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Message from NRWC President Alwyn Friedersdorff
How this year is flying by!
June saw the Executive team busily rounding off all our planned work and enthusiastically planning new ventures. It has been an absolute bonus to be able to forge into our next year’s plan with positive assistance and shared viewpoints with our Office for Women staff, who should be acknowledged because it is through them that our necessary funding stream flows.
July is packed full, with set ups for two exciting new Webinars badged with our newly registered name ’e-Skilling’, one of which will teach the skills of using videos in social media over three sessions and the other will teach the skills to prepare you for leadership in local government. And we end the month in Hobart to conduct a Roundtable on the issues of homelessness faced by RRR women.
July and August seem to be special months that direct us to a myriad of chances to recognise the worth of women! There are both State and National opportunities, so get the word out there! Encourage others to nominate achieving women!
Form a working group to make it happen! And watch out for our own special RRR Women of Influence.
As I write, I realise that we are approaching NAIDOC Week with this year’s powerful theme, Because of Her We Can! Our First Nation sisters are celebrating the ‘essential role that women have played - and continue to play - as active and significant role models at the community, local, state and national levels.’
I love this year’s Poster! It is a call out for all the things that we all want!
There are so many amazing stories being told in this celebration. Be sure to find out what events are on near you and support them, learn from them, enjoy and celebrate them and even acknowledge something that you now treasure, just because you have shared some time with an indigenous woman in your area so that you can truly say, ‘because of her I can’.
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