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Start point of Emily Caroline Creaghe Expedition

Location: Gregory Downs, Queensland, QLD New exhibition celebrates our first female explorer. Emily  Caroline  Creaghe (Cray) has the remarkable distinction of being our first ever female outback...

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Women’s WW2 exhibit

Location: 42-68 Palmer Street , Townsville, QLD World War 2 display based on the experiences of women living and working in Townsville during the years 1939-1945.  Some artefacts are exhibited...

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Statue of Emma Miller

Location: King George Square, Brisbane, QLD – Brisbane The statue of Emma Miller has a small hand-scratched plaque asking who stole Emma’s umbrella  –  missing from her left hand.

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Beatrice Hutton 1893-1990

Beatrice May Hutton became Queensland’s first woman architect when she was accepted as an associate member of the Queensland Institute of Achitects in March 1916. She worked on many buildings in...

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Elina Mottram 1903-1996

Elina Emily Mottram, a Brisbane trained architect, opened her own practice in 1924, the first woman architect to do so.  At the time of her retirement in 1975 she  had become the longest practising...

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Margaret Feilman 1921-

Margaret Feilman OBE was Perth’s first female town planner. She also had a successful career as an architect and landscape designer and was an early advocate for identifying and protecting  built...

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Barbara van den Broek 1932-2001

Described as ‘a woman for all seasons’ Barbara van den Broek was a registered architect, town planner and landscape architect, as well as a person committed to lifelong learning. A founding member of...

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