- Susan Brennan's inspiring address, Speaking Out, given at the Grand Final of Vida's Voices encourages us all to give voice to our experience, and to value communication as the base for informed, ethical action. Read
- Ruth Fincher discusses women's use and experience of the city. Read
- Eve Mahlab provides compelling reasons to fund women and girls. Read
- Mary Crooks writes about women's invisibility on the public record. Read
- Mary Crooks provides an historical introduction to the commissioning of the Women's Anthem, Love and Justice, first performed in Melbourne, November 2008. Read
- Susan Brennan,World YWCA President, at the same event spoke of the democratisation of global feminism. Read
- Kathleen Maltzahn argues that we still need feminism and uses the examples of sexual violence and climate change to demonstrate her argument. Read
- Monica Dux, author of The Great Feminist Denial, discusses how feminism became vilified in the 90s, and the recognition amongst women of ongoing gender inequality. Read
- Moira Rayner, former Victorian Commissioner for Equal Opportunity, has compiled a clever and quirky A-Z list of Feminist Enemies'. Read
- Joan Kirner speaks about women's local agitation for the right to vote at the launch of Beyond the Garden Gate: Local Insight into the Victorian Female Suffrage Movement by Jo Fitch. Read
 Hon. Joan Kirner
- Chief Justice of the Family Court of Australia, Diana Bryant, discusses how women lawyers can create justice. She uses the example of Heather Osland's legal battle to illustrate many of her ideas. Read.
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- Mary Crooks quotes the words of Joni Mitchell - Don't it always seem to go that you don't know what you've got till it's gone - during her delivery of the Maurice Blackburn Oration Repairing the Social Democratic Fabric Read
- Moira Rayner discusses politically active women's use of power in A Pound of Flesh - A Trust Women for Ideas paper. Read
- Katie Fraser, Community Development Solicitor at Footscray Legal Centre, discusses the needs of recently arrived African migrants. Read. Funds from the Essie Burbridge sub-fund supported the establishment of the African Legal Service.
- Professor Marilyn Lake's introduction to the Essie Burbridge inaugural award links the needs of African migrants to current conditions in southern Africa. Read
- Professor Patricia Grimshaw speaks of the history of women's suffage in Victoria at the 2008 first centenary celebration organised by the VWT. Read
- As part of the same celebration Jennifer Strauss discusses Mary Gilmore's poetry and journalism and her attempts to engage women's interest in labour politics. Read
- Maude Barlow, Head of the Council of Canadians, spoke engagingly in Melbourne in 2000 about the need for global citizenship to hold capitalism accountable to the rule of law. People in Action:Citizen Power in the Global Era. Read
 Maude Barlow
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