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In 1897, at the age of sixteen, Flos Greig entered the Melbourne “university law school, the first female to do so, despite widespread hostility from lawyers and law students to letting a woman enter the all-male profession. After graduation LL.B with honours in 1903, special legislation was passed in the Victorian Parliament to allow her to practice, sometimes known as The Flos Greig Enabling Act.
After completing her articles of clerkship with Frank Cornwall in 1905, she became the first female admitted to practice law in Australia. She supported women’s suffrage, and was the inaugural president of the Women’s Law Society of Victoria. She was also adventurous, travelling throughout Southeast Asia and giving lectures and radio talks afterwards. Two of her sisters, Jane and Janet Greig, were among the first women doctors in Victoria and helped found the Queen Victoria Hospital for women and children.
Iola Mathews OAM is a co-founder of the Women’s Electoral Lobby, a journalist, industrial advocate and author of several books, including Winning for Women: A personal story. Flos Greig was her great-aunt.
Paperback, 60pp, 2022
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