A Spanner in the Works

From the aftermath of the Great War into the 1920s, Alice Anderson was celebrated as a pioneering Australian inventor and entrepreneur, known for establishing the country’s first all-women motor service and embarking on daring adventures like her 1926 road trip across Australia. Her remarkable life, marked by independence and achievement, was cut tragically short at age twenty-nine when she was found shot at her garage—an event shrouded in mystery acknowledged as accidental by a coronial inquest. This compelling biography brings to life the extraordinary story of a woman who broke barriers and left a lasting legacy.