Sue Neacy WHN Admin. Introduction to Sue Neacy: Unfinished Business and More Unfinished Business As a percentage of the population people at tertiary institutions in 2012 58% of the domestic students (as opposed to the large numbers of overseas students…
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Scoring the Test in 1970: Enid McMullan
WHN Admin. Today, Enid Hilda McMullan would have been 102. She was a woman who, while aspiring to become a school teacher, assisted on her parents’ farm and her first aspiration evolved into utmost kindness to her future school…
Women’s Suffrage in Australia
WHN Admin. In 1908 the Woman Suffrage Alliance published Woman Suffrage in Australia by Vida Goldstein. The document was found in the Baillieu Library by Karen Buczynski Lee who recognised that it could easily be the only copy…
Fictionalized account of a WW11 woman ferry pilot
WHN Admin. Marge Piercy’s novel Gone To Soldiers (1988) about women and the second world war includes an account of a woman ferry pilot that provides an additional perspective on the work they undertook and their experiences. Fiction, of course, but…
Wasp of the Ferry Command: Women Pilots, Uncommon Deeds
WASP of the Ferry Command: Women Pilots, Uncommon Deeds Sarah Bryn Rickman The following story is an excerpt from Sarah Byrn Rickman’s WASP of the Ferry Command: Women Pilots, Uncommon Deeds, out now from University of North Texas Press (March 2016), the…
WASP of the Ferry Command: Women Pilots, Uncommon Deeds
WASP of the Ferry Command: Women Pilots, Uncommon Deeds Sarah Bryn Rickman The following story is an excerpt from Sarah Byrn Rickman’s WASP of the Ferry Command: Women Pilots, Uncommon Deeds, out now from University of North Texas Press…
Ann Jones: Remarkable, But Unknown
Andrew Grant-Adamson Ann Jones was a remarkable 19th century woman. But no-one will have heard of her. Born in Ireland, the daughter of a regimental tailor, she was deserted by her wastrel first husband, built a successful business, went…
Barbara Pym: Some Glimpses From Behind her Fiction
WHN Admin. Barbara Pym’s novels provide a social history of the period over which she wrote from the 1920s to 1980. [1] Quotes from Pym’s diaries, notebooks and letters provide the background to her fiction and reminders that she…
Western Australian Labor Woman, Jean Beadle promotes her options for dealing with venereal disease 1915
A Letter to the Editor of the Kalgoorlie Miner 1915[1] Jean Beadle [2] ‘Notwithstanding the fact that the First Labor Women’s Conference, held in 1912, carried a resolution favouring notification and segregation of persons suffering from venereal disease, I…