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Edna Ryan Award
The Edna Ryan Awards, also referred to as simply "The EDNAS", are Australian awards established to recognise women who have "made a feminist difference". The inaugural Edna Ryan Awards were held in 1998, the year following the death of Edna Ryan. Edna Ryan was a life-long feminist, labour movement activist, and mentor and role model for a whole generation of women. These awards were created to honour her life and work by a group of her friends, particularly Eva Cox and other members of the Women's Electoral Lobby (WEL). Edna Ryan had been closely involved with WEL, particularly the Women in the Workforce group which she convened. WEL hosted and administered the EDNAS from 1998 -2010, but from 2012 they were administered by The Edna Ryan Awards Committee and hosted by the Australian Services Union (ASU). In 2020 the Older Women's Network (OWN) NSW took over hosting the awards. Nominees for the awards must be comfortable identifying as a feminist and must live or work in NSW o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edna Ryan (activist)
Edna Minna Ryan, ''née'' Nelson (15 December 1904 – 10 February 1997) was an Australian feminist and labour movement activist and writer, and a role model and mentor to a whole generation of women. Mary Owen (feminist, unionist, and activist) wrote that she " may not have been the most outstanding woman in the women's movement but she has probably done more to improve the status of Australian women than any other person this century." For former Senator Susan Ryan (no relation): "She was the most inspiring and admirable woman I have known." Edna was born in Pyrmont. She became politically active early in life, participating in the marches through the streets of Sydney associated with General Strike of 1917 when she was still a High School student. She was involved in the first International Women's Day in Sydney in 1928, and in the labour movement as an organiser of the wives of timber workers during the Timber Workers' strike of 1929. In the 1920s she was a member of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jennie George
Jennie George AO (born Eugenie Sinicky; 28 August 1947) is an Australian politician, and former Australian Labor Party member of the Australian House of Representatives from November 2001 to July 2010, representing the Division of Throsby, New South Wales. Early life George was born in Trani, Italy, where her parents Oleg and Natasha were displaced persons from the Soviet Union. Oleg and Natasha separated in 1955 and divorced in 1958. Oleg died in 1960, aged 39, after years of heavy drinking and smoking, during which he was frequently violent towards his wife and sometimes his daughter.Brad Norington, "Unions of the Heart", ''Sydney Morning Herald'', Spectrum, 7 November 1998, p. 7s She was educated at the Burwood Girls High School (where she was first called Jennie, as Eugenie was deemed too hard to pronounce), Sydney University and the Sydney Teachers College. In February 1968 she married Paddy George, a full-time activist for the Communist Party and NSW State Secretary ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shokufeh Kavani
Shokufeh Kavani ( fa, شکوفه کاوانی; born 1970) is an Iranian-born Australian contemporary nurse, artist, painter, and translator. She is primarily known as a translator and as an abstract painter. She is fluent in Australian English in addition to her native language Persian. She is currently living in Sydney. Early life and education Shokufeh was born in 1970 in Tehran, Iran. She was only age eight when the Iranian Revolution (1978–1979) took place. She received her education first at the Saadi Primary and Secondary School, and followed by studies at Jeanne D'Arc High School. She went on to the Bandar-Abbas medical university for a bachelor's degree in nursing, before migrating to Australia as a professional nurse. Life and career At age 19, Kavani started painting in reaction to the events that were happening around her. The eight-year Iran-Iraq War had a deep impact on her. While in Iran she carried on painting, but never exhibited her work in Iran. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bronwyn Bancroft
Bronwyn Bancroft (born 1958) is an Aboriginal Australian artist, and among the first Australian fashion designers invited to show her work in Paris. Born in Tenterfield, New South Wales, and trained in Canberra and Sydney, Bancroft worked as a fashion designer, and is an artist, illustrator, and arts administrator. In 1985, Bancroft established a shop called Designer Aboriginals, selling fabrics made by Aboriginal artists, including herself. She was a founding member of Boomalli Aboriginal Artists Co-operative. Art work by Bancroft is held by the National Gallery of Australia, the Art Gallery of New South Wales and the Art Gallery of Western Australia. She has provided art work for more than 20 children's books, including ''Stradbroke Dreamtime'' by writer and activist Oodgeroo Noonuccal, and books by artist and writer Sally Morgan. She has received design commissions, including one for the exterior of a sports centre in Sydney. Bancroft has a long history of involvement ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jenna Price
Jenna Price is an Australian journalist and academic. As of 2021, she is a visiting fellow at the Australian National University and ''The Sydney Morning Herald'' columnist. She is one of the founders of the online feminist movement, Destroy The Joint. Education and career Price graduated with a BA in communications from the NSW Institute of Technology (now University of Technology, Sydney – UTS) in 1981. She also holds an MA from UTS (2013), where she worked as lecturer for some years. She received a PhD from the University of Sydney in 2019. Her thesis, "Destroying the joint: A case study of feminist digital activism in Australia and its account of fatal violence against women", is a history and assessment of the online feminist movement, Destroy The Joint, which she co-founded in 2012. While a student in the early 1980s, she worked as editorial assistant for ''Listening Post'', the magazine published by volunteer radio station 2SER-FM. She joined The Sydney Morning ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kim Rubenstein
Kim Rubenstein ( ; born 1965) is an Australian legal scholar, lawyer and political candidate. She is a professor at the University of Canberra. She is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Law and Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia. Rubenstein won the 2013 Edna Ryan award for Leadership for "leading feminist changes in the public sphere" and is a gender equity advocate. In 2020 she became the inaugural Co-Director, Academic of the 50/50 by 2030 Foundation at the University of Canberra and a Professor in the University's Faculty of Business, Government and Law. Rubenstein is one of Australia’s leading experts on citizenship, having written the major text, ''Australian Citizenship Law'', acting as a consultant to government including being appointed a member of the Independent Committee that reviewed the Australian citizenship test in 2008 and appearing as legal counsel in citizenship matters before the Administrative Review Tribunal, Federal Court of Austra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marian Baird
Marian Pam Baird is an Australian academic researcher, Professor of Gender and Employment Relations and Head of the Discipline of Work and Organisational Studies at the University of Sydney, and a member of the Australian Fair Work Commission. She is also Foundation Director, Women and Work Research Group. Her research focuses on all aspects of women in the workforce over their lifespan. Academic career Baird completed her secondary education at Stella Maris College in Manly, New South Wales. She graduated with a BEc (1978) and DipEd (1979), followed by a PhD (2001) in Work and Organisational Studies, all from the University of Sydney. Her 2000 thesis was titled "Transforming industrial relations: Brownfield sites, greenfield sites and commitment systems at Colgate-Palmolive". Baird has contributed to government policy in the area of paid parental leave. She is joint editor-in-chief of the Journal of Industrial Relations, former president and current (as of 2020) committ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Finola Moorhead
Finola Moorhead (born 1947) is an Australian novelist, playwright, essayist, poet, and reviewer. Her topics include women and writing, switching between reality and fiction, with themes of subversion and survival. Moorhead participates in the women's liberation movement, and during the 1980s, she was a radical feminist. As a result of a challenge she wrote a book without male characters. Childhood and education Moorhead and her three siblings were brought up by her single mother. She went to boarding school before deciding to study law at the University of Melbourne. Moorhead then transferred to the University of Tasmania during the protests which were occurring over the Vietnam War. She graduated with a degree in arts. Early career Moorhead was employed as a teacher before starting her professional writing career in 1973. She had begun writing the year before, after attending the Adelaide Writer's Festival and meeting the poet and campaigner Judith Wright and the writer Roger ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margaret Henry
Margaret Henry (25 July 1934 – 9 September 2015) was an Australian community activist and local government politician. Early life Born Helen Margaret on 25 July 1934, she was the youngest of three children, having two older sisters. Her parents were Miriam Dora Groth and William Gardner. She was born and grew up in New Lambton, a suburb of Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia. Education Henry went to Newcastle Girls High (now Newcastle High). She was awarded Dux at Newcastle Girls High in 1951 and received Bachelor of Arts (BA) from the University of Sydney. In 1955 she received a diploma of education for the University of New England. University of Newcastle She was a history lecturer at the University of Newcastle and lectured in Australian history between 1968 and 1985. Henry spent most of her teaching career with the Open Foundation program for mature aged students at the University of Newcastle. In 1983 she helped establish the Wollotuka Institute. Between 1981 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Women's Library, Sydney
The Women's Library ("TWL") in Newtown, Sydney, Australia, is a community-based library and a hub of lesbian and feminist activity. It stocks books "by women, for women" and aims to make feminist and lesbian literature more accessible. Activities The Women's Library has been built on the efforts of volunteers and the donations of thousands of women since its establishment. It continues to be fully managed and staffed by volunteers and the collection of donated books and periodicals numbers approximately 20,000 items. It is an example of an urban commons. A diverse range of lesbian and feminist groups have called The Women's Library their home over the years, using the space as a meeting place outside of opening hours. Regular groups have includeLesbian Open House [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deborah Brennan
Deborah Jane Brennan is an Australian Professor in social policy research, who was awarded a Member of the Order of Australia, in the Queens Birthday Honours list, in 2022, for her significant service to social policy research, gender equity and tertiary education. Education and career Brennan obtained her bachelor's degree in political science and government at the University of Sydney (USYD), a Masters at Macquarie University and a PhD from USYD. She worked at USYD, from 1986 to 2007, rising to associate professor from 2000. She then moved to the University of New South Wales (UNSW) as full professor, where she worked from 2007 to 2021. On her retirement she was appointed an emeritus professor at UNSW in 2018. Brennan was the first convenor of the National Association for Community Based Children's Services. Brennan's career has focused on achieving gender equity, particularly more equitable lifestyle, salary, and services for children and women. Brennan's work focuses on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
