The Australian Women's Register

Nola Fraser was well known as a whistle blower when she ran in the Macquarie Fields by-election (New South Wales Legislative Assembly) in 2005.

Jacqueline Godfrey was an Independent candidate for the New South Wales Legislative Assembly seat of Clarence in 1995.

A life-time activist for Peace, Barbara (Babs) Fuller-Quinn has been a political and local government figure of distinction: She was elected to the Waverley Council as Alderman from 1977-83 and stood as an ALP candidate in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Vaucluse in 1976 and 1978.

Barbara Fuller-Quinn passed away in May 2020. When she died her family asked that in lieu of flowers, donations be made to Aboriginal Medical Service Redfern.

Saidi Goldstein ran for election in 2005 for the first time: she was a Christian Democratic Party candidate in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly Marrickville by-election. She works in administration at the Petersham Assembly of God. She has been a member of that church for 17 years and is interested in social welfare projects.

Sue Galley is a once only candidate for election: an Australians Against Further Immigration candidate in the 2003 elections to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Albury.

Deb Gorgievski ran as a Greens candidate for the New South Wales Legislative Assembly seat of Swansea in 1999.

Gladys Gander was a once only candidate for election to Parliament: a One Nation Party candidate in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly elections for Newcastle in 2003.

Anne Gardiner is a courageous fighter for principle who stood for the Australian Greens at the 2004 Randwick City Council elections and in the 2005 New South Wales Legislative Assembly Maroubra by-election.

Isabel Gelling, an Australians Against Further Immigration Party member, stood as their candidate in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly elections for Gosford in 1999.

Doreen Ghent stood only once for election: as a Liberal candidate in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly elections for Bass Hill in 1971. In 1941 she married John Wentworth Ghent (d. 22 September 2000) who stood for seat of Bankstown at the same election.

Helen Fearn stood for the One Nation Party at the 2003 New South Wales Legislative Assembly elections in Oxley.

Julia Featherstone is a multitalented woman, whose two election campaigns were part of a life filled with activity and creativity. She was an Australia Party candidate in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly elections for Bligh in 1973 and to the House of Representatives for Wentworth in 1974.

Christine Ferguson ran in three elections for two different political parties. She was a One Nation candidate in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Manly in 1999 and for Maitland in 2003(?). She contested the seat of Warringah in the House of Representatives as a member of the No Goods and Services Tax Party in 2001.

Jane Field was an Australians Against Further Immigration candidate in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Macquarie Fields in 1999.

Lorraine Dodd stood as an Australian Democrats candidate for the New South Wales Legislative Assembly seat of Mulgoa in 2003.

Rebecca Filipczyk, an Australian Greens member, was a candidate in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly elections for Wentworthville in 1999 and for the House of Representatives for Prospect in 2001.

Susanna Jane Dodgson ran for the Australian Democrats in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly seat of Bligh in 1978.

Suzanne Fleming ran for the Liberal Party in the 1995 elections to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly seat of Newcastle.

Margaret Dombkins is a community activist and an outstanding scholar. She ran for election as a Liberal Party candidate in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Kogarah in 1995 and then as an Independent in the Kogarah Municipal Council elections of 1999.

Annie Elizabeth Ford, a Communist Party of Australia member, ran for election to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Petersham in 1930.

Linda Donovan was a Liberal Party candidate in the Candidate, New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Swansea in 1988.

Patricia Forsythe was a member of the New South Wales Legislative Council from 1991 until 2006. A member of the Liberal Party, she first ran for parliament in 1984 in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Newcastle. She didn’t run again until 1991 and was elected to the Legislative Council of New South Wales. She was re-elected in 1999. She resigned from parliament on 22 September 2006 to take up the position of Executive Director of the New South Wales Business Chamber.

Pam Down was a once only candidate who ran for the Liberal Party in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Burragorang in 1988.

Therese Doyle stood as the Greens candidate in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly elections for Drummoyne in 1999. That same year she was elected to the Concord City Council (1999-2000) and appointed Deputy Mayor. She was opposed the amalgamation in 2000 of Concord and Drummoyne Councils into the City of Canada Bay Council because it distanced the elector from the council. The amalgamation went ahead in 2000.

Catherine Winifred (Kate) Dwyer was one of the most prominent women in New South Wales in the early twentieth century. An avid Labor activist, Dwyer stood for election for the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Balmain in 1925.

Gemma Edgar is a once only candidate for election to the parliament of New South Wales: Australian Democrats ticket at the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Menai in 2003.

Diane Robyn Edwards was a Councillor at the Ballina Shire Council from 1987-1992. She failed to gain election to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Ballina in 1988 when she ran as an Independent.