ECU hosts traveling exhibition celebrating WA Women’s Hall of Fame 2024 inductees

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ECU hosts traveling exhibition celebrating WA Women’s Hall of Fame 2024 inductees

Thursday, 05 September 2024

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Edith Cowan University (ECU) is hosting a travelling photographic exhibition featuring sixteen Western Australian women, who in 2024 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’. In March, the 2024 cohort of inductees received their honour from 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 2024 class of inductees is diversely represented, with representation across a range of categories: Community, Business, Health, Education, Arts, Culture, STEM & Technical Trades and Sport. Just some of the women featured in the travelling exhibition include:

Associate Professor Lorraine Hammond AM, ECU Associate Professor, School of Education;
Jessica Gethin, ECU Lecturer and Head of Orchestral /Studies and Conducting at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts;
Libby Lyons, Non-Executive Director, former Director of the Australian Government's Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA) and Chair of the Science in Australia Gender Equity Limited (SAGE) board; and
Kankawa Nagarra, Gooniyandi, Walmajarri Bunaba woman, Respected Elder, teacher and international blues and gospel singer-songwriter.

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 15 September 2024.

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. 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 and ECU’s Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Regional Futures) and Vice-President Professor Cobie Rudd was inducted in 2023.

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