Year	Information
1919	The basic female wage is set at 54 per cent of the basic male wage.
1919	Following a referendum of members, the PSA is registered under Trade Union Act, 1881.
1915	Australia becomes involved in WWI as part of the British Commonwealth. Many PSA members went off to fight, and membership shrank. The NSW public sector employed temporary workers (many of whom were women) and union membership was not seen as advantageous to them.
1910	The PSA launches its first major campaigns around equal pay, superannuation and employment conditions.
1908	The NSW Industrial Arbitration system is established, yet it excludes the PSA on the grounds that under section 99 of the Act Crown employees could not take industrial action.
1902	The Public Service Act makes provision for temporary employment in the sector.
1902	The Public Service Act 1902 prohibits the appointment of married women to the NSW public service if their husband is already employed by the state.
1900	In a big year for the PSA, the first edition of The Public Service Journal is published, the first Council elected and the first country branch springs up in Moree.
1899	The PSA is established, on 16 March at a meeting in the Arron’s Exchange Hotel on Gresham Street Sydney; and the PSA opens its office in Bridge Street, Sydney.
1886	Colonial employees make moves to form a Public Service Association.