She Carried On: Women’s Power, Erasure, and Legacy in Victoria’s History

She Carried On: Women’s Power, Erasure, and Legacy in Victoria’s History brings together Dr Scarlette Nhi Do, Professor Zoë Laidlaw and PhD candidate Kacey Sinclair for a timely conversation about women’s influence in shaping Victoria’s past. From Lady Gladys Nicholls’ overlooked Indian-Australian heritage and activism, to Janet Biddlecombe’s pastoral wealth and philanthropic power rooted in colonial dispossession, to Fanny Finch’s resistance as a woman of colour in gold-rush Victoria, this event interrogates how women’s labour, leadership and legacies are remembered. Together, these historians ask: whose histories endure, whose are erased and how should we reckon with them today?

Doors open at 5:30pm with drinks and light refreshments. The talk starts at 6pm. Join us online or at the Victorian Archives Centre.

This event is part of Public Record Office Victoria's Cabinet-in-Confidence campaign, celebrating the first ever opening of closed Victorian cabinet papers. They include records from 1990-1992, when Victoria saw its first female Premier, Joan Kirner.