•
Thelma Bate (1904–1984) – community leader, advocate for inclusion of Aboriginals in
Country Women's Association •
Rosie Batty (born 1962) – 2015
Australian of the Year and family violence campaigner •
Eva Cox (born 1938) – sociologist and feminist active in politics and social services, member of Women's Electoral Lobby, social commentator on women in power and at work, and social justice •
Zelda D'Aprano (1928–2018) – trade unionist, feminist, in 1969 chained herself to doors of Commonwealth Building over equal pay •
Louisa Margaret Dunkley (1866–1927) – telegraphist and labour organizer •
Elizabeth Evatt (born 1933) – legal reformist, jurist, critic of Australia's Sex Discrimination Act, first Australian in
United Nations Commission on Human Rights •
Miles Franklin (1879–1954) – writer and feminist •
Vida Goldstein (1869–1949) – early Australian feminist campaigning for women's suffrage and social reform, first woman in British Empire to stand for national election •
Germaine Greer (born 1939) – author of
The Female Eunuch, academic and social commentator •
Bella Guerin (1858–1923) – first woman to graduate from an Australian university; prominent socialist feminist (although with periods of public dispute) within the
Australian Labor Party •
Louisa Lawson (1848–1920) – feminist, suffragist, author, founder of
The Dawn, pro-republican federalist •
Fiona Patten (born 1964) – former leader of the
Australian Sex Party, lobbyist for personal freedoms and progressive lifestyles •
Eileen Powell (1913–1997) – trade unionist, women's activist and contributor to the Equal Pay for Equal Work decision •
Millicent Preston-Stanley (1883–1955) – first female member of
New South Wales Legislative Assembly, campaigner for custodial rights of mothers in divorce and for women's health care •
Elizabeth Anne Reid (born 1942) – world's first women's affairs adviser to head of government (
Gough Whitlam), active in the
United Nations and on HIV •
Bessie Rischbieth (1874–1967) – earliest female appointee to any court (honorary, Perth Children's Court, 1915), active against the Australian government practice of taking Aboriginal children from their mothers (
Stolen Generation) •
Jessie Street (1889–1970) – Australian suffragette, feminist and human rights campaigner influential in labour rights and early days of the UN •
Anne Summers (born 1945) – women's rights activist in politics and media, women's advisor to Labor premier
Paul Keating, editor of
Ms. magazine (NY) •
Mary Hynes Swanton (1861–1940) – Australian women's rights and trade unionist ==Austria==