Lillie Goodisson

Lillie Elizabeth Goodisson (née Price; – 10 January 1947) was a Welsh Australian nurse and a pioneer of family planning in New South Wales. Generally referred to as Mrs L. E. Goodisson, her surname is frequently mis-spelled as "Goodison".

Life Goodisson was born in Holyhead, Wales. She trained as a nurse and at age 19 married London physician Lawford David Evans. Soon after they moved to Auckland, New Zealand, where they started a family. and a son was born in 1883. leaving little to his wife, she borrowed money from her friend Ivy Brookes and returned to Melbourne.

She was involved in patriotic causes during World War I, however her finances did not improve, and she took another loan from Brookes to establish a library at Elwood in Melbourne. Debts and ill health forced its liquidation in 1924. Goodisson moved to Sydney to be with her daughter, Evelyn, in 1926. The association was involved in promoting sex education, preventing and eradicating venereal disease and increasing the public awareness of eugenics. Goodisson served as general secretary for the association. She advocated the selective breeding of future generations for the elimination of hereditary disease, and defects and campaigned unsuccessfully for the segregation and sterilization of the mentally deficient and for the introduction of pre-marital health examinations.

Goodisson was also an active member of the National Council of Women of New South Wales, the Travellers' Aid Society, the Good Film League of New South Wales, and the Sydney Health Week and Mental Hygiene Council.