Identity area
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Title
Date(s)
- 1963-2010 (Creation)
Level of description
Collection
Extent and medium
15 boxes, 1 parcel
Context area
Name of creator
Biographical history
Carole Ferrier (nee Westwood) was born in Rotherham, Yorkshire, England on 18 February 1946. She completed her Bachelor of Arts degree with Honours from the University of London externally after moving to New Zealand. She gained her PhD from the University of Auckland. Ferrier arrived in Australia in January 1973 from New Zealand to teach English at the University of Queensland. In the 1970s and 1980s she was an active participant in Brisbane’s radical activities being arrested over 30 times. Her prominent opposition to the Bjelke Petersen government brought her to the attention of the Special Branch of the Queensland Police Force, and she was the subject of ongoing surveillance and harassment. Ferrier was a member of the International Socialists and a founding member of Socialist Action and the Queensland Coalition for Democratic Rights. She was involved in Brisbane community radio station 4ZZZ during its early years, and she played a leading role over many years in campaigns for civil liberties and the rights of women, Indigenous Australians and workers. In 1975, she was a founding editor of the feminist journal 'Hecate: A women's Interdisciplinary Journal'. She has presented papers at over 70 conferences, published more than a hundred journal articles and book chapters, and written a biography on Jean Devanny.
Repository
Archival history
Collection previously titled as: Papers, 1963-2007
Collection alternatively titled as: Carole Ferrier Collection.
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Pamphlets, bulletins, newsletters, political ephemera, newspaper cuttings and political documents relating to protest politics and culture in Brisbane from the 1970s; debates and issues within the International Socialists and Socialist Action; research work, photographs, interviews, transcripts of interviews, and correspondence relating to Jean Devanny; correspondence; and documents relating to Carole Ferrier's academic activities.
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
Accruals
System of arrangement
Conditions of access and use area
Conditions governing access
Unrestricted access.
Conditions governing reproduction
Copyright applies.
Language of material
- English
Script of material
Language and script notes
Physical characteristics and technical requirements
Contains: Audio cassettes, slides, negatives, floppy discs.
Finding aids
Uploaded finding aid
Allied materials area
Existence and location of originals
Existence and location of copies
Related units of description
Notes area
Note
The collection was rehoused in 2019 as part of the 17-10 Fryer Project and box numbers were reallocated. Refer to the chart at the end of the PDF Finding Aid to convert old box numbers to new numbers.
Where appropriate, publications have been removed and catalogued separately or discarded
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Place access points
Name access points
- Ferrier, Carole, 1946- (Subject)
- Socialist Action (Subject)
- Queensland Coalition for Democratic Rights (Subject)
- 4ZZZ (Radio Station : Brisbane, Qld.) (Subject)
- International Socialists (Subject)
- Democratic Rights Activists Club (Subject)
- Devanny, Jean, 1894-1962 (Subject)
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Status
Revised
Level of detail
Dates of creation revision deletion
Revised, Linda Justo, 23-Jun-2023. Revised, Linda Justo, 9-Jul-2021. Revised, Linda Justo, 16-Apr-2020; Revised, Linda Justo, 27-Jun-2019; Migrated from LMS: April 2019, P.A.