Hazel Rose Jones - papers, 1940-1989

MLMSS 6628

fonds

1940 - 1989

Textual Records, Clippings

395230

8 boxes - 1.36 Meters
Textual Records
Textual Records - (typescript)
Textual Records - (typescript, photocopy)
Textual Records - (typescript, carbon)
Textual Records - (typescript, processed)
Clippings
Textual Records - (printed)

Hazel Rose Jones, nee Webber (1921-1989) was a lifelong campaigner for social justice who became a leading activist of the anti-Apartheid movement in Australia. Born in Kenya to Anglo-Australian parents, she was educated at home and in England. She came to Australia in 1939 and settled in Sydney. By the late 1940s family commitments had interrupted her studies at Sydney University and her training to become a social worker. By the early 1950s she had been left a widow to raise three infants. Hazel subsequently undertook fitful employment as a bookkeeper. From 1964 until her retirement in 1981, she worked as a news librarian at John Fairfax & Sons Ltd, where she chiefly indexed the Sydney Morning Herald.

In 1960 the Sharpeville massacre, near Johannesburg, South Africa, impelled Hazel to the forefront of anti-Apartheid activism. She joined in solidarity with a small group of recently-arrived South African emigres to protest against their government's policy of racial apartheid. In 1967 she became a founding member of Friends of Africa in Sydney, and with whom she held various offices. She joined the Executive Committee of the Southern Africa Defence and Aid Fund (SADAF) in December 1970. She served as both Honorary Secretary of SADAF and of its successor, Southern Africa Group of Community Aid Abroad (Australia) (CAASA), until it folded in 1987.

Hazel Jones' other community and political activities included membership of the Communist Party of Australia, from which she resigned in 1973, and of the East Villawood Progress Association of which she was Secretary. She was appointed Justice of the Peace in the late 1960s. In the mid-1970s she was Treasurer of World University Service in Australia. At the time of her death, Hazel was Records Manager of the Mandela Foundation in Australia.

A. Personal Correspondence, 1968-1989

1971-1989; Miscellaneous letters file: A-Z (Call No.: MLMSS 6628/1)

1968-1989; Alphabetical correspondents' files: A-W:
1983-1987; 'Alderdice, M. (Maisie) and Peter McGregor' (Call No.: MLMSS 6628/1)
1977-1988; 'Armstrong - Lorna, Jack, Chris, Peter & Anne Little' (Call No.: MLMSS 6628/1)
1981-1982; 'Brink, J. (John)' (Call No.: MLMSS 6628/1)
1970-1978; 'Commin, F. M.' (Call No.: MLMSS 6628/1)
1989; 'Dunn, I (Irina) Senator', being newsletters from the office of Senator Irina Dunn (Call No.: MLMSS 6628/1)
1986; 'Ferguson, the Hon. L. (Laurie) M.L.A.' (Call No.: MLMSS 6628/1)
1988-1989; 'Fishman, J. (Joan)' (Call No.: MLMSS 6628/1)
1986-1989; 'Grey, Andrew & Kim' (Call No.: MLMSS 6628/1)
1983; 'John Grey & Christine' (Call No.: MLMSS 6628/1)
1986; 'Norma Grey' (Call No.: MLMSS 6628/1)
1988-1989; 'Harris J. (Jane) & James Mohr' (Call No.: MLMSS 6628/1)
1980-1989; 'Johnson, Johnno & Phyllis' (Call No.: MLMSS 6628/2)
1977-1981; 'Jones, H. R.' (Call No.: MLMSS 6628/2)
1985-1987; 'Kamenco, Z. (Zakayo) & Helen' (Call No.: MLMSS 6628/2)
1972-1989; 'Kirumbe, Jim & Louise' (Call No.: MLMSS 6628/2)
1988-1989; 'Lovelee, B. (Bill)' (Call No.: MLMSS 6628/2)
1983-1986; 'Major, G. (Glenda)' (Call No.: MLMSS 6628/2)
1983-1989; 'Moore, C. (Carolyn)' (Call No.: MLMSS 6628/2)
1985-1987; 'Myrtle, Hepburn, Betty & Keith' (Call No.: MLMSS 6628/2)
1988; 'Owen, M. (Michael)' (Call No.: MLMSS 6628/2)
1982-1986; 'Overton, P. (Pat)' (Call No.: MLMSS 6628/2)
1989; 'Pringle, P. (Pat)' (Call No.: MLMSS 6628/2)
1976-1978; 'SMH', concerning John Fairfax Limited staff matters (Call No.: MLMSS 6628/2)
1982-1989; 'Spencer, D. (Diana)' (Call No.: MLMSS 6628/2)
1983-1985; 'Stanford, W. (Win)' (Call No.: MLMSS 6628/2)
1978-1987; 'Uren, the Hon. T. (Tom) MHR' (Call No.: MLMSS 6628/2)
1987-1989; 'Weavers, G. (Gary)' (Call No.: MLMSS 6628/2)
1986-1989; 'Webber, A. D. & B. (and P. & S.)' (Call No.: MLMSS 6628/2)
1971-1986; 'Webber, A D & B' (Call No.: MLMSS 6628/3)
1968-1986; 'Webber, E. J. S.' (Call No.: MLMSS 6628/3)
1987-1989; 'Webber, E. J. S.' (Call No.: MLMSS 6628/3)

B. Subject files, 1940-1989

1979-1989; 'Aboriginal Medical Centre' (Call No.: MLMSS 6628/4)
1977-1989; 'Aborigines', mainly concerning Western Districts Foundation for Aboriginal Affairs (Call No.: MLMSS 6628/4)
1977; 'Aborigines - Miscellaneous', concerning Aboriginal land rights (Call No.: MLMSS 6628/4)
198-; 'Address Book' (Call No.: MLMSS 6288/4)
1964-1973; 'Australian Labor Movement', being mainly printed material (Call No.: MLMSS 6628/4)
1960-1974; 'A'lian Politics', including political pamphlets (Call No.: MLMSS 6628/4)
1970-1976; 'Australian Politics - Australian-Russian Friendship Society' (Call No.: MLMSS 6628/4)
1969-1971; 'Australian Politics - Australian Socialist 1X', being mainly printed material (Call No.: MLMSS 6628/4)
1971-1975; 'Australian Politics - Australian Socialist 2X', being mainly concerning The Australian Socialist Group and its various publications authored by Alf Watt, with letters received from him (Call No.: MLMSS 6628/4)
1971-1972; 'Australian Politics - Australian Socialist 3X', including correspondence with Alf Watt (Call No.: MLMSS 6628/4)
1958-1972; 'Australian Politics - CPA 1X'' (Call No.: MLMSS 6628/4)
1968-1972; 'A'lian Politics - CPA 4' (Call No.: MLMSS 6628/5)
1965-1973; 'Australian Politics - Nazis' (Call No.: MLMSS 6628/5)
1989; 'Australian Society for the Study of Labour History - Sydney Branch' (Call No.: MLMSS 6628/5)
1950, 1971; 'Biographies' (Call No.: MLMSS 6628/5)
1987-1989; 'Book Reviews' (Call No.: MLMSS 6628/5)
1987; 'CARE [Campaign Against Racial Exploitation]' (Call No.: MLMSS 6628/5)
1986-1989; 'Charities' (Call No.: MLMSS 6628/5)
1975-1989; 'Christmas' (Call No.: MLMSS 6628/5)
1976-1989; 'Community Aid Abroad' (Call No.: MLMSS 6628/5)
1971-1986; 'Consumer Affairs' (Call No.: MLMSS 6628/5)
1989; 'CPA [Communist Party of Australia]', being newscuttings (Call No.: MLMSS 66228/5)
1959-1968; 'CPA Literature' (Call No.: MLMSS 6628/5)
1966-1977; 'East Villawood Progress Association' (Call No.: MLMSS 6628/5)
1974-1988; 'Education Department', including syllabus of Southern African History for secondary schools (Call No.: MLMSS 6628/5)
1987-1989; 'Euthanasia', being mainly concerning the Voluntary Euthanasia Society of New South Wales (Call No.: MLMSS 6628/5)
1971-1981; 'Federated Clerks' (Call No.: MLMSS 6628/5)
1984-1989; 'Fellowship of Australian Writers' (Call No.: MLMSS 6628/5)
1989; 'Grey Power' (Call No.: MLMSS 6628/6)
1987-1988; 'History', being mainly newscuttings (Call No.: MLMSS 6628/6)
1973-1989; 'House Purchase', including transfer of Defence Service Homes Loan to Westpac Bank (Call No.: MLMSS 6628/6)
1970-1989; 'HRJ Articles', being Hazel Jones' letters to newspaper editors (Call No.: MLMSS 6628/6)
1957-1971; 'International Politics', being mainly Communist publications (Call No.: MLMSS 6628/6)
1967-1986; 'Justice of Peace' (Call No.: MLMSS 6628/6)
1964-1989; 'Kenya' (Call No.: MLMSS 6628/6)
1970-1971; 'Lecture Notes', being mainly on various aspects of Capitalism, Communism and Socialism (Call No.: MLMSS 6628/6)
198-; 'Legal Aid' (Call No.: MLMSS 6628/6)
1983-1989; 'Literary Agents & Publishers' (Call No.: MLMSS 6628/6)
1988-1989; 'Mandela Foundation' (Call No.: MLMSS 6628/6)
1970-1981; 'Media' (Call No.: MLMSS 6628/6)
1974-1988; 'Members of Parliament' (Call No.: MLMSS 6628/6)
197-; 'Petitions' (Call No.: MLMSS 6628/6)
1965, 1968; 'Philosophy' (Call No.: MLMSS 6628/6)
197-; 'Political Ideologies', being newscuttings (Call No.: MLMSS 6628/6)
1968-1974; 'Press', being newscuttings (Call No.: MLMSS 6628/6)
1981-1989; 'REA [John Fairfax Ltd Retired Employees' Association]' (Call No.: MLMSS 6628/7)
1940-1964; 'References' (Call No.: MLMSS 6628/7)
1968-1978; 'SADAF [Southern Africa Defence and Aid Fund in Australia]', being mainly printed material (Call No.: MLMSS 6628/7)
1972-1978; 'SADAF Newsletter', including various issues (Call No.: MLMSS 6628/7)
1978-1980; 'SADAF', being mainly issues of SADAF Newsletter (Call No.: MLMSS 6628/7)
1983-1984; 'Scrapbook', being newscuttings on various people and issues, including Johnno and Phyllis Johnson (Call No.: MLMSS 6628/7)
1973-1989; 'S. Africa - Pols H - Apartheid', including correspondence with African National Congress. Australasian and Pacific Mission, Australia. Dept. of Foreign Affairs and Trade. South Asia, Africa and Middle East Branch, Australian African National Congress Support Committee, Edwin Funde, Mandela Foundation of Australia and Tom Uren (Call No.: MLMSS 6628/7)
1970-1988; 'Sport' concerning sport and Apartheid (Call No.: MLMSS 6628/7)
1945-1953; 'Stalin, J. [Joseph]', being printed material (Call No.: MLMSS 6288/7)
Date unknown; 'Trade Union Directory' (Call No.: MLMSS 6288/7)
1963-1971; 'Vietnam' (Call No.: MLMSS 6288/7)
1983-1985; 'Who, What, When, Where', being corrected galley proofs of unpublished ready-reference book by Hazel Jones and related correspondence (Call No.: MLMSS 6288/7)
1973-1976; 'World University Service in Australia' (Call No.: MLMSS 6288/8)
1970-1978; 'Youth', mainly concerning the Australian Socialist Youth Collective (Call No.: MLMSS 6288/8)
1970-1971; 'Youth - Education', being mainly Communist and Socialist publications (Call No.: MLMSS 6288/8)

Incomplete holdings of the journal Sechaba : Official Organ of the African National Congress of South Africa, 1967-1977, 1983-1984, 1987 and 1989, which originally formed part of the papers of Hazel Rose Jones, are located at NQ332.4096805/1 in the State Reference Library