Justina Williams

Marjorie Georgina Joan Allen was born in Coolgardie, Western Australia on 26 January 1916.^[1]

Williams was employed as a journalist by The West Australian and the Daily News in Perth and became involved with peace activism, left-wing politics and feminism.^[2] She joined the Communist Party of Australia in 1939.^[1]

In the 1950s, Williams campaigned for nuclear disarmament, while in the 1970s she was an early member of the Women's Electoral Lobby.^[2]

Williams was appointed Member of the Order of Australia in the 1996 Australia Day Honours for "service to the community as a writer, particularly in the areas of peace, social equality and protection of the environment".^[3]

Williams died in Western Australia on 21 June 2008.^[1]

• By All the Clocks, Saturday Centre, 1975^[4]
• Poems of Protest, Lone Hand Press, 1982^[5]
• People and Peace, Lone Hand Press, 1986^[6]
• My Country, the World, Lone Hand Press, 2003^[7]

• White River and Other Stories, Fremantle Press, 1979
• The Bird Girl, illustrated by Trevor Weekes, Kangaroo Press, 1984 (for children)
• The Edge of the Swamp, Lone Hand Press, 2003

• The First Furrow, Lone Hand Press, 1976
• Trade unionism : "them bees is organised", Lothian Books, 1978
• Anger and Love: A life of struggle and commitment, Fremantle Press, 1993

• On Strenuous Wings: A half-century of selected writings from the works of Katharine Susannah Prichard, Seven Seas, 1965
• Tom Collins and His House, Tom Collins Press for Fellowship of Australian Writers, WA, 1973