Celebrating Bendigo Women
Most recently I invited several Bendigo women to participate in a book I was planning about the city’s women. Bendigo women, like every where in Australia have been left out of our history, but I knew there were women quietly working away trying to address the in-balance. Fortunately, everyone contributed material dating from the 1850s to the present with the recent stories being in the form of short personal biographies. From this experience I fully realised the multi-tasking, determined, courageous, flexible wonderful women this city has always bred. We have complete female representation at state and federal levels, five female councillors including the current mayor, and our world-class basket ball team “Bendigo Spirit” was named in their honour.
“From little things big things grow.”
when I realised I wanted to spend my life singing”
