Other Australian histories

First Fleet female convicts

Especially Susannah Huffnell, who came from Worcestershire on the Lady Penrhyn in 1788.

Francois Girard

A Frenchman sent out to Australia as a convict in 1820 and released after just six weeks

Frank Austin Williams

Possibly Australia’s first professional set designer and interior decorator

Fannie Eleanor Williams

The first professional female staff member at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute, Melbourne after serving in the Australian Army Nursing Service in the Great War.