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• Known for, with Rosalie BOGNER, chaining themselves to a bar rail in protest of the exclusion of women in bars in Queensland.  Women's Rights Activist.  Author.  Mother of actress Sigrid THORNTON.

References

• Desmond, Rosemary.  Throwing away pub shackles.  Northern Territory News.  April 24, 2004:27.

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