The Australian Women's Register

Conservation campaigner Audrey Fay Sutton grew up in Geelong, Victoria. In 1948 she graduated from the University of Melbourne having studied zoology, economic geography and politics. Fay became involved in the environment movement during the early 1970s.

From 1979 until her death, Fay was a council member of the Australian Conservation and was also instrumental to the formation of Greening Australia. Fay was an executive councillor of the Nature Conservation Council of New South Wales from 1980 to 2000 and was involved in several other groups and committees whose focus was on environmental issues.