MARIE COLLIER (1927 – 1971)

To mark ANZAC Day 2024, as a tribute to the servicewomen of the Australian Army Nursing Service and the New Zealand equivalent, we remember Sr. Gertrude Evelyn Munro, a nurse from Ballarat, who served and died during World War I. 

Happy International Women's Day 2024! This post focuses on Ballarat streets named after women and reveals the different and changing ways that society has approached the representation, and under-representation, of women in public spaces.

An annual Boxing Day Fete was held in the Ballarat Botanical Gardens from 1864 to 1872 to raise funds for Ballarat’s charities.