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Mother Abbott (1846 - 1934) hospital founder
Stella Allan (1871 - 1962) journalist
Alice Anderson (1897 - 1926) garage proprietor
Maybanke Anderson (1845 - 1927) feminist
Caroline Archer (1922 - 1973) OPAL executive
Kate Ardill Brice (1886 - 1955) gynaecologist
Florence Austral (1894 - 1968) singer
Freda Bage (1883 - 1970) biologist
Mary Ann Baker (1834 - 1905) bushranger
Elise Barney (1815 - 1883) postmistress
Daisy Bates (1859 - 1951) journalist
Barbara Baynton (1857 - 1929) writer
Annette Bear-Crawford (1853 - 1899) feminist
Doris Beeby (1894 - 1948) union organiser
Jane Bell (1873 - 1959) hospital matron
Zoe Benjamin (1882 - 1962) kindergarten teacher
Grace Benny (1872 - 1944) local government councillor
Daisy Bindi (c.1904 - 1962) Aboriginal activist
Sylvia Birdseye (1902 - 1962) busdriver
Marie Bjelke-Petersen (1874 - 1969) novelist
Dorrit Black (1891 - 1951) artist
Doris Blackburn (1889 - 1970) politician
Margaret Blackwood (1909 - 1986) botanist
Angela Booth (1869 - 1954) sex educator
Eleanor Bourne (1878 - 1957) doctor
Anna Brennan (1879 - 1962) lawyer
Louisa Briggs (1836 - 1925) Aboriginal leader
Vera Scantlebury Brown (1889 - 1946) doctor
Bessy Cameron (1851 - 1895) Aboriginal teacher
Marcella Cameron (1879 - 1948) factory manager
Kate Campbell (1899 - 1982) paediatrician
Persia Campbell (1898 - 1974) economist
Florence Cardell-Oliver (1876 - 1965) politician
Mel Cashman (1891 - 1983) union organiser
Margaret Catchpole (1762 - 1819) convict
Elsa Chauvel (1898 - 1983) film producer
Caroline Chisholm (1808 - 1877) immigrants' friend
Phyllis Cilento (1894 - 1987) doctor
Janet Clarke (1851 - 1909) philanthropist
Kate Cocks (1875 - 1954) policewoman
Fanny Cohen (1887 - 1975) headmistress
Ola Cohn (1892 - 1964) sculptor
Mary Colton (1822 - 1898) philanthropist
Isabel Cookson (1893 - 1973) palaeobotanist
Laura Corbin (1841 - 1906) crèche founder
Elizabeth Couchman (1876 - 1982) politician
Edith Cowan (1861 - 1932) politician
Irene Crespin (1896 - 1980) micropalaeontologist
Minard Crommelin (1881 - 1972) conservationist
Zora Cross (1890 - 1964) writer
Constance D'Arcy (1879 - 1950) obstetrician
Elsie Dalyell (1881 - 1948) pathologist
Eleanor Dark (1901 - 1985) novelist
Constance Davey (1882 - 1963) psychologist
Ruby Davy (1883 - 1949) composer
Annie Dawbin (1816 - 1905) diarist
Lillian de Lissa (1885 - 1967) educator
Emily Dobson (1842 - 1934) philanthropist
Henrietta Dugdale (1826 - 1918) feminist
Eliza Dunlop (1796 - 1880) ethnographer
Fanny Durack (1889 - 1956) swimmer
Kate Dwyer (1861 - 1949) Labor leader
Constance Ellis (1872 - 1942) doctor
Matilda Jane Evans (1827 - 1886) deaconess
Phoebe Farrar (1869 - 1960) stockwoman
Eliza Fewings (1857 - 1940) headmistress
Doris Fitton (1901 - 1985) actress
Rosa Fiveash (1854 - 1938) botanical artist
Julia Flynn (1878 - 1947) school inspector
Eliza Forlonge (1785 - 1859) pastoralist
Miles Franklin (1879 - 1954) writer
Mary Fullerton (1868 - 1946) poet and feminist
Kitty Gallagher (c.1785 - c.1875) drover
May Gibbs (1877 - 1969) author and illustrator
Pearl Gibbs (1901 - 1983) Aboriginal leader
Ruth Gibson (1901 - 1975) school inspector
Roma Gilchrist (1909 - 1983) peace activist
Eleanor Glencross (1876 - 1950) organiser
Vida Goldstein (1869 - 1949) feminist
Lillie Goodisson (1860 - 1947) birth control advocate
Kathleen Gorham (1932 - 1983) dancer
Bessie Guthrie (1905 - 1977) feminist
Deborah Hackett (1887 - 1965) mining entrepreneur
Gertrude Halley (1867 - 1939) doctor
Marian Harwood (1846 - 1934) peace activist
Eliza Hassall (1834 - 1917) missionary
Muriel Heagney (1885 - 1974) trade unionist
Dorothy Helmrich (1889 - 1984) founder Australia Council
Catherine Henrys (1805 - 1855) convict
Eleanor Hinder (1893 - 1963) United Nations official
May Holman (1893 - 1939) politician
Mary Hutchinson (1810 - 1880) prison matron
Alice Jackson (1887 - 1974) journalist
Jemina Jenkins (1786 - 1842) pastoralist
Andrea Jenner (1891 - 1985) journalist
Christian Jollie-Smith (1885 - 1963) lawyer
Annette Kellerman (1886 - 1975) swimmer
Ethel Kelly (1875 - 1949) actress and author
Elizabeth Kenny (1880 - 1952) nurse
Margaret Kiddle (1914 - 1958) historian
Winifred Kiek (1884 - 1975) Congregational minister
Marie Kirk (1855 - 1928) temperance
Bella Lavender (1858 - 1923) feminist and teacher
Louisa Lawson (1848 - 1920) newspaper proprietor
Ida Lee (1865 - 1943) historical geographer
Mary Lee (1821 - 1909) suffragist
Frances Levvy (1831 - 1924) humanitarian
Jessie Litchfield (1883 - 1956) journalist
Retta Long (1878 - 1956) missionary
Maria Lord (1780 - 1859) businesswoman
Enid Lorimer (1888 - 1982) actress
Louise Lovely (1895 - 1980) film star
Lottie Lyell (1890 - 1925) actress
Enid Lyons (1897 - 1981) politician
Elizabeth Macarthur-Onslow (1840 - 1911) property owner
Jo Mackerras (1896 - 1972) entomologist
Mary MacKillop (1842 - 1909) religious
Fanny Macleay (1793 - 1836) charity organiser
Hannah Maclurcan (1861 - 1936) hotelier
Jean Macnamara (1899 - 1968) medical scientist
Ida Mann (1893 - 1983) ophthalmologist
Nell Martyn (1887 - 1926) businesswoman
Daphne Mayo (1895 - 1982) sculptor
Helen Mayo (1878 - 1967) paediatrician
Margaret McIntyre (1886 - 1948) politician
Florence McKenzie (1892 - 1982) electrician
Ethel McLennan (1891 - 1983) botanist
Nellie Melba (1861 - 1931) prima donna
Louisa Meredith (1812 - 1895) author and artist
Adelaide Miethke (1881 - 1962) school inspector
Bea Miles (1902 - 1974) rebel
Emma Miller (1839 - 1917) labour activist
Agnes Milne (1850 - 1919) factory inspector
Janet Mitchell (1896 - 1957) journalist
Georgiana Molloy (1803 - 1843) botanist
Gladys Moncrieff (1892 - 1976) soprano
Mary Montgomerie Bennett (1881 - 1961) teacher
Eirene Mort (1879 - 1977) graphic designer
Grace Munro (1879 - 1964) CWA founder
Nina Murdoch (1890 - 1976) writer
Mildred Muscio (1882 - 1964) feminist
Hanna Neumann (1914 - 1971) mathematician
Jane Neville-Rolfe (1850 - 1928) artist
Angelina Noble (c.1879 -1964) Aboriginal missionary
Decima Norman (1909 - 1983) athlete
Janette Octoman (1879 - 1971) farmer's wife
Edith Onians (1866 - 1955) philanthropist
Ethel Osborne (1882 - 1968) doctor
Lucy Osburn (1835 - 1891) nurse
Helen Palmer (1917 - 1979) writer and teacher
Nettie Palmer (1885 - 1964) critic
K Langloh Parker (1856 - 1940) writer
Hetty Perkins (c.1905 - 1979) Aboriginal cook and carer
Alicia Petersen (1862 - 1923) political candidate
Olive Pink (1884 - 1975) Aboriginal rights activist
Eliza Pottie (1836 - 1907) evangelist and social reformer
Margaret Preston (1875 - 1963) artist
Millicent Preston Stanley (1883 - 1955) politician
Annabelle Rankin (1908 - 1986) politician
Fanny Reading (1884 - 1974) doctor
Mary Reibey (1777 - 1855) convict
Henry Handel Richardson (1870 - 1946) novelist
Bessie Rischbieth (1874 - 1967) theosophic feminist
Kathleen Robinson (1901 - 1983) producer
Jessie Rooke (1845 - 1906) temperance advocate
Ellis Rowan (1848 - 1922) artist
Mary Ryan (1886 - 1968) Labor activist
Charlotte Sargent (1859 - 1924) caterer
Amy Schauer (1871 - 1956) teacher of cookery
Rose Scott (1847 - 1925) feminist
Ruby Payne Scott (1912 - 1981) physicist
Cecilia Shelley (1893 - 1986) union secretary
Ella Simon (1902 - 1981) welfare worker
Bill Smith (1886 - 1975) jockey
Fanny Cochrane Smith (1834 - 1905) Tasmanian Aborigine
Grace Cossington Smith (1892 - 1984) artist
Brettena Smyth (1840 - 1898) birth control advocate
Catherine Spence (1825 - 1910) social reformer
Christina Stead (1902 - 1983) novelist
Nellie Stewart (1858 - 1931) singer and actress
Constance Stone (1856 - 1902) doctor
Jessie Street (1889 - 1970) feminist
Katharine Susannah Prichard (1883 - 1969) author
Margaret Sutherland (1897 - 1984) composer
Georgina Sweet (1875 - 1946) zoologist
Tarereenore (c1800 - 1831) Aboriginal leader
Florence Taylor (1879 - 1969) architect
Truganini (1812 - 1876) Tasmanian Aborigine
Ethel Turner (1872 - 1958) writer
Jessie Vasey (1897 - 1966) social reformer
Barbara Vernon (1916 - 1978) scriptwriter
Joyce Vickery (1908 - 1979) botanist
Mother Vincent (1819 - 1892) Mercy Sister
Adela Pankhurst Walsh (1885 - 1960) political activist
Edith Waterworth (1873 - 1957) welfare worker
Martha Webster (1839 - 1915) preacher
Winifred West (1881 - 1971) headmistress
Mary Windeyer (1836 - 1912) suffragist
Lucy Woodcock (1889 - 1968) teacher
Mary Tenison Woods (1896 - 1971) lawyer