Alice Meynell
English poet, suffragist essayist and critic
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Barbara Shaw
She rose through the ranks of the Central Australian Aboriginal Congress to become its Deputy Director. In addition she has held executive positions on the Aboriginal Legal Aid Service, Tangentyere Council and the Joint Aboriginal Management Information Services. She was involved with the development of the Central Australian Aboriginal Media Association.
Genni Batterham
Australian artist, author, disability rights activist and filmmaker
Margaret Cooper
She was involved in the early committees that eventually led to the establishment of Women With Disabilities Victoria (WDV) and Women With Disabilities Australia (WWDA).
Marion Louisa Holmes
A leading charity worker and artist in Western Australia from the 1890s to the 1910s
Rhonda Louise Galbally
In addition to her work as a disability activist, Rhonda Galbally has been outspoken in health and social causes such as tobacco companies’ sponsorship of sport.
Winifred Kastner
An Australian activist and philanthropist, the causes she supported were wide-ranging, although with a common core around the welfare of women and children in the home.
Anna Fellowes Vroland
Passionate about women’s rights and the cause of peace, Vroland was also a humanitarian with strong views on the treatment of Australia’s Aboriginal population; she became one of Victoria’s leading campaigners for Aboriginal rights.
Frances Milton Trollope
English critic of American domestic life
Mary Putnam Jacobi
American physician Mary Putnam Jacobi was the first woman to graduate from the New York College of Pharmacy, and the first woman to study medicine at the University of Paris.