Jennings Carmichael was an Australian poet and nurse.
Nursing in Australia has evolved in training and regulation since the 19th century.
Dame Sister Mary Philippa Brazill, DBE, LLD, generally known as SisterPhilippa, was an Australian nursing educator and administrator.
Dr Dame Joyce Margaretta Daws DBE FRCS FRACS FAMA was an Australian-based British doctor who specialised in thoracic surgery at various hospitals for over twenty years, primarily in Melbourne. She held the post of Consultant Surgeon of Melbourne.
Grace Margaret Wilson was a high-ranked nurse in the Australian Army during World War I and the first years of World War II. Wilson was born in Brisbane, and completed her initial training as a nurse in 1908. After the outbreak of World War I she joined the Australian Army Nursing Service (AANS) and subsequently transferred to the First Australian Imperial Force. From 1915 until 1919 she was the principal matron of the 3rd Australian General Hospital. She served as the temporary matron-in-chief in the AIF Headquarters, London from late 1917 until early 1918. Wilson returned to Australia in 1920 and left the AIF to work in civilian hospitals. She was appointed the matron-in-chief of the AANS in 1925, and in September 1940 joined the Second Australian Imperial Force. She served in the Middle East until August 1941, when she returned to Australia due to ill health. She left the Army the next month, but from September 1943 worked in the Department of Manpower Directorate (Victoria)'s nursing control section.
The timeline of nursing history in Australia and New Zealand stretches from the 19th century to the present.
Polly Hurry, was an Australian painter. She was a founding member of the Australian Tonalist movement and part of the Twenty Melbourne Painters Society.
Ruth Sutherland (1884–1948), was an Australian painter and art critic. She was a founding member of the Twenty Melbourne Painters Society.
Isabella Kate Jobson was an Australian nurse who served in World War I.
Leah Rosenthal was an Australian nurse who served in World War I.
Joan Mitchell Montgomery is an Australian retired principal.
Martha Durward Farquharson was an administrator, nurse and private hospital owner.
Cecilia Downing was an Australian temperance and women's rights activist and leader. She was one of Australia's first child-probation officers. A devout Baptist, she was an influential leader in the Woman's Christian Temperance Union of Australasia, the Housewives' Association of Victoria, the Federated Association of Australian Housewives, and the Traveller's Aid Society. She was appointed a member of the Order of the British Empire in 1950.
Patricia Downes Chomley was the first director of postgraduate nursing education at the College of Nursing, Australia, CNA, in December 1949 and would remain in that position until 1964. The CNA was located in Melbourne and its establishment in Victoria was marred by a division with the New South Wales College of Nursing which refused to acknowledge the CNA in Melbourne as anything other than a Victorian organisation. This division was to last until 1992 when the two colleges signed a working agreement to recognise each other's membership. There had been considerable cooperation between the two colleges over the decades in relation to the courses they offered to nurses. Chomley was the daughter of Francis Charles Chomley and Mary Aileen Charlotte. Francis (Frank) Charles Chomley was a surveyor employed by the Victorian Government. Frank Chomley and his wife were the owners of a property known as Glenelva, Helena Avenue, Kallista, from about 1921. Patricia Chomley's grandfather was William Downes Chomley who was appointed as '...territorial magistrate in the colony of Victoria in 1859.' Violet Ida Chomley, a sister to Frank and aunt to Patricia, studied at the University of Melbourne and gained a Master's degree in 1893. After teaching in secondary schools in Australia and England Violet was elected to the Bedford Town Council in 1936.
Norah Margaret Martin (1888–1977), later known by her religious name Mother Mary Bernard, was an Australian religious sister and the superior general of the Little Company of Mary, an order of religious who care for the ill. She served as superior general for 12 years, from 1947 to 1959. She also served as provincial superior for the New Zealand and the Australian provinces. She was a skilled nurse and served as superior for several of the order's hospitals. She initiated the effort that eventually led to the beatification of Mary Potter, the founder of her order.
Mary Healy, better known as Mother Gertrude, was a member of the Sisters of Charity of Australia and hospital administrator. She made significant contributions to the development of St Vincent's Hospital, Sydney and St Vincent's Hospital, Melbourne.
Elizabeth Laurie Rees was an English-born Australian temperance and women's rights activist. She was a key leader in the Women's Christian Temperance Union of Victoria, serving twenty years as the general secretary. She also served in a variety of leadership roles for the national Australian WCTU, including treasurer, corresponding secretary, and national president. She was the inaugural editor of the national WCTU magazine, White Ribbon Signal.
Jane Bell (1873–1959) was an Scotland-born Australian nurse and midwife. She is best known for her work with Australian Imperial Force (AIF) field hospitals in Egypt in World War I, and for her advocacy for the nursing profession.
The Australasian Trained Nurses' Association was an association formed in 1899 to register nurses who had been trained in Australia.
