The Pamela Denoon Lecture Website

The Pamela Denoon Lecture was inaugurated in 1989 as a tribute to the memory of Pamela Denoon and as a reminder that the gains that have been made by women over the years have only been possible because of the enormous dedication of women like Pamela.

Pamela Denoon worked tirelessly to promote equality for women and was the National Coordinator of Women’s Electoral Lobby from 1982-84. She actively lobbied for women’s rights in Canberra during the 1980s and her bequest helped establish the National Foundation for Australian Women and the Pamela Denoon Trust.

The Pamela Denoon Lecture is a regular event during International Women’s Week in Canberra. Speakers have included politicians, academics and a few more well-known personalities such as Judy Horacek, Anne Summers and Julie McCrossin.

The Lecture aims to inspire and motivate women to find out more about issues for women in Australia and encourage some of them to get involved in a local organisation that works to promote women’s rights and other major women’s issues.

1989 Senator Pat Giles
1990 Pat O’Shane
1991 Patricia Brennan
1992 Quentin Bryce
1993 Justice Elizabeth Evatt
1994 Helen Maxwell
1995 Eva Cox
1996 Heather O’Connor – Adoption & Motherhood: Whose Choice?
1997 Christine Milne – Making the Difference for the New Millennium
1998 Kathy Bail – Women in a Wired World
1999 Professor Marilyn Lake – A Republic for Women?
2000 Julie McCrossin – Speak Up, Speak Often
2001 Lisa Bellear – Bridging the Race Divide
2002 Judy Horacek – Humour, Feminism & the Ways of the World
2003 Anne Summers AO PhD – The End of Equality?
2004 Kathleen Maltzahn – Paying for Servitude
2005 Professor Judith Whitworth – Women in Health
2006 Professor Hilary Charlesworth – Women & Democracy After Conflict
2007 Dr Sarah Maddison – All For Nothing? The Women’s Movement & Gender Equality in Australian Democracy
2008 Professor Marian Sawer & Roslyn Dundas – Recipes for revolt