Muriel Doherty and Agnes Walsh were elected joint vice-presidents (Russell 2007). Doherty was also elected convener of the education sub-committee and would later establish- and become a founding Fellow- of the NSW College of Nursing (Russell 2007). Regular meetings between the Australian Nursing Federation (ANF) (established in 1924 to unite the state and territory nursing organizations) and the national FNMC (focused on post-graduate education)