Jose Petrick OAM (née Tizard, born 14 February 1924) is a British-born Australian historian and community advocate living in Alice Springs in the Northern Territory.
She married Martyn Petrick from nearby Mt Swan Station in 1952 and had two children Suzette and Grant.
In 1960, they moved to Neutral Junction Station near Barrow Creek, where Petrick ran the health centre in the community.
[3] When Martyn died in 1974, Petrick moved to Alice Springs and became a journalist with the Centralian Advocate where she was first employed as a junior cadet.
[2] Petrick was awarded an Order of Australia Medal in January 2000, for the preservation and recording of the history of Alice Springs and for her voluntary work at the Old Timers Home.