Lunch Hour Talk 17 October 2024

17 October Lunch Hour Talk Speaker: Kate Ramsay Topic: Smashing the glass for women at work   The focus of Kate’s talk will be her recently published book A hell of a lot of glass – achieving gender equality in the workplaces of Australia. Kate will...

Lunch Hour Talk 22 August 2024

22 August Lunch Hour Talk Speaker: Helen Topor Topic: Neither King nor Saint   Award-winning author Helen Topor brings to light the obstacles delaying her postwar migrant family’s assimilation into the wider Australian community. Stories such as hers are seldom...

Lunch Hour Talk 20 June 2024

20 June Lunch Hour Talk Speaker: Nadia Wheatley Topic: Charmian Clift’s The End of the Morning   The End of the Morning, Charmian Clift’s previously unpublished novella, is OUT! Let the celebrations begin…Following her most successful celebration of...

Lunch Hour Talk 22 February 2024

22 February Lunch Hour Talk Speaker: Melinda Ham Topic: The Lucky Ones: Stories of Australian Refugee Journeys Award-winning journalist and former foreign correspondent Melinda Ham brings to light stories of Australian refugee journeys in her moving and meticulously...

Lunch Hour Talk 24 August 2023

24 August Lunch Hour Talk Speaker: Dr Lenore Coltheart OAM Topic: Jessie Street : a life Co-founder of Jessie Street National Women’s Library Lenore Coltheart has been commissioned by the National Library of Australia to write a biography of Jessie Street. Lenore will...

Lunch Hour Talk 22 June 2023

22 June Lunch Hour Talk Speaker: Penny Nelson Topic: Babette Smith OAM: Breakthrough historian – an amazing life Babette Smith (image left), 1942-2021, worked in television, theatre and film, but it was the discovery of a female convict among her ancestors that...