Lunch Hour Talk 19 June 2025

Thursday 19 June 2025 Speaker: Sita Sargeant Topic: She Shapes History: Walking into Australia’s Hidden Women’s History   Join Sita Sargeant on a journey through Australia as she uncovers the stories of over 250 extraordinary women and places that...

Lunch Hour Talk 17 April 2025

Thursday 17 April 2025 Speaker: Margaret Ann Spence Topic: The Price Women Paid For Political Choices Made by Men   While writing Cold War in a Hot Kitchen: a memoir of mid-century Melbourne, Margaret Spence delved into history to understand the political and...

Lunch Hour Talk 20 February 2025

Thursday 20 February 2025 Speaker: Rose Cutts Topic: Researching Women of Colonial Australia   Our first speaker in 2025 is Rose Cutts who comes to us following a generous donation of three volumes of Women of Colonial Australia series. The stories were produced...

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Nadia Wheatley Topic: Charmian Clift’s The End of the Morning   The End of the Morning, Charmian Clift’s previously unpublished novella, is OUT!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...