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Light on the Hill

Locality: Bathurst, New South Wales

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15.01.2022 As a speech writer for Prime Minister Paul Keating, as political satirist for television, and as the author of many award winning books, Don Watson has helped shape Australia’s thinking over decades. His Redfern Speech delivered by Paul Keating in 1992 marked a turning point in public discourse on Aboriginal affairs, and paved the way for Kevin Rudd’s Apology to the Stolen Generation sixteen years later. His best-selling account of his time as Keating’s speech writer, Recollections of a Bleeding Heart: A Portrait of Paul Keating PM, won both The Age Book of the Year and non-fiction Prizes, the Brisbane Courier Mail Book of the Year, the National Biography Award and the Australian Literary Studies Association's Book of the Year.

12.01.2022 Counting down to the Light on the Hill - Ben Chifley Memorial Dinner. This year's speaker is Shadow Treasurer Jim Chalmers. Just seven weeks to go until the 28th of September. Tickets are $85 or $65 Concession Available from Books Plus in Howick Street, Bathurst or online at https://www.nswlabor.org.au/events

10.01.2022 Just a reminder that Light on the Hill tickets need to be purchased by Friday 20th September. Tickets can be purchased from Books Plus in Howick Street, Bathurst or online at https://www.nswlabor.org.au/events at a cost of $85 each or $65 Concession. Everyone is welcome. Come and enjoy the evening with guest speaker, Shadow Treasurer, Jim Chalmers.

09.01.2022 Remember the date for the Light On The Hill - Ben Chifley Memorial Dinner; September 28th at Panthers, 132 Piper Street, Bathurst. Tickets are available at Books Plus, 157 Howick St, Bathurst and online at https://www.nswlabor.org.au/events. The cost of tickets is still $85 per person or $65 for Concession holders.

06.01.2022 Jim Chalmers MP, Federal Shadow Minister is the 2019 Light on The Hill guest speaker. The Annual dinner will be held at the Panthers Club Bathurst on 28th September and commemorates the birth of Ben Chifley one of Australia’s greatest Prime Ministers and Bathurst’s favourite son. Jim has been the Member for Rankin since 2013, proudly representing the people and suburbs of southern Brisbane and Logan City where he was born, grew up. He first joined the Shadow Cabinet as Shad...ow Minister for Finance from 2016 to 2019. From 2015 to 2016 he was Shadow Minister for Financial Services and Superannuation, Shadow Minister for Sport and Shadow Assistant Minister for Trade, Investment and Productivity. He was also Shadow Assistant Minister for Resources in 2016 after a stint as Shadow Parliamentary Secretary to the Leader of the Opposition, and for Trade and Investment. Sue West, President of Bathurst Branch of the ALP said the branch was delighted to have Jim Chalmers as their guest speaker for this important event which is a highlight in the ALP calendar. The Light on the Hill Dinner has been held annually since 1985, the centenary of his birth. It is an occasion that allows significant Australians to outline their vision of their light on the hill- their vision for Australia’s future. Previous speakers have included all Australian Labor Prime Ministers since 1975 along with many Ministers and Shadow Ministers as well as significant and interesting individuals such as Fr Frank Brennan, Don Watson and Gabi Hollows. Tickets will be on sale at the end of July. Further information; Sue West [email protected] 0418 637538

05.01.2022 Tickets for the 2016 Light on the Hill are now on sale. Online at http://www.nswlabor.org.au/nswlabor_loth_2016 or in person at Book Plus, Howick Street, Bathurst.

05.01.2022 The 2019 Light on the Hill - the Ben Chifley Memorial Dinner will be held on Saturday the 28th of September so save the date. Speaker is to be advised.

04.01.2022 Bathurst Labor is delighted to announce that Tanya Plibersek will give the 2017 Light on the Hill address. Tanya grew up in the Sutherland Shire of Sydney, the daughter of migrants from Slovenia. Like many newly arrived migrants, Tanya’s parents helped build the country in which they made their new home. Her father worked on the Snowy River hydroelectric scheme in the 1950s. Tanya studied Communications at UTS in Sydney. After graduating she worked in the Domestic Violence ...Unit of the NSW Government while she studied for a Master of Politics and Public Policy at Macquarie University. Elected as the MP for Sydney in 1998, Tanya has tirelessly worked together with people in her local community to push for positive change. My electorate has a history as a place where ordinary people have acted collectively to combat injustice and to fight for their rights. It has a Labor history. During the years of the Howard Government Tanya constantly campaigned for a return to social justice in government on issues such as paid parental leave, fairer rights at work and rights for same-sex couples. In 2003, when President George Bush visited Australia, Tanya presented national security adviser Condoleezza Rice with a letter explaining why Labor parliamentarians opposed Australia invading Iraq without United Nations approval. Following the election of the Labor Government in 2007, Tanya has held the portfolios of Housing, the Status of Women, Human Services and Social Inclusion. Tanya was appointed Minister for Health in late 2011. Tanya lives in Sydney with her husband Michael and young children Anna, Joseph and Louis. She is fond of bushwalking and Jane Austen.

04.01.2022 Eight weeks to go until the Light On The Hill - Ben Chifley Dinner. Guest speaker this year is Shadow Treasurer Jim Chalmers. Tickets $85.00 or $65.00 concession, available from Books Plus, 157 Howick St, Bathurst and online at https://www.nswlabor.org.au/events.