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Unions BallaratBook - Australian Labour History (D.J. Spiers Collection), Patmore, Gred
Australian Industrial Relations series. Chapter headings: 1. Australian labour history 2. Convicts and free labour 1788-1850 3. A working man's paradise? Labour 1850-91 4. Labour and politics 1891-1957 5. Labour and the state: Compulsory arbitration and wages boards 1890-1914 6. Labour and capital: The labour process in Australia before 1972 7. Gender and work: Feminist labour historiography and equal pay in Australia 8. Race, ethnicity and work: Australia 1788-1972Significant to labour relations and unions in Australia.Book; paper.Front cover: Author's name and title. btlc, ballarat trades and labour council, history - labour -
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Book - Labour History No. 68 May 1995 (D.J. Spiers Collection), Irving, Terry
Published semi-annually, contains refereed, scholarly articles about social and labour history in Australasia, - labour politics, trade unions, management labour practices, co-operatives, gender and ethnicity. This edition includes these articles: -Deskilling Revisited: Continuity and Change in Craft Work and Apprenticeship in Late 19th Century NSW -'Depravity and Disorder': the Sexuality of Convict Women -'That Old Treasure-House of Constructive Suggestion': Australian Labor Ideology and War Organisation of Industry -'Four More Points than Moses': Dr. H.V. Evatt and the Press and the 1944 Referendum -Chifley, the Army and the 1949 Coal Strike Labour and class politics; direct relevance to industrial relations; social issues in general that fall within the purview of the union movement.Book; paper.btlc, ballarat trades and labour council, history - labour, labourism, politics - class, industrial relations, economics, politics - communism, women's rights, book reviews, conference reports -
Federation University Australia Art CollectionTextile, Paula Do Prado, Flagwork #1, 2009
Paula DO PRADO Born Montevide, Uruguay Arrived Australia September 1986 Paula Do Prado holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Textiles) with First Class Honours and a Master of Fine Arts from Art & Design at the University of New South Wales.Her works are compelling, multi-layered and rich with cultural references surrounding concepts of identity, race and gender. Her practice draws on materials, sayings and imagery collected from many different sources including the generations of her family history. By sharing her own personal stories, her work creates a dialogue around issues of immigration and multiculturalism, which are just as relevant now as ever. Triptych flag, textiles, button -
The Beechworth Burke Museum
Audio - Oral History, Jennifer Williams, Mrs Elva Hill & Mrs Mary Martina, 22nd August 2000
This oral history interview was conducted with two sisters, Mrs Elva Hill and Mrs Mary Martina. They describe growing up in Beechworth, living a fairly well-off life compared to others around them. Mrs Martina in particular talks about going to school, becoming a teacher, and helping to set up Beechworth Secondary School. She talks briefly about gender roles for girls in the classroom and how teaching has changed over time. Mrs Hill and Mrs Martina describe the Beechworth community as friendly, including towards migrants, and suggest they were not particularly involved in political movements except for protesting after the dismissal of the Whitlam Government. They discuss visiting the Albury Show. The sisters briefly discuss 'them pushing the wheelbarrow to Mt Buffalo'. This refers to a publicised wager between garage proprietor Tom Parkinson and Post Office Hotel licensee Tony Evans in 1935. Evans challenged Parkinson to push him in a wheelbarrow for over 80km (with an elevation of 1000m) from the Beechworth Post Office to Mt Buffalo in just eight days, with the winner awarded twenty pounds. A brochure was published with official rules, and the incident made international news in the New York Times. They briefly discussed that their parents worked at the 'Mental Hospital', the full name of which was the Mayday Hills Mental Hospital, known at other points as the Beechworth Asylum and the Beechworth Hospital for the Insane. This oral history recording was part of a project conducted by Jennifer Williams in the year 2000 to capture the everyday life and struggles in Beechworth during the twentieth century. This project involved recording seventy oral histories on cassette tapes of local Beechworth residents which were then published in a book titled: Listen to what they say: voices of twentieth century Beechworth. These cassette tapes were digitised in July 2021 with funds made available by the Friends of the Burke.The statement captures a personal perspective on the teaching profession and education at rural schools during the mid-twentieth century, with a focus on the experience of young girls and women going to school. It specifically discusses the establishment of Beechworth Secondary School. Mrs Hill and Mrs Martina also provide insights into the social dynamics of the town, as two girls from a well-off family discuss how they believed people from different backgrounds interacted with one another. The interview also puts Beechworth into a wider social context, as the women discuss how they were perceived when they went to College and how they interacted with wider politics. This oral history account is socially and historically significant as it is a part of a broader collection of interviews conducted by Jennifer Williams which were published in the book 'Listen to what they say: voices of twentieth-century Beechworth.' While the township of Beechworth is known for its history as a gold rush town, these accounts provide a unique insight into the day-to-day life of the town's residents during the 20th century, many of which will have now been lost if they had not been preserved.This is a digital copy of a recording that was originally captured on a cassette tape. The cassette tape is black with a horizontal white strip and is currently stored in a clear flat plastic rectangular container. It holds up 40 minutes of recordings on each side.Mrs Elva & Mrs Mary Martina /listen to what they say, beechworth, oral history, burke museum, hill, martina, sisters, boarding school, rural school, primary school, beechworth secondary school, mayday hills mental hospital, gender, gender at school, entertainment, albury show, dress codes, wealth gap, whitlam dismissal -
Eltham District Historical Society IncPainting, Audrey Cahn, Old Bakery, York Street, Eltham, May 1974
Painted for the Shire of Eltham Historical Society by Audrey Cahn Vice President till 1978 Audrey Cahn, formerly of Warrandyte and now of Yass in New South Wales has been a member of our Society for many years and maintains an interest despite having moved from the area. Audrey celebrated her 100th birthday on 17th October. 2005 AUDREY CAHN 111111111111 •1r11dler1 ECKERSALL Word has been received of the recent death of Audrey Cahn at the age of 104. Audrey was the sister of the late Charis Palling, founding president of our Society. She had remained a member for many years although she had moved from her family home at Warrandyte to live with her daughter in New South Wales. Audrey had been blind for some years but maintained a local interest by having our Newsletter read to her. Newsletter No. 180 May 2008 Newsletter No. 185 March 2009 Audrey Cahn 17.10.1905-1.04.2008 Audrey's associations with Warrandyte started because her father Professor Osbourne had bought 60 acres in 1904. " Gold mining was beginning to die out and Warrandyte was a decaying area. Land was cheap because of the lack of transport and the soil was poor for farming' Audrey said. Audrey first attended school in the city at the Church of England Girls Grammar School 'I was always a bit rebellious. If I felt some restrictions were unfair or some judgement unjust I resented it'. Audrey got into Agricultural Science at Melbourne University and in 1928 was the second women to get such a degree. Audrey married in 1926, and later divorced Leslie Cahn an architect. They had twin daughters whom she left with her parents in Warrandyte while she studied dietetics during the depression. She found employment as a microbiologist at the Kraft/Walker Milk and Cheese Factory in Drouin - she drove home at weekends to see her daughters who were then at boarding school. During the war Audrey was in charge of catering at the Heidelberg Military Hospital - again the appointment of a women caused some unrest. She was in the army for more than 4 years and achieved the rank of General which-made her the mest highly-ranked-weman at the hospital. After the war she became a senior lecturer in Dietetics at Melbourne University, again being aware of the limitations her gender brought to promotion possibilities. During her time at the university she undertook a series of studies in nutritional biochemistry. Of especial note is the analysis of common dietary foods so that the composition and calorific value, the data that was needed for inclusion in Food tables - that professional sports people and weight-watchers so avidly follow today! She was an early proponent of the need to reduce fat intake and to substitute saturated fats with polyunsaturated fatty acids. In the 1950's Audrey and fellow workers established norms for the growth of Australian children to be compared with British and American children. Over 17 years they concluded that Australian children were overweight and inactive - what is new! She bought a cottage in Warrandyte as her home. In 1968 she retired to further develop her other interests as a potter and painter. Audrey was a foundation member of the group of potters that set up Potters Cottage. Audrey died aged 102. Newsletter No. 233 April 2017 Audrey Josephine Cahn Richard Pinn It’s 1911. I like Audrey. She often comes to visit me here at Lowestoft in North Warrandyte, where she likes to roam wild in the bush beside the river. She lives at Melbourne University with her parents, William and Ethel Osborne, who bought this place last year as a holiday home. To get here, they have to take a train to Ringwood and then a horse-drawn coach to the Warrandyte Bridge, before walking up a long steep track to the house. William and Ethel will both turn out to be influential scientists. But I want to tell you what will become of Audrey. Throughout her life, Audrey will have an interest in the field of nutritional science and will become a pioneer in the academic field of dietetics. She will complete a degree in Agricultural Science (majoring in botany and zoology) in 1928 and her first job will be as a microbiologist and food analyst with Kraft in 1929. Later she will be employed as chief dietitian at St Vincent’s Hospital, at the Victorian Mental Hygiene Department, at the Royal Perth Hospital, and during the war at the Heidelberg Military Hospital. In 1936 Audrey will be a founding member of the Dietetics Association, which will lobby the Victorian Government to adopt a registration procedure in order to keep ‘quacks’ out of the profession. From 1947 until her retirement in 1968, Audrey will be a lecturer (chief lecturer from 1959) in nutrition and dietetics at Melbourne University. Her principal research work during this time will include examining the physical properties and energy value of common dietary foods, in order to compile calorie tables. She will be among the first experts to recommend reducing fat intake and substituting polyunsaturated fatty acids for saturated fats. She will promote a well-balanced diet, shunning high-dose vitamin supplements and other pill-based nutritional approaches (despite Melbourne University receiving substantial funding from Nicholas Pty. Ltd. (Aspro) to set up a nutrition department!). Between 1954 and 1971, she will help to conduct a study of child growth in Melbourne, allowing the growth patterns of Australian children to be compared with those in Britain and the United States. Audrey will have a younger sister called Charis, who will also come to Lowestoft. Charis will be the inaugural president of the Shire of Eltham Historical Society between 1967 and 1976. Sadly, the house and garden at Lowestoft will be destroyed in a bushfire in 1939. Fortunately, though, the gatekeeper’s residence, dating in part from the 1860s and known as White Cottage, will survive. Audrey will live at White Cottage from 1947 until moving to Murrumbateman (near Yass) in 1992. She will also become a member of the Eltham District Historical Society and remain so until her death in 2008, aged 102. But that’s all in the future. I’m more excited about today. Clara Southern is coming here to paint a picture of Audrey and me. My name is Chickapick. (Sources: Wikipedia; Australian Women’s Register (via Trove); obituary in The Age (12/5/2008); Osborne Landcare Group website) -
Warrnambool and District Historical Society Inc.Plaque, Quota club, 1983
This is a plaque given to the Quota Club of Warrnambool in 1983 when it was a finalist in an award given by the Victorian Council of Community Service Clubs. Quota Clubs were established to promote gender equality, to empower women and to assist people with physical and mental disabilities. The Warrnambool Quota Club was active in the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s but no longer exists. This item is of some interest as a memento of the work of a service club of the pastThis is a small metal plaque (brass coloured). It has been attached to a wooden board and is much discoloured and blotched.‘Presented by the Government of Victoria to the Quota Club of Warrnambool, Finalist 1983 Award, The Victorian Council of Community Service Clubs’warrnambool quota club, warrnambool, plaque -
Women's Art RegisterBook - Anthology, Joan Kerr and Jo Holder, Past Present. The National Women's Art Anthology, N/A
Essays on feminist art, art history, criticism and museum practices in 1990s Australia by writers, academics, artists.non-fictionEssays on feminist art, art history, criticism and museum practices in 1990s Australia by writers, academics, artists.indigenous art, political art, gender, represenation, museology, photography, installation, graphic design, collaborative practices -
Unions BallaratBook - In women's hands? A history of clothing trades unionism in Australia, 1989
History of clothing trades unionism. An industry and union that have high female participation. The book charts the history of the union, including when women started to gain positions of power (1970s).Significant to the history and growth of the Clothing and Allied Trades Union, and women's issues in employment and unions.Book.Stamp: International Bookshop.ballarat trades and labour council, unions ballarat, ballarat trades hall, trade unionism, clothing trades, women's issues, work and gender
