Alumnae Stories

Anthropologist, expert on gender and race bias
(1942-1998)

DR CLARE BURTON, an international expert on gender and race bias, was one of Australia’s finest feminist intellectuals. She put her scholarship into action in senior public sector appointments in NSW, Queensland and Canberra. (more…)

Feminist and Social Activist (1889-1970)

JESSIE MARY GREY STREET, feminist and social activist, was born in 1889 at Ranchi, Chota Nagpur, India, daughter of Charles Alfred Gordon Lillingston and Mabel Harriet (Ogilvie). The family moved to Australia in 1896 to take up residence at Yulgibar, Clarence River NSW. Jessie was educated at Wycombe Abbey School, England, then matriculated by private study in March 1908 and enrolled in Arts at the University of Sydney. She went into residence at Women’s College (more…)

Sociologist and Author

DR WINIFRED VERE HOLE was the only child of Ralph Vere Hole and Blanche Young, who had settled in the Coonamble district in the 1900s. For her first fourteen years, her formal education was from the Blackfriars Correspondence School. Vere had a passionate love of the outback, and was not terribly happy when sent to school in Sydney at PLC, Pymble. She enrolled at Sydney University (more…)