Founded by Melbourne-born swimming champion and businessman (Sir) Frank Beaurepaire (1891-1956), the Olympic brand was one of the most successful Australian-made tyre products. After establishing a tyre retreading business, Advanx Tyre Repair Company in William Street, Sydney during 1920, Beaurepaire returned to Melbourne in late 1922 and opened a new business in Latrobe St, Beaurepaire Tyre Service, specialising in retreads. Beaurepaire established a tyre manufacturing plant in Cross Street, West Footscray in 1933. To capitalise on Beaurepaire's public image as an Olympic swimming hero, the firm was named the Olympic Tyre and Rubber Company. Production began in 1934 and the new firm survived despite fierce discounting by Dunlop and Goodyear as Olympic tyres soon gained a good reputation with motorists. Beaurepaire Tyre Service branches continued as a separate arm of the business. During the Second World War, manufacture of insulated electrical cables began and Olympic Cables Limited was formed in 1946 as another branch of the business. By the 1950s the name of the parent firm was Olympic Consolidated Industries. Increased competition and changes to tariff protection eventually led to the merger of Olympic and Dunlop in 1980, with the new company named Dunlop Olympic Tyres Proprietary Limited.

Barnet Glass (1849-1918), was a rubber importer and manufacturer of rubber garments and accessories with a factory in Melbourne. In 1894, an office was opened in London and a branch factory, the Pioneer Rubber Company in Adelaide. In 1899, the Pioneer Rubber Factory of Australia was opened at Kensington, Melbourne. In October 1900, Glass converted his business into a company, Barnet Glass & Sons Proprietary Limited. In 1905, the company was bought by the Dunlop Pneumatic Tyre Company of Australasia Limited.

Barnet Glass then built a factory and plant in Footscray, and began work as Glass & Co. In 1908 the firm was converted into a public company, Barnet Glass Rubber Company Limited. As well as manufacturing rubber, the company were agents for Michelin tyres. By 1918 Glass had branches in every Australian State and in New Zealand. In 1929 Barnet Glass Rubber Company Limited also merged with the Dunlop Rubber Company. Barnet Glass Co. manufactured and traded as a separate organization until 1937, when its manufacturing activities at Footscray were transferred to the Dunlop factories.

Sir John Grenfell (Jack) Crawford was born on 4 April 1910 at Hurstville, Sydney. From 1933 to 1935 he held a Walter and Eliza Hall research fellowship at the University of Sydney and was a part-time lecturer in rural economics 1934-1942. In 1942 he was appointed as rural adviser to the Commonwealth Department of War Organization of Industry, and the following year Director of research in the Department of Post-War Reconstruction. In 1945 he was founding Director of the Bureau of Agricultural Economics before becoming Secretary of the Commonwealth Department of Commerce and Agriculture 1950-1956; Secretary of the Department of Trade 1956-1960. In 1960 he became Professor of Economics and Director of the Research School of Pacific Studies at the Australian National University (ANU) 1960-1967. He was appointed as Vice-Chancellor 1968-1973, then Chancellor 1976-1984 of the ANU. Alongside his academic appointments he continued working as an economic adviser: he was chairman of the Australian Wool Industry Conference (1962-64) and had a long association with World Bank and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Sir John Crawford died in Canberra on 28 October 1984.

The society was formed in 1964 as the Ergonomics Society of Australia and New Zealand. On 22 February 1986 at a meeting at Palmerston North, New Zealand, the New Zealand Ergonomics Society was formed. In the same year, the Australian section of the society reformed and changed its name to the Ergonomics Society of Australia. The society changed its name again in December 2003 and is now called Human Factors and Ergonomics Society of Australia Inc.

Marian Sawer was born on 20 August 1946 in Auckland, New Zealand. From 1983-1984 she was consultant to the Australian National University Equal Employment Opportunity Program. She was Head, Political Science Program, Research School of Social Sciences, ANU, 2000-03; Professor, Political Science Program, RSSS, ANU, 2003-05; Leader, Democratic Audit of Australia 2002-08; ANU Director, Democratic Audit of Australia 2008- ; Vice-President, International Political Science Association 2009- ; and has edited numerous publications on gender politics and policy including milestones such as the abolition of the Commonwealth Marriage Bar. She is Adjunct Professor, School of Political Science and International Relations, ANU.

ANU Medical School can be viewed as a descendant of the University of Sydney’s Canberra Clinical School. Prior to its inception in 1993, students from University of Sydney, University of NSW and University of Queensland had been coming to Canberra to complete placements at Woden Valley Hospital for several years.

Under the guidance of Professor Paul Gatenby, the Canberra Clinical School developed a strong teaching program to the point of conducting the entire final year of University of Sydney’s five year undergraduate medical degree.

When the University of Sydney introduced a four year graduate program in 1996, the school became responsible for training 20 students in the entire years three and four curriculum and parts of years one and two.

During this time, the school also took the first steps toward its current reputation for cutting-edge medical research, establishing laboratories, a tissue and organ museum and an animal house at The Canberra Hospital.

By 2000, the school had become so successful the then Minister for Health, Michael Wooldridge, deemed that ANU should establish a stand-alone medical school. The current ANU Medical School was formed in 2002 with the appointment of Professor Gatenby as Foundation Dean and funding from the Department of Health & Ageing.

Building on the University of Sydney's curriculum, the school increased the importance of rural and Indigenous health, ethics and law, the social aspects of medicine and medical science. The first 80 students of the Bachelor of Medicine / Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS) graduated in 2007.

Sir Mark Oliphant was born on 8 October 1901 at Kent Town, South Australia.
Oliphant received his BS (University of Adelaide) in 1926; PhD Physics (Cambridge University) in 1929. He taught and worked alongside Ernest Rutherford, New Zealand-born physicist, as Assistant Director of Research, Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge in 1935. From 1937 to 1950 Oliphant was Poynting Professor of Physics, University of Birmingham. He was a member of the UN Official International Atomic Energy Commission from 1946-1947, and member of the Academic Advisory Committee of the Australian National University from 1947-1950. In 1950 he was appointed as the first Director of the Research School of Physical Sciences, Australian National University. He was a Foundation Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science in 1954, and the academy’s first President from 1954 to 1957.He continued his association with the ANU as Professor and Head of Particle Physics, 1954–1964; Professor, Physics of Ionised Gases Unit at the ANU, 1964–1967. From 1971-1976 he was Governor of South Australia. Oliphant was the recipient of numerous fellowships, honorary doctorates and awards including Fellow of the Royal Society 1937; Faraday Medal, Institution of Electrical Engineers 1948; Matthew Flinders Medal, Australian Academy of Science 1961; Foundation Fellow, Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering 1975; ANZAAS Medal 1979. Oliphant died in Canberra on 14 July 2000.

TAFETA was formed in about 1974 from the Technical and Further Education Teachers' Association of Australia and the Technical Teachers' Association of Australia. It amalgamated with the Australian Teachers' Federation in 1980.

Margaret Howells (nee Kemp) was an Australian volunteer during the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939. In 1938 Margaret and her husband Arthur Fenton Howells (1907-1986), a labour and peace movement activist, visited Spain, returning to Australia to work for the Spanish Relief Committee. In 1967 Margaret Howells stood as a candidate for the Australian Labor Party in the Legislative Assembly seat of Monbulk at the Victorian state election. Margaret Howells worked as an English teacher.

The Food Preservers' Union of Australia has a history dating back to around 1898 with a union of jam, sauce and pickle works employees and was registered federally in 1911 as the Jam Sauce Pickle and Food Preserving Employees' Union of Australia. Its name was changed in 1916 to the Amalgamated Food Preserving Employees' Union of Australia and in 1929 the union registered itself as the Food Preservers' Union of Australia. In 1992, the union amalgamated with the Confectionery Workers' Union to become the Food Preservers' Division of the Confectionery Workers' and Food Preservers Union of Australia.

The Confectionery Workers and Food Preservers Union of Australia was formed in 1992 through an amalgamation of the Confectionery Workers' Union of Australia and the Food Preservers' Union of Australia. In 1994 the CW&FPU amalgamated with the Automotive Metals and Engineering Union to form the Automotive Food Metals and Engineering Union.

The Australian Manufacturing Workers' Union (AMWU) was established in 1995 after the Automotive Food Metals and Engineering Union amalgamated with the Printing and Kindred Industries Union to become the Automotive Food Metals Engineering Printing and Kindred Industries Union, better known as the AMWU.

The Union formed in 1994 when the Automotive Metals & Engineering Union and the Confectionery Workers' & Food Preservers' Union of Australia amalgamated. In 1995 it merged with the Printing & Kindred Industries Union to form the Automotive Food Metals Engineering Printing & Kindred Industries Union, otherwise known as the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union.

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

Employees engaged in the manufacture of confectionery in New South Wales were represented by the NSW Confectioners' Society from 1889. The Society was formed by a committe of two delegates, each from JG Nicholls & Company, Dillon, Burrows & Company, Ennever & Appleton, Biddell Brothers and James Stedman and the following office bearers elected - President: Mr George King, Secretary: Mr I Phelan, Treasurer: Mr E Evans. From 1902 to 1926 journeymen confectioners in New South Wales were represented by the NSW Journeymen Confectioners' Union.

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

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

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

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

On 2 September 1929, British-based Lever Brothers and the Dutch union of fats and oils businesses, Margarine Unie, signed an agreement to create Unilever. Unilever developed in Australia from an association, in 1924, between major soap making companies Lever Brothers Ltd of Sydney, J Kitchen & Sons Pty Ltd of Melbourne and WH Burford & Sons Ltd of Adelaide. Gradually these companies moved into the edible oils and fats market, then into the foods, ice cream and personal products sections of business as well as chemicals, printing and distribution. This Lever-Kitchen-Burford association continued as a relatively static enterprise for more than thirty years. Little attempt was made by Unilever to rationalise the separate marketing identities; internal competition persisted. Then, in 1956, all Unilever’s Australian businesses were merged under the one banner – Unilever (Australia) Pty Ltd (UAPL). The UAPL Board’s responsibility included the general supervision of the operating companies – Lever & Kitchen, Rosella Foods, Edible Oil Industries, Streets Ice Cream, Rexona, Lintas, SPD Transport, Beacon Research, Unilever Australia Export and, briefly, Hillcastle (NZ), formerly Eugene NZ Ltd. Unilever House was opened, in 1958, at 1-33 Macquarie Street, Sydney, to accommodate a new centralised management structure. In 1961 Unilever’s Australian interests were grouped under a holding company, Unilever Australia (Holdings) Pty Ltd, which operated through its main subsidiary, Unilever Australia Ltd. From 1 January 1970 the UAPL Board was replaced by National Management comprising Unilever Australia (Holdings) Pty Ltd directors. By 1983 Unilever in Australia was represented by a group of companies producing and marketing a wide variety of consumer goods, industrial products and related services - John West Foods Pty Ltd, Unilever Australia Export Pty Ltd, Unifood Services Pty Ltd, Unichema Australia Pty Ltd, Streets Ice Cream Pty Ltd, Rosella Lipton Pty Ltd, Rexona Pty Ltd, Lever & Kitchen Pty Ltd, Edible Oil Industries (EOI) Pty Ltd. Most of the operating companies had their own Boards of Directors, all reporting to the Chairman of Unilever Australia Ltd.

The Federated Artificial Fertilizers and Chemical Workers' Union of Australia originated as the Federated Artificial Manure Trade and Chemical Workers' Union of Australia. Formed in 1913 as a breakaway union to the then communist-controlled Federated Ironworkers' Association, the Federated Artificial Manure Trade and Chemical Workers Union of Australia underwent a change of name in 1921 to the Federated Artificial Fertilizers and Chemical Workers' Union of Australia. By the end of 1948 this union had been deregistered and then reregistered under the same name. In 1975 it was amalgamated back into the Federated Ironworkers' Association of Australia, which subsequently became the Federation of Industrial Manufacturing and Engineering Employees.

The University Education Committee was formed in 2001, along with the Research Committee and Information Strategy Committee to work directly with the new peak academic body, the Academic Board. The role of the Education Committee is to advise on and implement the education policies of the University relating to all award and non-award programs of study.

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Victorian Teachers' Union was established following negotiations from 1923 to 1926 between the Victorian State School Teachers' Union, the Victorian High School Teachers' Union and the Victorian Technical Teachers' Association. These three organisations amalgamated on 13 August 1926 to form the Victorian Teachers' Union with a membership of about 5000. In 1948 secondary teachers broke away from the VTU to form the Victorian Secondary Masters' Professional Association which in 1953 became the Victorian Secondary Teachers' Association. Technical Teachers left in 1967 and formed the Technical Teachers' Association of Victoria. In November 1974 the Union moved to new Headquarters in Camberwell. Growing dissatisfaction with the Victorian Teachers' Tribunal led in 1976 to an agreement between the VTU, Technical Teachers' Association of Victoria and the Victorian Secondary Teachers' Association to work together on the basis of joint policy, for improved industrial relations for teachers. In August 1981 the VTU Victorian Federation subcommittee agreed that there should be a Victorian Teachers' Federation modelled on the NSW Teachers' Federation. In July 1984 the Teacher's Federation of Victoria was established as an umbrella organisation for industrial purposes, with the three teacher unions remaining autonomous. The Teachers' Federation of Victoria is now the Victorian Branch of the Australian Education Union following an affiliation in 1993.

In 1967, technical teachers of the Victorian Teachers' Union left to form the Technical Teachers' Association of Victoria and later became known as the Technical Teachers' Union of Victoria. Although a breakaway from the VTU, growing dissatisfaction with the Victorian Teachers' Tribunal led, in 1976, to an agreement between the VTU, Technical Teachers' Union of Victoria and the Victorian Secondary Teachers' Association to work together on the basis of joint policy, for improved industrial relations for teachers. In August 1981 the VTU Victorian Federation subcommittee agreed that there should be a Victorian Teachers' Federation modelled on the NSW Teachers' Federation. In July 1984 the Teacher's Federation of Victoria was established as an umbrella organisation for industrial purposes, with the three teacher unions remaining autonomous. In 1990 the Technical Teachers' Union of Victoria and the Victorian Teachers' Union amalgamated as the Federated Teachers' Union of Victoria. By 1995 the Victorian Secondary Teachers' Association had amalgamated with the FTUV to form the Victorian Branch of the Australian Education Union.

In August 1981 the Victorian Teachers' Union Victorian Federation subcommittee agreed that there should be a Victorian Teachers' Federation modelled on the NSW Teachers' Federation. In July 1984 the Teacher's Federation of Victoria was established as an umbrella organisation for industrial purposes, with the three teacher unions (the Victorian Teachers' Union, the Technical Teachers' Union of Victoria and the Victorian Secondary Teachers' Association) remaining autonomous. In 1990 the Technical Teachers' Union of Victoria and the Victorian Teachers' Union amalgamated as the Federated Teachers' Union of Victoria. By 1995 the Victorian Secondary Teachers' Association amalgamated with the FTUV to form the Victorian Branch of the Australian Education Union.

In 1918 various New South Wales teachers' associations such as the NSW Public School Teachers' Association, the NSW Public School Assistant Teachers' Association, the Women Teachers' Association, the Headmasters' Association, the Manual Training Teachers' Association and the Sewing Mistresses' Association, met to discuss the likelihood of an amalgamation. The result was the founding of the New South Wales Teachers' Federation in 1919. Without rivals it gained and held the loyalty of most teachers throughout the 1920s. Despite a lull in membership during the Great Depression years, the NSW Teachers' Federation formally linked itself to the state and national trade union movement during World War Two by affiliating with the NSW Labour Council and the Australian Council of Trade Unions. After the war large salary gains were achieved and about 90% of teachers became members of the union. The New South Wales Teachers' Federation was instrumental in lobbying the government of the day to introduce equal pay for women in 1958 and 1963. The NSW Teachers' Federation is affiliated with the Australian Education Union, constituting its NSW Branch whilst retaining its separate identity.

Teachers' unions in South Australia began in 1885 with the formation of the Adelaide Teachers' Association. The Country Teachers' Association formed in 1887 and the two merged in 1887 to become the South Australian Teachers' Association. This association split in 1936 into the South Australian Public Teachers' Union and the South Australian Women Teachers' Guild. These separate organisations remained apart until 1951 when teachers voted to form a single representative body called the South Australian Institute of Teachers [SAIT]. SAIT covered all teachers and school assistants in the State's primary schools, pre-schools and secondary schools, as well as teachers in the fields of further education and non-government schools. SAIT became the South Australian branch of the Australian Education Union in 1993.

Teachers' unions in South Australia began in 1885 with the formation of the Adelaide Teachers' Association. The Country Teachers' Association formed in 1887 and the two merged in 1887 to become the South Australian Teachers' Association. This association split in 1936 into the South Australian Public Teachers' Union and the South Australian Women Teachers' Guild. These separate organisations remained apart until 1951 when teachers voted to form a single representative body called the South Australian Institute of Teachers [SAIT]. SAIT covered all teachers and school assistants in the State's primary schools, pre-schools and secondary schools, as well as teachers in the fields of further education and non-government schools. SAIT became the South Australian branch of the Australian Education Union in 1993.

The Technical Teachers' Union of Victoria was formed from the Technical Teachers' Association of Victoria which had operated independently from the Victorian Teachers' Union since 1967. Although a breakaway from the Victorian Teachers' Union, growing dissatisfaction with the Victorian Teachers' Tribunal led, in 1976, to an agreement between the Victorian Teachers' Union, the Technical Teachers' Union of Victoria and the Victorian Secondary Teachers' Association to work together on the basis of joint policy, for improved industrial relations for teachers. In August 1981 the VTU Victorian Federation subcommittee agreed that there should be a Victorian Teachers' Federation modelled on the NSW Teachers' Federation. In July 1984 the Teacher's Federation of Victoria was established as an umbrella organisation for industrial purposes, with the three teacher unions remaining autonomous. In 1990 the Technical Teachers' Union of Victoria and the Victorian Teachers' Union amalgamated as the Federated Teachers' Union of Victoria. By 1995 the Victorian Secondary Teachers' Association had also amalgamated with them to form the Victorian Branch of the Australian Education Union.

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

The CPSU was formed in 1994 after the Public Sector Professional Scientific Research Technical Communications Aviation & Broadcasting Union changed its name. The CPSU currently represents telecommunications, broadcasting and public sector workers.

Created through an amalgamation of the Australian Public Service Association, the Administrative & Clerical Officers' Association, Australian Government Employment and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation Staff Union in 1989, the Australian Public Sector & Broadcasting Union, Australian Government Employment was reregistered in 1991 following a further amalgamation with the Meat Inspectors' Association.

The FSU was founded in July 1991 when the two main trade union players in the banking and insurance industries - the Australian Bank Employees' Union [ABEU] and the Australian Insurance Employee's Union [AIEU] voted to amalgamate. Three smaller unions also linked up: the AMP Society Staff Association, Trustee Companies Officers' Association and Wool Brokers' Staff Association. In March 1994, the FSU was further strengthened when the Commonwealth Bank Officers' Association [CBOA] joined with the FSU.

The Tasmanian Teachers' Federation was formed in 1905. In 1993 this union, the Secondary Colleges Staff Association and the Tasmanian TAFE Staff Society merged with the Australian Education Union to form its Tasmanian branch.

The Australian Workers' Union, registered federally in 1905, initially sought to serve unskilled rural workers such as shearers and general labourers and eventually grew to be politically influential within the Australian Labor Party. Increasing in size as members from deregistered unions such as the South Australian United Laborers' Union and the Australian Carriers' Union were absorbed into the fold, the AWU postured itself as the 'One Big Union' of Australian trade unionism. In 1976 the union was reregistered following an amalgamation with the Wool and Basil Workers' Federation of Australia. The Union was again reregistered in 1988 when it merged with the Undertakers' Assistants and Cemetery Employees' Union. A final amalgamation in 1993 with Federation of Industrial Manufacturing and Engineering Employees brought about the AWU-FIME Amalgamated Union but it continues to be known as the Australian Workers' Union.

The Quality and Standards Committee was established in 2009 as a sub-committee of the University Education Committee. The Quality and Standards Committee oversees the development and implementation of educational benchmarking activities across the University.

Wes Whitten was born on 1 August 1918 in Macksville, New South Wales and was educated at the University of Sydney (BVSc (hons) 1939, BSc 1941, DSc 1962). His positions included the Walter and Eliza Hall Fellow in Veterinary Science 1940-41; Australian Army Veterinary Corps and Australian Army Service Corps Captain 1941-45; Research Officer, CSIRO 1946-49; Director of Animal Breeding and Fellow, John Curtin School of Medical Research, Australian National University 1950-61; Assistant Director (Endocrine Products), National Biological Standards Laboratory, Canberra 1961-66; Staff Scientist, The Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, Maine, USA 1966-69, Senior Staff Scientist 1969-80, Assistant Director (Research) 1971-72; Research Associate, Department of Zoology, University of Tasmania 1980-89; Associated Scientist, CSIRO Wildlife and Associate, Cooperative Research Centre for Biological Control of Vertebrate Pest Populations. He had a wide variety of professional interests including animal breeding for scientific research, cloning and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. Whitten died on 24 May 2010.

Dorothy Shineberg attained a Bachelor of Arts with first class honours from the University of Melbourne in 1947. From 1948-1950 she lectured in history at the Australian School of Pacific Administration. After two years at Smith College, Massachusetts Shineberg returned to the University of Melbourne where she gave the first courses in Pacific History ever taught at an Australian University. In 1961, Shineberg began a PhD at the University of Melbourne examining the role of traders in early European contact with Pacific peoples. In 1964, she became a Research Fellow at the Department of Pacific History, Research School of Pacific Studies, Australian National University. At ANU Shineberg continued her research into the history of the Pacific including a major study of the labour trade in New Caledonia. She also spent time at Brown University, Rhode Island and the University of the South Pacific, Suva. She was co editor of the Journal of Pacific History and officially retired in 1988, but continued to work as a Visiting Fellow in the Division of Pacific and Asian History, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies.

David Bruce Moorhouse first came to Papua New Guinea in 1955 working as a patrol officer and rose through the ranks of Australian Field Administrators to Deputy District Commissioner. Moorhouse was Lands and Business Development Manager for Porgera Joint Venture from 1986-87. From 1989 he worked as a PNG land consultant carrying out land investigation studies of Mount Kare; Masurina, Milne Bay Province; Tokaluma, Central Province; Wau mining operations and as land advisor to Porgera Gold Dredging Ltd.

The Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association was founded in 1895 as an unincorporated, voluntary organisation of sugar plantation owners in the Hawaiian Islands. Its objective was to promote the interests of its members and the development of the sugar industry in the islands. The HSPA conducted scientific studies and gathered records about the industry, campaigned to bring workers to Hawaii, opening offices in Manila, Vigan and Illocos Sur to recruit Filipino workers and provide them free passage to Hawaii. The association also lobbied for legislation, labor and immigration policies beneficial to the sugar industry in Hawaii. It is now known as the Hawaii Agriculture Research Center.

John Buchanan completed a Grad Dip in Economics at the Australian National University. He was an ANU Students Association Education Committee member in 1980-1984; ANU Law Faculty Student Representative from 1982-1984; and Australian Union of Students Executive member in 1984. Buchanan worked as a researcher for the trade union movement and in the public service before becoming Director of Policy Research in the Commonwealth Department of Industrial Relations. He is Director of the Workplace Research Centre based at the University of Sydney Business School.

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

Richard Christopher Refshauge was a student of the Australian National University and an office-bearer of the Australian National University Union Board of Management, the ANU Students’ Association, and the Australian Union of Students. Refshauge was President of the ANU Students’ Association from 1972 to 1973 and in this capacity was student council representative on the Education Committee of the University Council. Refshauge first practiced law in 1976 when he commenced his legal career as a barrister and solicitor in the Australian Capital Territory. In 1998, he was appointed ACT Director of Public Prosecutions and in 2008 appointed a Judge of the ACT Supreme Court. Refshauge has lectured in civil litigation at the ANU since 1986. In 2001 he became an Adjunct Professor in the Faculty of Law now the ANU College of Law.

The Association was formally established in June 1953 and formed by a small body of research students. The aims of the Association as stated in its original consititution are to promote the welfare and representation of members, and encourage social and sporting activities among the University's research students. It is now the peak undergraduate student body at the Australian National University.

Air Pilots' Guild of Australia (APGA) was formed in 1968 by Ian Archibald Cameron, a former member of the Australian Federation of Air Pilots (AFAP), and registered under the Conciliation and Arbitration Act on 3 February 1970. The AFAP were against this rival union from the outset and throughout the 1970s made attempts to have the Guild (APGA) de-registered. Throughout the 1970s the Guild struggled to maintain the membership numbers required to remain a registered union, it also had difficulties collecting membership subscriptions which meant that they had very little funds. Compounding the difficulties were the numerous cases brought against the Guild by other organisations which were heard by the Flight Crew Officer's Tribunal. A final case brought against the Guild by David George Shrubb (acting as himself but also representing the AFAP) went to the Federal Court. Despite the efforts of the Guild's Industrial Officer, Frank Stevens, to put the case for the Guild, the outcome was its de-registration. Cameron attempted to get this decision overturned, but was unsuccessful. The AFAP finally registered in 1986.

Jean Chambers was a commercial artist with considerable advertising experience working for large firms in Sydney. In 1935 she moved to New Guinea with her husband Keith Chambers. In 1948 the Maternal and Child Health service commissioned Mrs Chambers to design posters on infant care for distribution by the Public Health Department as teaching aids in villages. Chambers moved to Port Moresby in the mid 1950's where her husband became Chief Collector of Customs. In Port Moresby she designed and completed film strips for the Commonwealth Film Unit on women's club training, and worked for Burns Philp (NG) Ltd for 18 months during 1958-59 on display and newspaper advertising. Mrs Chambers also received more commissions for posters and eventually accepted a full-time appointment with the Department of Information where she trained New Guinean staff in silk screen printing, mainly on health education but also for the Departments of Agriculture, and Post and Telegraphs.

The National Institute of the Arts was established in October 2001 to take on the role of the Institute of the Arts. In 2004 the National Institute of the Arts amalgamated with the Faculty of Arts.

The Australian Centre for the Arts and Technology was a centre within the ANU Institute of the Arts and later the National Institute of the Arts dedicated to creative applications of new technology. Its primary activities included teaching, researching, recording and publishing of electro-acoustic music, computer animation, digital video and interactive multimedia.

The Canberra Institute of the Arts amalgamated with the The Australian National University in January 1992, becoming the Institute of the Arts under the Australian National University Act 1991. The Institute comprised the Canberra School of Art, the Canberra School of Music and the Australian Centre for the Arts and Technology. In October 2001 the Institute of the Arts became the National Institute of the Arts to reflect a restructure of University governance.

In 2006 the Australian National University introduced a new governance structure whereby the Faculties, Research Schools, and Centres were grouped into Colleges. The ANU College of Law was established and incorporated the Faculty of Law and the Legal Workshop.

The Humanities Research Centre was established in 1972 as a national and international centre for excellence in the Humanities and a catalyst for innovative Humanities scholarship and research within the Australian National University.

The HRC established the Freilich Foundation for the study of bigotry and tolerance in 1995. It works closely with ANU’s recently established Digital Humanities Hub. Within the University, the HRC is now part of a group of five centres that sit under the Research School of Humanities and the Arts (RSHA). Threaded through our Centre programs are our disciplinary and interdisciplinary strengths in literature, history, art, film, philosophy, critical theory, Enlightenment and Romanticism studies, Postcolonial Studies, Environmental Humanities, and Indigenous heritage, art and culture. The HRC collaborates with Australian and international research centres, libraries and other cultural institutions such as the National Museum of Australia, National Gallery of Australia, National Library of Australia and the National Portrait Gallery. The Centre continues to strongly advocate the importance of humanities in the public sphere through its participation in key national and international networks such as the Council for the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (CHASS), The Australian Consortium of Humanities Research Centres (ACHRC) and the Consortium of Humanities Centres and Institutes (CHCI).

John Alexander Collier (Kolia) was born in Sydney in 1931. He attended Sydney Grammar School and completed his secondary education in England in 1951. Having enrolled in a medical course at the University of London, he returned to Australia and commenced work in Papua New Guinea as a medical assistant for the Australasian Petroleum Company. After visiting London again in 1958, he returned to Sydney where he completed teacher training and took up a teaching position in New Britain in mid 1960, and in 1964 joined the Catholic Mission at Vanimo as a teacher. In 1966 he returned to Port Moresby. While teaching at Bavaroko, he enrolled in the University of Papua New Guinea, completing his BA (Hons) in 1971. He was awarded a PhD in 1975 for his research among the Balawaia people in the Rigo sub-district where he had been living in Tauruba village since 1972. At that time he changed his name from Collier to the phonetic form, Kolia. From 1971 Kolia was employed at the UPNG as a research assistant, but by 1973 he was mostly occupied in editing the journal Oral History. When the Institute of Papua New Guinea Studies was established in 1974, it took over production of Oral History and Kolia joined its staff. Kolia became a naturalised citizen of newly independent PNG in 1976. His History of the Balawaia was published in 1977, followed by a formidable body of literary work: eight novels, several short stories, plays and long poems, and press articles on anthropological topics. He was also an editor of the Institute of Papua New Guinea Studies journal, Bikmaus, and edited a collection of poems, Melanesian Thoughts and Words. He worked as a Project and publications officer at the PNG Institute of Technology from 1989 until 1992.

Rev Dr Sione Latukefu was born at Kolovai on Tongatapu in 1927. He was ordained a minister of the Free Wesleyan Church in 1960. Following teacher training in Tonga and at the University of Queensland he undertook PhD studies at the Australian National University, graduating in 1967 with a thesis that explored the subject of Church and state in Tonga during the period from 1826-1875. Lātūkefu was appointed an historian at the University of Papua New Guinea (founded in 1965) where he remained for 18 years. He wrote a history of the Tongan Constitution in 1975 to celebrate its centenary and worked actively to promote the study of Pacific history. In retirement, he became principal of the Pacific Theological College in Suva, Fiji, 1989-1991. He took the leading role in founding the Tongan History Association in Ha’apai in 1989 and remained its president until his death.

Bronwen Douglas completed her BA (Hons) from Adelaide University and her PhD from the Australian National University in 1972. She was Senior Lecturer, La Trobe University 1979-96; and Fellow/Senior Fellow, Research School of Pacific & Asian Studies and Department of Pacific & Asian History, ANU 1997-2012. Her research interests are in historical concepts of race in Oceania; history of Melanesian Christianities; the intersections of Christianity, gender, and community in postcolonial Melanesia; and the colonial histories of New Caledonia and Vanuatu.

The first edition of the Maitland Mercury was published on Saturday, 7 January 1843 as a weekly paper. From 1 January 1846 the Mercury was published twice weekly on Wednesday and Saturday. After 50 years of steady growth in 1894, the Mercury was published as an afternoon daily for 95 years until 5 June 1989 when the Mercury became a morning daily.

The Sunday Figaro was a newspaper distributed in Kalgoorlie. It was printed and published by Wallace Nelson, Jr. for 'Figaro' Syndicate.

The first shop committees in the New South Wales Railways were formed at Eveleigh and Enfield railway workshops in about 1926. At the end of 1929 six workshops were affiliated to a Central Council of Railway Shop Committees: Chullora Signal Branch, Per Way Shops and Electric Car Shops, Enfield Locomotives, Clyde Workshop, and Mortdale Workshop. The first monthly issue of The Magnet, the official journal of the Central Council of Railway Shop Committees, was distributed free throughout the railway workshops in 1934. From 1960s, the campaigning activities of the shop committees were assumed by the trade unions.

The deed of settlement of the Bank of Adelaide was established in 1865. In 1980 the Bank of Adelaide merged with the Australia and New Zealand Banking Group.

Michael Robin Ovington was the Australian Consul (Consul d'Australie in French) in Noumea from 1978 to 1980, prior to Vanuatu's independence in 1980. On 31 July 1980 he took up office as the first Australian High Commissioner to Vanuatu. Ovington died in Canberra in June 2006.

In the early 1850s James McEwan and John Houston, recent emigrants to Australia from Great Britain, began trading at 79 Elizabeth Street, Melbourne, supplying goods to storekeepers on the Victorian goldfields. Other premises were leased at 171 Lonsdale Street, Melbourne and in Geelong. In 1855 the partnership between Houston and McEwan was dissolved and James McEwan established a wholesale and retail ironmongery business, his suppliers being William Kerr Thomson and Samuel Renwick in England. When Mr McEwan died suddenly, in 1868, whilst holidaying in the south of France, Messrs Thomson and Renwick carried on the business under the name of ‘James McEwan & Company Limited’. In 1870 a new four-storey store was opened on the corner of Elizabeth and Little Collins Streets, Melbourne. James McEwan & Company Limited traded as a private company until 1887 when it was incorporated as a public company and floated on the London Stock Exchange. Following the deaths of both Renwick, in 1888, and Thomson, in 1893, James McEwan & Company Limited suffered severe financial hardship. The London Bank of Australia acquired the Company in 1905. Then, in 1910, the London Bank of Australia sold James McEwan & Company Pty Ltd to Hon. Thomas Luxton and his sons, Thomas James and Harold Daniel, who, together with Kenneth Clark and J Rippin, were also shareholders of McLean Brothers and Rigg Pty Ltd. James McEwan & Company and McLean Brothers and Rigg Pty Ltd were amalgamated in 1910. McEwan’s Limited was formed in 1927 to acquire the shares of James McEwan & Company Pty Ltd and its subsidiaries. The Directors of McEwan’s Limited were Sir Harold Daniel Luxton (Chairman), Thomas James Luxton, FP Derham, Thomas Luxton Jnr and NF Coles. In 1951 McEwan’s Limited was floated as a public company and listed on the Melbourne Stock Exchange. By 1965 McEwan’s had moved its main city store from the corner of Elizabeth and Little Collins Streets to Bourke Street, Melbourne. The Bourke Street store was operated by the principal subsidiary, James McEwan & Company Pty Ltd. Around this time other McEwan’s stores were established in the suburbs of Melbourne - Camberwell (1966), Clayton (1961), Croydon (1964), Dandenong (1964), Footscray (1966), Frankston (1970), Geelong (1966), Moonee Ponds (1963), Niddrie (1973) and Sunshine (1974) - as well as in Victorian regional shopping centres at Brandon Park (1970), Chadstone (1960), Doncaster Shopping Town (1969), Forest Hill (1964), Northland (1966), Southland (1968) and High Point West (1975). In 1970 the first of McEwan’s ‘Magnet’ discount hardware and timber stores was opened on a four-acre site in the outer Melbourne suburb of Ferntree Gully. This store was a pilot for a proposed chain of discount stores. In 1972 a second Magnet store was opened in Thomastown, also on the outskirts of Melbourne with additional stores being established at Eltham, Parkmore Shopping Centre and Corio. ‘Magnet’ stores sold a limited range of traditional McEwan’s merchandise plus other goods which McEwan’s stores did not carry. Other than Parkmore and Eltham, each centre also included a nursery and garden centre which opened on Saturday afternoons and Sundays. Through McEwan’s (Mildura) Pty Ltd the company operated two stores in Mildura and one at Red Cliffs in the north-west of Victoria. In Queensland the subsidiary, Williams McEwan’s Pty Ltd, had stores at Burleigh Heads and Southport. Another subsidiary, Brittains McEwan’s Pty Ltd (acquired in 1969), operated three stores in Brisbane. McEwan’s had now become one of the largest merchants of its kind, specialising in hardware and builders’ supplies. It had 23 stores in Victoria, 5 in Queensland and 2 in the Australian Capital Territory. In 1979 Repco Limited acquired 31.28% of McEwan’s Limited’s ordinary shares and in 1980 McEwan’s and Magnet Stores combined to trade as a single entity – McEwan’s. By 1980 the operating subsidiaries of McEwan’s Limited were - James McEwan & Company Pty Ltd, McEwan’s (Mildura) Pty Ltd, McEwan’s Queensland Pty Ltd, Three Eight Seven Pty Ltd, Brittains McEwan’s Pty Ltd and Neton Products Pty Ltd. Following a successful takeover bid by Repco Limited, McEwan’s Limited was delisted from the Stock Exchange on 28 July 1982.

The pharmacy was established by E W Watts in 1913 'close to the School of Arts in Epping'. It was operated by Keith Radford Woodlands (1902-1972) from the early 1930s. It is located at 36 Langston Place, Epping, near the railway station.

The Department of Zoology was established in the Canberra University College with the appointment of James Desmond (Des) Smyth as Professor of Zoology on 11 March 1959. In 1960 it became part of the Faculty of Science in the School of General Studies at the Australian National University. From 1 January 1991 it amalgamated with the Department of Botany to become the Botany and Zoology Division (known as BoZo) of the School of Life Sciences in the Faculty of Science.

Sir William (Keith) Hancock was born on 26 June 1898 at Fitzroy, Melbourne. Hancock became a Victorian Rhodes Scholar in 1922 at Balliol College, Oxford (with first class honours in Modern History, MA). He was elected a Fellow of All Soul's College, Oxford in 1923. In 1924 Hancock was appointed Professor of Modern History at the University of Adelaide, arriving in 1926 and holding this position until 1933 when he moved to the University of Birmingham. In 1944 he was appointed Professor of Economic History at Oxford and in 1949 the first Director of the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London. From 1947 to 1949 Hancock served on the Academic Advisory Committee of the Australian National University and in October 1956 was appointed Director of the Research School of Social Sciences (RSSS) and Professor of History. In 1961 he resigned as Director and continued as head of the History department until 1965. Sir Keith Hancock died in Canberra on 13 August 1988.

Noel Dunbar was born on 25 December 1922 in New Zealand. He was appointed to Lecturer in Physics, then Senior Lecturer, at the University of Melbourne 1947-1958. In 1959 he joined the Canberra University College as Chair of Physics in the Faculty of Science and in 1960 moved to the Department of Physics, School of General Studies, when CUC merged with the Australian National University. Dunbar was Dean of the Faculty of Science 1963-1967; Deputy Vice-Chancellor 1968-1977; Chair of the Australian Editorial Advisory Committee to the Encyclopaedia Britannica; and Chairman of the University Councils of the Tertiary Education Commission 1977-1986. He was a Visiting Fellow in the Physics Department at ANU from 1991 to 2003 and died on 9 May 2011.

Michael Monsell Davis, BA (Hons), PhD Macquarie University, was a social anthropologist, ethnographer and author, with connections to the University of Papua New Guinea and the University of the South Pacific, Fiji. Davis spent many years observing and recording historical and ethnographic data about the people living in the coastal villages opposite Yule Island, Papua New Guinea, His research interests included language, crime and the law, distance education, religion, witchcraft and totemism, AIDS/HIV, politics and government. Davis also studied the language and genealogies of the Roro speaking people of the Central Province region of Kairuku-Hiri and in the coastal villages of Nabuapaka and Bereina. His diaries were consulted by Australian author, Drusilla Modjeska, whose writings reflect his observations, particularly in her book, The Mountain (2012).

The area around Nanango was settled in 1846 after the opening of Queensland to free settlement. Nanango Station was established by William Elliot Oliver, and later owned by Bryce Thomson Barker. In a letter dated 30 January 1861 Barker offered to sell Nanango Station to George Clapperton, who had worked at the station. After Clapperton's death in 1875, his wife sold Nanango station. From 1895 to around 1921, John and James Millis are listed as station proprietors.

Tarong Station was first settled by John James Malcolm Borthwick soon after the area around Nanango was settled in 1846. George Clapperton was superintendent at Tarong for Borthwick, and purchased the property from Borthwick in 1857. At the time of his death in 1875, Clapperton owned Tarong, Barambah and Nanango Stations. His wife sold Barambah in 1876 and Nanango in 1878. She later married William A Wilson and they continued to manage Tarong Staton until George Clapperton's son T A Clapperton took over Tarong Station. T A Clapperton remained the proprietor until his death in the 1950s.

The Board of Graduate Studies provided guidance and advice to the Australian National University Council on all matters of academic policy and practice relating to education, learning and research. It was provided for by section 22 of the Australian National University Act 1946 and statute 4 of 1950. This statute was repealed by statute 36 in 1960. It first met on 4 December 1950 and was chaired by the Vice-Chancellor. Its members were Professors of the University, the Registrar, the Librarian and from 1956 the Master of University House. Its last meeting was on 23 September 1960 and it was effectively replaced by the Board of the Institute of Advanced Studies.

The Australian National University Act 1946 establishes the Council as the governing authority of the University. The Interim Council dates from 1 August 1946 to 30 June 1951. From 1 July 1951 the term Council was used. Its membership was provided for by section 11 of the Act including members elected by the Senate, the House of Representatives, the Governor-General, Convocation, students and staff and co-opted members. It is chaired by the Chancellor and the Vice-Chancellor is also a member. Amendments to the Act in 1960 increased its members to include the Pro-Chancellor, the Deputy Vice-Chancellor, the Principal of the School of General Studies, and the Deputy Chairman of the Board of the Institute of Advanced Studies.

The Finance Committee advises the Australian National University Council on financial matters. It first met on 18 October 1946 and was initially chaired by Dr H C Coombs. Its members included the Vice-Chancellor and other Council members. In 1961 the Deputy Vice-Chancellor and the Deputy Chairman of the Board of the Institute of Advanced Studies also became members.

The Professorial Board was established by amendments to the Australian National University Act in 1960 as an advisory body to Council on any matter relating to education, learning or research. It was chaired by the Vice-Chancellor and all professors of the University were members. As the other two Boards, the Board of the Institute of Advanced Studies and the Board of the School of General Studies (later The Faculties), were identified as being responsible for all academic matters relating to their bodies, the role of the Professorial Board was unclear. Section 15D of the Act provides that the Vice-Chancellor 'may at any time convene a meeting' and 'shall convene such a meeting' if required by the Council, either of the other two Boards, or six members of the Professorial Board. It had its first meeting on 30 September 1969, met rarely and had its last meeting on 12 April 1989.

ANUTECH Pty Ltd, a company wholly owned by the University and registered on 31 August 1979, was originally formed to manage the Solar Power Station project at White Cliffs, New South Wales. It then took on additional roles to promote the application of discoveries and inventions originating in the University, and activities such as the manufacture and sale or lease of specialised equipment and computer software. It changed its name in 2003 to ANU Enterprise Pty Ltd.

The Department of Home Affairs was established on 1 January 1901 and was one of the first seven Departments of State to be established when Australia became a Commonwealth. The functions of the Department included the Federal Capital.

In 1976 the ACT Further Education Branch was established with responsibility for the Canberra Schools of Art and Music. The Schools were then formally established as part of the ACT technical and further education system, when previously the New South Wales Department of Technical Education had provided full-time teaching staff. The Branch became known as the Office of ACT Further Education by 1980. In 1987, the ACT Administration Central Office acquired the functions of TAFE Colleges, the Canberra School of Arts and Canberra School of Music from the Office of ACT Further Education.

The Department of Education and Science was created on 13 December 1966 taking over functions previously the responsibility of the Prime Minister's Department, the Department of the Interior and the Department of Territories. Its functions included education policy and research, administration of the Australian National University, CSIRO, and the Australian Universities Commission. In 1971 it also became responsible for the Anglo Australian Telescope Agreement Act 1970. Following the formation of a new government by the Australian Labor Party after the Federal election of December 1972, the department was abolished on 19 December 1972; its place being taken by a new Department of Education and a Department of Science.

The Prime Minister's Department was created on 1 July 1911 and its responsibilities included the Federal Executive Council, the Auditor-General, the Public Service Commissioner, and Royal Commissions. In 1916, on the abolition of the Department of External Affairs, it inherited its functions, and gained and lost several other functions over its existence. In 1966 its responsibility for education and science including the Australian National University, CSIRO and the Australian Universities Commission transferred to a new Department of Education and Science. On 12 March 1971, the Prime Minister's Department was abolished and replaced by the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet.

The Advisers on Buildings and Ground was a committee which advised Council on the buildings and grounds of the University campus. It first met on 11 January 1947 and was initially chaired by Council member Warren McDonald. Its members included the Vice-Chancellor and both Council and non-Council members.

The Building and Grounds Committee was originally known as the Advisers on Buildings and Grounds which first met in 1947. It advised Council on matters relating to the buildings and grounds of the University campus. Its membership included the Vice-Chancellor, the Principal of the School of General Studies, Council and non-Council members. It appears that the Committee did not meet between 7 April 1989 and 20 March 1992 when the minutes indicate that the Committee has been re-established.

The Standing Committee of the Australian National University Council was provided for by section 24 of the Australian National University Act 1946 and was delegated with the authority for much of the routine management of the University. It was appointed in 1951, first meeting on 13 July that year. The Vice-Chancellor originally chaired the meetings but from 1971 the Act was amended and the Pro-Chancellor took on this role. Its membership of 7-9 Council members was largely of University officers. The Act was further amended in 1991, removing reference to the Standing Committee, although it continued to meet less frequently until June 2000.

The Board of the Institute of Advanced Studies was established by amendments to the Australian National University Act in 1960 which effected the association between the ANU and the Canberra University College. The Institute of Advanced Studies comprised the Research Schools of the University, while the CUC departments became the School of General Studies. The Board first met on 28 October 1960. The operation of the Board was governed by Statue 40 which came into operation from January 1961 identifying it as the principal academic body of the Institute, advising the Council on any matter relating to education, learning or research (in this way, it is a successor to the Board of Graduate Studies). The Board's membership included the Vice-Chancellor as Chair, the Deputy Vice-Chancellor, heads of the Research Schools, heads of all departments of the Research Schools, the Principal of the School of General Studies (until 1965), the Librarian, the Registrar, the Master of University House, and three members of the Board of the School of General Studies (from 1980, the Board of The Faculties). A member of the Board was appointed as Deputy Chairman and acted as Chair in the Vice-Chancellor's absence. Further amendments to the Act in 1979, coming into operation in 1980, recognised the long-standing practice of the Deputy Chairman chairing the meetings by creating the position Chairman of the Board of the Institute of Advanced Studies. From July 2001 to June 2004, the advice of the Board to the Council was to be transmitted through the Academic Board. It was disestablished with effect from 1 July 2004 by means of the Higher Education Support (Transitional Provisions and Consequential Amendments) Act 2003.

The Board of The Faculties is a direct successor of the Board of the School of General Studies and was established by amendments to the Australian National University Act in 1979, which came into operation in 1980. These amendments established the position of Chairman of the Board (the Board having previously been officially chaired by the Vice-Chancellor but in practice by a Deputy Chairman) and renamed the School of General Studies as The Faculties comprising the Faculty of Arts, Asian Studies, Economics, Law, and Science. The Board was responsible for advising Council on all academic matters relating to The Faculties. From July 2001 to June 2004 this advice was to be transmitted through the Academic Board. It was disestablished with effect from 1 July 2004 by means of the Higher Education Support (Transitional Provisions and Consequential Amendments) Act 2003.

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

The Sydney Stock Exchange was formed to allow brokers and traders to trade stocks and bonds for companies listed in New South Wales. It formed an association with the stock exchanges in Adelaide, Melbourne, Brisbane Perth and Hobart 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)

The Committee was formed to supervise research on the calculation of tertiary entrance scores for students wishing to enroll in a university. An earlier committee established jointly by the Australian National University, the ACT Schools Authority and the Canberra College of Advanced Education had reported in June 1986 on its investigation into whether there was any systematic bias in the calculation of scores for students in the Australian Capital Territory, arising from factors such as gender, subject choice and choice of school. One of its recommendations was for further research to be undertaken and this later Committee was formed to supervise this work.

John Shields is a Professor in the Discipline of Work and Organisational Studies, the University of Sydney Business School, where he teaches human resource management. His principal areas of research and publication are performance management, reward management, executive remuneration and corporate governance, and business and labour history. In the field of reward management, his most recent book publication is Managing Employee Performance and Reward, Cambridge University Press, 2007. He is currently engaged in an international collaborative project using survey evidence to test one of the verities of current reward management theory and practice, namely that firms that 'align' reward practices with business strategy and other organisational specifics will outperform firms that have misaligned reward practices. A second current project involves an industry partnership examining demographic and cross-cultural effects on Emotional Intelligence self-report scores, using data from five different countries. John Shields has been one of the main people responsible for the development of the a Biographical Register of the Australian Labour Movement.

The Kioloa Management Committee was responsible for the management of the Kioloa field research station, established as the Edith and Joy London Foundation, which was donated by Miss Joy London to the Australian National University. Its chairman reported to the ANU Council and its members included both University and voluntary staff. A review in 2000 reconstituted the Management Committee as the Kioloa Advisory Board, with the day-to-day management undertaken by a Campus Manager and a part-time Campus Administrator. The property is located on the New South Wales south coast between Kioloa and Bawley Point villages.

The Canberra University College Students' Association was formed in April 1932 as the representative body of the students of the College. Its aims were to provide a means of communication between the students and the Council of the College, to promote the social life of students and to represent students in matters affecting their interests. It was managed by a General Committee initially, then a Students' Representative Council. It produced an annual magazine 'Prometheus' and a student newspaper 'Woroni'. There was also a subordinate Sports Union with a Sports Council which included a delegate from each sports club. When the Canberra University College and the Australian National University amalgamated in 1960 the association effectively merged with the Australian National University Students' Association.

The National Institute for Asian Pacific Studies was one of the twelve virtual 'national institutes', bringing together Research Schools, Faculties and Centres by subject discipline, created by a restructure of the University in 2001. The national institutes organised events and communicated with research and teaching staff and students through email groups and websites. A later restructure formalised these groupings into Colleges and in this case the National Institute was absorbed into the College of Asia and the Pacific.

Varghese co-authored The Making of The Australian National University (Allen & Unwin, 1996, and ANU E Press 2009).

The Archives of Business and Labour began in 1953 with the collecting efforts of Noel Butlin, Reader and later Professor in Economic History in the Research School of Social Sciences. The Archives was renamed in April 1992 in honour of its founder as the Noel Butlin Archives Centre.

Dr Amy McGrath OAM wrote The Forging of Votes (1995) about union fraud in the Federated Ironworkers Union, and The Frauding of Votes (1996) about parliamentary fraud. She held the following positions: Foundation Secretary Australian Playwrights Conference (Canberra 1970); Founder Mews Playhouse and Australian Theatre (Lennox St. Newtown); Administrator Mews Playhouse (playreadings 1970-9); Administrator Australian Theatre (public showcase for new work and talent 1971-9); Chairman International Musical Theatre Forum (Festival of Sydney 1987-9); President HS Chapman Society. Co-founder and member HS Chapman Society UK; Senator University of Sydney Senate (2 terms); Oral Archivist National Library of Australia. McGrath was awarded the Order of Australia Medal in 1975 for her work in theatre.

Roger Thompson was a PhD candidate in the Department of Political Science, Research School of Social Sciences at the Australian National University.

Patrick Laurence (Paddy) Troy, trade unionist, was born on 17 January 1908 in South Melbourne. Troy’s family moved to Fremantle, Western Australia, during World War I. He signed up in 1924 as a seaman in the State Shipping Service. In 1934 he joined the Communist Party of Australia and in this capacity he led a strike in 1936 at the Youanmi gold-mine, where he worked as a rigger and safety officer. Imprisoned for three months after the Communist Party was banned in May 1940, Troy returned to the maritime industry at the port of Fremantle and obtained a master's certificate. In 1944 he was elected an official of the Coastal Dock, Rivers and Harbour Works Union of Workers. Troy became the union’s secretary from 1948-1952. In 1955 he helped establish the State branch of the Federated Miscellaneous Workers' Union, and in 1963, the new Western Australian Trades and Labour Council. Troy retired in 1973 and later died on 19 April 1978 in Perth.

Alan Simakoff was president of the ACT Branch of the Administrative and Clerical Officers’ Association (ACOA) in the 1970s until 1980. He was also a member of the Federal Executive Committee of the union and of the Council of Commonwealth Public Service Organisations (CCPSO), from 1975, known as the Council of Australian Government Employees Organisations (CAGEO). In the 1980s he was a member of the Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) Migrant Workers Committee. Simakoff was Director of the Commonwealth Public Service (CPS) Credit Union Co-operative Limited and the Chief Executive Officer of the Federation of Ethnic Communities’ Council of Australia (FECCA) until March 1997.

The firm, which specialised in the manufacture, import and supply of scientific instruments, laboratory apparatus, chemicals and industrial and process control equipment, was founded in Melbourne around 1889 by Carl de Beer and traded under the name of his brother Ernest de Beer and Company. Herbert B Silberberg joined the de Beer partnership in 1903 and, later in the same year, bought the de Beers’ shares in the business. Silberberg carried on as de Beer, Silberberg & Company for four months, after which he changed the name to H B Silberberg & Company. In 1912, with the company operating successfully in Melbourne, H B Silberberg and his family established a new business of the same name in Sydney. During the Great War, 1914-18, the German-sounding name ‘Silberberg’ became a liability. The family changed its name to Selby and by 1917 both Sydney and Melbourne businesses were trading as H B Selby & Company. Esmond Selby joined the Sydney business in 1929 and later became its Managing Director. Benn Selby joined the Melbourne business in 1936 and became its Managing Director. Although brought under the ownership of a holding company (H B Selby Australia Limited) in 1949, H B Selby & Company Pty Ltd, Melbourne and Sydney, continued to operate as distinct entities until July 1974 when they became subsidiaries of a new holding company, Selbys Scientific Limited. In 1982-83 H B Selby Australia Ltd (and subsidiaries Selbys Scientific Ltd and Analite Pty Ltd) succumbed to a triple takeover, firstly by Warburton O’Donnell, then by Comeng Holdings Ltd and, lastly, by Australian National Industries (ANI). The Selby name continued through further changes of ownership until 2002, when, as part of the Biolab Group, it was finally dropped.

Selbys Scientific Limited was incorporated on 1 July 1974 to take over the trading activities of H B Selby and Company Pty Ltd, Melbourne and H B Selby and Company Pty Ltd, Sydney which, although subsidiaries of H B Selby Australia Ltd had been allowed to operate as distinct entities. In 1983 the Board of Selbys Scientific was disbanded and Selbys became a division of the Australian National Industries (ANI) Corporation in 1983.

The success of H B Selby Australia Limited in the 1950s encouraged the Directors to consider opening a business in New Zealand. In March 1962 Selbys purchased an existing New Zealand scientific apparatus, testing equipment and chemicals manufacturing company - George W Wilton & Company Limited - with offices in Wellington and Auckland. In the 1970s other small branches were opened in Christchurch and Dunedin. The Wilton name was retained for the business until 1976 when George W Wilton & Company Limited was changed to Selby-Wilton Scientific Limited. Smith Biolab Limited acquired Selby-Wilton Scientific Limited in 1980.

Analite Pty Ltd, a laboratory equipment manufacturing business established in 1946 by Esmond Selby, Managing Director of the Sydney office of H B Selby & Company Pty Ltd, became a subsidiary of H B Selby Australia Limited in May 1951. Among Analite’s the more notable achievements was the development of sets of one-piece non-magnetic stainless steel analytical masses, accurate enough to be certified by the National Standards Laboratory. In 1982-83 H B Selby Australia Ltd succumbed to a triple takeover, firstly by Warburton O’Donnell, then by Comeng Holdings Ltd and, lastly, by Australian National Industries (ANI). Analite continued as a subsidiary of Australian National Industries until September 1984 when, due to declining profits and competition from overseas markets, it was wound up altogether.

The Australian Commonwealth Post and Telegraph Officers' Association was formed in 1912, and changed its name to the Australian Postal Assistants' Union in 1917. In 1926 it was renamed the Fourth Division Postmasters', Postal Clerks' and Telegraphists' Union, the term 'Fourth Division' referring to the lowest-paid division of the Commonwealth Public Service. It remained an autonomous body until amalgamating with the Australian Third Division Telegraphists' and Postal Clerks' Union, effective from 19 February 1967, to form the Union of Postal Clerks and Telegraphists.