Elizabeth Nicholls was a highly important figure in the campaigns in South Australia and eventually, nationally, for restriction of the sale of alcohol and the movement to extend political rights from her base in the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU).
Emma Miller played a vital part in the campaign for women’s suffrage in Queensland where she was perhaps the best known of a talented group of activists.
American philanthropist
American social reformer
Irish-New Zealander Emily Gibson’s life was spent working for the causes of peace and social justice.
Irish republican and labour activist
Irish suffragist, philanthropist, and councillor
New Zeaaland gardener’s Noeline Baker’s aim was to grow all plants indigenous to Stewart Island as listed by the botanist Leonard Cockayne. Over the next 15 years her garden became a place of botanical significance and in 1949 she was awarded the Loder Cup.
New Zealand suffragist and social reformer
Otelia was an American suffrage leader during a time when the women’s suffrage movement had decided to focus on supporting the war effort.