Len Hawkins was a Master of Arts student (c. 1979) in the Department of Demography, Research School of Social Sciences at the Australian National University. His Masters thesis, Immigration Policy and Practice, 1942-1949 focussed on Australian post-war immigration. Hawkins was employed in the Department of Immigration as a research officer.

The company was registered in New South Wales in 1880 as the Haymarket Permanent Land, Building and Investment Company Limited. The company changed its name in 1928 to Haymarket Land and Building Company Ltd and was in liquidation in 1957.

Cameron Hazlehurst was Foundation Teaching Fellow in History, Monash University 1964-5; Junior Research Fellow, Nuffield College 1968-70 and The Queen’s College, Oxford 1970-72; Lecturer in Politics, University College, Oxford 1969-72; Fellow and Senior Fellow, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University 1972-92; Professor and Head, School of Humanities, Queensland University of Technology 1992-7. Hazlehurst worked in policy consulting roles and served in government posts as Assistant Secretary, Information, Department of Urban and Regional Development 1973-5; First Assistant Secretary, Communications Strategy, Department of Communications 1984-6; National Campaign Director, AIDS Information and Education, Department of Community Services and Health 1988-9; Chairman, Community Consultative Committee, National Registration Authority for Agricultural and Veterinary Chemicals 1996-2002; Chairman, NSW Pesticides Implementation Committee 1999-2004; and member, NSW Radiation Advisory Council from 2005. He is currently Adjunct Professor, Research School of Humanities and the Arts at the Australian National University.

Ronald (Les) Heathcote graduated from the University College London in 1955, completing his Master degree in Nebraska as a Fulbright Scholar in 1959 and then subsequently his PhD at the Australian National University in 1963. From this research he published a book concerning historical settlement and environmental management, Back of Bourke (1965). Heathcote was a reader and lecturer in geography at the University College London (1962-66); from 1966 he was senior lecturer then Reader in Geography at Flinders University, South Australia and was the Flinders University representative on the SA Public Examinations Board (1968-79). He was a member of Council for the Institute of Australian Geographers and a member of the Australian Academy of Science’s National Committee for the Environment and its National Committee for Geography. Elected a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia in 1981, Dr Heathcote was President of the Institute of Australian Geographers in 1985-6, and in 1989 received an Honours Award of the Association of American Geographers. From 1991 to 1997 he was a representative then chairman of the National Committee for Geography of the Australian Academy of Science. In 1997 Heathcote was awarded the Griffith Taylor Medal from the Institute of Australian Geographers.

Hebburn Limited was formed in 1914 to take over the Australian Agricultural Company’s (AACo) interests in the Hebburn Colliery and the Aberdare-Cessnock Railway. The Australian Agricultural Company became a shareholder in Hebburn Limited. The whole of the AACo shareholdings in this company was sold as of 31 December 1948.

The company was founded by Henry Franklin, a coal merchant who later became a miller at Ivel Mill, Biggleswade, in 1883. Henry Franklin Ltd, flour miller and agricultural merchant was bought by Dalgety in 1959 to form Dalgety Franklin Ltd (1959 - 1965).

Michael Hess began his research career in the field of industrial relations with a focus on 'developing' economies. He has held appointments at the University of New South Wales and the University of Western Australia. He was Reader in the Asia Pacific School of Economics and Director of the Graduate Studies in Developmental Administration at the Australian University. As a Fellow at ANU, Hess' research included the history of the Aboriginal pastoral workers' strike, 1946-1949. In 2004 he held the position of Professor of Management at the University of Tasmania and where he was a founding member of the Australian Innovation Research Centre. He then joined the University of New South Wales at the Australian Defence Force Academy as Head of School, Business School. He is editor of the e-journal, Labour & Management in Development.

John David Hill was born on 19 September 1915 and attended Parkes Primary School and Parkes Intermediate High School. He inherited properties in the Parkes District from his father, Harold John Hill and his grandmother, Mrs E Arthur (nee Newbigging): 'Fedora' was drawn in a ballot c. 1906 by J D Hill's father and sold in 1949; 'Islay', which was a nearby property inherited by J D Hill, was drawn in a ballot c. 1906 by Mrs E Arthur and was sold in 1949; 'Locarno' was built in 1926 and purchased by H J Hill to be the family's town residence from 1927-1932, and was sold in the early 1950s; 'Tatura' was built in 1937 in J D Hill's name by his grandmother Mrs E Arthur who lived on the property. Mercadool, west of Parkes, was purchased from the Estate of A P Hunter in June 1950 and occupied by H J Hill & Son. Upon H J Hill's death in 1956, J D Hill bought out his sister, Doris G Nash's, half interest in Mercadool. J D Hill farmed Mercadool from 1950 to 1991. Hill died on 7 March 1991.

Nancy Eva Hitchcock worked as a dietitian in Papua New Guinea 1962-1963, and in Nauru and Banaba (Ocean Island). She has published material on her work in the region including Rabia Camp: a Port Moresby migrant settlement (with Nigel D. Oram, published by New Guinea Research Unit, Australian National University, 1967).

Henry Edmund (Harry) Holland was born at Ginninderra, NSW on 10 June 1868 and was apprenticed as a compositor to the 'Queanbeyan Times', 1882-1878. Joined the Australian Socialist League, 1892. Split from the Labor Party in New South Wales, 1898. Stood as a Socialist Labor Party candidate, federal Senate and the state seat of Lang, 1901. Stood as a socialist candidate in the New South Wales state elections, 1907. He was convicted of sedition following his involvement in the Broken Hill Miners Strike of 1909. With Tom Batho he launched the 'Sydney Socialist' paper in October 1894. He was sent to jail for three months in 1896 for libel. The paper was renamed 'the Northern People' and then the 'People'. 1902-1906 he edited labour papers in Grenfell and Queanbeyan. He launched the 'International Socialist Review for Australasia' in February 1907. In May 1912 he moved to New Zealand and became involved in the Waihi miners' strike. In April 1913 he became editor of the 'Maoriland Worker'. Holland was jailed in November 1913 for sedition following his role in the waterfront dispute. He stood as the Social Democratic Party candidate, Wellington North 1914 and 1918. In May 1918 he was elected for Grey (later Buller). From 1919-1931 Holland was chairman of the New Zealand Labour Party. In he 1920 visited Samoa as a member of a parliamentary party investigating New Zealand's colonial mandate. Holland died in Huntly, New Zealand on 8 Ocotober 1933.

The company of corn, seed and agricultural merchants was established in London in 1927. In 1961 the company was bought by Dalgety Franklin Ltd.

Ian George Hudson is a member of the family of timber merchants descending from William Hudson who established a timber business first in New Zealand and later in Australia. The family carried on timber businesses in Redfern and Glebe known as Hudson Bros, and later, George Hudson Pty Ltd. Ian Hudson's father, Alfred, established a timber merchants and building suppliers in Ashfield in 1927 known as A Hudson & Sons. Ian Hudson himself set up a timber company in Parramatta Road Leichhardt, in 1936, which operated as A Hudson Pty Ltd with a chain of nine retails stores and two wholesale businesses. In 1982 Hudson retired and his son, Roger, became Director of the A Hudson group of companies. In 1986 Hudson produced a history of the timber industry, Gift of God - friend of man: a story of the timber industry in NSW, 1788-1986, written with Paul Henningham.

The company was incorporated on 10 January 1920 and owned Ivanhoe Station (Western Australia). It was closely associated with Connor, Doherty & Durack Ltd. In March 1950 the company was acquired as a subsidiary of AA&P Joint Holdings Pty Ltd.

The company formed in 1885 to deal in real estate and to operate as banker and financial agents in the Australian colonies. In 1887, it absorbed the Joint Stock Building, Land and Investment Company Limited. The company became a subsidiary of the Mercantile Mutual Insurance Company Ltd in January 1960.

The station lease was taken up by Patrick Durack and his family in 1893. From around 1923 the station owner was listed as Ivanhoe Grazing Co Ltd. The Australian Agricultural Company acquired the property from 1950 to 1960. In 1992 the station was acquired by Consolidated Pastoral Company Pty Ltd.

The firm was founded by in 1850 by JC Young who set up a small warehouse in Geelong. In 1852 a branch was opened in Ballarat with John Paterson as manager. In 1856 the business moved to Melbourne and Paterson was admitted into partnership with the firm then known as JC Young and Company. In 1858, Henry C Palmer became a partner and on Young's retirement in 1860, Paterson and Palmer purchased the business, renamed Paterson, Palmer and Company.

The company was founded by James Swan Kidd, hardware merchant and ironmonger, and was operating from around 1893. The company was incorporated in Victoria on 18 February 1914. In July 1970 all the issued capital of J S Kidd & Co Pty Ltd was acquired by Danks Holdings Limited.

J S McClelland Pty Ltd was founded in 1908 in Melbourne, Victoria. The company performed printing work for small businesses and the general public. Thomas J McClelland was a Director of the company until 1977. The company was deregistered on 21 February 1981.

Sir Gordon (Ronald) Jackson was born on 5 May 1924 and studied at Brisbane Grammer School and the University of Queensland. Jackson was a board member of various companies and organisations. he was Chairman, Australian Industry Development Corporation; Board member, Reserve Bank of Australia (1975-1990), Police Board of NSW; Director, Rothams Holdings Ltd; Director, Rockwell International Pty Ltd; and Vice President, Australia-Japan Business Co-operation Committee. In 1941 Jackson joined CSR Ltd. He was appointed Head Sugar Marketing Division, 1958; Senior Executive Officer, 1964; General Manager, 1972-1982; Director 1972-1985; and Deputy Chairman, 1983-1985. On 11 June 1983 he was awarded Knight of the Order of Australia (AK). From 1984-1988, Jackson was a member of the Advisory Committee, Centre for Resource and Environmental Studies at the Australian National University. He was Chancellor, ANU from 1987-1990 (formerly Pro Chancellor). Jackson died on 1 June 1991.

The company was registered in New South Wales on 6 July 1916 as James McLeish Estates Limited until 18 May 1937 when it became a proprietary company. It was acquired in July 1946 as a subsidiary of AA&P Joint Holdings Ltd, a company jointly formed by the Australian Agricultural Company and the Peel River Land & Mineral Co Ltd.

The firm was established in Melbourne in 1872 by James Paterson with Edward Newbigin as ship owners and coal importers, and later bought tugs into the business. After Paterson's death in 1906, his nephew Henry Masterton became Managing Director of the business.

James Robertson and Co Pty Ltd owned Jandra and Wapweelah stations, near Bourke, New South Wales, in the 1880s until 1938. From 1939, F J Robertson took over Jandra Station, and M K Robertson took over Wapweelah Station. The stations are now owned by descendents of different branches of the Robertson family.

Jaques Brothers, manufacturers of road making machinery, stone crushers and excavators, was established in Melbourne in 1888 after the original partnership between Edward Jaques and Edwin Phillips of Phillips and Jaques was dissolved. The new partnership between Edward Jaques and his brother, Wallace, was registered in Melbourne in 1917 as Jaques Brothers Proprietary Limited. It became a public company in 1949. On 22 March 1973, Jaques Brothers Limited changed its name to Jaques Limited, which was taken over by Clyde Industries Ltd on 19 September 1979.

Margaret Jean Jennings was born on 15 September 1943. She studied at the University of Melbourne (BA) and from 1965-1970 held research positions and was an author for the Hill of Content Publishing Company's archives series. From 1970-1978 Jennings held the position of Archivist at the Australian Archives. She was Victorian branch secretary of the Australian Society of Archivists from 1976 and in 1978 became a Records Management Officer at the University of Melbourne where she also conducted courses for the Australian Society of Archivists. Jennings was national president of the the Society from 1979-1981; lectured in Information Management (Archives & Records) at the Melbourne College of Advanced Education, 1979-1988; Victorian branch editor and council member, Records Management Association of Australia; member of the Pacific Regional Branch of the International Council on Archives (PARBICA); University Archivist & Records Manager at the University of Adelaide, 1990-1992; Records Manager at Griffith University in 1992. Margaret Jennings died in Queensland on 25 December 1993.

Harald Ingemann Jensen was born in 1879 in Denmark and migrated to Queensland at the age of 6. In 1898 he was employed at Clement Wragge's Mt Kosciusko observatory and entered the University of Sydney. He taught in Sydney and North Queensland in 1900-1901, then returned to the University of Sydney and graduated in 1904 with BSc with honours in geology. Jensen was assistant demonstrator, geology and chemistry, under Edgworth David in 1904-1905; appointed first Macleay Fellow, Linnean Society of New South Wales in 1905; awarded D Sc & university medal in 1908; and from 1908-1911 worked as a soil scientist with the New South Wales Department of Agriculture. Jensen was an active member of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) and wrote regularly for Labor and union journals. In August 1912 he was appointed director of mines in the Northern Territory, holding the position until 1915 when he was demoted to Chief Geologist. From 1917-1922 he was a government geologist in Queensland. Jensen was defeated as ALP candidate for Lilley (1917) and the Queensland Senate (1922 and 1925). He was later expelled by the ALP Queensland central executive for his critique of the party's neglect of socialism. From 1923-1938 he worked as a consultant geologist, seeking oil in the Roma basin, Queensland, and the Mandated Territory of New Guinea. In 1938-1940 he led the Queensland section, Aerial Geological & Geophysical Survey of North Australia. From 1943-1956, he worked on weather prediction with Inigo Jones at his Crohamhurst laboratory. Jensen died after sustaining burns on 13 July 1966.

The company was registered in Victoria on 25 January 1889 to continue the hardware manufacturing and supply business founded by brothers John and Samuel Danks in 1859. The head office was based in Bourke Street, Melbourne while another branch was established in Sydney in the 1880s. The company had factories in Melbourne and Sydney. In 1951 Danks Holdings Limited was incorporated and the company became a wholly owned subsidiary of Danks Holdings Limited. John Danks and Son Pty Ltd is still registered as a proprietary company.

John McIlwraith founded his business, The Melbourne Lead Works, in 1854. This business was the precursor of John McIlwraith & Co Pty Ltd, suppliers of building and plumbing products. In the 1870s McIlwraith was connected with a small coastal steamship company, which later merged with the larger shipping firm of McIlwraith, McEacharn & Co Ltd. For some time he took part in the administration of this company in partnership with his brothers, Andrew and Sir Thomas McIlwraith (who became Queensland Premier in 1879), but in the 1890s he withdrew from the shipping business and devoted his attention to lead manufacturing and his business. After McIlwraith's death in 1902, his sons John, Thomas and David McIlwraith managed the business registering the business as John McIlwraith & Co Pty Ltd on 20 August 1910. By 30 October 1950 a new company had formed and was registered in Victoria as John McIlwraith Industries Limited.

The original firm of Peter Johns, engineer and businessman, was known as Johns' Hydraulic & General Engineering Co Ltd until 1892. In 1892 his company became known as Johns and Waygood Limited, after taking over the Australian business of the English elevator manufacturer, Richard Waygood & Co. Johns and Waygood Limited was delisted from 11 April 1957 following conversion of the company's shares into shares of the Holding Company.

Audrey Johnson researched and wrote on left-wing and communist issues in Australia. She was research assistant to Ken Buckley for his book on the history of the Amalgamated Engineering Union. From the late 1950s, she was one of a group, which included Helen Palmer and Grace Bardsley, who produced the independent socialist magazine, Outlook. She wrote the biography of Australian Labor Party Senator and trade union leftist Bill Morrow, published by Penguin as Fly a Rebel Flag (1985), and Bread and Roses (1990), a history of left and trade union women activists, published by the Left Book Club. Johnson had almost completed a biography of Tom Wright, a trade union official, when she died in 2002.

Bruce Juddery was born in Tauranga, New Zealand in 1941 and migrated to Australia around 1964. He was a graduate of the Australian National University, and worked for the Canberra Times from 1966 to 1980 as a journalist covering government, economics, public administration and the Australian Public Service. He also worked in Public Relations for the ANU, as Secretary of the ACT Branch of the Australian Journalist's Association, and as a freelance journalist including Canberra correspondent for the Australian Business Magazine. He is author of two books, At the Centre: the Australian Bureaucracy in the 1970's (1974) and White Collar Power: a History of the ACOA (1980). The Administrative and Clerical Officers' Association (ACOA) was the union representing white collar workers of the Commonwealth Public Service, and is now referred to as the Public Sector Union. Juddery died in Canberra on 15 January 2003.

Kallara Station is a large pastoral property located between the townships of Tilpa and Louth, New South Wales. Past managers and owners included David Brown (1870s - 1880s); Charles and Suetonius Officer (1880s - c. 1923); Horton Maclure Pty Ltd (from 1925 onwards) and later Berawinnia Pastoral Co. A subsidiary of this station was Goorimpa Station.

John Patrick Marcus Kavanagh, political activist, was born on 12 July 1879 in Ireland and later moved to Liverpool, England. In 1898 he enlisted in the King's Royal Rifle Corps, served in Ireland, fought in South Africa in 1900-02, was invalided home and was discharged as a corporal in 1906. He emigrated to Canada in 1907, and settled in Vancouver where he worked in tile-laying and from 1917 on the wharves. In 1921 he helped to found the underground Communist Party of Canada. In 1925 he and his companion Mrs Edna Louise Hungerford (née Hay), sailed for Australia arriving in Sydney in May. In the same year he became chairman of the Communist Party of Australia (CPA) and editor of the Workers' Weekly (1925-1929). He founded the Militant Minority Movement, and in 1928 was elected to the Labor Council of New South Wales. He was unsuccessful as a candidate for Newtown in the Legislative Assembly elections of 1930 and 1932. He was first expelled from the CPA in 1931 and finally in 1934. Kavanagh helped to form an anti-war committee in 1935 and remained involved in left-wing activity during World War II. He joined the Old Age & Invalid Pensioners' Association of NSW in 1953 and was its Sutherland Branch president from 1954-1964. Kavanagh died in Loftus, NSW on 6 July 1964.

Roger Martin Keesing taught in the Department of Anthropology, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies at the Australian National University. He received his MA (1963) and PhD (1965) at Harvard University before teaching at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He was offered Chair of Anthropology, Institute of Advanced Studies at the ANU from1974, holding this position until 1990 when he took up a Professorship of Anthropology at McGill University, Montreal, Canada. Keesing conducted fieldwork among the Kwaio people of the Solomon Islands over some thirty years. He died on 7 May 1993 in Toronto.

John Langford (Jack) Knight was born on 25 August 1912 at Cressy, Victoria. Knight completed a Masters Degree in Chemistry at the University of Melbourne in 1933. In August 1933 he became a chemist with Nobel (Australasia) Pty Ltd at Deer Park, Victoria. In October 1936 he joined the Department of Defence at the Explosives Factory, Maribyrnong, where he was placed in charge of propellant production. In October 1941 Knight was transferred to the directorate of explosives supply, Department of Munitions. He travelled to North America as part of an explosives mission from November 1941 to May 1942. He was Assistant Manager of a new explosives factory in Mulwala, New South Wales from 1942 to 1945. After the war he returned to Central Administration as assistant to the Consultant on Explosives, Arthur E Leighton. In 1947 he also served as secretary and executive officer of the Explosives Committee. In 1949-1951 he was explosives and chemical engineering representative for the Department of Supply and Development in Britain. Knight was an assistant-manager of the Maribyrnong factory in 1952-1954; manager of the Explosives Factory, Albion, in 1954-1956; and chief chemical engineer in the explosives branch in 1957-1958. Joining the Department of Supply in 1958 he was controller, explosives supply (later explosives and ammunition supply) until 1967, and deputy-controller of munitions supply, in Canberra, in 1967-1976. He was chairman of the Operational Safety Committee in 1958-1976. After his retirement in 1976 Knight became a consultant and undertook research on the history of explosives in Australia. He died at Blackburn, Victoria on 22 January 1988.

Dr Rick Kuhn was born on 18 September 1955 and graduated with a B Ec from University of Sydney (1977), BA with Honours in politics from Macquarie University (1979) and PhD from Sydney University (1985). In 1978 he was a part-time Assistant Lecturer, School of Politics, History and Philosophy, Macquarie University. From 1979 to 1986 Kuhn held Research Officer and senior Project Officer positions at the Bureau of Industry Economics. He joined the Political Science Department, Faculty of Arts, at the Australian National University in 1987 as Lecturer then becoming Senior Lecturer in 1995. Kuhn was for some years a member of the Canberra and Sydney rank and file organisations of the Administrative and Clerical Officers' Association (ACOA) and edited their small national newspaper. Since 2006 Kuhn has been a Reader, School of Politics and International Relations, Research School of Social Sciences, College of Arts and Social Sciences, ANU. He is an editor of the online journal Marxist Interventions.

For the period 1941 to 1946, the station proprietor was Mrs J M Rogerson, the widow of a son of G T Rogerson who was a proprietor of Glenrock Station (Gundaroo, New South Wales).

Roderic John Lacey was Associate Professor at the Australian Catholic University. From around 1972 to 1975 he was active in field research in the New Guinea highlands and completed a PhD Thesis (1975, University of Wisconsin) titled ‘Oral traditions as history: an exploration of oral sources among the Enga of the New Guinea highlands'.

The operations of Lake George Mines Pty Ltd were centred on a lead-zinc, copper and gold mine situated at Captain's Flat, located south east of Canberra. In the 1920s the British company, National Mining Corporation, examined the area and decided that the mine could be worked profitably again using modern extraction methods. Lake George Mines was incorporated as a limited liability company on 3 September 1930, becoming a proprietary company on 5 May 1943. The company conducted mining operations at Captain's Flat, New South Wales. In 1962 the company ceased operations and was placed in voluntary liquidation. In March 1962 the mine was closed following the exhaustion of further stopes and the increasingly unsafe condition of the mine. The London based holding company, Lake George Mining Corporation Limited, was placed into voluntary liquidation on March 31 1964.

David John Lake was born on 26 March 1929 in Bangalore, India. In 1967 he took up a lectureship in English at the University of Queensland. Lake retired in 1994.

Albert Langer (also known as Arthur Dent) was a student activist at Monash University in the 1960s and 1970s during the Vietnam War years. He was involved with the Maoist faction at the university and a supporter of the Communist Party of Australia (Maoist-Leninist). His interest in politics included the arms race and telecommunications of which he was an advocate of free software. He was an active opponent of Zionism, and was associated with a group called Jews Against Zionism and Anti-Semitism (JAZA). In February 1996 Langer was convicted of urging voters to vote for neither the Australian Labor Party or the Liberal-National coalition by assigning them equal last preferences. He served three weeks in prison for breach of the Electoral Act.

Ralph Lawton left South Australia for Papua New Guinea in 1957 where he lived as a Methodist missionary in Oyabia village on the island of Kiriwina, the biggest of the Trobriand Islands, between 1961 and 1973. Lawton translated the Old and New Testaments into Kiriwina. The translation, Ka, Matauwena Yesu: Yesu livalela deli la vituloki was published by the Bible Society in Papua New Guinea, 1974. He returned to Canberra in 1992 and is currently a postgraduate student at the Australian National University working on linguistics and languages.

Donald Clarence Laycock was born in Newcastle, New South Wales. He received a BA (Newcastle), and was the first PhD scholar in linguistics at the Australian National University 1959-1962. Laycock’s PhD thesis on a language group in the Sepik district of Papua New Guinea was published in 1965 as the first book-length publication in the Department's Pacific Linguistics series, of which he later became one of the editors. He was appointed as Research Fellow in the Department of Linguistics, Research School of Pacific Studies from 8 May 1964; Fellow in Anthropology and Sociology on 13 May 1966; Fellow in Linguistics on 8 March 1968 and was appointed to Senior Fellow on 1 July 1969. Laycock held this position until he died in 1989.

This wool, textile and bedding merchant and manufacturing company was the successor to the original firm of Laycock, Son & Nettleton founded by Federick Laycock, his son Burdett and Samuel Nettleton around 1884. The partnership of Laycock, Son & Nettleton dissolved in 1911, with the separate firm of Laycock, Son & Co Ltd being formed and continuing in Melbourne. The Nettletons founded a separate firm in Sydney, Nettleton & Co. In 1915 the Melbourne firm was re-organised by Burdett Laycock to include his sons Frederick Cornelius and Edwin, and became Laycock, Son & Co Pty Ltd. In 1926 the Melbourne company re-organised the Sydney firm of Nettleton & Co and it was later renamed Laycock Son & Nettleton with E B Laycock as Director. The company was deregistered on 1 August 1997.

Laycock, Son & Nettleton was founded by Federick Laycock, his son Burdett and Samuel Nettleton around 1884. The partnership of Laycock, Son & Nettleton dissolved in 1911, with the separate firm of Laycock, Son & Co Ltd being formed and continuing in Melbourne. The Nettletons founded a separate firm in Sydney, Nettleton & Co. In 1926 the Melbourne company re-organised the Sydney firm of Nettleton & Co and it was later renamed Laycock Son & Nettleton with E B Laycock as Director. The company changed it's name when a new company, Laconia (NSW) Proprietary Limited was registered on 4 December 1950.

Brian Bannatyne Lewis was Professor of Architecture at the University of Melbourne. In 1947 he was appointed Consulting Architect to design the major buildings at the Australian National University.

Milton James Lewis worked as a tutor and research scholar at the School of History, Australian National University. In 1972 he completed a Master of Arts thesis on the origins and early history the Australian National University . In 1977 he was awarded a PhD in history at ANU for his research into infant and maternal health in Sydney from 1870-1939. He was a Senior Research Fellow in the School of Public Health, University of Sydney, 1989 to 2006 and since 2006 has held the position of Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the Menzies Centre for Health Policy, University of Sydney.

This company which carried on business as wool combers and spinners, woollen and hosiery manufacturers, general knitters and silk throwers, was formed in 1922 to acquire the assets of Lincoln Knitting Mills Pty Ltd and Lincoln Spinning Mills Pty Ltd, two companies established in July 1920. After a fire in the Knitting Mills in July 1925 the company wound up voluntarily and was reconstructed, and a new company of the same name was registered in Victoria on 11 March 1926. In 1939 the two subsidiary companies of Lincoln Mills Knitting Pty Ltd and Lincoln Mills Spinning Pty Ltd were wound up and the assets acquired by Lincoln Mills (Australia) Ltd which then carried out both distribution and manufacturing. In March 1962, the entire knitting mill plant and garment and hosiery stocks were sold to Kayser Pty Ltd. The company was taken over by Cleckheaton (Yorkshire) Ltd on 10 September 1962.

Dr Henry John Lindeman began growing vines and producing wines from 1843. Business progressed and in 1879 Dr Lindeman took into partnership three of his five sons, Charles, Arthur and Herbert, as H J Lindeman. Lindeman died in 1881 and the business was carried on by his three sons.

A private company, Lindeman Ltd, was incorporated in New South Wales in November 1906. In 1953 the company was converted to a public company. A new holding company Lindeman (Holdings) Limited was established in November 1959 to acquire the existing capital on the basis of two one pound shares for each one pound share held. In 1961 the holdings company made a successful offer for Leo Buring (Holdings) Ltd. Lindeman (Holdings) Limited was acquired by Philip Morris Australia Limited in 1971. In early 1990 Philip Morris and Lindemans Wine, including its subsidiaries, were acquired by the Penfolds Wine Group. Southcorp Limited acquired the Penfolds Wine Group, which included Lindemans, in 1990.

Joy London was born in Croydon, England and first came to Australia in 1922 when she was 10 years old. Her mother and family, the Moore family, purchased the Kioloa property from William Walker in 1929. On 1 March 1975 she bequeathed her 349 hectare property to the Australian National University. The Edith and Joy London Foundation, named in honour of London and her mother, is located on the south coast of New South Wales adjacent to the village of Kioloa. Joy London died in July 1995.

John Maroney owned Coolegong Station from 1895. In 1927, the station owner is listed as Maroney Bros, and from 1937 to 1963 as J Maroney Ltd.

Alexander James Macdonald was born in Fitzroy, Victoria on 21 February 1864. Macdonald received his architectural training in Edinburgh, Scotland. He returned to Australia around 1888 to work in private practice before joining the Victorian Public Works Department as an Assistant Architect on 10 August 1889. At 32 years of age, he became Examiner of Patents for Victoria and later Chief Examiner of Patents for the Commonwealth. He returned temporarily to public architecture in 1912 and in the following two years worked intermittently as Walter Burley Griffin's chief assistant.

Merv MacFarlane was born on 22 June 1924 at West Gosford, New South Wales. On 11 December 1941, at the age 17 he joined the army and served in the Middle East, New Guinea and Borneo until 18 June 1946. From 9 February 1948 he commenced work on the Sydney waterfront and joined the Sydney Branch of the Waterside Workers' Federation (WWF). MacFarlane was the Federation's job delegate in 1956, then elected vice-president of the Branch in 1960, and again in 1976-1984, he was vigilance officer 1970-1973, and in 1977-1984 was appointed to the position of the port transfer officer. He was a member of the Australian Labor Party until he left to join the Communist Party of Australia (CPA) in 1963 and was editor of the CPA newsletter Wharfie. He became an editor for the Revesby Workers Club News in 1964. MacFarlane left the CPA in 1971 and became a founding member of the Socialist Party of Australia (SPA) in 1972. He was vice-chariman, Maritime Branch of the SPA and editor of the newsletter, Maritime Bulletin. In 1982 he was a founding member of the Maritime Unionists Socialist Activities Association (MUSAA) and the editor of MUSAA News. He became the first secretary of the Sydney Branch, MUSAA and later its first national secretary. Merv MacFarlane died in late February 2000.

Martha Macintyre received a BA (University of Melbourne) and PhD from the Australian National University (1983) where she made her first visits to Tubetube, Papua New Guinea, before accepting a position at Monash as a Post-doctoral Research Fellow in Anthropology in 1984. Macintyre has held positions at the Australian National University, Monash University, La Trobe University and the University of Melbourne. She has undertaken research in Papua New Guinea since 1979. She was Senior Lecturer, Medical Anthropology, Centre for Health and Society at the University of Melbourne. From 1995 she undertook a social impact study of the Misima gold mine in the Milne Bay province of Papua New Guinea as well as an ongoing study of the social impact of gold mining in Lihir, Papua New Guinea. She is currently Honorary Senior Fellow in the School of Social and Political Science at the University of Melbourne and editor of The Australian Journal of Anthropology.

George Bellamy Mackaness was born in Sydney, Australia. He obtained his MD and BS from the University of Sydney in 1945 and DPhil (University of Oxford, 1952) working under the mentorship of Sir Howard Florey with whom he worked as Senior Fellow. He joined the Department of Experimental Pathology, John Curtin School of Medical Research at the Australian National University as a scholar on 1 July 1948; Research Fellow, 1 July 1951; Senior Fellow, 1 July 1953; Reader, 8 August 1958. He later accepted the position Professor of Microbiology at the University of Adelaide. In 1965 he was appointed Director of The Trudeau Institute, Saranac Lake, New York and held this position until 1976 when he became President of the Squibb Institute for Medical Research in Princeton, New Jersey. Mackaness was awarded the Paul Ehrlich-Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize for Medicine in 1975 and the Novartis Prize for Clinical Immunology in 1998. Mackaness died on 4 March 2007, in Charleston, South Carolina.

Colin Macpherson worked as a curriculum and assessment specialist in the Curriculum Development Unit of the Western Samoan Department of Education in 1989. He edited the monthly magazine Our World Too, an educational resource for secondary students. The magazine was distributed to every government secondary school in Samoa from 1989-1991. Macpherson was also a cartoonist, his illustrations appeared in the Our World Too magazine and the Samoa Observer.

The company was formed in December 1901 to acquire the business of silk merchants carried on in Australia and New Zealand by M Makower and Company. On 17 February 1902 the company was registered in Victoria as M Makower and Company Proprietary Limited. In August 1904 the name was changed to Makower McBeath and Co Pty Ltd. In 1920 a limited company was formed to conduct the business in New Zealand and was incorporated there as Makower McBeath and Company Limited on 12 July 1920. The company ceased trading operations on 31 October 1972 when it was taken over by Charles Parsons Pty Ltd.

Geoffrey Arthur Manning was born at Harston, Victoria on 29 July 1901. He joined Goldsbrough Mort & Co Ltd in 1917 and was appointed Chief Accountant in 1938. From around 1945 he was Secretary of Goldsbrough Mort and in 1960-1962 he was Assistant General Manager of Goldsbrough Mort Ltd in Melbourne. He was one of the three representatives of the firm during the negotiations for the merger with Elder Smith & Co in 1962 and was appointed Assistant General Manager of the new company, Elder Smith Goldsbrough Mort in Adelaide. He retired in 1966 and took up a Visiting Fellowship at the Australian National University, during the tenure of which he wrote The Elder Smith Goldsbrough Mort Merger (ANU Press, 1970).

The drapery and general merchandise business was founded by Henry Marcus Clark in 1883, and was incoporated as a company in New South Wales on 16 October 1902. A head office was built in Central Square, Sydney in 1906 and later sold when a new building was established on the Western side of Central Square in 1928. Other country branches were established in New South Wales. In 1926 the company took over the retail business of Craig Williamson Pty Ltd in Melbourne, and in 1927 the Adelaide business of Miller Anderson Ltd. On 1 December 1966 the company was taken over by Waltons Ltd.

John S Marsden is an economist who submitted his PhD thesis on the Australian Plastics Industry, at the Australian National University in 1973. In 1979 Marsden, of the Industries Assistance Commission, co-authored a paper for the Reserve Bank of Australia Conference in Applied Economic Research. He also co-authored Returns on Australian Agricultural Research (Joint Industries Assistance Commission - CSIRO benefit-cost study of the CSIRO Division of Entomology , 1980).

Jean Isobel Martin was born in Melbourne in 1923 and studied in Sydney graduating with an MA in Anthropology from the University of Sydney in 1945. In 1943-1947, 1949-1950 and 1956 she was employed as a lecturer at the university. She took her PhD in Anthropology and Sociology at the Australian National University in 1955. She was appointed as lecturer in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Sydney in 1956; Professor of Sociology at La Trobe University, Melbourne from 1966-1974; and in 1974 held position of Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Sociology, Research School of Social Sciences, ANU. Her major publications were Refugee Settlers (1965), Community and Identity (1972), The Migrant Presence (1978). The results of her research into the first Vietnamese refugee immigrants were published as The First Wave: The settlement of Australia's first Vietnamese (1985). She was president of the Sociological Association of Australia and New Zealand (1969-71) and elected a fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia in 1971. Martin died in Sydney on 25 September 1979.

Professor Ross Martin was a student and teacher of trade unions. He has taught at La Trobe University, Melbourne for forty years and is Emeritus Professor, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, School of Social Sciences at La Trobe University. He is author of Trade Unions in Australia (Penguin Books, 1975).

Professor Matthews completed a BA with Honours in 1970, and a PhD in 1979 at Adelaide University. Matthews taught history at Flinders, Adelaide, Sydney and Wollongong universities before being appointed Lecturer in the Women's Studies Program at ANU in 1984. Jill Matthews was the Foundation Director of the ANU Centre for Women’s Studies from 1995 to 1997, and was Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Arts from 1998 to 1999. In 2004 Matthews became Head of the History Program, ANU School of Social Sciences, and was Head of the School from 2008 to 2010. In 2011, she was appointed Head of the School of Cultural Inquiry, Research School of Humanities and the Arts, ANU.

The business was established in 1872 by Mauri brothers, Joaquim and Jose, for growing and manufacturing cork, and importing goods and equipment for the cordial and aerated water trade. In 1895 the firm was sold to Ninian Miller Thomson and in 1898 the London Office of Mauri Brothers was sold to Butler Bros. In 1899 Antonio San Miguel, of cork importers A San Miguel & Co, acquired an interest in Mauri Brothers & Thomson (Sydney) while Thomson and Edwin Charles Gutteridge became co-partners in the Melbourne firm of Mauri Brothers & Thomson. In December 1904, Gutteridge’s interest in Mauri Brothers & Thomson and the Melbourne company of spice and essence manufacturers, Harrison San Miguel & Co, was bought out by Thomson, Antonio San Miguel and Harold Furley Harvey. The company was registered as Mauri Brothers & Thomson Ltd in New South Wales on 28 February 1905. Thomson was appointed Managing Director and John William Pickworth appointed Secretary. The company’s registered office was transferred to 46/48 York St, Sydney on 20 March 1905 and in 1906 the Mauri Bros & Thomson Engineering Works was transferred from 36 York St to Bourke St, Waterloo. The Engineering Works manufactured filters and crowners, soda fountains, ice cream making machines, egg whisks, dough and cake mixers, complete baking plants, chilling and carbonating cylinders for beer, and automatic bottle washing machinery. In September 1907 the company purchased the goodwill and process of manufacturing malt extract from Samuel, Ernest and Percy John Cornwell of Cornwell’s. In 1913 the company began the production of crown seals under the brand Pinnacle Crowns.

In 1924 the company purchased the Australian and New Zealand patent rights for manufacturing compressed yeast and spirits from Danish firm, Dansk Gaerings Industri. In December 1929, an agreement was made between the company, F A Henriques Ltd (Vic) and the Atlas Seal Company to form the Australian Seal Co Pty Ltd. F A Henriques Ltd was later acquired by the company in October 1930. From July 1931 the company’s bottled vinegar section was amalgamated with Champions Vinegar Co (Australia) Ltd. During 1937-38 negotiations were completed with Stevenson & Howell Ltd for an association between the two companies for the manufacture under English patents and trademarks of ‘Pinnacle’ and ‘Red Ball’ essences. The company purchased rights to use the trademarks Pinnacle, Champion’s and Cornwell’s.

In June 1952 new subsidiary companies were registered for each state using the name Mauri Brothers & Thomson. The company acquired shares in Dominion Compressed Yeast Co Ltd in September 1954, Daniel Scott Industries Ltd (1958), Barrett’s Yeast Holdings Ltd (1959), Raleigh Preserving Co Ltd (1959), Pick-Me-Up Food Products Ltd (1961), Progressive Engineering Co Ltd (1961), Colbro Holdings Ltd (1967) and Associated Foods Ltd (1974). Mauri Bros & Thomson Ltd were acquired by Burns, Philp and Company Limited on 24 February 1982.

Dr Thomas Mautner joined the Australian National University as Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Arts on 10 January 1965. He was appointed to Senior Lecturer on 1 July 1972. His teaching and research interests have include history of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century philosophy, moral and political thought, natural law, and natural rights. He is editor of the Dictionary of Philosophy (1996) and the Penguin Dictionary of Philosophy (1998). Since 1999 Mautner has been Visiting Fellow of the Department of Philosophy at the ANU.

Norma Ruth McArthur received a degree in mathematics from the University of Melbourne (1941) before spending a few years of statistical work in wartime administration and industry. In 1945 she joined the Department of Experimental Medicine at Melbourne University. In 1949 she took up a position as Assistant Lecturer in Demography, University College, London. McArthur came to the Australian National University in 1952 as a member of the Department of Demography, Research School of Social Sciences, 1952-1970. During her time in the Department of Demography she led a round of censuses taken in 1956 in Fiji, Tonga, Samoa and the Cook Islands and later became consultant to other island territories including the Solomons in 1959, the Gilbert and Ellice in 1963 and the New Hebrides in 1967. She was Research Fellow, Fellow, Senior Fellow and Professorial Fellow in Prehistory, Research School of Pacific Studies (RSPacS) 1970-1974; PhD Student in Pacific and Southeast Asian History, RSPacS 1975-1980; and appointed Senior Research Fellow. At the time of her death she was Visiting Fellow in the Department of Pacific and Southeast Asian History. McArthur died on 17 January 1984.

In 1912 the partnership of McDowell & Hughes Limited, drapers and costumiers of George Street in Sydney, was registered as a limited company which was reconstructed as McDowells Ltd in 1920. The company was originally established by John McDowell and Robert W Hughes. Frank McDowell, son of John McDowell, joined McDowell & Hughes and became manager of the shop. In 1925 the drapers W T Waters & Co Ltd was acquired by McDowells Limited. In 1971, the company was taken over by McDowells Holdings Limited.

Ron McGann was employed by the Sydney County Council and the Electricty Commission of New South Wales from 5 March 1945 to 7 October 1988. He was compulsorily transferred to the Electricity Commission of NSW on 1 January 1952, under the Electricity Commission Act 1950. He worked as a Senior Drafting Officer, Power Projects in Sydney and was member of the NSW Public Service Professional Officers' Association. McGann was actively involved in the dispute over unpaid sick leave and long service leave entitlements to ex-employees of the Sydney County Council on retirement. In 17 March 1987 the Industrial Commission of NSW upheld an appeal on behalf of ex-Sydney County Council employees confirming their entitlement to increased long service leave in accordance with an August 1981 award.

John McGuire interviewed Edgar Ross and Claude Jones, both were members of the Communist Party of Australia, in 1991. McGuire also wrote the entry for Max Nordau Julius for the Australian Dictionary of Biography.

Don McHugh was ACT Organiser for the NSW Branch of the Australian Builders Labourers Federation (BLF) from 1964-1969. He was the first Secretary of the ACT Branch of the Australian Building Construction Employees and Builders Labourers Federation (ABCE&BLF) when it was established in 1973. McHugh was President of the Trades and Labour Council of the ACT from 1966-1969. In January and February 1976 McHugh and the ACT Branch executive of the ABCE&BLF decided to amalgamate with the ACT Branch of the Building Workers' Industrial Union of Australia (BWIU). The Federal Council of the ABCE&BLF opposed the amalgamation, intervened in the ACT Branch and appointed Peter O'Dea as Branch Secretary. By the end of the year the amalgamation had broken down and McHugh remained with the ACT Branch of the BWIU as an organiser.

The McKillop family operated as graziers and later horticulturalists at Buddah Station, Narromine NSW from 1863 to 1974. In 1906 the family partnership of McKillop & Sons was established and originally consisted of George McKillop and his sons Royden and Norman. Under the management of Royden McKillop, orange and apple orchards were established in 1911 and 1918 respectively. In 1955 McKillop & Sons was incorporated, with McKillop & Sons Pty Ltd owned by various shareholder companies which were in turn owned by members of the McKillop family. In late 1974, Buddah Station was sold to Amatil Ltd's pastoral subsidiary, the Naroo Pastoral Company Pty Ltd, and later to new companies operating as Glen Buddah Pty Ltd (in 1979) and Buddah Pty Ltd (in 1995). McKillop & Sons Pty Ltd was formally liquidated on 10 September 1982.

Leslie Galfreid Melville was born on 26 March 1902, studied economics at Sydney University (while also studying as an actuary), and obtained his first job in 1924 as Public Actuary for South Australia. In 1929, he was appointed Inaugural Professor of Economics at Adelaide University. In March 1931, Melville was appointed as the Economist to the Commonwealth Bank, a position he held until 1950 when he became Australia’s Executive Director at the International Monetary Fund and World Bank. In 1953, he left the Commonwealth Bank to take up an appointment as Vice-Chancellor of the Australian National University, a position he held until 1960. From 1960-1963, he was appointed Chairman of the Tariff Board. He subsequently served as a member of the Development Advisory Service of the International Bank and, from 1966 to 1974, Chairman of the Commonwealth Grants Commission. Melville died on 30 April 2002.

A pastoral property in the Parkes district of New South Wales later owned by John David Hill and his family. Previous stock and station owners for Mercadool station include Firebrace & Co and the executors of R E Firebrace (c. 1893 - c. 1907); Field and Moses Brothers (c. 1915 - c. 1923); A P Hunter and A P Hunter & Sons (c. 1925 - c. 1950). In June 1950 the property was purchased by Harold John Hill who ran the property with his son John David Hill, as J H Hill & Son, until his death in 1956. J D Hill managed Mercadool until he died in 1991.

The company was a nominee company of the New Zealand and Australian Land Co Ltd.

Dr Sam Merrifield, labour historian, was born in Moonee Ponds, Victoria on 6 February 1904. He joined the Australian Labor Party(ALP) in 1922 and was an active member. He worked as a surveyor for several Victorian government departments and was Commissioner of Public Works and President of the Board of Land and Works, 1952-1955. He entered the Victorian Parliament in 1943 as ALP MLA for Essendon, then to the seat of Moonee Ponds in 1945, lost his seat in 1955, and served as an ALP MLC for Doutta Galla, 1958-1970. He was involved in many community organisations and was awarded an honorary Doctorate of Letters by Monash University in 1973. Merrifield was a founding member of the Melbourne branch of the Australian Society for the Study of Labour History. He died in August 1982.

Metal Manufactures Limited was incorporated in Victoria and established in 1916 by the Mt Morgan Company, the Mt Lyell Company, the Hampden-Cloncurry Company and British Insulated & Helsby Cables Ltd. The company's principal shareholder was BICC Ltd, a British company. Metal Manufactures Ltd and its subsidiary companies Cable Makers Australia Pty Ltd and Austral Bronze Crane Copper Ltd were manufacturers of insulated and non-insulated electric cables for energy and communications; copper and brass tubes for plumbing and engineering; plastic pipe for water supply, drainage and irrigation; polyurethane products; and distribution of electrical products for electrical contractors. The company was deregistered in 1989.

Merryville Pty Ltd, a family company, was founded in 1937 by Sir Walter Thomas Merriman. Merriman, who was managing director of the company, bred a type of Merino known today as the Merryville type. After Sir Walter Merriman's death in 1972 his son Bruce became managing director until his death in 1988.

Ken Miller joined the Communist Party at the age of 20 attending his first Young Communist League branch meeting in 1934. Miller became secretary of the Young Communist League and secretary of the League of Young Democrats, and was a full-time organiser. He campaigned against fascism and was twice prosecuted by the Menzies government for his political activities. During World War II he served in the 14th Infantry Battalion reaching the rank of corporal. In 1943 and again in 1945 he stood as a Communist candidate for the Melbourne seat of Clifton Hill at the Victorian state elections, but was unsuccessful. After the war, Miller moved to Richmond where he was district organiser, and first stood for the election to Richmond Council in 1946 but was never elected. Miller stood as the Communist Party candidate for the federal seat of Yarra in 1951, 1954, 1955, 1958 and 1961. By the late 1940s Miller was a member of the State Committee of the Party and in 1949 he was appointed editor of the Communist Party newsletter, The Guardian. He later became a member of the Central Committee of the Party. Miller was editor of The Guardian until 1962 when he was purged from the Central Committee of the Party during the 'revisionism' debates. He then went to work for barrister Ted Hill as an articled clerk. Ken Miller died in 1963, aged 50.

In 1937 the Mirrool Wineries Co-operative entered into an agreement with Hanwood Wine Exports Limited, whose Directors were Jack McWilliam and Doug L McWilliam, to lease its winery premises.
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Mitchell & Co Pty Ltd, manufacturers of farm equipment, was founded in 1891 by John Mitchell. In 1958 the company was acquired by Horwood Bagshaw Limited which operated until 1989.

Dr Bruce Mitchell was born in Newcastle on 3 October 1935 and graduated with a BA from the University of Sydney in 1957. He taught history at Richmond and Blacktown Boys' high schools and lectured at Sydney Teachers College in the 1960s before completing his PhD at the Australian National University Research School of Social Sciences in 1969. He was a member of the NSW Teachers' Federation and NSW History Teachers Association, and was on the NSW Committee for History in Schools in the 1960s-1970s. In 1970 Mitchell was appointed as a Lecturer (later Senior Lecturer) in the Department of History, University of New England (UNE). In 1975 Mitchell published a major study on the history of education: Teachers, Education and Politics: A History of Organizations of Public School Teachers in New South Wales. He was Dean of Arts at UNE from 1976-1978, and retired from the university in 1994. He died on 12 October 2009.

The Mittagong Maltings Works was originally established by the Maltings Company of NSW (Ltd) and operated from August 1899. Tooth and Company Limited purchased the Mittagong Works in 1905 and produced the malt used in Tooth & Co breweries in Sydney. The early 1940's was an active period, with output of malt being approx 200,000 bushells annually. This output was severely restricted following a large fire in August 1942, which completely gutted No.2 Malthouse and damaged No.1. The No.1 Malthouse was returned to service early in 1943. The No.2 Malthouse was completely rebuilt during the early 1950's and recommenced active operation in 1953. Operation continued normally until another fire gutted the No.3 Malthouse in 1969. Tooths & Co continued to operate at the site until 1980, when the works were closed and the site sold to a group of local business people.

Charles Louis Mobbs was born on 23 August 1902 at Middlesex, England. He attended St Olave's Grammar School in London and in 1924 graduated from the University of London with a Bachelor of Commerce. He commenced working for the Commonwealth Bank of Australia's London Office before migrating to Australia in 1938. He worked for the Commonwealth Bank in Sydney and in 1946 wrote Commonwealth Bank of Australia in the Second World War which was published in 1947. Mobbs held several offices in the Commonwealth Bank Officers' Association (CBOA) and edited the association's journal. At the CBA he became head of Exchange Control and in 1957 relocated to Melbourne for two years to take up the position of Central Banking Officer. Mobbs was in the CBA's London Office in 1959 during the split of the CBA from the Reserve Bank of Australia, after which he returned to the Reserve Bank in Sydney. Later in his career he spent two years in Nigeria, one year in Sierra Leone and six months in Ghana assisting with exchange control legislation. Charles Mobbs retired around 1967 and subsequently wrote Conciliation Can Work: A History of the Commonwealth Bank Officers' Association, published in late 1968. He died on 20 January 1994 at Mona Vale, New South Wales.

James William Hunt founded the society in 1871 and was the company's manager for over 30 years. The company was one of the largest building societies in Melbourne. From 1888, its new offices were located on Collins Street, Melbourne.

G S Mol was a member of the Engineering Workshops at the Engineering School, Bruce College of TAFE. He is a locomotive and railway enthusiast and was a member of the Australian Railway Historical Society, ACT Division.

The company was first established in 1843 when Thomas Sutcliffe Mort established Mort & Co as an auctioneering and brokering business specifically focusing on selling wool. In 1888 Mort and Company Limited amalgamated with R Goldsbrough & Co to form the firm Goldsbrough Mort & Co Ltd. The history of the firm falls into three periods: Mort & Co (Old Firm), 1862 - 1870; Mort & Co (New Firm), 1867 - 1883; Mort & Co Ltd, 1883 - 1888.

The wine, liquor and general merchant company was established by Moses Moss with an office and store in Wynyard Lane, Sydney by 1858. After Moses' death in 1883, Louis Phillips became the principal of the firm. The company advertised throughout Australia focussing on the Dutch product Wolfe's Aromatic Schnapps. In 1946 its office was in Reiby Place, Sydney. Moses Moss & Co was later owned by Walter Cavel and Crawford & Co. Cavel's holdings were purchased by Universal Groceries who were bought out by G J Coles around 1955.

A partnership consisting of the grandchildren of William Gauld Davies and Marjorie Grant Davies, who were partners in W G Davies & Co, purchased an aggregation of three pastoral leases known as Mt Edinburgh in October 1960. They traded as Mt Edinburgh Grazing Co until Mt Edinburgh was sold in 1973.

Mining operations commenced at Mount Keira in 1848 operating as the Albert mine but this mine was abandoned in 1858. A new mine known as the Osborne Wallsend Colliery was opened in 1857 by Henry Osborne. From 8 November 1899 to 1937 the colliery was owned by E Vickery & Sons Ltd. BHP took over the colliery in March 1937. In 1955 Mount Keira and Mount Kembla mines were joined by an underground tunnel, and Kemira Colliery was established incorporating both mines.

In 1883 the Mount Kembla Coal and Oil Company opened the Mount Kembla Colliery. Its Chairman was Ebenezer Vickery of E Vickery & Sons Ltd, who owned the Mount Keira Colliery in Wollongong, NSW. In 1913 the mine was taken over by Mount Kembla Collieries Ltd who operated the mine until 1946 when BHP became the owners. In 1955, the Mount Keira and Mount Kembla mines were joined by an underground tunnel, and Kemira Colliery was established incorporating both mines.

The company, a subsidiary of BHP Co Ltd, acted as Manager on behalf of members of the Mt Newman iron ore project in Western Australia 1964-1985, a joint venture of Amax Iron Ore Corp; Pilbara Iron Ltd; Dampier Mining Co Ltd; Seltrust Iron Ore Ltd; and Mitsui-C Itoh Iron Pty Ltd.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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 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.