Library

Folders containing information, correspondence, minutes, newspaper clippings on homeless, shelters, small boarding houses,

Newsletter started on 28th March 1978.

Pre 1983 newsletters were Foolscap and coloured paper used for some foolscap newsletters (Pink or Yellow)

Post 1983 newsletters were A4 and usually consist of Originals, Mark-up copies and Copies) often with changed between each version.

The general order was Dec/Jan - Oct/Nov

The early newsletters acted as the agenda and minutes of meetings and as a record of the women's movement as seen from FNQ.

Includes :

Cairns and FNQ (Cairns Women's Centre - 1984 -; The Women's Centre 1988-1990 ; Women's Information and Referral Centre )

WEL National and State newsletters (WEL! Informed ; Broadsheet ; WEL Read)

Includes Minutes and Agenda; Financial records; Membership lists; General correspondence, Conferences; Workshops; Newsletter mailing lists, etc

Joan Trewern used notebooks to transcribe radio and television programs of interest.

Notebooks were also used as records of conversation.

Subject files are arranged in alphabetical order by file title. The contents of each file varies and may contain correspondence, newspaper clippings, press releases or reports.

Contains copies of submissions made on a variety of subjects including:

Submission for a Women's Shelter in Cairns
Submission to the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs Inquiry into the Exposure Draft of the Family Law Amendment (Shared Parental Responsibility) Bill 2005
WEL Cairns submission in support of the Cairns Education Centre
Submission to the Minister for Welfare Services (Queensland) on Adoption Legislation Discussion Paper
Submissions on the Review of Prostitution Laws [Queensland]
Submission on Invitro Fertilization and Embryo Transfer
Submission Review of the Queensland Criminal Code with Respect to the Offence of Rape

Includes letters to the Cairns Post and other newspapers; Radio and Television programs such as Life Matters and Beauty and the Beast.

Letters are usually signed by Joan Trewern as the Representative of the Women's Electoral Lobby Cairns

Includes correspondence and other records received from other WEL Groups and records of the National Management Committee.

Excludes papers and other documents from WEL National Conferences (see series WELS0019)

Contains speeches by Joan including one to the Cairns Welfare Council (1982), the BHP Awards for Excellence (1984), the Women in Politics Seminar (1999) and newspaper articles about Joan

Personal correspondence

Includes:

United Nation Convention on the Rights of the Child 1989-1993
International Women's Year 1975
International Year of the Family 1994
United Nations Decade for Women 1979-1985
International Year of the Child 1979
Fourth World Conference on Women (Beijing) 1995
United Nations convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination against Women

Includes material on various aspects of Education including early childhood education; gender equity; etc

Contains letters; newspaper clippings; reports on varaious topics including reconciliation, Yarrabah Hospital, birthing facilities, remote communities, infant mortality, education

Includes :

WEL History Project;
Women's History Month;
'A Wealth of Women'

Includes lobbying on behalf of members of the community on women issues.

Series contains biographical files on local Members of Parliament (Federal and State) and Local Government Councillors

Contains letters; brochures; reports; transcripts; handwritten notes and newspaper clippings on topics including family law, defacto relationships, sole parenting

Contains reports; letters; brochures; newspaper clippings on topics including domestic violence, child abuse, rape, firearms

Folders contain various items including programs, press releases, correspondence and papers presented at the conferences, seminars, etc

Contains letters; newsletters; conference papers; contact lists of members

Pamphlets pertaining to women's issues. Examples include "Books and resources about women's issues from Redfern Legal Centre Publishing", "Queensland Women's Consultative Council", "Your best man for the job may be a woman", "Work book for women", "Sexual harassment in the workplace"

Contains letters; newspaper clippings; minutes; contact lists of various community groups active in Cairns

Folders containing information on sterilisation, surrogacy, IVF, family planning, childbirth etc

Collection of documents, newspaper clippings and correspondence between Joan Trewern and women in the Women's Movement or of significance to WEL Cairns.

Includes Ms Quentin Bryce AC; Senator Margaret Reynolds; Jilpia Nappaljari Jones [Margory Baldwin Jones]; Local members of Parliament and MLA; Local Councillors, etc

Contains letters; newspaper clippings; minutes; handwritten notes

Folders containing information, correspondence, minutes and newspaper clippings on health issues

Includes social welfare

Joan kept many publications as part of her research into the issues which concerned her.

Titles are all situated in Box 65, and consist of:

ACTU briefing to women's organisations, April 1996 : what the Government's proposed industrial relations changes mean for women
Affirmative action : guidelines for smaller employers (1989)
Annual report 1989-90 : Affirmative Action Agency
The ALP and women : towards equality (1982)
Australia on the rack (1982)
ANSOL occasional publications (Australian National Social Sciences Library):
No. 14 : Housing (1978)
No. 44 : Alcoholism and drug addiction (1981)
No. 45 : Library services for the handicapped (1981)
No. 46 : Juvenile delinquency (1981)
No. 47 : Youth issues (1981)
Care for victims of sexual offences : report of the Inter-departmental task force, February 1978
Career education and guidance for the next millennium (1997)
Characteristics of pensioners : Australia and states (1992)
Child care : a background paper (1988)
Child protection legislation : issues paper (1993)
Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women : consolidated report of Australia (1986, 1988)
Education news Vol 15(4/5) (1975)
Fair exposure : guidelines for the constructive and positive portrayal and presentation of women in the media (1983)
A guide on discrimination in employment in Australia (1982)
International Labour Organisation Convention 156 : workers with family responsibilities (1990)
Inquiry into the privacy implications of telecommunications services : discussion paper (1991)
Issues affecting older aboriginal people : a discussion paper (1988)
International women's news : the monthly organ of the International Woman Suffrage Alliance (2004)
Health and the media in Australia - an uneasy relationship : a paper based on the Better Health Commission's Media Workshop, ANU, Dec 2 and 3, 1985
An inquiry into sexual offences involving children and related matters (1986)
Manushi : a journal about women and society, No. 44, 1988
Maternity leave provisions (1979)
National Conference on Legislative and Award Restrictions to Women's Employment papers (1986)
Papers presented at the 8th annual Lalor address on community relations, Adelaide, 3 Dec, 1982
Proposed family welfare legislation : discussion paper (1979)
Report on donor gametes in IVF (1983)
Report of the Working Party to Examine the Adequacy of Existing Services for the Termination of Pregnancy in South Australia (1986)
Research on humans : first report by NH & MRC Working Party on Ethics in Medical Research (1982)
Review of industrial relations legislation in Queensland : issues paper (1998)
Selected papers Foundation for Child and Youth Studies No. 1-42
Services for the termination of pregnancy in Australia : a review : draft consultation document (1995)
Some common questions about lone parents answered (1997)
Sport in schools : the participation of girls : a discussion paper (1979)
The 12 hour workday : emerging issues (1998)
Upfront : journal of the Library Society, the friends' group of the State Library of NSW
Vol 4(2) 1992
What have you been doing all day (1977)
Women comment : a publication of the Union of Australian Women (1981)
Women's equality : quarterly bulletin of AIDWA (Jan-Mar 1988)
You can beat the country blues : a how to and where to guide for country women on leisure and recreation (1989)
Youth and the media : a report into the representation of young people in the New South Wales print media (1992)

Folders containing information, correspondence, minutes and newspaper clippings on issues involving women in the workforce

Folders containing information, correspondence, minutes and newspaper clippings on topics involving education

Folders containing information, correspondence, minutes and newspaper clippings on topics involving human rights

Folders containing information, correspondence, minutes and newspaper clippings on topics involving abortion