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Women's Information and Support Association Records

  • F3894
  • File
  • 1981-1996

Includes records, ephemera, newspaper cuttings and other items relating to the Women's Information and Support Association (WISA) between 1981 and 2022.

Handwritten and typed monthly meeting minutes from May 1981 to March 1982 (during which time WISA was named Women's group).
Handwritten and typed monthly meeting minutes from February 1984 to February 1986 (excludes April 1984). WISA did not meet in the month of January in1984, 1985 and 1986.
Handwritten meeting minutes from April 2000.

Flyer for events organised by WISA in August to December 1985.
Ephemera, handwritten documents and newspaper cuttings relating to WISA's tenth anniversary celebration held on 9 October 1993 in Maroochydore.
Ephemera, handwritten and typed documents and photocopied newspaper cuttings relating to a dinner organised by WISA on 12 October 1996 in Buderim. Maroochy Barambah was a guest speaker at this dinner.

Thirteen pages of photocopied newspaper cuttings about WISA and other topics relating to females (1935 to 1990).

An undated typed document titled 'Women in the workforce'. The name Sue Murray is written at the bottom of the document.
Typed document inviting women of the Sunshine Coast to a WISA meeting on 29 May 1993.
A printed portion of an email from Joan Welsh, to Joan Welsh, with the subject 'Welcome to Jackie Huggins' dated 3 March 2022. Appears to be the start of a speech given at a forum retrospectively celebrating WISA at which Jackie Huggins was a guest speaker.

Women's Information and Support Association

Ephemera relating to women's movement organisations

  • FVF632
  • File
  • [196-]? -

Leaflets, newsletters, invitations, bumper stickers, conference publicity, posters, reports, song lyrics, and event notices. Some of the organisations may only have one item. Also includes leaflets with no organisation named. Organisations include Ananda Marga Women's Spiritual Community, Brisbane Women's Club, Brisbane Women's Health Club, Brisbane Women's Union, Children by Choice, Coalition of Australian Participating Organisations of Women, Domestic Violence Resource Centre, Emma Miller Women's Group and Grass Roots Resource Centre, Human Rights Commission, International Women's Year Australian national Advisory Committee, Jobs for Women Action Committee, Joint Women's Action, Leichardt Women's Community Health Centre, Liverpool Women's Health Centre Collective, Migrants on the March, Mothers on the March, National Women's Consultative Council, Office of Equal Opportunitiy, Older Women's Network, Queensland Nurses Union, Socialist Feminist Forum, South Australian Health Commission, Survivors, Sydney Women's Liberation Group, UNAA Status of Women's Committee, UNIFEM Australia, Women and Children First, University of Queensland Women's Club, Women and Labour Conference, Women Working for Development, Women's Commission of the AUS Council, Women's Creative Arts Centre, Women's Embassy, Women's Infolink, Women's Information and Support Association Sunshine Coast, Women's Information Service, Women's International Democratic Federation Council, Women's Network, Women's Policy Branch, Dept of the Premier, Women's Policy Unit Office of Cabinet Queensland, Women's Rights University of Queensland Union, Women's Shelter Cairns, Women's Studies Network, Working Women's Centre, Zig Zag, Pro Choice Action Collective, SALIG, Words for Women. Also includes material on the anniversary of women's suffrage in Queensland.

Women's Information and Support Association