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"Kookaburra sits in the old gum tree, Merry merry king of the bush is he. Laugh, Kookaburra, laugh, Kookaburra, Gay your life must be!"
"I sing in the language of the Heart. It's an invented language that I've had for a very long time. I believe I started singing in it when I was about 12. Roughly that time. And I believed that I was speaking to God when I sang in that language."
"I have never dared to face the disappointments that my true vocal range may bring. I have many fundamentals in my voice that give the appearance of it being very deep or very high, when in fact I believe it's quite narrow and limited."
"Music is a Place to take Refuge. It's a Sanctuary from Mediocrity and Boredom. It's Innocent and it's a Place you can loose yourself in Thoughts, Memories and Intricacies."
"If you read about African music, they believe that during the process of making this music that you come into contact with spirits from another plane. They say that this place is like a mirror of the world we live in…With the best music, you don't find the composer or the musicians within the work, you find yourself, your own feelings."
"and she believed that she was god."
"A self-made man is one who believes in luck and sends his son to Oxford."
"'How suburban!' cried Elvira. I was in Hampstead the other day: in front of one of the richest houses was a crazy pavement: they paid about £35 for it, doubtless. The man who would have done it best was in an asylum : he would have done it for nothing, happy to do it, and the more there is of it, the more dull and plain it looks, just an expanse of conventional craziness, looking as stupid as a neanderthal skull. That's the suburbs all over. That's what we are, you see: suburban, however wild we run. You know quite well, in yourself, don't you, two people like us can't go wild? Still, it's nice to pretend to, for a while.'"
"They went on playing quietly and waiting for Sam (who had gone back to the bedroom to seek Tommy) and for their turns to see Mother. Bonnie meanwhile, with a rueful expression, was leaning out the front window, and presently she could not help interrupting them, 'Why is my name Mrs Cabbage, why not Mrs Garlic or Mrs Horse Manure?' They did not hear her, so intent were they, visiting each other and inquiring after the health of their respective new babies. They did not hear her complaining to Louie that, instead of being Mrs Grand Piano or Mrs Stair Carpet, they called her Garbage, 'Greta Garbage, Toni Toilet,' said she laughing sadly, 'because they always see me out there with the garbage can and the wet mop; association in children's naïve innocent minds you see!' 'Oh no, it isn't that, protested Louie, Garbage is just a funny word: they associate you with singing and dancing and all those costumes you have in your trunk!' 'Do you think so?' Bonnie was tempted to believe. 'Mrs Strip Tease?'"
"And Nelly turned to her and laughed a horrible laugh. She startled herself. She paused to light another cigarette, choking, blowing a cloud to hide her face; and when she could, continued in a gentle voice: "You will do me a favour? Save me from disillusionment. Let the man coming back with you on Wednesday be a sensible man, who admits it all, defeat and hopelessness and the bitterness; but sanity." "But I don't know why I should," said Camilla, seriously. "Won't you do what I ask, love? I know him, poor lad. I know what's best. I don't want him roaming the countryside, footloose and aimless and perhaps in some pub, on some roadside pick up some other harpy, instead of swallowing the bitter pill and facing the lonely road.""
"(Joan Lidoff) “When you talk about fiction, you connect it very closely with your life experiences. What do you think of this statement about the connections between life and art that Christina Stead wrote for a 1968 Kenyon Review symposium on the short story: The "ocean of story" is made of "the million drops of water that are the looking-glass of all our lives. "What is unique about the short story is that we all can tell one, live one, even write one down; that story is steeped in our view and emotion....Give writers a chance... (and by writers, I mean everyone, not professionals, I mean anyone with a poignant urge to tell something that happened to him once) and there will be no end to stories and what stories carry that make them vital, genuine experience and a personal viewpoint. ... The essential for us is integrity and what is genuine....That is what is best about the short story: it is real life for everyone; and everyone can tell one." (Grace Paley) Well, I can't put it any better than that. That's exactly the way I begin a class, by telling everybody that they are storytellers; it is absolutely so."
"I met a woman in the heart of Australia; had a big butt and big titties too. So, I hopped in her ass like a kangaroo!"
"I think even if I was to go out there and win the Olympics, everyone’s still going to remember the pre-race routine that I do and the video that went viral so, y’know, that’s alright for me, anything that brings attention to athletics is a good thing, we’re a fairly low-profile sport and I’m just doing what I can to try and give us a bit more of a profile."
"My best advice would be to just have fun and enjoy yourself. If you love what you do it doesn't seem like hard work, just passion. Yeah you have to train hard but you're always going to have fun along the way."
"The general conclusion of history is that whenever the Church becomes reliant upon governments for money she loses a certain amount of her freedom. It’s difficult to speak truth to power at the best of times, but even harder when the civil power is also the Church’s banker."
"I’m a big goal-setter. I write them down before the start of a season. I used to write them down in a journal but now I keep them in my phone. I have short and long-term goals, but I always make sure I include goals that are easy to smash because I feel this helps me along the way."
"I’ve always stayed true to who I am, no matter what’s going on. It sounds cliche but where there’s a will there’s a way, and I hope people can take away from my experience that they don’t have to fit into a certain box to make it; they can be themselves and make it and that be OK."
"Now it is all about doing what I love, I’m relaxed and enjoying what I’m doing and when the goals come you have more fun. It’s a ripple effect."
"It’s only a crazy dream until you do it."
"I'm a risk-taker, my life is lived on the edge - I either go big or go home."
"I try things that maybe others wouldn't."
"I had returned from my Fulbright year at the University of Chicago, blessed with only the joys and none of the irritations of being pregnant with twins. Landing in Melbourne, I went for a routine ultrasound as a beaming, expectant parent. I came out a grieving patient. The twins were dying in utero, unsuspectedly and unobtrusively, from some rare condition that I had never heard of. Two days later, I was induced into labour to deliver the two little boys whom we would never see grow. Then I went home."
"It can be tricky but I try to put my patients' grief into perspective without being insensitive. It's extraordinary how many of them really appreciate knowing that I, and others, have seen thousands of people who are frightened, sad, philosophical, resigned, angry, brave and puzzled, sometimes all together, just like them. It doesn't diminish their own suffering but helps them peek into the library of human experiences that are catalogued by oncologists. It prompts many patients to say that they are lucky to feel as well as they do despite a life-threatening illness, which is a positive and helpful way of viewing the world. I will never know what kind of a doctor I might have become without the searing experience of being a patient. The twins would have been 10 soon. As I usher the next patient into my room to deliver bad news, I like to think that my loss was not entirely in vain."
"The ASRC [Asylum Seeker Resource Centre] needed a volunteer doctor and I said yes, thinking it would be easy work. In quick succession I saw a little boy with a broken arm, a distressed rape victim, a man with uncontrolled hypertension, and a woman with acute asthma, all of whom had been turned away from hospital. The nurse took the little boy to her doctor friend who would plaster his arm at home, and I rummaged through an old carton of supplies to find some antihypertensives and an inhaler. The rape victim fled, confirming that I was not the therapist she needed. I finished my first shift wistful for the controlled environment of my hospital but conflicted that it, and other hospitals, would deny care to sick patients."
""What kind of a doctor will you be?" "An able one, I hope." "I hope that you become a doctor who will engage with the problems of the world." For an 18-year-old medical student, this aspiration was as professorial as it was intangible. Why worry about global health when the muscles of the back and leg needed memorising? And how did reproductive rights matter when the exam involved peering down a microscope to identify bacteria?"
"I once wrote a report on the inequities I had witnessed on an elective rotation in my Indian home town. He spent hours refining it and encouraged me to aim high. Months later, I excitedly told him that my essay had been accepted for publication in the Lancet. "But wait, they want to remove the best bits," he frowned. A mention in the world’s most prestigious journal was enough for me but this prolific author had other ideas. "Tell the editor why your whole essay deserves to be published." I gasped at the prospect of committing premature career suicide, but he encouraged me to avoid the easy way out. "When you own your work, you signal your integrity." He was right. The Lancet eventually printed my essay in full and his pride outshone my relief. His lesson would accompany me throughout life, and we stayed in touch beyond medical school."
"The dog repays our love by being the only one to faithfully meet and greet us when we come home. Instead of mumbling something unintelligible without looking up from the TV remote, Odie skids and skates to the door, paying no heed to the risk of a fractured leg. His tail wags overtime as he makes cute guttural sounds and promptly rolls over for a belly scratch while holding out hope for a snack. It is impossible to resist anyone who takes such unalloyed pleasure at your presence and whose behaviour is not dictated by what happened at the office that day."
"The dog needs boundaries, I warned, as Odie clambered on to laps and snuggled at various feet, ensconced in the folds of a blanket. Then, like a stealthy invader, he crept up the stairs. And then one day, behold, he was on the big bed where we congregate for family time. I screeched and Odie jumped off. He tried again and I growled. But Odie can read vibes. He knew that the consensus view maintained that shoving an innocent dog off the communal bed was not the done thing."
"Football, for me, was definitely a place where I could come and authentically be myself."
"It's been a while since I've bowled and it's nice to contribute to the team as much as I can – it just went my way today, probably beginner's luck in a way"
"We've been playing some pretty good cricket and I cannot fault anyone in the group, the energy and the positivity has been there the whole time."
"We've enjoyed one another's company (and) the girls' effort at training and around preparation for matches tactically, has been spot on."
"It's just a little bit of a confidence thing but in this format you've got to take it on and we're learning that as we go and hopefully it's a bit of a kick starter for us today."
"“As we have expanded the Earth systems concept and embraced the digital era, data-related issues have escalated in importance,”"
""“We often talk of data as being the lifeblood of WMO. However, we sometimes forget that the beating heart of WMO is its people and that without them, there would be no data, never mind systems, sharing, collaboration, services, research nor innovation,”"
"“As a global WMO community, trusted to monitor, research, understand and predict the state of the Earth system and deliver much needed data, information and services, we know that people are impacted in many ways by weather, water and climate events. We know that the extent of the impact varies depending on many factors, especially their location and their circumstances, and that the people who suffer the worst impacts are, as a rule, the most vulnerable and exposed,”"
"“Connecting the dots, across the global programs, to a national level and down to the people that need to be informed, alerted, warned, mobilized and kept safe, is an exceedingly important task, and the UN Secretary General’s challenge to WMO reinforces the need to put people not at the end of the line, but at the center,”"
"“We need to better appreciate the role of people within our integrated Earth system. If we do it right, not only can we build better bridges across and between the full suite of communities and peoples, but we will be better informed, smarter, more inclusive and productive and deliver better and more effective outcomes all around,”"
"“The challenge starts at home, and it’s especially timely for Members to accelerate efforts to create the diverse and inclusive workforce needed now and into the future to better serve our shared mission, and to ensure that the information shared with users genuinely reflects their needs. It’s not just about being fair and equitable to everyone; it’s about making the best use of the resources and capability we share to deliver the best outcomes for all,”"
"“It’s about making sure we are indeed holding up the whole sky,”"
"It's felt like the right place, the place I want to be and most importantly, the place where I've been showing some of my best football."
"From the moment I arrived, I just loved every minute of being here."
"It’s just been nice for me to settle in one place. I have been on the go for so long. It's nice to have a place to call home."
"You want to fight and you want to give everything every time you put it on and I think that's the special thing of it. You represent this club and you're part of the family now."
"Every day you can only get better, you have to be consistent, you have to be improving, to be in the starting team or to get game-time."
"To win the World Cup is the pinnacle of the sport."
"I was only using my hands when I first started hitting, My hitting instructor noticed that I was doing that and said that this style of hitting would help me. So that is kind of what gave me all my power."
"I never swing for the fences, because it's impossible if I think about it too much, All I think about when I'm at the plate is base hit and up the middle"
"I think it's just kind of cool that now I can look back and say 'wow, I did that.' And it will be fun someday to show my kids and say, 'hey look what I did."
"I can be my really introverted, calm self off the court, have lots of empathy and really care about people, and that is who I am at my core."
"But when I step onto that court, I have to put a persona on. I am competitive, a little bit stubborn, I love to win, and I love the teams I play for. I will absolutely go to the nth degree to help us get across the line"
"I do overthink things, and I’ve found it’s quite common for elite athletes and for females. We want to be perfect, and there’s no such thing. That tendency to overthink makes my self-confidence waver, so I’ve had to learn to leave that alone."
"But I have great people around me in the Fever and the Diamonds’ environment, so it doesn’t really pop its head up too often. And when it does, I focus on three things which I believe are strengths – my footwork, my energy and my voice, and that brings me back to the present."
"It's just a different perspective end on [the court], and a different view of the world. When you're up close and personal it's not quite the same, so I'm just taking some stats and looking for trends"
"For them to be so composed was fantastic, but I think we'll probably go up and down but we'll go up again and we'll be ready for the grunty bit at the end of the week"
"I think our children and children everywhere deserve a more positive view of the future and their place in it."
"It is easy to say that everyone is in favor of nuclear disarmament and that nobody wants nuclear war."
"A very important concept escapes many Australians, including some politicians. It is that our country, knowingly or unknowingly, is engaged in preparations for fighting a nuclear war. There can be no mistake, no delusions and no cover-up about this very disturbing fact."
"I think our children and children everywhere deserve a more positive view of the future and their place in it. They display such disillusionment and despair because they do not see us, their elders, and the politicians in this place, doing enough to guarantee safe custody of our fragile planet to future generations. They see most adults as being too concerned with the immediate, with the dollar, and most of us with no vision for the future."
"It is ironic that a government which claims to be doing more for disarmament than any other government encourages the development of Roxby Downs, the largest uranium mine in the Western world."
"We need to be rid of the addiction of militarism, which is wildly excessive, out of control, and which must be confronted or surely it will annihilate us spiritually if not physically, especially because this excess occurs at the expense of present pressing needs of human beings."
"In our five years in England, we faced financial hardship, so moved homes a few times. I changed schools three times, changed friends and changed continents. This could have been unsettling for a child, but I looked on it as an opportunity,"
"Possibly from natural resilience, I was able to accept quickly that I could do nothing about our peripatetic circumstances. But I appreciated that I still had choices and things I could control, including my attitude. Being curious and social, I resolved to embrace the frequent changes as an opportunity to learn from different cultures and perspectives,"
"If anyone had told me as a child that I couldn’t fulfil my various childhood ambitions to be an astronaut, or pilot or James Bond due to my gender or ethnicity, I would have dismissed their views as irrational. This was my form of resilience,"
"Challenges do remain. The economic impacts of 2020 are likely to be felt for some time. Economic downturns exacerbate inequalities of all types. Government finances are inevitably more stretched and we in the private sector will need to step up to support the recovery,""
"I really value privacy. Anonymity is such a luxury and I don't think people appreciate that"
"I've never spent any time thinking that i would like other person's job. I'm thinking about what we can do as a business, what's next."
"The Olympic Games are very special to me and I’m a patriotic Australian, so to have an opportunity to work with the best Australian players on the biggest stage in sport is incredibly powerful"
"I’m rapt to see that golf is in the Olympics as I think it has the potential to help grow our game globally as well as in Australia. Our best Australian players continue to fly our flag so well internationally and I know they will do so in Paris 2024 hopefully coming away with a medal or two. That’s what I’d love to see."
"Beyond the depths of that awful cry which sprang from the elder girl's lips, I heard the tender, strong command of the Son of God, 'Take these children, and train them for Me.' 'I will, Lord,' was my trembling reply"
"Not everyone’s gender identity matches the reproductive organs they were born with therefore you have been reclassified as a birthing person rather than a mother. Now are you ready to try chest feeding?"
"It's terrifying and I've had to navigate it all through nine months of pregnancy. I created a social network for women, myself included, where we can relax on the internet away from death threats and toxic male behaviour."
"We wanted to do equity crowd funding, which would allow women to have ownership in a start-up and have investment in the financial world. No equity crowd funding company would work with us, saying the trans issue was like an open wound."
"It's always been you can't discriminate against anyone except when you can … (because it is) for a positive reason for that group. Female only spaces have existed for such a long time and there has been no controversy in it."
"My goal is not to strip anyone of their rights. My goal is to make everybody's rights clear. If we can get clarity on this hopefully it will stop the fighting between women and trans activists. Let's try and find positives to move forward."
"[Giggle was intended to be] a little corner of the Internet where women from all over the world could have a refuge away from men. It could be for serious reasons, very superficial reasons, or very practical reasons. It would be a place without harassment, 'mansplaining', 'dick pics', stalking, and aggression, and other male patterned online behaviour. A place to vent and get advice from other women and find out what was happening in the real world in a female-only environment."
"[N]ever in my wildest nightmare did I think there was anyone saying men are actually women if they just say it."
"[W]hat's the point of even having a category of woman in law if it's not defined as 'biological adult human female' if it's just a category any man can become. [...] It's meaningless."
"I don’t think it's kind to expect a woman to see a man as a woman."
"[From a series of posts on X/Twitter] I'm being taken to federal court by a man who claims to be a woman because he wants to use a woman-only space I created. [...] There isn't a woman in the world who'd have to take me to court to use this woman only space. It takes a man for this case to exist."
"[Statement in court ] I wanted to create a safe, women-only space in the palm of your hand. [...] It is a legal fiction that Tickle is a woman. His birth certificate has been altered from male to female, but he is a biological man, and always will be. We are taking a stand for the safety of all women’s only spaces, but also for basic reality and truth, which the law should reflect."
"Unfortunately, we got the judgement we anticipated. The fight for women's rights continues."
"If Tickle wins, it will establish that males have a legal right, not just to the female sex category, but to all female spaces, including hospital wards, sports facilities, domestic violence refuges, rape crisis centres, and prisons."
"Sex is discriminatory, it always has been and always will be ... biological sex must prevail"
"[A] small group of people have taken it upon themselves to declare that I am not who I know I am, and they have set about making my life miserable. This case, and the unlawful and discriminatory exclusion from the Giggle app, has stolen the last three years of my life."
"While there are a number of trans-only apps and straight women don't demand access to, say, the gay dating app Grindr, activists want Giggle removed from the Apple platform. They claim its software reads black women's faces as male. Grover says her users are women of all races from 88 countries and this is a vicious slur. Their true motivation is her female-only policy. It enrages a movement whose idea of activism is getting domestic violence refuges defunded for remaining single-sex; which can’t abide women having one damn thing."
"Environmental degradation is calling us to the witness stand of history. It demands we testify against ourselves and mount a case in our defense. Ultimately, we are all agents of history. To reduce ourselves to a role of mere observation is to deny us of our humanity."
"As a species, humans have become the Earth’s number-one predator."
"Climate change is a transenvironmental challenge that requires the integration of transgenerational, transpeciesist, and transnational practices and knowledge."
"Science didn’t interest me at school but I found science as related to ceramics, geology and alchemy to be very intriguing. I think we don’t always choose our influences, they somehow choose us."
"My work is for my own pleasure and fulfilment. I like to give form to my emotional and visual responses and to explore themes which reflect my attitudes as a socially concious woman artist."
"When I've travelled I've been attracted by the human presences imprinted in inanimate objects and structures and I prefer the freedom and directness of watercolours to recall these associations. (discussing the merits of watercolour as an art medium)"
"Both. I think it causes problems, but it's something we must work with, as the North American women did. They included everyone instead of being exclusive. They had so much energy, and they were going parallel to the women's movement. It's a very difficult time now in Australia. We don't want to identify with North America because Australian women have a very different experience. (reflecting on her experience living and working in North America versus Australia, and as a direct answer to the questions: How do you feel at the thought of having contact with women in a Women's Art Movement who are not feminists? Does that seem exciting, or do you see it as causing a lot of problems?)"
"Women are the consumers in society, but they are also the consumed. My purpose in the work (Down Under Among The Women) is to confirm more than to deny and if women are still portrayed as sex objects in art and society, my aim is to recreate them as sex subjects. I use sexual imagery in the context of the female body in an attempt to reveal the tragedy and comedy of women's lives."
"There is not nearly enough change here, the men have not kept up with the women's movement. In America I found that male artists used feminist ideas in their work. I don't see that here at all. (Hillcoats' experience with the women's movement whilst living and working in North America versus Australia)"
"Women artists need to consider the basic attitudes underlying censorship of women's art work and how it reflects a deep-seated fear in the community. During the past 15 years feminist artists have worked to change patriarchal attitudes towards women. As well, feminist art historians and critics have re-instated many women artists lost in history and made their imagery visible again. The struggle to produce new imagery and to interpret and defend such statements and ideas has often been at considerable personal cost."
"For the past 20 years I have been deconstructing 'the nude' through drawing, painting and collage. Collage is a perfect medium for reappropriating and juxtaposing images from many sources and rearranging them as personal metaphors, analogies and ambiguities."
"At the time of my writing, 30 years ago, I felt the works of artists like Frida Kahlo and Dorothea Tanning were not sufficiently known or appreciated. The Bulletin provided a way of bringing these artists to the attention of a much wider audience. (about the importance of the Women's Art Register Bulletin and her own regular column ‘A Look At Books’ in it)"
""It doesn't matter what you call it. It is a sacred force that represents the experience of life that informs human beingness."
"“serve life in a life-enhancing way”"
"The veil of taboo and language scepticism lays itself over the works that are free from materialism and empty transcendence."
"Creative thinking and art are not measurable since they're testimony of the truth and inherent in all that exists. And this truth, the only truth, has many faces. Who can count the faces of truth? All religion are ultimately the religion of mankind. Art is ritual."
"And as with all religions, there is no true way to explain it along rational lines without leeching it of its meaning and intensely personal quality. You are a part of it and it is a part of you. You may, as so many have done, push it aside, but it remains in you…in all of us."
"‘Diane Esguerra is a very fine writer’"
"‘There’s something incredibly effortless and beautiful about the way Esguerra writes’"
"‘If Diane’s purpose was the intrigue and open the reader’s mind to Oshun, then she’s done a spectacular job as I’m now hungry for more learning on the subject’"
"“I have been a long-time admirer of the exceptional number, quality and reach of Queensland-made films, series and games, so it is a joy and great responsibility to be part of funding local, interstate and international projects and actively steering our industry towards a more inclusive future,”"
"“It is an honour to have been asked to chair this dynamic board, comprising of experts in the diverse fields of film and series production, game development, post-production, studios, education, finance and law.”"
"She became a barrister in 1987 and was subsequently the inaugural President of the Queensland Anti-Discrimination Tribunal, as well as a Hearing Commissioner of the Human Rights and Equal Opportunities Commission."
"“Ms Atkinson’s years of demonstrated leadership, interest in the state’s creative sector and commitment to diversity action makes her exceptionally qualified to helm the Board of Screen Queensland,”"
"Ms Atkinson said she is delighted to take on the role of Chair, particularly during a time of growth and positive change for the screen industry, and for the agency."
"“her appointment would help establish in the minds of other women an awareness that they could aspire to the same”."
"“The University was one’s whole life,”"
"“In my first year I would wake up every morning and think ‘another wonderful day!’”"
"She was the first woman to be appointed a judge of the Supreme Court of Victoria, the first woman to run a murder trial in the state and the first woman to be appointed a permanent lecturer in law at the University of Melbourne."
"She was made a Member of the Order of Australia in 2012 for her “service to the judiciary, the practice of law in Victoria and to the study of ornithology”."
"“More generally, the legal profession of Victoria is indebted to Rosemary for her pioneering contribution.”"
"I won't be able to look at my family at this stage."
"I am very honoured … didn't think I would be emotional, so I do apologise."
"It is what makes us such a cohesive society."
"And I have a very deep belief in our community."
"The people of NSW are extremely fortunate Justice Beazley has accepted the position."
"She is a leader in the legal profession [and] has been a mentor to many aspiring legal professionals."
"I know she will serve the people of NSW with absolute distinction."
"Justice Beazley said she would bring three of her core beliefs — community, education and rule of law — to the role."
"I have the honour to announce I have been appointed a Judge of this Court. I present to you my Commission."
"Chief Justice, your Honours, Mr Barker, Ms Hole, members of the legal profession, ladies and gentlemen, thank you Mr Barker and thank you Ms Hole. I am deeply grateful for the generous remarks that have been made."
"It is most gratifying to be reminded of the interesting and important aspects of my life and career. One aspect to which reference has not been made directly is my abiding interest in the exercise of power and how it affects others."
"owever, that interest flourished in my time in high school at the Sacre Coeur convent in Kincoppal. The Sacre Coeur nuns wore habits, or robes, which were quite unique and it seemed to me that their presence enhanced the nuns' authority. It was not just the individual with whom one was dealing with but an institution which commanded and might I say received, respect."
"It is enormously satisfying to know that nearly 30 years later I was part of a process which I have no doubt was pivotal to the establishment of a more accountable and specialised system for the detection and more importantly the prevention of abuse of children in this State. It seems to me that the community will remain indebted to Justice Wood for his remarkable achievements in this area."
"I am indeed honoured and delighted to be that woman and to be appointed to Equity when it is so clearly in a period of vigour."
"This is a wonderful ceremony made more so by the presence of my family, my friends and colleagues. It is, of course, not possible to thank you individually but I would like to say that the trust of my instructing solicitors in placing their briefs in my hands over the years has been enormously gratifying. It is that trust upon which a career at the Bar depends. For that I thank you."
"'[a]lthough there are further mountains to climb for women lawyers, the progress is encouraging,'suggesting that one of the most 'encouraging signs' was greater acceptance of the need for 'different work policies and practices which do not impede the path to success.'"
"Melbourne: Monash University. Diana Bryant Retrieved 18 November 2016"
"Her Honour has witnessed considerable change across the course of her professional life, with regards to the status of women in the legal profession."
"She is currently Patron of Australian Women Lawyers and a committee member of The Australian Association of Women Judges."
"Known to be 'a brilliant lawyer', with an 'innate sense of justice and fairness,' her time as a barrister was marked by her preparedness to pursue both on behalf of her clients even at her own cost."
"Her Honour's appointment to the bench followed many years practising in family law in both Perth and Victoria. In Perth, she was a partner with the firm Phillips Fox; in Melbourne she was a founding member of Chancery Chambers."
"Justice Charlesworth had already granted the Nukunu people native title over an adjoining area encompassing Port Pirie and part of the Flinders Ranges in 2019. She noted she would have preferred to hand down the verdict on country."
"Justice Charlesworth has engaged an Associate until September 2026. Applications for an appointment from September 2026 are invited. Applications should contain a cover letter, resume, and academic transcript and be provided as one pdf document."
"I started working on child abuse cases and the work just grabbed me,"
"I realised, it's not just defence work that helps vulnerable people. Prosecuting is about protecting people… it's about giving people the justice they deserve."
"Arguing cases in front of the high court is something I never imagined doing when I was at school."
"It was exhilarating and terrifying at the same time, but that's the kind of work that made me want to do my best and push forward."
"I can honestly say, it's been a real privilege."
"I wanted to be independent,"
"I never imagined coming back to this school as a 'role model',"
"WHEN Leanne Clare was a student at Bremer High school in the 1970s she always looked up to Rosemary Milgate – a student who competed at the Montreal Olympics."
"This week Judge Leanne Clare was invited back to her old high school for the unveiling of the second ever star to be added to the brick wall outside the office, bearing her name"
"It's an honour she never expected to be given, then again, she never imagined she'd be married to fellow classmate Gary, a 4KQ presenter, either."
"She took the smart classes, I took lunch,"
"I looked for her in detention, but she was never there."
"My appointment as a Justice of the High Court of Australia is exciting but I am very well aware that large challenges lie ahead. The work of the Court is relentless and, inevitably, comprises the truly hard cases. That combination presents both the challenges and the rewards of the tasks that lie ahead."
"Be yourself. You are who you are, and you have much to give in whatever you are doing."
"I agreed to present a course on tax litigation with The Hon. Ken Jenkinson QC and Tony Pagone QC (as he then was). As a junior practitioner, it was daunting teaching with such senior practitioners."
"After just a few years, I commenced to teach the course, and still do, with Simon Steward QC and Ms Lisa Hespe."
"It has been fascinating creating and teaching a new course. I learn far more than I teach… Teaching has its own challenges. Trying to pass on to others the knowledge, skills, and techniques necessary to an understanding of a particular area of the law is itself an education. And there is always the pleasure when you see that a student understands the point you are trying to make."
"Hard work and application remain as important as they have always been. I have enjoyed my time as a practising lawyer, barrister, teacher, and judge. In the end, it is dealing and interacting with others —clients, junior barristers at the bar, participants in the Indigenous lawyers program, my associates, and my students — from whom I have learned and benefitted that has been the most rewarding. You always learn more from those you interact with."
"Justice Gordon is keen to embrace the challenges of working as a High Court Judge, following her recent appointment."
"Justice Gordon is just the fifth woman appointed to the Court in its 112-year history, joining The Hon. Susan Mary Kiefel AC and The Hon. Virginia Bell, making a total of three women on the High Court bench."
"From the outset, her teaching has been extraordinarily popular and is very well received by students each year. With two such significant judges teaching the subject, there are a lot of legal professionals who want to take it, to hear what Justice Gordon and Justice Hayne have to say about statutory interpretation."
"Justice Gordon's dedicated work ethic and commitment to advancing legal education at the highest level meant that her involvement with Melbourne Law School has only increased with time."
"These war crime trials are to let the world know these crimes won't be tolerated by the international community, that crimes against humanity by any nation or individual will be dealt with."
"It's always disturbing to be confronted with inhumanity and depravity. I find it very hard to accept that thinking, feeling human beings can direct killing. Ordinary family men engage in mass rape. They must dehumanise their victims. They don't see them as human beings. The accused could be your next-door neighbour, they look so ordinary these commanders."
"I did the first murder trial in which the evidence of battered-woman syndrome was admitted in Victoria. But I have a constant awareness that cases have, at heart, personal human tragedies affecting many more people than the accused."
"Australia is not really on the map for many people overseas, but we were shocked and disappointed recently when we had so many people approach us and comment on our poor policy towards refugees."
"She is not only well qualified, she is a leader."
"Catherine Holmes has become Queensland's first female Chief Justice, rising to lead a judiciary which hopes to rebuild after a period of unprecedented bad blood."
"Justice Jagot is an eminent jurist and brings tremendous experience, and was nominated by very, very many people that I consulted with."
"The government is very proud of the appointment that we are making today… and I am certain that she is going to serve with distinction."
"Jagot will be the seventh woman appointed to the court, replacing Patrick Keane once he reaches mandatory retirement age."
"In a statement, Dreyfus and the Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese, described Jagot as an 'outstanding lawyer and an eminent judge,' congratulating her on a 'well-deserved appointment.'"
"In her four years at the bar, Justice Jagot maintained an enviable practice, acting on behalf of a number of Commonwealth and state departments and authorities in her various areas of expertise, and she quickly secured a reputation as the Land and Environment Court’s leading junior."
"The Solicitor General, Stephen Gageler SC, said at her Federal Court swearing-in that during her time on the Land and Environment Court, Justice Jagot developed 'a reputation as a judge who has an ideal judicial demeanour, is clear-thinking and practical, and listens carefully and politely to arguments put forward.'"
"The coroner's position is an important one because it provides leadership to coroners and assistant coroners to over 100 locations throughout New South Wales. It provides many recommendations to help prevent future tragedies. I'm confident Mary Jerram will fulfil the role of State Coroner admirably."
"She became a magistrate in 1994, then made a farm change a few years later, moving to New Zealand to farm sheep and cattle."
"Mary was drawn back to her legal work, returning as a magistrate and then the first woman to be appointed State Coroner in NSW."
"Mary Jerram retired in 2013 and in 2018 she was made a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) 'For significant service to the law in New South Wales as State Coroner, and as a role model for women in the legal profession.'"
"There is still, in some quarters, a view that the use of physical violence to 'discipline' wives [and others who have done the 'wrong' thing] is justified and is lawful under customary law,"
"Melissa Mackay NT Supreme Court Justice Judith Kelly criticises anti-racism 'ideology' sentiment in speech on domestic violence in Aboriginal communities Retrieved 2 Sepmber 2022"
"[Anti-racism] is beginning to assume the dimensions of a religion or a cult under the influence of which people and institutions are casually and inaccurately labelled as "racist" without any evidentiary basis for the charge,"
"Most folk would almost rather be branded a paedophile than a racist,"
"…a cowardly and vicious attack on a defenceless woman who should have been able to look to you for protection. You have offered no explanation at all for attacking her, other than that your counsel says you were very drunk at the time. You have a lengthy criminal history, including a conviction for manslaughter in March 1993 for the unlawful killing of your brother and a conviction for unlawfully causing grievous harm in 2005, when you stabbed your then de facto wife. Both of these crimes were committed when you were intoxicated."
"Bob Gosford Bob Gosford Stopping the Violence…and the traffic in Alice Springs Retrieved 3 September 2010"
"The Facebooks people create for me, I've had removed as well. I'm not a celebrity, just a judge."
"Roberta Williams has done nothing except be married to a criminal. Mick Gatto has become a celebrity for killing someone and being acquitted on the grounds of self-defence."
"Justice King banned the show from airing in Victoria in 2008 because it could prejudice the trial of a man charged with killing an underworld figure."
"Justice King also told the Young Lawyers Journal she was opposed to judges being celebrities and had a Wikipedia posting in her name taken down."
"I am particularly privileged to have observed first-hand the skill and dedication of the commission's staff who deserve great credit for the exposure of corruption in this state,"
"AAP Megan Latham quits over ICAC shake-up Nov 23, 2016"
"Ms Latham, whose term was due to end in 2019, was given no guarantee she would be appointed as one of three new commissioners set to take over the Independent Commission Against Corruption under the Baird government's plans to radically overhaul the agency."
"Despite claims Ms Latham was effectively being forced out of the top job as payback for her investigation into the Liberal Party donations scandal, the changes were swiftly passed through parliament last week."
""We respect her decision not to apply for one of the three new commissioner positions," he said in a statement."
"Tendering her resignation on Wednesday, Ms Latham said she was grateful for the opportunity to have worked at ICAC."
"“To be a good judge, you need to have a good IQ and EQ [emotional intelligence] and you need to understand people from many different walks of life,”"
"“[Public education] gave me a broader exposure to people and that, I hope, makes me a better judge.”"
"“I had some truly great teachers [at Liverpool Girls] in Maths, English and Ancient History,”"
"“I was always interested in law. I remember studying The Merchant of Venice and [the play’s hero] Portia was a great role model,”"
"As for her talk to Liverpool students, Ms Loukas-Karlsson said she “took them through her legal career” then gave them five pieces of life advice."
"“A society that has a narrow cohort of people who are making decisions may lead to narrow decision-making,”"
"Her Honour held part time positions as Acting District Court Judge in 1996 and as a Judicial Member of the Administrative Decisions Tribunal between 1997 and 2003. From 2003 to 2006, her Honour was counsel before the UN International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in The Hague."
". Additionally, in 2015 her Honour was appointed a Director of the Law Council of Australia. Her Honour was also a Member of the International Bar Association’s Criminal Law Committee Taskforce on Extra Territorial Jurisdiction in 2007."
"ACT Supreme Court. Justice Loukas-Karlsson Retrieved 23 February 2022."
"In 2010, her Honour became a managing partner in the Litigation and Dispute Resolution group of Clayton Utz. Mr Clark noted that in this role, her Honour:"
"Her Honour was a partner in Clayton Utz, having joined the f irm 27 years ago as a summer clerk. At the age of 32, her Honour became one of the youngest partners in the firm. Her Honour quickly developed a busy practice in Corporations Law matters."
"One of the barristers her Honour worked with as a solicitor at Clayton Utz was Michael Slattery QC, now Justice Slattery of the Supreme Court of New South Wales. Mr Stuart Clark, president-elect of the Law Council of Australia, observed that a note from her Honour’s personnel file at Clayton Utz records Justice Slattery as describing her Honour as ‘brilliant’ and ‘always in control’."
"Her Honour has a rich life outside of the law, enjoying theatre, classical music and the visual arts."
"Mr Moses also acknowledged her Honour’s involvement on the bar’s equitable briefing working party, which recently completed its report reviewing the application in NSW of the Law Council of Australia’s equitable briefing policy."
"New South Wales Bar Association. APPOINTMENTS Retrieved 3 November 2017."
"Don’t be afraid to shake your coconuts!"
"I have been doing this for a while now and each time, the audience is always fascinated because the majority of people in Australia have never heard of the Seychelles or know very little about the culture and the music."
"I speak about our history, our ancestors, the slave trade, the European colonial rule, and the melting pot and diversity of what makes the Creole culture and its people."
"I feel proud to be recognised and rewarded for creating music that tells stories of my roots and culture."
"In a way, I see myself and my band have created a platform in promoting music and culture of the Indian Ocean island region – Seychelles, Mauritius, Rodrigues, Reunion, Mayotte and Madagascar – while also developing our own sound."
"There is a sense of pride that comes with being recognised, acknowledged and rewarded for music that tell stories of your roots and culture. Music that captivates rhythms of the islands. Music that is not only sang in English, but also in Creole and French. I would not have created what I am creating now without that sense of culture, community and purpose."
"I grew up with so much guilt and shame for wanting to embody my sexuality and my identity, but I never really had a space where I fit into"
"“I’m sorry to my mother and Allah for the things I have done tomorrow”"
"“It took 24 years of my life to learn just how whitewashed I became and how much I repressed my identity in order to exist safely in White spaces”"
"“If you don’t truly understand the beliefs you’ve made about yourself, then they’re always going to subconsciously take over. It takes a lot of introspective therapy, talking about it, unpacking it and learning where the core belief came from and why you can’t let it leave essentially.”"
"Her art is driven by the desire to "create a space where she belong, a space that she could own"
"Editorial work came easily to me, but it was always a means to an end – it consumed me, it interested me, but I still found it creatively restrictive,"
"Much of my work is about love," she says. "I know that sounds naive, but it is about my relationship with people and their ability to trust me. I don't feel like I am manipulating people."
"The common link was that they all felt unloved as kids. I actually felt the whole thing wasn't that psychologically interesting. That's how it resonated with me. That's how they chose to rationalise it. I am a voyeur; at the same time I am willing to get stuck in too."
"I think that anyone who is working creatively is a bit like litmus paper," she concludes. "I soak up a lot of stuff. I am hyper-sensitive and along the way I lead quite a conventional life. Maybe I am not acting out that stuff because it's in my work. It comes from existential angst. I think life's difficult."
"“To decode the patterns of correspondences as if they were symbolic would be like trying to psychoanalyse the window of a tumble dryer”."
"“I am walking the fine line between something that is beautiful and its antithesis.”"
"Butler, Rex; Ferrell, Robyn; Wagstaff, Camilla (8 October 2020). "Pat Brassington: Something beautiful & its antithesis". Art Collector Magazine. Archived from the original on 17 March 2024. Retrieved 12 April 2025."
"Her photographic work provides information on people and places in the pioneer days of North Queensland."
"She was featured in the Magnificent Makers exhibition at the State Library of Queensland in 2018."
"She opened a photographic studio in Ingham, Queensland before moving to Mareeba in 1904, where she established a new studio until she moved to Brisbane in 1914."
"Mrs. Bunbury, has always loved horses and racing. One of her ancestors. Sir C. Bunbury, raced first English Derby winner St. Diomed."
"Her own horses won the Perth Cup, Derby and Railway Stakes. She rode her own horse until the age of 83."
"I am interested in the material legacy of photographs by early woman photographers in New Zealand museums and archives (or the lack thereof), and the question of how to rethink curatorial concerns that have been formed by histories that have excluded, not only work relating to New Zealand, but the work of women."
"Traditional historical methods that could be applied to a history of women and photography related to New Zealand are unsuitable and unrealistic tools to analyse types of photographs women tended to make and the circumstances of their production."
"Mitchell, Lissa (November 2015). "Recovering Pieces: Finding an early history of women and photography in New Zealand". Love Feminists. Retrieved 12 April 2025."
"An art historical approach is too concerned with artistic genius, oeuvres, innovation and technical excellence."
"Cearns has appeared in numerous publications and also on television regarding her work. Most notably she has been a regular guest on The Couch, a television show broadcast in Australia and New Zealand."
"Cearns is involved with numerous charities, which, in 2019, amounted to her being awarded the Order of Australia medal. In addition to her work with the RSPCA, she has provided pro-bono work for other charities such as Kanyana Wildlife Rehabilitation Center, Animal Aid Abroad & Animals Australia."
"During a trip to the Cocos Islands in 2007, Cearns took images of blue clams at a breeding facility. She entered the images into different state and national photo contests and won 2 of the contests while placing in 2 others."
"In addition to her photographic work, Chinnery kept extensive diaries of her time in New Guinea and Papua. She began to rewrite her diaries as a book in the mid-1930s, but abandoned this work after the 1937 volcanic eruption in Rabaul, after which she returned to Australia."
"Her manuscripts were typed up by her four daughters and donated to the National Library of Australia, which published them in 1998 as Malaguna Road: The Papua and New Guinea Diaries of Sarah Chinnery, edited by Kate Fortune."
"Chinnery did not exhibit her work during her lifetime, but her photographs were published in several of Australia's major newspapers, along with articles and anecdotes written by her. In March 1935, she produced a three-page article and photo spread for the weekend magazine of The New York Times."
"Pegg Clarke (Melbourne) has made of photography a consummate art. On gazing at her photographs, several of what one might aptly term "treescapes" having a soft melting grace reminiscent of a Corot without colouring, makes it absolutely indifferent to academic discussions of whether photography is an art or a craft."
"Only an artist could make such pictures by camera as those by Pegg Clarke, a very beautiful sample of which (Mist on the Mountains) was hung, in the London Salon, 1921."
"Miss Clarke has an eye for something other than the merely picturesque, and most of our painters might study the composition of these carefully-selected subjects with profit. Some of the Australian photographs, in particular, should make our realistic painters sit up and take notice."
"Our road is the Road of Yesterday and the Road of Today, for Yesterday and Today are still the same."
"Surely the world we live in is but the world that lives in us?"
"Your true gentlewoman does not sit down and weep and say "I've never done such things"—she simply "does" and no more about it."
"There are a few fortunate races that have been endowed with cheerfulness as their main characteristic, the Australian Aborigine and the Irish being among these."
"No man or woman, who tries to pursue an ideal in his or her own way, is without enemies."
"The Australian native can withstand all the reverses of nature, fiendish droughts and sweeping floods, horrors of thirst and enforced starvation—but he cannot withstand civilization."
"By this time I was a confirmed wanderer, a nomad even as the aborigines. So close had I been in contact with them, that it was now impossible for me to relinquish the work. I realized that they were passing from us. I must make their passing easier. Moreover, all that I knew was little in comparison with all there was yet to learn. I made the decision to dedicate the rest of my life to this fascinating study."
"A glorious thing it is to live in a tent in the infinite—to waken in the grey of dawn, a good hour before the sun outlines the low ridges of the horizon, and to come out into the bright cool air, and scent the wind blowing across the mulga plains. My first thought would be to probe the ashes of my open fireplace, where hung my primitive cooking-vessels, in the hope that some embers had remained alight. Before I retired at night, I invariably made a good fire and covered the glowing coals with the soft ash of the jilyeli, having watched my compatriots so cover their turf fires in Ireland. I would next readjust the stones of the hob to leeward of the morning wind, and set the old Australian billy to boil, while I tidied my tent, and transformed it from bedroom to breakfast-room. As the sun came up, it changed that plain white room into the most exquisitely-frescoed pergola, with a patterning far surpassing the best of Grinling Gibbon’s handiwork. In a constant play of leafy light and shadow, I would eat my tea and toast in absolute content, while outside the blue smoke of the fire changed to grey in the bright sunlight. The mornings were spent in wandering from camp to camp, attending to the bodily needs of the scattered flock. I knew every bush, every pool, every granite boulder, by its age-old prehistoric name, with its legends and dream-time secrets, and its gradual inevitable change. There was no loneliness."
"Every one of the natives whom I encountered on the east-west line had partaken of human meat, with the exception of Nyerdain, who told me it made him sick. They freely admitted their sharing of these repasts and enumerated those killed and eaten by naming the waters, and drawing a line with the big toe on the sand as they told over in gruesome memory the names they dared not mention. My first words to them were always “No more man-meat.” From the weekly supply train, I would procure part of a bullock or sheep and show them the game food areas, mallee-hen’s eggs, rabbits and so on, that must be their meats now, with as many dampers as I could provide, and a drink of sweetened tea. One morning very early, the news came that Nyan-ngauera had left the camp, taking a fire-stick and accompanied by her little girl. No one would follow her or help to track her. For twelve miles I followed the track unsuccessfully, but Nyan-ngauera doubled many times and gave birth to a child a mile west of my camp, where she killed and ate the baby, sharing the food with the little daughter. Later, with the help of her sons and grandsons, the spot was found, nothing to be seen there save the ashes of a fire. "The bones are under the fire", the boys told me, and digging with the digging-stick we came upon the broken skull, and one or two charred bones, which I later sent to the Adelaide Museum."
"I invariably rose at sunrise, when the days are at their most glorious, and the whole world is full of beauty and music and dreaming, waking from its slumbers under the mists. I made my toilet to a chorus of impatient twittering. It was a fastidious toilet, for throughout my life I have adhered to the simple but exact dictates of fashion as I left it, when Victoria was queen—a neat white blouse, stiff collar and ribbon tie, a dark skirt and coat, stout and serviceable, trim shoes and neat black stockings, a sailor hat and a fly-veil, and, for my excursions to the camps, always a dust-coat and a sunshade. Not until I was in meticulous order would I emerge from my tent, dressed for the day. My first greeting was for the birds."
"“A year in a startup is about seven years in corporate life.” As a founder, especially in your first few years of growing the business, you go through this torrent of emotional and psychological experiences within a compact period, and it’s not something you’re aware of until you’re deeply ingrained in building the business.""
"Just Do It — I know it sounds cliché, but I believe there is power in acting, and not overthinking things."
""The pace of change has been so fast that we need to be constantly on our toes.”"
"There are not many places in this world that take your education and training as seriously as this university. It achieves excellence, because it cares."
"I see no mileage at all in being average. We owe it to the patients that we treat to be the best that we can be,” continued Professor Wood, who also told graduates that they needed to contribute to the body of knowledge in their fields."
"Collectively, we learn today to make tomorrow a better place for us and for everyone across the world."