The Federated Association of Australian Housewives was formed in 1923 to control the cost of living and reduce 'profiteering'.
Accusations of collaboration with a margerine company led to expulsions and a successful court case for defamation.
[1] During the 1920s this national organisation was formed together with groups in South Australian led by Agnes Goode[2] and another in Western Australia.
By 1940 or 1941 the Federated Association of Australian Housewives was the largest women's group in Australia with 115,000 members.
[6] In 1947 Geach and others formed the Progressive Housewives Association, New South Wales as a similar women's rights organisation representing homemakers.