Emily Bennett
Emily Bennett born Emily McNamarra (29 January 1871 – 10 May 1941) was an Australian feminist and political organiser. She was the "best feminist" that Jessie Street knew. Life Bennett was born in the Sydney suburb of Camperdown in 1871. She was the ninth child born to Mary Elizabeth (born Green) and Denis McNamarra. She married Francis Andrew Bennett in a Catholic ceremony on 11 April 1894. He was a widower with three children who lived in Cootamundra. In the following year their only child was born. Her husband was an auctioneer, and In 1902, 1903 and 1907 served as the mayor of Singleton. She moved back to Sydney after he died in 1913. She was a supporter of Laura Bogue Luffman who was a leading right-wing figure of the Women's Reform League of New South Wales and in 1921 Bennett became its organising secretary. She set herself the target of getting 100,000 women interested in politics as she believed that women were now empowered to achieve. She herself supported the Progressive Party but she wanted the league's women to join influential organisations like the League of Nations Union and the National Council of Women of Australia. The 9th Conference