169:(WNPA). The WNPA was formed in 1909 as the Women's Political Association. The name was changed to the Women's Non-Party Political Association before ending on the WNPA. It was wound up in 1979 to allow the Women's Electoral Lobby to continue the work. As a member of the WNPA, Cooke was appointed the convenor of the Aborigines’ welfare committee. In 1929 with assistance from the WPNA, she became the second woman appointed to the Advisory Council of Aborigines. Ida McKay had been appointed in 1927. The work of Cooke, McKay and the WNPA resulted in the inclusion of legislation protecting indigenous girls and women in the 1939 Aborigines Act.
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