WATAC Luncheons at NSW Parliament House

In 1990 WATAC NSW decided to hold a celebratory luncheon at NSW Parliament House each year with a significant speaker addressing a meaningful theme. WATAC has always invited young people from schools to join us at this luncheon. It is always an informative and enjoyable event as well as a symbolic gesture, since women are gathering in the place of government where decisions are made and we are speaking out on issues which concern us as women.

The 2011 Luncheon at NSW Parliament House is on Wednesday 22nd June and our guest speaker is to be Ilona Lee AM. Download the details and booking form.

Read Professor Larissa Behrendt's address to the 2010 Luncheon
Theme: "Our Time is Now"

• Read a report on the 2009 WATAC Luncheon
• Read a report on the 2008 WATAC Luncheon

Some of the speakers and themes they have addressed are:

• Bishop Pat Power
  Theme: Futuring Now - Today's Challenge
  
  
• Ann Gilroy rsj
  Theme: "Women Celebrating the Spirit"
  
  
• Libby Rogerson (Loreto Sister) and Clare Arnott (Yr 11 Loreto Student)
  Theme: "Women Seen and Heard"
  
  
• Geraldine Hawkes (Chair CACW)
  Theme: "Women of Hope and Vision"
  
  
• Pauline Rae smsm and Hanade Tawil (Muslim Promoter of Inter-Faith Issues)
  Theme: "Women of Compassion and Peace"
  
  
• Rosemary Breen
  Theme: "Cultivating Peace"
  
  
• Patty Fawkner sgs
  Theme: "Women Can Change the World"
  
  
• Shirley Wood
  Theme: "While Women are Exploited No Woman is Free"
  
  
• Maree Kennedy and Therese Vassarotti
  Theme: "Speaking As If We Had the Strength of a Million Voices"

Some of these talks are available on our Resources page.