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Nominal Roll Project
The University of Western Australia and the Second World War Nominal Roll Project Remembering the service of staff, students and graduates of UWA UWA Historical Society With support from UWA Convocation Authors Dr Margaret Warburton Dr Joan Pope OAM Acknowledgements Elizabeth Borrello Wendy Birman Terry Larder Dr John Meyer Dr Fran Pesich Elizabeth Rowlands James Stevens Winthrop Professor Marc Tennant St George’s College UWA Convocation UWA Archives Further Information Australian Dictionary of Biography http://adb.anu.edu.au/ Australians at War Film Archive http://australiansatwarfilmarchive.unsw.edu.au/ Commonwealth War Graves Commission https://www.cwgc.org/ Australian War Memorial (AWM) https://www.awm.gov.au/ Department of Veterans’ Affairs https://www.dva.gov.au/ Edward de Courcy Clarke Earth Science Museum UWA https://www.earthmuseum.see.uwa.edu.au/ Highgate RSL Hall of Honour https://highgate-rsl.org.au/hall-of-honour/ National Archives of Australia https://www.naa.gov.au/ National Centre of Biography https://history.cass.anu.edu.au/centres/ncb Obituaries Australia http://oa.anu.edu.au/ Presbyterian Ladies College Archive https://www.plc.wa.edu.au/news-categories/resources/ Scotch College Archives https://archives.scotch.wa.edu.au/pages/home.php St George’s College Archives https://www.stgeorges-windsor.org/archives/ Trove https://trove.nla.gov.au/ UWA Archives https://www.uwa.edu.au/library/find-resources/records-and-archives UWA Historical Society https://www.web.uwa.edu.au/uwahs UWA Historical Society (UWAHS) The University -
Stories Poems Reviews Articles Stories by Jean Kent, Margaret Houghton
stories poems reviews articles Stories by Jean Kent, Margaret Houghton, Dianne Bates, Peter Loftus, Pat Jacobs Court in Power by G. C. Bolton Barbara Hanrahan's Fantastic Fiction by Diana Brydon SEPTEMBER, 1982 NUMBER 3 latest release DECADE QUARRY a selection of a selection of contemporary contemporary western australian western australian short fiction poetry edited by edited by B.R. COFFEY FAY ZWICKY Twenty-one writers, including Peter Cowan, Twenty-six poets, includes Alan Alexander, Elizabeth Jolley, Fay Zwicky, Margot Luke, Nicholas Hasluck, Wendy Jenkins, Fay Zwicky, James Legasse, Brian Dibble and Robin Sheiner. Ian Templeman and Philip Salom. ' ... it challenges the reader precisely because it 'The range and quality of the work being done offers such lively, varied and inventive stories. is most impressive' - David Brooks. No question here of recipe, even for reading, ' ... a community of voices working within a much less for writing, but rather a testimony to range of registers, showing us how we are the liveliness and questioning' - Veronica Brady. same but different in our private responses .. ' recommended retail price: $9.95 - James Legasse. recommended retail price: $6.00 SCARPDANCER DESERT MOTHER poems by poems by ALAN PHILIP COLLIER ALEXANDER Scorpdancer consolidates Alan Alexander's Desert Mother introduces a new poet with a reputation as one of Australia's finest lyric fine wit and a marvellously exact ear for the poets. He is a poet of great flexibility and tone, style and idiosyncrasies of language. finesse whose origins are clearly with the Irish Philip Collier is a poet who has developed tradition of post-Yeatsean lyricism. -
Australian Elegy: Landscape and Identity
Australian Elegy: Landscape and Identity by Janine Gibson BA (Hons) Submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of (Doctor of Philosophy) Deakin University December, 2016 Acknowledgments I am indebted to the School of Communication and Creative Arts at Deakin University (Geelong), especially to my principal supervisor Professor David McCooey whose enthusiasm, constructive criticism and encouragement has given me immeasurable support. I would like to gratefully acknowledge my associate supervisors Dr. Maria Takolander and Dr. Ann Vickery for their interest and invaluable input in the early stages of my thesis. The unfailing help of the Library staff in searching out texts, however obscure, as well as the support from Matt Freeman and his helpful staff in the IT Resources Department is very much appreciated. Sincere thanks to the Senior HDR Advisor Robyn Ficnerski for always being there when I needed support and reassurance; and to Ruth Leigh, Kate Hall, Jo Langdon, Janine Little, Murray Noonan and Liam Monagle for their help, kindness and for being so interested in my project. This thesis is possible due to my family, to my sons Luke and Ben for knowing that I could do this, and telling me often, and for Jane and Aleisha for caring so much. Finally, to my partner Jeff, the ‘thesis watcher’, who gave me support every day in more ways than I can count. Abstract With a long, illustrious history from the early Greek pastoral poetry of Theocritus, the elegy remains a prestigious, flexible Western poetic genre: a key space for negotiating individual, communal and national anxieties through memorialization of the dead. -
Mines Ministry of Western Australia
Mines Ministry of Western Australia A Mines Ministry was first established in the Forrest Government the first Government after responsible government was obtained in 1890. Since then there have been 39 Ministers for Mines in 34 Governments. Henry Gregory was Minister for Mines in 6 different Governments. Arthur Frederick Griffith was the longest continuous serving Minister for Mines in the Brand Government serving from 1959 - 1971 a period of 12 years. Ministry Name Ministry Title Assumption Retirement of Office Date Of Office Date Forrest (Forrest) Hon. Edward Horne Minister for Mines & Education 19 Dec 1894 12 May 1897 1890 - 1901 Wittenoom, MLC Minister for Mines 12 May 1897 28 April 1898 Hon. Henry Bruce Lefroy, Minister for Mines 28 April 1898 15 Feb 1901 MLA Throssell (Forrest) Hon. Henry Bruce Lefroy, Minister for Mines 15 Feb 1901 27May 1901 1901 MLA Leake (Opp) Hon. Henry Gregory, MLA Minister for Mines 27May 1901 21 Nov 1901 1901 Morgans (Min) Hon. Frank Wilson, MLA Minister for Mines 21 Nov 1901 23 Dec 1901 1901 Leake (Opp) Hon. Henry Gregory, MLA Minister for Mines 23 Dec 1901 1 July 1902 1901 - 1902 James (Lib) Hon. Henry Gregory, MLA Minister for Mines 1 July 1902 10 Aug 1904 1902 - 1904 Daglish (ALP) Hon. Robert Hastie, MLA Minister for Mines 10 Aug 1904 7 June 1905 1904 - 1905 Hon. William Dartnell Minister for Mines & Railways 7 June 1905 25 Aug 1905 Johnson, MLA Rason (Lib) Hon. Henry Gregory, MLA Minister for Mines & Railways 25 Aug 1905 7 May 1906 1905 - 1906 Moore (Min) Hon. Henry Gregory, MLA Minister for Mines & Railways 7 May 1906 16 Sept 1910 1906 - 1910 Wilson (Lib) Hon. -
The Political Career of Senator Paddy Lynch (1867-1944)
With an Olive Branch and a Shillelagh: the Political Career of Senator Paddy Lynch (1867-1944) by Danny Cusack M.A. Presented for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy of Murdoch University December 2002 I declare that this thesis is my own account of my research and contains as its main content work which has not been previously submitted for a degree at any tertiary education institution. ……..…………………………… Danny Cusack ABSTRACT As a loyal Empire man and ardent conscriptionist, Irish-born Senator Paddy Lynch swam against the prevailing Irish Catholic Labor political current. He was one of those MP’s who followed Prime Minister W.M. Hughes out of the Federal Labor caucus in November 1916, serving out the rest of his political career in the Nationalist ranks. On the face of things, he represents something of a contradiction. A close examination of Lynch’s youth in Ireland, his early years in Australia and his subsequent parliamentary career helps us to resolve this apparent paradox. It also enables us to build up a picture of Lynch the man and to explain his political odyssey. He emerges as representative of that early generation of conservative Laborites (notably J.C. Watson, W.G. Spence and George Pearce) who, once they had achieved their immediate goals of reform, saw their subsequent role as defending the prevailing social order. Like many of these men, Lynch’s commitment to the labour movement’s principles of solidarity and collective endeavour co-existed with a desire for material self-advancement. More fundamentally, when Lynch accumulated property and was eventually able to take up the occupation which he had known in Ireland – farming – his evolving class interest inevitably occasioned a change in political outlook. -
Longest Serving WA Mps October 2016
PARLIAMENTARY LIBRARY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA History Notes: Longest Serving WA MPs October 2016. Updated June 2021 Longest Serving WA MPs Honest John: longest serving WA parliamentarian The longest serving member of the Western Australian Parliament is the Hon John Tonkin AC who served continuously in the Legislative Assembly for over 43 years from 1933 to 1977. John Trezise Tonkin was born on 2 February 1902 in Boulder, Western Australia to John Trezise Tonkin, engine driver and his wife, Julia. He was educated at Boulder City Central School and was dux of the school in 1916. He also attended the Eastern Goldfields High School in 1917 and Claremont Teachers’ College. His working career began as an office boy at Kalgoorlie Electric Power Company. He taught at various country schools in WA and finally at the metropolitan North Perth Primary School until the start of his parliamentary career. In his early 20s, Tonkin joined the Australian Labor Party and remained a member for 70 years. In 1927 and “To my mind there can 1930, he contested the be no better investment WA seats of Sussex and than money spent in Murray-Wellington training the intellects and before winning North- improving the minds of East Fremantle in 1933. the boys and girls of In 1950, the seat was to-day who will be the abolished and he then won the seat of Melville. men and women of In 1944 he was appointed tomorrow”. Minister for Education and Social Services. By 1955 he was the Deputy Hon John Tonkin’s Premier and from 1971 Inaugural Speech, to 1974 he was Premier Hansard of Western Australia. -
Leaders of the Opposition from 1905
Leaders of the Opposition from 1905 From 1905 there have been 33 Leaders of the Opposition in Western Australia. Date Date of Government Leader of the Opposition Date Appointed Retirement from Office 1905 – 1906 Cornthwaite Rason (Lib) Henry Daglish (ALP) 25 August 1905 27 September 1905 25 August 1905 – 7 May 1906 (Served 1 month 2 days) William Dartnell Johnson (ALP) 4 October 1905 27 October 1905 (Served 23 days) 1906 – 1909 Newton Moore (Min) Thomas Henry Bath 22 November 1905 3 August 1910 7 May 1906 – 14 May 1909 (Served 4 years 8 months 12 days) 1910 – 1911 Frank Wilson (Lib) John Scaddan (ALP) 3 August 1910 7 October 1911 16 September 1910 – 7 October 1911 (Served 1 year 2 months 4 Days) 1911 – 1916 John Scaddan (ALP) Frank Wilson (Lib) 1 November 1911 27 July 1914 7 October 1911 – 27 July 1916 (Served 4 years 8 months 26 days) 1916 – 1917 Frank Wilson (Lib) John Scaddan (ALP) 27 July 1916 8 August 1916 27 July 1916 – 28 June 1917 (Served 12 days) William Dartnell Johnson (ALP) 19 September 1916 31 October 1916 (Served 1 month 12 Days) John Scaddan (ALP) 31 October 1916 c.10 April 1917 (Served 5 month 10 days) 1917 – 1919 Henry Lefroy (Lib) Philip Collier (ALP) 9 May 1917 17 April 1924 28 June 1917 – 17 April 1919 (Served 6 years 11 months 8 day) & 1919 – 1919 Hal Colbatch (Lib) 17 April 1919 - 17 May 1919 & 1919 – 1924 Sir James Mitchell (Lib) 17 May 1919 – 15 April 1924 1924 – 1930 Philip Collier (ALP) Sir James Mitchell (Lib) 17 April 1924 24 April 1930 16 April 1924 – 23 April 1930 (Served 6 years 7 days) 1930 – 1933 Sir James -
Forestt26785.Pdf
Copyright by Timothy Steven Forest 2008 The Dissertation Committee for Timothy Steven Forest Certifies that this is the approved version of the following dissertation: KITH BUT NOT KIN: THE HIGHLAND SCOTS, IMPERIAL RESETTLEMENT, AND THE NEGOTIATING OF IDENTITY ON THE FRONTIERS OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE IN THE INTERWAR YEARS Committee: Wm. Roger Louis, Supervisor Brian Levack Judith Coffin John Higley Mark Metzler KITH BUT NOT KIN: THE HIGHLAND SCOTS, IMPERIAL RESETTLEMENT, AND THE NEGOTIATING OF IDENTITY ON THE FRONTIERS OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE IN THE INTERWAR YEARS by Timothy Steven Forest, B.A.; M.A. Dissertation Presented to the Faculty of the Graduate School of The University of Texas at Austin in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy The University of Texas at Austin May 2008 KITH BUT NOT KIN: THE HIGHLAND SCOTS, IMPERIAL RESETTLEMENT, AND THE NEGOTIATING OF IDENTITY ON THE FRONTIERS OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE IN THE INTERWAR YEARS Publication No._____________ Timothy Steven Forest, Ph.D. The University of Texas at Austin, 2008 Supervisor: Wm. Roger Louis Based on archival work in England, Scotland, the United States, Canada and Australia, my dissertation expands the traditional purview of diplomatic history into the international dimensions of the social and cultural realms. My study treats doomed attempts to reconstruct previously-held notions of hierarchy and deference as encapsulated in the Empire Settlement Act (ESA) in the wake of the dramatic changes to the world order resulting from World War I. To counter the emergence of Japan as a world power, under the auspices of the ESA, British Columbia and Western Australia, the two most distant outposts of the “white” British Empire in the Pacific, imported poor Celtic farmers and militiamen from northern Scotland in an attempt to retain their iv “British” identity, which they felt was threatened by Japan on the one hand, the Japanese in their midst on another, and local “nationalisms” on a third. -
The Life and Times of Sir John Waters Kirwan (1866-1949)
‘Mightier than the Sword’: The Life and Times of Sir John Waters Kirwan (1866-1949) By Anne Partlon MA (Eng) and Grad. Dip. Ed This thesis is presented for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy of Murdoch University 2011 I declare that this thesis is my own account of my research and contains as its main content work which has not been previously submitted for a degree at any tertiary education institution. ............................................................... Anne Partlon ii Table of Contents Abstract iv Acknowledgements v Introduction: A Most Unsuitable Candidate 1 Chapter 1:The Kirwans of Woodfield 14 Chapter 2:‘Bound for South Australia’ 29 Chapter 3: ‘Westward Ho’ 56 Chapter 4: ‘How the West was Won’ 72 Chapter 5: The Honorable Member for Kalgoorlie 100 Chapter 6: The Great Train Robbery 120 Chapter 7: Changes 149 Chapter 8: War and Peace 178 Chapter 9: Epilogue: Last Post 214 Conclusion 231 Bibliography 238 iii Abstract John Waters Kirwan (1866-1949) played a pivotal role in the Australian Federal movement. At a time when the Premier of Western Australia Sir John Forrest had begun to doubt the wisdom of his resource rich but under-developed colony joining the emerging Commonwealth, Kirwan conspired with Perth Federalists, Walter James and George Leake, to force Forrest’s hand. Editor and part- owner of the influential Kalgoorlie Miner, the ‘pocket-handkerchief’ newspaper he had transformed into one of the most powerful journals in the colony, he waged a virulent press campaign against the besieged Premier, mocking and belittling him at every turn and encouraging his east coast colleagues to follow suit. -
Vol. 32 No. 1, Summer 2013
Vol. 32 No. 1, Summer 2013 Vol. 32 No. 1, Summer 2013 CONTENTS In Focus: campus news and views 2 From the Vice-Chancellery 9 Alumni weekend celebrations 10 A LUMNIOUSnight to remember 12 Festival turns Perth into ‘the coolest place on Earth’ 14 Newsmaker – Malcolm McCusker 16 Building foundations of excellence 18 UWA’s global ‘family’ 30 Guest column – Jenny Gregory 38 Legacy benefits a new generation of engineers 40 An appreciation of the Hackett Buildings 42 Convocation – Grad News 44 The Bunbury connection 48 Hillary Clinton visits Cover image: Hours to Sunset, the Venetian glass US Ambassador Jeffrey Bleich and Secretary of mosaic on the wall of the University Club, designed by State Hillary Clinton with Australian Ambassador UWA graduate (and Academy Award-winner) Shaun Kim Beazley and Tertiary Education Minister Chris Evans at the Perth USAsia Centre launch. 4 Tan. See In Focus. See In Focus. U niview is produced by UWA Public Affairs Director: Doug Durack ([email protected]) Editor: Trea Wiltshire ([email protected]) Grad Briefs: Terry Larder ([email protected]) Design: Graham Harvey and Janine Blackstock, UniPrint (uniprint.uwa.edu.au) Advertising: Trea Wiltshire +61 8 6488 1914 Editorial: Public Affairs, The University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley, WA 6009 Telephone: +61 8 6488 1914, Fax: +61 8 6488 1192 Address Changes: Terry Larder +61 8 6488 2447, Fax: +61 8 6488 7996, Email: [email protected] Uniview is published three times a year. Summer edition: February. Winter edition: June. Spring edition: October. The magazine is printed using vegetable-based inks on paper that is chlorine-free and sourced from plantation timber. -
Aboriginal Heroes
ABORIGINAL HEROES The 50th anniversary of the 1967 Referendum and the 25th anniversary of the Mabo Decision, offers an opportunity to celebrate some of the Aboriginal Australians who have dedicated their lives to justice and rights for their people throughout the twentieth and twenty- first centuries. Significant national and Western Australian Aboriginal heroes and their legacies have been explored in this section. A list of the major committees and councils that some were involved in along the way also provides further information about their tireless work and campaigning. 74 WILLIAM COOPER (1861-1941) William Cooper was a Yorta Yorta man from Victoria who was born on 18 December 1860. He was heralded as a hero and one of the earliest campaigners and activists for Aboriginal rights and justice in Australia’s history. William spent most of his life in the Cummeragunja community working as a pastoral labourer in slave-like conditions, where he was a spokesman for the Yorta Yorta in their ongoing battles for land justice against the New South Wales government. As well as leading the first Aboriginal deputation to a Commonwealth Minister in 1934, and the first deputation to the Prime Minister in 1938, William started petitions for Aboriginal representation in Parliament, enfranchisement and land rights. Despite gaining 1,814 signatures on the petition for representation in Parliament, it failed. Dissatisfied with the Commonwealth in regard to the lack of progress around this issue, William then wrote a letter to King George V stating ‘to prevent the extinction of Courtesy AIATSIS, Jackamos.A04.BW, N03746_04a. the Aboriginal race, better conditions for all, grant us power to propose a member of parliament’. -
Prime Minister Curtin and the Australian Union Movement
1 Prime Minister Curtin and the Australian union movement In writing about Australia's wartime Prime Minister John Curtin for an American audience it usually seems appropriate and highly relevant to focus on Curtin's parallel experience (a rather loose comparison perhaps) with Abraham Lincoln and his log cabin to White House journey. Born in 1885 in a humble home in Creswick, a gold mining town near Ballarat in Victoria with the boom days well behind, John Curtin the future Australian prime minister had to work himself up from having ceased formal education at the age of fourteen while experiencing near poverty after his father's illnesses prevented the latter from continuing with a career in the police force. To go back a little further Curtin's father had come from Country Cork in Ireland and had 'strong Fenian convictions'.1 In 1873 at the age of 19 the future prime minister's father had arrived in Adelaide and from there moved to Victoria and one reason suggested by Curtin's biographer David Day for this decision was that South Australia was distinctive for its 'prevailing Protestantism and relative lack of Irish settlers, particularly women'.2 Significantly, many of the Irish immigrants to Australia in these years sought occupations either within the church or 'service of the British Crown'. Thus in his book The Irish in Australia Patrick Farrell suggested that 'the ambition of Irish Australian parents' was for their boys to become either 'priest, publican or policeman'.3 John Curtin senior fitted this label nicely in the sense that when ill health forced him out of the police force he moved around Melbourne and Victoria endeavoring to make a living managing hotels.