Apr 19, 2022 | Announcement, Lunch Hour Talks
21 April Lunch Hour Talk Speaker: Dr Janet Ramsay PSO Topic: Anne Jolliffe – First Australian Woman Animator Anne Jolliffe made her career in hand drawn animation. She was part of the pioneering animation industry in Australia and was the first Australian woman...
Jun 25, 2021 | Lunch Hour Talks
Speaker: Cathy Perkins Topic: A Writer’s Shelf Life Australian writer Zora Cross was considered a minor figure in literary history until biographer Cathy Perkins unearthed her story. From Cross’s 1917 poetry sensation Songs of Love and Life, to her novels,...
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...
Dec 4, 2019 | Lunch Hour Talks
Dr Tjanara Goreng Goreng A Long Way from No Go Indigenous writer Dr Tjanara Goreng Goreng has written a moving and disturbing book about how she was dismissed from her role as a senior public servant during the Howard Government. She had blown the whistle on a false...
Sep 9, 2019 | Lunch Hour Talks
Speaker: Dr Michelle Arrow Topic: The Seventies: the personal, the political and the making of modern Australia. Date: Thursday 17 October The 1970s were a tumultuous period of economic and political upheaval, reflected in ‘It’s Time’, stagflation and the Dismissal....
Jun 22, 2019 | Lunch Hour Talks
Speaker: Dr Sue Taffe Topic: Letters From The Desert: Mary Montgomerie Bennett Date: 15 August 2019 An under-recognised path-breaker in the long, tortuous journey towards recognition of Indigenous Australians, Mary Montgomerie Bennett moved from London in 1927 to...
