40th Anniversary of the Evatt Foundation
Fri, 27 Sept
|Strangers Dining Room, Parliament House
Please join us to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Evatt Foundation and to honour Bruce Childs on the occasion of his retirement from our executive after more than 20 years' service.
Time & Location
27 Sept 2019, 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Strangers Dining Room, Parliament House, 6 Macquarie St, Sydney NSW 2000, Australia
About the Event
Speakers
Sally McManus, Secretary of the Australian Council of Trade Unions
Hon. Tanya Plibersek, MP, Member for Sydney and Shadow Minister for Education and Training
Our history
The Evatt Foundation was established as a memorial to Dr Herbert Vere Evatt with the aim of upholding the highest ideals of the labour movement: equality, democracy, social justice and human rights. The Foundation was launched in the Great Hall of the University of Sydney on 27 September 1979. Before a large audience of supporters. inspirational speeches were made by Sir Richard Kirby, the inaugural President of the Evatt Foundation, Sir Zelman Cohen, Governor-General of Australia, Neville Wran, QC MP, Premier of New South Wales, Bill Hayden, MP, Leader of the Federal Labor Party, Hal Missingham, former Director of the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Bob Hawke, President of the Australian Council of Trade Unions, and Faith Bandler, leader of the successful campaign to remove discriminatory provisions of the…