Maud Reeves
New Zealand suffragist and social reformer
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Joss Shawyer
New Zealand activist and single mother Joss Shawyer campaigned for the rights of single mothers from the 1970s.
Wilhelmina Sherriff Bain
New Zealand activist and writer
Beeban Annadale McKnight
New Zealand entertainer and community activist
Anne Devlin
Irish nationalist and heroine
Emily White
Emily White made a significant contribution to community and horticultural life in New Zealand, and was her adopted country’s first woman gardening author of note.
Dr Barbara Stokes
Irish paediatrician and disability campaigner
Agnes TuiSamoa
Agnes TuiSamoa spent a lifetime supporting and campaigning for the rights of her fellow Pacific Islanders in Auckland, both new migrants and their New Zealand-born children.
Nan Kent-Johnston
New Zealand community support activist
Claudia Burton Bradley
Her research focused on cerebral palsy in Australia and she published major articles that dealt with aspects of the disease in children, seeking to promote the potential of cerebral palsy sufferers to lead useful and independent lives. She formed the Australian Cerebral Palsy Association in 1952 and chaired its medical and educational committee.