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20th-century Australian women writers

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Germaine Greer
Australian writer and public intellectual (born 1939)
Rebecca St. James
Australian singer
Patricia Wrightson
Australian children's writer (1921–2010)
Ethel Turner
Australian writer (1872–1958)
Rica Erickson
Western Australian writer, historian, botanist and artist (1908-2009)
Daisy Bates
Irish Australian journalist known for her work with Aboriginal People (1859–1951)
Catherine Spence
Scottish-born Australian author, teacher, journalist, politician and suffragist (1825–1910)
Leah Purcell
Australian actress and film director
Van Badham
Australian writer and social commentator
Eva Cox
Australian writer and sociologist
Anita Heiss
Indigenous Australian author
Inez Bensusan
Australian-British Jewish suffragette
Barbara York Main
Australian arachnologist (1929-2019)
Patsy Adam-Smith
Australian author, historian and servicewoman (1924–2001)
Marie Byles
Australian lawyer, explorer and conservationist (1900-1979)
Joyce Ackroyd
Australian academic, translator, author and editor.
Judy Singer
Australian psychologist and sociologist
Joan London
Australian novelist and short story writer
Lyndal Roper
Australian historian and academic (born 1956)
Mabel Brookes
Australian writer (1890–1975)
Catherine Gaskin
Irish-Australian romance novelist
Elizabeth Durack
Australian artist and writer (1915-2000)
Nan Chauncy
English-Australian children's writer (1900-1970)
Inga Clendinnen
Australian historian
Elissa Down
Australian film director
Patricia Vickers-Rich
Australian palaeontologist and ornithologist
Penny Cook
Australian actress, theatre director and writer
Carmel Charles
writer, Last fluent speaker of Nyulnyul (1912–1999)
Mary Fortune
Irish-Australian detective writer
Ana Kokkinos
Australian film director
Kathleen Fitzpatrick
Australian historian
Addie Viola Smith
American attorney (1893–1975)
Mary Montgomerie Bennett
(1881-1961) teacher and advocate of Aboriginal rights
K. J. Bishop
Australian writer and artist
Alexandra Hasluck
Australian author and historian (1908–1993)
Lillian Roxon
Australian journalist
Aileen Yvonne Palmer
(1915-1988) poet, translator and political activist
Robyn Eckersley
Australian academic
Beverley Harper
Australian author (1941–2002)
Mollie Skinner
Western Australian writer (1876-1955)
Betty Roland
Australian playwright, novelist (1903-1996)
Elizabeth Wood-Ellem
Australian historian
Rosa Campbell Praed
Australian novelist
Hazel Rowley
Australian writer (1951–2011)
Margaret Tucker
Indigenous Australian activist and writer (1904–1996)
Gertrude Langer
Austrian-Australian art historian, art critic and journalist (1908-1984)
Claire Colebrook
Australian cultural theorist