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 BEADLE

Jean

1 January 1868 — 22 May 1942

AKA: Jean (Jane) Miller 

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Additional Information

Special Achievements

  • 1898 - Founding member of the first Labour Women's Association in Australia
  • 1905 - Founding member of the first Western Australian Women's Political and Social Crusade (later the Women's Labor League) at Fremantle.
  • 1906 - 1911 - Founding president of the Goldfields Women's Labor League.
  • 1912 - Joint delegate from the Labour Women's Club to attend the first Labour Women's Conference in Perth.
  • 1920 - Was among the first women to take the oath for the Perth Magisterial District.

Feminist, Social worker and Labour party member


  • 1892 - Organized a Victorian relief committee for the Broken Hill strikers
  • 1898 - 1901 Vice-president of Women's Political and Social Crusade
  • 1915 - 1929 Honorary justice on the Children's Court Bench
  • 1919 - 1942 Justice of the Peace
  • 1921 - 1942 Secretary of the King Edward Memorial Hospital Advisory Board
  • 1927 - Presided over the second Labor Women's conference
  • 1930 - 1935 - President of the Perth Women's Branch of the Australian Labor Party
  • 1930 - 1938 President of the Women Justices' Association
  • 1931 - Invited by the Labor Women's Organisation to stand for Labor pre-selection for the Senate (unsuccessful)

Resources

Image - Jean (Jane) Beadle

Photographer: unknown

JS Battye Library of West Australian History


Link - Australian Dictionary of Biography - Jean Beadle

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Link - Australian Women's Register - Jean Beadle

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