Dr Rebekah Taussig
American writer, teacher and disability advocate
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Mary Burns
1800s Irish mill hand and social radical
Mary Ann Byrne
Irish nationalist who, when seven months pregnant, delivered the surgical knives used in the assassination of Cavendish and Burke to the Invincibles in Dublin in February 1882 by concealing them under her skirts. On another occasion she brought them a rifle, two revolvers, and a large quantity of ammunition.
Genevieve O’Farrell
1900s Irish headmistress
Dr Margaret Harper
Paediatrician and the first woman to be appointed to the honorary staff of Royal Alexandra Hospital for Children; the Medical Officer of the first baby clinic established in New South Wales (1914); the first Director of the Mothercraft Homes and Nurses’ Training Schools; the first person to differentiate between coeliac disease and cystic fibrosis.
Kate O’Callaghan
Irish teacher and politician
Georgina McCready
A founding member of the New South Wales Nurses Association (NSWNA) in 1931, she was its first Honorary Secretary and the first woman to hold such a position in an industrial organisation in Australia.
Fay Sutton
Fay Sutton actively protested against many threats to the environment including the Franklin Dam in Tasmania.
Berna McIvor
Irish political and community activist
Ellen Barron
Ellen Barron worked at the Queensland Government Baby Clinics from 1918. From 1923-1939 she was superintendent of the Baby Clinics and started a training course for infant nurses. She was a foundation member and trustee of the Nurses’ Rest Home and Benevolent Fund.