National Council of Women of Western Australia.

Also known as
National Council of Women of Western Australia. (1911-)
Function
Voluntary organisation
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Biographies

The National Council of Women of Western Australia was founded in 1911, largely due to the efforts of Lady Edeline Strickland (wife of the Governor of Western Australia) who became its first president. It is a non-party, non-sectarian, umbrella organisation for a large and diverse number of affiliated women's groups in Western Australia. It functions as a political lobby group, attempting to influence local, state and federal government. The Council has supported a wide range of social reform activities, particularly those related to education and to women's, children's and family welfare. While not an overtly feminist organisation, it provided a major focus for, predominantly middle-class, women's activism until at least the 1940s. Unlike many other states, however, the Council had strong competition from the Women's Service(s) Guild of Western Australia for leadership of the women's movement. Its initial aims were: 1. 'To establish a bond of union between the various affiliated societies. 2. To advance the interests of women and children and of humanity in general. 3. To confer on questions relating to the welfare of the family, the State and the Commonwealth.'

Like all National Councils of Women, it operates though a standing committee system whereby specific issues are brought before the Council and, if there is general agreement that a question should be taken up, a subcommittee is established to investigate the matter.

Among the groups affiliated with the Council in the 1910s were the: Women's Service(s) Guild; Woman's Christian Temperance Union; Karrakatta Club; British Immigration Association; Metropolitan Women's Workers' Union; Children's Protection Society; Ministering Children's League; Western Australian Trained Nurses Association; Girls' Friendly Society and the Mothers' Union. Among the earliest issues to attract the Council's attention were: free kindergartens; women's health; school medical services; prison reform; provision for domestic science in schools and the university; venereal diseases bill; film censorship; women jurors; women police; anti-gambling legislation.

Current affiliated organisations include the : Zonta Club of South Perth; Young Women's Christian Organisation of WA' War Widows Guild; Nation Council of Jewish Women; Australian Federation of University Women; Catholic Women's League; Guides WA; Home Economics Association of WA; Soroptimists International; State Women's Council of the Liberal Party.

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Australian Women's Register

  1. War, Sexuality and Feminism: Perth’s Women’s Organisations 1938-1945Historical Studies 21 85 576-591 : War, Sexuality and Feminism: Perth’s Women’s Organisations 1938-1945
    Reekie, Gail
    [1985]
  2. The Spirit lives on, 1911-1999
    Sher, Noreen
    [1999]
    Published: National Council of Women of Western Australia Inc.
  3. Women on the warpath : feminist of the first wave
    Davidson, Dianne
    [1997]
    Published: University of Western Australia Press
  4. JS Battye Library of West Australian History, State Library of Western Australia: National Council of Women of Western Australia Records, [manuscript] (1911 - 1961)
    Records include minutes of General Council (1911-1944), and of Executive Council (1911-1945); attendance rolls (1930-1935, 1949-1951, 1958-1961); constitution; letter book (1914-1917)
    ACC 1389A
  5. Private Hands (contact Australian Women's Archive Project): National Council of Women of Western Australia Records
    Annual Reports, 1992-; Press cuttings
  6. JS Battye Library of West Australian History, State Library of Western Australia: Papers of Mabel Craven-Griffiths (1882 - 1966)
    Autograph album (1886-1963); cards; certificates; diaries (including diary of voyage from England to Australia in 1882); invitations and letters (1919-1959); programmes; scrapbook, etc. relating to her private life as well as her involvement with various organisations such as Country Women's Association, Australian Red Cross Society, Silver Chain Nursing Association, Young Women's Christian Association, West Australian Symphony Orchestra, National Council of Women Business and Professional Women's Club of Perth.
    ACC 4560A
  7. JS Battye Library of West Australian History, State Library of Western Australia: Women's Service Guilds of Western Australia Records (1896 - 1959)
    Minute books (1913-1956); annual conference files (1936-1952); general correspondence files (1914-1952); subject files on political, social and moral issues (e.g. immigration, native welfare, maternal welfare); reports on various issues relating to women.
    ACC 1949A
  8. JS Battye Library of West Australian History, State Library of Western Australia: Jull, Roberta Henrietta Margaritta, 1872-1961, Papers [manuscript]. (1881 - 1959)
    Diaries (1886-1959); personal papers; correspondence, including that with her husband Martin Edward Jull; material re conscription referendum (1916), Royal Commission on administration of W.A. Health Act (1938), schools medical service (1920's), University of W.A. (1922-1941), National Council of Women (1915-1939); and numerous articles, talks, etc. (1895-1942).
    MN 69

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  1. Report / National Council of Women of Western Australia
    National Council of Women of Western Australia
    [ Periodical : 1900-2011 ]
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  2. Annual report / National Council of Women of Western Australia
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  3. National Council of Women of Western Australia records
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  4. The spirit lives on, 1911-1999 / [Noreen Sher]
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    [ Book : 1999 ]
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  5. [Invitation and programme of Reception Musicale to celebrate 60th anniversary of the Council's foundation in 1911; held at Government House Ballroom, 7 July 1971]
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  6. Report to the Child Endowment Commission
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  7. Records
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  3. National Council of Women of Western Australia records
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  5. [Invitation and programme of Reception Musicale to celebrate 60th anniversary of the Council's foundation in 1911; held at Government House Ballroom, 7 July 1971]
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  6. Report to the Child Endowment Commission
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  7. Records
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  8. [Letter dated 3 November 1949 addressed to Dr R.H.M. Jull enclosing typescript copy of an undated press cutting [1920s?] describing a women's meeting at Perth Town Hall "in support of woollen mills campaign"]
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  9. Janet and Jim Smith papers
    Smith, Janet
    [ Unpublished : 1910-1968 ]
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