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2002 May, Vol 12, No 2: Parliamentary luncheon [Sandra Yates] p1. Library matters p3. "Shifting the focus: women's groups in an African Village"[Dorothy Makasa] p4. "Sydney - too big of too small?" [Deirdre Mason] p10. "The many sides triangle: adoption in Australia" [Audrey Marshall & Margaret McDonald] p10.

2002 November, Vol 13, No 4: Parliamentary luncheon [23 September, Victoria Rubensohn] p2. 50-year time capsule p3. Library matters p3. "The importance of community involvement in modern-day policing" [Commander Lola Scott] p7. "Material culture: Australian women's history" [Kinberley Webber] p9. Jessie Street [a rebel, a Toastmaster's talk, 1967 referendum, a school project] p6. Did you know that...[Ada Byron, Grace Murray Hopper] p7.

2003 February, Vol 14, No 1: Awarding of JSWL Essay Prize [Hailey Baldwyn] p2. Library matters p3. "Keeping women's words alive: the importance of the preserving our archives" [Beverley Sodbinow] p6. "Volunteer teaching in Thailand" [Dr Joan Webb] p5.

2003 June, Vol 14, No 2: Parliamentary luncheon [Faith Bandler] p1. Library matters p3. "From sand to snow and back again: one's heart in two countries" [Susan Steggall] p10. "Voices from Kurdistan" [Gina Lennox] p5. "The art of reading other people's mail" [Jacqueline Kent] p10. "Sticking to your principles" [Dawn Casey] p6. "Peace, not war" [Carmen Lawrence] p7.

2003 August, Vol 14, No 3: The loan collection [for financial members] p1. "From freedom ride to Women's liberation" [Professor Ann Curthoys] p2. Library matters p3. "Just another jump" [Dr Jane Hall] p4. "Betty Archdale: her life and impact on Women's education" [Deirdre Macpherson] p5. "Towards an Australian Republic??" [Jane Innes] p10.

2003 November, Vol 14, No 4: Annual parliamentary luncheon [9th Annual] p2. Library matters p3. Bluestocking in Patagonia" [Dr Ann Whitehead] p10. "In our collection: reading and writing" [Shirley Jones] p5. "The history of the Toora Single Women's Shelter" [Elena Rosenman] p6. Australian women of the press 1803-2003 p6. Saturday afternoon talk quilting: from bed cover to collectors item p10.

2004 May, Vol 15, No 2: Launch of Jessie Street: a reserved autobiography p2. Library matters p3. Women on the Rocks: a tale of two convicts [Kristin Williamson] p9. Tyson's Outback: a pioneer pastoralist [June Young] p5. The biography of Macquarie Street icon [Jan Roberts] p9.

2004 July, Vol 15, No 2: Parliamentary luncheon [Her Excellency Marie Bashir AC, Governor of New South Wales] p1. Library matters p3. Antarctic writer on ice [Hazel Edwards] p5. Bedroom behaviour in the 60s p5.

2006 May, Vol 17, No 2: Building a better world towards a more feminine future [Helen Reddy] p1. Library matters p3. Australia's Historic Stained Glass [Dr Beverley Sherry] p4. Poetic responses to the journeys of life [Yota Krili] p9. Confession of a editor [Kathy Bail] p6. A conversation with Judy Horacek p7. Snow, suffrage and strawberry shortcake [Lenore Colhearth, Chase Livingston, New York] p8.

2006 July, Vol 17, No 3: Interesting donation to our archives and book collection [Mrs Patricia M Street] p1. Not mad just sixty [Jenelle Brangwin] p4. Working as a volunteer in Tanzania [Olive Briscoe] p5. The benevolence of murder - death, guilt and happy endings [Marion Halligan] p6. Men's roles in building a feminist future [Dr Michael Flood] p6.

2006 November, Vol 17, No 4: Our annual fundraising luncheon, a resounding success p2. Library matters p3. "Debbie Reynolds live" a special JSNWL fundraising event p5. Back-to-front career: one of the positive results [Suzanne Baker] p9. If only I had asked Aunty Esther [Rosemary Block] p9.

2007 February, Vol 18, No 1: Networking neighbours [Memorandum of Understanding with UTS] p2. Library matters p3. Priorities for 2007: setting the agenda p4. Women's history month [ARM in ARM: Indigenous and non-Indigenous women working together] p5. Music for the Dance Theatre [Caroline Thompson] p6. My midlife crisis in Hanoi [Dr Pamela Scott] p9. Working women's centre in Tasmania closes p7.

2007 May, Vol 18, No 2: Thirteenth Annual fundraising luncheon [Professor Elizabeth Webby :what were women in Australia reading in the 1890s?"] p1. Library matters p3. Challenges facing Indigenous women [Matilda House] p5. An Australian poet: glimpses behind the worldwide anger - betrayal after World War I, Palestine [Dr Anne Fairbairn] p10. Fact into fiction: writing Border Street [Suzanne Leal] p10.

2007 November, Vol 18, No 4: Library matters p3. Publishing: a business and a passion [Diane Young] p10. Making videos in Aboriginal communities [Julie James Bailey] p10. Women in science panel discussion [Ultimo Branch Library and JSNWL joint event] p8.

2008 February, Vol 19, No 1: Development of our research collection [donations of books] p1. Library matters p3. Interaction with the community [launch of the new biography of Eleanor Dark] p5. Living the journey with everyday heroes [Bridgut McKern] p6. Margaret Holmes: campaigner for peace and justice [Michelle Cavanagh] p7. In the footsteps of famous women in Germany [Duchess Anna Amalia, Kaethe Kollwitz, Hildegard of Bingen] p8. Matilda Joslyn Gage home now a museum p8.

2009 February, Vol 20, No 1: "Women's Center for Archives" [Mary Ritter Beard] p2. Library matters p3. Ethel Turner: My Grandmother [Philippa Poole] p9. Life in a black and white country" [Cecile Yazbek] p9. Opening of the National Portrait Gallery p6. UNIFEM Australia and the White Ribbon Campaign [Sue Conde AM] p6. Reaching out to women in rural Australia p7. Vietnam Women's museum p8. A Museum of Women planned for Mexico p8. Women write history [extracts from Elizabeth Macartur's letters] p10.

2009 May, Vol 20, No 2: Do newspapers have a future and who cares? [Adele Horin] p1. Library matters p3. Interacting with the community [Ultimo/Pyrmont festival, The Barbara Jefferis award, Ultimo TAFE Student Project] p5. Documenting a war through art [Wendy Sharpe] p9. What shall we do with our girls [Dr Beverley Kingston] p9. Women and the Royal Flying Doctor Service [Mary Bentley] p9. Did you know? [women from Belgiun, France and Germany set up organisation Beguines between 12th-14th centuries] p10.

2009 July, Vol 20, No 3: Our serials collection [Marg Agnew] p2. Library matters p3. Charlotte Badger, Buccaneer [Angela Badger] p5. Interaction with the community [Chinese Women's Stories project, talk to the Chinese group at the Ultimo Community Centre, the Google book settlement, talk to Avalon Ladies Probus Club] p6.

2009 November, Vol 20, No 4: Our Twentieth Anniversary luncheon [Mary Muir, Jozefa Sobski] p2. Library matters p3. Ritual and my life in the theatre [Anna Volska] p10. Joan in India [Suzanne Falkiner] p10. The importance of women's story telling [Libby Gleeson] p10.

2010 February, Vol 21, No 1: Women playwrights, our collection of plays [Aphra Behn, Katherine Philips, Betty Roland, Mona Brand, Kylie Tennant, Dymphna Cuzack, Noelle Janaczewska, Jane Harrison] p8. Library matters p3. Doris Fitton: an independent woman [Dr Carolyn Lawry OAM] p10. The road less travelled: career paths for women in science [Dr Jennifer Byrne] p9. Two Weddings and a Funeral [Marlena Jeffery] p10.

2010 May, Vol 21, No 2: From country Queensland to the bridge of a cruise shipping business: one women's journey [Ann Sherry AO] p1. Library matters p3. Why have a library? - some historical insights p5. Mahboba's promise: a journey of hope [Mahboba Rawi] p10. from Poznan to Pymble: a forced and voluntary migration [Aleit Woodward] p10. Did you know? - snippets if information from books on the library shelfs [suffrage, women writers, sexist language, midwifery] p9.

2010 July/November, Vol 21, No 3/4: Our twenty-first anniversary luncheon [Marie Muir, Chistine Lees, Ann Sherry, Barbara Henery] p2. Library matters p3. The first Licensed female Real Estate Agent in NSW p5. Sculpture: An Unlikely Career p10. Indigenous representation in museums: politics behind the politics p10. Enid Lyons: an independent woman p8. Australian women poets and their works [Dame Mary Gilmore, Gwen Harwood] p9.

2012 February, Vol 23, No 1: Recording Aboriginal Women's history: a library initiative p1. The genocide of the Tamil people - an untold story p7. Diggers and Greeks: Australian campaign in Greece and Crete p7.

2012 May, Vol 23, No 2: Larissa Behrendt p1. Posters under the microscope [2000 political posters from women's movement in Australia] p4. Legal reasoning in the midst of emotion p10. Friends in deed: are we helping the people who need help most? P9. ABC women reflect [ABC Radio's Coming Out Show 1975-1998] p9.

2012 July, Vol 23, No 3: Elsie walks into history [Australia's first women's refuge] p1. Film promotion of the library p2. Barbara Jefferis Award p3. Beethoven and The Zipper p6. First females above Australia p6.

2012 November, Vol 23, No 4: Empower Indigenous women p1. Launched: Chinese Australian Women's stories p3. Creating Ozharvest p11. The six seasons of Sydney p11. Brave women of East Timor p11. Feminism and fashion p9.

2013 February, Vol 24, No 1: Changing with changing times p1. The work of Dr Catherine Hamlin p4. Grandparents and grandchildren p5.
2013 May, Vol 24, No 2: Ann Summers activist and author p1. Memoirs: blood, sweat, toil and tears p4. Maybanke Anderson: a woman for all times p7. Who is Daisy Bates? P6.

2013 July, Vol 24, No 3: Hazel Hawke: a life p1. The people smuggler p7. Women's work in Jane Austen's writing p7.

2013 November, Vol 24, No 4: Handling the misogyny factor p2. Women's records in Victoria p3. Expectation [Charline, the Bundjalung woman] p4. Overcoming repression p5. Status of women in 20th century China p11. Delving into serials [newspapers, newsletters, periodicals] p9.

2014 February, Vol 25, No 1: Our posters challenge and delight p2. Forgotten Australians - children's homes p6. Sydney women's liberation in the 1970s p7.

2014 May, Vol 25, No 2: Dorothy Hoddinott, educator p1. Preserving women's papers p3. Alice Wheeldon's story p6. Crown Street women's hospital and adoption p5.

2014 July, Vol 25, No 3: Queenie: letters from an army nurse [Sister Edith Avenell - Queenie] p7. From Moree to Mabo: the Mary Gaudron story p7.

2014 November, Vol 25, No 4: Child asylum seekers & The Foruth 'R' p2. Gough Whitlam p3. Listening to country [Aboriginal culture] p4. Women, girls and pathways to prison p11. History Week Symposium: Australian women's peace activism p9.Grace Crowley: an overlooked Australian artist p10.

2015 February, Vol 26, No 1: Supporting the Parramatta Memory project [Industrial School for Females] p2. Women united: Bibliotheque Marguerite Durand p3. Sydney colonial women in business p4. Tony Abbott and abortion politics p7.

2015 May Vol 26, No 2: The scourge of domestic violence p1. ASIO: how do we know we're safe? P4. Ladies o f the Chinese tea rooms p5.

2015 July, Vol 26, No 3: Bring out your badges [building collection] p1. The changing face of peace activism [women's peace movement] p4. Belongings and belonging [the need to belong] p5. Parramatta precinct: site of conscience p7.

2015 November, Vol 26, No 4: Domestic violence: not now - not ever p2. Jeannette McHugh campaign papers for our Archives p3. No joke China! Dealing with Chinese humour p4. Pradet: from small seeds big trees grow [adult survivors of child abuse] p5. Damned Whores and God's police 40 years on p9.

2016 February, Vol 27, No 1: Future proofing our library [technological challenges] p6. 'Taking the Mickey' and surviving in Australia [Cockney slang] p4. Ellen Thomson - a reasonable doubt? [the only woman executed in Queensland] p5.

2016 May, Vol 27, No 2: Campaign for Constitutional recognition p1. Indigenous people and Constitution p4. Voices on the wind [growing up Lebanese] p5. Dimity Figner - feminist, activist and artist p6.

2016 July, Vol 27, No 3: Euphemia Bostock: born lucky p1. Beryl Women's refuge p3. The summit of her ambition: the spirited life of Marie Byles p4. The female factory riot of 1827: the first industrial dispute? P5. Anne Conlon lecture 1980-2002 p6.

2016 November, Vol 27, No 1: Time to recognise! [movement] p1. Alice Cashin remembered p3. Isabella and Play [Isabella Mary Kelly] p4. Myths of aging p5. Living in America - Australian war brides p8. Accessing our posters p9.

2017 February, Vol 28, No 1: Modernising our Constitution p2. The teacher's secret [Suzanne Leal] p5.

2017 May, Vol 28, No 2: Gill Hicks: peace - who cares? [London bombing 2005] p1. New Constitution [adopted 20 April 2017] p2. Feminist ephemera [Jenny Cooper cartoons from 1990s] p3. Art can transform hatred: the importance of not turning away p5. Jessie Street and the 1967 referendum p6.

2017 July, Vol 28, No 3: Student research and internship [women and war digitisation project] p1. Rediscovering Elizabeth Harrower p2. Rose Scott Women's Writer's Festival p7. Secrets, spies and spotted dogs [Jane Eale] p4. Letters from the public to a grieving mother [Lindy Chamberlain-Creighton] p5. WEL celebrates 45 years [Women's Electoral Lobby] p6.

2017 November, Vol 28, No 4: Peace is something you do: a response to violent extremism [Gillian Hicks, London bombing 2005] p1. Frances Phoenix: feminism and artist [Budden] p9. The Atria Institute in Amsterdam p10. History Week 2017 p10.

2018 February, Vol 29, No 1: Australian women's songwriting rediscovered p3. Sydney welcomes "Johnnie" 1930 [Amy Johnson] p4. Yarn Spinners [Dymphna Cusack, Miles Franklin, Florence James] p5.

2018 May, Vol 29, No 2: The narcissists, the nefarious and the ne'er do well: tales of an investigative journalist [Kate McClymont] p1. Cockburn sound women's peace camp [1984] p3. War child [refugees from former Yugoslavia and Germany] p4. Teachers Federation Centenary p5.

2018 July, Vol 29, No 3: Weaving your tapestry [documenting the lives of Australian women] p1. Mick: a life of Randolph Stow p4. Searching for meaning: Sydney's 21st Biennale [Cockatoo Island, repository for convicts] p5.

2018 November, Vol 29, No 4: Curiosity, skepticism and the desire to uncover the truth [Kate McClymont] p1. First 100 years for women in law p3. Cultural prison: a daughter's worth [Vindu Maharaj] p4. Dilemmas of Australian women crime writers p5. Preterm Clinic Archives p8. Jill Ket Conway: author, historian and feminist pioneer 1943-2018 p10.2018 Barbara Jefferis Award p11.

2019 February, Vol 30, No 1: A Women's Library for 30 years p1. Aboriginal Dreaming Tour [Margaret Campbell] p2. Lest We Recall ["Women against rape" marched in 1982] p4.

2019 May, Vol 30, No 2: Woven Song: the journey from knowing to understanding [Yorta Yorta woman Deborah Cheetham AO] p1. Her mother's daughter: a memoir [Nadia Wheatley] p3. Canberra Women's Archive p6. Saffron and Silk [Anne Benjamin] p7.

2019 July, Vol 30, No 3: First Australian Women's songbook [Kerith Power] p1. Celebrating into corrections [Cleo Lynch] p3. The Library's home at Town Hall p4.

2019 November, Vol 30, No 4: Deborah Cheetham sings connection to country p2. History Week 2019 p3. Letters across the desert: A white Hot Flame [Sue Taffe] p4. The seventies: the personal, the political and the making of modern Australia [Michelle Arrow] p5. Meeting digital challenges p8. Celebrating 30 years: the Library at Ultimo p9. Feminist Libraries around the world p10.

2020 February, Vol 31, No 1: Discovering our serials collection [Jude Conway] p1. Lesley Squires v Qantas p3.

2020 May, Vol 31, No 2: Testing our humanity [spread of COVID-19] p1. A new book in progress: Chronicles: The Street Literature of the Women's Liberation Movement 1970-1984 p3. A long way from No Go, Wild Dingo Press 2019 [Dr Tjanara Goreng] p7.

2020 July/August, Vol 31, No 3: 2018 Heart Listening: Ulura Statement Exhibition, Artsite Gallery [Rene Kulitja] p1. A win for steely women [documentary by Robyne Murphy] p4. Debra Adelaide (ed) The Simple Act of Reading (2015); Antonia Freser (ed) The Pleasure of reading p6.
2020 November/December, Vol 31, No 4: Vale Susan Ryan: activist p1. Women's liberation papers [Dr Sue Wills] p4. Digitisation project [Australian Women's Digest] p5. Revisiting Cockburn Sound p5.

2021 February, Vol 31, No 1: Vagina Museum Auction [London] p1. A study of victimhood in the media….and how men are using it p3. Saving Writing NSW [annual grant] p6.

2021 May, Vol 31, No 2: From Eunice to Greta: women saving the planet p1. Marching for justice …. Again [violence against women] p4. The Barbara Jefferis mystery p5. Untapped: the Australian Literary Heritage Project p6.

2021 July, Vol 31, No3: Brazen Hussies looking back - 50 years on p1. Commemorating Louisa Lawson p3. Nola Harris - life member and centenarian p3. The legacy of Jessie street p4. Woollahra Council honours Jessie Street p4. Jessie Street 's desk chair [Grey Fingleton/Jessie's grandson] p7.

Vol. 32 no 4 NOVEMBER 2021: Climate change: in the footsteps of women warriors [Professor Lesley Hughes] / Kris Clarke p1. Preserving born digital content / Meg Kirwan p2. Vale Shirley Jones / Kris Clarke p3. Australian women's writing prizes / Barbara Henery p4. Vale Marion Shaw / Jozefa Sobski p4. Finding lost words [author Pip Williams] / Jessica Steward p6. Vale Valwyn Jean Edwards Wishart p6.

Vol.33 no.1 FEBRUARY 2022: Progress on the Library Collections in 2021-22 / Jan Burnswood and Sherri Hilarion p1. November Lunch Hour Talk [Amanda Tattersall] p4. Remembering Marion Shaw [Board Member] / Suzanne Marks p5.

Vol.33 no.2 MAY 2022: Opening of Parramatta Girls Home Memorial / Janet Ramsay p4. DOING Feminism: Women’s Art and Feminist Criticism in Australia / Anne Marsh p5. Newcastle Women’s Movement / Barbara Henery p6. Business Plan review [five-year plan from 2020] / Susan Price p7.


Vol.33 no.3 JULY 2022: The Ballad of Women: stories of the Australian Women's Songbook / Dale Dengate and Keith Power p1. Catherine Fisher Lunch Hour Talk 16 June [Sound Citizen: Australian Women croadcasters claim their voice 1923-1956] p4.

Vol.33 no.4 NOVEMBER 2022:

Vol.34 no.1 FEBRUARY 2023: Recent acquisition: Untold and Alive: a memoir [Anne Summers] p2. Vale Jennifer Furness [payroll manager] p4. Myra Willard, forgotten historian and teacher p6.

Vol.34 no.2 MAY 2023: Introducing our new Chair Christine Yeats p5. Lunch hour talk :Hear the children! P6. Vale Mary Potter [observer of politics] p7.

Vol.34 no.3 JULY 2023: Vote Yes for the Voice p6.

Vol.34 no.4 NOVEMBER 2023: Vale Elizabeth Webby 1942-2023 p3. Celebrating our extraordinary Matildas p8.