Sent to Melbourne as part of the first Victorian foundation she continued teaching, however visits to the homes of the poor convinced her of the need for a hospital similar to the one the sisters had founded in Sydney. Appointed Superior to the foundation in Melbourne in 1892 she was able to bring the hospital to fruition.
Her book outlining her child-rearing theories, Child Nature and Child Nurture, was published in 1927. She was also active in many women’s organisations: a member of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union and president in 1926; a member of the National Council of Women from the early 1920s, a convenor of its committee on equal moral standards in 1927-1931 and member of its committee for peace and arbitration from 1938-1950.
From 1991, she was a senior lecturer and later associate professor of Social Work at the University of Melbourne.
Ruby Hutchison (1892-1974) was a firebrand West Australian politician and community activist who was active in the early stages of the Australian Consumers’ Association (now Choice).
New Zealand feminist activist
New Zealand welfare worker
New Zealand community worker and administrator
Irish trade unionist, social activist and administrator
New Zealand labor and women’s rights activist
New Zealand suffragist