Preface
Prologue: A note on the history of Australian liberals
Introduction
“The desire that many of us cherish”
The State Organisations
The Women’s Liberal League of NSW
The Australian Women’s National League (Victoria)
The Queensland Women’s Electoral League
The Tasmanians
Lady Forrest and the Australian Women’s National League (WA)
The South Australians
The Activists
Political sisters: Janet Lady Clarke and Eva Hughes
The political daughter: Ivy Deakin Brookes
The professional organiser: Eleanor Cameron Glencross
An early candidate for office: Angela Booth
The first three
From political widow to post-war MP
South Australia’s first elected women
Dame Elizabeth Couchman
The Liberal Party
The Liberal Party’s founding mothers
The new party
The public face of the new party
Appendices
Robert Menzies, “Women In War”, 1942
Robert Menzies, toast to Elizabeth Couchman, 1960
Robert Menzies, “Women for Canberra”, 1943
Liberal women in Parliament
Notes/ Bibliography/ Index