Ordinary people do extraodinary things

Ordinary, everyday Australian people are often doing extraordinary things. It could be a young child saving someone in a fire, or just by helping out the homeless. These people often show bravery, friendship, and qualities of endurance, adaptability and democracy. Nowadays this is know as ANZAC spirit, but before there was the ANZAC’s there was a woman called Louisa Lawson, who spent her entire life fighting for women to be given the right to vote and be equals. Now her life is remembered on a collection of stamps.

Born in 1848 Louisa Lawson was a clever, thoughtful girl who married at the age of 18. She moved with her husband to a bark hut on the goldfields, and led a lonely and hard life. With her husband often away she was forced to bring up her children alone and with very little money. One of her children was soon to become a famous writer – Henry Lawson. In 1883 she left...