ECU hosts traveling exhibition celebrating WA Women’s Hall of Fame 2023 inductees

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ECU hosts traveling exhibition celebrating WA Women’s Hall of Fame 2023 inductees

Tuesday, 22 August 2023

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Edith Cowan University (ECU) is hosting a travelling photographic exhibition featuring sixteen Western Australian women, who in 2023 have been inducted into the WA Women’s Hall of Fame.

Each year, the WA Women’s Hall of Fame is a preeminent program which acknowledges the women across the community, and around the State, who are making a difference in Western Australia (WA). This year, sixteen 'inspiring' women were celebrated for their significant contribution to WA and another four women were recognised posthumously, in the ‘Roll of Honour’. The 2023 cohort of inductees features ECU’s own Professor Cobie Rudd, Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Regional Futures) and Vice-President, who received the honour by the Honourable Sue Ellery MLC, Minister for Finance, Commerce, and Women’s Interests.

ECU has a strong relationship with the WA Women’s Hall of Fame and officially launched a partnership on 6 March 2020 as part of ECU’s International Women’s Day celebration. ECU annually provides a home for an ongoing exhibition of the WA Women’s Hall of Fame and currently is a category sponsor for Education.

The 2023 class of inductees is diversely represented, with representation across a range of categories: Community, Business, Health, Education, Arts, Culture, STEM and Sport. Just some of the women featured in the travelling exhibition include:

Professor Cobie Rudd, Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Regional Futures) and Vice-President ECU;
Nola Naylor, Director Aboriginal Health Strategy, South Metropolitan Health Service;
Senator Dorinda Cox, Australian Greens Senator for Western Australia;
Victoria Laurie, Journalist and founding co-chair Women in Media; and
Dr Hema Wadhwa, Remote Operations and Digital Services Manager.

To provide a more detailed summary of what each of these women has achieved, a commemorative booklet is available for download to accompany the exhibition.

ECU is showcasing the exhibition at the Edith Cowan University Library, 2 Bradford Street, Mt Lawley, until 10 September 2023.

The exhibition is located in the foyer of the Library Building 8, open Monday to Friday, 8:00am – 10:00pm and Saturday and Sunday, 10:00am – 5:00pm.

WA Women’s Hall of Fame

First established in 2011 in recognition of the Centenary of International Women’s Day, the WA Women’s Hall of Fame is an incredible record of the diversity in life for women around our State and their commitment to making a difference towards enriching the lives of fellow Western Australians.

ECU is a proud partner of the WA Women’s Hall of Fame. The University’s connection with the WA Women’s Hall of Fame extends to some of its distinguished inductees. Alongside Professor Rudd, ECU’s namesake, Edith Dircksey Cowan, was the first woman elected to an Australian Parliament and was an inaugural inductee of the WA Women’s Hall of Fame in 2011. ECU’s Chancellor Denise Goldsworthy AO was also inducted into the Women’s Hall of Fame in 2011 and former ECU Chancellor the Honourable Kerry Sanderson AC was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 2015.

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