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Life Summary

Name	Shirley Aldythea Andrews
Born	5 November, 1915 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Died	15 September, 2001 (aged 85) Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Religious Influence	Anglican Includes the religion in which subjects were raised, have chosen themselves, attendance at religious schools and/or religious funeral rites; Atheism and Agnosticism have been included.
Related Entries	[View as tree] Manning, Brian Thomas (acquaintance)
Education *	St Michael’s Grammar School (St Kilda, Melbourne) (student, 1928-1932) University of Melbourne (student, 1934-1937)
Occupation or Descriptor *	dancer (1934-1950) Victoria, Australia communist (1945-1968) Victoria, Australia biochemist (1947-1977) Victoria, Australia folklorist (1947-2001) Victoria, Australia Indigenous rights activist/supporter (1951-2001) Victoria, Australia
Key Events *	National Petition Campaign, 1962-63 (promoter)
Key Organisations *	Australian Book Society (member) Eureka Youth League (Vic) (member) Folk Song and Dance Society (Melbourne) (founding member) Friends of the Soviet Union (member) Left Book Club (Melbourne) (member) Movement Against War and Fascism (member) New Theatre (Melbourne) (member) Traditional Social Dance Association of Victoria (member) Union of Australian Women (Melbourne) (member) Unity Dance Group (member) Victorian Dance Assembly (researcher, ?-2001) Victorian Folk Music Club (founding member) Council for Aboriginal Rights (Vic) (founding member, 1951) Council for Aboriginal Rights (Vic) (secretary, 1953) Federal Council for the Advancement of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders (1968)
Political Activism *	Communist (activist, 1945-1968)
Workplaces *	CSIRO (researcher, 1947-1951) Royal Park Psychiatric Hospital (Melbourne) (researcher, 1953-1977)

* Dates are approximate