Women's Suffrage Centenary Celebrations

The year of celebrations begins on the steps of Parliament House in Adelaide. Photograph courtesy Rosey Boehm, part of the Women's Suffrage Centenary Secretariat archival record group SRG 534 in the State Library of South Australia.

If you want to get the flavour of the year of celebrations, look at an overview of the year's events. Or, if you want more of a taste of some activities, look at the detailed stories on 28 special activities shown below. Or, if you want a complete feast, check out the complete calendar of events. Setting the centenary year in the context of suffrage and beyond is the three waves of feminism.

These stories were prepared as press releases and stories by Rosemary Cadden, then with the Women's Suffrage Secretariat. The photographs accompanying these stories are by Rosey Boehm Photography.

76 women and 5 camels can't be wrong
100 year old petition is new exhibition centrepiece
100 years of housework
A present-day handicap for women's suffrage
A touch of Greece
Aboriginal women reveal hopes and dreams for future generations
Asian women's mark on SA life
Brothels and lunatic asylums in latest Speaker's Corner exhibition
Changing attitudes towards women and sport
Dame Beryl Beaurepaire
Dame Roma Mitchell
Diary launch to celebrate women's "firsts"
Fertility has been a focus for 100 years
Final ceremony to mark the end of SA's Women's Suffrage Centenary
New all-women CD challenges the music industry
Passion and fire against injustice is the path to equality
Placard-carrying demonstrators to meet SA Governor
Provocative works by women prisoners
Saying it with flowers
South Australia heads national investigation into lack of women politicians
Sportswomen's names set in stone
The power of the written word
Top runners in Adelaide for Australian Championship
Under exposed women
Weaving our way into history
Women planners with designs on improving urban environments
Womentrek
Young women march to Parliament House