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The Camden Red Cross sewing circles
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- 2025-03-28 12:57:32
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- The Camden Red Cross sewing circles
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- Camden Library 40 John St, Camden, 2570
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- Community and philanthropy, Wartime
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- Camden is on the land of the Dharawal people
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- <div><p style="text-align:justify">The Camden wartime sewing circles played a vital role on the home front during First and Second World Wars. These collaborative ‘working bees’ attracted local women from across the district who were able to use their skills to manufacture clothing and supplies for the war effort.</p></div><div><p style="text-align:justify">As bloody conflicts raged thousands of kilometres away, women got together to sew or knit items such as shirts, pyjamas, mittens and medical supplies.</p></div>
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- The Camden wartime sewing circles played a vital role on the home front during the First and Second World Wars.
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- <div><p paraid="48122360" paraeid="{7631b309-0f38-47b1-8bc9-9566173e444f}{21}">Founded 1914. Supported Australian troops in two world wars</p></div>
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Caroline Chisholm
https://blueplaques.nsw.gov.au/_designs/integrations/funnelback-integration/blue-plaque-indexers/blue-plaque-xml-indexer/_nocache?asset=517739- icon:
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- 2025-03-28 12:56:44
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- Caroline Chisholm
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- 2323
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- East Maitland
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- 3 Mill St
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- Caroline Chisholm Cottage
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- Community and philanthropy, Travel and transport
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- East Maitland is on the land of the Wonnarua people
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- <p>Caroline Chisholm was a pioneering humanitarian who fought to improve conditions for immigrant women and families. After discovering the NSW Government had no system to support new immigrants, Caroline met every incoming ship to offer help with employment and accommodation. The cottage on Mill Street is one of two terraced dwellings that Caroline converted into an immigrant hostel. Known as Caroline Chisholm Cottage, it is believed to be the nation’s only surviving site of her charitable works. In honour of her tireless contribution, her face was featured on our first five-dollar note.</p>
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- Caroline Chisholm (1808–1877) was a pioneering humanitarian who fought to improve conditions for immigrant women and families.
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- <p>Advocate for immigrant women (1808–1877)</p>
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Charmian Clift
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- 2025-03-23 20:06:34
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- cityName:
- Kiama
- addressLine1:
- Kiama Library
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- 7 Railway Parade
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- Writing and literature
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- Kiama is on the land of the Wodi Wodi people on Dharawal country.
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- productDescription:
- <p>Charmian Clift, Australian writer and essayist, holds a significant place in Australia’s literary landscape. Emerging in an era when the voices of women were often marginalised, Charmian’s work boldly challenged societal norms and explored the complexities of identity, relationships, and the human experience.</p>
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- A black and white photograph of a woman sitting on a couch with her hand resting on her head
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- Charmian Clift (1923-1969) was a writer best remembered for her witty and insightful essays published as a weekly newspaper column between 1964 and 1969.
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Chips Rafferty
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- 2025-03-28 12:23:24
- productName:
- Chips Rafferty
- cityName:
- Broken Hill
- addressLine1:
- Imperial Fine Accommodation
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- 88 Oxide Street
- categories:
- Performing arts, Wartime
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- ,
- traditionalName:
- Broken Hill is on the land of the Wilyakali people.
- productDescription:
- <p>Chips Rafferty MBE was one of Australia’s favourite movie stars in the years following the Second World War. Known for portraying rugged Australian characters such as soldiers and bushmen, his films include <em>The Overlanders</em>, <em>The Rats of Tobruk</em>, <em>Mutiny on the Bounty</em> and <em>They’re a Weird Mob</em>.</p><p>In 1971, Chips gave one of his most acclaimed performances as an outback policeman in the psychological thriller <em>Wake in Fright</em>, which was filmed on location in Broken Hill.</p><p>Few other Australian actors captured the public’s affection in the way Chips Rafferty did in the immediate post war period.</p>
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- Chips Rafferty (1909–1971) was one of Australia’s favourite movie stars in the years following the Second World War.
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Margaret Catchpole
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- 2753
- cityName:
- Richmond
- addressLine1:
- Durham Bowes
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- 22 Inalls Lane
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- Writing and literature
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- Richmond is on the land of the Darug and Darkinjung people.
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- <p>Margaret Catchpole was a servant, thief and engaging correspondent.</p><p>Born in Suffolk, England, Margaret worked as a servant before being convicted of stealing a horse and later of escaping from the Suffolk County Gaol. Transported to New South Wales for life in 1801, she worked as a cook, nurse and midwife.</p><p>Margaret’s vivid letters to friends and family in England were the basis for a partly fictional account of her life published posthumously in Richard Cobbold’s <em>The History of Margaret Catchpole, a Suffolk Girl.</em></p><p>Margaret’s writing is an important literary record of Australia’s early convict period. It is also the only written record of the devastating 1806 and 1809 Hawkesbury floods.</p>
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Daniel Gowing
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- 2025-03-28 12:22:42
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- 2 Wharf Rd
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- Tathra is on the land of the Yuin people.
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- <p>Daniel Gowing was an English farmer who was instrumental in the development of Bega and surrounding towns in the far southeast of New South Wales.</p><p>In the 1860s, he initiated the development of a jetty at Tathra to serve as a shipping outlet, allowing farmers to transport their produce more easily to Sydney and Melbourne. Shortly after, the jetty was replaced by a wharf, which provided vital impetus for Tathra’s rise as the region’s main port.</p><p>Daniel went on to build Tathra’s first store and post office and maintained a lifelong interest in the area’s advancement.</p>
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David Lennox
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Dorothea Mackellar
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Dorothy Drain
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Dr Charles Perkins
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Duke Kahanamoku
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- Duke Kahanamoku (1890–1968) was a champion Hawaiian swimmer and surfer who helped to popularise surfing in Australia.
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- <p>Hawaiian swimmer and surfer (1890–1968)</p>
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