Then & Now: Our Contemporary lives

Australia was a land, prior to British occupation, of many Asia-Pacific Aboriginal peoples. It was settled some 45,000 years ago and was occupied and settled after 1788 as a British colony and made an  independent Commonwealth nation in 1901. 

Gold rush period and the 'Post WWII' immigration policies, established the foundations for a multi-cultural Society whose roots spread beyond Anglo-Irish ancestry. Then and now, some refugees and Immigrants arrived from turbulent events and religious wars.beyond our distant shores. The Irish, influenced our Catholic learning and combined it with English Literature and manners the post war generation flourished.

• Mark McKenna writes in his book:  (2016). Eyeing the country. From the Edge: Australia's lost histories. (pp. 15 of 280).

"... Since the 1960s, the idea of Australia as a ‘British’ society, we have tried, sometimes desperately, to agree on an alternative national narrative. Eternally preoccupied with questions of national identity and formation—Where and when was the nation born? How has the nation performed on the ‘world stage’? What is uniquely Australian?—we have failed to embed our national story in the histories on our own soil."

 The pioneering days in New South Wales and Victoria, the formation of States and the Federation of Australia, while the cycles of economic fluctuations integrates our economy with world events, the Great Depression, two World Wars and general leadership issues in political upheavals, have all lead to the relative stability of 1960s and the cycle of peace we strive to enjoy.

My direct ancestors were British, including a non-conformist preachers of the Gospels, Irish farmers and shepherds and settlers on the land, convicts and labourers, soldiers, sailors, and in Australia, miners, prospectors, borders inspectors, tax collectors, pound keepers, constables, surveyors, railroad builders, locomotive drivers, coach makers, carpenters, coach drivers, pilot and government employees and a State Manager for Freight on of NSW railways. 

While James Stormont panned for alluvial gold and built the first Australia quartz crushing machine, others laboured underground in mines, served with defence forces and had careers in public services. Their battles with hardship and misfortune, appear to have forged unshakable beliefs and convictions. The little we know of their lives, here subjectively pieced together, weave a customised fabric, fit for our own endeavours and helps make us, survivors also.

Alan and Eve Egan 

Alan and Eve Egan raised three children during the mid 20th.century and practised a deep respect for the teachings of the church and the value of an education.  Church spoke of the mysteries and revelations discovered through a knowledge found therein. 

Each child was given a choice to either leave school after Intermediate Certificate (year 3/4 of high school) and start working in trades, retail or factories etc., or continue on to year 5/6 and gain the Leaving Certificate (LC) which in 1966 changed to the Higher School Certificate (HSC), adding an additional school year for the youngest child. Each was encouraged to investigate their own path and careers within the professions, an area not represented in our former Australian family history. 

When the behavioural consequences of the long years of student life, resulted in new ways of thinking and opinionated discussions, the rebellious new beliefs were disturbed to our traditional family values. Mother Eve responded to tertiary pretensions of her offsprings, with the phrase "courses are for horses" …

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    Keryl Egan

Keryl Egan B.A. (Hons)., Dip.Psychol.

Publications:- Workplace Bullying, coauthored  Joseph Catanzariti and Keryl Egan, published Nexis Lexis 2015 

Graduated for Sydney University in 1968 and UNSW post-graduate studies in Clinical Psychology in 1974. 

Registered psychologist in NSW and a member of the Clinical College of the Australian Psychological Society.  In private practice since 1981 although also worked in public service.

Director of Training at the Institute of Contemporary Psychotherapy for six years and have trained and supervised psychologists, psychiatrists and other mental health professionals extensively. 

Served on the Adjunct Faculty at the Australian Graduate School of Management.

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Jan T Egan

   Jan Egan Pty Ltd / 

Jan Egan,graduated for Sydney University in 1970s and did post-graduate studies in Clinical Psychology in 1980s ~ Registered psychologist in NSW 

Member of the Clinical College of the Australian Psychological Society. 

Practices in Sydney and Southern and Inner West, Sydney....also practices in the public service Health department networks.

Professional Profile

Professions: Psychologist

Specialties: Adolescents, Adult, Eating Disorders, Personality Disorders, Relational Issues

Affiliations: MAPS CCouns; ANZAP,IARPP Australia

Activities:

Private Psychotherapy Practice; Supervision

Institution:

APS.

Graduate School:

Special Training:

ANZAP; Sydney

Degree(s) & Certificate(s):

BA Psych Dip Adult Psychotherapy

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    Paul Egan

... our paths are lifelong,... we revisit and review our beginnings and foundations many times, as the circle of ages, spins.

jobs: Shopassistant mensware, Cadet Engineer with MWSDB, Sydney, Welding metalwork apprentice,  Landscape gardening, labourer, kitchen hand, railway shunter, fruit vegetable picker, University student, Uni NSW, MacQuarie Uni. and Sydney University. Draftsman, Architect, Administration officer Govt. Mobile reviewer, IT  Support, Govt. Helpdesk.

Tertiary Qualifications 

1982 - Bachelor of Science of Architecture, B.Sc.(Arch.)(Hons.) Syd.

1984 - Bachelor of Architecture, B.Arch. Sydney University·

1992/93 - Registered Architect with the Royal Australian Institute of Architects RAIA (NSW), now AIA.…Resume: