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Interview with Vi Cox

Therese Collie interviews Vi Cox.

Vi talks of her early life growing up in Townsville and going to school during the second World War at Bohlevale State School; her husband Norrie Cox and his family, the Australian Railways Union; joining the Australian Labor Party (ALP) and supporting Norrie in his union activities; the difficulties women face when it came to women's issues like rape; issues she and other women in the ALP fought for; how she first became involved in the ALP and her 2 year role as secretary for the Currajong branch; her views on why ALP isn't attracting young people and what needs to be done, and what the ALP has done for women; her dedication to ALP; and her advice for young people and younger women.

Interview with Pat Bowe

Therese Collie interviews Pat Bowe, born in Herberton, Queensland in 1938. In 1991 she was in teachers staffing, having previously been a teacher and principal.

Bowe talks of her family, moving around Queensland due to her fathers job at BHP (tin exploration); her education including going to primary school during the second World War at Innot Hot Springs; being female in the 1950's and having a tertiary education with the help of her family; her father being a member of the union and Labor Party; being influenced by her family; union activities in Queensland and being the only female at meetings; equal/women's rights in the education field; some of the locations she was a Principal at - Horseshoe Bay on Magnetic island, Homestead, Hayman island, Majors Creek, and Long Pocket; discrepancy between single and married women's conditions or opportunities; her experiences teaching in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities; lessons learnt from her experience working in remote Queensland schools and as a woman; her work with the Teachers' Union - State Standing Committee of the Union and State Accommodation Committee, and how her work with the committees affected her job as a teacher; what the Queensland Teachers' Union has done for its women members, what it has achieved, and current issues; how far women teachers have come; and where her dedication to keep on fighting and struggling for better conditions for teachers, and for equal opportunities for women.

Proofs and editorial notes for The tax inspector

Page proofs for Faber edition with some marking up, accompanied by covering letter, 5 Apr 1991, from Daphne Tagg on Faber & Faber letterhead. Correspondence from University of Queensland Press, comments on the novel by Edmund Campion, faxed queries from Robert McCrum, typescript leaves of Cary's replies to Robert McCrum.

A remarkable absence of passion

Incomplete drafts, flyers, and illustrations for the book A remarkable absence of passion : women address the Catholic Church gathered by Nora McManus, with linocut illustrations by Judith Rodriguez.

Rodriguez, Judith, 1936-2018

Poems, 1990s

Poems, published and unpublished, by Judith Rodriguez, most typescript, some printouts from computer, most have handwritten month and year of creation, some with publication details, some with handwritten emendations.

Brisbane Peace Network

Newsletters of the Brisbane Peace Network from 1991 to 1994, a BPN telephone tree chart, and an article on the power of facilitated networks

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