Professor Harold Brookfield was a British and Australian geographer with interests in rural development, family farming, land use and society in developing countries. He completed a BA and PhD at the London School of Economics. He was briefly a lecturer in Geography and Birkbeck College, London and Lecturer in Charge at the Department of Geography, University of Natal where he began engaging with development and social justice issues in South Africa and Mauritius. After three years, he moved to Australia to join the University of New England and in 1957 joined the Research School of Pacific Studies at the Australian National University where he spent most of his academic career. He spent two periods at the Geography (later Human Geography) Department in RSPAS – the first from 1957 to 1969, and then again from 1982 until his retirement in 1991, at one point becoming the Head of the Human Geography Department and Acting Director of the School.
Brookfield conducted field work in Papua New Guinea, the New Hebrides, New Caledonia, the Solomon Islands, Bougainville and the Philippines. His interests focussed on Papua New Guinea where he conducted fieldwork in the highlands and collaborated with anthropologists from the Research School. In the 1970s his work extended to smaller islands of the Caribbean and the smaller eastern islands of Fiji. His work largely focused on the relationship between humans and their landscapes, particularly as this was understood through the lens of agricultural production. His work on agricultural intensification, land use and land degradation, and the impact of El Nino events was ground-breaking and innovative.

Founded in Victoria as the Ancient Order of Foresters in 1849 to provide mutual support during illness and after death for members.
The company is member-owned and currently has over 80,000 members, for whom it provides investment and insurance services.

The Australian Mutual Provident Society was formed in 1849 as a non-profit, life-insurance company, and mutual society, with its first office located in Sydney.
George King was chairman for fifteen years from the 1850s. Richard Teece was general manager and actuary from 1890 and a director from 1917 to 1927.
As the company grew, offices were opened across Australia including in Melbourne, Brisbane, Hobart, Adelaide, Perth, Canberra and Darwin as well as regional centres such as Newcastle, Goulburn, Bendigo, Warrnambool, Maryborough, Townsville and Rockhampton.
In 1876, the company expanded to New Zealand and opened its first office in Wellington. An Auckland office was opened in 1960.
In 1998, AMP was demutualised into an Australian public company, AMP Limited, and listed on the Australian Securities Exchange and New Zealand Stock Exchange.
In 1999, AMP launched AMP Banking, an online bank.
In 2003, the company demerged its UK operations, creating the Henderson Group.
On 15 November 2010, AMP announced a bid to merge its business with AXA Asia Pacific Holdings, with AXA acquiring AXA Asia Pacific Holdings' Asian business and AMP acquiring AXA's Australian and New Zealand business. The Australasian holdings included the former National Mutual business (established in 1869) which was demutualised in 1996. As part of this merger, the AXA brand was phased out of the Australian and New Zealand market by 2013.
In 2020, AMP completed the sale of its life insurance business AMP Life to Resolution Life.
In February 2022, AMP delisted from the NZX, consolidating its listing on the Australian Securities Exchange.
An additional arm of the AMP business is the global investment management company AMP Capital. AMP Capital manages real estate and infrastructure assets including shopping centres, airports and trains on behalf of funds and clients, while in public markets, it manages investments in equities, fixed income, multi-asset and diversified capabilities on behalf of clients around the world.

Born in Brisbane. Cadet at Courier-Mail. Joined Communist Party of Australia in 1939. Enlisted in Australian Army in 1941 and served as lieutenant in New Guinea then as a pilot in the Australian Air Force. Returning to Courier-Mail after the war, he was awarded the Kemsley Empire Journalism Scholarship, reporting from London and Europe. Fired by Keith Murdoch for not obeying editorial instructions. Robertson then become sub-editor of the Melbourne Argus, before joining the Victorian Peace Council. He became secretary of the NSW Peace Council in 1951. Robertson married Mavis Moten in 1953. In the 1950s Robertson was elected to the CPA's Central Committee and later the National Committee. Became Chief Editor of the Tribune in 1964. Campaigned for Papua New Guinea's independence and the anti-Vietnam war movement, and other left wing causes.

Foundation member of the Australian Journalists' Association in Queensland. School teacher and headmaster, and early member of the Queensland Teachers' Union. Journalist at Queensland Daily Mail. Journalist, then later the Chief Editor of the Labor Party's Queensland newspaper (the Daily Standard). Prominent in anti-conscription during WWI. Editor of the Courier-Mail from 1932. First station manager of the Courier-Mail radio station (4BK-AK). Chief of public relations for the Southern Electrical Authority 1951 - 1960.

Geoffrey Luck was a radio journalist for the Australian Broadcasting Commission (ABC). He was based in Longreach, Queensland, 1953-1955; becoming a foreign correspondent in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, 1957-1967; Northern Ireland and London. On his return to Sydney Luck was appointed Economics and Finance Correspondent with the News Division in early 1972. His duties included presenting the radio program, The Week in Business, until 1976. He completed an MBA at Macquarie University in 1975.

The United Ancient Order of Druids (UAOD) was founded in Victoria around 1862. By 1867 the Society had 11 Lodges in Victoria. The Order of Druids was originally a male society until a Juvenile Lodge was opened in Prahran in 1886 by the Loyal Canterbury Lodge. Other lodges were formed in South Melbourne, Footscray, and others in New Zealand. The first female Lodge was established in Launceston, Tasmania in October 1899. The Victorian Grand Lodge held the title of Grand Lodge of Australia and was responsible for the establishment of Druid’s House in Melbourne on 4 April 1927. The UAOD Friendly Society of NSW was demutualised in 2011.

The Ancient Order of Foresters, which originated in England in the mid 1700s, established its first branch (Court) in Victoria in 1849. Foresters was set up as a non-profit organisation, the founding principles of the Society being to provide financial and social benefits as well as support to members and their families in times of unemployment, sickness, death, disability and old age. The Society is now known as the Foresters Friendly Society and in July 1999 was incorporated as a public company limited by shares and guarantee.

The Friendly Society of Victorian Natives, was a mutual society formed in Melbourne in 1871. The Society changed its name to the Australian Natives Association (ANA) in 1872 following a vote to include white men born in the other Australian colonies. The Association's objectives were to "raise funds by subscription, donations ... for the purpose of relieving sick members, and defraying expenses of funeral of members and their wives, relieving distressed widows and orphans and for the necessary expenses of the general management of the Society."[Menadue, J A Centenary History of the Australian Natives' Association 1871 - 1971, Page 9]. The ANA provided strong support for the Federation of Australia, sport, afforestation, social well-being and the Federal Government's restricted immigration policy, later referred to as the White Australia policy. The ANA and Manchester Unity agreed to merge to form Australian Unity in 1990.

In 1879 the South Australian Government granted Charles Brown Fisher and J Maurice Lyons a lease over 15,890 square miles of land to form the cattle station, Victoria River Downs. Financial difficulties led them to take out a mortgage with R Goldsbrough and Company in 1886. After an attempt by the Northern Australian Territory Company Ltd to buy the land fell through Goldsbrough Mort and Company became the property's owners in 1887. In 1900 Goldsbrough Mort sold the station to a syndicate comprising Forrest Emmanuel and Company, Kidman Brothers, GS Yull and R and BJH Richards. The station was then bought in 1909 by Bovril Australian Estates Pty Ltd which sold the station to William Lionel Buckland in 1955. In 1960 it was sold to the Hooker Investment Corporation Ltd who in 1984 sold it to Peter Sherwin. Since 1989 the station has been owned by the Haytesbury Pastoral Company and is now managed by Janet Holmes a' Court.

Liston Carnie was born in Newhaven, Scotland and died in North Sydney. He was a master plumber. He arrived in Australia in 1929. In the 1930s and early 1940s he ran a family plumbing business in North Sydney. In the mid 1940s he became the plumber at the Mater Hospital, Pacific Highway, North Sydney and remained there until his retirement.

Paul Munro was born in Condobolin, New South Wales on 13 July 1939. He graduated from Sydney University Law School and was admitted to the NSW Bar in 1961. From July 1961 he worked as a Legal Officer at the Public Solicitor’s Office in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea. From 1966 to 1968 Munro was an Industrial Advocate for the PNG Public Service Association, which led to his work in industrial relations. Munro was National Secretary, Council of Australian Government Employee Associations 1969-1977; he worked with Dr H C Coombs on the Royal Commission on Australian Government Administration 1974-1976; and was Federal Secretary of the Administrative & Clerical Officers' Association (ACOA) 1979-1986. His service as a union official included five years as a member of the Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) Executive and he was later a part-time member of the Administrative Review Council. Munro served from 1986 to 2004 as Justice Munro, a Senior Presidential Member of the Australian Industrial Relations Commission (AIRC) and its predecessors. He has been on the Australian Institute of Employment Rights Executive Committee since its establishment in 2005.

Marie Olive Reay was born in Maitland, New South Wales and began her career in anthropology at Sydney University, where she studied for an MA and undertook fieldwork in Indigenous communities in western New South Wales (Walgett, Bourke, Moree, Coonabarabran and others) in the 1940s. She later extended her fieldwork with Indigenous communities to Borroloola in the Northern Territory. From 1953, as a doctoral student supervised by WE Stanner in the Department of Anthropology and Sociology in the Research School of Pacific Studies at Australian National University, she began field research in the Wahgi Valley in the Western Highlands of Papua New Guinea, with the Kuma. Reay's PhD thesis was published as The Kuma: Freedom and Conformity in the New Guinea Highlands in 1959, the same year she was appointed to a research fellowship in the Department of Anthropology, ANU. Working at ANU for the next 30 years and retiring in 1988, Reay died in Booragul, New South Wales on 16 September 2004.

Gareth John Evans was born in Melbourne, Victoria on 5 September 1944. After graduating from the University of Melbourne BA, LLB (Hons) he studied at Oxford University and earned an MA in Politics, Philosophy and Economics.

Gareth Evans is currently Distinguished Honorary Professor at the Australian National University, where he was Chancellor from 2010-19 and President Emeritus of the International Crisis Group, the Brussels-based independent global conflict prevention and resolution organisation which he led from 2000 to 2009.

Gareth Evans was a member of the Australian Parliament for 21 years. He was Senator for Victoria from 1978 to 1996, serving as Deputy Leader (1987-93) and then Leader (1993-96) of the Government in the Senate, and was a member of the House of Representatives from 1996 until September 1999, serving as Deputy Leader of the Opposition (1996-98). As one of Australia's longest serving Foreign Ministers, he was best known internationally for his roles in developing the UN peace plan for Cambodia, bringing to a conclusion the international Chemical Weapons Convention, founding the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum and ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF), and initiating the Canberra Commission on the Elimination of Nuclear Weapons.

James Jupp was born in Croydon, England in 1932. He studied at the London School of Economics 1951-1956, and the University of London where he earned his PhD in 1975. He was General Editor of the Bicentennial Encyclopaedia of the Australian People 1984-1988 and of the second edition in 2001. Jupp was a member of the Advisory Council on Multicultural Affairs and chairman of the Review of Migrant and Multicultural Programs and Services (ROMAMPAS), which presented its report Don't Settle for Less, to the Minister for Immigration in August 1986. He was formerly chairman of the ACT Multicultural Advisory Council and of the ACT Reference Group of the Bureau of Immigration, Multicultural and Population Research. Jupp was Director of the Centre for Immigration and Multicultural Studies in the Research School of Social Sciences at the Australian National University 1988 - 2012 and an Adjunct Professor of the RMIT University in Melbourne. He was awarded the Order of Australia in 2004.

Manchester Unity Independent Order of Oddfellows (MUIOOF) had its origins in Manchester, England. It was established in Melbourne on 7 December 1840 when Augustus Greeves, a member of the MUIOOF in England, migrated to Australia and formed the first lodge, Australia Felix Lodge, with journalist Thomas Strode. By the late nineteenth century, Manchester Unity had an extensive network of lodges in metropolitan and country Victoria. The Society was governed by its Annual Moveable Conference (AMC) which, as its name implies, was held in a different Victorian country centre each year. Lodges sent delegates to the AMC, where they voted on policies and rules, and elected the new Board of Directors for the coming year. In 1993 Manchester Unity (Victoria) merged with the Australian Natives Association to form Australian Unity Friendly Society Limited, now known as Australian Unity Limited.

Geoffrey Hope was an environmental historian. His research interests included vegetation history and the historical biogeography of Australian, Asian and Pacific biota. He held a BSc (Hons), a MSc and a DSc from Melbourne University, and a PhD from ANU. He was an Emeritus Professor in the Department of Archaeology and Natural History and a Visiting Fellow in the Fenner School of Environment and Society.

Geoffrey Hope has been based at Australian National University since 1978, lecturing in Geography before moving to a research position in RSPAS (now College of Asia Pacific) in 1990. As an environmental historian he works with a mix of methodologies and related fields of study including archaeology, biogeography, palaeontology, soil sciences and geoscience. His research interests include the impact of people on landscapes, including the impact of erosion, surface processes and silting, climate change and fire on human habitation. He is also interested in the roles of climate change and fire on human responses and adaptability. This work aims to contribute practical help for control of greenhouse emissions and solutions to problems of land management and biodiversity conservation.

Kirsty Hamilton was a radio, television and on-line journalist. She was born in Melbourne in approximately 1950 and died in 2011. She earned degrees from Monash University in Melbourne and Columbia University in New York.

The Friends of the Noel Butlin Archives Centre is an association incorporated in the Australian Capital Territory. It was established in October 1997 and operates independently from the Noel Butlin Archives Centre at the Australian National University. Its objectives are to help preserve and extend the Noel Butlin Archives Centre, to foster among members and other interested parties a sense of involvement with and understanding of the collections, objectives and operations of the Noel Butlin Archives Centre, and to publicise the resources and facilities of the Noel Butlin Archives Centre to stimulate greater awareness within the community of its role. The Friends support an annual lecture and a conservation fund to repair and make more accessible material in the collection of high research value.

Dr Thomas (Tom) Dutton was a Senior Fellow, Department of Linguistics, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University. He began as a Research Fellow in Linguistics from 29 April 1969, and was promoted to Fellow and Senior Fellow before retiring from the ANU in 1997. Prior to taking up linguistics Dutton was an Education Officer in the Administration of Papua and New Guinea. His many books include studies on Papuan languages.

Brij Vilash Lal was born in the village of Tabia, on the island of Vanua Levu. He received his tertiary education at the University of the South Pacific, the University of British Columbia and the Australian National University. He joined the Australian National University in 1990 working in the Department of Pacific History, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies. His prior teaching posts in World and Pacific History were held at the universities of the South Pacific, Hawaii in Manoa, and Papua New Guinea. Lal was a member of the Fiji Constitution Review Commission whose report forms the basis of Fiji's constitution; Founding Editor of 'The Contemporary Pacific: A Journal of Island Affairs,' (Honolulu) and of 'Conversations,' (Canberra); Editor, The Journal of Pacific History; Chairman, Pacific Manuscript Bureau; Founding Director of The Centre for the Contemporary Pacific, ANU; Convenor, Division of Pacific and Asian History and former Chair of Faculty, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, ANU. He was elected Fellow of the Australian Humanities Academy in 1996. He is currently Professor of Pacific and Asian History at the ANU College of Asia and the Pacific.

Patrick Moran was appointed foundation Professor of Statistics in the Research School of Social Sciences on 1 January 1951. He had studied chemistry, mathematics and physics at the University of Sydney, Cambridge University and Oxford University, and worked on rocketry and applied physics projects during World War II. He retired in 1982 but remained at ANU as Emeritus Professor working on the application of statistical methods and epidemiological methods to psychiatry. He was a Fellow of the Royal Society, a Fellow of the Academy of Science and was awarded the Lyle Medal for outstanding research accomplishments in mathematics.

William Taylor (1818-1903) purchased nine runs, over around a decade from 1867, to form ‘Manfred’ Station. In 1867, he purchased the runs of Miparo of Manfred East and Miparo of Manfred West from Izett Stewart. In 1869, it was recorded that he had purchased Kilfera Block A from Charles Ryan. In 1876, Kilfera Block B, Kilfera Block E and Kilfera Block G runs were transferred to Taylor from James Graham. In the same year, Taylor obtained Darnick run, forfeited by Thomas Tenner for non-payment of rent; Kasserhill forfeited by Matthew Palmer and; Eildon run forfeited by J. H. Wheelwright.

‘Manfred’ Station’s ‘Kilfera blocks’ were four of 17 (blocks A-Q), which were originally taken up by Charles Ryan (1818-1898), of the Melbourne stock and station agents’ firm of Ryan and Hammond, as part of his ‘Kilfera’ Station. The Ballarat Star of 16 November 1864 reported:

A number of drays laden with stores, tools, and necessaries for the establishment of a back country station, belonging to Mr Ryan, of Ryan and Hammond, crossed the river [Murray] this week for the Kilfera (new) blocks, between the Lachlan and Darling.

‘Kilfera’ was named after Ryan’s birth place in County Kilkenny, Ireland and it was his second ‘Kilfera’ Station. His first was on the Broken River near Benalla in Victoria, which he took up in the early 1840s in partnership with John Atkins, and sold in 1846. Charles Ryan’s daughter was artist Ellis Rowan (1848-1922) - Christened Marian Ellis Ryan - famous for her paintings of Australian and New Guinean flowers and birds.

The establishment of ‘Manfred’ Station is sometimes incorrectly attributed to George Peter Desailly (1823-1876). George took up ‘Ticehurst’ Station in the Lachlan District that included Miparo of Manfred run, which appears to be the source of the confusion. ‘Manfred’ Station is in the Darling District and many kilometres to the west of ‘Ticehurst’. Further adding to the confusion; ‘Kajuligah’ Station, immediately north of ‘Ticehurst’, includes Miparo of Manfred East run and ‘Manfred’ Station also includes Miparo of Manfred East run.

William Taylor (1818-1903) was born in Glasgow, Scotland and arrived at Port Phillip in 1840. Soon after his arrival, he purchased a sheep-run on the Moorabool River, around 32 kilometres from Geelong. In 1844, Taylor and Dugald Macpherson took up 206 000 acres (83 366 hectares) of land in the Wimmera, near the present Victorian towns of Horsham and Nhill. The holding was subdivided in 1848 with Taylor naming his portion ‘Longerenong’. Dugald Macpherson worked with his younger brother Peter, who in 1873 bought ‘Paika’ Station north of Balranald, in partnership with Robert Bruce Ronald (1831-1907).

In 1861, Taylor bought Euston Station (Pastoral Holding No. 221, consisting of Boomiaricool and Nowung runs) and [Back] Boomiaricool Station (Pastoral Holding No. 60), in the Lower Darling Squatting District, from Edmund Morey (1826-1913). In 1846, pioneer squatter Morey took up land called ‘Boomiaricool’ around the current village of Euston, on the River Murray opposite today’s Victorian town of Robinvale. Morey moved to the Darling Downs in Queensland following the sale. Morey recorded his life experiences in a series of 14 articles titled ‘Reminiscences of a pioneer in NSW’ that were published in the Sydney Mail between 30 October 1907 and 29 January 1908.

In addition to ‘Euston’, [Back] ‘Boomiaricool’ and ‘Manfred’ stations; Taylor also owned ‘Marma’ Station (Pastoral Holding No. 61, consisting of Marma and Mundonai runs) and had a half-share with John Bertram in ‘Garnpung’ Station (Pastoral Holding No. 157, consisting of Garnpung, East Tarcoola and East Tarcoola Block A runs). All of those properties are in the semi-arid area between the lower Lachlan – lower Murrumbidgee rivers and the Darling River; north of the River Murray, in SW NSW. At various times, Taylor also had interests in ‘Police Point’ (1848) now ‘Illilawa’, near Hay, ‘Moonbria’, ‘North Abbotsford’, ‘Salisbury Downs’, and ‘Bootra’ stations in NSW, and became a partner in ‘Darr River Downs’ in Queensland, in 1888.

Alexander Thomson Creswick (1853-1939) purchased ‘Manfred’ Station from the estate of William Taylor, in 1909. Alexander was born in Melbourne, Victoria, the son of Henry Creswick and his wife Jane. His father was a partner in the wine and spirits business of D. S. Campbell & Co. and made a fortune from liquor sales during the gold rush; between 1851 and 1858. Alexander commenced studies at Melbourne University in 1872 but reluctantly left after a year to manage Liewa Station, between the Edward and Wakool rivers, which his father bought from G. A. and P. Mein, in 1873.

In 1900, Following the death of James Tyson in 1898, Creswick purchased his Tupra-Juanbung complex (650 000 acres), near the Lachlan-Murrumbidgee ‘junction’, and soon after bought adjoining ‘Tarwong’ Station from the estate of Peter Tyson. In 1906, he bought Thomas E. ‘Old Tom’ Patterson’s huge ‘Ulonga’ Station (that included One Tree Plain) with a large frontage to the Lachlan River, below Booligal. In 1911, he purchased ‘Moolpa’ Station that joined his original Liewa Station, north of the Edward River. He also owned ‘Trida’ and ‘Conoble’ stations, east of ‘Manfred’ that he worked as one property. He appears to have purchased ‘Kilfera’ Station from Ben Chaffey, or became a partner with him in 1919.

Creswick became one of the largest individual sheep owners in the history of Australia. By 1924, with the backing of Goldsbrough Mort & Co. Ltd., he had bought and sold over 30 pastoral properties and was shearing over 400 000 sheep. His requirements for retaining properties were that they had river frontages, and access to railways so that he could move stock to some of his widely scattered relief stations whenever drought threatened. In addition to the properties mentioned, at various times, Chreswick also owned ‘Mooloomoon’, ‘Keri Keri’, ‘Gunbar’, ‘Chilichil’, ‘Fairview’, ‘Yarrara’, ‘Coppabella’, ‘Merribindinyah’, ‘Arthursleigh’, ‘Bedford Park’, ‘Combogolong’, ‘Barham’, ‘Bullagreen’ and ‘Collaroy’, in NSW. In Victoria, he had ‘Bumbang’, near Robinvale, ‘Strathvean’, ‘Fernside’, ‘Bolinda Park’ and ‘The Nook’ Stud. In Queensland, he held at one time ‘Coongoola’, near Cunnamulla, ‘Keeroongooloo’, ‘Cooluliah’, ‘Tomoo’ and ‘St Helens’. He was also a director of the Bank of Victoria and Carlton Brewery, and from around 1900, bred hundreds of race horses.

Benjamin ‘Ben’ Chaffey (1876-1937) purchased ‘Manfred’ Station from A. T. Creswick in 1923. ‘Manfred’ was worked in conjunction with adjacent ‘Kilfera’ Station (purchased from Ralph Sadlier Falkiner in 1918) as Chaffey & Co. After ‘Kilfera’ was sold in 1925, the business became Manfred Pastoral Company – Goldsbrough Mort & Co. Ltd. appeared to be a major shareholder in both companies. Chaffey had previously (1906) purchased ‘Garnpang’ station, which like ‘Manfred’, had once belonged to William Taylor.

Benjamin Chaffey was the son of George Chaffey, who with his uncle William Benjamin Chaffey, came to Australia at the end of the nineteenth century to established a major irrigation settlement on the River Murray near today’s Mildura, Victoria. Benjamin was born at Kingston, Ontario, Canada and came to Australia with his parents as a 10-year-old, in 1886.

Ben Chaffey was a pastoralist and held a number of sheep properties during his life. He was also a successful ‘colourful racing identity’. Two of his best-known race horses were Whittier and Manfred. In 1922, Whittier ran second in the Caulfield Guineas and won the Caulfield Cup a week later. Whittier repeated his victory in the Caulfield Cup in 1925 and Manfred won in 1926. Whittier and Manfred were also Victoria Derby winners in 1922 and 1925, respectively. Chaffey was a member of the Australian Club and many racing clubs, and in 1930 he was elected chairman of the Victoria Amateur Turf Club. He was also chairman of directors of United Distillers Pty. Ltd., a director of Goldsbrough, Mort & Co. Ltd., and managing director of Manfred Pastoral Company.

On death of Chaffey in 1937, ‘Manfred’ Station was taken over by Goldsbrough Mort and Co. Ltd. and run by that company - and its successor formed in 1962 - Elder Smith Goldsbrough Mort & Co. Ltd., until 1968.

‘Manfred’ was purchased by John ‘Jock’ and Kerry Harris in 1968.

The property of Alroy Downs Station was established in 1878 by W Lamb. It was subsequently bought in 1914 by J C H Schmidt of Goolburra, Queensland. Its first manager was F Story who commenced duties in 1914. From 1934 to 1936, Schmidt's son Rudolf managed the property. The station remained owned by the family company and was later run by Trevor Schmidt, who was also managing director of The Australian Agricultural Company from 1974 to 1988. It was bought in early 2004 by Peter Sherwin and later sold to Sterling Buntine in March 2008.

Arthur Capell was born in Sydney on 28 March 1902 and attended North Sydney Boys High School before entering the University of Sydney in 1919 and graduating in 1922. He subsequently taught at several boys' school in the Sydney area and helped prepare some Latin and Greek primers. He was ordained in the Anglican Church in 1925 and remained for much of his life a devout parish priest while finding time for teaching and linguistic scholarship. He was a prolific publisher in both the clerical and linguistic fields.

In 1935 Capell began PhD studies at SOAS, University of London, under R. O. Winstedt, which he was awarded in 1937 for his linguistic history of south-eastern Papua. Noted fieldwork included time in the Kimberleys in 1938 with Howard Coate (a local medical worker) to study Australian Aboriginal languages. In 1945, Capell was appointed as a lecturer at the University of Sydney, where he remained until his retirement in 1962, although he continued to publish prolifically on Pacific and Australian Aboriginal languages until shortly before his death in 1986.

Capell's linguistic influences came from a number of sources. One of earliest being the English schoolmaster and linguist Sydney Ray, with whom he worked in the 1920s. He was also influenced by the work on Melanesian languages of R.H. Codrington and the work on Oceania of Renward Brandsetter and Otto Dempwolf. As Peter Newton has noted: 'Their pioneering works inspired Capell to formulate his own theories on the genetic relationships between regional languages, the affinity between language and population movements, and suitable methods of modelling earlier language forms.'

As a Principal Research Fellow at the Centre for Social Responsibility in Mining at the University of Queensland, Dr John Burton collected many documents relating to mining and areas of Papua New Guinea affected by mining. His primary research interests include social mapping and land ownership in Melanesia; development in the Pacific; social impacts of mining; governance and traditional politics in Papua New Guinea; Native Title research in Torres Strait and among rainforest Aboriginal groups in North Queensland; genealogy in Australia and Melanesia.

Alexander Elder founded a firm of trading and commission agents in Adelaide, South Australia, in 1840. In 1853 it became the partnership of Elder and Company and in 1855 Elder Stirling and Company. After 1863 the firm became Elder Smith and company. In 1882 Eldera Wool and Produce Company Ltd was established to acquire the auctioneering business of the firm but this was merged with the rest of the company to form Elder Smith and Company in 1888. In 1903 Elder Shenton and Company Ltd was formed in Perth, Western Australia, and this was merged with the main company in 1918. In 1910 Elders Trustee and Executor Co Ltd was formed as a subsidiary and remained a separate company until 1963 when it was merged with the parent company. In 1913 Elders Metal and Mercantile Pty Ltd was formed in conjunction with a number of associated companies to take over the metal section of the business and to carry on operations as general merchants. The parent company took it over in 1914.

In 1962 Goldsbrough Mort and Company merged with Elder Smith and Company Limited to become Elder Smith Goldsbrough Mort Limited. This company continued until December 1981 when it merged with Henry Jones (IXL). The name of the new company changed to Elders IXL on 4 February 1982.

Dr Ray Marginson AM was born in Melbourne on 13 December 1923 and graduated with a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Melbourne in 1946. While at university he was involved with the Socialist Study Group and later became a member and treasurer of the Victorian Fabian Society 1951-1953. He joined the Commonwealth Public Service on 20 July 1948 as a Research Clerk in the Central Administration Section of the Department of Transport. He was promoted to Executive Officer of the Australian Transport Advisory Council, and Personal Assistant to the Permanent Head of the Department in 1949. In 1950 Marginson joined the Postmaster General's Department as Research Officer then Senior Research Officer in the Director General's Office; Senior Finance Officer 1955-1959; Executive Officer in the Director General's Office 1959-1960; controller of the Finance Branch, Finance and General Services Division 1960-1964; Deputy Assistant Director General in the Finance and Accounting Branch of the Management Services Divisioin 1964-1966. In 1965 he was appointed Vice-Principal of the University of Melbourne, until his retirement in 1988. His many other roles have included Chairman of the Melbourne and Metropolitan Board of Works (MelbourneWater), President of the Museum of Victoria, a director of Geotrack International, Vice-Chairman of the Melbourne Theatre Company, member of the Howard Florey Institute and founding President of the Victorian Jazz Archive.

Professor Paterson joined the new Department of Geophysics in the Research School of Physical Sciences as a Senior Research Fellow under Professor JC Jaeger in June 1953, having been awarded a Bachelor of Engineering degree from the University of Adelaide in 1945 and a Doctor of Philosophy degree from Cambridge University in 1949. He had worked in the Division of Aeronautics at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation from 1945 to 1953. In 1956 he was appointed as a Reader in Crystal Physics and in 1987 as a Professor in the Research School of Earth Sciences, which had been separately established from the Research School of Physical Sciences in 1973. Paterson started the design and construction of the first High Pressure, High Temperature (HPT) rock deformation apparatus in 1960 but it was not until 1988 that Paterson Instruments Pty Ltd (jointly owned by Paterson, his wife Katalin and ANUTECH) was formed to manufacture the apparatus as a commercial activity. Over the next twenty years, 13 were manufactured and sold to universities and research institutions in the United Kingdom, France, the United States, Germany, Switzerland and China. Paterson retired in 1990 and worked as a consultant to Australian Scientific Instruments which took over Paterson Scientific Instruments Pty Ltd in the mid-1990s.

Philip Hughes worked full time as the Kuk project’s geoarchaeologist from 1974 to 1977 while at ANU. From 1985–1991, while at University of Papua New Guinea (UPNG), working with colleagues and students, he undertook research into soil erosion and catchment and swamp hydrology at Kuk aimed at further understanding the site’s geoarchaeology and human impact on soil erosion in the catchment from the late Pleistocene to the present.

Ole Christensen completed his BA in 1970 and his MA in 1972, at the Department of Archaeology at the University of Calgary. After field work in South America, he came to the ANU as a PhD scholar in 1972, and worked for the Department of Prehistory's project at Kuk in the upper Wahgi valley, led by Dr Jack Golson. Christensen was involved in the study of the agricultural history of the area, especially scrutinizing resource utilization near the site of the Department's excavations at Kuk. Ole Christensen died, aged 29, in a car accident on 16 December 1974.

James F Weiner received his PhD in Anthropology from the Australian National University in 1984. He has conducted field work among the Foi of Papua New Guinea and has written several books on their myth and social structure, their poetry and geography, and their myth in relation to psychoanalytic theory. He taught at the ANU, University of Manchester and was Professor at the University of Adelaide 1994-1998. In 1998 he became a full-time consultant anthropologist.

Brian Egloff completed his PhD thesis at ANU in 1971 after his extensive research into the evolving trade routes of eastern Papua. He had previously completed field work on a number of sites in the Cherokee nation. From 1972-1978, Egloff was employed at the Papua New Guinea Public Museum and Art Gallery. From 1981-1988, he was the Project Manager of the Port Arthur Conservation and Development Project and established rigorous standards for heritage conservation. He has worked extensively with Aboriginal communities on land rights issues, Aboriginal community heritage and archaeological heritage management and conservation. In 1989 Egloff began lecturing in anthropology, archaeology, and heritage studies at the University of Canberra. He has undertaken various field work in Australia, Southeast Asia, and the Pacific region, including five field seasons at the Tam Ting conservation project in Laos. He was named a Visiting Fellow at the ANU College of Asia and the Pacific in 2014. His book 'Bones of the Ancestors: The Ambum Stone, From the New Guinea Highlands to the Antiquities Market to Australia' explores the range of issues surrounding the National Gallery of Australia's acquisition of a National Cultural Property of Papua New Guinea.

With origins back to the 1870s, the company was liquidated in December 1929, reconstructed and was registered in Victoria under the same name on 31 December 1929. Ballarat Woollen and Worsted Co. Ltd. was finally liquidated in 1978.

Registered in New South Wales in 1907, taking over the business of ice cream and American delicacy manufacturing carried on by F.A. Peters.

Yarra Falls Spinning Co Pty Ltd was founded between 1916-1917 by three UK textile manufacturers Sir Henry Whitehead, Mr Gates and Mr Hill. It was located it was Johnston Street Abbotsford. Its main business at that time was spinning, using machines and skilled labour which had come out from imported Yorkshire. During the 1920s Yarra Falls expanded its business and built a weaving mill in Trenerry Street in 1928 and its administrative complex in a nearby building in Johnston Street.

In 1972 they were taken over by Claude Neon Limited.

Wallaroo - Mount Lyell Fertilisers Ltd. emerged in 1914 from the amalgamation of the Wallaroo Phosphate Company (established 1899) and the Mount Lyell Mining and Railway Company (established 1907). Mount Lyell had a plant at Birkenhead while Wallaroo's plant was located at Wallaroo.

Formed in 1888 as The Australasian Gas Association Ltd., it became Colonial Gas in 1893 with local founding shareholders, Melbourne engineer John Coates and Ballarat ironmonger W.H. Eyres. The firm later acquired a number of provincial gas companies throughout Australia.

The Mount Bischoff Tin Mining Company was formed in 1873 under the direction of James Smith and Launceston solicitor, William Ritchie. The company ran the Mount Bischoff Tin Mine, which struggled to survive in the early days. This was mainly due to the fact that the unmade roads which accessed the mine were almost impassable for many months of the year. Eventually a tramway was built to overcome the transport problems and the mine became a successful venture. The Mount Bischoff Tin Mining Company was also responsible for installing Tasmania's first hydro electric generating plant (1893). The power was initially used to supply lighting for the works area and the Mine Manager's residence.

Davies Coop & Company began to produce shirts and pyjamas in 1925. The company branched out into knitting in 1928, cotton spinning in 1930 and cotton weaving in 1932. Further expansion took place in 1938 when the company established a mill to manufacture condenser yarn and tyre yarn for motor-tyre fabric. In 1938 they formed Davies Coop (Flax Industries) Pty Ltd to weave flax for tarpaulins, fire hoses and canvas. In 1969 Davies Coop & Company was taken over by Bradmill Industries Limited.

Drug Houses of Australia Ltd. was established through the amalgamation of a number of leading pharmaceutical companies in 1930. Its Associated (Trading) houses were A.M. Bickford & Sons Ltd.; Elliotts & Australian Drug Pty. Ltd., Sydney; Felton, Grimwade & Duerdins Ltd., Melbourne (Felton Grimwade & Co. Ltd. of Melbourne, established 1867); Felton, Grimwade & Bickford Ltd., Perth; Taylors, Elliotts & Australian Drug Pty. Ltd. It took 21 years for complete amalgamation of 7 companies, including these, and J. Bosisto & Co. Pty. Ltd., under the D.H.A. Ltd. label. D.H.A. Ltd. continued to expand as a pharmaceutical maker and distributor until the late 1960s, and was taken over by Slater, Walker Security Ltd. in late 1968. D.H.A. Ltd. was ASX delisted from 7 May 1969. It operated as a Slater Walker Australia (SWA) subsidiary, DHA Pharmaceuticals Pty. Ltd. until 1974, when SWA phased out its wholesaling activities.

Registered in Melbourne to deal in telegraph and telephone equipment. Acquired by Philips Australia in 1970.

The Australian Liquor, Hospitality and Miscellaneous Workers' Union was formed in 1992 as an amalgamation of the Federated Miscellaneous Workers' Union of Australia and the Federated Liquor and Allied Industries Employees' Union of Australia. Further amalgamations were with the Pastrycooks, Bakers, Biscuitmakers and Allied Trades Union in 1993, the Ambulance Employees' Association of Victoria in 1994 and the Bakery Employees and Salesmen's Federation of Australia in 1995. It was also known as the Liquor, Hospitality and Miscellaneous Union or LHMU. It was renamed United Voice on 1 March 2011.

On 11 November 2019 the National Union of Workers and United Voice merged to create the United Workers Union.

The National Union of Workers was first formed in 1991 following a series of amalgamations of unions from 1989 onwards: the Federated Storemen & Packers Union; the Federated Miller & Manufacturing Grocers Employees Association of Australia; the Rubber and Allied workers Union;the Pastrycook, Biscuit Makers' and Allied Industries Union; the Commercial Travellers Guild. The six unions which currently form the NUW include the Federated Storemen and Packers Union; Federated Rubber and Allied Workers Union; Federated Cold Storage and Meat Preserving Employees' Union; Federated Millers and Manufacturing Grocers Union; Commonwealth Foremen's Association; United Sales Representatives and Commercial Travellers Guild.

On 11 November 2019 the National Union of Workers and United Voice merged to create the United Workers Union.

Born in New Zealand in 1913, Bruce Stinear was a geologist most famous for his work in Antarctica. After graduating from Canterbury College in 1936, he spent approximately 15 months prospecting for oil in New Guinea. During World War II, he was a navigator with the Royal New Zealand Air Force. After the war, he served as petroleum technologist with the Australian Bureau of Mineral Resources and Chemist in charge of the chemicals and engineering section of the Department of Defense Production in Melbourne before being appointed as geologist for the Australian Antarctic Expedition in 1953. He was the geologist at Davis and Mawson Station for several seasons in the period 1954–59. Stinear Island and Stinear Lake in Antarctica are named for him.

Peter Georg Sack was associated with the Department of Law, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University from 1957-1998. He was a scholar from May 1967; Research Assistant from January 1971; and appointed to Research Fellow on 16 April 1971; then Fellow from 1975 and Senior Fellow in Law, 1984-1988. Sack’s research interests were in European land acquisition and land tenure in Papua New Guinea. After his retirement from the RSSS in 1998, Sack was Visiting Fellow in Pacific and Asian History.

The Advisers on Legislation was a committee responsible for advising the Australian National University Council on university legislation and statutes. It was initially chaired by Professor (later Sir) Kenneth Bailey and its early members included the Vice-Chancellor, H F E Whitlam (Commonwealth Solicitor-General) and Sir Robert Garran.

Professor Wilfred David (Mick) Borrie was born in 1913 in New Zealand. He moved to Sydney in 1941 to teach at Knox Grammar School and began working for Professor R C Mills at the University of Sydney, concentrating on immigration and population matters. After teaching Social History in Sydney University, he joined the Australian National University (ANU) in 1948 as staff member in charge of population studies and became the first Chair of Demography. Professor Borrie established the Department of Demography, Research School of Social Sciences at the ANU in 1952. He served on the Australian government's immigration planning councils (1965-81), helping to formulate immigration policy. From 1970-78 he directed the government's National Population Inquiry. Borrie remained Professor of Demography until his retirement in 1978.

Judy Davis, postgraduate student, Pacific History, Research School of Pacific Studies, Australian National University

Professor Emerita Maev O'Collins is an Honorary Visiting Fellow in the Department of Political and Social Change at the Australian National University. She obtained her BA from the University of Melbourne and a Doctorate of Social Work from Columbia University, New York. She taught sociology and social work at the University of Papua New Guinea and was appointed Professor of the Department of Anthropology and Sociology in 1979. She was awarded an MBE in the Papua New Guinea honours list in 1987 and the title of Emeritus Professor when she retired in 1989. Her research interests include South Pacific nations and Norfolk Island.

Arthur Llewellyn Basham was born on 24 May 1914 at Loughton, Essex, England. From 1965-79 Basham was foundation professor and head of the new department of Oriental civilisation in the faculty of Oriental studies at the Australian National University, Canberra.

Dr John Knott was a Senior Lecturer in History at the Australian National University.

On 30 June 1820 Major Frederick Goulburn was commissioned as Colonial Secretary and Registrar of the Records of New South Wales. On 1 January 1821, Frederick Goulburn was officially sworn in and assumed his duties as Colonial Secretary.

The Colonial Secretary’s Office kept the Registers of Letters, and prepared the financial and statistical Returns of the Colony, which were sent annually to the Secretary of State. The offices of Secretary to the Governor and Colonial Secretary were not separated until May 1824 when Major Ovens was officially appointed Governor Brisbane's Private Secretary.

Another aspect of the Colonial Secretary’s Duties was as a legislator. The Secretary was an ex officio member of the Legislative Council, which first sat in August 1824. The warrant establishing the Council listed in order of precedence the Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Chief Justice, Colonial Secretary, Principal Surgeon, and Surveyor General.

The most important function of the Colonial Secretary’s office was that it acted as the channel of communications between the Governor, other government offices, and private settlers.

Wesfarmers began in June 1914 as Westralian Farmers Limited and then became Westralian Farmers Co-operative, and for most of its early history was primarily involved with the provision of services and merchandise to Western Australia’s rural community. Its early operations included wool and wheat merchandising, grain and fruit exporting, oil distribution to rural areas, as well as Western Australia’s first public radio station. In the 1950s Wesfarmers began a major diversification programme with the formation of Kleenheat Gas. Today, through acquisitions and divestments, Wesfarmers has transformed the size and shape of its business to become one of Australia’s leading retailers and diversified industrial companies.

Dorothy Olive Cameron (nee Lober) had an early career in the 1940s working in sound effects at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) in Sydney, as secretary to an Australian delegation to the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNNRA) and as conference officer for UNESCO in Paris (travelling to Mexico City, Beirut and other places). Her early connection to the Australian National University was as secretary to Ross Hohnen (Registrar from 1949) and her marriage to Roy Cameron, lecturer in economics at the Canberra University College (1949-1951). After raising three children she pursued a successful career as an artist including drawing archaeological finds in Jordan in 1973. She then began her research into prehistoric symbols resulting in the publication of Symbols of Birth and of Death in the Neolithic Era, and, The Ghassulian Wall Paintings (Kenyon-Deane, London, 1981) and the preparation of unpublished manuscripts on the symbolic art of Crete, woman and her symbols (The Lady and the Bull) and Catal Huyuk. She donated her collection of artefacts to the ANU Centre for Archaeological Research and the Dorothy Cameron Prize for Pre-History was established after her death.