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Irene Bolger
Irene Bolger (c.1943 - ) is an Australian trade unionist, barrister and politician. She led a successful 50 day strike by nurses in Victoria. She was sacked and reinstated by the Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation. After failing to be re-elected as branch secretary she trained as a barrister. Life Bolger was born in about 1943 and she spent her childhood in the fishing town of Port Albert in South Gippsland. She failed to gain a school certicate at the Our Lady of Sion at Sale and in 1968 she went to work at The Alfred Hospital as a nurse. In her spare time she was a left-wing member of the Australian Labour Party (ALP). In 1983 she joined the Royal Australian Nursing Federation and she became an organiser who advocated industrial action by the union. In 1984 Barbara Carson led a successful campaign to remove a clause in the Victoria branch rules of the Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation that prohibited strikes. In the following year she led a successful five-d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australian Nursing And Midwifery Federation
The Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation (ANMF) is the largest trade union in Australia with over 300,000 members. The union is run by nurses, midwives and assistants in nursing/personal carers to advance the industrial, political and professional interests of the nursing and midwifery professions. ANMF is a federated union, with branches in each state and territory in Australia. History The Victorian Trained Nurses’ Association was founded in 1901 when nurses worked 52 hours per week and no qualifications were required. The Federation of state organisations was founded in 1924 (then known as the Australian Nursing Federation) and the first secretary was Evelyn Paget Evans who was also the secretary of the Australasian Trained Nurses Association and the General secretary of the Australian Physiotherapy Association (which was then called the Australian Massage Association} who also managed the Australasian Nurses' Journal. Evans believed in long hours for nurses and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Electoral Results For The Division Of Batman
This is a list of electoral results for the Division of Batman in Australian federal elections from the division's creation in 1906 until its abolition in 2019. The division was then renamed to the Division of Cooper. Members Election results Elections in the 2010s 2018 by-election 2016 2013 2010 Elections in the 2000s 2007 2004 , - , , , style="text-align:left;", Socialist Equality , style="text-align:left;", Peter Byrne , style="text-align:right;", 201 , style="text-align:right;", 0.27 , style="text-align:right;", +0.27 , - 2001 , - , , , style="text-align:left;", Democratic Socialist , style="text-align:left;", Jackie Lynch , style="text-align:right;", 1,064 , style="text-align:right;", 1.34 , style="text-align:right;", +1.34 , - Elections in the 1990s 1998 1996 1993 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1940s Births
Year 194 ( CXCIV) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Septimius and Septimius (or, less frequently, year 947 ''Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 194 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire * Decimus Clodius Septimius Albinus Caesar became a Roman Consul. * Battle of Issus: Septimius Severus marches with his army (12 legions) to Cilicia, and defeats Pescennius Niger, Roman governor of Syria. Pescennius retreats to Antioch, and is executed by Severus' troops. * Septimius Severus besieges Byzantium (194–196); the city walls suffer extensive damage. Asia * Battle of Yan Province: Warlords Cao Cao and Lü Bu fight for control over Yan Province; the battle lasts for over 100 days. * First year of the ''Xingping'' era during the Han Dynasty ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australian Nurses
Australian(s) may refer to: Australia * Australia, a country * Australians, citizens of the Commonwealth of Australia ** European Australians ** Anglo-Celtic Australians, Australians descended principally from British colonists ** Aboriginal Australians, indigenous peoples of Australia as identified and defined within Australian law * Australia (continent) ** Indigenous Australians * Australian English, the dialect of the English language spoken in Australia * Australian Aboriginal languages * ''The Australian'', a newspaper * Australiana, things of Australian origins Other uses * Australian (horse), a racehorse * Australian, British Columbia, an unincorporated community in Canada See also * The Australian (other) * Australia (other) * * * Austrian (other) Austrian may refer to: * Austrians, someone from Austria or of Austrian descent ** Someone who is considered an Austrian citizen * Austrian German dialect * Something associated with the countr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Living People
Purpose: Because living persons may suffer personal harm from inappropriate information, we should watch their articles carefully. By adding an article to this category, it marks them with a notice about sources whenever someone tries to edit them, to remind them of WP:BLP (biographies of living persons) policy that these articles must maintain a neutral point of view, maintain factual accuracy, and be properly sourced. Recent changes to these articles are listed on Special:RecentChangesLinked/Living people. Organization: This category should not be sub-categorized. Entries are generally sorted by family name In many societies, a surname, family name, or last name is the mostly hereditary portion of one's personal name that indicates one's family. It is typically combined with a given name to form the full name of a person, although several give .... Maintenance: Individuals of advanced age (over 90), for whom there has been no new documentation in the last ten ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philip Cummins
Philip Damien Cummins (9 November 1939 – 24 February 2019) was an Australian lawyer and judge of the Supreme Court of Victoria. Cummins was the presiding judge in the trials of the Silk–Miller police murders, the death of Daniel Valerio and the trial of Robert Farquharson. He chaired the Protecting Victoria’s Vulnerable Children Inquiry in 2011 before being appointed chairperson of the Victorian Law Reform Commission. He was made a Member of the Order of Australia The Order of Australia is an Australian honours and awards system, Australian honour that recognises Australian citizens and other persons for outstanding achievement and service. It was established on 14 February 1975 by Elizabeth II, Monarch ... in the 2014 Queen's Birthday Honours. Cummins died in office on 24 February 2019 following a short illness. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Cummins, Philip 1939 births 2019 deaths Judges of the Supreme Court of Victoria University of Melbourne alumni Mel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Royal Melbourne Institute Of Technology
The Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (abbreviated as RMIT University) is a public research university located in the city of Melbourne in Victoria, Australia., section 4(b) Established in 1887 by Francis Ormond, it is the seventh-oldest institution of higher education in Australia, a founding member of the Australian Technology Network (ATN), and a member of Universities Australia (UA). RMIT began as a night school offering classes in art, science and technology in response to the Industrial Revolution in Australia. It was a private college for more than a hundred years before merging with the Phillip Institute of Technology to become a public university in 1992. It has an enrolment of around 95,000 higher and vocational education students. With an annual revenue of around A$1.5 billion. It is ranked 15th in the World for art and design subjects in the QS World University Rankings. The main campus of RMIT is situated on the northern edge of the historic Hoddl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barbara Carson
Barbara Carson (22 March 1927 – 17 November 2015) was an Australian nurse and trade union leader who led the Victoria State branch of the Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation to its first ever strike in 1985. Life Carson was born in Bundaberg in 1927. She trained as a nurse at Queensland's Maryborough Base Hospital. In 1971 she was promoted to Chief Nursing Officer. She later left to join what was then called the Royal Australian Nursing Federation. She was elected to be the Federation's branch secretary. Changes were introduced to the RANF including allowing nursing student members to vote in RANF elections. RANF created examinations for members of their profession and preparation could be made for the exams on college courses. RANF members, for the first time were given indemnity insurance. Carson most important change, followed her successful campaign, was to remove a clause in the Victoria branch rules of the Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation in 1984 that pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australian Labor Party
The Australian Labor Party (ALP), also known as the Labor Party or simply Labor, is the major Centre-left politics, centre-left List of political parties in Australia, political party in Australia and one of two Major party, major parties in Politics of Australia, Australian politics, along with the Centre-right politics, centre-right Liberal Party of Australia. The party has been in government since the 2022 Australian federal election, 2022 federal election, and with List of state and territory branches of the Australian Labor Party, political branches active in all the States and territories of Australia, Australian states and territories, they currently hold government in New South Wales, South Australia, Victoria (state), Victoria, Western Australia, and the Australian Capital Territory. As of 2025, Queensland, Tasmania and Northern Territory are the only states or territories where Labor currently forms the opposition. It is the oldest continuously operating political party ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Royal Australian Nursing Federation
The Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation (ANMF) is the largest trade union in Australia with over 300,000 members. The union is run by nurses, midwives and assistants in nursing/personal carers to advance the industrial, political and professional interests of the nursing and midwifery professions. ANMF is a federated union, with branches in each state and territory in Australia. History The Victorian Trained Nurses’ Association was founded in 1901 when nurses worked 52 hours per week and no qualifications were required. The Federation of state organisations was founded in 1924 (then known as the Australian Nursing Federation) and the first secretary was Evelyn Paget Evans who was also the secretary of the Australasian Trained Nurses Association and the General secretary of the Australian Physiotherapy Association (which was then called the Australian Massage Association} who also managed the Australasian Nurses' Journal. Evans believed in long hours for nurses and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australian Labour Party
The Australian Labor Party (ALP), also known as the Labor Party or simply Labor, is the major centre-left political party in Australia and one of two major parties in Australian politics, along with the centre-right Liberal Party of Australia. The party has been in government since the 2022 federal election, and with political branches active in all the Australian states and territories, they currently hold government in New South Wales, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia, and the Australian Capital Territory. As of 2025, Queensland, Tasmania and Northern Territory are the only states or territories where Labor currently forms the opposition. It is the oldest continuously operating political party in Australian history, having been established on 8 May 1901 at Parliament House, Melbourne, the meeting place of the first Federal Parliament. The ALP is descended from the labour parties founded in the various Australian colonies by the emerging labour movement. Co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
