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Today, every Australian state and territory has had at least one female head of government, except for South Australia; the Northern Territory has had the most, with four; the Australian Capital Territory has had three; Queensland, New South Wales, and Victoria have each had a second female head of government serving in their respective ...
In 2019, she also entered the record books as the first woman ever to become Australia's top earning CEO. [11] She was ranked 29th in the list of Most Powerful Women in the World for the Year 2020 by Forbes. [12] She was ranked 24th in the list of Most Powerful Women in the World for the Year 2021 by Forbes.
The subsequent government would become the second in Australia to be headed by two women and the first ministry in Australia to have a female majority. [31] On 3 March 2018, Australia passed another milestone when, at the 2018 Tasmanian election, Tasmanians elected a majority of women to the Tasmanian House of Assembly, with 13 women and 12 men ...
Daniels, Kay, ed. Australia's women, a documentary history: from a selection of personal letters, diary entries, pamphlets, official records, government and police reports, speeches, and radio talks (2nd ed. U of Queensland Press, 1989) 335pp. The first edition was entitled Uphill all the way : a documentary history of women in Australia (1980).
Julie Robyn Steele is a retired Australian biomechanist who made breakthroughs in basic, clinical and applied biomechanics and she is internationally regarded as one of Australia's most influential biomechanists. [1] She spent most of her career at the University of Wollongong, where she joined in 1983 and retired in 2020. [1]
Mary Lee, an Australian-Irish woman, was influential in garnering support for many women's rights movements in Australia. From 1883 onwards, Lee was involved in the raising of the Age of Consent for girls in Australia from 13 to 16, the founding of The Working Women's Trades Union , and co-founded the Women's Suffrage League , which led to the ...
Australian Women Online – Power List: 4 [24] 2013: Crikey – Power 50 Index: 20 [25] 2011: Insto Magazine – Banker of the Year: 1: 2010: Australian Women's Weekly – 6 Women of Influence: No rank: 2007: Bulletin Magazine – 50 Most Influential in Business: 9: 2007: Australian Women's Weekly – List of the 10 Most Powerful Women: No rank ...
AFR Australia's 100 most influential women (2015). [21] Clunies Ross Entrepreneur of the Year award (2016). [22] [23] Works. Saunders was co-author with John Bamford ...