Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Freda Brown (9 June 1919 2009), born Freda Yetta Lewis in Sydney, was an Australian political activist who was a member of the Communist Party of Australia and later the Socialist Party. She married Bill Brown, a leading Australian Communist, in 1943. She is the only Australian woman to have been awarded a Lenin Peace Prize, which she received in 1977-78. Her daughter, Lee Rhiannon, is an Australian Greens member of the Australian Senate and previously a member of the New South Wales Legislative Council. Freda Brown joined the Communist Party of Australia in 1936. She worked in her father s signwriting business, before becoming a journalist working for the Radio Times, and then later for various Communist-affiliated trade union papers. After the Second World War, Freda Brown joined the New Housewives Association, later known as Union of Australian Women,a Communist front, and ultimately became its president. She was instrumental the United Nations' celebration of International Women s Year in 1975. She worked with the Women's International Democratic Federation, and was elected President at its Congress in East Berlin in 1975, a position she held until 1989.