Daily Archives: October 30, 2008

QUEEN VICTORIA WOMEN’S CENTRE TRUST: REPORT 2006-07

I rise to speak on the Queen Victoria Women’s Centre Trust annual report 2006-07. It gives me great satisfaction in the year that we celebrate women’s suffrage in Victoria to speak on this report. The trust has a dual role which is essentially to manage the heritage building which houses women’s organisations and to develop…

PORTLAND: VIDA GOLDSTEIN SEAT

At last there is a very special seat for that dangerous and persuasive woman, the pioneering suffragist Vida Goldstein, in Portland, the town where she was born nearly 140 years ago. At last Vida Goldstein has been recognised for the significant role she played in helping Victorian women win the right to vote 100 years…