Janie Mason

Elizabeth Anne Mason (better known as Janie Mason) is a nurse, educator and curator who has worked in the Northern Territory of Australia for most of her adult life.

Education Mason trained for her general nursing training at Prince Henry's Hospital Melbourne and midwifery at Queen Victoria Hospital, Melbourne. She came to the Territory in 1964 with her husband Jon and worked as the nurse at Batchelor. This was followed by midwifery at Darwin Hospital and five years on Gove Peninsula. Immediately following Cyclone Tracy she earned a third certificate in infant health nursing at Tresillian Sydney.

She started the first VET nursing courses at Charles Darwin University, in the change-over of nurse-training in Australia from hospital-based to University-based. 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, and a D.Litt (Honoris causa) from Charles Darwin University in May 2021.