The Australian Women's Register

Grace Winifred Barnett was born in 1902 in Collingwood, Victoria, to parents Emma Jane (Hunter) and John Barnett. Grace married solicitor Herbert Park Philpot in Manly in 1955. She was a member of the ANZAC Fellowship of Women.

UN Women National Committee Australia (formerly the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) Australia Inc.) was established in 1991. The committee exists to raise funds for, and awareness of, UN Women’s work in the Pacific and around the world.

Carole Fay Deagan was involved in many women’s and children’s issues, particularly the matter of child care.

Kate McNamara is Canberra-based poet and playwright.

Lily Brett’s family migrated to Melbourne in 1948 after her parents, Max and Rose, survived the Holocaust. During the 1960s Lily wrote for the rock magazine Go-Set and in 1989 she moved to New York.

Lily has published seven novels, eight volumes of poetry and four collections of essays. She has won numerous awards for her work, including the Victorian Premier’s Award for Poetry in 1987 for The Auschwitz poems (1986).

Shayna Jack won a gold medal in the 4 x 100m Freestyle Relay at the 2018 Gold Coast Commonwealth Games.

Georgia Bohl won a gold medal in the 4 x 100m Medley Relay at the 2018 Gold Coast Commonwealth Games.

Brianna Throssell won a gold medal in the 4 x 200m Freestyle Relay at the 2018 Gold Coast Commonwealth Games.

Gillian Backhouse won a gold medal in the Mixed Team Relay Triathlon at the 2018 Gold Coast Commonwealth Games.

Charlotte McShane won a gold medal in the Mixed Team Relay Triathlon at the 2018 Gold Coast Commonwealth Games.

Suzy Javor migrated to Australia in 1957 following the Hungarian revolution. She had an outstanding career as a table tennis player and was inducted into both the Jewish Sports Hall of Fame and the Australian Sports Hall of Fame.

Margaret Crawford was interested in the position and working conditions of women in the Commonwealth Public Service and was involved in their equal pay campaign.

Margaret was the secretary, and later convenor, of the Women Graduates’ Committee of the Professional Officers Association and from 1951 until 1964 she was also a member of the Canberra Branch Equal Pay Sub-Committee of the Professional Officers’ Association.

Professor Helen Irving has been employed in the Faculty of Law at the University of Sydney since 2001. Prior to this, from 1988 until 2001, she was a senior lecturer in the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Technology, Sydney.

Ashlee Ankudinoff won a gold medal in the 4000m Team Pursuit at the 2018 Gold Coast Commonwealth Games.

Alexandra Manly won a gold medal in the 4000m Team Pursuit at the 2018 Gold Coast Commonwealth Games.

Georgia Sheehan won a gold medal in the Synchronised 3m Springboard at the 2018 Gold Coast Commonwealth Games.

Kelsey Cottrell won a gold medal in the Lawn Bowls Fours at the 2018 Gold Coast Commonwealth Games.

Carla Krizanic won gold medals in the Lawn Bowls Triples and Fours at the 2018 Gold Coast Commonwealth Games.

Jenna O’Hea won a gold medal as part of the Australian basketball team at the 2018 Gold Coast Commonwealth Games.

Natasha Scott won gold medals in the Lawn Bowls Triples and Fours at the 2018 Gold Coast Commonwealth Games.

Tessa Lavey won a gold medal as part of the Australian basketball team at the 2018 Gold Coast Commonwealth Games.

Rebecca von Asch won gold medals in the Lawn Bowls Triples and Fours at the 2018 Gold Coast Commonwealth Games.

Stephanie Talbot won a gold medal as part of the Australian basketball team at the 2018 Gold Coast Commonwealth Games.

Lynne Seymour won a gold medal in the Lawn Bowls Mixed B2/B3 Pairs at the 2018 Gold Coast Commonwealth Games.

Stephanie Blicavs won a gold medal as part of the Australian basketball team at the 2018 Gold Coast Commonwealth Games.

Liz Cambage won a gold medal as part of the Australian basketball team at the 2018 Gold Coast Commonwealth Games.