Meetings

2022-05-15 May 15th 2022

Date: Sunday, 15 May 2022

Location: Mt Martha House

Speakers from Bayside Refugee Advocacy and Support Association
2022-03-20 March 20th 2022

Date: Sunday, 20 March 2022
Location: Mt Martha House
International Women’s Day and 25th Birthday celebration
Speaker Joanna Hayter AO
Joanna Hayter, was made an Officer in the Order of Australia in January 2018, for ‘Distinguished service to women in the areas of gender equality and individual rights through leadership and policy development roles, and to the promotion of global health, peace and security.’
In 2013, Joanna was named as one of Australia’s 100 Women of Influence.
In 2016, she was inducted into the Victorian Honour Roll for Women.
Joanna was the CEO of International Women’s Development Agency from 2010-2017.
Her career in international development and peace and security ranges across 4 continents and 31 countries including long term residencies in Myanmar, Vietnam and Japan and nearly a decade across African nations.
Today, Joanna is the Women’s Rights Convenor with Macquarie University’s Global Leadership Program.
She is also running her own garden design and landscaping business and lives in a rural town on the Mornington Peninsula.
2021-11-14 November 14th 2021

Date: Sunday, 14 November 2021
Location: Mt Eliza Community Hall, 90 – 100 Canadian Bay Rd, Mt Eliza unless Covid restrictions change

Speaker Fiona York, from Housing for the Aged Action Group (HAAG)

Fiona will be speaking to us about the rising number of homeless women over 50, and other general concerns regarding housing/tenancies/homelessness for older people. Below is a link to the organisation’s website:

https://www.oldertenants.org.au/haag/about
2021-09-19 September 19th 2021 AGM

Date: Sunday, 19 September 2021
Location: Zoom
Speaker Coralie Alison, Director of Collective Shout
Link will be sent to all those we have email addresses for. If you would like to be added, please call Erica 0404 811 422.
2021-07-11 July 11th 2021 NAIDOC WEEK

Date: Sunday, 11 July 2021
Location: Mt Eliza Community Hall Covid restrictions permitting
Speaker Aunty Helen Belle Bnads
If you are not already on our email list, please contact swanwomen@outlook.com for details.
2021-05-23 May 23rd 2021

Date: Sunday, 23 May 2021
Location: Mt Eliza Community Centre, 90 – 100 Canadian Bay Road, Mt Eliza if Covid restrictions allow
2021-03-14 March 14th 2021 IWD

Date: Sunday, 14 March 2021
Location: Zoom
International Women’s Day
Our speaker/s will be Pia Cerveri and Jodi Peskett

Pia Cerveri is a social worker who has worked in Australia and the United Kingdom and specialised in working with children and their families, youth justice and with women in the Victorian prison system. Pia is a longtime Australian Services Union member and is committed to achieving gender equity via many means, including through the collective power of the union movement. Pia was, until recently, the co-lead of the Women’s and Equality team at Victorian Trades Hall Council.

Jodi Peskett is the former co-lead of the Women’s and Equality team at Victorian Trades Hall Council, a job she shared with Pia Cerveri. In her time in that role she coordinated a number of campaigns including the Stop Gendered Violence at Work campaign. Jodi has a Masters degree in Gender and Development and has worked in gender equality campaigning at home, in the Asia Pacific and internationally. Jodi is a proud unionist and feminist. She is committed to achieving justice and fairness for workers including gender equality, through the collective power of the union movement.

This meeting will be on Zoom due to Social Distancing requirements. The link will be emailed to members close to the date. If you wish to be added to the list, please contact Erica on 0404 811 422.
2020-11-08 November 8th 2020

Date: Sunday, 8 November 2020
Location: Zoom
Teela Reid will be our speaker for the postponed NAIDOC week meeting. This meeting will be on 8th November as Teela is not available on 15th and the committee felt it was worth moving the meeting for this opportunity.
Teela Reid is a proud Wiradjuri and Wailwan woman, a former teacher now criminal defence lawyer and most recently an award-winning junior fiction writer. Teela is a passionate advocate for enshrining a First Nations Voice to Parliament in the Constitution and a Makarrata commission to enable Treaty and Truth-telling.
She was a working group leader on section 51 (xxvi), the Race Power, in the constitutional dialogue process that underpinned the Uluru Statement From The Heart; an invitation issued to the Australian people on 26th May 2017.
Teela also appeared on ABC programs The Drum, 7.30 and Q&A, and has an active presence on Twitter (@teelareid) and is the co-creator of the Instagram page blackfulla_bookclub, a platform that honours First Nations Ancestors as the original storytellers.

Photo credit: John Janson-Moore
2020-09-20 September 20th 2020 AGM

Date: Sunday, 20 September 2020

Location: Zoom

This meeting will be via Zoom. Start at 10 am. After the AGM and notices, we will have a couple of short addresses from members and then a chance to share news.

AGM details in the September newsletter.
2020-07-05 July 5th 2020 – Cancelled

Date: Sunday, 5 July 2020

Location: Mt Martha House, 466 Esplanade, Mt Martha

We had hoped to have Teela Reid as our speaker but NAIDOC week has been postponed and Covid-19 restrictions mean that the meeting must be cancelled. We are hopefull Teela may be able to speak to our November meeting if this can go ahead.