Person

Bashir, Marie Roslyn (1930 - )

AC

Born
1930
Narrandera, New South Wales, Australia
Occupation
Governor, University Chancellor, Educator and Psychiatrist

Summary

Marie Bashir is the first woman to be appointed Governor of New South Wales. She began her career in medicine and completed an internship at St Vincent's Hospital, Sydney. Later Bashir took up psychiatry. She worked both in universities and mental health services, increasingly focussing children and adolescents. In 1988 she was appointed Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) for her services to child and adolescent health.

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Chronology

1956
Education - Bachelor of Medicine (MB) and Bachelor of Surgery (BS), University of Sydney
1982 - 1987
Career position - Foundation Director of the Rivendell Child, Adolescent and Family Service
1988
Award - Officer of the Order of Australia (AO)
1993 - 2001
Career position - Clinical Professor of Psychiatry in the Faculty of Medicine, University of Sydney
1994 - 2001
Career position - Director of Mental Health Services at Central Sydney Area Health Services
1996 - 2001
Career position - Senior Consultant at the Aboriginal Medical Service in Redfern and Kempsey
2001
Award - Companion of the Order of Australia (AC)
2001 - 2014
Career position - Governor of New South Wales
2004
Award - Royal Society of New South Wales Medal
2007 - 2012
Career position - Chancellor, University of Sydney

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Archival resources

National Library of Australia Oral History Collection

  • Interview with Dr Marie Bashir (sound recording), interviewer: Amy McGrath, 20 April 1979, TRC 838; National Library of Australia Oral History Collection. Details

Published resources

Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Exhibitions

  • McCarthy, Gavan; Morgan, Helen; Smith, Ailie; van den Bosch, Alan, Where are the Women in Australian Science?, Exhibition of the Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, First published 2003 with lists updated regulary edn, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, Melbourne, Victoria, 2003, https://eoas.info/exhibitions/wisa/wisa.html. Details

Resources

See also

  • Herd, Margaret ed., Who's who in Australia 2002 (Melbourne: Crown Content, 2001), 2020 pp. Details

Ailie Smith

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