Lainie Anderson, author, journalist and historian, 2024, Prospect Library

Woman in Uniform: Kate Cocks, SA’s Pioneering Policewoman

In 1915, South Australia’s Fanny Kate Boadicea Cocks became the first policewoman employed on the same salary as men and with the same powers of arrest. Join writer and historian Lainie Anderson as she delves into Cocks’ fascinating life and shows how fact became fiction in her debut murder mystery ‘The Death of Dora Black’.

 

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