Alicia Teresa Jane O'Shea Petersen (née McShane; 2 July 1862 – 22 January 1923) was an Australian suffragist and social reformer.
She was also influenced by her cousin, John Earle, who founded the Workers' Political League and became the first Labor Premier of Tasmania in 1909.
[2] Petersen was the first woman in Tasmania to stand as a political candidate, contesting the federal seat of Denison in 1913 as an independent.
As vice-president of the Women's Health Association, Petersen was instigator of both child welfare work and bush nursing in Tasmania.
[5] She then married a mining investor named William Petersen at her home, Wilmott Terrace, Hobart on 16 December 1891.