PARRAMATTA FEMALE FACTORY FRIENDS PETITION TO THE PARLIAMENT OF AUSTRALIA FOR WORLD HERITAGE OF THE PARRAMATTA FEMALE FACTORY We therefore ask the House to do all in its power to enable the site: 1. To be declared a site of World Heritage significance by nominating it as a World Heritage Site to the World Heritage Committee Secretariat of UNESCO; 2. To become a living museum and national resource centre ; 3. To be managed by a joint Federal and State government trust with the expertise to conserve and interpret the site in accordance with the guidelines of the Burra Charter. NAME: = 1, 000 women An estimated 1 in 5 to ADDRESS: approx. 9, 000 women went Australians are SIGNATURE: through the factory system 1 in 7 related to these women. Parramatta NAME: 5,000 went through the ADDRESS: Parramatta Female Factory Female Factory SIGNATURE: Parramatta Female Factory Friends Post to: PO Box 1358 Parramatta 2124 Email: [email protected] MEMBERSHIP Mail: PO Box 1358 Parramatta 2124 FOR INDIVIDUALS ($10 MEMBERSHIP FEE) Group Information: parramattafemalefactoryfriends.com.au NAME: History: ADDRESS: parramattafemalefactories.wordpress.com TELEPHONE: Petition: parramattafemalefactoryfriends.com.au/advocacy-2/petitions-brochure/ MOBILE: EMAIL: SIGNED: facebook.com/parrafactory FOR GROUPS ($25 AFFILIATED MEMBERSHIP FEE) SIGNED BY OFFICIAL REPRESENTATIVE: (Affiliated does not include voting rights. This is for individuals only.) Parramatta Female PFFF Facebook Petition Factory Friends PAYMENT: EFTPOS — BSB: 633 000 ACC: 151 276 763 Design by: dizonbydesign.com.au (Tick box) (Please add your name to EFT transaction) Images: Side 1 — Anne Dunne, courtesy of Maureen Upton; Matrons Quarters, PFFAG collection For all CHEQUE — PAYABLE TO: Side 2 — Plans, courtesy of State Library of New South Wales and UK Archives; Parramatta Female Factory, c1860s, Parramatta Female Factory Friends Inc Ralph Hawkins Collection; Female penitentiary or factory, Parramata [i.e. Parramatta], N.S. Wales; Parramatta Female Factory, c1880s, Society of Australian Genealogists; 1826, Augustus Earle, National Library of Australia Australians PARRAMATTA FEMALE FACTORY HISTORIC SITE Parramatta Female Factory Historic Plan PARRAMATTA FEMALE FACTORY FRIENDS CURRENT STATUS The Parramatta Female Factory Friends has developed from community response to the tenuous future of Parramatta Female Factory. The group action is to ensure this internationally significant site is World Heritage listed and can be visited, enjoyed and experienced by all generations of Australians. It is our heritage and our identity. Female Factory artist composite with potential new building program The Parramatta Female Factory Parramatta Female Factory site still has two Greenway buildings, original 1818 and 1830s walls, 1820s third class sleeping quarters and courtyard, original clock and bell as PARRAMATTA FEMALE FACTORY SITE well as later important architectural features. The Parramatta Convict Female Factory, the earliest convict The Parramatta Female Factory Site and surrounding North women’s site still in existence in Australia was a Governor Parramatta Urban Transformation precinct is under significant Macquarie initiative. It was designed by Francis Greenway threat, including multi storey buildings inside the female and the first stone was laid in 1818. Governor Brisbane factory footprint and on the eastern and northern curtilage. commissioned the third class additions and Governor The Parramatta Female Factory Friends have the vision for the Gipps commissioned a three storey solitary cell block and site as a living museum and national heritage resource centre. courtyard. Of the estimated 9,000 who went through the female factory system an estimate 5,000 women went through This site needs custodianship which has the dedicated purpose and the Parramatta Female Factory. It had the first dedicated funding to preserve and conserve it. It needs one that is able to enact women’s health service in the Colony and it was the site of comprehensive conservation plans and ongoing maintenance. the first known female workers riot in Australia in 1827. The Parramatta Female Factory Friends believe this is the best way to preserve this site for future generations so that we can all This 1818 Greenway designed factory replaced the first walk in the footsteps of the female factory women. factory and was the model for the other 12. To understand the past is to understand ourselves and This factory predates all but 3 of the UNESCO world heritage listed our shared values of equity, respect and humanity. Parramatta Female Factory plan composite from 1820s and 1830s plans. items. The Factory closed in 1848 and became the Parramatta The Parramatta Female Factory and the female factory Lunatic Asylum. It is now a part of the Cumberland Hospital. women’s stories are our heritage and our identity. Red = buildings still existing Blue = newer buildings currently on factory plan footprint The Parramatta Female Factory deserves World Heritage Listing..