Iola Mathews 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, for which she was awarded an Order of Australia Medal. She was the advocate in the parental leave case and equal pay cases for child care workers and clerical workers. More recently, she established writers’ studios in the National Trust property ‘Glenfern’ in East St Kilda. She lives in Melbourne with her husband, Dr Race Mathews.
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Dateline Jerusalem: John Lyons in conversation with Stan Grant
Gleebooks
49 Glebe Point Road, Glebe, News South Wales
Rarely is the public taken deep into the inner sanctum of major news organisations. In this extraordinary book, award-winning journalist John Lyons goes to the heart of how the media...
Free – $12
WinterWild: Walking on Country
Apollo Bay Community Hall
4 Whelan St, Apollo Bay, VIC
Join a panel of Indigenous leaders including Associate Professor Dr. Michael-Shawn Fletcher, a Wiradjuri man, paleo-ecologist and biogeographer; Dr. Jack Pascoe, a Yuin man, ecologist and Research Manager at the...
$25
Injustice, Survival, Memory 2022 conference
Australian National University
RSSS Building, 146 Ellery Crescent, Acton, ACT
The ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences, Humanities Research Centre and School of History presents Injustice, Survival, Memory: Marking 80 years since the Dunera and Queen Mary internees arrived...
The World Turned Upside Down
Sydney Opera House
Sydney, New South Wales
Cathy McGowan, Adam Bandt, Allegra Spender and others The cross benches in our federal parliament got quite a bit more crowded at this year's election. Will this Independents movement continue...
Fatal Contact: Introduced Epidemics Among Australia’s Colonial First Nations
RHSV Gallery Downstairs
239 A'Beckett St, Melbourne, VIC
The Royal Historical Society of Victoria is delighted that Peter Dowling has accepted our invitation to speak on this very topical issue. This talk explores the devastating infectious diseases introduced...
Dateline Jerusalem: John Lyons in conversation with Stan Grant
Gleebooks 49 Glebe Point Road, Glebe, News South WalesRarely is the public taken deep into the inner sanctum of major news organisations. In this extraordinary book, award-winning journalist John Lyons goes to the heart of how the media...
WinterWild: Walking on Country
Apollo Bay Community Hall 4 Whelan St, Apollo Bay, VICJoin a panel of Indigenous leaders including Associate Professor Dr. Michael-Shawn Fletcher, a Wiradjuri man, paleo-ecologist and biogeographer; Dr. Jack Pascoe, a Yuin man, ecologist and Research Manager at the...
Injustice, Survival, Memory 2022 conference
Australian National University RSSS Building, 146 Ellery Crescent, Acton, ACTThe ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences, Humanities Research Centre and School of History presents Injustice, Survival, Memory: Marking 80 years since the Dunera and Queen Mary internees arrived...
The World Turned Upside Down
Sydney Opera House Sydney, New South WalesCathy McGowan, Adam Bandt, Allegra Spender and others The cross benches in our federal parliament got quite a bit more crowded at this year's election. Will this Independents movement continue...
Fatal Contact: Introduced Epidemics Among Australia’s Colonial First Nations
RHSV Gallery Downstairs 239 A'Beckett St, Melbourne, VICThe Royal Historical Society of Victoria is delighted that Peter Dowling has accepted our invitation to speak on this very topical issue. This talk explores the devastating infectious diseases introduced...
