Rae Frances
Raelene Frances, (born 1955) is an Australian historian and academic at the Australian National University. Early life and education Frances was born in Collie, Western Australia as Raelene Frances Anderson in 1955. She left Collie Senior High School in 1972, having been dux that year and winning a University of Western Australia Exhibition in History and a Commonwealth scholarship. Frances graduated from the University of Western Australia with a Bachelor of Arts with Honours in 1978 and completed her Master of Arts two years later at the same university, her thesis being ''Prostitution in Perth and Fremantle and on the Eastern Goldfields, 1895–1939''. She subsequently gained a Doctor of Philosophy from Monash University in 1989 with her thesis, ''The Politics of Work: Case Studies of Three Victorian Industries, 1880–1939'', which was the basis of her first book. Career Frances lectured at Murdoch University in 1987–88 before moving to the University of Auckland, where ...
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Collie, Western Australia
Collie is a town in the South West region of Western Australia, south of the state capital, Perth, and inland from the regional city and port of Bunbury. It is near the junction of the Collie and Harris Rivers, in the middle of dense jarrah forest and the only coalfields in Western Australia. At the 2021 census, Collie had a population of 7,599. Material was copied from this source, which is available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License Collie is mainly known as a coal-producing centre, but also offers industrial, agricultural and aquaculture tourism industries. Muja Power Station is located east of the town, and to its west is the Wellington Dam, a popular location for fishi