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Iola Mathews

Iola Mathews OAM is an author, co-founder of the Women’s Electoral Lobby, and a former journalist at The Age. Later she worked at the ACTU as an industrial officer and advocate, specialising in women’s employment, and was the advocate in the parental leave case, and equal pay cases for child care workers and clerical workers. She is the author of several books, including My Mother, My Writing and Me: A Memoir; Chequered Lives: John Barton Hack and Stephen Hack and the Early Days of South Australia; and Winning for Women: A Personal Story.

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Events

  • Harvest Festival ’26 Dinner with Lucy Ridge

    Scrumpers Kitchen 23 Malbon Street, Bungendore, NSW

    Featuring Lucy Ridge in conversation with Emma McDonald Join us for a special evening at Scrumpers Kitchen, Bungendore, as we officially launch the 2026 Bungendore Harvest Festival with a seasonal dinner celebrating the...

  • Professor Lelia Green discusses The Digital Child (Readings, Hawthorn)

    Readings Hawthorn Woi Wurrung Country, 701 Glenferrie Rd, Hawthorn, VIC, Australia

    Join us to hear Professor Lelia Green discussing The Digital Child: Creating Confident Children. For almost all parents, most of the time, digital parenting is a recipe for uncertainty and concern....