- Entry type: Person
- Entry ID: AWE2256
Fisher, Elizabeth (Betty) Mary
- Preferred name Fisher, Betty
- Born 8 September 1925, Yorkshire, , England
- Died 23 November 2022, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
- Occupation Activist, Environmentalist, Feminist, Sports administrator
Summary
Betty Fisher (nee Dawson) was born 8 September 1925 in Yorkshire, England arriving in South Australia in 1927 on the ‘SS Benalla’. A feminist and advocate for Aboriginal rights and conservation, Betty was International Women’s Day president for eight years and the first female president of the Conservation Council of South Australia.
Betty Fisher received a Flinders University medal for services to women, was a 1988 Bicentenary medallist and served on the SA State Schools Organisations State Council. She was a member of the National Fitness Council of Australia. She was also a key witness at the Hindmarsh Island Royal Commission, where she produced notes and tape recordings from the 1960s which confirmed the site was of significant cultural importance to Aboriginal women.
Events
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1983
Received Netball South Australia Life Membership
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2018
South Australian Environment Awards: Lifetime achievement award
Archival resources
Published resources
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Site Exhibition
- She's Game: Women Making Australian Sporting History, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2007, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/sg/sport-home.html
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Resource
- Trove: Fisher, E M (1925-), http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-572747