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.