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National Council Of Women Of Australia
The National Council of Women of Australia (NWA) is an Australian organisation founded in 1931. The council is an umbrella organisation with which are affiliated seven State and Territory National Councils of Women. It is non-party political, non-sectarian, volunteer organisation and open to all women. It first affiliated with the International Council of Women in 1896, through the New South Wales NCW. The Constituent councils were formed in: * New South Wales −1896 * Tasmania – 1899, * Victoria and South Australia – 1902 * National Council of Women of Queensland – 1905 * Western Australia −1911 * Australian Capital Territory −1939 * Northern Territory – 1964. The NCWA works on a Triennium basis and holds a conference every 18 months to encourage participation in its policy platform. The Pacific Assembly was a gathering in Brisbane City, Australia, over a three-day period in the 20th century. The assembly was sponsored by the National Council of Women. The gathe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Umbrella Organization
An umbrella organization is an association of (often related, industry-specific) institutions who work together formally to coordinate activities and/or pool resources. In business, political, and other environments, it provides resources and often identities to the smaller organizations. In this kind of arrangement, it is sometimes responsible, to some degree, for the groups under its care. Examples * AFL–CIO and other national trade union centers * DD172 * Department of Public Safety * European Armenian Federation for Justice and Democracy * European Music Council * European Federation for Welding, Joining and Cutting (EWF) * Federation of Poles in Great Britain * Federation of Student Islamic Societies * Independent Sector * National Retail Federation * National Wrestling Alliance * Open Source Geospatial Foundation * Software in the Public Interest * UEFA * Ulster Defence Association * United Way * Yamaguchi-gumi * National Federation of Coffee Growers of Colomb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emily Dobson
Emily Dobson (10 October 1842 – 5 June 1934) was an Australian philanthropist. She was known for her work supporting women's charities. Early life Dobson was born in Port Arthur, Tasmania on 10 October 1842 to Thomas James Lempriere and Charlotte Lempriere née Smith. She was educated at home by her father. She married lawyer and politician, Henry Dobson, at the Bothwell Church of England on 4 February 1868. Philanthropy work Dobson began her philanthropy work after her husband was elected to the Parliament of Tasmania in 1891. She became secretary of the Women's Sanitary Association in September 1891 which was founded to fight an outbreak of typhoid in Hobart. The group petitioned Hobart local council and ran candidates for the municipal election of 1892, alongside the men's Sanitary and General Improvement Association. In 1892 Mary Jane Brabazon, Countess of Meath and her husband visited New Zealand and Tasmania. In Hobart she spoke about the success of the ''Ministering ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lillias Skene
Lillias Margaret Skene, ('' née'' Hamilton; 28 March 186725 March 1957) was an Australian women's rights activist. Early life Lillias Hamilton was born on 28 March 1867 in Smythesdale, Victoria, Australia, the third child of Scottish-born police magistrate John Prendergast Hamilton and his English-born wife Agnes Margaret ( née Buchanan). Hamilton attended the local Alexandra College in Hamilton. On 7 November 1888 at St Mary's Anglican Church in Caulfield, she married 33-year-old sheepmaster David Alexander Skene.Smart, JSkene, Lillias Margaret (1867–1957) ''Australian Dictionary of Biography'', Volume 16, Melbourne University Press, 2002, pp 254–255. Career Straddled in debt, Hamilton's husband had to seek employment in New South Wales, while she and her children remained in Hamilton. In 1900 the family moved to Manly, Sydney, where they ran a modest dairy farm. In 1906, they moved to Melbourne and her husband began selling wool. The family purchased a property in South ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zara Aronson
Zara Baar Aronson (; 1864–1944) was a Sydney-based journalist, editor, welfare worker, feminist and restaurateur of Jewish background. She was born in Australia but spent her formative years in Europe, before returning to Sydney where she became a socialite as well as a social columnist and journalist in a number of major newspapers across Australian cities. She pursued social and charity work as well as her own business in publishing, food and catering. Aronson helped form the Society for Women Writers and a local branch of John O'London's Literary Circle, and was a founding member and secretary of the National Council of Women of Australia. During World War II she raised funds for the Junior Red Cross by selling a cookery book, after which she published another well-received cookbook, ''Twentieth Century Cookery Practice''. In later life she was made a civil officer of the Order of the British Empire for her services to the community. Early life Aronson was born in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edith Helen Barrett
Edith Helen Barrett (1872-1939) was an Australian medical doctor and a founder of the Bush Nursing Association of Victoria. Early life and education Barrett was born on 29 October 1872 in Emerald Hill, Victoria and was one of eight children of James and Catherine Barrett. She attended South Melbourne College and in 1897 began to study medicine at the University of Melbourne, graduating M.B. in 1901 and M.D. in 1907. Career Barrett worked at the Melbourne Hospital in 1901, and was a member of the honorary medical staff of the Queen Victoria Hospital from 1904 until she retired in 1934. Barrett worked as a general practitioner in Melbourne, and was also much involved in voluntary work. She was among the founders of the Victorian section of the National Council of Women of Australia in 1902, and served as its honorary secretary 1911-1915 and 1921–1926. She was involved in the founding of the Bush Nursing Association of Victoria, and sat on its council representing the Victor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Audrey Reader
Dame Audrey Reader DBE (9 December 1903 – 6 March 1989) was an Australian charity worker, who worked primarily in promoting the interests of women and of immigrants to Australia. Early life Born Audrey Tattie Hinchliffe Nicholls in 1903 in Macedon, Victoria, Australia, the daughter of William Henry Nicholls and Mabel Tattie Hinchcliff Mallett, she married Reginald "Rex" Reader (1901–1986) in 1928; they had one daughter. Career Audrey Reader was actively involved in the Liberal Party of Australia for more than forty years, from 1945 until her death, being a member of the State Executive for 26 years and a Federal Councillor of the party from 1955 to 1967. From 1955 to 1958, she was State Chairman of the Women's Section of the party. From 1950 she was a member of the Good Neighbour Council of Victoria, and from 1955 she was a member of the National Council of Women; in 1958 she became an executive member of both of these bodies. In 1962 she was made Metropolitan Vice-Present ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ada Norris
Dame Ada May Norris, DBE, CMG (''née'' Bickford; 28 July 1901–10 July 1989) was an Australian women's rights activist and community worker. She founded the UNAA National Status of Women Network in 1974 and served as President of Australia's National Council of Women. In 1975 Norris headed the Australian International Women's Year Committee. Education Ada May Bickford was educated at Melbourne High School and the University of Melbourne, where she graduated in 1924 (BA Dip. Ed.). Marriage In 1929, she married John Gerald Norris (1903-1990), a futurVictoria Supreme Courtjurist, later styled as Sir John Norris; they had two daughters, Rosemary (born 1933) and Jane (born 1938). Rosemary would later be known as the Hon. Rosemary Balmford, a barrister, lawyer, law lecturer and judge. Jane completed architecture at the University of Melbourne The University of Melbourne is a public research university located in Melbourne, Australia. Founded in 1853, it is Australia's s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mildred Muscio
Florence Mildred Muscio (28 April 1882 – 17 August 1964) was an Australian activist for the rights of women and children, feminist and school principal. Early life and education Muscio was born Florence Mildred Fry on 28 April 1882 at Copeland, a village near Gloucester in the Upper Hunter region of New South Wales. She was the eldest daughter of Charles and Jane (née McLennan) Fry. She completed her secondary education at Sydney Girls' High, where she was head of school in 1897 and won matriculation honours. She graduated with a BA (Hons) from the University of Sydney in 1901, and was awarded Professor Anderson's prize for logic and mental philosophy. She then undertook an MA in ethics, graduating in 1905 from the same university. Career From 1902 to 1912 Muscio was principal of Brighton College at Manly. In 1906 Dunn and Co published a 31-page book by Muscio and her sister Edith Fry titled ''Poems'' which was described by ''The Sydney Morning Herald'' as "several pl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
May Moss
Alice "May" Moss, CBE (27 April 1869 – 18 July 1948) was an Australian welfare worker and women's rights activist. Biography She was born as Alice Frances Mabel Wilson in Ballarat and was educated at the Presbyterian Ladies' College in East Melbourne. She married grazier Isidore Henry Moss in March 1887 and they had two daughters. While her children were young, Moss began to campaign for the rights of women and served as vice-president of the Australian Women's National League in 1906–14, during that time she actively campaigned in Victoria for women's suffrage. She was a member of the National Council of Women of Victoria from its formation in 1904. In 1914 she relinquished her position as vice-president of the Australian Women's National League at the onset of World War I in order to become the (then) only female member of the Victorian recruiting committee for the Armed Services. She was an Australian delegate at the League of Nations Assembly at Geneva in 1927, where s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mabel Miller
Dame Mabel Flora Miller, DBE (30 November 1906 – 30 December 1978) was an Australian lawyer and politician. She was the first woman elected to the Hobart City CouncilMiller, Mabel Flora ''Australian Women'' and one of the first two women to be elected to the . Early life Born in Broken Hill, the second child of n-born parents, Joseph Christian Goodhart, a draper, and Alice Mary H ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adelaide Miethke
Adelaide Laetitia "Addie" Miethke, (8 June 1881 – 4 February 1962), was a South Australian educator and teacher who was pivotal in the formation of the School of the Air using the existing Royal Flying Doctor Service radio network. Parents Rudolph Carl Alexander Miethke (14 November 1832 – 21 October 1931), sometimes written Carl R. A. Miethke, born in Stargard, Prussia, now in Poland, migrated with his parents (Carl) Gustav Adolph Miethke and his wife Louisa, née Gaster, to South Australia on the ''San Francisco'' from Hamburg, arriving in June 1850, and settled at Blumberg (now Birdwood). He had two siblings on the boat: Augusta Mathilde Amalie Miethke, and Carl Emil Miethke. He spent a few years on the Victorian goldfields, followed by extensive overseas travel, during which he served from 1861 to 1864 with Abraham Lincoln's 2nd California Infantry Regiment. On his return to Adelaide he joined the South Australian teaching service. In November 1869 he married Emma C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margaret McIntyre
Margaret Edgeworth David McIntyre, (28 November 1886 – 2 September 1948) was the first woman elected to the Parliament of Tasmania, representing the seat of Cornwall in the Legislative Council. Life and career McIntyre was born in Maitland, New South Wales. Her parents, Sir Tannatt Edgeworth David, a renowned geologist and Antarctic explorer, and Caroline Martha David, a teacher, had moved to Australia in 1882. She was encouraged to become educated and studied for a Bachelor of Arts at the University of Sydney, graduating in 1907. She married Dr. William Keverall McIntyre at St John's Ashfield in 1908, and they moved to Tasmania, where he set up medical practice. The couple had four children, including poet Anne Godfrey-Smith. McIntyre was widely involved in the community, and for these services she was appointed an OBE in 1948. Her activities included serving as the State Commissioner for Girl Guides from 1940–1948, she was awarded the Silver Fish Award, the mov ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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