Agnes Goode

"[1] Born at Strathalbyn, South Australia, to storekeeper[2] James Fleming (died 10 March 1913) and Charlotte, née Knight (died 22 January 1919), she won, in 1884, a bursary to attend Port Adelaide Model School[3] and by 1893 had qualified as a teacher and was sent to Caltowie (between Gladstone and Jamestown) as a Provisional Teacher on Probation.

[5] She married sheep-farmer William Edward Goode (see below) at Port Lincoln on 11 July 1896; they had a daughter and two sons.

In 1923 she was selected by the Liberal Federation in SA to stand for the Adelaide district seat in the House of Assembly, but was unsuccessful.

[6] As President of the Liberal Federation's Adelaide women's branch, she contested the mayoralty in 1935, having continued her disputes with Edwards in the intervening years.

Following her husband's death from cancer on 14 November 1929, Goode continued to be active in the community, contributing to societies for poetry, theatre, Aborigines (at their White's River station they employed a number of aboriginal workers, and were known as good employers),[13] housewives (Mrs. Goode was closely associated over a long period with the Housewives' Association, she was the first president in South Australia in 1926,[14] holding office again in 1930), unemployed women, travellers, local industries and kindergartens (she was a member of the executive committee and the organising committee of the Lady Gowrie Pre-School Centre, president of the Stepney Pre-School Nursery committee, and a delegate to the Australian Association for Pre-School Child Development).