Upcoming Events

Join us for an evening of connection, conversation and inspiration, featuring a panel discussion with three WA-based storytellers who’ve built creative careers around their passion for travel. How did they do it? And more importantly, could we?

Panellists
Fleur Bainger: award-winning freelance travel and lifestyle journalist whose work appears in national and international outlets.
Carolyn Beasley: award-winning freelance travel and environment writer, specialising in sustainable travel, nature and family adventures.
Rachel Claire: Perth-based travel photographer whose vibrant images capture the beauty and culture of destinations worldwide.

The panel will be led by Women in Media’s own Kate Ferguson, journalist, video producer, photographer and drone pilot.

Join Women in Media for a free coffee and an hour of connecting! Because the best opportunities often start with a simple conversation - and coffee!

You might just meet someone who changes your career. And networking isn’t about who you know — it’s about who you get to know.

Marilla Akkermans has created what sounds like corporate nirvana. Her agency, Equality Media + Marketing, has a four-day work week and flexible hybrid policy – it also embraces women of all ages and backgrounds, and actually sees part-time working mums as an asset.

Marilla even has the awards to prove it. This year, Equality topped the Australian Financial Review BOSS Best Places to Work list in the media and marketing category – for the second time.

In 2018, Marilla returned from mat leave to find her perceived value had plummeted. That’s when Equality was born. The agency’s four-day week began in 2022 and the bold move has paid off, with a drop in sick leave, better productivity and stellar staff morale. Not only that, business for the past two years has been the best ever, which just goes to show that doing things differently is not only possible but profitable. (Read the AFR's story here.)

Register for this free event and make meaningful connections as we wrap up the year

Join Women in Media Victoria for our end of year event, and settle in with a drink for an intimate (and free) chat with Marilla downstairs at Bard’s Apothecary in Melbourne’s CBD.

Journalist Susan Horsburgh (The Age, Good Weekend, Women's Weekly), will ask Marilla how she brought in the four-day week, why diversity is smart business, and how much untapped potential there is in working mothers.

As Marilla says, “A woman’s brain doesn’t die the day she becomes a mother, and her career aspirations don’t just fly out the window. We can be more than one thing.”

Register now to secure your spot for this candid, career-boosting conversation.

Do ya hair, Canberra! Australia's most mysterious fashion critic is coming to our fair city and you DO NOT want to miss this.

Fresh from the release of her first book, Red carpet lewks and LOLs from an undercover fashion critic, FC will be spilling the tea on everything from crotch whiskers to naked dresses, why some celebrities should have caught the bus, and which A-listers are true BOGs of the red carpet game.

She'll be in conversation with Emma Macdonald OAM, WiM Canberra convenor and Associate Editor with HerCanberra, who'll be asking all the questions you're dying to know. And because it's also our Christmas drinks, expect festive vibes, fabulous company, and a night of pure fashion fun and frivolity.

You’ll also be able to grab a copy of her book on the night for her to sign! Plus fabulous raffle prizes on the night, thanks to our generous sponsors.

Let's celebrate another year that we survived and thrived! With a fun and lively panel of three inspirational women in media, we'll review 2025 and also take a broader look at what lessons have been learnt in their careers, not just this year, but at previous turning points along the way.