Stack, Ellen Mary (Ella)

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