Person

Stack, Ellen Mary (Ella)

CBE

Occupation: Pastoralist and Physician

Summary

Ella Stack was the Northern Territory's first woman mayor, when she was appointed Mayor of Darwin in 1975. In 1979 she became Darwin City Council's first Lord Mayor.

Details

Chronology

1956: Career position - Medical Officer at the Eastern Suburbs Hospital, Sydney
1957: Career position - General practice at Merrylands, New South Wales
1961: Career position - General practice at Darwin, Northern Territory
1972 - 1975: Career position - Chairman of the Building and Research Committee
1974 - 1989: Career position - Member of the St John Ambulance Council
1974 - 1989: Career position - Member of the Medical Registration Board of the Northern Territory
1975 - 1979: Career position - Mayor of Darwin
1979: Award - Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE)
1979 - 1980: Career position - Lord Mayor of Darwin
1979 - 1989: Career position - Member of the National Australia Day Committee
1984 - 1989: Career position - Chairman of the Northern Territory Australia Day Council
1984 - 1989: Career position - Board member of the Menzies School of Health Research
1985 - 1989: Career position - Member of the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC)

Archival resources

National Library of Australia Oral History Collection

Interview with Ella Stack, physician and Mayor of Darwin (sound recording), interviewer: Phyllipa Stack, 26 August 1976, TRC 459; National Library of Australia Oral History Collection. Details

Published resources

Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Exhibitions

McCarthy, Gavan; Morgan, Helen; Smith, Ailie; van den Bosch, Alan, Where are the Women in Australian Science?, Exhibition of the Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, First published 2003 with lists updated regulary edn, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, Melbourne, Victoria, 2003, https://eoas.info/exhibitions/wisa/wisa.html. Details

Resources

Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q26251181. Details
VIAF - Virtual International Authority File, OCLC, https://viaf.org/viaf/91326203. Details
'Stack, E M (1929-)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-459637. Details

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