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Women's Suffrage Centenary Committee

On 1 January 1994, a Women's Suffrage Centenary Time Capsule was launched, with memorabilia from the celebrations to be sealed in the capsule at the end of the year and buried in the catacombs under Parliament House. Enjoying the moment in front of Parliament House, Adelaide, were some of the members of the Centenary Committee. Fom left Diana Laidlaw, Mary Beasley (Centenary Year Chairperson), Maria Kenda (jewellery designer), Jean Blackburn (Inaugural Chairperson), Loine Sweeney (Executive Officer), Natasha Stott Despoja and Robyn Habel (singer/songwriter).

This, and other photographs and memorabilia, is part of the archival record group of the Women's Suffrage Centenary Year Secretariat held in the Mortlock Library of South Australiana as SRG 534.

The Women's Suffrage Centenary Coommittee organised a huge range of activities for 1994. If you want to get the flavour of the year, look at an overview of the year's events. Or, if you want more of a taste of some activities, look at the detailed stories on 28 special activities. Or, if you want a complete feast, check out the complete calendar of events. Setting the centenary year in the context of suffrage and beyond is the three waves of feminism.

For further information on any event, email the Office for the Status of Women, 136 North Terrace, Adelaide 5000, a South Australian state government agency, who will endeavour to put you in touch with the person or organisation responsible for organising the event.

Members of the Women's Suffrage Centenary Steering Committee apointed by the Premier in 1992 were:

Dr Jean Blackburn
Ms Mary Beasley
The Hon Carolyn Pickles MLC
The Hon Jennifer Cashmore MP
Ms Heather Southcott
Ms Betty Fisher
Mrs Barbara Grealy
Mrs Gwendolyn May
Mrs Marie Blacker
Mrs Josephine Tiddy
Ms Joanne Holland
Associate Professor Susan Magarey
Associate Professor Mary Ann Bin-Sallik
Ms Irene Pnevmatikos
Ms Ann Drohan
Ms Natasha Stott Despoja
Ms Heidi Lambert

Chairperson
Deputy Chairperson
Australian Labor Party
Liberal Party
Australian Democrats
Women's Electoral Lobby
National Council of Women
Women's Christian Temperance Union
Women's Agricultural Bureau
Commissioner for Equal Opportunity
Business
Women's Studies/Academia
Aboriginal Women
Non English Speaking Background Women
United Trades and Labour Council
Young Women
Young Women

During 1994 membership of the Committee was:

Ms Mary Beasley
Ms Jennifer Cashmore
Ms Colleen Hutchison (representing The Hon Carolyn Pickles MLC)
Ms Heather Southcott
Ms Marilyn Rolls
Mrs Barbara Grealy
Mrs Gwendolyn May
Mrs Josephine Tiddy
Ms Joanne Holland
Associate Professor Mary Ann Bin-Sallik
Ms Vaia Proios
Ms Ann Drohan
Ms Natasha Stott Despoja
Ms Wendy Wakefield
Ms Betty Tothill
Ms Caroline Ainslie
Ms Helen Nankivell

Ms Susan Marsden
Ms Lesley Purdom
Ms Loine Sweeney
Ms Dianna Cleland

Chairperson
Deputy Chairperson

Australian Labor Party
Australian Democrats
Women's Electoral Lobby
National Council of Women
Women's Christian Temperance Union
Commissioner for Equal Opportunity
Business
Aboriginal Women
Non English Speaking Background Women
United Trades and Labour Council
Young Women
Young Women
Country Women's Association
Media
SA Employers Chamber of Commerce and Industry
Historian
Local government (ex officio)
Executive Officer (until June 1994)
Secretariat Manager (from July 1994)

Many other people contributed to the success of the Centenary Year, including members of the various sub-committees. We acknowledge their valuable contribution.

The Women's Suffrage Centenary Logo was designed by two Adelaide craftswomen artists, Catherine Truman and Sue Lorraine, then of the Gray Street Workshop based at the Jam Factory. Catherine and Sue describe the logo "the spiral is a symbol of movement and progressive development, of inward and outward growwth, of unfolding. It denotes a positive form in motion, rising in celebration—the colour gold symbolises enlightenment, illumination, intellect—purple signifies reverence and dignity and is made up of the colours blue which signifies devotion and red, which signifies passion.

 
   
 
 
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