Australia has more statues of animals than of women.

Less than 4% of Australia’s statues represent historical female figures.

A Monument of One’s Own is a NFP community campaign for statue equality. Our aim is to achieve monumental change, one statue at a time.

The Great Petition, Burston Reserve, Melbourne, March 2016; photograph by Sharon Crozier-De Rosa.

It was created by artists Susan Hewitt and Penelope Lee and launched on 3rd December 2008 to celebrate the 100th year anniversary of women’s right to vote in Victoria.

Irish-Australian suffragist and social reformer in South Australia.

1889, she said: ‘Nineteenth century civilisation has accorded to women the same political status as to the idiot and the criminal. Such is the basis of our reverence for the person of women and of our estimate of her work.’

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