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The ANU Sport and Recreation Association (ANUSRA) has been central to campus life since c. 1954, evolving from the establishment of the ANU Cricket Club in 1952 and early sporting facilities to the construction of the David Cocking Sport & Recreation Centre in 1972. ANUSRA manages a variety of sports teams in addition to the Interhall Sport Shield.

The first meeting of Australian university librarians was held in 1928, with the Committee of Australian University Librarians formed in 1965.
In 1992 the Council of Australian University Librarians (CAUL) was established as an unincorporated association and in 1995 the CAUL Office was established at the Australian National University, with Diane Costello as the inaugural Executive Officer.
In 2016 CAUL joined other academic and research library organisations to form the International Alliance of Research Library Associations (IARLA).
In 2017 members voted unanimously in support of the resolution that CAUL become an incorporated association, and in 2018 a review and drafting of a new constitution began, with the new constitution approved in February 2019.
In 2021 CAUL decoupled from the ANU and established its own presence in Canberra as a direct employer.
In 2025 the Council became the Council of Australasian University Librarians with University librarians from Aotearoa New Zealand university libraries officially becoming CAUL Members (rather than Associate Members).

Unions ACT is the peak body for trade unions in the Australian Capital Territory. It was formed on 16 April 1931 as the Trades and Labour Council of the Federal Capital Territory, changing its name to the Trades and Labour Council of the ACT in 1938, and then Unions ACT in 2002.
It comprises 23 affiliate trade unions and represents over 33,000 members.

Walter Niel Gunson, known Niel Gunson, was a pioneering historian of the Pacific who completed his PHD at the Australian National University in Professor Jim Davidson’s Department of Pacific History, 1955-1958. He was born and raised in Gippsland, Victoria. He was a Fellow in the Department of Pacific and Asian History, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, 1962-1993, and held a visiting fellowship after retiring in 1993.

Gunson is recognised for his ethnographic research in the history of Protestant missions to the Pacific Islands and Polynesia in the 19th century. His later research focused on genealogy and kinship studies in the Pacific. His other interests included European, Australian Indigenous and local history. He owned a large library and archive collection which he shared with others.

Gunson mentored at least 20 PHD scholars. The Journal of Pacific History created the Gunson Prize in 2012 for scholars researching Pacific history. He was a foundational member of The Journal of Pacific History, and in 1975 helped establish the journal Aboriginal History. He worked for the Pacific Manuscripts Bureau. He established the first Tongan history workshop at the ANU in 1987 which resulted in the formation of the Tongan History Association (currently the Tonga Research Association) in 1989.

Margaret Anne Jolly AM FASSA, an Emeritus Professor in the College of Asia and The Pacific at the Australian National University (ANU), was born in Sydney on 12 April 1949. She is an historical anthropologist recognised as a world expert on gender in Oceania and has written extensively on gender in the Pacific, exploratory voyages and travel writing, missions and contemporary Christianity, maternity and sexuality, cinema and art.
Jolly worked as a Tutor and Senior Tutor in Anthropology at Macquarie University, while completing her doctoral studies. After completing her PhD, she was appointed Lecturer at Macquarie University (1980-1986). In 1983 she took up an appointment as Visiting Fellow on a Project on Gender Relations in the South West Pacific, Anthropology, in the Research School of Pacific Studies at the Australian National University (ANU). Jolly was promoted to Senior Lecturer in 1987. She was seconded to the Anthropology, Comparative Austronesian Project, Research School of Pacific Studies, at the ANU as a Visiting Fellow (1989-1991) and then returned to Macquarie University for a year, before taking up another secondment at the ANU where she was appointed a Visiting Fellow and Convenor, Gender Relations Project, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies (1992-1995). She was subsequently appointed to a permanent position as a Senior Fellow and Head, Gender Relations Centre, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, ANU (1995-2009). In 1999 Jolly was promoted to Professor in Gender and Cultural Studies/Pacific Studies, School of Culture, History and Language, College of Asia and the Pacific, ANU. She was awarded an Australian Research Council Laureate Fellowship for her project Engendering persons, transforming things: Christianities, Commodities and Individualism in Oceania (2010-2015) in 2009.
In addition to her roles at the Australian National University and Macquarie University, Jolly has held a number of prestigious academic roles including Head of the Gender Relations Centre (1992-2009); Burns Distinguished Visiting Chair, History, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa (1998); Visiting Professor, University of California, Santa Cruz (2002); Visiting Professor, Centre National de Recherche Scientifique and École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, France (2009).
Jolly is a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia, and in 2020 she was made a Member of the Order of Australia for "significant service to education, particularly to gender and Pacific studies".

Francis Barrymore (Barry) Smith completed a BA and a MA at the University of Melbourne and in 1959 was awarded a British Council scholarship to complete a PhD at Trinity College, Cambridge University. On his return to Australia in 1962 he took up a lectureship in history at the University of Melbourne. He joined the Department of History, Research School of Social Sciences at the Australian National University as Senior Fellow in August 1966 and was promoted to Professorial Fellow in 1975. He became Professor of History in 1992. After retiring in 1997, he continued as an Emeritus Professor and Visiting Fellow until 2013. Smith wrote extensively on Australian and British social and medical history. He supervised and mentored many students and was a key figure in the network of historians.

The Builders’ Exchange of New South Wales (NSW) was an early twentieth‑century association and meeting place for building contractors and allied trades in NSW, functioning both as an industry club and as a practical hub for work, information, and advocacy.
The Builders’ Exchange emerged in Sydney in the early 1900s as a formal association of builders and contractors, at a time when the construction industry was becoming more organised and specialised.
Its core purposes included coordinating tendering and contract information, providing rooms for meetings and professional networking, and representing members’ interests on issues such as employment and building conditions. During periods of economic difficulty, the Exchange introduced systems such as registration for unemployed members, designed to match them with available work and to assist both employers and workers.
The Builders’ Exchange operated alongside broader master builders’ organisations that had existed in NSW from the late nineteenth century, such as the Builders & Contractors Association of NSW founded in 1873, which later evolved into regional Master Builders Associations.
Over time, many of the functions of the Builders’ Exchange were absorbed or paralleled by the growing Master Builders Association of NSW and its regional branches.

Timothy Macnaught was amongst the first graduates of Macquarie University and completed his doctorate, on which this monograph is based, at ANU in 1975. After teaching history at the University of Hawaii for five years, he returned to Australia to serve in senior positions in church secondary schools in Victoria. In 1997 he joined the Office of National Assessments (ONA) in Canberra as senior analyst for the Oceania Branch to prepare classified reports for the Prime Minister and senior ministers. He retired from ONA in 2015. His book The Fijian colonial experience: a study of the neotraditional order under British colonial rule prior to World War II was published by ANU Press in 1982.

William 'Bill' Standish was a both a frequent observer on politics and a leading political scientist of Papua New Guinea for over 45 years, His focus was Chimbu Province, where he had married and built his own house (in Mindima, near Kundiawa), and where his death in 2019 was marked by traditional mourning gathering known as a ‘haus krai.’

He worked as a lecturer in Comparative Government at the University of Papua New Guinea in 1971-1974, and continued his research based in PNG to 1977. He was awarded his PhD - supervised by John Ballard - at the Australian National University in 1991, on “Simbu Paths to Power: Political Change and Cultural Conformity in the Papua New Guinea Highlands.” In subsequent years he alternated between positions in PNG and Australia, working for LaTrobe, the Parliamentary Library, and ANU, where he remained in various capacities until 2014. Along the way, he worked with AusAID and as an Elections Analyst, both in Papua New Guinea, as well as alongside documentary filmmaker Thom Cookes in 2002-3. He also served as a parliamentary researcher, providing parliamentary reports on Melanesian politics, governance in PNG and the rising role of violence in its elections.

Wilfred Shawcross was one of the first archaeology lecturers in the Department of Prehistory and Anthropology at the Australian National University (ANU), joining the department in 1973. He held various teaching and research positions at the ANU between 1973 and 1993.
Wilfred conducted extensive research in Australia and New Zealand, including significant archaeological excavations at Lake Mungo in the Willandra Lakes region of New South Wales, Australia between 1974 and 1980, focusing on Pleistocene human remains.

Leonard (Len) graduated from Carey Grammar School in Melbourne in 1930 and after relocating to Adelaide in 1932 he gained a position with the flour milling group Bunge (Aust.), beginning a 48 year career in the wheat industry.
Between 1934-38 he worked intermittently in Port Lincoln in wheat exports before joining the newly established Australian Wheat Board (AWB) in November 1939. In 1942 he was transferred to Melbourne as Assistant Manager of the Victorian Office and later as State Superintendent. Leonard was exempt from war service as the supply and marketing of wheat was a protected occupation.
While with the AWB Leonard held the positions of Secretary of the Head Office in Melbourne (1945), Assistant General Manager (1949) and General Manager (1963). He made 65 overseas trips to 57 countries.
In 1968 Leonard was awarded the Order of the British Empire for Service to the Wheat Industry.
When Leonard retired in 1977 he was the last of the AWB's original staff.
In November 1941 Leonard married Verona (Rona) Chesterfield in Adelaide and they had one daughter Helen. Leonard and Rona travelled extensively after his retirement until Rona's death in 1998. Leonard died on 21 April 2013.

John Scarborough was a notable architect who started his career with Scarborough, Robertson and Love in Melbourne. The registered partnership John F.D. Scarborough and Partners was incorporated in 1965. Following the death of John Scarborough in 1971 the firm was purchased by the remaining directors and now operates as Scarborough Architects, a trading name registered in 2000.

John F. D. Scarborough and Partners designed a range of commercial and private buildings including several church buildings for the Presbyterian church in the 1940s. They moved into design of academic libraries with the first commissioned university library at the University of Melbourne, the Baillieu library. This was followed by designs for Monash University and the Australian National University’s R.G. Menzies building.

Michael was Professor of Anthropology at the University of Sydney. Born in Ireland, he has a BA from Dublin University and in 1964 was awarded his PhD at the Australian National University for his work on social structures in Vanuatu. His primary research interests were in the anthropology of religion, gender, and ethnography of Vanuatu, India and Ireland.