Activism Archives - Page 114 of 161

Jean Galbraith

Through her innovative writing for diverse readerships, Jean Galbraith became a leader in promoting native flora.

Lottie Leal

Australian women’s rights activist

Stella Pines

In the 1930s, Stella Pines led a movement which sought to make postgraduate education for nurses available at Australian universities.

Viva Murphy

Australian social worker

Selina Sutherland

Following the passage of the 1887 Neglected Children’s Act she became Victoria’s first licensed child rescuer.

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.

Rosemary Goldie

International Catholic women’s activist

Robyn Tredwell

In 1995, Robyn Tredwell won the ABC Australian Rural Woman of the Year award. She went on to become Director of the Institute of Ecotechnics and Project Director of Birdwood Downs station.

Marguerite Dale

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

Rita May Harris

Harris worked with the Australian kindergarten movement, joining the committee of the Collingwood Creche/Kindergarten in 1920, and becoming a member of the executive committee of the Free Kindergarten Union in 1933, assuming the vice-presidency from 1947-50. She was also a member of the Women’s Hospital Committee, and president from 1945-8, when the hospital was challenged by the coincidence of the post-war baby boom and a shortage of materials for redevelopment.