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Annie Mackenzie GOLDING
Born: 27 October 1855
Died: 28 December 1934
Special Achievements:Lobbied for equal pay, female education, removal of sex barrier in employment (e.g., appointment of women as JPs and police officers). In 1909, wrote a paper entitled "The Industrial and Social Condition of Women in the Australian Commonwealth" [re-printed in Daniels, K and M Murnane (eds) (1980) "Uphill all the way - a documentary history of women in Australia"].
Additional Information:Leading suffragist and labour movement activist in New South Wales; active in the Teacher's Association of New South Wales, Public School Teachers' Institute and the Council of New South Wales Public School Teachers' Association. Along with her sisters, member of Newtown branch of the Womanhood Suffrage League of New South Wales, which was expelled from the organisation because of political activity. Subsequently she and others formed the Women's Progressive Association. Member of the State Child Relief Board. Well read in women's history and women's suffrage activities throughout the English-speaking world.
See also sisters Isabella Golding and Kate Dwyer.
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Image - Annie Golding
Photo cropped from the following photo: Suffrage Group, c. 1892-Suffrage group, 1902
Photo courtesy of State Library of New South Wales. This image forms part of the aggregated collection 'Freeman Studio, Sydney, studio portraits, 1855', and can be found within the following collection: -Collection 03: Further Freeman Studio, Sydney, photographic portraits, ca. 1890-1929; call number: ON 219
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Image - Suffrage Group, c. 1892-Suffrage group, 1902
Back row, standing (L to R) Mrs Jackson (President of the Redfern Branch), Mrs Wynn (President of the Annandale Branch), Miss Caldwell (Camperdown), Mrs T. Parkes (President of the Toxteth League), Mrs Hansen (President of the Newtown Branch). Middle row, seated, Mrs McDonald (President of the Glebe Branch), Miss Annie Golding (Organising Secretary of the United Branches), Mrs Chapman (Secretary of the Redfern Branch). Front row, seated, Mrs C. Martel (Recording Secretary of the Central League), Miss Belle Golding (Secretary of the Newtown Branch), Mrs Dickie (ex-President of the Newtown League), Mrs Dwyer (Secretary of the Camperdown Branch).
Photo courtesy of State Library of New South Wales. This image forms part of the aggregated collection 'Freeman Studio, Sydney, studio portraits, 1855', and can be found within the following collection: -Collection 03: Further Freeman Studio, Sydney, photographic portraits, ca. 1890-1929; call number: ON 219
