Roberta Williams
Roberta Lynn Williams was one of the most influential personal-computer-game designers of the 1980s and 1990s, becoming known as the “Mother” and “Queen” of video adventure games.
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Estelle Thomson
Estelle Thomson was a naturalist and botanical artist who became an expert on the birds of Queensland, Australia.
Hilda Gardner
Hilda Gardner was a pioneer of laboratory medicine in Australia, with a particular interest in infections and infectious diseases.
Ethel Jessie Bowe
Australian army matron-in-chief, army nurse and nurse educator.
Dr Doris Lyne Officer
Doris Officer was Clinical Assistant in Children’s Outpatients, Queen Victoria Hospital, Melbourne 1930-1947 and Medical Officer, Free Kindergarten Union of Victoria from 1941.
Dr Hilda Kincaid
Hilda Kincaid was medical officer (child welfare) for the Melbourne City Council from 1927 until her retirement in 1952
Edna Shaw
Edna Shaw was a Matron at the Women’s Hospital in Crown Street Sydney from 1936 to 1952.
Kudzai Kanhutu
Zimbabwean doctor and associate professor Kudzai Kanhutu is a powerful advocate for health systems and gender equity in Australia.
Dr Cathleen Monaghan
Missionary Sister of St Columban and physician who worked in Hong Kong from 1949 until her death in 1985
Dr Hildred Butler
Hildred Butler investigated the causes of infections during and after childbirth while working at the Baker Medical Research Institute and later the (Royal) Women’s Hospital from 1928 to 1971. She recorded her findings in twenty-one papers published both in Australia and overseas.