Activism Archives - Page 146 of 193

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.

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.

Amy Christine Rivett

Amy Rivett was a disciple of Marie Stopes and advocated birth control. Later she specialised in gynaecology. She and her brother Edward were partners in Brisbane in the 1920s and again in Sydney after World War II. As municipal medical officer in Brisbane she was in charge of the health of licensed prostitutes. Rivett was a foundation member of the Queensland Medical Women’s Society.

Ann Marshall

Ann Marshall lectured in geography at the University of Adelaide for over thirty years. She was heavily involved in successful campaigns against inner-city freeways in Adelaide.