Alley, Diane Berenice (1927-)

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Diane Alley has worked in a range of organisations to ensure that women gained equal opportunity in society and for the achievement of social justice for all members of the community, both in Australia and internationally. She was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire in 1981 for her community work.

Daughter of (Dr) Frederick Reginald Edward Duke and Eva Reeves, née Collins. Diane Alley was educated at Clarendon Presbyterian Ladies' College Ballarat, Victoria, Methodist Ladies' College Melbourne and Girton Church of England Girls' Grammar School Bendigo. She completed her tertiary education at the University of Melbourne where she gained a BA Honours in 1948. She later completed a Diploma of Criminology in 1976.

She married (Mr Justice) Stephen George Alley in 1949 and had four children; two sons and two daughters.

Apart from rearing her children, she has devoted her life to working for equality for women and social justice for all. She held the position of president of the National Council of Women of Victoria from 1977-1980. She was convenor of Family Policy Sub-committee Victorian Consultative Council of Social Development from 1979 and member of the Fairlea Women's Prison Council. She was a member of the Victorian Premier's Equal Opportunity Advisory Council in 1978 and chair, National Status of Women Committee, United Nations Association of Australia (UNAA) from 1980. She has been an honorary magistrate of the Children's Court from 1972. She has travelled overseas to represent the National Council of Women (NCW) at conferences of the International Council of Women. From 1986-1994, she held the position of international convenor of the Child and Family Standing Committee of the International Council of Women. In 1993 Diane Alley received a testimonial from the United Nations Co-ordinator for the International Year the Family (IYF), designating her an IYF patron for exemplary support to the UN program on IYF. On her retirement from the Board of the Children's Protection Society in 1999, she was made a life vice-president, only the second since its formation in 1896.

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Australian Women's Register

  1. Alley, Diane Berenice, OBE, Community WorkerWho's who of Australian women Andrea Lofthouse 40 : Alley, Diane Berenice, OBE, Community Worker
    [1982]
    Published: Methuen Australia
  2. Faith, Hope and Charity Australian Women and Imperial Honours: 1901-1989
    Australian Women's Archives Project
    [2003]
    Published: Australian Women's Archives Project
    Series: http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/honours/honours.html
  3. A decade of Mary Owen dinners
    Waterfield, Dorothy
    [1995]
    Published: Mary Owen Dinner Committee
  4. State Library of Victoria, Australian Manuscripts Collection: Children's Protection Society ( Vic.) records (1896 - 1985)
    Records include: files relating to children (1921 - 1968); copy letter books; minute books; ledgers; cash books; press cuttings; printed material relating to the Children's Services Acts and related matters; photographs; statistical sheets ( 1961 - 1970); and letters and press cuttings concerning St Martin's and St John's Homes ( 1936 - 1939) and Newhaven Boys' Home (1934). In the view of Dorothy Scott and Shurlee Swain, this intact set of case records 'provides a unique window into a century of child protection practice'.
    MS 10384
  5. State Library of Victoria, Australian Manuscripts Collection: Women Justices' Association of Victoria papers [manuscript] (1939 - 1974)
    Papers of the Women Justices' Association and the International Association of Youth Magistrates (Victoria). Includes correspondence, minutes, agendas, annual reports, newsletters, attendance roll and related items. Also, minutes, reports and newsletters of the National Council of Women of Victoria and the Australian Local Government Women's Association (Victorian Branch).
    MS 10773

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