Catherine Winifred "Kate" Dwyer (née Golding; 13 June 1861 – 3 February 1949)[1] was an Australian educator, suffragist, and labour activist.

Dwyer née Golding was born at Tambaroora, Wellington County, New South Wales to Joseph Golding (died 1890), a gold-miner from Galway, Ireland, and his Scottish wife, Ann (died 1906; née Fraser).

The other five were Edith Bethel, Harriet Powell, the 1903 parliamentary candidate Selina Siggins, the American-born A. E. Gardiner, Mary Anne Grant, and Maggie Hall.

[2] In 1916 Dwyer was the first woman in Australia to be elected a member of the Senate of the University of Sydney.

[6] In that capacity in 1918 she moved a resolution to support the introduction of legislation for women to enter the legal profession.