Duncan Waterson and Macquarie University.

Journal of Australian Studies, September, 2001 by Roe, Jill

It is a pleasure to be here in the old Blackfriars school site. These splendid buildings represent an important moment in New South Wales educational history, as the site of the early kindergarten training and practising school, and later the Correspondence School. Here before the Great War worked those redoubtable empire feminists and estimable friends of Rose Scott, subsequently of Miles Franklin, Miss Margaret Hodge and Miss Harriet Newcomb, and later, our erstwhile colleague in the old School of English and Linguistics at Macquarie University, the equally redoubtable Thea Astley; and no doubt many more we might well remember. Assembling here is in the best tradition of the Sydney History Group, of which many here were members; and I'm sure you will all agree that...

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