Corporate Body
Professional Officers Association (1917 - 1975)
Commonwealth Public Service
- From
- 1917
Australia - To
- 1975
Australia - Functions
- Professional Association and Public service
Summary
The Professional Officers Association was started in 1917 by a small group of engineers and draftsmen employed in the Commonwealth public service. Over subsequent years, the Association amalgamated with other organisations of professionals in the public service across engineering, communications, aviation, electronics and related areas. Further amalgamations came with the CSIRO Staff Association, and members of the deregistered State Public Services Federation. With these amalgamations came successive name changes. The Organisation in now known as the Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU). To mark its 50th anniversary the Association held the conference "Horizons in science" in 1962 in Melbourne. From 1956 the Association presented the Award of Merit to members who had done outstanding work in their field.
Details
Speakers at the 1962 conference were: Mark Oliphant, Keith Alder, Harold Raggatt, Thomas Leech, Philip Law, Robert Boswell, Francis O'Grady and Edward Bowen.
Related entries
Published resources
Books
- Professional Officers Association, Horizons in science: a series of eight publis lectures by eminent Australian scientisit, Wilson Hall, University of Melbourne, October 2nd - 5th at 7.45 p.m. (Melbourne: Professional Officers Association, 1962), 8 pp. Details
Resource Sections
- Smith, Bruce A., 'Professional Officers Association, Commonwealth Public Service (1917 - 1975)', Australian Trade Union Archives, 2010, https://www.atua.org.au/biogs/ALE0720b.htm. Details
Helen Cohn
Created: 11 March 2025