Portrait of Sara Dowse, former head of the Women's Affairs Section, Department of Prime Minister & Cabinet, 1974-1977 and member of the Australian official delegation to the Mexico City International Women's Year conference, 6th August 2005 / Bob Givens
- Bib ID:
- 3572350
- Format:
- Picture
- Author:
- Givens, Bob
- Online Version:
- National Library of Australia digitised item
- Description:
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- 2005
- 1 digital photograph : col.
- Series:
- Collection of photographs of the International Women's Year 30th Anniversary Dinner at Old Parliament House, Canberra, 6th August 2005.
- Technical Details:
- Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
- Biography/History:
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Born Dale Sara Rosenthal. Migrated to Sydney, Australia October 3 1958. BA at the University of Sydney. Moved to Canberra ACT 1968. She was appointed as the inaugural head of the Office of Women's Affairs in 1974 during the Whitlam Government. She resigned in 1977 and worked as a teacher at the ANU. Dowse has worked as a journalist, publisher, editor and reviewer for a variety of newspapers and journals. She concentrates most of her time on writing. She was the recipient of the 1982 AIPS / APSA Women in Politics Prize and the 1995 ACT Book of the Year award. Her book Sapphires was short listed for the 1994 3M / Royal Blind Society Talking Book of the Year Award, the Australian list for the 1996 IMPAC Dublin Prize, and the 1995 Steele Rudd Award. She also won ACT Book Reviewer of the Year in 1995 and shared this award with Marion Halligan in 1997.
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- Title devised by cataloguer based on information from caption list.
- Part of the collection: Collection of photographs of the International Women's Year 30th Anniversary Dinner at Old Parliament House, Canberra, 6th August 2005.
- Acquired in digital format; access copies available online.
- Source of Acquisition:
- Commissioned by the National Library of Australia, 2005.
- Subject:
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- Dowse, Sara, 1938- -- Portraits
- Parliament House (Parkes, A.C.T.) -- Photographs
- International Women's Year, 2005 -- Australian Capital Territory -- Canberra -- Photographs
- Women's rights -- Australian Capital Territory -- Canberra -- Photographs
- Women -- Australian Capital Territory -- Canberra -- Portraits
- Women authors, Australian -- 20th century -- Portraits
- Feminists -- Australia -- Portraits
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- Authors
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- Creation date:
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