"I hope it’s neither too cute nor impertinent to say that Zelda was my elder. Not in a familial sense, of course, and not just on the obvious score, in that she was older than me. I mean in a spiritual sense. Zelda was a leader, an authority figure, and I looked up to her, from a reverent distance." Dr. Clare Wright gave this speech at Zelda D'Aprano's Memorial on the 23rd March 2018.
5th April, 18 Read more
Our city streets rarely reflect the important contributions of women. City of Melbourne wants to change that.
29th March, 18 Read more
Zelda D'Aprano was known for her decades of activism for the rights of women. She chained herself to the Commonwealth building in 1969 to protest pay inequality, refused to pay the full tram fare (because women were not paid a full wage) and spoke out against injustice. Here she is in conversation with VWT Board Member Leena van Deventer in 2017.
23rd March, 18 Read more
On March 1, a full house eagerly took their seats inside ACMI for the official launch of A White Hot Flame, a biography of Mary Bennett written by historian Sue Taffe, and for the world premiere of Letters Across the Desert, a Victorian Women’s Trust documentary film by Stu Mannion.
14th March, 18 Read more
Reflecting on what women have gained in the past century, and how far we still have to go in the next.
8th March, 18 Read more
Is the question of economic security for women – waged and unwaged – simply too vexed for our nation to handle?
12th January, 18 Read more
In 2017, sixteen small grants were given for a range of projects that in one way or another will improve the lives of women and girls or women and their families.
21st November, 17 Read more
This morning, hundreds of mourners dressed in purple gathered in Northcote to bid farewell to Fiona Richardson: a treasured friend, mother and formidable advocate for gender equality and violence prevention.
31st August, 17 Read more
We don’t often pause and reflect on the ground-breaking women who came before us, and we certainly don’t learn about women’s activism in school. Here's one woman you should know.
16th August, 17 Read more