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Margaret Allen

Margaret Allen reviews 'Jessie Street: A rewarding but unrewarded life' by Peter Sekuless

June 1979, no. 11 26 August 2022
Jessie Street, the subject of this biography, is one of the women we have ignored. She is an important figure in our history, but few people know much about her life. She was involved in feminist and socialist movements, in the Labor Party, in campaigns for Aboriginal rights and in the movement for world peace – in a long active career which spanned the years 1911–70. ... (read more)