National Council of Women of NSW

NEWSLETTER

November 2017 No 252

* Photos and Foundation Day report

* Australia Day Luncheon

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* Dame Marie Bashir Peace Awards Presentation

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* Awards Presentation continued * Group photo Awardees/HCs

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* Photos of Awardees & HCs 5

* ACCAN Conference ACCANet * Young Women sub-committee

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* Christmas Celebrations 30 November at Council Meeting

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* Report on Housing—Dr Anne Sheehan, Adviser Habitat

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ENCLOSED : Booking Form: Celebrate Being an Australian Australia Day Luncheon, Wednesday 24 January 2018

* Dates for Your Diary

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INSIDE THIS ISSUE

A MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT

Thank you very much for the opportunity to

be your President for the next twelve months.

With this role comes responsibility and I as-

sure you I will carry out my duties as Presi-

dent to the best of my ability. A big thank

you must go to my fellow office bearers for

taking on their roles for another twelve

months – Tricia Graham, Sally Fennel, Cas-

sandra Allan, Nola Barkl, Marlene Arditto,

Sheila Turnbull and Julie Morris. I trust that

2017-18 will be a very enjoyable year for us

all.

In September I attended the ACCAN Confer-

ence held over two days at the UTS. This

organisation oversees the present and future

of telecommunications in NSW and looks at

bettering our networks. A brief overview is on

p.6. Also in September, I attended an NBN

Broadband Stakeholder meeting where the

new rollout plans were discussed.

Nola Barkl, Michelle Pedersen, Julie Morris

and myself met with representatives from the

Syrian Community Association to discuss,

among other things, any problems the Syrian

refugees may have as well as looking at

ways to ensure their smooth transition to life

in Australia.

In early October, Sally and Nola attended

and enjoyed Morning Tea in the Sukkah at

The Great Synagogue and, with Nola and

Sally, I attended the National Council of Jew-

ish Women of NSW Birthing Kit Packing Day

where over 1,000 kits were packed in just

one morning.

At our recent Members and Friends Morning

Tea held in “The Upper Room” at the Wesley

Centre in Pitt Street, there were fifteen pre-

sent. Please consider attending this friendly

get-together.

During my spare time I read the newspapers,

magazines and journals for 2rph – Radio for

the Print Handicapped – whose slogan is

“Lend Us Your Ears and We’ll Bring You the

World”.

Please note that we now have an NCW NSW

Young Women’s Group. Cassandra Allan

has been asked to liaise between the NCW

NSW Executive and the new sub-committee.

This is an exciting development for our Coun-

cil and we look forward to hearing about their

WELCOME TO THE NEW EXECUTIVE 2017-2018

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

DELEGATES REPRESENTING AFFILIATED ORGANISATIONS

Australian Federation of Graduate Women - NSW Inc. Dr Jane Baker Girl Guides NSW & ACT Margaret Wood National Council of Jewish Women Aust. NSW Maxine Bachmayer Quota International of Sydney Judith Townsend SCEGGS Darlinghurst OGU Anne Cogswell Soroptimist International - Region NSW Doreen Todd The Women's Auxiliary of Sydney Legacy Sari Browne OAM JP Women Lawyers Association of NSW Inc. Janet Coombs AM

Don’t forget to register to attend our first

event for 2018 – “Celebrate Being an Aus-

tralian” Australia Day Luncheon at Parlia-

ment House. This is always a very popular

and exciting event and you are urged to

purchase your “Early Bird” ticket as soon

as they become available. The calibre of

Award recipients is always outstanding.

I look forward to catching up with many of

you during the next 12 months. In the

meantime, I wish you all a Festive Season

filled with much love and laughter as well

as family togetherness.

Annie Kiefer

FOUNDATION DAY LUNCHEON

(photo left L to R)

MARGARET BLOMFIELD with Sally Fennell and Nominator, Helen Cook, President CWLA of Sydney

Strangers’ Dining Room

Parliament House Macquarie Street, Sydney

Wednesday 24 January 2018 12.00 noon for 12.30pm

Early Bird Bookings by 1 Dec 2017 $100 pp

Later Bookings by 8 Jan 2018 $115 pp .

SEPARATE BOOKING FORM ENCLOSED also available at www.ncwnsw.org.au

“Celebrate Being an Australian” AUSTRALIA DAY LUNCHEON

This year's Foundation Day Luncheon on 9 August 2017 commemorated 121 years since the National Council of Women was founded and was an op-portunity for members to re-dedicate themselves to encouraging others to work for advancing the cause of women and young people. Unfortunately, our patron, Mrs Linda Hurley, wife of His Excellen-cy General the Honourable David Hurley AC DSC (Ret’d) Governor of New South Wales, was unable to attend but a message of congratulations was read by Vice-President Cassandra Allan. It was a most enjoyable occasion, held in the ele-gantly decorated Cello's restaurant at the Castle-reagh Boutique Hotel, 169 Castlereagh Street, Sydney. The repast was delicious and the Guest Speaker, Kim Boettcher, presented those present with food for thought. She spoke about the Seniors Rights Service which is a community legal service for older people. She particularly highlighted the problematic area of elder abuse which affects at least 5% of older Australians. For further infor-mation about this service, visit the website http://seniorsrightsservice.org.au A highlight was the presentation of Recognition Awards to four women who have volunteered their time tirelessly for the community:

Nadene Alhadeff was nominated by Maxine Bach-mayer, Director of the National Council of Jewish Women of Australia – NSW.

Margaret Blomfield was nominated by Helen Cook, President of the Catholic Women's League Archdiocese of Sydney.

Rosalind Brennan was nominated by Sari Browne OAM JP, member of The Great Synagogue Wom-en's Auxiliary.

Barbara Clark was nominated by Anne Ball, rep-resenting the Presbyterian Women's Association of Australia in NSW. Details of their involvement in the Profiles Booklet distributed at the luncheon make fascinating read-ing and demonstrate what worthy awardees they are. Thanks go to all who attended. President Tricia Graham, cruising through the Panama Canal at the time of the luncheon, sent her regrets at not being able to join us. She was well represented by Vice- Presidents, Sally Fennell and Cassandra Allan. Additional thanks to the dedicated members of NCW NSW who organised the luncheon, particu-larly Mrs Nola Barkl, and our volunteer photogra-pher, Michael Mannington.

Photographs are available on his website http://volunteerphotography.org

NADENE ALHADEFF with her Nominator Maxine Bachmayer, Director, National Council of Jewish Women of Australia NSW

(photo right L to R)

ROS BRENNAN

with friends representing Nominator Sari Browne OAM JP (in absentia)

(photo left R to L)

BARBARA CLARK

with her Nom-inator Anne Ball representing Presbyterian WA of Aust. In NSW

NCW NSW’S DAME MARIE BASHIR PEACE AWARDS 2017 Presented by Professor Dame Marie Bashir AD CVO

Parliament House, Monday 25 September

For the 8th Annual Presentation of these awards at NSW Parliament House, Professor the Honorable Dame Marie Bashir AD CVO presented 8 Awards ($250) and 4 Highly Commended Certificates to an impressive group of young women, 3 of whom were in Year 11 and 9 in Year 12. These 17 and 18 year olds came from a range of schools across the State, from Ulladulla to Woolgoolga, Mudgee to Taree, and represented the diversity of ethnic origins which charac-terizes NSW today. It was clear that they were united by a common purpose to be an agent for Peace and to make their schools and communities a more harmonious place. They were supported by their nominating Principals or representa-tives, as well as their family members and, in some cases, the Members of Parliament for their electorates. Our Parlia-mentary Host for the occasion was Ms Felicity Wilson MP, standing in for Mrs Leslie Williams MP who had been called away to other parliamentary duties.

To select a small handful from the scores of nominations is a challenging task for the judges. Principals were invited to nominate just one of their students from Year 10, 11 or 12 with Reasons for Nomination and a Statement from the nomi-nee herself. The award winners were those who had impressed the judges by their initiative in instigating actions and taking responsibility for making a difference.

The recipients were introduced to the assembled gathering by Carolyn Blanden, Awards Committee member, to receive their Certificates and to relate to the audience what they had done to foster harmonious relationships and peace.

Here is a brief outline of what these students have undertaken. It is necessarily in alphabetical order as it is impossible to rank these impressive achievements. The 8 Awardees were:

RUBY HARTLEY – Year 11 Kirrawee High School When Ruby was in Year 9, her best friend, Brianna Johnsen, passed away following a courageous two-year battle with leukaemia and resultant diseases. Motivated by the patients, their parents and carers whom she saw when visiting the oncology ward, Ruby took up a proposal to help fundraise for a charity, Light the Night, which raised money for blood cancer research. She then brought the idea to a more personal one and, having a leadership position in her school’s Social Justice Council, she established ‘Brianna Day’ as a means of honouring Brianna and her memory. The response from the school community has made ‘Brianna Day’ an annual event, all proceeds going to Brianna’s charity, created by her family.

RACHAEL KNIGHT-DERKOWSKI – Year 11 Ulladulla High School When Rachael saw her peers ‘laughing off’ confrontations with bullying—cyber, physical and verbal—or bottling up their emotions, she was chal-lenged to subtly stand up for those she could see were badly affected and wanted to help create a supportive environment. She wanted to see all bystanding students actively participate in supporting any student who was being harassed or made to feel uncomfortable. Rachael ran a cam-paign “Stand In My Shoes UHS”, producing posters and creating a detailed website. She obtained a grant from the Shoalhaven Council to pursue her ‘action plan’ which included motivational speakers for workshops at year meetings. The result has been an empowerment of students and staff to stand up for one another, to generate kindness and to manage bullying.

AWAL MAKER – Year 12 Woolgoolga High School Arriving in Australia as a refugee from Sudan, Awal was excited to be able to have a good education and to take part in the school and the commu-nity. She came with a resilience as a result of her experiences and an appreciation of living in peace where equal rights and opportunities were available for everyone. The threat of child marriage led to personal cultural disconnection and eventually to living in foster care. All of this strength-ened her will to help others in similar situations. Awal raises awareness of the injustices faced by women and young girls from culturally diverse backgrounds as well as from the general community. She does this by public speaking and by being an active member of STARTTS in the local community, mentoring other young people from refugee backgrounds to assist them in navigating their way through cultural stress and offering strategies to help in their resettlement process.

QUINN PATCH – Year 12 Taree High School As Connected Communities School Captain, Quinn respectfully performed the Acknowledgement of Biripi Country on official occasions and sup-ported younger SRC indigenous student representatives in their endeavours. She has advocated and participated in ‘Friendship Field Trips’ for young migrant visits from ‘Africa comes to the Manning Valley’ which aims to promote peace, harmony and development amongst refugees and migrants to garner new and positive relationships between rural and migrant young people. She promoted and supported Wear It Purple Day 2016, the first time the school had engaged in the event. Additionally, Quinn promoted the support of Share the Dignity charity, successfully bringing in the male students to give wholehearted support and sympathy.

EMILY SOLE – Year 12 New England Girls’ School Emily used Harmony Day to encourage girls to celebrate Australia’s cultural diversity by promoting awareness of other cultures and the need to celebrate them instead of fearing them. Another endeavour was in relation to ending discrimination against people living with disabilities. She sub-mitted a video to the Nova Employment ‘Focus on Ability’ Short Film competition and was invited to perform the poem she wrote at their Awards Night. Her poem emphasised that we should stop focusing on the ‘dis’ part of disability and instead focus on ‘ability’.

GABRIELLE STRICKER-PHELPS – Year 12 Ascham School In her role as School Captain, Gabrielle worked closely with both the staff and student body to instil a culture of mutual respect, support and inclu-siveness within the school environment. She has spear-headed the ‘I See You Project’, a framework ideology which endeavours to make every girl feel acknowledged, heard and ‘seen’ for her own individual strengths, qualities and achievements. One of her social justice passions is child pro-tection, having had the personal experience of being removed as a 9 year old from her biological family after a long period of neglect. She has taken the opportunities of actively advocating for child protection and for helping children transition from fostering to adoption within the NSW child-protection system.

THANK YOU to our Photographer , Michael Mannington. Photos can be downloaded free of charge from www.volunteerphotography.org

ANNABELLA TEALE – Year 12 Roseville College Annabella has been involved in social justice clubs in both primary and secondary school. She initiated and organised a whole-school fundraiser for the victims of the Blue Mountains bush fires which involved speaking to all Junior and High School students to raise awareness and to foster gener-osity in donating to the affected people. She has been a weekly volunteer outside of school in a team of girls to play a friendly game of netball with a team of girls affected by physical disabilities. An awareness and fundraising campaign was organised by Annabella to coincide with a school drama performance, to shine a light on the many challenging issues facing girls and women, including Domestic Violence.

RIYA THAPA – Year 12 Armidale High School News of the huge earthquake in Nepal in 2015 was devastating for Riya, as the majority of her family is still living there. Together with the Nepalese Community of Armidale and Armidale HS, Riya led a project to raise money to help rebuild a school in Nuwakot, a small remote area badly affected. The school building had been destroyed. A Candlelight Vigil brought many different cultures and nationalities from all over Armidale to join in and to support the project. Monthly dumpling stalls at the local Farmers Market helped to raise the required funds to rebuild the school, three rooms of which have now been completed. A fourth room is to be built and furniture and school supplies provided. It is anticipated that there will be a lasting connection between the Nuwakot School and Armidale High School. Riya has ensured that Harmony Day celebrates cultural diversity and draws attention to the many other people in the world who suffer from adversity and need assistance. 4 Highly Commended were:

ABBY GREIG – Year 12 Rouse Hill High School Abby immigrated to Australia in 2009 and understands the overwhelming feeling of isolation, confusion and fear of anything new. As one of her school’s captains in 2016, she was able to bring action to her passion for caring of others. 2016 was also the year she was diagnosed with degener-ative spinal diseases. Abby was forced to re-write her plans and made the choice to find a new purpose within a broken body and, through it, to give back to the community that had raised her. She chose to focus on the wellbeing and support of youth within her school and community. She planned and initiated a ‘Breakfast Club’ for Year 7 to give them support, guidance, advice and a greater sense of belonging within high school. This led to the development of a student-run peer support program to give new students the ability to feel comfortable at school. Harmony Day helped to raise awareness of harmony and build a stronger sense of belonging in the community where Abby has volunteered in its Hills Youth Army, Orange Blossom Festival, Relay for Life, Riding for the Disabled and Seminar for Support of LGBT+youth.

GEORGIA MARSTERS – Year 11 Wiley Park Girls High School In 2016, Georgia’s school became a White Ribbon School. To qualify for this designation, Georgia and her fellow members of the Student Repre-sentative Council (SRC) participated in the community march and helped lead the whole-school assembly and workshops. As a musician, Georgia wrote and performed a song that questions the gender stereotypes that exist in our society. It is through her music, public speaking and fundraising that Georgia strives to promote harmony in the community by spreading the word about respectful relationships and the importance of equality for women. Georgia has hosted the school’s Sorry Day Assembly and believes that young people need to be educated about Aboriginal history and culture which leads to respect and understanding.

NAHRAIN OSHANA – Year 12 Sydney Girls High School As a child growing up in an incredibly multicultural community, Nahrain’s life was enriched with its culture and diversity but her eyes were opened to inequality and injustice at a young age. Her mother instilled in her a desire and a need to help others, a focus which has since broadened to a goal of achieving social justice. Participation in the High Resolves program at her school enabled Nahrain to address the unjust treatment of refugees and asylum seekers in Australia by initiating a school-wide donation drive to donate items for gift baskets. Eighty large gift baskets were donated to the Asylum Seekers Centre in Newtown. Another project was aimed to tackle homelessness and, through fundraising, Woolworths gift cards were purchased and given to people living on the streets. Nahrain led the Social Justice Group in 2016 increasing its membership to more than 100 stu-dents making it one of the largest school-based social justice groups in NSW. One of her campaigns was the encouragement of SGHS students to have meaningful conversations with each other about mental health as part of RUOK Day. She has published each term a magazine “Wellbeing Wisdom” which focuses on highlighting and removing the stigma surrounding mental health issues related to students.

AZRUN PAULSON – Year 12 Mudgee High School Azrun is Treasurer of her school’s SRC and is an active participant in the roll call where ideas are put forward on how to improve the school and make the educational experience more enjoyable for the students. As Treasurer, she is part of organising school events such as socials and music concerts at lunch times. A chosen charity is selected each year for the Year 12 class to support and culminates with Rainbow Day, a fete for stu-dents at the end of Term Three which gives a positive alternative to the usual ‘muck up day’. This year, 2017, two charities were chosen: the local Benevolent Society and the sister school to Mudgee HS in East Timor so that it can improve its educational facilities. NAIDOC also receives support and voluntary time from Azrun. She has initiated a weekly Acknowledgement to Country at the school assembly which is encouraging pride in the ancestral history and culture of Aboriginal students.

Professor the Honourable

Dame Marie Bashir surrounded by the Awardees (l to r)

Gabrielle Stricker-Phelps Azrun Paulson Rachael Knight-Derkowski Riya Thapa Awal Maker Emily Sole Abby Greig Georgia Marsters Quinn Patch Nahrain Oshana Annabella Teale Ruby Hartley

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 15 November 2017 Wednesday 20 December 2017 Come along for warm friendship and to hear the latest news of NCW NSW. Sheila Turnbull Individual Members’ Representative

RUBY HARTLEY RACHAEL KNIGHT- AWAL MAKER QUINN PATCH Year 11 DERKOWSKI Year 11 Year 12 Year 12 Kirrawee High School Ulladulla High School Woolgoolga High School Taree High School

EMILY SOLE GABRIELLE STRICKER- ANNABELLA TEALE RIYA THAPA Year 12 PHELPS Year 12 Year 12 Year 12 New England Girls’ Ascham School Roseville College Armidale High School School

(left) ABBY GREIG Yr 12 Rouse Hill HS (right) GEORGIA MARSTERS Yr 11 Wiley Park Girls HS

HIGHLY COMMENDED

(left) NAHRAIN OSHANA Yr 12 Sydney Girls HS (right) AZRUN PAULSON Yr 12 Mudgee HS

ACCANect 2017

CHRISTMAS CELEBRATIONS

Our last meeting of the year

will be held on

THURSDAY, 30 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 Level 1, SMSA 280 Pitt Street, Sydney

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As the Conference heading implies, the recent ACCAN (Australian Communications Consumer Action Net-work) Conference held over two days, 20-21 Septem-ber at UTS, focused on how new digital technology would affect society.

Topics covered were: Building a World that Consumers can Trust The Connected House— with its many “smart” devices Hacking Your House Having a Connected Life Australian “Smart” Communities How Artificial Intelligence will impact on the Connected World The Connected Farm Digital Government Consumer Protections in The New Era NBN and adapting

to an ever-changing environment How will your life change? “Ask the Telcos” Vision for a Connected World where no one gets left behind Inroads made in Technology

To cover such a program the Chairperson of the AC-CAN Board, Johanna Plante (herself highly qualified) had assembled a number of speakers each with an impressive expertise. Julie McCrossin was MC and the Opening Address was given bv the Minister for Communications and the Arts, Senator the Hon. Mitch Fifield.

Speakers included Professor Vijay Sivaraman from UNSW, Mark Harvey-Sutton, Manager, Rural Affairs National Farmers’ Federation, John Chambers, Exec-utive Director, Produce Innovation for Telstra, Dr Em-ma Campbell, Director FECCA on “Digital Govern-ment”, JP Rousselot, Chief Strategy Office NBN, Kate Obermayer, Global Customer Engagement Co-ordinator Cochlear Limited and Professor Julian Thom-as, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology – to name a few.

The conference ended with a Great Debate: “Driverless Cars are an Essential Part of the Connect-ed Future”

Despite the compelling argument from the negative team that there are many ethical and legal reasons not to have driverless vehicles and the murky area of just who is ultimately responsible for any accidents--the robotic driver, the manufacturer of the car, the comput-er programmer—it was the affirmative team which was judged to have presented the better case. Some of their arguments were that: humans are very poor driv-ers, proven by statistics which were quoted; assertions were made that driverless vehicles would benefit road trains as well as people who are elderly; and sight im-paired people would benefit greatly as they would not require carers or suffer long waits for taxis to transport them.

President Annie attended the Conference and a well-detailed report is available through the NCW NSW office—info@ncwnsw.com.au

STOP PRESS!

APPOINTMENT OF

YOUNG WOMEN’S SUBCOMMITTEE! At the recent Executive Meeting of the National Council of Women of NSW held on Wednesday, 18 October, a significant motion was passed. NCW NSW Young Women has now been given formal status as a sub-committee of NCW NSW.

The initial members are: Madeleine Banister, Joelle Farrayeh, Lauren Harvey, Alice Tartaglia and Jeanette Wang.

In accordance with the Constitution of NCW NSW, the Executive has appointed Vice President, Cas-sandra Allan to be a representative at meetings of the Young Women's subcommittee. The President and the Honorary Secretary are ex-officio members. In line with the National Council of Young Women of Australia, NCYWA, launched at the Mid-term Con-ference of NCWA held in Canberra in June, this group serves as a platform for young people be-tween the ages of 18 and 35 to actively engage in issues affecting women and work toward achieving gender equality in our communities. We look forward to hearing from them and offer our congratulations and support in their undertakings.

The situation concerning homelessness and affordable housing in NSW remains dire, with no ap-parent improvement in the past year, despite an increase in public awareness. The lack of afforda-ble housing was highlighted by the “Tent City” set up by homeless people in Martin Place, Sydney, in July and August 2017. Social and Affordable Housing Fund

NSW Family and Community Services recently launched phase 2 of their Social and Affordable Housing Fund, proposing 1200 dwellings new to the sector, 70% social housing, the balance af-fordable. 30% of the dwellings will be in Regional areas, and priority for proposals will be given to those including concessional and new supply land. Inclusionary Zoning

There is a need for State Governments to mandate local government authorities to require inclu-

sionary zoning in multi–unit development applications. This means that a certain percentage of

units in the developments will be managed by social housing organisations to provide low cost

housing to those on low incomes.

I have attended two meetings (the second attended by over 600 people) of the Sydney Alliance,

consisting of a large number of service, religious and social justice organisations, who are advocat-

ing to the NSW Minister for Housing, Anthony Roberts, to require an inclusionary zoning figure of

10 to 15%.

Older women

Homelessness in older women (55yrs and older) is a problem which will increase over coming

years. They are mainly single women who don’t own property, and are leaving the workforce with

insufficient funds to be able to rent in the private market, especially in Sydney. In general they

don’t have other risk factors for homelessness, such as mental health problems, drug and alcohol

dependence or domestic violence issues. The problem is made worse by

• Government disinvestment in public housing stock

• Legislation which keeps tenants on short term leases and provides for eviction without

cause. The average length of a tenancy in the NSW private rental market is 1-2 years.

• Age discrimination (for both men and women) in the job market

• Women leaving the workforce with, on average, just over half the superannuation of men,

usually after taking time out to raise children and care for family

The NSW Government has recently announced that older women’s homelessness will be a policy

priority.

Homelessness and Domestic Violence

Homelessness in women leaving domestic violence is also an emerging problem. In 2015-2016

37.8% of the clients of Specialist Homeless Services (dealing with people who are homeless or are

at severe risk of homelessness) were escaping domestic violence. Of these 59.4% were women,

and 34.4% children 17 years and younger.

We need changes to tenancy laws for women leaving domestic violence, and concentration on

providing safe, secure, and permanent housing for women leaving refuges, which are not housing

but temporary accommodation.

HOMELESSNESS AND AFFORDABLE HOUSING

From our Adviser for General Well Being - Habitat Dr Anne Sheehan

DATES FOR YOUR 2017-2018 DIARY 2017

Thursday 26 October Council Meeting, Level 1, SMSA, 280 Pitt Street 4.30 pm Guest Speaker: Nicolette Norris AM, Chair National Child Protection Alliance Inc.

Wednesday 15 November Members & Friends of NCW Morning Tea, 10.15-11.30 am Venue: Upper Room Cafe, Wesley Centre, Pitt Street Wednesday 15 November Executive Meeting, LG Level, SMSA, 280 Pitt Street 12-2 pm Thursday 30 November Council Meeting, Level 1, SMSA, 280 Pitt Street 4.30 pm Guest Speaker: Rita Martin, Head Seniors Section, NSW Nurses & Midwives Association and Committee Member, Roundtable on Aged Care JOIN US FOR CHRISTMAS REFRESHMENTS for final meeting of the year

2018

Wednesday 24 January “Celebrate Being an Australian” Australia Day Luncheon Strangers’ Dining Room, Parliament House, Macquarie Street, Sydney. 12 for 12.30 pm (Notice on page 2 and separate Booking Form enclosed/attached.) Wednesday 21 February Members & Friends of NCW Morning Tea, 10.15-11.30 am Venue: Upper Room Cafe, Wesley Centre, Pitt Street Wednesday 21 February Executive Meeting, LG Level, SMSA, 280 Pit Street 12-2 pm Thursday 22 February Council Meeting, Level 1, SMSA, 280 Pitt Street 4.30 pm Wednesday 21 March Members & Friends of NCW Morning Tea, 10.15-11.30 am Venue: Upper Room Cafe, Wesley Centre, Pitt Street Wednesday 21 March Executive Meeting, LG Level, SMSA, 280 Pit Street 12-2 pm Thursday 29 March (last Thursday) Council Meeting, Level 1, SMSA 280 Pitt Street 4.30 pm EASTER DATES — Friday 30 March — Monday 2 April Wednesday 18 April Members & Friends of NCW Morning Tea, 10.15-11.30 am Venue: Upper Room Cafe, Wesley Centre, Pitt Street Wednesday 18 April Executive Meeting, LG Level, SMSA, 280 Pit Street 12-2 pm Thursday 26 April Council Meeting, Level 1, SMSA 280 Pitt Street 4.30 pm

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