sentences:  After the passage of the Sex Discrimination Act 1984, official limits on women joining were removed.In 1985, Heather Barnes, Denise Butcher, Dawn Maynard and Allison Meenahan joined New South Wales Fire Brigade (NSWFB) as Australia's first paid career firefighters.In 1998, the NSWFB (now Fire and Rescue NSW) appointed its first female station officers.