Julia Trubridge-Freebury further papers, 1960s-2004

MLMSS 9698

fonds

1960s-2004

1226061

0.75 metres of textual material (5 boxes)

Julia Trubridge-Freebury (1923-2014) was a feminist and a prominent activist in the campaign for abortion law reform during the 1960s-1970s. She was secretary of the Abortion Law Reform Association from 1971-1975 where she organised a mass meeting at the Sydney Town Hall in 1972 with the guest speaker Germaine Greer. She joined the Women’s Electoral Lobby and Women’s Peace Movement as well as the Council for Civil Liberties. She was also involved with the Australian Democrats and campaigned for nuclear disarmament.

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By descent from Julia Trubridge-Freebury to donor

This collection documents Julia Trubridge-Freebury's role as a prominent activist for women's rights, particularly with regard to abortion but also other causes including her work with the Women’s Electoral Lobby and Dying with Dignity. The collection comprises printed material (newscuttings, newsletters, journal articles, leaflets and flyers) and correspondence.

BOX 1
Papers relating to debate on abortion at Sydney Town Hall featuring Germaine Greer, 2 March 1972, including transcripts of Greer’s speech, and fellow debaters Dr Clark, Mr Smith, Mr Webb, and questioners
Vol.4 No.5 Pol magazine, edited by Germain Greer
Various correspondence between Julia Freebury and American doctors Leo F Kenneally, and J F Griggs relating to methods for terminating pregnancies, and possibility of acquiring property on Oxford Street for set up of small hospital nursing home
Correspondence with the Therapeutic Goods Administration, Minister for Aged, Family and Health Services, Children by Choice Association, Rousel Uclaf, The Worcester Centre for Experimental Biology, Australian Drug Evaluation Committee, relating to the drug RU486
Invitation to Senators and MPs to a breakfast meeting with Professor Etienne-Emile Baulieu at Parliament house, 15 November 1990; invitation to lecture ‘The international politics of RU486 at Monash University, 16 November 1990
Character references from Judge Elizabeth Evatt (Chief Judge, Family Court of Australia), J F Staples (Deputy President, Australian Conciliation and Arbitration Commission), Paul Stein QC
Correspondence from W G Keighley
Thank you letter from Louis Wald
Letters from Trubridge-Freebury to Professor R P Ralston, T J Connolly (The Catholic Institute of Sydney); Justice H T Gibbs; Justice E A McTiernan; Justice A F Mason; Sir Garfield Barwick
Various typescript letters relating to the Abortion Law Repeal Association
Various letters to Trubridge-Freebury from people responding to her letter to the editor in The Australian, 30 March 1983, disagreeing with her views
Various newspaper cuttings relating to abortion
Copies of articles relating to abortion from POL, and Cosmopolitan magazines
Letters written by Trubridge-Freebury attempting to get in contact with Cosmopolitan magazine journalist
Correspondence between Trubridge-Freebury and Beatrice Faust (Co-founder of Women's Electoral Lobby) relating to laws on abortion in Australia, various medical procedures for termination of pregnancies, the Women’s Abortion Action Campaign (WAAC), various private clinics and practitioners in Sydney
Notes and correspondence relating to Dr Ackerman
Registration of trademark ‘Children by Choice’
Letters to and responses from MPs, conference organisers, and public figures relating to abortion and euthanasia laws in Australia

BOX 2
Copies of article ‘The Death of Compassion’ from The VE Bulletin, July 1997
Copies of articles relating to euthanasia from The Australian 28-19 March 1997
Wel-Informed newsletter, issues 135-136, 142
The Australian Humanist No.23, Spring 1972
Various published articles and letters to the editor relating to euthanasia, suicide, and The Women’s Electoral Lobby
Various cuttings and copies of articles on suicide, and AIDS 1978-1995
Various writings on euthanasia, ca 1994
Various correspondence and papers relating to abortion, vasectomies, and contraception
Issues of Breaking chains : the newspaper of ALRA, the Abortion Law Reform Association
Lists of MPs and other people Trubridge-Freebury considered seeking to influence and lobby
Letters thanking Trubridge-Freebury for assistance
How to vote card for Julia Freebury Independent Candidate for South Coast

BOX 3
Various newspaper cuttings relating to the Abortion Law Reform Association (ALRA) and abortion laws; Opus Dei; Phyllis Schlafly
Mejane : a womens liberation newspaper, May 1971
Newsletter Jessie Street National Women’s Library Vol.15 No.2, July 2004
Various newspaper cuttings relating to euthanasia
Typescript manuscript titled ‘Reflections on the women involved in lobbying for abortion repeal’
Pamphlets and flyers relating to abortion laws in NSW
Manuscript letter to the editor of The Australian, 1979
Certificate of registration for ‘Woollahra Abortion Advice Care Centre & Referral’, 15 February 1979
Letters proposing new line of condoms ‘Children by Choice’
Exercise book containing appointments and records of meetings, 1991-1999
Cutting of newspaper article relating to Freebury’s defection from the Australian Democrats
Letters written by Trubridge-Freebury advocating change to abortion laws
Various hand written notes by Trubridge-Freebury
‘I had one too: an oral history of abortion in South Australia before 1970’ by Barbara Baird, 1990
Correspondence with George Petersen, former Labor MP, 1992
‘The inadequacies of Australian Abortion Law’ by Natasha Cica, September 1990
Issue of The Australian Women’s Weekly, 7 May 1990, containing article concerning abortion
Correspondence and papers relating to The Preterm Foundation
Children by Choice interview sheet containing questions for clients

BOX 4
Memo book containing names and telephone numbers
Various newspaper cuttings and copies of articles related to abortion
‘Right to choose womens health action magazine’
Poster and pamphlet for electoral candidate for Bligh, Bridget Gilling, 1971
Copy of leaflet ‘Hitler was anti abortion, Stalin was anti abortion’, 1969
Papers relating to Abortion Law Repeal Association, 1991
Correspondence with Australian Medical Association, Doctor’s Reform Society of NSW, Royal Commission of Human Relationships, Legislative Council NSW, Registrar’s Office District Court
Correspondence relating to RU486
Papers from Fourth International Conference on Medical Abortion, 17-18 November 1990
Copies of submission from Peter J Huntingford to the ‘Royal Commission in New Zealand on Contraception, Sterilization, and Abortion’, 1976

BOX 5
Two scrapbooks titled ‘ALRA [Abortion Law Reform Assocation]’ containing cuttings of articles relating to abortion, 1984-1992

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