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- LEADERS
AND FOUNDERS:
- Women
at the helm
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 - Courtesy
of Barry Skipsey
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- MOLLY
CLARK
- The
National Pioneer Women's Hall of Fame was founded in 1993 by Mrs
Molly Clark of Old Andado Homestead, Central Australia. It aims
to recognize and commemorate all women in Australia who were/are
pioneers in their field, either domestic or occupational, in either
rural or urban situations, from early settlement to the present
day. Since 1994 the organisation has been based at the Old Courthouse,
Alice Springs leased from the MAGNT and intends to establish a
permanent museum and research library dedicated to pioneer women.
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 - Jessie
Street National Women’s Library,
Sydney
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- JESSIE
STREET (1889-1970)
- First
and only woman member of the Australian
delegation at the 1945 founding conference of
the United Nations in San Francisco, she had
also founded the United Associations of Women in
1929 and worked throughout her life to improve
the rights of women.
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 - Courtesy
of Miss Patience Thoms
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- PATIENCE
THOMS (b1915)
- In
1968, this former Brisbane journalist was
appointed the first Australian President of the
International Federation of Business and
Professional Women, an action group that seeks
solutions and lobbies on issues for all working
women.
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 - Courtesy
of Mrs Leneen Forde
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- LENEEN
FORDE (b1935)
- The
first woman Governor of Queensland when appointed on 29 July 1992,
she was also the first Australian International President of Zonta
International, the service club of executive business and professional
women, from 1990-1992.
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 - Courtesy
of Lowitja
O’Donoghue
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- LOWITJA
O’DONOGHUE (b1932)
- Appointed
founding Chairperson of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
Commission (ATSIC) in 1990 and dedicated to working for the rights
of her people, she had been the first trained Aboriginal nurse
in South Australia, qualifying in 1956. She was also the first
Aboriginal woman to receive the Order of Australia in 1976.
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 - Battye
Library, 2446P
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- JEAN
(JANE) BEADLE (1868-1942)
- One
of the first women Justices of the Peace in
Western Australia when appointed in 1920, she
had convened the first labor Women’s
Association in Australia in 1898 in Melbourne
before forming a similar group in Fremantle in
1905.
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 - Courtesy
of Vision Australia
Foundation
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- TILLY
ASTON (1873-1947)
- The
first blind Australian to go to University, she
eventually had to drop out because of lack of
Braille textbooks. She went on to establish
Australia’s first Braille library when she
founded the library of the Victorian Association
of Braille Writers in 1894, now known as Vision
Australia Library, the largest in Australia. She
also co-founded the Association for the
Advancement of the Blind (now named Vision
Australia Foundation) - and was its inaugural
secretary and president on three
occasions.
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 - Courtesy
of Mr and Mrs E
Henderson
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- MARIE
HENDERSON (1891-1955)
- Suffering
from an hereditary form of deafness which
deteriorated over the years, in 1945, this
former Melbourne housewife was the first
National Secretary and key figure in the
foundation of the Australian Association of
Better Hearing. This organisation has helped
many of the nation’s profoundly deaf and
hard of hearing.
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