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Victoria first gave women the vote in 1863- before New Zealand and even before South Australia... by mistake. Victorians were very worried about the integrity of the electoral process so

On 31 October () 1923 Melbourne was rocked by riots and looting lasting 3 days. Trams were overturned, three people died, 78 stores looted, and a third of Victoria’s police

In 1853, a certain Mrs Melville put the dead body of her husband on display on the window of her oyster shop on Little Bourke Street. The Myer Christmas Windows

34 years ago, Picasso’s “Weeping Woman” was stolen from the National Gallery of Victoria by (self proclaimed) Australian Cultural Terrorists and held for ransom in exchange for more arts funding-

Since you all love it when I over share, let me tell you about an incredibly embarrassing thing that happened to me that is also the funniest thing that’s happened

Meet Prudencia Ayala, an Indigenous Salvadoran woman who was the first (and only) woman to ever run for the presidency of El Salvador in 1930 despite women not being able

I didn't realise that I was "poor, hard to engage, and vulnerable" until a Victorian Government official told me that me and my public housing community were these things. We