Judith Arundell Wright
Judith Wright wrote on many issues including nature conservation and the rights of indigenous people. She fought to save the Great Barrier Reef from mining and oil drilling and to establish the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park.
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Dr Anita Mary Mühl
Anita Mühl was an American psychiatrist who specialised in children’s needs.
Jocelyn Brown
One of Australia’s first professionally trained landscape designers, she introduced ‘Garden City’ concepts to Sydney in the 1930s influencing garden design through her garden commissions, art and writing.
Dorothea MacKellar
Australian poet and contributor to the genre of nationalist verse
Halina Teresa Szunejko
Polish-Australian community activist
Torfhildur Þorsteinsdóttir
1800s Icelandic-Canadian author and teacher
Amélie Wen Zhao
Fantasy novelist
Kay Cottee
In 1988, Kay Cottee completed the first solo, non-stop and unassisted voyage around the world by a woman.
Angela Dominguez
Mexican-American children’s book author and illustrator
Rodhia
Moorish Spaniard of Cordoba who wrote many volumes on rhetoric and is said to have lived 107 years before dying in 1044.