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Friends of the Earth

  • AU NLA 35104812
  • Corporate body
  • 1973-

Friends of the Earth (FOE) (1973- ).
Objectives - To conserve, restore and rationally utilize the ecosphere; to stimulate a movement towards an ecologically stable and self-managed society; to preserve the natural environment in Australia; to promote public awareness of environmental issues in Australia.

Campaign Against Nuclear Power (Qld.)

  • AU NLA 35938906
  • Corporate body
  • 1976-1983

Campaign against Nuclear Power, based in Queensland produced a newsletter from 1976 to 1983 when it ceased publication. This may reflect how long the organisation existed.
Objectives - The cessation of the mining and export of Australian uranium; the prevention of the establishment of any aspects of the nuclear fuel cycle associated with nuclear power generation within Australia; the establishment of nuclear weapons-free zones in the Australian region; the adoption of a socially and environmentally desirable non-nuclear energy policy in Australia; any other objectives set out in the policy of the Campaign.
Publicists - Sandra Bloodworth, Bruce Cowell, Bruce Doyle, Ian Henderson, Bob Phelps, Heather Williams.

Anti-Uranium Action Group

  • AU QU
  • Corporate body
  • 1984

This group appears to have been a Brisbane group and may have only been active in 1984.

Thomas, Kath, 1911-1994

  • AU QU
  • Person
  • 1911-1994

Kathleen Kinkead Watson was born on 13 January 1911 in Brisbane. She won a scholarship to University of Queensland when it was located in George Street. Kath Watson wrote poetry into the 1980s. She joined the Communist Party in 1940 and was politically active in the labour movement from the 1940s. She worked in the trade union movement including for the Union of Australian Women in fighting for equal pay. She married Harvey Alfred Pete Thomas and it is by her married name, Kath Thomas, that she is most remembered. Throughout the 1970s Watson continued preparing submissions to the Federal Government on the role and status of women. She died on 3 October 1994.

Watson, F. J.

  • AU QU
  • Person
  • 1868-1947

Frederic James was 7 years old when he and his family immigrated to Australia, arriving in Queensland on 27 March 1876. He worked as an engineer and later as an officer for the Department of Agriculture and Stock. After retiring Watson spent most of his time studying the traditions and languages of the south-eastern aboriginal people. Watson was a fellow and associate member of the Queensland Place Names Committee. He died on 10 April 1947.

de Groen, Frances

  • US DLC n 92106172
  • Person
  • 1949-

Born in 1949 in Sydney, Australia. Academic at the University of Western Sydney, and has published a number of books and articles on Australian writer.

Smith, Yvonne, 1951-

  • US DLC n 2017039469
  • Person
  • 1951-

Independent researcher, English teacher, and former school principal. She earned her PhD from the University of Sydney.

Doe, Wally (Wally Lewis)

  • AU QU
  • Person
  • 1907-?

Walter Lewis Doe was born in Kilkenny, Ireland, on 15 November 1907. He migrated to Australia in 1924. In 1930 Wally, as he was known, went to the Mandated Territory of New Guinea to work for Bulolo Gold Dredging. He fought in World War Two with the Royal Australian Air Force (1941 to 1943) and the Australian Army (1943 to 1945) after which he returned to Wau in Papua New Guinea, eventually returning to Australia in 1953. At the time his autobiography, Wandering Wally, was published in 1997, Wally Doe was living in Dalmeny, N.S.W.

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