Dangerous and Persuasive Women: Celebrating a Centenary of Suffrage in Victoria
Keeping the Faith - Victorian Women’s Trust Forum, Federation Square, Melbourne, 29 November 2008
“I think one of the great contributions of Barack Obama’s campaign for the presidency was the way it put to bed the idea that young people – and a whole lot of other people – are intrinsically apathetic. Barack Obama talked to people in terms they understood, and offered them ways of acting that made sense, and didn’t they take up his offer. And what a gift that is – to realise that people aren’t irretrievably distant, that they aren’t fundamentally disengaged, they’re just looking for ways to engage that make sense in their lives.”
Paying for Servitude: Trafficking in Women for Prostitution
2004 Pamela Denoon Lecture, Canberra
“It was the obvious thing to do. What else would a small community organisation from Melbourne with no money, no lawyers, no hope of getting money and too much to do already do but embark upon a process that would take it to Sydney to take on the Department of Immigration, Australasian Correctional Management and, as we were later to discover, more often than not, the coronial process and the Coroner himself. We were in.”
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