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,...
Jun 17, 2022 | Announcement, Lunch Hour Talks
16 June Lunch Hour Talk Speaker: Catherine Fisher Topic: Sound Citizens: Australian Women Broadcasters claim their voice, 1923-1956 In 1954 Dame Enid Lyons, the first woman elected to the Australian House of Representatives, argued that radio had ‘created a bigger...
