The Australian Women's Register

Read more about Alice Kate Blackall in our sister publication The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia.

Read more about Mary Bluett in our sister publication The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia.

Read more about Kate Burrow in our sister publication The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia.

Read more about Barbara Darling in our sister publication The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia.

Read more about Jeanne Doudy in our sister publication The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia.

Read more about Patricia Edgar in our sister publication The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia.

Read more about Nennie Harken in our sister publication The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia.

Read more about Thistle Harris in our sister publication The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia.

Read more about Susan Hopgood in our sister publication The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia.

Read more about Betty Lawson in our sister publication The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia.

Read more about May Marshall in our sister publication The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia.

Cathy McGowan was elected to the Australian Parliament in the House of Representatives as the Independent Member for Indi at the 2013 Federal election.

Read more about Cathy McGowan in our sister publication The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia.

Read more about Padma Menon in our sister publication The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia.

Read more about Ellen Mulcahy in our sister publication The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia.

Read more about Margaret Nadebaum in our sister publication The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia.

Read more about Evelyn Helena Parker in our sister publication The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia.

Read more about Martha Simpson in our sister publication The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia.

Read more about Amanda Sinclair in our sister publication The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia.

Read more about Ida Standley in our sister publication The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia.

Read more about Nancy Stewart in our sister publication The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia.

Read more about Halina Teresa Szunejko in our sister publication The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia.

Read more about Mavis Wauchope in our sister publication The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia.

Read more about Margaret Williams Weir in our sister publication The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia.

Margaret Williams passed away in 2015, not long after she was recognised for her contribution to the development of Indigenous education policy by the University of Melbourne through the naming of the Dr Margaret Williams-Weir Lounge in the Melbourne Graduate School of Education, and the Dr Margaret Williams-Weir Vice-Chancellor’s Fellowship, of which Noel Pearson is the inaugural recipient.

A life-long educator, Dr Williams-Weir was an Alumna of University Women’s College, where she was offered a scholarship. She was the first Aboriginal graduate of an Australian University.

Roslyn Gay Atkinson AO is a Justice of the Supreme Court of Queensland, having been appointed to that position in 1998. In 2002 she also became the Chairperson of the Queensland Law Reform Commission, and served in that role until her retirement in 2013.

Melina Bath was appointed Member for Eastern Victoria representing the Nationals Party in the Legislative Council of the Parliament of Victoria on 16 April 2015. She holds the position of Nationals Whip in the Legislative Council.

Joanne Ryan, a member of the Australian Labor Party, was elected Member for Lalor in the House of Representatives of the Australian Parliament at the September 2013 election. She currently holds the position of Opposition Whip.

Ada Emily Evans began her professional life as a teacher, but later blazed a trail for women in the legal profession. In 1902, at the University of Sydney, she was the first woman in Australia to earn a Bachelor of Laws, graduating at a time when New South Wales law did not allow her to practise. She was admitted to the NSW Bar in 1921 after changes to the legislation, thus becoming the first woman to be admitted to the bar in New South Wales.