Merle Thornton
(1930-2024)
Australian feminist activist, author, and academic (b. 1930 - d. 2024)
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Merle Estelle Thornton (1930 – 16 August 2024) was an Australian feminist activist, author and academic. She is best known for her 1965 action at the Regatta Hotel where she and Rosalie Bogner chained themselves to a bar rail to protest the ban on serving women drinks in public bars in Queensland, Australia.
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1930
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16 August 2024 (aged 94)
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