Muriel Agnes Heagney
Australian pioneer of women’s rights and equal pay, a feminist and trade unionist and astrographic measurer and computer at Melbourne Observatory from November 1906 until August 1910
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Maire Comerford
Irish republican and journalist
Máirín Beaumont
Irish teacher and nationalist
Máirín Cregan
Irish republican and writer
Hetty Weitzel
New Zealand-born Australian educator and political activist
Mary Stewart
New Zealand political hostess and welfare worker
Ellen Ellis
New Zealand feminist and writer
Sarah Snow
New Zealand political activist, feminist, welfare worker
Jessie Aitken
New Zealand community worker and political activist
Mary Grigg
Throughout her career Mary had made a point of speaking out on issues directly relevant to women. While her involvement in voluntary work reflected the conventions of her class and society, by standing for public office she had broken new ground for women in her family and in her political party.