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This webinar is the fourth in the Australian Centre’s 2023 Critical Public Conversations series: Country, Climate, Colonialism.

Before colonisation the Australian Landscape had already evolved with the custodianship of Aboriginal people for thousands of years. Everything was here, the animals, the plants, the waters were clean, the trees were Elders, and there was an abundance of our kinship with the natural world which is now considered as resource. The story is embedded within the memory of the landscape and the land remembers how it needs to be cared for which sits alongside the trauma of its recent collection of memories of decline and devastation of the natural world. Victor Steffensen will be talking on memory within the land and how important it is in understanding who we are and what role we play when it comes to caring for country. Indigenous knowledge and the relationships with Country is the foundation to understanding how we can read the language from country and what many communities are doing to align themselves with the memory of Mother Nature as a target for generations to come.

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2023 Flos Greig Lecture in Law
‘Women Making a Difference in the Law: Bridging a Gap Between Law and Life’

Presented by The Hon. Marilyn Warren AC KC

The Hon. Marilyn Warren AC KC will analyse how women have made a difference in the law, giving an overview of the paths of women as practitioners, academics, reformers, and jurists since 1903, the year Flos Greig graduated as the first woman in law in Victoria. The presentation will also look to what the future holds for women lawyers.

Flos Greig was a pioneer whose determination to practise as a solicitor advanced gender equality in the legal profession in Australia in the early twentieth century. Upon graduating from Melbourne Law School in 1903, Flos Greig undertook her articles with Frank Cornwall, later continuing her career with Cornwalls law firm.

We hope you can join us for this opportunity to hear The Hon. Marilyn Warren AC KC speak. Light refreshments will be served from 5.30 pm in the foyer, with the lecture starting at 6.00 pm in the library (Level 1).

Melbourne Law School is delighted to have Cornwalls’ involvement in this annual lecture series, recognising Flos Greig’s pioneering spirit which transformed the bases of admission to the Australian legal profession.