Vida selling her newspapers in the streets of Melbourne, April 1912. PICTURES COLLECTION, STATE LIBRARY OF VICTORIA

Jacob Goldstein, 1907. PICTURES COLLECTION, STATE LIBRARY OF VICTORIA

Isabella Goldstein. WEEKLY TIMES, MELBOURNE

Vida, aged about two. PICTURES COLLECTION, STATE LIBRARY OF VICTORIA

Elsie Belle Goldstein in 1896, at about the time of her marriage to Henry Hyde Champion. PICTURES COLLECTION, STATE LIBRARY OF VICTORIA

Lina Henderson, nee Goldstein, c. 1900. PICTURES COLLECTION, STATE LIBRARY OF VICTORIA

Selwyn Goldstein in army uniform. AUSTRALIAN WAR MEMORIAL

Aileen Goldstein. PICTURES COLLECTION, STATE LIBRARY OF VICTORIA

Henry Hyde Champion, ‘the well-known social democrat’. WEEKLY TIMES, MELBOURNE, COURTESY STATE LIBRARY OF VICTORIA

‘Dear little Stella’ Miles Franklin was a close friend of Vida, her mother and sisters. PICTURES COLLECTION, STATE LIBRARY OF VICTORIA

Henrietta Dugdale, much-criticised in the press, in about 1845. PRIVATE COLLECTION

Vida’s friend and mentor, Annette Bear-Crawford. NATIONAL LIBRARY OF AUSTRALIA

Vida’s great friend and colleague Cecilia John. THE HERALD, MELBOURNE

Adela, the firebrand Pankhurst. NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AUSTRALIA

Part of the Australian contingent at the 1911 women’s procession. Vida is in white, Margaret Fisher, who was pregnant, has her handbag on her arm. PICTURES COLLECTION, STATE LIBRARY OF VICTORIA

Vida (right) with Cecilia John, collecting clothes and food for starving families during World War I. THE HERALD, MELBOURNE

The famous ‘Blood Vote’ poster, 1916. AUSTRALIAN WAR MEMORIAL

An anti-conscription demonstration at the Yarra Bank, April 1916, showing the size of the crowd, as well as mounted police. NATIONAL LIBRARY OF AUSTRALIA

Vida in 1911, photographed during her visit to England. BATH IN TIME

‘A seat for Vida’ by Carmel Wallace, 2008. GLENELG SHIRE COUNCIL CULTURAL COLLECTION