Events
From Lady Denman to Katy Gallager now online!
A new exhibition celebrating the contributions and achievements of the women of Canberra across one hundred years was launched on Thursday 21st February, 2013. by The Chief Minister of the A.C.T., Katy Gallagher, who …
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Happy International Women’s Day!
8 March 2013
Last night the Governor-General Quentin Bryce spoke at an International Women’s Day benefit concert, supporting an organisation of which she is a patron, the International Women’s Development Agency (IWDA). It was a great occasion, full …
Greer Can’t Protest Enough
21 February 2013
Launching a new exhibition on her alma mater’s activist history, Protest! Archives from the University of Melbourne, on February 20th, 2012, Professor Germaine Greer said she became a radical at university. In a short, sharp, …
Comments Function Disabled – Apologies!
2 January 2013
Due to an ever escalating problem with SPAM we have had to temporarily disable the comments function on individual pages until a solution to the problem can be found. We apologise for any inconvenience this …
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