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.

The International Bookshop, serving Melbourne’s Left and literary culture, started as a small Communist Party of Australia bookshop in Exhibition Street, Melbourne in 1933. It sold communist papers, books and pamphlets and imported Marxist classics and Soviet literature. After the CPA became defunct the Search Foundation funded the bookshop. The bookshop closed its premises at 17 Elizabeth Street on 31 May 1993.

The company was registered in New South Wales on 27 April 1928. The Gulf Cattle Company owned Brunette Downs station (Northern Territory, 1932-1958), Mount House and Glenroy (Western Australia). Several well known cattlemen were involved with this firm including Sir Rupert Clarke, Peter Baillieu and P J Kleberg from King Ranch, Texas. In 1951 the company pioneered the introduction of the Santa Gertrudis stud from Texas. In 1979 the Australian Agricultural Company acquired Auscattle Holdings Pty Ltd and The Gulf Cattle Co Pty Ltd as a subsidiary.

The Australian Estates Company Limited, formerly the Australian Estates & Mortgage Co Ltd, carried on business as wool and produce selling brokers, stock and station agents, pastoralists, raw sugar millers and cane growers. The Australian Estates & Mortgage Co Ltd was formed in 1894 as a subsidiary of The Union Mortgage & Agency Company of Australia Ltd and was registered in London on 5 December 1894. The Australian Estates & Mortgage Co Ltd acquired mortgages, properties and stock from The Union Mortgage & Agency Company of Australia Ltd in 1894 and 1896. In 1899, the company was amalgamated with the parent company, but took until 1902 to complete. In 1924 The Australian Estates & Mortgage Co Ltd's sugar business was expanded when the company amalgamated its mill "The Palms" at Mackay witht the nearby "Pleystowe" mill, and formed the Amalgamated Sugar Mills Ltd. In 1927, the same year that G S Colman became joint General Manager in Australia, the New South Wales Pastoral Co Ltd was formed in London in order to acquire properties in NSW, which included "Burra Burra", "Jemalong" and "Raby".

On 21 July 1936 the name of the company changed to The Australian Estates Company Limited. After the Second World War, the company underwent extensive growth and expansion, acquiring Kamilaroi Pastoral Co (1946), a half share in F A Hill & Co, Edward Trenchard & Co (1947), John McNamara & Co (1950) and other McNamara companies. In 1954 the Australian Estates Co (Agencies) Pty Ltd was set up to acquire new branches in Victoria, and in 1956 the Australian Estates Co (Queensland) Pty Ltd was set up to do the same in Queensland. In the following years a series of subsidiaries were established and the company acquired more businesses and properties. In 1973 the company further diversified purchasing an interest in the Denny Group in the United Kingdom - E M Denny (Holdings) Ltd were meat processors and traders in the UK and Ireland. Much of the post-war growth and expansion of the company had been carried out under D C F (Sir Denys) Lowson as Chairman and Managing Director, who resigned in 1974 after investigations into his involvement in share dealings. After attracting the interest of Rupert Murdoch and B H South, the company was taken over by CSR Limited in March 1975.

The Australian Aircraft and Engineering Company Limited was established by aviators Nigel Love, W J Warneford and aircraft designer Harry Broadsmith. Nigel Love was Managing Director. In June 1919, Nigel Love leased the land that became Mascot airfield to establish the manufacture and operation of Avro 504K aircraft. Partly due to failure to gain assistance from the Commonwealth Government, the company was forced into liquidation in 1923.

William Telfer, the younger, was born at Calala (West Tamworth) in July 1841. He was the son of William Telfer, the first Australian Agricultural Company employee to be stationed at Warrah in 1833, and who was employed as a shepherd then first manager of "Warrah", under Commissioner Parry. William Telfer, the senior, had arrived from England in 1825 on the “Brothers”. William Telfer, the younger, is attributed to a journal, published in 1980 as The Wallabadah Manuscript, describing life at Tamworth and the surrounding country which relate to the period from the 1840s to the years after Federation.

The company was incorporated on 28 November 1925 with a registered office at 471 Bourke Street, Melbourne. The principal office of the company in New South Wales was at Hay. The company operated Tchelery Station for the Maclure family who acquired the station from Windouran Pastoral Co Pty Ltd. The company was purchased by the New Zealand and Australian Land Company Limited in 1950 and its subsidiary The Yanko Pty Ltd then took over the management of the station.

The firm was a family-run meat company located in Smithfield, London.

Lindsay Tanner was born in Orbost, Victoria, on 24 April 1956. Tanner began his career as an articled clerk and solicitor at Holding Redlich Lawyers in Melbourne 1982-1985; he was an electorate assistant to Labor Senator Barney Cooney1985-1987; Assistant State Secretary of the Federated Clerks' Union 1987-1988, then State Secretary 1988-1993. Tanner was the ALP Member for Melbourne from 1993-2010 and Shadow Transport Minister from March 1996 – October 1998.

This company was established by Thomas Brunton (1831 - 1908) who arrived in Victoria in 1853. He started a bakery business then sold out and started a flour milling plant in the city of Melbourne. In 1887 Brunton opened a flour mill in Granville, Sydney. In 1893 he sold his Melbourne city mill and moved the business to North Melbourne where he established the Australian Flour Mills. By 1903 the business was run by his sons. Bruntons Holdings Limited (registered in 1951) which owned shares in T Brunton & Co Ltd were taken over by Geo Fielder & Co Ltd on 16 May 1960.

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In 1869 the Sydney Meat Preserving Company was established to process excess meat and was the major company in Sydney selling a range of canned meat merchandise. Formed by pastoralists, its factory was located in Auburn and stockyards, slaughtering, butchering, preserving and boiling down were all performed on site. The company was taken over by F J Walker Limited in 1919, who also owned Hunter River Meat Packing Co, Metropolitan Meat Co, and Australian Natural Gut Manufacturing Co. Business boomed during both World Wars but canned meats ceased to be productive after the Second World War. The business ceased operations on 31 July 1964 and the works at Auburn were put up for sale. In 1972 it was formerly resolved to dissolve the company and the final meeting of shareholders was held in September 1973.

States Trust and Investments Company Limited was incorporated in New Zealand in 1931 as a private investment company. The company was owned by H S Reid who acted as Managing Director until his death in 1936. Reid established the company to protect his investments during a period of political instability, particularly in NSW. The company held shares in the Belmore Property Co Pty Ltd, Buka Plantations and Trading Co Ltd, and The Hub Limited. From 1936 until her death in 1961, H S Reid's widow, M K Reid, acted as the company's Managing Director. She was also managing director of States Investments Pty Ltd, a company formed and registered in Canberra in 1958 to take over the shares owned by the States Trust and Investments Co Ltd.

The company was formed and registered in Canberra on 14 July 1958 to take over the shares owned by States Trust and Investment Co Ltd, a company established in New Zealand by H S Reid. The Managing Director for both companies was M K Reid until her death in 1961. J H Todhunter then served as company director and secretary of States Investments Pty Ltd until 25 October 1988 when the company was deregistered. Todhunter also served as a Director of Buka Plantations and Trading Co Ltd, a company in which the States Investments Pty Ltd held shares.

The Squatting Investment Company Ltd was registered in Victoria on 14 April 1882. They carried on the business of stock and station holders and graziers, purchasing their first stations in 1883. These were Thurulgoona and Bundaleer Stations, located in south-western Queensland. In 1928 the company acquired NSW stations of Quantambone and Bundabulla. Other major stations purchased included Bedford Park and Tondeburine, near Gulargambone NSW, in 1940; Teryawynia Station near Menindie NSW in 1948; Mundana Park in western Victoria in 1950; Mortat Station in the Wimmera District of Victoria in 1952; Burrongong Station in the Eastern Riverina in 1953; Callandoon Station, in Goondiwindi in 1955 and Mount Manara in western NSW in 1964. In 1965 a merger was affected with the Western Queensland Pastoral Company Ltd and the company acquired Burenda, Carandotta, Kynuna, Tarbrax and Westerton stations. From 1966 the company's activities moved into cattle and it acquired a 16% share of the Stanbroke Pastoral Company Pty Ltd who had substantial cattle holdings in Queensland. By 1973 the company had reduced its holdings to two properties in Queensland and one in NSW. In August Goldsbrough Mort & Co Ltd (a subsidiary of Elder Smith Goldsbrough Mort & Co Ltd) made a successful takeover bid for the Squatting Investment Company Ltd.

Ernest Spinner completed the following degrees from the Victoria University of Manchester: Bachelor of Technical Science, Applied Chemistry Honours in 1945, Master of Technical Science in 1950, Doctor of Philosophy in 1954 and Doctor of Science in 1971. Spinner joined the Department of Medical Chemistry, John Curtin School of Medical Research at the Australian National University as a Senior Research Fellow in September 1957, then as Senior Fellow from March 1961. The Department of Medical Chemistry was later converted to the Medical Chemistry Group from 1973-1985 and Spinner worked as Senior Fellow in this Group. From August 1985, he transferred to the Protein Chemistry Group (established from the Department of Physical Biochemistry). Spinner published regular articles in the Australian Journal of Chemistry. He retired in December 1989 and died on 3 February 2007.

Oskar Hermann Khristian Spate was born in London on March 30 1911. He was educated at St Clement Dane's Grammar School and St Catherine’s College, Cambridge University with an Hons in Geography. He completed his PhD in 1937. In October 1937, Spate began a lectureship at Rangoon University, Burma. He joined the army in 1941 and was involved in topographical work at the Ceylon headquarters of the Inter-Service Topographical Department, Southeast Asian Command. From 1947-1951 Spate took a post as lecturer at the London School of Economics and his writing focussed on the regional geography of India and the sub-continent. He joined the Australian National University in March 1951 as Foundation Professor of Geography at the Research School of Pacific Studies which he held until 1967. In 1953 he was Adviser to the Australian Minister for Territories and in 1958 assisted in a survey of the Fijian economy. He was a member of the Commission on Higher Education in Papua New Guinea, 1963-1965, and the Commission on Education in Fiji in 1969, and became a member of the councils of the University of Papua New Guinea and the University of the South Pacific. He was appointed Director of the Research School of Pacific Studies in 1967-1972. He then joined the Department of Pacific History at the ANU from 1972- 1976. Professor Spate died in Canberra on 29 May 2000.

Somerville Joinery and Timber Mills Pty Ltd was incorporated in May 1948 and owned by the Plummer family and their employees. The name was changed to Plummer's Somerville Joinery and Timber Mills Pty Ltd in 1954. The company faced continued shortages of cash for stock and repeatedly tried to raise more capital. Losses from the mid-1950s led to attempts to get other timber firms to take them over. J Wright and Sons eventually took over the firm in 1958.

Samuel Shumack was born in 1850 in County Cork, Ireland. His father, Richard Shumack was hired by George Campbell to work at Duntroon on his father Robert Campbell’s property. Shumack went to live at ‘Duntroon’ from 1856 and then at ‘Springvale’ in Weetangera from 1866 to 1940. He became a shepherd at age 16 and towards the end of his life he began to chronicle accounts of the lives of people in the Canberra-Queanbeyan region. He lived in the area until his death in 1940. His memoirs were published as Tales and Legends of Canberra Pioneers (ANU Press, 1967)

The family business of cordial manufacturers was founded in Dunedin, New Zealand in 1903 by John Sharpe. Sharpe later migrated to Australia and established the soft drink business that was renowned for its ginger beer brewed in gallon stoneware jars. After Sharpe's death in 1926, his sons William Ewart and John Hocken continued the business. In 1962 the business was taken over by Tarax Drinks Holdings Limited, with John Hocken Sharpe becoming an executive in charge of its Sydney Home Delivery business and later a Managing Director of Tarax. Tarax Drinks Holdings Limited and its subsidiaries were taken over by Cadbury Schweppes Australia Limited in 1972.

Benjamin Klaas Selinger was born on 23 January 1939. He graduated from Sydney University with an Honours degree in 1960, a Masters degree in 1961, and a PhD from the Technical University of Stuttgart in 1964. He was appointed lecturer in chemistry and Deputy Warden of Burton Hall at the ANU in 1965, and awarded a DSc from ANU in 1980. He was appointed Professor of Chemistry in the Faculty of Science in 1992. Selinger has written numerous books, a regular science and technology column for the Canberra Times, over 150 scientific articles and was also the resident expert for several years on the ABC radio show Dial-a-Scientist. He has been involved in professional bodies including the Independent Panel on Intractable Waste, National Occupational Commission (now Worksafe Australia), inaugural Chair of the Board of Directors of the National Registration Authority for agriculture and veterinary chemicals, and Chair of the Homebush Bay Environmental Reference Group for the Olympic Co-ordination Authority. He retired from ANU in 2010.

Walter Jervoise Scott was the second son of James Winter Scott MP, of Rotherfield Park, Alton, Hampshire, England. In 1862 Scott and his brother Arthur (1833-1895) with George Dalrymple and Robert G W Herbert became partners in the Valley of Lagoons run in the upper Burdekin district of Queensland. Arthur and Walter Scott arrived in Queensland early in 1863 with Walter becoming the managing partner at the end of 1864. Walter Scott died on 29 June 1890.

James B Scott was born in Scotland and became a political activist involved in the communist, socialist and Australian labour movement from the early 20th century. Scott joined the Workers International Industrial Union on his return to Australian from the USA in 1916, and later the Communist Party of Australia. He became an organiser in the Workers International Industrial Union. Scott died on September 1970.

The company was established to takeover the business of Schute Bell & Co Ltd and Keith, Badgery and Lumby Ltd as of January 1937. It was registered in New South Wales on 1 April 1937. In the amalgamation all the shares of Schute Bell & Co Ltd were acquired by the new company. The company was acquired by the New Zealand Loan & Mercantile Agency Co Ltd in 1948.

Geoffrey Sawer was born at Maymo, Myanmar (then Burma) on 21 December 1910. He was educated at Scotch College and the University of Melbourne and was admitted as a solicitor in 1934 and a barrister in 1938. Sawer lectured in Law at the University of Melbourne. He was appointed Dean of the Research School of Social Sciences at the Australian National University in 1949. In January 1950 he was appointed Professor of Law, Research School of Social Sciences and held this position to 1974. Sawer died on 8 August 1996.

Malcolm Sandon was born at Chelsea, Victoria on 16 September 1945 and was educated at Chelsea, Simon Fraser University, British Columbia, Canada where he graduated with a BA (Hons) in sociology and political science in 1975. Sandon returned to Australia to undertake PhD studies and work as a tutor with the Sociology department at La Trobe University 1973-1976; and lectured in the department of Liberal Studies, Swinburne Institute of Technology 1974-1975. He then went on holding the position of Federal Industrial Officer with the Municipal Officers Association in 1976-1982. Sandon joined the Australian Labor Party in 1972 and was president of the Aspendale Branch. In June 1982 he was elected to the Victorian State Parliament as a Labour MP representing Chelsea until 1988; and then represented Carrum from 1988-1996.

Samuel Page & Son Ltd was a London-based provisions trader, especially with East Africa and New Zealand. The firm was bought by Dalgety in 1957.

The company of barley merchants of Royston, Hertfordshire was bought by Henry Franklin Limited in 1963.

Salmond and Spraggon (Australia) Limited was registered as a company on 10 June 1927 following the liquidation of Salmond and Spraggon (Australia) Limited known as the Old Company. The company distributed household cleaning and other goods throughout Australia on behalf of manufacturers. In 1990 the company was taken over by Alberto Culver, a manufacturer of hair and skin products.

Norman William Saffin started as a teacher in Cobden after growing up in the Western plains in the Mortlake area, and radicalised by the Spanish Civil War. He completed his MA from the University of Melbourne, 1954. He wrote on the labour movement and contributed to Labour History, journal of the Australian Society for the Study of Labour History (ASSLH).

Edna Ryan was born in Pyrmont, New South Wales on 15 December 1904. Edna was a feminist and labour activist credited with campaigns for equal pay for women, maternity leave and work-based childcare, and campaigned around the negative impacts of enterprise bargaining and compulsory superannuation on low paid women workers. Ryan served as a Labor Alderman on Fairfield Municipal Council from 1956-1965, becoming the first female Deputy Mayor in NSW in 1957. In the 1960s she became the first woman president of the Sydney branch of the Municipal Employees’ Union. She was a founding member of the Women’s Electoral Lobby (WEL) in 1972 and in 1974 presented a breakthrough submission to the Arbitration Commission to grant women the same minimum wage as men. In 1984 she published Two Thirds of a Man: Women and Arbitration in New South Wales 1902-08. The following year she was awarded an honorary Doctorate of Letters by the University of Sydney, and awarded again by Macquarie University in 1995. In the 1990s Ryan focussed on the implications of enterprise bargaining for women including writing articles, leading delegations to Ministers’ offices and briefing a barrister, Sylvia Winters, to represent WEL at the National Wage Case. Edna Ryan died in Canberra on 10 February 1997.

Lloyd Maxwell Ross worked as a teacher, writer, trade unionist, journalist, public servant and historian. He was born in Brisbane on 28 February 1901. He was a student at Melbourne University in 1920-1925 and in 1925 joined the staff of the new student newspaper Farrago and in the same year was an inaugural member of the Melbourne University Labor Club. From 1931-1932 Ross was a tutor-organiser in adult education with the Worker’s Educational Association (WEA) and lecturer in Economic History in Dunedin, New Zealand. Returning to Australia he became district tutor in Newcastle for Sydney University in 1933; acting assistant director of tutorial classes in 1934 and in the same year he was elected New South Wales Secretary of the Australian Railways Union (ARU). Ross was State Secretary of the ARU New South Wales Branch from 1935-1943. In the period 1943-1949 he was Director of Public Relations in the Department of Post War Reconstruction and followed this with three years as the industrial writer for the Herald, Melbourne. In 1952 Ross returned to the ARU to begin a second term as Secretary of the New South Wales Branch and retired from this position in 1969. His biography of John Curtin which he had commenced almost thirty years earlier was published in 1977 by Macmillan. Lloyd Ross died on 7 September 1987.

Elizabeth (Liz) Ross is a socialist activist based in Melbourne, Victoria. She was a union delegate in the Department of Social Security for ten years during the Hawke government and a campaigner for women and gay rights since 1972. Ross is author of Dare to struggle, dare to win! Builders Labourers fight deregistration, 1981-94 published by Vulgar Press in 2004.

Douglas Ross was a mature age student in the Faculty of Asian Studies at the Australian National University studying Hindi and Urdu in 1985-1986. The teachers in the introductory Hindi and Urdu course were Senior Tutor in Hindi, Yogendra Yadav, and Senior Lecturer in Hindi, Professor Richard Barz.

The company was registered in Brisbane on 13 May 1923. Its original shareholders included William Henry Young, Horace Walter Herbert, Gilbert Schmidt, Henry William Byram, John Ambrose Walsh, James Francis Fitzgerald and Daniel James Kiley. The company was the proprietor of Rockhampton Downs Station located in the Barkly Tableland District, Northern Territory, from around 1931 to 1941. The station was purchased in August 1941 by the Northern Territory Pastoral Company Pty Ltd, of which William Henry Young, Gilbert Schmidt and Horace Walter Herbert were original shareholders. By November 1945 Rockhampton Downs Pastoral Company Pty Ltd was in voluntary liquidation.

Alexander Roby was Managing Director of the metal smelter and alloy manufacturer, OT Lempriere and Company Limited, from November 1976 until October 1982, having previously held the position of Marketing Manager of the company. He was awarded a Diploma in Engineering at the University of Queensland and served in the Australian Imperial Force until 1946. He founded Rocklea Lead Products Pty Ltd which was taken over by OT Lempriere in 1959 and became Queensland Manager of Lempriere, continuing as General Manager of Rocklea Lead Products Pty Ltd.

Robey and Co was formed by the three directors of the Australasian Sugar Company: Edward Knox, Clarke Irving and Ralph Mayer Robey. The company operated the Brisbane House Refinery (Cooper’s refinery in Parramatta Street) and distillery works from 1853-55. The company was acquired by the Colonial Sugar Refining (CSR) Company in 1855.

Malcolm Robertson, labourer and trade union official, was born at Moyston, Victoria on 25 November 1881 and worked with bullock teams clearing the way in the Grampians for power lines. He enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force on 12 January 1915 serving in England and France. Robertson returned to Australia on 1 April 1919 and moved to Mildura as a linesman for the State Electricity Commission of Victoria, as well as undertaking blacksmithing work. He was a member of the Electrical Trades Union; an organiser with the Mildura branch of the Australian Workers’ Union from 1920; vice-president of the Mildura branch of the AWU in 1938; and vice-president of the Mildura Trades Hall Council. Robertson died on 22 November 1971.

In 1898 an English liability company Robert Reid and Company Limited was formed with Hon. Robert Reid as Chairman (till his death in 1904) and co-Director James Wright both based in Melbourne. Robert Mackenzie Reid, Robert's son, an original director, succeeded him as Chairman and remained in London, with James Wright becoming Managing Director in Australia. In 1909, William Edward Bates, a Melbourne solicitor joined the Board, and it appears that he and Robert Reid were primarily responsible for the formation of the new Australian company, registered in Melbourne in March 1919. The company had warehouses in Melbourne, Sydney, Adelaide and Brisbane. The Adelaide house closed in 1928 with Melbourne then responsible for South Australian trade, along with Perth and Tasmania. In 1940 the Brisbane house became a branch of the Sydney house. In 1936 the business of Joseph Pickles and Son (Sydney) was acquired. Restrictions on wholesale importing during World War II forced the company to expand its retail trade, through Hustlers Proprietry Limited. Chairman Robert Mackenzie Reid died in 1942. His son, Robert Wolstenholme Reid, a member of the Board since 1927, became Chairman in 1953. In 1957 the company was merged with David Murray Holdings Limited to form Reid Murray Holdings Limited, with Robert Reid as Chairman. In 1963 it went into liquidation and in 1966 Robert Reid and Company Limited, 'a trading subsidiary' of Reid Murray Holdings Limited was bought by Ralli Brothers and merged with their old established rivals, Paterson, Laing and Bruce Limited to form Paterson, Reid and Bruce Limited.

Kenneth Rivett was a Senior Lecturer and Associate Professor in Economics at the University of New South Wales from 1960 to 1984, and continued his retirement as an Honorary Visiting Fellow in the Economics School. He was President of the NSW Association of Immigration Reform and the Indo-China Refugee Association (NSW), Chairman of the Australian Institute of Multicultural Affairs 1984-1985, a member of the National Population Council and a Trustee of the Australian Refugee Foundation. His publications include Immigration: Control or Colour Bar? (1962) and Australia and the Non-white Immigrant (1975), books which he edited for the Immigration Reform Group.

Alfred Edward (Ted) Ringwood was born in Kew, Melbourne on 19 April 1930. He attended Hawthorn West State School, then Geelong Grammar School and Trinity College, and the University of Melbourne receiving the degrees of BSc (1st class Honours in Geology) in 1950, MSc with Honours in 1953, and PhD in 1956 . He then took up a Research Fellowship at Harvard University from 1957-1958. In November 1958 he was appointed to the Australian National University as Senior Research Fellow, Department of Geophysics, Research School of Physical Sciences; Professor, Department of Geophysics, Research School of Physical Sciences 1963; Professor of Geochemistry, Department of Geophysics and Geochemistry, Research School of Physical Sciences 1967-1972; Principal Investigator for Lunar Samples, NASA 1968-1985; Professor of Geochemistry, Research School of Earth Sciences 1972-1993; Andrew D. White Professor-at-large, Cornell University 1974-1980; Director, Research School of Earth Sciences 1978-1983. Ringwood died on 12 November 1993.

Malcolm Rimmer is an academic, researcher and writer in the fields of management, industrial relations and human resources. He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts from Oxford University, and an MA from Warwick University, UK. He was a member of the Department of Industrial Relations at Sydney University before working at the Australian Graduate School of Management, University of New South Wales in 1983. Between 1989 and 1994 he was Professor and Director of the National Key Centre in Industrial Relations at Monash University. Between 1995 and 2005 he was Professor of Human Resource Management at Deakin University. Rimmer was appointed Head of the School of Business at La Trobe University in April 2005.

Thomas Henry (Harry) Rigby lectured in Soviet and related studies at the Australian National University and was the founding member and former President of the Australasian Association for Communist and Post-Communist Studies. Rigby joined the ANU Department of Political Science, Research School of Social Sciences in 1954. He held appointments as Senior Lecturer, 15 November 1954; Associate Professor (Russian), Department of Modern Languages, School of General Studies, 1 January 1961; and Professorial Fellow, Political Science, RSSS from 13 December 1963 until his retirement in 1990. Rigby died in Canberra on 21 March 2011.

Bronwyn Ridgway is the National Coordinator, Communications and Strategies with the Liquor, Hospitality and Miscellaneous Union. She was Assistant Secretary of the New South Wales Nurses’s Association, 1982-1987; and Secretary of the Combined Unions Against Racism (CUAR) from 1983-1987.

Professor Roger Wolcott Richardson was born on 30 May 1930 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. He graduated with the degree of BSc, majoring in physics, from Louisiana State University in 1951 and was then conscripted into the US Air Force. In 1958 he completed his PhD studies in geometry and topology from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and accepted an Instructorship at Princeton University, 1958-1960. He was Assistant Professor, University of Washington, Seattle 1960-1963, Associate Professor 1963-1967, Professor 1967-1972, Professor of Mathematics, University of Durham, UK 1972-1977. In 1977 he was appointed a Professorial Fellow in Mathematics at the Australian National University and in 1992, Chair in Mathematics. Richardson died on 17 June 1993.

In 1957 Robert Reid and Company Limited merged with David Murray Holdings Limited to form Reid Murray Holdings Limited, with Robert Reid as Chairman. In 1963 it went into liquidation and in 1966 'a trading subsidiary' of the Company, Robert Reid and Company Limited was bought by Ralli Brothers and merged with Paterson, Laing and Bruce Limited to become Paterson, Reid and Bruce Limited.

James Normington Rawling, political activist and writer, was born on 27 July 1898 at Plattsburg, New South Wales. Rawling served with the Australian Imperial Force from 1916-1919. In 1920 he trained as a teacher and worked in the NSW Education Department. He worked in the steel industry in Newcastle for a number of years. He was involved in reorganising a Rationalist Association in Sydney in 1923 and in 1925 joined the Communist Party of Australia (CPA). In 1928 Rawling returned to a teaching position in Sydney and completed his BA. In 1932 he became a full-time functionary of the CPA. In the same year he became editor of the journal, World Survey, of the League Against Imperialism (LAI). In 1933 Rawling became editor of War! What For?, the journal of the Movement Against War and Fascism (MAWF) and continued to edit the journal and its successor, World Peace, until the end of 1939. He was appointed National Secretary of MAWF in November 1936. From 1934 he worked as a research officer to the Central Committe of the CPA. In this capacity he prepared speakers' notes, wrote articles for The Communist Review, Workers' Weekly, other publications and pamphlets. He gave lectures and talks on European and Australian history and anti-war matters. In December 1939 Rawling was expelled from the CPA. For the next five years Rawling worked as a temporary clerk with the Metropolitan Water, Sewerage and Drainage Board, and was Secretary of the Salaried Division of the Metropolitan Water and Sewerage Employees' Union. In 1945 he resumed teaching, mostly in private schools until 1960 when he rejoined the Education Department. During the 1940s and 1950s he studied early Australian literary history which culminated in the publication of his biography, Charles Harpur: An Australian in 1962. In 1962-63, as a visiting fellow at the Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University, Canberra, he worked on his history of the CPA entitled Communism Comes to Australia. Rawling died on 7 March 1966 in Sydney.

The firm of R A McKillop & Co Ltd, stock and station agents, estate agents and auctioneers was established in Canberra at Civic Centre in the 1930s by Robert Alexander McKillop after he had moved from Cooma where he had been established in a similar business since 1910. McKillop was also partner in the firm of Hain & McKillop, stock and station agents in Cooma. He also operated in Canberra the National Finance and Investment Co Ltd, a money lending and hire-purchasing finance company. The business remained under the control of R A McKillop until it was sold around 1954 to G A and D E Hohnen.

Bob Pringle was born in Queensland in 1922. He moved to New South Wales working as a scaffolder and rigger when he joined the Builders' Labourers' Federation (BLF). Pringle was the president of the New South Wales Branch of the BLF in the late 1960s. As one of the leadership of the NSW Branch of the BLF, along with Jack Mundey and Joe Owens, Pringle was an active supporter of the 1971 green ban in Kelly’s Bush, Sydney. He was expelled from the BLF in 1975 and in 1996.

Charles Archibald Price was born on 20 July 1920. From 1952-1985 he held Fellowships in the Department of Demography, Research School of Social Sciences, at the Australian National University. His appointments in the Department of Demography began from Research Fellow, 13 February 1952; Fellow, 1 August 1954; Senior Fellow, 8 April 1960; and Professorial Fellow from 10 July 1964. Price served effectively on many committees related to immigration and settlement, as an advisor to government. He died on 2 August 2009.

The firm was established by Price Maurice, a pastoralist, who arrived in South Australia aboard the 'Calab Angas' in 1840. He was associated with sheep runs at Pekina, Oladdie, Warrow, Lake Hamilton, and Bramfield on the Port Lincoln Peninsula. In 1870, Price Maurice (1818 - 1894) introduced the Angora goat into Australia and bought Castambul Station in the Mount Lofty ranges for the purpose. In 1874 he took up Mount Eba Station. Later he returned to England for health reasons, leaving Clement Sabine as manager of Price Maurice Estate.

Laurence Raymond Potter was born on 28 June 1914. Potter served in the RAAF during World War II and after the war joined Metal Manufactures Limited. He became Managing Director, Head Office, in 1972 and retired on 30 June 1976 after working over thirty years with Metal Manufactures Ltd.

Val Plumwood was born on 11 August 1939 in Terry Hills, Sydney. She started her first year of Philosophy at Sydney University in 1956 which she resumed in the 1960s. She then held intermittent teaching posts at Macquarie University, Sydney; Murdoch University, Perth; the University of Tasmania; North Carolina State University and the University of Montana. During the seventies Plumwood and philosopher Richard Routley (later Sylvan) published numerous papers in logic and in environmental ethics. She was author of four books: The Fight for the Forests (1973) with Richard Routley, Relevant Logics and Their Rivals (1982) with R Routley, R K Meyer & Ross T Brady, Feminism and the Mastery of Nature (1993) and Environmental Culture: the Ecological Crisis of Reason (2002). At her death she was working on two further manuscripts, The Eye of the Crocodile and Nature in the Active Voice. She completed her PhD thesis from the Australian National University in 1990 and was a member of the Social and Political Theory Program, Research School of Social Sciences at the ANU. She held visiting professorships at the University of California-Berkeley in the US, McMaster University in Ontario, Canada, the University of Lancaster in the UK and the University of Frankfurt in Germany. Val was a Fellow at the Australian National University, first as an Australian Research Council fellow and later as a Visiting Fellow of the Fenner School of Environment & Society. Plumwood died in late February 2008 at her Plumwood Mountain property, near Braidwood, east of Canberra.

David Henry Plowman was born in the old Mtarfa Military Hospital in Malta during wartime. He completed his doctorate on the role of employer associations in Australian wage determination at Flinders University of South Australia. From 1978 he lectured in the School of Economics, University of New South Wales. He was appointed Professor of Industrial Relations and Organisational Behaviour at the University of New South Wales from 1990-1992. He is a Winthrop Professor in the University of Western Australia (UWA) Business School. He was the Foundation Director of the Graduate School of Management at UWA from 1993 to 1999.

John Drysdale Playford was born on 28 March 1935 in the Norton Summit district and was a member of the South Australian political family of Sir Thomas Playford, In 1963 Playford completed his PhD thesis at the Australian National University on the doctrinal and strategic problems of the Communist Party of Australia, after which he lectured in the Faculty of Economics and Politics at Monash University from 1964 and the Politics Department, University of Adelaide from 1972. He was engaged in the Vietnam Moratorium Movement and for many years Playford contributed to Marxist publications. He editor of the Journal of the Historical Society of South Australia, established in 1974, for sixteen years. His publications on Australian politics include Apolitical Politics: a critique of behaviouralism (co-edited with Charles McCoy, 1967), Neo-capitalism in Australia (1969) and Australian Capitalism: towards a socialist critique (with Douglas Kirsner, 1972). Playford died on 23 April 2003.

This firm of wool and produce Brokers and Stock and Property Agents was registered in New South Wales on 8 June 1888. In 1972 it became a wholly owned subsidiary of Scottish Australian Holdings Limited, which was later acquired by Marra Developments Limited in 1974. In 1976 the company became a wholly owned subsidiary of Elder Smith Goldsbrough Mort Limited, operating under its original name.

Pioneer Concrete Services Limited was incorporated in New South Wales on 10 October 1956, and later listed on the Sydney Stock Exchange as a public company in 1959. The Australian based multinational company had operations in 16 countries around the world producing high quality pre-mixed concrete and quarry products, and was one of the largest suppliers of building materials worldwide. In 1961 the company made its first move overseas commencing operations in Hong Kong. In 1962 it began operations in the United Kingdom followed by growth in other parts of Asia and Europe, and into the United States in 1978. In 1980 the company acquired AMPOL Limited as a subsidiary, later moving to ownership in 1988. From 5 January 1989, the company changed its name to Pioneer International Limited to reflect the company's operations in Australia and overseas. The company was taken over by Hanson Australia Proprietary Limited on 24 May 2000.

The company of Peters Bros Wade and Allison (PWA) Pty Ltd was formed by the merger of Peters Bryden and Peters Pty Ltd and A M Mainwaring Pty Ltd. The company which manufactured electrical, truck and farm equipment was registered on 27 September 1945. The company headquarters was in Phillip Street, Redfern, where they remained until 1979. William Henry Peters was appointed the first Managing Director. After Peters' death in 1948, William Wade became Managing Director. New memoranda and articles were signed on 2 February 1948 increasing the share capital. On 2 June 1956 a holding company, PWA Industries Pty Ltd, was established to co-ordinate the operations of new subsidiary companies that undertook the production and marketing of the company's products. In 1969 the manufacture of truck and farm equipment ceased and the company's activities were concentrated on electrical transformer manufacture. On 27 July 1973 Peters Bros Wade and Allison Pty Ltd changed its name to Australian Power and Distribution Industries Pty Ltd. In 1975, the company sold the rights to produce Power King transformers to Tyree Industries Pty Ltd, who also bought the assets of the transformer division in August 1979. PWA Investments Pty Ltd was established to administer the sale and any remaining assets. In 1990 the company's trade-mark and logo was transferred to Australian Power Products Pty Ltd. The remaining manufacturing operation of its General Products division, Australian Power Inc Pty Ltd, was sold to Morlynn Ceramics.

Henry Frederick Penny was born in Bristol, England but later moved to Manchester with his parents. After leaving school at age eleven he was apprenticed to an experimental bicycle maker. Penny studied at several technical and literary subjects at Manchester Polytechnic, and during his 20s he was appointed Chief Electrician at the Belsize Motor factory in Manchester. Penny emigrated to Adelaide in February 1912 with his wife Florence Elizabeth (nee Featherstone), daughter and son. There he became involved in the South Australian single tax movement lead by E J Craigie and based on the writings of Henry George. Penny was president of the Henry George League and also secretary of the New Church Society of South Australia for some time. Many of his colleagues in the Henry George League were also members of this society.

The company was registered in Canberra on 7 June 1961 and acquired the Penfolds group of wine companies, a business founded in 1844 by Dr Christopher Rawson Penfold. Its subsidiaries included Penfolds Wines Pty Ltd, Penfold Wines (Victoria) Pry Ltd, Dalwood Vineyards Pty Ltd, Warrington's Wine Cafe Ltd, Auldana Ltd, Barossa Vineyards Ltd, Modbury Vineyards Ltd, Australian Motel Industries Ltd. The company and its subsidiaries were acquired by Tooth and Company in November 1976 and the company was delisted on 23 March 1977.

The business had its roots in the old Victorian stock and station agents firm of Dal Campbell and Company. From 1884 it went under various managements including Alexander Pearson and H E Rowe, who carried on the business after the death of Pearson. The name of the firm then changed to Pearson, Rowe and Company. When Alexander Smith became a partner the firm's name changed to Pearson, Rowe, Smith and Company. At a later stage Wilson Cameron was admitted to the partnership. After the death of Smith, the firm became a proprietary company in 1914, chiefly from members of the staff of the firm, including C S Wood (Managing Director), P F Rowe (son of H E Rowe), H Boyd (Secretary), J A Burrell (accountant), R A Bear and R McKee. On 18 December 1937 the company was acquired by Goldsbrough, Mort and Co Ltd.

Dennis Charles Pearce is a barrister and solicitor in South Australia and the Australian Capital Territory. His past appointments at the Australian National University include Lecturer, Faculty of Law, School of General Studies, from 17 June 1968; Senior Lecturer from 1 January 1970; Reader, Faculty of Law from 1975; and at various times Dean of the Law School. Pearce was a convenor of the Assessment Committee in conducting the review for the Commonwealth Tertiary Education Commission. He is author of “Australian law schools: a discipline assessment for the Commonwealth Tertiary Education Commission” with Enid Campbell and Don Harding (1987) also known as the “Pearce Report”. He was a member of the Faculty of Law until 1996.

The company was formed by a merger of Paterson, Laing and Bruce Limited and Robert Reid and Company Limited. It operated as a direct subsidiary of Ralli Australia Proprietry Limited from 1966 to July 1970 when it was purchased by Grimley Limited. The parent company changed name to Eastralian Securities Limited in September 1970 and then to ESCOR Limited in January 1974. Paterson, Reid and Bruce Limited ceased trading in December 1979. An ongoing division of the company continued trading as ESCOR Textiles Limited, a subsidiary of ESCOR Limited.

In 1860, John Paterson and Henry C Palmer, both partners of JC Young and Company, purchased the business on JC Young's retirement, and renamed it Paterson, Palmer and Company. The business of Ray, Glaister and Company was then purchased and Briscoe Ray became a partner shortly afterwards and the business was then known as Paterson, Ray, Palmer and Company. In 1876 Paterson bought out the other interests and with James Robert Laing (previously with Laing and Webster) as partner, the firm became Paterson, Laing and Company.

Dr John Pryde Paterson was involved in public administration, particularly water policy reform, and the development and provision of social welfare services. Paterson was born on 23 April 1942 and received a Commerce degree from Melbourne University and a PhD from the Australian National University. From 1963 to 1966 he worked as a research officer and advocate with the Australian Council of Salaried and Professional Associations. He joined the Research School of Social Sciences, Urban Research Unit at ANU in 1967-1970. From 1970-1978 he was Chief Executive of John Paterson Urban Systems then becoming Deputy Direcctor, NSW Department of Environment and Planning 1979-1982; President of the Hunter District Water Board 1982-1984; Director-General, Department of Water Resources in Victoria; Director-General, Department of Community Services Victoria from 1989-1992; Secretary of the Department of Health and Community Services, Victoria.

Frederick Woolnough (Fred) Paterson, barrister and politician, was born on 13 June 1897 at Gladstone, Queensland. He studied at the University of Queensland (BA, 1920) and also enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force from 1918-19. From 1920-22 he took up a Rhodes Scholarship (awarded in 1918) at Merton College, Oxford. Back in Brisbane, in 1923 Paterson joined the Australian Labor Party and Communist Party of Australia. From 1923-1925 he was Teacher and Vice Warden, St Johns School; 1925 worked as a pig farmer in Gladstone. By 1925 Paterson had resigned from the Communist Party of Australia. He contested two State elections (Port Curtis in 1926 and Paddington in 1929 - both unsuccessful) as an Independent. A member (April 1927-November 1928) of the Gladstone Town Council, he was deputy-mayor and chairman of the finance committee; he supported striking railwaymen and waterside workers. In 1928 he moved to Brisbane to study for the Barrister's bar exam. Paterson rejoined the CPA in January 1930 and was arrested for making an allegedly seditious speech in the Brisbane Domain. He was admitted to the Bar on 18 March 1931. In 1932 he started a criminal law practice in Townsville; 1937 was Editor, Communist newspaper, North Queensland Guardian; 1939-44 became Alderman (Councillor), Townsville City Council; 1944-50 won state seat of Bowen and became the first Communist in Australia elected to parliament; 1951 stood for Senate (unsuccessful); 1952 moved to Sydney and started an Industrial Law practice. Paterson retired in 1961 and died in Concord, Sydney on 17 October 1977.

Robert Gumley Osborne, BA and LL B (University of Tasmania), was the first Registrar of the Australian National University appointed by the university’s Interim Council on 30 July 1947. Osborne was University Registrar to 16 March 1949.

The company was incorporated in Brisbane in 1924 to purchase and manage Caiwarro and Currawinya Stations near Hungerford and Eulo, Queensland. In 1950 the company was taken over by the Australian Mercantile, Land & Finance Company Ltd and in 1959 it was put into voluntary liquidation.

Robert Stewart Parker was born on 19 February 1915 in Artarmon, New South Wales. He received his Masters in Economics from the University of Sydney. In 1938 he was appointed Lecturer in Public Administration and Secretary to the Council of the Canberra University College. From 1939 to 1945 he was Lecturer in Public Administration at Victoria University College, Wellington, before returning to Canberra University College as Lecturer in Political Science. From 1949-1954 Parker was Head of the School of Public Administration at Victoria University, New Zealand. Parker began his association with the Australian National University as a Research Fellow in the Social Sciences, Department of Political Science, Research School of Social Sciences from 19 October 1947 to 24 February 1949, then Reader (Public Administration) from 1 March 1954. He was Professor and Head of ANU's Political Science program in the Research School of Social Sciences from 1962 until his retirement in 1978. He was a member of the 1957 Committee of Inquiry into Commonwealth Public Service Recruitment (Boyer Committee), the Interim Council of the Administrative College of Papua New Guinea (1962-69) and the Papua New Guinea Public Services Arbitration Tribunal (1972-73). Parker died on 31 July 2002.

The company was formed to take over businesses that were founded in 1829, and were initially merchants, indentors, importers and agents, becoming a major supplier of local and imported timbers for the building and furnishing industries. The company established merchant houses in Australia, the United Kingdom and Papua New Guinea. Formerly known as James Henty & Co, the company was incorporated in Melbourne on 5 February 1932. By 1977, the company was acquired by Parbury Henty Holdings Limited and operated as a subsidiary to the Holdings company until it was delisted from the Australian Stock Exchange in 1991.

This company was incorporated in Victoria in 1928 to take over the interests of a family business of shoe manufacturers known as Paddle Brothers which operated in Victoria. Its activities included exporting and importing, and were largely confined to childrens' footwear manufacturing. In 1974 the company was acquired by Paddle Shoes (Holdings) Pty Ltd.

Thomas Miles Owen completed his degree in commerce from the University of Melbourne and began lecturing in accounting at Canberra University College in March 1939. Owen was Registrar of Canberra University College from 27 March 1939 to 1960 when the college amalgamated with the Australian National University. On 9 March 1962 Owen was appointed Associate Registrar, School of General Studies at the ANU. He was also secretary for the Building and Grounds Committee. He retired in January 1968. He was a Fellow of the Australian Society of Accountants. Owen died in Canberra on 22 March 2005.

Nicholas (Nick) Origlass, trade unionist and politician, was born in 1908 at Woodstock, North Queensland. In 1942 he became a delegate for the Federated Ironworkers' Association (FIA) at Mort's Dock, Balmain, Sydney. He was a central figure, along with Issy Wyner and others, in the Balmain ironworker's strike of 1945. He joined the Australian Labor Party and was elected to Leichhardt Council in 1958. He was expelled from the ALP ten years later but was successful in being elected Mayor of Leichhardt in 1971 as an Independent Labor candidate. As mayor, Origlass championed public participation or "Open Council" in the Leichhardt Council. Origlass retired in 1995 and died in Sydney on 17 May 1996.

John Henry O'Neill was born on 30 August 1888 at Sandy Bay, Tasmania. He was apprenticed in the printing trade and also worked on riverboats, in sawmills and as a fruitpicker. In 1907 he joined the Carters and Drivers' Union. O'Neill became state secretary of numerous unions including the Carters and Drivers' (1916-1942); the Electrical Trades (1917-1953); Storemen and Packers' (1917-1951), Gas Employees' (1918-1951), Meat Industry Employees' and Miscellaneous Workers' unions, and the Federated Confectioner's Union (1944-69). O'Neill joined the Hobart Trades Hall Council in 1917 and was its secretary from 1927-1967. He was secretary of the Eight Hours Day Committee from 1921-1967. O'Neill died on 23 January 1971 at Howrah, Hobart.

Peter O'Dea was a former Australian Building and Construction Employees and Builders Labourers Federation (ABCE&BLF) ACT Branch Secretary and President of the the ACT Trades and Labour Council during the 1980s. He was a member of the Federal Management Committee of the BLF through the 1970s and 1980s. In the late 1980s he was a member of the Disputes Committee, ACT Trades and Labour Council. As ACT Branch Secretary of the BLF, O'Dea was actively involved in the dispute over the 1986 deregistration of the BLF.

Dr Robert Norton is Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Anthropology, Faculty of Arts, at Macquarie University, Sydney. He was appointed as one of the foundation members of staff in anthropology at Macquarie in 1969. Since 1966 Norton’s major area of research has been ethnicity and politics in Fiji. He has made numerous field studies in Fiji, most recently between 1993 and 1998, including one year while teaching at the University of the South Pacific.

The company was incorporated as a Limited Company in Darwin on 23 July 1941. Its original shareholders were Henry Schmidt, Gilbert Schmidt, William Henry Young, Horace Walter Herbert and Henry Herbert Antcliff. On 9 August 1941 the company purchased the pastoral lease of Rockhampton Downs Station from Rockhampton Downs Pastoral Company Pty Ltd. The station was later acquired by the Australian Agricultural Company through AA&P Joint Holdings Ltd in 1948. The Northern Territory Pastoral Company Pty Ltd was deregistered on 13 December 1996.

The company was incoporated in South Australia on 15 March 1882. The company came into existence to acquire land at Byno Harbour and the land immediately behind this area during the expansion of the Northern Territory by South Australia in the 1880s. The land was never farmed or grazed, a large area was sold in 1963 and the remaining areas of land were disposed of in 1973. The company was deregistered on 30 November 1988.

Alexander Stewart Norquay was born in Chatswood, New South Wales, on 26 June 1932. Norquay received a BA from University of Sydney and a B Ec from the Australian National University. From 1950-1959 he worked for the Commonwealth Bank and then worked with the National Farmers' Union from 1959-1969. He was on the NSW Advisory Committee on Safety in Rural Industries, 1961-1967; Secretary of the Australian Farmers' Union, 1969-1971; Director of Research & Finance, National Farmers' Federation, 1979-1983; Manager of Financial Services, Chamber of Manufacturers of NSW, 1983-1990. Since 1991 Norquay has worked as an accountant and business consultant.

Originally owned by H B Hughes, the station was owned by the Hughes family for 120 years until it was purchased in 1990 by Consolidated Pastoral Company. This company still operates the station.

The company was formed in April 1912 to acquire the assets of Blair Athol Northern Coal Mines Ltd. Blair Athol is a coalfield and town northwest of Clermont in Central Queensland, which held one of the largest deposits of black coal. The original shareholders were mainly Brisbane business people, accountants, auctioneers, architects and sharebrokers. John Fisher, who was employed by the previous company, was the mine manager. Sometime after his dismissal, J F Hall was appointed supervising manager, with T D Jones as working manager.

The mining company was registered in New South Wales on 19 April 1877. The company owned Whitburn Colliery, and collieries at Merewether, Victoria Tunnels and Maitland District, Greta Seam. The company wound up voluntarily on 23 March 1949.

This company acquired the Newcastle Permanent Investment and Building Society which was originally registered in 1870. It was registered as the Newcastle Building and Investment Company Ltd on 24 June 1896. The company was acquired by Sorby's Limited in November 1957.

The Newcastle and County Mutual Building, Land and Investment Company was registered in 1886 for the purpose of acquiring lands in New South Wales, and building or renovating houses and buildings for lease or for sale. It also received money on deposit, and loaned money on the mortgage of freehold and leasehold securities. The company changed its name in 1957 to County Building & Investment Co Ltd. In early 1959 all the shares of County Building & Investment Co Ltd were purchased by Finance & Guarantee Co Ltd.

The New Zealand Sugar Company Limited was formed on 23 June 1883 and operated Chelsea Refinery in Auckland from September 1884. Equal shares were held by the Colonial Sugar Refining (CSR) Company, Victoria Sugar Co, and New Zealand business interests. The first manager was J E Brewster until 1887. His successor W W Philson continued as Auckland Manager for CSR Co Limited after the company was amalgamated with CSR Co Limited in 1888.

The company was registered in England in April 1865. In July 1893 the company suspended business and was again, after reconstruction, incorporated on 10 May 1894. The company's share registers were in London, Melbourne and Wellington. The Australian Head Office and a branch was established in Melbourne in 1875 and in 1880 commenced wool selling activities. Australian branches and agencies were also set up in Sydney (1876), Brisbane and Rockhampton (1884), Adelaide (1886), Townsville (1898), Albury, Longreach, Geelong (1956). In 1889 the Australian operations were separated from those of New Zealand, with David Elder becoming the first general manager for Australia. On the retirement of Elder in 1903 a Local Board of Advice was established to advise and support senior management in Australia. At the same time the Australian Branch was formed. The number of sub-branches and agencies grew after 1945. The company also had extensive interests in New Zealand and in South Africa (1930-1960). The company acquired a number of smaller firms and also formed new subsidiaries; New Zealand Loan Properties (Australia) Pty Ltd (1952); New Zealand Land Nominees Pty Ltd (1957); New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency (Produce) Ltd (1957). In 1961 the company merged with Dalgety and Company Ltd to form Dalgety and New Zealand Loan Ltd.

The company was formed on 15 June 1916 and was owned by both Tooth & Co Limited and Tooheys Limited. On 20 June 1916 Tooth & Co Ltd and Tooheys Limited entered into an agreement to sell to the company the business of the Brewers Bottle Association. The company supplied bottles to the two brewery companies and also ran a bottle recovery system in New South Wales, with operations in Tamworth, Taree, Dubbo, Queanbeyan and Wagga Wagga. Secondhand bottles were recovered from Butler & Norman Pty Ltd, J McCarthy & Co Ltd and other independent merchants. New bottles were purchased from the Australian Glass Manufacturers Co and Glass Containers Ltd. The company was deregistered on 9 July 1990.

Hyland Neil (Hank) Nelson was born on 21 Oct 1937 in Boort, Victoria. He undertook his BA (1958), DipEd (1959), BEd (1962) and MEd (1966) at Melbourne University. He then worked as a teacher and lecturer in Victoria 1960-1965. Nelson worked as a tutor at the Administrative College of Papua New Guinea 1966-1967, and a Lecturer in History at the University of Papua New Guinea 1968-1972. He completed his PhD (1976) on gold mining in Papua New Guinea at the University of PNG. Nelson's association with the Australian National University included positions as Research Fellow in History, Research School of Social Sciences 1973-1974; Senior Research Fellow in Pacific and Southeast Asian History, Research School of Pacific Studies 1975-1976; Fellow 1976-1981; Senior Fellow1981-1993; Professor in Pacific and Asian History 1993; Professor, History Program, Research School of Social Science 1994-1997. Nelson retired in 2002 and was appointed Professor Emeritus, Visiting Fellow, Division of Pacific and Asian History, and Chair, State Society and Governance in Melanesia Program at the Australian National University. His research focused mainly on the history of Papua New Guinea, looking at a wide range of themes including education, independence, mining, health, missionaries, World War Two and Australian POWs. Nelson died in Canberra on 17 February 2012.

This company (NPA ITAB) was established to service the vocational education and training outcomes of the public administration industry. The National Competency Standards for Public Administration was developed under the company. It was registered as a public company on 28 August 1995 and deregistered on 21 September 1999.

The National Finance & Investment Co Ltd, a money lending and hire purchase financing company was registered as a public company on 16 March 1936. Robert Alexander McKillop, of R A McKillop and Co Ltd, held interests in the company and was Director of the company. The company was deregistered on 21 May 1956.

Anjeli Catherine Nathan was born in Mallorca on 18 March 1975 before moving to Canberra with her family. Nathan began her undergraduate years as a Science/Arts student at the Australian National University in 1993. In 1995 she took a semester off to work for Dr Rob Magrath as a field assistant on his project on white-browed scrub wrens. In June 1997 Anjeli began her honours course under the supervision of Professor Andrew Cockburn and his PhD student Sarah Legge. Her Honours research led to her thesis "Sibling Rivalry in the Laughing Kookaburra (Dacelo novaeguineae)”. She graduated with First Class Honours and the University Medal in 1998. Nathan died on 3 November 1999 while on a field research project in South Africa. The Anjeli Nathan Memorial Scholarship was established to promote the study of field-based biology in Botany and Zoology at The Australian National University.

S H H Naqavi is a geographer from the Department of Geography, University of Dacca, Pakistan. Naqavi completed a Masters thesis from the University of North Carolina in 1954.

Maurice (Maurie) Mulheron was a signalman with the New South Wales Railways. On 1 April 1938 he joined the Australian Railways Union (ARU) becoming secretary of the NSW Signalmen's Section of the ARU. From 1964-1981 he was the ARU's NSW State Branch Councillor; 1967-1969 NSW State vice president; 1971-1981 Metropolitan Traffic Councillor; Australian Councillor; National Rules Committee; ARU representative on the Signal Box Reclassification Committee. Mulheron was a delegate at State Branch Conferences of the ARU and at the first National Convention held in Albury-Wodonga in 1978. He was president of the Public Transport Union's Retired Members Organisation from about 1994-1995. He is author of Fifty Years of Signalling: History of the Signalmen's Section 1936-1986, printed by the Australian Railways Union. Mulheron died in April 2001.