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Equity in the Landscape: A Call to Collaborate for Commemorative Justice

When the Victorian Government launched Our Equal State: Victoria’s Gender Equality Strategy and Action Plan 2023–27, it marked a transformative milestone.

Pause the Bias, Not the Recognition

Following the Victorian Government pausing its automatic Premier statue policy and review state funeral arrangements, it’s important to note that recognition of Victorians of all diverse communities, not just women, must not be left behind.

The Science of Place Naming

What if the stories of overlooked women scientists were told, and embedded into the physical fabric of our communities? Built into the map itself?

This is the story of the Isabels we forgot.

3 ways you can push for more women on the map

Look around your suburb: who is remembered on the street signs, statues, plaques and murals?

How YOU Can Put Her Name on It – Even if You’re Not a Naming Authority

At a recent place naming forum, someone asked a powerful question: “What can you do if you’re not a naming authority like local government, but you want to get involved and help advance place naming and public art equality?”

Start Here: How Place Naming and Public Art Can Help Lead the Way to Greater Gender Equality

When we walk through our cities and towns, the names we see on street signs and the faces we encounter in statues and murals tell a story about who is valued in our society.

Busting the Myths: Why Women Are Still Missing from Place Naming

Across our streets, parks, and public spaces, a profound imbalance remains: women and gender-diverse people are dramatically underrepresented in place names.

Honouring Her Legacy – How and Why to Nominate a Woman for a Commemorative Place Name

Have you ever walked past a park, street, or building named after someone and wondered about their story? Unfortunately, in Victoria, only 1 in 10 commemorative places are named after women.

Proximity Bias in Place Naming: Why It Matters and What We Can Do

Place names are more than just labels on a map—they reflect history, power, and cultural values.

Commemorating Contributions Beyond Gender: Redefining Who We Honour in Place Names

Public spaces are more than just streets, parks, and buildings — they are markers of memory, community identity, and the values we choose to uphold.

7 steps for change: place naming and public art equality

Geographic place naming and public art are not just labels or decorative features; they are powerful symbols of recognition and cultural memory.

Let’s put more women on the map and complete the public place recognition story

Put Her Name On It, a ground breaking initiative with a straightforward yet powerful mission: to amplify the stories, names, and achievements of women and gender diverse individuals in public places across Victoria.

The Put Her Name On It journey

Recording of MAV Gender Equality and Preventing Family Violence and all forms of Violence Against Women Network Meeting held on 9 March 2023.

Celebrating a Landmark Year: Reflecting on Put Her Name on It’s 2024 Progress

As we dive headfirst into the opportunities 2025 presents, let’s pause and celebrate the immense strides made in 2024 by Put Her Name on It in partnership with Geographic Names Victoria and countless other tireless advocates.

Her Name Her Legacy. Women’s stories being built into Victorian landscapes in record numbers

For the first time in history, more commemorative places in Victoria were named after women than men. Let that sink in.

How many places and public art in Victoria honour women?

What does a mythical princess, a concubine and a queen have in common? They are the only women featured in the names of the 79 Victorian local government areas.

Closing the commemorative gap partnership

Put Her Name on It, has a big vision. We want to see women and gender diverse people equally represented and recognised in place naming and public art everywhere. With women making up just  3% of public art and the data not much better for place names (1 in 10), systemic change and on the ground action is needed.

Intersectionality and commemorative justice

Commemorative justice isn’t just about equality, it’s about justice. It’s a way of correcting the record.

The names of towns and suburbs have a women’s problem

Across greater Melbourne where 165 suburbs commemorate people, just 3 suburbs honour women.

2023 a big year in place naming and public art equality