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While not being urged to avoid competition, women had few opportunities to compete in sports in Australia until the 1880s. After that date, new sporting facilities were being built around the country and many new sports clubs were created.[1] Boxing classes were being offered to women in Australia by 1892, at locations such as the Brisbane Gymnasium on Turbot Street, close to the city's railway station.[2] While classes may have been offered for women, serious training was not permitted for women by the 1900s, and women were banned from pursuing the sport in a competitive way. Women were also barred from attending boxing matches.[3] New South Wales is the only Australian state to have banned women's boxing, having prohibited it from 1986 to 2009.[4] Women's boxing was resumed in NSW with an exhibition fight between Kaye Scott and Ramona Stephenson in October 2009.[5] Women's boxing was only legalized in Queensland in 2000. Female boxers in Australia have historically faced problems with acceptance of their involvement in the sport. In many places, they have been unable to find places to train and faced difficulties with the law prohibiting them from competing.[6] In 2005, a Ph.D. student in Australia was doing research on the history of women's boxing in the country. Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%27s_boxing_in_Australia

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Thomas Alva Edison’s invention, the phonograph, was perceived in Australia soon after it was patented on Dec. 24th, 1877. In February 1878 the Telegraphic Electrical Society Journal in Sydney appraised in an article the advantages of the new sound recording and replay device and wondered “(…) that he [Edison] himself can hardly say what its practical value is or will prove to be.” (p 2). The first phonograph reached Australia as early as June 1879, when an agent of Edison’s company demonstrated the device to an amazing audience in the Collins Street Independent Church in Sydney. But after a few other demonstrations in Sydney and Melbourne in 1879 and 1880, the public interest in the phonograph faded. It was the merit of Professor Douglas Archibald, who reintroduced the phonograph in Australia, when he arrived in Sydney on May 28, 1890, in order to give a series of public lectures and demonstrations of Edison’s Perfected Phonograph, after he had launched such a lecture series in Britain the year before. In an article for the London trade magazine Phonogram, Archibald wrote. “As I was bound for such an outlandish place as Australia, where a phonograph of this civilized and highly organized type had never been heard (…).” (p 5). During a period of 18 months, Archibald appeared in almost every city of the then six British colonies in Australia and in New Zealand to demonstrate the use of the phonograph by recording the human voice and by playing cylinder records with some speeches by prominent persons such as the British prime minister William Gladstone as well as Thomas A. Edison, but also with popular vocals and instrumental performances. However, in this early stage, the phonograph was not seen as an ..entertainment application but as a recording device for office use. The early Edison phonographs were heavy and clumsy apparatuses run by electric motors that required several primary batteries, which were not affordable for private persons. The phonograph and record business in Australia was initially an Edison monopoly until the British patents expired in 1903. In the years before, the Edison Company required a 15% royalty payment on all cylinder recordings made in Australia and it was uneconomical to produce local records on a larger scale. Even the main competitor of Edison, the British Gramophone Company hesitated to enter the Australian market with its gramophones and disc records. The first advertisement for a spring motor gramophone appeared not until 1899. Source: musicbusinessresearch.wordpress.com/2011/04/12/the-early-...

This same photo of Doris Auguste Heindorff listening to a gramophone is also a cover photo of the book: "Talking and Listening in the Age of Modernity: Essays on the History of Sound" by Joy Damousi and Desley Deacon, 2007. The boom is a collection of essays on talking and listening in the age of modernity that brings together major Australian scholars who have followed Alain Corbin's injunction that historians 'can no longer afford to neglect materials pertaining to auditory perception'. Ranging from the sound of gunfire on the Australian goldfields to Alfred Deakin's virile oratory, these essays argue for the influence of the auditory in forming individual and collective subjectivities; the place of speech in understanding individual and collective endeavors; the centrality of speech in marking and negating difference and in struggles for power; and the significance of the technologies of radio and film in forming modern cultural identities."--Publisher's description.

Archie Newfong was born on 15 October 1910. He was the descendant of the Ngugi people of the Moreton Bay area and a Chinese fisherman. Archie Newfong, like many Aborigines living on North Stradbroke Island, was employed at the Dunwich Benevolent Asylum, which was established in 1865 to provide shelter and care for the poor and needy of Queensland. In 1920 the Aboriginal workers of the institution began a campaign for cash wages, not rations but for equal pay under the awards applying to white employees. Archie Newfong was a superb sportsman playing cricket and football. He was also a boxer. One year he won the Amity Cup on his horse, “Pet”. The Amity Cup was a horse race along the beach at Dunwich held each year. In 1941 Archie became the heavyweight boxing champion of Queensland. After the World War tWO, Archie became active in the Incapacitated Servicemen and Women Association serving as a welfare officer helping returned diggers put their lives back together. He went on to become State President for seven years from 1977. Archie and his son John were active campaigners during the 1967 referendum, which gave power to the Commonwealth Government to legislate on Aboriginal matters. John went on to become a journalist for a major newspaper and was heavily involved in the 1972 tent embassy in Canberra. In 1988 Archie Newfong was appalled to hear of the motion moved at the RSL’s national congress by the Victorian president, Mr. Bruce Ruxton. The motion called for Aborigines to be race-tested before being allowed to claim government benefits. The motion was widely condemned and Archie campaigned in the Courier Mail on 29 September to have the motion rescinded. The Courier-Mail reported on 22 April 1991, that 80-year-old Archie Newfong had unveiled Australia’s first Aboriginal war memorial in the Jebbribillum Borta Park at Burleigh Heads. Throughout their lives, Archie and his wife Edna campaigned for the betterment of Aboriginal people. His wife was Edna Crouch, who came from a famous sporting family. She had represented Australia in the national women’s cricket team that played England in 1935. Their exemplary lives deserve to be better known. Source: thecommunityleader.com.au/in-the-community/local-history/...