53 Australian women writers

Stephanie Ann Alexander is an Australian cook, restaurateur and food writer.

Faith Bandler was an Australian civil rights activist of South Sea Islander and Scottish-Indian heritage. She was a campaigner for the rights of indigenous Australians and South Sea Islanders. Bandler was best known for her leadership in the campaign for the 1967 referendum on Aboriginal Australians.

Daisy May Bates, CBE was an Irish-Australian journalist, welfare worker and lifelong student of Australian Aboriginal culture and society. Some Aboriginal people referred to Bates by the courtesy name Kabbarli "grandmother."

Lisa (Marie) Bellear was an Indigenous Australian poet, photographer, activist, spokeswoman, dramatist, comedian and broadcaster. She was a Goernpil woman of the Noonuccal people of Minjerribah, Queensland. Her uncles were Bob Bellear, Australia's first Indigenous judge, and Sol Bellear who helped to found the Aboriginal Housing Corporation in Redfern in 1972.

Stephanie Claire Bendixsen is an Australian video game critic, author, and is best known as one of the former presenters of the video game television programs Good Game and Good Game: Spawn Point, where she went by the gamertag "Hex", and screenPLAY.

Esther Gwendolyn "Stella" Bowen (1893–1947) was an Australian artist and writer.

Veronica Brady IBVM was an Australian religious sister who was a noted writer and academic. She was one of the first Australian religious sisters to broadcast on radio and to teach at a secular university. She was a member of the inaugural board of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation in the 1980s.

Dame Mabel Brookes, DBE was an Australian community worker, activist, socialite, writer, historian, memoirist and humanitarian. Born Mabel Balcombe Emmerton in Raveloe, South Yarra, Victoria in 1890, her best-known service was as president of the Queen Victoria Hospital from 1923–1970, where she presided over the addition of three new wings within ten years.

Verna Susannah Coleman was an Australian biographer, whose work concentrated on neglected aspects of controversial expatriate literary and political figures.

Anne Barbara Deveson was an Australian writer, broadcaster, filmmaker and social commentator, who also worked in England.

Zoë Blake née Foster is an Australian author, columnist, magazine editor, and cosmetics entrepreneur.

Beverley "Bev" Francis is an Australian gym owner and retired professional bodybuilder, powerlifter, and national shot put champion.

Margaret Isobel Fulton was a Scottish-born Australian food and cooking writer, journalist, author and commentator. She was the first of this genre of writers in Australia.

Laura Glitsos is a writer, academic and musician based in Perth, Western Australia. Glitsos continues as a performer and also works as an academic and lecturer at Curtin University and Edith Cowan University.

Penne Hackforth-Jones was an American-born Australian actress and biographer.

Hazel Susan Hawke, AO was the first wife of Bob Hawke, the 23rd Prime Minister of Australia. She married him in 1956, and supported him throughout his prime ministership (1983–1991); they divorced in 1995. She worked in social policy areas, and was an amateur pianist and a patron of the arts. After she was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease, she made public appearances in order to raise awareness of the disease.

Alice Henry was an Australian suffragist, journalist and trade unionist who also became prominent in the American trade union movement as a member of the Women's Trade Union League.

Ernestine Hill was an Australian journalist, travel writer and novelist.

Ada Augusta Holman was a journalist and novelist in New South Wales, Australia. However, her writing career was increasingly curtailed after her marriage to politician William Arthur Holman, who was to become Premier of New South Wales.

Fiona Horne was the lead singer of 1990s Australian electro-rock band, Def FX, before continuing on to author several best-selling books on Modern Witchcraft. She was a popular radio and television personality, appearing on many programs around the world. She is now a commercial pilot, humanitarian aid worker, world record holding skydiver, professional fire dancer, yoga instructor and freediver.

Joy Jobbins is the former head of advertising for The Australian Wool Board, and now author of a book called, "Shoestring: a memoir".

Ethel Knight Kelly was a Canadian–Australian actress and writer. She appeared in a number of plays and wrote four books.

Miranda May Kerr is an Australian model. Kerr rose to prominence in 2007 as one of the Victoria's Secret Angels. Kerr was the first Australian Victoria's Secret model and also represented the Australian department store chain David Jones. Kerr has launched her own brand of organic skincare products, KORA Organics, and has written a self-help book.

Marion Miller Knowles (1865–1949) was an Australian journalist, poet, writer and Catholic charity worker.

Tanya Levin is a social worker and writer whose 2007 book People in Glass Houses: An Insider's Story of a Life in and out of Hillsong, an exposé of the Hillsong Church, was short-listed for the 2007 Walkley Non-fiction Book Award.

Jessie Sinclair Litchfield was an Australian author and Northern Territory pioneer.

Joice NanKivell Loch MBE was an Australian author, journalist and humanitarian worker who worked with refugees in Poland, Greece and Romania after World War I and World War II.

Morag Jeanette Loh was an Australian writer, specializing in children's literature and Australian history.

Abie Longstaff is an Australian-born British author of children's fiction known for The Fairytale Hairdresser picture book series, illustrated by Lauren Beard, as well as books for older children and educational books for schools.

Dame Enid Muriel Lyons was an Australian politician who was the first woman elected to the House of Representatives and the first woman to serve in federal cabinet. Prior to her own political career, she was best known as the wife of Joseph Lyons, who was Prime Minister of Australia (1932–1939) and Premier of Tasmania (1923–1928).

Edith Joan Lyttleton was an Australasian author, who wrote as G. B. Lancaster. She was born in Tasmania, and brought up on a sheep station in Canterbury, New Zealand. She produced 13 novels, a collection of stories, two serialised novels and over 250 stories.

Tess Mallos was an Australian food and cooking writer, journalist, author, and commentator. She wrote a number of books on Greek and Middle Eastern cuisine.

George William Louis Marshall-Hall was an English-born musician, composer, conductor, poet and controversialist who lived and worked in Australia from 1891 till his death in 1915. According to his birth certificate, his surname was 'Hall' and 'Marshall' was his fourth given name, which commemorated his physiologist grandfather, Marshall Hall (1790–1857). George's father, a barrister – who, however, never practised that profession – appears to have been the first to hyphenate the name and his sons followed suit.

Sally-Anne McCormack is an Australian clinical psychologist, former teacher and media commentator.

Dame Nellie Melba GBE was an Australian operatic soprano. She became one of the most famous singers of the late Victorian era and the early 20th century, and was the first Australian to achieve international recognition as a classical musician. She took the pseudonym "Melba" from Melbourne, her home town.

Dorothy (Dora) Frances Montefiore was an English-Australian women's suffragist, socialist, poet, and autobiographer.

Marlene Johanna Norst was an Australian linguist, pedagogue and philanthropist of Austrian heritage. Main areas of work: German language and literature studies, linguistics, language pedagogy, English as a second language, socio-linguistics, children’s literature.

Eliza O'Flaherty was an Australian writer and stage actress.

Lara Owen is an academic at the University of St Andrews. She researches and writes about menstruation and culture and menstruation.

Catherine Eliza Somerville Stow, who wrote as K. Langloh Parker, was a South Australian born writer who lived in northern New South Wales in the late nineteenth century. She is best known for recording the stories of the Ualarai around her. Her testimony is one of the best accounts of the beliefs and stories of an Aboriginal people in north-west New South Wales at that time. However, her accounts reflect European attitudes of the time.

Rosalind Phillippa Phillips, OBE, known as Linda Phillips, was an Australian composer, pianist and music critic.

Roslyn Betty Poignant was an Australian photographic anthropologist who collaboratively published, interpreted, and repatriated her husband Axel Poignant's photos of indigenous peoples from Arnhem Land, Papua New Guinea, and Tahiti. Poignant was involved in photographing and writing about museum collections of the material culture of Polynesia, Melanesia, Micronesia, and Australia. Poignant is known for her finding, researching and repatriating an 1885 photograph taken in Paris by anthropological photographer Roland Bonaparte of three Queensland indigenous persons taken to form part of an international touring troupe, for P. T. Barnum's circus. These were people presumed lost to the Manbarra of Palm Island

Gillian Polack is an Australian writer and editor working mainly in the field of speculative fiction. She has published four novels, numerous short stories and nonfiction articles, and is the creator of the New Ceres universe.

Sue-Ann Post is an Australian comedian and writer.

Naomi Simson is an Australian businessperson, blogger, and entrepreneur. In July 2017, she co-founded the Big Red Group (BRG), which includes marketplace brands Adrenaline, Redii.com, RedBalloon and Marketics.

Marcela Del Sol is an Australian/Chilean writer. Born 10 July 1973 in Antofagasta, Chile, and who suffers dissociative identity disorder.

Andrea Stretton was an Australian arts journalist and television presenter. She was known as a major advocate for the arts in Australia.

Thea Stanley Hughes was an Australian writer and health advocate, president of the Women's League of Health in Australia.

Dorothy Wall was a New Zealand-born author and illustrator of children's fiction books. She is most famous for creating Blinky Bill, an anthropomorphic koala who was the central character in her books Blinky Bill: the Quaint Little Australian (1933), Blinky Bill Grows Up (1934) and Blinky Bill and Nutsy (1937). Most of her books were first published by Angus & Robertson.

Jessica Watson is an Australian sailor who was awarded the Order of Australia Medal after attempting a solo global circumnavigation at the age of 16. Departing Sydney on 18 October 2009, Watson headed north-east, crossing the equator in the Pacific Ocean before crossing the Atlantic and Indian Oceans. She returned to Sydney on 15 May 2010, three days before her 17th birthday, though the voyage was ultimately shorter than the required 21,600 nautical miles to be considered a global circumnavigation. In recognition of her attempt Watson was named the 2011 Young Australian of the Year, and the following year was awarded a Medal of the Order of Australia. She currently resides in Buderim, Queensland.

Margaret Elaine Whitlam, AO was the wife of Gough Whitlam, the Prime Minister of Australia from 1972 to 1975. She was a social campaigner and published author, and also represented Australia in swimming at the 1938 British Empire Games in Sydney.

Donna Leanne Williams, also known by her married name Donna Leanne Samuel, was an Australian writer, artist, singer-songwriter, screenwriter and sculptor.

Patricia Wrightson OBE was an Australian writer of several highly regarded and influential children's books. Her reputation came to rest largely on her magic realist titles. Her books, including the widely praised The Nargun and the Stars (1973), were among the first Australian books for children to draw on Australian Aboriginal mythology. Her 27 books have been published in 16 languages.