Portrait of Elizabeth 'Biff' Ward, 6th August 2005 / Bob Givens
- Bib ID:
- 3572844
- 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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"Daughter of Russel Ward (b. Adelaide, 1914), teacher, historian & writer. Her parents were both 4th generation South Australians. She was educated in Sydney and Canberra, and at the University of New England, Armidale. She has been a teacher (secondary schools, NSW and the ACT 1956-78), was co-ordinator of the government alternative School Without Walls in Canberra (1974-7), has taught creative writing to adults, tutored in teacher education, worked in the Canberra Women's Refuge (1978-81), taught adult literacy to Aboriginal people in Alice Springs, and has been an active member of Women for Survival (the group which organized the women's camp at the US military installation at Pine Gap). Since 1984 she has lived in Adelaide, although she spends a lot of time in Canberra. She works as a management consultant specializing in equal opportunity issues. She has been publishing articles and poems in feminist journals since the 1970s. As well as the poetry and short story listed below, she wrote Father-Daughter Rape (1984), and chapters in Women and Labour Conference Papers (1978) and Different Lives (1987). She won the FAW Donald Stuart Short Story Award 1991 for her unpublished story 'Leaving Tennant Creek'. Reference: http://www.austlit.edu.au/run?ex=ShowAgent&agentId=A)%23R
- Notes:
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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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- Ward, Elizabeth, 1942- -- 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 poets -- Australia -- Portraits
- Authors, Australian -- 20th century -- Portraits
- Occupation:
- Terms of Use:
- Copyright held by the National Library of Australia.
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- Material type:
- Photograph
- Published status:
- Unpublished
- Creation date:
- 2005
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