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	Dame Roma Mitchell
		Roma became a partner in the legal firm of Nelligan, Angas Parsons and Mitchell in 1935 and practised as a barrister, overcoming the much-entrenched attitude that the law was for men only.
		As early as 1940 Roma Mitchell was instrumental in assisting the drafting of the Guardianship of Infants Act which was passed that year by the South Australian Parliament.
		Roma Mitchell had worked very hard to achieve these appointments and said on the occasion that she hoped that in her lifetime appointments such as these would not excite comments as they did at that time.
	www.southaustralianhistory.com.au /mitchell.htm (1591 words)

	Hawke Centre patron: The late Dame Roma Mitchell
		This is a tribute to The late Dame Roma Mitchell, a foundation Patron of the Centre
		Roma Mitchell was born in Adelaide on the 2nd of October,1913 and passed away on 5 March 2000, the second daughter of Harold and Maude (nee Wickham), and the grand-daughter of Judge Samuel James Mitchell.
		It was whispered that ‘Roma would rather do her Latin homework than go to the pictures on Saturday evening!’ She was Dux of School and won a scholarship to study law at the University of Adelaide, where she graduated as the outstanding scholar of her year in 1934.
	www.unisa.edu.au /hawkecentre/patrons/Mitchell.asp (1016 words)

	Collegiate : Mitchell House (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Mitchell was named after the late Dame Roma Mitchell, a pioneer for women in law in Australia.
		Roma Mitchell prospered at school, and in 1930 she was dux of St Aloysius College in Adelaiede, top of the state in Leaving Honours Latin, and a University bursary winner.
		Roma then went on to study law at the university in Adelaide, being described at the end of the course was named the most outstanding scholar of her year and despite the depression of the 1930s she quickly prospered at her practice at the Bar.
	www.collegiate.tas.edu.au /houses/mitchell.html (500 words)

	SydneySentric -- Rob Sullivan's Roma Queensland
		Roma sits at the junction of the Warrego and Carnarvon highways - strike south on the Carnarvon Highway and you are on your way to St George while the road north passes through Injune on the way to the spectacular Carnarvon Gorge.
		ROMA, 140km west of Miles, was founded by settlers eager to occupy country made available by the opening up of the Darling Downs in 1862.
		Roma is a typical inland town: tidy, with streets lined with bottle trees (not only bottle-shaped but also full of sugary water for emergency stock-watering), and a slightly dated air lent by the iron decorations and wrapround balconies of its hotels.
	www.angelfire.com /id/croon/australia/roma.html (1140 words)

	Mitchell, Roma Flinders - Australian Women Biographical entry
		Dame Roma Mitchell's father (Harold Mitchell) was killed in World War I. At the time her mother (Maude, née Wickham) had two children under the age of 10.
		Dame Roma was still the only women judge of the Supreme Court in Australia when she retired after 18 years in the position in 1983, aged 70.
		Dame Roma became the first woman Chancellor (1983-1990) in an Australian university when she was appointed to the position at the University of Adelaide.
	www.womenaustralia.info /biogs/IMP0002b.htm (951 words)

	Walkabout - Roma
		Lying to the west of the Darling Downs the Roma district was first explored by Europeans when, in 1846, Sir Thomas Mitchell, the New South Wales Surveyor–General, passed through the area looking for a route from Sydney to the north coast of the continent.
		Roma has the distinction of being the first town gazetted in the new colony of Queensland.
		Other features of particular interest in Roma are the large number of gracious old houses and in the centre of town there are a number of interesting hotels.
	www.walkabout.com.au /locations/QLDRoma.shtml (1637 words)

	Dame Roma Mitchell:
		Surprisingly, Dame Roma only came round to the idea of affirmative action in the eighties; before then she believed women should be able to do it on their own.
		I was admitted to the bar that year and Dame Roma invited me to be her associate.
		DAME ROMA MITCHELL: It is shocking to realise the intolerance that still exists within the community.
	www.abc.net.au /gnt/history/Transcripts/s1166923.htm (848 words)

	HREOC Website: Speeches
		The Annual Mitchell Oration is held as a tribute to Dame Roma’s lifelong efforts to improve the respect in Australia for human rights, and to counter discrimination experienced by many people, especially women, members of Indigenous communities, and of ethnic minorities.
		It was Dame Roma’s view that commitment to equality comes from realising that equality does not exist, and plainly it did not for these women, and their communities.
		Dame Roma’s efforts to further the interests of the disadvantaged in our community are legendary, and her work as the first Chair of the Human Rights Commission set standards of excellence that remain a benchmark.
	www.hreoc.gov.au /about_the_commission/speeches_president/roma_mitchell.html (3389 words)

	Former Australian Attorney-General - Dame Roma Mitchell
		Dame Roma Mitchell AC, DBE, CVO, QC It is with deep regret that I learnt of the death of Dame Roma Mitchell yesterday.
		Dame Roma was made a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1982 and a Companion in the Order of Australia in 1991, and was awarded the Commander of the Royal Victoria Order this year.
		Dame Roma's influence on the reform and development of criminal law and the promotion of human rights and equality in Australia will be felt for many years to come.
	www.ag.gov.au /agd/WWW/attorneygeneralHome.nsf/Page/Media_Releases_2000_March_Dame_Roma_Mitchell (194 words)

	Women & Politics in South Australia
		Dame Roma Mitchell is one of the most important women in South Australian public life, through her legal career, membership of the Human Rights Commission, and as Governor of South Australia.
		An example of the advocacy role played by Dame Roma when she was Roma Mitchell QC can be seen in her support in 1962 for the efforts of the League of Women Voters to change the legislation to allow women to sit on juries.
		Dame Roma Mitchell made that comment in 1965, when as a QC, she became the first woman judge of a superior court in Australia on her appointment to the Supreme Court in South Australia.
	www.slsa.sa.gov.au /women_and_politics/mr24.htm (1215 words)

	Dame Roma Mitchell - Biographical Information
		Roma Mitchell was the daughter of a solicitor killed in the First World War.
		Mitchell's mother, who believed in tertiary education for women, put her through a law course at the University of Adelaide during the early years of the Depression.
		She was awarded the OBE in 1971 and in 1991 was appointed Governor of South Australia, again becoming the first woman in Australia to hold that post.
	www.australianbiography.gov.au /mitchell/bio.html (211 words)

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