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Notes
1. For a more detailed discussion of geographical lacunae in accounts of the Australian women's movement, see Henderson and Reid (Citation2004).
2. See Series 5, Folders 1–3, which includes a 22-page scrapbook of press clippings of the Regatta coverage locally and nationally, in addition to press releases, copies of the leaflet distributed in the bar, and correspondence between Thornton and Peter Delamothe, Minister for Justice and Attorney General (QLD). Delamothe was responsible for overseeing a review of the Queensland licensing laws and had treated a delegation of women (including Thornton and Bognor) in a patronising manner the day before the Regatta protest.
3. Merle Thornton Papers, Series 6. This was the same legislation that had ended Thornton's graduate employment with the ABC after several years of successfully concealing her marriage. The Marriage Bar (Regulation 139) had been in place in the Australian Commonwealth Public Service since 1901. The removal of the regulation was first recommended by the Boyer Commission in 1958, but it was a further eight years before the change was achieved. While EOW had been effective in pushing for this change, they did not manage to achieve their additional objective of the reinstatement of women who had been dismissed as a consequence of the Marriage Bar. For more, see Sawer (Citation1996).
4. For detailed accounts of how the second wave fared in newspaper coverage, see Sheridan, Magarey, and Lilburn (Citation2006) and Mendes (Citation2011).