

# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Australian Women in Parliament Talk with Eleri Harris Share
- **Event Start and End Date**: Sat, 07 Mar, 2026 at 12:00 am – Sat, 07 Mar, 2026 at 01:30 am
- **Event Description**: Celebrate International Women's Day at the library with a special talk on the history of Australian women in parliament. Australian women of European descent got the right to vote and stand for federal election in 1902. Over the next 40 years, 26 women stood for election and failed. Then suddenly in the middle of the Second World War, 24 women stood in a single election and Enid Lyons and Dorothy Tangney became the first Australian women elected to federal parliament. What happened?

Join author and cartoonist Eleri Harris for a short history of Australian women in Parliament to commemorate Australian womens' fight for equality and liberation. Eleri Harris (she/her) is an Eisner award-winning cartoonist, editor and feminist history tour guide working on Ngunnawal and Ngambri Country in Australia’s national capital. Best known as the former Features Editor at comics website and magazine, The Nib, Eleri is also the author of the picture book, A Loo of One’s Own: A Mostly True Tale of Australia's First Female Parliamentarians and the co-author of Making Nonfiction Comics with Shay Mirk. Her non-fiction history, science and reportage comics have been exhibited and published all over the world.

Photo courtesy of Andrew Sikorski.
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/queanbeyan/australian-women-in-parliament-talk-with-eleri-harris-share/200029754367441
- **Event Categories**: art, literary-art, womens-history-month, international-womens-day
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 10

## Ticket Details

- **Ticket URL**: https://events.humanitix.com/international-women-s-day-australian-women-in-parliament-talk-with-eleri-harris?utm_source=AllEvents.in&utm_medium=event-discovery-platform&utm_campaign=queanbeyan-events

## Event venue details

- **city**: Queanbeyan
- **state**: NS
- **country**: Australia
- **location**: 257 Crawford Street, Queanbeyan, NSW, Australia, New South Wales 2620
- **lat**: -35.35487
- **long**: 149.23479
- **full address**: 257 Crawford Street, Queanbeyan, NSW, Australia, New South Wales 2620

## Event Organizer details

- **affiliate_id**: 2
- **organizer**: Queanbeyan-Palerang Libraries (https://allevents.in/org/queanbeyan-palerang-libraries/12784329)

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Sat, 07 Mar, 2026 at 12:00 am
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** 257 Crawford Street, Queanbeyan, NSW, Australia, New South Wales 2620
- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** Queanbeyan-Palerang Libraries
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
  - **A:** art, literary-art, womens-history-month, international-womens-day
- **Q**: Where can I find ticket details about Australian Women in Parliament Talk with Eleri Harris Share ?
  - **A:** You can find ticket details about this event on AllEvents.

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