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Women in medicine In the 1800s, an Australian woman wishing to become a doctor had a tough struggle ahead of her. Australian men were unwilling to accept women into the profession, and were vocal about their opinions of women who wanted to do so: ...a woman who voluntarily devotes herself to a state in which the abandonment of the domestic qualification seems a necessity, is a being whom men do not love and with whom women can hardly sympathise ... – Editor, Australian Medical Journal 1860 Source: ergo.slv.vic.gov.au/explore-history/fight-rights/womens-r...

Muttaburra is in the central west of Queensland. It is located on the banks of the Thomson River. It is approximately 120km north of the town of Longreach. The main industry in the area is grazing. Muttaburra lay on the traditional tribal lands of the Iningai. Their region includes the landscape between the local government boundaries of Longreach and Barcaldine. Muttaburra is supposed to mean 'the meeting of the waters' or 'meeting place'. (source Wikipedia)

Muriel Alice Lavarack married Frank Jones in 1912 and lived at 'Dalgonally'. They moved to Warwick and Frank died in 1930. With a young family of 7 'Alice' returned to her profession and had a practice in Cracow. She died in Brisbane in 1955. (Source: Dr. Arratta Museum).

A professional woman with confidence and knowledge.

Dr. Alice Kirke was closely associated with the Presbyterian Church in North Queensland and at Ipswich and Wynnum. She practised in Ipswich for 20 years and acted as a consultant shortly before her death in 1941. She was the wife of the Reverend G.K. Kirke. Cypress trees have been planted at the front entry of St. Stephen's Church, Ipswich, Queensland, Australia by the Womens Guild in memory of Alice Kirke, their late president. (Information from monumentaustralia.org.au)

Jonathan Raymond Wright and Elizabeth Jane Daley are my great grandparents.

Brief history Tobacco growing commenced during Australia's early years of settlement. Governor Macquarie experimented with plantings at Emu Plains in New South Wales in 1818, and by the 1820s tobacco was cultivated by farmers in the Hunter Valley. During the 1850s growing extended to Victoria and Queensland. It is likely that some proportion of the early crop was intended to supply the colony with the makings of pesticide for use in ridding sheep of parasites.9 Growing reached its peak in the early 1970s, when nearly 16 000 tonnes of leaf were sold annually,10 but by 2006 the crop yielded under 4000 tonnes.11 Prior to deregulation of the market, most Australian leaf was purchased by local manufacturers.12 Major influences contributing to the downturn in local tobacco growing included declining tobacco consumption in the Australian population, and successive reductions in the protective tariff on Australian leaf during the 1990s, which permitted manufacturers to purchase leaf more cheaply on the international market (see below).12 This led to an increase in diversion of Australian leaf into the illegal tobacco trade12 (see also Chapter 13, Section 13.7). Commercial tobacco farming no longer occurs in Australia. The industry began to wind down during the mid-1990s, with successive announcements at state and federal level for government-financed restructuring grants (exit grants) to tobacco farmers to assist them in leaving the industry. Source: www.tobaccoinaustralia.org.au/chapter-10-tobacco-industry...