Susan Templeman (Macquarie, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I table this petition on behalf of the federal member for

Of the 13 female convict factories built in Australia, the Parramatta Female Factory is the earliest surviving and most intact, predating all but three of the convict sites currently on the World Heritage convict list. The site includes the 1818 convict female factory commissioned by Governor Macquarie, the 1820s Governor Brisbane third-class additions and the Governor Gipps Courtyard. It's been a barrack, a factory, a marriage bureau, a prison, a work assignment bureau, a hospital and a women's health centre, and the site of the earliest women workers' action in 1827.

An estimated one in seven Australians are related to factory women, including Maggie Beer; Dawn Fraser; Kurt Fearnley; Meg Keneally, daughter of Tom Keneally; John Pilger; and Lisa Wilkinson. It's time for the Australian government to take the final step and nominate this extraordinary place for World Heritage listing, cementing its status as a site of outstanding universal value.

Llew O'Brien (Wide Bay, National Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

The document will be forwarded to the petitions committee for its consideration and will be accepted subject to confirmation by the committee that it conforms with standing orders.

Susan Templeman (Macquarie, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I seek leave to incorporate the petition.

Leave granted.

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