Hazel Butorac
Hazel Butorac is the daughter of former Fremantle trade union leader Paddy Troy. On 8 March 2018 she , was inducted into the Western Australian Women's Hall of Fame. She was honoured with a Medal of the Order of Australia in 2013 for services through a range of organisations, including the Council on the Ageing WA, Mature Adults Learning Association, Midland Women's Health Care Place, Citizens Advice Bureau, Koolkuna women's refuge, the soroptimists and a host of others. She is a former staffer of long standing in the Australian Parliament and was instrumental in the creation of the Members of Parliament (Staff) Act 1984 after finding herself in the frustrating position of being the sole typist and secretary to three male MPs and two male researchers.[1]
"Comrades! Lives of Australian Communists"
To mark the centenary of the Communist Party of Australia in 2020, the SEARCH Foundation, in association with the Australian Society for the Study of Labour History, compiled 100 short biographies of Australian communists, to produce a book "Comrades! Lives of Australian Communists".
Contributors included Hazel Butorac.
Millman supporter
Simon Millman inaugural speech, May 16, 2017:
- I pause at this point to convey my heartfelt gratitude and thanks to the Mount Lawley campaign team, without whom I would not be in this place this evening.
- Hon Alanna Clohesy, MLC, a member of the other place, has diligently advanced the interests of all her constituents in East Metropolitan Region, and has dedicated her life to public service, but has done so with a full-hearted and full-throated commitment to social justice.
- Our campaign manager, Dennis Liddelow, is tireless, accommodating, sympathetic and passionate, and an inspiration to the team. I also thank the campaign committee of Rewi Lyall, Brad Geatches, Hope Smith, Tim Dymond and Mia Onorato Sartari. To the two field organisers, Ben Latham and Jack Eaton, it is so good to have you both on board for the next part of the journey.
- To our countless volunteers, such as Aaron Mackrell, Sonia Gurrin, Emily Baldwin and Joe Butorac and Hazel Butorac; the many other doorknockers, such as Eugene Duggan, Mike Hatzidakis, Tom French and Jai Wilson; the letter-boxers and leafletters, like Mima Comrie and Phil Kennedy; the phonecallers like Pete Mudie, Lee Smoire, Amy Bracegirdle, Caleb Gardiner, Andy Skinner and Brock Oswald, and everyone else—many of whom I am sure to have forgotten, for which I am sorry—you were an incredible source of encouragement and support, united as we were in a common goal, but for an amazing variety of reasons.[2]