What happened on:
23 Sep 1943

First women elected to the federal parliament

Who's this

Eleanor Mary Hinder

Industrial welfare officer; United Nations official

Women's History Month 2011

Kitchen Entrepreneurs: Women in the Food Business

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Women's History Month 2010

Demeter’s Daughters: women’s harvest history

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IWD events

8 March is International Women's Day

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About the Australian Women's History Forum

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About Women's History Month

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National History Challenge

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Women Transported - Life in Australia's Convict Female Factories

March 3 2009 to March 30 2011

Tamworth, Canberra, Hobart, Redcliffe, Pine Rivers, Gladstone, Port Macquarie, Dubbo, Albury, Wagga Wagga

Touring Exhibition about little known womens stories (1804 - 1856) - convict female factory women. 12 Colonial female factories and over 9000 women

2009
National Archives of Australia, Canberra (14 May to 19 July)
Hobart - Cascades Female Factory Historic Site and Penitentiary Chapel (30 July to 20 September)
Redcliffe Museum (6 October 2009 - 17 January 2010)
2010
Pine Rivers Heritage Museum (22 January - 14 March)
Gladstone Regioanal Art Gallery and Museum (23 March t o 16 May)
The Glasshouse Regional Gallery, Port Macquarie (27 May to 1 August)
Western Plains Cultural Centre, Dubbo (14 August to 26 September)
Albury Art Gallery Museum (18 November 2010 to 16 January 2011)
2011
Museum of the Riverina, Wagga Wagga - 21 January to 30 March