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A blond-haired woman wearing courtroom robes with blue, yellow and white ribbons on the right shoulder
Winter Tales presents Justice Verity McWilliam

The National Foundation for Australian Women presents Justice Verity McWilliam reflecting on her life and work.

Event
A woman with blonde hair and glasses leaning on a purple portrait in a studio with some Indigenous posters behind her.

Alison Alder

Winter Tales presents Alison Alder

The National Foundation for Australian Women presents Alison Alder reflecting on her life and work.

Event
Collection guide
Stead Collection

Papers of Christina Stead including diaries, manuscripts of her works, correspondence, personal documents, cuttings and photographs as well as papers of her biographers.

Collection guide
A watercolour painting showing a view of bushland through a gap in a rock wall

Watercolour painting by Eirene Mort

How a photograph inspired a biography

Sylvia Martin has spent decades writing about women who lived in the early part of the 20th century. Find out how a photograph sparked the inspiration for the subject of her latest biography Double Act.

Book
News article
Natasha Maimbo, a young woman of colour, standing in a mechanical engineering lab with pictures of telescopes behind her.
Celebrating women in STEM

New collection material online reveals stories of Australia’s women scientists.

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