26 March Lunch Hour Talk

26 March Lunch Hour Talk

Mar 2, 2020 | Article, Lunch Hour Talks

Speaker: Natalie Conyer Topic: Present Tense When South Africa moved from apartheid to majority rule, locally produced crime fiction became extremely popular. Why was this? What does crime fiction have to say about the new South Africa, and how does it deal with...

May 2019 Newsletter

May 23, 2019 | Article

May’s Newsletter profiles Deborah Cheetham who is our guest speaker at the Annual Luncheon on Monday 16 September. The Annual General Meeting and 30th Anniversary lunch are covered in detail. There are reports on the February and March lunch hour talks. Good...
Vale Marie Muir, 1930–2018

Vale Marie Muir, 1930–2018

Dec 2, 2018 | Announcement, Article

Marie joined the Board of Jessie Street National Women’s Library as Treasurer in 1995 and remained on the Board until 2014. Her support for the Library dates back to its founding in 1989. She was drawn by the concept and had long admired Jessie Street for her...

Curiosity, scepticism and the desire to uncover the truth

Dec 2, 2018 | Article

At the 2018 Jessie Street Annual Luncheon, guest speaker and five times Walkley Award winner Kate McClymont mused on the character traits that sustained her in her career as an investigative journalist. An attribute which she did not raise but was noted by Library...
Kate McClymont

Kate McClymont

Dec 1, 2018 | Annual Luncheon Speaker, Article

Topic: The narcissists, the nefarious and the ne’er do wells: tales of an investigative journalist Kate McClymont gave a fascinating talk about the tales of an investigative journalist. She told us that investigative journalism looks beyond the daily news in an...

Kate Gleeson

Dec 7, 2014 | Article

With abortion access still regulated by criminal law in parts of Australia, the concerns raised in Dr Kate Gleeson’s November 20, 2014 talk are as immediate now as they were then.