Linda Marion BERLOWITZ

Born 1903, Died July 1998

Also known as: née Cave, Lyn

1960 – 63 — First woman to suc­cess­ful­ly stand for elec­tion to the North­ern Ter­ri­to­ry Leg­isla­tive Coun­cil — won seat of Fan­ny Bay.

Busi­ness­woman in Darwin.

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Marilyn Jodie CLARKE

Also known as: née Kong

First Aus­tralian Abo­rig­i­nal spe­cial­ist, Obstetrician/​Gynecologist.

1997 – 1998 — Mar­i­lyn and her twin sis­ter Mar­lene were the first Indige­nous women to grad­u­ate with a Bach­e­lor of…

Ena HAMILTON

Died 14 March 1993

Writ­ten on the back of the draw­ing: Devot­ed mem­ber (dog lover).

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Ella Jane McNAMARA

Pio­neer of Black­wood dis­trict in South Australia.

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Jane Margaret GRAHAM

Died 2003

Also known as: née Hayes

Daugh­ter of Jane Hayes from Undoolya.

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Florence Evelyn SWANSON

Died 1969

Also known as: née Clarke, Dolly, Camp Oven Doll

Born in Vic­to­ria. Had singing lessons and trained with Dame Nel­lie Mel­ba with whom she became a life long friend.Writer of bush news, let­ters and recipes to ​‘The Chronicle’,…

Eva Mabel GARLAND

Born 30 June 1912

Also known as: née Lawrence, Mable

1990 — Received Advance Aus­tralia award.
1992 — Received Aus­tralian Day Cit­i­zen­ship award.
1995 — Recip­i­ent of Adult Learn­ers’ Award.
1999 — Received Premier’s Seniors Achievement…

Margaret Helen MITTELHEUSER

Born 25/07/1931, Died 27/12/2013

1964 — First woman stock­bro­ker in Aus­tralia and almost cer­tain­ly the world.

1952 — Received Bach­e­lor of Com­merce degree, Uni­ver­si­ty of Queensland.1952 — She joined the firm…

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Edna Margaret WALLING

Born 4 December 1896, Died 8 August 1973

1918 — First female land­scape gardener.

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Vicki TAYLOR

2009 — Tel­stra North­ern Ter­ri­to­ry Busi­ness Woman of the Year.

Gen­er­al Man­ag­er — Alice Springs Hos­pi­tal (2004- ).

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Janine BUTLER

First woman to fly an RAAF Ori­on air­craft (a mar­itime recon­nais­sance plane).

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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…

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Agnes Melda PRINCE

Also known as: Melda

“West­ern Aus­tralia author and poet. … mar­ry­ing Eric Prince. Togeth­er they took up five thou­sand acres of vir­gin land near Esper­ance in 1927.”

Pio­neer of…

Joyce POLSON

Rev­erend Joyce was admit­ted to the Order of Dea­coness­es in 1955, the only min­istry open to women at that time. She was made dea­con in 1986 and ordained priest in 1992, with the first…

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Catherine Amelia WELLS

Born 17/9/1868

Also known as: née Long, Kate

Kate was the first white woman to live at Alice Springs.
Drove the mail and pas­sen­ger coach from Alice Springs to Ood­na­dat­ta when her hus­band was too drunk to drive.

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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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Mere RUMBAL

Own­er and Direc­tor of Alice Springs Cen­tral Dance Theatre.2002 — Award­ed world’s first hon­our by British Bal­let organ­i­sa­tion for 50 years ser­vice to the dance industry.

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Honor Cameron WILSON

Born 14 August 1913, Died 16 January 1998

Pio­neer phys­io­ther­a­pist. Played a piv­otal role in the devel­op­ment of the phys­io­ther­a­py pro­fes­sion in South Aus­tralia dur­ing two Polio epi­demics before and after the war. Published…

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Jude MUNRO

First woman Chief Exec­u­tive Offi­cer of two cities: Ade­laide and Brisbane.

Chief Exec­u­tive of coun­cils: Ade­laide, Bris­bane, More­land, and St Kilda.2010 – Ms. Munro received…

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Mrs DANE

First white woman at Stawell, Victoria.

The Dane Memo­r­i­al Seat, Stawell, Vic­to­ria, was erect­ed in mem­o­ry of her husband.

Anne Isabella DARCY FOWLER

Born 24 July 1911, Died 13 June 2003

Also known as: née Darcy, Ann, Annie

Annie was one of the first female drovers, and it is believed that she and her broth­ers pho­tos adorn the walls at Daly Waters Pub as charar­c­ters of the Territory.

Annie was part of a…

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Lynn ALLEN

Lynn worked for twelve years as the State Librar­i­an and CEO of the West­ern Aus­tralian state library (from 1989 – 2001). Over a peri­od of 107 years, Pro­fes­sor Allen was only the fourth…

Penelope Anne WENSLEY

Born 18/10/1946

Also known as: Penny

1997 — Aus­trali­a’s first female Ambas­sador to Unit­ed Nations — the most senior exter­nal appoint­ment ever giv­en to a woman in Aus­tralian For­eign Service.
2001 — Made an Officer…

Kylie Ann MINOGUE

Born 28/05/1968

Biggest sell­ing female artist in Aus­tralian con­cert history.

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Sheila Margaret BLACKMORE

1971 — Received the Order of the British Empire — Mem­ber (Civ­il) (MBE©), Community.

Founder Direc­tor of the Nation­al Asso­ci­a­tion for Train­ing the Dis­abled in Office Work…

Daphne CALDER

Born 5 January 1924, Died 15 October 2013

Also known as: née Campbell, Daphne Calder

Pic­tured here at Emi­ly Gap out­side Alice Springs, she starred oppo­site Aus­tralian act­ing leg­end chips Raf­fer­ty in The Over­lan­ders, a clas­sic movie being the first to show…

Kristen Alanna APPEL

Born 23/7/1964

First female nation­al park ranger to be in charge of a nation­al park/​reserve in Aus­tralia (Arl­tun­ga) — August 1992.

Alexandrina SEAGER

Born 27 November 1872, Died 12 March 1950

Also known as: née Laidlaw, Alexandra

First woman to hold Vice Pres­i­den­cy of Returned Ser­vices Asso­ci­a­tion (lat­er known as the RSL).

1909 — Start­ed her own busi­ness, ​“Scholas­tic Agency,” to supply…

Loraine Margaret BRAHAM

Born 21/8/1938

Lor­rain Bra­ham was the first woman elect­ed from Cen­tral Aus­tralia to the Leg­isla­tive Assem­bly of the North­ern Ter­ri­to­ry (1994) and the first woman Speak­er in the North­ern Territory.…

Anna STEWART

Born 11/03/1947, Died 12/04/1983

1979 — First woman to achieve mater­ni­ty leave for women in the pri­vate sector.

A for­mer jour­nal­ist and active Vic­to­ri­an Union offi­cial from 1974 to 1983.

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Annie Doreen MUNE

Born 6 February 1901, Died 1989

Also known as: née Hensley

In 1924 she was appoint­ed Mel­bourne City Coun­cil’s coor­di­na­tor to com­bat dypthe­ria. Dur­ing this cam­paign she test­ed and immu­nised 11,230 children.

Pio­neer doc­tor in Fiji…

Martha WEBSTER

Born 1839, Died 11 August 1915

Also known as: née Turner

1872 — First woman to become a Min­is­ter of a Protes­tant Church in Australia.

The ​‘Wom­en’s Vot­er’ wrote for her Obit­u­ary: In rela­tion to wom­en’s movement…

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Valerie WOODRUFFE

Also known as: née Whitehall

About 1978 she trained and com­plet­ed as a dog­man [An assis­tant to a crane oper­a­tor, respon­si­ble for secur­ing the crane’s load and direct­ing the oper­a­tor.] work­ing at Goldsworthy…

Maree LYNDON

1987 — First female jock­ey in Aus­tralia to ride in the Mel­bourne Cup.

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Ida Elizabeth JENKINS

Born 29/8/1916, Died 30/10/2014

Also known as: née Osbourne, Liz. Professionally she was known as Elizabeth Osbourne and Ida Elizabeth Jenkins.

A pio­neer of chil­dren’s radio, wom­en’s issues and the Save the Chil­dren Fund, and a found­ing mem­ber of the Chil­dren’s Book Coun­cil of Australia.

1954 — Was the only…

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Jeanette WORMALD

Com­pos­er and singer. Debut tape ​“Male Bride,” 1994.

Three Top Ten Hits from the album Opal Blue.Golden Gui­tar nom­i­nee 2007 for Opal Blue.South Aus­tralian Great…

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Elizabeth CALLAGHAN

Born 1802, Died 31 Mar 1852

Also known as: Eliza, Eliza Thompson, Elizabeth Batman, Sarah Willoughby

Con­vict, who mar­ried John BAT­MAN (founder of Mel­bourne — died ¹⁸³⁹⁄₄₀). Moth­er of sev­en daugh­ters and one son by John BAT­MAN. Lat­er mar­ried John WILLOUGH­BY. Known as Sarah WILLOUGHBY…

Jane Stocks GREIG

Born 12 June 1872, Died 16 September 1939

Also known as: Jean

1896 – 1910 — One of founders of Vic­to­ri­an Med­ical Wom­en’s Society.
16 April 1910 — Received the Diplo­ma of Pub­lic Health at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Mel­bourne, the first woman to do so.…

Edith Antonia McDONALD

Also known as: née Bohning, Edie

The two Bohn­ing girls, Elsie and Edie, were famous for their sta­tion work.Esther Bohn­ing and her daugh­ters, Elsie and Edith, from Helen Springs Sta­tion north of Ten­nant Creek, were…

Diann RODGERS-HEALEY

2000 — Found­ed the Aus­tralian Cen­tre for Lead­er­ship for Women.

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Beverley BRUEN

Also known as: Bev

The first of only a small num­ber of stamp illustrators.

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Natalie Rona MILLER

Natal­ie Miller became Aus­trali­a’s first female inde­pen­dent film dis­trib­u­tor and the Vic­to­ri­an Film Cor­po­ra­tion’s first woman board member.
2001 — Award­ed Medal of the Order…

Lesley PARKER

Emer­i­tus Pro­fes­sor Les­ley Park­er AM

The first woman appoint­ed to a sig­nif­i­cant senior exec­u­tive role at Curtin Uni­ver­si­ty, Les­ley Park­er was named Senior Deputy Vice-Chan­cel­lor in…

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Dorothy Jean HAILES

Born 22 June 1926, Died 27 November 1988

Also known as: Dr Jean Hailes

“Dr Jean Hailes was a pio­neer in women’s health in Aus­tralia. In 1971 she estab­lished the first clin­ic in Aus­tralia ded­i­cat­ed to the man­age­ment of menopause.” [Aleeza Zohar]
9 June…

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Susannah Matilda WARD

Died 4/06/1862

Also known as: née Baldwin

1820 — Pio­neer of ear­ly New South Wales.

Robin Elizabeth MILLER

Born 8 December 1940, Died 7 December 1975

Also known as: née Miller, The Sugarbird Lady

Robin was a nurse and a pilot. From 1967 – 69 she flew to many remote Abo­rig­i­nal com­mu­ni­ties admin­is­ter­ing the Sabin polio vac­cine on sug­ar cubes. The chil­dren called her ​“the…

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Alison ANDERSON

Born 1958

Also known as: Alison Nampitjimpa Anderson

Activist and politi­cian for Indige­nous peo­ple with­in the North­ern Ter­ri­to­ry, espe­cial­ly Cen­tral Aus­tralia. She was a mem­ber of the North­ern Ter­ri­to­ry Leg­isla­tive Assem­bly between 2005…

Mary PENFOLD

Born 1820, Died 21/12/1895

Also known as: née Holt

Pio­neer wine­mak­er of Pen­folds Win­ery (now Southcorp).

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Sharon Lea Anne ANYOS

Born 13/10/1970

Also known as: Wildthing

Aus­trali­a’s first female World Box­ing Cham­pi­on. First Aus­tralian woman to take out the inau­gur­al Wom­en’s Box­ing Title in first ever ANBF & OBA sanc­tioned women’s…

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Alma Jean POOLE

Born 1920

Also known as: née Kuhn, Jean