Mazzella, Kath
(1951 – )Women's health advocate
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Landells, Flora Annie Margaret
(1888 – 1981)Art teacher, Artist
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Keating, Colma Derlua Monica
(1960 – )Consultant, Environmentalist, Policy adviser
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Kickett, Glenda Joyce
(1960 – )Social worker
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Kastner, Winifred
(1903 – 1987)Community worker
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Jenkinson, Samantha
Disability rights activist
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Holmes, Marion Louisa
(1856 – 1921)Artist, Charity worker
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Holmes, Marion Phoebe
(1880 – 1966)Charity worker
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Hewett, Dorothy
(1923 – 2002)Novelist, Playwright, Poet
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Holmes à Court, Janet
(1943 – )Company chairman, Philanthropist
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Haynes, Edith Annie Mary
(1876 – 1968)Barrister, Law clerk, Lawyer
Edith Haynes was born in Sydney in 1876 and moved with her family to Western Australia in 1891. In 1900, having worked at her uncle’s law firm, she applied to the Barristers Board of Western Australia to sit the examinations necessary to practise as a lawyer. The board refused her request on the grounds that a woman was not a ‘person’ under the Legal Practitioners Act 1893. Haynes challenged the decision in the Supreme Court of Western Australia, but it was upheld; she was never admitted to practice. Edith Haynes died in 1968.
Harken, Nennie
(1922 – 2014)Equal pay campaigner, Teacher, Trade unionist
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Frances, Raelene
Historian
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Erickson, Frederica Lucy (Rica)
(1908 – 2009)Botanical artist, Historian, Naturalist, Writer
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Dann, Sandra Gertrude
(1967 – )Radio Broadcaster
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Davis, Judy
(1956 – )Actor
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Clutterbuck, Katherine Mary
(1861 – 1946)Child welfare worker, Religious Sister
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Craig, Frances Eileen
(1896 – 1974)Community worker
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Clarke, Helena
(1922 – 2015)Aboriginal rights activist
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Carey, Hilary Mary
(1957 – )Historian
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Berndt, Catherine
(1918 – 1994)Anthropologist
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Mitchell, Una Hayston
(1900 – 1983)Principal, Teacher
Una Mitchell was Headmistress of Canberra Girls’ Grammar between 1937 and 1947. She left Canberra to return to her home state to become Headmistress of St Hilda’s Anglican School for Girls in Mosman Park in Perth. She retired in 1967 and was appointed Chairman of the Conference of Independent Girls’ Schools of Australia. She was an inspiring Science teacher and highly respected principal, who had high educational and moral standards. She dedicated her life to ensuring the girls in her care were prepared for what she saw as a rapidly changing and modernizing world. She taught them to have ‘a high regard for personal integrity’, to be adaptable as well as to have ‘enquiring minds and the spirit of adventure’.
Dale, Lyn
(1945 – )Administrator, Historian, Soldier, Writer
Lyn Dale is a writer and documentary film maker with a passionate interest in the telling of the stories of ‘ordinary’ Australian women. She has written extensively on the lives of women in the military and has used her own family history to write about the experience of female immigration to Australia.
Lyn comes from a military background. Her father and four uncles served in WWII. The eldest of five children of John Murray Kane (former stockman, drover and soldier) and Betty Johnston, Lyn was educated in Perth Western Australia, apart from 2 years at boarding school in the wheatbelt area of WA. Early work as a machine embroiderer fuelled a lifelong interest in embroidery and sewing.
After enlisting in the Australian Army in 1964 and serving for 5 years, Lyn married a Vietnam War Veteran and spent the next decade living in mining towns in Western Australia. When the marriage ended in 1981 Lyn and her 2 daughters moved to Perth, where Lyn later secured an administrative position at Murdoch University. She remained there for 21 years before her retirement in 2009.
Working with Perth Film Maker Samantha Bergersen, Lyn has produced two historically significant documentaries. Maggie’s Journey, made in 2004 tells the story of Lyn’s paternal grandmother, Maggie Kelly (married name Kane). Twenty-five year old Maggie was one of a group of young female domestic servants who, in 1900, emigrated to Western Australia on a “bride ship”. The story is told through photographs, diary extracts, letters and other ephemera.
In 2011 received a grant from the Department of Veterans’ Affairs to produce a 90 minute documentary that tells the stories of 16 women who served in the Australian Army from 1951 to the 1990s. Lady Soldiers received high acclaim for its historical significance. In 2012 Lyn began work on a book of the same name, to ensure that material collected for but not used in the documentary would not be lost to future generations.