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Dear Members & Colleagues
As another year draws to a close, the Women Lawyers’ Association of NSW (WLANSW) would like to take this opportunity to thank you for your support. We appreciate the contributions from our sponsors, members, colleagues and affiliates that add to the success and growth of our Association and profession.
 Please join us harbour-side to celebrate and catch up with friends and colleagues for the festive season, 5.30pm Thursday 24th November at Queens Wharf Hotel. FREE event with selection of share platters provided and a cash bar; details noted below.
It’s been a busy year and planning is already underway for 2017! Please click here to view our event Photo Galleries.
In case you missed any of our 2016 local events:
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18th May ‘Law as a Career – Coming to the Bar’ panel event with: Rebecca Suters, Barrister, Hunter Street Chambers; Lizzie McLaughlin, Barrister, Hunter Street Chambers; Rebekah Court, Barrister, Sir Owen Dixon Chambers; Vivien Carty, Barrister, James Dowling Chambers and as MC, Sher Campbell, Assoc Lecturer, Newcastle Law School
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Well known journalist and author, David Marr, is back in Newcastle on 17th November for a free ‘in conversation’ event with sociologist Professor John Germov, titled ‘The enemies of change’. Please see details below.
We look forward to seeing you on 24th November, and our events in 2017.
Kind regards,
WLANSW Newcastle Chapter
Newcastle Chapter SubCommittee:
Catherine Henry, Principal, Catherine Henry Partners (Chair)
Suzie Leask, Senior Associate, Australian Business Lawyers & Advisors
Lauren O’Brien, Solicitor, Catherine Henry Partners
Sher Campbell, Lecturer, University of Newcastle
Bronwyn Ambrogetti, Managing Solicitor, Hunter Community Legal Centre
Jacqueline Keddie, Nexus Law Group
Bridget Bennett, Law Student, University of Newcastle
Virginia Newell, NSW Department of Industry
Lizzie McLaughlin, Barrister, Hunter Street Chambers
Alison Farr, Solicitor, Bilbie Dan
Kathryn McKenzie, Executive Officer, Women Lawyers’ Association of NSW
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Christmas Drinks! Newcastle Chapter Women Lawyers’ Association of NSW Inc
5.30pm Thursday 24th November 2016
Queens Wharf Hotel, 150 Wharf Road, Newcastle Harbour
Join us harbour-side to celebrate and catch up with friends and colleagues
for the festive season. Selection of share platters provided; cash bar.
The Queens Wharf Hotel is located at the very centre of Newcastle, with its waterfront location right on Newcastle harbour with views out to Nobbys lighthouse.
Join us upstairs in the newly renovated Skiff Bar and balcony.
All welcome – invite your friends and colleagues, including the guys!
FREE Event – registrations essential for catering and seating. Click here for the flyer or register online.
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THE ENEMIES OF CHANGE: A CONVERSATION WITH DAVID MARR
Thursday, 17 November 2016, 06:30 pm
Location: Harold Lobb Concert Hall, The Conservatorium, Newcastle
David Marr, in conversation with sociologist Professor John Germov, discusses what it is about this prosperous, educated, quite progressive country that makes change so hard. Who are the enemies of change? How is it they can block so effectively clear majority calls for change on issues like global warming, marriage equality and euthanasia? “What Australians want is clear,” says Marr. “But we can’t seem to get there.”
David Marr has been exploring conservative strategies in Australian politics and society for most of his career. His books in this field include The Henson Case, The High Price of Heaven, The Prince and the definitive account of the 2001 ‘Tampa election’, Dark Victory, (with Marian Wilkinson). In Panic (2008), his collection of essays canvassing asylum seekers, the rise of Hanson, the Cronulla riots, homophobia, and ‘anti-Terror’ security legislation, Marr explored how reasonable fear is exploited to produce panic by politicians and the media for their own political ends.
David Marr is an accomplished journalist and author. Widely regarded as one of Australia’s most influential commentators, he has written on subjects such as politics, censorship, the media and the arts. He has been a journalist since 1973 for publications including The Bulletin, The Sydney Morning Herald, the Age, The Monthly and The Guardian and is the recipient of four Walkley awards for journalism. His critically acclaimed biography of Australian writer Patrick White won The Age Book of the Year award and the New South Wales Premier's Literary Award for Non-Fiction. A leading writer of political biography, his three Quarterly Essay profiles of Kevin Rudd, Tony Abbott and Bill Shorten were national bestsellers. He has been a reporter for ABC’s Four Corners, presenter of Radio National’s Arts Today and host of Media Watch and appears often on Q&A and Insiders.
Deftly combining his skills as a writer of literary non-fiction and journalism, a public intellectual, legal scholar and advocate, David Marr embodies the best of humanistic creative and critical thinking. He was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Letters by the University of Newcastle in 2011; the University of Sydney followed suit in 2013. He is also an Honorary Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. The Centre for 21st Century Humanities is delighted to welcome David Marr back to Newcastle.
FREE EVENT. REGISTER HERE
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Please note that WLANSW 2017 Membership is available at just $25 for students and those not in full-time work; $50.00 for full-time employed; and Corporate Membership from $295 to cover all your staff and note your logo and web link on our website. Please visit on our website for further information, or contact our office.
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Support the organisation that has supported women in law since 1952.
For further information on joining or to renew your membership please contact
our office or visit our website.
Click here for the Membership Form.
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