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Since 1961 the National Council of Women of Victoria Inc (NCWV) and the Australia Day Council (Victoria) have come together to conduct a ceremony to honour the Pioneer Women of Australia and in particular, Victoria.

The Ceremony has been held in the Pioneer Women’s Memorial Garden in King’s Domain each January. Guides Victoria have generously provided a Colour Party for the raising and lowering of the Australian Flag. The Australia Day Council has undertaken to see to the music, microphone and flowers for the Guest Speaker. NCWV has undertaken to arrange for chairs to be placed in the garden, the sheaf of flowers for the Memorial Plaque as well as in discussion with the Australia Day Council (Victoria) to invite a Guest Speaker. The City of Melbourne through its Parks and Garden Department has assisted in many ways over the years as without their invaluable assistance it would not be possible to hold the Ceremony in these Pioneer Women’s Gardens. The Minute’s Silence was introduced to honour all pioneer women at the request of the Australian Church Women.


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1961

Dr (later Dame) Margaret Blackwood DBE speaker at the Australia Day Women's Ceremony

1962

Mrs G N Frost – now Dame Phyllis Frost AC DBE DSocSc(Hon) speaker at the Australia Day Women's Ceremony

1963

Mrs R R Gordon speaker at the Australia Day Women's Ceremony

1964

Mrs E W (Marjorie) Tipping speaker at the Australia Day Women's Ceremony

1965

Mrs E W Tipping speaker at the Australia Day Women's Ceremony

1966

Dame Mabel Brooks DBE speaker at the Australia Day Women's Ceremony

1967

Mrs G N Frost – now Dame Phyllis Frost AC DBE DSocSc (Hon) speaker at the Australia Day Women's Ceremony

1968

Mrs R R Gordon speaker at the Australia Day Women's Ceremony

1969

Mrs Breen – later Dame Marie and Senator for Victoria speaker at the Australia Day Women's Ceremony

1970

The Lady Casey (Associate NCWV) speaker at the Australia Day Women's Ceremony

1971

E Utassy speaker at the Australia Day Women's Ceremony

1972

Dr Elizabeth Turner speaker at the Australia Day Women's Ceremony

1973

Matron V Bullwinkel speaker at the Australia Day Women's Ceremony

1974

Mrs A W (Betty) Burton (Past NCWV International Secretary) speaker at the Australia Day Women's Ceremony

1975

Mrs J G Norris – Later Dame Ada speaker at the Australia Day Women's Ceremony

1976

Mrs Douglas Keep speaker at the Australia Day Women's Ceremony

1977

Mrs Mary Hoban speaker at the Australia Day Women's Ceremony

1978

Miss Patricia Kennedy speaker at the Australia Day Women's Ceremony

1979

Miss Pat Waller speaker at the Australia Day Women's Ceremony

1980

Patsy Adam Smith AM speaker at the Australia Day Women's Ceremony

1981

Mrs Edith Hall speaker at the Australia Day Women's Ceremony

1982

The Hon. Mrs Justice Lusink speaker at the Australia Day Women's Ceremony

1983

Dame Beryl Beaurepaire DBE speaker at the Australia Day Women's Ceremony

1984

Dr Marion Adams speaker at the Australia Day Women's Ceremony

1985

Miss Edith Dawson speaker at the Australia Day Women's Ceremony

1986

Ms Deborah Towns speaker at the Australia Day Women's Ceremony

1987

Miss Wilma Hannah speaker at the Australia Day Women's Ceremony

1988

Cr Leckie Ord - Lord Mayor City of Melbourne speaker at the Australia Day Women's Ceremony

1989

Mrs Maurine Goldston – Morris OAM LDIC FRGS speaker at the Australia Day Women's Ceremony

1990

Ms Georgia Richter speaker at the Australia Day Women's Ceremony

1991

Dame Phyllis Frost AC DBE DSocSc (Hon) speaker at the Australia Day Women's Ceremony

1992

Dr Janet McCalman speaker at the Australia Day Women's Ceremony

1993

Mrs Jean Cheshire GCSJ OAM speaker at the Australia Day Women's Ceremony

1994

Mrs Elizabeth Proust speaker at the Australia Day Women's Ceremony

1995

Mrs Shirley Horne AM speaker at the Australia Day Women's Ceremony

1996

Prof. Brian Lloyd speaker at the Australia Day Women's Ceremony

1997

Sharon Firebrace speaker at the Australia Day Women's Ceremony

1998

Ivan Deveson - Lord Mayor City of Melbourne speaker at the Australia Day Women's Ceremony

1999

Mrs Sylvia Gelman MBE speaker at the Australia Day Women's Ceremony

2000

Melba Marginson, Hong Vo, Medina Idriess speakers at the Australia Day Women's Ceremony

2001

Gracia Baylor AM speaker at the Australia Day Women's Ceremony

2002

Dr Shirley Sampson BA Bed PhD JP speaker at the Australia Day Women's Ceremony

2004

Rabbi Aviva Kipen speaker at the Australia Day Women's Ceremony

 
Sources used to compile this entry: Galley OAM, Janet in Forty years on : women still pioneering : a collection of speeches from the Australia Day Women's Ceremony, Pioneer Women's Garden, King's Domain, Melbourne, National Council of Women of Victoria, Melbourne, 2002, p. 1.
 
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  • Forty years on : women still pioneering : a collection of speeches from the Australia Day Women's Ceremony, Pioneer Women's Garden, King's Domain, Melbourne, National Council of Women of Victoria, Melbourne, 2002, 66 pp. [ Details... ]

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Prepared by: Anne Heywood
Created: 22 January 2004

Published by National Foundation for Australian Women on Australian Women's Archives Project Web Site
Comments, questions, corrections and additions: awap@womenaustralia.info
Prepared by: Acknowledgements
Updated: 4 September 2008
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