Catalogue Number: 1497 Dinner marking the dissolution of the Optometrists Registration Board of Victoria held on June 16 2010 Category: Papers Sub-Category: Optometry Registration Board papers Author: STRACHAN Gregory Year Of Publication/Manufacture: 2010 Time Period: 21st C Place Of Publication/Manufacture: Melbourne Description Of Item: (A) Invitation to a function to mark the dissolution of the Optometrists Registration Board of Victoria held at the Tea House 911 Burke Road Camberwell on Wednesday June 16 2010. Single grey-blue tinted A4 page. (B) Notes of a speech given by Gregory Strachan, the last chairman of the Optometrists Registration Board of Victoria, on the occasion held to mark the winding-up of the Board on June 30 2010, signed by Greg Strachan and dated 16/6/2010. Five A4 pages Historical Significance: The Optometrists Registration Board of Victoria came into being in 1936 following the passage of the Optiicians Registration Act 1935 in the Victorian parliament. At that time it was known as the Opticians Registration Board. In 2010 the Federal and State goverments agreed that the registration of the health professions should become a national responsibility. The Optometrists Registration Board of Australia had been established by Commonwealth legislation that came into effect on July 1 2010. On that day the State Boards (in most but not all States) were wound up, ending for the Victorian Board 74 years of responsibilty for regulating the profession in Victoria. There were 15 chairs of the Board. The first was Bertram Nathan (see People who made history and a profile of him in Clin Exp Optom 2009; 92: 511-518, which recounts the battle to secure legislative recognition of optometry in Victoria). The last was Greg Strachan, whose father John Strachan was also a chairman of the Board). The wind-up dinner was held in the Tea House restaurant in Burke Roard Camberwell on June 16 and was attended by many past members of the Board, among them 4 past chairs. How Acquired: Donated by Gregory Strachan Date Acquired: 16 June 2010 Condition: Good Location: Archive office. Pamphlet and ephemera filing cabinet. Drawer 3 |