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Digital map of Vic women

The state government is celebrating Victorian women, including those in Melton and Moorabool, who have made the state a better place through a new digital map that will show important locations connected to the achievements of women.

Minister for Women Natalie Hutchins marked International Women’s Day by opening nominations for Finding Her – an online tool that records locations which were named in honour of Victorian women.

Finding Her is Australia’s first interactive statewide digital map spotlighting locations connected to the stories, lives and achievements of women across Victoria.

Her Place Women’s Museum will research and write the stories of an additional 15 women and add them on the Finding Her website.

The public can nominate any physical site, including statues, monuments, murals in public spaces, buildings, street names and parks, that have been named after women. The call for submissions will run for four weeks.

Her Place Museum has already mapped more than 60 women who have shaped Victoria, linking the places and monuments that they’re connected to with videos, stories and photographs of their lives via QR codes on every site.

Details: findingher.org.au.

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