Records

Each record focuses on a single item from the National Archives' collection. Some records contain extra information to help you interpret them.

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  Rules for married women working at CSIRO – reply to radiophysicist Ruby Payne-Scott

  Letter from the CSIRO Chairman to Ruby Payne-Scott on the implications of marriage.

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  Sex Discrimination Act 1984

  This is an excerpt from the Sex Discrimination Act 1984.

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  Vocational training for war widows - millinery class

  War widows learning new trades in classes offered by the Repatriation Department.

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  War pension for mother of nurse

  This is the application of widow Jeanie O'Kane for a war pension, after the death of her daughter, Nurse Rosa O'Kane, from the Spanish flu.

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  Woman working in a munitions factory during World War ll

  This is a black-and-white photograph of a woman working in an unidentified munitions factory in 1940.

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  Women working on the jam bottling line at the Cottee's factory

  This is a black-and-white photograph taken at Cottee's General Foods Ltd jam factory at Leichhardt, New South Wales in 1972.