The company was established by Charles L Griffith who arrived in Albury in 1878 and set up his firm of stock and station agents at Dean Street, Albury. Charles L Griffith & Co held live stock sales regularly in Albury, Wagga Wagga, Wodonga, Corowa, Tallangatta and Corryong. The company was purchased by Dalgety and Co Ltd and its Albury sub-branch was opened on 1 April 1908. Following the purchase of the company in 1908, two sons of Charles L Griffith, Charles H and L C Griffith worked in Dalgety and Co Ltd's Albury branch.

A Victorian law firm serving Colac and surrounding districts since 1864, and still operating in Colac.

Clarke & Company was a Melbourne stockbroking firm with gold-mining interests throughout Australia. The firm was formed by Alfred Clarke of William Clarke and Sons after this company was dissolved in May 1867. One of the oldest stockbroking firms in Melbourne, it became Clarke Vickers Limited on 25 November 1985.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

Elder Smith Goldsbrough Mort and Co Ltd was registered in Adelaide, South Australia, in April 1962. It was formed by the amalgamation of Elder Smith and Company Limited and Goldsbrough Mort and Company Limited. This company continued until December 1981 when it merged with Henry Jones (IXL) Limited. The name of the new company changed to Elders IXL on 4 February 1982

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.

The station was purchased by John Macnicol and Co in 1881 from Robert Smith & Co, who were clients of the Australian Agency and Banking Corporation. It is one of the larger stations connected with the firm Goldsbrough Mort and Company Limited, and its predeccesor R Goldsbrough and Co Ltd , until its sale in 1968. During the period 1922 - 1965, the Managers appointed by Goldsbrough Mort and Co Ltd were A M Doyle (1922); W B Gayfor (1922 - 1935); W S Burcher (1935 - 1952); R S Rostron (1952 - 1962) and C H W Holloway (1962 - 1965).

Evans Deakin and Company Limited was an engineering and shipbuilding firm registered in 1924 in Queensland. On 17 October 1960 it was acquired by Evans Deakin Industries Limited.

The company Evans Deakin Industries Ltd was formed in 1960 after it acquired all issued shares in Evans Deakin and Company Limited, an engineering and shipbuilding firm, registered in 1924 in Queensland. The company also acquired the Queensland Machinery Co Ltd (1961 -1962); Thirwell & McKenzie Ltd (1962 - 1963) and W A Hodkinson & Co (1962 - 1963). On 10 April 2001, the company was taken over by Downer Holdings Pty Ltd.

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.

Established in 1910, F J Walker Ltd processed and exported meats, and produced sheepskins and meat by-products. It was registered in Sydney on 29 October 1920, became a proprietary company on 27 May 1937 and converted to a public company on 16 April 1951. Its subsidiaries included the Sydney Meat Preserving Company Ltd which was acquired in 1919, Hunter River Meat Packing Co, Metropolitan Meat Co and Australian Natural Gut Manufacturing Co. In 1983 the company was taken over by Kimpton Minifie McLennan Limited (a subsidiary of Elders IXL).

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

The Farmers Grazcos Co-op Ltd was formed in 1981 after the Farmers & Graziers Co-op Ltd merged with Grazcos Co-op Ltd. In December 1984 the company merged with Dalgety and Bennetts Farmers as Dalgety Farmers Ltd.

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.

New Holland was an American based company founded in Pennsylvania specialising in manufacturing agricultural equipment. An Australian plant and marketing facilities were established in 1954 under the parent company Sperry New Holland. On 30 June 1955 the Sperry Corporation and Remington Rand Corporation consolidated to become the Sperry Rand Corporation and the company New Holland Australia was formed. The Australian manufacturing plant was expanded in 1982-3 with the building of the Cranbourne plant which manufactured fronts for combines, racks, round and square balers, grinder mixers (for stock food), slashes, bale elevators and carriers, and cabins for machines. In 1986 Ford Motor Company acquired Sperry New Holland which was merged with Ford Tractors to form the new company Ford New Holland. The Australian plant stopped manufacturing in 1990. In 1991 Fiat acquired Ford New Holland and merged it with the Fiat agricultural machinery division to form New Holland Geotech, known as New Holland from 1993. The company vacated the Cranbourne plant at the end of March 1993.

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).

In 1920, F B S Falkiner Snr purchased the property from George Osborne. His son, F B S Falkiner Jnr inherited the station in 1929 and the property is still owned by his descendents.

The company was incorporated on 16 June 1932 under the name Freehold and Leasehold Lands Limited with a registered office at 4 Bridge Street, Sydney. Shareholders were members of the Vickery family. It became a proprietary company on 1 March 1937. The company operated Willandra (1932-60), Glenrock (1932-60), Munderoo West (1932-38), Homeboin (1932-35), Borgara (1938-50), and Mitchell Downs (1932-35) Stations. Mitchell Downs was sold to Woorooma West Pastoral Co Pty Ltd in 1935. The New Zealand and Australian Land Co acquired the company in 1960.

The Directors of the Australian Mercantile Land & Finance (AML&F) Company Limited promoted the Freehold Trust Company of Australia in London in 1887 to lend money on mortgages of freehold land. The new company acted as a finance subsidiary of the AML&F Co Ltd with shares held by the British public. Its directors were the same as the AML&F Co Ltd. The Freehold Trust Company of Australia served to release part of the funds of the AML&F Co Ltd until this position became untenable when profits declined and in September 1898 the company was liquidated.

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.

Geo H Penney & Co Ltd floated in London in 1948 when New Zealand Loan & Mercantile Agency Co Ltd took up the majority shareholding. New Zealand Loan's export department was transferred to it in 1951. The company operated as exporters and traders in India, South Africa, USA, Australia and New Zealand. It was sold to Dalgety's in 1963.

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

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

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.

For the period 1913 to 1920, the station proprietor was George T Rogerson.

Godfrey Hirst migrated to Geelong from England in 1885 and worked for the Victorian Woollen and Cloth Company as a weaver until he set up his own business making flannel in 1888. Hirst, in partnership with Charles Shannon, a wool broker, and Charles Smith, purchased the Barwon Woollen Mill in 1890 which was renamed the Excelsior Number One mill. In 1899 the partnership purchased the Victorian Woollen and Cloth Company, which became Excelsior Number Two mill. Godfrey Hirst & Co Pty Ltd was incorporated in Victoria on 14 October 1909. In 1966, the company was taken over by McKendrick Bros (Canberra) Pty Ltd but still operates under its original name as a manufacturer of carpets.

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

Richard Goldsbrough formed a wool broking firm in Melbourne in 1848. In 1881 it merged with the Australian Agency and Banking Corporation Ltd to become R Goldsbrough and Company Limited. The purchase in 1888 of the Sydney firm Mort and Company Limited, established in 1843 by Thomas Mort, led to a change of name to Goldsbrough Mort and Company Limited. It kept this name until the merger with Elder Smith and Company Limited in 1962 which formed Elder Smith Goldsbrough Mort.

This firm of merchants and importers opened an office in Melbourne in 1889 and was incorporated in Melbourne, Victoria on 2 September 1901. It later opened an office in London in 1902. From 1902 the firm occupied the building at 561-563 Bourke Street, Melbourne. The principal owners and directors of the company were five members of the Gollin family. Gollin and Company had a diverse business, handling kerosene and oil distribution and shipment of fruit from Mildura to England. The company became a subsidiary of Holdings company, Gollin Holdings Limited, which was incorporated in Victoria on 30 August 1957. The company went into liquidation on 30 June 1976.

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.

The Grand United Order of Oddfellows (GUOOF), which was originally established in England in the late 1700s, began in Australia around 1844. The first Sydney lodge—Travellers' Home No 731—was operating in 1845 and by 1848 there were three additional lodges. In 1854, the Port Phillip District of Grand United separated from the New South Wales branch to establish Grand United in Victoria. In 1877, the Queensland lodges also separated and established their own management committee. Eventually the Queensland and NSW branches merged to form Grand United Friendly Society (NSW), and in 1986, Grand United (Vic) merged with Manchester Unity Independent Order of Oddfellows (Vic). In March 2005, the Grand United Friendly Society (NSW) merged with Australian Unity.

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.

The co-operative was registered in 1919 as the Graziers Co-op Shearing Company Limited. It changed its name in September 1948 to Grazcos Co-operative Ltd. In 1981 the co-operative merged with Farmers & Graziers Co-op Ltd to form Farmers Grazcos Co-op Ltd.

Graziers Limited was a pastoral company in Kingston, Australian Capital Territory.

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.

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

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.

The Griffith Co-operative Building Society Ltd was registered in July 1937 as a 'Co-operative Terminating Building Society'.

The Griffith Producers' Co-operative Company Ltd was begun in 1916 with 27 members. After 1920 it began selling members' produce and in 1923 registered as a Rural Co-operative Society.

The firm was established in 1879 by James Griffiths, who entered upon a partnership with his brother, John, in 1882. The company was registered in Victoria in 1898 as a proprietary company and re-registered in 29 October 1913. It became a public company on 2 December 1920 trading as Griffiths Brothers Ltd. Its main activities were the manufacture, distribution and sale of tea, coffee and cocoa.

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.

The company was established by brickmaker Francis Gulson in July 1913. It opened the brickworks in Goulburn on 2 February 1914. The company known originally as Gulson's Brick & Pottery Company Pty Ltd manufactured other clay products including tiles, stoneware pipes, fittings and terracotta wares.

The company was incorporated on 11 January 1947. Its registered office was at 4 Bridge Street, Sydney. Shareholders were members of the Vickery family and the associated family companies Freehold and Leasehold Lands Pty Ltd and Woorooma West Pastoral Co Pty Ltd. The company operated Gunbar station, south west of Hillston, New South Wales. It was purchased by the New Zealand and Australian Land Company in 1959. Gunbar station was then managed by the subsidiary Gunbar Pty Ltd.

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.

From 1889 Henry Saltau's son Marcus used the Warrnambool tramway offices as the base for his own produce and shipping business. With his associate James Jukes, Marcus Saltau incorporated his father's produce business and opened a Melbourne office. H Saltau & Sons were established in Melbourne as produce merchants around 1905. The firm chartered vessels to haul coal to Warrnambool and backload potatoes and general merchandise to Sydney and Newcastle, and an export trade in onions was set up with Canada and the United States of America. Marcus Saltau later became managing director of Saltau & Sons Pty Ltd from 1915 to 1945.

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.