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Antoinette GAGLIARDI
Antoinette, the first child of Maria Concetta “Connie” née Ciccone and Giuseppe Gagliardi arrived in Australia, via Argentina, with her mother in 1938.
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Maria Concetta GAGLIARDI
Born 20/10/1911, Died 13/09/1998
Also known as: née Ciccone, Concetta, Connie
Concetta and Giuseppe GAGLIARDI opened the first Alice Springs “night spot,” a dance hall, which was part of their complex opposite Melanka, in which they also sold meals and…
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Gwendoline Fay GALE
Born 1932, Died 2008
Also known as: Fay
First Honours graduate of Teaching Geography at the University of Adelaide. 1978 — First female professor of Geography at Adelaide University
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Patricia GALLAGHER
Also known as: Pat
Pioneer in Women’s Netball Association in Alice Springs, Northern Territory. Netball courts have been named in her honour.
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Jean Dorothy GARDINER
Also known as: Dorothy
“The 14th woman in Australia to hold a private license and possibly only the second to own her own plane.”
1929 — With Bobbie TERRY was first women in New South Wales/Australia to… -
Kathleen GARDINER
Also known as: née Howell
1920s — With close friend Jean Beatson née ROBERTSON, motored from Victoria to Darwin and Back — an endurance run — first females to do so.
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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.
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Lucy GARLICK
Also known as: née Garlick, Sister Lucy Garlick, Lucy Johnstone (through marriage)
Lucy Garlick was the first infant welfare sister to work with the Royal Flying Doctor Service.
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Beth GARRETT
First woman employed as Instructor by an Aero Club in Australia
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Mary Genevieve GAUDRON
Also known as: Justice Mary Gaudron
1979 — Appointed first Chairman of the Legal Services Commission of NSW
19887 — Appointed to The High CourtA Queens Councillor since 1981. Previously Solicitor-General of… -
Florence Ann GAYLARD
Born 1888
Mother of Kathleen Sneddon’s mother. She was artistic and made all manner of things including emus out of sea shells. She eventually returned to Dunedin, New Zealand to live.
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Louise GEE
2002 — First woman appointed a director of Gosford Council (New South Wales).
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Emma Louise GEORGE
Born 1 November 1974
1995 – 2000 — World record pole vaulter (17 times; 12 in a row during the 1990s), which includes Commonwealth Games, Commonwealth Games and World University Games, Olympic Games, World…
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Jenny GEORGE
Born 1947
1983 — First woman elected to the Australian Council of Trade Unions Executive
1987 — First woman elected Vice-President of A.C.T.U.
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Sandra Irene GESELL
Born 6 November 1946
First female staff officer, commissioned rank — Victoria Police Force.
First female detective inspector — Victoria Police Force.
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Margaret Helen GETHING
Born 20 December 1920, Died 16 July 2005
Also known as: née Gepp, Mardi
During World War II Mardi joined the Air Transport Auxiliary delivering different types of aircraft. The dangers were many. In the 1960s she returned to Australia and became the…
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May GIBBS
Born 17 January 1877, Died 27 November 1969
Also known as: Cecilia May, Stan Cottman and "Blob" (pseudonyms)
May Gibbs was a leading painter, illustrator, cartoonist and author. She was the author of the classic Australian children’s books Gumnut Babies and Snugglepot and Cuddlepie. In…
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Pearl Mary GIBBS
Born 1901, Died 28/4/1983
Also known as: Gambanyi
Pearl Gibbs was an Aboriginal leader and fought all her life for the rights of Indigenous Australians. Her mother, Mary Margaret Brown, was born in Brewarrina. Her mother was Maria,…
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Gladys Ruth GIBSON
Born 29 December 1901, Died 23 August 1972
Also known as: Ruth
Educator, Community Leader.
1919 — Began as a student-teacher, Goodwood.1921 — Appointed to Westbourne Park Public School.1937 — Obtained Bachelor of Arts, University of Adelaide.1940… -
Leonie Judith GIBSON
Born 1924
Also known as: Leonie Kramer, Dame Leonie Gibson
1968 — First female Professor of Literature at University of Sydney
DBE
On Board of the ABC, University Councils, National Institute of Dramatic Art and Western Mining1991 -… -
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Dorothy GILL
Born 18 November 1925
Also known as: née Adamson, Doff
First female bank clerk in Alice Springs, Northern Territory. Also worked in Commonwealth Bank in 1942.
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Julia Eileen GILLARD
Born 29 September 1961
Also known as: Dr Julia Gillard
Julia Gillard was Australia’s first female Prime Minister, sworn in as the 27th Prime Minister of Australia on 24 June 2010 and serving in that office until June 2013. Previously,…
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Judith GILLATT
Born 1929
Also known as: née Tredinnick
1953 – 54 — Flying dentist, far north Queensland.
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Amelia Maud GILLEN
Born 26/05/1869, Died 16/11/1928
Also known as: née Besley, Minnie, Amelia Maude
Amelia “Minnie” Gillen was an accomplished singer and pianist. As a twenty-two-year-old bride, she travelled from Mount Gambier to her new home at Alice Springs in 1891.The…
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Mary Jean GILMORE
Born 16/08/1865, Died 3/12/1962
Also known as: née Cameron, Dame Mary Jean Cameron, Em Jaycey, Sister Jaycey, Rudione Calvert
The first woman executive/member of the Australian Workers’ Union.
1928 — Founder of the Fellowship of Australian Writers.
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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… -
Margaret GILRUTH
1939 — First Australian woman to use her Pilot’s Licence in the field of newspaper reporting
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Peggy GLANVILLE-HICKS
Born 1912, Died 1990
1938 First Australian composer represented at an International Society for Contemporary Music Festival in London
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Elizabeth Huntley GLANVILLE
Born 27 April1922, Died 11 December 1996
Also known as: Betty, Huntley
1943 – 45 — Nurse and member of Women’s Land Army in World War II.1948 — Managed Shell-Ford agency in Darwin after working for agency for some years delivering cars to remote areas,…
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Ida Jessie GLASS
Born 2/2/1888, Died 17/3/1968
Also known as: 2/2/1888
Nurse in Queensland, Melbourne and Perth.
Australian Inland Mission Nursing Hister at Oodnadatta 1921 – 1924
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Khadhraa GLEN
First South Australian Muslim to be awarded a gold medal for the Duke of Edinburgh Award.
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Eleni GLOUFTSIS
First woman to umpire a football game at state level. First female to umpire an A1 amateur game and later an South Australian National Football League
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Mary GLOWREY
Born 23 June 1887, Died 5 May 1957
Also known as: Mary Glowrey, M.D.; Sister Mary of the Sacred Heart Society of Jesus, Mary, Joseph
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Alfreda GLYNN
Also known as: Freda
Awarded the Australia Medal.
1980 — Founded first Aboriginal Radio Station — Radio 8KIN-FM19898 — Founded Central Australian Aboriginal Media Association in Northern Territory… -
Erica GLYNN
Born 1964
Writer of Indigenous stories. Director of documentaries and films. Some to mention are My Bed, Your Bed; Redreaming the Dark; and Maude and Pearlie Too.
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Rona Ellen GLYNN
Born 24 September 1936, Died 4 January 1965
Also known as: Rona Schaber
1955 — First Aboriginal teacher in Alice Springs (grade 2 — Hartley Street School).
1962 — First Aboriginal charge sister (maternity ward) in Alice Springs Hospital.
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Hazel Clarence GOLDER
Born 29 March 1894, Died 1984
1930s — Ran one of the first guest houses in Alice Springs, named “The Bushman’s Rest.” It was in an area situated between Shell Todd and Murray Neck’s Video…
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Annie Mackenzie GOLDING
Born 10/03/1857, Died 28/12/1934
Lobbied for equal pay, female education, removal of sex barrier in employment (e.g., appointment of women as JPs and police officers). In 1909, wrote a paper entitled “The…
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Vida Jane Mary GOLDSTEIN
Born 13/04/1869, Died 15/09/1949
The first Victorian female candidate for the Senate in Australia’s 1903 first Federal election, she was one of the first four unsuccessful women candidates that year but the one…
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Kay GOLDSWORTHY
Kay Goldsworthy became the first Australian woman Bishop (Anglican) when she was consecrated on 22 May 2008, in Perth, Western Australia.
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Eileen Mary Florence GOOD
Born 1893, Died 1986
Australia’s first female academic in Architecture, she was the third woman to enter the new Diploma of Architecture course at the University of Melbourne in 1917 and the first…
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Agnes Knight GOODE
Born 31 January 1872, Died 20 February 1947
Also known as: née Fleming, Mrs A K Goode
1916 — One of the first South Australian female Justices of the Peace and the first to take her seat on the bench with the Stipendiary Magistrate.
1923 — The first woman pre-selected…