Tuesday, 8 March 2022
Members statements
Victorian women’s public art program
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Bills
- Domestic Animals Amendment (Reuniting Pets and Other Matters) Bill 2021
- Domestic Animals Amendment (Reuniting Pets and Other Matters) Bill 2021
- Health Legislation Amendment (Quality and Safety) Bill 2021
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- Service Victoria Amendment Bill 2021
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Bills
- Domestic Animals Amendment (Reuniting Pets and Other Matters) Bill 2021
- Domestic Animals Amendment (Reuniting Pets and Other Matters) Bill 2021
- Health Legislation Amendment (Quality and Safety) Bill 2021
- Major Events Legislation Amendment (Unauthorised Ticket Packages and Other Matters) Bill 2021
- Service Victoria Amendment Bill 2021
Victorian women’s public art program
Ms SETTLE (Buninyong) (12:57): On International Women’s Day I was absolutely delighted to be able to advise the Linton and District Historical Society that they had been successful in the Victorian women’s public art program, which is a $2 million program launched by the Minister for Women last year. I would like to acknowledge the importance of this program and thank the minister for her foresight. In Ballarat there are currently more statues of horses than there are of women.
Our region is teeming with extraordinary women, both contemporary and historical, and this artwork will celebrate the contribution of Linton-born war surgeon and director of infant and maternal health Dr Vera Scantlebury Brown OBE. Born in 1889, Vera paid her own way to London after a British call-out to Australian doctors to work in the Endell Street Military Hospital, an institution created and staffed by women doctors and nurses. She had to buy her own uniform and, unlike nurses, was never officially appointed by the Australian Army. Her contribution to the field of medicine was officially recognised with an OBE in 1938.
This sculpture will be created by Lucy Mceachern. Lucy is a renowned bronze sculptor who also lives in my electorate in the township of Inverleigh. So again I would like to thank the Minister for Women for this program. There is the old saying, ‘You cannot be it if you cannot see it’, and I think it is extraordinarily important that we continue to recognise women in public art.