Catherine Helen Spence

Catherine Helen Spence

a member of a church which allows women to speak in the pulpit, a citizen of a State which gives womanhood a vote for the Assembly, a citizen of a Commonwealth which fully enfranchises me for both Senate and Representatives

Daisy Bates, The Passing of the Aborigines

Daisy Bates, The Passing of the Aborigines

by Bill Holloway There was a time when Daisy Bates (1859-1951), a strange old woman living in a tent in a remote Trans-Australia railway way-station and Aboriginal camp, was one of the best known women in Australia. From the time she arrived in Western Australia in...