Great Queensland women / by Heather Grant.

Brisbane : Queensland Government, 2005.

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Women -- Queensland -- History.

Biography -- Queensland.

Introduction : the fight to be heard : gaining a vote

First-wave activists : Emma Miller : women's rights activist and unionist

May Jordan McConnel : union organiser and suffrage activist

Margaret Ogg : electoral reformer

Early achievers : Diamantina Roma Bowen : Queensland's 'first lady'

Mary McConnel : founder, Hospital for sick children

Lilian Cooper and Josephine Bedford : first women doctor and philanthropist/community worker

Ruth Fairfax : founder, Queensland Country Women's Association

Irene Longman : Queensland's first woman parliamentarian

Ellen O'Donnell and Zara Dare : Queensland's first policewomen

Daphne Mayo : sculptor and art advocate

Elizabeth Kenny : bush nurse and pioneering physical therapist

Una Prentice : Queensland's first law school graduate

Dorothy Hill : geologist and palaeontologist

Joan Innes Reid : pioneering social worker of north Queensland

Ruth Don : teacher and unionist

Second-wave activists : Eva Bacon : peace and women's rights activist

Oodgeroo Noonuccal (Kath Walker) : poet; activist, educator

Celia Smith : Aboriginal rights activist

Merle Thornton : bar-room suffragette and mother of women's studies.

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