Tag: leadership

By Di Deppeler Where and when did you meet?  1996 at the East Gippsland Art Gallery, Bairnsdale. What struck you about Mary?  I just liked her from first meeting. Very direct, straight forward, honest and real. How did you get involved in her dreams for rural women?  I was employed as...

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...

Born in England in 1955, Sue came to Australia with her immediate family, but not her grandmother. Sue missed having a relationship with her grandmother and this gave her an understanding of internal conflict, loss and displacement She has collected and practised a myriad of self-soothing and anxiety management strategies...

Jessie McLennan is a West Gippsland-based figurative sculptor, arts advocate and passionate gardener and has four children aged from five to 24. Jessie was born in 1973. She had a creative upbringing, being home-schooled on Gippsland’s Ninety Mile Beach until age seven, then finishing her schooling in Bellingen NSW. In 1994...