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Ten/Forty Conferences

History :

The first National 10/40 Conference for women over 40 years of age who had been active in the Women's Liberation Movement for 10 or more years was held at Lake Cullulleraine, Victoria, on 17-20 April 1987. The venue was chosen because it was equidistant between the three major capitals. It was such a successful conference that it set the agenda for subsequent 10/40s which were held in a different state each year. The Conferences were organised by lesbian feminists and were mostly attended by lesbians with approxiamtely forty to eighty registrations. Ten years of activism in the WLM was always loosely interpreted and no-one was ever turned away or questioned on this. Discussion in workshops mainly centred round the issue of ageing. This collection is number 95 in the Victorian Women's Liberation and Lesbian Feminist Archive.

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Feminist collectives

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