The Muriel Matters Society Inc. is a not-for-profit organisation founded in 2009 to:
- Research, establish and perpetuate the history of the career and life’s work of South Australia’s Muriel Lilah Matters.
- Promote the ideals and vision of Muriel’s philosophy of equality and access, especially in women’s participation, education for all, industrial fairness, and world peace.
- Encourage members and the wider public to adopt Muriel’s principles for social justice and egalitarian values.
All money raised by the Muriel Matters Society through membership fees, the selling of ephemera and donations is used to further the above aims. Matters was committed to removing the barriers that gender played in areas such as education, work and politics that pervaded early twentieth-century society. And so, over half a century after the death of Muriel Matters, our Society seeks to acknowledge the debt owed by us to her generation of women and preserve their ideals for the benefit of posterity.
You can read the Constitutions/Rules of the Society’s Australian and UK Branches, which can be downloaded and viewed below:
The Society Executive

Robin Matters
Society President
(Since 2013)

Frances Bedford JP
Co-Founder and Society Secretary
(Since 2009)
Frances is a former South Australian member of parliament and former Deputy Speaker of the House of Assembly. Frances represented the state electorate of Florey from 1997 to 2022.

The Honourable Steph Key JP
Co-Founder and Society Executive Member
(Since 2009)
Steph is a former South Australian member of parliament and former Minister of the Crown (Government Minister). Steph represented the state electorates of Hanson (1997–2002) and Ashford (2002–2018) before retiring at the 2018 election.
Former Committee Members

The Late Don Matters (1934-2015)
Past Society President (2009-2013)
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South Australian Incorporation Number: A40362
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