THEY'RE Australia's "First Ladies".
Not to be mistaken for prime minister's wives - they're more the pioneering kind.
The National Portrait Gallery's latest exhibition illustrates the accomplishments of Australian women in medicine, politics, academia, arts, sports, science and business.
Curator Joanna Gilmour says her exhibit First Ladies: Significant Australian Women 1913-2013 provides a visual display of just how far women have progressed in society over the past 100 years.
"It starts off with portraits of two women who were very much engaged in the suffragette movement just before the first world war," she said.
"As you go around the gallery you get a chronological walkthrough of women's achievements in the 20th century.
"By the time you finish you end up at the portrait of the current Prime Minister (Julia Gillard)."
Olympian Cathy Freeman, Nobel Prize winner Elizabeth Blackburn and aviatrix Nancy Bird Walton are just a few of the faces proudly displayed on the walls.
However, the main feature of the gallery is businesswoman Imelda Roche AO.
Ms Roche co-founded Nutrimetics International (Australia) Pty Ltd in 1968 before acquiring the world-wide interest of the company 23 years later.
In 1997 she sold the group to the Sara Lee Corporation.
She told AAP her granddaughter had asked her on Thursday why she was chosen as the main feature.
"I said I have absolutely no idea, but I'm going to ask the question and by the time I come back tomorrow I will have an intelligent answer," Ms Roche said.
And has she found it?
"It's an enormous honour, I don't understand quite why. But at the end of the day I hope to," she said.
Ms Roche's portrait, by artist Paul Newton, will be on display until June 16.
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