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Women in agriculture

by National Library of Australia Commons

Women continue to play a vital part in Australian agricultural life. The National Library’s collection offers glimpses into their important, and often under-recognised, roles working on the land.

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Woman with horse, Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, 1915 / Abraham Valentine Booth

Farmer and wife checking their bee farm, Cunninghame, Victoria, ca. 1900 / Nicholas Caire

Two women in a farm yard standing near a bush meat safe, Australia, ca. 1900

Land Army girls employed at the Drouin flax mill, Drouin, Victoria [photo by Jim Fitzpatrick]

Two aboriginal children and a woman with a flock of sheep in the Musgrave Ranges, South Australia, 1935 / C. Duguid

Aboriginal woman, working for a dogger [dingo shooter], leading a laden camel, South Australia, circa 1940 / C. Duguid

Woman feeding a poddy lamb at Kimo, Gundagai, New South Wales / Charles Gabriel

Lesley Fuller and cattle, Rosewood Station, Northern Territory, August 1953 / Frank Johnston

Hector Fuller, Mark Richards, stockman, and Lesley Fuller, daughter, a fine horse woman, Rosewood Station, Northern Territory, August 1953

A woman and a herd of goats, Mount Saint Bernard, Victoria, approximately 1920 / Robert Wilkinson

Aboriginal Australian women salting buffalo hides, Northern Territory, 1945

Camels carting a load of wood for the kitchen at Millers Creek Station, South Australia, ca. 1920