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- WOMEN
AT THE HEART: Pioneering Women of Central
Australia
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- This
exhibition seen here is an interim display and
is currently being expanded and revamped with
funding through the NT Department of Arts and
Museums and Department of Industry and Business.
Please contact
us
if you can help us with photographs or
information on Central Australian women whose
story you feel should be told. Or complete a
Tell
us Her Story
form
for our archive. Eventually we will consider
Central Australia to cover the area between
Oodnadatta (SA) in the south to Tennant Creek in
the north, but at this stage the exhibition
concentrates on the area surrounding Alice
Springs.
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- INTRODUCTION
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have been women at the heart of Australia for
thousands of years.
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- Central
Australia had been inhabited by a number of
native tribes before the first European
explorers (a party of 3 men, led by John
McDouall Stuart) arrived in 1860.
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- The
white settlement of Central Australia began in
the 1870’s with the building of the
Overland Telegraph line, the opening up of the
land by pastoralists and the introduction of the
police force as well as the development of the
Lutheran mission at Hermannsburg.
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- The
discovery of “rubies” (actually
garnets) and gold at Arltunga and Winnecke also
brought prospectors in the 1880’s resulting
in the establishment of the township of Stuart
by the SA government in 1888.
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- The
town soon had a hotel, store, boarding house,
saddler and a market garden. Eventually the post
office moved from the Telegraph Station into
town, officially becoming Alice Springs in 1933
following the completion of the railway in 1929.
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- Missionaries,
miners, telegraphists, policemen, pastoralists,
hoteliers, storekeepers – these are the
pioneers of Central Australia. But what of the
women at the heart – who were
they?
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