This year Women’s History Month features and celebrates Founding Women: Mothers of Federation. For further information and events during March, see the WHM website that contains a gallery of outstanding women who were active in the development of federation and achieving the vote for all Australian women. WHM recognises and honours Australian women who influenced the movement towards nationhood and the first Constitution of the federation.
Woman for an Australian Republic, Adelaide Ironside, republican poet and artist 1831-1867
Self portrait 1855, Newcastle Art Gallery NSW
