Melanie Oppenheimer

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According to Wikipedia, Melanie Nivison Oppenheimer, is an Australian historian, who specialises in the history of volunteering, and a former actress. Early life and acting Oppenheimer was born in Sydney, New South Wales, and studied for a Bachelor of Arts degree at the University of New England . When UNE opened a drama department, she "fell in love with acting" and went on to enrol at the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art in London before starting a career as an actress on Australian television. She played Sarah Carson, the daughter of lead character Jennifer Carson , on the television series Carson's Law from 1984 to 1986.

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Melanie Oppenheimer's Published Works

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Volunteers and Volunteering (2000) (58)
The future for Meals on Wheels? Reviewing innovative approaches to meal provision for ageing populations (2013) (33)
Measuring Volunteerability and the Capacity to Volunteer among Non-volunteers: Implications for Social Policy (2018) (32)
‘The best P.M. for the empire in war'?: Lady Helen Munro Ferguson and the Australian Red Cross Society, 1914–1920 (2002) (25)
All work no pay : Australian civilian volunteers in war (2002) (16)
Beveridge and voluntary action in Britain and the wider British world (2011) (14)
Voluntary Work and Labour History (1998) (14)
The Last Battle: Soldier Settlement in Australia 1916-1939 (2016) (14)
Marginalizing Australia's volunteers : the need for socially inclusive practices in the non-profit sector (2004) (12)
The Conceptualization of Volunteering Among Nonvolunteers: Using the Net-Cost Approach to Expand Definitions and Dimensions of Volunteering (2019) (12)
Challenges to the Recruitment and Retention of Volunteers in Traditional Nonprofit Organizations: A Case Study of Australian Meals on Wheels (2018) (12)
The Labour Movement and Voluntary Action in the UK and Australia : a Comparative Perspective (2005) (11)
"We all did voluntary work of some kind": voluntary work and labour history. (2001) (11)
Controlling Civilian Volunteering: Canada and Australia During the Second World War (2004) (8)
The Next ‘New’ Idea: The Challenges of Organizational Change, Decline and Renewal in Australian Meals on Wheels (2015) (8)
"I intend to get justice": The moral economy of soldier settlement (2014) (8)
Alleviating distress: the Lord Mayor's Patriotic Fund in New South Wales, 1914/ 1920 (1995) (7)
Gifts for France: Australian red cross nurses in France, 1916–1919 1 (1993) (7)
Voluntary Action and Welfare in Post-1945 Australia Preliminary Perspectives (2005) (7)
Australians and war (2005) (6)
Voluntary Action, Social Welfare and the Australian Assistance Plan in the 1970s (2008) (6)
Oceans of love : Narrelle - an Australian nurse in World War I (2006) (5)
Changes in the nature of work and employment relations : an historical perspective : commentary (2002) (5)
Tears on my pillow. Australian nurses in Vietnam (2006) (4)
Rights and protection of volunteer workers : some preliminary considerations (2001) (4)
The Red Cross movement: Myths, practices and turning points. (2020) (4)
Beveridge and voluntary action (2011) (3)
Meals on wheels: building towards a new social experiment for our times (2014) (3)
Control of Wartime Patriotic Funds in Australia: The National Security (Patriotic Funds) Regulations, 1940–1953 (2000) (3)
‘Working for the Duration?’ Aspects of Voluntary Work in Queensland during World War Two (1996) (3)
‘Hidden under many bushels’: Lady Victoria Plunket and the New Zealand Society for the Health of Women and Children (2023) (3)
A Decent Provision. Australian Welfare Policy, 1870 to 1949 – By John Murphy (2012) (3)
Bate, Thelma Florence (1904-1984) (2006) (2)
Resilient Humanitarianism? Using Assemblage to re-evaluate the history of the League of Red Cross Societies (2020) (2)
Shaping the Legend: The Role of the Australian Red Cross and Anzac (2014) (2)
Beveridge and Voluntary Action in Britain and the Wider World (2011) (2)
The ‘imperial’ girl: Lady Helen Munro Ferguson, the imperial woman and her imperial childhood (2010) (2)
The Fabric of Welfare: Voluntary Organisations, Government and Welfare in New Zealand, 1840–2005, by Margaret Tennant (2009) (2)
Growing the Volunteer Pool: Identifying Non-Volunteers Most Likely to Volunteer (2021) (2)
Australian Women and War (2008) (2)
Taking the road less travelled : a perspective on third sector historical research in the twentieth century (2003) (2)
'Maids of All Work'.1 Women, Voluntary Labour and Australian Red Cross VADs (1999) (1)
'Not Openly Encouraged' - Nurse Soldier Settlers After World War One (2010) (1)
Kizmet: the Fate of the Australian Gallipoli POWs (2011) (1)
Retooling the Class Factory : Response 2 From Monochrome to Technicolour: Adding the Lens of Unpaid Labour (2002) (1)
Opportunities to Engage: The Red Cross and Australian Women’s Global War Work (2017) (1)
Reflections on the Easternisation of the Red Cross Movement: the role of the Japanese Red Cross and the League of Red Cross Societies, 1907–1926 (2020) (1)
Nurses of the League: the League of Red Cross Societies and the development of public health nursing post-WWI (2020) (1)
“There is no trace of him”: the Australian Red Cross, its Wounded and Missing Bureaux and the 1915 Gallipoli Campaign (2015) (1)
Realignment in the aftermath of war (2020) (1)
Review of Conflicts 1945 to Today, Australian War Memorial, Canberra (2008) (1)
‘I Intend to Get Justice’: Moral economy (2016) (0)
The Next ‘New’ Idea: The Challenges of Organizational Change, Decline and Renewal in Australian Meals on Wheels (2014) (0)
‘From the Farm to the Asylum’: Mad and ‘nervy’ men (2016) (0)
From the Editors (2018) (0)
Book Review: Working the Nation: Working Life and Federation, 1890-1914 (2002) (0)
Book Reviews (2008) (0)
‘In the Service of Others Her Life Was Spent’: Re-Creating the Humanitarian Life of Lady Helen Munro Ferguson (2022) (0)
‘Taking on a Holding’: Women and families on the land (2016) (0)
From the Editors (2017) (0)
‘When the Inspector Calls’: The yeoman quest (2016) (0)
The historian activist and the Gift to the Nation project: preserving the records of the Australian Red Cross (2020) (0)
From the Editors (2016) (0)
‘Settling Down’: Successful soldier settlers (2016) (0)
Termine / Konf: Histories of the Red Cross Movement: Continuities & Change (2015) (0)
War and peace on the home front (2015) (0)
From the Editors (2018) (0)
From the Editors (2016) (0)
From the Editors (2017) (0)
Lady Helen Munro Ferguson and the Australian Red Cross: Vice-regal Leader and Internationalist in the early Twentieth Century (2011) (0)
From the Editors (2017) (0)
From the Editors (2016) (0)
Teaching Labour History: An E-Interview with Rae Frances and Bruce Scates (2003) (0)
From the Editors (2017) (0)
Contesting Australian History: Essays in Honour of Marilyn Lake (2020) (0)
Brisbane conference 2002 Report Crossing Boundaries (2002) (0)
The Welfare State at the End of the Long Boom, 1965–1980: Themes and Issues (2018) (0)
CLIMATE CHANGE & COASTAL DEVELOPMENT LAW IN AUSTRALIA (2014) (0)
‘Men on the Margins’: Suspect soldiers (2016) (0)
Introduction ‘A Land Fit for Heroes’: Implementing soldier settlement in Australia (2016) (0)
Lucy Osburn, a Lady Displaced: Florence Nightingale's Envoy to Australia [Book Review] (2007) (0)
From the Editors (2018) (0)
Shadows of the Great War: Group Soldier Settlement in Greater Sydney, 1917-1939 (2012) (0)
Stories From the Front and the Home Front (2005) (0)
Past Judgement. Social Policy in New Zealand History ed. by Bronwyn Dalley, Margaret Tennant (review) (2023) (0)
From the Editors (2018) (0)
The Red Cross Movement (2020) (0)
“People Power”: Social Planners and Conflicting Memories of the Australian Assistance Plan (2019) (0)
The Australian Assistance Plan and the Canadian Connection: Origins and Legacies (2018) (0)
‘A Land only Fit for Rabbits’: Environmental degradation (2016) (0)
Re-alignment in the aftermath of war: the League of Red Cross Societies, the Australian Red Cross and its Junior Red Cross in the 1920s (2020) (0)
'Developing a community soul': A Comparative Assessment of the Australian Assistance Plan in Three Regions, 1973-1977. (2016) (0)
The Professionalisation of Nursing through the 1920s and 1930s: The Impact of War and Voluntarism (2019) (0)
Saving ‘Ireland's children’: voluntary action, gender, humanitarianism, and the Irish White Cross, 1921–1947 (2022) (0)
Volunteering, the voluntary principle, and the moving frontier in a time of Covid – Reflections (2022) (0)
‘War Wrecked’: Sending cripples to the country (2016) (0)
From the President (2021) (0)
‘Droughts and Flooding Rains’: Markets and the seasons (2016) (0)

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