The Australian Women's Register

1 hour 15 minutes Marilyn Beaumont was born in Canberra. She trained at the Prince Henry Hospital, Sydney between 1968 and 1971. After ten years of alternate nursing and non-nursing appointments she came to Adelaide in 1980 and worked in a counselling capacity with the Alcohol and Drug Addiction Treatment Board. In 1981 she became a Liaison Officer for the SA Branch of the Royal Australian Nursing Federation and in 1982 she successfully contested an election for Secretary of that association. Marilyn’s five year appointment, before taking up the Federal Secretaryship, coincided with a time when the professional and industrial roles of that association were very active.