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Muriel Alice Lavarack, ca. 1903

from State Library of Queensland

• Vesna Verencevic said:

  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...

• Annette Cadell said:

  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)

• Annette Cadell said:

  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).