WOW Australia

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Get excited for WOW Logan! 15 & 16 July at LEC. Inspirational speakers will fuel conversations covering a range of matters of importance to women in Logan, inc. finance, jobs, business, family and religion. Our last WOW festival in 22 - don't miss it! wowaustralia.com.au/wow-logan-2022

You need to enrol or update your details for the 2022 federal election before 8pm, Monday 18 April. Go to aec.gov.au #ausvotes

Making It Matter - a new conversation series with @QPAC & @Griffith_Uni Up first - 27 April - 'Women & Power' - A conversation with social changemakers & authors @juliahbanks @JulianneSchultz, @June_Oscar & facilitator @AMTiernan #wowaustralia2022 wowaustralia.com.au/making-it-matt…

#WOWLongreach22 It's all happening in Central Western Queensland today. Our opening sessions are underway and audiences are flocking in from all over. A great weekend awaits!

#WOWLongreach kicks off today, with a great Speedmentoring session this morning at Longreach High School. Women and girls exchanged ideas, dreams and ambitions Check out the full program for the weekend at wowaustralia.com.au/wow-longreach-… #WOWAustralia2022

We're excited to present Wendy McCarthy @takingalongview about her new book, Don't Be Too Polite, Girls. She'll be talking with Susan Harris Rimmer @femint Join us on March 25th at Old Government House, Brisbane. @RiverbendBooks #womenandpower facebook.com/events/4458292…

Full program for WOW Longreach has just launched! Join @WOWTweetAus for an exciting weekend of events on the 4-6 March, for a glorious fusion of conversations, workshops, and performances. wowaustralia.com.au/wow-longreach-… #WOWAustralia2022 #WOWLongreach

Rhys Carroll: "[On Toby] He's liberated. He's out of his box and doing what he wants to do and it's nice to see. The other guys who are stuck in the hole and stuck in their box and they'll never get to feel that. And before you know it THEY think they're stuck." #themakingofmen

Gavin Webber: "You need to have a sensitivity with your words, to not shut someone down because they might not knowhat a word means, but also you need to have an understanding of the meaning of words." #themakingofmen #wowaustralia2021 @BrisFestival @_thefarm

Andrew Taukolo: "When I first started the program I thought we had to redefine masculinity. But we don't have to redefine it, we need to reclaim it. We can be strong, have courage, be masculine, and still be outside the box." #themakingofmen #wowaustralia2021 @BrisFestival

Michael Jeh: "Sometimes I get men saying [with the work you do] well you must be a man hater, and they are always surprised when I say I love men. I believe in men. I'm doing this work because I believe in the power of change." #themakingofmen #wowaustralia2021 @BrisFestival

WOW Australia invites men to the stage, to discuss gender equality, getting out of the box, reclaiming masculinity. 'The Making of Men'. Michael Jeh, Andrew Taukolo, Rhys Carroll & @_thefarm creatives Gavin Webber & Toby Angus @BrisFestival @MetroArtsAU #wowaustralia2021

First Nations First. An incredible night of inspirational vision & future pathways from @June_Oscar AO, Jackie Huggins AM FAHA @DRC_AU,& Dr. Mary Graham, facilitated by Assoc Prof. Sandra Phillips @DrSRP1 #FirstNationsFirst #wowaustralia2021 #momentum @BrisFestival @QPAC

Jackie Huggins, asked what a true sisterhood looks like, quotes Lilla Watson: “If you have come here to help me you are wasting your time, but if you have come because your liberation is bound up with mine, then let us work together.” #wowaustralia2021 #momentum @BrisFestival

Dr Mary Graham: "Settler societies are very young and are still learning how to love country. #FirstNations have always been owners & runners of country. This stewardship could be put into place, it is a key knowledge we already have." #wowaustralia2021 #momentum @BrisFestival

#firstnationsfirst @June_Oscar "Imagine hundreds of on-country studio schools, that use a pedagogy based on our ways of being, knowing, and doing." #wowaustralia2021 #momentum @BrisFestival

#firstnationsfirst Jackie Huggins @DRC_AU "One day the treaty process will be normalised. They say it will take 40 years to have treaty I think we can do better than that." #wowaustralia2021 #momentum @BrisFestival

"Almost two in five women and just over one in four men have experienced sexual harassment in the workplace in the past five years. Contrary to what some commentators have said, we have more than just anger, we have solutions." @MicheleONeilAU theguardian.com/commentisfree/…