Marian Quartly holds the position of Professor Emerita at the Monash School of Philosophical, Historical and International Studies. Her long-term research concern is the history of family in late twentieth century Australia. She has recently completed two large co-operative projects: a history of Australian adoption, and a history of the National Council of Women of Australia.Judith Smart is Principal Fellow at the University of Melbourne and Adjunct Professor at RMIT University. She has published on Australian women's organisations in the first half of the twentieth century, as well as on women and political protest, women and religion, and the social history of the home front during World War I. She is co-editor, with Shurlee Swain, of The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia, a reference tool available online at http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders/index.

htm, and has co-authored, with Marian Quartly and Jan Hipgrave, Stirrers with Style: Presidents of the National Council of Women of Australia and its Predecessors, available online at https://web.esrc.unimelb.edu.au/AWAPt/exhib/ncwa/index.html.