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23 Sep 1943

First women elected to the federal parliament

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Elizabeth Reid

Educator, public speaker, researcher

Women's History Month 2011

Kitchen Entrepreneurs: Women in the Food Business

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Women's History Month 2010

Demeter’s Daughters: women’s harvest history

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IWD events

8 March is International Women's Day

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About the Australian Women's History Forum

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About Women's History Month

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National History Challenge

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Who's Who

An index of women featured in Women's History Month, the National History Challenge and other projects supported by AWHF, with links to the Australian Women's Archives Project, the Australian Dictionary of Biography and other authoritative sites.


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Hilda Abbott (Harnett) [9 September 1890-26 May 1984]

Broadcaster, writer, interior designer, community worker

Jessie A Ackermann [1857?-1951]
Journalist, social reformer
Olive Anderson [21 April 1917 - 25 February 1995]
Composer
Elizabeth Andrew-Oates

Parliamentarian, Northern Territory Legislative Assembly 1974-77

Shirley Andrews [1915-2001]

Biochemist, civil rights activist, folk musician, dancer

Thea Astley [1925-2004]
Writer
Florence Austral [16 April 1892 - 16 May 1968]
Opera singer

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