Phyllis Frost
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Dame Phyllis Irene Frost, DBE, JP (1917 - 2004) was an Australian welfare worker and philanthropist, known for her commitment to unpopular causes, most notably helping women prisoners.
Among many causes she was devoted to, Dame Phyllis chaired the Victorian Women's Prisons Council for many years, established the Keep Australia Beautiful movement, worked for Freedom from Hunger and raised millions of dollars for charity.
Educated at Presbyterian Ladies College and the University of Melbourne, where she met her late husband, she trained as a physiotherapist and returned later to university to study criminology in order to better understand the minds of female offenders.
She was appointed as Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire on January 1, 1974, for outstanding service to the community, having been appointed as CBE in 1963.
Dame Phyllis chaired the Victorian Women's Prisons Council for many years, established the Keep Australia Beautiful movement, worked for Freedom from Hunger and raised millions of dollars for charity.
In 2000, the Victorian government recognised her achievements with women prisoners by renaming the Deer Park Metropolitan Women's Correctional Centre as the Dame Phyllis Frost Centre.
She died, aged 87, in Nunawading, Australia on October 30, 2004.
