VICTORIA
Melbourne International Women’s Day Breakfast
Monday, March 5th 2012
Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre
Banquet Room 201, Level 2
1 Convention Centre Place
7:00 AM - 9:00 AM
Download the event brochure here.
Tickets:
Individual - $80.00
Student - $45.00
Corporate Table of 10 - $1,500.00
*Tables seat 10 people
Guest Speaker: Sally Sara
ABC Afghanistan Correspondent
Sally Sara is an award winning journalist and foreign correspondent with the ABC. She has reported from more than 30 countries including Iraq, Lebanon and Sierra Leone.
Sally has spent the past year covering the news from the frontline of the war in Afghanistan. During her career, she has broken the glass ceiling, as the first female correspondent appointed to the AB C’s Africa, South Asia and Kabul bureaus.
Sally has written for The New York Times and The Boston Globe and is the author of the best selling biography, ‘Gogo Mama.’
Sally has been named South Australian Young Journalist of the Year and Queensland Journalist of the Year. She has won United Nations Media Peace Awards and medals at the New York Festival Radio and Television Awards. She has been a finalist in the Walkley Awards for Journalism, six times.
Sally grew up in the small town of Port Broughton in South Australia. When she’s not reporting, she enjoys running and was a silver medalist at the Australian Masters Athletics Championships.
In 2011, Sally was appointed as a Member of the Order of Australia for service to journalism and the community.
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Date/Time: Monday 5th March 5:30pm - 8:30pm
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Contact: Heidi Waterson 03 5272 5026 Email: hwaterson@geelongcity.vic.gov.
'My Shepparton' & 'Our Diverse Women'
Date/Time: Thursday 8th March 10:30am - 3:00pm
Venue: Uniting Care Cutting Edge Hall, 136 Maude St, Shepparton
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CWA Mansfield: Greet & Eat & Chick Flicks
Date/Time: Thursday 8th March 1:30pm - 9:30pm
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artifacts from the archives of the Royal Melbourne Hospital, Monash
Medical Centre and Victorian Women's Trust. This is a free event.
Contact: www.qvwc.org.au
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Date/Time: Thursday 8th March 10:30am
Venue: Dhauwurd-Wurrung Elderly & Community Health Service Inc., 18 Wellington Road, Portland
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Contact: Christine Pearce (03) 5521 7547 Email: pac@dwech.com.au
