Events and Training

Women on Boards Networking: Clayton Utz Director Lunch with Victoria Weekes

Date
Tue, 19/06/2012 - 12:15
Location

Clayton Utz Sydney, 1 Bligh Street, Level 15

Women on Boards and Clayton Utz are delighted to host Victoria Weekes, Chairman at OnePath Funds Management Limited & OnePath Custodians Limited, at lunch in June. Victoria was a senior executive in the financial services sector. She is now a NED of the NSW Livestock Health & Pest Authority and the Sydney Local Health District and also on the Audit & Risk Committee of the Sydney Metropolitan Development Authority, a Member of the Finsia NSW Regional Council and Chair of the Women in Finsia Committee.

Cost: $88 WOB subscriber only event
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Women on Boards Workshop: Getting Started - Realising your board potential

Date
Tue, 19/06/2012 - 09:00
Location

Clayton Utz Sydney, 1 Bligh Street, Level 15

Date: Tuesday 19 June 2012,  9:00am -12:00noon
Cost: $220 WOB subscriber | $385 Non subscriber
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A workshop designed to help you with strategies for board and career development. Learn about what it takes to be a director and strategies for including board work in your career.

How would you spend $365b?

Date
Mon, 23/07/2012 - 10:00
Location

Central Australian Aboriginal Congress Training Room, Westpoint Complex, Railway Terrace, Alice Springs

What do YOU want Government to fund in 2013?
You’re invited to a training workshop to help your women’s organisation:
• Write an effective Federal Budget submission
• Run a rocking public campaign
And best of all, it’s FREE!

How would you spend $365b?

IWDA - Navigating Gender and Culture Learning Events

Date
Thu, 05/07/2012 - 09:30
Location

Canberra Museum and Gallery (Public Meeting Room) Cnr. London Circuit and Civic Square, Canberra City

IWDA and local partner organisations have facilitated workshops in Cambodia, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands and Timor-Leste where local staff with responsibilities for promoting women’s rights shared experiences of raising gender issues in a range of cultural contexts.

We will be holding learning events in Melbourne, Sydney and Canberra, to share issues, outcomes and learnings from this initiative. More information is available for download below.

9:30am - 4:30pm, lunch provided.

RSVP to jcrawford@iwda.org.au by 26 June 2012.

IWDA - Navigating Gender and Culture Learning Events

Date
Wed, 04/07/2012 - 09:30
Location

Y Hotel, Hyde Park (Mary Jane Barker A Room), 5-11 Wentworth Ave, Sydney 

IWDA and local partner organisations have facilitated workshops in Cambodia, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands and Timor-Leste where local staff with responsibilities for promoting women’s rights shared experiences of raising gender issues in a range of cultural contexts.

We will be holding learning events in Melbourne, Sydney and Canberra, to share issues, outcomes and learnings from this initiative. More information is available for download below.

9:30am - 4:30pm, lunch provided.

RSVP to jcrawford@iwda.org.au by 26 June 2012.

IWDA - Navigating Gender and Culture Learning Events

Date
Tue, 03/07/2012 - 09:30
Location

Multicultural Hub, 506 Elizabeth Street, Melbourne 

Multicultural Hub (Purple Room), 506 Elizabeth Street, Melbourne

 

IWDA and local partner organisations have facilitated workshops in Cambodia, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands and Timor-Leste where local staff with responsibilities for promoting women’s rights shared experiences of raising gender issues in a range of cultural contexts.

We will be holding learning events in Melbourne, Sydney and Canberra, to share issues, outcomes and learnings from this initiative. More information is available for download below.

9:30am - 4:30pm, lunch provided.

RSVP to jcrawford@iwda.org.au by 26 June 2012.

Red Cross training - Human Trafficking

Red Cross - Human Trafficking training

The Red Cross is providing free community awareness-raising training on Human Trafficking. Sessions are being held across Australia in June-September 2012. For more information on locations and dates, please visit AWAVA's website and RSVP ASAP! Places are limited.

GRANTS NOW AVAILABLE - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Well Women Workshops Grant initiative

The following information on Well Women Workshop Grants has been provided by Cancer Australia.

The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Well Women Workshops Grant initiative provides an opportunity to health organisations and individual health professionals working with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women to promote and encourage breast awareness and early detection of breast cancer through locally-run workshops. These workshops will help participants to understand the importance of early detection, the role of mammographic screening and how to identify breast symptoms and be breast aware.

Orientation Session: Interest Free Loans for Women Entrepreneurs

Date
Thu, 24/05/2012 - 10:00
Location

Lighthouse Business Innovation Centre,

Box Business Centre, Unit 6, 65 Tennant Street, Fyshwick ACT

The purpose of this initial session is to introduce you to the program, its purpose and requirements and help you to determine whether it is appropriate for you and your current circumstances.

Launch of the Women's Statement by Minister Julie Collins

Minister Collins delivered the following speech at the launch of the Women's Budget Statement at Jessie Street National Women's Library on Tuesday 15 May 2012 - the speech is online here:

Good morning.

I begin by acknowledging the traditional owners of the land on which we are meeting and pay my respects to their Elders, past and present.

It gives me great pleasure to be here today in the Jessie Street National Women’s Library to launch the Women’s Statement 2012.

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