Breakthrough

In 2016, we held Breakthrough at the Melbourne Town Hall. Featuring 100+ leading thinkers and change makers over two days, The Age called Breakthrough “the biggest gender equality event in the nation’s history”.

Right now, we’re taking all of the big ideas and passionate energy from Breakthrough 2016 and turning it into real policy actions for a brighter, fairer future for all. Join us!

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2016 Keynotes & More:

Dr. Marilyn Waring: Counting for the Future

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Dr. Marilyn Waring is bold thinker, unfailingly on the money (pun intended) when it comes to equal pay for equal work and barriers to wellbeing.

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Watch Dr. Richard Denniss unpack the three big lies holding women back

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“I want to tell you a story of lies and deception. It’s not Game of Thrones; it’s the Australian policy process. So basically I want to spell out what I think are the three big lies that are used to not cover up, but silence, they’re different. The three big lies that are used to silence our public debate when it comes to issues of gender inequality in Australia, and one big truth.”

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Watch: Tanya Plibersek's Keynote Address from Breakthrough 2016

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“We cannot take progress for granted. We have to keep prosecuting the case, that democracy is better and stronger when it is more representative. There is no more important a time to have a greater number of women in leadership positions, because the laws that women have fought for can be unwritten. So women need to stand their ground, and we need to do it in a way that brings more people in.”

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Dr. Clare Wright: Making Waves, Making History

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"Just because you didn’t learn about it in schools, doesn’t mean that it didn’t happen.”

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