She was President of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union in Victoria in 1930 when 43% people polled were in favour of prohibition and from 1933 to 1945 she led the national WCTU.

Her parents Louisa (born Griffiths) and Harry Hunt took their family to Melbourne in Australia on board the SS Lusitania.

The WCTU prepared literature for children and via the home hints section of the White Ribbon Signal she donated articles for their mothers.

[3] She was on the WCTU education committee and she organising the elocution contest where children competed to be the best at reading aloud Temperance based poetry or prose.

At her instigation the WCTU protested to the UK government over their use of Australian land to conduct testing of British atomic bombs.