Hear Our Voices – Women of the West Speak Out

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Panel 6: Environment – There is always something to do protecting the environment Natalie Gatt When Natalie Gatt moved to Werribee,’Victoria’s Green Garden Bowl’, she was anticipating building a new house on a large block and enjoying fresh clean...

Hear Our Voices – Women of the West Speak Out

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Panel 5: Community – Women play a strong role in our local communities Daisy Serong Daisy was taken away from her mother when she was two in 1944. Daisy spent most of her youth living in Caloola, an institution for people with intellectual disabilities in Sunbury. She...

Hear Our Voices – Women of the West Speak Out

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Panel 4: Politics – You can get some things done through politics Joan Kirner Joan Kirner has been a community activist with and on behalf of women for many years. Joan’s story began in Croydon. There she worked for better quality and greater equity in...

Hear Our Voices – Women of the West Speak Out

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Panel 3: Pioneers – These women broke new ground Annette Sassano Annette is one of the few people with muscular dystrophy who has been able to regain significant strength through intensive physiotherapy. She does not require physiotherapy now. Annette works part time...

Hear Our Voices – Women of the West Speak Out

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Panel 2: Foreword by Olwen Ford The call to ‘Hear our voices’ is a strong one, forcing us to recognise that women have something to say and urging us to listen. Over the centuries and across the world, women have spoken, but they have not always been heard...

Hear Our Voices – Women of the West Speak Out

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Panel 1: Introduction and Acknowledgements Introduction Hear Our Voices is an exhibition produced by the Living Museum in 1999 about the lives of several women in the western suburbs and their contributions to the society they lived in. The producer of the exhibition,...