“We all know about the heroes of Gallipolli and the Western Front. Every town and city in Australia has a memorial to the military freedom fighters of the AIF – the ANZACS. But what of the women who made huge personal sacrifices for our political rights and freedoms, the very entitlements that, at the turn of the 20th century, made Australia the most democratic country in the world?

5 December 1889. Page 20.
THE Boston Woman's Journal remarks re-garding the opposition to the employment of women in Sydney.

"In Australia women now occupy about the same position in labor matters that they did in America twelve or fifteen years ago.....

History repeats itself. The printer girls in Australia will hold their own, and in due time labor organisations there will learn, as they have already learned in America that to treat working women as equals is a "policy of self-protection."

Katie Hansord has published a doctoral thesis entitled "‘Spirit-music’ Unbound: Romanticism and Print Politics in Australian Women’s Poetry 1830-1905" which features a whole chapter on Louisa's poetry called "LOUISA LAWSON: Transnational Poetics and Feminism in The Dawn".