Budgeting for Women’s Success

Budgeting for Women’s Success

Securing women’s economic future.

Helen McCabe and Jamila Rizvi invite you to hear from politicians, policy experts and change makers, to dissect how the Australian Government's budget will impact women.

Attendees will enjoy a two-course meal and beverages at Hotel Realm’s signature National Ballroom, where insightful discussion and the opportunity to network with some of the leading voices in the sector will take place. 

The keynote address will be given by Senator the Hon Katy Gallagher, Minister for Finance, Minister for Women, Minister for the Public Service.

HOSTS

HELEN MCCABE
MANAGING DIRECTOR AND FOUNDER - Future Women

Journalist, magazine editor and digital media executive. Helen was Editor-in-Chief of The Australian Women's Weekly, Deputy Editor of The Sunday Telegraph and spent more than a decade working in television before founding Future Women in 2018. Helen also hosts FW's weekly Leadership Series podcast, featuring stories of influential women who lead.

JAMILA RIZVI
DEPUTY MANAGING DIRECTOR - Future Women

Best-selling author, opinion columnist, podcast host and gender equality advocate. Previously, Jamila advised the Rudd and Gillard Governments on gender equality, early childhood education, media and employment participation. Jamila is also a board member of the Wheeler Centre for Books, Writing and Ideas, and an ambassador for Plan International.

KEYNOTE SPEAKER

SENATOR THE HON KATY GALLAGHER

Minister for Finance, Minister for Women, Minister for the Public Service

Minister Katy Gallagher has dedicated her working life to improving the lives of Canberrans, whether it was advocating for people with disability as a community worker, standing up for the rights of public servants as a CPSU Organiser or delivering for every Canberran as the Chief Minister of the ACT. As a Minister in the ACT Government and later as Chief Minister, Katy led a progressive and future-focused government. As Chief Minister, Katy legislated marriage equality, started Australia’s first public nurse-led walk-in medical centres and committed the Government to a 100% renewable energy target by 2020.

Katy has taken this same focus and determination into the Federal Parliament, from holding the government to account at Senate Estimates and introducing her own Anti-Rorting Bill, to scrutinising the Government’s pandemic response as Chair of the Senate COVID Committee.

A senior Cabinet Minister in the Albanese Labor Government, Katy’s decisions and actions are guided by two key principles – applying the highest levels of integrity in government decision-making and public expenditure, and using the power of government to improve the lives of all Australians, but particularly those who may have been left behind.

Katy is passionate about making women’s equal opportunity an economic and social priority of government.

PANELISTS

DR EMMA FULU

Founder and Executive Director -The Equality Institute

Dr Emma Fulu is a researcher, social entrepreneur and one of the world’s leading experts on gender issues and violence against women, appearing widely across the media including on Al Jazeera, CNN, the BBC, the 7:30 Report and Q+A. Most recently she presented her views on women's economic opportunities at the Jobs and Skills Summit in Canberra.

She is the founder and Executive Director of the Equality Institute, a global feminist agency working to advance gender equality and end violence against women and girls. She is also the co-founder of VOICE, a non-profit organisation that partners with women and girls in conflict and disaster settings to amplify their solutions to violence in their own communities. Before that she worked at the United Nations and led the ground-breaking UN Multi-Country Study on Men and Violence.

Emma is Co-Chair of the Gender and Rights Advisory Panel of the World Health Organization, and a member of the Global Women’s Institute Leadership Council. She has a PhD from the University of Melbourne, is the author of Domestic Violence in Asia, and publishes widely on gender, violence, and inclusive leadership.

EMMA DAWSON

Executive Director - Per Capita

Emma Dawson is Executive Director of Per Capita. She has worked as a researcher at Monash University and the University of Melbourne; in policy and public affairs for SBS and Telstra; and as a senior policy adviser in the Rudd and Gillard Governments.

Emma has published reports, articles and opinion pieces on a wide range of public policy issues. She is a regular contributor to Guardian Australia, The Age, Independent Australia and The Australian Financial Review, and a frequent guest on various ABC and commercial radio programs nationally. She appears regularly as an expert witness before parliamentary inquiries and often speaks at public events and conferences in Australia and internationally.

Emma is the co-editor, with Professor Janet McCalman, of the collection of essays What happens next? Reconstructing Australia after COVID-19, published by Melbourne University Press in September 2020.

MICHELE O'NEIL

President - Australian Council of Trade Unions

Michele began her working life as a waitress, went on to work in the community sector with homeless young people and to then work in the clothing industry.

Before being elected as ACTU President in 2018, Michele represented workers in the textile, clothing and footwear industry as an organiser and then Branch and National Secretary of the TCFUA (Textile Clothing and Footwear Union of Australia). She represented her union Nationally and Internationally and led campaigns to win world leading rights for workers throughout clothing supply chains. A model of supply chain accountability for workers which increased pay and conditions for some of Australia’s most exploited workers.

Following the amalgamation of the TCFUA and the CFMEU Michele was CFMEU Vice President.

Date: Wednesday 26 October 2022

Time: 7:00pm - 9:30pm AEDT (VIP drinks from 6:00pm)

Venue: Hotel Realm Ngunnawal and Ngambri Country (Canberra) | National Ballroom | 18 NATIONAL CIRCUIT BARTON ACT 2600 AUSTRALIA

Tickets: $250 for individuals and $2,250 for tables of 10 (inc. GST and excluding booking fee), includes 2-course meal and 2-hour beverage package.

Join us for VIP drinks at 6pm + dinner at 7pm - $300 for individuals. $3,000 for tables of 10.

If you have accessibility requirements, please reach out to us at hello@futurewomen.com

Photos will be taken at the event. If you do not agree to your photo being used by Future Women in promotional material covering the event, please email hello@futurewomen.com

Exclusive member discounts apply. 

Future Women acknowledges the traditional owners of the land on which this event will take place, the Ngunnawal and Ngambri people. We pay our respects of Elders past and present.