Vida Goldstein, gelatin silver photograph, Maurice Blackburn Papers, MS 11749

Vida Goldstein was born in Portland, Victoria, in 1869. A veteran of the women's suffrage movement and a staunch pacifist, she used her newspaper, The woman voter, to protest WWI and Australia's involvement in the conflict. In 1915, she became the chair of the newly established Women's Peace Army, and actively campaigned against conscription in the October 1916 and December 1917 plebiscites.