Cover of The Worker, 7 March 1891. Political cartoon on shearers’ strike.  Collection of Liz Huf

Collection of Liz Huf

Sketches of Wolfgang Strike camp, shearers on strike, 1891. Collection of Central Queensland University

Collection of Central Queensland University

Baling the wool clip at Logan Downs Shearing Shed, 1890s. Collection of Central Queensland University

Collection of Central Queensland University

Shearer’s camp, Langton Station, 1891. Collection of Central Queensland University

Collection of Central Queensland University

With the commencement of the Queensland gold-rushes in the 1860s, large numbers of Chinese miners and businesses arrived, and competition with Europeans led to rising tensions.

What separate spheres do women and men inhabit, and is there a particular Queensland style?

Women telephonists in Queensland, who commenced at the Brisbane telephone exchange on 5 June 1899. Collection of the National Archives of Australia

Back row, left to right: Kate Sheldon, Annie Murray, Edith Aulsebrook, Amy Abraham, Edith Hawker, Sarah Gallagher, Alice Hibbert. Front row, left to right: Mary Armstrong, Ada Warburton, Frances Wall, Mrs Dick (Supervisor), Eleanor Ferguson, Annette Bowler, Lil McDonnell

Collection of the National Archives of Australia

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