Australian Women’s Archives Project – Showcase

Carrying on the fight

Carrying on the fight lists more than 800 women candidates who stood for election to the Victorian Parliament, recognising their significant contributions and achievements, despite, in most cases, their lack of success.

The Women’s Pages: Australian women and journalism since 1850

The Women's Pages: Australian Women and Journalism since 1850 highlights the achievements of Australian women journalists and their contributions to the nation's public life and culture. It includes women from around the nation, across time and all forms of media. A list of women Walkley Award winners  demonstrates the range and quality of women's journalism that has been produced since the inaugural awards in 1956.

Representative Women – Victorian women parliamentarians since 1923

This exhibition celebrates Victorian women, past and present, who were elected to both the Federal and State Parliaments.

 

 

 

 

 

 

She's game - Women making Australian sporting history

This exhibition highlights the achievements of Australian women who have contibuted to Australian sporting life and culture. 

Being seen and heard: Migrant women organising in Australia

For many migrant women, the realities of work and family life left them very little time for anything else. But a number of these women showed great determination to find the time to lobby effectively and productively on behalf of their communities and their gender.

Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament

Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches lists more than 700 women candidates who stood for New South Wales Parliament, recognising their significant contributions and achievements, despite, in most cases, their lack of success.

Australian in my difference: women and migration in Australia since 1945

This exhibition celebrates Australian difference by focusing on the ways that women from diverse cultures, particularly, but not exclusively, those who came in the latter part of the twentieth century, have contributed to Australian society through their roles in the home, family, community leadership and public life.

Faith, Hope, Charity: Australian women and Imperial Honours 1901 – 1989

Faith, Hope, Charity lists more than 4000 women recipients of Imperial Honours in Australia during the twentieth century, recognising their significant contributions and achievements.

 

 

 

Australian Women in War

Australian Women in War lists Australian women and women's organisations who participated and assisted in the Boer War, World Wars and subsequent conflicts.
 

 

 

 

 

 

Where are the Women in Australian Science?

Where are the Women in Australian Science provides information about women and the roles they played in the history of Australian science, technology and medicine from the earliest periods of European engagement to the present day.

First Ladies - Finding Women in Public Record Office Victoria

First Ladies is an online guide to archival resources relating to women held at Public Record Office Victoria.

Designed to assist researchers interested in women's history and gender studies by suggesting strategies for 'finding women in PROV', First Ladies also provides information about other important resources relating to women in Victoria's history.

Women in the making of Canberra

Women in the making of Canberra was commissioned by the ACT Women's Consultative Council in 2001 to celebrate the significant contributions that women have made to the development of Canberra.