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National Council of Women of NSW

NEWSLETTER

November 2016 No 248

* Quota—Anne Dean reports * Foundation Day report

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* Dame Marie Bashir Peace Awards Presentation

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* Awards Presentation continued

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* Photos of Awardees 5

* Human Rights Overview - Madeleine Banister

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* NCW New Zealand Conference 7

* Katherine Wilson “Kate” Shepherd

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ENCLOSED : Booking Form: Celebrate Being an Australian Australia Day Luncheon, Friday 27 January 2017

* Dates for Your Diary

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INSIDE THIS ISSUE

A MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT

I would like to thank you for giving me the opportunity to be your President again. I am very aware of the honour that goes with this position, and I will carry out the duties dili-gently.

I would like to thank the outgoing President, Nola Barkl and the Executive for the wonder-ful 120 year celebrations which they organ-ised for us.

It all started with our Australia Day Lunch-eon, this was followed by the wonderful Af-ternoon Tea at Government House. Then we had our Morning Tea at the Castlereagh Boutique Hotel. Next was our Jean Arnot Luncheon, the President’s Morning Tea at the Sydney Town Hall and our Foundation Day Luncheon. The final event of the year was the 7th Dame Marie Bashir Peace Awards Ceremony. It was a very full year, but a memorable way to celebrate the 120 years of the National Council of Women in New South Wales.

2017 will not have quite the same number of events, but I am sure they will be just as enjoyable as the ones just celebrated.

Last month, together with three other execu-tive members, we attended the first of four themed reports by the Hon. Pru Goward. The theme was Talking Women: Education and Learning. It was a very informative eve-ning, with the panel consisting of The Hon John Barilaro MP, Dr Dharmica Mistry, Kylie Hargreaves and Liliana Mularczyk. A very diverse and interesting group of people, who told of their experiences, then took questions from the audience. A very informative eve-ning and we look forward to being invited to the follow up reports.

As this will be our last Newsletter for this year, I would like wish you and your families a very happy and safe festive season and a healthy 2017.

Tricia Graham

WELCOME TO THE NEW EXECUTIVE 2016-2017

President Tricia Graham Vice Presidents Sally Fennell Cassandra Allan Hon Secretary Marlene Arditto Hon Treasurer Nola Barkl Individual Members’ Representative Sheila Turnbull State Coordinator of Standing Committees Julie Morris

DELEGATES REPRESENTING AFFILIATED ORGANISATIONS

Australian Federation of Graduate Women - NSW Inc. Dr Jane Baker

Country Women’s Association NSW Annie Kiefer

Girl Guides NSW & ACT Elizabeth Starr

National Council of Jewish Women Aust. NSW Maxine Bachmayer

Pan Pacific & South East Asia Women’s Association Dianne Sackelariou OAM

Quota International of Liverpool Heather Cox

SCEGGS Darlinghurst ESU Anne Cogswell

Soroptimist International - Region NSW Doreen Todd

The Women's Auxiliary of Sydney Legacy Sari Browne OAM JP

United Hospital Auxiliaries of NSW Inc. Marjorie James OAM

Women Lawyers Association of NSW Inc. Janet Coombs AM

FOUNDATION DAY LUNCHEON

QUOTA INTERNATIONAL

SYDNEY

Anne Dean reports .... The Sydney Quota Club held a very interesting lunch-eon in the Lodge Wivenhoe Village Cobbitty on Satur-day 17

th September, 2016.

It was a bright and sunny day and the setting was really terrific . The Luncheon took the form of Soup and Sweets meal which was prepared, served and donated by the Sydney Quota Club members. There was an interesting guest speaker, Pamela Templeton, Director of Services at Mater Dei School Cobbitty. Her talk was about the school and the mar-vellous work that it does in supporting the families who have children suffering with various types of dis-abilities. It is coeducational facility for mild to moder-ate intellectual from 4 to 18 years. Those who attended had a wonderful time of fellow-ship and came to a better understanding of the prob-lems faced by parents who have children with disabili-ties. Pamela also spoke about the problems with the dis-ability Pension . Problems being faced at the coal face. The members of Sydney Club did a marvellous job of organising the function, making and providing the food for the day and the lucky door prizes and raffles

Strangers’ Dining Room Parliament House

Macquarie Street, Sydney Friday 27 January 2017 12.00 noon for 12.30pm

Guest Speaker:

Colonel Sue Graham G4 Forces Command

Australian Defence Force

Early Bird Bookings $100 pp by 1 Dec 2016 Later Bookings $110 pp by 9 Jan 2017

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“Celebrate Being an Australian” AUSTRALIA DAY LUNCHEON

The Foundation Day Luncheon was held in the Strangers' Dining Room, Parliament House, Sydney on 8 August, 2016. It was a fitting celebration of 120 years of women's achieve-ments and contributions to society, with six women being honoured with Recognition Awards. Patricia Banister was nominated by Moya Potts AM, President of the Catholic Women's League, Australia – NSW Inc. Margaret Mary Burke was nominated by Helen Cook, Presi-dent Catholic Women's League Archdiocese of Sydney. Barbara Edney was nominated by June Young OAM, Individ-ual Member. Lorraine Ada Perry was nominated by June Young OAM, President of Quota International of Liverpool Inc. Merle Kay Thompson was nominated by Dr Jane Baker and 'Tricia Blombery, Individual Members NCW NSW. Judith Townsend was nominated by Anne Dean, President Quota International Sydney Inc. We were honoured to have the Premier, Michael Baird in at-tendance along with the Hon Pru Goward MP, both of whom spoke, complimenting NCW NSW on the achievements of the past 120 years. The awardees, introduced by Dr Jane Baker, were presented with their certificates by Ms Goward. Other honoured guests were Professor, Dame Marie Bashir and The Hon Natasha Maclaren-Jones MLC, our Parliamentary Host. We were pleased to afford Ms Anne McLeod the opportunity to have her book, 'The Summit of Her Ambition, a biography of Marie Byles' launched by the Hon Elizabeth Evatt AC. Katherine Allen, an old girl of Sydney Girls H/S and student at the Conservatorium, Sydney, led the singing of the National Anthem and enthralled all present with her solo item, Puccini's 'O Mio Babbino caro'. Besides a booklet specially produced to mark the 120th anni-versary of NCW NSW, each guest received a small gift of a business card holder and a copy of the booklet outlining the profiles of the awardees. It was a pleasure to have over 100 guests in attendance and we trust they enjoyed the delicious fare. Our thanks also go to our Master of Ceremonies, Carolyn Blanden; Helen Cook, President of the Catholic Women's League – Sydney who said Grace; June Young OAM President Quota International Liver-pool, who proposed the Loyal Toast; Judith Townsend who spoke on behalf of the award recipients; Anne Dean who or-ganized the raffle; Michael Mannington our volunteer photog-rapher, par excellence and, in particular, President Nola Barkl whose superlative organizational skills ensured the day ran smoothly, despite the eleventh hour withdrawal of the guest speaker, Dr Lisa Murray, Historian, Sydney City Council, ow-ing to illness.

Cassandra Allan

THE DAME MARIE BASHIR PEACE AWARDS 2016 Presented by Professor Dame Marie Bashir AD CVO

Parliament House, Monday 26 September

AWARDEES AND THEIR PROJECTS OLIVIA ALLDRICK

Yr 12 -- Nowra Anglican College Olivia is a young Australian adopted from South Korea. She is passionate about encouraging multiculturalism and is a supporter of Australia being a “mosaic soci-ety”. Chosen along with 44 others from across regional and rural Australia, Olivia attended a week-long summit in ACT with the aim of collaborating to create and develop ideas which would bring about change in Australian society. These ideas were then presented at Parliament House. Olivia's program, “Cooking for Cohesion” strives to combat racism one recipe at a time. Through interactive cooking sessions, local home cooks from different ethnic backgrounds are invited to share tradi-tional recipes, personal stories and experiences of their culture.

TARA ELLEVSEN

Yr 11 – Loreto Kirribilli Tara is involved in programs to promote gender equality, integration of refugees and indigenous equality. She is working towards greater representation of women in Surf Life Saving Clubs, providing swimming instructors for refugees and disadvantaged children and their families. Through these programs she is able to introduce club members to her community. In addition, she organised the donation of modesty swimwear for Muslim girls. Tara has advocated for indigenous equality via inter-views with ministers and on Koori Radio. Through fundraising she was able to provide school uniforms for orphan girls in Timor Leste, and is a leader of Buddies Day, promoting equality within social groups. Tara also organises donations to provide indigenous youth with equipment for the Bush to Beach program, where young people are brought from Brewarrina and Bourke to South Narrabeen. She spent a week living in their communities to foster harmony.

TANISHA FERNANDO

Yr 11 – North Sydney Girls High School Tanisha contributes to the annual Inter School Social Justice Conference and the High Resolves Program which involved workshops with a Year 7 class about do-mestic violence. After a visit to Sri Lanka, she became involved with a small girls’ orphanage, returning to teach English and Mathematics. She was Youth MP for Ku-Ring-Gai in the committee investigating Juvenile Justice, writing a bill aimed to expand circle sentencing to reduce the rates of recidivism amongst indigenous youth. Tanisha was elected as Executive Liaison Officer of the Charities and Social Justice Council. This involved giving speeches and organising fundraising, discussion groups and workshops designed to deconstruct the issue of domestic violence. In addition, Tanisha organised a camp and Day Conference centred on forming relationships with younger students. She is also involved in the Open Arms Foundation which raises funds to provide a school with equipment to foster education in rural China.

GLADYS LAI Yr 12 – Sydney Girls High School Through the High Resolves Program, Gladys publicised a school-wide project aiming to instil self-love and confidence within the school community, partnering with organisations such as Beyond Blue and Headspace. Subsequently, she delivered a lecture at the medical faculty in the University of Sydney,, as part of a project concentrating on the decisive inequity of medical access within both economically privileged and underdeveloped nations. As leader of the Social Justice Group and co-president of the Student Representative Council, Gladys confronted issues of racism and the treatment of asylum seekers through petitions and campaigns in her area, and encouraged discussions with younger students. She is a volunteer assistant for the Aspire Program which focuses on the education and support of young indigenous girls. Gladys remains constantly engaged with younger students, emphasising harmony through Wear it Purple Day and volunteering in a program to assist Bourke Street Primary School to engage with the children.

MARY SHELLEY

Yr 12 – St Joseph’s Regional College Mary is a keen volunteer at the local Port Macquarie Ironman, the Disabled Surfing Association and Clean-up Australia. She is a senior mentor to Year 7 students and participates in programs which develop and foster relationships with the special needs students. Mary is also a leader for St Vincent de Paul; working at her local homeless refuge, the Birpai Local Aboriginal Land Council, Minnie Vinnies and Buddies days to provide respite for disadvantaged children during the school holi-days. She visits Emmaus nursing home weekly, also encouraging a group of Year 12 girls to volunteer. Through the fundraising initiative ‘Beyond Bands’ Mary helped to empower local young people to consider local and national social justice issues and donate towards a worthy cause while listening to local musicians. This led to being a co-presenter at the Port Macquarie Luminosity Youth Summit which aims to equip local young people to become leaders in the community and empower them to make a positive difference. At the time of the Peace Awards, Mary was hoping to visit to Nepal planned later in 2016 to volunteer at a local orphanage.

RIZINA YADAV

Yr 11 – Merewether High School In her capacity as Secretary and Spokesperson for Hunter Cancer Action Network, Rizina advocated to pass legislation to abolish chemotherapy co-payments. She is one of two young writers for the Sydney Morning Herald, addressing social injustice - issues such as inequalities within the education system, the radicalisation of young people, and why Australia is not truly an egalitarian society. She was a guest writer for The Tall Giraffe, a platform for young people to write about social justice issues. On her birthday, Rizina asked her friends to donate money instead of buying presents. That money provided blankets and food in India. During her visit there, she taught basic English and computer skills. Back home, Rizina has performed Indian Bollywood dances for charity events and is keen to showcase the importance of multiculturalism in Australian society. She has also served as Youth Ambassador for the Cancer Council and has developed a Youth & Schools Engagement Tool-kit to be used throughout the state to increase school participation.

HIGHLY COMMENDED AND THEIR PROJECTS

VERONICA FERRARI-PUGLIANO

Yr 12 – Santa Sabina College Veronica visited some of Central Australia's closed communities, discovering the significance of song lines, etc. This motivated her to become active in assisting those in her own community. She became involved with Night Patrol which helps people who sleep rough by contributing to the Matthew Talbot Centre’s food service. As College Senior Leader, she encouraged other students to become involved in groups such as the Veritas Centre, focusing on refugees and promoting the Refugee Ration Challenge. Veronica has assisted children in refugee families through the Homework Help Program at Lidcombe and volunteers at the Cath-erine Sullivan Centre, an early intervention centre for babies and young children with hearing loss. She is a team leader on Edmund Rice camps to help unite siblings who often live separately due to non-ideal home settings.

NADIA HIRST

Yr 12 – St Marys Senior High School As leader of her school Amnesty group, Nadia gave weekly addresses creating awareness about Rohingya refugees being persecuted in Burma, the exploitation of child labour in countries such as Indonesia, and the ways in which organisations are currently combating forced marriages and gender inequalities. She partici-pated in fundraising for ‘Close the Gap’ Day to engage students with Aboriginal art and signing petitions to promote the human rights of First Australians. Through her involvement in Politics Club, Nadia was able to share ideas with young people on government policies dealing with social issues. She co-designed a confer-ence where an outside academic guest spoke, alongside student refugees from her school, sharing stories which forged harmonious relationships through empa-thy and respect.

ELIZABETH KHOURY Yr 11 – Mount St Benedict College Elizabeth is a member of the student networking group within the Australasian Alliance of Girls Schools (AGSA). This inspired her to work with the local commu-nity to create a presentation on Domestic Violence. Its aim was to encourage harmony and spread knowledge, and remove the taboo surrounding this sensitive issue. Based on the idea “It took us one minute to tell you. Now you take one minute to tell someone else”, Elizabeth's group filmed a video with statistics and information about the non-discriminate nature of domestic violence and how to break the taboo. The video was very successful and is being used in a school education program by the NSW police. It was recognised by the ABC and her group was invited to a Domestic Violence Q&A special. As a result, Elizabeth was quoted in an ABC radio broadcast. Elizabeth continues to volunteer, with the Vinnies Van bringing supper and talking to the homeless in the city; with Jamieson House, an aged care facility; and delivering hampers for Josephite Community Aid.

MAJA PODINIC

Yr 12 – Bossley Park High School Maja established a Pen Pals initiative to partner schools with refugees and social minorities. Students write to each other and talk about a given topic, getting first-hand knowledge about different nationalities and cultures. This aims to promote harmony between cultures and provides connections to refugees to improve their English skills. Maja is involved with the Model United Nations Assembly, a platform to develop skills in negotiation and to understand the issues facing society. She has organised fundraising for several charities such as the Cure Brain Cancer Foundation, the Breast Cancer Foundation and Mental Health charities.

MILLA REID

Yr 12 – Albury High School Prompted by her own anxiety, Milla initiated Wellfest, an initiative to raise awareness around youth mental health and the severity of mental health issues in our fast paced lives. This successful event took place in the centre of Albury. Milla has been involved in the Youth Retro Committee of Albury, engaging youth to be involved in and to generate community events. Every month, the committee holds gigs for young musicians as a way for them to enter into the music scene and to allow them to gain confidence. Retro also organised Youth Week and Anti-bullying days to allow people to speak out about bullying and to seek help.

ANGELE YAN Yr 12 – Fort Street High School Angele is involved in the grass-roots initiative ON FIRE, a charity that supports young people with family affected by mental illness. She helped to equip children with support networks and to mentor younger children through peer learning workshops and role modelling. She was involved with Fort Street Festival, coordinat-ing a team to run a day-stall to welcome the community into Fort Street School. She was then inspired to provide a global voice for young women, to become involved in the Soroptimist Peace Project – 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence. For this work Angele was awarded the title of Soroptimist International of Sydney. She shared her insights from this project with the school community, and led the Charity Committee to initiate a school project in support of White Ribbon. Angele acted as Fort Street High School Representative for the Secretary for a Day program and, in shadowing the Secretary of the NSW Department of Education, provided input into the Wellbeing Framework for Schools and building positive relationships between teachers and students. She served on the school Charity Committee, as well as fundraising events for Beyond Blue and World Vision. There were very successful outcomes over many campaigns, achieving mass student participation and high levels of funds. As SRC representative, Angele is planning a multicultural day for students to showcase their own cultural back-grounds. THANK YOU to our Photographer, Michael Mannington. Photos can be downloaded free of charge from www.volunteerphotography.org

DON’T FORGET

THERE IS A DAYTIME OPPORTUNITY

FOR YOU TO MEET AND TALK

TO NCW FRIENDS AT THE

MEMBERS & FRIENDS OF NCW

MORNING TEA

10.15 - 11.30 am Wesley Upper Room Cafeteria, Wesley Centre, next to Piccadilly Arcade NEXT DATES: Wednesday 16 November 2016 Wednesday 15 December 2016 Wednesday 18 January 2017

Come along for warm friendship and to hear the latest news of NCW NSW.

Sheila Turnbull

Individual Members’ Representative

AW AWARDEES

HIGHLY

COMMENDED

Madeleine Banister, Human Rights Adviser, writes —

Human rights and the status of women is a global issue that af-fects every female throughout the world differently. Within New South Wales, violence against women and equal access to edu-cation are both issues which affect females on a daily basis. These issues must be monitored to ensure that mechanisms and initiatives are created to combat them in the strive towards a more gender equal society, where all members are respected and given complete access to their rights as human beings. Violence against women within New South Wales commonly takes the form of family and domestic violence. In 2015 The Aus-tralian Bureau of Statistics reported that there were 30,467 vic-tims of family and domestic violence related assault in New South Wales. There were twice as many female victims (20,338 victims) as male victims (10,104 victims) and females were four times more likely to be the victim of assault within an intimate partner relationship (13,124 victims), when compared to males (3,419 victims). These figures must only be considered as a basic snap-shot of the prevalence of family and domestic violence due to under-reporting, stemming from numerous factors such as fear of retribution, the stigma behind being a victim of violence or a belief that an incident was too ‘trivial’ to report. In response to base statistics such as these, numerous efforts have been made to combat family and domestic violence within New South Wales. The NSW Government has doubled its invest-ment in specialist domestic violence services and initiatives to more than $300 million over four years, up from $148.5 million promised in the 2015-16 Budget. In addition to this, the NSW Government committed a $60 million package to support existing family and domestic violence reforms that were introduced in 2014. These reforms were aimed at driving down domestic vio-lence rates and better responding to victims. A year after these reforms were implemented many improvements were made in-cluding safer pathways for women to escape violent situations, better responses through the criminal justice system and im-proved training for family and domestic violence workers. That being said and taking into account the base statistics, many women are still suffering from family and domestic violence throughout New South Wales and it will continue to be an uphill battle to ensure some women are able to enjoy the human right of feeling safe within their own homes. Another issue concerning the status of women and their human rights within New South Wales is their right to an education and the assurance that they have equal access to this right that is free of discrimination. In the annual Women in NSW Report 2015, released by the Minister for Women NSW, Pru Goward MP, it was reported that females are still more likely to complete Year 12 than their male counterparts and 3 out of 5 undergraduate and postgraduate students are female. That being said, a gender gap exists amongst graduates with females gaining a median starting salary of $51,000 and males gaining a median starting salary of $55,000, a $4,000 difference. Looking at vocational education and training, a large gender gap also remains in the numbers of females and males commencing and completing apprenticeships.

Women’s and men’s commencements have increased from 2010, but since then have fallen considerably with commence-ment numbers for women dropping by 50.3 per cent from in 2010. Women who live in regional and remote communities represent the majority of apprenticeship and traineeship com-mencements and Indigenous women are more likely than all women and than Indigenous men to participate in apprentice-ships and traineeships. That being said, whilst Indigenous females are well-represented in vocational education and train-ing, they are less likely than other women to attend university. In an attempt to bridge these gaps, many initiatives have been created in an attempt to ensure that all females are given not only encouragement and equal access to education but also to ensure they have equal access to opportunity once they have completed this education. Human rights and the status of women within New South Wales is, by comparison to the state of human rights and the status of women within some other countries throughout the world, in a progressive state and is constantly evolving as we create and employ new mechanisms and initiatives for their improvement. We must constantly aim and lobby for these improvements to ensure that equality is always a priority.

HUMAN RIGHTS — AN OVERVIEW

CHRISTMAS CELEBRATIONS

Our last meeting of the year

will be held on

THURSDAY, 24 NOVEMBER

at 4.30 pm

Please join us to celebrate the

Festive Season

NCW NSW delegates are welcome to invite

Presidents of their organisations to join us on

this occasion

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Julie Morris writes —

It was my pleasure to represent NCW Australia at the NCW New Zealand conference held recently in Wellington, New Zealand. The conference venue, Te Papa – New Zealand’s combined National Gallery and National Museum on the wa-terfront in Wellington, was stunning.

The conference program was a powerful expression of the high regard in which NCW NZ is held. Admittedly, they do not have to deal with the ‘highs and lows’ of a Federation. The treaty with Maori and the incorporation of both Maori and English in the spoken and written word – both languages are taught in schools – added cultural dimensions that I person-ally found positive and welcoming. Many of the women I spoke to had family members living, working or studying in Australia.

The combination of conference plenaries, panel sessions and workshops delivered a diverse and welcome split of activities to enable dynamic and thought provoking conversations. Many of the plenaries are being broadcast on the NCW NZ Facebook page – and I can highly recommend their viewing/listening.

The two workshops I participated in were “Mobilising Moth-ers: Social media’s role in affecting positive change for women” led by Anna Dean and Angela Meyer from Double Denim and “Making Visible the Invisible: Ko te mea ngaro meinga Kia Uri” a workshop conducted by the Venerable Carole Hughes, Anglican Priest, Archdeacon of Auckland; and the Venerable Mere Wallace, Anglican Priest. I chose the latter workshop because I was seeking to better under-stand the way in which faith groups intersect with gender equality and where faith practitioners felt the path forward would be. It was interesting and thought provoking and in our working group we had two Australians (myself and a NZ resi-dent), young Buddhist woman and practising Muslim mother.

There was an Australian speaker – Maree Crabbe, Coordina-tor of the violence prevention project: “Reality & Risk; Por-nography, young people and sexuality”. Her conference presentation and workshop were very well received and pro-voked much conversation and gasps of horror when some of the information that was presented.

Social events were organised on both evenings with empha-sis on the 120 years that NCW New Zealand had been oper-ating. I opted out of the first evening as I had been on the ‘red eye’ flight from Melbourne to Wellington, via Auckland the night before. The Friday evening event was held at the Na-tional Library of New Zealand with a very pleasant evening, including a speech by Dr Jungsook Kim, President, Interna-tional Council of Women (ICW-CIF).

KATHERINE WILSON “KATE” SHEPPARD Kate Sheppard was the most prominent member of New Zealand's Women's Suffrage movement and was the country's most famous suffragette. She also ap-pears on the New Zealand ten-dollar note.

A copy can be seen in the photo below with — Dr Jungsook, President, International Council of Women Rae Duff, President NCW New Zealand Julie Morris representing NCW Australia

Lyttelton’s Tin Palace Gallery celebrated Internat ional Women’s Day on 8 March 2016 with the unveiling of a sculpture of Kate Sheppard as part of its Through the Glass Ceiling exhibition. Commis-sioned by Women’s Refuge and designed and constructed by Propellor Studios in Wel-lington in 2015, the sculpture is on display in Te Waipounamu/the South Island for the first time since the work was launched amid controversy in September 2015.

DATES FOR YOUR 2016-2017 DIARY

2016

Thursday 27 October Council Meeting, Level 1, SMSA, 280 Pitt Street 4.30 pm

Wednesday 16 November Members & Friends of NCW Morning Tea, 10.15-11.30 am Venue: Upper Room Cafe, Wesley Centre, Pitt Street Wednesday 16 November Executive Meeting, LG Level, SMSA, 280 Pit Street 12-2 pm Thursday 24 November Council Meeting, Level 1, SMSA, 280 Pitt Street 4.30 pm Christmas refreshments for final meeting of the year

2017

Friday 27 January “Celebrate Being an Australian” Australia Day Luncheon Strangers’ Dining Room, Parliament House, Macquarie Street, Sydney. 12 for 12.30 pm Guest Speaker: Colonel Sue Graham (Notice on page 2 and separate Booking Form enclosed/attached.) Wednesday 15 February Members & Friends of NCW Morning Tea, 10.15-11.30 am Venue: Upper Room Cafe, Wesley Centre, Pitt Street Wednesday 15 February Executive Meeting, LG Level, SMSA, 280 Pit Street 12-2 pm Thursday 23 February Council Meeting, Level 1, SMSA, 280 Pitt Street 4.30 pm Wednesday 15 March Members & Friends of NCW Morning Tea, 10.15-11.30 am Venue: Upper Room Cafe, Wesley Centre, Pitt Street Wednesday 15 March Executive Meeting, LG Level, SMSA, 280 Pit Street 12-2 pm Thursday 30 March (last Friday) Council Meeting, Level 1, SMSA 280 Pitt Street 4.30 pm EASTER DATES — Friday 14 April—Monday 17 April Wednesday 19 April Members & Friends of NCW Morning Tea, 10.15-11.30 am Venue: Upper Room Cafe, Wesley Centre, Pitt Street Wednesday 19 April Executive Meeting, LG Level, SMSA, 280 Pit Street 12-2 pm Thursday 27 April Council Meeting, Level 1, SMSA 280 Pitt Street 4.30 pm

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