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Program

NOTE: This is an archive of our 2002 website. For current information, please see our updated site for 2003.

Live Chats - 8:30-10:00pm (Australian Eastern Standard Summer Time)

3 March - Ann Summers: Damned Whores and God's Police - 27 Years On - Transcript

4 March - Eva Cox: Do we need to rethink EEO? Have we focused too much on numbers of women and not on changing society? Transcript

6 March - Chris McDiven: Why stop at 50%? Women in Politics

7 March - Sue Vardon (CEO, Centrelink), Pat Turner (Deputy CEO, Centrelink), Dawn Casey (Director, National Museum of Australia): What makes women leaders different?

13 March - Marian Sawer: Women and the Centenary of Voting

18 March - Ruth Medd: All about money: investment basics

19 March - Kate Lundy: Women, the Internet and Democracy

20 March - Patricia Clark: Writing Women into History

21 March - Kerry Nettle: How young female activists can engage in parliamentary politics

25 March - Susan Magarey: First Wave Feminists were Sexual Radicals, not God's Police

27 March - Clare Martin: Are There Women Politicians, or Just Politicians?

Ongoing Discussions

1 - 14 March - Camille Bacon-Smith (2 week session): Women Science Fiction Fans

11 - 22 March - Christina Ryan: Locking our daughters away - are women with disabilities still a social embarrassment?

18 - 25 March - Kerrie Tucker, MLA (Greens), Roslyn Dundas, MLA (Democrats), Sophie Panaopoulos, MP (Liberal), Catherine King, MP (ALP), Sue Knowles, Senator (Liberal): Women in Politics

Karolee Wolcott (discussion leader - team includes Helen Ross, Carmel Chalmers, Nora Kersh, Sally Kersh and Liza Dale): Women on the Land

Australian Reproductive Health Alliance (ARHA): From Dung to Depo: The History of Reproductive Rights

Lulu Respall-Turner: Women and Migration

Vicki Grieves: Aboriginal Women and Out Marriage in Australian History: The Implications for a Hybrid Society

Gillian Polack: Writing Women into History

Sharon Kay Penman mail list: Women in Historical Fiction

Felicity Pulman, Sophie Masson: Arthurian Women: Do They Get the Blame?

Other Events
Various institutions are offering continuing education courses which have components relating to women's history. For example, see http://www.anu.edu.au/cce for courses at the ANU.
International Women's Day at Melbourne Museum
Dr Gaye Sculthorpe, Dianne Bray, Moya McFadzean, Liza Dale, Tanya Hill
Friday 8th March, 2002, Science and Life Gallery
5.30pm entry for 6pm start. Duration 2 hours
NSW Lawyers' Association - 50th anniversary year program:
12 March 2002 from 7.15pm-9.15pm
A networking dinner for students and lawyers with guest speaker former NSW Law Reforn Commissioner Professor Regina Graycar. We will be marking the launch of the second edition of Professor Graycar's book written with co-author Ms Jenny Morgan, entitled "The Hidden Gender of Law". For information about Professor Graycar please visit http://www.law.usyd.edu.au/staff/r_graycar.htm
20 March 2002, from 5.30pm-7.00pm
A networking cocktail function hosted by law firm Blake Dawson Waldron for law students and professional women. Our guest speaker will be Partner, Blake, Dawson, Waldron and Telstra NSW Business Woman of the Year 2001, Ms Liz Broderick. For information about Ms Broderick please visit http://www.telstra.com.au/tbwa/nsw.htm#3
For Bookings and Payments please contact:

Alexandra Booth
Women Lawyers Association of NSW
Executive Office
DX 11563 Sydney Downtown
Suite 406, Fayworth House
379-383 Pitt Street
Sydney NSW 2000 Australia
tel 61-2 9264 3611
fax 61-2 9264 6399
nswwla@ozemail.com.au

 

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