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Sanu Sharma, Nepalese-Australian novelist, story writer, poet and lyricist; Tracy Sorensen, novelist and academic; Catherine Helen Spence (1825–1910), novelist, journalist and social reformer; Eleanor Spence (1928–2008), children's author; Dale Spender (1943–2023), feminist scholar, writer and consultant
Rose Scott (8 October 1847 – 20 April 1925) was an Australian women's rights activist who advocated for women's suffrage and universal suffrage in New South Wales at the turn-of-the twentieth century. She founded the Women's Political Education League in 1902 which campaigned successfully to raise the age of consent to sixteen.
Mary Hynes Swanton (1861–1940) Australian women's rights and trade unionist; Mary Lee (1821–1909) – suffragist and social reformer in South Australia; Mary Anne Lockwood (1858–1938) - temperance worker and suffragist in South Australia; Mary Windeyer (1836–1912) – women's suffrage campaigner in New South Wales
Chelsea Candelario/PureWow. 2. “I know my worth. I embrace my power. I say if I’m beautiful. I say if I’m strong. You will not determine my story.
This quote has served as a motto for many activist groups in Australia and elsewhere. Watson was heard delivering this quote at the 1985 United Nations Decade for Women Conference in Nairobi. [2] However, the origins of the quote date back further. She has explained that in the early 1970s she had been part of an Aboriginal Rights group in ...
Mary Gilmore in 1912. In 1890, she moved to Sydney, where she became part of the Bulletin School, centered around the radical nationalist journal The Bulletin.Although the greatest influence on her work was Henry Lawson, it was Alfred "A. G." Stephens, literary editor of The Bulletin, who published her verse and established her reputation as a fiery radical poet, champion of the workers and ...
Dame Roma Flinders Mitchell, AC, DBE, CVO, QC (2 October 1913 – 5 March 2000) [1] was an Australian lawyer, judge and state governor. She was the first woman to hold a number of positions in Australia – the country's first woman judge, the first woman to be a Queen's Counsel, a chancellor of an Australian university and the Governor of an Australian state.
List of high commissioners of Australia to the United Kingdom; List of the first women appointed to Australian judicial positions; List of ambassadors and high commissioners of Australia; List of prime ministers of Australia; List of longest-serving members of the Parliament of Australia; People who have served in both Houses of the Australian ...