Centenary of Women's Suffrage Fountain and Walkway
Old Parliament House Gardens, Canberra, ACT

The Centenary of Women's Suffrage Fountain commemorates the Commonwealth Franchise Act, which came into effect on 12 June 1902, granting Australian women aged 21 and over (with the exception of Indigenous women in some States), the right to vote and to stand in Commonwealth elections.

Link 1: National Capital Authority

Mugga Mugga Cottage
8 Narrabundah Lane , Symonston, ACT
An 1830s cottage with furniture and memorabila from the Curley family. Saved from demolition on a number of occasions before Sylvia Curley offered it to the ACT govenrnment in 1994 as a environmental education centre.

Link 1: Canberra Museum and Gallery

Meroogal
Cnr West & Worrigee Streets, Nowra, NSW
Mergoogal has passed through the hands of four generations of women from the same family. Furniture, household objects, diaries, letters, scrapbooks, photographs and clothes allow a very personal insight inot the more provate world of the family.

Link 1: Historic Houses Trust

Parramatta Female Factory
Fleet Sreet, North Parramatta, NSW - Sydney
The Female Factory is the first major site of female convict settlement in Australia. The Parramatta Girls home was on the precinct from 1912 - 1924.

Link 1: Parramatta Female Factory Precinct Association

Olive Pink Botanic Garden
Tuncks Road (PO Box 8644), Alice Springs NT 0870, NT
The Olive Pink Botanic Garden fulfils Olive Pink's vision for a public display of plants of the arid regions of Australia, where she lived and worked for some forty years.

Link 1: Who's Who

Link 2: Olive Pink Botanic Garden

National Pioneer Women's Hall of Fame
Old Alice Springs Gaol, 5 Stuart Terrace, Alice , NT
This is dedicated to preserving the place of women in history and their special contribution to Australia's heritage.

Link 1: National Pioneer Women's Hall of Fame

Start point of Emily Caroline Creaghe Expedition
Gregory Downs , Queensland, QLD

New exhibition celebrates our first female explorer.

 

Emily  Caroline  Creaghe (Cray) has the remarkable distinction of being our first ever female outback explorer. Her story might have been lost forever if it wasn’t for the chance discovery of her expedition diary by visual artist Gemma Lynch-Memory. Ms Lynch-Memory found a copy of the diary while browsing in a second hand bookshop near her home in Victoria’s Yarra Valley. So taken was she by this earliest of female accounts of outback Australia that she has now retraced the journey as research for this nationally touring art exhibition.

Gemma Lynch-Memory has now brought this tale to life with her ‘emily:explorer’ exhibitions. To mark the 125th year anniversary of Emily’s 1883 expedition,  exhibitions are being held in all capital cities during 2008.

For more information visit www.gemmalynch-memory.com

Link 1: emily:explorer

Townsville Maritime Museum
42-68 Palmer Street , Townsville, QLD
World War 2 display based on the experiences of women living and working in Townsville during the years 1939-1945.  Some artefacts are exhibited alongside some moving and though-provoking stories.  Most of the women interviewed were involved in the Services, and all of them had been young, loved dancing, making ball gowns out of mosquito netting, and wondered if the rest of Townsville realised that the safety of the city rested with them. 

Link 1: Townsville Maritime Museum

Tasmanian Bush Nursing Centres
Across Tasmania and offshore islands, various country towns, TAS
Various buildings ranging from purpose built to recycled houses and buildings. Many of these buildings remain, but have new uses. For example the Bush Nursing Centre at Lilydale (Bush Nurses were stationed there for 34 years) is now used as a community centre for the aged. It recently was renamed the Mary Walsh Centre in honour of the longstanding Nurse who cared for generations of people in the district.

Link 1: Tasmanian Roll of Honour, Mary Walsh

McCrae Homestead and Museum
11 Beverley Road , McCrae, VIC

Georgiana McCrae arrived in Australia in 1841. After this house was completed in 1844 on their property at Arthurs Seat on the Mornington Peninsula, her family lived here until 1851.

Link 1: Who's Who

Link 2: National Trust

Memorial for the Centenary of Women's Suffrage in WA
Kings Park and Botanic Gardens, Fraser Avenue, West Perth WA 6005, Perth, WA - Perth
The Water Garden was opened in 1968.  In 1999 the garden was refurbished to include a Pavilion and bronze works to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the achievement of the right to vote by non-Aboriginal women of Western Australia (Aboriginal women gained voting rights in 1962).

Link 1: Botanic Gardens and Parks Authority