Education
She attended Presbyterian Ladies" College, Melbourne and the University of Melbourne, training in physiotherapy and, later, criminology.
She attended Presbyterian Ladies" College, Melbourne and the University of Melbourne, training in physiotherapy and, later, criminology.
She 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. Phyllis Irene Turner was born in 1917 in Brighton, Melbourne. The latter would help her to better understand the female offenders, to whom she had committed her assistance.
At university she met Glenn Frost, whom she was to marry in 1941.
The couple had three daughters. Deer Park Metropolitan Women"s Correctional Centre was renamed the Dame Phyllis Frost Centre.