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...
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,...
