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Anna COLLINS

Born 1916

Also known as: née Cubillo

Her moth­er Lily was the daugh­ter of the Lar­rakia woman Annie Duwun and Scot­tish-born George McKed­die. Anna’s father was Fil­ipino, Anto­nio CUBIL­LO. Ted ​“Cow­boy” COLLILNS…

Katherine Mary CLUTTERBUCK

Born 1861, Died 31 July 1946

Also known as: Sister Kate

1 Jan­u­ary 1934 — Appoint­ed Order of the British Empire (Mem­ber of the Civ­il Divi­sion), for her ser­vices to dis­ad­van­taged children.

Pio­neer Angli­can nun who com­menced a cottage…

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Nathalie Gladwyn GOREY

Died 11/11/1951

Also known as: née Lacey, Nat

1947 — Found­ed first free kinder­garten in Alice Springs.

First Pres­i­dent of Alice Springs Kinder­garten Inc.

Author of The Alice, The Sto­ry of Alice Springs and a book of…

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Jane Margaret GRAHAM

Died 2003

Also known as: née Hayes

Daugh­ter of Jane Hayes from Undoolya.

Gwenifer Catherine May WILSON

Born October 1916, Died 31 October 1998

Also known as: Gwen

1946 — First woman to gain post grad­u­ate Aus­tralian Diplo­ma of Anaes­the­sia, Uni­ver­si­ty of Sydney.

His­to­ri­an to the Aus­tralian and New Zealand Col­lege of Anaesthetists.

Wendy Elizabeth McCARTHY

Born 22/7/1941

Also known as: née Ryan

1989 — Award­ed Order of Aus­tralia for her con­tri­bu­tion to com­mu­ni­ty and wom­en’s affairs.

Teacher.Chancellor of Uni­ver­si­ty of Canberra.Former Head of Nation­al Trust of…

Beth MILDRED

2000-08 — First woman elect­ed pres­i­dent of Rotary in Cen­tral Australia.

Henrietta Augusta DUGDALE

Born 14 May 1827, Died 17 June 1918

Also known as: née Worrell, Henrietta Davies, Henrietta Dugdale, Henrietta Johnson

”In a let­ter to the Argus in 1869 Hen­ri­et­ta Dug­dale was the first woman to ​‘pub­licly advo­cate the moral right of woman to her share in polit­i­cal power’.”

1884 — Elect­ed first…

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Bridget PROBIN

Born 30 October 1918, Died 18 June 2007

Also known as: née Fitzsimons, Betty

Recip­i­ent of French Star, Ger­man Star, Bur­ma Star, 1939 to 1945 Star, Civ­il Defence Work Medal, Nor­mandy Land­ing Medal, Diplo­ma of Hon­our from France, 2000, and the French…

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Wendy SNOOK

1991 — First female chap­lain in the Defence Forces.

Grace Emily MUNRO

Born 25/03/1879, Died 23/07/1964

Also known as: née Gordon

1922 — Founder of the Coun­try Wom­en’s Asso­ci­a­tion of Aus­tralia (CWA), with her as the pres­i­dent. She trav­elled New South Wales and Queens­land , and by 1923 formed 68 branch­es and…

Fiona Caroline GRAHAM

Also known as: Dr Fiona Graham, Sayuki

2007 — First for­eign geisha in Japan.

Social anthro­pol­o­gist; doc­u­men­tary film mak­er; author; and finan­cial journalist.

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Jean BAIRD

Wife of Rev. John Fly­nn the founder of Aus­tralian Inland Mis­sion and the Roy­al Fly­ing Doc­tor Service

Ann Jane HAYES

Born 25 June 1893

Also known as: née Doolan, Jane

Writ­ten on the back of the draw­ing: Lived on Undoolya sta­tion for many years of her mar­ried life. Upon retire­ment of her hus­band, the prop­er­ty of Undoolya went to Mr and Mrs Ted…

Melinda Kim BRENNAN

Born 1967

Also known as: née Brennan, Mel

1990 – 1991 — First female Qan­tas Cadet.
1991 – 1993 — Gen­er­al Avi­a­tion pilot.
1993 – 2000 — First female Army pilot Aus­tralia and first female mil­i­tary heli­copter pilot Aus­tralia (grad­u­at­ed…

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Sarah CALLAGHAN

Human rights activist. Law and art grad­u­ate, Uni­ver­si­ty South Australia.

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Babs MacKINNON

2004 — Received Order of Aus­tralia, for her con­tri­bu­tion to Aus­tralian Entertainment.

Part of ​“The Musi­cal Macks” (from age 2) — fam­i­ly enter­tain­ment at stage shows…

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Jo VAN SON

Mem­ber (Robyn Fox, Geor­gia Le Plas­tri­er, Jen­ny McKen­zie, Jo Van Son) of the first Aus­tralian all-female canoe team to make the full descent of the Yukon Riv­er (Unit­ed States).

Monica Teresa KENNEDY

Born 1892, Died 28/12/1970

Also known as: nee Sheeran

Mar­ried Michael Fred­er­ick Kennedy (“Fred”) in 1929 and moved to Elke­dra Sta­tion in the North­ern Ter­ri­to­ry. Moth­er of five chil­dren who she super­vised with their schooling…

Ellice Maud NOSWORTHY

Born 25 February 1897, Died 7 January 1972

1922 — One of the first women grad­u­ates in Bach­e­lor Archi­tec­ture, Syd­ney University.
1923 — Nos­wor­thy became one of the first women reg­is­tered archi­tects in New South Wales.…

Nardine COLLIER

First female legal part­ner in the firm Col­lier & Deane, Alice Springs, North­ern Territory.

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Elizabeth ETHERINGTON

1986 – 1987 — First woman local gov­ern­ment may­or in New South Wales rur­al area (Cen­tral West).

Patricia Kathleen LITTLEJOHN

Born 23/6/1913, Died 9/1998

Also known as: née Littlejohn, Patricia Abbott

Pat Lit­tle­john was the sec­ond woman to enrol in the Syd­ney Uni­ver­si­ty fac­ul­ty of Vet­eri­nary Sci­ence, in 1931, but the first to grad­u­ate, in 1935 (Ann Flash­man was the first to enrol in…

Elsa Margaretta PETRICK

Died 12/1986

Also known as: née Johannsen

Jour­nal­ist of North­ern Territory.

Daugh­ter of pio­neer Johannsen family.

Eily Rosaline O'CONNOR

Born 19/2/1892, Died 10/1/1921

Also known as: Eileen

1913 — Found­ed, with Father McGrath, Our Lady’s Nurs­es for the Poor. Oppo­si­tion from church author­i­ties threat­ened Father McGrath with expul­sion from his order and Eileen with…

Mary Hyacinthe Petronel WHITE

Born 4 October 1900, Died 01 June 1984

Also known as: née Groom, Petronel

The first woman to rep­re­sent a cap­i­tal city coun­cil in Aus­tralia, she was elect­ed alder­man to the Hamil­ton ward of the Bris­bane City Coun­cil in 1949.

Margaret Anne FEILMAN

Born 22 June 1921, Died 24 September 2013

First chair­woman of the West­ern Aus­tralia Plan­ning Board. First female to under­take an archi­tec­tur­al cadet­ship in West­ern Aus­trali­a’s Pub­lic Works Depart­ment. First female Town…

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Eileen McRAE

Born 13/07/1932

Also known as: née Bird

Grand­daugh­ter of Fred and Iso­belle PRICE. (Fred PRICE was Tele­graph Mas­ter at Old Tele­graph Sta­tion, Alice Springs, 1916 – 24.)Daughter of Pearl POWELL.Author of By Pack­horse and Buggie…

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…

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Robyn FOX

Mem­ber (Robyn Fox, Geor­gia Le Plas­tri­er, Jen­ny McKen­zie, Jo Van Son) of the first Aus­tralian all-female canoe team to make the full descent of the Yukon Riv­er (Unit­ed States).

Dorothy Helena HERBERT

Born 24 September 1922, Died 27 August 2014

Dorothy Her­bert start­ed with the Roy­al Fly­ing Doc­tor Ser­vice in 1961, locat­ed at Charleville, Queens­land. She worked 20 years for them, flew all over the out­back, and attend­ed outback…

Emma Caroline GILMOUR

Born 8 January 1852, Died 28 September 1953

Also known as: née Hill

1860s — Pos­si­bly first and youngest Post­mistress in the Hope Val­ley area & South Australia.
1898 — Peo­ple of Tea Tree Gul­ly pre­sent­ed her with a sil­ver cruet set in appre­ci­a­tion of…

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Mary Isabel DIXON

Also known as: née Price, Molly

After her hus­band Fred’s sud­den death in 1924, Iso­bel Price decid­ed to return to their prop­er­ty Harpers Springs Sta­tion, north-east of Stu­art (Alice Springs) to work the station…

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Claudine SHARP

First Aus­tralian woman award­ed Cer­tifi­cate of Marine Engi­neer­ing Class I.

Annie May MOORE

Born 4/01/1881, Died 10/06/1931

Also known as: née Moore, May Moore

May Moore, and her sis­ter Mina Moore, were pro­fes­sion­al pho­tog­ra­phers. They began in Welling­ton, New Zealand, mov­ing to Syd­ney and Mel­bourne. May’s spe­cial­i­ty includ­ed famous…

Joanne MEIN

Born 1971

Also known as: Jo

First lieu­tenant Joanne Mein is the first woman mem­ber of the Roulettes in the 30-year his­to­ry of the Roy­al Aus­tralian Air Force’s for­ma­tion aer­o­bat­ics team.

R.A.A.F…

Joan MacCORMAC

Also known as: née Waterton

Writ­ten on the back of the draw­ing: Short-term member.

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Eliza JENKINS

Also known as: née Sharp

… Eliza and Thomas Jenk­ins, worked on Lake Nash Sta­tion in the ear­ly 1890s.Mother of Esther Jenk­ins BOHNING.

Evelyn Maude WEST

Born 14/09/1888, Died 20/06/1969

Also known as: Eva

Along with Miss Bourne, Aus­trali­a’s first woman licensed audi­tor, she was the first woman to pass the exam­i­na­tions nec­es­sary to gain admis­sion into the Incor­po­rat­ed Insti­tute of…

Florence Kathleen BERKERY

Born 24 August 1889, Died 1974

Also known as: née Fitzgerald, Catherine Florence Berkery

Pio­neer of Box Hill, Victoria.

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Mary Hynes SWANTON

Born 22/06/1861, Died 25/11/1940

Also known as: Mamie

1907 — First woman pres­i­dent of Tai­lors and Tai­loress’ Union of West­ern Australia.
First woman award­ed hon­orary life mem­ber­ship of Aus­tralian Natives’ Asso­ci­a­tion in Western…

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Alexa SIMMONS

Also known as: Lexie, Alexa Bates

Author of Kajir­ri, The Bush Missus.

1948 – 1959 — Pio­neer on Vic­to­ria Riv­er Downs (VRD) Station.1958 — she was only the sec­ond white woman ever to live at Mount San­ford Station…

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Judith BLAKE

Born 6 September 1929, Died 11 August 2004

1984 — Award­ed Whyal­la’s Aus­tralia Day Cit­i­zen Award.
1988 — Received the Order of Aus­tralia, for ser­vice to youth.
1989 — Award­ed Life Mem­ber­ship of YWCA.
1994 — Award­ed Flinders…

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Dianne Jennifer GRADY

Born 31/7/1948

Also known as: nee Komor

First woman elect­ed to McK­in­sey Inter­na­tion­al part­ner­ship out­side of USA. She was a ​“Glob­al Thought Leader” in change man­age­ment, organ­i­sa­tion devel­op­ment and innovation.…

Ruby Violet PAYNE-SCOTT

Born 28/05/1912, Died 25/05/1981

First woman radio astronomer.

1930’s — One of a hand­ful of women to earn a degree in Physics from Uni­ver­si­ty of Sydney.

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Jillian Fiona MAXWELL

Also known as: Jill

1997 — First woman to head Pul­teney Gram­mar Schools gov­ern­ing body”, as chair, break­ing a 150-year ​“men only” tra­di­tion and first non-cler­gy appoint­ment in 125 years.…

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Margaret Irene BULLOCK

Born 24 March 1933

Also known as: née Roberts, Dr Margaret Bullock

1955 — One of the first two stu­dents to grad­u­ate from Uni­ver­si­ty of Queens­land with a B.App.Sc in phys­io­ther­a­py and occu­pa­tion­al therapy.
1973 — Received Doc­tor of Phi­los­o­phy (Ph.D.),…

Edith Agnes HUBBE

Born 1859, Died 2 April 1942

Also known as: née Cook, Edith Agnes Cook, Edith Agnes Hübbe

The first woman to matric­u­late at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Ade­laide; she received her diplo­ma (nec­es­sary for degree lev­el stud­ies) in 1877 despite the fact women were not admit­ted to the…

Leah MORCK

Born 1881, Died 10 May 1966

Wife of drover, cat­tle­man, bush­man of West­ern Aus­tralia and North­ern Ter­ri­to­ry, Tom MOR­CK. At 15 Mrs MOR­CK was moth­er to her sev­en sib­lings after their moth­er’s death. Managed…

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Cheryl BELL

Also known as: Commander

1992 — First woman to be per­ma­nent­ly appoint­ed to a ​‘Bush Sta­tion’ (at Yuen­du­mu) by North­ern Ter­ri­to­ry Police.