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- BREAKING
THE MOULD:
- Women
doing "mens jobs"
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 - Photograph
courtesy of the State Library of South
Australia
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- AUGUSTA
ZADOW (1846-1896)
- “Mrs
Inspector Zadow”, South Australia’s
first and the nation’s second woman
Inspector of Factories was appointed in 1895,
having to share an office amongst others with
City Coroner. She inspected without leave, the
working conditions of 400 factories but
ironically died suddenly within 16 months from
probably a work-related illness.
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 - Photograph
courtesy of the State Library of South
Australia
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- BLANCHE
McNAMARA (1859-1900)
- This
photograph was taken from her obituary in The
Herald following this former Port Adelaide
headmistress’s untimely death from
consumption after only three years in the newly
created position of “First Lady Inspector
of State Schools”, appointed in South
Australia in 1897.
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 - South
Australian Police Historical
Society
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- (FANNY)
KATE BOADICIA COCKS (1875-1954)
- South
Australia’s first female probation officer for juvenile offenders
in 1906. She was appointed to the SA police force with Annie Ross
in 1915, the first police women in Australia and the British Empire
with the same pay and conditions as policemen.
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 - Executors
of the Estate of the late Dame Roma
Mitchell
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- ROMA
MITCHELL (b1913)
- Australia’s
first woman QC (1962) and the first woman judge
(1965) when appointed to the South Australian
Supreme court bench; she was also the first
female vice-regal representative when appointed
Governor of South Australia in 1991.
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 - The
Age
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- MAREE
LYNDON
- In
1987 this New Zealander became the first female
jockey in Australia to ride in the Melbourne
Cup, Australia’s and one of the
world’s premier handicap horse races. This
was despite the fact that the Australian Jockey
Club had been permitting women to ride in
men’s races since 1979.
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 - Traralgon
& District Historical
Society
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- EVA
WEST (1888-1969)
- 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
Accountants. The two women were finally accepted
in October 1918 after a year of special meetings
to amend the rules, which previously did not
allow women Licentiates. She went on to become
possibly Australia’s first woman Shire
Secretary in Traralgon, Victoria, assisting her
father from 1922 and then in her own right from
1935-1946.
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