Zelda D’Aprano
Australian labour activist Zelda D’Aprano’s leadership was exercised by ‘fighting inequality and injustice through confronting employers, fellow male unionists and CPA office holders by speaking out, naming problems and working hard’.
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Val Fraser
Val Fraser was an ‘outstanding member of the Communist Part of Queensland’. A clothing worker by trade, she was active on state, district and section committees of the CPQ, particularly in the 1940s and 50s, and a member of the women’s auxiliary of the Queensland Trades and Labour Council.
Elsie Mary Griffin
She is credited with modernising the Auckland YWCA, so that it was fully part of the secular world while retaining its Christian roots.
Kia Rīwai
Maori activist Kia Rīwai played a major role in establishing the successful trade-training scheme in New Zealand.
Blanche Edith Baughan
In addition to her work for penal reform, Blanche Baughan was an outspoken opponent of capital punishment, a financial supporter of the Red Cross and a member of the Akaroa Borough Council. Baughan was recognised for her contribution to social services with the award of the King George V Jubilee Medal in 1935. For her literary work she deserves recognition for indicating new directions in the nation’s literary history and as a significant harbinger of change in early New Zealand poetry.
Genni Batterham
Australian artist, author, disability rights activist and filmmaker
Margaret Cooper
She was involved in the early committees that eventually led to the establishment of Women With Disabilities Victoria (WDV) and Women With Disabilities Australia (WWDA).
Marion Louisa Holmes
A leading charity worker and artist in Western Australia from the 1890s to the 1910s
Dr Rhonda Louise Galbally
In addition to her work as a disability activist, Rhonda Galbally has been outspoken in health and social causes such as tobacco companies’ sponsorship of sport.
Winifred Kastner
An Australian activist and philanthropist, the causes she supported were wide-ranging, although with a common core around the welfare of women and children in the home.