Using This Resource

This module is aligned to the Australian Curriculum (v9): History 7–10 and includes material to support the teaching of the Knowledge and Understand areas Building Modern Australia and The Globalising World.

Trailblazing Women and the Law Oral History Project

This module draws from the collections of the National Library of Australia, with a particular focus on the Oral History and Folklore collection project Trailblazing Women and the Law.

This project, started in 2013, as an ARC (Australian Research Council) Linkage partnership undertaken by the Australian National University and the University of Melbourne in collaboration with the National Library of Australia, National Foundation for Australian Women, Federal Court of Australia, Family Court of Australia and Australian Women Lawyers. This project includes the oral histories of Australian women in the legal profession as interviewed by Professor Kim Rubenstein and Dr Nikki Henningham.

Due to copyright conditions, some recordings are not fully available online. This module provides excerpts from a selection of recordings.

Introductory Activities - Trailblazing Women Lawyers
Curriculum Links - Trailblazing Women Lawyers
Themes - Trailblazing Women Lawyers
Collection of printed bound law reports
Concluding Activities - Trailblazing Women Lawyers
book cover illustrated woman rising from the sea holding aloft the sword of justice

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