- Entry type: Person
- Entry ID: AWE6226
Factor, June
(1936 – 2024)- Born 16 September 1936, Lodz, , Poland
- Died 12 April 2024, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Occupation Academic, Broadcaster, Children's writer, Folklorist, Historian, Writer
Summary
For 25 years June Factor was the director of the Australian Children’s Folklore Collection. Between the late 1960s and 2001 she was involved in various school radio broadcasts and children’s programs. June has produced numerous children’s books, including a series of playground rhymes. For many years she was a Senior Lecturer in English at the Institute of Early Childhood Development in Melbourne.
June held presidencies of both the Australian and Victorian Councils for Civil Liberties and served on the executive committee of Liberty Victoria from 1981 to 1996. She was a founding member of the Free Speech Committee in Victoria and from 1991 to 1995 she represented civil liberty interests on the national statutory Privacy Advisory Committee. June was also the president of the Friends of ABC (Vic) and their national spokesperson from 1996 to 1999.
Events
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2001
Inducted into the Victorian Honour Roll of Women
Archival resources
- National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection
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National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection
- Interview with June Factor, folklorist and writer [sound recording] / interviewer, Gwenda Davey
- June Factor interviewed by Rebecca Grinblat in the Itzak Wittenberg Study Group oral history project [sound recording]
- Interview with June Factor, folklorist and writer [sound recording] / Interviewer: Wendy Lowenstein
- Itzak Wittenberg Study Group oral history project [sound recording]
- The University of Melbourne Archives
- National Library of Australia
- Museums Victoria Collections
Published resources
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- June Factor (1936–2024), Davey, Gwenda Beed and Judy McKinty, 24 May 2024, https://oa.anu.edu.au/obituary/factor-june-34472