The Passages exhibition is on display in the downstairs gallery at the Port Melbourne Town Hall until 11 September, 2017.
Presented by the Society with support from the City of Port Phillip through the Cultural Development Fund the exhibition looks at Port Melbourne in the 1970s, a decade of great change for the Borough.
A decade when Port Melbourne Council faced its…
Today's post honours all the women who have shaped and formed Port Melbourne from the indomitable Caroline Liardet onwards.
Anna Robieson
PMHPS acknowledges the first woman elected to Port Melbourne Council and the first woman mayor, Anna Robieson. She was elected in August 1976 and served until August 1982 and was mayor in 1978-79.
Her portrait stands out from the sea of dark…