Oke, Marjorie (1911-2003)

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Community worker and Political candidate
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Marj Oke’s first job was as a teacher in a one-room school. Upon her marriage in 1942, as was the policy of the time, she was suspended from teaching. Working at the Australian Jam Company, she encountered very poor working conditions. This experience propelled her to join the Food Preservers’ Union and become active in the Australian Labor Party. She stood as a candidate for the Australian Labor Party in the Legislative Assembly seat of St Kilda under her maiden name, Bennett, at the Victorian state election, which was held in 1943. In 1950, Oke became a founding and lifelong member of the Union of Australian Women. After returning to teaching in Moe, she campaigned for equal pay for women teachers, the abolition of the marriage bar and access to superannuation. Additionally, Oke formed a branch of the Aboriginal Advancement League and became, in 1992, a founding member of the Network for Older Women. On 10 June 1991 she was awarded an OAM (Medal of the Order of Australia) for service to aged people, particularly women. Oke was included in the Victorian Honour Roll of Women in March 2002.

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Australian Women's Register

  1. Marj Oke - Tribute to a foundation memberUnion of Australian Women, Newsltter September, 2003 1 : Marj Oke - Tribute to a foundation member
    [2003]
  2. A life swimming hard for political equalityThe Age Obituaries 9 : A life swimming hard for political equality
    Owen, Mary R and Graham, Janet
    [2003]
  3. Carrying on the Fight: Women Candidates in Victorian Parliamentary Elections
    Australian Women's Archives Project
    [2008]
    Published: Australian Women's Archives Project
    Series: http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/cws/home.html
  4. A decade of Mary Owen dinners
    Waterfield, Dorothy
    [1995]
    Published: Mary Owen Dinner Committee
  5. The University of Melbourne Archives: Oke, Marjorie (1964 - 1994)
    Articles; Women and Labour Conference minutes, papers, programs, newsletter, leaflets, monograph; casette tape; National Health Promorion Conference papers; Older Women's Network Annual Conference papers; Women's Suffrage Centenary papers; International Conference of Women from Industrialised Nations on Women and Work program; Women and Housing Workshop conference papers; Women and Technological Change leaflet; newspaper clippings; correspondence; newspaper clippings; diaries; personal papers; mongraphs; periodicals including 'Alive and WEL', 'Freedom to Choose'; 'Consultative Committee of Women on Leisure and Recreation Newsletter'; 'Health Sharing Women Newsletter of the Victorian Women's Health Information Service'; 'Star Victorian Action on Intellectual Disability '; National Council of Women of Victoria Newsletter and Quarterly Bulletin; 'Manipulation'; 'Unity'; 'Northcote Community Health Centre Newsletter'; 'Northcote Hydro Therapy Massage, Self Help Ladies Group'; 'WAC Women's Newsletter'; Women in Focus WAC'; 'Women's Liberation Newsletter'; subject files regarding abortion, arts, health; Australian Council of Women papers; CAPOW papers; Consultative Committee of Women on Leisure and Recreation papers; other major women's organisations.
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