[ { "Title\/Name": "Geason, Susan", "Entry ID": "AWE0001", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/geason-susan\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "New Norfolk, Tasmania, Australia", "Occupations": "Editor, Journalist, Women's liberationist, Writer", "Summary": "Most of Geason's professional life centred on politics and writing, often a combination of both, including positions as a researcher in Parliament House, Canberra; Cabinet Adviser in the New South Wales Premier's Department; and head of information in what is now the Environment Protection Authority. Since 1988 she has worked as a freelance writer and editor, and from 1992 till 1997, was literary editor of the Sydney weekly newspaper, the Sun-Herald.\n", "Details": "Geason was born in 1946, New Norfolk, Tasmania, grew up in Queensland, and now lives in Sydney. She has a Bachelor of Arts in History and Politics from the University of Queensland and a Masters Degree in political theory from the University of Toronto, Canada. Most of Geason's professional life has centred on politics and writing, often a combination of both, including positions as a researcher in Parliament House, Canberra; Cabinet Adviser in the New South Wales Premier's Department; and head of information in what is now the Environment Protection Authority. From 1988 she worked as a freelance writer and editor, and from 1992 till 1997, was literary editor of the Sydney weekly newspaper, the Sun-Herald . In the late 1980s Geason wrote a series of crime prevention manuals for the Australian Institute of Criminology and spent two years on the Premier's Advisory Council on Crime Prevention.\nGeason was awarded a PhD in Creative Writing by the School of English, Media Studies and Art History at the University of Queensland in 2005 for her thesis, \"Under the Canopy of Heaven : Charlotte Bront\u00eb and Mary Taylor; What Mary Knew : The Relationship Between Mary Taylor and Charlotte Bront\u00eb\". It was published as What Mary Knew : Mary Taylor and Charlotte Bront\u00eb in 2011.\nHer published works include:\nShaved Fish, Allen & Unwin, Sydney 1990\nDogfish, Allen & Unwin, Sydney 1991\nShark Bait, Allen & & Unwin, Sydney 1993\nWildfire, Random House Australia, Sydney 1995\nReaders Digest Select Editions, Australasia, Sydney 1997\nStories in Anthologies:\n'An Old Husbands' Tale' in More Crimes for a Summer Christmas , ed. Stephen Knight, Allen & Unwin, Sydney 1991\n'Aint Misbehavin' in Killing Women: Rewriting Detective Fiction (essays on feminism and the PI genre), ed. Delys Bird, Angus & Robertson, Sydney 1993\n'Conflict of Interest' in Moonlight Becomes You: Crimes for Summer 6, ed. Jean Bedford, Allen & Unwin, Sydney 1995.\n'Totally Devoted' in Shadow Alley (crime for teenagers), compiled by Lucy Sussex, Omnibus Books, Sydney 1995\n'Green Murder' in Women on the Case, ed. Sara Paretsky, Delacorte, NY 1996\nVirago, London 1997\n'Sybilla of the Fires' in Overland Vol. 138, Autumn 1995.\nShort Stories in Australian Penthouse; Billy Blue Magazine; Sun-Herald Newspaper; Tages Anzeiger, Zurich; Australasian Post Magazine\nNon-Fiction:\nCrime Prevention: Theory & Practice; Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design; Preventing Car Theft; Preventing Graffiti & Vandalism; and Preventing Retail Crime, Australian Institute of Criminology, Canberra 1988-1991\nRegarding Jane Eyre, ed. Susan Geason, Vintage\/Random House, Sydney 1997\nGreat Australian Girls, ABC Books, North Sydney 1999\nAudiotapes:\nFish Tales, based on Shaved Fish, ABC Audio Crime Fiction Series, 1993\n", "Events": "Education Editor, The National Times (1980 - 1981) \nHead of Information and Publications with the NSW State Pollution Control Commission (1985 - 1987) \nLegislative Researcher, Parliamentary Library, Canberra (1979 - 1980) \nLiterary editor of The Sydney Morning Herald (1991 - 1997) \nPolicy Officer, Cabinet Office, NSW Premier's Department (1982 - 1985)", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/susan-geason-writer\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/the-womens-pages-australian-women-and-journalism-since-1850-2\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/papers-of-susan-geason\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/biographical-cuttings-on-susan-geason-containing-one-or-more-cuttings-from-newspapers-or-journals\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/papers-of-stephen-knight-1977-1991-manuscript\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/papers-of-rhyll-mcmaster-1960-1987-manuscript\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/typewritten-script-two-dog-night-episode-5-of-shaved-fish-by-susan-geason\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Pink, Olive Muriel", "Entry ID": "AWE0041", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/pink-olive-muriel\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Hobart, Tasmania, Australia", "Death Place": "Alice Springs, Northern Teritory, Australia", "Occupations": "Anthropologist, Botanical artist", "Summary": "Olive Pink was a botanical artist and anthropologist who campaigned for the rights of Aboriginal people. She was one of few women anthropologists working in a male dominated field in the 1930s and 1940s. Pink positioned herself as an expert on Aboriginal people and campaigned from this basis in her criticism of government officials, missionaries and pastoralists.\n", "Details": "Educated in art at Hobart Technical College. Pink worked at the Public Works Department and later the Railways Commission of New South Wales. She studied anthropology at Sydney University with the Workers' Educational Association and became secretary to the Anthropological Society of NSW. In 1926 & 1927 she travelled to Ooldea on the Transcontinental Line, SA. There she created many of her early drawings of desert flora.\nPink spent much time in the Northern Territory, living first with Arrernte and Warlpiri people and settling eventually in Alice Springs. She was a prolific correspondent, writing many letters to government departments and the press, particularly to represent her beliefs about Aboriginal people and her views on their better treatment by the government. Historian Julie Marcus suggests that Pink eventually lost faith in the potential of Anthropology to assist Aboriginal people, and abandoned the discipline later in life.\nIn 1955 she applied for the reservation of an area of land on the eastern bank of the Todd River as a flora reserve. In 1956 the Australian Arid Regions Flora Reserve of 20 hectares was gazetted. Pink and her gardener Johnny Jambijimba Yannarilyi developed the garden, where Pink lived until her death. The garden was then renamed the Olive Pink Flora Reserve, and now contains over 300 of Central Australia's plant species.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/guide-to-the-norman-b-tindale-archives\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/papers-of-e-w-p-ernest-william-pearson-chinnery-1887-1972\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/significant-tasmanian-women-olive-pink-1884-1975-early-anthropologist-aboriginal-rights-activist-and-botanical-artist\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/the-beauty-simplicity-and-honour-of-truth-olive-pink-in-the-1940s\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/papers-of-sir-paul-hasluck-1905\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/the-landowners-in-the-northern-division-of-the-aranda-tribe\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/spirit-ancestors-in-a-northern-aranda-horde-country\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/imagined-destinies-aboriginal-australians-and-the-doomed-race-theory-1880-1939\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/yours-truly-olive-m-pink\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/the-indomitable-miss-pink-a-life-in-anthropology\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/talkin-up-to-the-white-woman-aboriginal-women-and-feminism\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/bulletin-of-the-olive-pink-society\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/first-in-their-field-women-and-australian-anthropology\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/pink-olive-muriel-1884-1975\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/where-are-the-women-in-australian-science-2\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/200-australian-women-a-redress-anthology\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/the-encyclopedia-of-women-and-leadership-in-twentieth-century-australia\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/olive-pink-papers\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/papers-of-ernest-william-pearson-chinnery-1897-1971-manuscript\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/papers-of-sir-paul-hasluck-1925-1989-manuscript\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/tom-and-mary-wright-collection-deposit-1\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/flora-and-fauna-reserve-alice-springs-miss-olive-pink-general-correspondence\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/alice-springs-native-flora-reserve-olive-pink\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/miss-olive-pink-secular-sanctuary-granites-tanami-district\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/flora-and-fauna-reserve-alice-springs-miss-olive-pink-general-correspondence-2\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/pink-olive\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/native-flora-reserve-olive-pink\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/field-diaries-notebooks-and-other-data-relating-to-fieldwork\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/olive-pink-collection\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/miss-olive-pink-application-for-permit-to-enter-aboriginal-reserves-general-correspondence\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/tom-and-mary-wright-collection-deposit-2\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/biographical-cuttings-on-olive-pink-anthropologist-containing-one-or-more-cuttings-from-newspapers-or-journals\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/a-patron-and-a-friend-olive-pink-and-j-b-cleland\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/warlpiri-vocabulary-slips-by-olive-pink-c1934\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/letter-miss-olive-pink-to-t-g-h-strehlow-8th-september-1946\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/papers-of-olive-muriel-pink\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/on-policies-for-the-northern-territory-aborigines-an-open-letter-no-4\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/collection-of-letters-documents-interview-transcripts-from-depositors-collection-on-ooldea-closure-and-the-maralinga-tests\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/rw-boden-work-files-and-reports-relating-to-olive-pink-and-the-olive-pink-society\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Stone, Emma Constance", "Entry ID": "AWE0048", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/stone-emma-constance\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Hobart Town, Tasmania, Australia", "Death Place": "Melbourne, Victoria, Australia", "Occupations": "Feminist, Medical practitioner", "Summary": "In February 1890, Dr Constance Stone became the first woman to be registered with the Medical Board of Victoria, paving the way for medical women in Melbourne, Australia, Working mainly with women and children in free clinics, she gave low-income women the opportunity to be treated in private, free from the embarrassment of examination in front of male medical students. She founded the Victorian Medical Women's Society and was a member of a number of women's organisations, including the Victorian Women's Franchise League. Her major achievement was the foundation of the Queen Victoria Memorial Hospital.\n", "Details": "Constance Stone was not permitted to enrol in the Melbourne Medical School because in the early 1880s, women were excluded from medical studies because the subject matter was deemed inappropriate for co-ed classes. Consequently, in 1884 she travelled to North America , where she was educated at the Women's Medical College of Pennsylvania, USA and the University of Trinity College, Toronto, Canada (MD, ChM 1888) thus ensuring that she could be registered in Australia. She also studied at the New Hospital for Women, London, qualifying as a licentiate of the Society of Apothecaries in 1889. The first woman to register with the Medical Board of Victoria 1890, she practised one day a week at the free dispensary attached to Dr Singleton's mission in Collingwood. She founded the Queen Victoria Hospital, where she was assisted by her sister Dr Clara Stone (one of the first women to enter the Melbourne Medical School) and her cousin, Dr Emily Mary Page Stone. She was Foundation member (1895) of the Victorian Medical Women's Society.\nStone was one of the few early female medical practitioners to marry and have children. Her daughter, Bronwen, also became a doctor.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/stone-emma-constance-1856-1912\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/where-are-the-women-in-australian-science-2\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/nation-builders-great-lives-and-stories-from-st-kilda-general-cemetery\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/the-complete-book-of-great-australian-women-thirty-six-women-who-changed-the-course-of-australia\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/200-australian-women-a-redress-anthology\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/letter-to-miss-evans-1926-sep-16-manuscript\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/biographical-cuttings-on-constance-stone-first-woman-physician-in-australia-containing-one-or-more-cuttings-from-newspapers-or-journals\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/collection-of-pamphlets-containing-souvenir-concert-programmes-and-australian-biographies\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Lyons, Enid Muriel", "Entry ID": "AWE0105", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/lyons-enid-muriel\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Duck River, Smithton, Tasmania, Australia", "Death Place": "Ulverstone, Tasmania, Australia", "Occupations": "Politician", "Summary": "Dame Enid Lyons AD GBE was the first woman elected to the Australian federal Parliament, in 1943. She was also the first woman in federal Cabinet. She was appointed as a Dame Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire (Civil) on 11 May 1937 for her public services to Australia and as a Dame of the Order of Australia (AD) on 26 January 1980.\n", "Details": "Originally a teacher, Enid had a long-held interest in politics. In 1915 she married Joseph Lyons, who became Prime Minister of Australia in 1931. The couple had 12 children.\nIn 1943 Enid Lyons was elected to the House of Representatives for the seat of Darwin (in Tasmania) as a candidate for the United Australia party, where she demonstrated her concern with issues surrounding maternity care, child endowment, women's representation in parliament and discrimination in employment.\n", "Events": "Inducted into the Victorian Honour Roll of Women (2001 - 2001)", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/significant-tasmanian-women-dame-enid-lyons-ao-1897-1981-first-woman-to-be-elected-to-the-commonwealth-parliament\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/list-of-electoral-divisions-named-after-women\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/dame-enid-lyons\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/australian-women-writers-a-bibliographic-guide\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/uphill-all-the-way-a-documentary-history-of-women-in-australia\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/dame-enid-lyons-2\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/liberal-women-federation-to-1949\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/no-ordinary-lives-pioneering-women-in-australian-politics\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/the-complete-book-of-great-australian-women-thirty-six-women-who-changed-the-course-of-australia\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/200-australian-women-a-redress-anthology\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/faith-hope-and-charity-australian-women-and-imperial-honours-1901-1989\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/so-many-firsts-liberal-women-from-enid-lyons-to-the-turnbull-era\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/the-encyclopedia-of-women-and-leadership-in-twentieth-century-australia\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/papers-of-alexander-gore-gowrie-1835-1987-manuscript\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/papers-of-janine-haines-am\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/papers-on-various-australian-women-19-manuscript\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/papers-of-dame-enid-muriel-lyons-1931-1974-manuscript\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/dame-enid-lyons-a-tribute-sound-recording-presented-by-the-australian-broadcasting-commission\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/dame-enid-lyons-interviewed-by-mel-pratt-in-the-mel-pratt-collection-sound-recording\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/papers-of-jack-and-jean-horner-1956-2003-manuscript\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/subject-files-of-prime-minister-john-gorton\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/irina-dunn-further-papers-1943-1994\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/correspondence-of-joseph-aloysius-lyons-as-prime-minister-and-leader-of-the-opposition\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Jackson, Judith Louise (Judy)", "Entry ID": "AWE0129", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/jackson-judith-louise-judy\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Hobart, Tasmania, Australia", "Occupations": "Attorney General, Lawyer, Parliamentarian", "Summary": "A member of the Australian Labor Party, Judy Jackson was elected to the House of Assembly in the Tasmanian Parliament representing the electorate of Denison in 1986. During her parliamentary career, she held the ministerial portfolios of Health and Human Services from 1998 to 2002 and Attorney-General from 2002 until her retirement in 2006.\n", "Details": "Educated at Glenorchy Primary School and Hobart High School, Judy Jackson graduated from the University of Tasmania with a BA, DipEd and LLB. She worked as a secondary school teacher (1969-1983) and as a lawyer with the Crown Law Department (1984-1985) before launching a political career in 1986.\nJackson was the Shadow Spokesperson for Health from 1986 to 1989. In 1989 she was appointed Minister for Community Services and Minister for Parks, Wildlife and Heritage and in 1991 became Minister for Roads and Transport. She held these portfolios until 1992.\nLeader of the Opposition in the House from 1992 to 1996, she was also Shadow Minister for Social Justice (1993-1995); Parks, Wildlife and Heritage (1993-1996); Environment and Planning (1994-1996); Local Government (1995-1996); Status of Women (1996-1998); Justice (1996-1998); and Shadow Attorney General (1996-1998). In 2002 she became Attorney-General in Tasmania. Her community interests included being on the boards of Euphrasia and Glenorchy Skillshare.\nShe was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) in 2023 for significant service to the people and Parliament of Tasmania.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/hon-judy-jackson-mha-electorate-denison-inaugural-speech-19-march-1986\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/judith-judy-louise-jackson\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/whos-who-in-australia-2002\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/australian-women-lawyers-as-active-citizens\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/biographical-cuttings-on-judy-jackson-containing-one-or-more-cuttings-from-newspapers-or-journals\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Bladel, Frances (Fran) Mary", "Entry ID": "AWE0131", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/bladel-frances-fran-mary\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Hobart, Tasmania, Australia", "Death Place": "Hobart, Tasmania, Australia", "Occupations": "Parliamentarian, Teacher", "Summary": "Fran Bladen was elected a State Member (ALP) for Franklin in Tasmania and held her seat from 1986 to 2002. She held several ministerial portfolios from 1989 to 1992, and returned to the ministry as Secretary to Cabinet in 1998. She resigned from the Legislative Assembly in 2002 to unsuccessfully contest the Legislative Council seat of Huon.\n", "Details": "Fran Bladel graduated with a BA (Honours) degree from the University of Tasmania. She became a teacher at Rose Bay High and Bridgewater High and a coordinator of the Tagari Project from 1970 to 1985.\nFrom 1989 to 1992 Bladel was Minister for Consumer Affairs, Administrative Services and Construction and Minister assisting the Premier on the Status of Women. She was a member of the Administrative Committee of the Australian Labor Party, the Australian Education Union, the Tasmanian Council of Social Services, the Working Women's Centre, the Community Enterprise Employment Project (Clarendon Vale), the East Derwent Branch of the Tasmanian Arts Council, the Management Committee of the Housing Assistance Service, the Tasmanian Writers Union and the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. She was Patron of the Eastern Shore Table Tennis League, the Risdon Vale Community Centre Management Committee and the Bridgewater Police, Citizens and Youth Club.\nBladel was a founding member and secretary of 'A Taste of the Huon' Festival Committee, Chairperson of Bridgewater\/Gagebrook Skillshare Inc and a foundation member of Emily's List (Tasmania).\n", "Events": "Inducted into the Tasmanian Honour Roll of Women (2006 - 2006) \nInducted into the Tasmanian Honour Roll of Women (2006 - 2006)", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/whos-who-in-australia-2001\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/fran-bladel-member-for-franklin\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/biographical-cuttings-on-fran-bladel-teacher-politician-containing-one-or-more-cuttings-from-newspapers-or-journals\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/papers-of-jocelynne-scutt-1982-2010-manuscript\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Longman, Irene Maud", "Entry ID": "AWE0170", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/longman-irene-maud\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Franklin, Tasmania, Australia", "Death Place": "Brisbane, Queensland, Australia", "Occupations": "Parliamentarian", "Summary": "Irene Longman was the first woman to both stand for and be elected to the Queensland Parliament. She was a member of the Country and Progressive National Party for the electorate of Bulimba from 11 May 1929 to 11 June 1932. Longman moved Address-in-Reply to the Governor's Opening of Parliament Speech on 21 August 1929.\n", "Details": "Irene Longman was educated at Sydney Girls' High School and Redlands (SCEGS) North Sydney. After obtaining a Kindergarten Teaching Diploma she taught at Normanhurst, Sydney Girls' Grammar School and Rockhampton Girls' Grammar School.\nAn activist in many women's organisation Longman was President of the National Council of Women of Queensland from 1920 to 1924; Honorary President Queensland Citizenship League; Honorary President Queensland Association for the Welfare of the Mentally Deficient; Vice-President of the Queensland Branch Lyceum Club; Vice-President of the Queensland Womens' Peace Movement and Officer of the Creche and Kindergarten Association.\nAlso Longman is responsible for the first Queensland women police officer and for changing the meeting place of the Children's Court from its meeting place in the precinct of the Police Court.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/getting-equal-the-history-of-australian-feminism\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/women-members-of-the-legislative-assembly-from-1929\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/a-republic-for-women\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/childbearers-as-rights-bearers-feminist-discourse-on-the-rights-of-aboriginal-and-non-aboriginal-mothers-in-australia-1920-50\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/longman-irene-maud-1877-1964\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/liberal-women-federation-to-1949\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/so-hard-the-conquering-a-life-of-irene-longman\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/no-ordinary-lives-pioneering-women-in-australian-politics\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/women-in-the-queensland-parliament-1929-1994\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/the-encyclopedia-of-women-and-leadership-in-twentieth-century-australia\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/biographical-cuttings-on-irene-longman-politician-containing-one-or-more-cuttings-from-newspapers-or-journals\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/om92-82-country-and-progressive-party-elections-clippings-1926-1935\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/om83-01-ogg-margaret-ann-manuscript-1824-1962\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/m-1065-mamie-okeeffe-papers-1970s-1980s\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Reynolds, Margaret", "Entry ID": "AWE0201", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/reynolds-margaret\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Launceston, Tasmania, Australia", "Occupations": "Academic, Parliamentarian", "Summary": "Margaret Reynolds was a Senator for Queensland from 1983 until 1999. First elected to the Senate in 1983, she was re-elected in 1984, 1987 and 1993. Reynolds worked as primary and remedial teacher then a tutor before entering parliament. She also served on the Townsville City Council from 1979 to 1983. Reynolds' responsibilities have included: Federal Government representative on the Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation 1992-1995; Minister assisting PM on Status of Women 1988-1990; Chair of the Parliamentary Adviser to the United Nations; and Minister for Local Government 1987-1990. A complete record of her parliamentary service, including a link to her first speech, can be found in the Parliamentary Handbook of the Commonwealth of Australia (see below). Reynolds has been a member of the Australian Labor Party since 1971, and has held many positions in the ALP.\nReynolds retired from parliamentary politics in 1999. She is now the National President of the United Nations Association of Australia and an Adjunct Professor and Sessional Lecturer in the School of Political science and international studies, University of Queensland.\nMargaret Reynolds was appointed a Companion of the Order of Australia (AC) in 2023 for eminent service to the people and Parliament of Australia, to social justice, gender equality and indigenous rights, to local government, and to the community.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/final-report\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/interim-report-on-telephone-services\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/the-last-bastion-labor-women-working-towards-equality-in-the-parliaments-of-australia\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/report-2\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/report-on-0055-reverse-phone-directory-service\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/report-on-telephone-message-services\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/report-on-video-and-computer-games-and-classification-issues\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/select-committee-on-community-standards-relevant-to-the-supply-of-services-utilisingtelecommunications-technology-i-e-technologies-official-hansard-report\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/person-notes-for-person-cp-362-senator-margaret-reynolds\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/the-hon-margaret-reynolds-senator-for-queensland\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/herstory-australian-labor-women-in-federal-state-and-territory-parliaments-1925-1994\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/whos-who-in-australia-2002\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/reynolds-the-hon-margaret-ac\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/interview-with-professor-margaret-reynolds-academic-and-human-rights-consultant-sound-recording-interviewer-diana-giese\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/papers-of-margaret-reynolds-1973-2005-manuscript\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/biographical-cuttings-on-margaret-reynolds-politician-containing-one-or-more-cuttings-from-newspapers-or-journals\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/letters-to-margaret-1999\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/papers-of-senator-margaret-reynolds\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Henslowe, Dorothea Isabel", "Entry ID": "AWE0326", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/henslowe-dorothea-isabel\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Launceston, Tasmania, Australia", "Occupations": "Community worker, Teacher", "Summary": "After leaving school Dorothea Henslowe worked as a teacher and governess. During World War I she was a Voluntary Aid at Hornsey Hospital at Evandale after which she returned to teaching. After both her parents died in 1935, Henslowe travelled to Canada and then settled in Battery Point, Hobart. She worked in an honorary capacity for the Australian Board of Mission, a missionary organisation of the Anglican Church that works largely in Asia, the Pacific and with Aboriginal communities, for over 30 years.\n", "Details": "\"Dorothea Isabel Henslowe lived in the Scottsdale area, Tasmania until she was three, when her family moved to a farm at Ulverstone. She was educated by a governess until leaving home to complete her schooling at the Church of England Girls' Grammar School in Launceston. After leaving school she worked as a teacher and governess, including at Launceston's Frederick Street School.\n\"From 1919 to 1920 she was a Voluntary Aid at Hornsey Hospital at Evandale, but subsequently returned to teaching. In 1925 she went to live with her family in Hamilton, where her father had been appointed Anglican rector, and she spent the next ten years there helping in the parish and giving aid to the needy.\n\"After both her parents died in 1935, Dorothea travelled to Canada and then settled in Battery Point, Hobart. She worked for the Australian Board of Mission, a missionary organisation of the Anglican Church that works largely in Asia, the Pacific and with Aboriginal communities. She worked in an honorary capacity for this organisation for more than 30 years. She was first appointed secretary to the Women's Auxiliary of the Board in 1937, serving in the position until 1943. She was then appointed as the honorary state secretary for Tasmania and established the organisation's state office. In this role she became the first woman to address the Synod of the Anglican Church in Tasmania. She retired as honorary state secretary in 1954, but continued to serve on the organisation's board and as its representative to the Anglican Synod. She was federal president of the organisations for six years, and federal president of the Women's Auxiliary from 1964 to 1967. She also served as a voluntary worker on the Diocesan Children's Homes Committee, which oversaw the management of Children's Homes operated by the Tasmanian Diocese of the Anglican Church, including five years as its honorary secretary and later three as its president. She was an initiator of the Canterbury Tea Rooms, which raised funds for both the Australian Board of Mission and the Diocesan Children's Homes between 1949 and 1959.\n\"Dorothea Henslowe was active in the Battery Point community. She was vice-president of the Battery Point Progress Association, and was president for 11 years of a committee which purchased a former Methodist Church in the 1960's to prevent its demolition and replacement by a service station. The Church became the Battery Point Community Centre. She ran a playgroup for underprivileged children and a boys club and suggested the establishment of a Senior Citizen's Club there. In 1987 the Community Centre was renamed Henslowe Park in recognition of her role in its establishment.\n\"She had a wide interest in the history of Tasmania, particularly its buildings. In 1971, Dorothea and a friend had the idea of taking tourists for guided tours of Battery Point. These were established the same year. She took many of the walks herself and also trained other guides to lead them. The walks raised funds for the restoration of St George's Anglican Church at Battery Point and for the National Trust. In 1978 she published a book, Our Heritage of Anglican Churches in Tasmania, a history of Anglican church buildings in the state.\n\"Dorothea Henslowe received a number of awards in recognition for her community and tourism work, including a British Empire Medal in 1979. She became a life member of the National Trust in 1986, and was Hobart City Council's Citizen of the Year in 1992. The same year she won the Tasmanian Visitor Corporation Award, an award created especially for her.\nShe also travelled extensively within Australia and overseas, including a trip to Central Australia to observe the work of the Australian Board of Mission. She published two books as a result of trips to Papua New Guinea, Papuan Post in 1947 and Papua Calls in 1954. During several trips to the United Kingdom, Canada and the United States she visited family members. In 1966 her sister Muriel Cranswick travelled with her to the Holy Lands, and together again in 1972, when Dorothea made a return visit to Papua New Guinea. Dorothea Henslowe died in 1994. Her ashes are at St Peter's Anglican Church at Hamilton, Tasmania.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/st-georges-church-a-guide-to-the-church-together-with-a-short-history-compiled-from-church-records-1824-to-1972\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/papuan-post-being-letters-from-new-guinea\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/papua-calls\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/our-heritage-of-anglican-churches-in-tasmania\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/faith-hope-and-charity-australian-women-and-imperial-honours-1901-1989\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/yarn-spinners-sound-recording\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/records-of-australian-board-of-missions-tasmanian-branch\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Feltham, Juanita Cecila", "Entry ID": "AWE0481", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/feltham-juanita-cecila\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Hobart, Tasmania, Australia", "Death Place": "Caloundra, Queensland, Australia", "Occupations": "Designer, Servicewoman", "Summary": "After the death of Colonel Kathleen Best, an appeal was launched to erect memorial gates at the Women's Royal Australian Army Corp (WRAAC) School at Georges Heights. Members and ex-members of the Corps were encouraged to submit designs and ideas. Sergeant Juanita Feltham's design was selected. [1]\nJuanita Feltham had joined the WRAAC to combine her wartime skills and experience with her post-war training in fine arts. Janette Bomford states in Soldiers of the Queen that Feltham had a successful army career producing training aids, posters, book illustrations, and terrain model making. [2]\nFeltham's design for the gates feature 47 gumleaf-shaped spikes that denote each year of Colonel Best's life and her Australian nationality. The gate on the left represents her nursing career and the one on the right her contribution to the army, especially the WRAAC. The central cruciform design symbolises Christianity and her Royal Red Cross.\nThe memorial gates and commemoration plaque on the left pillar were made by apprentices at the Balcombe Army School and the stone-work carried out by the 17th Construction Squadron of the Royal Australian Engineers. The ceramic tiles on the right pillar were made by Klytie Pate and feature formation signs of all Australian commands. Prominence is given to the waratah, the emblem of New South Wales, and Colonel Best's home state. [3]\nFeltham became responsible for the graphics section of the newly formed Australian Army Audio-visual Unit, which had not had a female member until 1970 when two WRAAC members were appointed to the staff. [4]\nOn 13 June 1964 Warrant Officer 2 Juanita Cecila Feltham was appointed to the Order of the British Empire (Military).\n[1] Soldiers of the Queen by Janette Bomford p. 47\n[2] ibid p. 26\n[3] ibid p. 47\n[4] ibid p. 73\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/soldiers-of-the-queen-women-in-the-australian-army\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/seven-slides-from-the-opening-of-the-kathleen-best-memorial-gates-womens-royal-australian-army-corps-wraac-school-mosman-nsw-6-november-1959\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/speech-by-colonel-sybil-h-irving-honorary-colonel-of-the-corps-made-at-the-opening-of-the-kathleen-best-memorial-gates-womens-royal-australian-army-corps-wraac-school-mosman-nsw-6-november-19\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/kathleen-best-memorial-gates-2\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/kathleen-best-memorial-gates-and-portrait\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Best, Amelia Martha", "Entry ID": "AWE0494", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/best-amelia-martha\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Lower Barrington, Tasmania, Australia", "Death Place": "Launceston, Tasmania, Australia", "Occupations": "Parliamentarian", "Summary": "Millie Best was one of the first two women elected to the Tasmanian House of Assembly. Throughout her life she was a dedicated community and voluntary worker including being a commandant in the Voluntary Aid Detachment Canteen Services during World War II.\nOn 2 January 1956 Amelia Best was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire for services to social welfare.\n", "Details": "Besides being the Member of the Tasmanian House of Assembly for Wilmont from 1955-1956 and 1958-1959, Best was active within the Liberal party as well as being a community worker. She was a foundation member of the Women Show Judges Association and foundation president of the Business and Professional Women's Club. A member of the Board of Governors for the Launceston Girl's Home, Best also was treasurer to the Auxiliary Cosgrove Park Home and an executive member of the United Nations Association. Other memberships included the Red Cross Meals on Wheels, the Good Neighbour Council and the National Council of Women.\nAmelia Best died in Launceston in November 1979.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/faith-hope-and-charity-australian-women-and-imperial-honours-1901-1989\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/whos-who-in-australia-1971\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/the-encyclopedia-of-women-and-leadership-in-twentieth-century-australia\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Jeffrey, Agnes (Betty)", "Entry ID": "AWE0570", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/jeffrey-agnes-betty\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Hobart, Tasmania, Australia", "Death Place": "Melbourne, Victoria, Australia", "Occupations": "Author, Nurse, Nursing administrator", "Summary": "Betty Jeffrey was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia on 8 June 1987 for service to the welfare of nurses in Victoria and ex-service men and women. Jeffrey was one of the members of the Australian Army Nursing Service who was captured by the Japanese after the fall of Singapore in 1942. Incarcerated in Japanese prisoner of war camps for three and a half years, after the war she wrote about the experiences in White Coolies (1954) which was later the basis for the film script Paradise Road (1999). After her return to Melbourne, and spending some time in hospital, Jeffrey and fellow survivor Vivian Bullwinkel travelled throughout Victoria raising funds towards a memorial for military nurses. The Nurses Memorial Centre was opened on 19 February 1950 and Jeffrey was appointed its first administrator. In 1986 she became the Centre's patron.\n", "Events": "Appointed administrator of the Nurses Memorial Centre (1950 - 1950) \nArrived back in Australia (1945 - 1945) \nArrived in Singapore with the 2\/10 Australian General Hospital (1941 - 1941) \nCompleted nursing training at the Alfred Hospital, Melbourne (1935 - 1938) \nDischarged from the Australian Army Nursing Service (1946 - 1946) \nEvacuated from Singapore with approximately 300 people on the Vyner Brooke (1942 - 1942) \nIncarcerated in Japanese prisoner of war camps in Sumatra (1942 - 1945) \nJoined the Australian Army Nursing Service (1941 - 1941) \nPatron of the Nurses Memorial Centre (1986 - 2000)", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/diary-of-sister-betty-jeffrey-australian-nursing-sister-captured-by-the-japanese-in-world-war-ii\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/white-coolies\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/matron-a-m-sage-sammie-a-tribute-by-betty-jeffrey\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/where-are-the-women-in-australian-science-2\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/betty-jeffrey-oam-rn\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/a-womans-war-the-exceptional-life-of-wilma-oram-young-am\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Robinson, Rachel Theresa", "Entry ID": "AWE0610", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/robinson-rachel-theresa\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Launceston, Tasmania, Australia", "Death Place": "Melbourne, Victoria, Australia", "Occupations": "Secretary", "Summary": "Rachel Robinson became the General Organising Secretary of the Housewives' Association (Victorian Division) in 1924. Educated at the Presentation Convent, Launceston, from 1912 to 1915, Robinson was an organiser with the People's Liberal Party. She held the position of Organiser with the Australian Industries League in 1919-1921. Robinson acted as secretary for a number of candidates at various state and federal elections.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/whos-who-in-australia-1947\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "John, Cecilia Annie", "Entry ID": "AWE0637", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/john-cecilia-annie\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Hobart Town, Tasmania, Australia", "Death Place": "Godalming, Surrey, England", "Occupations": "Feminist, Opera singer, Pacifist", "Summary": "Cecilia John, who sang 'I Didn't Raise My Son to Be a Soldier' until banned by the government under the War Precautions Act of 1915, founded the Women's Peace Army with Vida Goldstein. Interested in social questions, John was a member of the Collins Street Independent Church, the Women's Political Association and wrote for the Woman Voter. She established the Children's Peace Army and ran a women's co-operative farm, the Women's Rural Industries Co. Ltd, at Mordialloc, providing employment to women in financial need.\n", "Details": "The daughter of Daniel and Rosetta (n\u00e9e Kelly) John, Cecilia John came to Melbourne during her early teens to study music and singing. To pay for her training she established a poultry farm at Deepdene. By 1911 John was a successful teacher of singing and voice production as well as a poultry expert. She also joined the Collins Street Independent Church, distributed anti-conscription literature for the Australian Freedom League and supported Vida Goldstein in her campaign for election to Federal parliament in 1913.\nA member of the Women's Political Association she wrote for the Woman Voter and with Goldstein established the Women's Peace Army and became its financial secretary. At anti-conscription meetings she sang 'I Didn't Raise My Son to Be a Soldier' until banned by the government under the War Precautions Act of 1915. She also formed the Children's Peace Army and the People's Conservatorium. Along with Ina Higgins, John ran a women's co-operative farm, the Women's Rural Industries Co. Ltd, at Mordialloc, providing employment to women in financial need.\nFollowing World War I John attended the Women's International Peace Conference at Zurich with Goldstein. She also worked for the International Red Cross in Geneva and the Save-the-Children Fund in London where she became involved with the Dalcroze Eurhythmic system of dancing. In 1932 John became principal of the London School of Dalcroze Eurhythmics, a position she held until her death on 28 May 1955.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/john-cecilia-annie-1877-1955\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/australian-feminism-a-companion\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/monash-biographical-dictionary-of-20th-century-australia\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/that-dangerous-and-persuasive-woman-vida-goldstein\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/radical-melbourne-a-secret-history\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/put-up-the-sword-2\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/the-encyclopedia-of-women-and-leadership-in-twentieth-century-australia\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/miss-cecilia-john-on-why-i-am-a-bolshevik\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/unemployment-w-p-a-womens-labour-bureau\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/scheme-of-proposed-womens-rural-industries-co\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/correspondence-1897-1919-manuscript\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Briggs, Louisa", "Entry ID": "AWE0975", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/briggs-louisa\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Preservation Island, Bass Strait, Tasmania, Australia", "Death Place": "Cummergunja, Victoria, Australia", "Occupations": "Aboriginal spokesperson, Matron, Midwife, Nurse", "Summary": "Louisa Briggs, of Woiworung descent, was born on Preservation Island, Bass Strait. Around 1853 she and her husband, John, went to the Victorian goldfields. Then they worked as shepherds in the Beaufort district until 1871 when the family was admitted destitute to Coranderrk Aboriginal Station. There Briggs acted as nurse and midwife. In 1876 she was appointed matron and became the first Aboriginal woman to replace a European on salaried staff. She became the spokesperson for the residents and succeeded in securing the reappointment of the popular first manager. She fought the Aborigines Protection Board's plans to sell Coranderrk and remove residents to other reserves, and gave evidence to the 1876 inquiry but was eventually forced off the reserve and moved to Ebenezer Aboriginal Station. After yet another inquiry in 1881 she moved back to Coranderrk where she was reappointed matron. When her sons were forced off the reserve under the Victorian Aborigines Protection Act 1886, she moved first to Maloga Mission, and in 1889 to Cummeragunja reserve. Late in life she moved to Barmah and finally to Cummeragunja where she died in 1925.\n", "Details": "Louisa Briggs was a strong-minded, hard-working woman, a regular church-goer, remembered for her humour, audacity and courage.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/briggs-louisa-1836-1925\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/a-life-together-a-life-apart-a-history-of-relations-between-europeans-and-aborigines\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/this-most-resolute-lady-a-biography-puzzle\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/the-encyclopaedia-of-aboriginal-australia-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander-history-society-and-culture\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/200-australian-women-a-redress-anthology\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/plaque-honors-aboriginal-woman\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Wriedt, Paula", "Entry ID": "AWE1047", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/wriedt-paula\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Hobart, Tasmania, Australia", "Occupations": "Politician", "Summary": "Paula Wreidt was elected to the Tasmanian House of Assembly in February, 1996. She was appointed to the portfolio of Minister for Education in September 1998, which made her Tasmania's youngest ever female member of Cabinet. After her re-election in July 2002, Paula retained her position as Minister for Education. She also gained new responsibilities as Minister for Women Tasmania and Leader of Government Business in the House of Assembly. Following the 2006 election Paula assumed the role of Minister for Tourism, Arts and the Environment.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/whos-who-in-australia-2001\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "West, Ida", "Entry ID": "AWE1081", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/west-ida\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Cape Barren Island, Tasmania, Australia", "Death Place": "Hobart, Tasmania, Australia", "Occupations": "Author, Community worker", "Summary": "Ida West was born on Cape Barren Island, Tasmania, in 1919. She attended school at Lughrata, 7 kilometres north of Wybalenna. She married in 1939, and the family moved around the island, living in tents, as her husband had various outdoor jobs with the municipal council. Later, Ida lived in Burnie and Hobart, working as a cleaner while raising the children alone. She became actively involved in community life and acquired an extensive knowledge of Tasmanian Aboriginal culture. She was a board member of the Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre, and served as its acting president. Her autobiography, Pride against Prejudice: Reminiscences of a Tasmanian Aborigine, was first published in 1984.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/the-encyclopaedia-of-aboriginal-australia-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander-history-society-and-culture\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/pride-against-prejudice-reminiscences-of-a-tasmanian-aborigine\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Truganini", "Entry ID": "AWE1098", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/truganini\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Bruny Island, Tasmania, Australia", "Death Place": "Hobart, Tasmania, Australia", "Occupations": "Aboriginal leader, Aboriginal spokesperson", "Summary": "Truganini was the daughter of Mangana, chief of the Bruny Island people. A survivor of The Black Wars that accompanied European settlement in Tasmania, her life epitomises the story of colonial encounters in Tasmania, the clash of two disparate cultures and the resistance and survival of indigenous Tasmanians.\nAfter losing her mother, her sister and her prospective husband at a young age, all of them the victims of colonial violence, Truganini worked hard in the early 1830s to unify what was left of the indigenous communities of Tasmania. An intelligent, energetic and resourceful woman, she worked with white authorities to protect other survivors of The Black Wars who had been forcibly removed from their homelands. In 1830 George Augustus Robinson, a Christian missionary was hired to round up the rest of the indigenous population and he settled them on Flinders Island. Truganini and her husband, Woorrady, helped Robinson in this venture in the hope that removing them would protect them from further violence. Unfortunately, the shock of resettlement, combined with the unsanitary conditions the people were forced to live in, proved fatal and the resettlement program did not work. The result was the virtual annihilation of the one hundred or so people left - mainly due to malnutrition and illness.\nTruganini went with Robinson to Port Phillip in 1839 where a similar settlement was attempted with mainland nations, again with disastrous results. This time, having learnt from the Tasmanian experience, Truganini joined with the Port Phillip people when they resisted Robinson's plans but she was captured and sent back to Flinders Island.\nIn 1856 there were only a few remaining indigenous survivors left in Tasmania, Truganini among them, who were taken to Oyster Bay. By 1873, except for Truganini, all of the people taken there had died. Truganini was moved to Hobart where she died in 1876. She had no known descendants.\nEven in death she was not left in peace. Her skeleton was on display in the Tasmanian Museum from 1904 to 1907. It was not until 1976 that her remains received a proper burial. Aboriginal rights workers cremated Truganini and spread her ashes on the D'Entrecasteaux Channel, close to her birthplace.\nDespite being labelled as such for many years, Truganini was not the 'last Tasmanian Aborigine', as the population of mixed descent Aboriginal people living in Tasmania readily attests to. Nevertheless, the story of her life and death remains immensely important, not only as a symbol of the plight of indigenous Australians, but as an example of the insensitivity of museum practices.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/the-encyclopaedia-of-aboriginal-australia-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander-history-society-and-culture\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/media-portraits-of-indigenous-australians\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/1997-peter-eldershaw-memorial-lecture\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/re-claiming-tru-ger-nan-ner-de-colonising-the-symbol\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trucanini-queen-or-traitor\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/the-spectre-of-truganini\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/the-last-tasmanian\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/truganini-park\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/the-last-wish-truganinis-ashes-scattered-in-the-dentrecasteaux-channel\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/report-to-the-australian-institute-of-aboriginal-studies-on-truganini\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/the-last-of-the-tasmanians\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/an-anthroposcopic-and-anthropometric-study-of-a-full-blood-female-tasmanian-aborigine-truganini\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/the-last-of-the-tasmanian-natives\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/pioneering-journey-home-for-truganini\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/200-australian-women-a-redress-anthology\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trugernanner-truganini-1812-1876\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/skeletal-remains-of-truganini\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/photographs-of-william-lanne-and-truganini-taken-in-tasmania\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Beeton, Lucy", "Entry ID": "AWE1161", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/beeton-lucy\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Badger Island, Bass Strait, Tasmania, Australia", "Death Place": "Australia", "Occupations": "Teacher", "Summary": "Lucy Beeton spent most of her life on Badger Island, though she was sent to Launceston as a young girl to receive a Christian education. In adult life, the well-loved Beeton provided an education for the children of sealers on Badger Island and entertained visitors there.\n", "Details": "Lucy Beeton, of Pyemmairrener descent, was born on Badger Island, Bass Strait. Her mother was taken from her when Lucy was two, to be returned on petition from her father. While still young, Lucy was sent to Launceston where she stayed with a doctor's family and was given a Christian education. F. R. Nixon, Anglican Bishop of Tasmania, wrote in 1854 that Beeton was the greatest lady it had even been his good fortune to encounter, that she was everyone's friend, and that she 'daily gathers together the children of the sealers, and does her best to impart to them the rudiments both of secular and religious knowledge'. In recognition of her work, she was given a life lease of approximately 40 ha on Badger Island. There in her cottage she entertained all visitors to the island. In 1872 she told Canon Marcus Brownrigg that she longed to give Truganini a home where she might spend her remaining days among the descendants of her own race.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/beeton-lucy-1829-1886\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/the-encyclopaedia-of-aboriginal-australia-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander-history-society-and-culture\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Cochrane Smith, Fanny", "Entry ID": "AWE1166", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/cochrane-smith-fanny\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Wybalenna Settlement, Flinders Island, Tasmania, Australia", "Death Place": "Port Cygnet, Tasmania, Australia", "Occupations": "Community worker, Linguist", "Summary": "Fanny Cochrane Smith was born in 1834 at Wybalenna settlement on Flinders Island in Bass Strait. From the age of seven she spent her childhood in European homes and institutions, mostly in the household of Robert Clark, catechist at Flinders Island, in conditions of neglect and brutality. When Wybalenna people were moved to Oyster Cove she went into service in Hobart, but returned to Oyster Cove the same year.\nOn her marriage in 1854 to William Smith, sawyer and ex-convict, she received an annuity of \u00a324. In 1857 they moved to Nicholls Rivulet and took up a land grant, and the first of their 11 children was born the following year. They supported the family by growing produce and splitting shingles. After Truganini died, she claimed herself to be 'the last Tasmanian'. Her annuity was raised to \u00a350, and she was granted 120 ha of land. She became a Methodist and an active fundraiser, donating land for a church.\nCochrane Smith was proud of her Aboriginal identity, and of her knowledge of food gathering and bush medicine. She became famous for her wax cylinder recordings of Aboriginal songs, now housed in the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/the-encyclopaedia-of-aboriginal-australia-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander-history-society-and-culture\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/200-australian-women-a-redress-anthology\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/smith-fanny-cochrane-1834-1915\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Sculthorpe-Randriamahefa, Kerry", "Entry ID": "AWE1192", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/sculthorpe-randriamahefa-kerry\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Farm at Nicholls Rivulet near Oyster Cove?, Tasmania, Australia", "Occupations": "Administrator, Public servant, Researcher", "Summary": "Kerry Sculthorpe-Randriamahefa grew up on a farm at Nicholls Rivulet near Oyster Cove in southern Tasmania. After leaving school at 16 and working at a number of jobs, including secretarial work, waitressing and labouring, she travelled overseas. She received a Diploma in Natural Healing in Stockholm, Sweden, in 1972, and completed bilingual studies in Business and Commercial Practice in 1975. She lived in France and Madagascar before returning to Tasmania in 1977.\nIn 1981 she received her Bachelor of Arts (Social Work) degree from the University of Tasmania, and in 1987 completed a Graduate Diploma in Public Policy at the Australian National University in Canberra. She worked at the Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies in the research and administration sections before joining the Australian Public Service in 1987. Since 1990 she has been the manager of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission in Tasmania. She has participated in national forums on indigenous education, health, land rights and legislation, and published a number of papers and reports on Aboriginal issues.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/the-encyclopaedia-of-aboriginal-australia-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander-history-society-and-culture\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/aborigines-and-tasmanian-schools\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/aboriginal-consulate\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/aiatsis-seminar-series-1996-identity-rights-part-1\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/land-claim-meetings-and-demonstrations-in-tasmania\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Robinson, Elizabeth Esther", "Entry ID": "AWE1285", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/robinson-elizabeth-esther\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Hobart, Tasmania, Australia", "Death Place": "Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia", "Occupations": "Political activist, Political candidate, Women's rights activist", "Summary": "Elizabeth Robinson was a remarkable woman and an Independent candidate for Newcastle in 1932.\n", "Details": "\"That before marriage, contracting parties should obtain compulsory certificates of health, that the school age be extended to sixteen years, that sex education be taught in the schools, that maternity hospitals should be staffed with specially-trained medical men exclusively for this branch of medicine and that there be an immediate and drastic reduction of parliamentary salaries - is part of the policy of Mrs. E.E. Robinson, who is seeking parliamentary honors in the Newcastle district.\" (Parliamentary scrapbook 1932)\nElizabeth Robinson was the daughter of John and Harriett Quintal, her father being originally from Pitcairn Island, and she was born and raised in Tasmania. Before her marriage in 1913 to Henry Charles Robinson, she worked in the Tasmanian Post and Telegraph Department. She was a first class telegraphist at the age of 13.\nFrom her earliest years, Elizabeth Robinson was involved in temperance and humanitarian work. She began preaching at the age of 18 in the Congregational Church and before she was 22 had twice been presented with a purse of sovereigns in recognition of her work for the spiritual and social welfare of young people. She held a strong belief in the benefit of social clubs for young people.\nAt the time of her campaign, she had been resident in Newcastle for five years, and had founded the Women's Citizens Association to engage in the relief of distress. She was a well-known public speaker, both in Tasmania and in Newcastle.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/putting-skirts-on-the-sacred-benches-women-candidates-for-the-new-south-wales-parliament-2\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Barker, Ann Patricia", "Entry ID": "AWE1288", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/barker-ann-patricia\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Latrobe, Tasmania, Australia", "Occupations": "Parliamentarian", "Summary": "A member of the Australian Labor Party (ALP), Ann Barker served as the Member for Bentleigh from 1988-92 in the Legislative Assembly of the Victorian Parliament. She was defeated at the 1992 election, stood unsuccessfully as the ALP candidate for Oakleigh in the 1996 election. but returned to parliament as the Member for Oakleigh in 1999. She held the position of Parliamentary Secretary, Training and Higher Education from 2002-06 and served as Acting Speaker of the Legislative Assembly from 1999-2006. She was re-elected at the November 2006 election and served as Deputy Speaker of the Legislative Assembly from 2006-2010. She was re-elected in November 2010 when the Labor Government was defeated, but retired from Parliament at the 2014 election, when the ALP returned to Government.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/victorian-parliamentary-handbook-no-8-the-55th-parliament\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/ann-barker-mp-state-member-for-oakleigh-parliamentary-secretary-for-training-and-higher-education\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/whos-who-in-australia-2002\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/carrying-on-the-fight-women-candidates-in-victorian-parliamentary-elections\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Bush, Valerie", "Entry ID": "AWE1387", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/bush-valerie\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Burnie, Tasmania, Australia", "Occupations": "Client service manager", "Summary": "Valerie Bush has been a long term environmental campaigner who stood as an Australian Democrats candidate in the 1995 New South Wales Legislative Assembly elections for Cronulla.\n", "Details": "Valerie Bush was born and educated in Tasmania and moved to Sydney as a young adult. She was one of four women who initiated a campaign to prevent the establishment of a toxic waste disposal incinerator being sited on the Cronulla peninsula. She also campaigned against the establishment of petrochemical plants in the area. In her campaign in 1995, she strongly opposed the 3rd runway being planned for the Kingsford Smith Airport.\nShe is a Client Service Manager in the Financial Planning Industry and is married with three children.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/putting-skirts-on-the-sacred-benches-women-candidates-for-the-new-south-wales-parliament-2\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Mottee, Matina", "Entry ID": "AWE2119", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/mottee-matina\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Hobart, Tasmania, Australia", "Occupations": "Migrant Women's Rights Advocate", "Summary": "Matina Mottee is the Australian born child of Greek migrants who arrived in Australia in the early twentieth century. Her father emigrated from Greece in 1905 as a 12 year old and eventually settled in Tasmania where Matina was born.\nMottee was instrumental in establishing the Association of Non-English Speaking Background Women and in 1987 became that organisation's first convener. In 1988 her extensive work on behalf of women in migrant communities was recognised when she was awarded the QANTAS Ethnic Communities Award. In keeping with her egalitarian ethics, however, she chose to interpret the award as honouring all immigrant women, not just Matina Mottee.\nUpon accepting her award in 1988, Mottee said, 'I have struggled from [a young age] for equality of opportunity for both my gender and my race.' Her continued work on the behalf women of culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, at an age when others might have considered retirement, indicates that her attitude and motivation has not changed.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/double-disadvantage-migrant-and-aboriginal-women\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/the-encyclopedia-of-women-and-leadership-in-twentieth-century-australia\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/matina-mottee-interviewed-by-nicola-henningham-sound-recording\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Tazewell, Evelyn Ruth", "Entry ID": "AWE2177", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/tazewell-evelyn-ruth\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Hobart, Tasmania, Australia", "Death Place": "South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Hockey player, Sports administrator", "Summary": "According to her Sport Australia Hall of Fame citation, Evelyn Tazewell was the finest women's hockey player of her time. She enjoyed a career in the sport as player, coach, umpire and administrator that spanned four decades to the 1960s. Among many important contributions to the sport, she was instrumental in the establishment of the Women's Memorial Playing Fields at St Mary's, Adelaide.\n", "Events": "Elected President of the All-Australian Women's Hockey Association (1920 - 1920) \nCaptained the South Australian women's hockey team (1920 - 1936) \nDelegate to the International Federation of Women's Hockey Associations (1953 - 1953) \nDelegate to the International Federation of Women's Hockey Associations (1959 - 1959) \nState Delegate of the All-Australian Women's Hockey Association (1920 - 1965) \nInducted into the Sport Australia Hall of Fame (1985 - 1985)", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/tazewell-evelyn-ruth-1893-1983\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/stalwart-in-womens-hockey-dies-at-89\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/shes-game-women-making-australian-sporting-history-2\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/aroha-hockey-club\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/south-australian-womens-hockey-team\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/adelaide-hockey-club-summary-record\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Clarke, Judith Anne", "Entry ID": "AWE2188", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/clarke-judith-anne\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Launceston, Tasmania, Australia", "Occupations": "Royal Tennis Player", "Summary": "Judith Clarke took up the game of Royal Tennis in 1973 at the age of nineteen and went on to be a world beater, winning her first singles and doubles championships in 1985. Once at the top, she was never beaten in a singles match before her retirement in 1988.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/the-oxford-companion-to-australian-sport\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/shes-game-women-making-australian-sporting-history-2\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Parkes, Rosalie", "Entry ID": "AWE2194", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/parkes-rosalie\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Hobart, Tasmania, Australia", "Death Place": "West Hobart, Tasmania, Australia", "Occupations": "Netball Player, Sports administrator", "Summary": "Rosalie Parkes' was a pioneer of netball in Tasmania and, after a twenty-five year involvement in the sport became an institution. She first represented Tasmania in 1939 at a carnival in Adelaide and became the first Tasmanian to tour with an Australian representative team when she travelled to New Zealand in 1948.\nBetween 1948 and 1960 she coached the Tasmanian Open Team and was made a life member of the Southern Tasmanian Netball Association in 1955. During her twenty-five year involvement with the sport. She served as President of the Southern Tasmanian Netball Association and liaison officer for the Tasmanian Netball Association. In order to honour her achievements and services to the sport in the region, the Creek Road Netball Pavilion was named after her. (The Building is now demolished.)\nRosalie never married, but she did have a partner, Owen Clarke, who died prematurely. Rosalie also died prematurely - she and her brother Frank, died in a house fire in 1994.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/shes-game-women-making-australian-sporting-history-2\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Kent, Julie", "Entry ID": "AWE2204", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/kent-julie\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Hobart, Tasmania, Australia", "Occupations": "Coach, Diver, Sports administrator", "Summary": "Julie Kent was a junior world champion diver who first competed at the Olympic Games in Los Angeles in 1984. Unable to train in Tasmania in the winter months (there was no indoor, Olympic standard aquatic centre in Hobart) she made the decision at the age of 15 to move to Montreal to train and prepare for competition. She lived there for two years, flatting with two other young athletes. She returned to Australia when the Australian Institute of Sport opened its diving institute in Brisbane.\nAfter she stopped competing, Kent went on to a temporary coaching job with the AIS, then moved into radio advertising. In 1997, she was elected president of the Tasmanian Olympic Council, the first woman to hold the position.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/the-mercury\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/the-mercury-2\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/the-mercury-3\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/shes-game-women-making-australian-sporting-history-2\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Faletic, Dana", "Entry ID": "AWE2439", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/faletic-dana\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Hobart, Tasmania, Australia", "Occupations": "Olympian, Rower", "Events": "Rowing - Quadruple Scull (2004 - 2004)", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/shes-game-women-making-australian-sporting-history-2\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Duncan, Julie", "Entry ID": "AWE2802", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/duncan-julie\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Launceston, Tasmania, Australia", "Death Place": "Hobart, Tasmania, Australia", "Occupations": "Educator, Journalism trainer, Journalist, Print journalist", "Summary": "Julie Duncan was a highly regarded journalist and journalism educator who developed some of Australia's earliest journalism courses.\n", "Details": "Julie Duncan was born Julie Mary Badock in Launceston, Tasmania. Her career in journalism began at The Mercury in Hobart, where she won the Montague Grover Award for cadet journalists as well as the Alan Cane cadet award. She went on to work as a news reporter, features writer and public affairs journalist. In 1979, Julie married South Australian Attorney-General for the Labor Government, Peter Duncan, and moved to Adelaide, where she began lecturing in journalism at the South Australian College of Advanced Education (now the University of South Australia). Here she developed some of Australia's earliest journalism courses.\nFrom 1986 to 1990, Julie Duncan was editorial training and development manager at The Advertiser in Adelaide. Under her management, the paper's cadet training scheme enjoyed an excellent reputation as one of Australia's best. Duncan promoted the hiring of The Advertiser's first indigenous cadet, whom she trained, and she worked closely with indigenous students and with Reconciliation Australia. She also championed the employment of the paper's first female photographer. In 1987, Duncan convened and chaired the first national journalism education and training conference. She designed a three year training course, The Front Page and Beyond, which has since formed the basis of much journalism training in Australia. Those who knew Duncan noted that her passion for good journalism was unwavering. She was an active member of the Australian Journalists Association\/Media Alliance, and served on state, federal, professional and judiciary committees. She had an excellent rapport with her students and relished teaching them.\nIn 2003, Duncan received the Walkley Award for the most outstanding contribution to journalism. By then, having been diagnosed with cancer, she had returned to Tasmania to live with her parents. Her husband Peter was living in Lombok, Indonesia, following failed business dealings in Adelaide, but the pair were in daily contact. Julie Duncan died in February 2005, aged 52, survived by her husband Peter, her daughter Georgia, and her stepsons Macgregor and Jock. Memorial services were held in Hobart, Adelaide and Sydney - 300 people attended the Adelaide service alone. Today, the Julie Duncan Memorial Award for the best journalism student is offered as part of the South Australia Media Awards. The award is open to students of the University of South Australia's journalism program whose published or broadcast projects reflect outstanding initiative and\/or newsworthiness and technical skill, and adhere to ethical and legal standards.\n", "Events": "Most Outstanding Contribution to Journalism - Journalism Trainer and Educator (2003 - 2003)", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/south-australia-new-club-and-technology\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/the-womens-pages-australian-women-and-journalism-since-1850-2\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Petersen, Alicia Teresa Jane O'Shea", "Entry ID": "AWE3741", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/petersen-alicia-teresa-jane-oshea\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Broadmarsh, Tasmania, Australia", "Death Place": "Tasmania", "Occupations": "Political candidate", "Summary": "Alicia Petersen grew up in a small rural community in Tasmania, and worked in the clothing industry. She was a speaker for the Citizens' Social and Moral Reform League in 1906, and a member of the Women's Political Association, but maintained a non-party stance. Petersen was a founder and life-president of the Australian Women's Association, and the first woman in Tasmania to stand as a political candidate. In 1913 she contested the federal seat of Denison but her campaign was sabotaged by the press. She stood again, unsuccessfully, in 1922.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/200-australian-women-a-redress-anthology\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Tarenorerer (Walyer)", "Entry ID": "AWE3756", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/tarenorerer-walyer\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Near St Valentine's Peak, Tasmania, Australia", "Occupations": "Aboriginal leader", "Summary": "Tarenorerer was a Plairherehillerplue, of the north tribe. As a teenager, she was abducted by Aboriginal men and sold to sealers living on the Bass Strait Islands. She had returned to mainland Tasmania by 1830, where she led a small group of Aborigines comprised largely of men. Her warrior mob was greatly feared by Aborigines and whites alike.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/200-australian-women-a-redress-anthology\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Chung, Helene", "Entry ID": "AWE3824", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/chung-helene\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Hobart, Tasmania, Australia", "Occupations": "Journalist, Radio Journalist, Television Journalist, Writer", "Summary": "Helene Chung is an Australian Chinese, fourth generation Tasmanian who, in 1974, became the first non-white reporter on Australian television. A former Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Beijing correspondent, she was also the first female posted abroad by the ABC.\n", "Details": "The product of a less than conventional childhood (except, perhaps, the bit where she attended St Mary's Catholic School for girls in Hobart) Helene Chung's career in journalism began when she covered what it might be said is the quintessentially Tasmanian story, the alleged sighting of a Tasmanian Tiger. A post graduate student in history at the time, luck and family contacts led to her October 1968 appointment to interview a Sandy Bay butcher, taxi vouchers and tape reorder in hand. The following morning, the interview was broadcast on ABC radio's national program, AM. 'A new world opened up,' she said. 'Like a stray pup, I'd been tossed a ball by a stranger, caught it in my jaw and now, with tail wagging, I wanted to run with it.' She ran with it for thirty years, retiring formally from the ABC in 1998. In between times she worked in radio and television; she freelanced and did bureau work in Australia and abroad; for the BBC, CBS, Hong Kong radio, NPR and NZBC;\nin Europe, Asia and Egypt. She has been witness to, and part of, some of the major changes that have transformed Australian culture and society, from the age of assimilation to the era of multiculturalism.\nHelene Chung's childhood, for better or worse, has made her what she is today. It was hard enough growing up Chinese in Hobart in the 1950s, let alone growing up the child of the first Chinese divorce in Tasmania (according to Truth Magazine). Compound that with the embarrassment of having a mother who earned a living through nude modelling for art students at the local technical college and who also lived with a partner who she was not married to, and one can begin to appreciate the challenges. She developed a relatively thick outer skin and dealt with her difference through performance- life at the University of Tasmania for her was as much about acting and directing for the Old Nick Theatre group as it was about her studies, a BA (Hons) in history. She was rarely confronted by the 'limitations' created by her Asian face whilst on the stage; although they were rather rudely rammed home one year when she wasn't cast as Queen Elizabeth in the revue Vote No. And her Chinese identity created troubles for her as well, at times. Relatives warned her that other Asian students complained because she didn't mix with them. University days were a time when the conflict between her inner and outer selves was, perhaps, at its most pronounced.\nUpon completing her undergraduate degree, Helene began an MA in history, because she was not quite sure what else it was that she wanted to do. She had a beautiful speaking voice and the capacity to teach, but was told by someone that Australian's don't want to be taught English by a Chinese person. The suggestion that she should learn Chinese in order to enhance her career opportunities was regarded as a sign of madness in the family friend who offered it. So dusty volumes of Punch and Hansard dominated her life until the Sandy Bay butcher emerged on the scene. The rest, as they say, is history.\nOnce she metaphorically picked up that journalists ball, she worked as a freelancer for the ABC, three mornings a week, while she completed her MA. She then worked freelance for three years overseas, in Singapore, Hong Kong, London and Cairo, and thus commenced a career characterised by a lot of firsts. In 1971 she made headlines with the first radio interview granted by Her Royal Highness The Princess Anne. (The Melbourne Herald account of the interview entitled it 'She Put Anne on Tape'.) Back with the ABC, she made them again in 1974 when she switched from radio to television (much to the annoyance of her then manager) and joined This Day Tonight, so becoming the first non-white reporter on Australian television. In 1978, she appeared on the cover of truth when a story broke about the ABC's intention to remove her from her television post, because she looked too Chinese. The plan to remove her (dubbed the 'White' plan, after Derek White, the ABC executive responsible) proved unsuccessful, as the Australian Journalists' Association and the Commissioner for Community Relations, Al Grassby, 'rattled their sabres'.\nShe weathered that storm and then went on to be the first woman posted abroad by the ABC, as Beijing correspondent 1983-1986. The ABC had employed women overseas before as freelancers, but they had never actually appointed someone to perform the task and the significance of this was never lost on Helene. During a whirlwind briefing in Sydney, a worried news chief warned, 'There's a lot riding on your appointment.' It was clear that if I failed, it would be a long time before another woman would be given a chance overseas.' Clearly she did a good enough job for them risk sending other women overseas in later years.\nThe China posting, as well as throwing up extraordinary work opportunities, required Helene to once again confront the identity issues that had troubled her in the past, in an entirely new context. 'I arrived in China not feeling Chinese but conscious of my Chinese heritage,' she wrote some years later:\n 'However, my role as ABC correspondent almost obliterated any identity I may have felt with the motherland of my ancestors. I never felt more Australia - and less Chinese -than when living in China: I was an alien in the motherland.'\nShe was a foreigner, she and her husband lived as foreigners, and they were treated as foreigners. She didn't even make the category of 'overseas Chinese'. The experience made her conscious of how little she knew about her ancestry; this in turn made her realise how little she really knew about the land of her birth, and how her ancestry fitted into its history. When she returned to Australia, she and her husband spent much time tracing these roots, and the family members she had never met. She also published Shouting From China, which tells of her adventures and tribulations as a foreign correspondent. A 1989 edition includes her coverage of the democracy demonstrations.\nIn 1993, the love of her life, John Martin, died after a battle with cancer. Helene published Gentle John My Love My Loss in 1995 as a private memoir to help her deal with her loss. In 2004 she published an edited collection of his letters home from China, written while she was foreign correspondent, entitled, Lazy man in China. Since losing John and leaving journalism formally, Helene Chung has continued to write and engage with ideas and, very importantly, family. Her most recent publication, Ching Chong China Girl: From fruit shop to foreign correspondent is her most recent, public expression of this engagement. But be careful if you choose to read it. As Helene Chung Martin says , the book should not be read by convent girls not wearing their gloves!\n", "Events": "Career in journalism active (1968 - 1998)", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/ching-chong-china-girl-from-fruitshop-to-foreign-correspondent\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/the-womens-pages-australian-women-and-journalism-since-1850-2\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/helene-chung-martin-journalist-and-author-interviewed-by-diana-giese-in-the-chinese-australian-oral-history-partnership-collection-sound-recording\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Smith, Silvia Joy", "Entry ID": "AWE4120", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/smith-silvia-joy\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Burnie, Tasmania, Australia", "Death Place": "Melbourne, Victoria, Australia", "Occupations": "Parliamentarian, Teacher", "Summary": "A member of the Australian Labor Party, Silvia Smith was elected to the House of Representatives of the Australian Parliament as the Member for Bass, Tasmania in 1993. She remained in the federal parliament for one term, suffering defeat at the 1996 election, when the Keating Labor Government was swept from power. From 1997 to 2003 she served as a Legislative Councillor in the Tasmanian State Parliament representing the electorate of Windermere as an Independent Labor member.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/biographical-cuttings-on-silvia-smith-politician-containing-one-or-more-cuttings-from-newspapers-or-journals\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "O'Byrne, Michelle Anne", "Entry ID": "AWE4138", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/obyrne-michelle-anne\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Tasmania, Australia", "Occupations": "Parliamentarian, Union organiser", "Summary": "A member of the Australian Labor Party, Michelle O'Byrne was elected to the House of Representatives of the Australian Parliament as the Member for Bass, Tasmania in 1998. She was re-elected in 2001, but was defeated at the 2004 election. In 2006 she was elected to the State Parliament of Tasmania in the House of Assembly as the Member for the state seat of Bass and was re-elected in 2010.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Campbell, Jodie Louise", "Entry ID": "AWE4146", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/campbell-jodie-louise\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Queenstown, Tasmania, Australia", "Occupations": "Local government councillor, Parliamentarian", "Summary": "A member of the Australian Labor Party, Jodie Campbell was elected to the House of Representatives of the Parliament of Australia in 2007 as the Member for Bass, Tasmania. She formerly served in local government as a councillor (2002-07) and deputy mayor of Launceston (2005-07). She did not contest the 2010 election.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Collins, Julie Maree", "Entry ID": "AWE4147", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/collins-julie-maree\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Hobart, Tasmania, Australia", "Occupations": "Electorate Officer, Parliamentarian", "Summary": "A member of the Australian Labor Party, Julie Collins was elected to the House of Representatives of the Australian Parliament as the Member for Franklin, Tasmania in November 2007. She was re-elected in 2010.\nA complete record of her parliamentary service, including a link to her first speech, can be found in the Parliamentary Handbook of the Commonwealth of Australia (see below).\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Hearn, Jean Margaret", "Entry ID": "AWE4162", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/hearn-jean-margaret\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Launceston, Tasmania, Australia", "Death Place": "Tasmania, Australia", "Occupations": "Civil celebrant, Parliamentarian", "Summary": "A member of the Australian Labor Party, Jean Hearn served as a Senator for Tasmania in the Senate of the Australian Parliament from 1980 until the expiration of her term in 1985, when she retired.\nHer first husband died in 1944 in a prisoner of war camp in Java, an event that sparked Jean Hearn's life-long commitment to pacifism. She established the Tamar Community Peace Trust in 2015, seeking to promote a non-violent approach to conflict resolution.\nJean Hearn passed away in 2017.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/a-taste-of-tasmania\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/biographical-cuttings-on-jean-hearn-containing-one-or-more-cuttings-from-newspapers-or-journals\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Denman, Kay Janet", "Entry ID": "AWE4174", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/denman-kay-janet\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Latrobe, Tasmania, Australia", "Occupations": "Manager, Parliamentarian, Secretary, Teacher", "Summary": "A member of the Australian Labor Party, Kay Denman filled a casual vacancy in the Senate of the Parliament of Australia as a Senator for Tasmania in 1993. She was elected in 1998 and served until her retirement from parliament in June 2005.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Milne, Christine Anne", "Entry ID": "AWE4195", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/milne-christine-anne\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Latrobe, Tasmania, Australia", "Occupations": "Advisor, Parliamentarian, Research officer, Teacher", "Summary": "A member of the Australian Greens party, Christine Milne was elected to the Senate of the Parliament of Australia as a Senator for Tasmania in 2004. Before her election to the Federal Parliament she served as member for Lyons in the Tasmanian State Parliament in the House of Assembly from 1989 until her defeat in 1998. She was re-elected at the 2010 federal election.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/the-green-alp-accord-29-may-1989-historic-agreement-between-five-independents-bob-brown-gerry-bates-dianne-hollister-lance-armstrong-and-christine-milne-and-the-australian-labor-party-tasmania\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/the-encyclopedia-of-women-and-leadership-in-twentieth-century-australia\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Polley, Helen Beatrice", "Entry ID": "AWE4198", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/polley-helen-beatrice\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Ulverstone, Tasmania, Australia", "Occupations": "Advisor, Parliamentarian", "Summary": "A member of the Australian Labor Party, Helen Polley was elected to the Senate of the Parliament of Australia as a Senator for Tasmania in 2004. She was re-elected at the 2010 federal election.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Brown, Carol Louise", "Entry ID": "AWE4201", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/brown-carol-louise\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Hobart, Tasmania, Australia", "Occupations": "Politician, Senator", "Summary": "A member of the Australian Labor Party, Carol Brown has served as a Senator for Tasmania in the Senate of the Australian Parliament since 25 August 2005, when the Tasmanian Government appointed her to a casual vacancy caused by the resignation of a sitting senator. She was elected in 2007 for a six year term.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Bilyk, Catryna Louise", "Entry ID": "AWE4205", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/bilyk-catryna-louise\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Hobart, Tasmania, Australia", "Occupations": "Clerk, Electorate Officer, Industrial officer, Parliamentarian", "Summary": "A member of the Australian Labor Party, Catryna Bilyk was elected to the Senate of the Parliament of Australia for a six year term as a Senator for Tasmania at the election, which was held in November 2007.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/biographical-cuttings-on-catryna-bilyk-tasmanian-union-official-containing-one-or-more-cuttings-from-newspapers-or-journals\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Grounds, Lucy Margaret", "Entry ID": "AWE4283", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/grounds-lucy-margaret\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Glenorchy, Tasmania, Australia", "Death Place": "Melbourne, Victoria, Australia", "Occupations": "Parliamentarian", "Summary": "A member of the Australian Labor Party, Lucy Grounds was elected to the Legislative Council of the Parliament of Tasmania representing the district of Launceston on 29 September 1951. She succeeded her husband Arthur after his death and remained in the parliament until her defeat at the 1958 election. In 2005 she was entered on the Tasmanian Honour Roll of Women.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Venn, Kathleen Joan", "Entry ID": "AWE4302", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/venn-kathleen-joan\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Hobart, Tasmania, Australia", "Death Place": "Hobart, Tasmania, Australia", "Occupations": "Parliamentarian", "Summary": "A member of the Australian Labor Party, Kath Venn was elected to the Legislative Council of the Tasmanian Parliament representing Hobart in 1976. During her period in parliament, she served as Deputy Leader of the Government in the Legislative Council for three years. She was defeated at the 1982 election.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/kathleen-kath-venn\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "James, Gillian Hilma", "Entry ID": "AWE4303", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/james-gillian-hilma\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Launceston, Tasmania, Australia", "Death Place": "Launceston, Tasmania, Australia", "Occupations": "Parliamentarian", "Summary": "A member of the Australian Labor Party, Gill James was elected to the House of Assembly in the Tasmanian Parliament in 1976 representing the electorate of Bass. In 1979 she became the first woman to hold the position of Deputy Speaker in the Parliament and in 1980 achieved the distinction of being appointed the first female member of the Cabinet as Minister for Public and Mental Health, Consumer Affairs and Administrative Services. She was defeated in 1986, but was elected again in 1992 and served until her retirement from Parliament in 2002.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/no-ordinary-lives-pioneering-women-in-australian-politics\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Holmes, Carmel Maude", "Entry ID": "AWE4305", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/holmes-carmel-maude\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Winnaleah, Tasmania, Australia", "Death Place": "Gardners Bay, Tasmania, Australia", "Occupations": "Parliamentarian", "Summary": "A member of the Liberal Party, Carmel Holmes was elected to the House of Assembly of the Parliament of Tasmania representing the electorate of Denison in 1984. She served in the Parliament until her defeat at the 1986 election.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/biographical-cuttings-on-carmel-holmes-containing-one-or-more-cuttings-from-newspapers-or-journals\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Hollister, Dianne Lesley", "Entry ID": "AWE4307", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/hollister-dianne-lesley\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Devonport, Tasmania, Australia", "Occupations": "Parliamentarian", "Summary": "A member of the Tasmanian Greens Party, Dianne Hollister was elected to the House of Assembly of the Tasmanian Parliament representing the electorate of Braddon in 1989. She remained in the Parliament until her defeat at the 1998 election.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/the-green-alp-accord-29-may-1989-historic-agreement-between-five-independents-bob-brown-gerry-bates-dianne-hollister-lance-armstrong-and-christine-milne-and-the-australian-labor-party-tasmania\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Moore, Jean Mary", "Entry ID": "AWE4322", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/moore-jean-mary\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Hobart, Tasmania, Australia", "Death Place": "Hobart, Tasmania, Australia", "Occupations": "Nurse, Parliamentarian", "Summary": "Jean Moore was elected to the Legislative Council of the Parliament of Tasmania as an Independent representing the electorate of Hobart in 1992. A short-term Member of Parliament, she was defeated at the 1994 election.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/biographical-cuttings-on-jean-moore-director-of-nursing-royal-hobart-hospital-1977-containing-one-or-more-cuttings-from-newspapers-or-journals\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Napier, Suzanne Deidre", "Entry ID": "AWE4323", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/napier-suzanne-deidre\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Latrobe, Tasmania, Australia", "Occupations": "Parliamentarian, Teacher", "Summary": "A member of the Liberal Party, Suzanne Napier was elected to the House of Assembly of the Parliament of Tasmania representing the electorate of Bass in 1992. She was re-elected in 1996, 1998, 2002 and 2006. During her parliamentary career she has held a range of ministerial portfolios, served as Deputy Premier from 1996-98 and as Leader of the Opposition from 1999-2001.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Swan, Denise Elizabeth", "Entry ID": "AWE4325", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/swan-denise-elizabeth\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Tasmania, Australia", "Occupations": "Parliamentarian", "Summary": "A member of the Liberal Party, Denise Swan was elected to the House of Assembly in the Parliament of Tasmania representing the electorate of Denison in 1995. She served in the Parliament until her defeat at the 2002 election.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/biographical-cuttings-on-denise-swan-politician-containing-one-or-more-cuttings-from-newspapers-or-journals\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Smith, Susan Lynette", "Entry ID": "AWE4327", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/smith-susan-lynette\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Ulverstone, Tasmania, Australia", "Occupations": "Parliamentarian", "Summary": "Susan Smith was elected to the Legislative Council of the Tasmanian Parliament as an Independent representing Leven (abolished 1999), in 1997 then Montgomery. She is currently serving as the President of the Legislative Council, the first woman to hold this position.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Thorp, Lin Estelle", "Entry ID": "AWE4332", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/thorp-lin-estelle\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Hobart, Tasmania, Australia", "Occupations": "Parliamentarian", "Summary": "A member of the Australian Labor Party, Lin Thorp was elected to the Legislative Council of the Parliament of Tasmania representing the electorate of Rumney in 1999. She was re-elected in 2005. She currently holds the positions of Minister for Human Services and Deputy Leader of the Upper House.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Ritchie, Allison Maree", "Entry ID": "AWE4334", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/ritchie-allison-maree\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Hobart, Tasmania, Australia", "Occupations": "Parliamentarian", "Summary": "A member of the Australian Labor Party, Allison Ritchie was the youngest person ever elected to the Legislative Council of the Tasmanian Parliament in 2001. She represented the electorate of Pembroke until her resignation from Parliament in June 2009. During that period she served as Minister for Planning and Workplace Relations for three months in 2008, but resigned her portfolio in November of that year on the basis of poor health.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Hay, Kathryn Isobel", "Entry ID": "AWE4335", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/hay-kathryn-isobel\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Launceston, Tasmania, Australia", "Occupations": "Parliamentarian", "Summary": "A member of the Australian Labor Party, Kathryn Hay was the first woman of Aboriginal descent to be elected to the Legislative Assembly of the Tasmanian Parliament in 2002. Representing the electorate of Bass she served as Parliamentary secretary to the Premier, but retired from Parliament in 2006.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Jamieson, Norma May", "Entry ID": "AWE4336", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/jamieson-norma-may\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Ulverstone, Tasmania, Australia", "Occupations": "Nurse, Parliamentarian", "Summary": "Norma Jamieson was elected as an Independent to the Legislative Council of the Parliament of Tasmania representing the electorate of Mersey in 2003.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Rattray, Tania Verene", "Entry ID": "AWE4337", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/rattray-tania-verene\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Scottsdale, Tasmania, Australia", "Occupations": "Local government councillor, Parliamentarian", "Summary": "Tania Rattray was elected as an Independent member representing the electorate of Apsley to the Legislative Council of the Parliament of Tasmania in 2004. Before her election to Parliament she served in local government as Deputy Mayor of Dorset.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Forrest, Ruth Jane", "Entry ID": "AWE4338", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/forrest-ruth-jane\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Burnie, Tasmania, Australia", "Occupations": "Midwife, Nurse, Politician", "Summary": "Ruth Forrest was elected as an Independent member to the Legislative Council of the Tasmanian Parliament, representing the electorate of Murchison in 2005.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Singh, Lisa Maria", "Entry ID": "AWE4339", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/singh-lisa-maria\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Hobart, Tasmania, Australia", "Occupations": "Parliamentarian", "Summary": "A member of the Australian Labor Party, Lisa Singh was elected to the House of Assembly of the Parliament of Tasmania representing the electorate of Denison in 2006. She held the Ministerial portfolios of Corrections and Consumer Protections, Workplace Relations and Minister assisting the Premier on Climate Change. She was defeated at the state election, which was held in March 2010, but was elected to the Senate of the Australian Parliament in August 2010 as a representative for Tasmania.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Goodwin, Vanessa", "Entry ID": "AWE4340", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/goodwin-vanessa\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Hobart, Tasmania, Australia", "Occupations": "Attorney General, Criminologist, Lawyer, Politician", "Summary": "Vanessa Goodwin is the Tasmanian Attorney General and Minister for Justice, Minister for Corrections, Minister for the Arts and Leader of the Government in the Legislative Council. She was elected to the Legislative Council as the Member for Pembroke in August 2009 and was the Shadow Attorney General and Shadow Minister for Corrections from September 2009 until the State Election in March 2014, after which she was appointed to her current roles.\n", "Details": "Vanessa Goodwin was born in Hobart in 1969, the only child of Edyth and Grant Goodwin. She attended St Michael's Collegiate School and then completed an Arts\/Law degree at the University of Tasmania, followed by the Legal Practice Course. She spent two years as a Judge's Associate to then Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Tasmania, the Honourable Sir Guy Green AC KBE CVO, before being admitted as a legal practitioner in 1995.\nAfter working briefly for the Tasmanian Branch of the Australian Hotels Association, Goodwin worked full-time in the family boarding kennel and cattery business while her mother was undergoing treatment for cancer. In January 1996 she was employed as the research assistant to then Governor, Sir Guy Green and continued in that role until September 1996 when she commenced her Master of Philosophy (Criminology) at the University of Cambridge.\nAfter successfully completing her Masters in Criminology, Goodwin returned to Tasmania and commenced working within the Department of Police and Emergency Management (DPEM), where she remained until her election to Parliament in 2009. During this period, Goodwin completed her PhD, Residential Burglary and Repeat Victimisation in Tasmania, through the University of Tasmania. As part of her research, she conducted interviews with 60 imprisoned burglars, with the findings from her interviews attracting national media interest.\nGoodwin played a key role in the development and implementation of the U-Turn program in Tasmania. This program targeted young people aged 15-20 who were at risk of, or involved in, motor vehicle theft. The core of the program was a 10-week automotive training course, with case management to address risk factors and a focus on literacy and numeracy support. The program was delivered by Mission Australia, under contract to DPEM, and based on a best practice model developed by the National Motor Vehicle Theft Reduction Council.\nIn addition to her work managing crime prevention projects and developing policy advice at DPEM, Goodwin conducted post-doctoral research on intergenerational crime through the Tasmanian Institute of Law Enforcement Studies. The criminal histories of six extended families over at least three generations were examined to determine the extent to which crime was concentrated in these families and to explore the linkages with other problem behaviours, including child abuse and neglect. Goodwin collaborated with the Australian Institute of Criminology to explore the role of gender in the intergenerational transfer of criminality within the families.\nGoodwin has a strong interest in sentencing and prison reform. She is pursuing legislative reforms in relation to sex offender sentencing, family violence, alternative sentencing options and to update Tasmania's dangerous criminal provisions. She has also committed to the establishment of a Tasmanian Custodial Inspectorate.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/australian-women-lawyers-as-active-citizens\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "McRae-McMahon, Dorothy Margaret", "Entry ID": "AWE4420", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/mcrae-mcmahon-dorothy-margaret\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Tasmania, Australia", "Occupations": "Activist, Minister", "Summary": "A retired Uniting Church Minister, Dorothy McRae-McMahon was a former Minister of the Pitt Street, Sydney Church, which was renowned for its work in human rights and local activism. She received recognition for her work with the award of the Australian Government Peace Medal in 1987 and in 1988 with the Australian Human Rights Medal. In 1997, she came out as a lesbian at the National Assembly of the Uniting Church in Perth and resigned from her position later in the year, citing the focus on her sexuality, which she felt was affecting the church.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/liturgies-for-high-days\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/australian-feminism-a-companion\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/memories-of-moving-on-a-life-of-faith-passion-and-resilience\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/prayers-for-lifes-particular-moments\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/the-encyclopedia-of-women-and-leadership-in-twentieth-century-australia\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/biographical-cuttings-on-dorothy-mcrae-mcmahon-uniting-church-minister-containing-one-or-more-cuttings-from-newspapers-or-journals\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Paterson, Ruth", "Entry ID": "AWE4458", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/paterson-ruth\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Hagley, Tasmania, Australia", "Occupations": "Farmer, Public servant, Social welfare co-ordinator", "Summary": "Ruth Paterson was Tasmania's Rural Woman of the Year in 1994. She was the first Australian woman to chair an agricultural field day committee, which she did to extraordinary effect when she organised the Tasmanian AGFEST in the early 1990s. Eleven percent of Tasmania's total population attended in 1994; no other field day in no other state could boast such a massive turn out.\nAfter winning the award, Ruth took up a job with the Tasmanian Department of Primary Industries, with the aim of encouraging a rural woman's network and advising the government on issues that effect rural women.\n", "Details": "A fifth generation farmer, Ruth Paterson was born and bred on a dairy farm at Hagley, in the Tasmanian northern midlands. The youngest of three girls, she was desperate to take on agriculture as a career when she left school, but tradition did not see an 'official' place for women as famers in that era, so she went to Launceston and worked in the insurance industry, until she married a farmer and returned to the land.\nShe became involved in the Tasmanian Rural Youth Organisation, the members of which take a major roll in the organisation of AGFEST, Tasmania's major agricultural festival. It was then that she realised she had unmet ambition as a spokesperson for agricultural interests in Tasmania. As well as gaining professional satisfaction from working in agriculture, she was passionate about publicly raising issues of importance to farmers.\nAt the time of her award, she was concerned about the perceived divide between country and city dwellers. 'I think city people still see us as a bunch of whingers who drive their Mercs to town in their tweed suits and their Stetsons,' she said. 'Well, we're a long way off that.' She thought that people of the city needed to understand better the realities of farming that confront most Australians involved in agriculture.\nAt the same time, she believed that farmers need to change their attitude to the land. 'Ten years ago Landcare was the greenie, radical hobby farmer,' she observed. 'Now, if farmers and mainstream community groups aren't into some form of Landcare, they're not in the race.'\nThrough her involvement in organisations like the Tasmanian branch of Women in Agriculture, Paterson has seen a gradual shift in attitudes with regard to the involvement of women in the decision making process, not only on farms but at an organisational level. Awards such as the Rural Woman of the Year Award contributed to that change, by helping women to network and to feel confident in their opinions and abilities. 'That's what the Rural Women's movement is about,' she says. 'Just teaching that extra bit of confidence.'\n", "Events": "Winner - ABC Tasmanian Rural Woman of the Year (1994 - 1994)", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/ruth-paterson\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/1994-abc-rural-woman-of-the-year-state-winners\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/brilliant-ideas-and-huge-visions-abc-radio-australian-rural-women-of-the-year-1994-1997\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/ruth-paterson-interviewed-by-ros-bowden-in-the-women-of-the-land-oral-history-project-sound-recording\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/women-of-the-land-oral-history-project\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Archer, Elise Nicole", "Entry ID": "AWE4515", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/archer-elise-nicole\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Launceston, Tasmania, Australia", "Occupations": "Barrister, Lawyer, Parliamentarian, Solicitor", "Summary": "A member of the Liberal Party of Australia, Elise Archer was elected as a Member for Denison in the House of Assembly at the Tasmanian state election, which was held in March 2010. She served as an Alderman on the Hobart City Council from October 2007 until April 2010.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/australian-women-lawyers-as-active-citizens\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Petrusma, Jacqueline Anne", "Entry ID": "AWE4516", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/petrusma-jacqueline-anne\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Launceston, Tasmania, Australia", "Occupations": "Businesswoman, Nurse, Parliamentarian", "Summary": "A member of the Liberal Party of Australia, Jacquie Petrusma was elected to the House of Assembly of the Parliament of Tasmania as a Member for Denison at the election which was held in March 2010. She had previously stood as a Senate candidate at the 2004 federal election representing the Family First Party. She was a candidate again for the Senate at the 2007 federal election as a member of the Liberal Party, but was unsuccessful.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "White, Rebecca Peta", "Entry ID": "AWE4517", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/white-rebecca-peta\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Tasmania, Australia", "Occupations": "Parliamentarian", "Summary": "A member of the Australian Labor Party, Bec. White was elected as a Member for the electorate of Lyons in the Tasmanian House of Assembly, at the election, which was held in March 2010.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Urquhart, Anne", "Entry ID": "AWE4581", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/urquhart-anne\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Latrobe, Tasmania, Australia", "Occupations": "Parliamentarian, Union officer", "Summary": "A member of the Australian Labor Party, and former state secretary of the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union, Anne Urquhart was elected to the Senate of the Australian Parliament as a representative for Tasmania at the federal election, which was held on 21 August 2010.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Bennett, Jane", "Entry ID": "AWE4620", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/bennett-jane\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Devonport, Tasmania, Australia", "Occupations": "Cheesemaker, Dairy Farmer", "Summary": "Jane Bennett was winner of the Australian Rural Woman of the Year Award in 1997.\n", "Details": "Jane Bennett wishes that she had taken the possibility she might win the ABC Radio Australian Rural Woman of the Year Award more seriously when she was nominated in 1997. The quality of the field was so impressive she didn't think she had a hope, so she didn't bother inviting her parents or partner to the award dinner. When her name was announced, it came as a genuine shock to her, but not to others who knew her. As the ABC's National Editor - Rural, Lucy Broad, said, 'Jane's achievements in all aspects of her industry, her commitment to developing business opportunities within her community, and her vision for promoting primary industry at a wider level, impressed the judges greatly.' At the age of twenty-eight, Jane Bennett had already developed a reputation as a woman with brilliant ideas and huge vision. More than a decade on she is still being described as 'an outstanding role model for rural women in Australia'.\nJane's achievement was to turn the family's century old dairy-farming operation into one of Australia's most internationally recognised, premier cheese brands, all the while using her own business as a tool for promoting Tasmanian rural industries and communities. Ashgrove Cheese is a highly recognisable outlet in the 'Foodies trail' that attracts tourists to Northern Tasmania. In the three years to 2010, when Bennett won the Tasmanian Business Woman of the Year Award, cheese sales had doubled and turnover had increased by 220 %. As Bennett insists, the success comes on the back of a lot of hard work and a bit of risk-taking. But for this highly driven woman with a talent for innovation, running with opportunities rather than being scared of them is what makes her tick, even if stepping out of her comfort zone means stepping up to more responsibility.\nJane grew up on the family dairy farm at Elizabeth Town, near Deloraine, in northern Tasmania. Her childhood was a busy one. If she wasn't attending school, playing sport or acting in local theatre productions, she was working on her own farm, or that of her uncles in the district. She suspects that her desire to stay working in the agriculture industry stems from her 'guilt' at not being a boy who could help her father out. As a child, she wanted to do the work that boys might do. She learned how to shear sheep, drive tractors, handle stock and so forth. The notion that a farm career might be possible continued to gain momentum when a visiting Englishwoman came to work on their farm, providing a model of women working on farms that was not visible in her own community.\nThe final push came when, at the end of school, Jane decided that she really didn't want to continue with study. Her father, who had a life long interest in food and food cultures suggested that she go overseas, learn how to make European style cheeses, bring those skills home and use them to add value to the milk they produced on the farm. It took him six months to convince her that she was the woman for the job, but once down that road, she has never looked back.\nJane studied Diary Technology at the Gilbert Chandler Campus of the Victorian Colleges of Agriculture and Horticulture in Werribee. On completion of her studies Jane moved to the UK to work with leading farmhouse cheese makers in Britain for two years to hone her skills in the art of small scale cheese making. She returned to Tasmania in late 1992 and began production of Ashgrove Cheese in 1993.\nIn the early days of Ashgrove Cheese, Jane made the cheese, packed the cheese, developed the quality assurance and human resources systems and served in the family shop. Today she manages the financials, sales and marketing and 60 employees of the business that has become one of Australia's premier cheddar cheese brands. She sells product to a range of retailers; cheddar cheese to Aldi supermarkets and wasabi flavours to Japanese imports.\nHer passion and enthusiasm for her industry and her region has seen her win other awards, including the Tasmanian Young Achiever Award in 1995, the Regional Development Award of the Young Australian of the Year in 1998 and the 2010 Tasmanian Telstra Business Woman of the Year. She was inducted into the Tasmanian Honour Roll of Women in 2008. Jane has always been a staunch promoter of her own state, talking up the resourcefulness that being part of an 'island culture' creates in its population. And like Robyn Tredwell, she recognises the importance of a thriving arts culture to the health of regional communities. 'An arts culture encourages change and brings tourists,' she says, 'as do good food and good coffee!' This, she believes, is part of the reason why her own region, around Deloraine, has been able to ride out the peaks and troughs of the economic cycles that have so badly impacted upon the lives of people on the land.\nAs a member of numerous boards and committees Jane has played a leading role in shaping agribusiness and regional community development. Some of the roles Jane has been involved in include:\n\nThe first female president of the Tasmanian Rural Industry Training Board\nMember of the National Telecommunications Inquiry into Rural Services\nChairman of Tasmanian Food Industry Council from 2002-2007\nMember of Brand Tasmania Board 2004- Current\nAttendee at the Australia 2020 Summit.\n\nJane may have been somewhat casual in her approach to the ABC award in 1997 but she was nothing but positive and proactive about it after being announced the winner. 'The ABC Award was one of the most significant events in my life, 'she says. 'It gave me new skills, opened doors to rural leaders and organisations and exposed my business to new and overseas clients. The credibility and recognition the Award gave me I couldn't have bought'. The general message it sent to other women about the importance of backing themselves to develop their ideas, and the confidence to express them, was a crucial one. She believes that women can be real agents of change in rural communities, but not if their talents and leadership potential are underutilised and unrecognised. The award, in her view, was extremely important in encouraging recognition of them in the community at large. 'There are so many rural women out there at the coalface with brilliant ideas and huge visions without the resources to realise them,' she said in a speech to promote the Rural Industries Research and Development Corporation (RIRDC) Rural Women's Award in 2000. With the help of the ABC Radio Rural Woman of the Year Award, the achievements of some of them, like Jane Bennett, were brought to our attention. We are all the better for it.\n", "Events": "Winner - ABC Australian Rural Woman of the Year (1997 - 1997)", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/1997-abc-tasmanian-rural-woman-of-the-year-award-winners\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/ashgrove-cheese-website\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/bennett-is-2010s-top-businesswoman\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/rural-women-urged-to-give-it-a-go\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/brilliant-ideas-and-huge-visions-abc-radio-australian-rural-women-of-the-year-1994-1997\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/the-encyclopedia-of-women-and-leadership-in-twentieth-century-australia\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/jane-bennett-interviewed-by-nikki-henningham-in-the-rural-women-of-the-year-award-oral-history-project-sound-recording\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Adams, Gwendolyn Isabelle", "Entry ID": "AWE4671", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/adams-gwendolyn-isabelle\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Launceston, Tasmania, Australia", "Death Place": "Hobart, Tasmania, Australia", "Occupations": "Community stalwart, Environmentalist, Farmer, Woolgrower", "Summary": "Gwendolyn Adams was widely regarded as a role model and mentor for women in agriculture. She was a leader of the Tasmanian Women in Agriculture Movement and had a special interest in assisting women on the land who had been widowed. She was a Regional Winner (Tasmania) of the ABC Rural Woman of the Year Award in 1995.\nGwendolyn began her career in agriculture in 1969 when she took over the running of the family property 'Leighlands' near Perth in northern Tasmania. She and her husband successfully built the business and became advocates of environmental management while doing so. She endeavoured to plant 1000 trees a year for over two decades.\nShe was an advocate for agriculture and landcare through a range of community and industry groups, including the Tasmanian Landcare Association, Tasmanian Women in Agriculture, Greening Australia, and the Tasmanian Farmers and Graziers Wool Council. In 1998, she received a bursary to attend the Second International Conference on Women in Agriculture in Washington D.C. In 2000, she was a member of the committee for the Fourth Women on Farms Gathering held at Poatina.\n", "Events": "For service to the agricultural sector in Tasmania (2006 - 2006) \nFor services to agriculture and the environment (2005 - 2005)", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/1995-abc-rural-woman-of-the-year-regional-winners\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/gwendolyn-isabelle-adams-am\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/brilliant-ideas-and-huge-visions-abc-radio-australian-rural-women-of-the-year-1994-1997\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Hornsey, Kate", "Entry ID": "AWE4832", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/hornsey-kate\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Hobart, Tasmania, Australia", "Occupations": "Olympian, Rower", "Events": "Rowing - women's pair (2012 - 2012)", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Jones, Giulia", "Entry ID": "AWE4838", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/jones-giulia\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Hobart, Tasmania, Australia", "Occupations": "Parliamentarian", "Summary": "Guilia Jones was elected to the ACT Legislative Assembly representing the Canberra Liberals in the electorate of Molonglo at the election which was held in October 2012. She was subsequently elected in the electorate of Murrumbidgee and served in the Assembly until June 2022.\u00a0Jones was the deputy leader of the Liberal Party in the ACT from October 2020 to January 2022.\n", "Details": "Giulia Jones was born in Hobart and educated at the University of Tasmania in Hobart, Tasmania. She moved to Canberra in 2005 after spending a year in Darwin. In Canberra she ran a small business, worked in the public service and was on the staff of Tony Abbott, Leader of the Opposition in the federal Parliament.\nJones was elected to the ACT Assembly on her fourth attempt to enter parliament at the federal or territory level. She was a Senate Liberal candidate for Tasmania at the 2007 federal election. She stood as a Liberal candidate for Molonglo at the ACT Assembly election in 2008 and was a candidate for the House of Representatives seat of Canberra in the federal Parliament at the 2010 election.\nFollowing her resignation from the ACT Assembly in June 2022 Jones was appointed as Chief Executive Officer of Painaustralia, a position she held until late in 2024. She then became the board secretary of a residential aged care facility in Canberra.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/giulia-with-a-g-rejects-nagging-feminism\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/day-in-the-life-liberal-candidate-shops-around-for-votes\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/from-lady-denman-to-katy-gallagher-a-century-of-womens-contributions-to-canberra\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/jones-giulia-legislative-assembly-for-the-australian-capital-territory-website\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/giulia-jones\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Godfrey-Smith, Anne", "Entry ID": "AWE4888", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/godfrey-smith-anne\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Launceston, Tasmania, Australia", "Death Place": "Narrabundah, Australian Capital Territory, Australia", "Occupations": "Biochemist, Poet, Producer, Theatre director", "Summary": "Anne Godfrey-Smith was a poet, theatre director and producer, broadcaster, political activist, and scientist. After studying biochemistry at university, she moved into a career in the theatre starting at the Launceston Players in Tasmania. In 1954 she moved to Canberra and became the manager-producer of the Canberra Repertory Society. It was in Canberra that she made her name as a poet (under the nom de plume Anne Edgeworth), publishing the popular collections, Poems for Off-Duty Hours (2007), Turtles All the Way Down (2000), and Poems of Canberra (1997), among others. She was passionate about community work and was active in the environmental conservation movement, the women's movement, anti-war campaigns and Indigenous rights' advocacy. Later in life, she devoted a lot of time to community radio.\n", "Details": "Anne Godfrey-Smith was born in Launceston, Tasmania in 1921. Her father was Bill McIntyre, a respected obstetrician, and her mother was Margaret Edgeworth McIntyre, the first woman Member of Parliament in Tasmania, a founding member of the Launceston Players and a committed community worker. Anne was the granddaughter of Sir Tannatt Edgeworth David, an eminent geologist, Antarctic explorer and academic, and Caroline David who dedicated long service to her local community and was committed to the advancement of women. Her aunt was conservationist and writer Mary Edgeworth David, who wrote about the David family in Passages of time: An Australian woman, 1890-1974, published in 1975.\nGodfrey-Smith was educated in Launceston as a child and went on to finish her secondary studies at the Frensham School in Mittagong (1935-38). In 1939 she began studying biochemistry at the University of Sydney. She graduated in 1941 and took a job as a pathologist at the Royal North Shore Hospital in Sydney.\nWhile in Sydney she met and married Tony Godfrey-Smith. In 1950 they decided to travel to Britain so that her husband could complete postgraduate medical training. Before leaving Australia, the celebrated theatre director Tyrone Guthrie saw one of Godfrey-Smith's productions with the Launceston Players-where she directed and produced the occasional play-and proposed that she too seek further training in England. Guthrie then arranged for her to attend the Stratford-on-Avon Memorial Theatre for five months.\nShe returned to Launceston later that year to take up formal positions with both the Launceston Players and the Opera Company. She stayed with these companies until 1953 when she accepted a position with the Canberra Repertory Society as the full-time manager-producer.\nFrom 1959 until 1965 she worked as an experimental officer in the CSIRO's biochemistry department. During this time, she also directed many theatre productions for the Australian National University (ANU), including revues that would give her a reputation for being a canny humorist.\nShe completed a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) at the ANU in 1966, during which time she began writing poetry under the guidance of distinguished poet, Professor A D Hope. She then worked as a tutor in English literature at the University of New South Wales from 1968 until 1974. In 1973 she obtained her Master of Arts in English literature through Flinders University, Adelaide.\nIn 1975 she was engaged by the Australian Youth Performing Arts Association to undertake a national survey on youth participation in theatre. After the publication of her report she was asked to serve on the Theatre Board of the Australia Council for the Arts.\nFrom 1980 to 1988 she held the position of coordinator of community education at the Reid Technical and Further Education College. During this time she also recorded oral histories of people involved with the Canberra Repertory, eventually compiling them into the book The Cost of Jazz Garters: A History of the Canberra Repertory Society (1992).\nFrom 1988 until her death she devoted many hours to community radio, presenting programs on ArtSound FM 92.7.\nShe was an active member of environmental groups such as the Australian Conservation Foundation, Friends of the Mongarlowe River, the Wilderness Society and Bush Heritage Australia. She was also a member of a number of social justice organisations including Women in Black, Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, Australians for Native Title and Reconciliation, Families and Friends for Drug Law Reform, and Amnesty International.\nIn 1979 she received a British Empire Medal (Civil) for her service to the theatre. In 1994 she was ACT Citizen of the Year and, in 2005, she received a Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM), both recognising her service to the arts. In 1998 she was awarded the Sydney University Alumni Award for community service over many years. She died at Jindalee Nursing Home in Narrabundah at the age of 89. She had two sons: Tony Godfrey-Smith and William Godfrey-Smith, now known as William Grey.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/a-view-from-two-cities-selected-poems\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/the-road-to-leongatha\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/poems-for-off-duty-hours\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/purdies-meditation-and-other-poems\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/the-cost-of-jazz-garters-a-history-of-the-canberra-repertory-society\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/youth-performing-arts-in-australia-1975-1977\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/the-australian-reference-dictionary\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/looking-out-looking-in-canberra-poets\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/looking-still-canberra-poets\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/godfrey-smith-anne-2\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/from-lady-denman-to-katy-gallagher-a-century-of-womens-contributions-to-canberra\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/portrait-of-david-branagan-and-anne-edgeworth-in-the-bookshop-at-the-national-library-of-australia-29-october-2004-picture-loui-seselja\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/portrait-of-anne-edgeworth-picture-terry-milligan\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/hmss-0063-anne-edgeworth-collection\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/papers-of-anne-edgeworth-1927-1990-manuscript\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/biographical-cuttings-on-anne-godfrey-smith-containing-one-or-more-cuttings-from-newspapers-or-journals\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/anne-edgeworth-interviewed-by-mark-oconnor-sound-recording\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/records-of-the-canberra-repertory-society-1936-1971-manuscript\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/interviews-with-members-of-the-canberra-repertory-society-sound-recording-interviewer-anne-godfrey-smith\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/memoir-for-anne-edgeworth-1921-2011\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Edwards, Dorothy Edna Annie", "Entry ID": "AWE4926", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/edwards-dorothy-edna-annie\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Deloraine, Tasmania, Australia", "Death Place": "George Town, Tasmania, Australia", "Occupations": "Alderman, Community worker, Mayor, Women's rights activist, Women's rights organiser", "Summary": "Dorothy Edwards was the first Tasmanian woman to be elected president of the Australian National Council of Women. It is significant that Edwards' base was in the Launceston branch of the NCW, for her election thus had implications for the status of the NCW of Tasmania, based in Hobart and acknowledged in the ANCW constitution as the official state Council. Edwards held office in the Launceston Council as secretary and president before election to the ANCW presidency 1960-1964. Her period in office was notable for her forthright engagement with government on issues such as equal pay and for her enthusiastic promotion of the International Council of Women's new 'twinning program' and, in particular, for fostering close relations between the Australian Council and the Councils of Thailand, Fiji and Papua New Guinea. Her presidency also saw the holding of an ICW regional seminar on international understanding in Brisbane in 1964. She went on to serve in the ICW as convenor for finance, vice-treasurer and vice-president, and travelled overseas regularly to executive meetings and triennial conferences until 1996. She was made an honorary vice-president of both the Launceston and Australian Councils (1974 and 1973) and admitted to ICW's Committee of Honour (1979).\nDorothy Edwards was also the first woman to be elected to the Launceston City Council. She served as an alderman for 15 years and was mayor 1955-1957, the first woman city mayor in Australia. She was subsequently admitted as an Honorary Freeman of the City of Launceston (1984). She was also awarded an OBE in 1958 and a CBE in 1979, and was entered on the Tasmanian Honour Roll of Women in 2005.\n", "Details": "Dorothy Edna Annie Edwards was born 20 June 1907, the daughter of Percival James Marshall Fleming and Edna Annie Rydale (n\u00e9e Best), in Deloraine, Tasmania, where her father was the town clerk. She was educated at Launceston High School, the University of Tasmania and the London School of Economics where she earned a Masters of Arts. Dorothy taught Latin and literature at Launceston High School for many years. A gifted teacher, she was remembered with respect, admiration and affection by many of her former students. She married Rex S.C. Edwards, a fellow teacher, on 20 May 1933 and had 2 sons. In keeping with the regulations of the time, she was forced to resign from the Education Department on her marriage, but, once her sons were at school, she found many other outlets for her talents and leadership qualities.\nDorothy Edwards was a remarkable individual who broke new ground for women in many areas and was an outstanding ambassador for the Council movement worldwide. She joined the revived National Council of Women of Launceston as secretary (1947-1956) and was active in the campaign to force the Launceston City Council to amend the Corporations Act to allow women to stand for election as aldermen. Edwards had a long-standing interest in local government given her father's career as a council clerk. The Corporations Act was amended in 1945 and, in December 1949, she became the first woman not only to seek election for the Launceston City Council, but also to be elected. Edwards served as an alderman for 15 years and was mayor from December 1955 to December 1957, the first female city mayor in Australia. She counted among her achievements the building of the City Baths at Windmill Hill, flood prevention measures and the opening of a by-products plant for the Killafaddy Abattoirs.\nDorothy Edwards' contribution to the National Council of Women was significant at the local, national and international levels. In addition to her contribution as secretary to the Launceston NCW for nearly a decade, she was president from 1958 to 1960. She went on to become the first Tasmanian president of the ANCW, serving in that role from 1960 to 1964. Although Hobart's Emily Dobson had played a crucial role in founding state Councils and encouraging interaction between them, and though she led, and therefore was president of, Australian delegations to the ICW up to 1921, she was never president of the Federal Council or ANCW. It is significant that Edwards' base was in the Launceston branch of the NCW, which, though recognised as an autonomous Council in 1946, was not a state Council. Since her presidential base was Launceston, her election gave credence to the view that Launceston NCW was equivalent in status to NCW Tasmania, based in Hobart, and thus helped perpetuate the stand-off over the constitutional position of the 2 Tasmanian branches. Only one member of NCWT, Vee Couche, served (as treasurer) on Edwards' board, albeit briefly. Rivalry between the Tasmanian Councils festered for the rest of the century with serious repercussions. It is, however, indisputable that Launceston was a more vibrant Council than NCWT at the time of Edwards' ANCW presidency and that she was a particularly forceful, influential and innovative national leader. She showed considerable initiative in ensuring the financial viability of her board and funding the extensive regime of travel she undertook to all states by arranging for the Launceston City Council to cater for an International Rotary Conference held in Launceston and organising 3 public exhibitions.\nEdwards' period in office was notable for her enthusiastic promotion of the ICW's new 'twinning program' and, in particular, for fostering close relations between the Australian Council and the Councils of Thailand, Fiji and Papua New Guinea. She arranged for visits to Australia by the president of Thailand's NCW, Princess Prem Purachatra, in 1962, and later helped finalise the twinning relationship with Thailand in 1967. She also persuaded the administrator of PNG to consent to 2 New Guinea representatives attending the 1962 and 1963 ANCW conferences, and gained Australian government financial assistance to bring 2 PNG women, 2 Northern Territory Aboriginal women and representatives of 7 Asian nations to the ICW regional seminar on international understanding in Brisbane in 1964. After the 1963 ICW conference, she expressed the view that 'our work over the next Decade [designated by the UN the Decade of Development] should be largely that of increasing our International contacts, particularly with the new Councils, which are anxious to participate fully in I.C.W. . . The future of millions of people may depend on the relationships we establish now'. The focus of the 1964 regional seminar was 'the responsibility of woman to herself, her home, her community and mankind, as seen by people of different cultures'.\nWith regard to Australian issues, Edwards pulled no punches, attempting to jolt the Councils into more activist pursuit of their objectives as distinct from just paying lipservice to them with the same or similar resolutions passed year after year. 'I often doubt', she said, 'if even our own members are really behind us'. They needed to ensure that goals such as equal pay and the lifting of the marriage bar in the public service had 'a large informed body of public support behind them', and they should start this work with their own affiliated societies. Edwards' frustration on the issue of equal pay, for example, was evident in her response to the Liberal Party women senators' failure to vote for a Labor Party amendment to the Public Service Bill to provide for equal remuneration within the Commonwealth Public Service. In 1961, her board wrote a letter of protest to the 4 senators (3 of whom had close ANCW connections) sharply reminding them that had they voted for Senator Willesee's motion it would have been carried. The letter concluded: 'This protest is in conformity with ANCW's policy on equal pay for women'. Edwards clearly believed the outcome would have been different if the senators had felt the pressure of public opinion.\nIn line with these views, Edwards made concerted attempts to expand the Australian Council movement, arguing that it was time to go beyond the previous emphasis on consolidation and unity, and noting the formation of a Townsville branch in Queensland as well as the successful extension into large country towns in Victoria to make NCWV a truly state-wide organisation. ANCW itself had now helped establish a provisional Council in Darwin and Edwards requested support from the state Councils to sustain it. She also suggested speeding up decision-making by giving more power to state Councils' officers or to the ANCW board and using modern forms of communication to disseminate information more effectively. Encouraging individual associate membership might help rejuvenate debate and bring in new talent, and choosing convenors of standing committees on the basis of merit rather than state representation might increase efficiency and initiative. More systematic and routine communication between state, national and international convenors was necessary for the committee system to operate smoothly. The extent to which these aims were achievable in a volunteer organisation was another matter but Edwards' board was certainly a very well-oiled operation and its records were meticulously kept. She was appointed a life vice-president of the National Council of Women of Australia in 1973.\nAt the 1963 triennial ICW conference in Washington, Edwards was elected vice-treasurer (1963-1970) and vice president (1963-1979) of the International Council of Women, as well as convenor of the Finance Committee. After relinquishing the ANCW presidency in 1964, Edwards made ICW work the centre of her continuing Council activity. She was appointed to the ICW Committee of Honour in 1979. Her attendance at ICW conferences and executive meetings extended from 1963 to 1996, and, like her Tasmanian exemplar, Emily Dobson, she rarely missed one of these gatherings.\nDorothy Edwards worked actively with many other organisations for extended periods before and after her retirement from Launceston City Council. She was a member of the ABC Board (1962-1975); the State Library Board (1953-1978); the Decimal Currency Committee (1959-1960); the Queen Victoria Hospital Board (1958); the Tasmanian Orchestra Advisory Committee (1953-1954); vice-warden of Convocation at the University of Tasmania (1963-1965) and chairman of the Interim Board of the Launceston General Hospital (1971-1972). She was also a member of the Women Graduates' Association and the Business and Professional Women's Club, and was president of the Launceston branch of the United Nations Association of Australia (1967-1979).\nDorothy Edwards was awarded an OBE in 1958 and a CBE in 1979. She was admitted as an honorary freeman of the City of Launceston in 1984 and was entered on the Tasmanian Honour Roll of Women in 2005 in recognition and acknowledgment of her distinguished service to Tasmania through her long association with local government, community and cultural organisations. Her distinguished service, wisdom and leadership over nearly 60 years in so many areas of community life was legendary and so was her capacity for open, warm and forthright interpersonal relations. She eschewed false modesty and any pretension, and, unlike most of her predecessors in the Council movement, openly enjoyed a cigarette and a glass of sherry or whisky with friends and colleagues.\n", "Events": "International Council of Women (1963 - 1970) \nInternational Council of Women (1963 - 1979) \nNational Council of Women of Launceston (1958 - 1960)", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/faith-hope-and-charity-australian-women-and-imperial-honours-1901-1989\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/stirrers-with-style-presidents-of-the-national-council-of-women-of-australia-and-its-predecessors\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/whos-who-in-australia-1962\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/report-1963-64\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/annual-report-22\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/dorothy-edna-annie-edwards-cbe\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/records-of-the-national-council-of-women-of-australia-1924-1990-manuscript\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Aulby, Hannah Helen", "Entry ID": "AWE4961", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/aulby-hannah-helen\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Hobart, Tasmania, Australia", "Occupations": "Environmentalist", "Summary": "Read more about Hannah Helen Aulby in our sister publication The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/the-encyclopedia-of-women-and-leadership-in-twentieth-century-australia\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Duncan, Catherine", "Entry ID": "AWE5063", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/duncan-catherine\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Launceston, Tasmania, Australia", "Death Place": "Paris, France", "Occupations": "Actor, Author, Filmmaker, Playwright", "Summary": "Read more about Catherine Duncan in our sister publication The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/the-encyclopedia-of-women-and-leadership-in-twentieth-century-australia\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Fanning, Pauline", "Entry ID": "AWE5075", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/fanning-pauline\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Hobart, Tasmania, Australia", "Death Place": "Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia", "Occupations": "Bibliographer, Librarian", "Summary": "Read more about Pauline Fanning in our sister publication The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/the-encyclopedia-of-women-and-leadership-in-twentieth-century-australia\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/papers-of-pauline-fanning-1839-2011-manuscript\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/pauline-fanning-interviewed-by-alec-bolton-sound-recording\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/biographical-cuttings-on-pauline-fanning-former-national-library-of-australia-employee-containing-one-or-more-cuttings-from-newspapers-or-journals\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Geddes, Virginia (Vig)", "Entry ID": "AWE5092", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/geddes-virginia-vig\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Launceston, Tasmania, Australia", "Occupations": "Domestic violence campaigner", "Summary": "Read more about Virginia (Vig) Geddes in our sister publication The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia.\n", "Events": "Inducted into the Victorian Honour Roll of Women (2016 - 2016)", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/the-encyclopedia-of-women-and-leadership-in-twentieth-century-australia\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Gordon, Florence", "Entry ID": "AWE5102", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/gordon-florence\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Launceston, Tasmania, Australia", "Occupations": "Journalist", "Summary": "Read more about Florence Gordon in our sister publication The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/the-encyclopedia-of-women-and-leadership-in-twentieth-century-australia\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Henderson, Jessie Isabel", "Entry ID": "AWE5126", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/henderson-jessie-isabel\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Hobart, Tasmania, Australia", "Occupations": "Welfare worker", "Summary": "Read more about Jessie Isabel Henderson in our sister publication The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia.\n", "Events": "Inducted into the Victorian Honour Roll of Women (2001 - 2001)", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/the-encyclopedia-of-women-and-leadership-in-twentieth-century-australia\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Jolliffe, Anne Comrie", "Entry ID": "AWE5152", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/jolliffe-anne\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Longford, Tasmania, Australia", "Death Place": "Leura, New South Wales, Australia", "Occupations": "Animator", "Summary": "Read more about Anne Jolliffe in our sister publication The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/the-encyclopedia-of-women-and-leadership-in-twentieth-century-australia\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/first-female-animator-worked-on-beatles-yellow-submarine\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Lake, Marilyn Lee", "Entry ID": "AWE5176", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/lake-marilyn-lee\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Kettering, Tasmania, Australia", "Occupations": "Academic, Author, Historian, Researcher", "Summary": "Read more about Marilyn Lake in our sister publication The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia.\n", "Events": "Inducted into the Victorian Honour Roll of Women (2006 - 2006)", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/the-encyclopedia-of-women-and-leadership-in-twentieth-century-australia\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/papers-of-marilyn-lake-1964-1999-manuscript\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Reed, Cynthia", "Entry ID": "AWE5277", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/reed-cynthia\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Evandale, Tasmania, Australia", "Death Place": "London, Middlesex, England", "Occupations": "Designer, Writer", "Summary": "Read more about Cynthia (Nolan) Reed in our sister publication The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/the-encyclopedia-of-women-and-leadership-in-twentieth-century-australia\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/papers-of-cynthia-nolan-1932-1976-manuscript\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/biographical-cuttings-on-cynthia-nolan-author-containing-one-or-more-cuttings-from-newspapers-or-journals\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Webb, Michelle", "Entry ID": "AWE5348", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/webb-michelle\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Tasmania, Australia", "Occupations": "Educator", "Summary": "Read more about Michelle Webb in our sister publication The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/the-encyclopedia-of-women-and-leadership-in-twentieth-century-australia\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Warner, Catherine Ann (Kate)", "Entry ID": "AWE5445", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/warner-catherine-ann-kate\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Hobart, Tasmania, Australia", "Occupations": "Academic, Barrister, Commissioner, Governor, Lawyer, Solicitor", "Summary": "Catherine Ann 'Kate' Warner AM is an Australian lawyer, legal academic, and the current (2015) Governor of Tasmania. She was sworn in as Tasmania's twentieth-eighth Governor at Government House on Wednesday 10 December 2014.\nIn 2017, Kate Warner was made a Companion in the General Division of the Order of Australia 'for eminent service to the people of Tasmania through leading contributions to the legal community, particularly to law reform, to higher education as an academic, researcher and publisher, and as a supporter of the arts, and environmental and social justice initiatives'.\n", "Details": "Professor Kate Warner was born in Hobart, and attended St Michael's Collegiate School and the University of Tasmania, where she graduated with a Bachelor of Laws with Honours on 15 April 1970, and with a Master of Laws by research thesis on 7 December 1978. Her LLM thesis focussed on 'Presentence Psychiatric Reports in Tasmania'.\nAfter graduation, she worked as Associate to (then) Chief Justice of Tasmania Sir Stanley Burbury at the Supreme Court of Tasmania and was admitted as a Barrister and Solicitor in 1971. Following completion of her LLM thesis in 1978, she commenced her lengthy career as an academic at the University of Tasmania Law School. She was promoted to Lecturer in 1981, to Senior Lecturer in 1989, Associate Professor in 1993, and Professor in 1996.\nIn 1992, she was appointed Dean of the Faculty of Law and later was appointed Head of the School of Law (the first woman to hold these positions at the University of Tasmania). She was promoted to Professor in 1996 and in 2002 was appointed as foundation Director of the Tasmania Law Reform Institute.\nBefore her appointment as Governor for the State of Tasmania, Warner was Professor, Faculty of Law, at the University of Tasmania and Director of the Tasmanian Law Reform Institute. She had also, in her career at the University, held the positions of Dean, Faculty of Law, and Head of School.\nProfessor Warner's teaching interests were in Criminal Law, Evidence, Criminology and Sentencing, and her research interests included Sentencing and Criminal Justice, areas in which she has a significant publications record.\nProfessor Warner was a Commissioner of the Tasmanian Gaming Commission, with a particular interest in regulation, gaming policy and harm minimisation. She had also been a Member of the Sentencing Advisory Council since 2010, and had assisted with the preparation of the Council's discussion papers and reports. She was a Member of the Board of Legal Education; a Member of the Council of Law Reporting; and Director, Centre for Legal Studies.\nIn addition to working with the Tasmania Law Reform Institute on its projects, Professor Warner had been involved in providing advice and submissions on rape law reform, drug diversion and mental health diversion programs and abortion law reform. She also assisted other law reform bodies nationally, including the New South Wales Law Reform Commission and the Australian Law Reform Commission.\nAs President of the Alcorso Foundation, Her Excellency supports social and cultural advancement in the community through its programs in the Arts, Environment and Social Justice.\nProfessor Warner has received a number of awards and fellowships, including Foundation Fellow of the Australian Academy of Law in 2007; Visiting Fellow All Souls College Oxford in 2009; the University of Tasmania Distinguished Service Medal in 2013; and the Women Lawyers Award for Leadership in 2013. She has been nominated as a finalist in the Tasmanian Australian of the Year Awards for her contributions to the law, law reform and legal education.\nOn 26 January 2014 Her Excellency was awarded an Order of Australia (AM) for her significant service to the law, particularly in the areas of law reform and education.\nHer Excellency is married to Richard Warner, and has two daughters. Richard was the recipient of a Churchill Fellowship in 1999, and is actively involved in the Derwent Valley community. He is a keen horticulturalist, and interested in the re-use of redundant heritage buildings in Tasmania.\nShe is grandmother to five grandchildren, a passionate gardener, keen bushwalker and occasional cyclist.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/kate-warner-to-be-appointed-first-female-governor-of-tasmania\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/curriculum-vitae-of-the-governor-her-excellency-professor-the-honourable-kate-warner-am\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/sentencing-in-tasmania\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/criminal-process-and-human-rights\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/equality-before-the-law-and-equal-impact-of-sanctions-doing-justice-to-difference-in-wealth-and-employment-status\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/public-judgement-on-sentencing-final-results-from-the-tasmanian-jury-sentencing-study\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/using-jurors-to-explore-public-attitudes-to-sentencing\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/the-role-of-guideline-judgments-in-the-law-and-order-debate\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/sentencing\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/gang-rape-in-sydney-crime-the-media-politics-race-and-sentencing\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/australian-women-lawyers-as-active-citizens\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Sievers, Sally", "Entry ID": "AWE5601", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/sievers-sally\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Near Launceston, Tasmania, Australia", "Occupations": "Barrister, Commissioner, Lawyer, Magistrate, Solicitor, Sportswoman", "Summary": "Sally Sievers has been a lawyer in the Northern Territory since 1988, practising within government, in private practice and as a Relieving Magistrate from time to time. She was appointed the Anti-Discrimination Commissioner for the Northern Territory in January 2013. As commissioner, she has focused the Commission's activities in the areas of race and disability discrimination and women's equality, in particular the impact of discrimination against women and families. She was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) in January 2025 for distinguished service to the law, to social justice and human rights, and to the community of the Northern Territory.\nGo to 'Details' below to read a reflective essay written by Sally Sievers for the Trailblazing Women and the Law Project.\n", "Details": "The following additional information was provided by Sally Sievers and is reproduced with permission in its entirety.\nI was born in 1965, the third child of a young Tasmanian family, which over the next six years would increase from three children to six.\nI grew up in the rural surrounds of Launceston with my brothers and sisters and an array of foster children coming through our home. It was a happy and secure childhood with a stay at home Mum and Dad working in sales.\nI attended a variety of local public primary schools and then the local high school when we moved into Launceston city.\nThere was no expectation that I would attend school past year 10 as my older siblings and vast number of cousins had not. Tasmania's low high school retention rate remains an issue even today.\nI had always been a very active and physical child, which paid off when my ability to kick a ball a country mile was noticed by the school hockey coach, and thus my involvement in hockey began. Hockey at both school and club level gave me an exposure to a whole different world of opportunities. Most influential were a number of young women, including Penny Gray who returned to Launceston after being away at university with stories of adventure and plans for the future.\nLuckily for me, dual Olympian Penny Gray, whose history I was unaware of at this time, picked me up and ran me to and from hockey training. In our conversation on the way to and from training a whole array of options opened up for me and as a result for the first time I began to entertain the idea of university.\nFrom there my journey to university was set. It began with convincing my family that attending a matriculation college was a good idea.\nIt was in my second year at Alanvale Community College that I came across legal studies. The course was presented in an engaging way, with newspaper clippings of cases which peaked my interest in law and justice. Not having any idea where my access to education would take me, I asked the teacher what I would need to do to become a legal studies teacher like him. He responded that if I was not going to consider being a lawyer he wasn't sure who in the class would. It was all the encouragement I needed, although I had never met a lawyer at that stage, nor did I until I started at the University of Tasmania.\nThe University of Tasmania at that time only had a campus in Hobart. A big hurdle for my family in my decision to go to university was leaving home to study; until that time my older siblings had only left home once married.\nAnother considerable factor was how this was to be funded. I am totally the beneficiary of the very limited window in Australia's history of free education. As a child from a low income family, with no income after my father lost his last paid employment a week or so into my university degree, my studies were largely funded by Austudy, holiday jobs and living very frugally.\nOnly two or three other students from Alanvale ended up with me at residential college and at the University of Tasmania in 1982. Over the next five years I completed a pretty conservative arts\/law degree. It was a time of social change in Tasmania the rise of environmental movements such as the Franklin Dam blockades etc. I was exposed to many great lecturers, including present Tasmanian Governor Kate Warner.\nHockey was still a very significant feature in my life, providing role models, strong women and also opportunities to travel in representative teams. Fortunately for me this included a trip to Darwin in my last year at university, playing hockey for Tasmania. I did not play a lot of hockey being second goalkeeper to the current Australian keeper. However in this time I decide that Darwin was the place for me to begin my professional life.\nIn the 1980s the Northern Territory (NT) offered an articles program over twelve months, far better than what was on offer to me in Tasmania. I was not sure how I would fare in the established legal fraternity in Tasmania as, apart from my lecturers and a few hockey-playing lawyers, I had still never met a working lawyer or been to chambers or an office.\nI was offered and took up articles with the NT Department of Law. There were four article clerks that year. We rotated through different areas of the Department including, commercial, litigation, policy and prosecutions. I also took up the opportunity to spend three months in the Alice Springs' office.\nMy time in Alice Springs coincided with sittings of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody in Alice. I had the opportunity to observe great advocates. I also had the opportunity to do some very minor appearance work in Coronial Inquest. This was a great first exposure to Central Australia, which included travelling with the court to Yulara, with Magistrate Denny Barrett (famous for his involvement in the Chamberlain matter and part of NT legal history). A unique feature of NT practise at this time was the solicitor in charge of the Department of Justice offices had his Harley Davidson in pieces in library of the office.\nI returned to Darwin at the start of 1989 and was admitted to practise as a Barrister and Solicitor in the NT in April 1989.\nThe first years of my career were as a prosecutor for NT prosecutions and then Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions. This was a tough environment for a 23\/24 year old appearing in summary prosecutions and travelling to bush courts. There were very few women prosecutors. I observed what worked best in a male dominated work place and with an array of police officers. Lindy Jenkins now a Western Australian Judge, was the only senior female prosecutor, a great example of integrity and hard work.\nSally Thomas was then the Chief Magistrate and I appeared in front of her frequently. She was always courteous, generous and instructive in the reasons for her decisions. I have been extremely fortunate that my career has intersected with hers on many occasions prior to her recent retirement as Administrator of NT. She signed my current appointment.\nThe police prosecutors and senior prosecutor Dick Wallace were generous with their time, skills and knowledge during this time.\nAs my skills developed I was being allocated a lot of child sexual assault indecent dealing matters. The memory of sitting under a tree in Katherine, trying to establish rapport to elicit evidence from a young, eleven-year-old girl who had been sexually assaulted and whose life was changed forever still sticks with me. There is a spot in Katherine that I still find very difficult to walk past.\nI was steered away from this area of practice by Dick Wallace who let me instruct him in a fraud, white collar crime cases. I then prosecuted these cases myself.\nThis was an area I enjoyed as preparation of documentary cases does not take such an emotional toll. Once prepared the evidence does not change. We worked our way through a number of scams that existed in the NT at this time.\nAn opportunity then arose to move and work at the Australian Government Solicitor's offices conducting Commonwealth prosecutions in 1994. The cases were very diverse: arguing cases re: the scope of Australian's jurisdiction for fishers, tax fraud, dental fraud etc. I had the opportunity to work and travel to Kakadu, Broome, Uluru and Christmas Island training various agencies.\nDuring this time in my life hockey took a back seat as I discovered the joy and flexibility of triathlons.\nWhilst working for the Commonwealth I worked on a large heroin importation matter. I worked with in my opinion one of the best Counsel I have ever seen current Supreme Court Judge of NSW, Elizabeth Fullerton. She was always prepared to share her knowledge, strategy and approach to the case, during the conduct of the lengthy Supreme Court trial. However there were also extensive preparations, committal, trial and then guilty pleas of the remaining accused, which consumed a good year, and half of my life. I was awarded the Attorney-General's Australia Day Award for my work on this matter.\nAs well as generously sharing her legal skills, Judge Fullerton also swung into action, helping me decide what my next career move would be. After exploring numerous options she paved the way for my introduction to David Farquhar who would be my professional mentor and good friend for the next 10 years as we worked together at Cridlands, a private firm in the NT. The work was again diverse, as the practise of law is in NT.\nDavid Farquhar and I first worked together as counsel assisting the Coroner in a series of deaths in custody in Alice Springs, and then on numerous health matters including for the medical and health professional boards. With his guidance I moved through the ranks to special Counsel over the next 10 years.\nDuring this time I was also involved in a number of community organisations. Between 1998 and 2003 I filled numerous roles on the Top End Women's Legal Services management committee. I was a Tribunal Commissioner for the AFL NT Tribunal, and member of the Legal Aid Review Committee. I was also Director and Secretary NT Division - National Heart Foundation.\nEarly in my time at Cridlands I was given the opportunity to Relieve as a magistrate.\nDuring this time I also had two children, and was well supported by the firm and given great flexibility. This ranged from going home for naps during the day in the last months of pregnancy and then signing on remotely, to the very practical gift of six months nappy service for my second child.\nWhile working at Cridlands my clients, primarily in the health and allied health field, were also incredibly supportive during each of my pregnancies and my return to work part time.\nI was Counsel in numerous coronial inquests into deaths of those in the mental health system, and also appeared in matters in the Supreme Court where people with a disability or people with a mental health diagnosis had come into contact with the criminal justice system I was also involved in medical negligence matters, a review of the mental health legislation and work health matters both prosecuting and defending, companies after work place deaths\nDuring my ten years at Cridlands my knowledge and interest in the areas of mental health and disability increased. The issues colleagues and other women around me faced after having children and returning to the work force also piqued my interest. The experiences were so variable.\nIn 2008 I followed the work I had been doing back into government, working again primarily in health law, mental health, disability and medical negligence matters.\nDuring 2012 and the beginning of 2013 I also had two long periods as a Relieving Magistrate with the privilege of working in the alcohol and drug court, using a therapeutic model. I also spent time in the youth court, as well as travelling to remote communities for circuit court.\nOn 30 January 2013 I was appointed to my current role as NT Anti-Discrimination Commissioner. It has been a challenge; I took over in a time of change for the small office. I have concentrated on establishing relationships and determining and focussing on key priorities for the small team; passionately using social media and also modernising the ADC's webpage.\nIt has been a great privilege to be appointed as Principal Community Visitor a program I had come across previously in my work with mental health matters. This program has expanding into disability and during the first 12 months of my appointment has taken up the role of monitoring and oversight of the NT's Alcohol Mandatory Treatment Program.\nThe Community Visitor Program (CVP) ensures those who would not usually complain to bodies such as the ADC are given a voice. Access to mechanisms on a day-to-day basis to resolve issues they have at the lowest possible level. The CVP advocates to ensure those compulsorily detained have their human rights respected.\nDedicated people with a service focus staff both the ADC and CVP teams.\nLast year with great buy-in from the NT community, we launch the Inaugural NT Human Rights Awards \"The Fitzgerald's\", partly to honour the memory and achievements of long term NT Anti-Discrimination Commissioner Tony Fitzgerald and to recognise the amazing work being done on a day to day basis by people and groups in the NT. It was also established to raise the profile of human rights in a time when they seem to be under attack across the community.\nThe people I have met through my role are leaders in their fields, and have been generous with their support and knowledge. I would like to thank Graeme Innes OA for social media tips and numerous visits to the NT, and Liz Broderick who has shared her experience and approaches to difficult issues.\nI would also like to thank people in the NT willing to share knowledge and experience such as Priscilla Collins, the head of NAAJA and Brenda Monaghan, fellow Independent Commissioner for Information and Open Disclosures.\nI look forward to the challenges of a career of great diversity over the next twenty years as our four girls make their way through school and university.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/australian-women-lawyers-as-active-citizens\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Cameron, Leah", "Entry ID": "AWE5666", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/cameron-leah\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Tasmania", "Occupations": "Lawyer, Solicitor", "Summary": "Leah Cameron is a Palawa woman from Tasmania and the Principal Solicitor and owner of Marrawah Law, a Supply Nation certified Indigenous legal practice. Her primary areas of practice are native title, cultural heritage, future acts and commercial law.\n", "Details": "Leah Cameron's passion for her work is unwavering and has assisted her in achieving six native title consent determinations to date. Her efforts were recognised in 2008 when she was awarded the Tasmanian Young Achiever of the Year Award in the category of Trade and Career Achievement. Her commitment has also led to her being awarded the Centenary Medal of Australia and the Robert Riley Law Scholarship whilst studying at the University of Tasmania. Her greatest honour was being asked to negotiate and repatriate her ancestors' remains from the British Museum in London on behalf of the Tasmanian Aboriginal community.\nLeah is a regular contributor to the National Talk Black radio program presenting on topical legal issues. She is also a director of Access Community Housing and a member of the Queensland Law Society, North Queensland Law Association and the Far North Queensland Law Association.\nSome of her significant achievements in the field of law include:\n\nActing for first Indigenous homeowner (99-year lease) under Indigenous Home Ownership program in Queensland;\nActing as solicitor for the applicants in the Djiru People #2 and #3 native title consent determinations 2011; \nActing as solicitor for the applicant in Wanyurr Majay People native title consent determination 2011; \nActing as solicitor for the applicant Jirrbal People #1-#3 native title consent determination 2010; \nSupervising solicitors with the successful consent determination of the following native title matters: Muluridji, Djungan, Combined Gunggandji, Gugu Badhun, Jangga, Juru, Tableland Yidinji and Combined Mandingalbay Yidinji Gunggandji;\nSuccessfully preparing the first application for National Heritage listing for an Aboriginal site within North Queensland.\n\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/australian-women-lawyers-as-active-citizens\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Broderick, Elizabeth", "Entry ID": "AWE5707", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/broderick-elizabeth\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Hobart, Tasmania, Australia", "Occupations": "Commissioner, Lawyer", "Summary": "Elizabeth Broderick AO was Australia's longest-serving Sex Discrimination Commissioner, from 2007 to 2015. She was also Commissioner responsible for Age Discrimination from 2007 to 2011.\nA former head of legal technology at law firm Blake Dawson Waldron (now Ashurst), where she practised for nearly two decades, she became the firm's first part-time partner and later served as a member of its board. In 2001 she was named Telstra NSW Business Woman of the Year; she also received the Centenary Medal.\nAs Commissioner, Broderick instigated the, 'Male Champions of Change' strategy, to help advance gender equality in Australia. It has since been replicated across the country and achieved international prominence, thanks in part to Broderick's subsequent appointment as Global Co-Chair of the Women's Empowerment Principles Leadership Group, a joint initiative of the UN Global Compact and UN Women.\nOn behalf of the Commission, Broderick also conducted the first independent Review into the Treatment of Women in the Australian Defence Force. Broderick was named overall winner of the Australian Financial Review and Westpac 2014 '100 Women of Influence Awards' in acknowledgement of her achievements while in office.\nBroderick is Principal of Elizabeth Broderick & Co., Senior Advisor to the Australian Federal Police Commissioner on cultural change and Special Advisor to the Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations and the Executive Director of UN Women on Private Sector Engagement. She serves on a number of boards and continues to advocate for societal change. In 2016 Broderick was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia. She was also named 2016 New South Wales Australian of the Year. She has honorary degrees from the University of New South Wales and The University of Sydney, and the University of Technology Sydney.\nElizabeth Broderick was interviewed by Kim Rubenstein for the Trailblazing Women and the Law Oral History Project. For details of the interview see the National Library of Australia CATALOGUE RECORD.\n", "Details": "Elizabeth Broderick was born in 1961 in Hobart, Tasmania; she has a twin sister and a younger sister. When she was a child, the family moved to New South Wales. From a young age, she observed her parents, Margot and Frank Broderick, sharing the housework and supporting each other's careers. Learning from this display of equality, she also absorbed from her parents the value of community responsibility [Executive Style]. Broderick had her first taste of public leadership when she became head girl of Meriden Anglican School. She went on to graduate from the University of New South Wales with Bachelor of Arts (Computer Science) and Bachelor of Laws degrees.\nFar-sighted, Broderick recognised early on the significance which technology would have to the provision of client services; between 1985 and 1987, she worked overseas, exploring how technology could be used to manage evidence in litigation cases and complaints systems. [Gome and Ross]. After joining the research department of the Sydney office of Blake Dawson Waldron (now Ashurst) in 1987, Broderick began employing technology to help lawyers retrieve documents more efficiently [Gome and Ross].\nIn 1991, Broderick established the firm's legal technology group, providing services in-house and externally to clients. In 1995 she broke new ground, revolutionising the firm's culture, when she became the first part-time partner, and head of legal technology and the first member of the Board to work part-time. [Executive Style].\nAn innovator, Broderick thrived on her work and her output was correspondingly prodigious: among other things, she created commercial computerised legal products in such fields as environmental law, occupational health and safety, and workplace discrimination; she also set up an online service - Virtual Lawyers - for legal enquiries. Her achievements led to her being named \"2001 Telstra NSW Business Woman of the Year\" [Gome and Ross]. She also received the Centenary Medal, for service to Australian society through business leadership.\nBetween 2003 and 2006 Broderick was a board member of Blake Dawson Waldron. When she departed the firm in 2007, 10 per cent of the partners were part-time and 20 per cent of employees had adopted flexible work arrangements [Gome and Ross].\nAppointed Sex Discrimination Commissioner in 2007, Broderick backed the prevention of domestic violence against women and sexual harassment; she also championed lifetime economic security for women. Another preoccupation was the balancing of paid work and unpaid caring responsibilities, while yet another was the promotion of women to positions of leadership. She also sought to strengthen laws relating to gender equality and agencies.\nBroderick was a strong proponent for Australia's national paid parental leave scheme [Human Rights]. Seeing the provision of opportunities for both men and women as critical to achieving a fair society, Broderick has advocated for flexible working conditions for both sexes, arguing for \"more senior part-time roles filled by men and women\" [Nader].\nIn April 2010, Broderick initiated the 'Male Champions of Change' strategy; she remains its convenor. Broderick has said of it: \"This initiative engages powerful and influential men from all sectors to stand beside women and lead tangible action to promote gender equality and social change\" [Broderick LinkedIn]. The program began with Broderick asking 12 male 'captains of industry' if they would promote gender equality within their workplace. Its success has seen it replicated around the country and also introduced to audiences overseas. Although it has been criticised for relying on men to advance women's interests, Broderick argues that: \"what we need to do is recognise where power sits in this country, and that is clearly in the hands of men. So if we want to move to a model where power is shared, we need to work with those who hold it\" [Marie-Claire].\nBroderick's work with the Commission took her around the country and across the world, including representing Australia each year at the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women. In 2009 she was part of an Australian delegation which included Aboriginal representatives of the Marninwarntikura Fitzroy Women's Resource Centre who attended the 53rd Session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women [Human Rights Leadership]. Charged by the Australian Government with leading the first independent Review into the Treatment of Women in the Australian Defence Force (ADF) following allegations of sexual misconduct in the ADF's Academy in 2011, Broderick tabled her fourth and final report on women within the ADF in 2014. [Sydney Morning Herald Defence].\nBroderick was twice reappointed as Federal Sex Discrimination Commissioner in 2012 for 2 years and for a further year in 2014. In embarking on her new term, she sized up the state of gender equality in Australia thus: \"\u2026 the pay gap is the largest it's ever been at 18.2 per cent. Violence against women is still a significant issue: 1.2 million women today will be either currently living or have recently done so in a relationship characterised by violence. And we still have very few women at leadership level across Australia\" [Kerin].\nIn October of the same year, Broderick was named overall winner of the Australian Financial Review and Westpac 2014 '100 Women of Influence Awards'. A unanimous choice as winner, the judges were impressed by Broderick's communication skills which allowed her to engage with and influence a broad cross-section of people for the betterment of society, and what they considered her transformation of the role of Sex Discrimination Commissioner [Sydney Morning Herald Discrimination]. The following month, she was conferred with an honorary degree from the University of Sydney [University]. She also has honorary degrees from the University of New South Wales and Sydney University of Technology.\nWhen her term as Sex Discrimination Commissioner ended, in September 2015 Broderick founded Elizabeth Broderick & Co. She was later appointed 2016 New South Wales Australian of the Year.\nIn 2016, Broderick was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia for her advocacy with respect to human rights and family violence [Guardian]. She was also appointed Special Advisor to the Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations and the Executive Director of UN Women on Private Sector Engagement. In this role she is helping the UN to improve engagement with the private sector with the aim of producing more gender-diverse organisations [Huffington Post].\nBroderick is a member of the Australian Rugby Union Board, International Services of Human Rights Board, University of New South Wales Law Advisory Board, Australian Defence Force Gender Equality Advisory Board and the Victoria Police Corporate Advisory Group. She is also a Senior Adviser to McKinsey and Company. She was formerly a member of the World Bank Advisory Council on Gender and Development and was Partner Co-Director with NATO on Women, Peace and Security.\nBroderick has garnered widespread respect for her skills as a communicator and leader with demonstrated strengths in cultural and organisational change. She has been a social innovator and visionary who has championed important matters concerning gender equality which have led to improvements in Australian society.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/australia-day-honours-david-walsh-and-elizabeth-broderick-among-recipients\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/law\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/australian-women-lawyers-as-active-citizens\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/elizabeth-broderick-interviewed-by-kim-rubenstein-in-the-trailblazing-women-and-the-law-oral-history-project\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Hill, Jenni", "Entry ID": "AWE5715", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/hill-jenni\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Hobart, Tasmania, Australia", "Occupations": "Lawyer, Partner, Solicitor", "Summary": "After ten years as a partner at Norton Rose Fulbright, and four years prior to that at Bennett & Co., Jenni Hill is now (2016) a partner at the Perth office of international law firm, Clifford Chance. She is a litigation specialist, representing clients in the energy and resources sectors, and advising on corporate and shareholder disputes and investigations.\nCommitted to promoting equality of opportunity in the legal profession, Hill was a joint winner of the Western Australian Women Lawyers Association Woman Lawyer of the Year award in 2011. When at Norton Rose Fulbright, she chaired a Workplace Flexibility focus group. She is on the board of CEOs for Gender Equity, an initiative of the Western Australian Equal Opportunity Commission launched in 2014 to promote gender equity in the corporate sector. A woman who is 'astute at picking her battles' and developing strategies 'for the long term', she intends to change discriminatory corporate cultures by asserting influence from within.\nJenni Hill was interviewed by Nikki Henningham in the Trailblazing Women and the Law Oral History Project. For details of the interview see the National Library of Australia CATALOGUE RECORD.\n", "Details": "Except for a couple of years when her family lived in England, Jenni Hill grew up in Hobart, Tasmania, moving to Canberra in 1981, where she finished her schooling. Both her parents were teachers, a fact she is sure contributed to her 'not remembering a time when she didn't think she would go to university'. The excellent education she received at both the Friends Quaker School in Hobart and Canberra Church of England Girls' Grammar made it certain. Hill graduated with a BSc\/LLB (Hons) from the Australian National University in 1992. She was admitted as a solicitor in Western Australia and the High Court of Australia in 1994.\nBefore graduating, Hill received many graduate offers from Sydney based firms but decided to make the move to Perth, where she had been offered a position as associate to Justice Walsh of the WA Supreme Court. A preference for the lifestyle options available in smaller cities, along with some personal connections (her best friend from university days, (the Hon. Justice) Janine Pritchard, had moved across to Perth), convinced her to stay, rather than return to Sydney to take up her graduate offer. What she hadn't counted on was the time and effort it took to find a local firm to take her on to complete her articles; preference was given to local graduates, despite her excellent CV and experience. Fortunately, a colleague who she had worked with at the Supreme Court offered to put in a good word for her with Martin Bennett at Bennett & Co, and her career in litigation in Perth was launched. Thus, the experience of discrimination, as well as the importance of networking, were demonstrated very early as she progressed up the ladder.\nFrom her time as an associate, Hill had early exposure to criminal law but from that experience decided it wasn't for her. She, nevertheless, wanted to do court work. She had always imagined herself a litigator; she enjoyed mooting as a student (she was a member of a successful all women team in her fourth year at university) and enjoyed the process of preparing and presenting an argument. Fortunately, working at a smaller firm, like Bennett & Co. gave her the opportunity to forge a career in litigation where court appearances were common, even for less experienced lawyers. Large top tier firms were less like to give recent graduates that sort of control and experience. From those early days, she has developed a reputation in Perth that has earned the respect of colleagues and clients alike.\nWhile developing a profitable practice and seniority in the industry, Hill has also felt a deep responsibility to improve corporate and legal cultures to promote and encourage diversity, not only in terms of gender, but also with regard to ethnicity and age. Recognising that her education has created opportunities for her she feels a responsibility to 'use [her] sphere of influence to change what [I] can \u2026 to assess whether I have influence or power in a situation and then to use that for good'. This led her to be involved in initiatives such as the Workplace Flexibility task force when she was at Norton Rose Fulbright and the Western Australian Opportunity Commission project, CEOs for Gender Equality. She hopes that these types of initiatives will make combining work and family life easier for women and men coming through. She doesn't accept the view of some more senior figures, who faced challenges and 'pulling up the ladder after them' say 'well it was hard for me, it can be hard for you, too'. 'I don't accept that,' she says. 'It's like saying I got bullied at school so you should be bullied so you know what it feels like'.\nUnderstanding where she is most effective means that she might not ever end up at the Bar. 'That used to be a personal dream,' she say, 'but at the moment I actually think that my sphere of influence is probably better placed in the role that I have now.' Working in a large, global firm, 'diversity is a key issue' \u2026. There are fantastic opportunities for me to try to leave a lasting legacy.' She hopes she can be part of a change, working from within. 'I really do strongly believe that there is an obligation on\u2026 senior women to speak up and to try to change.'\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/australian-women-lawyers-as-active-citizens\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/jenni-hill-interviewed-by-nikki-henningham-in-the-trailblazing-women-and-the-law-oral-history-project\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Thornton, Margaret Rose", "Entry ID": "AWE5729", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/thornton-margaret-rose\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Launceston, Tasmania, Australia", "Occupations": "Academic, Lawyer", "Summary": "Margaret Thornton is an acclaimed feminist academic in the field of feminist jurisprudence, discrimination, equal opportunity and gender studies at the Australian National University's College of Law. She has degrees from the Universities of Sydney and New South Wales and Yale University. A prominent thinker and legal researcher, Thornton was the first female law professor to be appointed at La Trobe University in Victoria, Australia; during her academic career she demonstrated a significant commitment to the development of La Trobe's law school. Thornton founded the Feminist Legal Action Group and convened the first feminist jurisprudence conference in Australia. She has participated in numerous consultations with agencies such as the International Labour Organisation, and advised parliaments on legislation. She has also published widely. Motivated by social justice and a desire for equality, Thornton has been steadfast in her efforts to improve conditions for women in society, particularly in the workplace and in educational institutions.\nMargaret Thornton was interviewed by Kim Rubenstein for the Trailblazing Women and the Law Oral History Project. For details of the interview see the National Library of Australia CATALOGUE RECORD.\n", "Details": "Margaret Thornton was born in Launceston and raised in north western Tasmania [Gender Institute]. After moving to Sydney, she attended East Sydney Technical College in order to matriculate. When the time came for her to enrol in a degree, she was discouraged from enrolling in Arts\/Law by the University of Sydney after being told that law was not an appropriate choice for a woman. She then elected to study Arts [Margaret Thornton - Women's Web].\nInterested in the possibility of a career teaching ancient history and Classics, Thornton subsequently began tutoring at Macquarie University and enrolled in a Master of Arts degree. However, influenced by the Women's Movement, she enrolled in a Bachelor of Laws at the University of New South Wales. She graduated brilliantly in 1978, winning the University Medal. She then embarked upon a PhD in discrimination law. While studying, she founded the Feminist Legal Action Group (FLAG) to run legal test cases for women. With the support of a Fulbright scholarship, Thornton moved to Yale University in the United States in 1979. There, in 1980, Thornton completed a Master of Laws.\nShe returned to Macquarie University, where lecturers were encouraged to be generalists, and taught widely across criminal, tort, constitutional, property, discrimination, migration law and research methods. She became the Foundation Chair of Women in Tertiary Institutions and a member of the Women's Advisory Council to the Premier, which advised on policy and all legislation before the New South Wales Parliament.\nThornton's dedication to discrimination law and equality in broader society, and in employment and education settings, is reflected in her active membership of the Federation of the Australian University Staff Associations at Macquarie University, the precursor to the National Tertiary Education Union. In the early 1980s, she was also Chair of the New South Wales Committee on Discrimination in Employment and Occupation (a federal body set up under ILO 111), which dealt with discrimination complaints at work. In 1986, Thornton convened the first feminist jurisprudence conference in Australia.\nIn 1989 Thornton was a consultant to the Affirmative Action Agency. She was also a consultant to the International Labour Organization on pay equity in Australia.\nFrom 1990 to 2006, Thornton was Professor of Law and Legal Studies at La Trobe University, acting as Chair and Head of School 1991-92. In 2005, she was awarded a prestigious Professorial Fellowship with the Australian Research Council. At the time, Thornton's research interests included discrimination law, feminist legal theory and the place of women in the legal profession. Her trailblazing books included The Liberal Promise: Anti-discrimination Legislation in Australia (1990) and Dissonance and Distrust: Women in the Legal Profession (1996).\nWhile at La Trobe, Thornton was a member of the Committee of Australian Law Deans; Victorian Council of Legal Education; Equal Opportunity Commission Victoria (Women's Reference Group). She also served for several years on the Australian Research Council (Humanities and Social Sciences Discipline Panel, Appeals Committee and Council), in an endeavour to enhance the profile of law and legal studies in the academic community. In addition, she participated on the Comparative Commercial Law Advisory Committee at Victoria University and the UNESCO Social Sciences Network.\nThornton was a Visiting Fellow at the Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University, Canberra (1993-1994); Fellow in Residence, New College, Oxford (1994); Visiting Fellow, Columbia University Law School, New York (1997); and, in 1988, a Visiting Fellow, Faculty of Law, University of British Columbia, Vancouver and Visiting Professor, University of Ottawa Law School, Ottawa. (In 2003 Thornton returned as Visiting Fellow to the Faculty of Law, University of British Columbia, and to Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, Toronto; in 2008 she again returned to the Osgoode Hall Law School as the Barbara Betcherman Distinguished Visitor).\nFrom 1993 to 1996 Thornton lent her expertise as Honorary Consultant to the New South Wales Law Reform Commission's Review of Anti-Discrimination, and from 1994 to 1996 as Chair, Federal Government Advisory Committee for the Gender Issues in the Law Curriculum Project (DEETYA), a project designed to develop gender awareness among law students.\nThornton was elected as a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia in 1998. The following year, Macquarie University established the 'Margaret Thornton Prize in Discrimination and the Law' in her honour. In 2000, she was appointed as the inaugural Visiting Professor (Program for Women Academics - Mentor & Role Model), Victoria University, under a program which allowed each faculty to invite an experienced woman professor from another university to work for a year 'as a mentor and role model for female academics, run seminars, develop a research culture and work with VUT's advisory groups and committees' [Cook].\nIn 2001, Thornton was editor of the Australian Feminist Law Journal; she also held the PricewaterhouseCoopers Legal Visiting Chair in Women and the Law, University of Sydney. Over the next two years, Thornton continued to demonstrate her support for matters concerning women and the law, through her role as Convener, Feminist Theory Stream, Critical Legal Conference, and as a Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, University of London.\nIn 2006, Thornton became President of the Association for the Public University, a lobby group designed to draw attention to governmental changes in education and which inspired Thornton's work on an Australian Research Council-funded project, the 'Neo-Liberal Legal Academy'.\nIn 2005, Thornton was invited to be a Foundation Fellow of the Australian Academy of Law and was a Director from 2007 to 2011, as well as Chair of the Law Editorial Board of the ANU E Press. She also occupied the role of Director of Research at the ANU College of Law.\nA long-time critical thinker on the place of universities in Australian society, Thornton's research has investigated \"the neoliberal turn in higher education, in particular the increasing marketisation of the sector and the commodification of knowledge\" and the impacts on teaching and research [Markets]. She has noted that: \"[universities] are moving away from seeing education as a public good towards seeing it as a commodity for which people pay\" [Gender Institute].\nIn 2012, Thornton's book, Privatising the Public University: The Case of Law, was published. It contained her observation that: \"Despite the general decline in morale arising from the market embrace, the overwhelming preponderance of legal academics interviewed felt privileged to be part of the academy. This is the paradox of academic life. A passion for academic ideas - a belief in the freedom to think, to pursue interesting lines of inquiry, to write, to engage with and influence future lawyers - and to change the world - compelled them to remain\u2026\" [Thornton]. At its launch, Chief Justice French of the High Court of Australia reflected that: \"[this] is a book which has the capacity to open and widen perspectives to all who are engaged in university governance and teaching and particularly the teaching of law\" [French].\nThe same year, in recognition of her contribution to academia and broader society through her critical commentary, Thornton became an ANU Public Policy Fellow. She was also identified as one of ANU's Inspiring Women in a publication of the Gender Institute at ANU.\nAlthough she acknowledges that there have been advances for women in the law since she herself graduated, Thornton has said that she does not \"support a liberal view of progress - that things are always getting better. They are not necessarily.\" She notes, for example, that \"During the years of the Howard government, we saw a retreat from the idea of equality to a focus on the individual and the market\" [Gender Institute]. She considers that unhelpful stereotypes which hark back to the late nineteenth century continue to dog women who practise law today, the result being that they may still be regarded with suspicion [Gender Institute].\nHer current research, on work\/life balance in the legal profession, has revealed, among other things, that women who juggle work and family responsibilities may be considered 'disloyal' because they are not available 24 hours a day and that this failure can result in their being overlooked when it comes to promotion and partnerships [Gender Institute]. She has warned \"\u2026 the many bright young women who think discrimination stopped with their mothers' generation\" may need to look again [Thornton - ANU].\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/australian-women-lawyers-as-active-citizens\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/law\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/interview-with-margaret-thornton\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/privatising-the-public-university-the-case-of-law\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/margaret-thornton-interviewed-by-kim-rubenstein-in-the-trailblazing-women-and-the-law-oral-history-project\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Banks, Robin", "Entry ID": "AWE5737", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/banks-robin\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Hobart, Tasmania", "Occupations": "Commissioner, Lawyer, Solicitor", "Summary": "Robin Banks is the (2016) Tasmanian Equal Opportunity Commissioner, a position she has occupied since 2010.\nRobin Banks was interviewed by Nikki Henningham in the Trailblazing Women and the Law Oral History Project. For details of the interview see the National Library of Australia CATALOGUE RECORD.\n", "Details": "A longer essay detailing Robin Bank's career is in development.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/australian-women-lawyers-as-active-citizens\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/robin-banks-interviewed-by-nikki-henningham-in-the-trailblazing-women-and-the-law-oral-history-project\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Jago, Tamara", "Entry ID": "AWE5738", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/jago-tamara\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Launceston, Tasmania", "Occupations": "Barrister, Lawyer, Magistrate, Senior Counsel, Solicitor", "Summary": "Magistrate Tamara Jago (appointed to the bench in 2016) holds the distinction of being the first woman in Tasmania to be made Senior Counsel. Honoured by the 2010 achievement, she understood her promotion to be an important one for Tasmanian women, but also believed it went a long way to dispelling the myth that Legal Aid lawyers are 'second rate options'. Furthermore, having spent the bulk of her career working as a Legal Aid lawyer in north-western Tasmania, she believed her appointment proved there was talent in regional centres, and that moving to big cities in order to 'make it' wasn't always necessary. Taking silk while working as a Legal Aid Lawyer in regional Tasmania, was 'something special,' said Jago, the mother of three young children. 'At Legal Aid there are criminal lawyers that are just as good as anyone else or better.'\nTamara Jago was interviewed by Nikki Henningham in the Trailblazing Women and the Law Oral History Project. For details of the interview see the National Library of Australia CATALOGUE RECORD.\n", "Details": "Born, raised and educated in Tasmania, Tamara Jago graduated BA\/LLB in 1993 from the University of Tasmania, having imagined herself as a criminal lawyer from a very young age. 'I don't know what I would have done if I wasn't accepted into law school,' she says, 'because I never had a Plan B.' Unable to explain exactly why she was always driven towards a career in the law - 'I don't recall a light bulb moment', she says - she does remember growing up with a strong sense of what was and was not fair. Issues relating to social justice and basic human rights have always concerned her, which goes some way to explaining why working with Legal Aid for the sixteen years prior to her elevation to the bench 'was her dream job'. The importance of providing justice is a central truth that all lawyers, no matter who they are defending, must remember. 'In terms of contributing to society', says Jago, Legal Aid lawyers are 'speaking up for people who, by virtue of circumstances that are sometimes so outside of their control\u2026 can't speak for themselves.' They are 'communicating the relevant information to the relevant person so the right decisions can be made,' a vital role indeed because 'the only judgment that's worth thinking about is an informed judgment'.\nJago specialised in criminal law in a private practice in Burnie before taking a position at the Legal Aid Commission in 2000, a move that many in the profession advised her was a form of 'career suicide'. Instead, she discovered that the breadth of experience and range of defence work opportunities she received has served her well, particularly the many the opportunities to lead counsel in a lot of significant trial and appeal work. Jago hopes that the experience of understanding the many struggles and challenges that defendants grapple with will help her in her own decision-making.\nAs a senior Legal Aid lawyer, Jago valued her opportunities to mentor young advocates and she hopes she will be able to continue this role from her position on the bench. In regional Tasmania, young practitioners are in danger of falling into 'bad habits' by virtue of the fact that they appear in front of the same one or two magistrates all the time. Furthermore, due to the absence of a middle court (there are only the Magistrates Court and the Supreme Court), young lawyers are unlikely to appear in front of a jury regularly. \"When they make the transition into a more significant area of work, such as in front of a jury or doing trials, they struggle,' says Jago. She hopes she will be able to assist professional development for young practitioners as a magistrate.\nLike all working mothers, Jago confronts work-life balance challenges but acknowledges that for a variety of reasons, including working for most of her career for government employers and having supportive male colleagues when she was starting out, she has found it easier than others. Timing was crucial as well. 'I've been blessed in my career by two things,' she says. 'One is that by the time I started doing law it was accepted that females in law were okay. So much of the hard work had already happened.' Specializing in criminal law in a government organisation made things more manageable too, she suspects. 'I'd be really interested to see what a female doing criminal law but not having come within a government organisation during my era has experienced,' she says. Working in an organisation like Legal Aid, 'where there were standards and expectations and parameters already set\u2026 I suspect I was able to transition into specialty criminal law without perhaps hitting some of the hiccups that other people in the private profession may have experienced.'\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/australian-women-lawyers-as-active-citizens\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/legal-aid-lawyer-tamara-jago-awarded-senior-counsel-for-outstanding-work\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/tamara-jago-interviewed-by-nikki-henningham-in-the-trailblazing-women-and-the-law-oral-history-project\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Hookey, Mabel Madeleine", "Entry ID": "AWE6021", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/hookey-mabel-madeleine\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Clarence, Tasmania, Australia", "Death Place": "Hobart, Tasmania, Australia", "Occupations": "Artist, Journalist, Photographer, Poet", "Summary": "Mabel Hookey was the first woman journalist in Tasmania. She was also a poet, a painter and an amateur photographer.\n", "Details": "Mabel Hookey was born on 29 January 1871 at Clarence, in Tasmania. She was the eldest daughter of Vernon William Bligh Hookey, a barrister and solicitor, and Dorothy (n\u00e9e Stokell). She had a sister, Dora, and a brother, Vernon. The three children grew up with their maternal grandfather, George Stokell, at the Rokeby estate, which Mabel later inherited.\nHookey attended the Ladies Grammar School in Hobart. Her mother's paintings of bush flowers and her sketches of the landscape were an inspiration to Hookey, and ignited her love for art. Hookey studied painting with Edward Officer as well as A.H. Fullwood when he visited Tasmania in 1897 and 1899. In 1902 she attended the Hobart Technical College and was taught by Benjamin Sheppard. She also took part in sketching camps run by Lucien Dechaineux. Hookey studied woodcarving at the Hobart Technical College from 1913-1916. She was also already showing an interest in photography.\nHookey joined the Art Society of Tasmania in 1893, where she eventually held the position vice president. Hookey was also a member of the Royal Society of Tasmania. She was commended for her oil and watercolour paintings, as well as for her drawings, which she exhibited across Tasmania, in Sydney (at the Society of Women Painters), as well as in Europe, participating in the Old Salon in Paris, 1928, and the British Empire exhibition in Wembley, 1924.\nHookey also wrote poetry, with published collections including The Rubaiyat of Solomon and The Romance of Tasmania. Hookey was the first woman journalist in Tasmania, writing for The Post, The Tasmanian Mail, and The Mercury. She became a subeditor of the Daily Telegraph.\nHookey had an adventurous spirit. She enjoyed bushwalking, and travelled around Tasmania, Maria Island, Sydney, Queensland, and the Pacific Islands. At around the turn of the century she travelled further afield, visiting North Africa and Palestine, England, France, China and Japan.\nHer photographs include shots of her family and friends, but also document her travels. The photographs depict people set within a landscape, framed in order to draw the viewer into the scene. The compositions are formal in nature; however, her photograph of two women swimming naked in Tasmania broke with the conventions of the time. Hookey did not exhibit any of her photographs.\nMabel Hookey died on 13 June 1953, aged 82, at St John's Park, in Hobart.\nCollections\nState Library of Tasmania\nTasmanian Museum and Art Gallery\n", "Events": "Mabel hookey's work featured in Colonial Pastime to Contemporary Profession: 150 years of Australian Women's Art (1995 - 1995) \nMabel Hookey's work featured in The Launceston Art Society in Retrospect 1891-1983 (1983 - 1983) \nMabel Hookey's work featured in The Misses Hookey, Murphey. Oldham and Swanexhibition (1990 - 1990)", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/australian-women-photographers-1840-1960\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/the-misses-hookey-murphy-oldham-and-swan\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/mabel-hookey\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/the-song-the-song-of-songs-which-is-solomons-done-into-verse\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/the-chaplain-being-some-further-account-of-the-days-of-bobby-knopwood\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/the-romance-of-old-st-davids\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/the-rubaiyat-of-solomon-being-the-first-and-second-chapters-of-the-book-called-ecclesiastes-done-into-quatrains\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/the-edge-of-the-field\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/the-romance-of-tasmania\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/bobby-knopwood-and-his-times-from-the-diaries-of-1804-8-1814-17\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/biographical-cuttings-on-mabel-m-hookey-containing-one-or-more-cuttings-from-newspapers-or-journals\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/mabel-hookey-australian-art-and-artists-file\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Warn, Patti", "Entry ID": "AWE6107", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/warn-patti\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Hobart, Tasmania, Australia", "Occupations": "Political staffer, Trade unionist", "Summary": "Patti Warn was the first female president of the Tasmanian Branch of the Australian Labor Party.\n", "Details": "Patti Warn attended the University of Tasmania from 1962 to 1965 during which time she became involved in student politics. After graduating with a Bachelor of Arts, Patti worked as a research officer for ABC's Four Corners program.\nIn 1973, Patti was appointed private secretary to the Federal Minister for External Territories. The following year she was moved to the Prime Minister's office, where she was employed as Gough Whitlam's media secretary. In 1975, Patti became the first female state secretary of the Tasmanian branch of the Australian Labor Party.\nPatti was the assistant private secretary to Senator Don Grimes in 1980. In the same year she stood as the Labor candidate for the Division of Bass in Tasmania and also became the vice-president of the Young Women's Christian Association in Canberra.\n", "Events": "Australian Labor Party (Tasmanian Branch) (1976 - 1980)", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/photograph-patti-warn-alp-candidate-for-bass\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/biographical-cuttings-on-patti-warn-public-servant-containing-one-or-more-cuttings-from-newspapers-or-journals\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Weidenhofer, Joan", "Entry ID": "AWE6124", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/weidenhofer-joan\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Hobart, Tasmania, Australia", "Death Place": "Hobart, Tasmania, Australia", "Occupations": "Compere, Radio Broadcaster", "Summary": "Originally a teacher, Joan Weidenhofer was appointed compere of the 9PA Women's Session and Territory correspondent to the Australian Women's Session by the Australian Broadcasting Commission during 1954.\n", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/papers-of-joan-weidenhofer-1940-1957-manuscript\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Rae-Ellis, Vivienne", "Entry ID": "AWE6216", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/rae-ellis-vivienne\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Wynyard, Tasmania, Australia", "Death Place": "Bath, Somerset, England", "Occupations": "Actor, Author, Newspaper columnist, Writer", "Summary": "Vivienne Rae-Ellis was born in Tasmania, however lived in England from 1987. She published books in many genres including children's fiction, biography and adult fiction and she also conducted oral history interviews for the National Library of Australia.\nPrior to her writing career, Vivienne worked as an actress, a newspaper columnist, a scriptwriter and a public relations officer.\n", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/papers-of-vivienne-rae-ellis-1870-2008-bulk-1968-1983-manuscript\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/biographical-cuttings-on-vivienne-rae-ellis-author-containing-one-or-more-cuttings-from-newspapers-or-journals\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/nancy-cato-papers\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/records-of-curtis-brown-australia-pty-ltd-1962-2002-manuscript\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Dwyer, Vera Gladys", "Entry ID": "AWE6244", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/dwyer-vera-gladys\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Hobart, Tasmania, Australia", "Occupations": "Writer", "Summary": "Vera Dwyer was the daughter of journalist George Lovell Dwyer and his wife Margaret Jafe (Shield). She was born in Hobart, Tasmania, on 23 February, 1889.\nFrom a young age she contributed regularly to the Australian Town and Country Journal. Her first book, With Beating Wings, was written when she was in her teens and was sponsored by author Ethel Turner.\nIn the 1930s Vera contributed articles to The Sydney Morning Herald and was a member of the Fellowship of Australian writers. Vera's published works included children's books, as well as adult fiction.\nVera married Captain Warwick Coldham Fussell at St Leonards, New South Wales, in 1915. They divorced in 1925.\n", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/literary-manuscripts-of-vera-dwyer-19-manuscript\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/biographical-information\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/dwyer-family-papers-ca-1912-ca-1973\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Bird, Carmel", "Entry ID": "AWE6265", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/bird-carmel\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Launceston, Tasmania, Australia", "Occupations": "Author, Teacher", "Summary": "Carmel Bird's first collection of short stories was published in 1976. Since this time she has produced novels, essays, anthologies, children's books and also guides for writers. In the 1980s and 1990s she worked as a literary editor for Fine Lines, Australasian Post and other literary journals.\nCarmel graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Tasmania and, after obtaining her teaching diploma, worked for a time as a teacher.\n", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/papers-of-carmel-bird-1987-2000-manuscript\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/carmel-bird-interviewed-by-sara-dowse-sound-recording\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/biographical-cuttings-on-carmel-bird-novelist-containing-one-or-more-cuttings-from-newspapers-or-journals\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/carmel-bird-manuscript-collection-1983-1997\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/papers-of-cassandra-pybus-1956-2008-manuscript\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/papers-of-marion-halligan-circa-1970-circa-2003-manuscript\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/papers-of-mem-fox-1961-2006-manuscript\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Cure, Amy", "Entry ID": "AWE6286", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/cure-amy\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Burnie, Tasmania, Australia", "Occupations": "Commonwealth or Empire Games Gold Medalist, Cyclist", "Summary": "Amy Cure won gold medals in the 25km Points Race and the 10km Scratch Race at the 2018 Gold Coast Commonwealth Games.\n", "Events": "Cycling (Track) - 10km Scratch Race and Member of the 4000m Team Pursuit (2018 - 2018)" }, { "Title\/Name": "Titmus, Ariarne", "Entry ID": "AWE6287", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/titmus-ariarne\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Launceston, Tasmania, Australia", "Occupations": "Commonwealth or Empire Games Gold Medalist, Swimmer", "Summary": "Ariarne Titmus won gold medals in the 400m Freestyle, the 800m Freestyle and the 4 x 200m Freestyle Relay at the 2018 Gold Coast Commonwealth Games.\n", "Events": "Swimming - 800m Freestyle, 400m Freestyle and 4 x 200m Freestyle Relay (2018 - 2018)" }, { "Title\/Name": "Rivett, Eleanor Harriett (Nell)", "Entry ID": "AWE6350", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/rivett-eleanor-harriett-nell\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Dover, Tasmania, Australia", "Death Place": "Killara, New South Wales, Australia", "Occupations": "Missionary", "Summary": "Eleanor (Nell) Rivett worked in girls' education in India from 1907 to 1947 with the London Missionary Society. She was the secretary of the Bengal Women's Education League and the Bengal Advisory Board on Women's Education.\nEleanor was educated at the University of Melbourne and graduated with both a Bachelor and Master of Arts.\n", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/papers-of-elizabeth-long-relating-to-the-rivett-family-circa-1860-1960-manuscript\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Cosgrove, Gertrude Ann", "Entry ID": "IMP0021", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/cosgrove-gertrude-ann\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Hobart, Tasmania, Australia", "Death Place": "Hobart, Tasmania, Australia", "Occupations": "Community worker", "Summary": "Gertrude Cosgrove appointed to the Order of the British Empire - Dames Commander on 1 January 1947 for public service in Tasmania.\n", "Details": "In the biography of Sir Robert Cosgrove in the Australian Dictionary of Biography, W A Townsley writes:\n\"On 10 January 1911 at St Mary's Catholic Cathedral, Hobart, Cosgrove [later premier of Tasmania] married Gertrude Ann Geappen (1882-1962); they were to have four children. \u2026\n\"Gertrude was a staunch companion to her husband in his political career and a devoted mother to their children. \u2026 Mrs Cosgrove was treasurer of the West Hobart women's branch of the A.L.P and active in the Australian Comforts Fund, the Country Women's Association, the Australian Red Cross Society and the Victoria League. From 1916 she worked devotedly for Elizabeth Street State School; her leisure activities included gardening and crochet. Appointed D.B.E. (1947) she was invested at Buckingham Palace, London by King George VI in 1949.\"\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/cosgrove-dame-gertrude-ann-1882-1962\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/faith-hope-and-charity-australian-women-and-imperial-honours-1901-1989\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Joyce, Eileen Alannah", "Entry ID": "IMP0060", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/joyce-eileen-alannah\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Zeehan, Tasmania, Australia", "Death Place": "Redhill, Hertfordshire, England", "Occupations": "Concert Pianist", "Summary": "Eileen Joyce was taught the piano at St Joseph's Convent at Boulder where her prodigious talent was first recognised. She went on to establish a career in England where her concert performances in glamorous gowns, and studio recordings, would make her one of the most popular pianists of her time.\nThe Joyce family moved to Western Australia and settled in Boulder where Eileen had her first music lessons at St Joseph's Convent. Because of her prodigious talent, a fund-raising committee in Kalgoorlie-Boulder assisted her to take up a scholarship at the Loreto Convent in Perth.\nHearing her play the renowned musicians Percy Grainger and Wilhelm Backhaus recommended she should study abroad. In 1926, after a tour of country towns and a farewell concert at His Majesty's Theatre in Perth, Eileen went to Leipzig in Germany, then London to study and where her stellar career was launched.\nIn 1933 she made the first of many studio recordings in London. She was so successful her record sales during the 1940s are reputed to have rivalled those of Bing Crosby and Frank Sinatra, amongst others. She returned to Australia in April 1936 for a national tour and a series of concerts for the ABC. On the Easter Saturday she gave a recital at the Kalgoorlie Town Hall, and the following day played for the nuns at St Joseph's.\nDuring the war Eileen played for the troops, and in the bombed out cities of England with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, all helping to endear her to the people. Eileen always dressed the part of the glamorous concert pianist. She commissioned her gowns from leading fashion designers, the most famous being Norman Hartnell who designed the coronation gown for Queen Elizabeth II.\nIn later life Eileen was awarded many honours for her contribution to music, receiving an Honorary Doctor of Music from the Universities of Cambridge (1971), University of Western Australia (1979), and the University of Melbourne (1982). In 1981 she was made a Companion of the Most Distinguished Order of St Michael and Saint George at Buckingham Palace.\n", "Details": "Internationally acclaimed concert pianist Eileen Alannah Joyce was awarded an honorary doctorate of Music from Cambridge University in 1971. Her talent, commitment and service to music was further recognised in 1981 when she was appointed a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG). Born in Tasmania and educated in Perth, Eileen Joyce lived most of her life in England. But she never forgot her roots, and throughout her life remained a strong and active supporter of young musicians in Western Australia.\nAn internationally renowned concert pianist, Eileen Joyce's life started a long way away from the world stage. Eileen's rags-to-riches life story, which saw her become Britain's wartime sweetheart, has since been novelised and captured on film.\nDaughter of Irish\/Spanish parents, Eileen Alannah Joyce was born in a tent in the mining town of Zeehan, Tasmania in 1912. Her father, an itinerant labourer, relocated his family to Kununoppin in Western Australia when Eileen was only two years old.\nAlthough they could barely afford it, Eileen began piano lessons when she was about nine and later studied piano at the Loretto Convent in Perth. Percy Grainger and Wilhelm Backhaus, hearing the young Eileen play, were so impressed by her talent that they encouraged her to further her studies in Europe. In 1927 Eileen left Australia to study at the Leipzig Conservatorium in Germany under Schnabel and Teichm\u00fcller, and at the Royal College of Music in London under Tobias Matthay.\nIn 1930 Eileen made her debut with the London Philharmonic Orchestra at one of Sir Henry Wood's BBC promenade concerts. Throughout her career Eileen performed with orchestras in Berlin, France, Italy, New York as well as all of the principle orchestras in the UK. Between 1936 and 1962 she made tours to Australia, South Africa, the Netherlands, Scandinavia, Finland, South America, New Zealand, Soviet Russia, Yugoslavia and India.\nEileen appeared in a number of films including Battle for Music, Girl in a Million and the autobiographical, Wherever She Goes (1951). She also contributed to the soundtracks of many films, and is probably most notably remembered for her C minor Rachmaninov performance in David Lean's Brief Encounter (1945).\nEileen married in London in 1937 and had a son. In 1942 her husband died on active service in North Africa. Although she lived most of her life, and died, in England, Eileen maintained a strong interest in young musicians from Western Australia.\nIn the late 1970s Eileen donated $37,000 to the University of Western Australia as a fund to assist in the development of music in Western Australia and especially to assist students, as Eileen Joyce Music Scholars, to obtain keyboard experience outside Western Australia.\nEileen also gave her personal records to the Callaway Centre, University of Western Australia in 1990. This substantial archive, spanning 1926 to 1989, consists of personal and career related correspondence, concert diaries, programs and newspaper clippings. The Eileen Joyce Archive also contains recordings never before released.\nIn 1971 Eileen was awarded an honorary doctorate of Music from Cambridge University. Ten years later, in 1981, she was appointed a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) for her service to music.\n", "Events": "Awarded honorary doctorate of Music, Cambridge University (1971 - 1971) \nCommander of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) (1981 - 1981) \nDebuted with London Philharmonic Orchestra (1930 - 1930) \nStudied at Leipzig Conservatorium (Germany) under Schnabel and Teichm\u00fcller and Royal College for Music (London) under Tobias Matthay (1927 - 1927) \nToured Australia, South Africa, the Netherlands, Scandinavia, Finland, South America, New Zealand, Soviet Russia, Yugoslavia and India (1936 - 1962)", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/eileen-joyce-1912-1991\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/once-you-stop-playing-youre-forgotten\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/eileen-joyce-music-fund\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/the-new-penguin-dictionary-of-music\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/the-oxford-dictionary-of-music\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/the-macmillan-dictionary-of-womens-biography\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/records-of-the-australian-musical-association\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/the-complete-book-of-great-australian-women-thirty-six-women-who-changed-the-course-of-australia\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/faith-hope-and-charity-australian-women-and-imperial-honours-1901-1989\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/eileen-joyce-a-portrait-2\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/records-of-the-australian-musical-association-1952-1995-manuscript\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/eileen-joyce-collection\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/eileen-joyce-interviewed-by-james-murdoch-in-the-esso-performing-arts-collection-sound-recording\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/shirley-daffen-papers\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Guy, Margaret Frances", "Entry ID": "IMP0105", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/guy-margaret-frances\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Tasmania, Australia", "Occupations": "Nurse, Nurse educator, Nursing administrator", "Summary": "Margaret Guy qualified as a nurse in 1937, and served with the Army Nursing Service during World War II. The recipient of a number of grants (Rotary, Fulbright, and the first Churchill Fellowship awarded to a woman) she undertook studies in the UK and USA in nurse education and administration. She was one of four founders of the New South Wales College of Nursing in 1949. At the time of her appointment to the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, New South Wales, in 1948, she was the youngest matron in Australia. Margaret Guy is remembered as a skilful administrator and passionate educator. She was appointed OBE - Officer of The Order of the British Empire (Civil) - 10 June 1961, for her work as matron of the Canberra Community Hospital.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/the-practice-of-nursing-delivered-by-margaret-f-guy\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/guy-margaret-frances-1910-1988-biographical-entry\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/faith-hope-and-charity-australian-women-and-imperial-honours-1901-1989\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/from-lady-denman-to-katy-gallagher-a-century-of-womens-contributions-to-canberra\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/royal-canberra-hospital-an-anecdotal-history-of-nursing-1914-to-199\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/biographical-cuttings-on-margaret-guy-containing-one-or-more-cuttings-from-newspapers-or-journals\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Nicholls, Helen", "Entry ID": "IMP0161", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/nicholls-helen\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Tasmania, Australia", "Occupations": "Charity worker", "Summary": "Helen Nicholls, n\u00e9e Sprent, became a prominent worker for charitable causes in Tasmania after her marriage to Herbert (later Sir Herbert) Nicholls on 3 January 1905. As the wife of a politician, judge and later Lieutenant-Governor of Tasmania and mother of five children, she devoted much of her time to charitable causes, one of which was the Red Cross Society. She was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire in 1918 for her services to the Red Cross Society.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/faith-hope-and-charity-australian-women-and-imperial-honours-1901-1989\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/nicholls-sir-herbert-1868-1940\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Campbell, Enid Mona", "Entry ID": "IMP0182", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/campbell-enid-mona\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Launceston, Tasmania, Australia", "Death Place": "Melbourne, Victoria, Australia", "Occupations": "Academic, Lawyer, Professor", "Summary": "Professor Enid Campbell, a leading Australian scholar in constitutional law and administrative law, was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (Civil) on 16 June 1979 for services to education in the field of law. Campbell, who was the first female dean of a law faculty in Australia, was bestowed with the degree of Doctor of Laws honoris causa by the University of Tasmania in 1990.\n", "Details": "Enid Campbell was born in Launceston and educated there at Methodist Ladies College where she was dux of the school. At the University of Tasmania she studied economics and law and graduated in 1955. Accepting a scholarship to Duke University (North Carolina) she completed a PhD that included the study of international law, jurisprudence and public administration.\nIn 1959, Enid Campbell returned to Tasmania and became the first female lecturer in the Law School, teaching political science. The next year she took a lecturing position at the University of Sydney and from 1965 to 1967 was Associate Professor in Law.\nIn 1967 she was appointed Sir Isaac Isaac Professor of Law at Monash University, a position she held until her retirement in 1997.\n", "Events": "Associate Professor Law at the University of Sydney (1965 - 1967) \nHonorary Doctor of Laws (LLD) at the University of Tasmania (1990 - 1990) \nLecturer at the University of Sydney (1960 - 1961) \nLecturer in Political Science, University of Tasmania (1959 - 1959) \nMember of the Constitutional Commission, Canberra (1985 - 1988) \nMember of the Council of the Australian National University, Canberra (1976 - 1978) \nMember of the Law Reform Advisory Council, Victoria (1982 - 1984) \nMember of the Royal Commission on Australian Government Administration (1974 - 1976) \nSenior Lecturer at the University of Sydney (1962 - 1965) \nSir Isaac Isaacs Professor of Law at Monash University, Melbourne (1967 - 1997)", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/whos-who-in-australia-2002\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/faith-hope-and-charity-australian-women-and-imperial-honours-1901-1989\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/australian-women-lawyers-as-active-citizens\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/papers-of-enid-campbell-between-approximately-1958-and-2010\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Miller, Annie Emily", "Entry ID": "IMP0201", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/miller-annie-emily\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Tasmania, Australia", "Occupations": "Community worker", "Summary": "Annie Miller's contribution to the Red Cross Society in Launceston, Tasmania was acknowledged with her appointment as Officer of the Order of the British Empire on 15 February 1918. Her major work was as Secretary of the Red Cross, Northern Tasmania from 1914 until her death in 1926. She held the position also, of Secretary to the Fund Raising Committee of the Children's Section of the Launceston Public Hospital.\nSources used to compile this entry: A biographical register, vol II, p 104.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/miller-annie-emily-c1857-1926-community-worker-launceston-tasmania\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/faith-hope-and-charity-australian-women-and-imperial-honours-1901-1989\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Birchall, Ida Lois", "Entry ID": "IMP0204", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/birchall-ida-lois\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Launceston, Tasmania, Australia", "Death Place": "Launceston, Tasmania, Australia", "Occupations": "Gynaecologist, Obstetrician", "Summary": "Ida Birchall, one of Tasmania's first female doctors, became the first Tasmanian member of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists in 1936. After graduating MB BS from Sydney University in 1933, she worked at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney, in 1933 and the Royal Hospital for Women, New South Wales, in 1934. She furthered her medical career with appointments in the United Kingdom at St Mary's Hospital, Manchester from 1934-1936 and the Women's Hospital, Nottingham from 1936-1938. She was ultimately honorary consultant to the Launceston General Hospital and to the Queen Victoria Hospital Launceston. A member of both the British Medical Association (BMA) and the Australian Medical Association (AMA), she was chairman of the northern division of the Tasmanian Branch of the AMA in 1964 and had served as honorary secretary of the northern division of the Tasmanian branch of the BMA from 1944-1945. She was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire for services to medicine on 1 January 1969. The Ida Burchill Library in Launceston exists to 'support and encourage spiritual growth' and is available for the use of 'Christian Communities and the wider public communities'.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/ida-birchall-library\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/faith-hope-and-charity-australian-women-and-imperial-honours-1901-1989\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Biggs, Lucy Blanche", "Entry ID": "IMP0241", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/biggs-lucy-blanche\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Scottsdale, Tasmania, Australia", "Death Place": "Australia", "Occupations": "Medical practitioner", "Summary": "Lucy Blanche Biggs was born on 20 December 1909 in Scottsdale in Tasmania. She completed her medical training at the University of Melbourne, graduating MB BS in 1946. She held appointments at the Bendigo Base and the Queen Victoria Memorial Hospitals before embarking on work as a medical missionary in Papua New Guinea.\nDr Biggs was the first medical Coordinator for the Anglican Church of Papua New Guinea from September 1948 to January 1974 working in the northern district of Papua. In 1948 she was appointed by the Australian Board of Missions to Eroro and spent the next twelve years in Eroro in general practice before moving onto St Luke's TB hospital in 1968. She was transferred to medical administration at Popandetta and resigned in 1974.\nDr Biggs was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire on 1 January 1975 for her work as a medical missionary in Papua New Guinea. Her life in Papua is detailed in her regular newsletters - 110 of them over 25 years - which she published under the title From Papua with love.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/medical-directory-of-australia-1970\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/faith-hope-and-charity-australian-women-and-imperial-honours-1901-1989\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/diaries-of-dr-blanche-biggs-1934-to-1940\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Fox, Mary Elizabeth Gertrude", "Entry ID": "IMP0253", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/fox-mary-elizabeth-gertrude\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Ross, Tasmania, Australia", "Occupations": "Headmistress", "Summary": "Born at Horton College, Ross, Tasmania, Mary Fox was educated at the Methodist Ladies' College Launceston, Tasmania. From 1903 until 1941 Fox was head mistress of the Methodist Ladies' College, Launceston. She was president of the All Australian Women's Hockey Association in 1925, 1932 and 1938. During the Second World War Mary Fox was a member of the Women's Land Army.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/whos-who-in-australia-1950\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/faith-hope-and-charity-australian-women-and-imperial-honours-1901-1989\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "George, Sarah Ann", "Entry ID": "PR00756", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/george-sarah-ann\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Launceston, Tasmania, Australia", "Death Place": "Moreland, Victoria, Australia", "Occupations": "Pharmacist, Philanthropist", "Summary": "Sarah Ann George was the daughter of Thomas Wilkinson, the 'father of Brunswick', and Louisa Wilkinson. In 1856, at Geelong, at the age of seventeen, Sarah Ann married Joseph George, a pharmacist. Joseph had established a pharmacy in Sydney Road, Brunswick, in 1853, and Sarah worked with him as his assistant, eventually becoming registered as a pharmacist herself. She is believed to have been Victoria's first lady pharmacist, and one of the first to be registered. Sarah first registered in 1882, stating that she had been in business in Victoria before the required registration date of 1876. At this time, she was 43 years old, and her nine surviving children ranged in age from five to twenty-five years. Like her husband, who was a member of council and Mayor of Brunswick from 1884-5, Sarah was active in the Church of England, and interested herself in philanthropic work. She was President of the Boarding Out Committee in Brunswick for thirty years, and also of the Australian Women's National League both in Brunswick, and in Portland, where she instigated the branch.\n", "Details": "Sarah Ann Wilkinson was born in Launceston in 1839. Her father Thomas was at the time Catechist to prisoners in Launceston and Private Secretary to Major Ryan, Commandant of Launceston. The family moved to Port Philip in 1840, buying land in Brunswick in 1841. After a 10 year sojourn in Portland, they returned to Brunswick. In 1856 Sarah Ann married pharmacist Joseph George, and became a qualified pharmacist herself. The couple ran the pharmacy in Sydney Road until 1905 (Joseph dying in 1903), bringing up nine children to adulthood and losing three as infants. In 1915, as Thomas' last surviving child, Sarah erected a drinking fountain in his memory. It still stands at the corner of Park Street and Sydney Road, Brunswick. Sarah's strong political views were reflected in her presidency of branches of the Australian Women's National League, and her pride that all eligible male relatives had enlisted in the Great War. She was regarded as a woman of fine business instincts. Sarah's profession, like that of her husband, is declared on her tombstone in the Melbourne General Cemetery.\nThis entry was written with the assistance of Jennifer Hearn, Linda Schulz and the Brunswick Community History Group. They would be grateful if anyone with more information about Sarah George could contact them: details obtainable through the AWAP contact form.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/brunswick-stories-and-histories-a-collection-of-articles-from-fusion\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/thomas-wilkinson-a-pioneer-of-principles-and-conviction\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/wilkinson-george-mchenry-family-records\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/records-manuscript-3\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/pharmacy-board-of-victoria\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Bignell, Margaret Annie", "Entry ID": "PR00775", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/bignell-margaret-annie\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "New Norfolk, Tasmania, Australia", "Death Place": "East Brunswick, Victoria, Australia", "Occupations": "Pharmacist", "Summary": "Margaret Annie Bignell was the seventh daughter of William and Elizabeth Blyth, of Hobart. She became Victoria's first registered female pharmacist, and one of the first women pharmacists to conduct her own business in the state, carrying on her husband's pharmacy in Lygon Street, Carlton, after his death in 1897. She was known for apprenticing women, and was an activist for the recognition of women pharmacists. Two of her daughters entered the profession. She was a subscribing member of the Pharmaceutical Society of Victoria, and a founding member of the Women Pharmacists' Association, formed in 1905 to promote the interests of women pharmacists.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/victorian-college-of-pharmacy-125-years-of-history1881-2006\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/anne-i-e-ann-blyth-mrs-bignell-photograph\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/pharmacy-board-of-victoria\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/records-manuscript-3\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Fletcher, Jane Ada", "Entry ID": "AWE0052", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/fletcher-jane-ada\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Penshurst, Victoria, Australia", "Death Place": "Eaglehawk Neck, Tasmania, Australia", "Occupations": "Ornithologist, Poet", "Summary": "Jane Fletcher published a number of books on nature and nature study, and broadcast on 7ZL Hobart and 3LO Melbourne. In 1934 she became the first woman to lecture to the Royal Society of Tasmania. She was an outstanding bird observer with a particular interest in crakes and rails.\n", "Details": "Jane Fletcher began work on an aunt's farm in Wilmot, north-western Tasmania, from 1892-96. From 1896 she worked as a sewing teacher (initially without pay) at West Kentish Primary School. By 1899 she had qualified as a head teacher and was appointed to set up a school at Upper Wilmot. She later taught at Cleveland (Tasmania), Springfield, Woodbridge and Forcett.\nFletcher undertook fieldwork for Gregory Mathews (q.v.) until 1936. She was the first woman to deliver a lecture to the Royal Society of Tasmania (in 1934), of which she was a member. She was a foundation member in 1901 - and life member from 1945 - of the Royal Australasian Ornithologists' Union. \nShe wrote a number of children's books, including Stories from Nature (London, 1915) and Little Brown Piccaninnies of Tasmania (Sydney, 1950), her most popular children's book. She also wrote books and articles for adults on Tasmanian history, Aborigines and ornithology, her final book being Tasmania's Own Birds (1956).\nOn retirement, Fletcher opened part of her house at Eaglehawk Neck as a Youth Hostel.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/first-in-their-field-women-and-australian-anthropology\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/fletcher-jane-ada-1870-1956\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/where-are-the-women-in-australian-science-2\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/om67-02-jane-ada-fletcher-papers-1915-1917-1933-1939\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Crittenden, Jean Hilda", "Entry ID": "AWE0516", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/crittenden-jean-hilda\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Nhill, Victoria, Australia", "Death Place": "Hobart, Tasmania, Australia", "Occupations": "Matron, Servicewoman", "Summary": "Jean Crittenden began nursing in 1937 as a Bush Nursing Sister. Crittenden then served with the Australian Army Nursing Service between 1940 and 1946. Assistant Matron at the Repatriation General Hospital in Heidelberg from 1946 to 1955, she then became matron of Queensland's Anzac Hostel and the Kenmore Sanatorium. Following this, from 1958 until 1971, Crittenden was Matron of the Repatriation General Hospital in Hobart from 1958 to 1971. In 1966, she received the honour of being appointed a Member to the Order of the British Empire.\n", "Events": "Appointed Member to the Order of the British Empire (1966 - 1966) \nAssistant matron with the Repatriation General Hospital, Heidelberg (1946 - 1955) \nBush Nursing Sister (1937 - 1939) \nMatron of the Anzac Hostel, Queensland and the Kenmore Sanatorium, Queensland (1955 - 1958) \nMatron of the Repatriation General Hospital, Hobart (1958 - 1971) \nServed with the Australian Army Nursing Service (1940 - 1946)", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/whos-who-in-australia-1971\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/crittenden-jean-hilda-2\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Dobson, Emily", "Entry ID": "AWE0544", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/dobson-emily\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Port Arthur, Van Diemen's Land, Australia", "Death Place": "Hobert, Tasmania, Australia", "Occupations": "Advocate, Philanthropist, Welfare worker, Women's rights organiser", "Summary": "Emily Dobson was a tour de force in late nineteenth and early twentieth-century Tasmanian society. As the wife of the State Premier, Henry Dobson, she played a central role in multiple political and charitable organisations. She was vice-president of the Tasmanian section of the National Council of Women in 1899, and attended the first meeting of the International Council of Women in London that year. Dobson became president of the National Council of Women Tasmania in 1904 and held that position until her death. She was the first Australian to be elected vice- president of the International Council of Women at the Rome quinquennial in 1914.\n", "Details": "Emily Dobson was Tasmania's bespectacled and formidable grand old lady by the time she died in 1934 in her early nineties. Born in Port Arthur in 1842 in what was then Van Diemen's Land, she was influenced by the social conscience of her father, artist and public servant Thomas Lempriere, who died when she was nine years old. In 1868 she married Tasmania's future Premier, Henry Dobson, who shared her ideas on philanthropy and temperance, linked though they were to the cause of women.\nEmily Dobson became involved in just about every charitable organisation in the State of Tasmania. She was founding president of the ladies' committee of the Blind, Deaf and Dumb Institution; founding president of the Ministering Children's League; and president of the committee of management of the Victoria Convalescent Home at Lindisfarne. She co-established the New Town Consumptives' Sanatorium in 1905, and in 1918 became first vice-president of the Child Welfare Association. She was vice-president of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union of Tasmania and life patroness of the Tasmanian Bush Nursing Association. With her husband, she established the Free Kindergarten Association in Tasmania in 1911. That same year she established the Girl Guides' Association of Tasmania, appointing herself State Commissioner. She founded the Tasmanian branch of the Alliance Fran\u00e7aise, and the Tasmanian Lyceum Club.\nAs a middle-aged woman, Dobson became secretary of the Women's Sanitary Association, which formed in 1891 specifically to counter an outbreak of typhoid and ran candidates in the municipal election of 1892. In Hobart, her Relief Restaurant Committee operated a soup kitchen and set up the Association for Improvement of Dwellings of the Working Classes. Dobson was widely praised among her peers, but more often than not, the efforts of the Sanitary Association were belittled by local newspapers. According to historian Ruth Barton, it was 'the anomaly of charitable women undertaking work which at home they paid sevants to do' which attracted unfavourable press attention, and certainly the Dobson family wealth meant that Emily had no need to carry out domestic chores in her own home.\nLike so many other charitably-inclined women of her time, Dobson had a particular concern for child welfare. With the Society for the Protection of Children, she secured the passage of an Infant Life Protection Act in 1907. The Act authorised members of the Society to enter homes where infants were being minded for payment, without notice. Taken at face value, the Act was a noble attempt to put an end to the practice of baby farming, but research by Caroline Evans and Naomi Parry suggests that it was an attempt to control the poorer sections of society.\nDobson was as dominant in politics as she was in health and welfare. She was a member of the Women's Non-Party League of Hobart. She held office in the Tasmanian branch of the League of Nations Union and the Victoria League of Tasmania; the National Council of Women (State and Federal bodies); and the International Council of Women. In 1907 she represented the Tasmanian government at the Women's Work Exhibition in Melbourne. She was honoured by the National Council of Women (Tasmania) in 1919, with the establishment of the Emily Dobson Philanthropic Prize Competition for welfare organisations.\n", "Events": "Australian Delegation to International Council of Women (1906 - 1924) \nBlind, Deaf and Dumb Institution Ladies' Committee (1898 - ) \nInternational Council of Women (1914 - 1924) \nInternational Council of Women (1899 - 1924) \nMinistering Children's League (1892 - )", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/dobson-emily-1842-1934\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/a-few-viragos-on-a-stump-the-womanhood-suffrage-campaign-in-tasmania-1880-1920\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/mrs-henry-dobson-victorian-do-gooder-or-sincere-social-reformer-an-analysis-of-her-charitable-and-public-welfare-work-in-the-1890s\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/emily-dobson-1842-1934\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/national-council-of-women\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/emily-dobson\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/the-history-of-the-national-council-of-women-in-sic-south-australia-1902-1980\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/200-australian-women-a-redress-anthology\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/in-her-gift-activism-and-altruism-in-australian-womens-philanthropy-1880-2005\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/vessels-of-progressivism-tasmanian-state-girls-and-eugenics-1900-1940\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/in-her-gift-women-philanthropists-in-australian-history\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/stirrers-with-style-presidents-of-the-national-council-of-women-of-australia-and-its-predecessors\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/emily-dobson-2\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/emily-dobson-3\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/emilys-empire-emily-dobson-and-the-national-council-of-women-of-tasmania\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/lithgow-1942-a-survey-of-the-life-of-the-town\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/the-encyclopedia-of-women-and-leadership-in-twentieth-century-australia\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/records-of-the-national-council-of-women-of-australia-1924-1990-manuscript\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/correspondence-minutes-and-associated-papers-of-the-national-council-of-women-of-tasmania\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/7266-national-council-of-women-of-queensland-minute-books-1905-2004\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Bjelke-Petersen, Marie Caroline", "Entry ID": "AWE2193", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/bjelke-petersen-marie-caroline\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Copenhagen, Denmark", "Death Place": "Lindisfarne, Tasmania, Australia", "Occupations": "Physical Culturalist, Teacher, Writer", "Summary": "Marie Bjelke-Petersen is best known as a writer, but as a young woman she enjoyed playing sport and was, it has been argued, instrumental in introducing the sport of netball to Tasmania.\nShe migrated with her family to Hobart, Tasmania in 1891, where her brother, Hans Christian, established the Bjelke-Peterson Physical Culture school in 1892. Marie joined as instructor in charge of the women's section; she also taught the subject in schools. It was during that time, it is suggested, that the Bjelke-Petersen's learned about a new game called basketball that was being played in the United States. Marie introduced drills designed for the game in to the Physical Culture program that she taught in the schools.\nUnfortunately, injuries prevented her from continuing with her teaching career much past 1910. At this point, she picked up her career as a writer. She published her first novel The Captive Singer, in 1917 to much acclaim; it sold 100,000 copies in English and 40,000 in Danish. In 1935 she won the King's Jubilee medal for services to literature.\nIn recent years, Bjelke-Petersen has become a gay and lesbian icon. She lived in an intimate relationship with Silvia Mills, who she met in 1898, and who, it is argued, The Captive Singer was about, for thirty years.\n", "Events": "For Services to Literature (1935 - 1935)", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/bjelke-petersen-marie-caroline-1874-1969\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/a-netball-history-in-tasmania-the-first-bounce-an-account-of-the-history-of-the-sport-in-tasmania\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/the-scandinavians-in-australia-new-zealand-and-the-western-pacific\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/a-mortal-flame-marie-bjelke-petersen-australian-romance-writer-1874-1969\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/the-captive-singer\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/200-australian-women-a-redress-anthology\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/shes-game-women-making-australian-sporting-history-2\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/newspaper-clippings-photographs-and-copies-of-letters-re-marie-bjelke-peterson-collected-by-maggie-weidenhofer-and-photographs-of-maria-island\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/papers-of-the-bjelke-petersen-family\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Hutchinson, Mary", "Entry ID": "AWE3702", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/hutchinson-mary\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Parramatta, New South Wales, Australia", "Death Place": "Hobart, Tasmania, Australia", "Occupations": "Prison matron", "Summary": "The daughter of missionaries Francis and Rebecca Oakes, Mary Hutchinson attempted to establish a Christian mission in Tonga with her husband John Hutchinson, but the pair were forced to retreat. In 1832, John Hutchinson was appointed superintendent of the Female House of Correction (the female factory), with his wife as matron. Of their twelve children, six died in infancy. John Hutchinson's recurring illness meant that Mary was often charged with running the institution. On her husband's retirement, she became matron-in-charge of the smaller 'factory' at Launceston. She retired in 1854.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/hutchison-ruby-florence-1892-1974\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/200-australian-women-a-redress-anthology\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/mrs-hutchinson-and-the-female-factories-of-early-australia\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Lord, Maria", "Entry ID": "AWE3713", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/lord-maria\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Huntingdon, Huntingdonshire, England", "Death Place": "Bothwell, Tasmania, Australia", "Occupations": "Businesswoman, Convict", "Summary": "Maria Lord was sentenced to seven years transportation and arrived in Sydney in 1804. In October 1808 she married Edward Lord, an officer of the marines. While Edward built up extensive land holdings, Maria acted as his agent and ran his business ventures if he was abroad. She had sharp business sense, and extended the holdings of her husband and herself. Her control was said to extend over one third of the resources of Van Diemen's Land: an impressive monopoly, but one that brought ruin to other settlers with smaller holdings.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/lord-maria-1781-1859\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/200-australian-women-a-redress-anthology\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Lovely, Louise", "Entry ID": "AWE3715", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/lovely-louise\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Paddington, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia", "Death Place": "Hobart, Tasmania, Australia", "Occupations": "Actor", "Summary": "Daughter of the Swiss born Elise Lehmann, Louise Lovely began her stage career at the age of eight, playing Eva in Uncle Tom's Cabin at the Lyceum in Sydney. She subsequently appeared in many stage and screen productions. In 1912, Louise moved to Hollywood with her husband Wilton Welch and became a star, cast in at least 24 films for Universal Studios and nearly a dozen western films for Fox Studios. She returned to Australia in 1924.\n", "Details": "Louise Lovely was an Australian actress and film maker with a career in both Australia and the United States. Sadly, few of Lovely's films have survived.\nLovely's career began as an actress in stage melodramas and vaudeville in Australia and America. In 1915, she was signed to Universal Studios. In 1917, Universal established Louise Lovely Productions, however Lovely herself had no control over the productions. In March 1918, she left Universal over contract disputes and shortly after began work with Fox Studios.\nLovely starred in her final US film in 1921. She then returned to Australia.\nUpon her return to Australia, Lovely began production on her final film Jewelled Nights (Lovely and Welch, 1925). While the extent of her contribution to this production is not certain, sources indicate she not only acted, but co-wrote the script, directed scenes, edited the film, and assisted in the design and publicity of the film. The film was produced by her company Louise Lovely Productions. The film was financially unsuccessful and Lovely subsequently retired from the film industry.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/200-australian-women-a-redress-anthology\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/biographical-cuttings-on-louise-lovely-actress-containing-one-or-more-cuttings-from-newspapers-or-journals\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/lovely-louise-documentation\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/lovely-louise-interviewed-by-ross-cooper-oral-history\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/axford-maisie-interviewed-by-david-atfield-oral-history\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/lovely-louise-interviewed-by-ina-bertrand-1978-oral-history\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Rooke, Jessie Spink", "Entry ID": "AWE3746", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/rooke-jessie-spink\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "London, Middlesex, England", "Death Place": "Burnie, Tasmania, Australia", "Occupations": "Social reformer", "Summary": "Jessie Rooke was heavily involved with the British Women's Bible and Prayer Union in Sydney before she joined the Woman's Christian Temperance Union. Moving to Tasmania in the 1890s with her family, she formed the Burnie branch of the WCTU and became president in 1894. Rooke also played a vital role in the development of the Tasmania Women's Suffrage League.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/200-australian-women-a-redress-anthology\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/the-encyclopedia-of-women-and-leadership-in-twentieth-century-australia\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Waterworth, Edith Alice", "Entry ID": "AWE3760", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/waterworth-edith-alice\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Lancashire, England", "Death Place": "Sandy Bay Hobart, Tasmania, Australia", "Occupations": "Advocate, Welfare worker", "Summary": "Mrs Waterworth arrived in Tasmania with her husband at the age of 30. She became actively involved in the women's movement in her forties, after the birth of three sons. Waterworth stood for parliament twice (though unsuccessfully) and was active in the National Council of Women, the Child Welfare Association, the Free Kindergarten Association, and the Board of Censors of Moving Pictures, among other groups.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/waterworth-edith-alice-1873-1957\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/200-australian-women-a-redress-anthology\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/faith-hope-and-charity-australian-women-and-imperial-honours-1901-1989\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/the-encyclopedia-of-women-and-leadership-in-twentieth-century-australia\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/mercury-clippings-on-status-of-women-and-child-welfare\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/newspaper-clipping-books-kept-by-edith-a-waterworth\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Walters, Mary Shirley", "Entry ID": "AWE4161", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/walters-mary-shirley\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Sydney, New South Wales, Australia", "Death Place": "Hobart, Tasmania, Australia", "Occupations": "Housewife, Nurse, Parliamentarian", "Summary": "A member of the Liberal Party of Australia, Shirley Walters was elected to the Senate of the Australian Parliament to represent Tasmania in 1975. She was re-elected in 1977, 1983 and 1987 and retired in 1993. She was the first woman to represent Tasmania in the Senate, and was known for her social conservatism. Her father, Sir Eric Harrison, served as the inaugural deputy leader of the Liberal Party under Sir Robert Menzies.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Bett, Mary Ann Latto", "Entry ID": "AWE4263", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/bett-mary-ann-latto\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Dundee, Scotland", "Death Place": "Ulverstone, Tasmania, Australia", "Occupations": "Nurse, Sunday school teacher", "Summary": "Although a nursing service commenced in Oodnadatta in 1907, a hospital wasn't opened there until 1911. It came under the gamete of Australian Inland Mission activities and was the organisation's first bush hospital. The first nursing sisters to serve there were also both Deaconesses trained at the Presbyterian training institute in Melbourne\nOnly five foot tall and seven stone (45 kg) wringing wet, 'Little Sister' Mary Ann 'Latto' Bett arrived in Oodnadatta in March of 1910. Her arrival was keenly awaited by the local doctor, who had a number of sick men in outback communities to attend to. Known as 'The little angel of the north', she worked there for four years, as a nurse, preacher, teacher and Sunday School mistress. Perhaps her greatest attribute was her ability to relate with ease to the rough and ready people she encountered in the outback.\nShe left Oodnadatta to serve as an Army nurse in the Great War. She was discharged from the service in 1918 upon marriage to Lieutenant William Paul Boland in London. They returned to Australia to settle in Seymour and later lived in Melbourne. She died in Ulverstone, Tasmania in 1968.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/flynns-outback-angels-casting-the-mantle-1901-to-world-war-ii\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/not-to-be-ministered-unto-the-story-of-presbyterian-deaconesses-trained-in-melbourne\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/biographical-cuttings-on-sister-m-a-latto-bett-nursing-sister-oodnadatta-1912-1913-army-nurse-in-world-war-i-containing-one-or-more-cuttings-from-newspapers-or-journals\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/bett-mary-ann-latto-sern-sister-pob-dundee-scotland-poe-n-a-nok-f-bett-william-cunningham\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "McAulay, Ida Mary", "Entry ID": "AWE4419", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/mcaulay-ida-mary\/", "Type": "Person", "Death Place": "Sandy Bay, Tasmania, Australia", "Occupations": "Public speaker, Suffragist", "Summary": "Ida McAulay was elected president of the Tasmanian Women's Suffrage Association on its inauguration in 1903, a few days before Tasmanian women were granted the franchise. She remained president until 1905. After the achievement of the franchise, the Association, later renamed the Tasmanian Women's Political Association, focussed on lobbying for improvements in girls' education.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/mcaulay-ida-mary-1858-1949\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/australian-feminism-a-companion\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/books-containing-recipes-and-draft-papers-by-ida-mcaulay\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Crossley, Louise", "Entry ID": "AWE5036", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/crossley-louise\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Johannesburg, South Africa", "Death Place": "Hobart, Tasmania, Australia", "Occupations": "Environmentalist", "Summary": "Read more about Louise Crossley in our sister publication The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/the-encyclopedia-of-women-and-leadership-in-twentieth-century-australia\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Cumbrae-Stewart, Zina Beatrice Selwyn", "Entry ID": "AWE5037", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/cumbrae-stewart-zina-beatrice-selwyn\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Brighton, Victoria, Australia", "Death Place": "Hobart, Tasmania, Australia", "Occupations": "Community worker", "Summary": "Read more about Zina Cumbrae-Stewart in our sister publication The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/the-encyclopedia-of-women-and-leadership-in-twentieth-century-australia\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Weste, Gretna Margaret", "Entry ID": "AWE5353", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/weste-gretna-margaret\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Dornock, Dumfries, Scotland", "Death Place": "Tasmania, Australia", "Occupations": "Botanist, Mycologist, Plant pathologist", "Summary": "Read more about Gretna Margaret Weste in our sister publication The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/the-encyclopedia-of-women-and-leadership-in-twentieth-century-australia\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Pearl, Patricia (Paddy) Mary", "Entry ID": "AWE6171", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/pearl-patricia-paddy-mary\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Drummoyne, New South Wales, Australia", "Death Place": "Sandy BaySandy Bay, Tasmania, Australia", "Occupations": "Medical receptionist, Philanthropist", "Details": "Patricia (Paddy) Pearl completed her Leaving Certificate at Stella Maris College in Manly. She then studied physiotherapy and became a medical receptionist.\nPaddy had a short, unhappy first marriage, before marrying author, historian and journalist Cyril Alston Pearl in 1965. Together the pair researched, wrote and worked together on Cyril's books, travelling all over the world. Back in Australia, Paddy and Cyril lived in Paddington and joined the Paddington Society. After Cyril's death in 1987, Paddy continued to lead a varied and active life. She moved to Tasmania in 1994 after purchasing the heritage-listed Campania House in the Coal River Valley, and there she learnt about cattle and fences on the 22 hectare property.\nIn 2009 Paddy sold her restored c.1813 home. The property was sold for $1.54 million and a substantial portion of the money was donated to the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute for Medical Research, where it was used to establish a three-year PhD scholarship to support research into children's diseases.\n", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/papers-of-cyril-and-paddy-pearl-1853-2009-manuscript\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/paddy-pearl-interviewed-by-diana-ritch-sound-recording\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/papers-of-sir-harold-white-and-lady-elizabeth-white-1911-1992-manuscript\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Harwood, Gwendoline (Gwen) Nessie", "Entry ID": "AWE6245", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/harwood-gwendoline-gwen-nessie\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Brisbane, Queensland, Australia", "Death Place": "HobartHobart, Tasmania, Australia", "Occupations": "Poet", "Details": "Gwendoline Nessie Foster was educated at Toowong State School and Brisbane Girls' Grammar School. After school, Gwen studied piano and composition and gained a music teachers diploma. She was also the organist at All Saints Church, Brisbane. Gwen taught for a brief period before obtaining a position as a typist in the War Damage Commission in 1942.\nAfter Gwen's marriage to linguist William Harwood in 1945, the pair moved to Tasmania, where Gwen taught music, worked as medical secretary and raised a family.\nFrom the 1960s, Gwen's poetry and writing frequently appeared in Australian literary journals, and her first poetry volume was published in 1963. In 1973 Gwen received a Literature Board Grant, which enabled her to devote much more of her time to writing.\nIn addition to poetry, Gwen has also written libretti and choral works, some still unpublished. A number of her poems have also been set to music. Altogether, Gwen has published approximately 430 works, some of which have been published under pseudonyms.\nGwen served as president of both the Tasmanian Branch of the Fellowship of Australian Writers and the Lady Hamilton Literary Society. She was the recipient of numerous awards, including the Victorian Premiers Award (1989) and the 1990 Age Book of the Year Award. Gwen also received honorary doctorates from La Trobe University, the University of Tasmania and the University of Queensland.\nIn 1989 Gwen was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) 'for service to literature, particularly as a poet and librettist'. She was also inducted into the inaugural Tasmanian Honour Roll of Women in 1995.\nThe Gwen Harwood Poetry Prize was established in 1996.\n", "Events": "Cholmondeley Award (1994 - 1994) \nFestival Awards for Literature (SA) - John Bray Award for Poetry (1990 - 1990) \nGrace Leven Poetry Prize (1975 - 1975) \nMeanjin Poetry Prize (1959 - 1959) \nMeanjin Poetry Prize (1960 - 1960) \nPatrick White Award (1978 - 1978) \nRobert Frost Medallion (1977 - 1977) \nThe Age Book of the Year Award - Non-Fiction Prize (1990 - 1990) \nVictorian Premier's Literary Awards - The C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry (1989 - 1989)", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/papers-of-gwen-harwood-1889-1982-manuscript\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/gwen-harwood-interviewed-by-suzanne-walker-sound-recording\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/gwen-harwood-interviewed-by-diana-ritch-sound-recording\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/gwen-harwood-interviewed-by-alison-hoddinott-sound-recording\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/gwen-harwood-recites-poetry-in-the-hazel-de-berg-collection-sound-recording\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/gwen-harwood-reads-her-poetry-for-the-australia-council-sound-recording-recorded-by-roger-macdonald\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/biographical-cuttings-on-gwen-harwood-containing-one-or-more-cuttings-from-newspapers-or-journals\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/minutes-copies-of-papers-scrapbook-attendance-lists-and-associated-records\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/gwen-harwood-and-ann-jennings-manuscript-collection\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/correspondence-1954-1960-manuscript\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/gwen-harwood-papers-collected-by-tony-riddell\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/father-alan-farrell-correspondence\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/helen-mills-papers\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/alison-hoddinott-papers\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/gregory-kratzmann-papers\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/letter-1968-jan-11-south-perth-western-australia-to-gwen-harwood\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/gwen-harwood-papers\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/letter-29-apr-1986-to-revd-a-p-b-bennie\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/letters-from-gwen-harwood-1976-1991-manuscript\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/papers-of-cassandra-pybus-1956-2008-manuscript\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/literary-papers-1969-1981-manuscript\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Miller, Mabel Flora", "Entry ID": "IMP0074", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/miller-mabel-flora\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia", "Death Place": "New Town, Tasmania, Australia", "Occupations": "Barrister, Lawyer, Politician", "Summary": "Mabel Miller, who served in the Women's Auxiliary Australian Air Force (WAAAF) during World War II, was an active public figure in Hobart for twenty years. She was the first woman to be elected to the Hobart City Council in 1952 and later, in 1955, one of the first two women to be elected to the Tasmanian House of Assembly as the Liberal member for Franklin. She was appointed Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire for distinguished public service on January 1st, 1967.\n", "Details": "Daughter of Joseph Christian Goodhart, draper, and Alice Mary, n\u00e9e Humphries.\nMabel Miller, although born in Broken Hill, came to Adelaide as a child, and was educated at Girton House Girls' Grammar School. She later attended a finishing school in Paris, then proceeded to the University of Adelaide where she gained a Bachelor of Laws (LLB) in 1927 and was admitted to the bar on 17 December 1927. She practised in Sydney and London before marrying Alan John Richmond Miller, a chemist, in Hobart on 24 July 1930. She had a daughter.\nDuring World War II, from 1941, she served in the WAAAF as acting section officer and reached the rank of temporary squadron officer while serving in Melbourne from 1942-1943 as deputy director of the WAAAF. She was later posted to Townsville, Queensland as staff officer, north eastern area. She completed her war service on 3 October 1944.\nAfter World War II, Miller was active in the Red Cross Society, the Queen Alexandra Hospital and the Mary Ogilvy Homes Society. Her decision to stand for election to the Hobart City Council was prompted by complaints she heard about municipal mismanagement when she was president of the National Council of Women of Tasmania from 1952-1954.\nMiller served on the Council from 1952, chaired the finance, health, building and town planning committees, and became deputy lord mayor in 1954-1956 and 1964-1970. She stood for election as mayor in 1970, but was unsuccessful and retired from the council in 1972.\nMiller was also a member of the Tasmanian State Parliament in the House of Assembly as member for Franklin from 1955 until 1964. She strongly supported proper planning measures for public housing estates, law, education, health and welfare reforms, particularly to ensure the care and protection of children.\nShe was elected vice president of the Liberal Party in 1961, but her state political career ceased on her defeat in 1964.\nMiller was known for her stylish clothes and charming personality, and continued to be involved with the United Ex-Service Women's Homes Association and the Tasmanian Right to Life Association. She assisted in the establishment of the Women's and Children's Memorial Rest Centre, Hobart and sat on the interim council of the Australian National Gallery and the Metric Conversion Board.\nIn 1967, in addition to being appointed DBE, she was the Australian representative on the United Nations' Status of Women Commission, and an Australian delegate to the General Assembly of the United Nations.\nShe died on 30 December 1978 in Newtown, Tasmania.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/whos-who-in-australia-1968\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/miller-dame-mabel-flora-1906-1978\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/miller-dame-mabel-flora-dbe\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/miller-mabel-flora-2\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/faith-hope-and-charity-australian-women-and-imperial-honours-1901-1989\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/australian-women-lawyers-as-active-citizens\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/dame-mabel-miller\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Pell, Jane Juliana", "Entry ID": "AWE4345", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/pell-jane-juliana\/", "Type": "Person", "Birth Place": "England", "Death Place": "Hobart, Tasmania, Australia", "Occupations": "Homemaker", "Summary": "Jane Juliana Pell was the wife of Morris Birkbeck Pell, the first professor of mathematics and philosophy at the University of Sydney.\n", "Details": "Jane Juliana Pell was the wife of Morris Birkbeck Pell, the first professor of mathematics and philosophy at the University of Sydney. The couple married in England on 17 February 1852 before migrating to New South Wales to take up the appointment.\nPell had 11 children between 1859 and 1869. However, the marriage was not a happy one and she returned to England in 1873. She subsequently came back to Australia but lived in Hobart, estranged from her husband. When Morris Pell died in 1879, he left an annuity of \u00a380 to her, with the provision that she did not return to Sydney.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/personal-archives-of-pell-morris-birkbeck-1827-79-jane-juliana\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Working Women's Centre, Tasmania", "Entry ID": "AWE0132", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/working-womens-centre-tasmania\/", "Type": "Organisation", "Birth Place": "Tasmania, Australia", "Summary": "The Working Women's Centre is a Statewide information, support advocacy and referral service for the working women of Tasmania\n", "Details": "The Working Women's Centre provides assistance on a one-to-one basis, and conducts information sessions on a wide range of issues including:\n\u2022 Pay and leave entitlements\n\u2022 Redundancy\n\u2022 Occupational health and safety\n\u2022 Unfair dismissal\n\u2022 Flexible work arrangements\n\u2022 Superannuation\n\u2022 Maternity leave\n\u2022 Traineeships\n\u2022 Employment contracts\n\u2022 Discrimination and harassment\n\u2022 Worker's compensation\n\u2022 Enterprise bargaining\n\u2022 Workplace bullying\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/working-womens-centre-tasmania-2\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/working-womens-centre\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "The Itinerants Literary Society", "Entry ID": "AWE0760", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/the-itinerants-literary-society\/", "Type": "Organisation", "Birth Place": "Hobart, Tasmania, Australia", "Occupations": "Arts organisation", "Summary": "The Itinerants Literary Society began as a result of a dispute with the Hamilton Literary Society in 1894 when a group of members broke away to form a separate society. They are 'itinerants' in that they meet at each member's home in turn. The Society's rules set out the number of members, hours of meeting and terms of membership. At each meeting, members present papers which range widely. The minutes show how themes and topics are chosen and reveal a close adherence to the rules. Early subjects discussed included famous writers and political topics (including women's suffrage), 'women who have made history' (including Jane Franklin, Sarah Bernhardt and Sonia Kovaleski).\n", "Details": "the records preserve a little-known aspect of Hobart women's cultural and social life. Members appear to have been generally conservative. For example, few supported women's suffrage. There is also a poem written in 1954 exhorting electors to vote for Liberal Party leader Robert Menzies. Of particular interest, then, are the papers by Ida McAulay. Her paper on Women's Suffrage expressed disappointment that so few members supported this move. For her the vote for women both a right and a necessary social reform, especially to achieve change in laws relating to divorce and custody of children. Her paper on education asserted the intellectual of women and extolled the study of science and mathematics for both sexes. She also supported sex education the need for women to restrict the size of their families. While advocating equality of education, she believed that girls should also be trained for motherhood\u2014outlining an extensive curriculum including physiology, hygiene, first aid, nursing, cookery and domestic economy.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/the-itinerants-a-ladies-literary-society\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/minutes-of-meetings-hobart\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "The Hamilton Literary Society", "Entry ID": "AWE0761", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/the-hamilton-literary-society\/", "Type": "Organisation", "Birth Place": "Hobart, Tasmania, Australia", "Occupations": "Arts organisation", "Summary": "The Hamilton Literary Society is the oldest continuing literary society in Australia. It was founded by Lady Teresa Hamilton, wife of the Governor of Tasmania, Australia, in 1889. Originally known as the Nil Desperandum Society, the group met twice a month at Government House in Hobart, Tasmania, to hear papers read by members. From 1892, members of the Society were also members of the Australasian Home Reading Association - which was formed under the auspices of the Literature Section of the Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science, for the purpose of developing a taste for recreative and instructive reading among all classes, and directing home study to definite ends.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/the-itinerants-a-ladies-literary-society\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/minutes-of-meetings-hobart\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/papers-written-by-mary-katharine-burcham-for-the-hamilton-literary-society\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/minutes-copies-of-papers-scrapbook-attendance-lists-and-associated-records\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Catholic Women's League, Tasmania Inc.", "Entry ID": "AWE0763", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/catholic-womens-league-tasmania-inc\/", "Type": "Organisation", "Birth Place": "Launceston, Tasmania, Australia", "Occupations": "Social support organisation", "Summary": "The Catholic Women's League Tasmania was established in 1941 in Launceston to bring together Catholic women, to help them meet socially, to engage in charitable work and to assist them to play their part in public life. Gwen Mullins, the catalyst for its formation, expressed concern about the isolation of Catholics from the general community in Launceston and particularly the non participation of Catholic women in any civic sphere at all. It has been involved in a range of issues including the family, immigration, media programs and educational opportunities for girls. By the 1980s it had developed a greater international awareness with the creation of the office of International Secretary. It is affiliated with the Catholic Women's League Australia Inc.\n", "Details": "The objects of the Catholic Women's League Tasmania Inc. were to:\nPromote the spiritual, cultural, intellectual and social interests of Catholic women,\nTo train and encourage Catholic women to play their proper part in advancing the moral and civic welfare of the community,\nTo assert and defend Christian principles in relation to marriage, the home and education,\nTo work for the extension of the Kingdom of Christ in union with our spiritual guides,\nTo co-operate with other societies in an effort to obtain our objects.\nThe CWL Tasmania is organised into three branches: the North, West\/North-west and the South. It produces a monthly magazine Review.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/women-of-faith-and-action-history-of-the-catholic-womens-league-tasmania-1941-1986\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/about-us\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/catholic-womens-league-tasmania-inc-records\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/state-conference-notes-1971-1975\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "The Country Women's Association of Tasmania", "Entry ID": "AWE0790", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/the-country-womens-association-of-tasmania\/", "Type": "Organisation", "Birth Place": "Tasmania", "Occupations": "Lobby group, Voluntary organisation", "Summary": "The Country Women's Association of Tasmania is a non-sectarian, non-party-political, non-profit lobby group and voluntary organisation working in the interests of women and children in both urban and rural areas. It was founded in 1936 in Launceston, with Mrs C. W. Peart as President, and grew quickly across the state.\nThe Association was formed partly in response to the formation of similar groups in other states. Its major activities have revolved around the provision of services to its members, fundraising, the improvement of amenities in rural areas (initially with an emphasis on child health services) and social activities.\n", "Details": "The Country Women's Association (CWA) of Tasmania was founded in February 1936 at a meeting in the Launceston Town Hall attended by around 80 women. The meeting was addressed by the State President of The Country Women's Association of Victoria, Miss Elsa Grice, who outlined the history of women's organisations throughout the world and the progress of the CWA in Australia. The Tasmanian Governor's, Lady Clark, agreed to act as patron for the new Association and Mrs W. C. Peart (a clergyman's wife and former member of the CWA of Victoria) was elected foundation president. A month later a similar meeting was held in Hobart, with addresses this time from the Bush Nursing Association, the National Council of Women, the Women's Non-Party League and a past treasurer of the South Australian CWA.\nThe motto adopted by the league was 'Honour to God, Loyalty to the Throne, Service to the Country, Through Country Women, For Country Women, By Country Women'.\nInitially the Associations in the north and south operated separately. In 1937 they joined to form a single body, with a Northern and a Southern Division. During its first 18 months, 18 branches were formed and membership reached 550. This increased to 2500 members and 71 branches by 1940.\nFrom its establishment the Association focussed particularly on issues relating the welfare of women and children. In conjunction with local councils, they established numerous child health centres. Restrooms were also established in many regional centres to provide facilities for members when they had to visit town. Some of these also provided rooms for visiting doctors, clinic sisters, libraries and other community services.\nDuring WWII, as in other states, much of the Association's energy was directed towards supporting the war effort. Twenty thousand camouflage nets were made, along with sheepskin vests, slippers, mittens and gloves. Thousands of pounds were donated to the Red Cross, Australian Comforts Fund and other causes and an ambulance was purchased for the AIF. Food parcels were sent to soldiers and British civilians. A Voluntary Aid Detachment was established which gave classes in first aid and home nursing.\nFrom the 1946 the Association produced its own semi-annual journal, The Tasmania Country Woman. From 1966, this became a weekly new sheet published in the Tasmania Farmers' Federation Newspaper. From 1977 they again published their own News and Views.\nHandcrafts and home industries have been a particular focus of the Tasmanian Association since 1937 when committees were established to promote these activities. Numerous classes, craft schools and exhibitions have been held since this time. They have also published several cookery books. In the postwar years, choral and drama activities also became a prominent feature of the Association's social functions. They also became interested in 'beautification' - planting hundreds of trees., shrubs and garden beds in public spaces. From 1942 to 1982 they also ran a Housekeeper scheme, although insufficient funds limited its success. In the 1950s and 1960s numerous holiday homes were established for members. They also showed an interest in new migrants and were represented on Good Neighbourhood Councils.\nOver the years the Association has raised funds to support or establish a wide range of community services - from community Halls and playgrounds, to aged care homes, to facilities for disabled children. They have supported the Asthma Foundation, St John's Ambulance, and Meals on Wheels and provided emergency relief in times of fire and flood.\nIn 2004 the aims of the Association included:\n-To encourage interest in current affairs, home management and cultural activities.\n-To support schemes which provide for:\n(a) Education in nutrition\n(b) Training in Home Economics and Home Management\n(c) To encourage the production of home grown foods and use of them to the best advantage.\n(d) Community Centres and\/or Projects of Community value.\n(e) Children's activities.\n(g) Child Care.\n(h) Youth Organisations.\n(i) Crime prevention.\n-To take interest in education at all levels.\n-To welcome and take kindly interest in all newcomers in every district.\n-To encourage tree planting, for home and town beautification and to assist conservation.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/the-21st-birthday-cookery-book-of-the-country-womens-association-in-tasmania\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/the-many-hats-of-country-women-the-jubilee-history-of-the-country-womens-association-of-australia\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/getting-things-done-the-country-womens-association-of-australia\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/glimpses-of-gold-a-brief-history-of-the-country-womens-association-in-tasmania\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/playing-our-part-sixty-years-of-the-country-womens-association-in-tasmania-1936-1996-in-celebration-a-roll-of-honour-and-graphic-evidence-dedicated-to-our-membership\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/news-and-views-country-womens-association-in-tasmania\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/the-formation-and-history-of-the-devonport-branch\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/a-history-of-the-north-eastern-group-country-womens-association\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/more-than-tea-and-talk-the-story-of-cwa-in-taroona-1942-1986\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/the-tasmanian-countrywoman\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/the-official-annual-of-the-country-womens-association-in-tasmania\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/country-womens-association-of-australia-north-bruny-island-branch\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/womens-land-army-launceston-tasmania\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/minutes-and-associated-papers\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/minute-book-of-the-frankford-branch-of-the-country-womens-association\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Tasmanian Women Lawyers", "Entry ID": "AWE5571", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/tasmanian-women-lawyers\/", "Type": "Organisation", "Birth Place": "Tasmania, Australia", "Occupations": "Feminist organisation, Professional Association", "Summary": "The first meeting of Women Lawyers Association of Tasmania was held on 17 May 1976, and the association remained active until 1979, when meetings stopped for a short time. The organisation was reformed in 1985, following a meeting at Ross on 24 February 1985 when a motion was passed that the association was a viable proposition and should be continued.\nThe Women Lawyers Association of Tasmania was incorporated in 2002 and in 2008 the organisation changed its name to Tasmanian Women Lawyers.\n" }, { "Title\/Name": "Tasmania Law Reform Institute", "Entry ID": "AWE5946", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/tasmania-law-reform-institute\/", "Type": "Organisation", "Birth Place": "Hobart, Tasmania, Australia", "Summary": "The Tasmania Law Reform Institute is Tasmania's principal law reform body. Established on 23 July 2001 through a signed agreement between the State Government, the University of Tasmania and the Law Society of Tasmania, it is based in the Faculty of Law at the University's Sandy Bay campus. Its functions include the review of laws with a view to:\n\nmodernising the law;\neliminating defects in the law;\nsimplifying the law;\nconsolidating any laws;\nrepealing laws that are obsolete or unnecessary;\ncreating uniformity between laws of other States and the Commonwealth.\n\n" }, { "Title\/Name": "Young Women's Christian Association of Tasmania", "Entry ID": "AWE6513", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/young-womens-christian-association-of-tasmania\/", "Type": "Organisation", "Birth Place": "Tasmania, Australia", "Death Place": "Tasmania, Aus", "Occupations": "Women's organisation", "Summary": "The Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA) became active in Hobart, Tasmania, in 1885 and by 1888 the movement had spread to Launceston.\nDuring the 1930s, the Hobart branch of the YWCA dis-affiliated itself from the national movement.\n", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/annual-reports-news-sheets-correspondence\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "The Dame Marjorie Parker Creche", "Entry ID": "IMP0059", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/the-dame-marjorie-parker-creche\/", "Type": "Organisation", "Birth Place": "Launceston, Tasmania, Australia", "Occupations": "Commemoration", "Summary": "The creche was named after its Founder, President and Patron Dame Marjorie Parker.\n", "Details": "The Launceston Creche was formed in 1945, as a unit of the Launceston War Memorial Community Centre.\nOn 25 November 1948, a temporary Creche was opened by the Governors' wife, Lady Binney. It operated from two small rooms at the Albert Hall for the next seven years, but was forced to close when the rooms were required for other purposes.\nThe Creche opened in Cameron Street, in June 1956, after the Tasmanian Minister for Health, Dr A J Turnbull, assisted the committee by making provision for the Creche service on part of the first floor of the new Child Health Centre.\nThe Creche found a permanent home in November 1977, when it moved to its current location. \n(Source: Information supplied by Sally Von Bertouch, Director Dame Marjorie Parker Creche)\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "The Woman's Christian Temperance Union of Tasmania", "Entry ID": "AWE0987", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/the-womans-christian-temperance-union-of-tasmania\/", "Type": "Organisation", "Death Place": "Tasmania", "Occupations": "Lobby group, Religious organisation, Women's Rights Organisation", "Summary": "The Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) of Tasmania is primarily dedicated to promoting total abstinence from alcohol and other harmful drugs and all members sign a pledge to this effect. Under its broader agenda of 'home protection' and the promotion of a healthy lifestyle, however, it has been involved in wide range of social and political reform activities mostly relating to the welfare of women and children. Importantly, influenced by its sister organisation in the United States, the WCTU became a major supporter of the campaign for women's suffrage in Tasmania as it was believed that power at the ballot box was the only way to achieve their goals. While at its most influential in the years up to WWI, the movement continues today.\n", "Details": "The first branch of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union in Tasmania was formed in Hobart in 1885, but was very short lived. Influenced by the visit of the World's Woman's Christian Temperance Union missionary Mary Leavitt in 1886, three new branches were established. By 1894 there were 14 local Unions in Tasmania with a membership of 280.\nIn the 1890s the Hobart Branch worked with the Chinese community and prisoners and advocated broad ranging social and political reforms including women's suffrage. During World War I they fought for early closing and distributed literature on venereal disease. For the state body, departments of work in the 1890s included scientific temperance instruction, hygiene and heredity, the franchise, legislation and petitions. They also fought for the repeal of the Contagious Diseases Act. From the 1950s, the Union retreated from broader reform goals and concentrated their efforts directly on alcohol and drug related issues.\nRecord notes:\nThe records of individual branches are listed here. Some are contained with the records of the state body, others are separately located.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/a-few-viragos-on-a-stump-the-womanhood-suffrage-campaign-in-tasmania-1880-1920\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/womans-christian-temperance-union-of-tasmania-annual-convention\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/trove\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/records-of-the-womans-christian-temperance-union-of-tasmania\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/minutes-of-convention-meetings-annual-and-committee-reports-of-the-womans-christian-temperance-union-of-tasmania\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/womans-christian-temperance-union-of-victoria-2\/" } ]