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23 Sep 1943

First women elected to the federal parliament

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Florence Ewart

Composer

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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Julia Rachel Rapke [11 February 1886 - 9 October 1959]
Feminist and civil rights activist
Elizabeth Reid [3 July 1942 - ]
Educator, public speaker, researcher
Margaret Elizabeth Reid [1935-]

Parliamentarian; Patron of the Australian Women's History Forum


Bessie Rischbieth (Earle) [16 October 1874 - 13 March 1967]
Feminist activist
Esther Rofe [1904 - February 2000]
Composer
Joan Russell [22 August 1946 - ]
Australian Antarctic Station Leader
Edna Ryan (Nelson) [15 December 1904-10 February 1997]

Feminist and trades union activist

Susan Ryan [9 October 1942-]

Parliamentarian

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