Caroline Chisholm
$5 Australian bank note carried Caroline Chisholm’s picture for 20 years. She saw of many immigrant people started their new life without job and money, particularly women. She was given an army barracks building to help get the women off the streets .At that time Sir George Gipps was the governor. Army barracks building was an abandoned, ret-infested. Caroline had found jobs and homes for more than 1000 women within two years.
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