Information obtained from the ABS reveals that Muslim women attend Australian universities in a greater proportion than non-Muslim women. They are graduating with qualifications that equip them for employment in the professional workforce. Whilst some choose to work within a Muslim environment, others enter the secular workplace. In this talk, Dr Gai Scott explores the […]
How our family came to call Australia home. Based largely on her father’s memoirs, Sigrid Smee will talk about the often-violent events before, during and after World War II that led to her family’s decision to come to Australia. Her father was one of a number of German scientists and engineers brought out by the […]
Author & therapist Suzanna Hammond presents a light-hearted and informative talk about her experiences of the ‘slow death of common sense’ over more than 30 years as a holistic bodywork practitioner. Suzanna will be sharing some of the funnier and more thought-provoking information in her new book, ‘THE BODY CONNECTION an Analog Reboot for Digital […]
The Impact of Climate Change on Health and Disease. Increasing temperatures, rising seas and natural disasters are a feature of climate change. Despite the scientific evidence for increased carbon emissions being responsible for global warming, governments have been slow to react. In this talk, Penny Bishop an Honorary Associate in the Faculty of Medicine, the […]
Rev Karen Paull has sought to respond to the local Lane Cove community in her diverse role of Community Chaplain under the auspices of the Uniting Church of Australia. Connecting the community in order to combat social isolation, and its close ally loneliness, has become a central focus over the 5+ years of her term. […]
A Life in Books: Dr Robin Morrow founded the first specialist children’s bookshop in NSW, The Children’s Bookshop Beecroft, and managed it for 25 years. She has been a reviewer and commentator on children’s and youth literature in The Weekend Australian and a number of journals. Robin has served on many judging panels including the […]
Alex Long is the CEO of the Multicultural Youth Affairs Network NSW. She will talk about MYAN’s work with young people and what’s important to them in 2020. She’ll also discuss what it means to be a white woman in multicultural Australia, will reflect on why it’s so hard for white people to talk about […]
Come and celebrate International Women’s Day The Wolves of War – the burden of war and conflict on women and girls: Jan Rayner and Stephanie Molloy. Violence against women and girls during wartime has been one of history’s darkest secrets. Sexual violence as a tactic of war which terrorizes and controls civilian populations, continues. 2019 […]
"Words That Go Ping”, is the title of a book by applied linguist Barbara Lasserre. Over her years studying and teaching the dynamics of language, Barbara has come to realise that onomatopoeia has long been considered a peripheral phenomenon of ‘serious’ language study - but at the same time is dearly and universally loved by […]
Members are invited to share a photo of themselves taken when they were a child. The photos will be used as a prompt to talk about memories of childhood the photo evokes.
When the Personal became Political: the Seventies in Australia. The Seventies was the decade of ‘It’s Time’, stagflation and the Dismissal, a tumultuous period of economic and political upheaval. But it was also the era when the personal became political, when Australia had a Royal Commission into Human Relationships and when social movements remade the […]
Author, Suzanne Leal, will talk about writing her new novel “The Deceptions” which is based on a true story of wartime betrayal told to her by her late neighbours, Fred and Eva Perger, who were both survivors of the Holocaust. In particular, Suzanne will discuss the challenges of writing fiction that is based on truth […]
The women’s suffrage movement in the United Kingdom was not just a momentous event in political history, but also in the history of popular design, propaganda, and dress. Maria Zannetides will describe how designers and artists played an important role in popularising and disseminating the suffrage message. This is a zoom event so to […]
In her newly released book, Feminism and the Making of a Child Rights Revolution, 1969-1979, Macquarie University historian Dr Isobelle Barrett Meyering traces the role of Australian women’s liberation activists in furthering children’s rights and supporting their political empowerment. Isobelle will share some of the highlights from her research and reflect on its contemporary relevance. […]
Co-convenor of Lane Cove Residents for Reconciliation, Kerrie McKenzie, will talk with us about the work of this local voluntary, non-funded, non-party-political and not-for-profit group of Indigenous and non-Indigenous people working together to raise awareness of the issues involved in the process of Reconciliation and Social Justice; and consistent with the National Reconciliation Corroboree 2000 […]
