[ { "Title\/Name": "Nancy T Burbidge Memorial Amphitheatre", "Entry ID": "AWE0207", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/nancy-t-burbidge-memorial-amphitheatre\/", "Type": "Place", "Birth Place": "Australian National Botanic Gardens, Australian Capital Territory, Australia", "Occupations": "Commemoration", "Summary": "An amphitheatre located in the eucalypt lawn was erected as a memorial to Dr Burbidge's contribution to Australian botany.\n", "Details": "The Nancy T Burbidge Memorial Amphitheatre was opened in the presence of Her Excellency, Lady Cowen, CStJ on 14 September 1980. The Amphitheatre is used as an open-air classroom and meeting place for students and other groups and was designed to assist in the education, conservation and scientific functions of the Gardens. The lectern is made from jarrah timber and was donated by Mr and Mrs D Cullity, of Perth, in recognition of Dr Burbidge's Western Australian background.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/nancy-t-burbidge-memorial-amphitheatre-2\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Olive Pink Botanic Garden", "Entry ID": "AWE0254", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/olive-pink-botanic-garden\/", "Type": "Place", "Birth Place": "Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia", "Occupations": "Public Gardens", "Summary": "The Olive Pink Botanic Gardens, located in Alice Springs in the Northern Territory were established in 1956 by their founder, anthropologist Olive Pink. Originally named the Australian Arid Regions Native Flora Reserve, an then the Olive Pink Flora Reserve, Miss Pink and her Warlpiri assistant gardeners worked for nearly two years to establish a public area for the appreciation of central desert native fauna.\nOlive Pink lived in the Tanami desert in Central Australia with Aboriginal people for 36 years before starting work on a Floral Reserve at Alice Springs in 1956. Miss Pink worked on the development of the sixteen-hectare reserve with the assistance of Aboriginal gardeners until her death in 1975. The Olive Pink Botanic Garden opened to the public in 1985.\n", "Details": "The following is a summary of an article by Stuart Traynor, Trustee of the Olive Pink Flora Reserve, appearing in The Australian Garden Journal:\n\"The Olive Pink Flora Reserve\u2026is situated on the east bank of Alice Springs' dry Todd River. The 16ha reserve was gazetted in 1956. Olive pink was granted an occupational lease on part of the reserve on condition that she act as honorary curator. She lived there in a galvanised iron shed until she died in 1975 at the age of 91.\n\"It was Miss Pink's intention that the reserve contain representative specimens of the desert flora of Central Australia. It was to this end that she and her Aboriginal gardener Jonny Jambijimba Yannarilyi worked. Following her death the reserve was renamed Olive Pink Flora Reserve and is managed today as a tribute to her vision and tenacity. It is currently Australia's only established arid zone botanic garden despite the fact that nearly three quarters of the continent is arid land.\n\"The reserve has over 300 of the Centre's 800 plant species on display. Sections of the reserve are being developed to represent distinct habits within Central Australia. These include a sand dune system, mulga woodland, a rocky waterhole and, below it, a creek flood out area. These areas are enhanced by the original vegetation of the rocky hills which surround much of the reserve.\n\"The reserve aims to increase appreciation of Australia's arid zone flora and encourage the use of indigenous native vegetation in Central Australian gardens and landscape design.\"\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/miss-pinks-garden-the-creation-of-an-arid-zone-botanic-garden\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/the-olive-pink-flora-reserve\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Dame Elisabeth Murdoch Arboretum", "Entry ID": "AWE0369", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/dame-elisabeth-murdoch-arboretum\/", "Type": "Place", "Occupations": "Commemoration", "Summary": "The Arboretum was established in 1985\/86 and named in honour of Dame Elisabeth Murdoch in recognition of her contribution to the project.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/dame-elisabeth-murdoch-arboretum-langwarrin\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Kokoda Track Memorial Walkway Rose Garden Memorial", "Entry ID": "AWE0540", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/kokoda-track-memorial-walkway-rose-garden-memorial\/", "Type": "Place", "Occupations": "Commemoration", "Summary": "On 3 March 2002, a Remembrance Service was conducted in the Rose Garden in the Kokoda Track Memorial Walkway opposite Concord Hospital in Sydney, New South Wales, to dedicate 24 memorial plaques for service with the Australian Imperial Force in New Guinea during World War II. The plaques commemorate the service of personnel of the Royal Australian Navy, Medical, Dental and Nursing Services, the Royal Australian Air Force Medical Service, Nursing Sisters of the Australian Army Nursing Service and the many deployed units of the Australian Army Medical Corps.\n" }, { "Title\/Name": "Lake Tyers Mission", "Entry ID": "AWE1089", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/lake-tyers-mission\/", "Type": "Place", "Birth Place": "East Gippsland, Victoria, Australia", "Occupations": "Aboriginal Mission or Reserve", "Summary": "Lake Tyers Mission was established in 1861 when the Central Board for the Protection of Aborigines approved the allocation of 2,000 acres at Lake Tyers for the purpose of providing a base for missionaries in eastern Victoria. Consisting of a manager's residence, church, school and huts, the mission attracted a number of Aboriginal people and as such was seen by the Mission Societies as successful and flourishing.\nIn 1908 it was taken over by the Board for the Protection of Aborigines as a Government station. At this time the Board believed that Victorian Aboriginal people were dying out and so it instituted a policy of closing all the reserves around Victoria and sending the people living on them to Lake Tyers.\nIn the 1960s the Aborigines Welfare Board attempted to close Lake Tyers as a reserve, however, it met with the residents' opposition. The Aborigines Advancement League, led by Pastor Douglas Nicholls, fought for eight years to retain Lake Tyers Reserve. The Aboriginal Amendment Act 1965 changed the status of Lake Tyers from temporary to permanent, thus strengthening Aboriginal claims to preserve it. In 1971 the fight was finally won, when freehold title to Lake Tyers was given to the Lake Tyers Trust under the Aboriginal Lands Act of 1970. Today, Lake Tyers is also known as Bung Yarnda.\nThe Lake Tyers Mission and later Reserve was home to many Aboriginal women, some of whom became prominent Aboriginal spokespersons.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/reading-sources-in-aboriginal-history-mission-station-visitors-books\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/off-the-mission-stations-aborigines-in-gippsland-1860-1890\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/an-unfashionable-concern-with-the-past-the-historical-anthropology-of-diane-barwick\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/a-history-of-aboriginal-lands-and-reserves-in-victoria-1835-1971-by-philip-felton\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Ramahyuck Mission", "Entry ID": "AWE1090", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/ramahyuck-mission\/", "Type": "Place", "Birth Place": "Avon River, Victoria, Australia", "Occupations": "Aboriginal Mission or Reserve", "Summary": "Ramahyuck Mission was established in 1862 by the Reverend F.A. Hagenauer on a site near Maffra, Victoria. It was one of three Aboriginal Missions established by Moravian Missioners in Victoria. The local farming community opposed the mission in this location so it was moved to the Avon River, near Lake Wellington.\nOn 1 April 1869, the Education Department classified Ramahyuck school as half-time Rural School No. 12 and appointed Reverend Kramer as the teacher. Students enrolled at the school did extremely well which encouraged attendance. 1872, there were 19 children at the school. In 1873, the school had gained 100% of marks. In 1877, Ramahyuck Mission Station was placed at the head of the list for 'presenting the most successful results'.\nThen, in a strange move, on 13 May 1901, the Department of Education closed the Ramahyuck State School, and the remaining children were told to attend the nearby Perry Bridge school. Aboriginal people protested about their children having to move schools and the Central Board for the Protection of Aborigines appointed a teacher to conduct lessons at Ramahyuck school. The school continued under the Board until 1908 when the Mission closed and the remaining residents were sent to Lake Tyers.\nRamahyuck Mission was the home to many Aboriginal women, some of whom later became prominent Aboriginal spokespersons.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/moravian-aboriginal-missions-in-australia-1850-1919\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/the-history-of-ramahyuck-aboriginal-mission-and-a-report-on-the-survey-of-ramahyuck-mission-cemetery\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/witness-to-the-crosses-at-ramahyuck-cemetery\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/reading-sources-in-aboriginal-history-mission-station-visitors-books\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/off-the-mission-stations-aborigines-in-gippsland-1860-1890\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/ramahyuck-mission-controversy\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/aboriginal-mission-stations-in-victoria-yelta-ebenezer-ramahyuck-lake-condah\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/moravian-mission-papers-in-australia-1832-1916\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/a-history-of-aboriginal-lands-and-reserves-in-victoria-1835-1971-by-philip-felton\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/moravian-mission-papers\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Coranderrk Station", "Entry ID": "AWE1091", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/coranderrk-station\/", "Type": "Place", "Birth Place": "Healesville, Victoria, Australia", "Occupations": "Aboriginal Mission or Reserve", "Summary": "Coranderrk Station was established in 1860 when the government set aside 4,850 acres of land for use as a reserve for Aboriginal people. The site was selected by the local Aboriginal groups, the Wurundjeri, Taungerong and Bunorong people, who built the reserve within a few months, constructing their own huts, a school and dormitories for the Aboriginal children from all over the colony. They sustained themselves by growing their own vegetables and cash crops, including arrowroot and hops. Through the hard work of the Aboriginal people, Coranderrk Station was renowned for its farming produce and became the model for all future stations.\nDuring the 1870s the Board for the Protection of Aborigines placed Aboriginal people from all over Victoria at Coranderrk Station. In 1924 it was closed as a staffed station. Nine Aboriginal people remained, with the Police Constable at Healesville as their local guardian. The rest were sent to Lake Tyers Reserve. \nThe area was gradually given away over the years until its status as a reserve was revoked. In 1948 the Coranderrk Land Bill released the station for private purchase. In 1998 land at Coranderrk was purchased by the Indigenous Land Corporation and returned to Aboriginal people.\nCoranderrk was the home to many Aboriginal women, some of whom became prominent Aboriginal spokespersons.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/land-rights-in-south-east-australia-the-long-struggle\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/genealogies-of-aboriginal-families-from-cummeragunja-and-moonculla-now-living-in-goulburn-valley-and-murray-river-towns-including-shepparton-echuca-swan-hill-and-deniliquin-and-descendants-now-livin\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/moravian-mission-papers-in-australia-1832-1916\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/rebellion-at-coranderrk\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/an-unfashionable-concern-with-the-past-the-historical-anthropology-of-diane-barwick\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/a-history-of-aboriginal-lands-and-reserves-in-victoria-1835-1971-by-philip-felton\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/moravian-mission-papers\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Cummeragunja Reserve", "Entry ID": "AWE1093", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/cummeragunja-reserve\/", "Type": "Place", "Birth Place": "Murray River, New South Wales, Australia", "Occupations": "Aboriginal Mission or Reserve", "Summary": "Cummeragunja Reserve was established in New South Wales in 1883 when some of the Aboriginal residents from Maloga Mission, five miles down the river, moved in order to be free of the strict religious lifestyle. It became a thriving and prosperous community and a site of Aboriginal activism in the early twentieth century. On 9 March 1984 the title deeds for the land passed to the Yorta Yorta people through the newly created Yorta Yorta Land Council. Today, many Aboriginal families reside on Cummeragunja.\n", "Details": "By the turn of the century Cummeragunja reserve was a prosperous community, and by 1908 it became a neat village with 300 residents. Its communal farming was appreciated by local farmers who persuaded the Aborigines Protection Board to commit funds to expand farm production on the reserve. However, in 1915 the local farmers committee was abolished, and the Board took over. The Aborigines Protection Act 1909 empowered reserve managers to remove residents for misconduct or because it was believed they should be earning their living elsewhere. Soon, the police started to remove 'half-caste' children to the Board's training institutions. Many families responded by fleeing across the Murray to Victoria to live in riverbank camps. On 6 February 1938 about 170 residents walked off the mission in protest of the way they were treated by the Manager, and crossed the river to settle in Victoria. Some of the women were especially vocal, including Margaret Tucker, Geraldine Briggs and others.\nIn 1953, Cummeragunja was closed as a station and reduced to reserve status. Despite the Board's assimilation policies, the few remaining residents agitated for the right to begin farming again. In 1965, the company Cummeragunga Pty Ltd was registered. On 9 March 1984 the title deeds for the former reserve passed to the Yorta Yorta people through the newly created Yorta Yorta Land Council. Today, many Aboriginal families reside on Cummeragunja.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/the-encyclopaedia-of-aboriginal-australia-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander-history-society-and-culture\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/barmah-chronicles\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/return-to-cummeragunja-hyllus-maris-and-her-mother-mrs-geraldine-briggs-speak26-8-85\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/land-rights-in-south-east-australia-the-long-struggle\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/genealogies-of-aboriginal-families-from-cummeragunja-and-moonculla-now-living-in-goulburn-valley-and-murray-river-towns-including-shepparton-echuca-swan-hill-and-deniliquin-and-descendants-now-livin\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/genealogical-data-on-the-aborigines-of-australia-gathered-during-the-harvard-and-adelaide-universities-anthropological-expedition-1938-39\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/from-colonial-to-state-border-a-federation-history-of-the-social-construction-of-the-border-between-new-south-wales-and-victoria-as-a-frontier-barrier-and-contact-zone\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/basket-weaving-cummeragunja\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/aborigines-in-society-the-man-from-cummeragunja\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/an-unfashionable-concern-with-the-past-the-historical-anthropology-of-diane-barwick\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Ebenezer Mission Station", "Entry ID": "AWE1094", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/ebenezer-mission-station\/", "Type": "Place", "Birth Place": "Near Dimboola, Victoria, Australia", "Occupations": "Aboriginal Mission or Reserve", "Summary": "Ebenezer Mission Station began on 10 January 1859, with the school opening on 17 January with one pupil. Two other boys joined the school the next day. Sixty people were at the Mission station by the end of March. However, it was obvious that the Aboriginal people had no intention of staying there permanently. It was not until the middle of April that the three pupils came back to the school.\nDespite these beginnings, with circumstances beyond their control, the Wotjobaluk and Wergaia from the area began to settle on the station and the 1901 report to the Board states that 40 people were registered as permanent residents. The schoolteacher, Miss Isabel Tyre taught 30 children.\nIn 1904, the Mission was closed and the Moravian Mission Board wrote to the Board for the Protection of Aborigines, thanking them for their support and asking the government to make a permanent reserve of the burial land because it had five of their missionaries buried there. The Lake Hindmarsh Land Act (1904) revoked the Reserve and the land was made available for selection, however, the cemetery was made a Permanent Reserve.\nEbenezer Mission was the home to many Aboriginal women, some of whom became prominent Aboriginal spokespersons.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/moravian-aboriginal-missions-in-australia-1850-1919\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/aboriginal-mission-stations-in-victoria-yelta-ebenezer-ramahyuck-lake-condah\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/moravian-mission-papers-in-australia-1832-1916\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/a-history-of-aboriginal-lands-and-reserves-in-victoria-1835-1971-by-philip-felton\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/moravian-mission-papers\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Tilley's Devine Caf\u00e9", "Entry ID": "AWE2106", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/tilleys-devine-cafe\/", "Type": "Place", "Occupations": "Caf\u221a\u00a9", "Summary": "Tilley's Devine Caf\u00e9 may not rival its namesake in the arenas of vice and criminality, but in Canberra and beyond, this institution has been celebrated for providing originality and flair for over twenty-two years.\n", "Details": "Named after the colourful Tilley Devine, Sydney's infamous madam and 'Bordello Queen' of the 1920s, the caf\u00e9 was established on the corner of Wattle and Brigalow Streets in Lyneham in January 1984 by owner and manager, Paulie Higgisson. On opening night a seating capacity of 60 was swamped by an eager crowd of 420.\nWith elegant, dark wood fittings, a moody, deep red colour scheme, and soft jazz wafting between the old-fashioned booths lining the walls, there are some things essentially nostalgic and cinematic about Tilley's romantic atmosphere, reminiscent of a Hollywood film noir. Its timeless in a way that's hard to emulate in a youngish, fickle town like Canberra, where high turnover of night spots seem inevitably dictated by the relative hip-factor of the d\u00e9cor, the DJ and the cocktail menu.\nHowever, Tilley's has achieved more than just create a creative ambience and space of effortless charm; it has been blazing a trail on multiple fronts from its inception. Initially established to create a safe and comfortable environment for women, Tilley's caused its first commotion by banning groups of men drinking inside unless they were accompanied by at least one woman. 'I just didn't want a room full of blokes', Higgisson told the Canberra Times in 2003. Despite the uproar (generated generally by men) this door policy was maintained for two years, solidifying a non-threatening atmosphere, a considerate client base, and in the process unintentionally racking up a good deal of free publicity.\nTilley's is also in a field of 'firsts', being the first licensed outdoor venue in Australia and the first bar to ban smoking indoors, eight years before any laws were introduced to enforce such a scenario. As a mecca for serious music appreciation, Tilley's has over the years developed a formidable reputation within the industry and wider public. An awesome array of Australian and international artists have presented a continuous program for twenty-one years. Again an idiosyncratic policy of not serving food or drinks during performances so as not to detract from the show through the hubbub of drinking and dining marked Tilley's as a connoisseurs' choice.\nWhile not originally conceived as a live music venue, Higgisson's skill and background as a music producer and sound engineer meant this side of the operation grew almost by osmosis. As an offshoot it became a remarkably strong trump card with Higgisson maintaining, in keeping with the Tilley's legend, that in the last eighteen years she has never had to try and book a musician. Instead there has been a steady stream chasing her - among them have been guitarists Jose Feliciano, Slava Grigoryan and Karin Schaupp, Canned Heat, Screamin' Jay Hawkins, legendary acts like the Animals, and songwriters like Jimmy Webb.\nUnfortunately, this approach has become a victim of its own success - 'Keeping Music Live', at least on a regular basis, is now untenable. As Higgison explained in an article in the Canberra Times, 'The day the music died', 'We've had a fabulous reputation for our concerts and one of the reasons is that we keep the place pin-drop silent. It's an environment that both artists and audiences won't get anywhere else, except perhaps in a theatre. But by definition, it's financially an unproductive time for us, all in the name of the civility of the gig.'\nFor this reason, plus escalating overheads and the unrelenting nature of planning such a series of events, Tilley's famed weekly schedule of concerts ended with the 'Last Hurrah' on Sunday 30 October 2005. The news of Tilley's live music demise has been greeted with much dismay across Canberra and beyond. However the stage has remained and Higgisson intends to stage live gigs from time to time, such as for the Multicultural Festival in February 2006.\nThis entry was prepared in 2006 by Roslyn Russell and Barbara Lemon, Museum Services, and funded by the ACT Heritage Unit.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/brief-biography-of-tilly-devine\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/prostitution-regulation-in-colonial-and-early-federal-australia\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/transcript-of-razor-gang-feuds-tilly-devine-vs-kate-leigh\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/from-lady-denman-to-katy-gallagher-a-century-of-womens-contributions-to-canberra\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Women in Australia's Working History", "Entry ID": "AWE2155", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/women-in-australias-working-history\/", "Type": "Place", "Birth Place": "Barcaldine, Queensland, Australia", "Summary": "In July 2002, the Australian Workers Heritage Centre celebrated the opening of Stage One of its national $8 million project, Women in Australia's Working History. The first stage is an exhibition, A Lot On Her Hands, featuring the working experiences of a diverse range of Australian women.\n", "Details": "The Australian Workers Heritage Centre is a museum style complex opened in 1991 in the grounds of the old Barcaldine State School in southwestern Queensland. Many of the original structures have been reinvented into exhibition space, telling the stories of Australia's working history through objects, art and multi-media presentations. Historic workplaces of yesteryear, including a one-teacher school, police watch-house and railway station, have been relocated to the centre from throughout Queensland.\nThe exhibition A Lot on Her Hands is a major component of the Working Women project at the centre. It looks at the experience of Australian women in paid and unpaid work, from both the perspective of the individual and in the context of the broader issues in our nation's history. The exhibition features a diverse range of Australian women, some known to us, others less well known but equally inspirational. The title reflects the understated resilience of the women represented in the exhibition. Some of the individuals featured include:\n\nRuth Hegarty, a child of the stolen generation and indigenous advocate;\nLouisa Lawson, newspaper proprietor, suffragist and mother;\nMary Barry, business woman and goat farmer;\nJoan Kirner, Australia's first woman Premier.\n\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/songs-of-the-unsung-heroes-stories-and-verse-celebrating-australian-women-and-their-work\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Women's Memorial Playing Fields", "Entry ID": "AWE2257", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/womens-memorial-playing-fields\/", "Type": "Place", "Birth Place": "Adelaide, South Australia, Australia", "Occupations": "Sporting Venue", "Summary": "The concept of a Women's Memorial Playing Fields emanated from the concern from South Australia's sporting women over the lack of playing areas available to them. Sports field for women had always been in short supply in Adelaide, but the situation was made worse by the rapid growth of women's participation in sport in the post-war period.\nThis concern led to the formation of the South Australian Women's Amateur Sports Council. With the help of the National Fitness Council they lobbied the government for resources and were eventually successful. In 1953 the Premier, the Hon. Tom Playford, granted the Council 20 acres of reserve land on the corner of Shepherds Hill Road and Ayliffes Road, St. Marys for a centre for women's sport.\nFrom 1953-55 the fields progressed and prospered. In 1956 to honour those who had died during war, a memorial drinking fountain was erected, and the grounds as a whole were dedicated to the South Australia Servicewomen who served in World Wars I and II. A ceremony remembering the nurses and other women in the services is held each February.\nThe work of early Trust members is commemorated in the naming of the Helen Black oval, the Gordon Brown oval and the May Mills Pavilion.\nThe Women's Memorial Playing fields are the only dedicated women's memorial of this type in Australia.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/a-fair-go-women-in-sport-in-south-australia-1945-1965\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/shes-game-women-making-australian-sporting-history-2\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/south-australian-womens-memorial-playing-fields-trust-summary-record\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "St Margaret's Hospital", "Entry ID": "AWE4210", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/st-margarets-hospital\/", "Type": "Place", "Birth Place": "Surry Hills, New South Wales, Australia", "Summary": "St Margaret's Hospital, known initially as St Margaret's Maternity Home, was founded by Gertrude Abbott in 1893. Located in Elizabeth Street in Strawberry Hills it was founded 'to provide shelter and care for unmarried girls of the comparatively respectable class. In 1904 the hospital started an outpatients service, and in 1910 St Margaret's Hospital for Women moved to its final location on Bourke Street in Surry Hills. The work of the maternity hospital and midwifery training was continued from this base until 1998. At its peak, St Margaret's was the third largest maternity hospital in Sydney. The site was continually extended and rebuilt and specialist services and training courses added, including obstetric and gynaecology training of doctors.\nSt. Margaret's Private Hospital was opened in 1946 to assist in the funding of the public facilities. St. Margaret's Children's Hospital operated from 1967-1979 for the specialist care of infants and children, particularly the intensive care needs of neonates.\nSt. Margaret's Public Hospital closed in June 1993, followed by the closure of the Private Hospital in June 1998. The site of the Children's Hospital, reused as the Gertrude Abbott Nursing Home, opened in 1982 and remains in operation\n", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/st-margarets-hospital-darlinghurst-n-s-w-records-1894-1998\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Women's House (Canberra Women's Centre)", "Entry ID": "AWE4880", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/womens-house-canberra-womens-centre\/", "Type": "Place", "Birth Place": "3 Lobelia Street, O'Connor, Australian Capital Territory", "Occupations": "Feminist support service", "Summary": "For almost 20 years the Women's House in O'Connor was an important feminist space providing support for community based women's groups and organisations. Activities and events at the house reflected the changing shape of the women's movement, both locally and nationally, as well as local women's involvement in broader political campaigns. The House was the first centre for community based women's services in Canberra with Canberra Women's Liberation, Women's Electoral Lobby, the Abortion Counselling Service and the Rape Crisis Counselling Service as the first tenants. Over the years many of the women involved formed significant groups and connections at the House, contributing to the establishment of some of the key women's services in Canberra. Lesbian Line, a telephone support service for women, operated out of the House for a number of years in the late 1980s and early nineties. An even wider range of women's groups used the House for meetings. By the mid 1990s there were more women-specific services established in Canberra, both government and non-government. This meant that the House was being used less often after having provided a critically significant place for a diverse range of Canberra women to meet, work, organise and party.\n", "Details": "The history of the Women's House in O'Connor is intimately interconnected with the early years of Women's Liberation in Canberra. When the women of Canberra Women's Liberation secured the house in O'Connor as a rental property from the government in 1975, they had already been meeting at 12 Bremer St, Griffith for a couple of years as well as providing some ad hoc informal services for women. As Julia Ryan noted 'the house is beaut and Ginny Ryan is living there as a caretaker cum housewarmer'. Canberra Women's Liberation regularly met there in the early years.\nWomen were invited to join what was to be called the Canberra Women's Centre (for $5) and become involved in the Collective which was responsible for managing the business of the House. In 1978 the Canberra Women's Centre Collective decided to go into print with a newsletter for Canberra women and in May 1978 the first issue of Wimminews appeared. For about 15 years Wimminews provided important information for Canberra women about upcoming events at the Women's House and around Canberra such as meetings, discussion of feminist issues, art, film, poetry, and it also ran some classifieds for accommodation and services for women.\nThe following groups met there on a regular basis: Rape Crisis Centre Collective, Abortion Counselling Service, Refuge Rap Group, Lesbian Group, Women's Electoral Lobby, Rape Law Reform Group, Women on Campus Collective, and Women's Radio Collective. A feminist bookshop was set up at the house and the Collective started a Women's Information and Health Counselling Service funded by a grant from the ACT Health Commission.\nIn 1978 Wimminews reported that 'the laundry of the Women's House has undergone a complete metamorphosis and is now the National WEL Communications Office'. There was also a complaint from a neighbour in Lobelia St about 'that noisy mob of women and all their bloody cars' which was resolved through neighbourly communication and compromises about car parking.\nFrom 1979 to the early 1980s the International Women's Day Collective met at the House to organise events to celebrate International Women's Day in Canberra and a Feminist Lawyers Group was also meeting there. Funds to keep the house financially viable were always needed and women were asked to pledge regular donations. Fundraising events were held at the house and a stall at Belconnen Trash and Treasure markets raised money so that in March 1983 the library could be refurbished. In 1983 Women's Salon meetings were held every fortnight at the Women's House with dinner and discussion, and in July an open event was held to raise money for Lesbian Line.\nIn the mid 1980s the House was also being used by women involved in the actions against American bases and the anti-nuclear movement - the Cockburn Sound Women's Action Group, Women Against Nuclear Energy (WANE), Women for Survival, and the Feminist Anti Nuclear Group (FANG), as well as Women Against Rape in War.\nFrom 1983 to 1985 the committee of Women's House, now referred to as the Women's Centre, were urging women to donate money to the House, to be involved in work to keep the house open and to promote it to women's organisations for meetings and events. In 1984 the House was refurbished and women continued to meet there, with new groups such as the Women and Addiction Group meeting there as well. In October 1984 a group of women (Medea) held an open meeting to discuss the need for 'a women's space run by women, for women to work through emotional and mental health problems'. This service would become what is now Inanna, a service for people who experience homelessness, are living with mental health issues, violence and the effects of trauma.\nIn 1989, as well as the Abortion Counselling Service and the Women's Electoral Lobby, the 2XX Feminist Broadcasting Collective were meeting there. In May, Chief Minister Rosemary Follett launched the Rape Crisis Centre's 24-hour service at the Centre. In June, there were Saturday night 'Soup Kitchens' for women and WEL held Writing Circles in the kitchen to support women to write letters to politicians. But it was a continuing struggle to get enough women to join up and stay on the committee for the House.\nBy January 1994, the Women's House had been going for nearly twenty years. A meeting was called by the Canberra Women's Centre Inc. to discuss future plans for the Centre with a plea for women to 'come along and put forward your ideas'. As one of the women involved in the House at the time recollected, the National and ACT WEL moved out, having found premises on the edge of Civic which they liked better than the previous laundry. It had become increasingly difficult to maintain the House financially and it closed not long afterwards.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/wimminews\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/wimminews-2\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/wimminews-3\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/wimminews-4\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/wimminews-5\/ \nhttps:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/from-lady-denman-to-katy-gallagher-a-century-of-womens-contributions-to-canberra\/", "Archival Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/records-of-the-womens-electoral-lobby-1952-2010-manuscript\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Wendy's Secret Garden", "Entry ID": "AWE5757", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/wendys-secret-garden\/", "Type": "Place", "Birth Place": "Lavender Bay, New South Wales, Australia", "Summary": "The public garden known as 'Wendy's Secret Garden' was established in 1992. It was named informally by local residents after Wendy Whiteley who cleared the derelict land and established the gardens. The land belongs to the NSW State Railways but had been neglected for decades. In October 2015 it was leased to North Sydney Council on 30 year lease with a 30 year option. It is now a popular location for weddings and tourists.\n", "Published Resources": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/wendy-whiteley-and-the-secret-garden\/" }, { "Title\/Name": "Cascades Female Factory", "Entry ID": "AWE6596", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/cascades-female-factory\/", "Type": "Place", "Summary": "Cascades Female Factory was a workhouse for female convicts in the penal colony of Van Diemen's Land. Opened in 1828, the Factory expanded to accommodate 1000 women and 175 children by 1853.\nThe Cascades Female Factory Historic Site is one of eleven convict sites that form the Australian Convict Sites World Heritage property.\n" }, { "Title\/Name": "Frances Burke Centre", "Entry ID": "IMP0138", "Entry URL": "https:\/\/www.womenaustralia.info\/entries\/frances-burke-centre\/", "Type": "Place", "Summary": "Established in 1994, the Frances Burke Textile Resource Collection was located within the School of Fashion and Textiles at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT). The Textile Resource Collection collected and researched the work of Australian textile designers and visual artists working in the area of textile design so that future researchers could assess and appreciate their individual creative contribution to the cultural identity of Australia.\nThe Centre no longer exists as a discrete entity, but is now part of the RMIT Design Archives, a growing facility which actively collects material relating to Melbourne design from the twentieth century onwards, including fashion and textile design, architecture, industrial design, interior design, landscape architecture, graphic design, gold and silver smithing and sound. Building on the Frances Burke Centre collection the RMIT Design Archives is bringing together archives from other design practices in order to tell the story of Melbourne as a design city. These archives are both digital and material, representing historical and contemporary practices.\n" } ]