Pioneering Ivy Weber

Date: Sunday 15 March 2026 at 2:00pm -3:30pm

Location: Bert Lewis Room (Meeting Room 1), 1st Floor 1040 Whitehorse Road, Box Hill

Disabled access

Accessible via public transport

Event Organiser: Box Hill Historical Society

Contact: Helen Harris OAM

Email: boxhillhistory@gmail.com

Phone: 0480 651 323

BHHS General Meeting, at which Dr. David Mitchell will tell us about his grandmother, Ivy Lavinia Weber, who as MLA for Nunawading in 1937, became both the first ever woman to win in a general election in Victoria, and the first in Australia to win as an Independent.