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A boring task as ground-breaking women will again stop Brisbane in its tracks
Tuesday December 22, 2020
The Palaszczuk government has named two tunnelling machines after pioneering women, ahead of Cross River Rail works disrupting Christmas services.
Merle Thornton, who has had one of the city’s new excavation machines named after her, at the Regatta Hotel, scene of her very public protest (ABC Photo).
The 1,350-tonne boring machines, as they are technically known, have been named after Merle Thornton AM and Else Shepherd AM.
Shepherd, a South African-Australian engineer and academic, was the first woman to graduate with an electrical engineering degree in Queensland….
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