First Ladies: Significant Australian Women 1913-2013
First Ladies profiles women who have achieved noteworthy firsts over the past 100 years.
Art Exhibition
previously on
at
National Portrait Gallery
in
Other Metro Canberra
precinct,
Australian Capital Territory,
Australia.
From
Friday 01 February 2013 to Sunday 16 June 2013
Published by anonymous on Thursday 13 December 2012.
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The focus display includes Australia’s first female Governor General, Quentin Bryce; Elizabeth Blackburn, the first Australian-born woman to be awarded a Nobel Prize; and aviatrix Nancy Bird Walton, Australia’s first female commercial pilot. First Ladies maps the milestones accomplished by Australian women across diverse fields of endeavour, from politics, activism and academia to sport, science and business, taking in the stories of household names as well as unsung heroines.
