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The Dunwich Benevolent Asylum was a Benevolent Asylum for the aged, infirm, and destitute operated by the Queensland Government in Australia. It was located at Dunwich on North Stradbroke Island in Moreton Bay and operated from 1865 to 1946.[1] The asylum occupied most of the current Dunwich township. There were many buildings with wards for men, women, and Asiatics. It had a kitchen, bakery, laundry, and other service buildings including a power station from 1926. It had a public hall, recreational facilities, and a visitor center for social activities. A farm with associated outbuildings provided meat and dairy products.[2] A 1913 map shows it occupying the coastal area from Dunwich Cemetery down to the present-day jetty and inland to approximately the present-day Mitchell Crescent and Barton Street. Swamps are shown beyond the boundaries.[7] The 'Aboriginal Gang' that worked the Dunwich Benevolent Asylum were the first Aboriginal people in Australia to receive equal wages. In 1944, after a 25-year campaign, the Aboriginal workers gained equal wages almost 20 years before anywhere else in Australia. The Asylum closed shortly after with the Aboriginal Gang only getting equal wages for one and a half years.[6] Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunwich_Benevolent_Asylum

Aboriginal breastplates (also called king plates or aboriginal gorgets) were a form of regalia used in pre-Federation Australia by white colonial authorities to recognise those they perceived to be local Aboriginal leaders. The breastplates were usually metallic crescent-shaped plaques worn around the neck by wearer. Aboriginal people did not traditionally have kings or chiefs. They lived in small clan groups with several elders—certain older men and women—who consulted with each other on decisions for the group. By appointing kings of tribes, and granting them king plates, the white colonial powers went against the more collegiate grain of traditional Aboriginal culture. In the 19th century, king plates were given by numerous communities in various Australian States to esteemed Aboriginal men and women, who were usually elders of their particular tribal or kinship group. The plates were presented to perceived 'chiefs', courageous men and to faithful servants.[1] There have been suggestions that the presentation of breastplates also had a great deal to do with whether or not the recipient was seen as useful or respected by the white Australian community of the area in question. While some Aboriginal people wore their breastplates with pride, others saw them as yet another insult to their culture from the white European settlers.[2] Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aboriginal_breastplate

The founding mother of women's cricket in Australia was the young Tasmanian, Lily Poulett-Harris, who captained the Oyster Cove team in the league she created in 1894. Lily's obituary, from her death a few years later in 1897, states that her team was almost certainly the first to be formed in the colonies. During the 1890s, cricket and rowing were two of the most popular competitive sports for women in Australia.[1] Another of the first all-women's sports clubs founded in Australia was the Rockhampton Ladies' Club. They were fielding a women's cricket team in the mid-1890s. The team wore dresses with long skirts and long sleeves, sashes attached to their uniform, tight belts and straw boater hats.[2] Source: wikidocumentaries-demo.wmflabs.org/Q8031138?language=en

How women created cricket history and influenced today's game "It's interesting how many firsts are associated in cricket with the women's game," Mr. Wells told 702 ABC Sydney's, Dominic Knight. "One of them is that women invented round-arm bowling and they did this out of sheer necessity because of their crinoline skirts. "They couldn't bowl underarm in the early 1800s like the rest of the men were because they simply couldn't negotiate the width of their skirts." According to Mr. Wells, a woman by the name of Christina Wiles, of Kent, in 1807 bowled round-arm deliveries to her brother, starting a specific style that would overtake the underarm bowling style which dominated. "They discovered that, in doing that, they could get a bit more purchase on the ball, and they could make the ball move off the wicket, and so the men copied them." Mr. Wells said while cricket had often been viewed as a male-dominated sport, it was the men who had followed in the footsteps of female pioneers on the pitch. "Cricket was seen as a game of Empire and it was seen as something that had been sanctioned by the aristocracy in England, so the fact that women played was seen quite happily alongside the male game," he said. "Their mode of dress though didn't really allow them to excel themselves and, in fact, in many ways that stayed the case right through until the 1970s." While the dress code at the time hampered the sporting range and mobility for women, Mr. Wells said advances in the sport had allowed for a more equal playing field today. "These days the women wear pretty much what the men wear and they're equally athletic and equally proficient at the game because of it." Source: www.abc.net.au/news/2015-03-08/140-years-of-women-playing...