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Frances "Fanny" Finch (born Frances Combe, London, 1815 – died Australia, 15 October 1863) was an English immigrant to Australia who arrived in South Australia in 1837. She married the following year, before moving to Victoria in the early 1850s. She soon became a successful restaurateur in Castlemaine during the gold rush period. In 1856, 52 years before women's suffrage was achieved in Victoria, Finch and another unnamed woman used their status as ratepayers to cast votes during municipal elections. She has been cited as Australia's first identified female voter. Her vote were later disallowed and the law was amended to explicitly exclude women from voting. The following is a brief listing of news items, webpages and other published material relating to her life and times. Fanny Finch's voting paper, Castlemaine, 1856. Australian Feminist Fanny Finch finally being recognised , Feminist Newswire [blog], 30 January 2020. Cosoleto, Tara, Fanny Finch, one of Au...

Protest Posters: | Alice's Tea and Yellowcake 1977 | Garage Graphics | Getting a head on the dole 1982 | Joe Gomez 1967-8 | International Women's Day 1920+ | Mary Callaghan 1975-89 | Ooh Aah Dance Poster 1979 | OZ magazine 1964-71 | Paris May 68 | Redback Graphix 1979-2002 | Steel City Pictures | Toby Zoates 1977-2024 | Yanni Stumbles 1980-86 | Witchworks, Wollongong 1980-84 | Wollongong in Posters I , II | [ Tuesday Morning at the Factory Gates - United Front - General Public and Workers ], Ateliers Populaire, Sorbonne University, Paris, 28 May 1968. 1. The fine arts are dead Something strange happened in France during 1968, reaching a crescendo in the month of May. University students, workers and members of the general public participated in a series of protests, demonstrations, occupations and strikes which took the country to the verge of a popular revolution and ultimately resulted in the near downfall of the government of the day (Touraine 1971). Encounter...

The Healer , Monogram Pictures, Tooker Litho Co. New York, US 1-sheet, stone lithograph, 1935, 27 x 41 inches. Stone lithograph posters have a certain warmth and charm, especially those from early twentieth century printers in Europe, the Americas (North and South) and Australia. A good example is the 1-sheet poster for the 1935 Monogram Pictures release  The Healer . According to the auction sale site from which the above image was obtained, the original 67 minute, black and white film is a romantic love triangle melodrama telling the story of Reginald Barker (Hershenson 2020). It was based on the novel by Robert Herrick (Herrick 1911). Barker is an idealistic young doctor who runs a sanitarium for polio victims. He gets involved with a rich young woman and, as a result, takes his mind off work and the girl who truly loves him. The film stars Ralph Bellamy, Karen Morley, Mickey Rooney, Judith Allen and Robert McWade (IMDb 2020, Wikipedia 2020). The poster fe...