Ethel Page

[1] She completed her training at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital (RPA), where she was top of her class, and was subsequently employed there as a senior staff nurse.

[2] Blunt met her future husband Earle Page while serving as a theatre nurse at RPA; he was a medical resident there.

She was involved in the Feminist Club of New South Wales, but later left to become a founding member of the more activist United Associations of Women, serving on its executive.

In the CWA, she was one of the leaders of a faction that advocated the open endorsement of Country Party policies; this was somewhat controversial given the organisation's nominal nonpartisan nature.

[7] In 1924, apparently as a surrogate for her husband, she became a one-third owner of the Sunraysia Daily, the main newspaper in Mildura, Victoria; her co-owners were Robert Elliott and Percy Stewart.

[9] Prior to the 1937 federal election, Page made a 15-minute speech that was broadcast on ABC Radio National, an attempt to appeal to women voters.

[10] Despite her husband's long career in politics, she never lived in the national capital, generally only visiting for the state opening of parliament.

Page's only public appearances as the prime minister's wife came when she and her husband attended Lyons' memorial service in Sydney and funeral in Devonport, Tasmania.

Ethel and Earle Page