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Union of Australian Women.

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UAW.
Union of Australian Women. (1950-)
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http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-537162

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Australian Women's Register

Established in 1950, the Union of Australian Women is a left-wing social change organisation. Its aim is to work for the status and wellbeing of women across the world

The Union of Australian Women (UAW) was established at a conference in Sydney in August 1950. The New South Wales branch was the first to be formed, with other state branches forming in quick succession. The state branches came together in 1956 to establish a national organisation.

Foundation members included communists, Labour Party supporters, Christian activists, and members of the New Housewives' Association. Early goals included improving the status of women and children, disarmament and a halt to nuclear testing and mining, equal distribution of wealth, increased welfare services, equal pay for women, equality for Indigenous Australians, abortion law reform, and opposition to the White Australia Policy. Current campaigns concern child care, woman and family friendly workplaces, health and housing, outworkers, reconciliation and Indigenous rights.

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Australian Women's Register

  1. The Journal of the Union of Australian Women
    [1949-1953]
    Published: Union of Australian Women, Queensland Branch/Queensland Housewives League, Brisbane
  2. UAW News
    [1954-1999]
    Published: Union of Australian Women, Queensland Branch., Brisbane
  3. Apron strings and atom bombs
    Shona Stephen and Judith Womersley
    [1996]
    Published: Video Classroom, Melbourne
  4. Left-wing Ladies : The Union of Australian women in Victoria 1950-1998
    Suzanne Fabian, Morag Loh
    [2000]
    Published: Hyland House, Flemington, Vic
  5. Women and wages in the war years 1940-1945 : Sheetmetal Workers' Union
    [1982]
    Published: Union of Australian Women, Sydney
  6. Daring to take a stand : the story of the Union of Australian Women in Queensland
    Young, Pam
    [1998]
    Published: Wavell Heights, Qld.
  7. More Than a Hat and Glove Brigade: The Story of the Union of Australian Women
    Curthoys, B. (Barbara) and McDonald, Audrey
    [1996]
    Published: Bookpress, Sydney
  8. Uphill all the way
    Daniels, Kay
    [1980]
    Published: University of Queensland Press, St Lucia, Qld
  9. Records of Betty Fisher
    [Handwritten; typescript; invitation; newsletters; newspaper cutting; leaflet; pamphlet; photocopy; ticket; sound cassette; sound tape reel; photoprint; fabric sample; oil painting cine film (safety) : 1919 - 2003]
    Records of Betty Fisher comprising papers relating to the life and career of Irene Bell; the International Women's Day Committee; the Australian Labor Party; the Women's Studies Certificate at TAFE; the Printing and Kindred Industries Union; the Women's Suffrage Centenary; the South Australian Association of State School Organisations; the Women's Liberation Movement; Raven Publishers; the Conservation Council of South Australia; the Department of Tourism, Recreation and Sport; the National Fitness Council of South Australia; the Town and Country Planning Association; the Union of Australian Women; the Vietnamese Women's Tour Group; and the Women's Information Switchboard Support Group; correspondence relating to the publication of "Women in bustles or people in history?"; personal papers of Betty Fisher; newspaper and magazine cuttings compiled by Betty on feminism and politics; an oil painting by Aboriginal artist Rosalie Andersen and film.
    State Library of South Australia, Mortlock Library of South Australiana
    PRG 1366
  10. Interview with Mary Wright [sound recording] / Interviewer: Richard Raxworthy
    8 tape reels : 3 3/4 ips., mono. ; 5 in. Interview conducted in 1988. Mrs Wright speaks of her family background and her early life in SydHouney; her first marriage; living conditions during the 1920s; the Militant Women's Group; scabs and the timberworkers' lockout, Glebe; evictions from houses; rations; demonstrations; International Women's Day; Civil War in Spain; Jessie Street; Selina Maloney; meeting Tom Wright; Communist Party social activities; Paddy Drew; Tom's involvement in the union; his work at Wonderlex; New Guard; Workers' Defence Corps; welfare inspections; Woman Today; Spanish Relief Committee; Tom's work on the Labor Council; Idris Williams; Bill Orr; fights in the Labor Council; caucusing; Jim Healey; Ernie Thornton; book raids; women's wages; Jessie Street's involvement in the labour movement; Della Elliot ; Tom's involvement in the ACTU; Tom's overseas trips; his work with aborigines; Housewives Association; Union of Australian Women; International Women's Day committee; miners' strike; book raids; Vietnam demonstrations; her work in the Bankstown area; changes to the women's movement; communism; the ALP.
    National Library of Australia Oral History Collection
    ORAL TRC 1948/43
  11. Barbara Curthoys Collection
    [C1950 - 1995]
    This extensive collection contains material relating to Barbara Curthoys professional and political life. There are reports, notes, minutes and correspondence relating to the Union of Australian Women for the period 1953-1997; papers relating to Curthoys’ membership in the Communist Party of Australia and the Socialist Party; correspondence and documents relating to her membership of the Newcastle Peace Forum and the Australian Peace Committee in the mid-1980s, papers relating to the Newcastle Housewives Association and numerous interviews with women who were past members of the Union of Australian women.
    22 Boxes
    University of Newcastle Archives, Rare Books and Special Collections Unit: Communist Party of Australia Archival Material
  12. Union of Australian Women National Committee and NSW Branch
    [Correspondence, Publications : 1928 - 1993]
    Records, Minutes, correspondence and office files & publications.
    22.55 m
    The Noel Butlin Archives Centre, ANU Archives Program
  13. Records of the Union of Australian Women
    Collection relating to the Union of Australian Women
    Victoria University of Technology, Victoria University Archives
  14. Records of the Union of Australian Women - South Australian Branch
    [Handwritten; typescript; photoprint; scrapbook; videotape : 1950 - 2005]
    comprising minutes of executive, management and annual general meetings, photographs, papers about various action groups and campaigns like 'Fair go' Adelaide, UAW group against hospital privatisation, SACOSS, UTLC community and unions, prices action committee, trade union, meals on wheels, women's advisory department (via Department of Premier and Cabinet) and the women's information switchboard. Other papers include peace and anti-war group material such as Vietnam Moratorium committee and other anti-Vietnam war protest material like UAW and WIDF correspondence and radio press bulletins, Hiroshima day committee papers, French nuclear testing in the South Pacific papers, papers on disarmament in general. There are also papers which relate to anti-discrimination and include topics on equal pay, equal opportunity commission, the sex discrimination Bill, offensive advertising, pornography, equal opportunity and discrimination including prostitution, feminism and the decade for status of women, abortion, women in South Africa and Australian Indigenous people, especially women. There is also a section about conferences attended by the UAW, including Children's Services, World March of Women 2000, education, housing and living standards, Women's International Democratic Federation (WIDF), World Congress of Women, UAW national committee and conferences 1970-1985. Papers also comprising publications of the history of the UAW, UAW news sheets, news letters, scrapbooks of newspaper clippings and videotape footage. There is also a series of photographs. There are correspondence papers comprising many items.
    2.6 m
    State Library of South Australia, Mortlock Library of South Australiana
    SRG 781
  15. Records of the Union of Australian Women, Queensland Branch
    [1930s - 1998]
    Documents, leaflets, newspaper clippings and correspondence on various topics, banners, badges, posters, periodicals, photo album, constitution and programmes, rules, minutes, agendas, cashbooks, reports of local branches and Queensland Branch of Union of Australian Women, newsletters. Date range extends from 1930s to 1998, however the bulk of the material relates to the period after 1950
    32 boxes
    Fryer Library and Department of Special Collections, University of Queensland
    UQFL193
  16. International Women's Day Committee Research Project : Summary Record [sound recording] Interviewers: Celia Frank and Kirstin Marks
    [Sound cassette : 1993 - 1994]
    A series of 17 interviews with women associated with the South Australian International Women's Day Committee, founded in 1938. The interviews are biographical in structure and also include information about a range of other organisations, including the Union of Australian Women, Communist Party of Australia, Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, Women's Liberation Movement and Women's Electoral Lobby. The interviews were conducted in conjunction with a project to organise the Committee's archives and prepare a new history for publication. The two research officers, who were also the interviewers, were employed initially with funding from the Commonwealth Jobskills program and then with support from the Women's Suffrage Centenary Committee and the Department of the Arts. Individual details are as follows: OH 210/1 Hutchin, Linda, (1913- ). OH 210/2 Howe, Valerie, (1923- ). OH 210/3 Poulton, Mavis, (1933- ). OH 210/4 Forte, Margaret, (1917-2001), OH 210/5 Hall, Bev, (1943-). OH 210/6 Fisher, E. M. (Elizabeth M.), (1925-). OH 210/7 Edmonds, Flo, (1919-). OH 210/8 Miller, Beryl, (1926-). OH 210/9 Robertson, Mavis, (1932-). OH 210/10 Bell, Irene, (1906-1995). OH 210/11 Cook, Maureen, (1920-). OH 210/12 Brannigan, Molly, (1924-). OH 210/13 Tapp, Eulalie, (1917- ). OH 210/14 Lean, Marie, (1931-) OH 210/15 Picone, Cathy, (1949-). OH 210/16 Blackburn, Jean, (1919-2001). OH 210/17 Alexiou, Kay, (1922-).
    State Library of South Australia, Mortlock Library of South Australiana
    OH 210
  17. Papers of Mary Wright 1903-1990
    [1886 - 1985]
    Mary Wright's correspondence, files, pamphlets and memorabilia relating to the Union of Australian Women; photographs and a poster. Records of the anthropologist, Olive Pink. Minute book of the Board of Delegates on the St Marys (building) Project, 1956. Also family papers and diaries.
    13.45 m
    The Noel Butlin Archives Centre, ANU Archives Program
    held
  18. Papers of Eva and Ted Bacon
    [c. 1950 - 1992]
    Correspondence, minutes, typescript articles, reports, circular letters, photographs.
    21 boxes
    Fryer Library and Department of Special Collections, University of Queensland
    UQFL241
  19. Oke, Marjorie
    [1964 - 1994]
    Articles; Women and Labour Conference minutes, papers, programs, newsletter, leaflets, monograph; casette tape; National Health Promorion Conference papers; Older Women's Network Annual Conference papers; Women's Suffrage Centenary papers; International Conference of Women from Industrialised Nations on Women and Work program; Women and Housing Workshop conference papers; Women and Technological Change leaflet; newspaper clippings; correspondence; newspaper clippings; diaries; personal papers; mongraphs; periodicals including 'Alive and WEL', 'Freedom to Choose'; 'Consultative Committee of Women on Leisure and Recreation Newsletter'; 'Health Sharing Women Newsletter of the Victorian Women's Health Information Service'; 'Star Victorian Action on Intellectual Disability '; National Council of Women of Victoria Newsletter and Quarterly Bulletin; 'Manipulation'; 'Unity'; 'Northcote Community Health Centre Newsletter'; 'Northcote Hydro Therapy Massage, Self Help Ladies Group'; 'WAC Women's Newsletter'; Women in Focus WAC'; 'Women's Liberation Newsletter'; subject files regarding abortion, arts, health; Australian Council of Women papers; CAPOW papers; Consultative Committee of Women on Leisure and Recreation papers; other major women's organisations.
    9 archives boxes
    The University of Melbourne Archives
    100/206

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