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Jessie Mackay

Jessie Mackay’s crusading spirit informed her poetry, and her poetry is a record of all the causes she held dear.

In 1901 she established a women’s collective clothing factory and was appointed the chair of its board. She continued her work for electoral reform and moved the resolution that brought the South Australian National Council of Women into existence, although she found the organisation too cautious and resigned from the executive in 1906.

Rose Scott

Rose Scott was one of the founders of the Women’s Literary Society and the Womanhood Suffrage League and a foundation member of National Council of Women of New South Wales. She was the first president of the Women’s Political Educational League.

Marguerite Dale

Marguerite Ludovia Dale was a playwright and feminist and was active in lobbying for the Women’s Legal Status Act of 1918.

Min Stuart

On her retirement in 1951, after 35 years’ service, Stuart fought successfully to obtain the same retiring allowance – six months’ full pay – that men received, rather than the half-pay allowance usually given to women. The determination she displayed set an example for other women to follow; after a long campaign, equal pay was implemented by the Post Office in the early 1960s.

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Jessie Mackay

Mary Emma Woolley

Marguerite Dale

Min Stuart

Freda Cook

Jessie Williamson

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