Professor Ken Campbell was born in Ipswich, Queensland in 1927. He joined the Australian National University as Senior Lecturer, Department of Geology, Faculty of Science from 1 March 1962; and Reader from 1 July 1964. He was appointed Dean of Science in 1978, and became Professor in Geology in 1982. Campbell retired in 1993, and was appointed Emeritus Professor and Visiting Fellow (honorary) in the Department of Earth and Marine Sciences in the Faculty of Science.

George H Hazlehurst was born in Liverpool on 16 May 1918. He worked as a consultant with the Prudential Assurance Co Ltd and in radio as a director, producer and writer before migrating to Australia in July 1951. Hazlehurst worked as Assistant Publicity Manager (Advertising & Public Relations) with Trans-Australia Airlines from 1952-54); Group Account Executive (Marketing & Creative) with O'Brien Publicity Pty Ltd, Melbourne (1954-62); Senior Lecturer in Writing and Communication at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology since 1960; Creative Group Head and Copy Director with McCann Erickson International, Melbourne (1962-1965); Manager of the Industrial, Technical & Scientific Marketing Division of McCann Erickson (1965-1966); joined John Higgins Advertising Associates as an Associate Director and Creative Director in 1966. He was also a Fellow, Advertising Institute of Australia; Federal General Councillor, Advertising Institute of Australia; Chairman, Advertising Institute of Australia Examiner's Board.

The Australian Society of Archivists was formed in 1975. Prior to the establishment of the ASA, an Archives Section of the Library Association of Australia had operated since 1951. From 1955 the activities of the Archives Section included the provision of the journal, Archives and Manuscripts. Attempts to establish an archives association included the formation of a Steering Committee in 1958 to investigate and promote an Australian association of archivists, and the Steering Committee formed in 1974 to investigate forming the ASA. At the inaugural meeting of the Society held at the Australian National University in April 1975, a constitution was adopted, provision was made for professional, associate and institutional members, and a council was elected.

Hope Hewitt was appointed as a lecturer in the Department of English in 1958 at the Canberra University College. She had held temporary teaching positions in 1948 and 1956-57. She was promoted to Senior Lecturer at the Australian National University in 1965 (the College having amalgamated with the Australian National University in 1960). She specialised in teaching Elizabethan and Jacobean drama and the 18th and 19th-century English novel but also lectured on more recent works. She was also a book reviewer and theatre critic for the Canberra Times. She retired in 1981.

The Te Rangi Hiroa Fund was established in 1968 during the first Waigani seminar. The Fund was named after Sir Peter Buck, the distinguished Maori ethno-historian, and was administered by Secretary of the Fund Reverend Dr Sione Latukefu, of the University of Papua New Guinea History Department. The Te Rangi Hiroa Essay Competition was an annual prize for:
(a) best essay on any aspect of Pacific history by an undergraduate student in any university in the South Pacific Islands;
(b) best essay on any aspect of Pacific history by an undergraduate student in any university outside the Pacific Islands.

The Paul Morawetz Award was a small scholarship available to assist Pacific Islanders with outstanding aptitude for historical work to pursue post-graduate studies in Pacific history.
The collection includes correspondence relating to the administration of the fund, the submission of essays and awarding of prizes; submitted competition essays; applications for the Paul Morawetz Award.
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The John Curtin School of Medical Research was established in 1948 through the combined efforts of Howard Florey (Australian Nobel Laureate) and Prime Minister John Curtin. Florey was the Academic Advisor for medical research at ANU from 1947 to 1957 on the invitation of the Interim Council of the University. He established professorial appointments for four departments: Biochemistry in 1948 headed by Professor Hugh Ennor, Medical Chemistry in 1949 headed by Professor Adrian Albert, Microbiology in 1949 headed by Professor Frank Fenner and Physiology in 1951 headed by Professor John Eccles, followed by the Experimental Pathology Group in 1954 with Professor George Mackaness at its head. Nobel Prizes in Physiology or Medicine were awarded to Sir John Eccles in 1963, and Peter Doherty and Rolf Zinkernagel in 1996 for work carried out at the JCSMR.

The Research School of Biological Sciences was established at the Australian National University in 1967. The School’s founding Director, Professor David Guthrie Catcheside, moved from the John Curtin School of Medical Research to his new appointment on 1 October 1967. The three foundation chairs in Biology were filled by Professor Denis John Carr (Developmental and cellular biology) on 1 January 1968, Dr Ralph Owen Slatyer (environmental and population biology) on 4 December 1967, Professor George Adrian Horridge (Behavioral biology) on 6 July 1969. By 1969 four departments existed within the School: Genetics, Developmental Biology, Environmental Biology and Behavioural Biology. Further expansion of the School took place with the creation of the Molecular Biology and Taxonomy Groups and two new departments were added, in Neurobiology and Population Biology. In 2010 the School became known as the Research School of Biology, within the ANU College of Medicine, Biology and Environment.

Born in Nashville, Tennessee in 1931, William (‘Bill’) Dickinson was an internationally renowned and decorated geoscientist from the University of Arizona and a prolific author. Prior to joining the University of Arizona, he was a professor at Stanford University where he had received a bachelor’s degree in petroleum engineering (1952), a master’s degree (1956) and a doctorate in geology (1958). He made significant contributions to both geoscience and archaeology of the South Pacific and worked collaboratively with archaeologists in tracing the migration path of people from island to island through the pottery they carried with them. The pots were made with clay combined with sand from where the pots were made. His research on the fragments of historic and prehistoric pottery, plate tectonics, sea-level changes and island geomorphologies contributed significantly to understanding the process of human migration in the Pacific. In a symposium honouring Bill Dickinson's five decades of interdisciplinary collaboration with Pacific archaeologists, it was said that "No other geologist has contributed more to Pacific Islands archaeology than William ‘Bill’ Dickinson" (An archaeologists geologist: A symposium in Honour of William R Dickinson, part of the Society for American Archaeology 2015 Conference).

William Dickinson’s contributions to geology were well recognised by the profession in terms of honours and awards; he received the Penrose medal and the L L Sloss Award from the Geological Society of America and the Twenhofel Medal from the Society of Economics Palaeontologists and Mineralogists. He was also a Guggenheim Fellow and a member of the US National Academy of Sciences. He died on 21 July 2015 while on a field expedition to Nuku’alofa, Tonga.

Marjorie Bull was the wife of Australian educator Charles Bull. Both became acquaintances of anthropologist Margaret Mead.

The first waterside workers' unions in Australia were formed in Port Adelaide, Sydney, and Sandridge (Port Melbourne) in 1872. By 1889 there were notable waterfront unions in New South Wales, South Australia, Victoria and Western Australia. Although the various unions federated in March 1890 the Waterside Workers' Federation was not established until 7 February 1902 with Mr William Morris Hughes (Prime Minister of Australia, 1915-1923) elected its first President. The Waterside Workers' Federation was registered under the Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Act on 1 July 1907 and the first comprehensive Commonwealth award for waterside workers dates from 13 December 1915. In January 1914 an office of the Waterside Workers’ Federation was established in Melbourne. After 1939 the Federation was located in Sydney. In order to manage the Waterside Workers' Federation Branches the Federal Executive, in 1902, established a Committee of Management (COM). The COM comprised delegates from the Executive of each Branch, and each Branch was entitled to one member for every 500 financial members. Furthermore, any of the COM’s resolutions that were approved by less than a 3/5 majority had to be submitted to at least 500 financial members of the rank and file for endorsement. Although designed to ease interstate rivalries this method of decision-making often exacerbated tension. The structure of the Waterside Workers' Federation remained largely unchanged until 1950 when it absorbed the Permanent and Casual Wharf Labourers' Union of Australia. In 1991 the Waterside Workers' Federation amalgamated with the Australian Foremen Stevedore Association but retained the name Waterside Workers' Federation of Australia. In 1993 the Waterside Workers' Federation of Australia joined with the Seamen's Union of Australia to form the Maritime Union of Australia.

Allan Barton was born in Murrumbeena, Victoria on 3 March 1933. He studied at Melbourne University 1951 – 1954, before undertaking his PhD in economics at Christ's College, Cambridge University 1956-59. Barton taught economics at the University of Adelaide in 1959, then moved to Macquarie University in 1967 as Foundation Professor of Accounting. Barton held a number of roles at the Australian National University including Head of the Department of Accounting and Public Finance 1975-80, Dean of the Faculty of Economics 1979-83, University Treasurer 1984-94, University Council member 1983-86, and Pro-Vice Chancellor (Finance and Development) 1992-96, and retiring in 1998. Barton passed away on 9 June 2012 in Canberra.

David Henry Lewis was sailor, navigator, mountaineer, anthropologist, scientist, doctor, political activist, academic and author. 'The Australian Geographic' magazine named him as their Adventurer of the Year in 1998, when he was 80 years of age, and in 2012 he was described by a colleague as 'perhaps the most colourful seafaring adventurer of the second half of the last century' (Stephan Quentin, 2012).

Born into an Irish-Welsh family in Plymouth, the family emigrated to New Zealand when he was 2 years old, and an only child. He attended medical school at the University of Dunedin in 1934, but moved to Leeds in 1938 to finish his medical training. He attended the Titekaveka village school at Rarotonga in the Cook Islands, rather than a European school, where he heard about the sagas of ancient Polynesian navigators. Growing up in New Zealand and the Cook Islands influenced his life significantly, especially in relation to sailing and navigation. This shaped his character and lifelong passion for Maori and Polynesian seafaring traditions and navigational methods using the stars.

In 1960 he sailed in the first trans-Atlantic sailing race and came third after Francis Chichester. Lewis wrote about his experiences in the book, ‘The ship would not sail due west’, the first of many books about navigation. His knowledge about Pacific path-finding improved after a four year fellowship at ANU to study traditional methods of navigation in the Pacific and Indonesia, with master navigators the Prahu Captains of Indonesia. The Institute of Aboriginal Affairs also funded his research into the route-finding techniques of Australian Aborigines in the Western Desert in 1979.

The best known of David Lewis’s exploits was the voyage made in 1972 – 1974 in the steel sloop ‘Ice Bird’, the first single-handed voyage to Antarctica. In 1975 he set up the Oceanic Research Foundation with the objective of funding scientific expeditions to the Antarctic. Fellow adventurer, Dick Smith, supported the enterprise and helped to raise finance for a voyage to Bellamy and Macquarie Islands in 1977 – 1978 with seven people, including scientists, on board the ‘Solo’.

He retired to write his autobiography, ‘Shapes in the Wind’ published shortly after his death in 2002.

Don was born in Williamstown in 1942, the youngest of Alexander and Lillian Gunn's seven children. His father fought with the Seaforth Highlanders in the deserts of Mesopotamia and the trenches of the Somme. His father’s experience led to Don's life-long abhorrence of war that saw him become involved in the anti-Vietnam war movement of the 60s and 70s. He completed his apprenticeship as a boilermaker at the Williamstown Naval Dockyards and he became involved with the Labour movement and the Labor Party.

In 1969 the Australian Labour Member of Parliament, Dr Jim Cairns, arranged for study tour of the Australia Trade Union Movement for Apisai Tora, a member of Fiji's Great Council of Chiefs. The study tour was sponsored by five of the most powerful trade unions in Australia - the Amalgamated Engineering Union, the Boilermakers' and Blacksmiths' Society of Australia, the Building Workers' Industrial Union, the Meat Industry Employees Union and the Federated Miscellaneous Workers' Union of Australia.

Don Gunn was on the Victorian ALP state executive and a member of the DOGs (the Defence of Government School) and he was invited by Apisi Toras to visit Fiji. Don took his first wife Trish and young daughter Nikole to live in Suva, where he was installed as 'deputy' editor of the Pacific Review - a Fijian Trade Union publication. In post-Independence Fiji, the hiring policy meant he couldn't 'take away a job from a Fijian' by being hired as editor. But in reality, he ran the newspaper. On returning to Australia, Don worked as a freelance writer for various publications, before taking on a position as a proof reader and reviser at The Sun News Pictorial and later The Herald. Eventually his first marriage broke down and he moved back to Melbourne where he met his second wife Paula, with whom he would have two children, Anna and James. They moved to the Kyneton area eventually settling in North Drummond, where they have lived for nearly 30 years.

Don originally worked for Elliott Midland Newspapers in the early 1980s, filling in at Castlemaine when journalists were on leave. This was during a period when he was completing an arts degree, majoring in Philosophy and Western Traditions. In 1984 he became a full-time employee at Castlemaine and over his 26 years with the company held editor roles of the Midland Express, Macedon Ranges Guardian, and on his return to Castlemaine in 1997 was editor of the Castlemaine Mail until his retirement in 2010. Don was a fearless journalist who upset some at various times, but if he knew something that he felt his readers should know, it was published, no matter who disagreed. He knew media law and ensured his stories were within the legal requirements. He could also be trusted, and many an 'off the record' meeting was held with Don so he could get a better understanding of an issue. He had an extraordinary memory and knowledge of so many things, a great love of poetry and music. In early 2000, he was appointed to the National Advisory Group for Suicide Prevention as a result of his handling of the issue in the local newspapers when the Kyneton community was rocked by a spate of youth suicides.

Don Gunn passed away on Sunday, 14 April 2013.

This is an abbreviated version of Don Gunn's obituary in the Macedon Ranges Guardian, 25 April 2013.

Sir Richard van der Riet Woolley was born at Weymouth, Dorset, England on 24 April 1906. He was educated at the Universities of Cape Town (MSc) and Cambridge (BA 1928, PhD 1931, ScD 1951). He held a Commonwealth Fund Fellowship, Mt Wilson Observatory, California 1929-1931; Isaac Newton Student, Cambridge 1931-1933; and appointed to Chief Assistant, Royal Observatory, Greenwich 1933-1937; John Couch Adams Astronomer, University of Cambridge 1937-1939. Woolley was Director, Commonwealth Solar Observatory at Mount Stromlo (later renamed Mount Stromlo Observatory) from December 1939 to December 1955, and appointed Professor of Astronomy, Australian National University from 5 July 1950 to 31 December 1955. In 1957 the Commonwealth Observatory was renamed the Mount Stromlo Observatory and joined the ANU as a department within the Research School of Physical Sciences. From 1 January 1957, Woolley was appointed Honorary Professor. His fellowships and awards included President, Royal Astronomical Society 1963-1965; President, ANZAAS 1955; Fellow, Royal Society 1953; and Foundation Fellow, Australian Academy of Science 1954. Woolley was appointed as Astronomer Royal, United Kingdom 1956-1971 and Director of the South African Astronomical Observatory 1972-1976. He died on 24 December 1986.

Edward Llewellyn Gordon Thomas, known as Gordon Thomas, was born in Chicago, Illinois in 1890 and died in Sydney in 1966. He enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force in 1917 but was discharged as medically unfit in 1919. After schooling abroad and working in newspapers in Canada, he moved to New Guinea in 1911, taking on a variety of jobs, including editor of the Rabaul Times from 1925-27 and 1933-42. He was living in Rabaul in 1942, the capital of the Australian United Nations Mandated Territory, when it was invaded by the Japanese and all civilians and military personnel were interned as POW's (Prisoners of War). Some soldiers and civilians managed to escape, but 106 Australians were executed in horrific circumstances in the Tol and Waitavalo plantations. Arrangements were made to ship the remaining POW's to Hainan, but Thomas and three others were retained to run Rabaul's commercial freezer and ice plant. Most of the remaining civilians and military personnel imprisoned in the town were doomed when they were put on board the Japanese ship Montevideo Maru, a freighter requisitioned by the Japanese navy. They were on their way to Hainan when the unmarked POW ship was torpedoed by an American submarine off the coast of the Philippines with the loss of 1054 lives. Thomas Gordon and the other men spent the next three years as POW's in Rabaul. Thomas' skills as a journalist became very useful to the Japanese, writing news stories and propaganda to assuage the locals into accepting Japanese rule.

The massacres that took place at the Tol and Waitavalo plantations have been described as the "one of the most callous atrocities of the Pacific War". (Max Uechtritz, asopa.typepad.com, 5 February 2017). The remains of some of the executed Australians were recovered post-war and buried in Rabaul's Bita Paka war cemetery.

This Company was incorporated in New South Wales in November 1887 to take over and continue the businesses in Newcastle of the Castlemaine Brewery, which was carried on under Prendergast, Wood & Co, and Wood Bros & Co. The Head Office was located in Bolton Street, Newcastle with a branch at Maitland. Tooth and Company Limited acquired the brewing, wine and spirits business of Castlemaine Brewery and Wood Brothers and Co Ltd in 1921.

Richard Eves is an anthropologist, and Senior Fellow in the State Society & Governance in Melanesia Program at the College of Asia and the Pacific, Australian National University. Dr Eves is also a peace and anti-nuclear activist. During 1982-1984 he was an activist with the Campaign Against Nuclear Energy (CANE), an Adelaide based organisation which was part of an Australia wide coalition (Coalition for a Nuclear Free Australia). In 1984 Eves was a member of the CANE Co-ordinating Collective and part-time organizer. He was Visiting Research Fellow, University of East Anglia 1996; Visiting Fellow in Commonwealth Studies, Cambridge University 1999-2000; 2004 ARC QE II Research Fellow at the Australian National University.

Robert H Adams was listed as a mine owner in 1892-3. He resided at Darkey Flat, Merivale County in the Darling Downs District, Queensland.

Cecil Wallace (Edgar) Williams was born in Alexandria, New South Wales on 11 April 1911. He was an organiser for the Queensland Branch of the Australian Workers’ Union from 1943-1947. In 1957 Williams represented the AWU at the International Labor Organisation conference on metalliferous mining at Geneva, and later toured the United States of America for the Union. Williams became Queensland Branch Secretary and Chairman of Directors of the Australian Workers’ Union in 1960 and President from 1964-1978. He worked on the Queensland Worker Newspaper and is author of Yellow, Green and Red (1967), a book about the AWU and Mount Isa Mining Industry.

Augustine Joseph Tracy was a member of the Australian Postal Electricians Union. He was involved in the Tracy v. Bradley case heard in the Supreme Court of New South Wales in 1936 covering a defamation case arising over a secret report on him. Tracy was the Plaintiff in this case and Frank Randell Bradley, the Defendant.

Harold Souter was secretary of the ACTU from 1956 - 1977

Heather Booth is Associate Professor of Demography at the Australian Demographic and Social Research Institute (ADSRI) in the ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences.
Heather leads the ADSRI Group on Longevity, Ageing and Mortality (GLAM), which includes one of two ANU-based nodes of the ARC Centre of Excellence in Population Ageing Research (CEPAR). She is also ANU Convenor of Graduate Research in Demography.
Heather began her career at the London School of Economics before moving to the USA to join the POPLAB program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In her doctoral research at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Heather developed the Booth Standard for use with the Brass Relational Gompertz Model of fertility.
After completing her doctorate, Heather undertook research on ethnic minority populations in Britain and Western Europe. In 1984, Heather relocated to Nouméa, New Caledonia to take up a position as demographer with the South Pacific Commission, working throughout the Pacific Islands. She later worked as an international consultant for a wide range of funding agencies. After migrating to Australia, Heather joined the ANU Demography and Sociology Program in 1998.

The Bicentennial History Project was proposed in 1977 by Ken Inglis of the Australian National University, bringing together historians to write and edit a series of publications for the 1988 Australian Bicentenary. The volumes were coordinated from the Research School of Social Sciences at the Australian National University and the School of History, University of New South Wales. The direction and content of each of the historical works published under the auspices of the Bicentennial History Project were the subject of a conference entitled 'Australia 1788-1988 A Bicentennial History', held at Burgmann College at Australian National University on 9-13 February 1981. The Bicentennial History Project activities were organised around a number of committees, as follows: Australia to 1788; Australia in 1838; Australia in 1888; Australia in 1938; Australia 1939-88. The Bicentennial History Project published a series made up of eleven volumes. These included historical narratives, a historical atlas, and a historical dictionary. The series as a whole was entitled Australians: A Historical Library. The series was edited by Ken Inglis, Peter Spearritt, Frank K Crowley and Alan D Gilbert and a number of authors including Bill Gammage, Jack Charles Robert Camm, Graeme Davison, Wray Vamplew, Dereck John Mulvaney, Allan William Martin, John McQuilton, John Peter White, Michael McKernan, Tim Rowse, Alan Atkinson, Ailsa McLeary, Marian Aveling, Graeme Aplin, J W McCarty, Ann Curthoys and Stephen Glynn Foster.

The Women’s Studies Program was established at the Australian National University in 1976 as a result of activism applied by students connected to the Women's Liberation movement. Dr Ann Curthoys was appointed as a Lecturing Fellow to develop and teach the course as a full-year single unit. A second course was added in 1978, and Susan Magarey took over as lecturer. In 1984, Dr Dorothy Broom (Department of Sociology) was appointed lecturer and convenor of the program. Dr Jill Julius Matthews (Department of History) was also appointed lecturer in 1984, becoming convenor in 1987, a role which alternated between them. In September 1995 the Program was reviewed by the University Council and designated the Centre for Women’s Studies, with Matthews as Director. Dr Jan Jindy Pettman (Department of Political Science) was appointed Director and Reader from the beginning of 1997 and at this time, there were four lecturers: Dr Jill Matthews, Dr Rosanne Kennedy, Dr Fiona Paisley and Dr E Wilson. In July 2000, the Centre for Women's Studies was abolished in a general reorganisation of the Faculty of Arts. In 2001, the 25th anniversary of the Women’s Studies Program was celebrated with a seminar featuring current and former staff including Ann Curthoys, Susan Magarey and Liz O’Brien.

The Faculty of Arts was inherited from Canberra University College when CUC amalgamated with the Australian National University in 1960 and offered undergraduate courses in the School of General Studies, which was renamed The Faculties from 1980. In July 2000, the Departments of Archaeology and Anthropology, Art History and Visual Studies, Classical and Modern European Languages, English and Theatre Studies, History, Linguistics, Philosophy, Political Science and Sociology, and the Centre for Women’s Studies were abolished and four schools created: the School of Archaeology and Anthropology, the School of Humanities, the School of Language Studies, and the School of Social Sciences. In 2006, the Faculty of Arts was grouped with Research Schools, Faculties and Centres into the College of Arts and Social Sciences.

Anthropologist and independent development consultant, Dr Ian Scales obtained a PhD in Anthropology from the ANU in 2003 on "The social forest : landowners, development conflict and the state in Solomon Islands". He has worked extensively in the Solomon Islands and Bougainville.

Professor Bailey graduated with a Bachelor of Laws from the Canberra University College in 1950 and a Master of Laws at ANU in 1954. He was a Rhodes Scholar for Victoria. His earlier career was in the Commonwealth Public Service, where he served in the Treasury and then in the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet, becoming a Deputy Secretary in 1972. He was a full time member of the Royal Commission on Australian Government Administration 1974-76. Peter was appointed CEO of the Commonwealth’s Human Rights Commission in 1981. He joined ANU as a Visiting Fellow in 1987 and became an Adjunct Professor in 1999. Peter’s specific area of research relates to government and its instrumentalities.

The Tailoresses' Association of Melbourne was formed in 1880 and began meeting with the Tailors' Trade Protection Society in 1905. The Pressers' Union, which had formed in 1884, amalgamated with the Cutters' & Joiners' Union in 1902 to form the Victorian Clothing Operatives' Union.

In 1907, the Tailoresses' Association of Melbourne, the Tailors' Trade Protection Society, the Victorian Clothing Operatives' Union and other interstate clothing unions combined to form the Federated Clothing Trades Union of the Commonwealth of Australia. As elements of the trade incorporated into the union, it changed names to the Federated Clothing & Allied Trades Union in 1922, the Amalgamated Clothing & Allied Trades Union in 1924 and the Clothing & Allied Trades Union of Australia in 1947. In 1992 another change of name was effected, this time to the Textile, Clothing & Footwear Union of Australia.

Australian People for Health, Education and Development Abroad (APHEDA) was established in 1984 as the overseas aid agency of the Australian Council of Trade Unions in recognition of the union movement's responsibility to contribute to workers in other countries who are disadvantaged through poverty, lack of human rights and civil conflict. The organisation was co-founded by Helen McCue, APHEDA's first Executive Director and regional adviser in South Africa and the Middle East until early 1994. It supports training projects in many countries with the support of individual union members, trade unions and aid agencies such as the Australian government agency AusAid. It is also known as Union Aid Abroad-APHEDA.

Jack Read joined the Australian administration of the Mandated Territory of New Guinea as a cadet in 1929. He worked as a Patrol Officer in most parts of the Territory, having covered New Britain and the mainland from the Sepik River to the Morobe Goldfields, but had not been located in Bougainville until his appointment in November 1941 as Assistant District Officer in charge of the Buka Passage Sub-District, under District Officer Merrylees. Following the Japanese entry into the war on 8 December 1941, Read helped evacuate most European residents from Buka, established inland dumps of emergency provisions and shifted his administration to Bougainville Island just before a Japanese attack on the Sub-District Headquarters on 24 January 1942. Following the winding up of civil administration in February 1942, Read, the only remaining government representative was appointed Lieutenant in the Australian Navy under Lieutenant Commander Feldt with instructions to remain in Bougainville as a coastwatcher.

D’Arcy Ryan was born in Bondi, Sydney, in 1923. He studied Arts/Law and anthropology at the University of Sydney and joined the RAAF during the war. He resumed studies in 1945 and received a BA with first-class honours in Anthropology. He then studied at Oxford University (Lincoln College) where he read law, but switched to anthropology and enrolled for the B.Litt (Bachelor of Letters) to study 'Australian Totemism.' He returned to Sydney in 1952 and obtained part-time lecturing work at the University of Sydney under Professor Elkin and began studying for a PhD. The University of Sydney sent Ryan to New Guinea in 1954 where he conducted early contact research on the Mendi in New Guinea's Southern Highlands. Previous European contact with the Mendi had only taken place by exploratory patrols in 1936 and 1938; an Australian administered district office was established in 1950 and the Methodist missionaries arrived soon after. Ryan completed his PhD in 1961 - 'Gift exchange in the Mendi Valley : an examination of the socio-political implications of the ceremonial exchange of wealth among the people of the Mendi Valley, Southern Highlands District, Papua'. Ryan's work on the Mendi is a significant record of early contact history. D'Arcy Ryan lectured for 25 years at the University of Western Australia until 1988.

The Council of Australian Law Deans (CALD) is the peak body of Australian Law Schools. Members of the Council are Deans, Heads or Directors, of Australian law schools.

Sue Holzknecht studied Anthropology and Sociology (University of Qld), Linguistics and Teaching English as a Second Language (UPNG). Holzknecht completed her PhD thesis into the Markham languages of Papua New Guinea at the Department of Linguistics, Research School of Pacific Studies at the Australian National University. For 12 years Sue lectured at the PNG University of Technology, in Language and Communication Studies. From 1993 to 1998, she worded at ANU, as lecturer in Academic and Research Skills, then 3 years in the Academic Skills and Learning Centre. In 2001, she was Academic Skills Advisor to graduate students in the School of Rescources, Environment and Society (now Fenner School of Environment and Society).

The Department of Community Services and Health was an Australian government department that existed between July 1987 and June 1991. The department was an amalgamation of the Department of Community Services and the Department of Health. According to the Administrative Arrangements Order (AAO) made on 24 July 1987, the Department dealt with:
• Services for the aged, people with disabilities and families with children
• Community support services
• Housing assistance
• Public health, research and preventative medicine
• Community health projects
• Health promotion
• Pharmaceutical benefits
• Health benefits schemes
• Human quarantine
• National drug abuse strategy

Datascape Information Pty Ltd is a media/information service company located in Torrens, Australian Capital Territory. This private company was founded in 1984.

Prometheus Information Pty Ltd is a computer related service company in Braddon, Australian Capital Territory. This private company was founded in August 1992.

The National Centre for Indigenous Studies (NCIS) was established in January 2005. It is a stand-alone Centre within the ANU organisational structure and is directed by Professor Mick Dodson AM.

The Centre is a leading academic institute for inter-disciplinary research in fields that are of relevance to Indigenous Australians, especially in relation to the enrichment of scholarly and public understandings of Australian Indigenous cultures and histories.

The Australian Century Farm and Station Awards National Co-ordinator operates this program of the Collector and Districts Historical Society which recognises rural properties that have been managed by the one family for more than 100 years. Applicants submit an application and are encouraged to include family histories and copies of photographs and maps to support their application.

The Superannuated Commonwealth Officers Association (SCOA) is an apolitical, not-for-profit national retiree organisation, established in 1923, providing advocacy, assistance and information for current and former federal, state and territory government agency employees and their dependants. It is governed by a Federal Council which has representatives (Federal Councillors) from State Branches.

Dr. Gilbert Herdt is a cultural anthropologist, Professor and Founder of the Department of Sexuality Studies at San Francisco State University, and Founder of the National Sexuality Resource Center (NSRC). His studies have involved the study of the 'Sambian' people of Papua New Guinea and their social practices and beliefs, and how regulate sexual behaviour and creates a unique sexual culture.

Teacher and gay rights activist. Weir took legal action against the Queensland government in 1976 for not employing gays. He worked as an electorate assistant to a Queensland senator, 1981-1987.

James Conner is a graduate of the University of Sydney and the University of Edinburgh where he worked with the Planning Research Unit while writing his PhD. His major field of research interest has been urban design and planning, and he extended these studies with the appointment in 1968 to the National Capital Development Commission in Canberra. In 1978 he joined the University of Sydney in the Planning Department and later as the Director of the Planning Research Centre. James Conner has travelled widely through Asia and the Pacific and worked with Jennifer Taylor on the 2003 publication, 'The Architecture of Fumihiko Maki'.

Alan Ward was born in Gisborne, New Zealand on 11 June 1935. He was Lecturer, Senior Lecturer and Reader, La Trobe University 1967-1987; Senior Lecturer of History, University of Papua New Guinea 1971; Consultant to Commission of Inquiry into Land Matters, PNG 1973; Director Department of Rural Lands Representative, Vanuatu 1981-82; Professor of History, University of Newcastle 1987-1996.

Dr McCullagh was appointed a Research Fellow in the Department of Experimental Pathology in the John Curtin School of Medical Research in 1966, then promoted to Senior Research Fellow in 1971 and Senior Fellow in 1974 in the Department of Immunology. He was a member of the ANU Council from 1988 to 1992, elected by the non-professorial staff of the Institute of Advanced Studies.

George Whittaker was born in Chillagoe, Queensland on 16 January 1904 and attended Cairns High School, then the University of Sydney. He arrived in the Mandated Territory of New Guinea in 1925, working as a medical assistant with Department of Public Health. In 1933 Whittaker led the first medical patrol into the Central Highlands of New Guinea. He later established a cocoa plantation near Lae and in 1936 began practising as an optometrist in the town. In 1942-6 he served in various parts of New Guinea as a member of the New Guinea Volunteer Rifles, which was subsequently integrated into the Australian Army. Awarded a MBE in 1943 and mentioned in despatches the same year, Whittaker reached rank of captain and was discharged from army in October 1946. For ten years after the war he worked to rehabilitate Awilunga cocoa plantation. He was the PNG state president of the RSL from 1951 to 1955, also a member for the New Guinea Mainland in the PNG Legislative Council, and at one time a member of the Lae Town Advisory Council and Morobe District Advisory Council. The Whittakers left PNG and moved to Australia in 1957. George Whittaker subsequently made periodic visits to PNG in connection with his continuing work as an optometrist.

Peter Gavin Hall, AO FAA FRS, was an Australian researcher in probability theory and mathematical statistics. He earned his Doctorate at the University of Oxford in 1976. Hall was an ARC Laureate Fellow at the School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Melbourne,[2] and also had a joint appointment at University of California Davis.[3] He previously held a professorship at the Centre for Mathematics and its Applications at the Australian National University. He was one of only three researchers based outside of North America to win the COPSS Presidents' Award, arguably the world's most prestigious award for research statisticians.

Maureen Cummuskey was a member of the Women’s Bureau from 1983?-1990s.

The precursor to the Women’s Bureau was established in 1963 within the Department of Labour and National Service, with the intention that it primarily be a research unit that would also serve as a point of contact for non-governmental women’s organisations. This became the Women’s Bureau in 1968, and was concerned with such issues as equal pay and childcare policies. The Bureau was dissolved in 1997.

The ANU Ageing and the Family Project was one of several sizeable research projects which moved Australian gerontology beyond earlier pioneering studies primarily on older clients and other specialised samples. The ANU Project - and related studies by the Australian Council on the Ageing and the Department of Community Services (1985), and the Australian Institute of Multicultural Affairs (I986) - reflected the priority in the early 1980s for knowledge on older people living in the community. These studies paralleled investigations on residential care policies by the National Research Institute of Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine, community care by the Social Welfare Research Centre, and a number of other inquiries by small teams and individuals (National Research Institute of Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine, 1987). The ANU Project also was part of the international development of life span perspectives and ‘multiple method studies of ageing and families. The Ageing and the Family Project was initiated and primarily funded from within the ANU Research School of Social Sciences. Foreshadowing many of the recent developments under the ‘Dawkins’ plan for tertiary education, the Research School in 1978 undertook to establish several multidisciplinary research projects on applied topics of national importance and of relevance to policy.

The Ageing and the Family Project, one of the first of these School initiatives, commenced in 1980 with the appointment of two and a half academic staff and internal and external advisory committees. The Project was established initially for a three to five year period and was completed in 1986. The first objective in the Project’s research agenda was to fill major gaps in knowledge about the diverse social situations of older people and processes of ageing in Australia. A second objective was to apply findings to the broader development of gerontology and social and health policies. Both priorities required that the research effort be coordinated with other researchers, service providers, and the very few educational programmes in gerontology at the time. The emphasis of ANU-funded posts was on basic research in social gerontology while visitors supported with outside funding contributed more to research on 26 services and policies. Approximately a third of the funding was obtained from grants, contracts, and fellowships provided principally by agencies of the Commonwealth government. External sources of support were pursued when they contributed to research within the scope of the Project’s academic agenda. The Project’s staffing recognised that ageing is a multi-faceted experience which is best understood from the perspective of multiple disciplines and professions. The staff included sociologists, a gerontologist, demographers, psychologists, an anthropologist, an economist, and a political scientist. The understanding of services and the professions was aided by the involvement of social workers, an urban planner, a geriatrician, a nurse, and a lawyer. At any one time, there was an average of five researchers from these diverse fields. Exchanges between these people broadened disciplinary and professional horizons and focussed them on the field of ageing. This interaction increased appreciation of the interdependency between health conditions, social and economic aspects of ageing, and public policies - all of which often are studied separately. A purposeful and integrated research program requires common organising topics and themes. While the investigations ranged widely, the primary research topics addressed the social integration and support of older people through a variety of social institutions ranging from intimate family ties through to the public sector. The development of common questions and vocabulary enabled the project team to inter-relate diverse aspects of ageing and care of older people. This helped in viewing the aged as ‘whole people’ with pasts and futures, instead of as ‘one-off research subjects, clients, and patients. The Ageing and the Family Project aimed to make a specific research contribution appropriate to the priorities for Australian gerontology in the early 1980s. Hal Kendig was director of the project supported by a team which built on the contributions of many individuals. Diane Gibson and Don Rowland played a particularly significant part in setting the research agenda and in serving as Co-Principal Investigators on the 1981 Survey of the Aged In Sydney. John McCallum took on similar leadership responsibilities in policy reviews and the National Centre for Epidemiology & Population Health (NCEPH) follow-up survey. A more detailed account of staff and their contributions is provided in the Ageing and the Family Project Final Report (1986).

Established in 1972, under a special research grant from the Australian Government, to sponsor research into the Australian federal system and suggest ways and means of making the system function more effectively. Work is directed into four major fields of study: a) financial and economic analysis of the Australian and other federal systems, b) criteria and machinery for determining the allocation of financial resources among governments, c) intergovernmental aspects of urban and regional development, and d) the effect of the federal financial system on the effectiveness of expenditure in functional fields such as education.

The Department of Anthropology and Sociology was one of the first three departments established in the Research School of Pacific Studies by the Interim Council in 1949. Dr Siegfried Frederick Stephen Nadel was appointed founding Chair and Professor of Anthropology and Sociology in August 1950. Through the scholarships scheme of the Interim Council ethnographic field research was already underway in 1949 and early 1950 by scholars working in New Guinea, the Tobriands Group in Fiji, and in Tonga. The Department was designed to meet the need for theoretical research, concerned with the principles and methods of anthropology, combined with specialised research in particular areas of the Pacific. The broad research interests of the Department were also intended for the training of research workers and to extend to the study of modern society. Other heads of Anthropology included Professor William Edward Hanley Stanner, who was an early member of the Department (Reader in Social Anthropology 1949-1964; Professor 1964-1970) and Professor Roger M Keesing (Chair 1974-1990) who worked extensively with Indigenous Australians and in the Solomon Islands respectively.

The Department of Astronomy was established in the Research School of Physical Sciences when the Mount Stromlo Observatory became part of the Australian National University in 1957. It had since 1924 been the Commonwealth Solar Observatory. In 1946 when the Australian National University Act was passed, Richard Woolley was its director and, as a personal friend to Nugget Coombs, was well placed to argue for the inclusion of a department of astronomy and astrophysics at the fledgling university. Woolley met unexpected resistance from Mark Oliphant, the newly appointed director of the Research School of Physical Sciences who rejected the inclusion of the Observatory on the grounds of its continuing statutory responsibilities being incompatible with the structure and organisation of the school. As a compromise, Woolley would be appointed an Honorary Professor of Astronomy with the right to appoint a research fellow to his staff and supervise supervise research students, creating a de-facto Department of Astronomy. In 1954 the first Doctor of Philosophy degree awarded by the University was to one of these students, Antoni Przybylski. On Woolley's appointment as Astronomer Royal in 1955 the University administration agreed to incorporate the Observatory into the University and establish a Professor of Astronomy who would also act as its Director. The Mount Stromlo Observatory Act 1956 gave effect to this change and the observatory was renamed the Mount Stromlo Observatory and made a department within the research school. By 1962, the expanding Canberra population made it clear that a better site needed to be found. The decision was made to establish a permanent ‘field station’ rather than totally relocate the observatory. Siding Spring (near Coonabarabran) was officially opened on 5 April 1965. The department was renamed the Mount Stromlo and Siding Spring Observatories (MSSSO) and became an Institute of Advanced Studies centre in 1986. In 1998 it became the Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics.

The Department of Mathematics, was established in the Research School of Physical Sciences by the University Council in 1959 on the initiative of Director, Sir Mark Oliphant. The foundation head was Professor Bernhard Hermann Neumann, 1962-1975. Early chair holders were Professor J W Miles, 1962-1965 and Professor Kurt Mahler, 1963-1968; Professor Robert Edmund Edwards, 1970-1986. In 1989 it became part of the School of Mathematical Sciences, which was renamed the Mathematical Sciences Institute in 2002.

The Division of Society and Environment was established at the ANU to study the interaction between the natural environment and human societies in the Asia-Pacific region. It included researchers studying anthropology, human geography, linguistics, prehistory, biogeography and geomorphology.

The Ceremonial and Naming Committee was established by Council resolution on 11 November 1960 to consider questions of ceremonial and academic dress and the naming of buildings. Its membership included Council members and from 1968 the holder of the ceremonial position of Esquire Bedell. On 13 February 1970 it was reconstituted as the Naming Committee. It was abolished by Council resolution on 13 May 1983 with its functions to be assumed by the Buildings and Grounds Committee.

The Committee on General Policy reported to the Board of the Institute of Advanced Studies.

The Ethics in Human Experimentation Committee was established by the Vice-Chancellor in October 1986 to oversee the ethics of experimental research projects involving human species, proposed by members of the University. The initial composition of the Committee included 'a laywoman, a layman, a minister of religion, a lawyer and a medical graduate' (as specified by National Health and Medical Research Council guidelines), as well as a philosopher, a psychologist and a biological anthropologist. Prior to its establishment, the Clinical Research Committee of the John Curtin School of Medical Research had performed the function of an ethics committee.

The Human Research Ethics Committee was established in 1999, following on from the Ethics in Human Experimentation Committee which had been established in 1986. In 1999 the National Health and Medical Research Council, in conjunction with the Australian Vice-Chancellors’ Committee, issued a set of national guidelines on ethics in human research. These guidelines, the National Statement on Ethical Conduct in Research Involving Humans, were tabled in federal parliament in July 1999 and were intended to cover all disciplines, with the primary purpose of protecting the welfare and rights of participants in research. The Committee's main role is to review proposed research projects involving human subjects that fall within the jurisdiction of the ANU, and to approve research projects that meet the requirements of the National Statement and are ethically acceptable.

The Committee reporting to the Academic Board was originally named the University Community Equity Committee and from 2010 was renamed the University Access and Equity Committee.

The Intermediate Awards Committee reported to the Board of the School of General Studies, later The Faculties, advising on the award of intermediate awards such as graduate diplomas. Its functions were taken over by the Graduate Degrees Committee in 1992.

The Department had its beginnings at Canberra University College with Charles Manning Hope Clark as Professor of History, July 1949-1960. Under the Act passed in March 1960 CUC was amalgamated with the Australian National University and became associated with the ANU as the School of General Studies. Professor Clark became founding professor and Head of the Department of History, School of General Studies from September 1960. He was succeeded as Head of Department by Professor Charles Murray Williams in 1973. Another early staff member of the Department, Eric Charles Fry, began as a Senior Lecturer in 1960 and was promoted to Reader from July 1967 to 1986. Robin (Bob) Allenby Gollan was appointed as Manning Clark Professor of Australian History in the Department in 1976, retiring in 1981. In 1979 the School of General Studies was formally renamed The Faculties. In 2006 seven ANU Colleges were formed, grouping together Research Schools, Faculties and Centres.

The Australian National University's Facilities and Services Division succeeded the Buildings and Grounds Division. Its role is to maintain and enhance the University's buildings, grounds and infrastructure in a number of locations across Australia including the Acton Campus, Kioloa, Siding Spring and the Northern Australian Research Unit at Darwin.

The association was formed to organise the first reunion in April 2000 of foresters who had received their qualifications from the Australian Forestry School in the period 1927 to 1964. It was incorporated in the Australian Capital Territory in December 1999 and wound up in July 2000. Ray Margules was the Chair of the association and Dr Kim Wells, Secretary.

The Research School of Social Sciences (RSSS) is Australia’s major institution for theoretical and empirical research in the social sciences. It provides a distinctive multi-disciplinary environment for research. In 1947 Australian-born Professor of History W.K. Hancock was chosen to be the Academic Advisor for the School of Social Sciences with the eventual hope that he would take on the job as Foundation Professor. His initial plans for the structure were for nominal departments in Economics, Statistics, Population and Health Studies, Law, Political Science, Social Anthropology, Psychology, History and Philosophy, Sociology and Geography. Initial failure in trying to find suitably qualified individuals to take up posts and the resignation of Raymond Firth from the Academic Advisory Committee led, at the end of 1948, to Hancock advocating that the Pacific Studies and Social Sciences schools be established under one head until the Council decided that each had grown enough to be separate. This proposal was rejected because the emphasis on Pacific Studies was seen as one of the major points that had persuaded the government to accept the university proposal. This event was to prove the catalyst for a parting of ways between Hancock and the Committee. Sir Frederick Eggleston took the opportunity to begin to draw up new plans for the Social Sciences School with K.C. Wheare, Gladstone Professor of Government and Public Administration at Oxford, as advisor. The interim council accepted his proposal of chairs in Political Science, Economics, Social Philosophy, Law and History; with Readers in Demography and Statistics. The first appointment in Social Sciences was that of W.D. (Mick) Borrie with the title of Research Fellow in Demography in 1949, with professorial appointments in 1950 including Geoffrey Sawer in Law and Trevor Swan in Economics. Three readers were also appointed: Laurie Fitzhardinge in Australian History, L.C. Webb in Political Science, and H.P. (Horrie) Brown in Economic Statistics. In 1952 P. A. P. Moran was appointed chair in Statistics and and P. H. Partridge as chair in Social Philosophy. Later departments included Economic History and Sociology, and the Education Research Unit, the History of Ideas Unit, the Urban Research Unit, the Australian Dictionary of Biography, and the Archives of Business and Labour.

The Department of Political Science (DPS) was established within the Research School of Social Sciences in 1949. However, the first appointment to the Department occurred in 1951, when Mr L.C. Webb (later Professor) took up the position of Reader and Head of the Department. For two years, 1958-1959, the DPS combined with the Department of International Relations (DIR) as a temporary arrangement and was known as the Department of Political Science & of International Relations. In 1960, the DPS returned to its original name after the members whose work was in the DIR were transferred to The Research School of Pacific Studies. In 1988, a review of activities of the Research School were carried out and as a result all former departments, centres and units within the RSSS were de-established in 1989. From 1990, the RSSS was organised into four divisions and the DPS subsequently became a part of the Division of Politics and Economics.

The Electron and Ion Diffusion Unit was established in 1964 in the Research School of Physical Sciences, initially under the direction of Sir Leonard Huxley. The Unit, in the charge of Dr Robert Crompton, investigated low-energy collision processes between electrons and ions and gas molecules, and molecule-molecule interactions. The experimental program was based on the measurement and interpretation of electron and ion transport coefficients, and the study of state-selected supersonic molecular beams and complemented by the work of a group engaged on theoretical studies of molecular dynamics in liquids and gases and single particle scattering. Later the Atomic and Molecular Physics Laboratories were formed comprising the Diffusion Research Unit, the Electron and Ion Diffusion Unit and the Ultraviolet Physics Unit.

The Strategic and Defence Studies Centre was founded in 1966 to analyse the use of armed force in its political context.

The Board of the School of General Studies was established by amendments to the Australian National University Act in 1960 which effected the association between the ANU and the Canberra University College. The Canberra University College departments became the School of General Studies, while the Research Schools of the University became the Institute of Advanced Studies. The operation of the Board was governed by Statute 41 which came into operation from January 1961 identifying it as the principal body of the School with responsibility for advising Council on any matter relating to education, learning or research. The Board's membership included the Vice-Chancellor as Chair, the Deputy Vice-Chancellor, the Principal of the School of General Studies (until 1965), professors of the School, three members of the Board of the Institute of Advanced Studies and later, the Librarian. A member of the Board was appointed as Deputy Chairman and acted as Chair in the Vice-Chancellor's absence. Further amendments to the Act in 1979, coming into operation in 1980, recognised the long-standing practice of the Deputy Chairman chairing the meetings by creating the position Chairman of the Board. These amendments also reconstituted the Board as the Board of The Faculties.

In 1983 the Faculty of Economics was renamed the Faculty of Economics and Commerce. The Department of Economic History was one of four departments in the Faculty of Economics and Commerce.

The Development Studies Centre was established in 1975 in the Research School of Pacific Studies. Sir John Crawford was a strong supporter of the creation and expansion of the Development Studies Centre. In 1985 it became known as the National Centre for Development Studies.

The Board of the School of General Studies established the Undergraduate Awards Committee in October 1975 after it approved that the Undergraduate Scholarships Committee and the Prizes Committee be combined to form one committee for awards. The Undergraduate Awards Committee considered a range of prizes such as the University Medal. The committee reported to the Board of the School of General Studies, and then the Board of The Faculties until 1998.

The Instructional Resources Unit (IRU) was established in July 1975 and incorporated and expanded the services offered by the Visual Aids Section (Central Administration) and the Language Laboratories (School of General Studies). The Unit worked in co-operation with the Office of Research in Academic Methods (ORAM) providing support facilities for teaching and learning. Services offered to the University included photographic production and processing, audio and television production and processing, language laboratories, preparation of graphics and desktop publishing service, international satellite radio and TV service, and upgrades to the audio visual facilities in lecture theatres and teaching areas of the University.

The Department of Experimental Pathology was proposed by Sir Howard Florey in 1948 with Dr G. M. Watson appointed a Research Fellow in Experimental Pathology on 1 December 1948. Due to shortage of laboratory space and suitably trained personnel, the Department of Experimental Pathology was not physically established within the John Curtin School of Medical Research until the latter part of 1953. The Department's staff members, Dr G. M. Watson, Senior Research Fellow, and Dr G. B. Mackaness, Research who had worked in the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology at the University of Oxford moved to Canberra in January 1954. From 1 January 1982 to 31 March 1988, Peter Doherty was Professor and Head, Department of Experimental Pathology. Following a recommendation of the 1988 School Review, the John Curtin School of Medical Research moved from a departmental to a divisional structure in 1989.

The Public Relations Division was established in 1993 when the former University Public Relations section was combined with the Official Publications Unit, the Drill Hall Gallery, the ANU Art Collection and Graduate Affairs. Mr J Mahoney, Head, Public Affairs Division, edited the journal University Public Relations established during 1993.

University Public Relations office replaced the University Information section in 1987. The office continued to promote the University with local, national and international public relations activities including arranging tours for visitors, publishing the campus newsletter ANU Reporter, media liaison activities, and Open Day events. During 1993, the University Public Relations office was combined with the Official Publications Unit, the Drill Hall Gallery, the ANU Art Collection and Graduate Affairs to form the Public Affairs Division.

University Information functioned as a public relations unit whose roles included publishing the ANU Reporter, and arranging tours of the campus, appointments and briefings for visitors. From 1982 to 1987, inquiries relating to matters of a general nature concerning the University were directed to University Information. In 1987 it was replaced by University Public Relations.

The Institute of Advanced Studies which comprised the Research Schools of the University from 1960 to 2001, included the head of each research school on its Board.

Following the association of the Canberra University College with the Australian National University and the formation of the School of General Studies in 1960, the Deans of Faculties was comprised of Deans of the originally four faculties. The first Dean appointed in the Faculty of Arts was Alec Derwent Hope, Faculty of Economics was Burgess Don Cameron , Faculty of Law was Harold Arthur John Ford, and Faculty of Science was James Desmond Smyth. In 1961, the Faculty of Orient Studies was established within the School of General Studies which became known as the Faculty of Asian Studies in 1970. In 2006, the ANU Colleges was formally constituted with the University’s Faculties, Research Schools, and Centres grouped along discipline lines into seven Colleges.

Founded in 1963, SCUNA's membership draws from students, staff, alumni, friends of the ANU, and the wider Canberra community. The choir is affiliated with the ANU Students’ Association and is a member of the Australian Intervarsity Choral Societies’ Association (AICSA).

The Postgraduate Scholarships Committee reported to the Board of the School of General Studies, which later became the Board of The Faculties.

Council appointed Professor Denis Winston, Professor of Town and Country Planning in the University of Sydney, and Mr Grenfell Rudduck, of the Department of National Development, Canberra, as Site Consultants in September 1954. Preliminary plans of the Site Consultants were accepted by the University during 1955. In May 1960 Professor Winston was appointed as site consultant to meet the needs of association of the Canberra University College and the University. In October 1968 Mr Roy Simpson was selected as Site Planner. After Council's approval in December 1971 of a review of the site plan, the Property and Plans Division of the ANU decided to collect and describe the basic plans as a record printed as The History of the Site Plan 1912-1971. The updating of the site plan in 1971 resulted from joint efforts of the site planner and the Property and Plans Division.

Established in 2001, Pandanus Books was a publishing imprint of the ANU's Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies. Pandanus Books wound down its publishing activities in 2006.

The Faculty of Science, in the School of General Studies, was formed as part of the amalgamation of the Canberra University College with the Australian National University in September 1960. The Faculty of Science initially comprised of the Departments of Botany, Chemistry, Geology, Physics and Zoology. In 1980, the School of General Studies was renamed the Faculties with the Faculty of Science comprising the Departments of Applied Mathematics, Biochemistry, Botany, Chemistry, Computer Science, Forestry, Geology, Physics, Psychology, Pure Mathematics, Theoretical Physics, Zoology, and the National Nuclear Resonance Centre. From January 2006 seven ANU Colleges were formed with Faculties, Research Schools, and Centres grouped along discipline lines.

The School of General Studies was formed after the association of Canberra University College with the Australian National University following the Australian National University Act 1960, which came into operation on 30 September 1960. When the CUC became the School of General Studies, the university offered undergraduate courses for the first time. It comprised of the Faculty of Arts, Faculty of Economics, Faculty of Law, and Faculty of Science. In 1980 it was formally renamed The Faculties.

The Department of Demography, Research School of Social Sciences was established in 1952, with WD Borrie as its head and later Chair in Demography in 1957. From the 1960s the Department broadened its focus on the demography of Australia to also focus on the demography of developing countries and in the sociology of international migration. From 1970 to 1988, the Department was headed by Jack Caldwell, who focussed the Department on South and Southeast Asia, and West Africa. In 1990 the Research School of Social Sciences moved from a departmental to a divisional arrangement. The Department was replaced by the Demography Program in the Division of Demography and Sociology, and was headed by Gavin Jones.

The Department of Economic History was one of four departments in the Faculty of Economics which offered its courses to both the Faculty of Economics and Faculty of Arts, when the School of General Studies was established in 1961. From January 1961, Professor Graham Tucker was Head of Department. The Faculty of Economics was renamed the Faculty of Economics and Commerce in 1983.

The University's Faculty of Law was inherited from the amalgamation of the University with Canberra University College in 1961 as part of the School of General Studies, then The Faculties in 1980. The Legal Workshop was introduced in the Faculty in 1972 and provided an alternative to taking articles as a means to enter the profession after completing the ANU Bachelor of Laws. In 2006 it was incorporated into the ANU College of Law.

The Department of Economic History was first established as a program of the Department of Economics, Research School of Social Sciences in 1951 with the appointment of Noel George Butlin as Senior Research Fellow. It became the Department of Economic History, Institute of Advanced Studies when Canberra University College amalgamated with the Australian National University in 1960.