[2] Little else is known about her childhood, but by 1903 she was living in a boardinghouse in Elizabeth Street, Sydney, and working as an artist and photographic retoucher.

She stated that Chinese immigration constituted "a standing menace to the status of Australian citizenhood" and was likely to spread leprosy.

[3] In June 1904, Siggins launched a defamation suit against Henry Beech, a storekeeper in her home town of Hill End.

She sought damages of £1,000, claiming he had made statements implying she was "a woman of libidinous and licentious nature and disposition".

[1] The Daily Telegraph speculated in July 1909 that she had "deserted" the Labor Party,[6] and she subsequently told the paper that she had felt she had been treated unfairly by the central executive.

[1] She lived in Wellington for a period, working as an organiser for the Amalgamated Society of Merchant Assistants, and was interviewed by the Maoriland Worker about the differences between the labour movements in Australia and New Zealand.

[10] Siggins eventually returned to Australia, living in Adelaide for several years before settling in Wellington, New South Wales.

Four female candidates subsequently nominated for the 1903 federal election, three of whom – Vida Goldstein, Nellie Martel, and Mary Moore-Bentley – stood for the Senate.

[11] Running in the Division of Dalley, in Sydney's eastern suburbs, Siggins won 17.7 percent of the vote to finish runner-up to William Wilks of the Free Trade Party.

[12] Prior to the 1906 federal election, Siggins announced that she would stand for the Division of East Sydney, opposing former prime minister and Anti-Socialist leader George Reid.

According to The Sydney Morning Herald, she failed to lodge her deposit by the deadline,[14] although she told the Evening News that her withdrawal was due to ill health.

[16] She polled only 1.7 percent of the vote, but her preferences aided in the election of the Nationalist candidate Neville Howse over Labor's Thomas Lavelle.

They eventually retired to Sydney, owning a property near Canterbury Park Racecourse where they had stables and trained racehorses.