Bernie Dwyer
Irish journalist, filmmaker and political activist
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Amber Mae Cecil
By the age of 18 she was in constant demand as one of Australia’s leading radio stars. During the 1950s, Cecil played the lead in the radio serial Life Can be Beautiful, and had an ongoing role in the serial Doctor Paul. She played one of the Macarthur twins in Blue Hills until 1976 and later starred in several Shakespeare radio plays broadcast by ABC radio. She died in 1998.
Sheila Conroy
Irish trade unionist, social activist and administrator
Maureen Charlton
Irish playwright, poet and broadcaster
Grace Winifred Green
Green chalked up many firsts as a woman radio announcer in New Zealand and was always popular with listeners.
Kathleen O’Brien
For most of the 1950s Kathleen O’Brien was the only woman directing films in New Zealand.
Catherine Duncan
Catherine Duncan was an actor, playwright, film-maker and author who became the first woman credited as director in an Australian film since the McDonagh sisters in the 1930s.
Caroline Jones
Having joined the ABC in 1963, Jones has worked at the ABC for a remarkable 50 years. She was the first women reporter on the program This Day Tonight, as well as the first women to anchor the program Four Corners.
June Opie
June Opie was a polio survivor, clinical psychologist, writer and broadcaster who overcame discrimination against the disabled to achieve professional and personal success. Her memoir, Over my dead body (1957), was an international best-seller and brought her widespread fame.
Nola Luxford
Nola Luxford was a New Zealand-born actress, writer, pioneer broadcaster and founder of the Anzac Club in New York City during the Second World War.