Biographical entry Bashir, Marie Roslyn (1930 - )

Summary

Marie Bashir is the first woman to be appointed Governor of New South Wales. She began her career in medicine and completed an internship at St Vincent's Hospital, Sydney. Later Bashir took up psychiatry. She worked both in universities and mental health services, increasingly focussing children and adolescents. In 1988 she was appointed Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) for her services to child and adolescent health.

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Events

1956

Education - Bachelor of Medicine (MB) and Bachelor of Surgery (BS) completed at the University of Sydney

1982 - 1987

Career position - Foundation Director of the Rivendell Child, Adolescent and Family Service

1988

Award - Officer of the Order of Australia (AO)

1993 - 2001

Career position - Clinical Professor of Psychiatry in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Sydney

1994 - 2001

Career position - Director of Mental Health Services at Central Sydney Area Health Services

1996 - 2001

Career position - Senior Consultant at the Aboriginal Medical Service in Redfern and Kempsey

2001 -

Career position - Governor of New South Wales

2001

Award - Companion of the Order of Australia (AC)

Archival resources

National Library of Australia Oral History Collection

• Interview with Dr Marie Bashie (sound recording), interviewer: Amy McGrath, 20 April 1979, TRC 838; National Library of Australia Oral History Collection. Details

Published resources

Online Resources

• National Library of Australia, 'Bashir, Marie', Trove, National Library of Australia and the Australian National Maritime Museum Darling Harbour, 2009, http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-748068. Details

See also

• Herd, Margaret (ed.), Who's Who in Australia 2002, 38 edn, Crown Content, Melbourne, 2001, 2020 pp. Details