| Tuesday 2nd September 2008 | ||||||||
| Program subject to change | ||||||||
| 7.30pm | OPENING CEREMONY | |||||||
| Jagera Arts Centre, Musgrave Park | ||||||||
| Welcome to Country followed by a range of feminist performance to welcome delegates. | ||||||||
| Wednesday 3rd September 2008 | ||||||||
| 7.45am | REGISTRATIONS | |||||||
| 8.45am | Welcome to Country | |||||||
| 9:00am | AUSTRALIAN INDIGENOUS WOMEN | |||||||
| Ali James | Chair | |||||||
| Moogie Patu | Warlpiri Elder | |||||||
| Prof. Judy Atkinson | Author Trauma Trails | |||||||
| Melissa Lukashenko | Who you calling doomed? | |||||||
| Indigenous Women,Violence and survivalism | ||||||||
| Delama Foster | Palm Island Domestic Violence | |||||||
| 10.30am | Open Floor/Recommendations | |||||||
| 11.00am | MORNING TEA | |||||||
| 11.30am | FEMINISM | |||||||
| Bronwyn Winter | Talked up and played down: | |||||||
| The global rhetoric and realities of women's lives | ||||||||
| Lavender | Feminist intergenerational sisterhood: | |||||||
| Giving a FIG about AGE difference | ||||||||
| Deborah Walsh | Feminism; The F-word | |||||||
| Is feminism as relevant today as it was in the 60's? | ||||||||
| Ana Borges | Feminism in Education | |||||||
| Queensland schools and gender issues in education | ||||||||
| Merci Angeles | Feminism Through The Eyes Of Filipina Urban Poor Women | |||||||
| 12:30pm | Open Floor/Recommendations | |||||||
| 1:00pm | LUNCH | |||||||
| 1:45pm | WOMEN AND JUSTICE | |||||||
| Debbie Kilroy | On criminalized women | |||||||
| Kim Pate | On criminalized women (live link up to Canada) | |||||||
| Betty Taylor & | Domestic Violence Death Reviews | |||||||
| Pam Godsell | ||||||||
| 2:45pm | Open Floor/Recommendations | |||||||
| 3:15pm | AFTERNOON TEA | |||||||
| 3:30pm | WOMEN IN POVERTY | |||||||
| Hirut Haile | The effects of married women's access to credit on | |||||||
| intra-household expenditure responsibilities in Ethiopia | ||||||||
| Lillian Geddes | How much pain can a woman afford? | |||||||
| Isobel Munro | Strategies for Survival | |||||||
| Old Women's Management of Resources | ||||||||
| 4:30pm | Open Floor/Recommendations | |||||||
| Thursday 4th September 2008 | ||||||||
| 7.45am | REGISTRATIONS | |||||||
| 8.45am | Welcome/Performance | |||||||
| 9.00am | ||||||||
| Ellen Pence | In Interview (live link up to United State) | |||||||
| 9.30am | FAMILY LAW | |||||||
| Zoe Rathus | Shared Parenting and Family Law | |||||||
| Beth Tinning | When social policy ignores feminist understandings: | |||||||
| how responses to DV in the Family Law Amendment | ||||||||
| serve to further harm women victims of violence | ||||||||
| Amanda Shea | Children's Best Interests in Famliy Law: The urgent | |||||||
| Hart | need to centralise the issue of children's exposure | |||||||
| to domestic violence | ||||||||
| Elspeth McInnes | Separated Resident Mothers | |||||||
| Management of contact with fathers who use violence | ||||||||
| 10.30am | Open Floor/Recommendations | |||||||
| 11.00am | MORNING TEA | |||||||
| 11:30am | SEXUALISATION OF WOMEN | |||||||
| Betty McLellan | What do Radical Feminists want? | |||||||
| Melinda Tankard Reist | The sexualisation and objectification of girls in | |||||||
| Popular culture | ||||||||
| Renate Klein | The harmful medicalisation of prematurely | |||||||
| sexualized girls | ||||||||
| Dr Lauren Rosewarne | Sexist Outdoor Advertising as Sexual Harrassment | |||||||
| Kat Pinder | The Pornified Invasion of Lesbian Spaces | |||||||
| 12:30pm | Open Floor/Recommendations | |||||||
| 1:00pm | LUNCH | |||||||
| 1:45pm | WOMEN IN WORK | |||||||
| Annie Cowling | Plumbers Union | |||||||
| Women in Plumbing Project | ||||||||
| Holly Patterson | Australian Services Union | |||||||
| New Award & Industrial Issues in SACS and CASH sectors | ||||||||
| Juliana Virine | Queensland Nurses Union | |||||||
| Personal Safety for Women at Work, looking at recent events | ||||||||
| with Queensland Nurses Union in the Torres Strait area | ||||||||
| Kara Touchie | Queensland Council of Unions | |||||||
| Current Status of Paid Maternity Leave, Parental Leave | ||||||||
| and "pay equity" in Australia | ||||||||
| Donna Justo & | Womentoring "When Women Mentor Women" | |||||||
| Prosanna Poornachra | ||||||||
| Annabelle Allimant | A critical reflection of feminist management, cross-cultural | |||||||
| framework of practice and work in the Australian | ||||||||
| multicultural environment | ||||||||
| 2:45pm | Open Floor/Recommendations | |||||||
| 3:15pm | AFTERNOON TEA | |||||||
| 3:30pm | POLITICAL ACTION | |||||||
| Xris Reardon | Can you name the shape, color and gender of FEMINSIM?? | |||||||
| & Lian Low | Who’s missing from the picture?? | |||||||
| Desi Achilleos & | Feminist Documentary | |||||||
| Martha Goddard | ||||||||
| TBC | Feminist Zine Making | |||||||
| For more info | check | out the Political Action section on the Abstract page | ||||||
| 7.00pm | CONFERENCE KARAOKE | |||||||
| Adam’s Oriental Restaurant, 55 Boundary Street, South Brisbane. Q. 4101 | ||||||||
| $40 for buffet style oriental food. Restaurant is Licensed. | ||||||||
| Friday 5th September 2008 | ||||||||
| 7.45am | REGISTRATIONS | |||||||
| 8.45am | Welcome/Performance | |||||||
| 9.00am | SEXUALITY | |||||||
| Yvette Holt chairs | Chairs Same Sex Indigneous Women's Panel | |||||||
| Lucy Nichols | Eradicating Sexual Difference: | |||||||
| An effective aim for feminism? | ||||||||
| Sue Kentlyn | Give them an Entsch and They’ll Take a Nile: | |||||||
| Australian Social Attitues to Queer families | ||||||||
| 10.30am | Open Floor/Recommendations | |||||||
| 11am | MORNING TEA | |||||||
| 11:30am | VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN | |||||||
| Aurora Javate de Dios | CATW | |||||||
| Olivera Simic | Who wants to be a peacekeeper? | |||||||
| Sonia Hoffman & | A feminist approach to peer education with young | |||||||
| Eliza Kilpatrick | women to prevent domestic violence and promote | |||||||
| healthy, safe, equal relationships | ||||||||
| Beata Ostapiej- | A critical relfection on feminist interventions in working with | |||||||
| Piatkowski & | women from non-english speaking backgrounds who have | |||||||
| Christina McGuire | experienced violence | |||||||
| 12:30pm | Open Floor/Recommendations | |||||||
| 1:00pm | LUNCH | |||||||
| 1:45pm | WOMEN'S HEALTH | |||||||
| Gwendolyn Gray | The Australian Women's Health Movement: | |||||||
| Institutionalised and surviving. | ||||||||
| Kathy Newnam | Abortion Rights: Activating the pro-choice majority | |||||||
| Amanda Dearden | Feminist Principles for support work in Action: working creatively | |||||||
| and compassionately with Women with Eating Issues who self | ||||||||
| harm, towards individual and social change | ||||||||
| Michelle Newcomb | Driven to Drink. Drugs, alochol and domestic violence | |||||||
| How can agencies respond? | ||||||||
| Tamara Lee | Sustainability, Intentional Living | |||||||
| and Prevention of Violence Against Women | ||||||||
| Marion Tower | Health and Healthcare for women affected by domestic violence. | |||||||
| Stories of disruption, fragmentation & re-construction | ||||||||
| 2:45pm | Open Floor/Recommendations | |||||||
| 3:15pm | AFTERNOON TEA | |||||||
| 3:30pm | WOMEN and ART | |||||||
| M.Henderson | Feminism in the museum | |||||||
| Susan Hawthorne | Of Cows and Lesbians: Poetry and Politics | |||||||
| 4:30pm | Open Floor/Recommendations | |||||||
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