In October 1913, Walter Burley Griffin was appointed Federal Capital Director of Design and Construction of Canberra for a period of three years, extended in 1916 for a further three years and in 1919 by quarterly periods. In 1921, a Federal Capital Advisory Committee recommended the termination of Walter Burley Griffin's services and the design and construction of the city was effectively transferred to the Department of Works.

The company was established in London in 1910, to promote the cultivation of tropical plantations (rubber, cotton, tobacco, sugar, coconut and cocoa) as well as carrying on financial and mercantile tradings. In May 1910, the company held its first statutory general meeting. One of the first properties acquired was the Itikinuma Estate at Sogeri, near Port Moresby. General Managers included Charles A Darling [1910], Lewis J Cowley [1912 - 1915], G A Loudon [1916 - 1920]. The company was registered in England July 17, 1922. It was last listed in Jobson's Year Book of Public Companies of Australia and New Zealand as of 1967.

The Canberra Publishing Co Ltd was registered on 21 July 1936 as a company to undertake the publication and distribution of a monthly periodical named 'The Australian National Review'. The company was wound up in 1944.

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

By 1889, Fort Bourke Station had been taken up by M P Fitzgerald & Co, whose members were Nicholas Fitzgerald, Edward Fitzgerald, Mathew O'Shanassy and Robert Prendergast. Nicholas Fitzgerald, who was a partner in Fort Bourke and other properties was a member of the Melbourne Board of Directors of Goldsbrough Mort and Company Ltd (1890 - 1896). In 1905 Samuel McCaughey bought it and then sold the station to Thomas Waddell in 1913. Fort Bourke Pastoral Company purchased the station in 1918. In 1922 the station was taken over by Arthur Bryant Triggs and in 1938 it was purchased by F S Falkiner & Sons Pty Ltd who later sold the property to K S Peken.

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

Nugget Pty Ltd was a branch of a private London Company, Nugget Polish Co, registered in 1920 to acquire another company of the same name, registered in 1900. The company which manufactured shoe polish was taken over by Reckitt & Colman Pty Limited in 1954.

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

The New Zealand and Australian Land Company Ltd dated its origins to the 1860s when small associations were formed in Scotland and England to acquire pastoral and agricultural lands in New Zealand and Australia. A number of these associates combined and were registered in Scotland as the Cantebury and Otago Association Ltd in 1865, while others amalgamated to form the 'old' New Zealand and Australian Land Company in 1866. In 1877 the two companies were amalgamated and the New Zealand and Australian Land Company Ltd was formed and registered in Scotland on 26 October 1877. The registered office was originally in Glasgow, later Edinburgh, and administrative offices operated in Dunedin and Sydney. At the time of registration, the major portion of the company's interests were in New Zealand. By 1910 nearly all their freehold and leasehold lands were sold to settlers or acquired by the New Zealand Government under a Closer Settlement scheme. In 1939 the only two properties remaining in New Zealand were Hakataramea and Mount Possession. Australian acquisitions increased from 1900 to 1914, when the stations in New Zealand and Australia carried over 1.6 million sheep and 100,000 cattle. However, from 1946 to 1948 the Crown resumed 310, 000 acres of freehold land for Soldier Settlement, reducing the company operation to less than half those of 1914. In 1968, the company was taken over by Dalgety and New Zealand Loan Ltd. The company's tax domicile was removed from Scotland to Australia. From 1970 its properties in Australia were operated as a subsidiary of Dalgety Australia Ltd, and those in New Zealand by Dalgety New Zealand Ltd.

Formed following the amalgamation of the Queensland Coal Association and the Queensland Chamber of Mines c. 1992. The Queensland Mining Council represented employees, employers and operators in the Queensland mining industry.

The Queensland Mining Council discontinued the provision of industrial relations services in 1998. This service was continued by the senior industrial relations advisor, Graham Gillespie, through the establishment of the consultancy firm Gillespie Consulting Services Pty Ltd.

The Queensland Mining Council became the Queensland Resources Council in Nov 2003, expanding its membership to also include explorers, mineral processors, contractors, oil and gas producers and electricity generators.

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.

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

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.

The United Furniture Trade Society of New South Wales was registered under the New South Wales Trade Union Act 1881 on 28 June 1886. The Society joined other state societies to form the Federated Furnishing Trade Societies of Australasia in 1909, though the NSW Society did not lodge an application for cancellation of its registration until 1916.

The Council of Small Business Organisations of Australia Limited (COSBOA) was established in 1979 and incorporated in the Australian Capital Territory on 10 October 1984. It is the Australian peak body representing the interests of small business.

The United Furniture Trade Society was based in Victoria and amalgamated with the United Furnishing Eight Hours League on 14 January 1884. It joined the federal body, the Federated Furnishing Trade Societies of Australasia, in September 1909 which was renamed the Federated Furnishing Trade Society of Australia in 1914.

The company was jointly formed in the United Kingdom in December 1948 by the Australian Agricultural Company (AACo) and the Peel River Land & Mineral Company Ltd. It took over all the issued capital of James McLeish Pty Ltd and properties at Coonamble, New South Wales: Sandycamp, Pillicawarrina and Narraway (1946-1953). The company subsequently purchased the Northern Territory Pastoral Co Pty Ltd (1948- ), Cooper River Pastoral Co Pty Ltd and South Galway property (1948- ), and Ivanhoe Grazing Co Ltd (1950-1960). After the control of the AACo was transferred to Australia in 1975, AA&P Joint Holdings Ltd became a wholly owned subsidiary of the AACo and was registered as an Australian proprietary company in 1976.

Sir Allen Arthur Taylor founded the firm of timber growers, merchants and sawmill proprietors in 1893. In February 1905 the firm was incorporated as a public company with Taylor as managing director. The company was taken over by Blue Metal Industries Limited from 22 April 1970. Boral acquired BMI in 1982 and Allen Taylor and Co. Limited became a subsidiary of Boral Timber.

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.

In 1888 Henry Burrows and Hampton Carroll Gleeson entered into partnership with Allt & Co, wine and spirit merchants, and the Surrey Brewery in Waterloo to form Allt’s Brewery & Wine & Spirit Co Ltd. The business then continued to operate as Allt's Brewing Co Limited. The brewing operations of the Surrey Brewery were closed and brewing was concentrated at the Waverley Brewery (which opened in 1874 as the Adelaide Brewery). With the onset of the depression of the 1890s the holding company Allt’s Brewery & Wine & Spirit Co Ltd went into liquidation in 1895, and Edmund Resch was brought in as manager. The company was purchased by Edmund Resch in 1897 when he formed Resch's Ltd.

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.

Small family company specialising in motel ownership and operation. Shareholders include James Ian West, Annette Faye West and Cara West. It was liquidated mid 1990.

The company was founded in London in 1915. It traded with East Africa, and was absorbed into New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co Ltd in 1961.

The Aberdare Collieries of New South Wales Limited and the Australian Agricultural Company(AACo) became joint owners of the Aberdare-Cessnock Railway in an agreement between the two companies dated 25 August 1903. On 23 September 1903, Charles Upfold and Frederick Livingstone-Learmonth, both of Newcastle, were appointed as members of the Board of Control of the Aberdare Railway Company. In 1 July 1914 the Australian Agricultural Company sold Hebburn Colliery and Aberdale-Cessnock Railway to a new company called Hebburn Limited of which the AACo was a shareholder.

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.

The station was established in 1886 when Patrick Durack sent his two elder sons to set up the station. From around 1919 the station owners were listed as Connor, Doherty and Durack Ltd. The Australian Agricultural Company acquired the station from 1950 to 1973. It is currently managed by Consolidated Pastoral Company Pty Ltd.

Thomas Scott Lorraine Armstrong was born in 1878 at Gunbar Station, Hay, New South Wales (NSW). He was educated at the Church of England Grammar School, North Shore, Sydney. He worked as an overseer at Lissington Station, Bourke, NSW and as Manager at Urie Point Station, Brewarrina, NSW. In 1899 he worked Moolbong Station, Hillston, NSW and in 1901-02 was farming at Darling Downs, Queensland (Qld). From 1902?-1912 Armstrong was Manager, Euroka Station, Walgett, NSW. In 1917 he was appointed Manager of Corona Station, Longreach district and was an Inspector for the Australian Agricultural Company for Queensland. He also held local positions as Member, Longreach Shire Council; Deputy Chairman, Longreach Hospital Board; Vice-President of the Executive Council, United Graziers' Association of Qld; Member, North Gregory Rabbit Board; Chairman, Mitchell West Dingo Board; Chairman, Mitchell West Marsupial Board. Armstrong retired in 1941 and died in Toowoomba on 26 September 1944.

The company was registered in Sydney on 22 June 1962 and acquired Associated Health Foods Pty Ltd. It was acquired by Mauri Brothers and Thomson Limited in November 1973 and continued to operate as a subsidiary company.

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.

The company was registered in Queensland on 5 October 1978 and is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Australian Agricultural Company Limited (AACo). In 1979 the AACo, with P L Baillieu, acquired Austcattle Holdings Pty Ltd and its wholly owned subsidiary The Gulf Cattle Company Pty Ltd.

On 13 March 1842 the Australasian Sugar Company was formed in Sydney to take over the assets of the Australian Sugar Company (1839 - 1842). The company operated the Canterbury Refinery from September 1842 processing raw sugar imported from Manila and producing the first locally refined sugar in Australia. Three directors of the company, Edward Knox, Clarke Irving and Ralph Mayer Robey purchased Bowden’s sugar works (the Sydney House) at the corner of Pitt and Liverpool Streets in 1849, and in 1852, Cooper’s refinery in Parramatta Street (the Brisbane House). Knox was the company’s manager and director from August 1843 to 1854 when the company went into liquidation.

The company was a subsidiary of the Australian Agricultural Company, incorporated in England on 23 July 1909. The company manufactured coke and other by-products of coal at its Hexham Works, near Newcastle. It was placed in liquidation in 1924.

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

The company which originally operated from 1914 as the Australian Porcelain Company Pty Ltd changed its name in 1927 and was registered as the Australian Porcelain Insulator Company Pty Ltd on 29 September 1927. The company also acquired the Australian Porcelain Works Pty Ltd in 1916. It was managed by members of the Crow family including James Crow and Robert Crow. The company, which produced high tension porcelain insulators, was located at the original site of the Yarraville Woollen Mills. In January 1965 the company became a subsidiary of the English company Royal Doulton, and was renamed Doulton Insulators Australia Pty Ltd. Mr G H Beanland was appointed as the company's Managing Director. During 1977, Doulton Insulators Australia Pty Ltd met difficult trading circumstances and in the 1970s Royal Doulton sold this subsidiary.

The Australian Sheep Farms Company Limited was promoted at the end of 1924 by R H Caird, of the Australian Mercantile Land & Finance (AML&F) Company, to purchase three New South Wales properties: Dunlop, Toorale and Nocoleche, to which Ringorah was later added. The new company was floated in London and backed by the same Directors as the AML&F Company. The drought in 1927, along with further collapse in wool prices and dry seasons, reduced the company's profits and it went into voluntary liquidation in December 1937.

The station was taken up in 1886 by the Durack family. From around 1915 the station owners were listed as Connor, Doherty and Durack Ltd. The Australian Agricultural Company acquired Auvergne Station from 1950 to 1979. The station is currently managed by the Consolidated Pastoral Company Pty Ltd.

Wholesale paper merchants and manufacturers, B J Ball Ltd, was founded by B J Ball in 1906. Branches were opened in Brisbane in 1911, Melbourne in 1918, and in Auckland, New Zealand in 1921. A buying office was opened in London in 1922. In 1926 the New Zealand business was sold and in 1937 branches were opened in Adelaide and Perth. The company merged with Edwards Dunlop and Company Limited on 29 September 1966.

Benjamin Rosenstamm established his own business as a leather merchant and saddler after he left the firm of Michaelis Hallenstein & Co Pty Ltd in 1894. The business entered a partnership with Michaelis Hallenstein & Co Pty Ltd in 1896 and was reconstructed as Rosenstamm Pty Ltd in 1940. In 1948 it became a subsidiary of the holdings company, Associated Leathers Limited.

The firm was established on 6 November 1888 and its members included John Lewis, William Lister, James Shakes, and George Wallwall Bagot. It became a large pastoral firm with company premises in King William Street, Adelaide, and branches in many towns. The company was purchased by Goldsbrough, Mort and Company in June 1924 and went into liquidation in December that year.

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.

The Ballarat United Friendly Societies' Medical Association and Dispensary was established as the Ballarat United Friendly Societies' Dispensary on 5 December 1880. The first dispensary opened in Armstrong Street in 1881 and moved to Dana Street in 1901. In 1918 the society changed its name to the Ballarat United Friendly Societies' Medical Association and Dispensary and operated a medical institute from 1919 to 1939. In 1952 the UFS Dispensary was relocated to 717 Sturt Street. Various branch dispensaries were opened in Ballarat and surrounding western region after 1957.

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.

This Melbourne firm of shoe manufacturers was founded in 1854 by Daniel Bedggood. On arrival from England he set up a business in Richmond, Victoria to make working boots. He later began importing English footwear. When branches were opened throughout Australia and business increased, the partnership, which included his three sons, was extended. The company was run by Bedggood's son John from the 1870s until 1911, then by John's son Daniel and later Horace Bedggood, as chairman of directors of Bedggood and Co. The company was deregistered on 21 July 1965.

This producer's co-operative society accepted from its members their crops of grapes, processed and sold them and then paid to the members the results of the trading, with an appropriate share of the profits.

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.

Birrindudu is a large station in the Western Victoria River district. In 1963 the proprietors were R J & W A Young. The station is now owned by the Heytesbury Cattle Company.

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

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.

The original partnership of timber merchants, between Richard Bowen and Redmond Pomeroy, dates back to 1890. Bowen moved to Melbourne in 1883 and established a business removing and selling scrap metal and timber from pre-fabricated houses. Realising the value of cedar and oregon timber, Bowen approached his brother-in-law Redmond Pomeroy, to help finance a secondhand timber yard. In 1894 the pair leased a block of land in North Melbourne and constructed a sawmill, moulding mill and a joinery shop. The company was formally incorporated in 1914. After the deaths of Bowen in 1924 and Pomeroy in 1925, the business was managed by Charles Barass. In 1931 the business was inherited by Bowen's son, Jack, and the company divided into an operating company (Bowen & Pomeroy Pty Ltd) with the majority of shares belonging to Jack Bowen, and a holding company (B&P Investments) owned equally by the Bowen and Pomeroy families. In 1938, the share issue of the operating structure was increased, bought largely by the Bowen family. During the 1960s Bowen & Pomeroy diversified into retail branches and in 1965 the company opened its first store at Mt Evelyn. After Jack Bowen's death in 1971, his son John expanded its retail sales concentrating on the timber and hardware trade.

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.

Bukalong Station was originally owned by John Boucher. In 1874 the sons of George Garnock, who owned the adjacent area of Mount Pleasant, formed a partnership, Garnock Brothers (Charles; John; David Matthew; and Andrew William), and bought Bukalong from the Boucher Estate. In 1903 the partnership dissolved and Bukalong became the property of the youngest brother, Andrew William Garnock. After his death in 1943, Bukalong station was inherited by Charles Tony Garnock and is still owned by his descendents.

Property of the New Zealand and Australian Land Company Limited.

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.

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

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.

The company, formed in 1926, took over Bel Air Dry Cleaning and Laundering Pty Ltd in April 1970. It formed CSL Properties P/L and Braddon Properties P/L when the company went into liquidation in 1975. O J Ratford was company secretary of Canberra Steam Laundry Ltd from April 1952 to 1975.

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.

Cavan Station was purchased by Joseph Frederick Castle during the 1850s. He went to live on the property around 1857. The pastoral station was owned and managed by the Castle-Roche family who also owned land adjacent to Mount Pleasant and Mount Keira Collieries in Wollongong, NSW. Cavan Station was later bought by Rupert Murdoch.

The Company sold and shipped meat products to London in the 1880s. The Central Queensland Meat Export Company's new works at Lakes Creek installed freezing equipment in 1883, but was burnt down shortly after. Due to the fire, the company went into liquidation in 1885 and in 1886 the business was taken over by a Melbourne syndicate which included Andrew Rowan, George Fairbairn and John Living. It was managed by John Living and later by the Nelson Brothers. In 1901 London interests acquired CQME, registering it in London.

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