The Australian Retailers' Association was formed in 1974 by major retailers and various state retail associations in an effort to improve the image of the Australian Council of Retailers (formed in 1940). In 1989 the name was changed to the Retail Traders Associations of Australia and in 1991 it was changed to the Retail Council of Australia (RCA). Further amalgamations took place in 1998 to restructure the organisation into a national body under the the Australian Retailers Association.

The Australian Population Association was formed in 1980 and is located at the Australian National University. It is governed by a National Council which plans national activities and co-ordinates Regional Groups. The APA sponsors the WD Borrie Prize to promote the study of population-related issues.

The Australian Institute of Petroleum (AIP) was established in 1976 as an industry association and originally registered in Victoria. Its members comprise of companies involved in refining and/or marketing of petroleum.

The Australian Historical Association was formed at a meeting held on 16 August 1973 and is a national organisation of historians, academics and other professionals working in all fields of history. The AHA awards a range of awards and prizes to new and established historians including the Serle Award and WK Hancock Prize.

The Australian Hairdressers Wigmakers and Hairworkers Employees' Federation was organised in Victoria before 1890. However, it was not registered with the Conciliation and Arbitration Court until the 1 June 1911. The Union amalgamated with the Mannequins' & Models' Guild of Australia and the Shop Distributive & Allied Employees' Association in 1991 to form a new Shop Distributive & Allied Employees' Association.

The union was established in 1902 and registered under the Trades Union Act, 1881. It was affiliated to the New South Wales Branch of the Australian Labor Party from 1981-1982.

The Association was formed by a small group of labourers on 26 May 1906 and was originally known as the South Australian Railway General Workers' Union, which became the South Australian Government General Workers' Association on 1 September 1906. The Association's name was changed to the Australian Government Workers' Association on 21 September 1914. The Association eventually merged into the Australian Liquor Hospitality & Miscellaneous Workers' Union.

The Association was established in 1917 as the Commonwealth Legal Professional Officers Association and changed its name to the Australian Government Lawyers Association in 1974. In 1991 the Association merged with the Professional Officers' Association, Australian Public Service.

In 1909, all the state associations for glass bottle makers formed the Amalgamated Glass Bottle Makers' Union of Australia and it was registered federally the same year. The name was changed to the Australian Glass Workers' Union in 1918. In 1920 the Federated Glass Founders' Association of Australia and the Press and Flint Glass Workers' Union of New South Wales joined the AGWU. In September 1992 the Australian Glass Workers' Union was amalgamated into the Federation of Industrial Manufacturing & Engineering Employees. This union underwent further amalgamations until 1993 when it amalgamated with the Australian Workers Union to form the AWU-FIME Amalgamated Union in 1993, later known simply as the AWU.

In 1913 the federal division of the Federated Saw Mill, Timber Yard and General Wood Workers Employees' Association changed its name to the Amalgamated Timber Workers' Union of Australia. The earlier union had been registered federally in 1907 and had registered branches in Victoria from 1905, Adelaide 1906, New South Wales, Western Australia and Tasmania 1908. Although this union was deregistered in 1918 its members formed a new union, the Australian Timber Workers' Union, in the same year.

The Australian Timber Workers' Union was registered in 1918 after the deregistration of the Amalgamated Timber Workers' Union of Australia. The new union extended coverage to workers in box and case factories, saw makers' shops, joiners' workshops, carpenters, implement workers and wood working machinists. In 1940 the union filed an application and succeeded in extending its coverage to most workers employed in the timber and wood industry including cabinet makers and furniture factories. In 1991 it amalgamated with the Pulp & Paper Workers' Federation of Australia to form the Australian Timber & Allied Industries Union. Later in the year another amalgamation with the Building Workers' Industrial Union of Australia created the ATAIU & BWIU Amalgamated Union. Further amalgamations eventually saw this union become part of the Construction Forestry Mining & Energy Union in 1993.

The Australian Federation of Medical Women was formed in 1927, from existing associations of medical women in Victoria, New South Wales and South Australia, to promote and develop the formal practice of medicine among women. Internationally AFMW is affiliated with the Medical Women's International Association (MWIA).

The Australian Federation of Business and Professional Women, now known as BPW Australia, was formed on 8 February 1947 as an umbrella body for the then six existing Business and Professional Women's Clubs in Australia. BPW Australia is affiliated with International Federation of Business and Professional Women (now BPW International).

The Australian Federation of Air Pilots was originally established as the Australian Institute of Air Pilots and Navigators which then registered as the Australian Air Pilots Association in 1946. The New Guinea Branch was formed in 1947. In 1959 the Association changed its name to AFAP which continues to represent the interests of commercial pilots in all sectors of the Australian aviation industry.

The ACT Police Officers' Association (1933-1979) and subsequently the Federal Police Association (1979-1982) represented the industrial interests of the ACT police until 1982. In August 1982 the Commonwealth Police Officers' Association and Federal Police Association officially merged, and the Industrial Registrar gave the CPOA consent to alter its name to the Australian Federal Police Association (AFPA).

Between 1942 and 1982 the industrial interests of the Commonwealth law enforcement were represented by the Defence Establishments Guard Association (1942-1943), the Peace Officer Guard Association (1943-1958), and the Commonwealth Police Officers' Association (1958-1982). In August 1982 the CPOA and Federal Police Association (1979-1982) officially merged, and the Industrial Registrar gave the CPOA consent to alter its name to the Australian Federal Police Association (AFPA).

The Australian Federal Police Association (AFPA) was established on 29 July 1982 after a merger of the Commonwealth Police Officers' Association and the Federal Police Association, the body representing the industrial interests of the Australian Capital Territory police force. The AFPA is a registered organisation under the Conciliation and Arbitration Act 1904 (as amended) and is affiliated with the Police Federation of Australia and New Zealand. The Association consists of state and territory branches.

The Australian Economic Association was founded in 1887 and held its inaugural meeting on 15 April 1887. Arthur Duckworth was the Association's first secretary and editor of its journal, The Australian Economist.

The Australian Council of Professions was formed on 23 October 1970 at a meeting convened by the New South Wales Council of Professions with representatives of similar councils formed in Victoria, Queensland and South Australia (plus representation by individuals from Western Australia). A constitution for the Council was approved on 12 November 1971. On 16 November 1994 the Council was incorporated as a public company limited by guarantee. At the time of incorporation the then existing Councils of Professions in Victoria, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania and the ACT became Branches of the Council with the NSW Council of Professions opting to retain its autonomy. In 2002 the Council registered the business name Professions Australia in every State and Territory to become officially the Australian Council of Professions Limited trading as Professions Australia. For most purposes the organisation now goes by the name of Professions Australia.

The Australian Wool Industry Conference was formed in 1962 as a result of meetings of the Australian Woolgrowers & Graziers Council with the Australian Wool & Meat Producers Federation. In 1966 the Australian Primary Producers Union's Wool Section joined the Conference. It worked closely with the Australian Wool Board, and its successors, the Australian Wool Commission and the Australian Wool Corporation, and the International Wool Secretariat. In 1980 the AWIC was amalgamated with the Wool Council of Australia.

Australian Council of Furniture Manufacturers was established prior to being formerly registered in Queensland in 1986. The Association represented the Furniture Manufacturers of Australia comprising the Queensland Guild of Furniture Manufacturers, the New South Wales Guild of Furniture Manufacturers, the South Australia Guild of Furniture Manufacturers, the Western Australia Guild of Manufacturers, the Tasmanian Guild of Manufacturers and the Victorian Guild of Manufacturers Ltd. It was restructured in 1989 as the Furniture Manufacturers Association of Australia Ltd which registered in the Australian Capital Territory on 13 September 1989.

This organisation was originally formed as the Australian Confederation of Operating Room Nurses at the first Australasian National Conference for Operating Room Nurses in 1977. In 1978 the inaugural meeting of ACORN was held with each of the six Australian states as member bodies of this national body. In 2000 ACORN became a college and established a Secretariat based in Adelaide. The Australian College of Operating Room Nurses is the peak national perioperative nursing organisation in Australia.

The Australian Association for Research in Education was founded at the Meeting to Consider the Formation of an Association of Researchers in Education held on 13-14 March 1970 at the office of the Australian Council for Educational Research. Its membership consists of educational researchers in universities, Technical and Further Education (TAFE), schools, educational systems, private consultants and non-profit organisations. The AARE publishes the journal, The Australian Educational Researcher.

The union was registered in 1906 as the Australasian Federated Butchers Union and the name was changed in 1912 to the Australasian Meat Industry Employees Union. Officially known as the AMIEU, in 2002 it became commonly known as the Meatworkers Union.

The Association for Tertiary Education Management Inc (ATEM) was founded as the Australian Institute of College Administrators in 1975 originally under the direction of the Caulfield Institute of Technology Administrative Officers Association. Due to considerable interest from other states their focus shifted to the formation of a national organisation. At the first Annual General Meeting of the AICA held on 30 April 1976, the organisation's name was revised to the Australian Institute of Tertiary Education Administrators. In 1996 the organisation's name was changed to the Association for Tertiary Education Management Inc.

Three years after the foundation of the Colony of South Australia in 1836, the Adelaide Chamber of Commerce was formed. Its first two presidents were Jack Barton Hack and John Morphett. In 1907 the Chamber had 133 members and its management was entrusted to a General Committee of 18 members. In 1972 the Chamber merged with the South Australian Chamber of Manufactures Incorporated to form the Chamber of Commerce & Industry South Australia Inc (1972 - 1993).

The Armed Forces Federation of Australia was established in order to represent the interests of members of the Australian Defence Force and their families. It was registered in the Australian Capitial Territory and published the journal Viewpoint, also known as ArFFA's viewpoint. The organisation wound up in 2006.

Thomas Sutcliffe Mort died in May 1878 at his home on the South Coast of New South Wales, Comerang House, Bodalla. By his will, dated 28 February 1878, he left his property to his wife and children, in trust for those under the age of 24. The Will appointed as Trustees his wife, Marianne Elizabeth Mort, his eldest son, James Laidley Mort and T. S. Mort's friends Benjamin Buchanan, Lesley G. Herring and Charles James Manning. Laidley Mort later renounced his Trusteeship. Marianne Elizabeth Mort continued to take an active interest in the affairs of the Estate for many years. She died on 7 October 1909.

Professor Walter Crocker was born on 25 March 1902 at Broken Hill, New South Wales. In 1946 he was offered the post of first head of the African section in the United Nations secretariat. He remained with the UN in New York until 1949 when he took up an appointment as Professor in the Department of International Relations, Research School of Pacific Studies at the Australian National University. During his term at the ANU he acted as vice-chancellor in 1951. From 1952 he began an 18 year career with the Department of External Affairs as a senior diplomat, with his first posting as Australia’s High Commissioner to India 1952-1954. Sir Walter Crocker died in Adelaide on 14 November 2002.

David Dexter was a former World War II army officer, diplomat, military historian, and Secretary of the Australian Universities Commission in the 1960s. He was the Registrar, Property and Plans, at the Australian National University 1968-1979. After retiring, Dexter wrote a book about the development of the University, The ANU Campus, published in 1991.

The association was inaugurated as the Federal Council of the Chambers of Automotive Industries in July 1939 and changed its name to the Federal Council of Automotive Industries in 1943. The association is registered as the Federal Chamber of Automotive Industries since 10 January 1980.

In 1909 the first federation of dental societies was formed as the Australian Dental Association. The following year the Association's name changed to the National Dental Association. At its first meeting in May 1911, delegates represented three societies in New South Wales, two in Victoria and one in Queensland, South Australia and Western Australia. During 1911-1928 several societies in both New South Wales and Victoria merged. The Association's original title was adopted in August 1927 and a Tasmanian branch was formed in August 1928. The Association was incorporated in the Australian Capital Territory in December 1971.

Wright Heaton & Co Limited was founded in 1862 and was incorporated in New South Wales on 2 March 1880. The company was formed to merge the New South Wales partnership of Wright Heaton Barber & Co, formed in 1875, with the Victorian company William McCulloch & Co Limited. The company was listed on the Sydney Stock Exchange in 1896. In 1898 it bought the Melbourne firm McCulloch Carrying Company Proprietary Limited and its subsidiary Murray River Sawmills Limited. By 1900 the company had branches in 29 towns in New South Wales and four in Queensland. In 1909 the Queensland branches closed and the Queensland company liquidated. In the late 19th century its business was chiefly carrying wool produced in NSW, and through the McCulloch subsidiary it operated a large fleet of barges on the Murray River. The company diversified into farm produce and by the 1950s was chiefly a wholesale chain-grocer with 30 branches in NSW and 2 in Victoria. During the 1960s and early 1970s the company added subsidiaries by acquiring Miller's Stores, Worsley Foods Pty Ltd, Willarene Distributors Pty Ltd and Hussar Pty Limited. In 1977 Wright Heaton & Co Limited was acquired by Tooth & Co Limited. At the time the company had five subsidiaries: Wright Heaton Stores Pty Ltd, Wright McCulloch Pty Ltd, Worsley Foods Pty Ltd, Wright Heaton Rural Pty Ltd and Wright Heaton Distributors Pty Ltd. The company became a subsidiary of Tooth & Co Limited and was delisted from the Stock Exchange in 1978.

The Adelaide steamship Company was incorporated in Adelaide, South Australia, on 8 October 1875. The company began by chartering the steamer Flinders and commissioning new ships from British builders. The company joined the Steamship Owners' Association during the 1880s and was liquidated and reconstructed in 1900 and 1920 for more efficiency and profitability. During the 1940s the company experienced a decline in trade and began to acquire interests in other companies and projects. On 1 January 1964 the company's interstate fleet was merged with that of McIlwraith McEarcharn Ltd in a new company, Associated Steamships Limited in which Adelaide Steamship had a 40% share. These shares were bought by Bulkships Limited in 1965. In 1968 Adelaide Steamship Industries Pty Ltd was formed to concentrate the main trading activities of the company within one subsidiary. By 1977 the company had finished its involvement with shipowning and operating. At this time it had diversified into investment and property ownership, vineyard and wine production and optical goods manufacture, distribution and engineering. The company became known as Residual Assco on 30 April 1997 and is currently delisted from the Australian Securities Exchange.

William Edward Rex Wilson wrote 'A history of the Australian Agricultural Co' for his Master of Arts thesis in 1933. His thesis drew on history of the company in the Newcastle and Peel River regions, New South Wales.

Mary Wright was born in 1903 in Sydney, New South Wales. In 1919 she worked in a chocolate factory while living with her sister in Glebe and at age 17 she married John Lamm and started a family. She later married trade unionist Tom Wright. In 1926 she became involved with the Militant Women’s Group, based at the Trades Hall. The group was led by Hettie Weitzel and included Annie Isaacs, Clarice Irwin, Edna Nelson, Jean Thompson and Joy Barrington. As part of the group Mary Wright gave support to the Timber Workers in Sydney during the lockout in 1929 and in that year she joined the Communist Party of Australia. In 1930 the Militant Women’s Group dissolved. She was a founder of the International Women’s Day celebrations in Sydney and in 1936 became President of the first Sydney IWD Committee. She was involved in the formation of the Council of Action for Equal Pay in 1937 and became a State Council member of the United Associations of Women, taking part in drawing up the Women’s Charter of equal rights. She was a member of the New Housewives’ Association and a member of its successor, the Union of Australian Women when it was formed in 1950. In 1953 Mary and Tom Wright moved to Bankstown, where Mary became President of the Bankstown Branch of the UAW. Mary resigned from the CPA with Tom Wright in 1971 and joined the new Socialist Party of Australia.

Ian Alexander Hamilton Turner was born on 10 March 1922 at East Malvern, Melbourne. He was educated at Nhill State School, Geelong College and the University of Melbourne where his political interests were informed by the Spanish Civil War, fascism and communism. On 23 October 1941 Turner was called up for full-time service and in August 1942 he transferred to the Australian Imperial Force. In 1943 he joined the Communist Party of Australia. After his discharge from the AIF on 7 February 1945 Turner returned to the University of Melbourne (LLB, 1948; BA, 1949) where he was co-editor of Farrago, joint-secretary of the Labor Club and president of the Students' Representative Council. In 1949 Turner was made secretary of the Australian Peace Council. Following a directive from the CPA, he obtained a job as a railway cleaner and was elected an official with the Australian Railways Union. When Turner was sacked from the railways in 1952, he stood unsuccessfully for the Legislative Assembly seat of Glen Iris as a communist candidate and worked as secretary of the Australasian Book Society. He was expelled from the CPA in 1958 for his opposition to the Soviet Union’s suppression of the Hungarian uprising of 1956. Turner obtained his PhD in 1963 at the Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University. His thesis provided the foundation for his books, Industrial Labour and Politics (Canberra, 1965) and Sydney’s Burning (Melbourne, 1967). After lecturing in history at the University of Adelaide from 1962, he moved to Monash University, Melbourne in 1964 where he taught Australian History and was promoted to associate-professor in 1969. Turner died on 27 December 1978 on Erith Island, Bass Strait.

Phil Thorne was born in Melbourne in 1908 and was employed as a solicitor’s clerk until 1927. Following a period of farming in Queensland, he became a clerk in the offices of Jack Wishart, a Sydney solicitor interested in social causes. In late 1930 he joined the Friends of the Soviet Union and was a member of International Class-War Prisoners Aid. Thorne was editor of Labour Defender, the journal of the International Labour Defence, and in 1936 was elected Secretary of the Spanish Relief Committee, an organisation formed in Sydney on 26 August 1936 by the Movement Against War and Fascism and the International Labour Defence. Thorne was active in the SRC until it disbanded at the outbreak of World War II.

Barbara Reed holds a BA (Hons) from the University of Sydney, a MA (Hons) from the University of Melbourne and a Diploma in Archives Administration from the University of New South Wales. She is a Senior Lecturer at Monash University, Melbourne, and has been active as a trainer and recordkeeping professional.

Betty Reilly was born on 15 November 1910. She married Frederick John Reilly in 1936 and was later divorced in 1948. Reilly joined the St Kilda Branch of the Communist Party of Australia in 1937. She volunteered to assist the Newtown strike committee during the 1941 textile strike. She then worked at Bonds mill in Camperdown but was subsequently sacked; and found work as a doffer at Australian Woollen Mills, when she began organising workers into the Textile Workers’ Union. Reilly was appointed shop steward and was active in the 1943 Sydney textile strike but (reluctantly) supported the CPA’s call to end strike action. She became secretary of the CPA Women’s Committee. Active in Union of Australian Women; employed by Women’s International Democratic Federation, Berlin, 1952-55; and remained active in the women’s movement and peace movement in Australia. Her published articles include “A Stitch in time: experiences in the rag trade” (Australian Left Review, no. 82 September 1982) and “Knowing we were right” (Australian Left Review, no. 85 Spring 1983).

Donald William Rawson joined the Australian National University in December 1957 as a Research Fellow in the Department of Political Sciences. He was promoted to Fellow in July 1960 and in 1961 resigned to begin a Readership in Political Science at the University of Queensland. He rejoined the ANU as Senior Research Fellow in 1964 and was then made Senior Fellow in 1965. In May 1989 Rawson became the first Associate Director of the Research School of Social Sciences, retaining the position until 1992 when he returned to full-time academic work as a Senior Fellow in the Division of Historical Studies. He retired in 1995. Rawson died on 20 June 1997 in Canberra.

Tom Molomby was president of the New South Wales Branch of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) Staff Association from September 1974 to October 1976. He was vice-president of the association during the period from October 1976 to March 1982, and president again from March 1982 to November 1984. He was staff-elected Director of the ABC Board of Management from November 1983 to June 1988. He became the founding producer and presenter of The Law Report, on Radio National. He is the author of four books on legal issues as well as Is There a Moderate on the Roof (1991), an account of his time as a director of the ABC. Since leaving the ABC he has practiced as a barrister while continuing as a writer.

F D Mercer worked for the Albany shipping agent, Henry Wills and Co Ltd.

Jack Dwyer was a delegate for the Federated Miscellaneous Workers' Union from the early 1940s until the 1960s, and after that an organiser for the same union until 1967. He was Assistant Branch Secretary of the New South Wales Branch of the Union from 1967 until his retirement in 1974.

Dr Bauer was born in New York State, and served in World War II as a medical corpsman in the South Pacific. He was a founding member of Institute of Australian Geographers (IAG) in 1958. He completed his doctoral thesis in 1960 in Geography, Australian National University. From 1962-65 Bauer lectured in Geography at the University College of Townsville. During his time he began working on a project for the Division of Land Research & Regional Survey, CSIRO. In 1973 he became inaugural Director of the North Australian Research Unit (NARU), Australian National University, Darwin. He died in Queensland in 1998.

Ethel Tory was born on 27 July 1912 in Subiaco, Western Australia. Her parents were Frank Bertram Tory, a legal manager and estate agent, originally from Blandford, Dorset and Ethel Marion Victoria Johnson, born in Guildford, Western Australia. Tory enrolled in a Bachelor of Arts at the University of Western Australia in 1933, after spending two years living with family in Dorset and in Grand Luce, Sarthe in France. She graduated with Honours in French in 1936, added an Honours in Latin in 1938 and completed a Diploma of Education in 1939. During the war, she was employed in the Censor's Office in the Department of Information to scan mail in French and Latin and as a secondary school teacher. In 1941 she won the Hackett Research Scholarship from the University of Western Australia which allowed her to conduct research into French literature.

In 1946 she was appointed Tutor in French at the University of Western Australia and lecturer in Latin in 1947. In 1947, Tory was awarded a French government scholarship and attended the University of Paris (La Sorbonne) where she obtained the Diplôme de littérature française contemporaine (mention honorable) in 1948. She stayed in France for the next ten years teaching and translating, and undertaking research for her doctoral thesis resulting in the award of Docteur de l’université (mention très honorable) from the University of Paris in 1961.

In February 1961 she commenced as a lecturer in French in the School of General Studies at the Australian National University, where she was promoted to Senior Lecturer in July 1965 and served as Acting Head of the Department of Modern Languages in 1969 and again from 1974 to 1975 when it was the Department of Romance Languages. In 1970, she published an edition of Giraudoux’s play Intermezzo for use in schools and universities. Tory retired in 1977 but continued to teach French and to support drama studies at the Australian National University through donations. The EE Tory Endowment was established to support academics and students in drama and language through her bequest to the ANU on her death in 2003.

Joan Corbett was born in Montreal, Canada on 3 August 1952. She was educated at Turner Primary School and Canberra High School in the Australian Capital Territory, and Marion High School in South Australia. She graduated with a Bachelor of Economics from the Australian National University in 1974, and awarded a Graduate Diploma in Education from the University of Canberra in 1975. From 1976 to 1981 Corbett worked as a high school mathematics teacher. She became the Schools Liaison Officer for the ACT Teachers' Federation 1981-83, and then General Secretary, ACT Teachers' Federation 1983-86. Corbett was the first Women's Officer appointed to the Australian Teachers' Federation 1986-89. From 1989 to 1992 she worked for the Economic Policy and Analysis Section, Youth Bureau of the Department of Employment, Education and Training. In 1992 she took up a postgraduate scholarship offered by the Department to complete a Master of Public Policy degree at the Australian National University, and was a member of the university's Board of Studies, Graduate Program in Public Policy. In 1993 she worked as an Adviser to the Minister for Employment, Education and Training and in September 1993 as Director of the Women's Policy Section of the Department of Employment, Education and Training. In 2009 Corbett held the position of Assistant Secretary for the Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing. She joined the University of Canberra in 2011 and is Associate Professor in Public Health.

Pauline Marcus Griffin was born in Sydney on 21 December 1925. She completed a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Sydney in 1946 and a Diploma of Social Studies in 1947. She was a social worker with the Local Board of Health, City of Adelaide 1947-1949, and with the Commonwealth Department of Immigration 1949-1951. Griffin became personnel manager for Bradmill Industries Ltd 1953-1973 and for Ethnor Pty Ltd 1973-1975. She was appointed to Commissioner of the Australian Conciliation and Arbitration Commission and the Industrial Relations Commission 1975-1990. During this period she was a member of the Commonwealth Committee of Inquiry into Education and Training 1976-1979, Chair of the National Committee on Discrimination in Employment and Occupation 1982-1986, and was appointed to the Australian National University Council in 1978. Her involvement with the ANU included her appointment as the University Pro-Chancellor in 1991 until her retirement from this position and from Council on 13 November 1998. She was chair of the National Committee on Discrimination in Employment and Education and a member of the 4th National Women’s Consultative Council in the 1990s. Griffin was a member of numerous University committees including the Higher Degrees Committee 1990-c.1993; Governing Body of Fenner Hall 1992-1998; Deputy Chair, Appeals Committee 1993–c. 1995; Chair, Appeals Committee 1996–1998; Chair, Public Affairs Committee 1996–1999; Building and Grounds Committee 1999–2000; Chair, Foundation for the Visual Arts 2003–2005.

In 1962 Unilever amalgamated its two major soap marketing companies, J Kitchen & Sons Pty Ltd of Melbourne and Lever Brothers Pty Ltd of Sydney, to form Lever & Kitchen Pty Ltd. Lever & Kitchen became Unilever Australia’s major marketing company for branded soaps, synthetic detergents and allied products. Prior to 1962 Unilever’s production of detergents in Australia had taken place at Balmain (Lever Brothers) and Port Melbourne (J Kitchen & Sons). After 1965 Balmain became the sole manufacturing centre for all detergents, toilet preparations, edible oils and cooking fats - each having its own separate factory. Consumer demand for Lever & Kitchen’s products increased steadily and, as there was no space for further expansion at the Balmain site, a decision was made to buy land at Minto and to erect a new factory there. Initially this was for the manufacture and packaging of washing powders and, in 1979, Lever & Kitchen began production of its powder products, including Omo, Omomatic, Surf, Drive, Softly and Rinso from the new factory at Minto. As new or additional plant was needed for other products in the company’s range, in 1987, another factory was opened at Minto to manufacture liquid detergents (washing up liquids such as Sunlight Liquid, Lux Liquid and Kit), fabric softener (Comfort), floor cleaner (Handy Andy) and scourers (Jif and Vim). Also manufactured at Minto were toilet soaps (Lux Toilet Soap, Sunlight Toilet Soap), laundry soap (Sunlight) and flakes (Lux Flakes). The Balmain site was sold in 1988 and many of the production lines were transferred directly to Port Melbourne. By 1989, after renovations at the old John Kitchen detergent building at Port Melbourne, the factory was responsible for the production of all Lever & Kitchen soaps.In 1989 the home and personal care business of Lever and Kitchen Pty Ltd merged with Rexona Pty Ltd to form L&K:Rexona with its Head Office located at North Rocks, Sydney.The company changed name in 1993 to Lever Rexona and, in 2000, merged with Unilever Foods to form what was to become known as Unilever Australasia.

William Burford founded his soap and candle-making business at Grenfell Street, Adelaide in 1840. He took his two sons, Benjamin and William, into partnership in 1878 and the firm became known as WH Burford & Sons. In 1885 the business transferred to Sturt Street, where, under the directorship of William Burford (jnr), it flourished. Apart from making candles and soap and rendering tallow, WH Burford & Sons began manufacturing other products such as glycerine, blacking, soda crystals, washing blue, lubricating oils, fire kindlers, egg preserver, starch, cornflour and dried gluten. In 1887 the firm purchased the Apollo Works at Hindmarsh and in 1888, Frearson Brothers’ printing business, also in Hindmarsh. Other branches were established at Broken Hill, Port Pirie, Kadina, Port Augusta, Mount Gambier, and at North Fremantle and Kalgoorlie in Western Australia so that, by the time of the first world war (1914-18), WH Burford & Sons dominated the soap and candle market in most of the southern and western part of Australia. A large portion of the Sturt Street factory was destroyed by fire in 1919 which prompted the construction of a more modern factory at Dry Creek. The Dry Creek factory opened in 1923 and became the centre for Burford’s operations in the Adelaide area. In 1924 J Kitchen and Sons in Melbourne and Lever Brothers in Sydney merged with WH Burford & Sons to form Australian Producers Co-Partnership Ltd (renamed Associated Enterprises Pty Ltd in 1932, Lever Associated Enterprises Pty Ltd in 1944). The activities of the individual companies were coordinated by a General (Central) Management Board, comprising representatives of Lever Brothers in Balmain, the Kitchen interests and Levers Pacific Plantations. Unilever developed in Australia from this basis. During the 1930s WH Burford & Sons and J Kitchen and Sons undertook a far-reaching rationalisation scheme. It originated in 1928 after a disastrous fire in the Kitchen factory in Fremantle. Burford’s, Kitchen’s main rivals, were turned to for assistance. Kitchen’s goods were made at the Burford factory, then packed and sold by the Kitchen organisation. The scheme worked well and, in 1932, the Directors of both J Kitchen & Sons and WH Burford & Sons formed a new company, Soap Distributors Ltd, to control the manufacture and distribution of both companies’ products in southern and western Australia. By 1937 all Burford-owned factories were being run by J Kitchen & Sons Pty Ltd. In 1945 Unilever began a period of rationalisation, diversification and integration in Australia. From 1948 production at the Burford factory in Adelaide was wound down and in 1956 Unilever (Australia) Pty Ltd (UAPL) took over Lever Associated Enterprises Pty Ltd as the holding company for all Unilever’s Australian interests. Factories owned by the operating companies, including Burford’s, came under its control. Unilever (Australia) bought out WH Burford & Sons completely in 1957.

Lever Brothers, one of the first companies to manufacture soap from vegetable oils, was founded by William Hesketh Lever and his brother, James Darcy Lever in England, in 1885. Lever gave the soap the brand name of ‘Sunlight’ and sold it wrapped in distinctive packs. In 1889 Lever Brothers opened an office in Sydney and products manufactured in England were imported into Australia and sold, mainly through agents. In return, copra from the Pacific islands and Australian tallow, were shipped, as raw materials, to the company’s works at Port Sunlight. In 1897 an oil and copra plant was established at Balmain, Sydney, and, in 1900, the Balmain plant began to manufacture Sunlight soap and glycerine. Other products followed. Lever Brothers Ltd (Australia) had been incorporated in New South Wales as an Australian enterprise, 29 December 1899, and the soap works and copra mill at Balmain were owned by the new company. Lever’s Australian business developed into a stable soap, detergent and edible oil manufacturing enterprise, built up by mergers with dominant rivals. The first branch office of Lever Bothers Ltd (Australia) was opened in Melbourne in 1911 and by 1924 branch offices had replaced agents’ offices in Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth. Lever Brothers (Australia) Ltd began an association with J Kitchen and Sons Pty Ltd of Melbourne and WH Burford and Sons Ltd of Adelaide, in 1914 and in 1924 all three merged to form Australian Producers Co-Partnership Ltd (renamed Associated Enterprises Pty Ltd in 1932 and Lever Associated Enterprises Pty Ltd in 1944). The business activities of each firm were coordinated by a General (Central) Management Board, comprising representatives of Lever Brothers in Balmain, the Kitchen interests and Levers Pacific Plantations. After the amalgamation of Lever Brothers and Unilever was complete, in 1937, Lever Bothers Ltd (Australia) became Lever Bothers Pty Ltd (Australia). In 1956 Unilever (Australia) Pty Ltd (UAPL) took over Lever Associated Enterprises Pty Ltd as the holding company for all Unilever’s Australian interests, including Lever Bothers Pty Ltd. Then, in 1962, following a further period of rationalisation, diversification and integration, Unilever amalgamated its two major Australian soap marketing companies, J Kitchen & Sons Pty Ltd of Melbourne and Lever Brothers Pty Ltd of Sydney to form Lever & Kitchen Pty Ltd.

In 1856 John Kitchen and his sons, John Ambrose, Phillip and Theophilus, began making tallow candles from butchers' scraps in the backyard of their home at Emerald Hill (South Melbourne). Ordered out as an offensive trade, the business removed to Sandridge (Port Melbourne) in 1858. Fire destroyed the company's premises in 1860, but they were quickly rebuilt and a Melbourne office was opened. In 1870 the Kitchens bought Gossage Brothers' soap and candle factory at Footscray to which they transferred their boiling-down operations. Manufacture of stearine candles commenced there in 1871. The driving force in the subsequent expansion of J Kitchen & Sons was John Ambrose, who established a factory in Wellington, New Zealand (1876), and bought out competitors at Sandhurst/Bendigo (1878), Echuca (1887) and Wangaratta (1887). Incorporated in 1883, J Kitchen & Sons, now employed some 300 workers at their factory in Melbourne. Apart from making candles and soap, and rendering tallow, they were also manufacturing glycerine, washing blue, soda crystals and baking powder. Following a merger with Apollo Company Limited in 1885 J Kitchen & Sons became the pre-eminent soap and candle manufacturer in the eastern mainland colonies, with a factory in Brisbane and a half-interest in the Sydney Soap & Candle Company Limited. A boiling-down factory was opened in Alexandria, a suburb of Sydney, in 1886 and, by 1895 J Kitchen & Sons had successfully introduced machine milling to Australia - instead of being mixed with the melted soap, perfumes were milled and pressed in by machine. J Kitchen & Sons moved into the southern and western parts of Australia by 1902 and, in 1907, began producing copra oil from a plantation at Milne Bay, Papua. Velvet soap was introduced as a brand name in 1906 and Solvol in 1915. In February 1915 the Company became a proprietary one and the name altered to J Kitchen & Sons Pty Ltd. By 1924 all Kitchen interests throughout Australia had been absorbed, by purchase, into J Kitchen & Sons Pty Ltd. The main premises, located at Port Melbourne, covered one hundred and seventeen acres and employed about 1,400 people. J Kitchen and Sons merged with WH Burford & Sons of Adelaide and Lever Brothers of Sydney in 1924 to form Australian Producers Co-Partnership Ltd (renamed Associated Enterprises Pty Ltd in 1932). The activities of the individual companies were coordinated by a General (Central) Management Board, comprising representatives of Lever Brothers in Balmain, the Kitchen interests and Levers Pacific Plantations. Unilever developed in Australia from this basis. In 1944 Associated Enterprises Pty Ltd was renamed Lever Associated Enterprises Pty Ltd (LAEP). The central executive of LAEP took over the duties of the Chairman and the directors of each of the subordinate companies, together with the technical direction that determined the character and composition of the products each company made. In 1945 Unilever began a period of rationalisation, diversification and integration in Australia. From 1948 production at the Kitchen factory in Brisbane was wound down and, in 1956 Unilever (Australia) Pty Ltd (UAPL) became the holding company for all Unilever’s Australian interests. Further rationalisation was conceived and in 1962 Unilever’s two major Australian soap marketing companies, J Kitchen & Sons Pty Ltd of Melbourne and Lever Brothers Pty Ltd of Sydney amalgamated to form Lever & Kitchen Pty Ltd.

Les Bowling was a Builders Labourers Federation delegate at the White Industries Pty Ltd National Convention Centre site. He was an activist in the Australian Building Construction Employees & Builders Labourers Federation, ACT Branch and was part of a reform team which contested the Building Workers' Industry Union ACT Branch elections in 1987. Bowling was married to Marj MacGregor, a trade union official with the ABCE&BLF, ACT Branch.

Jerzy (George) Zubrzycki was born in Krakow, Poland on 12 January 1920. After serving in the army and with the Polish underground movement he evacuated to Britain in June 1940 where he served with the Polish Parachute Brigade, and the Polish Section of the Special Operations Executive. In September 1945 Zubrzycki began studies at the London School of Economics, graduating in 1952 with a MScEcon in population studies. He then enrolled and completed a PhD at the Free Polish University in London. In 1955 Zubrzycki accepted a post as Research Fellow in the Department of Demography, Research School of Social Sciences at the Australian National University. He continued to work at the ANU as a Senior Fellow in Sociology, RSSS, from 2 March 1959 and Professorial Fellow from 9 July 1965. He was founding Professor of the Department of Sociology in the Faculty of Arts in 1970. He wrote extensively on immigration, conducted research and collected population statistics influential in shaping government policies on immigration and multiculturalism. Zubrzycki was involved in a number of organisations and government bodies including the Australian Ethnic Affairs Council, the Australian Immigration Advisory Council, the National Multicultural Advisory Council, Australian Aid to Poland, the World Health Organisation Fourth World Project, the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences at the Vatican and the National Museum of Australia. Zubrzycki retired from the ANU in 1986. He died in Canberra on 20 May 2009.

Sergio Anthony (Serge) Zorino was an industrial research officer and member of the Communist Party of Australia. From 1976-1977 he was a tutor at the University of New South Wales. He was Research Officer, Secretary ACT, then Assistant Secretary NSW, State Secretary NSW (Coast District Branch) of the Federated Engine Drivers’ and Firemen’s Association (FEDFA) over the period 1977-1986. Zorino then worked as a Research Officer with the Newcastle Workers’ Health Centre, New South Wales 1987-1988 and as Senior Industrial Officer with the Newcastle Trades Hall Council 1988-1989.

Con Zaglas was an organiser with the Victorian Branch of the Vehicle Builders Employee Federation with particular involvement and responsibility for Australian Motor Industries Ltd.

The company was founded by merchant squatter, Isaac Younghusband, originally as Younghusband & Co Ltd and was registered in Victoria on 1 May 1889. The business was engaged in woolbroking and as stock and station agents. In 1897 it became a proprietary company under the name of Younghusband & Co Pty Ltd. Another change in name occurred in 1902 when the company took over the woolbrokers R Goldsbrough Row & Co Pty Ltd and became known as Younghusband Row & Co Pty Ltd. In 1920 the company became known as Younghusband Limited. In September 1971 the company was taken over by Elder Smith Goldsbrough Mort Ltd.

The company was incorporated on 21 December 1933 with a registered office at 4 Bridge Street, Sydney. It operated Bugilbone (c. 1936-?), Mitchell Downs (1935-60), Keelendi (1935-60) and Grong Grong (1945-1960) stations. It was among the Vickery Family group of companies until it was purchased by the New Zealand and Australian Land (NZAL) Company in 1960. NZAL took over the management of Mitchell Downs and its subsidiary Murromoi Pty Ltd took over Grong Grong and Keelendi Stations.

The company, which ran a gasworks in Wollongong, was registered in Sydney on 5 April 1882 and became a subsidiary of Colonial Gas Holdings Ltd in 1926. Around 1969 the company name changed to Wollongong Gas Limited. The company was deregistered on 1 August 1996.

Evan Alexander Wisdom was born on 29 September 1869 at Inverness, Scotland. At the age of 22 he migrated to Western Australia and went as a prospector to Southern Cross on the Yilgarn goldfield. In 1892 he joined the goldfield at Coolgardie and opened a store. He then joined the goldfield at Kalgoorlie acquiring extensive mining interests and establishing the Exchange Hotel. In October 1901 Wisdom was appointed lieutenant in the Western Australian Mounted Infantry and in 1908 was brigade major of the Western Australian Infantry Brigade. He was mayor of Cottesloe in 1908-13 and member for Claremont in the Legislative Assembly in 1911-1917. On the onset of war in 1914 Wisdom was in charge of the Karrakatta training camp. He transferred to the Australian Imperial Forces in March 1915 and served in the Gallipoli campaign and the Western Front commanding the 18th Infantry Battalion, 7th Infantry Brigade and the “Liaison Force”. Wisdom returned to Australia in December 1919 and on 21 March 1921 he succeeded Brigadier General Thomas Griffiths as military administrator of the Mandated Territory of New Guinea. His first task was to convert the administration to a civil one and on 9 May 1921 a civil government was established and Wisdom became a civil administrator. In 1930, at the onset of the depression, the fall in copra prices and gold production led to reduced government activities. In March 1932 Wisdom opened the Bulolo Gold Dredging Co. After eleven years as administrator, Wisdom left Rabaul in June 1932 and retired in June 1933. He returned to his gold mining ventures and travelled between Melbourne and Perth. Wisdom died in Melbourne on 7 December 1945.

Sylvia Winters was a barrister at the New South Wales Bar. Winters worked as a barrister for the Women’s Electoral Lobby (WEL) in 1992-1993 in the National Wage Case engaged on their campaign over the implications of enterprise bargaining on women.

The woolbroking firm, Winchcombe, Carson & Co, was founded in March 1889 by Frederick Earle Winchcombe, Duncan Carson, C L Wallis and E J Turton. In September 1899 the firm was incorporated in New South Wales as Winchcombe, Carson & Co Ltd and changed its name to Winchcombe, Carson Ltd in 1910. The company was taken over by Industrial Equity Limited on 27 February 1980.

Mackenzie James Wilson joined the New Zealand & Australian Land Co in June 1934 as a jackeroo at the Weilmoringle Station. In 1939 he became an overseer and in 1945 manager of the station. In 1951 Wilson was transferred to the Sydney Office to become the Assistant Pastoral Inspector and then Pastoral Inspector in 1953. Sometime later he was appointed Assistant General Manager and General Manager in Australia in 1964. He became a Director in 1967. In 1969 the New Zealand & Australian Land Co was taken over by Dalgety and New Zealand Loan Ltd. Following the merger, Wilson was appointed Assistant General Manager of Dalgety’s Pastoral Division, but restructuring of the Division he was offered to leave. After his resignation on 4 October 1970, Wilson worked as a private pastoral consultant to the Northern Cattle Co Ltd, M L C Ltd and Australian Mutual Provident Society (AMP) and other companies. In October 1973 Wilson joined AMP as Assistant to their Pastoral Investment Manager and participated in the Tea Gardens Land Project in 1974-1975. He stayed with AMP until 25 July 1975 when he joined the Australian Pastoral Company Ltd, and appointed as General Manager in October 1975. Australian Pastoral Company Ltd was a fully owned subsidiary of the Australian Continental Resources Ltd.

John Lascelles Jenner Wilson was born in New Zealand and graduated from Auckland University (BA) in 1934. Wilson was involved in the Workers’ Educational Association in New Zealand and came to Australia on an appointment as Director of Tutorial Classes at the University of Sydney, a position he held from the 1950s to 1960s. He was involved in the formation of the Association of Adult Education in 1960. From 1965-1968 he held the position of Officer in Charge, Department of Adult Education at the Australian National University. During this time Wilson became involved with the development of an independent education authority for the Australian Capital Territory and was convenor of the working party which helped establish the ACT Education Authority on 1 January 1977.

Formed in 1861 by William McCulloch (1832-1909), it became the largest carrying company in Victoria. Wm McCulloch & Co Ltd were ship owners and shipping agents, contracting and general carriers, agents to the Victorian Railways, forward, insurance and custom-house agents. The head office was located at 19 Queen Street, Melbourne. There were 19 branch offices (including Echuca) and 47 agencies. C J Jenner was Chairman and its Secretaries included W G Sprigg (1877 - 1881); George Ferguson (1881 - 1882); J K Mayne (1883 - 1885). On 22 December 1885 a General Meeting of shareholders met to confirm the change of name of the company to The Australasian Carrying and Shipping Co Ltd. The new company was reorganised in 1886 with F W Browne as Secretary and H R Reid as Director. On 28 January 1891 a Liquidators meeting was held to discuss winding up the company. The company was deregistered on 12 November 1897.

The original sheep-dip company was founded by William Cooper in 1843 in Berkhamsted, England. In 1880 it established agencies in Sydney, Melbourne and Tasmania to sell Cooper products. In 1920 the business became locally registered as William Cooper & Nephews (Aust) Pty Ltd with F N Yarwood as Chairman of Directors and R H Harrowell as Manager. In 1925 the company merged with McDougall & Robertson which was later acquired by Burroughs Wellcome in 1959.

The business was founded in Newcastle in 1865 and was incorporated in NSW as a proprietary company on 14 September 1904. It was called William Arnott (Holdings) Pty Ltd from 18 July 1962, and in February 1970 was succeeded by Arnott's Biscuits Pty Ltd and a public company, Arnott's Limited. Subsidiaries included Arnott Morrow Pty Ltd, Arnott Motteram Ltd, Australian Biscuit Company Pty Ltd, Brockhoff's Biscuits, Mills and Ware Biscuits Pty Ltd, Swallow and Ariel Pty Ltd and Arnott Guest Pty Ltd.

Trevor Wigney completed a Doctor of Education from the University of Toronto in 1964. Before returning to Australia in late 1970s, Wigney was a member of the Department of History and Philosophy of Education at Ontario Institute of Studies in Education and taught a course on women’s history in Canada. His career was divided between North America and different points around Australia. He held various positions including at the University of Toronto in educational research, as Foundation Principal of John Flynn College at James Cook University, and Master of Burgmann College at the Australian National University from November 1975 to 1980.

Gerry Whittle was a member of the Victorian Branch of the Electrical Trades Union of Australia. He campaigned in 1970 for the position of Victorian Branch Secretary.

Leicester Webb was born on 17 May 1905 at Leicester, Leicestershire, England. Webb was educated at Waitaki Boys' High School, Oamaru, and Canterbury College (BA 1928, NZ; MA, 1929), Christchurch, where he graduated with first-class honours in history. He was then employed as a political journalist with the Press, Christchurch, before studying two years at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. When Webb returned to New Zealand he resumed his position with the Press and lectured part-time in political science at Canterbury College. Webb joined the Australian National University on 1 May 1951 as Reader in the Department of Political Science, Research School of Social Sciences, and was also Head of the Department. In March 1956 Webb was made Professor of Political Science. He was also acting Head of the Department of International Relations in the Research School of Pacific Studies 1958-60. Webb died on 23 June 1962 at Ross district, Tasmania, Australia.

Wave Hill Station is located approximately 600km south of Darwin in the Victoria River District of the Northern Territory. Wave Hill Station was established in 1883. Vesteys, a British pastoral company owned the cattle station since 1914 and ran the station through its subsidiary the Wave Hill Pastoral Co Ltd. In 1954 Vesteys took out the first pastoral development lease for its Wave Hill property. The station is most famous for being home of the ’Wave Hill Walk-off’ in 1966, when Vincent Lingiari, a Gurindji spokesman, led a walk-off of 200 Aboriginal stockmen, house servants, and their families from Wave Hill as a protest against work and pay conditions.

Jill Waterhouse graduated with honours in History from the School of General Studies, Australian National University in 1966. She returned to the Department of History in 1970 and again in 1976 to tutor in British History; in 2003 and 2004 she wrote the History of University House on the occasion of its fiftieth anniversary; and in 2006 enrolled as a PhD student in the Humanities Research Centre. Waterhouse is a member of the Commonwealth Working Party of the Australian Dictionary of Biography Working Parties.

The Warrnambool Gas Company was created in 1873 by the council of the town of Warrnambool, and sold to The Gas Supply Company Limited in 1951.

Warrah was acquired by the Australian Agricultural Company in 1833 and was originally managed by W Telfer 1832-1836. In 1864 under the new General Superintendent, E C Merewether, and the Warrah Manager, Samuel Craik, the Australian Agricultural Company began development of the Warrah Estate for sheep breeding and invested heavily in wells, bores and fencing. The Warrah Estate was divided into two sections: East Warrah (122,600 acres) and West Warrah/Windy (127,000 acres). In 1912, 1923 and after World War II areas of land on the Warrah Estate were sold and resumed by the New South Wales Government due to closer settlement movements. The Warrah homestead and adjoining areas in The Highlands and south east corner were sold in 1972.

Marion Ward lectured in Auckland University in 1960 before going to England to lecture at Reading until 1967. On 10 October 1967, Ward was appointed Senior Research Fellow, New Guinea Research Unit, Research School of Pacific Studies at the Australian National University. She was promoted to Field Director (Senior Research Fellow) May 1970 to February 1972. She was also an editor of the New Guinea Research Bulletin. Between 1973 and 2002 she worked on or led 80 missions to developing countries in Africa, Asia and the Pacific, working at the community, regional and national levels, to resolve transport, communication, water supply and sanitation issues. She has published extensively and worked as a consultant since the early 1970s.

Fred Ward came to the Australian National University in 1952 after securing a contract to design furniture for University House. In 1954 he was appointed as ANU Designer and formed the ANU Design Unit where furniture was designed for other ANU buildings. He left the ANU in 1960 to establish a private practice.

Dr Wace was the leading authority on the plant life of the Tristan da Cunha-Gough Islands which he visited to undertake fieldwork in 1955-56, 1968, 1976, 1984 and 1994. He was awarded a PhD by Queen's University, Belfast and joined the Department of Geography at the University of Adelaide in 1961. He was a Senior Fellow in the Department of Biogeography and Geomorphology in the Research School of Pacific Studies at the Australian National University from 1971 to 1989, and was head of the department from 1981 to 1983.

The original firm of Norfolk millers and agricultural merchants, was founded in 1780 by William Smith. The company is listed in Kelly's 1925 Directory as William Smith & Son (Dickleburgh) Ltd. millers (oil), corn, coal & seed merchants (Arthur Osborne Dent, managing director). The company became a subsidiary of Dalgety Franklin Ltd by 1964.

W Harry Wiles founded an electrical contracting firm which was one of the largest in Sydney until the depression of the 1930s. It operated from 1904 until November 1967. In 1928 the business was located at the corner of Pitt and Goulburn Streets, Sydney. W Harry Wiles was one of the earliest manufacturers and dealers of wireless and home receivers. In 1922 Wiles and five others founded the radio station, Station 2BL. He opened the first record shop in Sydney at 390 Pitt Street in the late twenties. After Wile's death in 1951, the electrical business was continued by Robert B Wiles, Marjorie B Granger and Jack Wiles. It was closed after the death of Jack Wiles in 1967.

W G Hart & Son were established as a blacksmith's and farrier's business in Rochester, Victoria by 1875.

In 1915 William Gauld Davies and Marjorie Grant Davies purchased Athol station from Davies' parents, William Davies and Elizabeth Jane Davies, who had purchased it in 1910 from John Murray. The partnership traded as W G Davies & Co. From February 1947 the partnership changed to include their children William Grant Davies, Barbara Grant Sharp and Catherine Grant Palmer. The partnership owned Athol station until it was sold in 1972.

The London and Liverpool company of export merchants was established since 1852, with mainly South African and New Zealand interests. The company voluntarily wound up in 1964.

Clemens Lambertus (Bert) Voorhoeve joined the Australian National University as a research fellow in Anthropology and Sociology, Research School of Pacific Studies in November 1965. He was appointed to Fellow in the Department of Linguistics, Research School of Pacific Studies from March 1968, and promoted to Senior Fellow in 1974. Voorhoeve collected linguistic field recordings between 1960 and 1980s on languages in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea. Voorhoeve retired in 1988.

The company Veneer and Plywood Proprietary Limited was first incorporated in 1936, with C W (Bill) Green and Alistair M Henderson as the main shareholders along with L Cumming and J Mulhearn Snr and Jnr. In 1941 the company's operations at Rozelle and Glebe was sold to National Plywood Pty Ltd and the company interests moved to Yarras with the intention of setting up a veneer processing plant. In 1942, operations at the Yarras Mill was suspended when Green and Henderson joined the army and air force. They returned in 1944 and resumed control of the company. On 31 July 1945 Maurice Thompson joined the company as its engineer and it began manufacturing veneers. In 1949, the mill began production of plywood. In 1959 Roseberry Veneer Co Pty Ltd, a subsidiary of CEMAC Associated Ltd, acquired the company. On 9 May 1968 the mill was damaged by fire and was rebuilt six months later. The company changed it's name to Cemac Oxley Pty Ltd in 1970 and later became a part of Cemac Pty Ltd in 1972 which continued to operate the Yarras Mill (also known as Cemac Veneer Mill) until it ceased operations in October 1982. Cemac Oxley Pty Ltd was deregistered as a public company on 2 February 1988.

Edward Willis van Senden was born in London on 23 May 1863. He studied wool classing in France and was assistant-buyer to Paul Pierrard of Rheims and London 1871-81. He came to Adelaide in September 1881 and conducted the wool buying for Elder Smith & Co Limited until 1883 when he began his own business which extended to wool buying in New Zealand by 1888. In 1895 he acquired the business of John Grice & Co which he sold to Dalgety and Co Ltd in 1900 and became general manager of their Adelaide Branch. In 1907 van Senden was Consular Agent for France in Adelaide, a position he held until July 1908. van Senden died in January 1918.

In 1862 the brothers Arthur and Walter Jervoise Scott entered into a partnership with George Dalrymple and Robert G W Herbert in the Valley of Lagoons run, a well situated tract of country in the newly opened upper Burdekin district of Queensland. The partnership became Scott Bros Dalrymple & Co with Dalrymple acting as manager. Walter Scott overlanded some of the first stock from the Darling Downs north to the property. Adapting well to the conditions, Walter became managing partner at the end of 1864, when Arthur returned to England and Dalrymple went into politics. Walter remained at the Valley of Lagoons until his death in 1890. The family abandoned the station after Arthur's death in 1895.

Urangeline was an historic pastoral property of 107, 000 acres situated north west of Albury, New South Wales. It was originally taken up in 1864 by Robert Rand who ran the adjoining Mohonga Station. Rand worked a sheep run at both stations until his death in 1894, leaving his beneficiaries to form the Mohonga Pastoral Company and Urangeline Company to manage the stations. From 1906 Urangeline was taken over by the Urangeline Company, of which the Managing Director was Robert Rand's nephew, George Robert Jackson. After Jackson's death in 1918, N C Clapperton who was Secretary of the Urangeline Company, became the executor of his estate. In 1920 the station was purchased by the New South Wales Government as part of the Closer Settlement and Returned Soldiers Scheme. From 1921 Henry James Hazelwood is listed as the proprietor of Urangeline Station until around 1957.

The company was incorporated in the United Kingdom and formed by the Australian Agricultural Company (AACo)and the Peel River Land & Mineral Company Ltd in March 1950 to acquire the whole issued share capital in Connor, Doherty & Durack Pty Ltd. This included the acquisition of Auvergne Station (Northern Territory); Newry Station (Northern Territory); Argyle Downs (Western Australia). After the control of the AACo was transferred to Australia in 1975, Union Pastoral Investments Ltd became a wholly owned subsidiary of the AACo and was registered as an Australian proprietary company in 1976.

Ularunda Station was taken up by the Fletcher Brothers partnership in 1907. The partnership also owned Elmina Station near Charleville, Queensland. When the partnership split in 1922, E C Fletcher & Co took over Ularunda. This company consisted of Ernest Charles Fletcher, Ida Constance Wilkinson (nee Fletcher) and Eliza Lavinia Fletcher. The Australian Pastoral Directory lists the company as the station owner in 1957. By 1963 the station was owned by the Scottish Australian Co Ltd.

Graham Tucker was born on 19 August 1924 at Moonee Ponds, Melbourne. Tucker was educated at Trinity Grammar School, Kew, and began work as a clerk with the Vacuum Oil Co. Pty Ltd. He enlisted in the Royal Australian Air Force on 27 August 1942 and served as a radio operator. In 1946 Tucker entered the University of Melbourne (B.Com. Hons, 1950) under the Commonwealth Reconstruction Training Scheme. In 1950 he was appointed senior tutor in the Department of Economic History. He then studied at Christ's College, Cambridge (PhD, 1954). Tucker returned to the University of Melbourne in 1954 and was Lecturer (1954), Senior Lecturer (1956) and Reader (1959) in Economic History. In January 1961 he was appointed Professor and Chair of Economic History in the Faculty of Economics, School of General Studies at the Australian National University. He held the post until 1979. He was twice a member of Council and served on several Council committees. He served as Dean of the Faculty of Economics on three occasions. Tucker died on 29 May 1980 in Canberra.

The Trust & Agency Company of Australasia Limited was incorporated in London on 8 November 1860. It was founded by James Hora, a businessman who had been Registrar for Municipal Loans in the Victorian Treasury. The company was set up to invest British capital and meet a demand in Australia for longer term mortgage loans. By 1887 branches were established in New Zealand and Australia, and after 1908 in Argentina. From 1929 the company was run by Touche Ross & Co, a firm of accountants. The company in about 1960 disposed of all its properties and operated as a financial trust, with the last Argentinian branch closing in 1966. In 1974 it became a subsidiary of Touche Remnant & Co, a management company set up by Touche Ross & Co. The company was acquired by Reardon Smith Line Ltd in January 1978.

TOWER Software Engineering Pty Ltd was established in Canberra and registered on 27 March 1985. Brand Hoff was the company's Managing Director from 1985 to 2001. The company developed and marketed content management software and solutions primarily for regulated and government industries. Its widely used products TRIM and TRIM Context were licensed to national, state and local government departments and authorities in Australia and internationally. In 2008 the company was acquired by Hewlett-Packard Company.

Neville Threlfall was born in Subiaco, Western Australia, on 4 October 1930. Following education by correspondence and a one-teacher school, then at Perth Modern School and the University of Western Australia, he entered the ministry of the Methodist Church in 1951. He served at Gosnells, Gnowangerup, Mount Barker, Moora and the North Midlands, before going as a missionary to Papua New Guinea in 1961. He served in the New Guinea Islands Region of the Methodist Church and then with the United Church of Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands, at Nakanai 1961-1964; Raluana 1964-1967; Kavieng 1968-1970; Matupit 1971; as regional secretary 1972-1975; in charge of literature and publications 1976-1977; as regional secretary again 1978-1980; and finally undertook historical work in 1981-1982, much of which was carried out while a visiting fellow at the Australian National University. Threlfall returned to ministry in Western Australia in 1982, becoming minister at Dalwallinu 1982-1989, and at Northam 1990-1993.

The company carried on business in Australia as a fire, marine and accident insurance company. It was registered on 4 January 1907. The Head Office of the company was in Toronto, Canada and the main office in Australia was in Sydney. The company's branch in Melbourne had transactions with Goldsbrough Mort Co in 1906. The company was deregistered on 22 January 1976.

The firm was established in Aberdeen, Scotland in 1840 and commenced operations in Australia the following year. It was incorporated in England on 27 October 1856 as The Scottish Australian Investment Company Limited and later changed its name to The Scottish Australian Company Limited on 12 January 1933. The company invested in mortgages and real estate in the colony of New South Wales on behalf of people in Britain in return for a commission. It had offices at 24 Gresham Street, London and at O'Connell Street in Sydney. In 1972 after the tax domicile of the company was transferred to Australia, the company became a subsidiary of Scottish Australian Holdings Limited.

In 1884 the business of William Sloane & Co, stock and station agents established in Melbourne around 1861 by William Sloane and R J Jeffray, became The Union Mortgage & Agency Company of Australia Ltd. R J Jeffray became its Chairman and General Manager. During 1885 the company acquired the pastoral business of James Turner & Son and later that year the wool-selling business of M D Synott. The company extended its scope to sugar, and had representatives in Sydney, Brisbane and Rockhampton. The Company's agents for the disposal of wool in the United Kingdom were Young Ehlers & Co. In 1886 the company went into liquidation and a new company of the same name was formed in London, with an Australian Head Office in Melbourne and branches in Sydney, Brisbane, Rockhampton and later Townsville. In 1899 the new company went into liquidation and almagamated with its subsidiary company The Australian Estates & Mortgage Company Limited, which later became The Australian Estates Company Limited. The amalgamation took until 1902 for The Union Mortgage & Agency Company of Australia Ltd to finally wound up.

The company was registered in New South Wales in September 1925 as The Producers' Co-operative Distributing Society Limited and changed its name to PDS Co-operative Limited in 1975. It was de-registered on 7 May 1983.

The Merchants Trust Limited was founded in London in February 1889 to invest capital in world wide enterprises. It operated in Australia, with six main investments in Victoria, through agents Gibbs Bright and Co, and then Goldsbrough Mort & Co from 31 May 1912. Goldsbrough Mort & Co, its agents in Melbourne, administered the Trust's investment in properties in Princes Terrace, Camberwell Estate, North Campbellfield Estate, and its interests in Castlemaine Brewery Company Ltd, McCracken's City Brewery Ltd, and Carlton and United Breweries Ltd. The Trust which currently operates as The Merchants Trust PLC now concentrates primarily upon major UK companies.

The company of tailors, clothiers and outfitters was founded by Lewis Sanders, and was registered in Victoria on 7 September 1926. The company was taken over by Walsh's Holdings Limited in 1972.

The club was established in 1939 and owned its own building which served as a social meeting place for journalists, and also as a centre for strikes and union meetings. It closed its doors in 1997, merging with the Sydney Sports Club.