Deputy Leader of the Australian Greens Dr Mehreen Faruqi is delighted to be hosting her annual International Women's Day breakfast on Friday 7 March 2025. This event is known for its honest and radical discussion, and hearing from women of colour and First Nations women.

Note for Ramadan

This year our IWD breakfast will fall during the month of Ramadan, a very important time for Muslims. We have a separate non breakfast ticket available for those fasting that will be priced accordingly. Please email our office if you require one of these tickets at senator.faruqi@aph.gov.au with the subject IWD non breakfast ticket.

This year our speakers will be Jazz Money and Randa Abdel-Fattah.

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Jazz Money - is a poet and artist producing works that encompass installation, performance, film and print. A proud queer Wiradjuri person, Jazz's practice is a manifest protest against settler colonialism in all its forms, using story and poetics to untangle legacy and lie. Their writing and art has been presented, performed and published nationally and internationally. Jazz is the author of two poetry collections, the David Unaipon Award winning ‘how to make a basket’ (UQP, 2021) and the recently released ‘mark the dawn’ (UQP, 2024). Trained as a filmmaker, Jazz’s first feature film WINHANGANHA (2023) examines Blak protest and joy within the National Film and Sound Archive.

Randa Abdel-Fattah is a Future Fellow at Macquarie University. Her research areas cover Islamophobia, race, Palestine, the war on terror, youth identities and social movement activism. Dr Abdel-Fattah is also a former lawyer and the multi-award-winning author of 12 books for children and young adults published in over 20 countries. Her current Future Fellowship project explores Arab and Muslim radical activism in so-called Australia from the 1970s to date. Randa is producing a digital archive and exhibition tracing this history.

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Booking

This event has sold out each year. We strongly encourage you to book early.

Please note: This is an autonomous event for all people who identify as women. Please respect this and only book if you meet this criteria.

Dietary requirements

The breakfast will be vegetarian, including eggs and dairy. When you book your ticket, you will be asked to indicate if you have additional dietary requirements. The caterers will not be able to accommodate dietary requests after Friday 14 February 2025.

Seating

Seating will be allocated. Please email us as soon as you have booked tickets (and no later than Friday 14 February 2025) if you have a request to sit with another person: senator.faruqi@aph.gov.au

Requests made after this date may not be able to be accommodated.

Getting there & Accessibility

The event will take place in the Foundation Hall of the Museum of Contemporary Art which is located on the Circular Quay side of the building.

The venue is wheelchair accessible from the MCA main entrance on George St, you will then need to take the lifts down to the Circular Quay side. The venue is also wheelchair accessible from the southern end of the Circular Quay side leading towards the MCA.