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Valerie Place

Irish nurse and overseas aid worker

Enid Tapsell

New Zealand nurse, community leader, writer and local politician

Mother Aubert’s career in New Zealand spanned more than six decades. There was scarcely one of these decades in which she did not initiate a new venture or stamp her personality on some major project. Her lasting legacy to New Zealand was the religious order she founded.

Isobel Bennett

Australian marine biologist, particularly renowned as a pioneer of coral reef biology.

Vicki Noonan

Australian who worked on the Astrographic Catalogue at Melbourne Observatory from 1907 to 1909.

Lillian Emblad Lewis

Astrographic measurer and computer from 1898 to 1903 at the Melbourne Observatory

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