Country Women's Association
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The Country Women's Association is a women's organisation in Australia, which seeks to advance interests of women, families, and communities in Australia, especially those in rural, regional, and remo
CWA building in Bungendore
Illustrated front cover from The Queenslander, 1928
CWA group meeting in Emerald, 1939
Country Women's Association of New South Wales meeting, ca. 1940
Ruth Fairfax
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Ruth Beatrice Fairfax was a founding member of the Australian Country Women's Association and the first President of the Queensland Country Women's Association. The federal electorate of Fairfax is na
Country Women's Association
…Women's Association (QCWA) was formed five months later, in August 1922, at another bushwomen's conference held in Brisbane. Its founding president was Ruth Fairfax, who played a remarkable role in the development of the CWA in both Queensland and NSW, and the Associated Country Women of the World. The Country…
Ruth Fairfax Chapel, Potts Point, Sydney
Ruth Fairfax's former house, Elaine, at Seven Shillings Beach, Double Bay
Fundrasing in aid of the Toowoomba Soldiers' Sock and Comforts Fund, during World War I. The photograph shows Mrs Fairfax's novelty stall.