Person
Stack, Ellen Mary (Ella)
CBE
- Occupation
- Pastoralist and Physician
Summary
Ella Stack was the Northern Territory's first woman mayor, when she was appointed Mayor of Darwin in 1975. In 1979 she became Darwin City Council's first Lord Mayor.
Details
Chronology
- 1956
- Career position - Medical Officer at the Eastern Suburbs Hospital, Sydney
- 1957
- Career position - General practice at Merrylands, New South Wales
- 1961
- Career position - General practice at Darwin, Northern Territory
- 1972 - 1975
- Career position - Chairman, Building and Research Committee
- 1974 - 1989
- Career position - Member of the St John Ambulance Council
- 1974 - 1989
- Career position - Member of the Medical Registration Board of the Northern Territory
- 1975 - 1979
- Career position - Mayor of Darwin
- 1979
- Award - Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE)
- 1979 - 1980
- Career position - Lord Mayor of Darwin
- 1979 - 1989
- Career position - Member of the National Australia Day Committee
- 1984 - 1989
- Career position - Chairman, Northern Territory Australia Day Council
- 1984 - 1989
- Career position - Board member of the Menzies School of Health Research
- 1985 - 1989
- Career position - Member of the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC)
Archival resources
National Library of Australia Oral History Collection
- Interview with Ella Stack, physician and Mayor of Darwin (sound recording), interviewer: Phyllipa Stack, 26 August 1976, TRC 459; 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
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q26251181. Details
- VIAF - Virtual International Authority File, OCLC, https://viaf.org/viaf/91326203. Details
- 'Stack, E M (1929-)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-459637. Details
See also
- Herd, Margaret ed., Who's who in Australia 2002 (Melbourne: Crown Content, 2001), 2020 pp. Details
Ailie Smith
Created: 6 March 2003, Last modified: 1 August 2007