Print illustrated by Emma of Rowland Studio made in collaboration with She Shapes History and made590.
Print depicts the following historical women and icons (please note we have not used the names or likeness of indigenous women):
NSW: Kathleen M Butler, the project manager behind Sydney Harbour Bridge
NSW: Pearl Gibbs, the first Aboriginal woman to speak on the radio
NSW: Port Kembla Steelworks representing the huge 1980s protest for women’s right to work
NSW: Newcastle Ladies Surf Club, the first in Australia
NT: Ella Stack fixing Darwin (Female Mayor during Cyclone Tracy)
NT: Chinese market gardens to reference the huge influence Chinese women played in Australia
WA: Robin Millar - pilot and flight nurse for RFDS who brought modern medicine to WA
WA: Jean Robertson and Kathleen Howell Driving across the Nullabor
WA: Freo Bride Ships who brought poor and orphaned Irish and British women to WA during the 1850’s-1880’s to address the gender imbalances in the colonies
WA: Kalgoorlie’s Hay St Brothel is recognized as Australia's oldest working brothel and one of the longest-operating in the world
TAS: Cascades Female Factory- 1828 to 1856 approximately 7,000 convict women spent time at the Cascades Female Factory
TAS: Tarenorerer - an aboriginal leader who was kidnapped in her teens by white sealers on the Bass Straight, and between 1828 and 1830, she led a guerrilla band of indigenous people of both sexes against the British colonists in Tasmania during the Black War.
QLD: Brisbane’s first Female Soccer Match
QLD: Merle Thornton and Rosalie Bogner -1965 protest against the the action to not serve women in public bars
QLD: 1950's indigenous womens' influence on the arts in QLD, including the first indigenous artists to record an album and record it in stereo.
SA: Penfold’s Winery- Mary Penfold was the true driving force behind the establishment of the Penfolds wine empire in the mid-19th century.
SA: Doris Taylor inventor of Meals on Wheels
SA: South Australian suffragettes who achieved a world-first victory in 1894, passing legislation that gave women the right to vote and stand for Parliament
VIC: Joyce Barry the first female tram conductor after 19 years of campaigning for the right.
VIC: Queen Victoria Women’s Centre or Constance Stone the first woman to practice medicine in Australia
VIC: The 1891 Women's Suffrage "Monster Petition," was a landmark 260-meter-long document of 30,000 signatures demanding equal voting rights for women.
VIC: Abbotsford Convent and the women placed into care labouring in the onsite Magdalen Laundry.
VIC: Fanny Finch from Castlemaine, first woman to vote with British African heritage
ACT: Old Parliament House + Dorothy & Enid the first woman elected to Australian Parliament
ACT: Aboriginal Tent Embassy where indigenous women have been central to the original establishment and long term survival. The aboriginal Tent Embassy was and continues to be a crucial site for protesting for First Nations sovereignty and land rights by women and men alike
