Franca Arena aggregated papers

fonds

1954-2008

Textual Records, Clippings, Graphic Materials, Photographs, Nonmusical Sound Recordings, Moving Images

9676000

7.36 metres of textual material (40 boxes), including photographs
78 audiocassettes (50 hr., 9 min.) - 10 × 7 cm, 4 mm tape
62 videocassettes - VHS

"Franca Arena was born in Genoa, Italy, and migrated to Australia in 1959. She was the founding member of the Migrant Women's Association, president of the National Italian-Australian Women's Association, founder of the New South Wales Ethnic Community Council, won a Churchill Fellowship, and was Commissioner of the Education Commission of New South Wales. In 1981, she was the first woman from a non-English speaking background to be elected to the New South Wales Parliament, where she served for seventeen years. Arena resigned from the Australian Labor Party in November 1997, remaining in parliament as an Independent until her resignation from Parliament in March 1999."

Reference
"Arena, Franca (1937-)". The Australian Women's Register. Accessed 4 October 2023, https://www.womenaustralia.info

COLLECTION 1
Franca Arena papers, approximately 1960-2000

COLLECTION 2
Franca Arena correspondence concerning the Women's Network, 1984-1996

COLLECTION 3
Franca Arena further papers, 1959-2004

COLLECTION 4
Franca Arena further papers, 1954-2011

Italian, English