Events
AWL generally holds two types of events, our biennial conference and birthday celebrations. Our constituent bodies hold more frequent and local events in each jurisdiction and AWL focusses on our policy work in between our events.
Australian Women Lawyers Annual general Meeting: 18 November 2023
Australian Women Lawyers Ltd (AWL) will be holding its Annual General Meeting (AGM) at 10.30am (ACDT) (*11.00am AEDT) on Saturday, 18 November 2023, in Adelaide at the offices of Finlaysons Lawyers, Level 7/43 Franklin Street, Adelaide, SA 5000.
The meeting will be held both in person and virtually via Zoom (via the link in the Notice of AWL).
More information can be found below:
1. Letter enclosing notice of AWL’s AGM 2023 – available here
2. Notice of AWL AGM – available here
3. AWL AGM Proxy Form – available here
NOTE (18/11/23): PLEASE USE THE UPDATED ZOOM LINK TO ACCESS THE AGM – https://zoom.us/j/712484472
Draft financial report 30 June 2023 – here
Draft 2022 AGM minutes here
Secretary’s report here
Treasurer’s report here
President’s report here
Past Events: 2022 AWL Conference
Australian Women Lawyers Conference
Securing a safe, just, and equitable future for women
BRISBANE, AUGUST 5-7, 2022
AWL 2022 was our first in-person event (four events over three days) in four years and was a hybrid of in-person (sold-out) and online, with live streaming sessions in a few places across the country.
Speakers included The Honourable Chief Justice Susan Kiefel AC Chief Justice Bowskill, Chief Justice of Queensland Supreme Court, Hon Mark Dreyfus QC, MP, Attorney-General, Commonwealth of Australia, The Honourable Former Chief Justice Diana Bryant AO QC, President Fleur Kingham, Land Court of Queensland, and the President of the Australian Association of Women Judges, Ms Sadia Azizi, Ms Zahra Aria, Professor Gabrielle Appleby, Ms Prabha Nandagopal, Jane Needham SC, Dr Kylie Weston-Scheuber, Ms Anne-Maree Coyne, Ms Lesley Chan, Jane Caro, Fiona McLeod SC, Professor Megan Davis (accompanied by her sister and also the Uluru Statement from the Heart), Ann-Maree David and Terry Fitzimmons.
Organisers and chairs were President Leah Marrone, Treasurer Astrid Haban-Beer, Secretary Jamie Shine, and Vice President Holly Lam. Steph Tisdell was excellent as guest speaker for the dinner, and we were honoured to award the AWL Award to Kate Eastman SC at the dinner also.
The 2022 Conference is now over. Please view our Gallery page for a glance into the conference. Additional photos can also be found on our Facebook page here.
If you missed the conference, we have made the sessions and key links available here:
