Mena Calthorpe, The Dyehouse
Calthorpe also makes us more uncomfortable than Tennant in the end, more aware of our own complicity in so much social injustice, because she is sympathetic, understanding, and – like Miss Merton – “well into middle age”
Dorothy Hewett, Bobbin Up
by Kim Forrester Dorothy Hewett (1923-2002) was from a well-off farming family in Western Australia. She did her primary schooling at home on the family wheat farm, but when they moved to Perth, attended Perth College, an Anglican girls school, and then UWA. She...
Doris Pilkington, Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence
The common belief at the time was that part-Aboriginal children were more intelligent than their darker relations and should be isolated and trained to be domestic servants and labourers
Janette M. Bomford, That Dangerous and Persuasive Woman: Vida Goldstein
By Janine Rizetti. [Vida] was mainstream middle-class, stylishly dressed and a very capable public speaker, and she spearheaded the ‘No’ case during the Conscription referendum campaigns.
Clare Wright, You Daughters of Freedom
By Sue/Whispering Gums. Australia was a leader in women’s suffrage by being the first nation to legislate suffrage for all white adult Australian women, without property qualifications, and to enable those women to stand for parliament [but] it was just for white women.
