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Dark’s Ice and Cold Storage Limited

  • Corporate body
  • 1912 - 2010

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.

Brisbane Stock Exchange Limited

  • Corporate body
  • 1884 - 1984

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).

Potter, Laurence Raymond

  • Person
  • 1914 – unknown

Laurence Raymond Potter was born on 28 June 1914. Potter served in the RAAF during World War II and after the war joined Metal Manufactures Limited. He became Managing Director, Head Office, in 1972 and retired on 30 June 1976 after working over thirty years with Metal Manufactures Ltd.

Playford, John Drysdale

  • Person
  • 1935 - 2003

John Drysdale Playford was born on 28 March 1935 in the Norton Summit district and was a member of the South Australian political family of Sir Thomas Playford, In 1963 Playford completed his PhD thesis at the Australian National University on the doctrinal and strategic problems of the Communist Party of Australia, after which he lectured in the Faculty of Economics and Politics at Monash University from 1964 and the Politics Department, University of Adelaide from 1972. He was engaged in the Vietnam Moratorium Movement and for many years Playford contributed to Marxist publications. He editor of the Journal of the Historical Society of South Australia, established in 1974, for sixteen years. His publications on Australian politics include Apolitical Politics: a critique of behaviouralism (co-edited with Charles McCoy, 1967), Neo-capitalism in Australia (1969) and Australian Capitalism: towards a socialist critique (with Douglas Kirsner, 1972). Playford died on 23 April 2003.

Dalgety Blackwood and Company

  • Corporate body
  • c. 1857 - 1884

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.

C F Turner Limited

  • Corporate body
  • c. 1948 - 1964

The company from Spalding, Lincolnshire were vegetable and agricultural produce sellers, mostly in the sale of potatoes.

The International Bookshop

  • Corporate body
  • 1933 - 1993

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

Redpath, William

  • Person
  • 1959 -

William (Bill) Redpath, a Canberra based solicitor, was an Australian National University Students' Association Education Committee member from 1980-1984; Law Faculty Student Representative 1982-1984; President of the ANU Students' Association in 1983; Australian Union of Students Executive member 1983; and ANU Council member 1984. Redpath worked as a lawyer and was president of the Law Society of the ACT from 2003-2005; president of the ACT Branch of the Australian Labor Party and from February to July 2009 was secretary of the ACT Branch of the Labor Party.

Rivett, Kenneth Deakin

  • Person
  • 1923 - 2004

Kenneth Rivett was a Senior Lecturer and Associate Professor in Economics at the University of New South Wales from 1960 to 1984, and continued his retirement as an Honorary Visiting Fellow in the Economics School. He was President of the NSW Association of Immigration Reform and the Indo-China Refugee Association (NSW), Chairman of the Australian Institute of Multicultural Affairs 1984-1985, a member of the National Population Council and a Trustee of the Australian Refugee Foundation. His publications include Immigration: Control or Colour Bar? (1962) and Australia and the Non-white Immigrant (1975), books which he edited for the Immigration Reform Group.

Roby, Alexander

  • Person
  • 1923 - 1998

Alexander Roby was Managing Director of the metal smelter and alloy manufacturer, OT Lempriere and Company Limited, from November 1976 until October 1982, having previously held the position of Marketing Manager of the company. He was awarded a Diploma in Engineering at the University of Queensland and served in the Australian Imperial Force until 1946. He founded Rocklea Lead Products Pty Ltd which was taken over by OT Lempriere in 1959 and became Queensland Manager of Lempriere, continuing as General Manager of Rocklea Lead Products Pty Ltd.

Tansey, Timothy

  • Person
  • 1861 - 1941

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

Wright, Mary

  • Person
  • 1903 - 1993

Mary Wright was born in 1903 in Sydney, New South Wales. In 1919 she worked in a chocolate factory while living with her sister in Glebe and at age 17 she married John Lamm and started a family. She later married trade unionist Tom Wright. In 1926 she became involved with the Militant Women’s Group, based at the Trades Hall. The group was led by Hettie Weitzel and included Annie Isaacs, Clarice Irwin, Edna Nelson, Jean Thompson and Joy Barrington. As part of the group Mary Wright gave support to the Timber Workers in Sydney during the lockout in 1929 and in that year she joined the Communist Party of Australia. In 1930 the Militant Women’s Group dissolved. She was a founder of the International Women’s Day celebrations in Sydney and in 1936 became President of the first Sydney IWD Committee. She was involved in the formation of the Council of Action for Equal Pay in 1937 and became a State Council member of the United Associations of Women, taking part in drawing up the Women’s Charter of equal rights. She was a member of the New Housewives’ Association and a member of its successor, the Union of Australian Women when it was formed in 1950. In 1953 Mary and Tom Wright moved to Bankstown, where Mary became President of the Bankstown Branch of the UAW. Mary resigned from the CPA with Tom Wright in 1971 and joined the new Socialist Party of Australia.

Williams, Cecil Wallace Edgar

  • Person
  • 1911 - c. 1998

Cecil Wallace (Edgar) Williams was born in Alexandria, New South Wales on 11 April 1911. He was an organiser for the Queensland Branch of the Australian Workers’ Union from 1943-1947. In 1957 Williams represented the AWU at the International Labor Organisation conference on metalliferous mining at Geneva, and later toured the United States of America for the Union. Williams became Queensland Branch Secretary and Chairman of Directors of the Australian Workers’ Union in 1960 and President from 1964-1978. He worked on the Queensland Worker Newspaper and is author of Yellow, Green and Red (1967), a book about the AWU and Mount Isa Mining Industry.

Wilson, William Edward Rex

  • Person

William Edward Rex Wilson wrote 'A history of the Australian Agricultural Co' for his Master of Arts thesis in 1933. His thesis drew on history of the company in the Newcastle and Peel River regions, New South Wales.

Doogan, Michael

  • Person

Michael Doogan was an Amalgamated Metal Workers' and Shipwrights' Union (AMWSU) Shop Steward at General Motors Holden, Fishermans Bend, Victoria.

Tchelery Proprietary Limited

  • Corporate body
  • 1925 - 1950

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

Price Maurice and Company

  • Corporate body
  • c. 1855 - c. 1902

The firm was established by Price Maurice, a pastoralist, who arrived in South Australia aboard the 'Calab Angas' in 1840. He was associated with sheep runs at Pekina, Oladdie, Warrow, Lake Hamilton, and Bramfield on the Port Lincoln Peninsula. In 1870, Price Maurice (1818 - 1894) introduced the Angora goat into Australia and bought Castambul Station in the Mount Lofty ranges for the purpose. In 1874 he took up Mount Eba Station. Later he returned to England for health reasons, leaving Clement Sabine as manager of Price Maurice Estate.

Colonial Sugar Refining Company Limited

  • Corporate body
  • 1855 -

The Colonial Sugar Refining Company was founded on 1 January 1855 by Sir Edward Knox. It was formed in Sydney as a partnership of unlimited liability which took over some of the assets of the Australasian Sugar Company and Robey and Company including sugar stocks and the Brisbane House refinery and distillery. On 1 June 1857 the Colonial Sugar Refining Company shareholders and Victorian business interests formed an associate company – the Victorian Sugar Company – to establish a refinery and distillery in Melbourne. From 1869-70, three large sugar mills were built and operated on the Macleay and Clarence rivers, New South Wales. A new sugar refinery opened in Pyrmont, Sydney, and from 16 February 1878 Pyrmont became the New South Wales refinery. In 1880 Knox handed over the general management of the company to his second son Edward William.

In 1882 the company began sugar production in Fiji with crushing at the Nausori mill. The company also introduced a system of chemical control of processes in its mills. In 1886, Rarawai mill in Fiji , built by CSR for the New Zealand Sugar Company, began crushing. From 1885-88, Dr G Knottman, CSR chemist, developed the POCS formula determining the “pure obtainable cane sugar” in cane. The Colonial Sugar Refining Company and the Victoria Sugar Company were amalgamated in 1887. The company was incorporated as a limited liability company in New South Wales on 1 July 1887 changing its name to the Colonial Sugar Refining Company Limited. The New Farm refinery opened in Brisbane in 1893 and in 1894, CSR’s Lambasa mill in Fiji began crushing. Crushing began at CSR’s Childers mill, near Bundaberg, Queensland, in 1895 and at the Lautoka mill in Fiji in 1903. In 1906 the remaining Kanaka workforce were deported.

In 1915 the Colonial Sugar Refining Company (Fiji and New Zealand) Limited was formed to take over the assets of the company outside Australia. This subsidiary was liquidated in 1923 and the assets returned to CSR Co Limited. I the same year, the Queensland state government signed an agreement with CSR to refine all of that state's sugar production. In 1920 the indentured labour of Indians in Fiji was cancelled on Government decree. CSR introduced a tenant-farming system in Fiji in 1924 as a possible solution to its labour problems. The company bought the Penang mill, Fiji, in 1926.

From around 1939, the Colonial Sugar Refining Company Ltd expanded into manufacturing industrial chemicals through its Industrial Chemicals Division, and building materials as early as 1942 with the construction of a plaster mill in Sydney and manufacturing plasterboard. In 1948 CSR Chemicals Limited was formed, later changing its name to CSR Chemicals Pty Ltd in January 1952. In 1959, CSR acquired an interest in Bradford Insulation. In 1973 the company name changed to CSR Limited. CSR Limited took over Australian Estates Co Ltd in 1975.

ANU Department of Linguistics

  • University unit
  • 1968 -

The Department of Linguistics was established within the Research School of Pacific Studies in March 1968. Prior to its establishment linguistic research was carried out within a section of the Department of Anthropology and Sociology. It was primarily concerned with the analysis, description and classification of the indigenous languages of Australia, Papua New Guinea, and the Pacific Islands. In 2006, teaching and research in linguistics was distributed across the ANU College of Arts & Social Sciences and the ANU College of Asia & the Pacific.

Mittagong Maltings

  • Corporate body
  • 1899 - 1980

The Mittagong Maltings Works was originally established by the Maltings Company of NSW (Ltd) and operated from August 1899. Tooth and Company Limited purchased the Mittagong Works in 1905 and produced the malt used in Tooth & Co breweries in Sydney. The early 1940's was an active period, with output of malt being approx 200,000 bushells annually. This output was severely restricted following a large fire in August 1942, which completely gutted No.2 Malthouse and damaged No.1. The No.1 Malthouse was returned to service early in 1943. The No.2 Malthouse was completely rebuilt during the early 1950's and recommenced active operation in 1953. Operation continued normally until another fire gutted the No.3 Malthouse in 1969. Tooths & Co continued to operate at the site until 1980, when the works were closed and the site sold to a group of local business people.

The Bodalla Company Limited

  • Corporate body
  • 1887 - 1994

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

Flour Millers' Council of Australia

  • Industry association
  • 1957 - 2010

The Flour Millers' Council of Australia was the employer association representing the flour milling industry in Australia.

Australian Association for Research in Education Incorporated

  • Professional association
  • 1970 -

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

Commonwealth Steamship Owners' Association

  • Industry association
  • 1905 - 1994

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.

Australian Federation of Air Pilots

  • Professional association
  • c. 1943 -

The Australian Federation of Air Pilots was originally established as the Australian Institute of Air Pilots and Navigators which then registered as the Australian Air Pilots Association in 1946. The New Guinea Branch was formed in 1947. In 1959 the Association changed its name to AFAP which continues to represent the interests of commercial pilots in all sectors of the Australian aviation industry.

Australian Dairy Products Federation

  • Industry association
  • c. 1946 -

The Australian Dairy Products Federation is the peak policy body representing the interests of commercial or non-farm members of the Australian dairy industry who are engaged in the manufacture, marketing or trading of dairy products and/or dairy related products. It was incorporated on 23 April 1987.

Dietitians Association of Australia

  • Professional association
  • 1976 -

The organisation's predecessor, the Australian Association of Dietitians, was registered in the Australian Capital Territory on 5 January 1976. Branches operated in each state and territory encompassing offices that had existed before the formation of the national body. The organisation's name was changed to the Dietitians Association of Australia (DAA) on 7 May 1983. In September 1994 the DAA passed a by-law to provide for the credential, Accredited Practising Dietitian - available to those dietitians who meet the required criteria. Since 1987, the DAA has published an official peer-reviewed journal, Nutrition and Dietetics. This includes the Journal of Dietitians New Zealand. Prior to this, the Commonwealth Department of Health published the Journal of Food and Nutrition (originally as Food and Nutrition Notes and Reviews in 1944).

Australian Society of Archivists Incorporated

  • Professional association
  • 1975 -

The Australian Society of Archivists was formed in 1975. Prior to the establishment of the ASA, an Archives Section of the Library Association of Australia had operated since 1951. From 1955 the activities of the Archives Section included the provision of the journal, Archives and Manuscripts. Attempts to establish an archives association included the formation of a Steering Committee in 1958 to investigate and promote an Australian association of archivists, and the Steering Committee formed in 1974 to investigate forming the ASA. At the inaugural meeting of the Society held at the Australian National University in April 1975, a constitution was adopted, provision was made for professional, associate and institutional members, and a council was elected.

Reed, Barbara

  • Person

Barbara Reed holds a BA (Hons) from the University of Sydney, a MA (Hons) from the University of Melbourne and a Diploma in Archives Administration from the University of New South Wales. She is a Senior Lecturer at Monash University, Melbourne, and has been active as a trainer and recordkeeping professional.

Federal Police Association

  • Trade union
  • 1933 - 1982

The ACT Police Officers' Association (1933-1979) and subsequently the Federal Police Association (1979-1982) represented the industrial interests of the ACT police until 1982. In August 1982 the Commonwealth Police Officers' Association and Federal Police Association officially merged, and the Industrial Registrar gave the CPOA consent to alter its name to the Australian Federal Police Association (AFPA).

Australian Wheatgrowers' Federation

  • Industry association
  • 1930 - 1979

The Australian Wheatgrowers' Federation was registered federally in 1930 and operated until 1979 when it amalgamated with Australian Vegetable Growers' Association, the Australian Wool and Meat Producers' Federation, the Australian National Cattlemen's Council, the Cattlemen's Union of Australia, the Australian Seed Producers' Federation, the Australian Woolgrowers' and Graziers' Council, and the Australian Farmers' Federation. The amalgamation formed a new peak body, the National Farmers Federation.

Australian Wool and Meat Producers' Federation

  • Industry association
  • 1939 - 1979

The Australian Wool and Meat Producers' Federation was officially formed on 13 April 1939 as a federally structured body to represent Australia's woolgrowers. It was originally called the Australian Wool Producers' Federation until June 1943 when it was changed to the AWMPF. It maintained the largest membership of federal woolgrowing organisations, consisting of small graziers and sheep farmers. Its two commodity interests, wool and sheep meat, were administered by separate sub-committees. The AWMPF was amalgamated into the National Farmers Federation in 1979.

Australian Wool Industry Conference

  • Industry association
  • 1962 - 1980

The Australian Wool Industry Conference was formed in 1962 as a result of meetings of the Australian Woolgrowers & Graziers Council with the Australian Wool & Meat Producers Federation. In 1966 the Australian Primary Producers Union's Wool Section joined the Conference. It worked closely with the Australian Wool Board, and its successors, the Australian Wool Commission and the Australian Wool Corporation, and the International Wool Secretariat. In 1980 the AWIC was amalgamated with the Wool Council of Australia.

Australasian Coal Miners' Association

  • Trade union
  • 1913 - 1916

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

Australasian Coal and Shale Employees' Federation

  • Trade union
  • 1916 - 1990

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

Australian Public Service Association (Fourth Division Officers)

  • Trade union
  • 1974 - 1986

The Australian Public Service Association (Fourth Division Officers) had its origins in the Federated Public Service Assistants' Association of Australia which was registered in 1914. The union became known as the Commonwealth Public Service Association (Fourth Division Officers) in 1967 and then eventually in 1974 became known as the Australian Public Service Association (Fourth Division Officers). By the end of 1986 the name was shortened to the Australian Public Service Association and in 1989 this union amalgamated with the Administrative & Clerical Officers' Association, Australian Government Employment and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation Staff Union to form the Australian Public Sector and Broadcasting Union.

Australian Public Service Association

  • Trade union
  • 1986 - 1989

The Australian Public Service Association (Fourth Division Officers) had its origins in the Federated Public Service Assistants' Association of Australia which was registered in 1914. The union became known as the Commonwealth Public Service Association (Fourth Division Officers) in 1967 and then eventually in 1974 became known as the Australian Public Service Association (Fourth Division Officers). By the end of 1986 the name was shortened to the Australian Public Service Association. In 1989, the union amalgamated with the Administrative & Clerical Officers' Association, Australian Government Employment and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation Staff Union to form the Australian Public Sector and Broadcasting Union. This was reregistered in 1991 following a further amalgamation with the Meat Inspectors' Association. By the end of 1992 the union had amalgamated twice more, firstly with the Professional Officers' Association and then the Professional Radio & Electronics Institute of Australasia to eventually form the Public Sector Professional Technical Communications Aviation & Broadcasting Union. A year later this union had merged with the CSIRO Staff Association to form the Public Sector Professional Scientific Research Technical Communications Aviation & Broadcasting Union which, in 1994, evolved into the Community and Public Sector Union [CPSU].

Australian Broadcasting Corporation Staff Union

  • Trade union
  • 1938 - 1989

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

Operative Masons' Society of South Australia

  • Trade union
  • 1914 - 1918

The union was formed in 1914 by masons in the Bricklayers' Society who felt that their interests would be better served by a society of their own. In 1918 it became the South Australian branch of the Operative Stonemasons' Society of Australia. Although the Operative Stonemasons' Society of Australia was not deregistered until 1991, the South Australian branch had by 1962 amalgamated with the Federated Miscellaneous Workers' Union.

Amalgamated Society of Carpenters and Joiners of Australia

  • Trade union
  • 1850 - 1945, 1950 - 1992

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

Operative Painters' and Decorators' Union of Australia

  • Trade union
  • 1915 - 1993

The Federated House and Ship Painters, Paperhangers and Decorators Employees' Association of Australasia became the Operative Painters and Decorators of Australasia in 1915. In 1918 it changed its name to the Operative Painters' and Decorators' Union of Australia. Seventy-five years later, the union amalgamated to form the Construction Forestry Mining and Energy Union in 1993.

Australian Bank Employees' Union

  • Trade union
  • 1978 - 1991

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

Bank Officials' Association

  • Trade union
  • 1919 - 1978

E.C. Peverill from the National Bank of Australasia in Victoria was instrumental in establishing the Bank Officials' Association in 1919. The union also covered Tasmania, South Australia and Western Australia. In Sydney the United Bank Officers' Association was formed in the same year. 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 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 and in 1930 the Commonwealth Bank Branch of the UBOA became a separate association, the Commonwealth Bank Officers' Association. The Bank Officials' Association in Victoria was renamed the Australian Bank Officials' Association in 1938. In 1954 it again proposed amalgamation at an interstate conference, and the UBOA again refused. The turning point came in 1958 when the NSW Industrial Court handed down a new award. Amalgamation talks began at an interstate conference in April 1960. In June 1963 Western Australia became a member followed shortly by South Australia. It was not until 1966 that the UBOA of New South Wales joined the Australian Bank Officials' Association as a Division to complete the amalgamation. The ABOA changed its name to the Australian Bank Employees' Union in 1978.

United Operative Bricklayers' Trade Society of New South Wales

  • Trade union
  • c. 1856 - 1943

The Society existed from at least 1856 and had branches in Sydney, Newtown, Newcastle, Lithgow, North Sydney, Goulburn, Granville, Burwood and Canberra (from 1924 coinciding with the construction of Parliament House). It was part of the Federated Bricklayers' Association of Australia and its members joined the Building Workers' Industrial Union when it formed in 1945.

Australian Insurance Staffs' Federation

  • Trade union
  • 1920 - 1976

Federally registered in 1920 as the Australian Insurance Staffs' Federation, this union has had a strongly active tradition in the white collar sphere. Boosted in membership by the deregistration of the New South Wales Insurance Officers' Association in 1948, the Australian Insurance Staffs' Federation changed its name in 1976 to the Australian Insurance Employees' Union. It amalgamated with other unions in the finance industry in 1991 to form the Finance Sector Union of Australia, which was reregistered in 1994 following the amalgamation with the Commonwealth Bank Officers' Association.

Australian Council of Salaried and Professional Associations

  • Peak council
  • 1956 - 1979

The Australian Council of Salaried and Professional Associations was formed on 17 October 1956 by an amalgamation of the Salaried Employees' Consultative Council of New South Wales and the Council of White Collar Associations, Melbourne. With divisions in Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia and Western Australia, the Association merged into the Australian Council of Trade Unions in 1979.

Slaters, Tilers, Shinglers and Roof Fixers Union of Australia

  • Trade union
  • 1928-1976

The Slaters, Tiles and Shinglers Union of Australia was registered in 1928. It changed its name to include roof fixers in 1944. It formally amalgamated with the Building Workers' Industrial Union in 1976, though the Victorian Branch had already done so in 1964.

Boilermakers' and Blacksmiths' Assistants' Society of South Australia

  • Trade union
  • c. 1908 - 1914

The Boilermakers and Blacksmiths Assistants' Society of South Australia existed from at least 1908. It amalgamated with the Cast Iron, Pipe Moulders' and Ironworkers' Society of Adelaide in 1914 as the South Australian Branch of the Federated Ironworkers' Association.

Clerk of Works Institute of Australia

  • Professional association
  • 1958 - 1984

The Clerk of Works Institute of Australia was formed in 1958 and incorporated in September 1959. The Institute was formed for professional support of Clerks of Works employed to supervise and inspect major building projects as the representative of the building owner, working directly to the architect. Members of the Institute were also representatives on advisory committees for Building Foreman and Clerk of Works courses at technical colleges. The institute had over 300 members in 1970 and chapters in New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia, Queensland, Western Australia and the Australian Capital Territory. It was deregistered on 20 December 1984.

Hotel, Club, Restaurant and Caterers' Employees' Union of New South Wales

  • Trade union
  • 1911 - 1970

The union was formed in 1911 and became the Hotel, Club, Restaurant, Caterers, Tea Rooms and Boarding House Employees' Union of New South Wales in 1940. It was deregistered in 1970, with the Federated Liquor and Allied Industries Employees' Union of Australia gaining coverage of its members.

South Australian Liquor Trades Employees' Union

  • Trade union
  • 1907 - 1910, 1920 - 1924

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

Australian Primary Producers' Union

  • Industry association
  • 1944 - 1969

The Australian Primary Producers' Union was formed in 1944 with divisions in each State and worked towards unifying with the National Farmers' Union of Australia to form the Australian Farmers' Federation in 1969.

Federation of College Academics

  • Peak council
  • 1968 - c. 1993

The Federation was formed in 1968 of staff associations of Colleges of Advanced Education. From 1979 it was known as the Federation of College Academics and then from 1986 as the Federated Council of Academics. In February 1987 the Union of Australian College Academics was registered as a trade union but it appears that the Federated Council of Academics continued as a separate entity as it published a journal 'in association with the Union of College Academics' until 1993. In 1993 the Union of College Academics amalgamated with other unions to form the National Tertiary Education Industry Union.

Federated Confectioners' Association of Australia

  • Trade union
  • 1925 - 1992

The Federated Confectioners' Association of Australia was registered with the Australian Industrial Relations Commission in 1925. The NSW Branch of the Federated Confectioners’ Association of Australia was represented by the New South Wales Journeymen Confectioners’ Union. In 1945 the membership expanded to include members of the Female Confectioners' Union (1916). It changed its name to the Confectionery Workers’ Union of Australia in 1986 and in 1992 merged with the Food Preservers Union of Australia to form the Confectionery Workers and Food Preservers Union of Australia.

Health and Research Employees' Association of Australia

  • Trade union
  • 1969 - 1991

The Health and Research Association of Australia (HAREA) was registered in 1969 and united unions which had previously functioned only at state level. In 1969 the Australian National University General Staff Association transferred its industrial functions to HAREA which established a Federal Sub-Branch at the Australian National University. HAREA already had coverage of general staff at the University of Sydney, Macquarie University and the University of New England. Two other Federal Sub-Branches of HAREA were formed at the Canberra College of Advanced Education and the University of Tasmania. An autonomous Branch of HAREA was formed in the Australian Capital Territory on 1 October 1988. The ANU and CCAE Sub-Branches became sub-Branches of the ACT Branch. In January 1991 HAREA amalgamated with the Hospital Employees' Federation of Australia to form the Health Services Union of Australia. Following formation of the Health Services Union of Australia, the ACT Branch of HAREA became the Health Services Union of Australia, ACT No.2 Higher Education Branch. The Sub-Branches at the ANU and the University of Canberra continued to operate under the auspices of the ACT No.2 Branch.

Australian Woolgrowers' and Graziers' Council

  • Industry association
  • 1960 - 1979

The Australian Woolgrowers' and Graziers' Council was formed in July 1960 following a merger between the Australian Woolgrowers' Council and the Graziers' Federal Council of Australia (which had previously been the Pastoralists' Federal Council of Australia). In 1979 the Australian Woolgrowers' and Graziers' Council merged with the Australian Wool and Meat Producers' Federation, the Australian Wheatgrowers' Federation, the Australian National Cattlemen's Council, the Cattlemen's Union of Australia, the Australian Seed Producers' Federation, the Australian Vegetable Growers' Association and the Australian Farmers' Federation to form the National Farmers' Federation.

Australian Woolgrowers' Council

  • Industry association
  • 1919 - 1960

Formed in 1919 and registered under the Federal Arbitration and Conciliation Act, the Australian Woolgrowers' Council operated until it merged with the Graziers' Federal Council of Australia to form the Australian Woolgrowers' and Graziers' Council in 1960.

Industrial Relations Society of Australia

  • Association
  • 1965 -

The Industrial Relations Society of Australia, now called the Australian Labour and Employment Relations Association, was originally formed in May 1965. It is the parent body of industrial relations societies in all States and Territories of Australia. The association seeks to organise and foster discussion, research, education and publication within the field of industrial relations, and administers the Journal of Industrial Relations.

Steel Treatment Research Society (Australia)

  • Professional association
  • 1931 - 1941

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

Metal Trades Employers' Association

  • Industry association
  • 1873 - 1970

The Metal Trades Employers' Association dates its history to the formation of the Iron Trades Employers' Association in Sydney in December 1873, after a general strike in the iron trades over the 8-hour day. In 1901 the Association registered under the New South Wales Industrial Arbitration Act and in 1921 changed its name to the Metals Trades Employers' Association. In April 1970 it merged with the Metal Industries Association (Victoria) to form the Metal Trades Industry Association of Australia.

Geelong Trades Hall Council

  • Peak council
  • 1909 -

The Geelong Trades Hall Council consisted of delegates from unions based in Geelong. Its predecessor was the Geelong Eight Hours Anniversary Committee.

Ballarat Trades and Labor Council

  • Peak council
  • 1882 -

The Ballarat Trades and Labor Council was first formed in May 1882 as the Eight Hours Anniversary Committee. In June 1883 it was known as the Trades' Hall and Literary Institute and then in November 1886 was known as the Ballarat Trades and Labor Council. The seventh Inter-colonial Trades and Labor Congress of Australasia was held in Ballarat in April 1891.

Musicians' Union of Australia

  • Trade union
  • 1911 -

The Musicians' Union of Australia was registered with the Commonwealth Conciliation Court on 13 March 1911. The union was composed of State Districts, some of which were divided into local branches. Although Western Australia was represented at some very early Federal meetings it did not formally join the union until March 1962. From August 1961 to 1975 the union was re-named the Professional Musicians' Union of Australia. It reverted back to the Musicians' Union of Australia in 1975. Prior to 1911 there were several unions which led up to forming the Musicians' Union of Australia. The Professional Orchestral Benefit Association was founded in 1897 before changing its name to the Professional Musicians' Benefit Association of Australasia on 10 April 1899 before a further change on 8 July 1901 to the Professional Musicians' Association of Australasia (PMAA). In August 1902 the PMAA and the Professional Orchestral Musicians' Union of Australia formed the Amalgamated Musicians' Union of Australasia (which appointed an executive to meet once a year to settle disputed matters, make rules, levy fines, etc.), although the PMAA continued as a separate body. On 9 September 1907 the PMAA was dissolved and all assets were handed over to the Professional Musicians' Club and an agreed sum was given to the newly-formed Professional Musicians' Union of Australasia on 8 April 1907. The Professional Musicians' Club had been registered as an Association with limited liability under section 52 of the Companies Act (1899) on 11 June 1907. At some time between 1907 and 1912 the word "Professional" was dropped from the title of the Professional Musicians' Union of Australasia. Both the name Musicians' Union of Australasia and the final form, Musicians' Union of Australia are found in records till about 1916 at which point the Musicians' Union of Australia becomes the form used.

The Musicians’ Union of Australia represents musicians, musical librarians, copyists, composers, vocalists and musical arrangers. The supreme governing body of the Union was the Federal Council, which met every year at the Annual Conference. The Federal Executive met regularly to implement policy as determined by Council. The union had branches in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Adelaide, Perth, Hobart, Newcastle and Broken Hill, which were administered by a Branch Committee. The Federal and Branch Secretaries were elected for a four-year term by the rank and file.

The following is a list of Awards, Determinations and agreements that the union was concerned with:

● The General Musicians Award (from which State awards flow)
● AHA Agreements
● ABC Determinations
● Opera & Ballet Award
● Commercial Television Award
● Jingles Agreement
● ARIA Agreement

The MUA is affiliated with the ACTU, the ALP in Victoria, NSW and WA and the Federation of International Musicians.

Melbourne Trades Hall Council

  • Peak council
  • 1856 -

The Melbourne Trades Hall Committee grew from the historic winning of the eight-hour day by the Melbourne building trades in 1856. In that year the Melbourne Trades Hall Committee was formed to receive a grant of land on which the world's first Trades Hall, or 'Workers' Parliament', was built in 1859. Initially the Trades Hall's industrial role was limited, but a resurgence of industrial activity in the 1880s resulted in it collecting evidence for the Shops and Factories Royal Commission and taking control of major strikes. In 1884 the Committee became a Council to better reflect this expanding industrial role. The title Victorian Trades Hall Council was eventually adopted in 1970.

Seamen’s Union of Australia

  • Trade union
  • 1872 - 1993

The first seamen’s unions in Australia were formed in Melbourne (1872) and in Sydney (1874). In 1876 the Melbourne Seamen’s Union and the Sydney Seamen’s Union amalgamated and, by 1880, there were seamen’s unions in all the eastern and south-eastern colonies of Australia as well as in several ports in New Zealand. The Federated Seamen's Union of Australasia was registered in 1906 under the Commonwealth's industrial relations legislation and, in 1907, Head Office was transferred from Melbourne to Sydney. Although the Federated Seamen's Union of Australasia was deregistered in 1925, in 1930 many of its members went on to form the Seamen's Union of Australasia which, in 1943, became the Seamen’s Union of Australia. Despite amalgamations with the Marine Cooks, Bakers and Butchers' Association of Australia in 1983, the Federated Marine Stewards and Pantrymen’s Association of Australasia in 1988 and the Professional Divers' Association in 1991, it remained the Seamen's Union of Australia until 1993 when it amalgamated with the Waterside Workers' Federation to form the Maritime Union of Australia.

Australian Journalists' Association

  • Trade union
  • 1911 - 1991

The Australian Journalists' Association (AJA) was formed in Melbourne on 10 December 1910 and registered under the Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Act on 23 May 1911. The New South Wales Branch (then District) of the Union was formed on 25 August 1911, having taken over the assets and liabilities of the New South Wales Institute of Journalists which had been formed a few years prior in 1907 as a statewide association of press reporters. In 1913 the AJA NSW District was registered under the Trades Union Act of NSW, later adopting the title of NSW Journalists' Union for the purposes of state arbitration.

On 11 May 1913 The Writers' and Artists' Union amalgamated with the NSW District. An Authors' Section of the NSW District was established in August 1921 to protect the interests of Australian authors and in particular to act against the importation into Australia of syndicated literary material. The Section lapsed in 1926 and was reconstructed in 1935 as the Authors' and Artists' Section. The AJA NSW District Ethics Committee was formed on 7 July 1942 to prepare and administer a Code of Ethics which was adopted in August 1942. The Code bound all members of the NSW District to standards of professional conduct and the Ethics Committee continued its operations through the 1960s and 1970s as the Judiciary Committee.

The AJA NSW Benevolent Fund was established by the NSW Institute of Journalists, handed over to the AJA NSW District in 1911 and later received substantial support from J. F. Archibald, founding editor of The Bulletin. The fund operates to provide the financial assistance to journalists and their families affected by unemployment, sickness, incapacity or death. Since its establishment the AJA New South Wales Branch has sought to obtain award coverage of its members employed in newspapers, government departments, law courts and other organisations. In 1979 its members included journalists (including those employed in broadcasting and television), authors, shorthand writers, Hansard reporters, public relations officers, photographers and press artists.

The Australian Journalists Association is a federal union governed by a Federal Council meeting annually and consisting of an elected executive and two delegates (branch secretary and branch president) from each branch. Until 1968 Federal Executive Officers were elected by Federal Council after nominations by branch committees. Federal Executive Offices after 1969 were elected by a ballot of AJA membership. The AJA Federal Office was located in Melbourne from 1911-1932 and moved to Sydney in 1933. AJA Branch Committee members and Branch Officers were elected by Branch membership and served annual terms with the exception of the Branch secretary who since 1943 has served triennial terms. This union served its members until 1991 when it amalgamated with the Australian Commercial & Industrial Artists' Association to form a new reregistered Australian Journalists' Association. Between 1992 and 1993 the AJA amalgamated with the Australian Theatrical and Amusement Employees' Association and the Actors' Equity of Australia to form the Media Entertainment and Arts Alliance in 1993.

Tasmanian Trades and Labor Council

  • Peak council
  • 1883 -

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

Florey Memorial Fund Committee

  • University unit
  • 1968 - 1970

The Committee was formed to raise funds in memory of Lord Florey (1898-1968), winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1945, and a key figure in the development of Australian National University, particularly the John Curtin School of Medical Research.

Birch, Arthur John

  • Person
  • 1915 - 1995

Professor Arthur John Birch was born on 3 August 1915 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Birch held fellowships at the University of Oxford (1938-48) and Cambridge (1948-52), then Professor of Organic Chemistry at the University of Sydney (1952-55) and Manchester University (1955-67). He joined the Australian National University as founding Dean of the Research School of Chemistry 1967-1970 and 1973-1976; Foundation Professor of Organic Chemistry, ANU 1967-1970. From the late 1980s until his death on 8 December 1995, Professor Birch devoted much energy to researching and recording the history of the Research School of Chemistry.

Sawer, Geoffrey

  • Person
  • 1910 - 1996

Geoffrey Sawer was born at Maymo, Myanmar (then Burma) on 21 December 1910. He was educated at Scotch College and the University of Melbourne and was admitted as a solicitor in 1934 and a barrister in 1938. Sawer lectured in Law at the University of Melbourne. He was appointed Dean of the Research School of Social Sciences at the Australian National University in 1949. In January 1950 he was appointed Professor of Law, Research School of Social Sciences and held this position to 1974. Sawer died on 8 August 1996.

ANU University Information

  • University unit
  • 1982 - 1987

University Information functioned as a public relations unit whose roles included publishing the ANU Reporter, and arranging tours of the campus, appointments and briefings for visitors. From 1982 to 1987, inquiries relating to matters of a general nature concerning the University were directed to University Information. In 1987 it was replaced by University Public Relations.

ANU Public Affairs Division

  • University unit
  • 1993 - 2002

The Public Relations Division was established in 1993 when the former University Public Relations section was combined with the Official Publications Unit, the Drill Hall Gallery, the ANU Art Collection and Graduate Affairs. Mr J Mahoney, Head, Public Affairs Division, edited the journal University Public Relations established during 1993.

Owen, Thomas Miles

  • Person
  • 1905 - 2005

Thomas Miles Owen completed his degree in commerce from the University of Melbourne and began lecturing in accounting at Canberra University College in March 1939. Owen was Registrar of Canberra University College from 27 March 1939 to 1960 when the college amalgamated with the Australian National University. On 9 March 1962 Owen was appointed Associate Registrar, School of General Studies at the ANU. He was also secretary for the Building and Grounds Committee. He retired in January 1968. He was a Fellow of the Australian Society of Accountants. Owen died in Canberra on 22 March 2005.

Matriculation Committee

  • University unit
  • 1960 - 1970

The Matriculation Committee was referred to in early meetings as the Matriculation Board of the Board of Studies. Members of the committee, which considered entry requirements and qualifications into undergraduate degrees, included the Vice-Chancellor, Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Deputy Chairman of the Board of the School of General Studies, one member from each faculty nominated by the Dean and one member from the Institute of Advanced Studies. From meetings after 22 September 1970 the Committee was referred to as the Admissions Committee.

Lewis, Milton James

  • Person

Milton James Lewis worked as a tutor and research scholar at the School of History, Australian National University. In 1972 he completed a Master of Arts thesis on the origins and early history the Australian National University . In 1977 he was awarded a PhD in history at ANU for his research into infant and maternal health in Sydney from 1870-1939. He was a Senior Research Fellow in the School of Public Health, University of Sydney, 1989 to 2006 and since 2006 has held the position of Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the Menzies Centre for Health Policy, University of Sydney.

Australian National University

  • Educational institution
  • 1946 -

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

ANU History Project

  • University unit
  • 1990 - 1996

The ANU History Project refers to the 50th anniversary history of the Australian National University. It began in 1990 when the University initiated an oral history project as part of the research for the fiftieth-anniversary publication, The making of the Australian National University 1946-1996, written by Stephen Glynn Foster and Margaret M Varghese and published by Allen & Unwin in 1996.

ANU Undergraduate Awards Committee

  • University unit
  • 1975 - c. 1998

The Board of the School of General Studies established the Undergraduate Awards Committee in October 1975 after it approved that the Undergraduate Scholarships Committee and the Prizes Committee be combined to form one committee for awards. The Undergraduate Awards Committee considered a range of prizes such as the University Medal. The committee reported to the Board of the School of General Studies, and then the Board of The Faculties until 1998.

National Civic Council

  • Non Government Organisation
  • 1957 -

Catholic, anti-communist group which emerged from The Movement, which itself developed between 1937 and 1943. Closely associated with B A Santamaria.

Amalgamated Foodstuffs Union of Queensland

  • Trade union
  • c. 1915 - c. 1967

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

Needs research to confirm dates and history.

Workers' Educational Association of Australia

  • Educational institution
  • 1913 -

A not-for-profit adult education organisation originally founded in England in 1903 to provide ongoing education for working people. It began in Sydney in 1913 as a joint undertaking by the trade union movement and the University of Sydney and continues to offer a broad range of adult education programs.

Public Service Association of New South Wales

  • Trade union
  • 1899 -

The first attempt to form a Public Service Association of New South Wales (PSA) was made in April 1886 by Arthur Josling and P.H. Somerville. Their actions may have been prompted by similar moves in Victoria and by growing concerns of political patronage within the service. The Provisional Committee set up to establish the organisation stated that the Association would not have a political character nor would it be a trade union. Thirteen years passed before the union was established in 1899.

The Association's first Chairman was Mr. Cornelius Delohery with Mr. W.A. Thomson elected Secretary. In November 1890 Mr. John Osbourne was appointed as the first permanent Secretary and the first Council was elected to conduct the business of the PSA. In October of the same year, the first country branch was formed at Moree. Others quickly followed in Armidale, Goulburn, Hay, Newcastle, Forbes and Orange.

In 1915, it was decided by a vote of 670 to 538 to register as a trade union under the Industrial Arbitration and Trade Union Acts. The proposal fired spirited debate but, nevertheless, registered as a Trade Union under the Trade Union Act and an Industrial Union under the Industrial Arbitration Act. Four internal divisions were established - Clerical, General, Professional and Education. By 1920, a vocational structure was emerging - the division and representation of members by the jobs they did - and the PSA's first awards were lodged.

In 1922, new legislation again excluded the PSA from the arbitration system. In an attempt to correct this situation the PSA waged a major political campaign between 1925 and 1930 to regain access to the system. The Lang Labor Government eventually amended the legislation. Four sections then emerged - Clerical, General, Professional and Government Agencies - plus a Women's Auxiliary.

Federated Rubber and Allied Workers' Union of Australia

  • Trade union
  • 1933 - 1988

Federated and registered in 1911 as the Rubber Workers' Union of Australia, this union immediately recognised the growing importance of motor transport within the Australian economy, particularly in terms of how it would affect the rubber industry. By 1916 the union had changed names to the Federated Rubber Workers of Australia. In 1923 its name changed again, this time to the Federated Rubber Workers' Union of Australia. Ten years later, in 1933, it became the Federated Rubber & Allied Workers' Union of Australia. In common with textile and clothing unions, the Rubber and Allied Worker's Union sought to deal with the problem of high labour turnover and with improving the position of migrant labour in Australian industry. After amalgamating with the Storemen and Packers' Union in 1988 to form the National Union of Storeworkers Packers Rubber & Allied Workers, it eventually became part of the National Union of Workers in 1991.

Safety Engineering Society of Australia

  • Professional association
  • c. 1948 -

Professional association for the health and safety profession.

The Safety Engineering Society of Australia was formed by a small group of students who enrolled in and attended the first industrial Safety and Accident Prevention course conducted by the (then) Melbourne Technical College in 1948. This group remained together and formed the nucleus of the Safety Engineering Society of Australia and held regular monthly meetings.

Became the Safety Institute of Australia in 1977. Became the Australian Institute of Health and Safety in 2018.

Motor Traders Association of New South Wales

  • Industry association
  • 1935 -

Founded in 1910 but registered federally in 1935, the Motor Traders' Association of New South Wales [MTA] represents owners and business principals in the automotive industry throughout NSW. With over 6000 members and affiliates, the MTA is one of the largest state-based industry associations in Australia. The MTA is also a founder member of the Motor Trades Association of Australia - the federal body which draws together MTA's sister organisations in other states and territories to represent the industry at Federal Government level.

Victorian Council of School Organisations

  • Non Government Organisation
  • 1964 -

Formed in 1964 by a merger of the State Schools Committees and Councils Association of Victoria and the Victorian Secondary Schools Advisory Councils Association.

According to its website, 'the Victorian Council of School Organisations Inc (VICCSO) is an independent organisation comprising affiliated school councils. VICCSO supports and promotes great practices in school governance and school-family-community partnerships as powerful ways to improve learning outcomes and life opportunities for all students. It also advocates for resources and support for public education.'

Queensland Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Commission

  • Commonwealth department
  • 1961 - 1990

The Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act of 1961 commenced from 2 May 1961. The Industrial Court and Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Commission were constituted under the Act. This legislation separated the roles previously preformed by a single Tribunal, the Industrial Court of Queensland, which was established under the Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act of 1929.

The Commission’s functions were essentially related to conciliating and arbitrating industrial matters, with the Industrial Court becoming an appellate Tribunal.
The Full Bench of the Commission, among other things, made declarations as to the cost of living, the standard of living, the basic wage, and standard hours of work. It made general rulings relating to any industrial matter after having given notice of its intention and in so doing gave all interested persons and opportunity to be heard. The Commission, in addition to declaring rates of pay, specified conditions of employment under each of its awards, including overtime rates; proportion of female workers to male workers, young workers to adult workers, apprentices and improvers to journeymen; hours of work as well as fixed hours of trading for shops.

Hope, Geoffrey Scotford

  • Person
  • 27 May 1944 - 2021

Geoffrey Hope was an environmental historian. His research interests included vegetation history and the historical biogeography of Australian, Asian and Pacific biota. He held a BSc (Hons), a MSc and a DSc from Melbourne University, and a PhD from ANU. He was an Emeritus Professor in the Department of Archaeology and Natural History and a Visiting Fellow in the Fenner School of Environment and Society.

Geoffrey Hope has been based at Australian National University since 1978, lecturing in Geography before moving to a research position in RSPAS (now College of Asia Pacific) in 1990. As an environmental historian he works with a mix of methodologies and related fields of study including archaeology, biogeography, palaeontology, soil sciences and geoscience. His research interests include the impact of people on landscapes, including the impact of erosion, surface processes and silting, climate change and fire on human habitation. He is also interested in the roles of climate change and fire on human responses and adaptability. This work aims to contribute practical help for control of greenhouse emissions and solutions to problems of land management and biodiversity conservation.

Hamilton, Kirsty

  • Person
  • c1950 - 2011

Kirsty Hamilton was a radio, television and on-line journalist. She was born in Melbourne in approximately 1950 and died in 2011. She earned degrees from Monash University in Melbourne and Columbia University in New York.

Jupp, James

  • Person
  • 23 August 1932 - 11 April 2022

James Jupp was born in Croydon, England in 1932. He studied at the London School of Economics 1951-1956, and the University of London where he earned his PhD in 1975. He was General Editor of the Bicentennial Encyclopaedia of the Australian People 1984-1988 and of the second edition in 2001. Jupp was a member of the Advisory Council on Multicultural Affairs and chairman of the Review of Migrant and Multicultural Programs and Services (ROMAMPAS), which presented its report Don't Settle for Less, to the Minister for Immigration in August 1986. He was formerly chairman of the ACT Multicultural Advisory Council and of the ACT Reference Group of the Bureau of Immigration, Multicultural and Population Research. Jupp was Director of the Centre for Immigration and Multicultural Studies in the Research School of Social Sciences at the Australian National University 1988 - 2012 and an Adjunct Professor of the RMIT University in Melbourne. He was awarded the Order of Australia in 2004.

Reay, Marie Olive

  • Person
  • 1 Jul 1922 - 16 Sep 2004

Marie Olive Reay was born in Maitland, New South Wales and began her career in anthropology at Sydney University, where she studied for an MA and undertook fieldwork in Indigenous communities in western New South Wales (Walgett, Bourke, Moree, Coonabarabran and others) in the 1940s. She later extended her fieldwork with Indigenous communities to Borroloola in the Northern Territory. From 1953, as a doctoral student supervised by WE Stanner in the Department of Anthropology and Sociology in the Research School of Pacific Studies at Australian National University, she began field research in the Wahgi Valley in the Western Highlands of Papua New Guinea, with the Kuma. Reay's PhD thesis was published as The Kuma: Freedom and Conformity in the New Guinea Highlands in 1959, the same year she was appointed to a research fellowship in the Department of Anthropology, ANU. Working at ANU for the next 30 years and retiring in 1988, Reay died in Booragul, New South Wales on 16 September 2004.

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