Grace Emily Munro (née Gordon, 25 March 1879 – 23 July 1964) was an Australian World War One volunteer, charity worker, and founder of the Country Women's Association.
[2] In 1922, Munro held the first Country Women's Association (CWA) conference over three days during the Sydney Royal Easter Show and was subsequently elected as its president.
[4] Munro raised large sums of money for rest centres and holiday homes, which include the Australian Inland Mission's Aerial Medical Service, and the Red Cross and St John.
Munro met with cabinet ministers to establish maternity wards in country hospitals and improved conditions in trains with railway refreshments rooms for women and children.
She visited Tonga, Samoa, Fiji, Egypt, Europe, Kashmir, India, Burma, China, Japan, the Philippines, the Dutch East Indies, North America, South Africa, and the UK.
[2] In November 2023 it was announced that Munro was one of eight women chosen to be commemorated in the second round of blue plaques sponsored by the Government of New South Wales alongside Kathleen Butler, godmother of Sydney Harbour Bridge; Emma Jane Callaghan, an Aboriginal midwife and activist; Susan Katherina Schardt; journalist Dorothy Drain; Pearl Mary Gibbs, an Aboriginal rights movement activist; and writer Charmian Clift.