June Mary BRONHILL

Born 26 June 1929, Died 24 January 2005

Also known as: née Gough

Aus­tralian Nation­al Opera and Sadler’s Wells Opera Com­pa­ny Singer. Win­ner of Syd­ney Eisteddfod and Sun Aria Prize. 1949 came third in Syd­ney Eisteddfod behind Joan Sutherland.…

Senja Raymond ROBEY

Born 25/01/1927, Died 14/4/2020

Also known as: née Havard

A foun­da­tion mem­ber of the Aus­tralian Women Pilots Asso­ci­a­tion Sen­ja learned to fly in a Tiger Moth in 1949. She has taught hun­dreds of stu­dents to fly and fer­ried many air­craft to…

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Louisa Maria FAWKNER

Born 6 September 1876, Died 22 June 1915

Also known as: née MacNamara, née Faulkner

1901 — Founder of Vil­la Maria, an organ­i­sa­tion that pro­vides qual­i­ty ser­vices and life enhanc­ing oppor­tu­ni­ties for old­er and dis­abled people.

Deborah HICKS

Also known as: née Hicks, Debbie, Deborah Jeppesen

At age 16 Deb­o­rah Hicks was the youngest female pilot in Aus­tralia to fly solo.
Flight Lieu­tenant Williams and Fly­ing Cadet Hicks were the first female pilots to grad­u­ate from the…

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Dorothy BUCKLAND-FULLER

Born 21 January 1922, Died 5 July 2019

Also known as: née Dorothea Dimitropoulos, Dorothy Buckland, Dorothy Buckland Fuller

1974 — First woman to estab­lish an Aus­tralian Migrant Wom­en’s Association.
1977 – Award­ed Mem­ber of the British Empire (MBE), for ser­vices to the community.
1977 — Queen…

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Pat FLEMING

Born 2/03/1915, Died 9/07/1995

Also known as: née Wallace, Nungala, Daisy Alma was her birth name

Life Mem­ber of Nation­al Trust of Australia.

Pat came to the North­ern Ter­ri­to­ry with her hus­band Bap­tist min­is­ter and mis­sion­ary, Tom Flem­ing in 1950. Their son Adri­an was two…

Kate GRENVILLE

Born 14/10/1950

Also known as: Katherine Gee

Kate Grenville is an Aus­tralian author. She has pub­lished wide­ly , includ­ing fic­tion, non-fic­tion, biog­ra­phy, and books about the writ­ing process.

Her books have been award­ed many…

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Caroline Wilhelmina LEHMANN

Born 15/3/1873, Died 8/5/1955

Also known as: Minnie, Caroline Dux

Pio­neer of Parna­roo and Clare dis­tricts of South Australia.Charity worker.

Helen Maxine Lamond REDDY

Born 25/10/1941, Died 29/09/2020

First Aus­tralian to win a Gram­my Award and have three hit in the same year. First female per­former invit­ed to sing in the Peo­ple’s Repub­lic of China

Singer and Lyricist…

Gina SMITH

First deputy chair­woman of the Cen­tral Land Council.

She and Rayleen BROWN found­ed Kun­gas Can Cook, Alice Springs, North­ern Ter­ri­to­ry, an indige­nous cater­ing com​pa​ny​.Ms SMITH…

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Rayleen BROWN

Also known as: née Howard

2000 — Cre­ator, man­ag­er, and oper­a­tor of Kun­ga’s Can Cook, Alice Springs, North­ern Territory.2011 — North­ern Ter­ri­to­ry Research and Inno­va­tion Award co-recip­i­ent of Desert…

Eileen JAMES

Born 1894, Died 1988

Also known as: née Edes, stage name was Ivy DARRELL

1910 — The youngest musi­cian in the first con­cert par­ty of The Asso­ci­a­tion for the Advance­ment of the Blind, trav­el­ling with them for 18 years. Played in con­cert halls in 1913 – 1920s…

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Maryanne MORTON

2003 — First Abo­rig­i­nal woman to head up an Aus­tralian com­pa­ny earn­ing more than $50m a year. Award­ed North­ern Ter­ri­to­ry Star of Achieve­ment from Chief Min­is­ter Clare Martin.…

Isobel WILLIAMS

Also known as: Dr Isobel Wiilliams, Constance Isabel Arundel

In 1967, Dr Isoblel Williams became the first woman Pres­i­dent of the Roy­al Aus­tralian and New Zealand Col­lege of Psy­chi­a­trists (RANZCP).

Few records remain of Dr…

Marlene KONG

1997 – 1998 — Mar­lene and her twin sis­ter Mar­i­lyn were the first Indige­nous women to grad­u­ate with a Bach­e­lor of Med­i­cine from the Uni­ver­si­ty of Sydney.

1993 — Inau­gur­al win­ner of the…

Lilian Violet COOPER

Born 11 August 1861, Died 18 August 1947

Also known as: Dr Lilian Cooper

Eng­lish born and Lon­don-trained, she emi­grat­ed in 1891 and set up prac­tice in Bris­bane, becom­ing Queens­land’s first woman doc­tor. She used a horse and sulky by day and a bicycle…

Lillian INKAMALA

Born 1966

Artist

For­mer health work­er at Iman­pa Health Clinic
Worked for two years as an Anan­gu edu­ca­tion work­er at the Iman­pa Pri­ma­ry School

Catherine Elizabeth GREEN

Born 1 August 1881, Died 25 January 1965

Also known as: née Digges

First female in Upper House (Labor Par­ty), New South Wales.

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Lorraine MORGAN

1991 — First woman to join Lions Club in Ten­nant Creek, North­ern Territory.
First woman to join Lions Club of Mac­Don­nell at Alice Springs, North­ern Territory.
1999 — First woman to be…

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Clarrisa BURGENS

The only North­ern Ter­ri­to­ry woman For­mu­la 500 racer.

Winifred Alison WELLS

1950 – 51: First woman to ride a motor bike (Roy­al Enfield Bul­let 350) across Aus­tralia (Perth to Syd­ney and back).

Colleen O'REILLY

Born 1949

Also known as: née O’Reilly, Stewart

The Mel­bourne Syn­od of Aus­trali­a’s Angli­can Church first called for women priests in 1974. The foun­da­tion of the Move­ment for the Ordi­na­tion of Women by Dr Patri­cia Bren­nan and…

Zara DARE

Born 28 May 1886, Died 1 October 1965

Also known as: née Dare, Zara Wilson

1931 — First of two women police offi­cers in Queensland.

She spent 1917 – 1921, ca 1925 – 1930 as an offi­cer with the Sal­va­tion Army serv­ing in Chi­na. In 1930, she began working…

Andrea Jane MASON

Born 1968

2004 ‑First ever female Abo­rig­i­nal Par­ty Leader when she was made Nation­al Pres­i­dent of Fam­i­ly First.

1988 — Bach­e­lor of Arts degree in Abo­rig­i­nal Affairs and Public…

Kathryn Isobel HAY

Born 24 November 1975

2002 — First Indige­nous woman elect­ed to State and Ter­ri­to­ry Parliaments.

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Elizabeth Jean ANDREW

Born 1948, Died 12 April 1993

Also known as: Elizabeth Andrew-Oates

North­ern Ter­ri­to­ry’s first woman to hold an exec­u­tive and Cab­i­net posi­tion. At first, she was the Exec­u­tive Mem­ber for Edu­ca­tion and Con­sumer Ser­vices, then for Edu­ca­tion and Law…

Lalla TRUGERNANNER

Born 1812, Died 8 May 1876

Also known as: Truganini, Trucanini, Trucaninny, Lalla Rooke

One of the fore­most Tas­man­ian Abo­rig­i­nal lead­ers of the 1800s, nego­tia­tor and spokesper­son for her people.

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Emma Mary WITHNELL

Born 19/12/1842, Died 16/05/1928

Also known as: née Hancock

One of the first women in West­ern Aus­tralia to be made a Jus­tice of the Peace.

Set­tled near Mt Wel­come in 1864. Her son, James, found the gold bear­ing stone which start­ed the…

Lillian Rose SAVAGE

Died 17/10/2012

1965 — Arrived with hus­band Bob and six chil­dren at Suple­jack Downs (in Tana­mi Desert) in vir­gin coun­try and made a work­ing sta­tion (15,000 sq. miles).

Mary Constance BEASLEY

Born 1937

Elect­ed Act­ing Chair­man of South Aus­trali­a’s Pub­lic Ser­vice Board in 1983, this was the first time a woman had held such office in Aus­tralia. She was also South Australia’s…

Beryl Ivy BEALE

Born 1898, Died 18/03/1979

Also known as: née Laidlaw, Cloudy

Beryl Ivy Beale was known as ​‘Cloudy’ because she was a heavy smoker.

‘.…..an artis­tic, sen­si­tive, music-lov­ing woman with the down-to-earth deter­mi­na­tion, for­ti­tude and hard…

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Eileen STOTT

Born 1912, Died 26/06/1999

Also known as: née O'Shea

Born in Pine Creek, North­ern Ter­ri­to­ry. Pio­neer of North­ern Territory.1940 — Mar­ried Gor­don STOTT (son of Robert STOTT, North­ern Ter­ri­to­ry’s first Com­mis­sion­er of Police).

Virginia WYKES

Born 1949

1982 — Believed to be the first Abo­rig­i­nal woman to gain her Pri­vate Pilot’s Licence (Cess­na 150).
2001 — Only Abo­rig­i­nal entrant to com­pete in Cen­te­nary of Fed­er­a­tion Lon­don to…

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Minnie BERRINGTON

Born 9 October 1897, Died 13 April 2001

1925 — First woman opal min­er in Coober Pedy, South Australia.

Clara SOUTHERN

Born 3 October 1860, Died 15 December 1940

Also known as: Panther

First woman mem­ber and com­mit­tee mem­ber of the Aus­tralian Art Association.

Her work is held by the Nation­al Gallery of Vic­to­ria and the Bal­larat Fine Art Gallery.

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Eugenta Mabel Humphris JONES

Also known as: née McPHERSON, Mabel, formerly LAMPE

MRS JONES’ STO­RY­O­rig­i­nal­ly arriv­ing in Stu­art in 1911 as Mrs Jef­frey Lampe, Mabel and her hus­band took over the license of the Stu­art Arms which with­in a few months she was running…

Vivian BULLWINKEL

Born 18 December 1915, Died 3 July 2000

First female Trustee of Aus­tralian War Memorial.

1947 — She received the Flo­rence Nightin­gale Medal.
1973 — Ms Bull­winkel received the Mem­ber of the Order of the British Empire…

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Audrey June ATTWOOD

Born 23 June 1927, Died 25 December 2008

1978 — Award­ed Mem­ber of the British Empire for con­tri­bu­tion to education.

1997 — First Pres­i­dent at Fly­nn Lodge Old Timers Vil­lage, Alice Springs, North­ern Territory.…

Una Sybella TEAGUE

Born December 1878, Died 1969

Dur­ing the pro­longed drought in Cen­tral Aus­tralia in the 1920s many Abo­rig­i­nal peo­ple died of beri-beri and scurvy. Pas­tor Albrecht want­ed to pipe good water from Kapo­r­ilya Springs 7…

Julia RITCHIE

2000 — First woman elect­ed onto the Aus­tralian Jock­ey Club Committee

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Mayse YOUNG

Born 1913, Died 2006

Also known as: née Dowling

1963 — First woman to be elect­ed as pres­i­dent of a Race Club (Pine Creek).

1994 — Medal of the Order of Australia. 

2003 — A recip­i­ent of the Trib­ute to North­ern Territory.…

Ellen Dorothy LITTLEJOHN

Also known as: née Small

1926 — One of two nurs­ing sis­ters of the Aus­tralian Inland Mis­sion appoint­ed to Ade­laide House Hos­pi­tal, Alice Springs, North­ern Territory.

Mary CLARK

Died 1960

Writ­ten on the back of the draw­ing: Long­stand­ing mem­ber, died 1960. Car­ri­er and wood merchant.

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Anna DOIG

Born 4/05/1830, Died 11/09/1894

Also known as: née Moir

Pio­neer of Beltana Dis­trict, South Aus­tralia. Born in Scotland.
Found­ed non-denom­i­na­tion­al Sun­day School (under Wes­leyan Church).
Unof­fi­cial Doc­tor — laid out the dead.
Midwife,…

Enid Muriel LYONS

Born 9/7/1897, Died 2/9/1981

Also known as: née Burnell

First woman to win a seat in Fed­er­al Par­lia­ment. In 1943 Enid was elect­ed to the House of Rep­re­sen­ta­tives for the Unit­ed Aus­tralia Par­ty and became the first woman in Cab­i­net. She…

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Evelyn Mary PERKINS

Born 1889, Died 06/1968

Also known as: née Bray

The inau­gur­al meet­ing of the Alice Springs Branch of the CWA was held at the Res­i­den­cy in 1933. This branch was formed by Mrs J A Perkins, imme­di­ate past pres­i­dent of the Metropolitan…

Eliza FORLONGE

Born 21 October 1784, Died 5 August 1859

Also known as: née Jack, Betty Jack, Eliza Forlong

Pio­neered Sax­on Meri­no Wool into Aus­tralia — first­ly into Tas­ma­nia and final­ly into Victoria.

Georgina KING

Born 6 June 1845, Died 7 June 1932

Aus­trali­a’s first female geol­o­gist. Georgina came from a fam­i­ly who held the nat­ur­al sci­ences in high regard. As she was grow­ing up, she did not lack for men­tors among the…

Nancy-Bird WALTON, OBE, AO

Born 16/10/1915, Died 13/1/2009

Also known as: Nancy Bird, Nancy Bird Walton, Nancy Bird-Walton

Nan­cy-Bird was a pio­neer­ing Avi­a­trix who in 1932, at the age of 17, was the youngest female Aus­tralian to gain a pilot’s license. Two years lat­er she became the first female…

​Edith May LAVER

Also known as: née Parker

Edith May Park­er mar­ried Jack Laver after World War I. They lat­er took up the Stu­art Arms Hotel licence, and with their son Robert (Bob), trav­elled on the train from South Australia…