Thursday, 6 March 2025

International Women’s Day

Wendy LOVELL (Northern Victoria) (10:02): I would also like to acknowledge International Women’s Day, which will take place this week, on Saturday 8 March. I stand here wearing the purple and white colours of the women’s movement and wearing what is a piece of suffrage jewellery, a brooch that was worn by the women of the suffrage movement to tell each other that they supported each other. They wore these brooches because in those days you did not wear clothes emblazoned with slogans, a T-shirt or something. They wore brooches that contained the women’s colours in emerald and amethyst with pearls or diamonds to show each other they supported each other.