Feb 18, 2024 | Lunch Hour Talks
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...
Aug 17, 2023 | Lunch Hour Talks
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...
Jun 15, 2023 | Lunch Hour Talks
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...
Mar 23, 2023 | Lunch Hour Talks
16 March Lunch Hour Talk Speaker: Dr Isobell Barrett Meyering Topic: Feminists: anti-mother and anti-child? When Australian women’s liberationists challenged prevailing expectations of female domesticity, they were accused of being anti-mother and anti-child. Dr...
Nov 18, 2022 | Lunch Hour Talks
24 November Lunch Hour Talk Speakers: Dr Kerith Power & Dale Dengate Topic: The First Australian Women’s Songbook A treat for the last Lunch Hour Talk of 2022. It was the brainwave of Dr Kerith Power and has become the work of half a lifetime. After the...
Jul 21, 2022 | Lunch Hour Talks
21 July Lunch Hour Talk Speakers: Meredith Burgmann & Nadia Wheatley Topic: Radicals In the exhilarating decade of the Sixties these two were arrested in campaigns against the Vietnam War and Apartheid, and in support of Aboriginal Land Rights, Women’s Liberation,...
