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Women's Reform League of New South Wales

  • Corporate body

The Women's Liberal League was founded by Mrs Molyneux Parkes in 1902. It subsequently changed its name to the Women's Reform League of New South Wales.

Workers' Education Dramatic Society

  • Corporate body
  • 1930-1941

The Workers' Education Dramatic Society existed in Brisbane from 1930 to 1941, its beginnings in 1929 when a course in dramatic art was introduced to the Workers' Education Association of Queensland. It produced social and political dramas and pursued an educational role, promoting drama with an emphasis on peace and women's rights. . It made serious efforts to encourage Australian playwrights. Regarded by the Queensland government as promoting a dangerous and minority view, led to the demise of the Society in 1941.

Worker-Student Alliance

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Worker-Student Alliance (1971?-1972). Also known as the Worker-Student Alliance Committee.
Objectives - To link issues arising on the University of Queensland campus with those affecting broader groups of people outside.
Publicists - Dick Shearman.
Notes: The Alliance was a loose group which rarely met formally. The people involved were primarily student leftists.

Working Women's Charter Committee

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Working Women's Charter Committee (1978).
Objectives - To implement the Australian Council of Trade Unions Working Women's Charter. To reflect the changing needs of working women in the Charter. To bring women unionists together and to involve more women in their unions so that unions will take the needs of women members more seriously and so that they will view issues in terms other than strictly industrial.
Publicists - Barbara Nelson Atkin, Shirley Betts, Marie Crisp, Mary Kelly, Margaret McFarlane, Jean O'Connor, Thora Soranson, Rath Thomas.
Notes: Also involved Labour Women (Australian Labor Party). Absorbed Queensland Women's Trade Union Committee Membership open only to members of the Trades and Labour Council affiliated unions. The Charter idea and a first version arose from the Australian Women's Trade Union Conference (August 1976). The Charter was amended at the Working Women's Charter Campaign Conference (August, 1977) and presented to the 1977 A.C.T.U. Congress where an A.C.T.U. Charter was adopted. The Queensland W.W.C.C. began in November, 1978.

Yooringa Protest Group

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Yooringa Protest Group (1973).
Objectives - To send a boat into the area of French nuclear tests at Mururoa in an endeavour to halt the tests.
Publicists - Margaret Gilliland.

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