Róisín Walsh
Irish librarian and republican
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Frances Wright
First woman to write a serious book about America; first person to set up an experimental colony, Nashoba near Memphis, with the object of enabling enslaved people to work for their freedom; first woman to co-edit a newspaper in America, first female public orator in America.
Annie Chemis
New Zealander who fought for the release of her imprisoned husband
Hazel Rennie
Peace and human rights activist
Auguste Fickert
Pioneering Austrian feminist and social reformer.
Ellen Mulcahy
Early twentieth-century Labor activist based in Melbourne.
Patricia Grimshaw
Australian historian
Amy Wheaton
Australian social work educator and teacher
Dr Fay Marles
Australian businesswoman, equal opportunity practitioner, social worker and university chancellor
Ngingali Cullen
Aboriginal Australian activist and nurse