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Abstract
This is an edited version of an address given by Norma Parker on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the New South Wales Branch of the Australian Association of Social Workers, Sydney Opera House, 1982. The Association had formed 50 years earlier under circumstances that were fraught with conflict. Two outcomes of this conflict were the foundation of the New South Wales Institute of Hospital Almoners in 1936 and the incorporation of social work education into the University of Sydney in 1940. The bitterness, which lasted for many years, was overcome and is now forgotten, but the inauspicious beginnings of social work in New South Wales should not be forgotten.