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24.01.2022 She made a difference...
24.01.2022 Way back in 2000 Sarah Maddison was Awarded a 'Battling' EDNA, for making it against the odds; she is now Professor of Politics in the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Melbourne where she also co-directs the Indigenous Settler Relations Collaboration. [See "My university degree was life-changing. Putting them out of reach is elitist and wrong". Guardian Australia, 26/8/20]
23.01.2022 Little girls can do anything !!!
23.01.2022 Free Webinar Organised by OWN NSW WHY WE STILL NEED TO MAKE A FEMINIST DIFFERENCE November 25th 2020 1pm - 2pm Book Here: https://bit.ly/Ednas2020 ... the webinar will also celebrate the launch of the new Edna Ryan Awards website which will include a nomination form for the 2021 Awards
23.01.2022 On ABC IView at the moment...
22.01.2022 IN MEMORIUM - SUSAN RYAN AO Susan Ryan AO was a founding member of WEL ACT in 1972. She spoke as Sue Butler at the first National WEL Conference held in Canberr...a in January, 1973. She was part of a national community of feminist activists who pioneered work on women’s equality in what was the wave of feminism at that time which flooded political and social movements leading to profound policy changes at all levels of government. WEL campaigned for her election to the Senate with hundreds of T-shirts emblazoned with the message: A Women’s Place is in the Senate. She was elected the first Labor Senator for the ACT in 1975. She was the first woman member of a federal Labor Cabinet as Minister for Education and was Minister Assisting the Prime Minister on the Status of Women from 1983-1988. She shepherded the Sex Discrimination Act through the Parliament of Australia, an achievement she regarded as her greatest. Past and Present members of WEL mourn her passing and salute her immeasurable contribution to women’s rights and the status of women in Australia.
20.01.2022 Liz Rickman, Edna Award for Leadership 2019, attending this UN Conference
19.01.2022 2020 has been a tough year. But it has also shown how resilient working people are in the middle of a once in a generation pandemic. On Wednesday December 2nd, ...I will address the National Press Club of Australia. She will address Australia’s social contract, and what the pandemic has taught Australia and the union movement. You can watch it live on our Facebook page, or tune into ABC, ABC News 24 and iView from 12:30pm AEDT.
19.01.2022 Photo credit : Corrie Kronenberg
19.01.2022 Another Edna memory...2015...our Grand Stirrers... Tara Moss and Sally McManus
18.01.2022 Hear this was played at Helen’s funeral recently... a beautiful version.
18.01.2022 It’s not every day I get to deliver a speech to the National Press Club. After a year of poorly written plot twists, we’re getting on top of this virus. We won ...JobKeeper. We won entitlements for workers to take paid pandemic leave. We ensured workers were protected from the virus. But our work won’t stop there. Today, I called for governments and business to work with unions to halve insecure work over the next 10 years. We need to go back to a normal life that doesn’t just work for those up at the top of the town. The pandemic has laid bare a simple but harsh truth. We can't afford to go back to the normal we had before COVID. Here’s what we know. Australia has one of the highest rates of insecure work in the world. This is a problem not only for individual workers, but for our whole community and the economy. Covid has made clear how dangerous insecure work is. 1 out 3 workers in Australia have been without sick leave during the pandemic. Time after time, we have heard of outbreaks due to workers unable to call in sick. That’s a pool of 2.1 million workers who have no choice but to work during a pandemic, even if they’re feeling ill. Labour hire companies who exploit the insecure have sent workers from workplace to workplace. This phenomenon doesn’t happen by accident it’s by design. Years of anti-worker policies from successive Governments have marginalised workers to a point that we are see the pillars of our industrial system, which makes Australia fair, not apply to more and more workers. It’s for this reason we need to protect our national safety net for the next generation strong awards, bargaining to improve wages and conditions, and a commitment to reversing the trend of insecure work. We need to protect compulsory superannuation, and we need to ensure all workers are entitled a minimum wage. When workers suffer, the economy suffers. We’ve been saying this from the beginning. We’re here because of workers - we keep going because of workers, and we haven’t given up because of workers. Let us learn the lesson of Australia’s COVID response by working together we are better. Leaving some people behind, holds us all back. I’ll post a link to the full speech in the comments.
17.01.2022 An important anniversary...
15.01.2022 Belvoir Theatre, Sydney, has reopened with a Virginia Woolf play, ‘A Room of One’s Own’. Seems appropriate in these Covid times. The Library has a particular co...nnection to Virginia Woolf. When the Library was established, Irene Coates, author of ‘Who’s Afraid of Leonard Woolf’, donated her collection of 110 books by or about Virginia Woolf. It includes her diaries, letters, essays and works on members of the Bloomsbury Group. Although the Library’s focus is on Australian writers, this donation was much appreciated. The play has had great reviews including the attached from the Sydney Morning Herald. https://www.smh.com.au//a-room-of-one-s-own-at-belvoir-it- If you want to purchase tickets here is the link. The play is on till 18 October. https://belvoir.com.au/productions/a-room-of-ones-own/
14.01.2022 Stay safe and well Ednas everywhere, and enjoy whatever festivities you are able to have this year... very best wishes to you all from The Edna Ryan Committee.
14.01.2022 there in the corner was Eels’ sports scientist Tahleya Eggers, with folded arms, and a look that did not attempt to hide her sneering disdain. When an image of that look went viral, Eggers responded on Twitter. Proud to claim this one, she wrote. I will not respect a man who has the time to shake hands of men who have won a football match but is ‘too busy’ to attend the March for Justice.
12.01.2022 The new EDNAs website is now live @ ednaryan.net.au ... check it out!
11.01.2022 And one more for Helen !!!
10.01.2022 Best wishes for 2021 to Ednas everywhere...
09.01.2022 Anniversary of first women’s refuge in Australia... Elsie
08.01.2022 To unapologetic activists everywhere !!
07.01.2022 Nominate a woman who has made a difference...by 1st June. Nomination forms on www.ednaryan.net Hooray the Ednas are back !!
07.01.2022 Ruth Bader Ginsburg obituary US supreme court justice and Champion Of Gender Equality, Dies At 87. "Our nation has lost a justice of historic stature," Chief Justice John Roberts said. "We at the Supreme Court have lost a cherished colleague. Today we mourn but with confidence that future generations will remember Ruth Bader Ginsburg as we knew her, a tireless and resolute champion of justice."
05.01.2022 BREAKING NEWS ! Extract from a letter from the Chair of OWN NSW: "It is with great pleasure that I confirm that the Older Women’s Network NSW is able to take over the running of the Edna Ryan Awards. This decision was officially endorsed by the Board of OWN NSW. The awards are more necessary now than ever. Onwards and upwards with recognising, celebrating and supporting the feminist cause!"
04.01.2022 And more from lovely Helen...
03.01.2022 Louder for those in the back! DON'T ALLOW MEN WHO HATE WOMEN TO DEFINE FEMINISM AS WOMEN WHO HATE MEN.
02.01.2022 Back to the 70s...the hair, the clothes, the song !!
02.01.2022 Shared from Jessie Street National Womens Library...hooray for The Ernies !!
01.01.2022 Delighted that my book ‘Women and Leadership: Real Lives, Real Lessons’ with co-author Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala is now out in the United Kingdom. Women and Leadershi...p: Real Lives, Real Lessons, presents a lively and readable analysis of the influence of gender on women’s access to positions of leadership, the perceptions of them as leaders, the trajectory of their leadership and the circumstances in which it comes to an end. By presenting the lessons that can be learned from women who lead, we provide a road map of essential knowledge to inspire us all, and an action agenda for change that allows women to take control and combat gender bias. Featuring: Theresa May, Jacinda Ardern, Hillary Clinton, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Michelle Bachelet, Joyce Banda, Erna Solberg, and Christine Lagarde. https://www.penguin.co.uk//women-and-le/9781787634381.html
01.01.2022 Farewell Helen Reddy!
