Maureen Gertrude Theresa Worsley (née Anderson; 1937–2001) was an Australian politician.
[3] She was elected to the new Legislative Assembly as a member for Canberra in 1975 for the centrist Australia Party.
Worsley was active in abortion rights protests in the 1970s, and was an active member of the Women's Tent Embassy outside Parliament House in Canberra protesting against abortion laws in 1973.
[9] One of the leaders of that protest was Beryl Henderson, who founded the Canberra Women's Refuge in 1975.
[10][11] The immediate prompt for the Women's Tent Embassy was to support the Private Member’s Bill proposed by MPs David McKenzie and Tony Lamb, the Medical Practice Clarification Bill, which, if it had passed, would have allowed abortion in the Australian Capital Territory.