Archival Resources Details

Interview with Ella Stack, physician and Mayor of Darwin (sound recording), interviewer: Phyllipa Stack

Title
Interview with Ella Stack, physician and Mayor of Darwin (sound recording), interviewer: Phyllipa Stack
Repository
National Library of Australia Oral History Collection
Reference
TRC 459
Date Range
26 August 1976
Description

1 sound tape reel (c. 180 minutes). Stack speaks of her childhood and family background, her early days in medicine, her husband Tom Lawler and his work as an agricultural Scientist in the Namoi Valley, their reasons for moving to Darwin and her subsequent return to medicine, the condition of Darwin Hospital, her general practice, her developing interest in obstetrics and gynaecology, some of her experiences as a doctor on M.V. Duntroon in 1956, her husband's involvement in development at Humpty Doo, their children, her reasons for becoming an Alderman, the impact on her life from Cyclone Tracy, the Cyclone Tracy Trust Fund, her election as Mayor of Darwin, International Women's Year, Cyclone Tracy and the Darwin Reconstruction Commission.

Access
Access open for research; written permission required for public use during the lifetime of the interviewee

People

EOAS ID: archives/BSAR03045.htm

Except where otherwise noted, content on this site is
Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
What do we mean by this?

Published by the Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology.
This Edition: 2024 February (Kooyang - Gariwerd calendar)
Reference: http://www.bom.gov.au/iwk/calendars/gariwerd.shtml#kooyang
For earlier editions see the Internet Archive at: https://web.archive.org/web/*/www.eoas.info

The Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation uses the Online Heritage Resource Manager (OHRM), a relational data curation and web publication system developed by the eScholarship Research Centre and its predecessors at the University of Melbourne 1999-2020. The OHRM has been maintained by Gavan McCarthy since 2020.

Cite this page: https://www.eoas.info/archives/BSAR03045.htm

"... the rengitj, as a visible mark or imprint on the land, is characterised as a place of origin, the repository of all names, as well as a kind of mapped visual expression of the connection between people and places which is to be carried out in the temporal sequence of the journey." Fanca Tamisari (1998) 'Body, Vision and Movement: In the footprints of the ancestors'. Oceania 68(4) p260