Julia Gillard in conversation with Minister for Women's Interests

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Julia Gillard in conversation with Minister for Women's Interests

'In conversation' online session with Julia Gillard and the Hon Simone McGurk MLA

By Department of Communities

Date and time

Tue, 27 Oct 2020 1:30 AM - 2:30 AM PDT

Location

Online

About this event

The Department of Communities is pleased to present Julia Gillard in conversation with Minister for Women's Interests Simone McGurk.

Join Ms Julia Gillard and the Hon Simone McGurk MLA for an online 'in conversation' session, where they will discuss their leadership journeys and share ideas and hopes for future women in leadership.

Registrations close on Monday, 26 October 2020. Please note, you will require access to Zoom to virtually attend this event.

If you would like to submit a question for Julia or Simone on women in leadership, please email it to women@communities.wa.gov.au.

Biographies

Ms Julia Gillard served as the 27th Prime Minister of Australia from June 2010 until June 2013, the first woman to ever serve as Australia's Prime Minister or Deputy Prime Minister.

Ms Gillard has since been active in raising awareness of the treatment of women in professional and public life and co-authored the recently released book, Women in Leadership: Real Lives, Real Lessons with economist and international development expert, Ms Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala. The book analyses the influence of gender on women's access to positions of leadership and the circumstances in which it comes to an end.

Currently, Ms Gillard is appointed as the inaugural Chair or the Global Institute for Women's Leadership at Kings College in London, which through research, practice and advocacy, is addressing women's under-representation in leadership.

Hon Simone McGurk MLA is the State Member for Fremantle, and the Minister for Child Protection; Women's Interests; Prevention of Family and Domestic Violence; and Community Services.

As a Minister in the McGowan Labor Government, Simone is working to establish a whole-of-government approach to tackling the scourge of family and domestic violence, and is ensuring that our state invests in children during the critical early years to build stronger families and communities.

Prior to her election in 2013, Simone worked in the union movement for over 22 years. She was one of the first women elected to be an Organiser for the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union, before being elected the Assistant State Secretary in 1997. She later worked with the union United Voice.

From 2007, Simone served as Assistant Secretary, and later Secretary, of Unions WA.

Simone holds degrees in History from the University of Melbourne and Media from Murdoch University.

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