The University of Technology Sydney (UTS) is a public research university located in Sydney,New South Wales,Australia. The university was founded in its current form in 1988,though its origins as a technical institution can be traced back to 1878 through the Sydney Technical College,the predecessor to the New South Wales Institute of Technology (NSWIT).
Adela Constantia Mary Walsh was a British born suffragette who worked as a political organiser for the WSPU in Scotland. In 1914 she moved to Australia where she continued her activism and was co-founder of both the Communist Party of Australia and the Australia First Movement.
Barbara Elizabeth Thiering was an Australian historian,theologian,and biblical exegete specialising in the origins of the early Christian Church. In books and journal articles,she challenged Christian orthodoxy,espousing the view that new findings present alternative answers to its supernatural beliefs. Her analysis has been rejected by both New Testament scholars and scholars in Judaism.
Wendy Gai Harmer is an Australian author,children's writer,journalist,playwright,dramatist,radio show host,comedian,and television personality.
Emily Maguire is an Australian novelist and journalist.
Margaret Isobel Fulton was a Scottish-born Australian food and cooking writer,journalist,author and commentator. She was the first of this genre of writers in Australia.
Kerry Isabelle Greenwood is an Australian author and lawyer. She has written many plays and books,most notably a string of historical detective novels centred on the character of Phryne Fisher,which was adapted as the popular television series Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries. She writes mysteries,science-fiction,historical fiction,children's stories,and plays. Greenwood earned the Australian women's crime fiction Davitt Award in 2002 for her young adult novel The Three-Pronged Dagger.
Adele Marilyn Horin was an Australian journalist. She retired in 2012 as a columnist and journalist for The Sydney Morning Herald. A prolific and polarising writer on social issues,she was described as "the paper's resident feminist".
Catherine Jane Caro is a feminist social commentator,writer and lecturer based in Australia.
Fran Kelly is an Australian radio presenter,current affairs journalist and political correspondent who hosted the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's Radio National program Breakfast from March 2005 to early December 2021.
Mehreen Saeed Faruqi is a Pakistani-born Australian politician and former engineer who has been a Senator for New South Wales since 15 August 2018,representing the Greens. She was chosen to fill a casual vacancy caused by the resignation of Lee Rhiannon,before being elected in her own right in 2019. She had previously served in the New South Wales Legislative Council between June 2013 and August 2018. Since June 2022,Faruqi has served as Deputy Leader of the Australian Greens.
Jenna McCormick is a professional Australian sportswoman who plays soccer for Australian A-League Women club Brisbane Roar and has played Australian rules football for the Adelaide Football Club in the AFL Women's (AFLW) competition.
Edna Minna Ryan,néeNelson was an Australian feminist and labour movement activist and writer,and a role model and mentor to a whole generation of women. Mary Owen wrote that she " may not have been the most outstanding woman in the women's movement but she has probably done more to improve the status of Australian women than any other person this century." For former Senator Susan Ryan:"She was the most inspiring and admirable woman I have known."
Julia Woodlands Baird is an Australian journalist,broadcaster and author. She contributes to The New York Times and The Sydney Morning Herald and is a regular host of The Drum,a television news review program on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC). Her non-fiction work includes a bestselling memoir and a biography on Queen Victoria.
Julia Helen Banks is an Australian lawyer and politician. Elected as the member for Chisholm in the Australian House of Representatives at the 2016 federal election,Banks was the only candidate for the governing Liberal-National Coalition to win a seat held by an opposition party. The previous member,Labor's Anna Burke,had held the seat since 1998 and did not stand for re-election in 2016. Following the Liberal Party leadership spill in August 2018 that saw Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull replaced by Scott Morrison,Banks stated she would not contest the 2019 federal election;and in November 2018 she announced she had quit the party to become an independent MP and sit on the crossbench. She unsuccessfully contested the seat of Flinders at the 2019 election,pitting her against government frontbencher Greg Hunt.
The Edna Ryan Awards,also referred to as simply "The EDNAS",are Australian awards established to recognise women who have "made a feminist difference". The inaugural Edna Ryan Awards were held in 1998,the year following the death of Edna Ryan. Ryan was a life-long feminist,labour movement activist,and mentor and role model for a whole generation of women. These awards were created to honour her life and work by a group of her friends,particularly Eva Cox and other members of the Women's Electoral Lobby (WEL).
Edna Sayers (1912–1996) was an Australian cyclist who held records for long distance cycling,most notably the fastest time from Goulburn to Sydney.
Jeni Thornley is an Australian feminist documentary filmmaker,writer,film valuer and research associate at University of Technology,Sydney. Since leaving her job as Manager of the Women's Film Fund at the Australian Film Commission in 1986,Thornley has worked as an independent writer,director and producer at Anandi Films. She has fulfilled teaching roles at UTS and the Australian School for Film and Television. Thornley is currently an Honorary Research Associate in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at UTS. She is also a consultant film valuer for the Cultural Gifts Program,Dept of Communications and the Arts.
Cynthia Banham is an Australian journalist and academic in the fields of political science and international law. Initially working as a lawyer,Banham switched to journalism in 1999,and became foreign affairs and defence correspondent for The Sydney Morning Herald. In 2007,she was on board Garuda Indonesia Flight 200 when it crashed near Adisutjipto International Airport,sustaining injuries which resulted in the amputation of both her legs.
Destroy The Joint (DTJ) is an online Australian feminist group,founded in 2012 by Sydney Morning Herald writer Jenna Price,after 2GB broadcaster Alan Jones criticised then Prime Minister Julia Gillard and stated that women were “Destroying the joint’. DTJ's main project “Counting Dead Women”,which is organised through the group's Facebook page,aims to track how many Australian women die each year due to violence. The group also uses its platform to build an online community for those concerned with violence against women. Members of the group are known as "Destroyers".
