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From: "Beryl O'Gorman" <>
Subject: [AUS-VIC-West] Fw: Re ANA
Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 12:01:17 +1000

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Beryl O'Gorman
Greensborough Victoria Australia
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----- Original Message -----
From: "ann synan" <>
To: <>
Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2001 10:58 AM
Subject: Re ANA


> To Tricia, who was enquiring about the ANA - This was
> a very strong movement in the 19th century, forming
> about the 1850s, as a movement of young, native
> (Australian) born men, partly as a benevolent society
> - they offered an early form of health care,
> including specified ANA doctors, for a small
> contribution - but also had a very strong national
> political agenda, very patriotic towards things
> Australian, and very strongly supported the Federation
> movement, making it a movement for the people, rather
> than a 'politician's movement'. They had lots of
> meetings and conventions throughout Victoria, and
> other states.
>
> The ANA has now merged with Manchester Unity, to
> become Australian Unity, and has its headquarters in
> South Melbourne. They have a WONDERFUL archive of ANA
> records and memorabilia. The Librarian/ archivist is
> Beryl Armstrong, who can be contacted as
>
>
> My husband has recently published a book on a man
> called George Henry Wise, called 'Three Cheers for the
> Commonwealth of Australia' - Wise was a very long
> lived Gippsland solicitor and politician, who was a
> major ANA figure over many years, particularly
> campaigning strongly for Federation, and we were able
> to amass quite a lot of ANA information and
> memorabilia, particularly from the Gippsland area.
>
> Best regards
> Ann Synan (Sale)
>
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