{{Short description|Australian activist}} {{Use Australian English|date=March 2019}} {{Use dmy dates|date=February 2025}} {{Infobox person | name = Jean Beadle | image = Jean Beadle.png | caption = Jean Beadle, J.P. | birth_name = Jane Miller | birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1868|01|01}} | birth_place = Clunes, Victoria, Australia | death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1942|05|22|1868|01|01}} | death_place = Perth, Western Australia, Australia | resting_place = Karrakatta Cemetery | political_party = Labor Party | spouse = {{marriage|Henry Beadle|1888}} }}

'''Jean Beadle''' (born '''Jane Miller'''; 1 January 1868 – 22 May 1942) was an Australian feminist, social worker and Labor party member.

==Life== Jane Miller<ref name="awr">{{cite web |title=Beadle, Jean |url=https://www.womenaustralia.info/biogs/AWE0552b.htm |website=The Australian Women's Register |publisher=National Foundation for Australian Women and The University of Melbourne |accessdate=11 July 2019 |language=en-gb}}</ref> was born on 1 January 1868 in Clunes, Victoria,<ref name="Trove">{{cite web |title=Beadle, Jean (1868-1942) |url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/people/743067?c=people |via=Trove |accessdate=11 July 2019 |language=en}}</ref> daughter of George Darlington Miller, a miner, and his wife Jane Spencer. She left school early to assist her widowed father. She worked in Melbourne's oppressive clothing factories until her marriage to Henry Beadle (a militant and an iron moulder) on 19 May 1888.<ref name="adb"/>

Beadle was involved in industrial action, working with striking miners and their families and organised a union of female factory workers. She joined the Women's Suffrage Alliance and, from 1898, was prominent in the Women's Political and Social Crusade.{{citation needed|date=December 2022}}

In 1901 the Beadles moved to Western Australia; Jean Beadle founded the Labor women's organization in Fremantle in 1905, and when they moved to the goldfields in 1906 she formed the Eastern Goldfields Women's Labor League. After returning to Perth in 1911, she played an active role in the ALP and was a delegate at the first Labor Women's Conference at Perth in October 1912, and was appointed the chairperson, a position she held for 30 years. Through her involvement with the party she was a candidate for Senate pre-selection in 1931.{{citation needed|date=December 2022}}

Beadle was associated with the Perth Children's Court since 1915 and was appointed special magistrate in 1919, and from 1920 was one of the first women to be a sworn magistrate in Perth.<ref name="adb"/>

Beadle died at home on 22 May 1942<ref name="Trove"/> and is buried in the Methodist section of Karrakatta Cemetery in Perth.<ref name="adb">{{cite Australian Dictionary of Biography |last1=Birman |first1=Wendy |last2=Wood |first2=Evelyn |title=Beadle, Jane (Jean) (1868–1942) |id2=beadle-jane-jean-5163 |accessdate=23 March 2019}}</ref>

Jeanette Place, in the Canberra suburb of Gilmore, is named in her honour, "Jeanette" having been her pen-name.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article237537813|title=Australian Capital Territory National Memorials Ordinance 1928 Determination – Commonwealth of Australia Gazette. Periodic (National : 1977–2011), p. 20|date=15 May 1987|via=Trove|language=en|access-date=2020-02-07}}</ref>

==See also== *List of suffragists and suffragettes *List of Australian suffragists

==References== {{Reflist}}

==Further reading==

* Birman, W and Wood, E. Beadle, Jane (Jean) (1868–1942), ''[https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/beadle-jane-jean-5163 Australian Dictionary of Biography]'', Volume 7, Melbourne University Press, 1979, pp.&nbsp;223–224. * {{cite book |last1=Rischbieth |first1=Bessie Mabel |title=March of Australian women; a record of fifty years' struggle for equal citizenship |date=1964 |publisher=Paterson Brokensha Pty. |location=Perth |oclc=8621066 |language=English}}

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