Women, Leadership and Democracy in Australia National Conference

9.00 - 9.50am

Ms Jenny Anderson, Director of the Museum of Australian Democracy, to welcome participants.
The Governor-General Ms Quentin Bryce AC will deliver the opening address and open the conference

10.00 – 11.00am

Not just adding women in: Women re-making leadership
Amanda Sinclair

Using 'citizenship' as a theoretical framework for rethinking the leadership contributions of Trailblazing Women Lawyers
Kim Rubenstein

''Housewives' Leader Awarded MBE': Women, Leadership and Honours in Australia
Karen Fox

'Mother to Mother': Mary Paton, Breast Feeding and the Nursing Mothers Association of Australia
Karen Twigg and Jill Barnard

11 - 11.30am

Morning Tea

11.30am – 1.00pm

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

Guthadjaka and Garngulkpuy: Indigenous Women Leaders in Yolngu, Australia-wide and International contexts
Gwenda Baker

Aboriginal Women's Perceptions of Leadership
Pat Dudgeon

'The Army Skilling Aboriginal Women': The Cases of Oodgeroo Noonuccal and Sue Gordon. Indigenous Leadership and Opportunities
Noah Riseman

1.00 - 2.00pm

Lunch and guided tour of Old Parliament House, including the new British Women's Suffrage Material display

2.00 – 3.30pm

Let's Digitise the Dawn
Donna Benjamin

Beyond the Glass Ceiling - the material culture of women's political leadership
Libby Stewart

'All our strength, all our kindness and our love': Bertha McNamara, bookseller, socialist, feminist and aspiring parliamentarian
Michael Richards

Women In Early Australian Radio
Carla Teixeira

Entertaining Children: Film and Television as a place for women's activism
Mary Tomsic

Josephine Zammit: Migrant Activism and Sydney's 'ethnic radio'
Barry York

3.30 - 4.00pm

Afternoon tea

4.00 – 5.00pm

Leading women: the Australasian Council of Women and Policing's feminist support role in promoting women, leadership and democracy in policing
Susan Harwood and Helen McDermott

Queensland Speaks: women talking about leadership
Casey Northam

Gendered narratives in professional planning practice in postwar Sydney
Robert Freestone, Christine Steinmetz and Lauren Hendriks

Women and Leadership in the Australian Architecture Profession: Prolegomena to a Research Project
Naomi Stead, Gillian Mathewson and Karen Burns

5.00 - 6.15pm

Screening of the new suffrage ABCTV documentary Utopia Girls and Q and A with researcher, writer and presenter Dr Clare Wright

6.00 - 10.30pm

Conference Dinner

Lobby Restaurant
King George Terrace, Parkes, ACT
(opposite the Senate Rose Gardens of Old Parliament House)

After dinner speaker
The Hon Susan Ryan AO, Age Discrimination Commissioner

9.30 - 11.00am

Australian women's internationalism in the twentieth century
Marilyn Lake

Aileen Fitzpatrick and UN, international refugees
Joy Damousi

Leadership in the National Council of Women of Australia 1930s – 1970s
Judith Smart and Marian Quartly

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

11.00 - 11.30am

Morning Tea

11.30am – 1.00pm

Divine Horizons: Theology and Social Class in the lives of 2 Australian women, Betty Archdale (1907-2000) and 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

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 and Jane Elix

1.00 - 2.00pm

Lunch and Book Launch

Fiona Davis, Nell Musgrove and Judith Smart (eds),
Founders, Firsts and Feminists: Women Leaders in Twentieth-century Australia. First published online by the Australian Women's Archive Project at www.womenaustralia.info/leaders/fff

Print edition published by the eScholarship Research Centre, University of Melbourne.

To be launched by Professor Amanda Sinclair, University of Melbourne.

2:00 – 3:30pm

Women Leaders in Academia
Patricia Grimshaw and Rosemary Francis

Women's leadership and the university: the keystone in the arch?
Alison Mackinnon

'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

3.30 - 4.00pm

Afternoon Tea

4.00 – 5.00pm

Auntie Pearl Gibbs: a leader in the Dubbo region
Uncle Ray Peckham and John Nolan

Auntie Pearl Gibbs: on the National Stage
Rachel Stanfield

Communities of Connected Women: Towards Urban Social and Environmental Reform in South Australia c.1900-1939
Christine Garnaut, Kerrie Round and Louise Bird

'My work is of great national significance': May Cox, Community Leadership through Swimming, Lifesaving and Patriotic Fundraising, 1910-1938
Deborah Towns

5.00pm

Conference ends