Australia’s most celebrated crusader for the rights of women, Vida Goldstein, came to global prominence as the first woman in the Western world to stand for a national Parliament in Victoria, for the Senate, in 1903. Her entire life she remained a fighter for equal rights for women at a time when women were slaves in all but name, and was a fierce champion of social justice. During WW1 she turned her attention to the peace movement and campaigned through writing, speaking and campaigning against conscription and the censorious war time legislation of Billy Hughes.