Draft Program
Women Leadership & Democracy in Australia
Day 1 – Thursday 1 December9:00 - 9:50AM / Welcome & Opening Conference Address
10:00 – 11:00AM / Supporting Leadership: Police, Politician & the Public Service
Leading women: the Australasian Council of Women and Policing’s feminist support role in promoting women, leadership and democracy in policing
Susan Harwood & Helen McDermott
Queensland Speaks: women talking about leadership
Casey Northam / Indigenous Leadership & Opportunities
Indigenous Women & Leadership
Anna Haebich
“The Army Skilling Aboriginal Women: The Cases of Oodgeroo Noonuccal and Sue Gordon”
Indigenous Leadership & Opportunities
Noah Riseman
Morning Tea (11-11:30)
11:30AM – 1:00PM / Activists and their Communities
Mary Montgomerie Bennett: her influential, final decade
Sue Taffe
'Nothing About Us Without Us': Women leaders in the Australian Disability Activist Movement since 1970.'
Nikki Henningham
Empowering Rural Communities – Rural Australians for Refugees 2001-2007
Ann-Mari Jordens / Religious influences & possibilities
Divine Horizons: Theology & Social Class in the lives of 2 Australian women, Betty Archdale (1907-2000) & Kylie Tennant (1912-1988)
Deidre Michell
From Philanthropy to Social Entrepreneurship
Shurlee Swain
The ‘fully-ordained-meat-pie’ problem: women church workers and leadership under Australian democracy.
Anne O'Brien
Lunch (1:00-2:00)
2:00PM – 3:30PM / Collecting and
Accessing Archives
Let's Digitise the Dawn
Donna Benjamin
Bertha McNamara: A Personal Archive
Michael Richards
Material Culture of Women’s Leadership
Libby Stewart / Leadership and Entertainment
Women In Early Australian Radio
Carla Teixeira
Entertaining Children: Film & Television as a place for women’s activism
Mary Tomsic
Josephine Zammit: Migrant Activism and Sydney’s ‘ethnic radio’
Barry York
Afternoon tea (3:30-4:00)
4:00 – 5:00PM / Careers: Professional Architecture & Town Planning
Gendered narratives in professional planning practice in postwar Sydney
Christine Steinmetz & Robert Freestone
Women and Leadership in the Australian Architecture Profession: Prolegomena to a Research Project
Naomi Stead / Indigenous Leaders in Western Australia & the Northern Territory
Gothadjaka and Garngulkpuy: Indigenous Women Leaders in Yolngu, Australia-wide and International contexts
Gwenda Baker
Forty Five, Fifty Five and Seventy Five: Three Aboriginal Women’s Experiences of Leadership Down the Ages
Pat Dudgeon
Conference Dinner (6:00-10:30)
Day 2 – Friday 2 December
8:30 – 9:20AM / Address via Web Link
9:30-11:00AM / Women's leadership in National and International contexts
Australian women's internationalism in the twentieth century
Marilyn Lake
Aileen Fitzpatrick & UN, international refugees
Joy Damousi
Leadership in the National Council of Women of Australia 1930s – 1970s
Judith Smart & Marian Quartly / History, Ideologies
and Politics
The 1920s: a good decade for women
Bridget Brookyn
The Feminine Side of Melbourne’s Radicalism
Christine Mercer
‘Politics as War:’ Women and leadership into the future
Kathy Gooch
Morning Tea (11:00-11:30)
11:30AM – 1:00PM / Community Leadership
Communities of Connected Women: Towards Urban Social & Environmental Reform in South Australia c.1900-1939
Christine Garnaut, Kerrie Round & Louise Bird
‘My work is of great national significance’: May Cox, Community Leadership through Swimming, Lifesaving and Patriotic Fundraising, 1910-1938
Deborah Towns
‘Mother to Mother’: Mary Paton, Breast Feeding and the Nursing Mothers Association of Australia.
Karen Twigg & Jill Barnard / Leading Environmental and Consumer Movements
Leadership by another name: Women coordinating, influencing and enabling within the Australian environment movement
Jane Elix
The Big Stage: Australian women leading global change
Susan Harris Rimmer
Consuming interests: Women’s leadership in Australia’s consumer movement
Kate Moore & Jane Elix
Lunch (1:00-2:00)
2:00 – 3:30PM / Theoretical Approaches & Acknowledging Leadership
‘Housewives’ Leader Awarded MBE’: Women, Leadership and Honours in Australia
Karen Fox
Theory & Women’s Leadership
Amanda Sinclair / Writing in news and novels
‘Those knights of the pen and pencil’: Women Journalists Showing the Way
Writing in news and novels
Diane Kirkby
Women in media: obstacles to success
Louise North
The power of the pen – women, literature and leadership
Susan Sheridan
Afternoon Tea (3:30-4:00)
4:00 – 5:00PM / Auntie Pearl Gibbs' local and national Leadership
Auntie Pearl Gibbs: a leader in the Dubbo region and on the national stage.
Rachel Stanfield
Auntie Pearl Gibbs' local and national Leadership
Uncle Ray Peckham & John Nolan / Leadership & employment in the Academy
Women Leaders in Academia
Patricia Grimshaw
Women’s leadership and the university: the keystone in the arch?
Alison Mackinnon