The liberal party of Australia and the Australian women's movement against socialisation 1947-54

Australian Journal of Politics and History

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 191-207

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1. 1 Eileen Furley to the Federal Director, The Liberal Party of Australia (LPA), 6 October 1949, LPA, NSW Division (NSWD), Mitchell Library (ML) MSS 23857 Y4626 (12).
2. 2 Gerard Henderson, Menzies Child (Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1994); Marian Simms, A LiberalNation: The Liberal Party and Australian Politics (Sydney: Hale & Iremonger, 1982); DeanJaensch, The Liberals (Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1994); Peter Tiver, The Liberal Party: Principles and Performance (Brisbane: Jacaranda Press, 1978).
3. 2 Gerard Henderson, Menzies Child (Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1994); Marian Simms, A LiberalNation: The Liberal Party and Australian Politics (Sydney: Hale & Iremonger, 1982); DeanJaensch, The Liberals (Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1994); Peter Tiver, The Liberal Party: Principles and Performance (Brisbane: Jacaranda Press, 1978).
4. 2 Gerard Henderson, Menzies Child (Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1994); Marian Simms, A LiberalNation: The Liberal Party and Australian Politics (Sydney: Hale & Iremonger, 1982); DeanJaensch, The Liberals (Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1994); Peter Tiver, The Liberal Party: Principles and Performance (Brisbane: Jacaranda Press, 1978).
5. 2 Gerard Henderson, Menzies Child (Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1994); Marian Simms, A LiberalNation: The Liberal Party and Australian Politics (Sydney: Hale & Iremonger, 1982); DeanJaensch, The Liberals (Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1994); Peter Tiver, The Liberal Party: Principles and Performance (Brisbane: Jacaranda Press, 1978).
6. 3 Henderson, Menzies Child, p. 79.
7. 4 Judith Brett, Robert Menzies' Forgotten People (Sydney: Sun Australia, 1993), p. 53.
8. 5 Marian Simms, "Conservative Feminism in Australia: A Case Study of Feminist Ideology", Women and Labour: Conference Papers: 3 Australian Feminism (May 1978), pp. 7-17.
9. 6 Ian Hancock, "The Liberal Party Organisation 1944-66", in Scott Prasser, J. R. Nethercote and John Warhurst, eds, The Menzies Era: A Reappraisal of Government, Politics and Policy (Sydney: Hale & Iremonger, 1995).
10. 7 Marian Sawer and Marian Simms, A Woman's Place: Women and Politics in Australia (Sydney: Allen and Unwin, 1984).
11. 8 Ibid., p. 25.
12. 9 Anne Summers, Damned Whores and God's Police: The Colonization of Women in Australia (Melbourne: Penguin Books, 1977); Patricia Grimshaw, "Women and the Family in Australian History - A Reply to The Real Matilda", Historical Studies 18, 70 (April 1978), pp. 412-21; Marilyn Lake, "'To be Denied a Sense of Past Generations': A Review of Miriam Dixson's The Real Matilda", Hecate 2, 2 (1976), pp. 68-73.
13. 9 Anne Summers, Damned Whores and God's Police: The Colonization of Women in Australia (Melbourne: Penguin Books, 1977); Patricia Grimshaw, "Women and the Family in Australian History - A Reply to The Real Matilda", Historical Studies 18, 70 (April 1978), pp. 412-21; Marilyn Lake, "'To be Denied a Sense of Past Generations': A Review of Miriam Dixson's The Real Matilda", Hecate 2, 2 (1976), pp. 68-73.
14. 9 Anne Summers, Damned Whores and God's Police: The Colonization of Women in Australia (Melbourne: Penguin Books, 1977); Patricia Grimshaw, "Women and the Family in Australian History - A Reply to The Real Matilda", Historical Studies 18, 70 (April 1978), pp. 412-21; Marilyn Lake, "'To be Denied a Sense of Past Generations': A Review of Miriam Dixson's The Real Matilda", Hecate 2, 2 (1976), pp. 68-73.
15. 10 Sawer and Simms, A Woman's Place; Margaret Bevege, Margaret James and Carmel Shute, eds, Worth Her Salt: Women at Work in Australia (Sydney: Hale & Iremonger, 1982): chapters 21-23 and 25; Heather Radi, Jessie Street: Documents and Essays (Broadway, NSW: Women'sRedress Press, 1990); Pat Ranald, "Women's Organisations and the Issue of Communism", in AnnCurthoys and John Merritt, eds, Better Dead Than Red (Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1986); AndreeWright, "Jessie Street, Feminist", in Curthoys and Merritt, Better Dead than Red; Joy Damousi,Women Come Rally: Socialism, Communism and Gender in Australia 1890-1955 (Melbourne:Oxford University Press, 1994): Joyce Stevens, Taking the Revolution Home: Work Among Womenin the Communist Party of Australia: 1920-1945 (Melbourne: Sybylla Co-operative Press, 1987); Audrey Johnson, Bread & Roses: A Personal History of Three Militant Women and Their Friends1902-1988 (Sutherland, NSW: Left Book Club, 1990); Dame Enid Lyons, Among the CarrionCrows (Melbourne: Rigby, 1972); Marilyn Lake, "The Constitution of Political Subjectivity andthe Writing of Labour History", in Terry Irving, ed., Challenges to Labour History (Sydney:UNSW Press, 1994);
16. 10 Sawer and Simms, A Woman's Place; Margaret Bevege, Margaret James and Carmel Shute,eds, Worth Her Salt: Women at Work in Australia (Sydney: Hale & Iremonger, 1982): chapters 21-23 and 25; Heather Radi, Jessie Street: Documents and Essays (Broadway, NSW: Women's Redress Press, 1990); Pat Ranald, "Women's Organisations and the Issue of Communism", in AnnCurthoys and John Merritt, eds, Better Dead Than Red (Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1986); AndreeWright, "Jessie Street, Feminist", in Curthoys and Merritt, Better Dead than Red; Joy Damousi,Women Come Rally: Socialism, Communism and Gender in Australia 1890-1955 (Melbourne:Oxford University Press, 1994): Joyce Stevens, Taking the Revolution Home: Work Among Womenin the Communist Party of Australia: 1920-1945 (Melbourne: Sybylla Co-operative Press, 1987); Audrey Johnson, Bread & Roses: A Personal History of Three Militant Women and Their Friends1902-1988 (Sutherland, NSW: Left Book Club, 1990); Dame Enid Lyons, Among the CarrionCrows (Melbourne: Rigby, 1972); Marilyn Lake, "The Constitution of Political Subjectivity andthe Writing of Labour History", in Terry Irving, ed., Challenges to Labour History (Sydney:UNSW Press, 1994);
17. 10 Sawer and Simms, A Woman's Place; Margaret Bevege, Margaret James and Carmel Shute,eds, Worth Her Salt: Women at Work in Australia (Sydney: Hale & Iremonger, 1982): chapters 21-23 and 25; Heather Radi, Jessie Street: Documents and Essays (Broadway, NSW: Women'sRedress Press, 1990); Pat Ranald, "Women's Organisations and the Issue of Communism", in Ann Curthoys and John Merritt, eds, Better Dead Than Red (Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1986); AndreeWright, "Jessie Street, Feminist", in Curthoys and Merritt, Better Dead than Red; Joy Damousi,Women Come Rally: Socialism, Communism and Gender in Australia 1890-1955 (Melbourne:Oxford University Press, 1994): Joyce Stevens, Taking the Revolution Home: Work Among Womenin the Communist Party of Australia: 1920-1945 (Melbourne: Sybylla Co-operative Press, 1987); Audrey Johnson, Bread & Roses: A Personal History of Three Militant Women and Their Friends1902-1988 (Sutherland, NSW: Left Book Club, 1990); Dame Enid Lyons, Among the CarrionCrows (Melbourne: Rigby, 1972); Marilyn Lake, "The Constitution of Political Subjectivity andthe Writing of Labour History", in Terry Irving, ed., Challenges to Labour History (Sydney:UNSW Press, 1994);
18. 10 Sawer and Simms, A Woman's Place; Margaret Bevege, Margaret James and Carmel Shute,eds, Worth Her Salt: Women at Work in Australia (Sydney: Hale & Iremonger, 1982): chapters 21-23 and 25; Heather Radi, Jessie Street: Documents and Essays (Broadway, NSW: Women'sRedress Press, 1990); Pat Ranald, "Women's Organisations and the Issue of Communism", in AnnCurthoys and John Merritt, eds, Better Dead Than Red (Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1986); Andree Wright, "Jessie Street, Feminist", in Curthoys and Merritt, Better Dead than Red; Joy Damousi,Women Come Rally: Socialism, Communism and Gender in Australia 1890-1955 (Melbourne:Oxford University Press, 1994): Joyce Stevens, Taking the Revolution Home: Work Among Womenin the Communist Party of Australia: 1920-1945 (Melbourne: Sybylla Co-operative Press, 1987); Audrey Johnson, Bread & Roses: A Personal History of Three Militant Women and Their Friends1902-1988 (Sutherland, NSW: Left Book Club, 1990); Dame Enid Lyons, Among the CarrionCrows (Melbourne: Rigby, 1972); Marilyn Lake, "The Constitution of Political Subjectivity andthe Writing of Labour History", in Terry Irving, ed., Challenges to Labour History (Sydney:UNSW Press, 1994);
19. 10 Sawer and Simms, A Woman's Place; Margaret Bevege, Margaret James and Carmel Shute,eds, Worth Her Salt: Women at Work in Australia (Sydney: Hale & Iremonger, 1982): chapters 21-23 and 25; Heather Radi, Jessie Street: Documents and Essays (Broadway, NSW: Women'sRedress Press, 1990); Pat Ranald, "Women's Organisations and the Issue of Communism", in AnnCurthoys and John Merritt, eds, Better Dead Than Red (Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1986); AndreeWright, "Jessie Street, Feminist", in Curthoys and Merritt, Better Dead than Red; Joy Damousi, Women Come Rally: Socialism, Communism and Gender in Australia 1890-1955 (Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1994): Joyce Stevens, Taking the Revolution Home: Work Among Womenin the Communist Party of Australia: 1920-1945 (Melbourne: Sybylla Co-operative Press, 1987); Audrey Johnson, Bread & Roses: A Personal History of Three Militant Women and Their Friends1902-1988 (Sutherland, NSW: Left Book Club, 1990); Dame Enid Lyons, Among the CarrionCrows (Melbourne: Rigby, 1972); Marilyn Lake, "The Constitution of Political Subjectivity andthe Writing of Labour History", in Terry Irving, ed., Challenges to Labour History (Sydney:UNSW Press, 1994);
20. 10 Sawer and Simms, A Woman's Place; Margaret Bevege, Margaret James and Carmel Shute,eds, Worth Her Salt: Women at Work in Australia (Sydney: Hale & Iremonger, 1982): chapters 21-23 and 25; Heather Radi, Jessie Street: Documents and Essays (Broadway, NSW: Women'sRedress Press, 1990); Pat Ranald, "Women's Organisations and the Issue of Communism", in AnnCurthoys and John Merritt, eds, Better Dead Than Red (Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1986); AndreeWright, "Jessie Street, Feminist", in Curthoys and Merritt, Better Dead than Red; Joy Damousi,Women Come Rally: Socialism, Communism and Gender in Australia 1890-1955 (Melbourne:Oxford University Press, 1994): Joyce Stevens, Taking the Revolution Home: Work Among Women in the Communist Party of Australia: 1920-1945 (Melbourne: Sybylla Co-operative Press, 1987); Audrey Johnson, Bread & Roses: A Personal History of Three Militant Women and Their Friends1902-1988 (Sutherland, NSW: Left Book Club, 1990); Dame Enid Lyons, Among the CarrionCrows (Melbourne: Rigby, 1972); Marilyn Lake, "The Constitution of Political Subjectivity andthe Writing of Labour History", in Terry Irving, ed., Challenges to Labour History (Sydney:UNSW Press, 1994);
21. 10 Sawer and Simms, A Woman's Place; Margaret Bevege, Margaret James and Carmel Shute,eds, Worth Her Salt: Women at Work in Australia (Sydney: Hale & Iremonger, 1982): chapters 21-23 and 25; Heather Radi, Jessie Street: Documents and Essays (Broadway, NSW: Women'sRedress Press, 1990); Pat Ranald, "Women's Organisations and the Issue of Communism", in AnnCurthoys and John Merritt, eds, Better Dead Than Red (Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1986); AndreeWright, "Jessie Street, Feminist", in Curthoys and Merritt, Better Dead than Red; Joy Damousi,Women Come Rally: Socialism, Communism and Gender in Australia 1890-1955 (Melbourne:Oxford University Press, 1994): Joyce Stevens, Taking the Revolution Home: Work Among Womenin the Communist Party of Australia: 1920-1945 (Melbourne: Sybylla Co-operative Press, 1987); Audrey Johnson, Bread & Roses: A Personal History of Three Militant Women and Their Friends 1902-1988 (Sutherland, NSW: Left Book Club, 1990); Dame Enid Lyons, Among the CarrionCrows (Melbourne: Rigby, 1972); Marilyn Lake, "The Constitution of Political Subjectivity andthe Writing of Labour History", in Terry Irving, ed., Challenges to Labour History (Sydney:UNSW Press, 1994);
22. 10 Sawer and Simms, A Woman's Place; Margaret Bevege, Margaret James and Carmel Shute,eds, Worth Her Salt: Women at Work in Australia (Sydney: Hale & Iremonger, 1982): chapters 21-23 and 25; Heather Radi, Jessie Street: Documents and Essays (Broadway, NSW: Women'sRedress Press, 1990); Pat Ranald, "Women's Organisations and the Issue of Communism", in AnnCurthoys and John Merritt, eds, Better Dead Than Red (Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1986); AndreeWright, "Jessie Street, Feminist", in Curthoys and Merritt, Better Dead than Red; Joy Damousi,Women Come Rally: Socialism, Communism and Gender in Australia 1890-1955 (Melbourne:Oxford University Press, 1994): Joyce Stevens, Taking the Revolution Home: Work Among Womenin the Communist Party of Australia: 1920-1945 (Melbourne: Sybylla Co-operative Press, 1987); Audrey Johnson, Bread & Roses: A Personal History of Three Militant Women and Their Friends1902-1988 (Sutherland, NSW: Left Book Club, 1990); Dame Enid Lyons, Among the Carrion Crows (Melbourne: Rigby, 1972); Marilyn Lake, "The Constitution of Political Subjectivity andthe Writing of Labour History", in Terry Irving, ed., Challenges to Labour History (Sydney:UNSW Press, 1994);
23. 10 Sawer and Simms, A Woman's Place; Margaret Bevege, Margaret James and Carmel Shute,eds, Worth Her Salt: Women at Work in Australia (Sydney: Hale & Iremonger, 1982): chapters 21-23 and 25; Heather Radi, Jessie Street: Documents and Essays (Broadway, NSW: Women'sRedress Press, 1990); Pat Ranald, "Women's Organisations and the Issue of Communism", in AnnCurthoys and John Merritt, eds, Better Dead Than Red (Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1986); AndreeWright, "Jessie Street, Feminist", in Curthoys and Merritt, Better Dead than Red; Joy Damousi,Women Come Rally: Socialism, Communism and Gender in Australia 1890-1955 (Melbourne:Oxford University Press, 1994): Joyce Stevens, Taking the Revolution Home: Work Among Womenin the Communist Party of Australia: 1920-1945 (Melbourne: Sybylla Co-operative Press, 1987); Audrey Johnson, Bread & Roses: A Personal History of Three Militant Women and Their Friends1902-1988 (Sutherland, NSW: Left Book Club, 1990); Dame Enid Lyons, Among the CarrionCrows (Melbourne: Rigby, 1972); Marilyn Lake, "The Constitution of Political Subjectivity and the Writing of Labour History", in Terry Irving, ed., Challenges to Labour History (Sydney: UNSW Press, 1994);
24. Patricia Grimshaw, Marilyn Lake, Ann McGrath and Marian Quartly, Creating A Nation 1788-1990 (Melbourne: McPhee Gribble Publications, 1994).
25. 11 Josie Castle, The Australian Women's Guild of Empire, in Elizabeth Windschuttle, ed., Women, Class and History: Feminist Perspectives on Australia 1788-1978 (Melbourne: Fontana/Collins, 1980).
26. 12 E. F. Smith, Millicent Preston Stanley: A Feminist in Politics, BA (Hons) thesis, University of Sydney, 1977.
27. 13 Sawer and Simms, A Woman's Place ,pp. 58-67.
28. 14 A. L. May, The Battle For The Banks (Sydney: Sydney University Press, 1968), pp. 22, 39 and 124 (note).
29. 15 Andrew Moore, The Right Road: A History of Right-wing Politics in Australia (Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1995), p. 55.
30. 16 Sydney Morning Herald (SMH), 27 September 1947; AWMAS, A Pencil A Phone and A Brain!, (Sydney: AWMAS, [1948]), Westpac Group Archives (WGA), A-51/338, A62c, pamphlets.
31. 17 Warwick Bather, "'Every woman! This is your Business': The Australian Women's Movement Against Socialisation", Journal of Interdisciplinary Gender Studies 2, 1 (March 1997), pp. 60-61.
32. 18 Courier Mail, 30 October, 15 November 1947; Argus (Melbourne), 13, 27 November 1947; Advertiser (Adelaide), 28 November 1947; "AWMAS Interstate Representatives", WGA/A2057/96 and For Ladies Only, WGA/A2057/139.
33. 19 Sun (Sydney), 28 July 1949.
34. 20 Eather, "'Every woman! This is your Business': The Australian Women's Movement Against Socialisation"; Biographical files compiled by the author, with assistance of Dr Chris Cunneen, Deputy General Editor, Australian Dictionary of Biography. 21 "Confidential: Report on Liberal Women's Group, NSW Division", written by Mabel EileenFurley, [1950], LPA, NSWD, ML MSS 2385/Y4640 (9).
35. 20 Eather, "'Every woman! This is your Business': The Australian Women's Movement AgainstSocialisation"; Biographical files compiled by the author, with assistance of Dr Chris Cunneen,Deputy General Editor, Australian Dictionary of Biography. 21 "Confidential: Report on Liberal Women's Group, NSW Division", written by Mabel Eileen Furley, [1950], LPA, NSWD, ML MSS 2385/Y4640 (9).
36. 22 Joan Smith, Kyeamba via Wagga Wagga to John Carrick, LPA, 11 July 1949, LPA, NSWD, ML MSS 2385/Y4626 (7);
37. Daily Advertiser (DA) (Wagga Wagga), 20 October 1948, 30 June 1949.
38. 23 AWMAS, Constitution (Sydney: AWMAS, [1948]): 2, WGA/A2057/96.
39. 24 Ibid., pp. 2-3.
40. 25 AWMAS leaflet, Plans ... Planning ... and Planners, WGA, A-51/338, A62c pamphlets.
41. 26 Preston Stanley Vaughan to "Dear Sir", 29 November 1951, LPA, NSWD, ML MSS 2385/Y4628 (10).
42. 27 AWMAS, Mum (Sydney: AWMAS, [1948]) and Every Woman! This is Your Business (Sydney:AWMAS, [1948]), WGA, A-51/338, A62c, pamphlets.
43. 27 AWMAS, Mum (Sydney: AWMAS, [1948]) and Every Woman! This is Your Business (Sydney: AWMAS, [1948]), WGA, A-51/338, A62c, pamphlets.
44. 28 Preston Stanley Vaughan quoted in Cootamundra Daily Herald, 9 December 1947; The Times(Kings Cross), 13 May 1948.
45. 28 Preston Stanley Vaughan quoted in Cootamundra Daily Herald, 9 December 1947; The Times (Kings Cross), 13 May 1948.
46. 29 DA, 4 May 1948, 3 June 1950.
47. 30 Preston Stanley Vaughan to "Dear Everywoman", [May 1948], WGA/A2057/962E
48. 31 Bather, "'Every woman! This is your Business': The Australian Women's Movement Against Socialisation"; "Record of activities anti-Bank nationalisation campaign - 16 August 1947 to 10 December 1949", compiled by R. R. McKellar, Liaison Officer, Bank of NSW, WGA/A2057/49; R. S. Coates, Director, IPA (NSW) to D. M. Cleland, 13 December 1949, IPA (NSW) Papers, NLA MS 6590/Box 9 Elections - Fed/State 1943-49.
49. 32 Sawer and Simms, A Woman's Place, pp. 146.
50. 33 Graeme Starr, ed., The Liberal Party of Australia: A Documentary History (Melbourne: Drummond/Heinemann, 1980), p. 82.
51. 34 Sawer and Simms, A Woman's Place, pp. 134-35.
52. s35 LPA, Federal Secretariat Papers (FS), NLA, MS 5000, Series1/Box 1; "LPA - Report of the Federal Executive submitted by the Federal President to the Federal Council at its Second Annual Meeting on 2 September 1947", LPA, Victorian Division Papers (VD), University of Melbourne Archives (UMA)/1/2/1/3.
53. 36 Roberta Galagher to D. Cleland, 25 January 1947, LPA, FS, NLA MS 5000/Box 1/Federal Women's Committee; "LPA, NSWD, Branch Organisation - Metropolitan, Intermediate and Country" enclosed in "State Report vide Federal Secretariat Memorandum - C10 of the 2 October 1946", LPA, VD, UMA/1/2/1/2.
54. 37 "Dick" [Casey], Union Club, Sydney to "Bill" [W. H. Spooner], 14 November 1947, LPA, NSWD, ML MSS 2385/Y4640 (9).
55. 38 F. R. Burton, Chief Executive Officer to W. H. Spooner, 19 November 1947, ML MSS 2385/Y4640 (9); "Minutes of the [NSWD] Executive Meeting", 24 November 1947, ML MSS 2385/Y4625 (1).
56. 39 Roberta Galagher, "Chairman", Federal Women's Committee to D. M. Cleland, 5 December 1947, LPA, FS, NLA MS 5000/Box 1/Federal Women's Committee.
57. 40 D. Cleland to Federal President, 10 December 1947, LPA, FS, NLA MS 5000/Series 1/Box 1.
58. 41 "Informal meeting of representative of the Women's Sub-Committee of the Executive ...", 29 January [1948], LPA, NSWD, ML MSS 2385/Y4640 (9).
59. 42 Cleland to Casey, 17 June 1948; Cleland to Galagher, 17 June 1948; "Minute for the Federal President" from Magnus Cormack, Acting President, LPA, VD, 24 June 1948; Cleland to Members of the Federal Women's Committee, 1 July 1948, LPA, FS, NLA, MS 5000/Box 1/Federal Women's Committee.
60. 43 Federal Women's Committee, minutes, 26 July 1948, LPA, FS, NLA MS 5000/Series 1/Box 2.
61. 44 "Minutes of the Third Annual Meeting of the Federal Council ...", 27-28 September 1948 and "Minutes of the Seventeenth Meeting of the Federal Executive ...", 18 January 1949, LPA, NSWD, ML MSS 2385/Y4639 (15); Cleland to Members of the Federal Women's Committee, 23 April 1948, LPA, FS, NLA MS 5000/Series 1/Box 1.
62. 45 "Women's Co-Ordinating Council, Constitution" and "Women's Co-Ordinating Council", LPA, NSWD, ML MSS 2385/Y4640 (9); Phyllis Jackson, Hon. Secretary, Dee Why Branch to John Carrick, 7 September 1948 and Carrick to Jackson, 15 September 1948, ML MSS 2385/Y4621 (21).
63. 46 "Report of the [NSWD] Executive to the State Council", 15 October 1948, LPA, NSWD, ML MSS 2385/Y4621(20).
64. 47 "Report of the [NSWD] Executive to the State Council", 15 October 1948, LPA, NSWD, ML MSS 2385/Y4621 (21); State Council, minutes, 15 October 1948, ML MSS 2385/Y4625 (2).
65. 48 "Confidential: Report ... Women's Group", ML MSS 2385/Y4640 (9); membership statistics have been taken from a variety of LPA sources that can be found in LPA, NSWD, ML MSS 2385/Y4639 (11) and MSS 2385/K53635 (24), and LPA, VD, UMA/1/2/1/2-5.
66. 49 "Confidential: Report ... Women's Group"; Mrs A. H. Dougan, Sydney to John Carrick, 11 September 1949, LPA, NSWD, ML MSS 2385/Y4626 (11).
67. 50 B. G. Wheeler, Hon. Secretary, Manly Branch, LPA to Carrick, 7 September 1949, ML MSS 2385/Y4626 (11).
68. 51 Mrs D. M. Rae, Summer Hill, to R. G. Casey, Federal President, LPA, 7 February 1949, ML MSS 2385/Y4625 (8) and to Dame Enid Lyons, 12 December 1949, Lyons Papers, NLA MS 4852/1948 Correspondence - Appointment to Cabinet.
69. 52 See private correspondence between Preston Stanley Vaughan and W. M. Hughes, Hughes Papers, NLA MS 1538.
70. 53 Preston Stanley Vaughan's nomination forms dated 29 April 1949, LPA, NSWD, ML MSS 2385/Y4640 (3); "Declaration of Ballot - Senate Selection committee" and "Minutes of first meeting of the Senate selection committee ... 9 May 1949", ML MSS 2385/Y4639 (17); "Count sheet for the selection of candidate to represent the Party in the Senate and ballot papers" for each of the three counts, ML MSS 2385/Y4649 (9-11); Rae to Lyons, 12 December 1949, Lyons Papers, NLA MS 4852.
71. 54 The Times (Kings Cross), 9 June 1949; B. G. Wheeler, Hon. Secretary, Manly Branch, to Carrick, 21 May 1949, ML MSS 2385/Y4626 (3).
72. 55 SMH, 7 June 1949, 1 April 1951, 9 April 1953. "Chairman's Report to Women's Group, LPA, NSWD ... Annual Meeting", 19 October 1949, ML MSS 2385/Y4640 (9).
73. 56 Constance Macdonald to the Editor, SMH, 19 November 1949, LPA NSWD, ML MSS 2385/Y4627 (5).
74. 57 SMH, 24 December 1949, 13 January 1950.
75. 58 "Confidential: Report ... Women's Group".
76. 59 DA, 27 May 1954; Gosford Times, 15 August 1950.
77. 60 SMH, 25, 28 November 1953.