The Australian Women's Register

In 1951 the Adelaide High School was split to form the Adelaide Boys’ High School and the Adelaide Girls’ High School.

The schools were amalgamated again in 1976 after a drop in enrolment numbers caused by the re-zoning of high schools in the metropolitan area and changes in the demography of the city. By 1979 all of the students were housed at the West Terrace Campus.

In 1939 The Queen’s Home was renamed the Queen Victoria Maternity Hospital. Seven years later, in 1946, it was declared a public hospital under the provisions of the Hospital Benefits Act.

In 1966 the hospital was renamed The Queen Victoria Hospital.

The Queen’s Home was officially opened on 24 May 1902 – Queen Victoria’s 83rd Birthday. The hospital was established as a private maternity hospital and from 1917 unmarried women were admitted for the first time.

In 1939, the hospital was renamed the Queen Victoria Maternity Hospital.

The Sydney Women’s Film Group viewed and discussed current work by women filmmakers.

The first Sydney Lyceum Club was established by writer Agnes Rose Soley (Rose De Boheme) in 1914.

North Sydney Girls High School, located on Lane Cove Road, Crows Nest, was officially opened by the Education Minister on 27 January 1914. The building was the first in the state to be purposefully built for the higher education of public school girls.

The foundation stone for the University Women’s College at the University of Melbourne was laid in 1936 by Lady Margaret Huntingfield. The college opened its doors to students the following year.

In 1975 the University Women’s College changed its name to University College and male residents were first enrolled.

The Victorian Trained Nurses Association was first constituted in 1901.

According to a newspaper article in The Argus on 6 July 1901, the objectives of the Association were:

1. To establish a system of registration for trained nurses.
2. To promote the interests of trained nurses – male and female – in all matters affecting their work.
3. To establish a uniform systems of training and examination for nurses.
4. To afford opportunities for discussing subjects bearing on the work of nursing.
5. In due course to arrange for schemes that will afford to nurses a means of providing an allowance during incapacity for work caused by sickness, accident, age, or other necessitous circumstances.

In 1904 the title of “Royal” was granted to the Victorian Trained Nurses Association by His Majesty the King.

At the Annual Meeting of the Royal Victorian Trained Nurses Association in 1934, a vote was held resulting in the Association’s name being changed to the Royal Victorian College of Nursing.

In 1975 the Royal Victorian College of Nursing amalgamated with the Royal Australian Nursing Federation (Victorian Branch).

In the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette Issue No. GN42, a notice was published which stated the intention for the Royal Australian Nursing Federation to be renamed the Australian Nursing Federation.

The Royal Women’s Hospital, which was originally known as the ‘Melbourne Lying-in Hospital and Infirmary for Diseases of Women and Children’, was founded in August 1856. The aim of the founders was to provide a place where ‘underprivileged women could give birth and receive proper medical and nursing attention’.

The Queen Victoria Hospital merged with the Adelaide Children’s Hospital in 1989 to form the Adelaide Medical Centre for Women and Children. In 1995 the centre was renamed the Women’s and Children’s Hospital.

The current Women’s and Children’s Hospital was given its name in 1995, after previously being called the Adelaide Medical Centre for Women and Children.

The centre is located in North Adelaide, South Australia.

The Women’s Electoral Lobby, Western Australia (WEL WA), was established in 1972 and become an official organisation the following year. A constitution was drawn up in 1974 and amended in 1980 when WEL became an incorporated body. WEL WA was officially shut down in 2008.

Women’s Electoral Lobby Victoria was established in Melbourne on 27 February 1972 when Beatrice Faust organised a survey of candidates for election, alongside ten other women.

Founded in July 1988, the South Australian Women’s Suffrage League was at the forefront of the campaign for womens’s right to vote.

The Muslim Women’s National Network Australia represents a network of Muslim women’s organisations and individuals throughout Australia.

The Women’s Hospital was granted the prefix ‘Royal’ in 1954, becoming the Royal Women’s Hospital.

In 2016, the two Tintern Schools campuses – Tintern Girls Grammar School and Southwood Boys Grammar School – came together on the one campus. The school was renamed Tintern Grammar.

The Womanhood Suffrage League of New South Wales was formed out of the Women’s Literary Society in 1891. The League led the fight for women’s suffrage in New South Wales.

The Catholic Women’s League Australia, New South Wales Inc., can trace its origins back to the foundation of the Catholic Women’s Association in Sydney in 1913.

Established in 1883, Sydney Girls High School is the oldest state girls school in New South Wales.

The Queen Victoria Hospital was the name given to the Queen Victoria Maternity Hospital in 1966. The hospital provided maternity and women’s health services, and also operated as an adoption agency. In March 1989 the Queen Victoria Hospital merged with the Adelaide Children’s Hospital to form the Adelaide Medical Centre for Women and Children.

Women with Disabilities Australia (WWDA) is the peak body for women with all types of disabilities in Australia. It is the only organisation of its kind in Australia and one of only a very small number internationally.

WWDA represents more than 2 million disabled women and girls in Australia. The organisation is run by women with disabilities, for women with disabilities, and it operates as a transnational human rights and systemic advocacy organisation.