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Connie Birchfield

New Zealand communist activist

Nancy Astor

The first woman to sit in the English House of Commons

Annie Besant

English theosophist, author and lecturer

In 1901 she established a women’s collective clothing factory and was appointed the chair of its board. She continued her work for electoral reform and moved the resolution that brought the South Australian National Council of Women into existence, although she found the organisation too cautious and resigned from the executive in 1906.

Ruby Hutchison

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).