International Women's Day Talk - Women of Note

Join us for a lively discussion celebrating incredible women in Australia - it's gonna be inspiring and empowering!

International Women’s Day at the Parramatta Female Factory Rooms

5 Fleet Street, North Parramatta No Parking on site; limited on street parking or Parramatta Leagues Club Take the Light Rail from Parramatta - alight Ngara - short walk to site.

Friday 6th March 2026

9.30am PFFF Rooms Open

10am Research Rooms open

10am Welcome - Guest Speaker: Kerima-Gae Topp TopIc: Australian Women of Note

11.15am Morning Tea - Matron Gordon’s Tea Room

12pm Site Tours including the 3rd Class Sleeping Quarters & Penitentary c1823 Cost:

Talk $5; Morning Tea $5; Tours $10

TALK : ‘Women of Note’

Our Australian banknotes are graced with some very ‘note-worthy’ women, but how much do you know about the important role each has played in our country’s history to deserve the honour to feature on our notes?

Today our bank notes feature a woman on each, but this was not so onsome of our earlier notes, so when did it change?

Kerima-Gae’s research has discovered some amazing facts about these women, some of which were totally unexpected.

Thus, this presentation should leave you with a new appreciation of our wonderful ‘Women of Note’. __________________

Kerima-Gae Topp has lived in the Parramatta area all her life and still lives on her family's 1911 property near Parramatta’s CBD.

Kerima-Gae has a passion for the history of her local area, Australia-wide, and overseas.

She is the past President of Parramatta National Trust, a former committee member of Parramatta and District Historical Society and Parramatta Female Factory Friends, where she is still very active as a volunteer guide.

Currently, she is President/Treasurer of Friends of Mays Hill Cemetery, Treasurer of Friends of St. John’s Cemetery, Friends of St. Patrick’s Cemetery and Hills District Historical Society.

In 2007, Kerima-Gae received a Parramatta City Council Heritage Award for her ‘Meeting The Bounds’ historical tour of Parramatta. In 202,1 she was awarded a Certificate of Achievement from the Royal Australian Historical Society.

Since 200,0 she has operated her own tour company, Topp Tours, specialising in historical tours of the Parramatta, Sydney-wide areas, plus country New South Wales and Norfolk Island.

She is also an active guest speaker and conducts a weekly Rock ‘n’ Roll show on local radio.