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Acknowledgements
We would like to acknowledge:
- The State Government of Victoria, the Office of Women's Policy, Minister Maxine Morand for a Centenary of Women's Suffrage Grant.
- The League of Women Voters for its support of the application for the grant.
- The State Library of Victoria for its support of the application for the grant.
- The Public Record Office of Victoria for its support of the application for the grant.
- eScholarship Research Centre: Gavan McCarthy, Director for support for the grant application, Joanne Evans, Helen Morgan, James Williams and Ailie Smith for database and website development.
- Mary Allinson, League of Women Voters for the booklet entitled Early Women Candidates Parliament of Victoria 1924-1970, League of Women Voters, Melbourne, 2008. Also for the publication by Louise Mackay, Women's Sphere: a summary of the Movement for Women's Electoral Reform and representation in Victoria, League of Women Voters of Victoria, Melbourne, 1989. These publications enabled us to trace the early women candidates. We thank Sheila Byard from the LWV for her constructive advice.
- Paul Thornton-Smith, Senior Research and Information Officer, Victorian Electoral Commission for permission to access to electoral records.
- The Victorian Committee of the Australian Women's Archives project:
- Liz Prideaux (Convenor)
- Patricia Grimshaw, (NFAW Board)
- Rosemary Francis ( Secretary and Project Co-ordinator)
- Nikki Henningham ( Australian Women's Archives Project Co-ordinator)
- Barbara Lemon
- Dot Wickham
- Margot Beever
- Anne Heywood
- Kerry Lovering
- Judy Smart
- Shurlee Swain
- Vida Goldstein from whom the title 'Carrying on the fight' was adapted from a statement she made in the Australian Woman's Sphere , 10 July 1903.
Women should carry on the fight and the campaign by means of their own organisations, and not by means of any existing ones controlled and directed by men. If they do the latter, they must adopt men's methods and men's aims, and simply help in perpetuating the old order of things. The right of the franchise will have been bestowed on them for no purpose.
About the Banner Image
The banner features a detail from 'transport of suffrage', an original photograph by Dan A'Vard. Both images are licensed under Creative Commons, Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike. The suffrage tram was launched in February 2008 in conjunction with celebrations to mark the centenary of women's suffrage in Victoria.
