Activism Archives - Page 154 of 189

Elsie Mary Griffin

She is credited with modernising the Auckland YWCA, so that it was fully part of the secular world while retaining its Christian roots.

Kia Rīwai

Maori activist Kia Rīwai played a major role in establishing the successful trade-training scheme in New Zealand.

In addition to her work for penal reform, Blanche Baughan was an outspoken opponent of capital punishment, a financial supporter of the Red Cross and a member of the Akaroa Borough Council. Baughan was recognised for her contribution to social services with the award of the King George V Jubilee Medal in 1935. For her literary work she deserves recognition for indicating new directions in the nation’s literary history and as a significant harbinger of change in early New Zealand poetry.

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.

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.