the federal government in 1984 as a public company. It was originally registered as the Australian Building Society Share and Deposit Insurance Corporation Ltd (ABSSDIC) and changed its name to the National Deposit Insurance Corporation Ltd in 1986. Its shareholders were only to be permanent building societies and provided deposit insurance coverage to its member societies. The Chief Executive from 1985 was David Horton. The company went into voluntary liquidation on 16 April 1993.

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

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

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

Laycock, Son & Nettleton was founded by Federick Laycock, his son Burdett and Samuel Nettleton around 1884. The partnership of Laycock, Son & Nettleton dissolved in 1911, with the separate firm of Laycock, Son & Co Ltd being formed and continuing in Melbourne. The Nettletons founded a separate firm in Sydney, Nettleton & Co. In 1926 the Melbourne company re-organised the Sydney firm of Nettleton & Co and it was later renamed Laycock Son & Nettleton with E B Laycock as Director. The company changed it's name when a new company, Laconia (NSW) Proprietary Limited was registered on 4 December 1950.

The firm was established in Melbourne in 1872 by James Paterson with Edward Newbigin as ship owners and coal importers, and later bought tugs into the business. After Paterson's death in 1906, his nephew Henry Masterton became Managing Director of the business.

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

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

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

H B Selby Australia Limited was registered in Melbourne on 11 April 1949 as a public company and holding company for the Sydney and Melbourne businesses of H B Selby & Company Pty Ltd, importers and suppliers of scientific instruments, laboratory apparatus, chemicals and industrial and process control equipment. During 1982-83, when Selbys succumbed to a triple takeover by Warburton O’Donnell, Comeng Holdings Ltd, then Australian National Industries (ANI), its operating subsidiaries were Selbys Scientific Ltd and Analite Pty Ltd. The Selby name continued through further changes of ownership until 2002, when, as part of the Biolab Group, it was finally dropped.

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.

The company, which ran a gasworks in Wollongong, was registered in Sydney on 5 April 1882 and became a subsidiary of Colonial Gas Holdings Ltd in 1926. Around 1969 the company name changed to Wollongong Gas Limited. The company was deregistered on 1 August 1996.

Mark Aarons was born in Newcastle on 25 December 1951. From 1973-90 Aarons worked as an ABC broadcaster and investigative documentary producer. He was NSW Branch Secretary of the ABC Staff Association during 1980-81. He was elected staff representative on the ABC Board of Management from 1982-84. From 1984-89 he was NSW Branch President, ABC Staff Association until the amalgamation with the Public Sector Union in August 1989 when he became Joint Assistant Branch Secretary, Public Sector & Broadcasting Union. Aarons became a senior advisor to the NSW Labor Government from 1996-2007.

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.

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.

The first stock exchange formed in Melbourne in 1861. This was followed by the formation of the Sydney Stock Exchange (1871), the Hobart Stock Exchange (1882), the Brisbane Stock Exchange and the Stock Exchange of Melbourne (1884), the Stock Exchange of Adelaide (1887), and the Stock Exchange of Perth (1889). In 1937 the Australian Associated Stock Exchanges (AASE) was established. Through the AASE the Exchanges gradually brought in common listing requirements for companies and uniform brokerage and other rules for stockbroking firms. The Australian Stock Exchange Limited (ASX) was formed on 1 April 1987, through incorporation under legislation of the Australian Parliament. The formation of this national stock exchange involved the amalgamation of the six independent stock exchanges that had operated in the states' capital cities. In 2006 the Australian Stock Exchange merged with the Sydney Futures Exchange and originally operated under the name Australian Securities Exchange. From 1 August 2010 ASX launched a new group structure and the Australian Securities Exchange has been known as the ASX Group.

John Simms Baker was General Secretary of the Australian Third Division Telegraphists & Postal Clerks' Union from 1947 to 1967. He becamed involved with the Federal Council for Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Advancement (FCAATSI) from 1962. He was General Secretary, Union of Postal Clerks & Telegraphists (UPCT) from 1967-73. From 1975-77 Baker was researching the history of postal clerks and telegraphists unions and authored a few books about the union. Baker also had a strong interest in folk songs, specifically folk songs in the trade union movement.

This company was registered in England on 5 November 1863 as the Australian Mortgage Land and Finance Company Limited. The company's first Australian Office was opened in Brisbane in the same year. The company carried on business as wool brokers, pastoral finance, stock and property agents and as a pastoral company in NSW, Victoria, the Riverina and Queensland. In 1865 the business moved to Victoria with the purchase of the firm of Gibbs Ronald and Company of Melbourne and Geelong, the Australian branch of the London firm of Richard Gibbs and Company. The partners of the two firms continued their work in the new company with the Australian branch managed by R B Ronald in Geelong and by Sir James MacBain in Melbourne. Richard Gibbs and Byron L Ronald joined the London Board. In November 1910 the company changed its name to the Australian Mercantile Land and Finance Company Limited (AML&F Co Ltd). In 1971 AML&F Co Ltd was taken over by the UK firm Wood Hall Trust Limited. The company operated under the name AML&F Co Ltd until Elders IXL took over Wood Hall Trust Limited in 1981. Elders Pastoral Division was established incorporating all the pastoral interests of the AML&F Co Ltd.

Dr Alan Barcan published books and articles on the history of education and left-wing politics. He studied at Sydney University and Sydney Teachers' College. In 1948 he held the position of Inaugural Secretary-Treasurer, Youth Council of the NSW ALP. Barcan was appointed to Newcastle Teachers’ College as lecturer in history and history method early in 1949 and held the position until 1967. In this time he also went on leave to England in 1958 and was at the Australian National University from 1959 to 1961. From 1968 he was Senior Lecturer (then Associate Professor) in education, University of Newcastle. In December 1986 Barcan retired, but acted in the position of Honorary Associate, School of Education, University of Newcastle and then as Conjoint Fellow.

Henry Gilbert Bennett, a radical, better known as Harry Scott Bennett, was born on 1 June 1877 at Chilwell, Geelong, Victoria. He was a foundation member of the Victorian Socialist League in 1897, in H H Champion's Social Democratic Party from 1902, and in Tom Mann's Victorian Socialist Party from 1906. After leaving his employment as a draper's assistant for full-time public speaking, he won the Ballarat West seat in the Legislative Assembly for the Political Labor Council in 1904, serving until 1907. In 1907 Bennett moved to Sydney to work for the Victorian Socialist Club. He travelled to New Zealand in 1909 working there for the Federation of Labor and the Social Democratic Party and in industrial actions such as the 1912 Waihi strike. In 1915 he travelled to the United States to give lecture tours for both the American Socialist Lecture Bureau and the National Rationalist Association. In 1917-1920 he rejoined the Victorian Socialist Party as a Lecturer and organiser. From 1922-1940 Bennett conducted various lecturing tours of NZ. He was also Lecturer and Secretary, NSW Rationalist Association, from 1936-1957. On
24 May 1959 Bennett died in Waverley, Sydney.

Meredith Burgmann was born in Beecroft, Sydney on 26 July 1947. She has Master of Arts from Sydney University in Foreign Policy (1973) and a Doctorate from Macquarie University in Environmental Activism and Industrial Relations (1981). During her university study she was involved in political activity against the Vietnam War and Apartheid. She joined the Australian Labor Party in 1971. From 1973-93 Burgmann taught industrial relations and politics at Macquarie University and was active in the Academics' Union becoming the first woman president of the National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU). She was a member of the Labour Council of NSW from 1978-91 and ACTU Congress from 1983-89. On 25 May 1991 she became a Member of the NSW Legislative Council, and was President of the NSW Legislative Council from 1999 until her retirement on 2 Mar 2007 . She is a Consultant for the United Nations Development Program.

Burkitt worked as a fitter and turner for the Colonial Sugar Refining Co before joining the Australian Imperial Force in 1916 and serving in Egypt and France. After the war ended he returned to the Colonial Sugar Refining Co at Pyrmont. He later moved to the company's drawing office at O'Connell Street, Sydney where he became Chief Refinery Design Engineer. He retired from this position in 1953 and was later employed by MacDonald Wagner & Biddle as an engineer overseeing bulk grain storage and shipment at Newcastle and Geelong. He spent time in Hawaii observing bulk sugar handling. He was employed as site engineer and then manager of the first Australian bulk sugar terminal in Mackay from 1957 until 1959 when he retired. Burkitt died later that year.

Frank Campbell was a member of the Queensland Shop Assistants Union.

Commonwealth Department of Industrial Relations

J Coleman was a member of the Socialist Workers' League which was founded in 1972 and published a newspaper, Direct Action. Prior to 1972, Direct Action was published first by the Socialist Youth Alliance, then jointly by both groups. The Socialist Youth Alliance was the collaborating youth organisation of the Socialist Workers' League.

Tom Combey was Secretary of the Queensland State Council of the Unemployed Workers' Movement during the depression. He kept a diary on one of his trips in search of work during the depression. He travelled 2292 miles throughout Queensland, 640 of them on foot.

Wright Heaton & Co Limited was founded in 1862 and was incorporated in New South Wales on 2 March 1880. The company was formed to merge the New South Wales partnership of Wright Heaton Barber & Co, formed in 1875, with the Victorian company William McCulloch & Co Limited. The company was listed on the Sydney Stock Exchange in 1896. In 1898 it bought the Melbourne firm McCulloch Carrying Company Proprietary Limited and its subsidiary Murray River Sawmills Limited. By 1900 the company had branches in 29 towns in New South Wales and four in Queensland. In 1909 the Queensland branches closed and the Queensland company liquidated. In the late 19th century its business was chiefly carrying wool produced in NSW, and through the McCulloch subsidiary it operated a large fleet of barges on the Murray River. The company diversified into farm produce and by the 1950s was chiefly a wholesale chain-grocer with 30 branches in NSW and 2 in Victoria. During the 1960s and early 1970s the company added subsidiaries by acquiring Miller's Stores, Worsley Foods Pty Ltd, Willarene Distributors Pty Ltd and Hussar Pty Limited. In 1977 Wright Heaton & Co Limited was acquired by Tooth & Co Limited. At the time the company had five subsidiaries: Wright Heaton Stores Pty Ltd, Wright McCulloch Pty Ltd, Worsley Foods Pty Ltd, Wright Heaton Rural Pty Ltd and Wright Heaton Distributors Pty Ltd. The company became a subsidiary of Tooth & Co Limited and was delisted from the Stock Exchange in 1978.

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.

Founded in 1884, the company was formed to take over the original firm of William Adams & Company, wholesaler and distributor for construction equipment and engineering industries. Incorporated in New South Wales on 5 September 1912 William Adams and Company Limited soon became one of Australia's leading distributor's of steel and aluminium, machine tools, power transmission equipment, earthmoving and materials handling equipment, facsimile transceivers and telephone answering equipment. Following a successful bid by Tubemakers of Australia Limited, the company was removed from the Stock Exchange on 7 December 1983.

Property of the New Zealand and Australian Land Company Limited.

James Francis Guthrie was a stock-breeder, woolbroker and senator. He was born on 13 September 1872. Guthrie joined the Geelong branch of Dalgety & Co. Ltd in October 1891 as a junior clerk. Six years of branch experience were followed by about two years working in textile mills in England, at Bradford and elsewhere. He rejoined Dalgety's in 1900 as wool expert and traveller at Geelong, valuing for the company's New Zealand sales as well. In the 1904-05 season he became head valuer for Australia, based in Melbourne. He was a director of the family company, Thomas Guthrie & Sons Pastoral Co Ltd, formed in 1906 to operate his father's stations and in 1910-21 was managing director of Avon Downs Pastoral Co Ltd which bought one of them, Avon Downs station, in the Northern Territory. In 1912 he established a Corriedale stud on portions of Borambola and Book Book stations (renamed Corriedale Park and Colongolong) near Wagga, New South Wales. Guthrie founded the Australian Corriedale Sheep Breeders' Association in 1914. In 1915 he was Geelong manager for Dalgety & Co, a member of the Victorian State Wool Committee and Chairman of the Wool Export Advisory Committee. He had an interest in numerous properties until the 1950s but concentrated his Corriedale and thoroughbred horse studs at Bulgandra near Albury, New South Wales (1923-50), and Elcho and Coolangatta near Geelong (1926-52). In 1927 he sketched the history of Australian sheep and wool to the (Royal) Historical Society of Victoria and again in the official publication commemorating the Victorian centenary in 1934. The culmination of his research was "A World History of Sheep and Wool" published privately in 1957. Guthrie was elected to the Senate in 1919 and served from 1july 1920 to 30 June 1938. He became the first Federal Government representative on the Australian Wool Board. He was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 1946. Guthrie died on 18 August 1958.

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.

Dr Amy McGrath OAM wrote The Forging of Votes (1995) about union fraud in the Federated Ironworkers Union, and The Frauding of Votes (1996) about parliamentary fraud. She held the following positions: Foundation Secretary Australian Playwrights Conference (Canberra 1970); Founder Mews Playhouse and Australian Theatre (Lennox St. Newtown); Administrator Mews Playhouse (playreadings 1970-9); Administrator Australian Theatre (public showcase for new work and talent 1971-9); Chairman International Musical Theatre Forum (Festival of Sydney 1987-9); President HS Chapman Society. Co-founder and member HS Chapman Society UK; Senator University of Sydney Senate (2 terms); Oral Archivist National Library of Australia. McGrath was awarded the Order of Australia Medal in 1975 for her work in theatre.

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.

Miriam Dixson, an Australian social historian, studied history at university; completed a Master of Arts thesis, Doctor of Philiosophy thesis, and a course at the University of New England in women's studies. She is author of "The Real Matilda : women and identity in Australia 1788-1975" (Ringwood: Penguin, 1976).

Egerton was born on 11 March 1918 in Emerald, Qld. In 1943 he was State Secretary, Queensland, Boilermakers' Union. Then held positions as Union Executive, Boilermakers' Union (1951-1966); President, Queensland Trades & Labour Council (1967-1974); Member, Federal Executive, Australian Council of Trade Unions (1970); Senior Vice President, Australian Labor Party (1972). He was elected alderman, Gold Coast City Council (1979-1985) and at one time was Deputy Mayor. On 12 June 1976 he was knighted for his contribution to the trade union movement. Egerton died in his Gold Coast residence on 21 December 1998.

Formed by Graham Gillespie, senior industrial relations advisor, Queensland Mining Council, in October 1998 after the Queensland Mining Council discontinued the provision of industrial relations services. Gillespie Consulting Services purchased the extensive Queensland Mining Council library for reference and prosperity purposes and continued to provide industrial relations consultancy services to coal mining industry operators, employers and employees.

Judy Gillett-Ferguson (nee Goss) was born at Petts Wood, Kent, south of London, on 7 November 1939. Her father Joseph (Joe) Goss was State Secretary of the Amalgamated Metal Workers & Shipwright's Union, then the Amalgamated Engineering Union before becoming a founding member of the Socialist Party of Australia. She was a member of the Communist Party of Australia, where she met Pete Thomas at a CPA National Congress in Sydney in the early 1970s. In 1979 her comments were taped for papers on 'Women in the Labor Movement and CPA', and in 1987 produced 'Women and Socialist Renewal' which dealt with women in the CPA and trade unions. Judy worked as a teacher and became principal at the Reading Centre until it closed in 1980. From 1981 to 1983 she was deputy principal at Elizabeth West Primary School and in 1984 she started as principal at Brahma Lodge Primary School with Glyn Turner as deputy principal. Brahma Lodge was one of the first South Australian Primary Schools to have both a female principal and deputy principal. She wrote a number of textbooks and teacher's guides, and during the 1980s she was involved in the campaign to save a Reading Development Centre, a survey on stress factors for teachers and an Education Department review of primary education.

Ken Gott was born on 22 February 1923 and worked as a journalist on the Melbourne bureau of the Daily News. He was also the Tasmanian District delegate on the Federal Executive of the Australian Journalists' Association. He was a committee member of the Victorian Branch of the Australia-China Society from 1953 and its secretary from 1956 to around 1959. Gott held interests in a few business enterprises. He was the manager of Wallaby Recordings, a non profit organisation set up to issue records of people's songs and music from Australia and overseas. He was managing director, shareholder and secretary of the Pacific Merchandising Agency from 1953-1954. Gott was also joint proprietor with Bruce Millis in the Australian Trade Research Service, which was registered in April 1954. From 1964 to 1965 he was features editor of the Australian.

Margaret Howells (nee Kemp) was an Australian volunteer during the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939. In 1938 Margaret and her husband Arthur Fenton Howells (1907-1986), a labour and peace movement activist, visited Spain, returning to Australia to work for the Spanish Relief Committee. In 1967 Margaret Howells stood as a candidate for the Australian Labor Party in the Legislative Assembly seat of Monbulk at the Victorian state election. Margaret Howells worked as an English teacher.

Jean Isobel Martin was born in Melbourne in 1923 and studied in Sydney graduating with an MA in Anthropology from the University of Sydney in 1945. In 1943-1947, 1949-1950 and 1956 she was employed as a lecturer at the university. She took her PhD in Anthropology and Sociology at the Australian National University in 1955. She was appointed as lecturer in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Sydney in 1956; Professor of Sociology at La Trobe University, Melbourne from 1966-1974; and in 1974 held position of Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Sociology, Research School of Social Sciences, ANU. Her major publications were Refugee Settlers (1965), Community and Identity (1972), The Migrant Presence (1978). The results of her research into the first Vietnamese refugee immigrants were published as The First Wave: The settlement of Australia's first Vietnamese (1985). She was president of the Sociological Association of Australia and New Zealand (1969-71) and elected a fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia in 1971. Martin died in Sydney on 25 September 1979.

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

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

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

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

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

Tom Molomby was president of the New South Wales Branch of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) Staff Association from September 1974 to October 1976. He was vice-president of the association during the period from October 1976 to March 1982, and president again from March 1982 to November 1984. He was staff-elected Director of the ABC Board of Management from November 1983 to June 1988. He became the founding producer and presenter of The Law Report, on Radio National. He is the author of four books on legal issues as well as Is There a Moderate on the Roof (1991), an account of his time as a director of the ABC. Since leaving the ABC he has practiced as a barrister while continuing as a writer.

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

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

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

The company was incorporated on 10 January 1920 and owned Ivanhoe Station (Western Australia). It was closely associated with Connor, Doherty & Durack Ltd. In March 1950 the company was acquired as a subsidiary of AA&P Joint Holdings Pty Ltd.

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.

The Brisbane Stock Exchange was formed to allow stock brokers and traders to trade stocks and bonds for companies listed in Queensland. It formed an association with stock exchanges in Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, Perth and Hobart in 1937 called the Australian Associated Stock Exchanges but remained an independent body. These six stock exchanges amalgamated on 1 April 1987 to form the Australian Stock Exchange Limited (ASX).