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About Hedwig Ross
- Hedwig "Hettie" Ross, née Hedwig Weitzel, was a New Zealand-born Australian educator and political activist.
- She was a founding member of the Communist Party of New Zealand and a leader of the Australian Militant Woman's Group, a department of the Communist Party of Australia, and edited several Australian political publications including the Young Communist.
- Throughout her career, she was an advocate for the children of the poor, and argued for the centrality of education in raising their position in society.
- She died 26 October 1971 at Mortdale, Sydney.
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