Phyllis Benjamin

Representing Tasmania on the party’s Federal Executive, she was the only woman amongst the ’36 faceless men’ depicted in 1963 as controlling the Party, although her presence went largely unnoticed in contemporary coverage.

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Margaret Edgeworth McIntyre

During the war as the deputy president of the Launceston Women’s Voluntary National Register, McIntyre was responsible for organising training schemes for women who wanted to be involved in the war effort. Her wartime experiences led her to argue for women to have ‘more say in the running of the country’.

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Louise Crossley

Scientist and environmentalist Louise Crossley (1942 – 30 July 2015) was closely involved in the establishment of the Tasmanian Greens and the Global Greens.

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Iriaka Matiu Rātana

New Zealand politician Iriaka Rātana was to serve in the House for 20 years. She was an unusual politician in her early years, unsophisticated yet eloquent, gentle and invariably polite.

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Victoria Claflin Woodhull

The first woman to run for president and the first female stock broker on Wall Street, Victoria Woodhull achieved remarkable success in finance, journalism, and politics. A spiritualist, suffragist, and free love advocate, Woodhull was an iconoclast who fought for her beliefs no matter how controversial they were at the time.

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Ismat ad-Din Khatun

ʿIṣmat ad-Dīn Khātūn was the daughter of a regent of Damascus, and wife of two of the 12th century’s greatest Muslim generals, Nur ad-Din and Saladin.

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Aghabaji Rzayeva

Azerbaijani composer Aghabaji Ismayil gizi Rzayeva received many honors, including the Honored Art Worker of the Azerbaijan SSR (1960), Order of the Red Banner of Labour and the Order of the Badge of Honour (1972).

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