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Coming Soon - details for WIM’s final event for 2012

The WIM Committee are busy working on the final event for 2012.

Details will be released soon.

 

 

 

National Interest - WIM and Black Swan State Theatre Company - 8 May 2012

Women in Media and Black Swan State Theatre Company invite you to a very special WIM event.

This is your chance to go behind the headlines and international intrigue surrounding the Balibo Five, a group of Australian TV journalists and cameramen killed in East Timor in 1975.

WIM guests received a free theatre ticket to National Interest on the night, courtesy of Black Swan State Theatre Company.

Playwright and Director Aidan Fennessy will give an insight into his personal connection with the Balibo 5 and why he wrote the play, and Black Swan State Theatre Company Artistic Director Kate Cherry will give an insight into the Company.

The fate of the Balibo Five shocked Australia in 1975 and the issue still reverberates today.

“National Interest is a play about justice, time, love, personal reconciliation and the ghosts that we invent that both comfort and haunt us.” - Aidan Fennessy, playwright and director.

 

 

 

ABC’s Stella Young in conversation with Geraldine Mellet

“Writer. Comedian. Knitter. Crip. These are my opinions. If you don’t like them, I have others.” Stella Young on Twitter

Women in Media invites you to meet Stella Young, the woman who is as funny and fearless as her Twitter feeds.

Media commentator, journalist and on-line editor of ABC’s Ramp-up website, Stella is also host of Australia’s first disability culture program.

Stella will talk frankly with Geraldine Mellet, popular broadcaster and State Coordinator of the Every Australian Counts campaign, about how we cover disability-related issues.

Do we ever get it right? Do we tend to box four million Australians with a disability into the same stereotype? How do we get it right?

“Disability informs almost every part of my life,” says Stella.

“It’s certainly a great deal more important to me than my religion or whether or not I caught a tram, ferry or bus to work. Oh, hang on…Only one of those forms of transport has reliable wheelchair access, so I guess that means my disability informs my travel choices too.”

 

 

 

WIM Christmas Celebration 2011

Christmas is fast approaching…. and 2012 not far behind it.  Join us for a night of bubbles, nibbles and fun as we toast the year that was.

The destination. The Lawrence Wilson Gallery at UWA. On show will be Recent Past: Australian paintings of the 70s and 80s, art work acquired for the University of Western Australia Art Collection between 1969 and 1990.

Our sincere thanks to our host UWA’s Institute of Advanced Studies and Cultural Precinct.

 

 

 

Women in Sports Broadcasting - Levelling the Playing Field

Dixie Marshall, in conversation with Network Ten sports journalist Caty Price and ABC sports broadcaster Roanna Edwards about what it’s like working in the sports arena today.

Is it a level playing field? Have we broken the grass ceiling? How have the off-field antics of sports stars altered sports reporting?

DIXIE MARSHALL began her career in television as general news reporter with Channel Nine Perth in 1984. Moving to Melbourne, Dixie became the first woman in Australia to report and commentate on football on television. She won a number of awards for sports reporting while working for Channel Seven, covering all the major sporting events, including AFL football, Olympic Games, international golf, tennis and basketball. Dixie also hosted the national program Sportsworld with Bruce McAvaney. Returning to Perth in 1993, Dixie left sports reporting behind, becoming a senior reporter with Channel Nine Perth, and in 2003, the station’s news presenter. In June 2011, Dixie took up a position as Director of Media for the WA State Government.

CATY PRICE has worked with Network Ten over the past six years. She has made a name for herself covering the best in the West and has picked up numerous awards for her work reporting on AFL. Caty is Perth’s new weekend sports presenter and covers major sporting events for Ten’s weeknight bulletins. She also works with Melbourne radio station 1116 SEN as an AFL boundary rider for matches at Subiaco Oval. Caty earned the nickname “The Princess of the Punt” for her love of horseracing and is a regular at the Perth races as well as Melbourne’s Spring carnival, but take her tips at your own risk!

ROANNA EDWARDS is a Sports Broadcaster with ABC Radio in Western Australia. Roanna began her career straight out of high school with a cadetship at the Geraldton Guardian. After two years in general news with the occasional “treat” of putting together a few sporting yarns, she was selected for an Indigenous Broadcasting Traineeship with the ABC’s Grandstand office. Her radio heroes became colleagues as she worked alongside Glenn Mitchell, Karen Tighe and the late great Wally Foreman. Roanna is now into her sixth year with Aunty.

 

 

 

Finding your compass in the media world

An evening with Geraldine Doogue

Geraldine Doogue is a renowned Australian journalist and broadcaster and one of the most respected and popular personalities on national television.

Geraldine had originally planned a career as a school teacher. However, after completing her Arts degree in 1972 she applied on impulse for a journalism cadetship with The West Australian.

Since then, Geraldine has carved out an incredible career in print, television and radio working for The Australian, Channel 10, 2UE and ABC’s Four Corners, Nationwide, Life Matters, Compass and Saturday Extra programs.

She has won two Penguin Awards, a United Nations Media Peace Prize, a Churchill Fellowship and is recognised as an Officer in the Order of Australia.

 

 

 

Peggy Guggenheim - A Collection in Venice - WIM Christmas 2010

Don your best Peggy glasses and join us for an evening of Lamont’s wine, canapes, networking and viewing some of Peggy’s eclectic Venice collection.

Peggy Guggenheim: heiress, art collector, patroness and philanthropist.

Our host for the evening is Dr Stefano Carboni, Director of the Art Gallery of WA.

 

 

 

Reel Women - WA producers making their mark in film & TV

Just what does it take to make it in the world of film and television production?  Come along and meet three Western Australian women who have made their mark here, nationally and internationally; Sue Taylor, Taylor Media; Celia Tait, co-principal, Artemis International and recently returned from working in Hollywood, producer Rikki Lea Bestall.

 

 

 

Women on the front line - in conversation with Sophie McNeill

Perth-born Sophie McNeill - inspiring, courageous and curious about the world - has carved a stellar career in international reporting for SBS TV’s Dateline program.

In WIM’s first event for 2010, Narelda Jacobs (Channel 10) and Sophie McNeill will engage in a compelling discussion about life on the front line.

Don’t miss your chance to hear from one of Australia’s hottest journalistic talents to inspire the start to your year.

 

 

 

What’s in the bag, Santa? Comedian Andrea Gibbs

Let’s forget the tough times of the past year and turn GFC into Great Fun at Christmas with first lady of comedy, Andrea Gibbs.

 

 

 

Hair and Make Up or Just Plain Hard Work?

What does it really take to succeed as a woman in TV news and current affairs, on camera or behind the scenes?

Join us for the full story from Dixie Marshall (Channel 9, news presenter), Frances Bell (ABC TV political reporter), Bianca Hayley (Chief of Staff, Channel 7) and Emmy Kubainski (Channel 7 reporter) and Nadia Mitsopoulos (Channel 9 political reporter).

Is TV opening up opportunities for good journalism or is it plagued by dumbing down and celebrity reporting?

If you have ever wondered how to crack the code to enter the world of TV news and current affairs, you won’t want to miss this WIM event.

 

 

 

Shutting Us Up

This event promises to be a controversial and revealing insight into the role of WA’s Corruption and Crime Commission and how its powers of secrecy can emasculate a free and open media.

If you thought that only politicians and lobbyists could be hauled before the CCC, think again. No-one is immune.

Join Secretary WA Branch MEAA Michael Sinclair-Jones, media law expert Carmel Galati (Edwards Wallace) and senior investigative journalist Gary Adshead (The West Australian) for an intriguing panel session. Hosted by Danielle Benda.

“Shutting Us Up!” will also outline practical steps for working journalists and PR people to use, to better protect themselves and their sources.

To read Danielle Benda’s introduction click here.

 

 

 

The Chef and the Critic – Kate Lamont, Jude Blereau, Jane Cornes

Women in Media’s end-of-year Christmas event celebrating Western Australian food, wine and culinary-related journalism!

Join our amiable host Jane Cornes, renowned food critic for Gourmet Traveller and Scoop, in conversation with uber-famous chef and restaurateur Kate Lamont about the art of preparing food and intelligently writing about it.

The pair will be joined by Jude Blereau, a natural foods chef, food coach and cooking teacher who has actively promoted the organic and wholefoods industry for more than 15 years.

Come and discuss the art of food, Western Australia’s growing reputation as a food producer and how restaurateurs and their critics interact like mating echidnas…Ever So Carefully.

Be your own food critic… Kate Lamont’s philosophy is to ‘take the best produce you can find, treat it with respect and intelligence and then let the food speak for itself’. What do you think?

 

 

 

In conversation with Wendy Page - Producer, ABC’s Australian Story

Women in Media in conjunction with Curtin University is proud to present Wendy Page, ABC TV producer, ‘Australian Story’.

Wendy Page was 43 when she graduated from the University of Technology in Sydney (UTS) and joined The 7.30 Report as a researcher and eventually a producer.

Her work for Australian Story since 1996 has included many ground-breaking stories on justice issues, particularly in Western Australia.

Page won her first Walkley with Ian Harley in 2002 for the Australian Story program that brought John Button face-to-face with the family of the girl he had been wrongly convicted of murdering in 1963.

Page was central to one of the program’s most controversial stories in 2006; a three-part series highlighting flaws in the case against three young Perth men convicted over the death of Phillip Walsham.

The men’s convictions have since been quashed.

She won her second Walkley Award last year for a surprising and entertaining insight into Australia’s cricket culture through Barry “Nugget” Rees.

 

 

 

Beyond Broadcasting – Journey to the future of digital radio

Women in Media together with Linda Wayman, General Manager of MIX 94.5 & 92.9, Perth’s two top radio stations, invite you to an evening at the cutting edge of broadcasting.

Join us on the rooftop of Austereo Perth’s new state-of-the-art building for drinks, nibbles and a glimpse into the future of digital radio, including studio tours.

Austereo is Australia’s largest national radio network and a leader in the integration of radio and the internet.

Linda Wayman will talk about what digital radio means to consumers and clients.

Chelsea Anthon, National Content Director of Austereo Interactive and Australia’s only woman content director, will talk about her role in delivering Austereo’s vision of broadcasting and beyond.

She will explain online growth and where it sits with radio and television and talk about recent advances including podcasting, blogging, video content and live streaming.

 

 

 

Christmas Crackers

An evening of hilarity and true confessions – the good, the bad and the downright devious things we do in the line of duty.

Come along and share your memorable career highlights and lowlights with other WIM-ers, when you did things that made you proud – or made you cringe!

Come and celebrate Christmas and crazy careers.

 

 

 

An evening with award-winning journalist Colleen Egan

Perth Sunday Times investigative reporter Colleen Egan is described by the Walkley Foundation as one of the true advocacy journalists of our time, willing to bear immense personal sacrifice in order to see that justice is served.

Less understood is how Colleen fought battles for eight years during her investigative work on the case of Andrew Mallard,who was wrongfully convicted of the murder of jeweller Pamela Lawrence.

She became the driving force behind a campaign to prove the Perth man’s innocence, navigating around enormous sensitivities involving police, the Lawrence family and even the news organisations she worked for.

In a generous gesture towards an industry that for years was sceptical of her commitment to the case, she volunteered her time and support to other journalists taking up the story.

Last year Colleen won a Walkley award for most outstanding contribution to journalism for her work investigating Mallard’s case, which led to his release after 12 years’ imprisonment, a public apology from the WA Police and ongoing Corruption and Crime Commission investigations.

Come and hear Colleen in conversation with Geraldine Mellet, as she describes how she decided which battles were worth waging, and against whom, as she helped to uncover vital new evidence.

 

 

 

Shelley Gare – Triumph of the Airheads

Hear Shelley Gare’s wise and witty advice to women in the Australian media.

Gare is a respected editor, writer and columnist who trained on The Daily News in Perth.

She has worked in Sydney, Melbourne and London and helped start Who Weekly in Australia. She was the first woman deputy editor of The Australian, and was founding editor of The Australian’s Review of Books for which she and her team won a Walkley. She has also edited Good Weekend and Sunday Life.

When she realised it was easier for the columnist cat who shares her house to get a job in journalism – writing Herogram: a Cat’s Life – she decided to concentrate on editing books.

Her own book The Triumph of the Airheads – and the Retreat from Commonsense was released in November, 2006.

Playwright David Williamson says it is scorching, beautifully written and forensically accurate. Copies for sale on the night.

 

 

Speaking from Experience - The Women Who Know

A fabulous panel of experienced Perth media women telling tales of the ups and downs of long careers in our industry.

The panel line up will include Geraldine Mellett, Susannah Carr (Channel 7 presenter), Jenny Seaton, Jenni Garrigan and Margot Lang.

 

 

 

An evening with Janet Holmes à Court

Women in Media invites you to hear one of Australia’s most influential business women, Janet Holmes à Court, AO.

Janet Holmes à Court is Chairman of Heytesbury Pty Ltd, a family-owned company with extensive business interests in Australia.

One of the most successful women doing business in the west, Mrs Holmes a Court will discuss how Western Australians can take a bigger part in the national conversation about the economy and the arts.

The major enterprises in the Heytesbury Group are Heytesbury Beef, a large cattle breeding company, Vasse Felix winery, Heytesbury Thoroughbreds and the Holmes a Court Collection, which is one of Australia’s leading indigenous and 20th Century Australian art collections.

Mrs Holmes à Court, a UWA science graduate and former science teacher, is also Chairman of the John Holland Group, the West Australian Symphony Orchestra, the Australian Children’s Television Foundation and the Urban Design Centre of WA.

In 1995 Mrs Holmes à Court became Veuve Clicquot Business Woman of the Year in the UK and in the same year was appointed an Officer in the Order of Australia for services to business, the arts and the community.

 

 

PR - Who dares call it the darkside?

People who call working in public relations or government media “going over to the Dark Side” are invariably the same people who lack knowledge of it.

In a bid to redress this, WIM presents an evening of lively debate and panel discussion driven by PR experts and press secretaries working in our wider industry. What have they learned about dealing with the sometimes Dark Side, and what can they teach journalists about getting the message across?

The gurus sharing their experiences on the panel will be (we know how competitive PR is so they appear in alphabetical order):

Marie Mills  
Susanne Roberts
Carla Shearman
Charlie Wilson-Clark

 

 

 

An evening with Pru Goward, Federal Sex Discrimination Commissioner

An economist by training, Pru spent 19 years with ABC TV and Radio as a current affairs journalist and later as a political reporter and commentator.

She has written extensively for newspapers and magazines, lectured in journalism and published several books.

In 1997 she became Executive Director of the Office of the Status of Women in the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet and was appointed Federal Sex Discrimination
Commissioner in 2001.

In 2004 she was nominated by The Australian as one of the forty most influential Australians and by the Australian Financial Review as one of the country’s top cultural and industrial relations influencers.

 

 

Dr Gail Phillips, Communications lecturer Murdoch University

 

 

Susan Maushart, Columnist and author