Really Interesting Women Richard Graham

Really Interesting Women - the PodcastEp. 126 MOYA DODD AOMoya Dodd is a lawyer, sports administrator and a former vice-captain of Australia’s women’s football team, the Matildas. She played in FIFA’s first ever women’s tournament in 1988. Twenty-five years later, she joined the governing body of FIFA as one of the first women in its 108-year history. It's unsurprising that when she was there she found the place was rife with integrity and gender issues. She was one ...

Really Interesting Women - the PodcastEpisode 125Dr Maria Pallotta-Chiarolli AMIt's hard to briefly describe Maria's bio - but it goes a long way explaining it by understanding she is from a Southern Italian poor, migrant, working class background which instilled in her a resistance to systemic injustice.She has been an academic, author, activist and ally in the issues and intersections of cultural diversity, gender and sexual diversity, relationship and family diversity for over 30 yea...

Really Interesting Women - the PodcastEp. 124Catherine Branson AC KCIn 1984 Catherine Branson made history when a dual appointment saw her became the first woman in Australia to be appointed Crown Solicitor and the first woman to be appointed as permanent head of a government department in South Australia. She went to the bar in Adelaide and then took silk in 1992. An appointment as a judge to the Federal Court of Australia followed in 1994. In 2008 she was appointed President of the Au...

Really Interesting Women - the Podcast Episode 123AMBER LAWRENCEAmber started her professional career as a Chartered Accountant but she left that to pursue a dream. After a very successful debut in the 2005 Tamworth Country Music Festival - coming second in the major singing competition to Jessica Mauboy - Amber took that success and started her country music journey in earnest. She put in a lot of hard work and was constantly touring. It paid off as she became one of Australi...

Really Interesting Women - the podcastEp. 122Professor Julie RrapJulie has been a central figure in Australian contemporary art for 4 decades. Our conversation covers a lot and I guess that was inevitable given her enormous contribution to art both in Australia and internationally. She has worked with photography, painting, sculpture, performance and video in an ongoing project concerned with representations of the body with a particular emphasis on the female body within western art hi...

Podcast Episode 121Distinguished Professor Jenny Graves AC FAAJenny Graves is a leading evolutionary geneticist who was a very early adopter of gene mapping. She uses genome comparisons to explore the origin, function and fate of human sex genes and chromosomes. In other words, exploring what is it that makes us male, and female and she’s also explored the evolution of the so called ‘gay gene’ and the genetics of transgenderism. She’s a Distinguished Professor at La Trobe University, is ...