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title: Historical suffrage walk in Brisbane

Details of a historical walking tour of Brisbane will be made available at the conference on Women's Struggle for the Vote in Queensland at the UQ Centre, University of Queensland, 9-10 April 2005. Check this page after the conference for further details.

 

WALKING TOUR
BRISBANE SUFFRAGE LIVING HERITAGE SITES:

 

[old] TOWN HALL
QUEEN STREET[MALL]
* Women's Suffrage League 1889 - 1891

FROM KING GEORGE SQUARE
With EMMA MILLER STATUE
* Women's Unions,
* Boomerang/Worker Office,

In passing ANN STREET PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
* Margaret Ogg

EMMA MILLER SQUARE
ROMA STREET
* Emma Miller

[old] TRADES HALL
TURBOT STREET
* Woman's Equal Franchise Association
* Working Woman's Political Association

SCHOOL OF ARTS
ANN STREET
* Woman's Franchise League (1894-?)
* Leontine Cooper
* Queensland's Women's Electoral Union/League

CENTENNIAL HALL
ADELAIDE STREET
* Public Protest Meeting, 2 November 1904 and walk to the Premier's Office

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES/PARLIAMENT HOUSE
GEORGE STREET
* Aboriginal women, 1897 Act and domestic service

LONGER WALK OPTION VIA FERRY TO KANGAROO POINT
(involves taking stairs up)
* Joesphine Bedford's memorial window to her partner Lilian Cooper at St Mary's.
* Hospital wing Mt Olivett dedicated to Lilian Cooper


Extended SITES OF SIGNIFICANCE:
Brisbane Girls' Grammar School
Leontine Cooper memorial park
Bedford Playground in Spring Hill