Janie Mason

Elizabeth Anne Mason (better known as Janie Mason) is a nurse, educator and curator based in Darwin in the Northern Territory of Australia.
Career.
Mason became a registered nurse working in acute care in urban and remote communities. She then taught secondary school science and Darwin Hospital nurse trainees.
Mason entered academia in 1983 and as of 2021 is Senior Lecturer in Health/Nursing at Charles Darwin University. She was instrumental in starting the Charles Darwin University Nursing Museum there in 1987 and is its current curator. It features photographs, uniforms, documents, equipment and other ephemera.
Mason was the first woman president of the NT Trades & Labor Council from 2000 to 2004 for which she received a Centenary Medal for service to Australian society in union leadership in 2001. She was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) in 2019.