The Research School of Physical Sciences was the first of the research schools of the Australian National University to be established. Sir Marcus Oliphant who was a member of the Academic Advisory Committee was instrumental in its establishment. His appointment as the Director was announced in 1948 though he did not join the University until 1950, and a number of other staff appointed in 1948 and 1949 worked with him in Birmingham. Oliphant proposed that the school engage in research in fundamental nuclear physics and in the related branch of chemistry – the chemistry of radioactive substances. The foundation stone for the school was laid on 24 October 1949 by Prime Minister Ben Chifley. The six original departments were: Astronomy established in 1950, headed by Richard Woolley; Geophysics established in 1952, headed by John Jaeger; Radio Chemistry established in 1952, headed by Frank Scarf; Particle Physics established in 1950, headed by Marcus Oliphant; Nuclear Physics established in 1950, headed by Ernest Titterton; and Theoretical Physics established in 1951, headed by Ken Le Couteur. Four new research schools have been created from the original school: the Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics, the Research School of Earth Sciences, the Research School of Information Sciences and Engineering, and the School of Mathematical Sciences. The establishment of a Department of Electronic Materials Engineering in 1988 led eventually, in 1991, to the school being renamed the Research School of Physical Sciences and Engineering. In 2008 the Research School of Physical Sciences and Engineering and the Department of Physics, part of the Faculty of Science, merged to create the Research School of Physics and Engineering.

The Boot Trade Union of New South Wales was formed in 1900. In 1907 the Federal Council of the Australian Boot Trade Employees' Federation pressured the Boot Trade Union to amalgamate with the New South Wales Boot Operators & Rough Stuff Cutters' Union and the New South Wales Clickers' Association to form the New South Wales Branch of that Federation. Consequently, the New South Wales Branch of the Australian Boot Trade Employees' Federation was registered under the Commonwealth's Conciliation and Arbitration Act in that year. By 1908, the federal branch had registered separately.

Although the New South Wales Branch was deregistered in 1950, the federal branch continued to operate until 1987 when it amalgamated with the Australian Textile Workers’ Union to become the Amalgamated Footwear and Textile Workers’ Union of Australia, and in 1992, a further amalgamation with the Federated Clothing and Allied Trades Union created the Textile Clothing and Footwear Union of Australia.

Boot Trade Council of New South Wales was formed in 1904 by the Boot Trade Union of New South Wales, the New South Wales Boot Operators and Rough Stuff Cutters' Union and the New South Wales Clickers' Association to deal with matters common to all three. When the three unions amalgamated to form the Australian Boot Trade Employees Federation the Council was dissolved.

The New South Wales Boot Operators and Rough Stuff Cutters' Union was formed in 1902. In 1907 the Federal Council of the Australian Boot Trade Employees' Federation pressured the Boot Operators & Rough Stuff Cutters' to amalgamate with the Boot Trade Union and the New South Wales Clickers' Association to form the New South Wales Branch of that Federation. Consequently, the New South Wales Branch of the Australian Boot Trade Employees' Federation was registered under the Commonwealth's Conciliation and Arbitration Act in that year. By 1908, the federal branch had registered separately.

Although the New South Wales Branch was deregistered in 1950, the federal branch continued to operate until 1987 when it amalgamated with the Australian Textile Workers’ Union to become the Amalgamated Footwear and Textile Workers’ Union of Australia, and in 1992, a further amalgamation with the Federated Clothing and Allied Trades Union created the Textile Clothing and Footwear Union of Australia.

University House was originally designed as a residence and meeting place for postgraduate students and staff in the style of Oxford and Cambridge colleges. A University statute provides for the appointment of a Master, traditionally an academic, by the Vice-Chancellor of the University and a Governing Body, now known as the Board of Fellows. For its first decade, residence at the House was compulsory for unmarried doctoral students, and the tariff included all meals with formal dinners held each evening. In recent years its role has primarily changed to provide short-term accommodation for visiting scholars and staff and a venue for conferences and events. The University House building was the first purpose-built building on the University site, opened by Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, on 16 February 1954. It was designed by architect Professor Brian Lewis and its furniture was designed by Frederick Ward. It houses a number of important artworks including paintings, tapestries, sculptures, antiquities and a Leonard French mural. From 1987, the ANU Staff Centre, located in Old Canberra House, was operated as an extension of University House with a bar, restaurant and function venue, but in the 1990s a number of areas were leased for external commercial operations and were then used for accommodating academic centres. Since 2003, Graduate House which adjoins University House has also been administered by the Master of University House.

The University Library was established on 1 May 1948 with the appointment of A. L. G. McDonald as University Librarian. By arrangement with Ormond College at the University of Melbourne, the library collection was housed at Wyselaskie Hall temporarily, and at nearby Trinity College, before being moved to the former Canberra Community Hospital buildings on the ANU site in December 1950 - January 1951. C. P. FitzGerald, Reader in Oriental Studies, was instrumental in collecting valuable Asian collections including the private library of Professor Hsu Ti Shan of Hong Kong University in this early period. When the Canberra University College amalgamated with the Australian National University, it brought with it the Oriental Studies collection that it had formed to support the teaching of the School of Oriental Languages. Another focus of the amalgamation was the cataloguing system as the ANU Library had adopted the Bliss system but the CUC the Dewey system. The first purpose-built library building, the R. G. Menzies Building, was opened by Queen Elizabeth II on 13 March 1963 as the research library, while an undergraduate library was completed later that year and was later named the J. B Chifley Building. Meanwhile a number of branch libraries in research schools had developed under the umbrella of the University Library. By the 1990s the main collections were organised into Asia-Pacific collections (Menzies), Social Sciences and Humanities (Chifley), Science (Hancock) and Law. The amalgamation of the Canberra Institute of the Arts (formerly the Canberra School of Music and the Canberra School of Art) into the ANU in 1992 brought two more branch libraries. In the first decade of the twenty-first century, the collections within branch libraries in research schools were relocated to the main libraries, with off-site storage being used to house older material and to make way for the 'information commons', workstations and group study rooms incorporated into building renovations. The Music library was relocated to merge with the Art library in 2012.

Queensland Amalgamated Operative Boot Trade Union was formed in the 1880s in 1907 it became part of the Australian Boot Trade Employees' Federation.

Victorian Operative Boot Trade Union was formed in the early 1880s. In 1907-1908 it became the Victorian Branch of the Australian Boot Trade Employees Federation.

From 1947, the Registrar, reporting to the Vice-Chancellor, was responsible for the administrative work of the University with duties specified in the University statutes such as conducting Council elections, acting as Secretary of the Council, the Board of Graduate Studies and each Faculty and Faculty Board, and affixing the common seal of the University to official documents and degrees, but also for correspondence with public bodies, legislation, personnel matters (except academic appointments) and official publications. The Registrar initially directed the work of all administrative areas but as the University administration grew, new structures were developed. The Bursar was responsible for budgets, accounting services, business management and for residential housing. The Academic Registrar was the secretary of the Boards of the Institute of Advanced Studies and of the School of General Studies, responsible for administrative matters related to academic staff appointments and student matters. The Registrar (Property and Plans) was responsible for the coordination of planning, including the relating of academic plans to the provision of buildings and site development. Functions which had been managed by the Office of the Registrar were devolved to other areas such as University Information (later, Public Affairs Division) and Human Resources so that by 1998 the Office of the Registrar was no longer identified as an administrative unit. From 2006, the position of Registrar has headed the Division of Registrar and Student Services.

The Union was originally known as the Federated Railway Locomotive Enginemen's Association of Australasia after the amalgamation of the Locomotive Engine Drivers' & Firemens' Association from Victoria, New South Wales, South Australia and Queensland. In February 1921, it was renamed the Australian Federated Union of Locomotive Enginemen and gained federal registration with the Federal Arbitration Court. By 1926 the union had changed its name to the Australian Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, but reverted back to Australian Federated Union of Enginemen in 1927. In 1993 the AFULE merged with the Australian Tramway & Motor Omnibus Employees' Association, the National Union of Rail Workers of Australia and the Australian Railways Union to form the Australian Rail Tram & Bus Industry Union.

The union was formed prior to 1883 as the Tramway Drivers, Firemen and Cleaners' Association of NSW, and registered in May 1884 as the NSW Engine Drivers' and Firemen's Association. From about 1888 it was known as the NSW Locomotive Engine Drivers, Firemen and Cleaners Association. It continued to function as a New South Wales-based association, with no national affiliation, until 1900 when the Australian Federation of Locomotive Enginemen was formed.

The union already in existence in Queensland in 1891. It applied for deregistration on 6 July 1921 in order to register as the Queensland Division of the federated body, the Australian Federated Union of Locomotive Enginemen.

The Public Health Association of Australia aims to encourage research and promote knowledge in the wider community of the economic, social and environmental factors affecting public health. It is a successor to the Australian and New Zealand Society for Epidemiological Research in Community Health /Australian Public Health Association. Its major activities are advocacy for the betterment of public health, holding conferences on epidemiology, immunisation and other public health issues, and producing the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health. Before 2001 its name was the Public Health Association.

The Australian Railways Union formed in September 1920 with the amalgamation of the Queensland Railways Union, the New South Wales Amalgamated Railway and Tramway Service Association, the Victorian Railway Union, the Railway and Tramway Employees Association of South Australia and the Tasmanian Railway Union. It was the first Australian all-grades organisation of railway workers and was federally registered on 8 February 1921. In 1993 the ARU merged with other unions to form the Rail Tram & Bus Industry Union.

The Victorian Teachers Union (VTU), Victorian Secondary Teachers Association (VSTA) and Technical Teachers Union of Victoria (TTUV) (as the Technical Teachers Association of Victoria (TTAV) became) co-operated on campaigns from 1979 to 1990, particularly around state elections, and in 1984 formed the Teachers Federation of Victoria (TFV), to streamline and co-ordinate industrial representation. It was abolished in 1990 when the VTU and TTUV merged to form the Federated Teachers Union of Victoria (FTUV).

This body represented members in primary and technical schools, TAFE teachers, instructors in disability services and teachers in Adult Multicultural Education Services.

The Amalgamated Railway & Tramway Service Association was formed on 15 March 1886 as an all-grades union for New South Wales railway and tramway workers. The Association became the NSW Branch of the the Australian Railways Union following formation of the federal organisation in August 1920.

The association amalgamated with the National Union of Railwaymen of Australia around 1945.

The Railway Service Association formed in 1930 from the amalgamation of the New South Wales Government Railways Permanent Way Association and the Association of Employees (Mechanical Branch) of the NSW Railways (unions registered since 1918). In 1933 the RSA as a State Industrial Union was renamed and registered in New South Wales as the National Union of Railwaymen, NSW Branch - a predecessor to the Commonwealth registered National Union of Railwaymen of Australia.

The inaugural meeting of the Nutrition Society of Australia occurred on 23 January 1975 following the merger of a number of local professional nutrition groups. The Society comprises a number of regional groups, Brisbane, Sydney, Canberra, Melbourne, Adelaide, Perth, Newcastle, Wollongong and Tasmania.

The National Union of Railwaymen of Australia was first registered under the Commonwealth's industrial relations legislation in March 1933. It was soon de-registered in July 1933 and many members of this original union were eventually covered by a second union of the same name, which registered on 7 December 1938. The NUR amalgamated with the Government Railways Transport Staff Association in 1938, with the Department of Main Roads Employees' Union in 1942 and the Government Tramway Electrical Branch Workers' Association around 1944-45. The Union continued under this name until 1982 when it changed to the National Union of Rail Workers of Australia. In 1993 the union amalgamated with the Australian Federated Union of Locomotive Enginemen, the Australian Tramway & Motor Omnibus Employees' Association and the Australian Railways Union to form the Australian Rail Tram & Bus Industry Union.

The Australian Chamber of Shipping was formed in Sydney on 3 September 1964 to represent ship owners and operators engaged in overseas, interstate and intrastate trade. Its first President was Mr S V Jones, General Manager of Blue Star Line (Australia) Pty Ltd. It is now known as Shipping Australia Limited, registered in 2001.

Ossie (O J) Ratford worked in Canberra as an accountant from the late 1930s and was company director of Canberra Steam Laundry Ltd from April 1952 to 1975 when the company went into liquidation.

Michael Doogan was an Amalgamated Metal Workers' and Shipwrights' Union (AMWSU) Shop Steward at General Motors Holden, Fishermans Bend, Victoria.

In April 1947, the ANU Interim Council invited Sir Howard Florey, Professor ML Oliphant, Professor WK Hancock and Professor Raymond Firth, who all held senior academic positions in the United Kingdom, to form the Academic Advisory Committee. The Committee was formed in order to advise on the preliminary action required to establish the University and plan its internal structure. In March and April of 1948, the Interim Council and Academic Advisory Committee met at the Institute of Anatomy and agreed that the first objective of the University was to be the establishment of the four Research Schools: the John Curtin School of Medical Research, Research School of Physical Sciences, Research School of Social Sciences, and the Research School of Pacific Studies. The Committee met regularly from 1947 to 1951, alternating between the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology and All Souls College at Oxford. When Hancock resigned in 1949, he was replaced by Professor KC Wheare.

Operative Bootmakers Union of South Australia was formed in 1882 and subsequently participated in the conference to establish a federal body. This was achieved in 1907-1908, when the Operative Bootmakers Union of South Australia became the South Australian Branch of the Federation

The Matriculation Committee was referred to in early meetings as the Matriculation Board of the Board of Studies. Members of the committee, which considered entry requirements and qualifications into undergraduate degrees, included the Vice-Chancellor, Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Deputy Chairman of the Board of the School of General Studies, one member from each faculty nominated by the Dean and one member from the Institute of Advanced Studies. From meetings after 22 September 1970 the Committee was referred to as the Admissions Committee.

The Admissions Committee was previously known as the Matriculation Committee of the Board of the School of General Studies until September 1970. The committee considered policy and requirements for admission into undergraduate degrees at the ANU. Its members consisted of the Vice-Chancellor, Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Deputy Chairman of the Board of the School of General Studies (later the Board of the Faculties), one member from each of the five faculties nominated by the Dean and one member from the Institute of Advanced Studies.

The association was first registered in Victoria in 1913 under the name the Australian Commonwealth Public Service Clerical Association. The name was changed in 1919 to the Commonwealth Public Service Clerical Association and in 1956 to the Administrative & Clerical Officers' Association, Commonwealth Public Service. After a further change of name in 1982, this time to the Administrative & Clerical Officers' Association, Australian Government Employment, the union merged with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation Staff Union and the Australian Public Service Association so that, in 1989, it eventually became known as the Australian Public Sector & Broadcasting Union, Australian Government Employment.

Pilbara Iron Limited was established in 1965 with a registered office in Sydney and site facilities at Newman and Port Hedland. The company, a subsidiary of CSR Limited, held an interest in the Mt Newman iron ore project in the Pilbara region of Western Australia. The Mt Newman iron ore project was an international joint venture in Western Australia 1964-1985. CSR through its subsidiary was a member from the project's beginning until 1986.

Sugar Australia Pty Limited was established in 1998 as a joint venture between CSR Limited (50% share), Mackay Sugar Co-operative Association Limited (25% share), and ED&F Mann (25% share). The company was registered on 10 February 1998 with a registered office in Yarraville, Victoria. In 2004, CSR purchased ED&F Mann's share of the joint venture.

Formed in 1961 by Molly Huxley, wife of the Vice-Chancellor, the club was established to support the families of academics, staff, and visitors to the University, help with illness and arrange baby sitters. The club has evolved over its history, and now includes activities such as bush-walking, while no longer providing childminding services.

The ANU History Project refers to the 50th anniversary history of the Australian National University. It began in 1990 when the University initiated an oral history project as part of the research for the fiftieth-anniversary publication, The making of the Australian National University 1946-1996, written by Stephen Glynn Foster and Margaret M Varghese and published by Allen & Unwin in 1996.

The ANU Press evolved from a publications unit within the university and was formally established by Council in 1966. The Publications Committee (later the Editorial Committee) was responsible for publishing scholarly works originating or related to the work done at the University. William Arnold Wood was its first Director from 20 October 1967. Patricia Croft, the University’s Publications Officer since 1 March 1963, later Editor from 5 July 1968. Brian Clousten was appointed Director in 1977. By 1980 a financial crisis had reached the ANU Press due to the high costs of printing and publishing. In June 1984 a decision was made by Council to close ANU Press. Pergamon Press, an Oxford-based publishing house with a branch in Sydney, took over ANU Press from 1985 with the arrangement that some titles would be published under the ANU Press name.

The ANU Press Editorial Board replaced the Editorial Committee in 1976 as the academic body responsible for editorial policy. In 1980 financial restraints affecting ANU Press led to the University’s printing and publishing activities managed under a new Management Committee.

The Editorial Committee succeeded the Publications Committee in 1967 and was replaced by the Editorial Board in 1976.

The Publications Committee administered a fund to assist the publication of works originating from the research schools and later the School of General Studies. Eight of its members were originally from the four research schools, and a small editorial unit assisted with preparing works for publication. It was later replaced by the Editorial Committee.

The ANU Press Management Committee was formed in 1980 when the ANU press was experiencing a financial crisis. The ANU Press Management Committee was later replaced by the Division of Publishing and Printing Management Committee.

Victorian Clothing Operatives' Union was formed in 1902 when the Pressers' Union amalgamated with the Cutters' and Joiners' Union. In 1907 it became the Victorian Branch of the Federated Clothing Trades Union of the Commonwealth of Australia.

Pressers' Union, founded in the 1880s (possibly in 1884), joined with the Cutters' and Joiners' Union to form the Victorian Clothing Operatives' Union in 1902.

The Australian Hotels Association was founded in 1839 with branches established in each state and territory: Tasmanian branch in 1839, Victorian branch in 1843, South Australian branch in 1871, New South Wales branch in 1873, Queensland branch in 1885, Western Australian branch in 1897, Northern Territory in 1979 and an Australian Capital Territory branch of the AHA in 1994. The New South Wales Branch traces its origins back to 1873 with the formation of the Licensed Victuallers' Association of New South Wales. A second association, the City and Provincial Victuallers' Association was formed in May 1880, but wound up in May 1882. A third association, the Amalgamated Licensed Victuallers' Association was formed in 1885. In 1889 the United Licensed Victuallers Association (ULVA) of New South Wales was formed to consolidate the interests of hotelkeepers. In 1959 the ULVA became known as the NSW Branch of the Australian Hotels Association. In 1960, AHA (NSW) obtained registration as an industrial union of employers and in 1961 established its own trading company.

The Australian Public Service Association (Fourth Division Officers) had its origins in the Federated Public Service Assistants' Association of Australia which was registered in 1914. The union became known as the Commonwealth Public Service Association (Fourth Division Officers) in 1967 and then eventually in 1974 became known as the Australian Public Service Association (Fourth Division Officers). By the end of 1986 the name was shortened to the Australian Public Service Association and in 1989 this union amalgamated with the Administrative & Clerical Officers' Association, Australian Government Employment and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation Staff Union to form the Australian Public Sector and Broadcasting Union.

The Australian Rail, Tram and Bus Industry Union was formed in March 1993 from the amalgamation of the three rail unions - the Australian Railways Union (ARU), the Australian Federated Union of Locomotive Enginemen (AFULE), the National Union of Railway Workers (NURWA) - and the Amalgamated Tramways and Motor Omnbibus Employees Association (ATMOEA). It was originally called the Public Transport Union and changed its name to the Australian Rail, Tram and Bus Industry Union (commonly known as the RTBU) in 1998.

The United Bank Officers' Association was formed in Sydney in 1919; the same year E.C. Peverill from the National Bank of Australasia in Victoria was instrumental in establishing the Bank Officials' Association which also covered Tasmania, South Australia and Western Australia. By 1921 the separate state unions known as the Bank Officials' Association of South Australia and the Bank Officials' Association of Western Australia had also been formed. In 1919 K.H. Laidlaw formed the United Bank Officers' Association of Queensland. While the Bank Officials' Association in Victoria was registered federally the other unions were registered in various state courts. In 1921 the Bank Officials' Association in Victoria proposed an amalgamation of all banking unions, to be organised with a federal council and state branches. However, the UBOA of New South Wales and Queensland both rejected this proposal, partly due to Sydney Smith's (the UBOA of New South Wales Secretary) fears that amalgamation would mean the loss of state autonomy. Smith planned to register federally a union of bank officers from the fast growing Commonwealth Bank and to expedite this he formed the Commonwealth Bank Branch of the UBOA of NSW. This was registered in 1921 as the United Bank Officers' Association, Commonwealth Branch. In 1924 this branch changed its name to become the United Bank Officers' Association, Commonwealth Bank Branch. In 1930 the Commonwealth Bank Branch of the UBOA became a separate association altogether and was renamed the Commonwealth Bank Officers' Association. In March 1994 the Commonwealth Bank Officers' Association was reunited with its old parent union, the United Bank Officers' Association now in the form of the much stronger Finance Sector Union.

The CSIRO Staff Association was formed in 1992 when the CSIRO Officers' Association (which had first formed in 1945) and the CSIRO Technical Association (formed in 1952) amalgamated. It was soon after merged into the Public Sector Union then into the Community and Public Sector Union in 1994.

Formed as the CSIRO Technical Association in 1988, the union was originally known as the Association of Assistants of the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization which was itself formed in 1952. In 1992 the CSIRO Technical Association merged with the CSIRO Officers' Association to form the CSIRO Staff Association which then shortly after merged into the Public Sector Union then the Community and Public Sector Union in 1994.

Registered in 1980, the CSIRO Officers' Association had its origins in the Association of Officers of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (the CSIR Officers' Association) which was formed in 1945 but was renamed in 1949 as the Association of Officers of the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization. By 1992 this Association had amalgamated with the CSIRO Technical Association to form the CSIRO Staff Association, but was soon after merged into the Public Sector Union then the Community and Public Sector Union in 1994.

The Pyrmont Sugar Works Employees' Union was also known as the Sugar Works Employees' Union and was registered as such under the New South Wales Trade Union Act on 9 July 1901.

E.C. Peverill from the National Bank of Australasia in Victoria was instrumental in establishing the Bank Officials' Association in 1919. The union also covered Tasmania, South Australia and Western Australia. In Sydney the United Bank Officers' Association was formed in the same year. By 1921 the separate state unions known as the Bank Officials' Association of South Australia and the Bank Officials' Association of Western Australia had also been formed. In 1919 K.H. Laidlaw formed the United Bank Officers' Association of Queensland. While the Bank Officials' Association in Victoria was registered federally the other unions were registered in various state courts. In 1921 the Bank Officials' Association in Victoria proposed an amalgamation of all banking unions, to be organised with a federal council and state branches. However, the UBOA of New South Wales and Queensland both rejected this proposal, partly due to Sydney Smith's (the New South Wales Secretary) fears that amalgamation would mean the loss of state autonomy. Smith planned to register federally a union of bank officers from the fast growing Commonwealth Bank and to expedite this he formed the Commonwealth Bank Branch of the UBOA of NSW. This was registered in 1921 and in 1930 the Commonwealth Bank Branch of the UBOA became a separate association, the Commonwealth Bank Officers' Association. The Bank Officials' Association in Victoria was renamed the Australian Bank Officials' Association in 1938. In 1954 it again proposed amalgamation at an interstate conference, and the UBOA again refused. The turning point came in 1958 when the NSW Industrial Court handed down a new award. Amalgamation talks began at an interstate conference in April 1960. In June 1963 Western Australia became a member followed shortly by South Australia. It was not until 1966 that the UBOA of New South Wales joined the Australian Bank Officials' Association as a Division to complete the amalgamation. The ABOA changed its name to the Australian Bank Employees' Union in 1978.

The Australian Bank Officials' Association changed its name to the Australian Bank Employees' Union in 1978. In July 1991 it amalgamated with the other major player in the banking and insurance industries, the Australian Insurance Employees' Union to create the Finance Sector Union of Australia. Three smaller unions also amalgamated: the AMP Society Staff Association, Trustee Companies Officers' Association and Wool Brokers' Staff Association. In March 1994 the FSU was further strengthened with the amalgamation of the Commonwealth Bank Officers' Association.

Federally registered in 1920 as the Australian Insurance Staffs' Federation, this union has had a strongly active tradition in the white collar sphere. Boosted in membership by the deregistration of the New South Wales Insurance Officers' Association in 1948, the Australian Insurance Staffs' Federation changed its name in 1976 to the Australian Insurance Employees' Union. It amalgamated with other unions in the finance industry in 1991 to form the Finance Sector Union of Australia, which was reregistered in 1994 following the amalgamation with the Commonwealth Bank Officers' Association.

Federally registered in 1920 as the Australian Insurance Staffs' Federation, this union has had a strongly active tradition in the white collar sphere. Boosted in membership by the deregistration of the New South Wales Insurance Officers' Association in 1948, the Australian Insurance Staffs' Federation changed its name in 1976 to the Australian Insurance Employees' Union. It amalgamated with other unions in the finance industry in 1991 to form the Finance Sector Union of Australia, which was reregistered in 1994 following the amalgamation with the Commonwealth Bank Officers' Association.

Formed originally in 1918 as the Meat Inspectors' Association, Commonwealth Public Service and renamed the Meat Inspectors' Association, Australian Public Service in 1974, the Union operated until 1991 when it became part of the Australian Public Sector and Broadcasting Union, Australian Government Employment.

The Merchant Service Guild of Australia was first known as the Mercantile Marine Officers' Association. A General Meeting of members held on 12 February 1904 agreed to adopt the name Merchant Service Guild of Australasia. The Guild was registered under the Commonwealth Conciliation & Arbitration Act of 1904 on 5 May 1905 and the Victorian Branch was the first to be established in 1905. On 3 September 1957 the name of the union was changed slightly to the Merchant Service Guild of Australia and in 1992 it merged with the Australian Stevedoring Supervisors' Association to form the Australian Maritime Officers' Union

The Records Management Association of Australia was established in 1969 and the Victorian Branch, New South Wales Branch and Federal Office were formed in the same year. By 2003, the Association was known as the Records Management Association of Australasia and in 2011 the name was changed to Records and Information Management Professionals Australasia. The Association now represents over 3,000 records and information management professionals with Branches across Australia and New Zealand, as well as a Chapter in Malaysia.

The Advertiser Chapel reformed on 27 March 1863 and it is likely that it was first formed in 1858 when the South Australian Advertiser newspaper started publication. After the South Australian Typographical Society was established in 1874, members of the Chapel were required to be members of the Society, and of its successors the Printing Industry Employees' Union and the Printing and Kindred Industries Union, South Australian Branch.

The New South Wales Public Service Professional Officers' Association was formed in 1915 to represent professional staff employed by the NSW Public Service. It amalgamated with the Public Service Association of New South Wales prior to 1999.

The Australasian Steamship Owners Federation was established in September 1899 after its predecessor, the Victorian Steamship Owners' Association, was formally wound up. The federation modelled itself on the Shipping Federation, London, and its founding members were Huddart Parker & Co, McIlwraith McEachern & Co, the Union Steamship Company of New Zealand, the Australasian Steam Navigation Company, and the Adelaide Steamship Company. By 1922 branches were established in Sydney, Brisbane, Adelaide and Fremantle. The Newcastle branch was established in 1928. In 1986 the Australian National Maritime Association was formed out of the ASOF.

The Professional Radio Employees' Institute of Australasia was a renaming of the earlier Radio-Telegraphists Institute of Australasia which had started as the Radio-Telegraphists (Marine) Institute of Australasia in 1916. In 1975 the name changed to the Professional Radio and Electronics Institute of Australasia, and then in 1992 it amalgamated with other public sector unions to eventually form part of the Community and Public Sector Union in 1994.

The Merchant Service Radio Telegraphists' Association of Australasia was founded on 2 November 1912. In 1917 it was wound up in favour of the Radio Telegraphists' (Marine) Institute of Australasia. In 1920 the Institute changed its name to the Radio Telegraphists' Institute of of Australasia and in 1934 it became the Professional Radio Employees' Institute of Australasia.

Peter Orlebar Bishop was born on 14 June 1917 at Tamworth, New South Wales. Bishop was Senior Lecturer, Department of Physiology, University of Sydney 1951-54; Reader in Physiology 1954-55, Professor of Physiology and Head of Department of Physiology 1955-67. From 1967-82 Bishop was Professor and Head of Department of Physiology, at the John Curtin School of Medical Research, Australian National University. Bishop retired at the end of 1982, though for two years after his retirement he worked as a visiting fellow in the Australian National University's Research School of Biological Sciences.

The Federal Council of University Staff Associations of Australia was a national body formed in 1952 which became the Australian Association of University Staff in 1962 and later was named the Federated Australian University Staff Association. This successor body registered as a trade union in December 1986.

Dr Desmond Joseph Brown was born on 16 December 1920. He joined the Australian National University on 1 April 1949 as Research Fellow in Medical Chemistry at the John Curtin School of Medical Research; then Fellow on 18 October 1949, Senior Fellow on 1 July 1956, and Reader in Medical Chemistry on 11 August 1961 and also Head of the Medical Chemistry Group from 1974.

The Federated Australian University Staff Association was originally formed in 1962 as the Australian Association of University Staff as the successor to the Federal Council of University Staff Associations of Australia. It was registered as a trade union in December 1986 and was renamed two years later to FAUSA. It represented mainly academic staff in the traditional university sector. By 1993, however, FAUSA recognised the need to form a single, stronger union for the whole tertiary education industry. Merging with the Union of Australian College Academics, the Australian Colleges and Universities Staff Association, the University of Adelaide General Staff Association and the Australian National University Administrative and Allied Officers' Association, FAUSA helped form the National Tertiary Education Industry Union. The NTEU provided a united voice for tertiary education workers, without the arbitrary divisions between different parts of the industry or different categories of workers.

The Association was formerly known as the Australian National University General Staff Association and was concerned with improving industrial conditions and the general welfare of staff on the ANU campus. In 1973 it became the Staff Amenities and Welfare Association (Australian National University) Incorporated and became solely concerned with the development of staff amenities including child care facilities and established an amenities store and canteen in 1973. It was liquidated in 1976.

The Australian National University General Staff Association was founded in 1953 to cover all non-academic staff members at the ANU. It was registered in Canberra under the Companies Act but not registered under the Conciliation and Arbitration Act. In 1968 the association reasoned that other unions could represent the interests of non-academic staff at the University so changed its focus to become a welfare organisation. In 1973 the association changed its name to the Staff and Welfare Association and focused on staff policy and promotions, parking, and amenities among other issues.

The Federation was formed in 1968 of staff associations of Colleges of Advanced Education. From 1979 it was known as the Federation of College Academics and then from 1986 as the Federated Council of Academics. In February 1987 the Union of Australian College Academics was registered as a trade union but it appears that the Federated Council of Academics continued as a separate entity as it published a journal 'in association with the Union of College Academics' until 1993. In 1993 the Union of College Academics amalgamated with other unions to form the National Tertiary Education Industry Union.

The Graduate School began with the appointment of Dr Ray Spear as Dean in May 1990 to develop graduate education at ANU, including chairing the Graduate Degrees Committee. The Graduate School provided coordination and support services for graduate students and academic staff including the Graduate Teaching Program, the Statistical Consulting Unit and induction and supervision workshops. In February 1998 Dr John Hooper became Dean and was succeeded by Professor Gail Huon in August 2005. The School was located at 26 Balmain Cresent in 2006.

The London Office of the Australian National University was established in March 1949 to handle the University’s administrative affairs in the United Kingdom and the recruitment of staff to the University. The administrative staff were Ernest H Clark, Administrative officer from March 1949 - December 1951, then Russell Mathews, Administrative officer to January 1953, and Joan Morrish, Secretary. By 1954 the administrative section of the University was centralised in Canberra.

The Union of Australian College Academics was registered in February 1987 to represent mainly academic staff in the Colleges of Advanced Education, following that membership base into the university sector as institutions amalgamated or changed their status. It ran concurrently with its predecessor the Federated Council of Academics until 1993. It merged with the Federated Australian University Staff Association, the Australian Colleges and Universities Staff Association, the University of Adelaide General Staff Association and the Australian National University Administrative and Allied Officers' Association to form the National Tertiary Education Industry Union in 1993.

The Australian National University Staff Association was formed in September 1953, with the object to advance the welfare of its members in their capacity as members of staff of the University. Membership was open to staff with university degrees or equivalent professional qualifications, including senior administrative, library and technical officers. In 1993 the National Tertiary Education Industry Union was formed from a merger of several organisations and represented both academic and administrative staff (previously represented by the ANU Administrative and Allied Officers' Association).

The Fremantle Lumpers' Union was the first known union of unskilled labour in Western Australia. It was formed after a recruiting mission to the west by the Adelaide Lumpers' Union in 1889 and was inspired, perhaps, by the solidarity shown in the Great Dock Strike workers in Britain of that year. It joined the Waterside Workers' Federation in 1910 but broke away in 1933 after a dispute with the Federal Executive of the Waterside Workers' Federation over the method of collection of union dues. It reaffiliated in 1946.

The Newcastle Coal Trimmers' Friendly Accident Society was registered as a trade union in 1882 but went out of existence in the 1890s. The union was resuscitated and registered in 1901 as the Newcastle Coal Trimmers' Federal Union, after coal trimmers stopped work out of respect for the death of Queen Victoria and were penalised by employers. Coal trimmers were the waterside workers who loaded coal as cargo and into bunkers on steam ships. The union became the Newcastle Coal Trimmers Branch of the Waterside Workers' Federation in 1921.

The Victorian Operative Bricklayers' Society was established on 8 April 1856 at the Belvidere Hotel, Brunswick Street in Collingwood 'for the purpose of mutual support of the Members in case of accident, and for the Burial of Members and Members' Wives'. Apart from the central Melbourne (No. 1) Lodge, lodges were also formed at Bendigo, Prahran and Richmond. It was an early party to eight-hours agreements but remained unregistered until 1969. In 1988 it joined the two Victorian plaster industry unions to form the Victorian State Building Trades Union.

The Bunbury Lumpers' Union of Workers was established on 12 February 1899 and registered on 18 October 1901 as a trade union. Its members voted to join the Waterside Workers' Federation in July 1902 but it withdrew its affiliation in 1908. In January 1915 the union accepted the rules of the Waterside Workers' Federation but continued to refer to itself as the Bunbury Lumpers' Union for some years later.

The Dredge Employees' Union of New South Wales was formed in 1908. In September 1920 the name was changed to the New South Wales Dredge and Navigation Employees' Association. In February 1936, on the establishment of the Maritime Services Board, the union again changed its name to include Maritime Services Board employees. In 1971 the New South Wales Dredge and Maritime Services Board Employees’ Association amalgamated with the Seamen’s Union of Australia, which then amalgamated with the Waterside Workers' Federation in 1993 to form the Maritime Union of Australia.

Originally formed in 1912 as the Marine Motor Drivers’ and Coxswains’ Association of New South Wales, by 1939 the name had changed to the Marine Motor Drivers’ and Coxswains’ Union of New South Wales. Agitating for improvements in its members' pay and conditions and generally working towards maintaining the high standard of skill amongst workers in the industry, the Marine Motor Drivers’ and Coxswains' Union endured many demarcation disputes with other maritime unions such as the Masters’ and Engineers' Association and the Firemen and Deckhands' Union of New South Wales. In 1967, the Marine Motor Drivers’ and Coxswains' Union amalgamated with the Firemen and Deckhands' Union. Don Henderson, Secretary, Firemen and Deckhands' Union (FDU) (1962-1984), would later acknowledge that a large part of the FDU's motivation in seeking amalgamation with the Marine Motor Drivers and Coxswains was the vital position of the linesmen, represented by the latter union, in port operations. The linesmen's role in securing moored ships meant they could halt all docking of ships in the event of an industrial dispute.

The union was formed by the amalgamation of the Federated Moulders' (Metals) Union of Australia and the Amalgamated Metal Workers' & Shipwrights' Union in 1983. In 1985 the union changed its name to the Amalgamated Metal Workers' Union.

Max Neutze was born in New Zealand, studied Agricultural Sciences at Lincoln College then was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship in 1957. In 1960 he took up a position as lecturer in agricultural economics in the Canberra University College. He took up the position of head of the Urban Research Unit in 1967. He was elected a Fellow in the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia in 1974 and appointed to the Chair in Urban Research in 1979. He acted as senior manager in different parts of the university. In 1980 he was Director of the Research School of Social Sciences; in 1988 he became acting Deputy Vice-Chancellor; and then in 1989 he was Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Director of the Institute of Advanced Studies. From 1984-87 he served on the Australian Research Grants Committee and in 1988-89 on the Australian Research Council. In 1989, having been acting as Deputy Vice-Chancellor for most of the year, he was appointed Deputy Vice-Chancellor and the first Director of the Institute of Advanced Studies.

The NSW Master Printers and Connected Trades Association was formed in 1902 out of the Sydney Master Printers Association, and became the Printing and Allied Trades Employers' Association, New South Wales Branch in 1925.

The Association began in 1954 in Melbourne, Victoria as the Second Division Officers Association. The Association changed its name to the Australian Government Senior Executives Association in November 1984 and in the following years made attempts to obtain federal registration as a trade union association but failed. In this period the membership of the ACT Branch dissolved and the AGSEA continued in Victoria until 30 November 1992 when it was wound up.

The Research School of Chemistry was established at the Australian National University in 1967 with the first laboratories operational in September 1967. The founding Dean and Professor in Organic Chemistry was Arthur J Birch. Professor Birch was assisted and succeeded by Professor (of Physical and Theoretical Chemistry) David P Craig. In 1968 the School consisted of three major disciplines: Inorganic Chemistry, Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, and Organic Chemistry. Biological Chemistry was added as a fourth discipline.

The Research Committee was established in 2001 when the University’s Academic Board was formed. The Research Committee assists the Academic Board to monitor the development of the University's policies and plans in relation to research; to advise on the coordination of the University's research effort; and to monitor the quality of the University's research activities.

The ANU Art Collection was established in 1949. The Collection comprises more than 1500 paintings, sculptures, drawings, limited edition prints, ceramic and glass objects by significant artists displayed throughout the campus. Annual exhibitions are held at the Drill Hall Gallery supporting the arts in the Canberra region by presenting exhibitions developed in conjunction with the University's wide-ranging academic interests and or to coincide with major conferences and public events.

The Urban Research Unit was originally conceived as a collaborative project between RSSS’s Departments of Economic History and Economics, with URU staff being formally appointed to one of the two departments. Initially, the URU’s research agenda was determined by a Research Advisory Committee made up of members of the Economic History, Economics, Political Science, Law and Demography Departments. In 1967–1968 the URU became a separate entity within RSSS.

The URU was intended as an inter-disciplinary research unit, which would source potential staff from a variety of disciplines and from both the public and private sectors. The primary focus of research was to be processes of urbanisation in Australia with a greater emphasis on practical rather than theoretical methodology. One of the URU’s first major research projects was a study of urbanisation processes in Sydney, soon expanded to include Melbourne. During its first decade the Unit’s other major concerns were housing, the environmental quality of urban areas, social indicators, land policy, transport, infrastructure investment and planning, and employment.

The URU was particularly involved in researching urban planning issues for the Whitlam Government (1972–1975), mainly through Tom Uren, the Minister for Urban and Regional Development. Patrick Troy, a founding member of the URU, was Deputy Secretary of the Department of Urban and Regional Development during this time, after which he returned to the URU.

The URU ran several important series of seminars. They took over responsibility for the Joint Urbanisation Seminar in 1966, and also ran an extensive series of their own Work-in-Progress seminars.

Christopher Heyde was born in Sydney on 20 April 1939. In 1961 began his PhD work in the Department of Statistics at the Australian National University and awarded his PhD in statistics in 1965. Heyde then worked as a lecturer in the Department of Statistics at Michigan State University and later the University of Manchester in 1967. He returned to Australia in 1968 to take up a Readership in the Department of Statistics, School of General Studies at the ANU. In January 1975, he joined the CSIRO Division of Mathematics and Statistics, and was appointed professor and chair of the Department of Statistics at the University of Melbourne. Heyde was Professor and Head of the Department of Statistics, Institute of Advanced Studies at the ANU from July 1986-December 1988; Foundation Dean of the ANU School of Mathematical Sciences 1989-1992; Professor, Department of Statistics at Columbia University 1993-2007. Heyde died on 6 March 2008 in Canberra.

Stephen Foster is a Professor in Research School of Humanities and the Arts at the Australian National University. He has taught Australian history at the University of New England, the University of Western Australia and Monash University. Foster co-authored The Making of The Australian National University (Allen & Unwin, 1996, and ANU E Press 2009). From 2000 to 2003 he served as a General Manager at the National Museum of Australia, before rejoining the ANU in 2003.

The Australian Institute of Marine and Power Engineers was originally founded as the Australasian Institution of Marine Engineers in January 1881. The impetus to form the association came from the Sydney Association of Marine Engineers, established in June 1880. Branches were formed in Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, Dunedin, Wellington, Auckland, and later Brisbane and Newcastle. The Institute was federally registered as the Australasian Institute of Marine Engineers (Employees) in June 1906, and in 1922 amended its name to the Australasian Institute of Marine and Power Engineers to encourage the membership of hydraulic and electrical engineers. In 1924, the New Zealand Branch gained autonomy from the main body, and the Institute then renamed itself the Australian Institute of Marine and Power Engineers (Employees). From December 1967 'employees' was dropped from the title and the Institute has since operated as the Australian Institute of Marine and Power Engineers.

Ian Hossack was an Educational Administrator in Papua New Guinea and held positions in the Planning Section of the Papua New Guinea Department of Education and was Assistant Director of the Technical Division of the Department in February 1972. He subsequently worked in the University of PNG Educational Research Unit.

Dorothy Crozier studied history at Melbourne University in the late 1930s and worked as a cataloguer and bibliographer, and taught history at Melbourne University. She took up an ANU scholarship in 1948 to study colonial administration in the London School of Economics, and attended a course by Raymond Firth and Ian Hogbin on Anthropology in the Pacific. Crozier began fieldwork in Tonga, May 1950-July 1951 on a survey of social services in Tonga. Crozier joined the Department of Pacific History in the Research School of Pacific Studies at the ANU as a Research Assistant surveying and listing Western Pacific High Commission (WPHC) records left behind in Suva following the WPHC's move to Honiara. She then worked as an Archivist with the WPHC until October 1958, later returning to London in 1961 to attend the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London. Crozier lectured in History at Victoria University, Wellington in the mid-1960s, and took up a Visiting Fellowship in the Department of Pacific History at the ANU from September 1971-September 1973 to complete her work on Mariner's Tonga. She lectured on European History at Melbourne University 1976-77 before retiring.

Ronald J May worked as Senior Economist, Reserve Bank of Australia 1957-72; Director, Institute of Applied Social and Economic Research, Papua New Guinea 1972-78; Associate Director of RSPAS, 1989-1990. On retiring in 2005, he served as Research Adviser to the National Research Institute (NRI) in Papua New Guinea (under AusAID's Advisory Support Facility) until 2008.

Kenneth E Read was born in Sydney on 29 December 1917. He graduated from the University of Sydney, with Second Class Honors, in 1939. During World War Two Read served in the Royal Australian Army; for some months in the Northern Territory, in and out of Alice Springs, and later in New Guinea. He returned to the University of Sydney after the War to work on his MA in Anthropology (First Class Honors) and completed his PhD in Anthropology at the University of London in 1948, having studied with Raymond Firth and SF Nadel. Read returned to Australia and was hired as Research Fellow by SF Nadel, Founding Chair of the Department of Anthropology, Research School of Pacific Studies, Australian National University. He became Senior Lecturer in Anthropology at the Australian School of Pacific Administration in Sydney 1953-1956. In 1957 he moved to Seattle, Washington, first as Visiting Professor, followed by his appointment as Associate Professor 1958-61, and Professor 1961- c. 1985 in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Washington. Read died on 13 November1995 in Seattle, Washington, USA.

Shaw completed his biography of Michael Somare as a PhD dissertation in the Division of Humanities, Griffith University, Queensland, in 1991.

Christian Kamphuis was born in Oldenzaal, Netherlands and was a Marist missionary in the Solomon Islands from 1947 to 1996. He lived in Takwa, North-east Malaita from 1948 to 1965 and worked in the languages of Lau and Baegu'u; in Tanagai 1965-1971 and Dala 1972-1993 where he learned the Kwara'ae language. Kamphuis inherited material on the languages of Lau and North Malaita after the death of Marist priest Donatien Coicaud. He retired to the Netherlands in 1996

Donatien Coicaud was born in Nantes, France and joined his brother Jean as a Marist priest in the Solomon Islands in 1912. In 1914 he founded the mission of Buma, Central Malaita and was active in teaching boys from the villages of North and Central Malaita to read and write in their own languages, and had them write stories they had heard at home. He left material behind on the languages of Langalanga, Kwaio and Lau. After Coicaud's death in 1957, Father Christian Kamphuis inherited the the material on Lau and other North Malaita languages.

Founded in 1872 and registered under the New South Wales Trade Union Act (1881), 10 January 1883, the Sydney Wharf Labourers’ Union almost ceased to exist in the years following the 1890 Maritime Strike. It was revived by State MLA William Morris Hughes (Prime Minister of Australia, 1915-1923), whose electorate covered the waterfront from Darling Harbour to Balmain. In 1899 Hughes became Sydney Wharf Labourers’ Union Secretary. Following Federation it was believed that the state and port-based unions would have common concerns that could be more adequately addressed by a federal body. The Sydney Wharf Labourers’ Union was eventually absorbed into the Waterside Workers’ Federation of Australia; Hughes remained Secretary until 1916.

The Port Adelaide Working Men’s Association was established in 1872 to protect the interests of wharf labourers. It assisted members obtain a fair day’s wage for a fair day’s work, maintained order and decorum among its members and raised a benefit fund through entrance fees, subscriptions and fines. The Port Adelaide Working Men’s Association joined the Waterside Workers’ Federation in 1915.

J B Were and Son was founded by Jonathan Binns Were who commenced business as a merchant and shipping agent soon after he arrived at the Port Phillip settlement from England in November 1839. He was one of the founders of the Chamber of Commerce and Chairman of the first Stock Exchange in Melbourne in 1859. Known as Were Brothers and Company from 1840, the company adopted the title J B Were and Son on 1 October 1861. On J B Were's death in 1885, his son Francis Wellington Were was senior partner until 1916 when control passed to Francis Joseph Fleming, William Foster Geach and Staniforth Ricketson, a great grandson of J B Were. In 1943 John Goodhall and Company merged with J B Were and Son. The company listed its services to clients in 1954 as: Commonwealth bonds, public body loans, underwriting, venture capital, brokerage and research. The company is now called JBWere Limited.

The Peach Research Centre was established at the Australian National University in 1984. The proposal to set up a peace research institute came from a group of academics, public servants, representatives of voluntary organisations and the Labor government in 1983 as part of a wider policy of Australia's commitment to disarmament.

The New Guinea Society was set up at a meeting in Canberra on 31 July 1957, following a call for expressions of interest from Ralph Bulmer, Margaret McArthur, Murray Groves and others. The Society was based in Canberra and drew most of its membership from the Australian National University, the Commonwealth Department of Territories and CSIRO. Professor J.W. Davidson, dean of the Research School of Pacific Studies, Australian National University, required all PhD students in the Research School of Pacific Studies to belong to the Society.