Noel Butlin was born in Sydney on 21 December 1921. In 1942 he graduated from the University of Sydney with first class honours and the University Medal. From 1946-1949 he lectured in Economics, University of Sydney and in 1950-1951 was a Rockefeller Fellow at Harvard University. In 1951 he accepted a Senior Research Fellow, Department of Economics, Research School of Social Sciences at the Australian National University (ANU) and in 1954 held the position of Reader in Economics at ANU. Butlin became Professor of Economic History at ANU in 1962 and in the mid 1970s was Director of the Botany Bay Project, Research School of Social Sciences at ANU. Noel Butlin died on 2 April 1991, aged 69. The Noel Butlin Archives Centre (formerly the ANU Archives of Business and Labour) is named in his honour.

Charles S Jefferies had an interest in the history and practice of taxation in Australia and the Co-operative movement.

Anne Pickering was active in the Australian East Timor Association (ACT) and other similar organisations.

Enid Bishop was born in Melbourne and moved to Canberra with her family in 1944. While working at the National Library in 1956 she began studies in Chinese and Japanese at the Canberra University College and in 1958 was appointed Assistant Librarian of the Oriental Studies Collection at the College. She completed her Bachelor of Arts in 1960 and then her professional library qualifications through the Library Association of Australia and a Masters from Columbia University in 1962. She was appointed Senior Librarian of the ANU Oriental Collection in 1966, the CUC Library having merged with the ANU Library in 1960. In 1969 she undertook a study trip to New Zealand, the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, India, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia visiting Asian Studies collections. She also visited China then various Asian Studies collections in Europe in 1973. She was active in the Asian Studies Association of Australia, the International Association of Orientalist Librarians and the Southeast Asian Research Materials Group. She retired in 1984 as Head of the Asian Studies Division of the ANU Library.

Jack Edwards worked for the British Phosphate Company (BPC). Edwards, his wife, Joan, and their family spent some years in Banaba (Ocean Island) in the 1960s and 1970s before migrating to Australia.

Quentin Boyce Gibson was born on 31 August 1913, into a family of Australian philosophers, including his father WR Boyce Gibson, and his brother Alexander (Sandy) Gibson, who both held the position of Professor of Philosophy at the University of Melbourne. He first lectured at Canberra University College in 1934; read Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Oxford 1935-36; lectured at the University of Western Australia 1937; returned to Canberra University College 1945, the first full-time appointment in Philosophy. In 1948 he took leave from CUC to accept a two-year appointment by the newly established Australian National University as a Research Fellow. Upon his return to CUC in 1950, his position was reclassified as a Senior Lectureship, and in 1959 he was promoted to Associate Professor. His position as Associate Professor in Philosophy was transferred to the School of General Studies, Faculty of Arts at the ANU in 1960. He retired in 1978. The Quentin Gibson Prize was established to be awarded annually to the top student with first-class honours in Philosophy. Gibson died on 24 November 2001.

Joan Edwards, wife of Jack Edwards, lived on Banaba (Ocean Island) from the 1960s to 1970s. The Edwards family worked for the British Phosphate Company (BPC).

Lillian Hardman worked for the British Phosphate Commission (BPC). Hardman donated photographs of Banaba (Ocean Island) showing views of the island and of phosphate mines produced by the BPC.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

Jane Barder is an English historian and author of Old Canberra House and the British High Commission published in Canberra in 1993. At the time she was the wife of Sir Brian Leonard Barder (b. 1934), British High Commissioner to Australia in Canberra, 1991-1994.

Barker was a company director with interests in gold, silver and copper mining in Australia, New Guinea and South East Asia.

Frederick (Fred) Barker was born in Williamstown, Victoria, in 1925. He completed a BSc degree majoring in Physics followed by a MSc in Theoretical Physics at the University of Melbourne. He then followed with a PhD in Mathematical Physics at the University of Birmingham. On 1 October 1949 Barker was appointed a Research Fellowship in Theoretical Physics in the Research School of Physical Sciences at the Australian National University. In October 1951 Barker arrived in Canberra and took up the first appointment in Theoretical Physics. He became a Fellow in the Department of Theoretical Physics on 1 November 1955. In 1960 Barker left for study leave for one year at MIT. Barker formally retired in 1990 but continued to work as a Visiting Fellow at the ANU Research School of Physics and Engineering until his hospitalisation in March 2009.

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).

Les Barnes was involved with the Communist Party of Australia particularly in Brunswick, Victoria from 1920s to 1940s. He was a member of the Brunsick Community History Group and published articles and books on the history of Brunsick.

Peter Erne Baume was born on 30 January 1935 in Sydney, New South Wales. He began his career in medicine as a scholar, physician, lecturer and consultant from 1955-1980. He was a New South Wales Senator from 1974-1991 and left politics for an academic career in 1991. He was Professor of Community Medicine, University of New South Wales, 1991-2000; Chancellor of the Australian National University (ANU), 1994-2006. He received an Honorary Doctorate from ANU in 2004.

Hon Justice Annabelle Bennett commenced as Pro-Chancellor of the Australian National University (ANU) in November 1998 and was in this role for 13 years until retiring in July 2011. She was a member of the university’s Council since 1996 and in her time as Pro-Chancellor she has served on a wide range of committees. Justice Bennett received an Honorary Doctorate from ANU in July 2011.

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.

William Bergin was a British immigrant active in the Australian labour movement. Bergin was an office bearer and active member of the Victorian Plasterers' Society and was appointed to the Plasterers' Wages Board. Bergin was president of the Society in 1920 and in 1929.

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.

Ellis Russell Boardman held the position of University Bursar, 1980 – 1983, at the Australian National University.

Boardman is the author of a dictionary, Wool Terms: Their Meanings Explained, published by Sydney Technical College. He studied at The Kings School, Parramatta from about 1924-28. He later went to Yanco Agricultural High School from 1935-1940, and lectured in sheep and wool technology at Sydney Technical College around 1972-79.

Henry Ernest Boote, Labor propagandist, journalist and writer, was born on 20 May 1865 at Liverpool, England. In 1889 Boote migrated to Australia, finding work as a compositor in Brisbane. In 1894 Boote was sent to Bundaberg by the Australian Labour Federation to edit the Bundaberg Guardian. In 1896 he was a founder and editor for the Gympie Truth. In 1902 he became editor in Brisbane of the Worker. His regular articles under the pseudonym 'Touchstone' led to the publication of his first book of essays, A Fool's Talk (Sydney, 1915). In 1911 Boote moved to Sydney as leader and feature writer on the Australian Worker, the official organ of the Australian Workers' Union; he was editor in 1914-43. In 1926-42 he was a trustee of the Public Library of New South Wales and also served as a member of the Mitchell Library committee. Boote retired in 1943 and died on 14 August 1949.

Eric (Jock) Bosher was involved in the labour movement.

Tom Brislan attended Catholic Schools and was involved in a wide range of occupations and unions, both urban and rural, in Queensland and New South Wales. In the 1940s he was prominent in the Australian Communist Party, from which he withdrew after being dropped from the Central Committee in 1951. Brislan was Secretary of the Balmain Branch of the Federated Ironworkers' Union in 1943. From 1940s-1951 he was on the Central Committee, Communisty Party of Australia. He was working on his autobiography, A Maverick among Marxists, before he died in 1973.

Dr Brian Brogan was born in Melbourne in 1934 and completed a Melbourne University Honours degree in Commerce before joining the Economics Department of Monash University where he was a lecturer and senior lecturer until he took leave to come to Canberra. He worked for the then Prime Minister Gough Whitlam’s staff where he was senior economic advisor. Brogan was then appointed to the Chair in Economics at the University of Papua New Guinea and Dean of the Faculty. He returned to Canberra in 1987 and became Director of the Asia Program at the Australian National University’s National Centre for Development Studies and became Founding Director of the Graduate Studies in Development Administration. He was a Visiting Fellow at the then National Graduate School of Management from 1994 and ANU College of Business and Economics. Dr Brogan died on 2 March 2008.

Horace Plessay (Horrie) Brown was born on 7 December 1916 in Melbourne. Brown was educated at Caulfield Grammar School (dux 1933) and at Trinity College, University of Melbourne, graduating with first-class honours in his economics subjects (BA, 1938). In 1938 Brown spent a term as an economics lecturer at the University of Western Australia before returning to Melbourne in October to take a post with the Commonwealth Grants Commission in October 1938. On 27 March 1941 he joined the Research Section, Bureau of Census and Statistics, Department of the Treasury in Canberra. Brown was Secretary of the Commonwealth Committee on Uniform Taxation and was on the Advisory Committee on Financial and Economic Policy. Brown assisted with the introduction of 'pay-as-you-earn' income taxation, and was largely responsible for drawing up the pioneering national income and expenditure papers of 1944-45 to 1948-49. In 1947 he was promoted to Director of Research, and later accepted a Readership in Economic Statistics at the Research School of Social Sciences, ANU. In 1952 he was elected to the International Statistical Institute, and acted as expert witness for the ACTU in the basic wage case of 1952-53, and again in the 1970 national wage case. Brown died in Canberra on 30 January 1971.

Ken Buckley was born in Hackney, London in 1922. He went to school in Kent, and was studying economics when co-opted into British intelligence during World War II. After the war he graduated with first-class honours in economics from Queen Mary College, University of London. He became Lecturer at Aberdeen University and was appointed to the University of Sydney in 1953 where he worked as an academic until retiring in 1988.
At Sydney University he joined with economics colleague Ted Wheelwright in founding the university staff association which has become the National Tertiary Education Union. In September 1963 Buckley was co-founder NSW Council for Civil Liberties and in 1976 Inaugural President, Australian Council for Civil Liberties. From 1981-86 he worked on the history of Burns Philp & Co Ltd. He was awarded a Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) in 2000. Ken Buckley died on 16 July 2006.

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.

Professor Herbert (Joe) Burton was born on 29 November 1900 at Chuwar, Queensland. After a BA from the University of Queensland in 1922, Burton was a Rhodes scholar, Queen’s College, Oxford (BA, 1925; MA, 1929), and gained first-class honours in modern history. In 1930 he was appointed senior lecturer in economic history at the University of Melbourne and promoted to associate-professor in 1946; then head of the department of economic history 1944-1948. In November 1948 Burton was appointed Principal and Professor of Economic History at the Canberra University College. Burton’s leadership facilitated the amalgamation of the CUC and the Australian National University in 1960 and he was appointed Principal of the new School of General Studies, ANU. Burton died on 24 July 1983 at Southport, Queensland.

Syd Butlin was born in Sydney on 20 October 1910. He completed a Bachelor of Economics, University of Sydney (1932) and a Bachelor of Arts, Cambridge University (1934). In 1934 he worked as a Research Officer, Government Statistician's Office, Sydney and became Assistant Lecturer, Department of Economics at the University of Sydney in 1935. He completed a Master of Arts, Cambridge University (1939) and was Lecturer, Department of Economics and then Professor of Economics at the University of Sydney. From 1941-1943 he was the Director, Economic Division of the Commonwealth Department of War Organisation, Melbourne. Butlin was Dean, Faculty of Economics, University of Sydney from 1946-1955; a member of the senate (1963-67); chairman of the appointments board (1954-55, 1958-61) and of the Social Science Research Council of Australia (1958-62); president of the Economic Society of Australia and New Zealand (1953-54); a member of the Round Table group, and a founder and deputy chairman (1962-77) of Sydney University Press. From 1971-1976 Butlin was Professor of Economic History (personal chair), Research School of Social Sciences at the Australian National University. He died in Sydney on 14 December 1977.

Gerald Caiden was born in London, and is a graduate of the London School of Economics and Political Science (1954-1959), obtaining the degrees of BSc (Econ) in 1957 and PhD in 1959 awarded by the University of London. He completed post-doctoral studies in Ottawa, Canada, as a Canada Council Fellow (1959-1960). From 1961-66 Dr Caiden was a research fellow at the Department of Political Science, Research School of Social Sciences at the Australian National University (Public Administration). During this time he wrote "Career Service" and "ACPTA: a study of white collar Public Service Unionism in the Commonwealth of Australia." In 1988 he was a visiting Professor at ANU and from 1994-2004 was a United Nations Expert in Public Administration and Finance.

Clyde Cameron was born in Murray Bridge, South Australia on 11 February 1914. From 1927 he worked as a Shearer. He joined the Australian Labor Party in 1929. Cameron was an organiser for the Australian Workers' Union in SA in 1938 and became the union's state secretary (1941-49). He was also President, SA Branch of the ALP (1946-48). He was elected to federal Parliament as the member for Hindmarsh in 1949, and spent 23 years in Opposition before becoming a minister in the first Whitlam government in 1972. He was Minister for Labour (1972-74); Minister for Labour and Immigration (1974-75); Minister for Science and Consumer Affairs (1974-75). In 1975 he was a Delegate at the UN General Assembly. Cameron was awarded an Officer of the Order of Australia in 1982 and life membership of the ALP in 2006. Cameron died on 14 March 2008.

Born in 1891 at Thebarton, South Australia, Clarence "Clarrie" Campbell was 23 when he joined the Australian Imperial Force, and served in Gallipoli from 1914-1916. He returned to Australia in 1916 and campaigned against the Conscription movement. He became an Industrial Chemist and founded two companies, United Lubricants Pty Ltd and Australian Bitumen Company Ltd. He was active in the Australia-India Association and Australia-Indonesia Association. His involvement with the Indian Seamen's Club in Sydney engaged him in trade union activities as Treasurer and executive officer of the Indian Seamen's Union in Australia. Campbell was a member of the Communist Party of Australia and was NSW Endorsed Labor Candidate in 1940. From 1946-47, he was appointed Indonesian Trade Commissioner in Australia. A supporter of the Indonesian independence movement Campbell founded Asian Airlines with another activist and businessman, Kenneth Frederick Wong in 1947. When Wong died in 1948, Campbell moved permanently to Singapore where he died in 1972.

Colin Campbell co-founded and co-chaired the International Political Science Association Research Committee on the Structure and Organization of Government from 1984 to 1989; and was co-founder of the journal, Governance: an International Journal of Policy and Administration. In 1988, Professor Campbell was a Visiting Fellow at the Research School of Social Sciences at the Australian National University. He conducted interviews with senior public servants in the 1980s for the book he co-wrote with Professor John Halligan, Political Leadership in an Age of Constraint: Bureaucratic Politics under Hawke and Keating (Allen and Unwin, 1992).

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

John Carver was born in Sydney in 1926. He received a BSc in 1947 and an MSc in 1948 from the University of Sydney. Carver then went to England (1949 to 1953) to study for his PhD at the Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge. From 1953 to 1961 he was a research fellow, fellow and then senior fellow at the then Research School of Physical Sciences at the ANU. In 1961 Professor Carver was appointed elder professor and head of the department of physics at the University of Adelaide, a position he held until 1978. Professor Carver returned to the ANU as professor of physics and director of the Research School of Physical Sciences in 1978, a position from which he retired in 1992. Upon his retirement he was appointed emeritus professor and served the ANU as deputy vice-chancellor and director of the Institute of Advanced Studies from 1993 to 1994.

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William Alfred Clint, Anglican clergyman and founder of the Co-operative for Aborigines Ltd, was born on 8 January 1906 in Wellington, New Zealand. Clint moved to Sydney in 1910 and was educated at Balmain Public School, Rozelle Junior Technical School and St John's Anglican College, Morpeth. In 1929, Clint was made deacon and joined the Brotherhood of the Good Shepherd. He agreed to enter the ministry on the condition that he could retain his trade union and Labor Party affiliations, and remained a member of the ALP and the AWU throughout his life. On 18 December 1932 Clint was ordained priest; he became rector at Weston, Diocese of Newcastle 1935-41; then Portland, NSW 1941-48; he became a co-operative adviser, Gona, Papua New Guinea in 1948; and priest warden in 1949. After a short time in the Bathurst diocese, Clint was appointed director of co-operatives, Australian Board of Missions, in 1953. He was a founder of co-operatives at Lockhart River Mission, North Queensland (1954), Moa Island, Torres Strait (1956), and Cabbage Tree Island, New South Wales (1959). At Glebe, Sydney, in 1958 he founded Tranby Co-operative College, a centre for training Aborigines to run their own co-operatives. In 1962, Clint was a founder and General Secretary, Co-operative for Aborigines Ltd. He died on 21 April 1980 in Glebe, Sydney.

Sir Timothy Augustine Coghlan, government statistician and public servant, was born on 9 June 1855 in Sydney. He was educated at Cleveland Street Public School and Sydney Grammar school from 1867-69. In 1870 he worked at Edward Flood's wool-broking office and worked as a teacher at Fort Street Public School until December 1972. In April 1873 Coghlan became a cadet of the harbours and rivers navigation branch of the Department of Public Works where he was promoted to assistant engineer in 1884. In 1886 Coghlan sought the patronage of (Sir) George Dibbs to obtain the new position of government statistician. In July 1886 he produced the "New South Wales Statistical Register for 1885" and a new companion "Handbook to the Statistical Register." In December 1887, he produced a new yearbook "Wealth and Progress of New South Wales." In 1893 Coghlan became a fellow of the Royal Statistical Society, London. He became one of the first members of the Public Service Board in January 1896. In 1892-1905 he was registrar of Friendly Societies, and in 1900-05 chairman of the Central Board for Old-Age Pensions; he was involved in several inquiries, including royal commissions into the management of the Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board (1897), on the decline of the birth rate and on the mortality of infants (1903) and on electoral districts (1904). Coghlan was awarded the Imperial Service Order in 1903. From 1905-1912, 1916- 1917 and later 1920-26 he was acting NSW Agent-General in London. During his time in London, Coghlan produced another publication, "Labour and Industry in Australia" (1918). He was knighted in 1914 and raised to Knight Commander of St Michael and St George (KCMG) in 1918. Coghlan died in London on 30 April 1926.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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).

Peter Dobrijevic worked as a media analyst and director for a number of stockbroking companies including BZW Australia Limited, ABN AMRO Australia Limited, BNP Equities Australia Limited and Salomon Smith Barney, later Citigroup Global Markets Australia, from the early 1990s to the end of 2005. In January 2011 he became Head of Listed Securities at Centric Wealth Limited.

J C (James Cairns) Docherty, an Australian historian, was a MA student at the School of General Studies, Australian National University in 1973. He submitted his thesis "The Rise of Railway Unionism", and is author of "Historical Dictionary of Australia" (Sydney: Franklin Watts, 1993)

Norm Docker was born in 1923 in Sydney. He attended Maroubra Bay Public School and then Sydney Boys High. He originally worked as a NSW country organiser for a number of different Unions. He was also an active communist and a member of the Communist Party of Australia (Marxist). In April 1951 he was appointed Industrial and Research Officer for the Waterside Workers Federation. In 1968 he was appointed to the position of Acting General Secretary and in 1974 the title was changed to Assistant General Secretary. In May 1983 on retirement of C H Fitzgibbon, Docker was elected General Secretary of the Federation, a position he held until his resignation on 15 July 1984. Docker died from leukemia on 29 May 1991.

Dowling was born in London in 1923 and educated in Ballarat. in 1941 he enlisted in the RAAF, Flight Lieutenant, Bomber Pilot, 460 Squadron. On 21 September 1945 he was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross. He studied an arts degree at the University of Melbourne and from 1954 to 1970 he was a teacher at Ballarat High School. In 1955 he became a federal Labor candidate for Ballarat. In 1970 he left teaching to study as a social worker and worked in community services until his retirement in 1986.

Ethel Drus completed her MA in Cape Town, South Africa. She was a Research Fellow in the Department of Pacific History, Research School of Pacific Studies at the Australian National University 1953-1955. Her research focussed on Fiji and British colonial policy.

Dutruc-Moore, abstract artist, was born in Lancashire, England in 1909. He studied at Brighton Art School and became a member of the Melbourne Contemporary Art School. A former member of the Contemporary Art Society in Sydney, Dutruc-Moore exhibited in a number of the society's exhibitions. He then led a roving existence droving cattle, and settling at Narrabeen (Ingleside). He died in Cooktown, on 9 October 1999, aged 90 years.

Easson was born in Sydney on 22 March 1955. He matriculated at Sydney Technical High School in 1972, and graduated from the University of NSW in 1976. In 1978 he was Research Assistant to the Hon. John Brown MP, and from 1978 to 1984 he held the position of Education and Publicity Officer, Labor Council of NSW. In 1981 he completed a Trade Union Program at the Business School at Harvard University. He was a member for the NSW Council of the Trade Union Trading Authority (TUTA) from 1978-1987; and held the position of Assistant Secretary, Labor Council of NSW (1984-1989); and Secretary, Labor Council of NSW (1989-1994). He was also a member of the Economic Planning & Advisory Council (EPAC) from 1989-94. He held various directorships and advisory roles: Adjunct Professor, Graduate School of Management University of NSW; Advisor, Corrs Chambers Westgarth; Director, State Superannuation Investment and Management Corporation; Advisor, Hill and Knowlton; Director, NRMA Insurance; Director, Tourism Task Force. On 8 June 1998 Easson was awarded Member of the Order of Australia (AM).

Professor John Carew Eccles was born on 27 January 1903 in Melbourne, Victoria. He was awarded MBBS, University of Melbourne 1925; BA, Oxford University 1927; MA, DPhil, Oxford University 1929; and was Scholar at Oxford University 1932-1937 and in Electrophysiology, University of Sydney 1937-1944. Eccles was Professor in Physiology, University of Otago 1944-1951 before joining the Australian National University as founding Professor in the Department of Physiology, John Curtin School of Medical Research 1951-1966. In 1963 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine (with Alan L Hodgkin and Andrew F Huxley). After his role as Professor and Head of Physiology at ANU, Professor Eccles took up an appointment as Professor in Neurophysiology at the Institute of Biomedical Research 1966-1968 and as Professor in Neurobiology, State University of New York 1968-1997. Eccles died on 2 May 1997 in Contra, Switzerland.

Edwards joined the Amalgamated Engineering Union (AEU) as an apprentice around 1917 and was a full member in 1919.

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.

Sir Frederic William Eggleston was born on 17 October 1875 at Brunswick, Melbourne. He began his career as an articled clerk and then barrister. In 1911-20 Eggleston was a municipal councillor in Caulfield; including a year as mayor 1914-15. His political career included winning the seat of St Kilda in the Victorian election of 1920. He was a member of Council of the University of Melbourne from 6 January 1921 to 19 September 1927. In 1933 Eggleston was appointed first chairman of the Commonwealth Grants Commission, a position he held until 1941. In 1941 Eggleston was appointed first Australian minister to China. From 1946 to 1949 Eggleston was employed in a part-time capacity as an official adviser to the Department of External Affairs, and as lecturer to diplomatic cadets. Eggleston served as a member of the Interim Council of the Australian National University 1946-1951 and took a close interest in the planning, educational structure and personnel of the Research Schools of Social Sciences and Pacific Studies. He died on 12 November 1954 at Camberwell, Melbourne.

Arnold Hughes (Hugh) Ennor was born on 10 October 1912 at Gardenvale, Melbourne. Ennor started his career at the John Curtin School of Medical Research at the Australian National University as the School’s foundation chair in biochemistry on 15 August 1948. He went on to head the JCSMR as Dean of the School 1953-1967, and was also Deputy Vice-Chancellor of the ANU 1964-1967. He left the ANU to become the head of the new Department of Education and Science on 1 February 1967. In 1972 he became head of the Department of Science, until retiring in October 1977. He died in Canberra on 14 October 1977.

William Peter (Bill) Evans was born on 19 April 1899 in Kerang, Victoria. He was Assistant Secretary of the Victorian Branch of the Federated Engine Drivers and Firemens Association of Australasia (FEDFA) from 1931-1935. He was Victorian Branch Secretary of the Association from 1936 to 1942. He was elected Melbourne Trades Hall Council representative on the Workers Compensation Board of Victoria in 1943. In January 1947 he took up the position of General Secretary of FEDFA which he held until his retirement in 1964.

Professor Frank Fenner was born on 21 December 1914 in Ballarat, Victoria. His family moved to South Australia in 1916 and he studied Medicine at the University of Adelaide, being awarded Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery degrees in 1938 and a Doctor of Medicine in 1942, and a Diploma of Tropical Medicine from the University of Sydney in 1940. Between 1940 and 1946 he served as Captain and Major, Australian Army Medical Corps in Australia, Palestine, Egypt, New Guinea and Borneo. From 1946 to 1948 he was Francis Haley Research Fellow, Walter & Eliza Hall Institute for Medical Research, University of Melbourne. In 1949, he was appointed Professor of Microbiology at the John Curtin School of Medical Research at the Australian National University and was Director of the John Curtin School from 1967 to 1973. In 1973 he was appointed to set up the Centre for Resource and Environmental Studies at the ANU and held the position of Director until 1979. He was Chairman of the Global Commission for the Certification of Smallpox Eradication, World Health Organization from 1977 to 1980. He was a Fellow and Emeritus Professor working at the ANU well into his retirement.
Fenner was the recipient of many honours and awards particularly for his work on malaria control, the myxoma virus and smallpox eradication. He was a Foundation Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science (1954), Fellow of the Royal Society (1958), and Foreign Associate of the United States National Academy of Sciences (1977), and was awarded the Australia and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science Medal (1980), the World Health Organization Medal (1988), the Japan Prize (1988), the Copley Medal, Royal Society of London (1995), the Albert Einstein World Award for Science (2000), and the Prime Minister's Prize for Science (2002).
Apart from his many publications on medical virology and microbiology, Fenner wrote histories of the John Curtin School of Medical Research and the Centre for Resource and Environmental Studies. He died on 22 November 2010.

Brian Charles Fitzpatrick, journalist, historian, socialist and defender of civil liberties, was born on 17 November 1905 at Warrnambool, Victoria. He studied at the local state school in Moonee Ponds, and attended Essendon High School where he won a scholarship to the University of Melbourne( BA Hons, 1925). In 1925 he was a founder and chief of staff of Farrago, the student newspaper, and also a founder of the Melbourne University Labor Club. From July 1926 to 1927 Fitzpatrick worked in London as a journalist and later as a journalist on the Sydney Daily Telegraph (1928-1930) . In 1931-32 he was leader-writer and assistant-editor of the short-lived Sydney Labor daily, the World. He was appointed to the Herald as a feature writer in 1933 but left the Herald in 1935 in favour of historical research, commitment to political activism and defence of civil liberties. In reaction to alarming anti-democratic legislation, in 1935 Max Meldrum, (Sir) John Barry, (Sir) Eugene Gorman and others formed the Australian Council for Civil Liberties (ACCL), with Herbert Burton as president. Fitzpatrick drafted the constitution for the ACCL. In January 1937 ACCL published The Case against the Crimes Act, written by Barry, Gorman and Fitzpatrick, which was followed by a series of powerful booklets. From 1939, for twenty years, Fitzpatrick wrote the periodical leaflet, Civil Liberty. He joined the ALP in 1942 but he (along with Maurice Blackburn) were soon expelled from the party. Fitzpatrick worked for eighteen months in 1942-44 in the Rationing Commission and the Department of War Organization of Industry. He served on the Prime Minister's Morale Committee and advised H V Evatt on his referendum proposals of 1944. He worked as a freelance political writer for Smith's Weekly (1941-49) and had a weekly broadcast on radio 3XY, and wrote in various cultural journals. Fitzpatrick died on 3 September 1965 at Tamarama, Sydney.

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.

Gordon William (Bill) Ford studied at the University of Sydney (BA, DipEd) and the University of California at Los Angeles, MA (Economics). He was a lecturer in the Department of Industrial Relations, School of Economics, University of New South Wales. He wrote on trade unions and Australian industrial relations education; published and edited a number of books including Australian Labour Relations: Readings (as editor) and Australian Unions: An Industrial Relations Perspective (South Melbourne : Macmillan, 1983) which he edited with David Plowman. He collected material in the study of industrial relations in the aircraft/airline industry, in particular the Australian Licensed Aircraft Engineers' Association registration case (1959-1963) and the Qantas pilots' strike (1966).

Walter Frank Harcourt Freeman was born on the Bau Levu Estate, Rewa River, Fiji on 9 March 1900. He was the son of Isabella Freeman (born in Fiji where her father was an apothecary who joined CSR at the Nausori Mill in 1885) and Richard Freeman (who joined CSR as a laboratory clerk in 1884, moved to Fiji as a sugar chemist in 1889 and in 1900 took up the lease of the Bau Levu Estate where he grew sugar cane and managed the Estate for CSR until 1928). Walter Freeman was educated at Chatswood Preparatory School, Sydney and Sydney Church of England Grammar School. He began work with CSR on 1 March 1918 at the Nausori Mill, initially in agriculture on several estates before being promoted to Assistant Cane Inspector in 1921, where he oversaw the work of Indian cane growers and was responsible for the supply of cane to the mill by river. He was promoted to Cane Inspector in 1942 and in January 1948 became Field Superintendent at Sigatoka District, Lautoka Mill. He was later promoted to Field Supervisor, then Acting Manager of Lautoka Mill. In December 1955 he transferred to Nausori Mill, as Acting Manager then Manager. In September 1960 he retired to Sydney and was awarded the MBE. By 1985, Walter Freeman's eldest son and grandson were working at CSR.

Eric Fry was born on 21 August 1921 in Broken Hill, New South Wales. From 1938 to 1941 he worked in the Commonwealth Public Service and studied at the University of Sydney (B Econ). He was on military service from 1941-1946. Fry obtained an Honours Degree in Arts 1950; Diploma of Education 1951; and a PhD from the Australian National University 1956. Fry's first academic appointment was Lecturer in History at the University of Western Australia in 1956. He was Lecturer in History at the University of New England 1957-1959; Senior Lecturer in History at Canberra University College in 1959; Senior Lecturer in the new History Department, Faculty of Arts, Australian National University 1960- 1967; Reader in History 1967-1986; Dean of the Faculty of Arts 1973-1975. He is a founding member, along with Robin (Bob) Gollan, of the Australian Society for the Study of Labour History which was established in 1961. Fry was the society's first secretary and later President, 1984-1986. He died on 3 October 2007.

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.

Malcolm Gillies was born on 23 December 1954. He was appointed Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Education) at The Australian National University in 2001. Prior to this appointment he was Pro Vice-Chancellor at The University of Adelaide, and Dean of Music at The University of Queensland. After serving for five years as Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Education), Gillies became Vice-President (Development) of the ANU until June 2007.

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.

Allan Flinders Gow was born in Perth in 1915. He joined the Government Secretary's Office of the Mandated Territory in 1936 and in 1937 had postings in Rabaul, Kokopo and eventually the district office at Wau, Papua New Guinea. From 1940-1944 he was enlisted in the Australian Imperial Forces (AIF) and joined the 2/25 Infantry Battalion of the 7th Division. In 1944 Gow was transferred to the Australian New Guinea Administrative Unit (ANGAU) as a lieutenant serving as a Patrol Officer and Assistant District Officer in areas such as Goilala and West Papua. He was awarded a Military Cross in 1945 and in 1946 rejoined the civil administration of Papua New Guinea with major contributions in South-West Bougainville, Madang, the Rai Coast and Manus. In 1954 he was appointed District Officer and District Commissioner in Sohano and Buka Island, Bougainville; New Ireland. He was Chief Executive Officer of the Department of Native Affairs in Port Moresby and from 1960s held posts in Southern Highlands at Mendi and Eastern Highlands at Goroka. From 1960s-1972 he was posted to Manus District and retired in 1972. Gow died in 1997.

Jacob Jack (J J) Graneek was born in Liverpool, a son of Russian refugees. He completed his BA, Dip Ed from the University of Liverpool and MA University of Birmingham. Graneek was University Librarian at the Australian National University from 7 March 1961-1972. Prior to his appointment at the ANU, he was Librarian at Queen’s University Library, Belfast 1945-1960. Graneek was a Visiting Fellow of the Humanities Research Centre during March-September 1976 for his project on Jewish Proselytes and Apostates.

Francis Clifton Green was born on 26 June 1890 at Mole Creek, Tasmania. He joined the Crown Law Department in 1909 and two years later was appointed clerk-assistant in the House of Assembly. On 2 September 1915 Green enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force; resumed work at parliament in October 1919; and transferred to the Federal parliament on 1 April 1921 as clerk of papers. In 1937 he became Clerk of the House of Representatives, Commonwealth Parliament. He retired in June 1955 and returned to Hobart. Green died on 12 September 1974 at New Town, Hobart.

Jesse Gregson, company superintendent to the Australian Agricultural Company (AACo) was born in 1837 in Kent, England. In 1955 he migrated to Sydney and then worked for Dr Traill at Collaroy Station where he learnt stock management. In 1958 he was head overseer of Llangollen station near Cassilis. In May 1860 as Alexander Busby's partner, he overlanded 5000 ewes to a new station, Rainworth, near Springsure, QLD. Busby who had been elected to the board of the AACo recommended Gregson as superintendent of the company to replace Edward Merewether. Invited to England, Gregson was appointed to the position which he held from 1875 to1905. He applied himself to the care of the company's pastoral and mining properties, becoming a spokesperson of the colliery proprietors in dealings with the miners' union. In 1890-91 he served on the royal commission on strikes and was appointed to the royal commission which prepared the case for the Coal Mines Regulation Act 1896. Gregson died on 3 August 1919 at Katoomba.

Helen Groger-Wurm was born in Vienna, Austria on 21 February 1921. She gained a PhD in Anthropology and Linguistics from the University of Vienna 1946. She met Stephen Wurm at the Department of Anthropology in Vienna and they married in 1946. From June 1946 to June 1948 she worked for the Department of African Linguistics of Vienna University and compiled a textbook of the Dongolawi Nubian language. From June 1948 to January 1952 she worked as Departmental Assistant in the Department of Anthropology of Vienna University. Moving to London in September 1953 she took part in the postgraduate course in Social Anthropology at the London School of Economics until their move to Australia in 1954. During 1955 and 1956 Groger-Wurm undertook fieldwork to record many Indigenous Australian languages, particularly in New South Wales and Southern Queensland. In 1957 she was appointed the Curator of the Anthropological Section of the Institute of Anatomy in Canberra. In 1958 she accompanied Stephen Wurm on a nine-month survey of the Highlands of Australian New Guinea. Throughout the 1960s and 1970s she undertook further trips throughout northern Australia collecting artefacts. She subsequently catalogued these objects for the Institute of Anatomy. In 1973 Groger-Wurm published a significant study of the sacred art of Eastern Arnhem Land titled Australian Aboriginal Bark Paintings and their Mythological Interpretation: Volume 1, Eastern Arnhem Land. She died on 19 September 2005.

Murray Charles Groves was born on 24 August 1926 in Melbourne. Groves spent two years in Port Moresby, where he worked as a judge's assistant in the Supreme Court of Papua New Guinea and taught English classes in Hanuabada, in the Western Motu villages on Port Moresby Harbour. He returned to Melbourne in 1949 to complete a degree in History and Literature with first class honours. From 1950-1952 he taught in History at the University of Melbourne. In 1956 Groves completed his PhD thesis titled “The Motu and the modern world” from the University of Oxford. He then joined the Australian National University, where he was a research fellow in the Department of Pacific History 1956-1959. In 1959 he was appointed senior lecturer in Social Anthropology (becoming an associate professor in 1964) at the University of Auckland. From 1960 to 1965 he was editor of the Journal of the Polynesian Society. He left Auckland in 1965 to take up the foundation Chair of Sociology at the University of Singapore. From mid-1969 until his retirement in 1988, Groves was Chair of the Department of Sociology, University of Hong Kong. In mid-1992, he spent four months working on Motu research at the ANU and moved permanently to Canberra in 1994 as a Visiting Fellow in the Department of Anthropology, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies. He died on 5 May 2011 in Canberra.

John Alexander Gunn, station manager, vaccine inventor and politician, was born on 11 January 1860 in Buninyong, Victoria. He moved to New South Wales around 1878 and from 1880 was employed by Goldsbrough Mort and Company managing Yalgogrin and other stations. Gunn started investigations into the control of anthrax in sheep in 1880 after seeing a demonstration of inoculation against anthrax in sheep conducted by representatives of the Pasteur Institute, France. In 1895 Gunn collaborated with McGarvie Smith of Sydney on an anthrax vaccination, and formed a partnership in which Gunn's vaccine became McGarvie Smith and Gunn's anthrax vaccine. In 1897 he was moved to Borambola station as manager and in 1905 resigned from Goldsbrough Mort and moved to his own property Braehour near Wagga Wagga. Gunn was chairman of the Rabbit Destruction Fund committee; chairman of Narranderra Pastures Protection Board until 1897, afterwards of Wagga Wagga Board; chairman of the Pastures Protection Boards Advisory Council ( 1908-1910); a member of the Stockowners and Farmers and Settlers Associations; president of the Murrumbidgee Pastoral and Agricultural Society (1908). Gunn was a Councillor of Kyeamba Shire from 1906 to 1910 . In 21 July 1908 he was appointed to the NSW Legislative Council, serving his membership until his death on 21 September 1910.

Sir John Thomson Gunther was born on 2 October 1910 in Sydney. Gunther studied medicine at the University of Sydney (MB, 1935). From 1935-1938 he worked as a medical officer with Lever’s Pacific Plantations Ltd in the Solomon Islands and Papua New Guinea. On 30 June 1941 Gunther was commissioned as a flight lieutenant in the Royal Australian Air Force’s Medical Branch. He obtained diplomas of tropical medicine and public health from the University of Sydney and in December 1944 he took command of the Tropical Research Field Unit in New Guinea. In 1946 Gunther became Director of Public Health in the Territory of Papua New Guinea, and organised the medical services after the disastrous Mount Lamington eruption of 1951. In 1957 he was appointed to Assistant-Administrator in Papua and New Guinea. From 1964, he was senior government member in the new House of Assembly, and was a special representative at the United Nations in 1965. Gunther was a member of the Currie commission on higher education in Papua and New Guinea that led to the establishment of the University of Papua and New Guinea (UPNG). He was appointed foundation Vice-Chancellor of UPNG in 1966, retiring in 1972. He then became a Director of Bougainville Copper Pty Ltd. Gunther died on 27 April 1984 at West Heidelberg, Victoria.

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.

Jim Hagan was born at Bondi Junction on 23 October 1929 and educated at Bondi Public School and Sydney Boys' High. He graduated with an arts degree with honours at the University of Sydney (1949) and while studying a Diploma of Education founded the Trainee Teachers' Association. As a teacher he was active in the NSW Teachers' Federation. In 1956 he joined the Caringbah branch of the Australian Labor Party, later serving as vice-president of the Thirroul branch of the ALP. Hagan moved to Canberra in 1963 where he studied at the Australian National University for a PhD on printing unions. His research produced the book Printers and Politics(1966). From 1966 he lectured in history at Wollongong College and was active in the Wollongong University Staff Association. He became head of the department of history and eventually dean of arts, University of Wollongong. In 1976, he became chairman of the board of governors, Riverina College of Advanced Education, which was a precursor to the Riverina campus of Charles Sturt University. Hagan was an executive member of the Evatt Foundation between 1982-1997. From 1990 to June 2001 he was deputy chancellor of Charles Sturt University. Hagan died in November 2009.

Adrian Hahn, a student activist, was an editor in 1969 and 1973 of On Dit, the Adelaide University SRC magazine. He studied a Bachelor of Arts at the Australian National University.

Percy George Hannett, was an active member of the NSW Branch of the Electrical Trades Union until his retirement in 1962. In 1927 he was a Labor Party candidate for the district of Hornsby during the NSW elections. He travelled to Russia in June 1929 as a delegate of the Labor Council of NSW and the NSW Branch of the ALP. Hannett and other Australian delegates arrived in Vladivostok too late for the August conference of the Pan Pacific Trade Union Secretariat, but attended a plenary session of the Secretariat. Hannett attended a meeting of the Executive of the Red International of Labour Unions in Moscow on 11 September 1929.