Aug 7, 2024 | Lunch Hour Talks
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...
Jun 14, 2024 | Lunch Hour Talks
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Nadia Wheatley Topic: Charmian Clift’s The End of the Morning The End of the Morning, Charmian Clift’s previously unpublished novella, is OUT!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...
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...
