Tag: community development

By Maree Wallace I first met Mary Salce when I became involved in the Women Who Mean Business (WWMB) project in 2004. We bonded immediately and have been friends since. Mary is warm and friendly to everyone but also very persuasive and focused. With Mary’s encouragement, I participated in the...

By Catherine Noy I first met Mary Salce in 1993 when preparing for the Inaugural International Agricultural Women’s Conference, which was showcased in Melbourne, Victoria, in July 1994. At this time, I had recently finished working for the Victorian Government’s Department of Agriculture and was home-based, operating a freelancing administration...

By Mary Salce AO Some things in life you want to forget and some you want to share in order to make a better place for women and families, and at the same time connect people in their communities. Some people in rural communities are often happy to do their...

Maya Fraser has coloured her life and that of many others, with art, and her accomplishments reflect this. Maya lives in Morwell, Latrobe Valley, with her husband and four children. An only child of Frans and Johanna Fikke, she began life far from Gippsland, in Western Australia, in 1967. Maya...