Funding
Funding has been received from a number of funding bodies and also from the Mother's Day Debate & Brunch - our annual fundraising event.
Mother's Day Annual Debate & Brunch - Fund Raiser
This year's topic: 'A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle'
Saturday 13 May 2000 10.30 am - 1.30 pm
Hotel Sofitel Grand Ballroom, Collins St, Melbourne
Tickets are $55 per guest, bookings can be made by phone with Liz River on 9344-4520. Tables are for 10 but friendly individual seating is available.
This annual debate continues to provide fun and high quality entertainment, as well as supporting the very important research of the Melbourne Women's Midlife Health Project conducted by the Office for Gender and Health at the University of Melbourne. Some of the people who have taken part as debaters in the past are Collette Mann, Tracey Harvey, Rachel Berger, Maggie Millar, Elaine Canty, Kate Dunstan, Barry Dickens, Jack Levi, Louise Adler, Sue Ingleton, Gail Jennings and Julia Morris, Jane Clifton and Tracy Bartram. Appearing in the 2000 debate will be : Lady Susan Renouf, Mr Lou Richards, Mr Bill Impey, Ms Maggie Sten and MP Helen Shardey.
Topics in the past have included: You can't fool mother nature; We are becoming the men we wanted to marry; Silence is golden; Are diamonds still a girl's best friend? Cinderella had one and it did her no good. Funds raised support the Melbourne Women's Midlife Health Project, now in its ninth year of data collection. This important project aims to determine how physiological, biological, psychological and social factors interact and contribute to women's health and experience during midlife. It adds to the body of knowledge on the health of everyone - women and men.