Sunday 5 March, 10.00 a.m. Bendigo Women, a celebration of International Women’s Day.
Tour leaders, Pip Johanson and Heather McNeill
Meet at the Tourist Information Centre, Pall Mall, Bendigo
The International Women’s Day 2023 campaign theme is: #EmbraceEquity. During this walk you will be introduced, or learn more about only a few of the remarkable women who lived and worked in Bendigo. The tour leaders recognise that there are so many unexplored stories of the lives of Bendigo women. The saying, ‘you can’t be what you can’t see’ has led to a greater enthusiasm to embrace equality. However, in her book Celebrating Bendigo’s Women, Brenda Stevens-Chambers commented – ‘None of us (women) want to lead our mothers’ lives, every thought we have isfocussed on the quality of our own lives and our kin, yet as pointed out by Marilyn Lake and Germaine Greer, doing so is still fraught with obstacles’.
Highlighted on the walk will be Margaret Kennedy, the joint discoverer in 1851 of gold in the Bendigo Creek, Virginia Trioli, two times Walkley Award winning ABC journalist, as well as Anna Brennan, Amy Castles (picture above), Agnes Goodsir, Faith Leach and Kay Thurlow.