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Constance (Connie) Robertson (1895-1964) was an Australian journalist best known as women's editor of the Sydney Morning Herald.

Biography
Robertson was born on 16 October 1895 in Sydney, eldest of six children of Alfred George Stephens and his wife Constance Ivingsbelle. Educated by her father, Constance worked in 1911-16 on the Bookfellow. In 1917 she began work on the Sydney Sun. At St Mary's Catholic Cathedral she married William Kinnear Robertson, journalist, on 25 July 1917.

Robertson edited Woman's Budget in 1930-36, before becoming editor of the women's supplement of the Sydney Morning Herald (and later of the Sunday Herald and the Sun-Herald).

Connie was an accredited war correspondent to the women's services in World War II. She was appointed O.B.E. in 1955. After retiring in April 1962 Robertson continued to contribute a weekly column to the Herald.

Survived by her daughter Margot, Robertson died of cerebro-vascular disease at North Sydney on 3 March 1964, a few days after the death of her husband, and was cremated with Anglican rites. She has been inducted into the Australian Media Hall of Fame. Her papers are held at the State Library of NSW.