At that time, Canberra had not been established as the federal capital, so the Australian Governor General resided in Government House, Melbourne.

[6] While she took pride in the charity work she undertook, and the media Stanley did not enjoy her vice-regal duties that came with being a spouse of the Governor of Victoria.

[7] During the five year period that she lived in Australia from 1914 until 1919, Stanley gave birth to her two youngest children, Lyulph and Victoria, and she experienced a miscarriage.

The combination of her pregnancies and her home sickness impacted her health and in early 1918, Stanley began to worry that she had heart disease.

[2] At the invitation of Edith Onions, Stanley became the patron and president of The City Newsboys Club, a charity which she was most proud of being involved with.

several thousand people attended to see her off, and the Newsboys formed a guard of honour, and the crowd sang Auld Lang Syne.

[19] In 1923 on a return trip to Australia, Stanley laid the foundation stone on the new City Newsboys Society clubhouse on the corner of Little Collins and Alfred Place on May 24.

[20] On this trip she also attended a picnic for the Old Boys wives and children,[21][22] and at the Menzies Hotel, Onians introduced her to a former newsboy, Squizzy Taylor.