Wright, Mary, (Hazel Mary)

Also known as
Wright, Hazel Mary
Wright, Mary (1903-)
Field of activity
Trade unionist and Women's rights activist
Libraries Australia
http://nla.gov.au/anbd.aut-an35368745
NLA Persistent Identifier
http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-508679

Biographies

Mary Wright was a labour activist and feminist with a long history of militantly supporting the rights of Australian women and workers. She was a founding member in the 1920s of the Militant Women's Movement - the central women's department of the Communist Party of Australia. Her husband, Tom, was an important figure in Australian labour history.

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Australian Women's Register

  1. The Woman Worker
    Militant Women's Movement
    [1928]
    Published: Militant Women's Movement
  2. The Noel Butlin Archives Centre, ANU Archives Program: Papers of Mary Wright 1903-1990 (1886 - 1985)
    Mary Wright's correspondence, files, pamphlets and memorabilia relating to the Union of Australian Women; photographs and a poster. Records of the anthropologist, Olive Pink. Minute book of the Board of Delegates on the St Marys (building) Project, 1956. Also family papers and diaries.
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  3. National Library of Australia Oral History Collection: Interview with Mary Wright [sound recording] / Interviewer: Richard Raxworthy
    8 tape reels : 3 3/4 ips., mono. ; 5 in. Interview conducted in 1988. Mrs Wright speaks of her family background and her early life in SydHouney; her first marriage; living conditions during the 1920s; the Militant Women's Group; scabs and the timberworkers' lockout, Glebe; evictions from houses; rations; demonstrations; International Women's Day; Civil War in Spain; Jessie Street; Selina Maloney; meeting Tom Wright; Communist Party social activities; Paddy Drew; Tom's involvement in the union; his work at Wonderlex; New Guard; Workers' Defence Corps; welfare inspections; Woman Today; Spanish Relief Committee; Tom's work on the Labor Council; Idris Williams; Bill Orr; fights in the Labor Council; caucusing; Jim Healey; Ernie Thornton; book raids; women's wages; Jessie Street's involvement in the labour movement; Della Elliot ; Tom's involvement in the ACTU; Tom's overseas trips; his work with aborigines; Housewives Association; Union of Australian Women; International Women's Day committee; miners' strike; book raids; Vietnam demonstrations; her work in the Bankstown area; changes to the women's movement; communism; the ALP.
    ORAL TRC 1948/43

Resources by Mary Wright (1)

  1. Sugar and spice / Mary Wright
    Wright, Mary (Hazel Mary)
    [ Book, Audio book : 1988-1994 ]
    At 10 libraries
    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 6.273)

    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 6.273)

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  1. Romeo and Juliet / William Shakespeare
    Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
    [ Book, Audio book, Article : 1597-2011 ]
    Languages: English, Chinese, Japanese, [17 others]
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  2. Art at Perth Technical College : ten years at St. Brigid's, 1978-1988 : a catalogue, with an introductory essay / by Mary Wright
    Wright, Mary
    [ Book : 1988 ]
    At 5 libraries
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  3. Cornish guernseys & knit-frocks / [by] Mary Wright
    Wright, Mary
    [ Book : 1979 ]
    At State Library of NSW
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  4. Telling tales : short stories / by Mary Wright
    Wright, Mary
    [ Book : 1998 ]
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  1. Website: Hazel Dooney
    hazeldooney.blogspot.com
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  2. Website: Australian Women's Archives Project
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  3. Website: Australian Women in War
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  1. Choose your weapons : three act stage play / by Mary Wright
    Wright, Mary
    [ Unpublished : 1970 ]
    At UQ Library
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  2. Papers
    Wright, Mary
    [ Unpublished : 1886-1985 ]
    At ANU Archives Program
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  3. Persuasion / Jane Austen
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    [ Book, Audio book, Article : 1817-2011 ]
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    At 139 libraries
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  1. Interview with Mary Wright / Interviewers: Caroline Adler & Miranda Bennett
    Wright, Mary (Hazel Mart), 1921-
    [ Sound : 1994 ]
    At State Library S Aust
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  2. Mary Wright interviewed by Richard Raxworthy in the Labor Council of New South Wales oral history project
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    [ Sound : 1988 ]
    At National Library
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    This resource may be of limited relevance to your query (score: 0.467)

  3. Romeo and Juliet / William Shakespeare
    Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
    [ Book, Audio book, Article : 1597-2011 ]
    Languages: English, Chinese, Japanese, [17 others]
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    At 190 libraries
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  4. Ivanhoe
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    [ Book, Audio book, Article : 1800-2010 ]
    Languages: English, French, Hungarian, [13 others]
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    At 101 libraries
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  1. What price culture?: Mary Wright examines a recent report from the Australia Council on community support for the arts
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    Fremantle Arts Centre Broadsheet
    [ Article : 1985 ]
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  2. History and Australia's involvement: International Women's Day
    Wright, Mary
    Modern Unionist
    [ Article : 1981 ]
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  3. Fifty in the sun. -An interview with artist George Haynes and some of his students-
    Wright, Mary
    Fremantle Arts Review
    [ Article : 1988 ]
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  4. Recording and remaking history
    Wright, Mary
    Fremantle Arts Review
    [ Article : 1988 ]
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  1. STUDENTS' CONCERT
    The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1956) Thursday 17 December 1942 p 6 Article
    ... were Hazel Bodley, Colina Bruce, Alice Halifax, Irene Nevill, Edith Stainer, Elsa Whadlock, Betty Wright, Mary Esler, and Lillian Tehan. Miss Doubleday acted as accompanist. ... 58 words
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  2. Letters Acknowledged
    Sunday Times (Perth, WA : 1902 - 1954) Sunday 4 February 1934 Section: Second Section p 6 Article
    ... Hazel Fraser, Eileen Wood hams, Jean Stuart, Bin Wright. ... M ¥ S - Letters Acknowledged ¡ M _'_r U«(«»tlI1*(f fflllllf Hf Iii fM^^X^-M.^M.XM.M.M.M.M.^M.MMM.M.M.M.M.M.m Letters were received from Frances Caporn, Myrtle Russell, Mary Rova, Norma Kean, Willie ... 65 words
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  3. PRACTICE COURT PENDING DIVORCE SUIT.
    The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954) Saturday 28 April 1934 p 6 Article
    ... the Chief Justice (Sir Herbert Nicholls), Mr. R. C. Wright (Crisp and Wright) applied for an order dispensing with the name of a co-respondent In the pending divorce suit, Thomas Walter Venn v. Hazel Mary Venn, the grounds of which are adultery, drunkenness and neglect. An order was made as asked. ... 67 words
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