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Howard West Kilvinton Mowll was born in 1890 in Dover, United Kingdom. He was educated at Kings College and Ridley Hall, Cambridge. Ordained Deacon in 1913 and Priest in 1914, he spent the years 1913-1922 engaged by Wycliffe College, Toronto, Canada. From 1922-1926 he was the Assistant Bishop of West China, becoming Lord Bishop of West China in 1926 until 1933. In 1933 he was elected Archbishop of Sydney and in 1947 he was elected Primate of Australia and Tasmania. Archbishop Mowll died in 1958.

The working body of the Australian Council.

An Inter-Diocesan Committee was formed in 1921 to prepare the way for a Council. The inaugural meeting of the Australian Central Council of the Mothers' Union in the British Empire was held on 12th May 1925 at Bishopscourt, Melbourne. In 1926 Mary Sumner House requested that the word Central be replaced by the word Commonwealth. In 1986 the decision was made to drop the word Commonwealth from the name. The Australian Council is the governing body of MU Australia. It meets every eighteen months and is made up of 40 members: the Executive Committee, the Diocesan Presidents and Life Vice Presidents.

The Diocesan Council is the governing body of the Sydney Diocesan Branch of the Mothers' Union in Australia. It is made up of the Executive Committee, the Life Vice Presidents, Branch and Area Presidents, Assistants to Heads of Departments, Delegates to other Organisations, Leaders of Caritas groups, Deanery Presidents, Principal of Deaconess House, Life members of the Council, Immediate Past President, the Diocesan Women's Ministry Coordinator and Australian Executive members from the Sydney Diocese.