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Some powerful words "The women leaders that Longman admired were rebels, but in a constructive sense, 'women who revolted against evil conditions and false conventions ... the few who thought today what the rest of the world would think tomorrow' and sought to bring about change rather than revolution (Queenslander, 11 July 1929). Women, she believed, needed to 'possess their own souls' before they could effectively help others (quoted in Fallon, p. 114). Central to possession of the soul was economic autonomy, either through an equal right to work, or through direct payment to mothers whose service lay in raising children at home (Fallon, p. 138). 'I do not see that it would be any worse for a woman to be paid the basic wage than a single man who may never marry', she insisted, 'because if a woman should marry she would always help towards the upkeep of a home' (Brisbane Courier, 31 August 1933). Marriage should be an 'equal partnership' with wives entitled to a share in 'any house or business which they might have helped to build' (Courier-Mail, 18 September 1936). She also argued that women should take control of their bodies (Fallon, p. 142-3). 'Intelligent women are no longer breeding machines ... They recognise the right of children to be well born ... And yet there are no signs of a decrease in either maternal or paternal love' (Northern Miner, 14 July 1933). Source: www.womenaustralia.info/leaders/biogs/WLE0196b.htm

James ATHERTON was born on 8 May 1830 in Blackrod, Lancashire, England, died on 23 December 1903 in Queensland, Australia at age 73, and was buried on 24 December 1903 in Yeppoon Cemetery, Queensland, Australia. In 1856, James with his younger brother John, overlanded sheep from the family property of `Bold Blair near Armidale to Queensland and formed a sheep station called `Rosewood'. James remained around this area all his life. He invested in Mount Morgan Mine which did not prove successful losing his property and lastly moved to `Copland` (now St. Brendans College) where he died in December 1903. Source: atherton.one-name.net/tng/getperson.php?personID=I10867&a... The Atherton family arrived in Sydney during 1844 on the brig Briton. There were 7 siblings; James, John, Alice, Rebecca, Edmund, Harry, and Thomas. But also two further siblings, Esther and Richard, who were born in New South Wales. Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Atherton_(pioneer) Both Atherton, the town, and the Atherton Tablelands were named after John Atherton, a remarkable early settler who, in 1857 when he was only twenty, overlanded sheep from the New England area of NSW to Rockhampton. He moved to the area in the late 1870s. Source: www.aussietowns.com.au/town/atherton-qld